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BOM testing code in main.cpp works with rosserial
Changed scout_avr's main.cpp to use rosserial
Fixed problem with "make clean all" globs failing
Finally automated generation of ros_lib for rosserial!
Changed sonar/bom timer to 64 prescalar
Also fixed bug in the bom's timer usage, where it depended on an integeroverflow that was no longer occuring due to the higher F_CPU.
Modified to compile.
wrote code for the stepper motor. Requires that the caller calls init withthe time that the function returned by the init function will be called.then the user must call this function at the given constant time intervalthis allows for sweep to work.Library also allows for independent control of the stepper.
Fixed interrupt bug in AVR serial code
Serial read disabled interrupts at the start, and returned beforereenabling them. Also, made a few other changes in the rx interrupt forcleaner code. Also, sped up programming in Makefile.
Changed range sensor to read on-demand
Fixed pins to work with 128rfa1 instead of 2560
Moved some sensors to different timers
Most notably, change the ROS millisecond counter to share the BOM 38 kHztimer instead of having its own. The range sensor and BOM rx will nowshare timer 5, but they both have to be fixed for the higher F_CPU.
Changed "download" to "program" in scout_avr Makefile
Added check bits back into BOM. oops...
Some fixes to BOM, which is now tested and it works
Added initial BOM code
Only the sending code has been tested; receiving will soon be tested aswell.
Fixed range sensor code to support 2
Also, tested (with only one sensor) and it seemed to work adequately.
Fixed compiler errors in scout_avr
Added second range sensor to scout_avr
Not yet tested.
Added and tested range sensor to scout_avr
Max output should be 37500 (max observed value actually ~38600), and itmay be scaled down later. Also, the second sonar will need to be addedlater... forgot about that...
Also, added an option to avrdude in the Makefile which makes it upload...
Fixed problem with serial rx. Rosserial now works.
Tested rosserial a little with a 328.
It doesn't quite work yet. Writing works, reading has not been tested,and rosserial acts weirdly inconsistent.
Added rx buffer for rosserial
Added preliminary rosserial code, in scout_avr/
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The Daily Word in prosthetic limbs, London cabbies and Tim Tebow
Hillary Clinton warns about a potential terrorist haven in Sinai.
Mark Hamill says Mitt Romney is "not actually human." You'd have to think Luke Skywalker has an eye for that sort of thing.
Meanwhile, the Obama campaign likens Mitt Romney to Batman supervillain Bane. Bain. Bane. Get it?
The FDA approves the first drug to reduce the risk of HIV infection.
Michael Johnson thinks runners with prosthetic limbs have an unfair advantage.
Hundreds of London cabbies protest the 30 miles of "Olympic Games Lanes."
Yet another sign 2012 may very well be end times; church groups plan pilgrimages to the Jets' training camp to see Tim Tebow.
Prostitutes are wreaking havoc on dozens of street signs in New Zealand.
The Albuquerque Police Department reveals mobile surveillance trailers to assist SWAT situations.
I had no idea I needed this Legend of Zelda key holder so badly.
It might pay to complain to DirecTV about their dropping of Viacom's channels.
Marissa Mayer has been named Yahoo's new CEO. She became Google's first female engineer back in 1999.
Happy Birthday, David Hasselhoff!

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Bose Ikard was a black slave who was born in Noxubee County, Mississippi in 1843. He was raised by the Milton Ikard family for a short time in Louisiana then moved to a cattle ranch in Texas, where he learned how to ride a horse and use a rope. Once he was freed after the Civil War, Ikard rode along with Oliver Loving until Loving was killed by the Comanche Indians. Then he hired himself out to Texas cowboy Charles Goodnight.
Both Loving and Goodnight were legacies in the Southwest. Their lives were portrayed in the 1990 movie "Lonesome Dove." Ikard's likeness was portrayed by actor Danny Glover.
Ikard was described as a loyal cowboy by Charles Goodnight. He served as Goodnight's banker and trustworthy sidekick. He settled in a ranch in Weatherford, Texas and started a family of fifteen children. In 1869, Ikard participated in a battle with the Comanche Indians with his former slave owner.
After he died in 1929, Ikard's grave was given a granite marker by the Goodnight family. Years later, he would receive a Texas historical marker in Weatherford, Texas.
6 thoughts on "Little Known Black History Fact: Bose Ikard"
hay u peapls
These types of glorification of a Black Uncle Tom former slave assisting his White masters in killing Indians is outrageous. Blacks were saved by Indians , and now You Think is OK for a Black Fool to hunt them and kill them like wild dogs in order to please his White Masters is Ok ?
Again Black Brothers And Sisters , our brothers in South Africa were treated the same way that the Indians were in North America, Whites wiped out Indians infecting Blankets with small pox, poisoning Indians with hard liquor, raping Indian women like they did to Black women , and now you glorify this Guy????
Remember it took Latinos, Indians, Asians, Orientals ,Black Africans, Black African Americans working together to elect and re-elect President Obama.
Be very careful what you do or say one day some will pay You Back! Nothing lasts forever .
Bones up on your Native American history my African brother than we can talk about who did what to the NA's.
Tom & Erica
How would You Like If Indian Americans glorified an Indian who helped White hunt down and slaughter Blacks?
Erica Taylor & Tom Joyner
You are a-racist against American Indians?
Why are You promoting this stupid Black Man who helped Whites Kill Indians who were defending their stolen land by Whites?
Not impressed with this guy why?
He participated with his former masters to kill Indians?
Are You bragging about this ?
Did You know that Seminole Indians , Cheorkee, Ojibwe Indians saved thousands of African Slaves from massacre?
And You are now bragging that former Black Slaves helped Massa Kill Indians?
You are a fool Erica, remember AmericanIndians were the only people of color who save the massacre of thousands of Black Slaves


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Redesign Your Classroom - 8 Tipshttp://www.edutopia.org/blog/8-tips-redesign-your-classroom-david-bill?utm_content=bufferbb6c6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=bufferby David Bill
If you're thinking of completing your own classroom remake project, good for you. I have been helping teachers redesign classroom spaces for the past three years, and have seen this process work for projects of all sizes.
The tips below can be used for smaller scale remakes right way. If you want to do something bigger, you can start planning immediately and schedule some time over a holiday or long weekend. Either way, much of the prep work can be done now, and incrementally over a few weeks as a lead-up to a larger remake project.
Whether you are looking to reorganize one corner or redesign the entire room, here are eight tips that may help you throughout the process.
1. Get Students Involved
Students are your primary users and should be at the center of such a remake process. To begin building excitement, reach out to them early and invite them to a weekend session at school (or someone's garage) where they can be involved from the beginning. Here are some specific ways to involve students:
Create Visual Inspiration
Ask parents, colleagues or friends to donate a variety of appropriate magazines. Have students find and add magazine pictures to create a visual wall of spatial inspiration. The pictures can portray any space at all -- not just schools. The goal is to include any and all places that stand out for students. When complete, have them use sticky dots to indicate the places that stand out and why. If you're strapped for time, find and post the images yourself.
Digitally, you can utilize Pinterest as a way for to create a "board" of inspiration. As you or your students find items or spaces that stand out, they can be pinned to your board. Students then comment on the "pins" that they appreciate.
Students Define Pain Points
Is there anything unsatisfying about the present setup? To find out, use a whiteboard to draw a map of your current classroom, and visually identify the various sections. Students then use sticky notes to write a word or two that indicates how they feel or what types of actions take place while spending time in that section of the classroom.
With the students, define several questions that address your classroom remake project. Then have students talk with ten different people in ten different places and bring ten different stories. Use that research to provide insights into what spaces people like and why.
Student Helpers
Later, when you're building out your redesign, ensure that the students play various roles in building the actual room. Whether it's painting, putting casters on tables, or moving boxes, the more they are involved, the more ownership and pride they will take in the classroom.
2. Research and Brainstorming Methods
You don't need to be a "designer" to engage in this process. All you need is the ability to conduct the research and do the brainstorming that is essential to this process. When remaking your classroom, the first step is to define the right "need" and then ask the right questions.
For example, when defining your need, you might ask, "How could we create more collaborative space in our classroom?" As you identify needs, activities like those mentioned below will help you collect data and then examine the challenge through a different perspective.
Word Association
Place butcher paper on several tables. Break the participants into several groups with each group at a separate table. Write a different random word in the center of each piece of butcher paper. Based upon that initial word, have the individuals write the first word that comes to their mind, and then repeat the process for each subsequent word. Do this for a few minutes. The table participants should then rotate and quickly build upon their group members' words. Once that is completed, have the group select their two favorite words. Those two words must then be used to create a quick prototype that addresses the stated "need."
Classroom Flow
Find a colleague or student who has a free period when you teach, and ask him or her to come and observe how you and your students move about the classroom. Print a diagram of the classroom, and as your observer watches, have him or her draw where you and your students move. One color should be used for tracing your movement and another for the students' movement. The sheet of paper with the tracking will help you determine what areas are used most heavily, and where items should be placed to better support fluid movement throughout your class.
Sticky Notes
After conducting your initial research, determine the areas that need the most focus (e.g. clutter, collaborative space and teacher workspace). For each focal point, have participants draw or write an idea related to the topic on sticky note. The ideas should be posted on a whiteboard. When all the ideas are on the board, they should be sorted and grouped to determine which ideas overlap and which can move forward.These brainstorming rules and guidelines will be helpful in setting up such an experience.
3. Tips for Organizing and Managing Volunteers
When assigning tasks and responsibilities to your volunteers, use something very simple. If the various individuals and groups helping you remake your classroom have regular online access, use a Google spreadsheet. If access is problematic, create a printable spreadsheet with the tasks and responsibilities, and pass it out to all parties involved in the project. The key to such a process is ensuring that it's easy to identify and know who is handling each task and responsibility.
4. Tips for Clearing the Clutter
One of the keys to any classroom remake is removing all of the unnecessary items. Spend some time considering what you most frequently use and where those items should be in relation to where you spend most of your time while in class. Once you define those needs, begin to search sites like Lifehacker for some tips on how to reorganize your materials.
5. Tips for Obtaining Supplies and Support
Once you've defined your required materials for the remake, reach out to your locally owned stores and tell your story. In many cases, the owners may donate or discount certain supplies. And -- oh, by the way -- it wouldn't hurt to bring a few of your students when you are making the ask.
If your project is going to require a bit more money, an Indiegogo campaign may be a viable option. Partner with some of the students and perhaps your media teacher to create a video that will draw in some interest and support.
6. Ideas for Repurposing Materials You May Already Have
Many items in our classrooms and homes are sitting idle when they could easily be repurposed. Do you have old plastic containers from the grocery store, milk crates or old hardbound books? Use them as storage containers in your classroom. Have old CDs? Make them into art. Lacking inspiration? Again, Pinterest may be a great resource for how to reuse your materials in your classroom. If you can't find the types of materials you're looking for to organize things, your town or city may have a group like SCRAP, Urban Ore orGoodwill. Check out those locations, as they will have plenty of reused materials. Also, explore Craigslist, a veritable goldmine for used materials.
7. Organizing Your Tools
Organize your tools in groupings based upon usage and frequency. Consider using containers or boxes that you or you students can easily identify and access, as these will be two of your biggest concerns. Use some color and visual labels to ensure that the containers stand out. If there are doors on your cabinets, consider taking them off so that everyone can see the containers with ease.
8. Additional Resources
You can do a lot with space, materials, and even your students when you think creatively. In the comments section below, please share any questions, ideas and experiences for how you might remake your classroom this year.


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January has become a traditional time for new beginnings and re-evaluation, perhaps even more so this year as owners determine that they must be more creative in operating their businesses if they want to succeed. Our magazine's franchise is no different. For us to prosper, we must meet your needs. Many of you have depended on our publication for 25 years, and we want to ensure that our magazine, Web site, e-newsletters and trade shows continue serving you.
With that in mind, I have several additions to tell you about. We are adding Mark Mastrov, founder of 24 Hour Fitness, and Julie Main, co-owner and president of West Coast Athletic Clubs, to our editorial advisory board, which we've had in place since the magazine began 25 years ago. (View the list of our editorial advisory board members.) The advisory board is a resource and sounding board for us when it comes to developing stories and making changes to the franchise.
Mark founded 24 Hour Fitness in 1983 and built it into the largest and most profitable club company in the country. He was one of the first to introduce around-the-clock access, month-to-month memberships and electronic monthly billing. He also started 24 Hour's partnerships with celebrities to open co-branded clubs and the partnership with NBC's reality television program "The Biggest Loser." After leaving 24 Hour last year, Mark is now involved with his investments in five continents and is seeking opportunities as an investor and operator in the industry. Starting in February, Mark will write a column for the magazine on a regular basis.
Julie has been in the fitness business since 1987. She has served as president of the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA), has spoken at several IHRSA conventions and has been a judge in our Best of the Best contest for the past two years. She co-founded the Cancer WellFit Program, an exercise program for cancer patients. She also is the co-writer and co-publisher of "The Cancer WellFit Manual," which is being sold internationally to health clubs and medical facilities.
New advisory board members aren't our only change. A few months ago, our senior associate editor, Jennipher Shaver, left the magazine, and now we welcome Stephanie Bloyd to the staff in that role. Stephanie brings with her a journalism degree and more than 15 years of writing and editing experience, including coverage of the food and health industries. I am looking forward to the valuable contribution she will make to the franchise.
Our changes extend beyond adding new people. In the next month, we will add articles to our Web site about how to survive a tough economy. The articles, most of which will be written by experts in the industry, focus on topics such as cutting costs, retaining members, attracting new members, increasing ancillary revenue and securing financing. I encourage you to go to this page (www.fitnessbusinesspro.com/economy) and read these articles as you prepare for the year ahead.
We also are partnering with Casey Conrad to provide teleseminars to our readers (see www.fitnessbusinesspro.com/webinar/ for upcoming topics), and we plan to add forums to our Web site later this year.
As you and your members start anew this month with hope and trepidation about the future, we join with you in hopes of making this year a successful one for everyone. Please let me know how else we can help you meet your goals this year.


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Soccer Report, March 21, 2001
The NMT men's soccer team improved their record to 9-2-1 with recent wins over Las Chivatas, 4-0, and 242-Ride, 2-0. Senior Randy Clark came alive with a hat-trick against Las Chivatas. Dan Young and Nate Vanderlinder were able to force the ball to the back of the net against a very tough 242-Ride goal-keeper. Maurizio Leo and Rafael Alvarado got the assists. NMT Goal-keeper Hanh Nguyen continued his string of shut-outs with a fabulous penalty kick denial against the Chivatas. Veteran defenseman Tony Zimmerly contributes his aggressive and consistent play in the backfield to frustrate opponent offenses. Look for the NMT Miners on Sundays at Milne Field in Albuquerque.


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Finland believes in equality, democracy and taking good care of each other. Good education is the cornerstone of our society. These are the reasons why we are on the top of all kinds of country rankings from clean air to quality of life. The Finnish handshake can be viewed as the most reliable in the world.
Finland is functional. We look for practical solutions and deliver innovations to both industries and everyday life of people.
Finland is green. We have fresh air, pure water, green forests, clean energy and clean technology. Our Nordic nature has inspired us to look for well-designed and sustainable solutions.
Finland is educated. All Finns have equal opportunities to study and learn. Thanks to our world class education system, we find joyful solutions to both local and global challenges.
To find out more about Finland and its facts, trends, traditions, and businesses, visit the ThisisFINLAND website or follow us on social media including Twitter, Facebook, Vkontakt, YouTube, Weibo, Wechat and Instagram.
Tools for telling about Finland can be found at the Finland Toolbox.
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The conduction of electricity in thin gases in vacuum tubes was the key to the discovery of the electron in 1897.Description of the discovery of Cathode rays.
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A description of the relevant work of a number of scientists who are famous for work relating to gases or vacuums.
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In its 100-year history, the electric vacuum cleaner has become an indispensable home appliance for most people, and it's obvious why. This site goes through the basic science behind the humble ...
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Video telling the story of a man who was accidentally exposed to a vacuum.
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Until recently, most TVs relied on a device known as the cathode ray tube, or CRT, to display pictures. This site has a good explanation of how CRTs work.
Crooke's tube: cathode rays
An interactive demonstration of the Crooke's tube experiment, with a brief, but accurate explanation. This is great for revision, or for teaching if you do not have access to the real apparatus.
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Page explaining what a pressure vacuum is.
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The Rijke tube is an interesting example of an open cylinder resonator.
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A mini program that uses a Venturi tube to show the effect of the Bernoulli equation. A simple yet very informative site which clearly shows Bernoulli's principle in action.
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An excellent description of how Thermoses (Vacuum Flasks) work using heat transfer principles. From HowStuffWorks.com. An extremely good, informative site.


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Clock Changes in Fort Severn First Nation, Ontario, Canada
Mar 10
Forward 1 hour
Mar 10, 2019 - Daylight Saving Time Started
When local standard time was about to reach
Sunday, March 10, 2019, 2:00:00 am clocks were turned forward 1 hour to
Sunday, March 10, 2019, 3:00:00 am local daylight time instead.
Sunrise and sunset were about 1 hour later on Mar 10, 2019 than the day before. There was more light in the evening.
Also called Spring Forward, Summer Time, and Daylight Savings Time.
Nov 3
Back 1 hour
Nov 3, 2019 - Daylight Saving Time Ends
When local daylight time is about to reach
Sunday, November 3, 2019, 2:00:00 am clocks are turned backward 1 hour to
Sunday, November 3, 2019, 1:00:00 am local standard time instead.
Sunrise and sunset will be about 1 hour earlier on Nov 3, 2019 than the day before. There will be more light in the morning.
Also called Fall Back and Winter Time.
Daylight Saving Time in Other Years
DST changes do not necessarily occur on the same date every year.
|DST Start (Clock Forward)
|DST End (Clock Backward)
|* 2018
|Sunday, March 11, 2:00 am
|Sunday, November 4, 2:00 am
|* 2019
|Sunday, March 10, 2:00 am
|Sunday, November 3, 2:00 am
|* 2020
|Sunday, March 8, 2:00 am
|Sunday, November 1, 2:00 am
|* 2021
|Sunday, March 14, 2:00 am
|Sunday, November 7, 2:00 am
|* 2022
|Sunday, March 13, 2:00 am
|Sunday, November 6, 2:00 am
|All times are local for Fort Severn First Nation. Current year is highlighted.
*Some or part of this period was on double DST.
Data for the years before 1970 is not available for Fort Severn First Nation, however, we have earlier time zone history for Toronto available.
Detailed time zone and clock changes in Fort Severn First Nation


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Mach 1 Productions, LLC is pleased to announce their feature film SHORT TRACK will be released on DVD throughout the U.S. on Tuesday, September 30th, 2008. SHORT TRACK, a small, yet ambitious stockcar racing movie, rated PG, should appeal to race fans of all ages. Shot primarily in the Carolinas and in Georgia, SHORT TRACK features the UARA-STARS Racing Series late model stock cars and stars veteran actors Pepper Sweeney ("Gray's Anatomy"), Barbara Niven (HBO's THE RAT PACK and REDLINE), Joshua Snyder (SHOPGIRL), newcomer Ann Bratton and Patrick Gorman (GETTYSBURG and GODS AND GENERALS). Check out the trailer by clicking here. www.shorttrackmovie.com/trailermedium.html
Written and Directed by Marie Hopkins, a native Carolinian from a longtime NASCAR associated racing family, the film centers on the family life of short track veteran race driver, Blake Beckett (Pepper Sweeney). The daily life experiences of Blake's family and crew are exposed through unique characters that work and play through weeks that culminate in 120 mph Saturday nights. Blake longs to make it to the sport's top series, while struggling to help his deaf son follow in his race-driving footsteps. Indy Johansen (Joshua Snyder), a well-heeled, young California driver, arrives to recruit Blake for a shot at the big time. There's only one catch: Indy's driving. Blake's daughter, an aspiring country music singer, Abby (Ann Bratton) falls for the young hot-shoe driver, forcing Blake to see that his little girl is all grown up. Blake's lively, resilient wife, Audrey (Barbara Niven) longs for the day when he will retire from driving. "Driving racecars is a young man's business."
The movie features electrifying race footage from the UARA-STARS Racing Series. Writer-Director Marie Hopkins says, "I looked very hard for the best short track racing I could find. The UARA provided exactly what we were looking for, intense door-to-door racing action with some of the country's most talented and experienced young drivers. Some of these drivers will no doubt be among the ranks of the very best NASCAR top series drivers in the foreseeable future. Though a relatively young series, the UARA has become a well-respected, well-run, thriving touring series built around giving up-and-coming drivers and teams the opportunity to compete at many of the best short tracks in the country. Just this year, there were two big UARA tour events at the famed Bristol Motor Speedway."
SHORT TRACK features race footage at three great tracks: Lanier National Speedway in Braselton, GA, Tri-County Motor Speedway and the historical Hickory Motor Speedway. "UARA-STARS Series President Kerry Bodenhamer gave us such great access to the races, the drivers and the teams. The UARA really bumped the project up to a whole new level. SHORT TRACK's exciting race footage features most of the 2006 UARA-STARS roster."
Since we were shooting actual races and not staging them for the movie, we chose two of the series' drivers and teams to be our lead character's cars/drivers. We needed to assure that the teams we chose were experienced, consistent, exciting and, of course, bad fast. Filling that bill for us was young Alex Yontz (as driver for the movie's Blake Beckett) in his orange #55 car. Yontz, a UARA Series multi-race winner is also a former winner of the big annual late model race at Martinsville, the Bailey's 300. Yontz has since won two UARA races at Bristol as well.
The other team we felt really confident about was Jamie Yelton and his Forest City Bad Boys. Yelton (as driver for the movie's Indy Johansen) who's still a pretty young racer, is a real late model veteran. He's a threat anywhere and everywhere he unloads that slick-looking black #8. And his late model stock win column is a mile long. 2006 Series Champion Brandon Ward is also featured, as well as Mark Setzer, Kyle Grissom, Kevin Leicht and the entire field of the 2006 UARA Series. Mark King and Lucas Ransone assisted with getting some great in-car camera footage."
Writer-Director Marie Hopkins' vision for the film was to simply bring to the screen an authentic portrayal of the many talented people and dedicated families who participate in the exciting and popular sport. Hopkins states, "These are some really passionate and wonderful people who entertain thousands every Saturday night. The risk, the rewards and the disappointments are many, but these people have such passion for racing. They include their families in their dreams and goals and have a great time doing it. I have felt for a long time that stockcar racing in general has often been characterized in movies as cartoonish, overstating the role of moonshining in stockcar racing's early days and trite portrayals of drivers as thrill seekers. I just wanted to push to the forefront how little these assumptions are actually what this sport is about. I tried to put forth an honest portrayal of racing families and the kinds of things that they deal with day to day."
On her actor's contributions to the movie, Hopkins says, "It was so touching to me how my actors just delved into researching the sport and its participants. I was so impressed by their abilities, all of them, to transform themselves into these people. And not just the physical performance part of the acting, but the real heart that they delivered in their performances. I wrote these characters from my background and experience, but these actors brought them to life in such realistic portrayals. Pepper Sweeney and Barbara Niven, who play Blake and Audrey Beckett in the movie, are in my mind, real racers if I've ever known any. And I have, my whole life. The chemistry between them is wonderful and that relationship is the real heart of SHORT TRACK, and a testament to the talent and abilities of these two wonderful actors."
Regarding the distribution announcement for SHORT TRACK, Hopkins says, "I was fortunate to have had the opportunity to get SHORT TRACK into the hands of Curb Entertainment. (Curb Entertainment's CEO Mike Curb is a long time participant and supporter of stockcar racing and co-owner of Baker-Curb Motorsports' Nashville-based NASCAR Nationwide Series race team.) It is well known in racing circles that Curb was an early supporter of a young Dale Earnhardt and was the car-owner of the famous yellow and blue #2 car in Earnhardt's first NASCAR championship season, as well as car-owner for Richard Petty's 1984 win at Daytona. But more impressive to me are the close to one-hundred young and up-and-coming drivers that Mike Curb has invested in over the years, in all forms of American motorsports, from dirt sprints to entrants in the Indy 500. I so genuinely respect and appreciate Curb's contribution to racing, which led me to feel that Curb Entertainment was where SHORT TRACK belonged. My best case scenario was that Curb would like the movie. And it was important to make sure we aligned ourselves with someone who really got it, loved the movie and would do what I know needed to be done to get it to the audience for whom it was written – racers and race fans."
"When I met with Curb Entertainment's President Carole Curb, her enthusiasm and excitement for SHORT TRACK was great. In fact, she had great marketing vision for it immediately and in literally days, brought in a DVD distributor, Monarch Home Video, which has turned out to be a perfect fit for the movie. Carole is doing a great job marketing the movie in the foreign arena as well. And I think this association is working great for SHORT TRACK.
Carole also brought some great music from Curb recording artists to the movie's soundtrack. Los Angeles composer, John Boegehold did a beautiful job on the filmscore and wrote some great original music for the movie. Now, with the Curb association, we were able to get some amazing music from some great artists. Wynonna's heart-pounding, "Attitude" opens the movie with, well, lots of attitude. The movie also features music from Curb artists' Plumb, Mikeschair, Kimberely Locke and Lee Brice. And the most perfect song there could ever be for a short track racing movie, "Carolina Boys", was written and performed by the super-talented artist and songwriter, Lee Brice. Brice, who is himself a real Carolina Boy, has generated tremendous excitement for the upcoming release of his debut album due this fall on the Curb record label. So needless to say, the Curb association has been a great boost for SHORT TRACK."
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Life. Death. Violence. Sex. Drugs. Sports. Entertainment. The triumphs, tragedies, and unexplainable mysteries of this thing called life on Planet Earth. This tumblr is my small way of communicating my ideas, influences, likes, dislikes, and everything else to the world through effective visual and audio media. Some of the content on here will amaze you. Some of it will shock you. Some of it might even offend you. Whatever the response it illicits, as long as I can derive feelings from the viewer, I feel as if I have accomplished my mission. This blog is a product of a man who was shaped by the boredom of suburban life, the rebelliousness of youth culture, the ecclecticism of urban life, and the fecundity of the world in general. Thank you for visiting and please follow me if you like what you see.
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The debate over the Second Amendment right to bear arms often seems to include a presumption — at least on the part of some advocates — that it is a right that should be unfettered.
Even a casual reading of the gun-friendly opinions that have come out of the U.S. Supreme Court in recent years shows that is clearly not how justices see it, even the most conservative on the bench.
With these opinions and others in mind, the Colorado legislature would be acting responsibly to impose a modest background check fee on potential gun buyers to defray the costs of the work.
Such a fee could not be a money-maker. It would have to only cover the cost of the work itself.
Given the backlog that exists currently, and the potential that Congress or state lawmakers may approve "universal" checks, which would increase the workload, Colorado lawmakers would be wise to pass a user fee.
The alternatives are longer wait times for a buyer to clear checks, or taking money away from other budget priorities, such as education, to beef up the staff that conducts such checks.
Some opponents of such a fee argue that it's not legal to charge people who are exercising a constitutional right. Or that a simpler way of reducing costs is to eliminate the state level system, InstaCheck, which they say is duplicative.
First, we'll address the InstaCheck argument. It's true that there is overlap between the federal check and the state level check, but InstaCheck includes important databases that the federal check does not.
In 1999, the Colorado legislature allowed InstaCheck to sunset. Shortly thereafter, Simon Gonzales bought a handgun and used it to kill his three daughters and engage in a shootout with Castle Rock police.
Gonzales had a restraining order against him, filed by his wife, that InstaCheck would have caught and prevented him from purchasing a gun. This case is a tragic reminder of the need for checks at both levels.
As to the other argument, that it is illegal to attach a fee to activity protected in the constitution, the courts have, at least thus far, disagreed.
Last year, a federal court upheld New York City's $340 handgun licensing fee, saying it was designed to cover administrative costs for the three-year permit. While government cannot tax a constitutionally protected activity, it can charge a fee to offset costs associated with regulating such activity, the court ruled.
And let's keep in mind the actual cost. Conducting a background check in Colorado, as opposed to New York's extensive permitting process, wouldn't be as pricey. The Colorado Department of Public Safety has estimated the cost at $10 to $12.
Charging a modest fee would be a prudent move that would allow background checks to be conducted in a timely fashion without siphoning resources from other state priorities.


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When Patricia stoops planned her Carnival cruise vacation, all she was thinking about was hanging out on the beach, tanning and a dolphin excursion. "I wanted to go on a dolphin cruise," she said. "The group I was with, no one wanted to go. So I went on the dolphin cruise by myself."
Her getaway cruise turned into a trip she never could have imagined. She and 15 others were in the water with a number of dolphins.
But one particular dolphin would not leave Stoops alone. "He kept running into me and I explained to the trainer that the dolphin had hit me. He said, "oh, that's unusual." He did a flip in front of me," Stoops said. "The dolphin trainer said the dolphin detected something wrong with me."
The trainer shocked Stoops by asking if the Make-A-Wish Foundation was fulfilling her last wish being to swim with the dolphins. She replied, saying she was healthier than ever.
"He asked if I'd ever had cancer. I said, no way!"
Stoops returned home to Panama City Beach, and a week later got a pain in her chest. She remembered the strange dolphin encounter and went to see her doctor. They found a spot on her lung and was diagnosed with lung cancer.
"Thank God to this little dolphin, Keppler, who lives in the British Virgin Islands. He saved my life."
Stoops is now cancer free and plans on making another trip to visit Keppler the dolphin this fall.
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New EMC Atmos Cloud Storage Enhancements Accelerate Cloud Transformation
EMC Atmos Delivers 33% More Capacity, 10x Network Performance, Native S3 API Support and Flexible New Packaging Options
Story Highlights
-EMC announces general availability of Atmos G3-Dense-480 Hardware, Atmos 2.1 Software, and Atmos GeoDrive Windows 1.1.
-New hardware enhancements deliver more power and density; 33% percent more capacity with 3TB drives, new x86 Intel-based architecture and 10x network performance improvement via 10 GbE connectivity.
-New software enhancements add native Amazon S3 API support and three new packaging options and pricing configurations.
-New Atmos GeoDrive Windows 1.1 provides instant Windows access to any Atmos-powered storage cloud, CIFS Cloud Gateway support for unlimited users.
HOPKINTON, Mass , - EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced new products and enhancements across the entire EMC® Atmos® portfolio, significantly extending Atmos value for enterprises and service providers as they transform to cloud. General availability of the Atmos 2.1 Software, first announced in May 2012 at EMC World, has been supplemented with additional new features, enhancements and packaging options. All-new Atmos G3-Dense-480 Hardware, incorporating a new x86 Intel-based architecture, delivers additional performance and density. In addition, a new release of Atmos GeoDrive Windows 1.1 delivers enhanced security, availability and featuresmaking it even easier to manage and provide access to any Atmos storage cloud.
As cloud adoption accelerates, enterprises and service providers consistently face new challenges as they scale and manage their cloud storage operations in large, globally distributed environments. The explosion of unstructured data generated by web applications, tablets and mobile devices requires both massive on-demand scalability and support for multiple device types and applications. Providing secure instant access to petabytes of data from any device or application anywhere in the worldrequires an agile platform that addresses the convergence of data, applications and access. The latest additions to the EMC Atmos portfolio help enterprises and service providers to transform their business while driving operational efficiencies at scale.
New EMC Atmos Portfolio Highlights:
Atmos G3-Dense-480 Hardware
The Atmos G3 series introduces new processing power, performance and density enhancements to the Atmos product line. The G3-Dense-480 is the first in the Atmos G3 series and offers Intel x86-based architecture, 10 GbE network connectivity, 60 disks per node and flexible rack-based configurations that consist of 4, 6, or 8 nodes. The Atmos G3-Dense-480, with 480 disks in 40U, comes standard racked, cabled, and pre-configured for easy serviceability and fit within datacenters. With 480 disks and 3TB drives, the Atmos G3-Dense-480 provides the densest and most energy efficient Atmos storage platform. This enables enterprises and service providers to more cost-effectively manage petabyte-scale environments with less infrastructure and power.
Atmos 2.1 Software
In addition to the REST API, Atmos 2.1 now natively supports the Amazon S3 API. This provides customers with the ability to easily migrate their S3 applications to any of the more than 40 Atmos powered public clouds around the globe or any internal private cloud they are deploying. Customers benefit from more options to choose from, including improved SLAs, services, and price points that match their business needs. This capability also opens new markets for services providers to build and deliver competitive services that attract customers with applications already written to the widely used API.
Atmos is now available in 3 flexible feature and price-based configurations:
-Atmos CE - Complete Edition provides full Atmos functionality designed for distributed locations, including multi-site active/active, multi-tenancy, and full policy controls. Deployed on Atmos hardware.
-Atmos LE - Light Edition offers a subset of Atmos functionality to meet cloud archive and centralized data centers, including 2 sites, 1 tenant / 1 subtenant, and limited policy controls. Deployed on Atmos hardware.
-Atmos VE - Virtual Edition provides the full functionality of Atmos CE deployed on any VMware-certified third-party storage, including EMC Celerra, CLARiiON, Symmetrix, VNX, VNXe, and Isilon.
Atmos GeoDrive Windows 1.1
GeoDrive is a value-added software package for licensed Atmos customers that provides instant Windows access to any Atmos powered storage cloud. EMC is delivering enhancements for GeoDrive Windows 1.1, making it even easier to manage and provide access to an Atmos storage cloud:
-New CIFS Cloud Gateway supports unlimited users and eliminates need for client software
-Shareable URLs for improved collaboration
-Easy drag and drop file capabilities to build your own cloud drive
-Now available in 10 languages
-Microsoft clustering for high availability and added data encryption for even greater cloud security
Industry Analyst Quote:
Simon Robinson, Research Vice President, 451 Research
With the general availability of Atmos 2.1 software, a new generation of Atmos hardware, new configuration options and multiple new enhancements to virtually all elements within the Atmos portfolio, EMC is evolving its Atmos Cloud Storage offering with compelling new capabilities that service providers and enterprises alike should respond very favorably to. For service providers who are evaluating build versus buy cloud platform decisions, EMC Atmos tilts the scales with a powerful, yet flexible array of features and options that can be deployed rapidly and scale to support their customer acquisition velocity.
Customer Quote:
PJ Farmer, Director of Product Management, Savvis
Savvis selected EMC Atmos to power its Symphony Cloud Storage offering and provide the ability to deliver unlimited capacity with the reliability and protection our customers demand. We are pleased to see new performance and capacity enhancements across the platform and an ecosystem of strategic partner integrations to help us deliver differentiated services to market.
EMC Executive Quote:
Amitabh Srivastava, President, EMC Advanced Storage Division
EMCs focus on delivering seamless, secure and reliable cloud access is underscored by the numerous advancements to the Atmos product portfolio we are announcing today. These new software and hardware platform capabilities meet the demands of the most progressive and sizeable cloud environments, and reflect EMCs commitment to being the infrastructure provider of choice for cloud environments.
EMC Atmos G3-Dense-480 Hardware, Atmos 2.1 Software and GeoDrive Windows 1.1 are available immediately.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Zale Corp. soared on Wednesday following an announcement that rival Signet Jewelers Ltd. agreed to buy the jewelry store chain. United States Steel Corp. slumped after the Commerce Department decided not to impose tariffs on steel pipes from Korea.
Zale US:ZLC skyrocketed 40% while Signet Jewelers SIG, +1.66% climbed 18%. Signet said it would buy Zale for $21 per share in cash, a 41% premium over Tuesday's closing price. The total price that the larger jewelry company will pay to buy its smaller competitor comes to about $690 million.
United States Steel X, -0.51% shares declined 7%, the biggest loser in the S&P 500. "The DOC found no [oil country tubular goods] dumping by Korea, the largest exporter to the U.S. by far at 17% of 2013 consumption. In our view, this finding alone is sufficient to pressure U.S. Steel's tubular margins given Korea's 2014 OCTG exports will likely continue trending above the 2013 average," analyst Michael Gambardella at J.P. Morgan said in a note.
Shares of AK Steel Holding Corp. AKS, -7.01% also dropped 5.1%.
Garmin Ltd. GRMN, +0.45% rose 9.6% after it said profits rose 27%. The provider of standalone global positioning systems said its non-automotive and mobile segments of its business made up 50% of the company's total revenue.
Nabor Industries Ltd. NBR, -8.20% shares jumped 13%. The drilling rig services company late Tuesday reported fourth-quarter earnings of 42 cents a share, which included 16 cents a share in one-time items. Analysts expected 20 cents a share.
Eli Lilly & Co. LLY, -0.02% shares climbed 5.1%. The pharmaceutical company on Wednesday announced promising results from the trial of a lung cancer drug.
CF Industries Holdings Inc. CF, +0.74% advanced 5.1%. The fertilizer company reported fourth-quarter earnings of $5.71 a share, significantly better than Wall Street's expectations.
Flowserve Corp. FLS, -0.10% rose 5.7%. The valve-and-pump maker on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter earnings of $1.01, below the $1.02 projected by analysts in a FactSet survey.
Mylan Inc. MYL, -0.99% shares gained 5.9%. Analysts are projecting Mylan to earn 74 cents a share when it releases fourth-quarter results next week.
Chelsea Therapeutics International Ltd. US:CHTP shares surged 24% after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration conditionally approved the pharmaceutical company's new drug for treating symptomatic neurogenic orthostatic hypotension. The drug, called Northera, received an accelerated approval since it was deemed to treat a serious unmet medical condition.
Ultra Clean Holdings Inc. UCTT, -0.87% rose 11% on thin volume as the company's fourth-quarter earnings report was well-received by the market.
Comcast Corp. CMCSA, -0.14% shares declined 3.7%. The cable giant earlier this month announced that it will buy Time Warner Cable Inc. US:TWC for about $45.2 billion in stock, combining the two biggest cable operators in the U.S. Share of Time Warner Cable are off 2.8%.
Potbelly Corp. PBPB, -2.20% fell 8.7% after reporting fourth-quarter results the previous day. The sandwich chain said it earned adjusted profit of 6 cents a share on revenue of $74.76 million. Analysts polled by FactSet had forecast profit of 4 cents a share on sales of $76 million.
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LZB: La-Z-Boy Inc. LZB, +0.53% slid 2.3% after the firm reported fiscal third-quarter results late Tuesday that failed to meet analyst estimates. The furniture company said it earned 32 cents a share on revenue of $350.4 million. Analysts expected 35 cents a share of profit on sales of $378.7 million.
CLF: Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. CLF, +0.00% shares shed 3.4%. Analysts at Cowen & Co. said Tuesday that a significant drop in iron ore futures curve overshadows the company's cost cutting and optimization efforts.
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The Latest: Pence, Turnbull urge China to pressure N. Korea
SYDNEY (AP) - The Latest on U.S. Vice President Mike Pence's trip to Asia and Australia (all times local):
12:35 p.m.
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull are joining forces in urging China to do more to pressure North Korea to drop its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile program.
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence delivers a speedh during his visit at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, April 20, 2017. Pence praised Indonesia's democracy and moderate form of Islam on Thursday alongside the president of the world's most populous Muslim nation, reinforcing his message with a visit to the region's largest mosque. (Mast Irham/Pool Photo via AP)
Turnbull said at a joint news conference with Pence in Sydney on Saturday that China has the opportunity and "responsibility" to use its economic leverage to force China into compliance.
He said the "eyes of the world are on Beijing."
Pence added that "all options" remain on the table but the U.S. is "quietly confident" that China will pressure North Korea on its weapons program.
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Vice President Mike Pence says the United States will honor a refugee resettlement deal with Australia that President Donald Trump once dubbed "dumb."
Pence told reporters on Saturday that he had reassured Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull that the U.S. will honor the agreement struck by the Obama administration - even if the U.S. doesn't "admire" the deal.
In January, Trump and Turnbull got into a spat over the agreement that strained ties between the countries. Under the deal, the U.S. would take up to 1,250 refugees that Australia houses in detention camps on the Pacific island nations of Nauru and Papua New Guinea.
Pence is in Australia to reassure Turnbull about the state of the U.S.-Australia alliance.
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U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has told Australia's prime minister that President Donald Trump sent him to Australia to reaffirm America's commitment to the U.S.-Australia alliance.
Pence made the remarks ahead of a meeting on Saturday with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and other Australian officials in Sydney.
Turnbull and Pence both spoke of the two countries' long history of military cooperation. Australia has fought alongside the U.S. in every major conflict since World War I.
Pence's trip to Australia comes during a period of unusual tension in the Australian-American alliance. In January, Trump and Turnbull got into a spat over a refugee resettlement deal that strained ties between the countries.
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U.S. Vice President Mike Pence's visit to Australia is beginning with a reaffirmation of the two allies' strong ties.
Pence was greeted in Sydney on Saturday by Australian Governor-General Peter Cosgrove. Cosgrove says the relationship is "as strong today" as it was since "the first time we saw each other on the battlefield in 1919."
Cosgrove says the alliance that started during World War I "started an unbreakable relationship." He also says: "We've been with you every step of the way."
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U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has arrived in Sydney for a weekend visit that will include meetings with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and other top officials.
Pence landed in Australia on Friday night, his latest stop on a 10-day tour through Asia.
He's expected to meet with Turnbull, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, opposition leader Bill Shorten and others. Pence and his family are also scheduled to tour the Sydney Opera House and other landmarks.
The visit follows Pence's stops in South Korea, Japan and Indonesia for events focused on national security, trade and economic development.
FILE - In this April 11, 2017, file photo, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull takes a tour during a four day visit in Mumbai, India. More than two months after President Donald Trump got into a spat with Turnbull, Vice President Mike Pence will be working to smooth over any lingering hard feelings with the longtime US ally. Pence will meet with the prime minister on Saturday as part of his trip to Asia. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade, File)
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Aug 07, 2012 | 256 Pages
"Dead Funny isn't just a book of wildly off-limits humor. Rather, it's a fascinating, heartbreaking look at power dynamics, propaganda, and the human hunger for catharsis."
—The Atlantic, Best Books of 2012
"You've never seen Nazi Germany like this." —The Stranger (Seattle)
"A concise, compelling book." —The Independent
"Fascinating… Intriguing….Herzog, the son of the film-maker Werner Herzog, shares his father's curious and mordant wit." —The Financial Times
"Dead Funny's real value lies in the way it situates anti-Nazi folk humor in the shifting historical context of this grim bygone era, and the fact that the author is able to resuscitate such obscure jokes verbatim is a phenomenal feat … [the] book's strikingly original historical research sets it apart from the glut of dry tomes which are still being cranked out about Nazi history." —Time Out (New York)
"Chilling….[Herzog] shows, in unadorned language, the process of propagandising and the psychological capitulation of many Germans to the Nazis' will." —PopMatters
"Herzog's thesis is that, during the Third Reich, Germans relished jokes about their leaders. Throughout Hitler's 12 years in power, there were plenty of caustic gags doing the rounds—about Dr Goebbels' club foot, or Hitler's limp Nazi salute, which made him look like a waiter carrying a tray, or the widely held suspicion that Goering wore his medals in the bath." —The Guardian
"Herzog demolishes the idea that Germans didn't know what the Nazis were up to: there were many, many concentration camp jokes. Germans under Hitler seemed to find it natural, and kind of funny, that 'troublemakers'—including Jews and dissidents—should end up behind barbed wire." —Macleans
Praise for the German Edition
"A thrilling book."
—Der Spiegel
"The first comprehensive book on comedy and humor in the Third Reich. […] The author brings together all manifestations of humor–wit, newspaper cartoons, cabaret, variety shows, entertainment, film, pop songs, and musicals… An important history."
—Suddeutsche Zeitung


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Experiencing the Environmental World in 134 Days
Never before did I believe it was possible to wake up any time before 7:00am and truly be excited for the day. But working as an intern for the Mission Outdoors program at the Sierra Club has taught me otherwise.
I clearly remember the first week of my internship: a steering committee meeting, a rally at the Capitol, and acting like a sponge, constantly soaking up information. When I think back to January, I think of how much I've learned since then. It became apparent to me early on that environmental education and getting people (especially kids) outdoors is something I am passionate about.
After confirming my position at the Sierra Club, my incredible supervisor, Jackie Ostfeld (who is a tireless champion for getting kids outdoors), recommended reading Richard Louv's Last Child in the Woods. Reading this book opened my eyes to the magnitude of the problem of kids and their disconnection to nature. It was essentially the jumpstart I needed before coming to D.C. and facing this issue head on.
Through involvement with Outdoors Alliance for Kids (OAK), I have witnessed much inspirational, hard work to get kids outdoors. Through the coalition I have learned about great examples of outdoor education, everything that can result from a lack of outdoor activity, and have seen steps taken in the right direction to push these efforts that need to be pushed. Who knew that making mud pies in the backyard after it rained or going to the park with my parents could be part of something so beneficial?
During my internship I also got the chance to help organize Mission Outdoors' kickoff event for military kids and families: the Celebration of the Military Child Outdoors. Thanks in part to my awesome colleague Stacy Bare and his moving stories, I was able to better understand how military children are indeed the nation's youngest heroes. Seeing their joyful faces on the day of the event was a reflection of how much they need and deserve to enjoy the land their families protect.
Approaching the day to leave is nothing other than saddening. I feel so lucky to have had this opportunity and am honored to have experienced my first, real environmental advocacy work with the wonderful people at the Sierra Club. Getting to see people so driven about their work is truly inspiring for a college student soon to be thrown into the workforce world. I can only hope to cross paths with them again in the future, as I have been inspired to continue to feed my interest in environmental work.
Thank you, Sierra Club!
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Throughout the course of a career, a writer reaches many milestones. These milestones have a certain order, more or less, and each time one is reached is a cause for celebration.
Today I reached one of those milestones, which got me thinking about the past ones, and the joy I've gotten from them. They include:
Writing my first novel. Few things in life offer the satisfaction of finally writing "The End" when finishing a book. I've written fourteen others since then, and it's still always a thrill for me.
Selling my first short story. The first time I was actually paid for my words, and saw my name in print, felt great. I still get a kick out of this when it happens.
Getting an agent. It's so hard to find an agent, especially a good one. I'm going on seven years now with mine, and I'm still lucky to have her.
Landing my first book deal. This is perhaps the biggest milestone of all. One day I was a normal guy. The next day I was a novelist. I've had subsequent book deals since then, but nothing will ever beat the first one.
Earning out my advance. As of today, my first three books (Whiskey Sour, Bloody Mary, and Rusty Nail) are officially in the black. My first contract was basketed; a joint accounting clause which stated I wouldn't earn a dime until all three novels earned out the entire advance. Well, now they have. I'm actually earning royalties. And it feels wonderful.
According to my sources, earning out an advance isn't easy. One out of six books published makes money, sometimes quite a bit. One out of six earns out, just breaking even. And four out of six never earn out.
My books are making money, and seem to be on the path to keep making money.
I'd love to attribute this milestone to my tireless efforts at promoting, or the stellar quality of my writing, but in truth it really comes down to luck. Sure, I tried to write good books, and I've certainly worked hard to promote them (as has my publisher.)
But there are also authors who work their butts off and don't earn out, and there are a lot of authors who are wildly successful without doing much promotion at all.
Right now, though, I'm not thinking about hard work or luck. I'm simply happy that, nearing the fourth anniversary of me signing my first three-book deal, I'm actually getting a check, and a decent one at that.
Hopefully, there are other milestones ahead. Besides new books, and new contracts, I'm hoping to one day crack the bestseller lists, sell a movie option, sell more foreign rights, and sell book club rights. And, if I ever reach those milestones, I'm sure more milestones will replace them.
In the meantime, drinks are on me. If you've never seen me before, I'm the guy sitting there with the big-ass grin on his face.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
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The chapel was the church of a former monastery of Augustine monks, founded in the 14th century. At the end of the 17th century, the community moved to Santiago and abandoned the monastery in Arzúa, of which no trace remains. The chapel, however, continued to be used for worship, being under the jurisdiction of the monastery of Compostela until the secularization of Mendizábal. It is located in Rúa Cima do Lugar, in the urban section of the Way of St. James, between the municipal pilgrim hostel and the rectory.
The masonry building has a longitudinal ground plan and a tiled roof. The area of the sanctuary stands out in the elevation. The entrance door is located in the west façade and consists of a trumpet-shaped, semi-circular arch with a quadrangular opening above it; the front is crowned by a belfry with a single opening.
On the inside, the Gothic arch dividing the nave and the presbytery stands out, along with two tombs on both sides of the nave, as well as inscriptions on two of the doors.
All that remains of the first altarpiece, which dated from the 16th century, is the predella, which is now located in what is believed to be its original location. At the end of the 18th century, another wooden one was made in the rococo style; it was taken down in the 20th century during the chapel's first restoration.
In 1984, restoration work begun on the church, which was transferred from the diocese to the local council for time indefinite. The matter was managed by a trust formed by Pilar García Montero, Ramón Torreiro González and Luis Vidal Abad. They were helped by Antonio Fraguas Fraguas, Salvador Aires Espada, Manuel Díaz Díaz and Bernardino Villaverde Villaverde.
It was reopened, as a cultural hall, on June 21, 2006, with Maruja Mallo's travelling exhibition "A transgresión feita muller."
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Steps to Change IP Settings
- Primarily, using the start option, be connected with control panel settings and move on with network and sharing settings instantly.
- On the other hand, click on the change adapter settings option, further right click on the local area network and get connected with the properties option on the same page.
- Click the internet protocol version and move with properties option to attain the IP address. Once the required field of IP Address is found, start the further alterations and updating the requirements.
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1. What Can I do if I do not know my wireless network name or password?
- Using the control panel of your computer, click the system and security option, this provides the basic information regarding the computer and wireless network connection with.
2. What Can I Do if the printer is not found during the installation?
- Get connected with the control panel and make a move with add printer option. This brings the list of printer name list.
3. Can I change my printer connection type after the driver install completes?
- Here, alternatively, you can just software disc, if it supports the operating system. Try to detach the USB cables and try to change the type.
4.What print driver types are available?
- This majorly includes the class printer drivers and other sub forms like a (UPD) PCL6, PCL5, and PS etc. users must be aware.
5. How do I reconnect the printer to my network? if the connection is lost.
- If this kind of issues occurs, try to modify the following, restart the printer, and restore the network defaults on the printer, WPS settings.
6.What can I do to troubleshoot network or printer connection issues?
- Initially, restart your connected devices like computer, printer, and router respectively and inspect if the printer is connected with the network and make a test print report.


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Lee Jay Walker's Bosnia Column – THE SEOUL TIMES
|Osama bin Laden
Dear Editor!
I am writing to congratulate you and Mr. Lee Jay Walker on the outstanding column Bosnia and Clinton's Radical Islamists.
I have written the book: The Revenge of the Prophet: How Clinton and His Predecessors Empowered Radical Islam in which I have offered an explanation for the rise of radical Islam, including 9/11, due to flawed U.S. foreign policies. In the book there is a chapter dealing with the war in Bosnia in which president Clinton allowed Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda to establish the beach head in Europe. Bin Laden has used that opportunity to initiate planning of 9/11.
Mr. Walker has correctly analyzed President Clinton's involvement in Bosnia siding with the radical Islam against the Christian Serbs, which amounted to supporting the Serbian adversaries in order to win over the Muslim street. He has appropriately referenced the findings of the U.S. congressional committees as well as the recent Sky News report containing gruesome photos of bestial mujahideen crimes over the Serbian civilians.
The U.S. media has played a major role in propagating the Clinton administration lies, which portrayed the Muslims as the victims and the Serbs as the victimizors. This included one the worst hoaxes of our time—the Srebrenica massacre invention which enabled the Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia to indict the Serbian political and military leaders not only for the war crimes but even for the genocide which never took place. Mr. Walker's investigative reporting helps to establish the truth about what happened in Bosnia.
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text: Miami - British Open champion Ernie Els says he regrets not advising Rory McIlroy against walking out of the Honda Classic last week but understands the pressure the world number one is feeling.McIroy, who was playing with South African Els at PGA National, withdrew after slumping to seven over par through eight holes of his second round on Friday.Initially he said he was not in a "good place mentally" before later blaming a painful wisdom tooth for his withdrawal.The Northern Irishman has since conceded he was wrong to walk out on the tournament where he was the defending champion but the experienced Els wishes he had said something to him."I must say, when I shook his hand on 18, I wanted to say something to him, but I didn't, and I kind of regret that. It was obviously a heat of the moment thing. He is who he is. You've got to respect what the individual at that moment is like, and he wanted to get off," Els told a news conference."We obviously heard that he had his wisdom tooth which was bothering him, and if that was the reason, that was that. I would have been out of my depth at that stage to say something to him if something was bothering him. So I didn't, but I thought I should have," he said.McIlroy is facing intense scrutiny of his poor start to the year after switching to Nike clubs and Els, a former world number one in 1997 and 1998, said the status can be a burden."I wouldn't say lonely is the word, but you're exposed. People look at you and you're kind of the leader of the pack. In a way, you have to act accordingly. You have to show that you're number one in your game. You've got to perform," he said."There's a lot of guys out there that want to be wherever you are. So you have to out-work them, you have to outplay them. I think that you've got to be the number one player. With that there comes a lot of work and with that is a lot of stress put on your shoulders."So you're a guy walking around with a lot more pressure than the guy that's 50th in the world, I can promise you," he said. McIlroy, who has said his problems are related to his swing rather than his equipment, has spent the time since his withdrawal at his local club in Jupiter, Florida trying to get his game in shape for this week's WGC-Cadillac Championship at Doral."I saw him at The Bear's Club over the weekend. He was practising his tail off. He was there right through the whole day, even yesterday we played at Seminole, he was out there in the afternoon. So he's obviously working hard at his game."We did talk a little bit in private. We'll see what he says," he said, referring to Wednesday's news conference when McIlroy will face the media for the first time since his walk-off.Els, though, offered a reminder that despite winning two major championships and rising quickly to the top of the rankings, McIlroy is still only 23 years old."I was also 23; I'm 43 now. I look back, I did a lot of silly things and what he's done is nothing compared to what I did; just speak to my parents," said Els."But when it comes to being where he's at, you've got to maybe think a little bit more than two minutes. In a couple of years' time, he won't even think about this or talk about this. "If he wins this week, it will be the last thing we talk about, it will be history and that's what it should be. It's something that's happened and we should move on from that," he said.


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Nature Notes: Grin and Bear It
The leaves are falling. It's cold. No Indian summer this trip around the sun. No doubt a frigid winter is in store. As Eric Salzman reports in his daily blog, each spate of outlandish weather brings us a new spate of birds from the north. First it was the yellow-rumped warblers. Then, it was the white-throated sparrows. The robins are gathering around rain puddles along the roads as they contemplate leaving. What next?
The nights have turned quiet except for the wind. The tree crickets have put down their instruments. The few katydids still singing are now baritones, bordering on basso, the "katys" slow and slurred. The ants have gone back into the ground. No flowers to attract bees. The frost is on the pumpkins. Prepare for a long winter.
Fortunately for some of the birds that will be staying through the cold, there is a good supply of cedar berries, bayberries, winterberry holly berries, and holly berries. They will suffice for cedar waxwings, robins, bluebirds, catbirds, and true snowbirds, the grosbeaks, crossbills, and juncos. On the other hand, it's not a good acorn year. Turkeys, deer, and blue jays will suffer. Landscapes and their cultivars will have a hard time of it.
It's been a near-record year thus far for precipitation. Most of the local ponds are overbrimming. You may have noticed that the muskrats are abandoning their water-filled holes and once again building thatched huts in the ponds that dot Napeague lowlands — a telltale sign of prevailing high water tables.
Global warming may be afoot, but it's happening in fits and spurts, not in a nicely predictable, smoothly upsloping line on the temperature graphs. It's as if Mother Nature has a deep cough and she spends as much time hacking as presiding peacefully over her flock. The oil and gas men will profit, half of us will go to Florida and other points south, the remainder will try to grin and bear it.
Elections are upon us. The ranks of the politicians grow. The number of lawyers among them increases. The two things they can never reform are human nature and the weather. A thick blanket of insulation above and old movies on the telly below are one way to make it through to spring. And, oh yes, keep a snow shovel handy and watch out or you might slip and break your neck on the black ice.
God was kind to the chipmunk, ground hog, turtles, and frogs. He caused them to hibernate and pass the winter safe and sound underground. Not we humans. We were designed for higher destinies, but destined also to be uncomfortable and in occasional bad spirits along the way. Bah, humbug.
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The Village on the Pike retail center at 2974 Covington Pike in Raleigh has sold for $2.1 million.
Maroon Covington Pike Holdings LLC bought the 37,896-square-foot center in a June 28 special warranty deed from Village on the Pike LLC. The seller is an affiliate of ORIX Capital Markets, a Dallas-based company that had operated as special servicer for the property since 2010.
The buyer is related to Newport Beach, Calif.-based Sabal Financial Group LP. No financing was associated with the transaction.
Built in 1987, the Class B retail center, whose address is listed in the warranty deed as 2940 Covington Pike, sits on 4.4 acres at the southwest corner of Covington Pike and Stage Road. The Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2013 appraisal is $1.6 million.
ORIX in March 2010 took ownership of the center in a $500,000 substitute trustee's deed. The center had an appraised value of $2.7 million, according to the assessor's 2009 information.
Mike Moran, then-CEO of ORIX Capital Markets, told The Daily News at the time that when the center's previous owner, CCM #1 Ltd. of Memphis, defaulted on its loan, the company was contracted by the lender, U.S. Bank, to reposition the property.
ORIX then hired CB Richard Ellis Memphis to lease and manage the center.
Source: The Daily News Online & Chandler Reports
– Daily News staff
The local residential real estate market continues to show signs of improvement, according to recent sales figures.
Memphis-area home sales for June increased 6.7 percent compared to June 2012, with 1,459 total sales recorded, according to the Memphis Area Association of Realtors.
The average sales price for June was $161,508, up 9.9 percent from $146,899 in June 2012, according to MAAR, which records sales in Shelby, Fayette and Tipton counties.
While total sales were flat from May, year-to-date total home sales, average sales price and sales volume all saw increases. The average year-to-date sales price was $137,571, up 9.8 percent from $125,263. Sales volume year-to-date jumped to $1.1 billion, up 22.8 percent from $895.5 million.
"Halfway through 2013 the Memphis housing market is well ahead of last year," said MAAR President Regina Hubbard.
– Amos Maki
Shelby County Commissioners approved Monday, July 8, the appointment of engineer Julie Furr of Millington to the Memphis and Shelby County Building Code Board.
Furr's appointment by Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell was delayed by the commission after she voiced opposition to pushing back the effective date of new seismic building code regulations.
The later effective date for the new code at the end of the year was approved by the commission as well as the Memphis City Council. Furr remained vocal in her opposition to the decision.
Furr and other structural engineers argued the higher seismic standards should be implemented as soon as possible because of the city and county's proximity to the New Madrid fault.
Homebuilders and developers pushed for the delay to work out a compromise. They contended the standards will add enough expense to some projects that they would be scrapped instead of completed.
– Bill Dries
Early voting in the suburbs in advance of the July 16 election day topped 6,000 through Monday, July 8, with the busiest day yet of the early voting period.
Voters in the six suburban towns and cities are casting ballots in the special election referendum on the formation of municipal school districts.
Through Monday, the Shelby County Election Commission reported 6,190 early voters. The 2,520 who voted on Monday was the heaviest daily turnout yet.
Early voting runs through Thursday. And voters in any of the six cities and towns can vote at any of the early voting locations regardless of where they live.
The Collierville Church of Christ location had 962 voters Monday with 769 voting in Germantown at New Bethel Baptist Church and another 624 at Bethel Church in Bartlett. There were 150 Monday at Baker Community Center in Millington.
The U.S. Geological Survey is conducting low-level flights across sections of Missouri, Arkansas and Tennessee this week looking for clues about the New Madrid earthquake fault zone.
The USGS begins conducting the flights Wednesday over a 1,400-square-mile area across southeastern Missouri, northeastern Arkansas and western Tennessee. Crews will be measuring the magnetic field of the earth and underground rock formations to help locate concealed faults associated with the New Madrid seismic zone.
The USGS says the New Madrid area has been the most seismically active region in the United States east of the Rockies for decades.
The USGS says while there's no evidence of an imminent large earthquake, the agency has serious concerns about the potential repeat of a destructive earthquake like those in the 1800s.
– The Associated Press
An adult online degree program promoted by Gov. Bill Haslam opens Tuesday in Tennessee.
WPLN-FM reports legislators were hesitant to spend $5 million to open an office of Western Governors University, which targets people who have some college credit but never finished a degree.
Lawmakers argued that Tennessee's existing public colleges could start a similar program, but Haslam convinced them to go with the Salt Lake City-based nonprofit.
The state has set a goal to graduate 55 percent of residents from college, meaning as many as 100,000 adult Tennesseans need to finish school.
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Even after a slew of questionable calls that seemed to be stacking the deck in favor of the Patriots, the Bills still had a chance to win the game late.
And that chance evaporated when defensive back Devin McCourty intercepted a pass from Ryan Fitzpatrick in the end zone.
The Bills were down 14 points on three different occasions, but they kept fighting back. With the Pats seemingly destined to blow another double-digit fourth-quarter lead, the Bills worked their way from their own 20 to the Patriots 15.
But McCourty jumped up and picked off a ball that otherwise could have been caught, ending the threat and allowing the Pats to move to 6-3.
With the Dolphins losing to the Titans and the Jets likely to fall in Seattle, the Pats are in the process of nailing down yet another AFC East crown.


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You'll Like The 2008 Nissan Titan If...
If you're looking for a big, powerful truck that's out of the mainstream in both style and features, has a really nice interior, a stump-pulling V8 engine and a host of innovations designed around real pickup-truck functions, take a look at the Titan.
You May Not Like The 2008 Nissan Titan If...
If you like the more conservatively-styled trucks from Chevrolet and Ford, the Titan may be too flashy for your taste. And the option list does not include dual rear wheels or the choice of a six-cylinder or diesel engine.
What's New
The Titan receives a slight freshening with a new front end and new wheels. Redesigned seating provides better support, while new metering for the instrument cluster and center stack improves visual appeal. A long-wheelbase model joins the line, as does an off-road-ready PRO-4X model. New options include Bluetooth Hands-Free Phone System, a heated leather bench seat and XM Satellite Radio.
Interior Features
The Titan's interior is bold and forward-thinking in its design. On certain models you can opt for a center console with a gated shifter (the shift lever moves through a slotted path) for better control when shifting gears. The seating is comfortable, though drivers over six feet may find themselves staring out through the windshield's tint band. Some drivers also felt the seat bottoms could do with a sharper upward angle to better support their thighs. You'll find the Titan's new instrumentation to be clear, legible and easy to view, but the placement of the power window buttons atop the door's edge makes them vulnerable to outside elements when the windows are down.
Exterior Features
Nissan offers the Titan in two body styles: King Cab and Crew Cab. An optional spray-in bedliner applied at the factory covers the entire cargo bed floor and walls. The Titan cargo bed also features an available built-in channel system with moveable cleats designed to provide multiple tie-down points. Outside the bed, Nissan has placed a clever storage bin just behind left the rear wheel. The PRO-4X's ground clearance is among the best in its class, with over 10 inches measured at the rear axle. King Cab models feature a rear door that can swing open a full 168 degrees to aid with loading.
Driving Impressions
We found the Titan's V8 engine felt strong at all speeds, with loads of power on demand. The five-speed automatic transmission shifted smoothly and the gated shifter made it easy to move between first and second gears whenever we needed to apply engine braking. You may notice some vibration gets telegraphed through the steering wheel, and there is a noticeable exhaust note upon application of the throttle. Still, the Titan delivers a smooth, controlled ride and exhibits better-than-average steering and handling response.
Pricing Notes
The Titan King Cab XE has a starting Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) of about $24,000, while a fully loaded PRO-4X Crew Cab tops out around $46,000. To make your best deal on a Titan, be sure to check the Fair Purchase Price, which shows the typical transaction price paid for the truck in your area. Kelley Blue Book expects the Titan to maintain an average resale value over a five-year period, holding a better value than the Dodge Ram 1500 Quad Cab, on par with the Ford F150 Super Cab but well below the Chevrolet Silverado Extended Cab 1500.
Notable Equipment
The Titan XE has a 317-horsepower 5.6-liter V8, five-speed automatic transmission with a Tow/Haul mode, four-wheel anti-lock disc brakes (ABS), air conditioning, full gauges, exterior cargo light, dual manual side mirrors, a rear 12-volt outlet, AM/FM stereo with CD, fuel tank skid plate, cruise control, tilt wheel, tire pressure monitor and 18-inch steel wheels. The SE, LE and PRO-4X add even more standard features including power locks, power windows, remote keyless entry, dual heated power mirrors, a sliding rear window and 18-inch alloy wheels.
Notable Options
Options vary by trim and include four-wheel drive, front side and head-curtain airbags (covering the front and rear seats), tow package, Bluetooth Hands-Free Phone System, Rockford Fosgate audio, spray-in bedliner, eight-way power driver's seat, heated front seats, rear-seat DVD entertainment system (on the Crew Cab), navigation, a limited-slip rear differential, bed extender and a Homelink Universal Transceiver.
Favorite Features
Wide-Swinging Rear Door
The hinged rear door on the King Cab model swings back 168 degrees to create exceptionally convenient interior access.
Exterior Storage Box
The Titan's exterior storage box (located behind the left rear wheel) is perfect for storing such items as jumper cables or muddy clothing.
Under the Hood
Unlike many of its competitors, the Titan offers only one engine choice, and it's the most powerful V8 Nissan builds. The 5.6-liter V8 produces an abundance of power, but it cannot reasonably be expected to deliver the best fuel economy.
5.6-liter V8
317 horsepower @ 5200 rpm
385 lb.-ft. of torque @ 3400 rpm
EPA city/highway fuel economy: 12/17 (2WD, gasoline), 12/17 (4WD, gasoline), 9/13 (2WD, E85), 9/12 (4WD, E85)
Editors' Notes
Nissan's Titan full-size pickup is a worthy competitor to long-established rivals from Dodge, Chevrolet and Ford. Although the Titan is available only as a half-ton model, its powerful engine, numerous configurations and lengthy list of clever features should appeal to most light-duty pickup owners. Designed for the urban pickup owner, the Titan is as adept at carrying bikes, kayaks and ski gear as it is hauling plywood, concrete and dirt. A new PRO-4X model suits the needs of serious off-road adventurers. The addition of a long wheelbase model this year is also a welcome addition, as is the Titan's ability to run on either gasoline or E85.