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Are you an author? Have you self-pubbed on Smashwords.com yet?
If not, you're missing out on making money.
In the past year, I've earned over $15,000 on Smashwords. And my numbers are on the rise.
Though I've have many conversations with owner Mark Coker over the years, I never asked him how he got started, and what he hopes to accomplish.
Until now...
Joe: What made you decide to create Smashwords?
Mark: Smashwords is my answer to what's broken in Big Publishing.
The path to here was unexpected.
My wife (a former reporter for Soap Opera Weekly magazine) and I wrote a novel, Boob Tube, a roman à clef about the daytime television soap opera industry.
The book was repped by Dystel & Goderich, one of the top literary agencies in New York. Despite their great enthusiasm and effort, they were unable to sell the book after two years. Publishers questioned the commercial potential of a novel that targeted soap opera fans. Previous soap-related novels had performed poorly.
As you might imagine, after putting our lives on hold for four years to research, write, revise (and revise and revise and revise) and edit our book, we were disappointed to have publishers deny us a chance to reach readers.
The more I reflected on our predicament, the more I realized we were not alone. I imagined there were millions of other writers around the world much more talented than us who faced the same problem. I imagined the loss of thousands of literary masterpieces – cultural treasures that would never see the light of day. If you love and cherish books as I do, you can't help but mourn the tragedy of this lost potential.
I decided Big Publishing was broken. Big Publishing is in the business of publishing what it thinks it can sell, not what is good. Big Publishers operate in the rear view mirror. They try to acquire books similar to what was selling yesterday, and then they release the book in 12-18 months.
"Commercial potential" is a myopic, misguided and ultimately destructive prism through which to measure a book's value. Never mind that publishers, despite their best effort, can't accurately predict which books will become hits. Readers decide that.
Big Publishing is unable to take a risk on every author, and as a result they say no to books readers would want to buy.
I decided the world needed a new approach to publishing, one that was faster, cheaper and more democratized. I realized there was an opportunity to solve this problem with technology.
My background here in Silicon Valley is in technology marketing. Over my last 20 years, I've come to appreciate what happens when technology collides with ossified industries and business models. Technology hits like a wind-driven fire through an overgrown forest. The impact is sudden and traumatic, but from the ashes sprouts healthier and more vibrant ecosystems.
My idea was simple. Wouldn't it be cool, I imagined, if I could create an online publishing platform that would give any author, anywhere in the world, the freedom to publish what they want? I'd give readers the freedom to curate the books. And I'd turn the compensation model upside down so authors became the primary economic beneficiaries of their work.
This is what we created with Smashwords. We put the printing press online, and made it freely available to anyone as a self-serve tool. Smashwords allows me to take a risk on every author.
Joe: What drives you to stay on this path?
Mark: I'm on a mission to turn publishing upside down. Big Publishing was squandering the future of books. Their practices limited book availability, encouraged high prices to consumers, fostered lower quality celebrity books, reduced diversity, and failed to adequately compensate authors. Most importantly, readers were denied access to the diverse riches of authors' minds.
I'm also an entrepreneur. I've always been drawn to startups that have the power to effect positive social change. With Smashwords, I see an opportunity to create a large, valuable business that generates significant social and economic value for our authors, publishers, readers, and retail partners.
Joe: Are ebooks going to become the dominant format for books? If so, how long will it take until it happens?
Mark: Indie authors are a leading indicator of where publishing is going. Ebooks already outsell print for most indie authors. Brick and mortar bookstores are in decline, and this is both a cause and a result of the move to online book buying, among other factors. When book shelves go virtual, the playing field between big publisher and indie author is leveled. Actually, I'd go one step further and say that the move to indie ebooks actually tilts the playing field to the author's advantage. Big Publishing can't compete against indie ebooks because their expenses are too high and production schedules too slow.
To appreciate the dramatic growth of ebooks, the numbers from the Association of American Publishers provide a useful point of reference. According to the AAP, ebooks as a percentage of overall trade book sales in the US reached about 8% in 2010, up from 3% in 2009, 1% in 2008, and ½ of 1% in 2007. Yet these numbers dramatically understate what's really happening.
The AAP numbers reflect what the 12-14 large publishers who contribute to the data are doing with ebooks, but the data doesn't capture small presses and indie authors. The numbers also don't reflect unit volume. Since ebooks are priced less than print, the unit market share for ebooks is greater than the revenue numbers would indicate.
Large independent publishers like Sourcebooks that have embraced ebooks are already seeing 1/3 of their revenues coming from ebooks. I wouldn't be surprised if Sourcebooks begins deriving over 50% of their unit volume from ebooks with the next nine months.
Joe: Whenever I upload a new title to Smashwords, I'm put in a queue that is often several hundred titles long. How many ebooks does Smashwords now publish, and how many do you think it will have published five years from now based on current trends?
Mark: We reached a new milestone last week: We now publish over 40,000 books, and we released 5,300 of them in the last 30 days. In 2008, our first year in business, we published 140 books. By 2009, we reached 6,000. By the end of 2010, we were at 28,500. We're on track to reach 75,000 books by the end of this year, which means we'll almost double in nine months what took us three years. Within five years, who knows. 250,000? 500,000? I'm hesitant to guess. We've been doing this for three years now and I feel like we've only scratched the surface of the possible.
Our Meatgrinder conversion engine burns red hot 24 hours a day. Not only are we converting these 5,000+ new titles a month into nine different ebook formats, we're also converting a multiple of that for our 16,000+ authors who are constantly upgrading their existing Smashwords books with better formatting, better book cover images and other tweaks. A couple years ago, most Smashwords authors would get full multi-format conversions in 5-10 minutes from upload. Today, the queue is running 5-7 hours.
It's ironic how author expectations have changed with the advent of ebooks. We've gone from a world where authors were previously content waiting years for their book to appear in print to today where a 5 hour wait is unacceptable. And I agree! We have a plan to scale our conversions systems so we can get back under 10 minutes.
Joe: Can the Big 6 save themselves?
Mark: The era of Big Publishing is over. I wrote the other week at the Smashwords blog about the imminent author uprising against Big Publishing. Some authors are beginning to realize that much of what they were taught about the path to authorship is a myth. The rules have changed.
Many writers today still cling to this old idea that they're not a real author until they've been blessed by the Holy Father of Big Publishing. Screw that. Why should authors subject themselves to this false religion of Big Publishing? Big Publishing as we know it is dead.
Sure, some of the Big 6 will survive, but they'll do it by getting smaller or consolidating. Their expense structures are unsustainably high. Manhattan sky rise rents add absolutely no value to a book, only expense.
Ebooks, led by indie authors and mainstream author defections to indie, will accelerate the demise of Big Publishing. Authors are already asking, "what can a publisher do for me that I can't do for myself." The next big questions is, "Will a big publisher limit my success as an author?" You've answered that question for months here on your blog. It's a question Big Publishers don't want their authors asking, because the answer reveals the mirage of Big Publishing.
Big Publishing was built on a model of scarcity. They controlled the printing press, they controlled access to distribution, and they limited supply. In the old print world, if a writer wanted to reach a lot of readers, they had to bow subservient upon the altar of Big Publishing.
What a difference a few years make. Thanks to the Internet, self-publishing and ebooks, the tools to publish and distribute have become fully democratized.
Authors can publish directly to their readers with self-published ebooks. Every major ebook retailer wants to carry self-published ebooks, and Smashwords is a primary enabler of this. The retailers are smart. They realize their customers don't care what publisher name is in on the virtual spine. It's all about the quality of the book.
The future of publishing belongs to authors, though I still see great opportunity for agents and publishers.
The opportunity for agents is to help the most commercially successful authors – traditional and indie– become even more successful. Agents will help the biggest authors navigate these dual worlds of traditional and indie – worlds that can coexist.
The opportunity for publishers is to more cost effectively do for authors what authors cannot or will not do for themselves. Just because an author has the power to be their own editor, book doctor, cover designer, production department, printer, distributor, sales force, marketer and accounting department, doesn't mean they should assume all these roles. We're already seeing the emergence of publishing service providers who specialize in these tasks above. Smashwords is obviously an example on the distribution side.
So in other words, the publishing professionals now working at the Big 6 still have a very bright future. There will be more authors and books published than ever before, and these authors will partner with professionals who can assist their success.
Joe: I talk numbers all the time. I regularly give complete strangers access to my personal finances. I never expect the same from anyone else, but I gotta ask: has Smashwords begun turning a profit for you?
Mark: Smashwords turned modestly profitable six months ago, and we've been running profitable ever since. This was a big milestone for us because it means we've created a sustainable company with lasting value.
We did this without taking outside investment and without charging upfront fees for services. We're reinvesting the profits back into the business by adding staff and scaling our technical infrastructure so we can better serve our authors, publishers and retailer partners. For 2011, we'll run it at just above break-even. I don't earn a salary yet. Maybe next year.
Joe: You have competitors. Scribd. Overdrive. Google Books. Nook and Kindle take a portion of your potential sales. What are you doing to make Smashwords a Brand, rather than a Distributor? And what do you think of your competition?
Mark: Smashwords is an ebook distributor, so I want Smashwords to become the largest, best and most trusted brand in ebook distribution. I recognize there's a knee-jerk inclination among some authors who are inclined to disintermediate the distributor. I believe in distribution.
I wake up every morning asking myself how I'd compete against Smashwords, and then I go to work to turn Smashwords into that business. There's no room for complacency. I'm seeing more and more competitors coming on the scene. Like a poorly plotted book, most will fade away before you ever hear about them because they fail to appreciate the expense, technical complexity, and secret sauce that goes into creating what we've created. It's not easy to make money in this business. The margins are slim.
Our most formidable competitors are the direct publishing platforms operated by the retailers such as Amazon's KDP, B&N's Pubit and Apple's iTunes Connect.
Our opportunity, and our challenge, boils down to a simple question: Are we adding value by serving the interests of authors, publishers, readers and retailers?
For readers, our opportunity is to make books they want to read available and discoverable.
For authors and publishers, our opportunity is to help them maximize their distribution reach while minimizing the time, effort and expense of achieving that distribution. At Smashwords, you format a file once, upload it, then we distribute it the major retailers. We offer centralized control over metadata and pricing, and we aggregate sales reporting and payments from one centralized console. For this distribution service, our commission is only 10% of the retail sales price. I think over the long term, more self-published authors and publishers will realize it's smarter to outsource distribution than build and manage their own distribution infrastructure.
For retailers, our opportunity is make Smashwords-sourced ebooks higher quality, better-vetted and more profitable for them than ebooks sourced from their own publishing platforms. Take Apple for example. Apple earns a 30% commission on every sale, whether that book comes from their own platform or from one of their authorized aggregators like Smashwords. Although Apple operates their own platform, they actively encourage authors and publishers to work with aggregators because we add value for both the author/publisher and Apple. Same thing with our retail partners Sony and Diesel (where we help power their publishing platforms) and Kobo. A Smashwords book is more profitable to a retailer than one sourced from their own platform.
If we can make ebooks more profitable for authors and retailers, we have a place in the future ebook ecosystem.
I don't view Scribd as a competitor. I view them as a great potential partner for us. They've created a very cool social reading platform, and someday you might see us distributing our books to them.
Overdrive is not yet a big player in our niche of serving indie authors and small presses. They might become more of a competitor in the future. I'll do my best to make this an unprofitable niche for them or any other potential competitor. Have I mentioned I'm competitive?
Google: I'm perplexed by them. I'd love to support them and distribute to them, but to date they've refused to treat indie authors with the same respect as does Apple, B&N, Sony and Kobo. Unlike their competitors, Google is reluctant to give Smashwords authors and publishers agency or agency-like terms. That's a deal-breaker for us. We've got over 30,000 books ready to ship to Google the moment they give us a green light. Same thing with Amazon.
Joe: I think you're one of the coolest, most dynamic personalities in the current publishing climate, and I'm regularly impressed with all you continue to accomplish. What continues to motivate you?
Mark: Wow, Joe, I think the same of you. The revolution motivates me. 16,000 authors and publishers have entrusted their precious babies to Smashwords, so I don't want to let them down. I'm committed to accomplishing good things for our authors, publishers, readers and retail partners.
The Smashwords people see today is the not the Smashwords they'll see next month or next year. We're constantly evolving. We have a very aggressive roadmap. Our mission will remain the same, but our ability to accomplish the mission and serve our authors, publishers and partners will only increase.
Joe: You (tragically) die tomorrow, and are tasked with writing your own epitaph. What do you say?
Mark: Thank you for that "(tragically)" part. Leave it to the mind of a horror writer. Next thing I know, you'll start imagining my mangled body pulled from the gears of a Big 6 printing press. In a true soap opera twist, however, at the end of the story the mangled meat is revealed to be that of someone (or something?) else.
How about, "Dang it, I wasn't done yet! To Lesleyann, my wife, I love you more than I've ever loved another person. To my family and many friends, thank you for believing in me. Your love, trust and confidence helped me achieve my wildest dreams. I hope I helped you realize some of your dreams as well. Sorry about my tragic unexpected departure. It was not part of my plan. Dream on."
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The SSL is developing a means of producing reliable ET estimates at a high spatial resolution (1km X 1km) from remotely sensed data (AVHRR satellites). This work will allow researchers to estimate weekly PET using LST derived from the weekly composite of AVHRR images.
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Among the stocks that could see active trade in Thursday's session are Ralcorp Holdings Inc., Genpact Ltd. and Ellie Mae Inc.
Blue chip Kraft Foods Inc. KFT heads up the roster of companies slated to report quarterly financial results Thursday, with General Motors Co. GM, -0.03% Lear Corp. LEA, -0.15% Visteon Corp. VC, -0.15% CBS Corp. CBS.A, -1.06% CBS, -0.90% DirecTV Group Inc. DTV, -0.26% Clorox Co. CLX, -0.83% Mohawk Industries Inc. MHK, +2.96% American International Group Inc. AIG, +1.07% Cigna Corp. CI, -0.35% Becton Dickinson & Co. BDX, +0.51% Cardinal Health Inc. CAH, +0.09% , Duke Energy Corp. DUK, -0.10% Pitney Bowes Inc. PBI, +1.76% PerkinElmer Inc. PKI, +0.27% Apache Corp. APA, -1.19% Sunoco Inc. SUN, -0.33% Fluor Corp. FLR, +0.66% and Quanta Services Inc. PWR, +0.83% also on deck, among many others.
Standard &Poor's said Dice Holdings Inc. DHX, -1.63% a provider of specialized career websites, will take the place of Standard Microsystems Corp. SMSC in the S&P SmallCap 600 index after the close of trading Friday, in line with the impending closing of the acquisition by Microchip Technology Inc. MCHP, -1.43% of Standard Microsystems. In addition, consumer-products company Jarden Corp. JAH will replace Lincare Holdings Inc. LNCR which is close to being acquired by Gernany's Linde AG, in the S&P MidCap 400 index after the close on Aug. 7.
A federal jury rendered a verdict of $1 billion in damages against E.I. duPont de Nemours & Co. DD, -0.83% in the company's bitter patent-infringement dispute with Monsanto Co. MON, -0.30% over Roundup Ready, the latter's herbicide technology. Wilmington, Del.-based DuPont vowed to overturn the verdict on appeal, saying late Wednesday that "several fundamental errors ... deprived the jury of important facts and arguments" in the case. "We continue to stand by our position that we did not infringe the Roundup Ready soybean patent and that the Monsanto patent is invalid," said Thomas Sager, DuPont's general counsel. For its part, Monsanto noted that the verdict found DuPont of willful infringement of the patent and that this could lead to an increased award of damages.
Along with reporting preliminary results for the third quarter ended June 30, Ralcorp Holdings RAH said late Wednesday it's initiated a "strategic restructuring" aimed at cutting costs and making the St. Louis-based company more organizationally effective. Specifically, Ralcorp will consolidate three businesses — cereal; pasta; and snacks, sauces and spreads — into a private-brand foods unit. The company said it expects to incur one-time costs of about $17 million to $22 million before taxes, as a result of employee separation and related expenses. The costs will be taken against results over fiscal 2012 and fiscal 2013, Ralcorp said. Management, which anticipates completing it in fiscal 2014, said the restructuring's projected to generate pre-tax cost savings of about $26 million to $31 million in fiscal 2013. Further details will be forthcoming when Ralcorp formally reports quarterly results on Aug. 8. Earlier this year, the company restated financial results in the aftermath of having spun off Post Holdings POST, +0.06% to Ralcorp stockholders.
Along with reporting second-quarter results, Genpact G, +0.22% said it expects to pay a $500 million special cash dividend to all holders of common stock, in the amount of $2.24 a share. "We generate substantial operating and free cash flow, have approximately $442 million of cash on our balance sheet and, taking into account the financial flexibility needed to continue to pursue acquisitions and organic growth initiatives, we concluded that a special dividend, funded in part by additional, modest leverage, would enhance shareholder value," said N.V. Tyagarajan, Genpact's president and chief executive, in a statement. The company expects to sell an "incremental" amount of debt to institutional lenders in conjunction with the payout, which would be distributed by the end of the third quarter. The record, ex-dividend and payment dates for the special dividend will be announced during August, Genpact said. Also late Wednesday, the company said Bain Capital Partners agreed to buy about 68 million Genpact common shares from entities affiliated with General Atlantic and Oak Hill Capital Partners for about $1 billion, or $14.76 each. Closing of the transaction will take place after payment to all stockholders, including General Atlantic and Oak Hill Capital, of the special dividend.
Ellie Mae ELLI hard on the heels of reporting second-quarter results, again raised its full-year forecast for profit and revenue as well as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization on an adjusted basis. As revised, the Pleasanton, Calif.-based provider of automation solutions for the residential mortgage industry sees 2012 net income in a range of 49 cents to 52 cents a share, up from 26 cents to 28 cents a share previously. Profit on an adjusted basis now stands at 68 cents to 72 cents a share for 2012, up from 42 cents to 45 cents a share previously. Full-year revenue is now pegged at $90 million to $91 million, up a prior range of $78 million to $79 million. And adjusted EBITDA is projected at $21.6 million to $22.7 million, well above the $13.1 million to $14.1 million previously forecast for 2012. Sig Anderman, CEO of Ellie Mae, noted that mortgage origination volume during the second quarter ran higher than had been forecast by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Mortgage Bankers Association earlier in 2012 and that projections have been revised higher.
The board of Norfolk Southern Corp. NSC, -0.34% authorized the repurchase of up to 50 million additional shares of common stock and declared a quarterly dividend of 50 cents a share, a 6% increase over the Virginia-based railroad company's prior payout. The dividend's payable Sept. 10 to stockholders of record on Aug. 13. The new stock-buyback program runs through the end of 2017. Including stock bought back under programs dating from February 2006, some 122 million Norfolk Southern shares had been repurchased at a price of $7.1 billion through the end of June. The total number of shares that the company has been authorized to repurchase since February 2006 now stands at 175 million. Norfolk Southern said it had about 320 million shares outstanding as of June 30.
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About Kathy Crinion
Kathy Crinion is a singer/songwriter/children's author from Trim Co Meath. Ireland. Having worked as singer in bands for many years and even performing for HRH Princess Margaret along her varied career path, she is very proud to showcase her album Ups Downs and Merry-go-rounds……….
Kathy has been working with some well known names to produce what can only be described as a rollercoaster of a debut album. Although she has written most of the tracks for this album she has co-written a track called "Wouldn't change a thing" with one of Irelands best known music makers, Charlie McGettigan. The album also sees the writing skills of Don Baker and Gerry Tully both highly regarded musicians in their own right. The album is titled "Ups, Downs & Merry-Go-Rounds" and it hosts a myriad of fine musicians, Ken Gillick, also from Trim, who has worked with most of Irelands top names, co-arranged many of the tracks and features on guitar and keyboard. Kathy also sings a duet with country singer Trevor Smith on a track called "Too Close" written by Frank Foley. It features Kane' Rourke on Fiddle. Kathy's own music seems to cross many genres and her lyrics read like short stories, which is probably partly due to the fact that she is a published author. Other musicians on the album are Martin Quinn on Bass, Guitars, Keyboards & backing vocals, Andrew Quinn on Drums, John Byrne on Saxophone & Simon Fagan on Trumpet. Recorded in JAM Studios Kells Co Meath and Produced and Engineered by Martin Quinn.


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Monsters are the things that nightmares are made of. They are the things that go bump in the night. They are the reason why small children (and perhaps some adults) sleep with the lights on.
I know many of us grew up watching these classic monster movies. I am sure most of them are some of the first horror movies you remember seeing when you were a kid. Remember those days? Staying up past your bedtime on a Saturday night to catch the late show?
Maybe you even had a local horror host introduce it? Anyway, here is my list of 25 Monster Movies that are absolute must sees for any Horror fan. What better way to spend a lazy afternoon than watching a good old fashioned creature feature?
25. Them! (1954)
During the 50s the threat of the cold war and nuclear war created an entirely new sub-genre of monster movies. Big Monster movies were very popular in the 50s. A few examples include The Black Scorpion, Tarantula, and It Came from Beneath the Sea. Them! was one of the most popular of the big bug movies. The story is about a colony of Ants that get irradiated during some early nuclear tests and grow to an enormous size. Yes, the giant rubber Ants seem pretty cheesy now, but Them! is still a really fun film to watch.
24. Humanoids From the Deep (1980)
Roger Corman's Humanoids From the Deep has a lot going for it… plenty of violence, nudity, gore, and monsters. The creatures are a result of some military experiments that involved blending Salmon and Humans together. The Humanoids escape and try to kill all the local men and rape the women in order to get them pregnant with fish babies! The final scene with the Humanoids attacking and killing or raping everyone at the Salmon Festival is really something.
23. Trollhunter (2010)
I guarantee you will never look at natural rock formations in the same way after seeing Trollhunter. This found-footage movie shows giant Trolls living in the Norway countryside. A film crew follows a Troll Hunter as he tracks and kills as many Trolls as he can. He finds them under bridges, living in caves, and hiding in forests. Trollhunter is hilarious and the CGI Trolls are amazingly life-like and well done. However the real star of the film is the beautiful Norwegian scenery in every shot.
22. Slither (2006)
Slither is something straight out of an H. P. Lovecraft story. A meteorite crashes into a small town and tons of space worms invade the locals. The first person (played by Michael Rooker) that is infected slowly turns into this giant tentacled monster. But all he wants is to get his wife back. Slither is full of some really great special effects including a balloon like woman that explodes into thousands of space slugs! EWWWww!
21. Monster Squad (1987)
Monster Squad is like watching The Goonies with the Universal Monsters mixed in. The kids have to battle the Monsters, led by Count Dracula, in order to stop them from taking control over the world. The monsters have an updated 80s look thanks to Stan Winston. The Gill-Man (Creature From the Black Lagoon) gets a whole new scary look. What makes Monster Squad really special are all the funny one-liners including "Wolfman's got Nards!" and the nostalgic look back at what it was like to be a kid in the 80s.
20. Nightbreed (1990)
Clive Barker's Nightbreed is about a group of mutants that hide away in an underground city called Midian. The mutants are monsters that must hide from the Humans that want to destroy them and their home. Nightbreed is actually one of my favourite movies based on Barker's work along with Hellraiser and Candyman. Nightbreed is based on Novella called Cabal by Barker. Clive Barker has talked about a television series that is in the works for Nightbreed, saying that it will be made for cable TV so it has a chance to be as sexy or as graphic in terms of violence as it needs to be.
19. Q the Winged Serpent (1982)
Q the Winged Serpent is directed by Larry Cohen, the same guy who gave us God Told Me To, Maniac Cop, The Stuff, and It's Alive. The Q stands for Quetzalcoatl, an ancient Aztec deity that is brought back to life by an evil cult in New York City. Michael Moriarty plays a thief that stumbles upon Q while running from the cops after a robbery. Q is in fact a girl and has set up her nest in the Chrysler building by laying a giant egg. The monster resembles a Harryhausen style of rubber stop motion monster. It might be slightly on the cheesy side of the FX scale, but the performances by Moriarty and David Carradine more than make up for it.
18. Super 8 (2011)
Super 8 tells the story of 5 friends that are filming a Zombie infection movie on a Super 8 camera. While filming, they witness a spectacular train derailment, and soon realize that someone was trying to stop that train on purpose. After the train accident, people all over town start disappearing, all the dogs run away, and soon the military marches into town. Super 8 feels like an old time movie. You would swear it was from the early 80's instead of the 2000's. JJ Abrams has been compared to Spielberg a few times in his career and much like Spielberg before him, Abrams tells a charming coming of age story. The best part of Super 8 is the movie that the kids made at the end. Apparently Romero chemical was to blame for everything!
17. Nosferatu (1922)
One of the first Monster movies ever made was Nosferatu. Even to this day Max Shreck's portrayal of the famous Vampire is one of the most chilling to watch. Rumors are that Max Shreck was actually a real Vampire and that is why the film is so haunting. In reality though he was a well known Theatre actor and went on to do many more films after Nosferatu. For an interesting and very entertaining movie about the "real" Max Shreck check out The Shadow of the Vampire starring William Dafoe.
16. The Host (2006)
The Host is a bit of a throwback to some of the classic monster movies also on this list. The Host is a giant mutant killer amphibian that wreaks havoc on a South Korean beach. However the Monster isn't the real story in The Host. The movie centers on a dysfunctional family that is trying to survive the Monster mayhem around them. A small girl is kidnapped by the monster and the rest of her family has to organize themselves enough to rescue her. Sometimes oddly comical and sometimes heart breaking, The Host has some strong messages to tell about politics and family.


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"Mr. Robot," is a techno thriller that follows Elliot, a young programmer, who works as a cyber-security engineer by day and as a vigilante hacker by night. Elliot finds himself at a crossroad when the mysterious leader of an underground hacker group recruits him to destroy the firm he is paid to protect
MR. ROBOT follows Elliot, a cyber-security engineer by day and vigilante hacker by night, who gets recruited by a mysterious underground group to destroy the firm he is paid to protect.
<mr.rob0t> elliot torn between job offer from evil corp and joining fsociety. @ same time elliot needs to make decision that could harm ppl around him.
<mr.rob0t> elliot tries to lead normal life – but pulled back into fsociety. gideon gets suspicious. tyrell plays dirty @ evil corp. I did it 4 the lulz.
<mr.rob0t> fsociety hits the road to initiate world-changing hack. elliots inner demons threaten to derail operation. LIRL.
<mr.rob0t> fsociety arrives @ steel mountain - most secure data facility in USA. elliot needs to get in and get out-wuz he pwned?
<mr.rob0t> to save someone elliot cares abt, hes gotta hack vera-- badass drug-dealer-- out of jail. tyrells "game" gets crazy. angela digs deeper into moms death.
<mr.rob0t> elliot MIA. mr. robot gotta pull fsociety back together. future depends on it. angela goes head to head w/ old nemesis. IMO risky as hell.
<mr.rob0t> allsafe gets pwned -- & dark army is ready to meet elliot. is it @whiterose? tyrell and joannas plan goes into full effect.
<mr.rob0t> evil corp hack is threatened when a mystery man from elliots past arrives. wtf.
<mr.rob0t> a brave new world. but where are mr. robot and tyrell? & 1 of elliots past hacks comes back to haunt him. TEOTWAWKI?


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The cylinders lets you have a 360 degree view of the fire, but the whole setup costs quite a bit ($3,799). It's not a great heat source, at 15,000 BTUs, so should only be used as a primary heater in more temperate climates.
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NGY4MHey there LummoxJR, not sure whether you are up to date with The Last Conflict development, but there has been a recent disapproval by steam on the subscription feature. There were many newcomers on steam who highly anticipated the release date which was supposed to be today (15 September). If possible, you should probably get in touch with Darker Emerald on resolving this matter. https://discordapp.com/invite/wsWfM9u
Sep 15 2017, 7:56 pm
Hope to hear from you soon (:
Lummox JRI'm discussing this situation with Kozuma and Nadrew privately now, so we can take it from there.
Jun 27 2017, 12:24 pm
KumoriiWhile I agree Lummy has mostly terrible mods, you didn't deserve a warning because again, you were being a total royal asshat and immediately attacking everyone blindly. You don't just get a warning for attacking people.
Jun 27 2017, 10:00 am
I've seen logs of everything that happened and you're very much the angry factor in all this. Take a break from the internet and chill for a day or two until you're in a clear headspace again. <3
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Jun 27 2017, 12:15 am
How the fuck is a year long forum ban warranted over a single mistake that I wasn't even warned about.
Dude you were being a complete and total dickhead earlier, my guy. You totally deserve it. I genuinely doubt it'll be enforced the whole time if you apologize but still.
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When I was 14 years old, I read a book called The Tomb by F. Paul Wilson.
It introduced the single greatest hero in modern thriller fiction, a guy named Repairman Jack.
Jack fixes things. Not things appliances or computers. He fixes problems. Such as that ex-husband who is stalking you. Or the gang hitting up your shop for protection money.
Like everyone else who has read The Tomb, I thought Jack was cooler than hell. In fact, my first novel (written in 1992 and still unsold) featured a guy named Phineas Troutt who called himself a "problem solver."
That was an homage (which is French for rip-off) of Paul's Jack character.
I never sold that first book, but I liked Phin well enough to make him a character in the Jack Daniels series. He's also been in Ellery Queen a few times, and has a story in my upcoming anthology These Guns for Hire.
But Phin's greatest achievement is a story in the Thriller anthology, edited by James Patterson. And guess who else is in that collection? F. Paul Wilson, and Repairman Jack. Was I happy? You betcha.
Paul, and Jack, are currently having a pretty cool contest:
F. Paul Wilson's Repairman Jack website is running a contest and offering a $1000 to the person who submits the most original / intriguing / interesting / challenging problem for Repairman Jack.
Go to www.repairmanjack.com, click the contest button, and get started.
The winner will receive a cool grand. But thatÂs not all. If possible, Paul will work the winning problem into a forthcoming Repairman Jack novel and use the winnerÂs name as the character who brings it to Jack.
No fees, no tricks, no limit to the number of entries. What are you waiting for?
As far as contests go, I think this is a smart one. A grand is a lot of money. And the best way to get this money is to read some of Jack's adventures to get a feel for the kinds of 'fixes' he does.
The Tomb is a good place to start. You can also check out Legacies, Conspiracies, The Haunted Air, Infernal, Crisscross, All the Rage, Hosts, and Gateways. No BS, Paul is writing some of the best stuff in the business, and if you haven't discovered him yet you're doing yourself a disservice.
Paul promises he'll read every entry, and give special consideration to the writers that I sent his way, so drop my name and drop it often.
In the meantime, I'm getting to work on my Repairman Jack scenario. Something where he has to work alongside Phineas Trout...
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Contributions Rewarded By All-Ivy Selections
GALLOWAY, N.J. – Four members of the Yale men's golf team have been named to the All-Ivy team as a result of their performance at the Apr. 22-24 Ivy League Championship, which took place at the Galloway National Golf Course in Galloway, N.J.
But that was not all the good news for the Bulldogs: freshman Sam Bernstein was voted the Ivy League's Rookie of the Year by the eight coaches. He added to a stellar first season with a ninth-place finish on Sunday, which came after a powerful final round of 72 (+1).
"In what was a very competitive class of freshmen, Sam stood out and consistently played the best golf of the year," said head coach Colin Sheehan '97. "Sunday's round was indicative of his extraordinary talent."
For his efforts, Bernstein also made the second-team All-Ivy, which is a designation awarded to those who place in the second six in the field.
Meanwhile, the first-team All-Ivy was not without a strong Yale presence – in fact, of the top six players chosen, three are from Yale. Leading the way was senior captain Thomas McCarthy, who has notched up fine rounds time and time again this season, and did not disappoint at the Ivy League Championships.
McCarthy fired the day's low round of 70 (-1) on Sunday to climb the leaderboard and finish in outright second place, with his overall score of 224 (+1) just a single stroke behind the eventual tournament winner.
"Sunday will be the defining round of Tom's Yale career," Sheehan said. "He played golf as well as at any point in his college career today, and it was incredible to see him turn his game around and shoot the low round of the day."
Joining McCarthy in the first-team All-Ivy are junior Jeffrey Hatten and sophomore Bradley Kushner, who both finished strongly to tie for fourth place overall. They both capitalized on strong season momentum to finish with an overall score of 227 (+14) over the three rounds of competition.
"I just want to say this – it was a team effort," Sheehan said.
Report filed by James Lu '14, Yale Sports Publicity.
Individual Top-12
1. Peter Williamson, Dartmouth (69-78-7--223)*
2. Tom McCarthy, Yale (75-79-70--224)*
3. Brendan Doyle, Columbia (74-75-77—226)*
t4. Jeff Hatten, Yale (76-78-73—227)*
t4. Brad Kushner, Yale (77-77-73—227)*
t4. Scott Williams, Penn (74-74-79—227)*
t7. Michael Amato, Brown (74-78-76—228)^
t7. Clark Granum, Columbia (80-76-72—228)^
9. Sam Bernstein, Yale (78-80-72—230)^
10. Colin St. Maxens, Penn (80-77-74—231)^
t11. Andrew Jankowski, Dartmouth (76-76-81--233)^
t11. Mark Pollak, Harvard (79-75-79--233)^
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CHAMPIONS! Sooners Crowned at WCWS
Oklahoma defeated Tennessee 4-0 to win the 2013 Women's College World Series, earning the second national championship for the program. The Sooners are only the fifth team to win multiple national titles.
"I cannot tell you how honored I am to be the coach of this team because they're just special, and they know how to win; and they fought, and they were never afraid," head coach Patty Gasso said.
Fittingly, it was seniors Keilani Ricketts and Michelle Gascoigne who carried the team on Tuesday night. Forming the nation's top pitching duo, it was Gascoigne who got the start in the circle, while Ricketts was making her first start as the designated player in the postseason.
For Gascoigne, it was her first appearance since the Regionals versus Arkansas on May 19 and her first start since May 11 against Oklahoma State. The time off had little to no effect on the Benicia, Calif., native, though. Gascoigne struck out 12 and allowed just three hits while walking none in her ninth shutout of the year. It dropped her nation-leading earned run average to 0.88 and improved her record to 19-3.
"I only found out about three hours before the game, but I was excited," Gascoigne said."After Coach [Melyssa] Lombardi told me, we had to watch film, the pitchers, and adjust.Just with knowing that Keilani was all for it and she was supporting me and she was going to be in the bullpen if I needed her just brought me all the confidence in the world.
"I know my teammates trust me, and that is something that I've always taken out on the mound with me.It's really carried me through this whole season just knowing that they trust me and we've got each other's back."
The move to hold Ricketts, who had started every postseason game prior for the Sooners, proved genius.
"Keilani has had a ton of big moments, and the fact that she was wanting to share this with Michelle, I think probably helped Michelle get on the mound and say, 'I've got this,'" Gasso said.
Tennessee tried to get to Gascoigne early, but Kat Dotson was erased in the first inning after a one-out single as she was caught stealing second by senior Jessica Shults.
The Lady Vols got a runner into scoring position in the second with one out, but junior center fielder Destinee Martinez ran in to make a great sliding catch for the second out. Gascoigne took it from there, retiring the next eight batters, six of which came by strikeout including five in a row at one point.
Like the team had done in three other World Series games this year, Oklahoma scored first in the third inning.
Senior Brianna Turang led off walk and took second when sophomore Lauren Chamberlain extended her hitting streak to a season-best 16 games with a sharp single to left field. Sophomore Georgia Casey advanced both runners with a sacrifice bunt, but it wasn't needed as Ricketts smashed a three-run home run to the bleachers in right field.
It was Ricketts' 50th career home run and 15th of the season.
Melissa Davin snapped Gascoigne's streak of outs recorded with one-out single in the fifth, but that would be all the rest of the way for Tennessee as Gascoigne retired the final eight batters of the game in order.
Ricketts added an insurance run in the top of the seventh and picked up her fourth RBI in the process when she grounded out to first base after Chamberlain hit a leadoff triple.
That set the stage for the bottom of the seventh.
Gascoigne started with a swinging strikeout of Raven Chavanne, one of three finalists along with Ricketts and Chamberlain for USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year. Chavanne was held hitless in the two-game series, going 0-9 with six strikeouts. For the second out Tuesday, Madison Shipman grounded out to sophomore Jessica Vest at shortstop.
That brought pinch-hitter Lexi Overstreet to the plate, who was set down on three pitches, including a called strike three on a screwball to end the game and set off a wild celebration in the circle.
The victory was especially sweet for the Sooners, who have tried to serve as a source of joy and pride following the recent tornadoes that have affected the local community.
"We were very, very pleased to represent the University of Oklahoma as well as the state of Oklahoma," Gasso said. "You've heard a lot about it this week, and that is who we were representing. The phrase is 'Moore than ourselves.'We had a lot of people we wanted to give pride to, make happy and just forget about things that have been going on in the last three weeks or so.
"I cannot tell you how honored I am to be the coach of this team because they're just special, and they know how to win; and they fought, and they were never afraid.They bowed up when they needed to together, and they're just a tremendous group of athletes that I love to work with every day."


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SANTA BARBARA, CA -- Julie Main, co-owner of West Coast Athletic Clubs, Santa Barbara, CA, passed away on Monday of cancer. She was first diagnosed with cancer in 1993 and had been in remission until a few months ago.
Main was a past president of the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) and of the California Clubs of Distinction. IHRSA created the Julie Main Emerging Woman Leader Scholarship in her name, handing out the first award at the IHRSA show in March. Main was not able to be at the conference in San Francisco because of her illness.
Main also co-founded the Cancer Well-Fit Program, which trains health clubs and health care operators on exercise programs for cancer patients.
Main was a member of the editorial advisory board for Club Industry's Fitness Business Pro magazine and served as a judge for the magazine's Best of the Best contest for the past two years.
Services will be held at Temple B'Nai Brith at 10 a.m. on Friday. Graveside services afterwards will be private, and the family will sit shiva at Main's home from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday.
A friend of Main's indicated that the family will plan a memorial service later this month to commemorate her life.


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Yesterday I picked up a copy of 'Growing Your Family Tree' by Cherry Gilchrist and, while I have only read a small portion, it inspired me to write this next blog. I have been waiting for something to come along since my last blog on Remembrance Day.
In the first chapter Cherry sets the scene at the Powys Record Office, eavesdropping on a conversation between a visitor and an archivist. The visitor is looking for information on his grandmother and, with help from the archivist, discovers something about her that shocks him. Unexpectedly he finds out that his ancestors ran pubs, and his family are teetotallers. This little snippet got me thinking about my own ancestry, and the many little 'shocks' that I have experienced since researching my family history in earnest.
I have my own teetotal story - my great-grandfather converted to the Methodist faith after growing up with an alcoholic father. Another great-grandfather survived a torpedo attack off the North Sea during World War One. My dear 3 x great-grandfather went mad and smashed windows, convinced that somebody was out to murder him and his wife. My 3 x great-grandmother sent her children to an Industrial School and she later died in a Workhouse. Then there was the uncovering of a Convict!
My visits to my local genealogical society over the years has seen many interactions with Australians who rather proudly announce that they each have at least one Convict ancestor in their family tree. Many boast that without them they wouldn't be here today. White Australian settlement history rests largely on the shoulders of those Convicts who sailed on Convict ships, from as early as 1788 through to the mid 1840s when criminal transportation was put to an end. The last of those Convicts were known as 'Exiles' because, basically, they were not really wanted anywhere. There was no room for them in England. Its prisons were fit to bursting, and many were placed on Prison Hulks off the coast until there was a place for them somewhere or a final decision from officials could be arrived at.
Frederick Ward, my third great-grand uncle, was one of those 'exiles'. In December 1844 he was sentenced, at the Beccles Quarter Sessions, to be transported for 7 years, for stealing three stones weight of cows flesh from James Skippon of Bungay. Unfortunately, this was not Fred's only crime. He had been convicted on two previous occasions; in 1843 and 1844, both on accounts of larceny, and was sent to Beccles Gaol.
In December 1844 Fred Ward was sent to Millbank Prison in London. Millbank was intended to house up to 1000 transportation prisoners at any one time. The average stay was for around three months, during which time prisoners would be assessed for future placement. By the early 1840s transportation sentences were ceased but there were still many prisoners who faced the possibility of being sent away. In 1843 Millbank was converted to house general prisoners and transportation prisoners, including Fred Ward, were moved to Prison Hulks.
Finally in January 1847 Fred Ward was placed on the 'Thomas Arbuthnot' with around 288 male prisoners from Millbank, Pentonville & Parkhurst Prisons and sailed from Spithead to Port Philip Settlement (Melbourne), arriving in May 1847. The 621 ton ship began her voyage at Portsmouth, then travelled to the Isle of Wight where she took on 90 Parkhurst boys. The Times newspaper had this to report:
"The Thomas Arthbuthnot convict ship, Captain Therason, sailed from Spithead this morning for Port Philip with a superior class of delinquents, officially called "exiles". These are the first "exiles" sent to the above settlement, which the inhabitants of that respectable place are very wroth at, and have memorialised the Government on the subject..."
Little is known about Fred Ward after his arrival to Port Philip. This is still a work in progress. What is known is that people such as Richard Deeks spent his precious time researching and transcribing all transportee records of Suffolk and turned it into a book. It was this invaluable book, held at the Suffolk Record Office, which helped me to locate and further research Fred Ward. This from a book review:
'Transportees from Suffolk to Australia 1787-1867' lists everyone who was transported from Suffolk to Australia, and gives quite a lot of detail about them, where such detail is available. It was published by Seven Sparrows Publishing in 2000 by Garry Deeks, Richard Deeks' son. The address of Severn Sparrows Publishing is given as 'Seven Sparrows Publishing The Old Manse, Laxfield Road, Fressingfield, Eye, Suffolk IP91 5PX' When it originally came out it cost £7.99. It is now out of print. It is really indespensible for anyone doing research on Suffolk Transportees. It was a colossal piece of work which took Richard Deeks a huge effort to compile..."
While I won't deny that Fred Ward was unfortunate in his life, he was my very own unexpected 'shock' story that I like to regale people with. Nobody in my family even knew we even had a convict for an ancestor, and when I revealed all, they were equally surprised. When I told my Australian friends, they just nodded their heads or shrugged their shoulders and beamed, "We all have one. You're not unique". I have to admit though that I was not expecting one - not a Ward.
When I began to research the siblings of my 3 x great-grandfather, Henry Ward, I couldn't locate one of his brothers (Fred Ward) after the 1841 census. So began a lengthy detective-style manhunt. When I stumbled across a convict record on Ancestry, initially I denied with every fibre of my being that it was him. My belief was that there was no possible likelihood of a Ward ancestor who was so..."fractious", so "unorthodox"! So unexpected.
Next time you are working on your family tree and you find an unexpected 'shock' be assured that you really are not alone. "There is one in every bunch" as my grandmother Lilian used to say. We are who we are today, because of our past: Our unique and colourful ancestry.


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Interactive Biology
I'm a biology teacher who started a biology website at http://www.interactive-biology.com. At the website, I provide Videos, Resources and Games for other biology teachers, and biology students who are struggling in Biology, or who want to enhance their understanding.
The purpose of the website is to make biology fun and easy to understand. I'm trying to make it a very personal website, so that my audience feels as if I'm talking directly to them, on their level. It should feel as if they are dealing with a person, not some big company.
However, even though the it should have a personal touch, I want the design to be professional, so that they get the impression that a lot of thought and planning went into every aspect of the site, even the logo.
My target audience is people who are interested in biology, from High school biology students all the way through Graduate students in Biology. However, the main focus will be upper-level biology students. The typical biology student I am targeting will be those that are struggling to understand complicated biology topics and are looking for someone to break it down so they can understand it.
My secondary audience is biology teachers who are looking for resources to help their students do better.
The logo should say: "Interactive Biology", with the subtitle - "Making Biology Fun".
I'm looking for something that is relatively simple, but elegant and fun. I should be able to use the logo in my header at http://www.interactive-biology.com, in addition to as the logo that appears on my videos. I would like it to have some element that can be animated in the future for my video introduction.
Feel free to be creative in the design and colors, but keep the following in mind:
1. There should be some kind of graphic (see examples logos below), in addition to the text. The graphic should be something that depicts the concept of biology being fun.
2. The typeface should be clear, simple and bold. I want something that stands out. Again, being careful not to be too fancy.
Here are some example logos that I like:
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo.
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/BCM/ Bristol VA/TN -- The New Year signals new beginnings for many and that certainly goes for the Birthplace of Country Music®. "On December 21 we closed on construction costs to bring the museum up to exhibit status," reports Becky Littleton, Director of Finance at BCM. That means construction on the 24,000 square foot museum and 100-seat performance venue is in full swing with Bristol-based BurWil Construction Company driving the cranes.
The former Goodpasture Motors Building will also enjoy a "new" address as the City of Bristol, Virginia will rename the small road (currently branching from the intersection of Cumberland/Moore Streets and joining Lee Street), to "Birthplace of Country Music Way".
"Protecting and promoting Bristol's place in American music culture is only one aspect of the Birthplace of Country Music® Museum." says BCM Executive Director Leah Ross. "Educational programming through our affiliation with the Smithsonian Institution and branding Bristol as a music destination year-round are also goals."
"The list of organizations, businesses and contributors who have helped us get here is long, and to them we are grateful."
Birthplace of Country Music Alliance will also begin re-branding efforts, and will go by their registered trademark "Birthplace of Country Music".
"The Birthplace of Country Music will encompass the Museum, Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion, the events we each sponsor and the possibilities we have with our brand," states Birthplace of Country Music Board President John Rainero.
"We not only see this as a great achievement for our organization, but also a great achievement for our region's music, our cultural heritage, and our great cities," says Rainero. "Finally, The Bristol Sessions, - which Johnny Cash called the single most important event in the history of country music - and its legacy, will have a home."
As an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, all construction and design of the Birthplace of Country Music Museum will meet the best practices criteria of the American Association of Museums under the guidance of the Smithsonian. This process has already begun with members of the design team and Smithsonian representatives.
Studio MUSarx, under the direction of Joe Nicholson, has been working on exhibit design on the project. Joe was the exhibit designer for the Louisville Slugger Museum and has worked on numerous projects with the Smithsonian Institution. He is working closely with ten local historians, musicologists, and scholars whose primary goal is to be "keepers of the authentic".
Renowned audio/visual team Hilmann-Carr, who has worked on a number of projects with the Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress is already at hard at work gathering materials for the creation of a unique, visual experience that will impact the senses. The imagery will be historically correct and include the wonderful music of our region.
Lead architect, Peyton Boyd, is a native Bristolian known for attention to historic preservation and green building practices. He is working closely with Virginia Historic Preservation guidelines to assure we maintain the integrity of the building to their specifications.
Once the Birthplace of Country Music Museum is open, The Weldon Cooper Institute at the University of Virginia estimates a five-year economic impact of $49 million to our region. They estimate 75,000 visitors to the Museum annually, in turn generating tax revenue for our cities and patrons for our businesses.
The economic impact of the Birthplace of Country Music Museum has already begun. Two months ago the Birthplace of Country Music created twelve jobs putting a team together of local experts and historians, led by Jessica Turner of Virginia Intermont College. Ted Olson of East Tennessee State University's Center for Appalachian Studies, former BCMA Executive Director Bill Hartley, and others, have been working along side designers from Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. to tell our region's story.
The Birthplace of Country Music Museum will be a dynamic experience of the senses. It will be a celebration of our past, an emersion of our history and future. Travelling exhibits from the Smithsonian and its affiliates will be shown on a rotating basis in a space designed specifically for this purpose. Permanent exhibits will be largely interactive and designed to appeal to all ages.
Students will have the opportunity to participate in traditional music lessons that will be available in our educational spaces and participate in Smithsonian internships right here in Bristol.
A 100-seat performance theatre will allow lectures and seminars to be offered by performers and scholars, and it will provide an unmatched place for live music with the ability to record and broadcast from The Birthplace.
The Birthplace of Country Music Museum we will include educational outreach programs designed to demonstrate the relationship between music and faith, family, art, business and technology and expand on our mission to celebrate our rich musical heritage.
The Birthplace of Country Music Museum would not be possible without the cooperation of our city governments, our legislators, our city leaders, and partnerships with local organizations. It is also necessary to thank Birthplace of Country Music and Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion staff and board members - both past and present - for their perseverance and endless hard work. It is also important to thank Steve Johnson for his generous donation of the former Goodpasture Motors Building for the Birthplace of Country Music Museum.
"This trip has taken longer than the two flat tires and the creek fordings that the Carters had to endure on their way to Bristol in 1927," Rainero quoted, "sometimes good things happen to those who wait. Bristol, our time is now!"
Birthplace of Country Music® Museum, slated to open August 2014, will extend the music corridor across the state of Tennessee from Memphis, through Nashville and Knoxville and bringing it home to Bristol before travelling The Crooked Road: Virginia's Heritage Music Trail.
Read the Saturday, December 22nd, 2012 Bristol Herald Courier article here.
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The Office of First-Year Experience Programs & Initiatives focuses on providing you a welcoming and supportive environment that prepares you with valuable resources that are critical in transitioning successfully here at Concordia University Irvine. Our office is available to help you navigate your first year and make CUI your new home!
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Super Screenprints for Kids: Original Art for Under $30
Original art. It just sounds expensive. And when you're decorating a kids' room on a budget, well, it seems a lot cheaper to stick to posters and wall decals. But wait! Have you checked out screenprints?
Each of these screenprints have been drawn by an artist, printed by hand, and come in a limited print run so you really are buying something special. And here's the best part: they're all $30 or less!
1. Cape Girl by Jen Collins: $19.00
2. Mushroom Girl by Ana Raimundo: $18.00
3. We All Scream by John Alan Birch: $9.45
4. Let's Ride by Stephen Bishop: $29.41
5. Something Yellow by Bart King: $15.00
6. Let's Hang by Jessica Fontenot: $10.00
7. Will by J. Stout: $20.00
8. You Are My Sunshine by Bottle Rocket Designs: $10.00
9. Sock Rat by Archive Print: $23.62
10. City Wrecking Robot by Basemint Design: $20.00
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Ok, some of you might have noticed that I have been missing in action for exactly 4 weeks, but in reality, there has been tons of action going on!^_^
I have been in ITALY!!!!
Yes, after more than 2 years I was finally able to see my family again, and have them meet my youngest one, which they had never seen, if not in pictures.
I have had the opportunity to show many of them some of my creative genealogy projects, and I must say, they loved them all!!!
I got many of them much more interested in sharing pictures and stories, and you can bet I will soon follow up on that;)!
My aunt Carmela finally showed me the pictures of 3 of my great grandparents, Antonio Iannone, Francesca Iannone and Antonio Sannazzaro, her grandparents, which I had never seen, giving me the opportunity to add them up to my family tree.
What was even more meaningful to me, was to be able to go visit my grandma's sister, who is now 92.
I really had wished to be able to see her this time, since last time I went to Italy, she was in Germany, and so I wasn't able to visit her.
What I didn't know, was that we were sharing the same desire...
She had been telling my cousins, when she would go visit them, to please tell me and my siblings(who live in England) to go visit her, because she wanted to see the children of her dear nephew(my father) before she died.
Oh the hugs that she gave me!
We also shared our common desire to be in Italy. She had been living in Germany for tens of years, all of her children are there, but she just had to come back to Italy, to her home. She wants to die there.
How much I understand her!!!
I asked her about her memories of my father and my grandma, and even if she couldn't tell me any story in particular, she confirmed me how good a person was my dad, how much everybody respected him, and told me that the same was for her sister (my grandma), who died at age 35, of childbirth, together with her baby.
I will never forget the 2 hours we spent together, having a simple lunch, and talking, sharing our deepest desires.
I pray I will be able to come back soon with all of my family, and have many more opportunities to go visit her!
In Italy I have also been able to do some genealogy work, both for a client, and for my Santoriello side of the family, but I will talk about that in a later post.
For now, I just wanted my friends to know that I wasn't MIA at all, but I was following my heart desire and pursuing my passions with all my energies!
More to come soon!!!
Monday, May 3, 2010
MIA? Not really!
2 comments:
- Kathy said...
Congratulations on a wonderful trip! So glad you got to meet your grandma's sister and she you. It sounds like a trip never to be forgotten.
- May 4, 2010 at 8:00 PM
- Michelina said...
Thank you Kathy.
I never got to know my grandma, since she died before I was born, and her sister is the closest connection I have to her, so yes, I will never forget this trip.
- May 6, 2010 at 9:33 AM
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DAC Collection Artist Information
Jan van Goyen
Dutch painter and printmaker
Brief biography, in most instances from the Union List of Artist Names® Online:
Important Dutch landscapist known for his so-called "tonal style."
Artist ID number in the Union List of Artist Names®: ULAN 500115612.
The ULAN link above leads to a cataloging authority record at the Getty Research Institute.
Objects related to Jan van Goyen:
|Cornelis Ploos van Amstel after Jan van Goyen
|Cattle-Market, 1767
|Color etching
|Cornelis Ploos van Amstel after Jan van Goyen
|Fish Market, 1767
|Strixner and Piloty after Jan van Goyen
|Tower, ca. 1811
|Lithograph on laid paper
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Whitehouse YMCA Run For Your Life
The Whitehouse YMCA will be hosting the 4th annual Run For Your Life 5k Run on Saturday, April 27th at the Whitehouse YMCA. The 5k run is the largest fundraiser each year for the YMCA and goes to support the YMCA Strong Kids Campaign. This campaign helps build the scholarship fund to help low-income families participate as a YMCA member. It will give them a membership to the Y along with access to day care, day camps and youth sports activities through the YMCA financial assistance program.
The Whitehouse YMCA has a goal of raising $5000.00 for the scholarship program during the 5k.
Registration is open for the 5k through April 25th - download registration application here - race begins at 8:30a for the 1/2 mile Fun Run and the Run For Your Life 5k will begin at 9a.
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Full Item Description
This magical device appears as a simple, large cauldron sufficient to prepare several gallons of food.
Produced to assist armies in the field, Grand Emperor Xaric IIIrd commissioned dozens of these cauldrons to be issued to his most elite units. While not overpowering, these items greatly contributed to the units comfort level during their many forced marches. Unit cooks were able to provide quick meals without having to forage for fuel and took less time to cook. The cauldrons were taken as spoil and dispersed after the emperors elite forces fell in his third and final campaign.
Magic/Cursed Properties
This cauldron will cook non-living foodstuffs quickly and without generating light or heat. Each minute of 'cooking' is equal to 10 minutes of normal cooking over a fire. The resulting food will be cooked, but at room temperature.
Those using this cauldron will notice that not all food placed within the cauldron is there once cooking is complete - the cauldron itself consumes 1/8th of the foodstuffs it cooks to sustain its powers.
Also, it has been observed that these cauldrons develop personalities - they have food preferences and will react to different cooks differently. Some have to be cursed at to work properly, others will not tolerate abuse and burn everything they cook if 'offended'. Others prefer an offering of spirits or other strong drink before beginning to cook. None can talk, or otherwise overtly communicate, but the cooking results will vary based on treatment, and even the rate at which the food burbles and bubbles is a clue to the cauldron's demeanor.
Non-foodstuffs (potions, etc) are rejected - no processing at all will occur until these are removed and the cauldron cleaned. Some may require additional 'compensation' to the offended cauldron.
Possible Quirks:
1. Favored food - Certain foodstuffs will be prepared better and faster, but will be consumed by the cauldron at a higher rate - 20% devoured by the cauldron.
2. Hated food - Certains foods are always cooked very quickly but badly overcooked. Only 10% is taken by the cauldron in this case.
3. Desired Offering - Certain items - strong drink, spices, foodstuffs need to be offered before the main item. In these cases, the substance is completely devoured by the cauldron, but the main food item has only 10% consumed by the cauldron.
4. Touchy feelings - Caldron will act as all foods are hated if it is cursed or mistreated.
5. Masochist - Cauldron like to be abused before use and will act as if all foods are hated unless cursed at. "Come on Boil, you piece of crap!"
6. Attachments/Detachments - Cauldron likes only one cook and will not function well for any other cook. Conversely, it could hate a particular cook and require appeasement to work.
7. Moody - Changes behavior frequently - select one of the others at random intervals.
8. Mr.Clean - doesn't cook until it is properly cleaned from the last meal. Some think it actually likes all the scrubbing, the little pervert. Thanks, I think, to Manfred!
Plot Ideas
* A particular cauldron is famous for its preparation of a Duke's favorite dish. The only problem is it is extremely picky and requires a specific, rare, and difficult to obtain offering to be convinced into making it. Guess what the PCs have to do.
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Immerse yourself in the hopes and fears, joys and disasters of an English wartime village in the first of a warm and captivating trilogy from a talented new saga writer.
Evie's War comes from the pen of Kitty Danton, a born and bred Devon woman whose entertaining Dartmoor Chronicles were inspired by the experiences of her mother June during the long days of the Second World War.
Drawing on the tales of an earlier generation, Danton sweeps us away to an age of blackout, rationing, romance, friendship, tragedy and the community spirit that kept the country and its people afloat.
At the heart of this charming and lively new series is young schoolteacher Evie Yeo whose dreams of working in a big city are scuppered by the onset of hostilities. She fears that life will be dull in her quiet home village but, as she soon discovers, wartime throws up the most unexpected twists and turns.
Evie has landed herself a job at the small primary school in Lymbridge but after recently discovering that her fiancé Timmy Bowes has been less than faithful, Evie is faced with a dilemma.
Ending her engagement to Timmy, who is now serving overseas, would severely hamper her chances of making a 'good' marriage as there are not many prospective partners around. Moving on from a first love is never easy anyway and the situation is further complicated by the fact that Timmy's mother is the headmistress at Evie's school and won't hear a bad word against him.
Fortunately, Evie has two sisters, Julia and Pattie, and a close circle of old schoolfriends to help her through the tough times and as the war brings RAF officers, American GIs, evacuees, WRVS girls and wounded servicemen to the once quiet and calm village, Evie soon gets swept up into the busy business of wartime.
And if Evie can cast aside her worries over her future – or lack of it – with Timmy, there may even be a way to mend her broken heart…
Danton's engaging story comes alive through a charismatic cast of characters, from Evie's colourful family and the displaced child evacuees who win the hearts of the villagers to the long-suffering vicar, the inevitable local gossips and the hard-working women of the tireless sewing circle.
There is love, jealousy, infidelity, disappointment, discovery, despair and joy, and with plenty of drama yet to unfold, the next chapter featuring life in wartime Lymbridge – Evie's Allies – will be eagerly anticipated.
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Something has gone wrong. Earlier this year, the 3DS was hailed by Nintendo as its most successful handheld launch to date. However, after the hordes of Nintendo devotees were finished picking up their system at midnight, sales began to decline fairly rapidly. So rapidly, in fact, that by April 27, one month after the system's March 27 launch, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata explained to investors that the fledgling system had already failed to meet the company's expectations. Since then, things have gotten a lot worse. Unlike nearly all previous Nintendo handhelds, the 3DS has had trouble getting off the ground. Our big question is why? Even through the hardest times at Nintendo, when consoles like the GameCube continually struggled to stay alive, Nintendo's Game Boy and DS handhelds have retained dominance over the handheld game industry — an industry Nintendo created decades ago.
The 3DS is selling so poorly that Nintendo has announced that it will cut the price of the 3DS from $250 to $170 on August 11, and President Iwata will cut his own salary by 50 percent, along with the salaries of several other high-ranking Nintendo executives. "I feel greatly accountable for having to make the markdown shortly after the launch, for having damaged our consumers' trust, for having made a significant impact upon the financial forecasts, for the annual dividend now being expected to be significantly less than originally expected and for now forecasting that there will be no interim dividend," said Iwata.
So, if the 3DS is selling this poorly, we have to ask: why? Nintendo's line of DS products has been popular for seven years. What's different now? We have some theories. Below are a few reasons why Nintendo's new handheld is bombing.
It's too expensive
The original Game Boy launched at $90 in 1989; the Game Boy Advance launched at $150 in 2001; the Nintendo DS launched at $150 in 2004; the Nintendo DS Lite launched at $130 in 2006; and the DSi launched for $150. Games were priced at $30 or less until the Nintendo DS, when prices rose to an average of $40 for new titles. With the 3DS, Nintendo decided to take a different, more expensive route. The 3DS launched for $250 in the United States, making it the most expensive handheld the company has ever released. Even the new reduced price of $170, while $80 cheaper, will be relatively expensive compared to Nintendo's history. With the price of video game consoles, cell phones, and everything creeping higher and higher, perhaps many weren't prepared to shell out so much for a new handheld system.
The only good comparison to the 3DS price would be the Sony PlayStation Portable, which struggled due to its high price of $250, among other things.
3D is a lame selling feature
People don't seem to mind 3D, but unfortunately for Nintendo, they aren't lining up to experience it like they were a couple years back. Recent NPD data backs up this trend, showing that consumers aren't buying 3DTVs. When I play the 3DS, I find myself turning the feature off due to eye strain. Others seem to enjoy it more, but I'd gamble that few people are blown away by 3D and would pay $250 solely for a handheld that provides it. While many may enjoy the added dimension at one point or another, the 3DS's big gimmick is glasses-free 3D, and it doesn't seem to be paying off.
If you remove the 3D, the 3DS looks, well, exactly like every DS before it. Nintendo hasn't progressed its hardware in many other ways. Sure, it has a bit more juice, there is an eShop now, and the system has an analog joystic, but the vision behind the 3DS seems less about game innovation and more about a 3D screen. Nintendo even failed to update the touch technology of the DS line to match the responsive finger touching you find in most smartphones. Nintendo actually chose to use an old resistive-style touchscreen in its 3DS despite the entire smartphone and tablet market moving toward capacitive touchscreen technology, which lets you use your fingers and multitouch gestures. There are probably good reasons for this, but the verdict is in on styluses: Most people don't really want to use them.
The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not reflect the beliefs of Digital Trends.


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fDeluxe Announce 3 August 2013 Shows: NYC, MPLS, Chicago
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Funkateers! If you live in New York, Minneapolis or Chicago, you are in luck. One of the funkiest bands of the 80s (and still going strong), fDeluxe, have announced 3 shows in August 2013:
August 21, 2013 at City Winery in New York
August 22, 2013 at City Winery in Chicago
August 23, 2013 at Dakota in Minneapolis
If you don't know the music of fDeluxe, let me tell you a few things: their saxophone player Eric Leeds is arguably the best sax man alive and is responsible for so many of the funkiest moments on Prince's late 80s output; 20 years later, the band is still incredibly funky; there's a 99% chance you'll hear "The Screams of Passion" and "Mutiny" performed live, which are two of the hidden gems of the 80s and if that's not enough, they sang the original version of the classic song "Nothing Compares 2 U," for crying out loud!
GO SEE THEM! You will not regret it.
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Note: With the Chestnut Hill Fund Drive in full swing, we checked in with past grantees and their constituents about how the generosity of the community has helped them. This week, we hear from Tyler Perry, who credits Teenagers Inc. with his personal development. Teenagers Inc. received a $14,000 grant to subsidize its programming development and refurbishment of its website. Five hundred teenagers are part of Teenagers Inc.
I am a third-year Interactive Design and Media student at Philadelphia University and former member of Teenagers Inc. Looking back on the past 10 years, I can truly say that without having been a part of Teenager's Inc., I would not be who I am today.
I got involved through my older brother who would go to the Teen Center every Friday night with his friends when he was in middle school. We both went to Our Mother of Consolation School. I was in the fifth grade and my brother was in seventh grade. What initially attracted me to the Teen Center was the fun that my older brother had always talked about having with his friends.
When I finally did get the chance to go for the first time, it felt great. Everyone welcomed me with open arms and it gave me a sense of belonging. I felt as if I was joining a family and not just a club or an organization, because the relationships that I built with others actually meant something to me.
Aside from hanging out with my friends at the Teen Center, I found myself signing up for volunteering opportunities and community service events organized through Teenagers Inc., not out of obligation, but because I genuinely wanted to be around good people who were doing good things.
The first community service event that I participated in was recycling at the Wyndmoor train station. I would go with my brother and his friends and help the local residents empty their recyclables, and they were always very appreciative of our help. It was a great way to serve the community and become familiar with the people around us. As I became more involved, my interests grew even larger. I began participating in events such as the annual ski trip and whitewater rafting as well as other fundraising events such as Taste of Chestnut Hill and helping at the tables during the Garden Festival.
Being involved in Teenagers Inc. has made me a well-rounded individual and I am truly grateful for that. One of the most important events in my involvement with Teenagers Inc. was the Guatemala Service Trip. I had the opportunity of being a part of the first group from Teenagers Inc. to go on this trip, and it happened during my time as president of the Teen Board. I value this trip so much because it defined for me what it meant to serve others.
This trip also made me realize how fortunate we are as a nation and how much we could do for others. It changed my once shallow views of community service into something much deeper in meaning. We interacted with individuals from extremely impoverished areas and made efforts to make their lives a little easier by doing things such as providing families with clothing, food and shelter.
These were the things that were so important to them, but also what we sometimes take for granted. Aside from giving them the things that they needed, one of the other things I noticed was the sense of community that existed amongst the people of Guatemala. Even though they were underprivileged, they cared for each other and it reminded me of the reasons why I became involved with Teenagers Inc. Not only is it an organization that does community service work, but it is a community of individuals that care for each other and those around them.
Tyler J. Perry
Chestnut Hill
To make a donation to the Chestnut Hill Community Fund, visit www.chestnuthill.org or Town Hall at 8434 Germantown Avenue. The Fund Drive will continue through the end of March.


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Princeton Review: Clarkson University One of Nation's Best Colleges & Best Northeastern Colleges
Clarkson University has again been named one of the country's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review.
The company features Clarkson in the new 2014 edition of its guidebook "The Best 378 Colleges." Only about 15 percent of America's 2,500 four-year colleges and four colleges outside of the U.S. are profiled in the book.
Clarkson has also been named one of the Best Northeastern Colleges by Princeton Review, which identified some of the colleges and universities that they consider "academically outstanding and well worth consideration in your college search."
In its profile on Clarkson, The Princeton Review quotes extensively from Clarkson students the company surveyed for the book, who say, among other quotes, "Clarkson…wants you to succeed and has many resources to help you." And It "places a high importance on…preparing [students] to be a professionals" and has a "wonderful job-placement rate."
The publication says that ultimately, most students find that "Clarkson University is a great environment that helps students develop hands-on experience that is greatly valued in any industry."
"Clarkson University offers outstanding academics, which is the primary criteria for our choice of schools for the book," said Robert Franek, Princeton Review's senior and publisher and author of "The Best 378 Colleges."
This spring, the Princeton Review also named Clarkson University one of the most environmentally responsible colleges in the United States and Canada through inclusion its "The Princeton Review's Guide to 322 Green Colleges: 2013 Edition."
Clarkson is consistently among the schools ranked well in both the Princeton Review and U.S. News & World Report's annual issue of "Best Colleges," where Clarkson is listed as a tier one national university. U.S. News also ranks Clarkson as #1 in the nation for graduates with the most internship experience, and its online graduate business programs and supply chain management program in the nation's top-15.
In July, Clarkson was also ranked in the top-10 New York state colleges and universities that provide the highest return on investment (ROI) by AffordableCollegesOnline.org.
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in five alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.
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