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Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.
Thanks to John Newmark at Transylvanian Dutch for providing the idea for Amanuensis Monday.
This is part two of the article transcription I began last week. Please forgive any inconsistencies with this post. Blogger editor has been giving me grief for two days, plus the spell-check function doesn't seem to be working.
Boston Journal, April 16, 1901, p. 6.
VOLCANO of WRATH (Continued)
Hotel Men Protest.
Mr. M. C. Needham, proprietor of one of the hotels here, the Coldbrook House, said: "The attack of Mr. Talmage was wholly unnecessary. It seems to me. The only result is the stirring up of bad feeling. It seems as though the man must be crazy to talk as he is reported as having talked. I was not present at the funeral."
Mr. J. C. Bemis, proprietor of the Spring House, which hotel it is said Mr. Talmage alluded to when he spoke of a drunken broil, when asked what he thought of the minister's address said: "Rotten! A mean assault upon this village. There has not been any drunken broil in this hotel. Mr. Talmage's statement is wrong."
Mrs. J. W. Beamis, daughter-in-law of Mr. J. C. Bemis, corroborated the statement. She said: "I am sure there was no drunken broil in the place or I should have heard of it."
One of the citizens of Coldbrook informed the Journal correspondent that the story of a drunken broil probably came from a little altercation between a visitor to Coldbrook and one of the villagers, in which the latter said something that displeased the former, and was slapped in the face for it. He did not return the blow, and that is all there was to the so-called "broil."
Much feeling is displayed here also over a recent letter to the Barre Gazette from Assistant Medical Examiner Henry J. Walcott, Jr. in which he says he was unable to find a woman to help the unfortunates on the day of the murder. He was obliged to telephone to Barre for two women, he says, to help wash and lay out the children. Coldbrook people say that when Mrs. Spooner came through Coldbrook Mrs. R. F. Parker, Mrs. O. D. Webber and Mrs. H. S. Howard all volunteered to go to the house. But they were told it was no place for women, and that no help was needed.
Dr. Walcott also writes that it was almost impossible for him to secure half a dozen old sheets for use at the Naramore house. Here at Coldbrook it is stated for a fact that on the first call for white sheets Mrs. M. C. Needham gave 13 and three pillow cases. Mrs. H. B. Webber and Mrs. H. B. Parker gave clothes, and Mrs. J. W. Bemis supplied many things needed. Several others contributed, too.
In Mr. Talmage's Sunday address Mr. Naramore was made to appear as a shiftless, ne'er-do-well fellow, who shifted much of the burden of supporting his family upon his wife, and was also quarrelsome and intemperate. Naramore was said, by Mr. Talmage, to be almost wholly responsible for his wife's crazed condition of mind, when when killed the children.
Husband Says He Lies.
Mr. Naramore was seen this morning at Mr. Clarence H. Parker's lumber mill, where he is employed. He was hard at work with overalls, jumper and an old cap on, helping to saw apart huge logs of wood.
"I have not read the address and know nothing about what Mr. Talmage said of me except what I have been told by those who heard it or read it, " said Naramore.
A copy of a newspaper containing the address was shown to Mr. Naramore by the Journal correspondent, and he read with interest. Then he said with much seriousness:
"I am an ignorant man or I would reply in writing to that as it should be replied to. It is full of misstatements regarding me and my family. It is true that I am lazy; I have never denied and I cannot help it, but I don't suppose I am the only lazy man in the world.
"I am not a drinking man though, and nothing disgusts me so much as to see a man intoxicated. It is true that I have taken a drink occasionally, but I never was drunk but once in my life, and no one would have known anything about that if I had not told them about it. Go to any one I have worked for. I don't want you to take my word for it, but make inquires for yourself; go to Rutland and see Mr. F. S. Hunt, in whose mill I worked as a fireman of the engine for 13 1/2 months. In all that period I only was absent from work 11 days. I received $12 a week."
"The money I earned went to my family; my grocery bill at Mr. Parker's store was on the average about $5 per week, sometimes $1 to $1.50 a day. Mr. Hunt will tell you that I was not a drinking man."
"Why did you leave Mr. Hunt's employ?" asked the Journal correspondent.
"He sent me to Worcester to get a piece of machinery. Before I went a fellow employed at the mill asked me to bring back a gallon of rum for him and I agreed to do so. The man's name was Charles Faulkner. I brought back the rum and Mr. Hunt learned of it and discharged me. I ought not to have agreed to get the liquor.
Has Gained Friends.
"I am not entirely innocent, and I don't want you to understand me as trying to make you believe so.
"I don't want to put all the blame on my wife, for that would not be right. I have no doubt that she was insane when she killed the children. When I married her she was one of the best women I ever knew, and I loved her. She came of good people. I know that.
"She was nervous and naturally jealous. There was a woman in the neighborhood here who kept telling her false stories about me going about with other women and getting drunk. She finally came to believe them and I could see a change in her behavior toward me. She would believe this gossiping woman and not believe me; that was what caused her to go insane, I believe.
"But this minister, Mr. Talmage, has made an ass of himself, in my opinion. Suppose I am guilty, it don't justify him making it so prominent in a public address. He's only gaining enemies by it. I have gained friends and not lost one by what he has done. He wrote me a ridiculous letter which I have not paid any attention to," and Mr. Naramore exhibited the letter, which at some length called upon him as a man who had failed in his duty to his wife and children, not to deny the facts, but, by deeply repenting, and make thorough reformation.
"A man here in Coldbrook has reported around that I was seen on the streets of Worcester with a certain woman living in this village one night before my wife committed the deed. That is a lie. I have always had a particular dislike for this woman; if this sort of thing keeps up, I have been thinking that I shall go to Worcester and consult a lawyer about it.
"I never struck my wife or abused her. We did jaw each other once in a while, but that was all. My wife wanted to move and I had planned to secure the Mason Luce place if possible, which she had always liked. I was going to arrange to buy the place on installments, and when I told her she appeared much pleased.
"For the past two years I have not been out of work, altogether, more than six weeks. I had been at work for a week at Mr. Parker's mill, when the end came. My wife knew I was earning money enough to support the family and there was enough in the house to eat for her and the children the day the children were killed. I never deceived my wife; never told her one thing and got a friend to tell her another story, as Mr. Talmage says I did.
"One time when I was not working she told told me she would go to work herself if it wasn't for the children. I said that if we could put the children out among good, kind people, to live then she could go to work, and I would go somewhere else for work. Then we could come together again later. I told her I would do the best I could to bring us all together once more under the same roof. She seemed to be pleased with the idea. I thought.
"Mr. Talmage's statements about screams being heard coming from my house at 12 P. M. the night before the murder, is a lie. I was sound asleep in the house at that hour. It is not likely I could have been ill using my wife or quarrelling with her."
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Labels: Amanuensis Monday, Naramore, News and Newspapers
2 comments:
- Susan (Nolichucky Roots) said...
I'm so glad you added this to the material you posted earlier. It's impossible for me to discern any absolute truths out of this tragedy - a moral in and of itself.
- March 29, 2011 at 1:07 PM
- Cynthia Shenette said...
Susan - You are so right. The more I read the more confusing the story becomes. Where the truth? Who knows. In the end, it's still a tragedy.
- March 29, 2011 at 10:17 PM
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|2012-09-15, 02:37
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|2012-09-15, 06:59
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Then John Titor from steins;gate will pop up from her time machine and she will explain that it's all because of the attractor field.
|2012-09-15, 07:31
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He lives on the island so he might know about Kuwadorian and could have said he went there to... hum... prepare an halloween party and the siblings were supposed to join him when KABOOM.
Or that he and his family were supposed to take some stuffs from the place and carry them back.
But actually even Eva might have made up a story that would have made it look all right for her to be there. What about 'before the storm I went out for a walk, got lost and ended here just when the storm was starting. Since it was safe I wanted to wait for the rain to stop before going back and I even used the telephone line to warn the others I was safe. No idea what happened to them, I just hear a KABOOM and then...'
The really weird thing isn't that she's in Kuwadorian, it's that she offers no explanation about how or why she got there.
What's odd is how no one seems to notice that Shannon and Kanon have the same face despite not being related. I mean... in Our confession Krauss and Natsuhi's attention might have been more focused on the gun than on Beato's face (people at whom was pointed a gun sometimes say they're unable to recognize/describe who did this because 'too focused on the gun') but what's their excuse for not noticing Shannon and Kanon's resemblance?
They aren't so cold they don't look at the servants in the faces, and the matter becomes even more serious when you think at Battler, George and Jessica (or Erika, unless she was really that sure that servants couldn't be the culprits she never spared them a second glance)
|2012-09-15, 08:07
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|2012-09-15, 14:01
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The only confirmation of it we ever get is within a bunch of stories. At best, we know Kinzo had something he used to convince people he might have had a bunch of gold, and somebody had access to a bunch of money in 1986. Neither of those things proves the existence of the gold.
If the gold did exist, you'd think unscrupulous salvagers would be crawling over the island crater and trawling the surrounding ocean trying to find even a trace of it. Gold does not naturally occur in high quantities on volcanic islands. It's alluvial and normally would be nearer to a river or something than the ocean. If you found gold dust in the sea or washed up on the freaking shore (because yes, this would happen), you could be reasonably confident that the gold had to have been real as there is little other explanation as to why you'd find any quantity of gold in Izu.
Basically, if the gold existed, unless it was literally fused into a single lump by the blast there would be traces of it everywhere. And it would be pretty much impossible to conceal even with a police cover-up. Gold dust would probably be washing ashore at Nijima. You can't explain that away with weather balloons and swamp gas.
|2012-09-15, 14:25
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It's weird because EP3's ???? repeatedly implies that Eva has the gold, somehow. Which contradicts everything else in the series, so it's probably best ignored, but it's still weird.
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Though to be fair, I also thought Kanon was a girl pretty much until he died in Episode 4 of the anime, and he has the only "androgynous" sounding voice, to me. I don't think I'd believe Lion's voice as a boy, and Zepar's voice sounds too ... exaggerated? Though they're all voiced by women, so, /shrug
On the other part, well, in EP2 Kyrie and Rosa were probably both asked to just lie. The only time it becomes a REAL problem is EP4, where at best we get "well it was dark and raining and she was high up."
Or, why not, the gold mountain still exists at the Kuwadorian. Eva bribed every single person, EVERY SINGLE PERSON who might expose it's existence with a gold ingot to themselves. Those things permeated the Tokyo underground for the next 10 years before all being properly traded off, and Ange never heard of them because she's a good girl who doesn't hang out in bad places. By the time of of EP8's ???, Ikuko's probably tracking them down for shiggles. Will demand her funeral to involve locking the entire mountain of them, and Eva's unlocked diary, into her own crypt with the words "Ahaha.wav" etched into the stone above. Tohya takes a moment to reevaluate his choices in romantic partners.
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|2012-09-15, 16:28
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It's also possible though that Eva just made money through her business and people thought she instead finally decided to use Kinzo's inheritance. In the beginning if I'm not wrong Eva's finances were so bad she went so far as selling Kinzo's library to get some money...
Eva simply never corrected their belief her money came from the gold and not from her hard work.
She's all for the 'let's hear the complete unprofessional guys' opinions and forget about the guys who first hand investigated the facts and the island with the proper means.'
It's an incongruence.
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|2012-09-16, 08:16
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You'd expect Yasu to look a lot like Kinzo seeing as how they share 75% of their genes. The funny thing is that Battler is a Kinzo lookalike. BattlerxYasu is one hell of a narcissistic couple.
|2012-09-16, 15:18
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If she looked like Kinzo, now I well fcking know why she refused to see her own ugly body and created embelishments everywere. Now I can't stop thinking about an old man with hairy legs and balding head inside a maid outfit.
Yeah, YasuxBattler is a very narcissistic pairing. And not very convincing to boot. I'm just getting over all the incest in Umineko, so Yasu/ANYUshiromiya still makes me sick. Even more because the relationships are reaaally weird, even for the immune to incest vibes.
Will/Claire. Yeah, that will be mi OTP. At least they're not related. Or Will/Lion, if she is actually a she. Ougon Musou introduced me to the world of crack pairing, and even Will/Bern doesn't sound that bad. Or Ronove/Virgilia. Hell, even Ronove/Battler. And there's a lot of yuri, too, between non-blood-related individuals
|2012-09-16, 15:54
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In response to Patchwork Chimera, I think everything makes more sense if Yasu/Lion is a boy.
Random question: I know this is in there somewhere, but does Yasu ever find out that he/she is Kinzo's child? IIRC, he/she finds out about the baby being thrown off the cliff, but I don't remember if Kinzo tells him/her more than that.
In EP7 Meta Kinzo goes on about "ohhh I want to tell Beatrice the truuuuth" so I'm led to believe that he doesn't in fact tell Yasu everything.
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It's made more interesting by the fact that in a sidestory it was said something along the line about how it's unlikely the two of them could show up in the same story and that the pairing Lion/Will would be an alternate version of the Beato/Battler pairing.
Though everything is up to speculation. In Ougon it's implied Will is a detective Shannon created in a story she told to Ange.
I'm not really bothered by the incest, especially in Umineko as Yasu and the cousins had no idea they were related when they fell in love and had things gone differently they would have never found out.
Kinzo/Beato 2 however is a completely different matter as, not only he knew she was his daughter but apparently she wasn't even that willing and surely the environment in which he kept her doesn't make the situation any better.
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However, I do think Yasu believes this is who he/she is. And that's the only thing that really matters in this respect because the goal is to inform and explain Yasu's actions, not ask whether he/she really was Kinzo's incestuous rapebaby.
|2012-09-16, 17:07
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I was mostly kidding about Yasu and her issue, but she had to be at least pretty regardless of her opinion. I mean, everybody wants her... and if Battler, who strikes me as the type who flirts with pretty girls, made that embarrasing pony promise to her, and then George tried to get her, and then Jessica tried to get her too... well.
On the other hand it could be the maid outfit. A lot of people loves meidos.
I was skipping trough the early games. I don't remember exactly where, but there's a discussion that made me lol, where Jessica is talking about Sayo being her best friend in the guesthouse and George goes very defensive on her. George is all like 'Hey, everything's allright and we're gonna marry' with his weird glasses, and Jessica is 'You don't have to rub it in my face, you know?'. Shannon is just there being unconfortable.
And apparently George had heard before about those two frienship (cue shiny glasses of doom and 'inmediate' response about going to marry soon).
If one uses Shkanon in that scene, it gets really funny XD
|2012-09-16, 18:28
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You can only imagine what Yasu thought when Battler told her how his ideal woman should look like.
I bet she started using pads even as Shannon because of that.
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7 ThingsDecember 29, 2005
Well, I suppose if everyone else is doing it, I'd better join the fray with a year-end introspective of my own. Here are 7 randomly-selected things that made me happy in 2005, in no particular order.
- Unix
New to me this year: the command line. (Or at least, the Unix command line… we won't mention that sordid episode with MS-DOS back in the 80's and 90's.) Without hands-on experience, it's easy to look at keyboard interaction as primitive and outdated, but the simple elegance and power of text-only mode is really growing on me. With tools like
sshat my disposal, I can do insanely great things like back up my entire web server automatically. And of course, OS X offers the best off both worlds: Unix, with a top-notch GUI and all my design tools in one place.
No really. XHTML, with an intentional X. All debates aside, the fact that as many pages on this site as are humanly possible are stored as valid, well-formed XML meant I was able to use one of the many existing open source XML parsing libraries to extract a bunch of hard-coded information and do something I wasn't entirely sure was possible.
- Javascript
It was the year of the script. Sites like Flickr and Google Maps kicked off a major renewed interest in the humble curly brackets, and folks like Jeremy Keith and the DOM Scripting Task Force have made sure to keep our code in check. If/when a redesign happens around these parts during 2006, it's a safe bet to expect the odd bit of unobtrusive script.
- Google Maps
Hey, and speaking of Google Maps, I fell in love in an instant when it first launched earlier this year. I've been interested in maps and satellite imagery since forever, so Google bringing it to the web with such a simple, intuitive interface and an extensible API was a master-stroke. GMaps on a Treo? I'm so there.
And credit where it's due: have you seen Microsoft's answer? Bird's-Eye View is enough to make me forget about Google Maps. If only they covered Canada too… (Goal for all mapping services in 2006: extra-US data, please.)
- Digital SLR
The difference between a digital SLR and a consumer point and shoot is the difference between Chef Boyardee and a four star Italian restaurant. Though I'm no pro, this camera makes me feel like I'm a way better photographer than I really am. Check out the image linked through the thumbnail — it's straight off the camera. (Careful though, your browser might not like 3504x2336)
- CBC Radio 3 & Ricky Gervais Podcasts
This time last year, I'd barely heard of podcasting. This year, it's the New Oxford American Dictionary's word of the year. The only two I've found to be must-listens are the CBC's "best of" Canadian indie music podcast, and the relatively new, short-running Ricky Gervais Show. The former gets me hooked on tunes I can actually feel good about buying, the latter has me on the floor weekly.
- Katamari Damacy
I'm glad it's still cool to like this game, because I love it. From the quirky humour to the zany music to the obsessive-compulsive gratification of the game-play to the take-no-crap attitude of the creator, it's Great. End of story. Now get the T-Shirt.
How about satellite radio moving into Canada? Any interest? Might be one of your year-end faves in 2006.
That photo is amazing. I'm really jealous.
Yeah, I've been having the should I/shouldn't I debate with myself since it was announced. There are a lot of compelling reasons to do it – I'd likely go Sirius – just haven't quite pushed myself over that edge yet. Possibly for the same reason I killed my TV a few years ago, unfettered access to continual content being too much of a time-suck. Radio much less so, obviously, so maybe it's an imagined problem.
Ok, let's bring the clumsy intellect online : what's a "Digital SLR" ? A model, type of camera ? A different tech ?
Google doesn't offer clear answer when - like me - you have no photographic skills or knowledges.
Dave, if you enjoy that Gervais podcast, check out their previous work on Xfm! http://www.xfm.co.uk/article.asp?id=3673
Jérémie - no worries, I was there once too. SLR stands for "Single Lens Reflex", it's a camera type, and you can read up on it on Wikipedia (which really should have been #8 on this list):
Curious why you'd go with Sirius, Dave. Fewer subscribers, clunkier hardware, and they're losing the NHL contract to XM.
@Jeremie: A Digital SLR is a pro-level digital single-lens reflex camera. Basically a digital version of a high-end 35mm camera.
How do you play Katamari if you killed your TV? Kidding of course.
What a year it's been! Google maps was certainly high on my list. As is Javascript. It's been a good year for the web in general. The little guy is really starting to show some promise.
I've had Sirius since the summer, and I absolutely love it. I'm not sure you could go wrong with either Sirius or XM (though I don't really know what the Canadian coverage plans are). As a football (the American kind) fan, there is no other choice than Sirius, as they have the exclusive rights to the NFL.
Dale, I can answer the Sirius question.
CBC Radio 3, one of the items on Dave's list, is on Sirius 24 hours a day. Its one of the main reasons why I chose Sirius as well.
Awesome picture. Just curious, what kind of camera is it, brand, model and mp?
Sorry Dave, I found it. For those interested:
Make: Canon
Model: EOS 20D
Shutter Speed: 1/200 sec
Exposure: Aperture
F-Stop: f/3.5
Taken on: Sunday, Sept 4th 2005
Nice line-up, Dave!
For the camera-info - try a Firefox-plugin called "FxIF" to show the so called EXIF-data by right clickin on a JPEG-image in the browser:
The Ricky Gervais podcast is brilliant. You might also want to check out his BBC Radio 2 shows this Christmas - available online live or via the 'listen again' section.
Agree about the Ricky Gervais podcast - hilarious! If you're interested in finding more good podcasts I posted a list of my top 5 favorites (http://www.smileycat.com/miaow/archives/000185.html).
*sigh* That is a very nice picture. There are two things I don't like about my current digital camera. (Well, three, once you throw in the shutter delay.) One would be solved by going SLR. The other would be solved by going for a tinier point-and-shoot.
I think maybe I need two cameras, one I can carry in my pocket for random photos and one good SLR that I can take on vacations and stuff.
The photo is very good and I think you have a lot other good photos. Why don't you create a gallery and share these?
Katamari is so awesome. So how many _________ did you roll up during the ending Dave? You should check out We Love Katamari, it feels like the first all over again but with totally new levels.
Left the _________ intentionally so I wouldn't spoil anything for the other readers who haven't played Katamari yet.
I was graced with a digital rebel xt for christmas, having that power is amazing. Now I just need to learn how to control it. The tree shot is great.
I also made the jump to Digital SLR this year (Konica-Minolta Maxxum 5D) and haven't looked back. Not sure what format you're shooting in, but I HIGHLY recommend RAW (or RAW+JPG.) You won't believe the extra information you'll be capturing, and the amazing amount of control you'll have in the editing process. The difference between RAW and JPG is the difference between a full-featured XHTML text editor and MS FrontPage. (Ok, maybe that's not the best example, but I think you get my drift…) To learn more about working with RAW, check out "Photoshop CS2 Workflow" by Tim Grey, and "Adobe Camera RAW for Digital Photographers Only" by Rob Sheppard.
Purchasing a 20D is also one of my goals for 2006. You see so many good photos shot with this camera, and what I like very much about it is the speed at which you can take multiple frames (amongst many other things).
I got a Konica Minolta 7D for evaluation these days, because my Dimage 7i is being fixed because of this:
(sorry for the long link). There's one thing that I took notice of, that the shutter is quite noisy. Is this also the case for the 20D?
What kind of lens did you use for the tree shot?
"There's one thing that I took notice of, that the shutter is quite noisy. Is this also the case for the 20D?"
I think you mean the physical sound of the shutter clicking, and not image noise. In which case, yes, that's one of the 20D's main problems, it's a very loud camera. As far as image noise though, there's nothing to worry about - the 20D shoots all the way up to ISO1600 with remarkably low noise, but I haven't tried out its ISO3200 mode yet.
Lens – Canon's f1.8 50mm prime. It's a quarter of the price of the f1.4 50mm prime, and from what I've seen of side-by-side test shots, so amazingly close in quality that it's hard to justify paying for the more expensive, heavier lens. f1.8 combined with the 20D's low noise ISO1600 mode means I can almost shoot in candle light without a flash. It's my favourite lens so far.
Yes, that's exactly what I meant. Maybe it's just common for SLRs. What concerns the sensor, I think there's hardly any camera of this price class that beats the 20D for low image noise.
Sorry for my inadequate English :)
P.S.: Just finished reading your book - great reading!
I like your selections - a lot more thought-provoking than the designation "random" might imply ;)
I know if I were to throw a list together like this, your book and "Bulletproof Web Design" would be on it.
I myself am partial to the Nikon series of fine SLRs. What makes them so great are the super sharp imaging chips and the *amazing* Nikor lenses.
Anyway, in regards to Unix, I'm a believer as well. In making the jump to dynamic web development on my G5, I've reluctantly had to delve into the dreaded Terminal, and you know what? It's really not that bad. I just wish the shortkeys were more intuitive.
And Google Maps is the best. True dat. Double true.
"The difference between a digital SLR and a consumer point and shoot is the difference between Chef Boyardee and a four star Italian restaurant."
Nice photo of the tree - sure, a digital SLR is more than just a step above the digital point and shoot, maybe your analogy is a bit exaggerated, but let's not forget that point and shoot tools can provide very satisfying images if you take the time to utilize the features found on many of the mid-range models and use photoshop when needed. Having said that, I'm looking very much forward to my first SLR
- see: http://www.siteseen.net/photo_featuredimages01.htm as an example.
u talked about javascript being one of the coolest things this year…well i'm just picking up the language and i think is cool 2.
i know flckr uses javascript and i noticed that all i got was a blank notepad when i tried viewing the source, how do i do that.


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Tony Sparano called a nice game, mixing the run and pass well. The Jets ended up with 124 yards rushing and 165 yards passing. QB Mark Sanchez (15-of-20, 178 yards, 1 TD, 118.3 rating) played well for the first time in a month. He didn't have any turnovers and didn't force any throws. RB Shonn Greene (18 rushes, 64 yards) ran hard and RB Bilal Powell (11 rushes, 42 yards, 2 TDs) showed promise. A-
The Rams marched right through the Jets on the first drive of the game, but the Jets settled down after that. Mike Pettine had Rams QB Sam Bradford guessing all day with a mix of blitz and coverage calls. The Jets were aggressive, forced three turnovers and delivered crushing hits. DE Muhammad Wilkerson (4 tackles, 1 sack, 1 forced fumble) looks like the real deal. B+
It was potentially another disaster for the Jets. They had a field goal blocked, failed on a fake punt and then gave up a 98-yard kickoff return for a touchdown. The touchdown was called back for a holding penalty, a huge turning point in the game. Nick Folk made two 51-yard field goals but missed a 44-yarder and had a chip shot blocked. D
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Bell selected as NFCA First-Team All-American
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Senior outfielder Cassidy Bell was named to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) All-America first team after a record-breaking season that left her name etched in Penn State softball history. She is the first Penn State player to earn first-team honors.
Bell is the fourth Penn State player to be named an NFCA All-American and is the first since Danielle Kinley did so in 2007. Bell joins Ashley Esparza (2005) and Karen Gulini (2000) in that group, as well. The full list of NFCA Division I All-American honorees is available here.
Bell, a first-team All-Great Lakes honoree, was also named first-team All-Big Ten this season after finding her way on the NFCA All-Great Lakes and All-Big Ten first-team lists as a junior in 2012. She is the second Penn Stater to earn her way on back-to-back first-team All-Region lists alongside Esparza (2005-06).
The Bakersfield, Calif., native is the lone Big Ten representative to make the first team while Tatum Edwards of Nebraska and Michigan's Sierra Romero landed on the second team. Minnesota's Kaitlyn Richardson and Michigan's Ashley Lane earned a third-team spot.
Bell finished the season batting a program-record .456 at the plate. She also broke single-season Penn State marks with 20 home runs, 55 runs and 42 walks while posting a 1.007 slugging percentage and .591 on-base percentage. The center fielder was quick on the basepaths as well, leading the team with 18 stolen bases, 13 doubles and a triple. Bell totaled 17 multiple-hit and 10 multi-RBI games while reaching base safely in 48 of 50 contests, including at one point extending her hitting streak to 22 games early in the season before reaching base in 31 games to close the regular season.
A consistent threat at the dish throughout her four years, Bell moved to the top of the Nittany Lion career leaderboards in home runs (37) and total bases (375) while she finished second in runs (141) and walks (98), third in RBI (110), fourth in doubles (41), fifth in hits (209) and tied with associate head coach Jen McIntyre for seventh in stolen bases (42). Bell is in second place with a career .359 batting average after starting all 189 games she played in her career.


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Giving a gift is meant to be a selfless act, but it's easy to become overwhelmed by frustration when that someone on your list has interests and inclinations entirely opposite of your own.
After a few trips to the mall, you realize that it's a waste of gas and time to go from store to store in the hopes that the perfect present will catch your eye. And sorting by age and gender on shopping websites might merely turn up sweaters of different shades and sizes. Looking through the recipient's favorite magazines for hints can leave you puzzled and perplexed about what to select. Without your own preferences or a clear idea of theirs to guide you, you could end up with a generic—and forgettable—gift when you instead wanted to give them something they'd cherish.
It's at these times that tech presents can fill the bill. Tablets and smartphones routinely top the wish lists of most every type of person, but as welcome as those might be, they aren't very personal. That's not to say that tech should be stricken from holiday shopping lists when you want to convey a connection. There are gadget-y choices beyond the pale aluminum for a whole spectrum of people you're shopping for this holiday season.
PCMag has made sure that you don't have to go foraging for ideas for foodies. They'll thank you a thousand times over (and maybe with a meal or two) when they unwrap their very own sous vide water oven or push-button professional espresso maker.
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The seat of the World Bank in Paris hosted on May 22-23, 2008 an important meeting: the fourth edition of The World Conference on Intellectual Capital for Communities. The conference was attended by eminent scholars and leaders, among whom Professor Salim Al-Hassani, FSTC Chairman of the Board, who presented a keynote lecture on Innovation in the Islamic World: Learning from the Past to Design the Future. We present hereafter the abstract of this lecture to share with our readers this illuminating concept of assessing the value of Muslim Heritage as intellectual capital in a historical perspective. The complete text of the lecture will be published in the proceedings of the meeting.
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A small farm will soon help the North Carolina Coastal Federation in its mission of protecting the coast through education and advocacy.
OCEAN � A small farm will soon help the North Carolina Coastal Federation in its mission of protecting the coast through education and advocacy.
The three-acre Earth Wise Farm was recently donated to the federation, and staff is evaluating possible ways of putting the property to best use.
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NEW YORK, N.Y.—The mayor of New York City sang "I Love L.A." on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on Monday night to settle a Stanley Cup wager with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.
Mayor Bill de Blasio appeared via satellite from the ABC studios in Times Square as Garcetti joined the late-night host in his Los Angeles studio.
"Jimmy, I always wanted to meet you, but not like this man," said de Blasio, who was wearing a black T-shirt with the slogan "I (heart) LA."
"We New Yorkers honour our bets, but I don't have that great a singing voice," de Blasio said after Kimmel thanked the mayor for fulfilling the bet.
De Blasio then sang a verse and the chorus of "I love L.A." with 10 members from New York City's 52nd Street Project student chorus.
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"Jimmy, this is a hostage situation," de Blasio retorted.
De Blasio also treated the studio audience in Los Angeles with Gray's Papaya hot dogs from New York, but Garcetti brought local favourites Pink's Hot Dogs.
"I'm going to stick with Pink's. They make those Gray's Papaya hot dogs taste like a steaming bag of New York garbage," Garcetti cracked.
Earlier in the day, Garcetti made waves when he let fly with the F-word in front of millions of people as he led his city in celebration of the Los Angeles Kings' second Stanley Cup championship in three years.
"There are two rules in politics," the usually soft-spoken mayor told the Kings and their fans. "They say never ever be pictured with a drink in your hand. And never ever swear.
"But this is a big f---ing day. Way to go, guys."
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Time is flying, it feels like Christmas was just yesterday - and today I am already posting the Easter Dinner. February and early March were quite busy with the usual suppers and some private birthday dinners. There are 3 more dinners coming up this month, a spring feast on the 23rd, Singles night on the 30 and the Easter Dinner on the 31st. Spaces still available - so don't hesitate and email me for reservations. There won't be more dinners until either end of April or even early May. So don't miss out. Especially Easter will await you with lots of treats!
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Just when you thought life couldn't get more depressing for Edith, it does.
Big time. Turns out the Gods of Aristocrats can't give poor Edith a break. Was her indiscretion with that farmer really worth so much karma?
Look, it's not like her living happily ever (old person) after with the so-fragile-you-touch-him-and-he'll-fall-apart Anthony Strallan was ever a safe bet. 1) He's nice enough but sort-of creepy. 2) He looks like a ghost from a Henry James novel. 3) His arm = busted. 4) The entire family is either indifferent to their union or totally against it.
Still, as Season 3, Episode 2 begins, preparation for the big wedding day is underway. I wonder what the village of Downton thinks about this quickie nuptial. I imagine they all were laughing at the pub when someone offered that, "Oy! Maybe's she's pregnant."
"At my age, one must ration one's excitement," the dowager countess says when she comes to visit. Not exactly a ringing endorsement (or showcase of grandmotherly love).
Edith: "Something happening in this house is actually about me!" Ugh. You had to go and marry a 60-year-old one-armed man for this to happen, Edith.
Lord Grantham, for his part, is doing his reserved daddy bit after reluctantly letting Edith and Strallan get back together. He dines with Strallan (Matthew and Tom, disinterested in the whole mess, quickly excuse themselves to play billiards), and assures Strallan that the whole, "Don't you dare marry my daughter!" thing was "never personal."
You know, you're just old. And can barely move. But "nothing personal!"
Later, Edith goes on and on about the honeymoon. "Two weeks in Rome, then Florence, then Venice." It was about at this point when one could tell that this honeymoon would never happen.
Before the wedding, the dowager and Lord Grantham talk again — again! — about how dumb this is. Still, the wedding is on — no cheers from the community as they ride to the church this time — and Anthony looks a mess. He doesn't smile. Nothing. Because he realizes he's, you know, marrying Edith.
"He looks as though he's waiting for a beating from the headmaster," the dowager says when she spots Anthony at the altar.
And before she walks down the aisle with papa, Mary gives her sister the kiss of death. "I know we always haven't gotten along and I doubt things change in the future. But today I wish you all the luck in the world," Mary tells Edith, planting a kiss on her cheek. Oh, that Mary. The queen of the reserved nice remark.
The minister barely speaks before Anthony shouts, "I can't do this! I can't do it. You know it's wrong." Grantham is shocked but tells him that "it's too late." The crowd seems apathetic.
It's all like: "Really, we're supposed to care about the middle Crawley child now? What's her name? Elizabeth?"
Anthony: "I pray that you are going to be happy. As long as you don't waste your life on me."
Edith, refusing to give him up — even now. Really — tries to argue with him, until the dowager steps in and tells her to give it up. "He's doing the most sensible thing he's done in months. Let him go."
So he walks — no, runs — out. Cue Edith dramatically running back to the house, throwing her veil down the stairs and falling into bed.
Cora asks if there's anything she can do for her daughter. "Look at them, both have husbands. Sybil pregnant, Mary probably pregnant. Just go. I mean it, go," she says.
Cora mumbles something about her daughter "being tested." Tested about what exactly and for what reason is not clear. At all. But OK, mom. Go with that.
The most depressing moment in the history of "Downton": Anna asking Edith, "What would you like me to get you?"
Edith: "A different life."
See, Edith. This is why people don't like you. I mean, we all feel bad about about your marriage and, well, bad about your attitude and general being, but still, come on.
And in the end, she calls herself a spinster. "And spinsters get up for breakfast."
Well, at least she's getting out of bed. Maybe she can become the dowager's bridge partner for life?
There's nothing Matthew can do about the Edith situation because even he isn't charming enough. But he's still fighting with Mary about what to do with Reggie's money — and it's getting a bit tedious.
While the ill-fated wedding's being planned, the family talks about moving to one of their other properties. Perhaps they'll name it Downton Place! They talk as though it's going to be some slum, but we know better.
Matthew tells Mary that Reggie Swire's lawyer is visiting to hand over the death certificate and a letter. But he remains unmoved when it comes to accepting the money. "So this is the moment that you receive a huge fortune that could save Downton and you choose to give it away!" Mary repeats.
So we visit this other home. And it's huge. Not "Downton"-huge (because what is?) but, like, a mansion. Mary calls the whole thing "torture for the family," which is laughable, but I guess if you're used to 234 bedrooms it makes sense.
Stubborn Matthew refuses to read the letter from Swire. So Mary takes it upon herself to read it, and then tells Matthew that Lavinia must have written to her father on her last day because she told him all about her urging him to cancel the wedding and Reggie says he knows about Matthew's "sacrifice" of his own happiness and to take the money, you fool!
Matthew all out accuses someone of forging the letter, which is mean, but seems like something Mary might do. Still, it won't change his mind.
Eventually he does (which you must have seen coming, because what would "Downton Abbey" be without Downton), because Mary discovers that it was Daisy who mailed the letter for Lavinia.
After the wedding fiasco, Matthew breaks it to Grantham that he's going to accept Reggie's money and give it to his father-in-law.
Grantham accepts but under the condition that it's an "investment" in the property and that they become "joint masters." So Matthew went from wanting to move somewhere small and not even have a valet to co-owning one of the largest homes in England.
I'm sure he's going to love this.
While Mrs. Hughes nervously anticipates her cancer test results, Carson overhears her talking to Mrs. Patmore about it (because he's nosy like that). He goes to talk to Dr. Clarkson who confirms that Hughes is sick, but he later sneakily gets Mrs. Patmore to reveal that it may or may not be cancer.
You can basically see Carson's heart breaking, which is cute/sad all at once. Carson suddenly professes his worry that Mrs. Hughes will get tired, which instantly tells Mrs. Hughes that he knows even though he doesn't outright say so.
Carson then decides to tell Cora about Mrs. Hughes. "Mrs. Hughes is very tired. I wonder if you can divert some of her work my way.
Cora: "I don't understand. What do you mean ... tired?" Oh Cora. Yes, servants get tired.
But Cora later proves how kind she is, by telling Mrs. Hughes that if she's sick, she'll always have a place in Downton. They'll take care of her here, and Mrs. Hughes is very touched. She never revered the family as much as Carson, but she suddenly feels like part of the family.
Side note: I wonder how frequently this happened between British families and their staff members. My quess: never.
Eventually, we learn that Mrs. Hughes is cancer free. Patmore tells Carson ("I put him out of his misery," she tells Mrs. Hughes).
Best scene of the episode: Mrs. Hughes spotting Carson in a jolly mood, singing and smiling as he polished the silver.
Maybe Mrs. Hughes and Carson are the ones who should have gotten married.
Let the war begin, because Thomas and O'Brien are now beyond frenemies — they're just straight-up enemies at this point.
Still smarting from the Great Shirt Stealing Escapade from last episode, Thomas gets back at O'Brien by spreading false news to Moseley that O'Brien plans to leave Downton.
He tells Cora that he has a new lady's maid in mind, and now Cora is "deeply let down" by O'Brien. He also tells the whole staff that O'Brien is leaving, but O'Brien denies it. "I'll deal with you later," she tells Moseley with a death stare.
Later, O'Brien figures out that Thomas is behind the rumor. They run into each other and exchange glares in the fall and O'Brien tells him that "It will all be wrong with you before not too long."
Thomas looks scared. I know I am.
Meanwhile, in Anna and Bates land, Anna goes to talk to Vera's friend, Mrs. Bartlett, to see if she can get any clues about the former Mrs. Bates' state of mind before her death.
Mrs. Bartlett, who is found hanging laundry is what looks to be a London alley that Jack the Ripper once operated in, is not helpful, really. Bartlett goes on and on about how perfect Vera was and how scared she was of Bates. Interestingly, she also mentions that after she made that pastry she scrubbed her hands so much like she was tearing of skin (I'm sure this detail will come back).
Bartlett even says that on the day before he death that gas lamp light glowed around her like it formed a halo, prompting an eye roll from Anna and everyone watching.
Back at Scary Looking Should be Condemned British Prison, Bates is enjoying some recreation (aka: walking around in a circle with his fellow inmates), when he gets word that his cell mate is planting something in his bed to get him in trouble.
He finds the stuff (drugs I'm assuming) just before the guards swarm the room. He hides it, so they find nothing. And Bates officially now knows to watch his back. British prisons are no joke. It's like "Oz" up in there.
Bitchiest Thomas remark: When O'Brien says that she doesn't think she could stand the shame if she was jilted at the altar, Thomas says, "Then it's lucky no one's asked you, isn't it?" Ouch.
Bad hair days: Isobel teaches the prostitutes to sew, but all the want is food. Plus, they sport some of the ugliest wigs I've ever seen. They can't even wash up for a second? It looks like rats live in there. A bit over-the-top.
Spit it out!: Ethel visits Isobel again — and again can't tell her what she wants. Can we just move on from this subplot?
Best stink eye: The Dowager Countess, after this exchange:
Edith: I won't sleep a wink.
Sybil: Tonight. Or tomorrow.
Dowager Countess: Sybil, vulgarity is no substitute for wit.
Sybil: Well, you started it.
Funniest reaction to a lady sitting in a front seat of a car: "Aren't you a wild thing!" — the Dowager Countess to Isobel.


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Monday, September 13, 2010
Minnesota Wild Name Darby Hendrickson Assistant Coach
The Minnesota Wild have named former player Darby Hendrickson an assistant coach to the organization. He has been a Fox Sports North analyst the last few seasons but will return to the bench this season. Hendrickson is a Richfield, Minnesota native who played for the Minnesota Gophers and Minnesota Wild. Head Coach Todd Richards said he thinks Hendrickson will fit just right in because "he's a young guy, energetic, a guy recently retired from the game." Welcome aboard, Darby.
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the best coaches are players with experience... some players with experience dont necessarily make the best coaches though. we will have to see how darby contributes.
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Very sad news.
Gawker's Camille Dodero reports that Aleksey Vayner, the Yale University student who sent a video application to UBS called "Impossible Is Nothing" back in 2006 that went viral, is dead, according to a step-cousin in Florida. He was 29.
Vayner's video resume, which was dubbed by the New York Times as the "Résumé Mocked Around The World", featured the college student in a mock interview setting talking about success. It also showed footage of him lifting weights, playing tennis, skiing, dancing and karate chopping bricks.
Ivy Gate Blog was the first to report his passing, citing an unnamed spokeswoman from the New York City Medical Examiner.


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Okay, before moving on the next fan voted POP character, I had to put on paper one of the ideas I had for multiple figures pack.
And I had to start with the most unlikely figures to be produces...
Well, probably the Manchines are even less likely, but c'mon, who woulnd't love to have a nice cute little Sprag in its MOTUC collection?!
(I dind't have time to draw it, but of course Sprag would come with his signature crossbow...)


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Tax reform 'blank slate' still blank
Senate Finance Committee leaders are running into a problem with their "blank slate" approach to tax reform: Many of their colleagues aren't interested in filling in the blanks.
Sen. Max Baucus, the committee chairman, and Sen. Orrin Hatch, the panel's top Republican, told fellow senators last month that they planned to move forward on an overhaul by stripping virtually every special provision — including popular items like the mortgage interest deduction — from the Tax Code. Senators have until July 26 to make their case to Baucus and Hatch for tax benefits that should remain on the books.
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The whole point of the exercise is to maneuver around one of the central hurdles to tax reform: No politician wants to be responsible for killing special tax breaks, each of which enjoys a powerful constituency. Instead, Baucus and Hatch thought the better path would be to give their colleagues a chance to advocate for tax benefits that should stay in place.
But senators from both parties are reluctant to bite, confused by the process and fearful of being backed into a corner.
"I think there's a danger in trying to identify certain provisions because almost by definition you're excluding others," said Senate Republican Whip John Cornyn of Texas.
"If you submit one, where do you stop?" asked Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.).
There's unease on the Democratic side as well. Some Democrats don't want to engage in the "blank slate" talks because they believe they voted on the basic principles of tax reform in the budget the Senate passed in March. They want to see those revenue targets — nearly $1 trillion in new taxes — adopted before moving forward.
Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-Wash.) plans to submit a letter to Baucus that simply reaffirms the tax reform approach embedded in her budget.
"Yes, that's correct," she said, when asked about her plans to submit a letter. "We are looking at putting together something."
Of course, Baucus didn't support Murray's budget because, among other things, he found the revenue target to be too high. That vote sparked tension among Democrats and raised questions that are bubbling up again about Baucus's vision for tax reform.
"The Senate passed a budget that included principles for tax reform supported by almost every Democrat, so I think a lot of Democrats are wondering why they need to send a letter reiterating the caucus position," said one senior Democratic aide.
Democratic suspicions of Baucus only grew when Hatch recently told reporters that there was an agreement that tax reform wouldn't raise new revenue. Baucus aides quickly denied any deal and released a statement with Hatch's representatives that acknowledged divisions between Democrats and Republicans on the revenue question and pledged to work together in a bipartisan manner.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said he's holding off on getting involved until he has a better understanding of the end game.
"I'm not quite sure how we're going to operate," he said. "I don't even really know what the process is going to be."
The goal is to have a transparent, inclusive way to build the Tax Code from the ground up, according to Finance Committee aides. The open process is intended to prevent senators from feigning shock and surprise when a bill is finally drafted, which could happen in the fall.


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I've known Lee Goldberg for years. He's a good writer, a good blogger, and a good all-around guy. One of the things I admire about him is his ability to debate, and his zero tolerance for BS.
If you haven't read Goldberg, The Walk is a great place to start. He's been blogging about ebooks for as long as I have, and he's got a somewhat different take on what's happening.
Here's Lee...
It's astounding to me how much, and how fast, the publishing world has changed in the last nineteen months. On June 5, 2009, I began my Kindle publishing adventure with a post on my blog.
Here's an excerpt:
My friend author Joe Konrath has done extraordinarily well selling his unpublished books on the Kindle, making $1250 in royalties this month alone. That's very impressive […] Joe is making a lot of assumptions based on the admirable success of his own Kindle titles. It's a big, big, BIG leap to think, just because his book has done well, that Robert W. Walker (or any other mid-list author) will sell 500 copies...or even 50 copies...of his out-of-print books on the Kindle each month. But just for hell of it, I decided to follow Joe's advice and put my out-of-print 2004 novel THE WALK and a short story collection, THREE WAYS TO DIE, up on Amazon for sale on the Kindle and see what happens…
A lot happened. I ended up putting my entire, out-of-print backlist – nine novels and two non-fiction books – on the Kindle. But let's jump forward to February 2, 2010, when I wrote on my blog:
January (2010) was my best month yet in sales & royalties for my out-of-print books on the Kindle. THE WALK remained my best-selling title with 536 copies sold […] All told, I made $775 in Kindle royalties this month [...] I credit the jump in my sales to all the people who got Kindles as Christmas gifts and were eager to test drive their new toy for as little money as possible. I suspect my sales will slowly decline once the novelty of the Kindle wears off.
To say I was wrong would be a massive understatement.
I'm selling many more books than I did a year ago, but the big game-changer was Amazon upping the royalty rate in July 2010 from 35% to 70% for books priced at $2.99 and above.
This January, if sales continue at the current pace, I will sell about 3100 books this month and earn $6600 in royalties.
That's a 166% increase in sales and a whopping 751% jump in royalties.
In just one year.
On out-of-print books that I wrote years ago that were earning me nothing before June 2009.
If those sales hold for the rest of the year, I will earn $77,615 in Kindle royalties, and that's not counting the far less substantial royalties coming in from Amazon UK, Smashwords, Barnes & Noble and CreateSpace.
Even if my sales plummet tomorrow by fifty percent, I'll still earn about $38,000 in royalties this year…and I'd be very, very happy with that.
My most profitable title, in terms of hours worked and pages written, is THREE WAYS TO DIE, a collection of three previously published short stories. In print, it's a mere fifty-six pages long, but it's selling 24 copies-a-day on the Kindle, earning me about $1500-a-month. That means I could potentially earn $18,000 this year just from those three short stories alone.
That is insane.
But what would be more insane is if I took my next, standalone, non-MONK book to a publisher instead of "publishing" it myself on the Kindle.
That's right. I'd rather self-publish. This from a guy who for years has been an out-spoken, and much-reviled, critic of self-publishing. But that was before the Kindle came along and changed everything. I was absolutely right then…but I'd be wrong now.
The Kindle offers mid-list writers a real option to consider before they sign their next, shitty contract extension with their publisher…and it has given new opportunity to every mid-list author who has been dropped…and it has dramatically re-energized the earnings potential of every published author's out-of-print back-list.
That's incredibly exciting. I believe that any midlist author who isn't self-publishing, either their back list or new work, is making a costly mistake.
If a publisher came to me today and offered me a typical, mass market paperback deal for THE WALK, I wouldn't take it...because I don't see a scenario where I'd end up making more money on the book than I am making right now (selling about 1101 copies a month, earning $2268 in royalties) . I make more in one month from Kindle sales than I did during the two years that the book was in print in hardcover.
And unless I've got a book I think has the potential to be a blockbuster, a novel that could break me out of the mid-list and into the upper-ranks of mystery/thriller writers, I don't see a scenario where taking an original novel to publisher makes financial sense for me anymore.
But I'm an established, professional author…there are a million copies of my 11 MONK books in print. I have a big back list I can exploit. It's any easy decision for me to make.
But unlike my friend Joe, who is going to accuse me of clinging desperately to old paradigms that are no longer relevant, even today I still wouldn't recommend self-publishing for a first-time author.
If you've never been in print before, I believe you'd be a fool not to take a mid-list paperback or a hardcover deal…even a terrible one…over self-publishing on the Kindle. Financially, you might make less (either in failure or modest success)...but the difference will be more than made up for in editing, marketing, wider readership, wider name recognition, and professional prestige (and that prestige does mean something, whether you want to admit it or not).
You can always go back to self-publishing... and when you do, you will be bring that wider readership, name recognition, and professional prestige with you. But a book deal doesn't come along every day, and that's still going to mean something for a long time yet...and I suspect it still will even if half the bookstores in America close tomorrow.
Of course, that's assuming you have an agent or publisher interested in your work. What if you don't? What if you just want to get your work out there?
You better be damn sure your book is up to professional standards.
If your book is awful, amateurish slop, you can embarrass yourself, create negative word-of-mouth, and seriously harm the reputation you are seeking to build.
There's a gold rush mentality right now when it comes to authors and ebooks (which I am probably stoking with this article) and, like gold fever, it's making people stupid. Keep in mind that for every Joe Konrath and Amanda Hocking, there are thousands of authors who will be lucky if they can give away ten books-a-month at 99 cents each.
The majority of self-published books are unreadable crap… and that hasn't changed just because it's easier now to self-publish than ever before. If anything, it's made things much worse.
Just because you can publish for free with a mouse-click doesn't mean that you should.
But because of articles like this one, people with no discernible writing talent, or even basic writing skills, are rushing to get their atrocious, unpublishable garbage onto the Kindle as fast as they can.
The slush pile has gone digital and has unleashed a tsunami of swill onto Amazon and Smashwords. It's going to get even harder for authors to get their books noticed by readers, who I fear are going to quickly discover that most self-published stuff is awful and, as a result, will be far less likely to take chances on writers they have never heard of… even at 99 cents.
I don't have a solution to the problem…but I don't intend to let the tsunami bury me and my work. I'm always looking for ways to get bring new readers to my books.
That's one of the reasons I will continuing writing the MONK books as long as they remain success. I believe the "dead tree" editions and ebook versions of my MONKs bring thousands of new readers to my work.
It's also one of the reasons why I've joined with Max Allan Collins, Bill Crider, Vicki Hendricks, Harry Shannon, Joel Goldman, Dave Zeltserman, Paul Levine, Ed Gorman, and Naomi Hirahara to launch TopSuspense.com, a site where readers can find professionally written ebooks by highly-acclaimed, award-winning novelists in a variety of genres.
This year, I intend to put at least two original novels on the Kindle, one of which will be the first in a series of books written with several well-known collaborators and a few new authors.
The publishing and bookselling businesses are in turmoil. Publishers are dropping authors, cutting advances, grabbing rights, and cutting print runs. Barnes & Nobles and Borders are struggling, closing stores and cutting back on orders. And beloved independent booksellers, like the Mystery Bookstore in Los Angeles, are folding, unable to compete any longer.
It's very sad and troubling.
And yet, this is also an incredibly exciting time to be an author…as long as you are motivated, out-going, and entrepreneurial.
For once, I feel like I actually have some control over my publishing career and that my success or failure will be due the decisions that I make, not someone else's poor choices or lack of enthusiasm.
I am enormously grateful to Joe for leading me down this path…but most of all, I'm thankful for the readers, bloggers and fellow authors who continue to support my work.
Joe sez: I agree with 95% of everything Lee has said here. What's refreshing is that when he and I originally began discussing ebooks, he thought I was full of shit. But he put his money where his mouth was, and tried it out for himself. Then he drew similar conclusions, and wound up changing his mind.
The most difficult thing a person can do is change their mind. Lee gets a lot of flack for his opinions, but he always backs up his opinion with facts. If the facts change, his opinion changes. That's the mark of a very smart guy.
However, I disagree with him on a few bits, because he's clinging desperately to old paradigms that are no longer relevant.
While I agree that a lot of writers are putting crappy ebooks up on Kindle, and that there is a learning curve to becoming a good writer--a learning curve that previously required gatekeepers (agents and publishers) to vet new writers and nurture them along on their path to becoming competent, I disagree that publishers are still needed.
Agents are still needed. Mine sells my subsidiary rights, and is doing a great job with that.
Vetters are still needed. It's impossible for a writer to improve unless they know what they're doing wrong. This requires a second pair of eyes.
But that second pair of eyes doesn't have to be a publisher.
The vetters can be readers.
I've already seen several examples of this. But first, let's go back in time and look at something called pulp fiction.
Years ago there was a gold rush similar to the gold rush we're no seeing with ebooks. Except this one was paper, not e-ink.
Cheap paper allowed for the printing of mass quantities of paperback books and magazines. As a result, millions of these suckers were produced, feeding the country's voracious appetite for inexpensive fiction.
Of course, with a demand this big, the editors of these magazines, and the editors for these new paperback lines, needed to find writers to meet their quota.
As a result, quite a few writers who later became big bestsellers got their start in pulps. And guess what? A lot of their early stories weren't very good.
But the more they wrote, the more they improved. Sure, they sometimes had editors to help them. But unlike today, those writers were learning on the job. They got paid to learn their craft, making a living until they were good enough to go from pulp mags to novels.
Me? I have my peers vet me. I also have fans who are beta readers who spot typos and errors.
But what about green newbies who don't have bestselling author friends or loyal fans?
I've followed a few authors on Kindle who originally published some pretty unpolished stuff. But the readers point it out, usually with a bad review, and then more often than not the mortified writer goes back and fixes it.
The reader has become the vetter.
Is it ideal? No. Ideally, writers would only self-publish flawless work. Both both Lee and I originally put ebooks on Kindle with formatting errors in them, which were pointed out to us and we fixed. We learned on the job.
Yes, it is necessary to have a second pair of eyes on your work. But those eyes don't have to be an editor at a Big 6 house.
Taking a shitty publishing deal with shitty royalties just because it offers you the opportunity to learn has some merit, but I really believe these things can be learned independently of taking a shitty deal. If the writer can even get a shitty deal these days, with the way the industry is imploding.
If I were a newbie, I wouldn't sit on a manuscript, hoping to be discovered by an agent, when there is a perfect opportunity to test-market my writing on Amazon.
Lee also said: (readers) are going to quickly discover that most self-published stuff is awful and, as a result, will be far less likely to take chances on writers they have never heard of… even at 99 cents.
Again, I disagree. I give readers more credit than that. This isn't a once-bitten/twice shy scenario. Every reader has read bad books, but it hasn't soured them on reading.
With Amazon reviews, star ratings, and preview features, bad books aren't going to sell well. The Readers (aka vetters, aka gatekeepers) will warn others against trash, and reward good books with lots of ratings and increased sales.
There is a LOT of crap on the Internet, a LOT of worthless, if not outright dangerous, websites. But that doesn't stop people from surfing.
There is a LOT of crap on Youtube. But that doesn't stop the good videos from rising to the top and going viral. The bad ones don't take away from the good ones. It isn't a zero sum game.
There can also be a lot of crap on Amazon, and it won't hurt those writing good fiction. Lee is an example. Right now, The Walk has been in the top 2000 for 18 months. It doesn't matter that there are a million other Kindle ebooks on Amazon. People are still finding him.
I've told Lee that the best thing he could do for his career is stop writing Monk books and start writing expressly for Kindle. It's a big risk in a bird-in-the-hand way, but I'm pretty sure the risk would pay off for him if he did it.
The more good books you list on Amazon, the more you'll sell.
The readers will see to it.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
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Apparently a television personality is going to start showing the Kardashians some love…although it's more about getting talk show guests than actually wanting to play nice. Chelsea Handler is turning over a new leaf, and she's not going to be bashing the fame hungry family. That's right. She and Kris Jenner have called a truce on their public, two-year feud.
Just to maintain order in the universe, whenever someone backs the Kardashians, another person must bash them. If we don't maintain this balance, who knows what could happen to the planet? In other Kardashian news, some long lost relatives of Kris Humphries are breaking the family's silence on his never ending divorce from Kim Kardashian. His aunt and uncle are opening up on what they think of the 72 day union, as well as Kris' motives for wanting it annulled.


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Build Your Own Stock Car Replica.
'Oops! We have a new project car. We are going to get into real trouble for this one because we just hatched this idea, saw an opportunity, jumped online, and bought a car in Las Cruces, New Mexico, without looking at it or asking anyone if this was even a good idea. Then we flew out there and picked it up just to see if it would make it home.
Why? Musclecars are coming back big time, so sitting fat on a short horizon is yet another maelstrom of price overinflation. This has renewed interest in vintage drag cars and musclecars in general as the platinum-credit-card guy looks for ways to invest. It didn't take long for them to notice that some of the coolest cars ever were driving on the big ovals in the late '60s, so the dollars are now shifting toward vintage Stock Cars as well.
Fortunately, you figured this out first and are sending us more photos of big Galaxies, Comets, and Torinos dressed in genuine Stock Car duds. We've pushed the concept a little in the magazine to gauge response, then simply gave in to the jones to buy an old, base-model Ford and build it into a NASCAR replica, all the way down to the electrical-taped horn button.
Instead of disco-era Novas, wacko Oldsmobiles, and Ramblers, Car Craft is jumping on the bandwagon for a couple of months to build a Stock Car, then giving you a chance to win it. You'll tell us if we are geeking-out or if is this cool.
The Plan
Even though Ford had pulled out of NASCAR as an official factory team in early 1966, Stock Car racing was about to get good. To prevent Ford from staying out of Stock Car racing indefinitely, NASCAR began to ignore the factory-stock rulebook and let cars such as Bud Moore's Mercury Comet, with an intermediate body and a fullsize Galaxie front clip, enter the field. That opened the door wide to cars like the Holman Moody half-chassis cars, and ushered in the era of custom-built tube frames and wild aero tricks that would soon follow. During the '67 season, Mario Andretti won the Daytona 500 in a 427 Ford Fairlane fielded by Holman Moody ahead of LeeRoy Yarbrough's record-setting Charger and Smokey Yunick's pole-sitting Chevelle. Body changes in the Ford intermediates in 1968 introduced the Torino body style, marking the beginning of the superspeedway era and the aero-wars between Charger Daytonas and Torino Talladegas in 1969 at the new Alabama International Motor Speedway in Talladega.
Our original intention was to find a '69 Torino and clone a superspeedway car. We even found an original Torino Talladega online but were buffeted by the $50,000 price tag. Other fullsize supercars were similarly priced. Our solution (as it usually is) was to find a more mainstream '66 or '67 Fairlane or Comet base-model car that was a little more affordable and a little less collectible. We found a full plate of Fairlanes, including a couple of big-block GTAs, but each time, we could either see through the floor or had to scroll down to get to the end of the list of engine swaps and hacksaw modifications. Forget about a 390 GT Cyclone.
That's when we saw a '67 Mercury Comet 202 that looked brand-new. The 202 is the base-model version of the Mercury Capri, Caliente, and Cyclone hardtops. It has a long hood and a short deck, shorter than even the Fairlane and Capri's. Because of that, the Comet is lighter and cheaper than its siblings. Add that it's a sedan with a post, and you have prime material for some guiltless modifications.
We triple-clicked the Buy It Now button and scrambled for a Tuesday-morning flight to El Paso, Texas, to rent a weiner car for the short hop into New Mexico. Our original plan was to arrive in Las Cruces on Wednesday morning to pick up the car, but we couldn't wait and pestered the owner until he relented. We got it Tuesday at sunset in a small, upscale community on the outskirts of town. We were expecting to find the car covered in a blue plastic tarp on the side of the house but were happily surprised that it was in an extremely clean garage perched on its own lift. We whipped out the cashier's check (OK, cash would have been much cooler) and drove that sucker into the night.
The Car
On the freeway, we were startled to notice that the car had only 66,000 miles and it felt completely new. By that we mean new in 1967. The second owner had purchased it from somewhere in upstate New York and proceeded to ditch the factory six and Select Shift Merc-O-Matic transmission and replaced them with a 390 FE and a Top Loader four-speed. Thanks, whoever you are. The third owner had rubbed out the paint, fixed the trim, and finished the restoration so it could sit in his garage as a sculpture. Other than a drivetrain upgrade, the rest of the car was completely stock, so it was really nice to drive once we were at peace with the overassisted power steering.
We were already trying to find the top of the tach on the I-10 south on the way back to El Paso to drop off the rental and drop in on Todd Ryden and the guys from MSD Ignition. They had just enclosed their chassis dyno with some barn-tin and were as eager as we were to find the redline and the maximum power of the 390 so we could plan cam swaps and intake upgrades. They also showed us their brutal, blown Gen III Cadillac CTS-V and let us take it on some demonstration passes behind the shop.
From the factory, the '67 Mercury lineup was packed with optional big Ford powerplants. The base models came standard with either the 200ci six-cylinder engine that made an advertised 120 hp at 4,400 rpm or one of several versions of the 289 with 200-250 hp depending on the compression ratio. Our Comet 202 sedan was optioned with the six-popper, but you could step up to the Cyclone package with a 289 or the Cyclone GT with a 320hp 390ci engine. There was also a Cyclone Super package with a 427-inch FE engine and a standard four-speed transmission. With the exception of some of the 427ci engines, all of the FE engines were part of the Marauder series that included the 390 ci, the 410 ci, which was a 390 block with a 428 crank, and the Super Marauder 428. These engines were rated between 270-345 hp depending on displacement and compression ratio and were standard on the fullsize Park Lane, Brougham, and Marquis in 1967. The Super Marauder was standard equipment in the '67 S-55 if you are looking for one.
Knowing this, we were kind of disappointed when we saw the 200hp dyno figures. The donor engine was likely from a Ford truck, but the Comet still felt like a musclecar.
Where Are We?
Our road-trip plan was to avoid most of the main arteries between the cities in the hope of stumbling upon something interesting. Todd Ryden tipped us off that there was a dirt-oval racetrack down near the Mexico border that had been built but then abandoned years before. We had to leave Todd after he debated about going back to work or going with us; it was a tough call. We jumped off the interstate and entered Highway 9, which runs so close to Mexico that the lines on the map become one.
The smaller highways in the southwest desert are festooned with tiny border towns and vintage visitor centers that are normally stocked with information on every oddity within a 20-mile radius. Each time we crossed a state line, we'd drop in and collect the pamphlets about towns such as Truth or Consequences, so named for a '50s-era radio game show that wanted a town to change its name for a publicity stunt.
We crisscrossed the map using the interstates for only a few miles at a time to load up on beef jerky and gas, and navigated using the free cartoon maps provided by the local tourist traps. The car cruised at 70 mph with surprising comfort and zero road feel but we didn't care. Aside from a stolen credit card and a near miss with an SUV, the trip was all pecan logs and cheesy turquoise jewelry.
The trip totaled two days. It would have been longer courtesy of a side trip to Joshua Tree National Park, but a black cloud had formed over Los Angeles and the wipers hadn't been used in a decade. Still, we wanted to stay out there. The Comet is the ultimate '60s cruising vessel and it deported us to a better time when there was less traffic, $0.25 ethel lead, and nothing to watch on TV.
What's Next?
With the car safely back in the shop, our plan is to turn it into a Stock Car replica without cutting up anything. That means careful removal of the parts from the stock interior that don't fit the look and using vinyl decals instead of paint. Since the drivetrain isn't stock anyway, plan to see a cam and intake swap and to hear some thundering Stock Car exhaust. If you have some ideas, join us at CarCraft.com in the forum area and speak your mind. We'll listen.
Tech Notes
What: '67 Mercury Comet
Engine: 390-inch FE
Transmission: Four-speed Top Loader with a Hurst shifter
Carb: Edelbrock 600-cfm AFB
Rearend: Ford 9-inch with 3.25 gears
Body: Comet 202 with a factory Cyclone fiberglass hood
14×5.5 and 14×8
steel wheels with 195/75R-14 and 245/60R-14 tires
Interior: Stock


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The ability of 49ers quarterback Alex Smith to return to game action on Monday night won't be the slam dunk that many believed it would be.
Smith received clearance several days ago to return to practice. Cam Inman of BayAreaNewsGroup.com reports that Smith won't receive clearance to play on Monday night against the Bears until Smith passes a "contact" test.
It's a procedure that apparently isn't used for every player returning from a concussion. Inman explains that 49ers tackle Joe Staley didn't receive clearance to return from a concussion earlier this season until he passed a "contact" test. 49ers guard Daniel Kilgore simply had to pass a computer-based reaction-time test to get final clearance to play.
And it doesn't seem to be a rule specific to quarterbacks. Earlier in the season, Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III received clearance to return to practice on a non-contact basis. He thereafter received clearance to play by staying symptom free after three non-contact practices.
It suggests a lack of consistency in the concussion protocol, placing before some players different hurdles than other players face. In Smith's case, the use of a "contact" test could keep him from playing on Monday night, if the "contact" in any way causes him to experience concussion symptoms.


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – Due to inclement weather in the Milledgeville-area today (March 13), the Georgia College & State University softball doubleheader against Tusculum College has been cancelled. The games will not be rescheduled.
The Bobcats will be back in action Tuesday, March 16 traveling to Lander University for a doubleheader starting at 2 p.m.
The GCSU Department of Athletics, winners of the 2008-09 PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, GCSU prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at Twitter.com username GCSUSID for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame.