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SOCORRO, N.M., March 04, 2003. The New Mexico Tech Rugby Football Club took a ride on an emotional roller coaster Saturday in Albuquerque, jetting off to a two-try lead before falling behind, battling back, and finally losing 26-24 to the Brujos RFC on a heartbreaking play at the final whistle.
The Pygmies tasted success after ten minutes on a perfectly executed backline play initiated by flyhalf Rob Harrison, who fed center Patrick Simons before running around him to take a return pass. Harrison's second pass found Maximillian Charbonneau steaming through a narrow gap in the defense, and after shedding a desperate tackle, the freshman fullback showed his pace over the remaining 30 yards. Center Patrick Simons's conversion kick was good for a 7-0 Tech lead.
At 16 minutes the Pygymies turned desperate defense near their line into seven more points when the Brujos turned the ball over in a tackle. Scrumhalf Paul Quintana came up with the ball and heard veteran wing Mike Bauer's call just before being tackled. Of all the Tech players, Bauer was the man for the job, and the speedster outraced the cover defense some 90 yards for a try between the posts.
At this point the Brujos seemed to awaken from a slumber, and stole the succeeding kickoff (in rugby the non-scoring team kicks off to resume play). Within 30 seconds they had worked the ball straight down the field through several tackles, and Irish-born prop Tom Kinch slid over to make it 14-7.
Play settled into a defensive battle from this point. The Brujos mounted several challenging attacks, but each stalled through lax ball handling. For their part, the Pygmies seemed to follow their elders' lead, and two clear scoring opportunities went begging for the same reason. 35 minutes into the 40-minute first half, hometown scrumhalf Ed Stephens found a gap and scored. With the successful conversion, the teams went into halftime knotted at 14.
The Brujos took the lead with a try by center Matt Odle just four minutes into the second half, 21-14. Playing with new confidence, the larger Albuquerque team placed Tech scrumhalf Paul Quintana and his forwards under increased pressure, and the outlet passes to Harrison often did not find their mark.
Finally, using the kicking tactic which worked so well against New Mexico State the week before, Tech got into the Brujos's end and the defenders were whistled for hands in the ruck after a tackle. Simons coolly booted the 3-pointer and Tech sneaked to within four at 21-17.
But once again the hometowners struck for a try, this one touched down by Brian Harrington, after a deft series of passes. The conversion kicked failed, but the Pygmies trailed 26-17 with a little more than 20 minutes remaining.
The students' superior fitness began to show in the waning minutes, and most of the play was carried on in the Brujo end. Finally, after a prolonged goal line stand, Quintana barged across to exact a bit of revenge for his harsh treatment, and Simons's kick was true, setting the stage for the final drama at 26-24, Brujos, with 14 minutes left to play.
With referee Col. Mark Niece checking his watch, Harrison kicked and his teammates ran their way close to the Brujo line. A pitched battle during which the students recycled ball possession flawlessly resulted in a set scrum five yards out. Hooker Dan Meiser heeled the ball cleanly back through his forwards and Rob Harrison broke to the short side in anticipation of Quintana's short pass. Drawing teammate Justin Monroe's defender to him, Harrison hit Monroe with a soft pass and the dashing winger flew across the line for the apparent game-winning try. But fate intervened at the last possible instant, and the ball spilled from Monroe's grasp just before he could place it down to register the score. Tech's reserves, jumping and screaming on the sideline, fell silent as the final whistle blew. Brujos 26, Pygmies 24.
For Tech, the ubiquitous senior lock forward Brook Jilek was recognized as Man of the Match for his outstanding lineout (inbounds) play, sound running and tackling, and tireless mobility. New Mexico Tech (1-1) now takes off two weekends for midterm exams and academic spring break, and will return to action March 22 in El Paso against a side from Major League Rugby members El Paso Rugby Football Club.


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The Aventador is Lamborghini's current flagship and despite its great looks and monstrous engine, the car has been released more than three years ago, so it actually received a couple of updates this year which will make it even more desirable than it was. The 2015 Lamborghini Aventador comes with a better interior, a more impressive exterior as well as slight changes to its engine and even a couple of all new models. Continue reading "2015 Lamborghini Aventador Price Review"
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2016 Mercedes S400 Hybrid Price Specs
One of the leading carmakers will soon delight us with another excellent vehicle called the S400 Hybrid. The S Class doesn't need special introduction so we will immediately move on crucial details. The S400 Hybrid will be the only vehicle powered by a hybrid engine. Generally, the next generation of the S400 Hybrid is similar to the S500 model, but with several features that differentiate the two. The 2016 Mercedes S400 Hybrid will compete against the Audi A8. Exact details about the vehicle are still filed under secrecy, but there are still plenty details to look at. Continue reading "2016 Mercedes S400 Hybrid Price Specs"
2017 Suzuki IV 4 Launch Date Review
There are quite a few compact crossovers on the market and most of these are usually missing a few important details which would make more people buy them. Suzuki is looking to change that by offering one of the most complete crossovers in its class, the 2017 Suzuki IV 4. Continue reading "2017 Suzuki IV 4 Launch Date Review"
2017 Suzuki Grand Vitara Review
First Grand Vitara was introduced more than 25 years ago, in 1988 and since then it has become one of the most popular cars from the Suzuki line up. Considered to be one of the first real compact sport utility vehicles, Grand Vitara is sold under the name Escudo in certain markets. The current version was introduced in 2014 at the Paris Motor Show and it is produced in Hungary, instead of Japan. Now, the Japanese manufacturer has decided that it is time to replace the current model with the updated version, however we do not expect that the 2017 Suzuki Grand Vitara is going to be a lot different than the current model. Continue reading "2017 Suzuki Grand Vitara Review"
2016 BMW X6 Price Release Date
One of the most controversial models that the German manufacturer BMW has ever released is most definitely the BMW X6. When it was first introduced, the segment for this model did not exist – because it has a coupe configuration, but the size and shape of a SUV and it was the first car that was like that. While the experts thought that the German manufacturer made a mistake – the customers did not. The sales went through the roof and since then it is one of the most popular cars that BMW currently has in its lineup. The current X6 was introduced in 2015 and because of that the upcoming 2016 BMW X6 should not be very different. Continue reading "2016 BMW X6 Price Release Date"
2017 Lamborghini Egoista Price Review
Lamborghini is an Italian car manufacturer known for creating some of the most amazing and generally outrageous cars. For their 50th anniversary they have decided to make a unique car to celebrate – the results is the Lamborghini Egoista concept car – probably the most unusual car that you have ever seen. They have unveiled the car about two years ago and since then it is on display in the Lamborghini museum, located in the Sant'Agata Bolognese. The good news is that the Italian manufacturer plans to put this model into production – as the 2017 Lamborghini Egoista. Continue reading "2017 Lamborghini Egoista Price Review"
2017 Skoda Vision C Review Price Specs
Skoda has unveiled the Vision C concept model at the Geneva Motor Show, which is an event where Skoda has unveiled lots of their new models in the past. The concept car got amazing reviews and it seems that even the potential customers are interested in it, which is why the Czech car manufacturer decided to start with the production of the 2017 Skoda Vision C concept sometime next year. Reports suggest that the Vision C production model will be sold as standalone model and will not replace any of the three sedans that the Czech manufacturer is already selling – Rapid, Octavia or Superb. Continue reading "2017 Skoda Vision C Review Price Specs"
2016 Suzuki Grand Vitara Price Review
One of the first small SUVs ever was the Suzuki Vitara, however, even though it was very popular, the Japanese manufacturer was not satisfied with sales and it appears that this is the main reason why they decided to stop the production in 1998. Since then, small SUVs and crossover have become the best selling cars all over the world and this is probably the main reason why the Japanese manufacturer has decided to revive this model and it is already on sale in Japan (but under the name of Suzuki Escudo), while the rest of the world will soon be able to buy it as a 2016 Suzuki Grand Vitara. Continue reading "2016 Suzuki Grand Vitara Price Review"
2017 Peugeot 6008 Review Specs
A few years ago, if people wanted to get a car big enough for their family they usually went for an MPV which offered enough luggage and passenger space without having to sacrifice the way it handled. However, these days most people go straight to crossovers and SUVs as replacements for their family cars which is a bit unusual, especially since only a tenth of them actually plan on going off-road. In order to meet these demands, Peugeot has basically been forced to abandon their MPVs and replace most of them with compact to medium size crossovers. This time, their biggest MPV, the 5008, is going to be replaced with the 2017 Peugeot 6008, a medium size crossover which will offer seven seats in its base form. Continue reading "2017 Peugeot 6008 Review Specs"
2015 Ford Ranger Price Review
Ford Ranger is a mid-size pickup that was first unveiled in 2010 as a standalone model that is going to be offered in Europe and Asia, while the American manufacturer decided not to offer it in North American car market, because it would conflict with the another Ford pickup – the F-150. Over the years, this model was able to grab attention of customers looking for a new mid-size pickup and it is the best selling Ford model in Australian market. However, since it was first introduced it hasn't received any crucial updates, so this model is now practically outdated. Because of that, the American manufacturer plans to unveil a brand new 2015 Ford Ranger by the end of the year. Continue reading "2015 Ford Ranger Price Review"


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Criminally Stupid Comes to the Border
This is how a bad situation potentially gets completely out of control quickly, and authorities are right to jump all over it.
Andrew Donaldson
/// April 21, 2019
This is how a bad situation potentially gets completely out of control quickly, and authorities are right to jump all over it.
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Okay. Welcome to the Ordinary Bookclub. We're reading Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. Our kickoff post is here, we review Chapters 1-5 here, we review chapters 6-15 here, and we review chapters...
Kristin Devine
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A Mother's Day Horror Story
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Speed up to slow down.
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He was considered a lion of European art house cinema. I consider Antonioni to be one of the great directors of emotional horror movies.
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UK PM Theresa May has announced she will be stepping down effective June 7th.
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In an emotional statement, she said she had done her best to deliver Brexit and it was a matter of "deep regret" that she had been unable to do so.
Being prime minister had been the "honour of my life", she said.
Mrs May said she would continue to serve as PM while a Conservative leadership contest takes place.
It means she will still be prime minister when US President Donald Trump makes his state visit to the UK at the start of June.
Mrs May announced she would step down as Tory leader on 7 June and had agreed with the chairman of Tory backbenchers that a leadership contest should begin the following week.
Boris Johnson, Esther McVey and Rory Stewart have said they intend to run for the party leadership, while more than a dozen others are believed to be seriously considering entering the contest.
The prime minister has faced a backlash from her MPs against her latest Brexit plan, which included concessions aimed at attracting cross-party support.
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According to the allegations in the Indictment unsealed today[1]:
From August 2018 through February 2019, AVENATTI defrauded a client ("Victim-1") by diverting money owed to Victim-1 to AVENATTI's control and use. After assisting Victim-1 in securing a book contract, AVENATTI allegedly stole a significant portion of Victim-1's advance on that contract. He did so by, among other things, sending a fraudulent and unauthorized letter purporting to contain Victim-1's signature to Victim-1's literary agent, which instructed the agent to send payments not to Victim-1 but to a bank account controlled by AVENATTI. As alleged, Victim-1 had not signed or authorized the letter, and did not even know of its existence.
Specifically, prior to Victim-1's literary agent wiring the second of four installment payments due to Victim-1 as part of the book advance, AVENATTI sent a letter to Victim-1's literary agent purportedly signed by Victim-1 that instructed the literary agent to send all future payments to a client trust account in Victim-1's name and controlled by AVENATTI. The literary agent then wired $148,750 to the account, which AVENATTI promptly began spending for his own purposes, including on airfare, hotels, car services, restaurants and meal delivery, online retailers, payroll for his law firm and another business he owned, and insurance. When Victim-1 began inquiring of AVENATTI as to why Victim-1 had not received the second installment, AVENATTI lied to Victim-1, telling Victim-1 that he was still attempting to obtain the payment from Victim-1's publisher. Approximately one month after diverting the payment, AVENATTI used funds recently received from another source to pay $148,750 to Victim-1, so that Victim-1 would not realize that AVENATTI had previously taken and used Victim-1's money.
Approximately one week later, pursuant to AVENATTI's earlier fraudulent instructions, the literary agent sent another payment of $148,750 of Victim-1's book advance to the client account controlled by AVENATTI. AVENATTI promptly began spending the money for his own purposes, including to make payments to individuals with whom AVENATTI had a personal relationship, to make a monthly lease payment on a luxury automobile, and to pay for airfare, dry cleaning, hotels, restaurants and meals, payroll, and insurance costs. Moreover, to conceal his scheme, and despite repeated requests to AVENATTI, as Victim-1's lawyer, for assistance in obtaining the book payment that Victim-1 believed was missing, AVENATTI led Victim-1 to believe that Victim-1's publisher was refusing to make the payment to the literary agent, when, as AVENATTI knew, the publisher had made the payment to the literary agent, who had then sent the money to AVENATTI pursuant to AVENATTI's fraudulent instructions.
These charges are separate from the additional indictment relating to attempting to extort Nike.Comment →
There has been a bit of a cottage industry over which, if any, Republicans would be the first to breach the "I" word. Rep. Justin Amash appears to be your huckleberry, posting a tweet thread about his conclusions of the Mueller Report:
Here are my principal conclusions:
1. Attorney General Barr has deliberately misrepresented Mueller's report.
2. President Trump has engaged in impeachable conduct.
3. Partisanship has eroded our system of checks and balances.
4. Few members of Congress have read the report.
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) May 18, 2019
You can read the whole thread here. In the meantime:
Rep. Justin Amash, a critic of President Trump who entertained a run against him in 2020, became the first Republican congressman to say the president "engaged in impeachable conduct."
The Michigan lawmaker, often the lone Trump dissenter on his side of the aisle, shared his conclusions in a lengthy Twitter thread after reviewing the full special counsel report.
Amash wrote that after reading the 448-page report, he'd concluded that not only did Robert S. Mueller's team show Trump attempting to obstruct justice, but that Attorney General William Barr had "deliberately misrepresented" the findings and that few members of Congress had even read it.
"Contrary to Barr's portrayal, Mueller's report reveals that President Trump engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment," Amash wrote.
The White House did not immediately respond to request for comment.
The president often says the report found "no collusion, no obstruction," though neither is true. Mueller did not establish a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia, which did interfere in the 2016 election. He did not rule on the obstruction of justice question, saying it was something Congress should determine.
So, let's back up to March right quick before processing today's tweeting. Rep. Amash was chatting with Jake Tapper on State of the Union:
Amash, who was first elected to Congress in 2010, declined on Sunday to rule out a possible 2020 presidential run as a Libertarian candidate.
"Well, I would never rule anything out. That's not on my radar right now," he said of a 2020 bid to Tapper. "But I think that it is important that we have someone in there who is presenting a vision for America that is different from what these two parties are presenting."
Amash told Tapper he believes there is a "wild amount of partisan rhetoric on both sides" and that "Congress is totally broken."
"I think that we need to return to basic American principles, talk about what we have in common as a people -- because I believe we have a lot in common as Americans -- and try to move forward together, rather than fighting each other all the time," Amash said.
Question remains, is Justin Amash going to join any Democrat effort to curtail the president, or is he using this as prelude to something else -- such as his own run for the White House? Drama.Comment →
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is a Game of Thrones fan, and her favorite character is, perhaps unsurprisingly, Daenerys "Stormborn" Targaryen, who Warren says, "has been my favorite from the first moment she walked through fire." We learned this in a column Warren wrote for The Cut published Sunday evening.
In the piece, Warren outlines her reasons for her fandom. Daenerys is fair, she fights for the people, and she wants to end slavery. But in talking about Daenerys, Warren can also, subtly, talk about herself. Like the paragraph below, in which she describes the Dragon Queen—or is she describing herself?
"This is a revolutionary idea, in Westeros or anywhere else. A queen who declares that she doesn't serve the interests of the rich and powerful? A ruler who doesn't want to control the political system but to break the system as it is known? It's no wonder that the people she meets in Westeros are skeptical. Skeptical, because they've seen another kind of woman on the Iron Throne: the villain we love to hate, Queen Cersei of Casterly Rock."
(Featured image: Samwell Tarly looks skeptically at Jon Snow. Screenshot from Game of Thrones.)Comment →
Our own Michele Kerr made an appearance with Glenn Loury on The Glenn Show, talking about teaching, education, race, and student discipline:
This conversation follows a previous one between Loury and Mary Hudson, who wrote a piece for Quillette on the state of our public schools.Comment →
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Kim Kardashian Shares New Pics of Baby North [PHOTOS]
Someone's a big girl and no, we're not talking about mommy's well-endowed chest! Kim Kardashian shared new photos of her adorable baby girl North West with her social media followers.
It's refreshing that Kimmy is sharing snaps of her firstborn on Instagram when she could have easily pocketed millions from a glossy. That's a classy mom move and we applaud her for it.
North, who was born in June, is growing like a weed and she is beyond presh. Look at those chubtacular cheeks. The Kimye spawn really got the best of mommy and daddy Kanye West with her features.
Kardashian posted one pic of North on her own and followed it with a snap of the little girl nestled in the arms of Givenchy's Riccardo Tisci, which she captioned "#NewStylist."
If Tisci is or will be styling her, that's one lucky little girl.
See the sweet pics below. Try not to explode from the adorabs factor. It's too much cuteness.


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The Witcher free with any GOG purchase
GOG is running a promotion which appears to have no downsides for you, the consumer. Buy any title from its extensive collection of Mac and PC games, which includes many classics as well as newer indies, and you'll score a free copy of The Witcher: Enhanced Edition – kind of a must-play for any RPG fan. The deal runs till October 17. Additionally, delightfully bizarre strategy RPG jetpack dragon mash-up Divinity: Dragon Commander is on sale at 40% off.


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New Steak 'n Shake Seven-Patty Cheeseburger Provides Proof That God Exists and is Listening
For years, you've cried out in the darkness, "Why, oh why can't I get a burger made with seven patties and seven slices of cheese at three in the morning?!" Well, Steak 'n Shake has heard your pleas, America, and they're here to help.
Dubbed "The Ultimate Challenge," the 7X7 burger features seven Steakburger patties layered with seven slices of American cheese. It is part of the burger chain's new AllNighter Menu, which will be available from midnight to 6 a.m. Never again will your late-night cravings go unfulfilled when you're forced out of the bar at closing time. Take comfort in knowing that this 1,330 calorie, 98 fat gram monstrosity exists to hold you over until breakfast.
The burger will retail for $7.77 but that doesn't factor in the cost of resulting visits to a cardiologist. Can you really put a price on such late-night gastronomic glory, though?


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text: Patrick, aren't you from a competitor vendor? :-) On 26 Feb 2003, Patrick Geoffray wrote: > Hi Tony, > > On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 16:46, Anthony Skjellum wrote: > > Because people ask for polling latency (it is not the right model for most > > real applications), we did provide this number. We have found almost universal > > advantage to avoid polling MPI in almost all networks, including Ethernet+TCP > > Giganet, and Myrinet. > > Can you detail ? Unless you oversubscribed you processors, I don't see > the point. Of course that is not the case. > It may just be a side effect of your implementation: if you implement > the progression with some threads, sure you want to block to not waste > cycle in this progression threads. If you progress in the hardware, > blocking on interrupt is useless unless you oversubscribe your > processors and so you want to force the context switches. If you have hardware progress of MPI level, you don't use software to do it. I am only aware that Cplant Portals has this in their MCP... > Does IB offers hooks to progress the MPI protocol in hardware ? IB NICs have plenty of performance room to offer this, but that is not part of the standard. > > > Our white paper shows the polling and non-polling implementation curves for > > bandwidth. We normally encourage people not to use polling mode, where > > overhead is low. > > If your metric is bandwidth, you don't care about the interrupt > overhead: it's completely hidden by the communication cost because > bandwidth usually means large messages. This is clear. Any MPI, polling or blocking, can achieve high bandwidth. > > One of the flaws of IB is to use a paradigm built on VI. MPI did not map > well on VI, and I expect the same thing for IB. We had good luck with MPI/Pro over VI, and none of the problems your general statement suggests. In fact, Dell did independent comparisons of Myrinet and Giganet and found much lower overheads for Giganet than with GM at the time... it was quite a good technology at scales up to 128. I'd recommend the papers of Jenwei Hsieh and Tau Leng to everyone, to look at how, even with the need for a progress thread, large Giganet transfers were only using 3% or so of CPU, whereas similar Myrinet was in the 20%+ range (as far as I recall, but see the white papers). What evidence can you offer that MPI doesn't work well over VI? As for IB, there are reliable connections, but also RD, which is quite interesting to look at ... The connection you draw is a confusing one. In fact, the truth is that IB will work very well for small and medium scale (maybe to 1000 nodes), before suffering problems with connections and other issues. It will probably be quite convenient to use, easy to multiprogram, and offer a lot more robustness than you can get with a weak NIC. On the other hand, for a very scalable network, Myrinet is obviously going to have serious advantages with its simple, source routed network and terribly low overheads... The picture of the technologies is much more interesting than your mail suggests, and not pointing all for one technology or the other. Tony > Patrick > -- > > Patrick Geoffray, Phd > Myricom, Inc. > http://www.myri.com > Anthony Skjellum PhD, CTO | MPI Software Technology, Inc. 101 South Lafayette St, Ste. 33 | Starkville, MS 39759, USA Ph: +1-(662)320-4300 x15 | FAX: +1-(662)320-4301 http://www.mpi-softtech.com | tony at mpi-softtech.com Middleware that's hard at work for you and your enterprise.(SM)


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Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Goat Cheese Mousse with Cloudberry Compote
Looking for that little something after your main course, but don't feel like baking or making an elaborate dessert? Well, then this simple goat cheese mousse is for you :) It's served from small dessert glasses or espresso cups, and the combination of tangy goat cheese mousse and sweet Nordic berries is a winner.
The original recipe from a Finnish food magazine MAKU makes a compote out of cloudberries. I must confess that I cheated and simply took another glass of home-made cloudberry compote from the larder and used that.
If you cannot get fresh cloudberries (or don't have any cloudberry compote in your fridge), you've got two options:
A) use a cloudberry jam (like the one from IKEA), and dilute it with some cloudberry liqueur (Lapponia from Finland makes a good one)
B) use a berry with similar characteristics - I'd probably go for raspberries, which are slightly softer, but have a lovely sweet-sharp flavour that would complement the goat cheese mousse nicely.
Goat Cheese Mousse with Cloudberry Compote
(Õhuline kitsejuustuvaht murakamoosiga)
Serves 6
Goat cheese mousse:
2 gelatine leaves
150 g soft and creamy goat cheese (f. ex. Chavroux)
75 ml (5 Tbsp) caster sugar
150 ml plain yoghurt
1 egg white
50 ml (3,5 Tbsp) milk
Cloudberry compote:
100 g fresh or frozen cloudberries
30 ml (2 Tbsp) caster sugar
1-2 tsp cloudberry liqueur
Soak the gelatine leaves in cold water for about 5 minutes.
Mix the goat cheese with 3-4 Tbsp of sugar, then add the yoghurt and stir until combined.
Whisk the egg white in a separate bowl until light and airy. Add the rest of the sugar and continue whisking, until you've got a fluffy and glossy meringue foam.
Heat the milk in a small bowl. Drain the soaked gelatine leaves and squeeze slightly, then mix with the hot milk, until dissolved.
Now pour the gelatine mixture into the goat cheese and yoghurt mixture, stirring continuously.
Finally fold gently in the whisked egg white mixture (add about 1/3 first, stirring, to soften the mixture, then carefully fold in the rest of the egg white).
Pour the mixture into small ramekins, espresso cups or dessert glasses. Cover and place in a fridge for at least 2 hours to set.
To make the cloudberry compote, place the sugar and berries in a small saucepan and bring to boil. Reduce heat, then simmer for 5 minutes, until berries are softened. Remove from the heat and cool to the room temperature. The add the cloudberry liqueur.
To serve, top each portion of goat cheese mousse with a generous dollop of cloudberry liqueur.
11 comments:
- Nicole said...
How interesting and different. I looks so light, refreshing and beautiful.
- 2:22 am, November 06, 2008
- ChichaJo said...
Goat cheese mousse sounds like something I would love! Especially with those berries :) I'll taste cloudberries one day I promise!
- 10:27 am, November 06, 2008
Oh Pille, too much baby food! Can we have less healthy stuff and more greasy, sugary, heavy grub, please....
- 12:42 pm, November 06, 2008
- wheatlessbay said...
In Newfoundland they're called bake apples, but they're much, um, funkier-tasting than what I've bought in the UK at Ikea. Presumably because they're fresh off the bog at home - one can really taste the bog.
- 12:03 pm, November 07, 2008
- Alanna @ Kitchen Parade said...
Lingonberries are hard enough to find in the States, let alone cloudberries. A plane ticket to Estonia might be cheaper and easier!
- 6:59 pm, November 07, 2008
OMG, that looks fab. And I actually have clouberry liqueur! But I dunna have the cloudberry. I just love desserts made with goat cheese. Thanks!
- 3:36 pm, November 08, 2008
- T&V said...
See näeb nii ahvatlev välja. Peab kindlasti järele proovima. Ainuüksi idee kitsejuustu ja murakamoosi kombineerimisest paneb süljenäärmed tööle :)
- 12:28 pm, November 10, 2008
- Victor Chisholm said...
If cloudberries (bakeapples) are unattainable, I bet this would be good with rhubarb compote too. Or gooseberries. Yum!
- 6:16 pm, November 16, 2008
- Pille said...
Nicole - there's something almost fragile about that dessert, isn't there :)
ChichaJo - well, if you ever come to Estonia at the right time of the year, I'll promise to take you to cloudberry picking :)
Roxy - that's definitely NOT baby food, trust me - goat cheese and luscious berries??! (PS I'll keep the greasy, sugary, heavy grub secret, you see:))
wheatlessbay - I didn't know that they're also known as 'bakeapples' - thank you so much!! Of course, freshly picked ripe cloudberries taste way better than very sugary canned varieties (my MIL uses very little sugar, so the berries taste very natural even in jam).
Alanna @ Kitchen Parade - sorry to tempt you, dear friend :)
Jennie - well, you can drizzle some cloudberry liqueur on top then :)
T&V - aitäh, aitäh!
Victor Chisholm - I agree, roasted rhubarb compote would work well, too!
- 10:24 am, November 17, 2008
- Y said...
This mousse sounds absolutely delicious, and I hope to get my hands on some cloudberries one day.
- 1:50 pm, November 18, 2008
- Julia @ crazyaboutbretzels said...
Oh how I started to crave for fresh cloudberrys seeing this... :) Maybe I'll just have to make the mousse and imagine the cloudberrys on top:)
- 11:23 pm, December 02, 2008


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As darkness fell Tuesday off Whitehall Road, a large black bear that had rumbled through the neighborhood remained perched on a branch about 70 feet above a crowd that gathered to debate what its fate should be.
Authorities shot the bear, which they estimated weighs 175 pounds, with a shotgun in the area of Stephen and Harriet Myers Middle School, but it crawled up a tree behind 44 Rose Court, according to a statement from the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
Some 12 hours later, officials were trying to work out a plan overnight that would spare the bear's life.
A skeleton crew of police and DEC officers was weighing a non-lethal plan for capture of the bear if it comes down before daylight and the beginning of school.
Nothing was official as of midnight Tuesday. The plan was time-sensitive.
Joe Gulley, a resident of Whitehall Road, said he heard three loud shots around noon and saw at least 10 officers, many toting guns, running from the area of the school toward Rose Court and Clayton Place.
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State Department of Environmental Conservation officers deemed the bear a nuisance because it had been tagged before for wandering in residential areas. DEC said "It was necessary to dispatch the bear for public safety reasons and its proximity to residential neighborhoods, schools and roads. DEC will transport it to a pathology lab for a forensic investigation to look for injuries or diseases."
The state agency said it could not anesthetize the bear because of its location, and said officers would wait for the bear to come down and dispatch him on the ground. DEC would stay in the area overnight if necessary, the release said.
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"DEC can do better than this," area resident Susan Wheeler said. She said police stopped her from speaking with DEC officers on Rose Court.
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Well, it's here. The moment where a pop tween sensation makes the transition from innocent crooning about love, basketball and being fly (all the while alluding to the heavy petting that'll take place after the Homecoming pep rally) to macho "I'm confident and totally going to light some candles so you get that I'm mature" gesturing.
Our little boy Bieber has grown up.
In "Boyfriend", the teen idol's new single out Monday on iTunes that dropped Sunday night, the now 18-year-old Bieber has cast off any notion of trying to be subtle. Girl (woman?)...you are about to get LOVED up on! (SwagSwagSwagSwagSwag)
It takes notes from songs like "Rack City" and the legendary "Wait (The Whisper Song)," along with everything Justin Timberlake did post-"Gone" and pre-"Sexyback."
Another thing to notice: The young gun seems to enjoy rapping, albeit not that well. A sample lyric: "Tell me what you like, yeah/Tell me what you don't/I could be your Buzz Lightyear/Fly across the globe."
Look, there's nothing wrong with Justin yearning to spit hot rhymes (that were written by Mike Posner, a co-writer on the song), but I yearn for the days of the Wahlberg men being the most awkward white male rappers on Earth. Also, there's a Gucci Mane reference in this song. If you can find it, I owe you a Coke.
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The picture on the 'Got Pus?' page (reproduced here) is total amateur hour, though, and stops just short of showing a zombie farmer squeezing clumpy curds of blood from the animated corpse of six cows stitched together into a outsized, throbbing mammary goblin.
So yeah, cow's milk might not be the best thing for humans to drink, but you're not going to wean many folks off of dairy products by admonishing them to "try delicious soy or rice milk, soy cheese, Tofutti ice cream, and tofu sour cream and cream cheese." Especially since soy is not without its potential health risks. And Tofutti sucks.
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The Robinson Memorial Hospital Foundation recently received a $1,500 grant from The Portage Foundation in support of Robinson Visiting Nurse and Hospice at Robinson Memorial Hospital in Ravenna.
The grants were provided by the Gerald H. and Victoria C.T. Read Endowment Fund, established by Dr. and Mrs. Charles Read in 1999, and the David Howard Green Memorial Fund, established by Joan Green Spotts in 2002. Both family funds are administered by The Portage Foundation.
Total contributions from The Portage Foundation to Robinson Visiting Nurse and Hospice are more than $32,000.
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Downtown Cairo was once again engulfed by revolutionary fervor over the weekend after President Mohammed Morsi of the Islamist group Muslim Brotherhood granted himself far-reaching, almost dictatorial, powers.
Demonstrations marking the 2011 ouster of former dictator Hosni Mubarak began the middle of last week. But on Thursday they intensified greatly when Morsi announced that he had granted himself immunity from scrutiny by Egypt's courts.
Just days after playing his role in the Hamas-Israel ceasefire, and being praised the world over for it, Morsi decided that Egypt's court can no longer hear appeals on his executive decisions. The decree gives Morsi near-absolute power.
Morsi also banned the courts from dissolving the committee currently working on Egypt's new constitution. The committee is dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists, and many Egyptians fear the result will be a constitution that imposes Sharia Law.
The hundreds of thousands of demonstrators who converged on Cairo's now-famous Tahrir Square said they had mistakenly replaced one dictator with another.
"A street war is looming," read the headline of Egypt's independent daily Al-Masry Al-Youm. An Egyptian source close to Israel today said the same thing, warning that civil war could be just around the corner.
For now, both the courts and the Egyptian opposition are refusing to discuss anything with Morsi or the Muslim Brotherhood until the new executive decree is rescinded.
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The peacekeepers of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) are increasingly coming into hostile and even violent contact with the Hezbollah terrorist militia near the Lebanon-Israel border. The Lebanese troops who had taken control of the border after the last war in 2006 have largely been redeployed as a result of mounting tension on the country's eastern border due to the ongoing Syrian civil war.
Taking advantage of this power vacuum, Hezbollah has entered the area in force, and is daily confronting the blue helmets of UNIFIL. Hezbollah blocks UNIFIL patrols along the border and has even threatened to abduct members of the international peacekeeping force, similar to what Syrian rebel groups did earlier this month.
UNIFIL officers have reportedly told their Israeli counterparts that they are fed up with the situation. The moment it becomes clear the the lives of the peacekeepers are in peril, UNIFIL will withdraw from the region, driving the final nail in the coffin of UN Resolution 1701 that ended the Second Lebanon War.
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TEMPEST is an acronym for Telecommunications Electronics Material Protected from Emanating Spurious Transmissions. It pertains to technical security countermeasures, standards, and instrumentation that prevent or minimize the exploitation of vulnerable data communication equipment by technical surveillance or eavesdropping.
What puts your data communication equipment at risk? Many things. But first and foremost, its microchip. Any device with a microchip generates an electromagnetic field, often called a compromising emanation by security experts. With the proper surveillance equipment, these emanations can be intercepted and the signal reconstructed and analyzed. Unprotected equipment can, in fact, emit a signal into the air like a radio station and nobody wants to risk his or her job and a whole lot more by broadcasting national security or trade secrets to the wrong people.
Some of the most vulnerable devices are speakerphones, printers, fax machines, scanners, external disc drives, and other high-speed, high-bandwidth peripherals. If the snoop is using a high-quality interception device, your equipment's signals can be acquired up to several hundred feet away.
Arguably one of the most vulnerable pieces of equipment is an analog VGA monitor. If a spy were to introduce a Trojan into your system, he or she could monitor and store key presses and passwords used during the day. When the system's not in use at night, the spy could pulse the VGA screen with grayscale images that have a strong signal at particular frequencies. VGA uses single-ended signaling that has a high common-mode emission level not protected by cable shielding, and it's possible to monitor these signals outside the secure zone using a radio receiver. Even without a Trojan, a sophisticated receiver located nearby picks up and views what's on the VGA monitor.
It should come as no surprise that the Federal government became concerned about signal leakage. In fact, its interest goes back to the days of World War I when the Army was trying to exploit weaknesses of enemy combat phones and radio transmitters. Since then, the scope of the government's interests has broadened beyond battlefield equipment. In the last 40 years, the National Security Agency (NSA) has taken several industry measurement standards and greatly beefed them up. These enhanced criteria are commonly referred to as the TEMPEST standards (although the NSA also calls them EMSEC standards, short for emissions security).
TEMPEST disciplines involve designing circuits to minimize emanations and the application of appropriate shielding, grounding, and bonding. Some methods used include radiation screening, alarms, and isolation.
A TEMPEST-approved device resembles its non-secure version with a few key differences. If it's a network component such as a switch, it comes in a heavy metal case. It also has special shielding, a modified power supply, and perhaps a few other modifications from the standard model. If you need to open the device's case, a special torque wrench for use with TEMPEST-only products is required.
TEMPEST test equipment is very expensive and is sold exclusively to government agencies. Nobody can sell you commercial TEMPEST testing equipment. And if someone offers you a "TEMPEST surveillance system, you need to be aware of two things: First, TEMPEST is counter-surveillance science and the offer is a fraud; second, the salesperson is committing a federal felony.
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Technology companies are pulling out all of the stops to recruit talented engineers, designers and developers. But that's only part of the problem. While many companies spend countless hours finding the best and brightest minds, they often forget that they also have to work hard to retain the people they've worked so hard to locate in the first place.
Meritshare, a three-month-old upstart created by former WhitePages execs Kevin Nakao and Travis Pearl, is setting out to help in those retention efforts by recognizing and rewarding companies' top performers.
"If you brought all of these people in, why not put some effort on retention," explains Nakao, the former president and COO at Seattle-based WhitePages.
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that companies spend more than $20 billion each year on recognition and rewards programs, everything from toasters and golf bags to achievement pins and trophies for those who stay with a company for 5, 10 or 15 years.
However, according to a study by Globoforce, 50 percent of workers aren't satisfied with the level of recognition they get at work.
Meritshare thinks there's a big opportunity to shake up the industry, which is led by established players such as O.C. Tanner and Terryberry as well as new entrants like Salesforce.com's recently launched Work.com and Achievers.
Furthermore, Nakao said that 85 percent of companies still use service-based awards, meaning the recognition is tied to one's tenure of service.
"That's great, but it doesn't really connect anybody to performance or the values of the company, and reinforce the things you want to see in people," said Nakao, adding that once someone earns the recognition they have to wait a long time for the next step.
With Meritshare, Nakao said that they are creating a way for employees across a wide variety of teams and roles to recommend someone for an award tied to specific actions within the company. Similar to LinkedIn's endorsements, Meritshare's awards will be publicly displayed on its Web site.
"One of the challenges with people getting rewards at work is that it is generally a private one-to-one thing," said Pearl. At Meritshare, he said the awards are designed to make the receiver "feel awesome" around building a team environment. They've also built in alerts to remind staffers to nominate co-workers.
"People generally want to recognize people, but they forget about it," said Nakao, adding that the rewards will be tied into a point system that's managed by Meritshare.
Meritshare is still in the process of building the product, with a launch expected by the end of the year. It plans to target companies with 10 to 500 employees, smaller than some of the established heavy hitters. It will offer products from a variety of vendors, though it plans to make its money by charging companies a monthly subscription fee rather than through product sales. Pricing has not yet been determined.
Nakao said that companies typically allocate about one to two percent of their budget to employee retention, so he thinks there's a lot of room to grab market share.
"One of the burning questions … that executives have is: 'Geez, is my employee engagement good or bad, and how do I tell that? This will allow them to do it because we will be able to provide metrics on how your company is doing in terms of people nominating for awards, the level of engagement of management and employees as it relates to other people in the program," said Nakao.
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More than 60 scientists from a dozen institutions have converged on the Sacramento urban area to study how air pollution affects the climate. Flying airplanes and sending weather balloons outfitted with instruments up in the air, the team will be sampling tiny pollution-forming particles called aerosols during the month-long CARES—Carbonaceous Aerosols and Radiative Effects Study.
A new blog from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Rahul CARES, has debuted to cover the CARES field study from the perspective of Rahul Zaveri, the study's Chief Scientist.
Visit Zaveri's web page and get an inside look at his experiences leading the CARES field campaign. See the action on the ground and in the air. Take a look at some of the specialized instruments being used to measure the evolution of black carbon and secondary aerosols in the urban air plume. And, be introduced to the members of the CARES team through pictures and video.
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I've never met Scott Sigler, but he and I are often mentioned in the same breath when people talk about self-publishing success stories. His route was different than mine and... well, I'll just let him tell it. Here's Scott:
Back in 2008 I had a Big Idea (I'm making air-quotes with my fingers here, folks ... a "Big Idea"). At the time, I thought this idea was so disruptive that it would impact traditional publishing. Turns out an entirely new phenomena cropped up to impact both my Big Idea and Big Publishing, a phenomena that has changed both forever.
If you want to read about my writing background and how I built an audience, I'll put it near the bottom of the article. But first, my Big Idea: a self-published, high-end collectible hardcover, pre-sold to raise capital prior to printing.
I give away all of my stories as free, serialized audiobook podcasts at scottsigler.com and at podiobooks.com. I've been doing that consistently since 2005, so I've built a good-sized online audience. I thought that if I could get 10 percent of my 10,000-odd weekly listeners to buy a self-published print book, I could make some scratch.
If you want to self-publish, that's easy enough to do with trade paperback POD. If you want hardcover, it's not so easy, and if you want high-quality, collector's edition hardcovers, it's going to cost you. POD for that kind of book makes the price points ridiculously high. To do it right (and to actually have product cost low enough for a real profit margin), you need to do an actual print run. I didn't have the capital to do book of that caliber, but I knew where I could get it.
From my fans.
This was 2008. The eBook craze was just a blip on the radar for all but the truly prophetic. Some guy named "Konrath" was jabbering how he was going to make all this money. Blah-blah-blah. Sure, Konrath, go crazy with your "eBooks" — like that's ever going to catch on.
I partnered with a PMP-certified Project Manager named AB Kovacs who runs a successful logistics management company in San Diego, CA. I had the marketing and content, she had the management and planning skill set — together we formed Dark Øverlord Media and decided to melt faces.
We set a goal to sell 600 pre-orders of a signed, numbered, limited-edition $34.95 hardcover, which would generate a $21,000 budget for cover art, interior layout and hard cover print run of 3,000 copies. If I could sell those 600 books, I would have no out-of-pocket overhead. Everything beyond the 600 copies? Step 5: profit.
At the time of our first book together, I already had two hardcovers, INFECTED and CONTAGIOUS, out for Crown Publishing, a division of Random House. Crown wasn't interested in my scifi/crime/sports book called THE ROOKIE. I describe it as "Star Wars" meets "The Blindside" meets "The Godfather." You can see how that might not fit into their thriller-based marketing strategy.
So, A and I used THE ROOKIE to test out our theory. We launched our pre-order of THE ROOKIE on April 25, 2009. Despite a server crash due to unexpected demand, we hit our 600-copy goal in the first three hours, thanks mostly to die hard fans who hustled to get the lowest possible number. Huzzah! We covered our costs!
Eighteen days after launch, we pre-sold copy number 1,000.
Dark Øverlord Media had made a profit on our first book. Well, what the hell, let's do it again! We repeated the process on April 1, 2010 with the next book in the series, THE STARTER. That time out, it took only ninety minutes to sell the six hundred copies. We reached the 1,000 copy mark in just eight days.
We also crashed the server — again. That cost us money, as some people didn't come back. It damaged our brand. What was funny the first time around now annoyed our customers. Unacceptable.
Late in 2010, we launched eBooks for both THE ROOKIE and THE STARTER. We're also selling audiobooks for both. Combined with the hardcovers, we had too many products to manage on our site. We partnered with BackMyBook.com. Their e-commerce platform now handles all the product sales on our site, both for physical items and for digital downloads. BackMyBook.com helps track our inventory, fulfill orders, and handles the big file transfers needed for the audiobooks. While it's great to make 70% selling an eBook from the Kindle store, it's even better to make 90% selling that same book from our own site.
Even as eBooks are blowing up the market, it seems our fans still want these special hardcovers. Just a few weeks ago, on April 1, 2011, we launched the pre-order for the third book in the series, THE ALL-PRO. On our third try, we sold 600 books in just under one hour, and the first 1,000 in just three days.
To reach our primary goal of 1,000 copies, we cut the time from Book One to Book Two in half, then halved it again from Book Two to Book Three. The model works, y'all.
Oh, and this time? The server didn't crash. Thanks, BackMyBook.com!
Now, this may all sound like a movie that should be titled Happy Times in the Candy Land of Magic Publishing, but it's not that easy. We still manage a 3,000 copy print run. This is not POD, but an offset print run through RR Donnelley & Sons. The books ship from North Carolina to a rented warehouse in San Diego, where I sign every single book. Then A and I number, package, and ship approximately 1,500 hardcovers. We put the remaining 1,500 copies into a smaller warehouse, then manage inventory and shipping until those sell out.
It was fine and dandy for me to sell my 1,000 books, but what would have happened had a Stephen King or Stephanie Meyers done that? Imagine Meyers puts out a collection of Twilight short stories. She partners with web-savvy folks like BackMyBook to handle the pre-order, hires people to do production, but she controls a direct sale to the end reader. Say instead of a 15 percent royalty, she shifts into a 70 percent profit margin. She would sell, comfortably, 200,000 copies in the first day. That's $250,000 at $34.95, a first day gross of $700,000 (shipping is paid by the customer, or course). She brings the money in up front, her project managers use it to pay staff and manufacturing. Of course there are plenty of costs involved, but sooner or later the 70 percent profit margin is going to whoop ass on the 15 percent royalty, no matter what the advance.
Because of the internet's ability to allow authors to sell directly to the end reader, I thought that if big-timers adopted this pre-order they would have little need for a Big Publisher. If Stephen King puts out one short story collection a year, sells it directly online, he makes an extra million. Or two. Probably three. Oh, right, like his publisher is going to slap his hand and say "No, Stevie, you can not put out your own book!"
Maybe the model will be disruptive in the future, if big-timers want to manage their own process, but more than likely it won't — not when they can do the same thing with an eBook and avoid all of the physical costs.
All of this hardcover stuff is a grand old time, but we now define inventory as a curse word. We dream of a day where our inventory is nothing but ones, zeroes, and possibly print-on-demand paperbacks. We're going to keep the hardcovers as a special, in-the-know item for the fans that really love the series.
We are happily watching people like Konrath, Amanda Hocking and Jeremy Robinson and plotting to follow in their footsteps. THE ROOKIE and THE STARTER are now available as eBooks, priced at $2.99. They're available in the Kindle Store, BN.com, Sony's eBook store, Apple's iBooks store, and directly from us at scottsigler.com/gfl (at our website they are available for all eBook formats, because that's how you bake a pie, people).
We only have these two eBooks right now, and I think that hurts our ability to make each title rank higher in their respective stores. We're not getting a multi-title multiplier, if you will. THE ALL-PRO hits the eBook market on September 6 of this year, probably for $4.99. We also have a short story collection, BLOOD IS RED, hitting for 99 cents this week on Mother's Day (because it's One Bad Mutha of a book, you see). By the end of 2011, we hope to have five eBooks. We'll see if that impacts the individual success of each book.
Yes. In fact, right now we're podcasting THE STARTER, unabridged, for free. I've been podcasting since 2005; it's something my fans have come to count on. We've refined the process so that instead of recording an episode each week, I record the book all at once. And even though we give it away, we also sell the unabridged audiobook as a digital download ($19.95). More ones and zeros, sitting there making us money whenever a customer wants to hear the whole thing all at once. It happens every day.
If you hear only one thing in this rambling blog, hear this — we give all the stories away for free, and people still buy them. There is something to be said for having the confidence that your storytelling and production chops are just that bad-ass, then letting the customer decide if the content merits their money. We don't hold content hostage.
Probably. The fans love them. We crank up the collector's value with sixteen-page color inserts and bonus content you can't get in the free podcasts. The annual April 1 pre-order anchors our process and gives us clear goals to keep producing content. The pre-order process drives our eBook, audiobook, and podcast — if we get the hardcover done correctly and on time, everything else will fall into place.
But, high-quality hardcovers are a ton of work. We need the big print run to drive per-unit costs down to $8 or less (not counting the labor of A and I), which is the only way the process makes financial sense.
Like most authors, I spent years in the trenches trying to attract the attention of Big Publishing. My agent at the time, Joshua Blimes, worked his butt off but we just couldn't find the right fit. I kept writing and editing, and racked up four novels of 120,000+ words as well as dozens of short stories. Oh, and racked up rejection letters: I had a goal to collect 100 rejection letters. I defined that effort as the price of proving to myself I was in this game for good.
We eventually landed a deal with an imprint of AOL/TimeWarner to publish my thriller EARTHCORE. The book was due out as a mass market paperback in May of 2002, I believe. The 9/11 recession, however, killed that dream — AOL/TimeWarner scrapped everything that wasn't already profitable. That included my book, just weeks before it would have hit the printing presses. Imprint scrapped, book deal gone, back to square one.
Joshua worked to land a new deal, but it didn't happen. In February, 2005, I read of this newfangled thing called "podcasting." I learned how to record and create an RSS feed. In March 2005, I was one of the first people to put out a "podcast novel." EARTHCORE had already been professionally edited, so I released it as a weekly, serialized audiobook.
The book quickly attracted a big following. I finished the EARTHCORE podcast in August 2005, then quickly rolled into my next podcast novel, ANCESTOR. I landed a two-book print deal with an indie publisher, Dragon Moon Press, who put out EARTHCORE in trade paperback in 2006.
In 2007, I was on my fourth podcast novel when lightning struck. I had a new agent, Byrd Leavell of the Waxman Agency. Byrd was circulating my novel INFECTED to New York publishers. On April 1, 2007, I published ANCESTOR in trade paperback with Dragon Moon Press. The book hit #1 on Amazon.com's SciFi and Horror charts, and was #2 overall in fiction. It only held those numbers for a couple of days, but it was #1, right when several publishers were considering INFECTED. INFECTED went to auction, and I wound up with a three-book deal with Crown Publishing.
Two weeks later, Rogue Pictures optioned INFECTED. A book deal! A movie option! Holy crap! But wait, there's more ...
Crown was very excited about my potential, so the brass decided they needed to control the Sigler brand. They bought up the rights to EARTHCORE and ANCESTOR. A three-book deal became a five-book deal.
At the time, I had hit the jackpot. A five-book, hardcover deal with one of the bigs. It's been a great ride with Crown and I love working with them, but the one thing I didn't think about at the time was the deal tied me up for at least five years, probably more like seven.
The movie didn't get made, the option expired. And my, how publishing has changed since 2007.
So, I'm still happily putting out books with Crown. I'm also happily putting out my own books: hardcover, downloadable audio, and eBook. By 2013, I'll be done with Crown's five-book deal. At that time, I estimate Dark Øverlord Media will have ten or more full-length eBooks of our own in all the stores. We'll see if I sign with a traditional publisher, or decide that we're just better off doing our own thing and selling straight to the end-reader.
Joe sez: There's a lot to like about Scott's story.
The first is his dogged determination. He refused to give up, even when getting repeatedly knocked down.
The second is his innovation. He saw an opportunity with podcasts, and he went for it.
Show me someone with an open mind who refuses to ever say die, and I'll show you someone making a lot of money.
I've been giving away ebooks for six years, and had the same experience as Scott: free leads to sales. Not to turn this into a talk about piracy, but I've always believed that the more readers you have, the more money you'll make, whether those readers pay you or not.
Remember the 10,000 Hours I talked about last blog? Scott put in his time. Now he's reaping the benefits.
Currently on Amazon, in the Horror category, the Number 1 ebook is Sigler's Blood is Red.
It amuses me to no end that #2 is Run by my writing partner Blake Crouch, and #3 is Trapped by some guy named Jack Kilborn.
It gets better. All top 8 horror bestsellers are indie. Indie authors are outselling King, Koontz, and Harris.
Even more amusing is that combined, Blake and I have 14 of the top 100 horror books on Amazon. Not just Kindle ebooks--but ALL books, including hardcover and paperback. And 46 of the Top 100 are self-published by indie authors.
The revolution hasn't just begun. It's pretty clear we're going to win.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
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This blog contains a growing assortment of stories, pictures and information about the ancestors of Anna, Margo and Marian Green. The pedigree chart below contains six generations of ancestors with numbers by their names. Click on a name under "See posts of specific ancestors" to quickly learn more about an individual. Click on "A Printable Chart" to view and print a copy of the chart in a new window.
Saturday, April 2, 2011
St. Rose Church in Washington County, Kentucky
Saint Rose Catholic Church near Springfield in Washington County, Kentucky (see map), is the church some of our ancestors belonged to, and several were buried in the adjoining cemetery. The Greens, the Warrens, and many other Catholic families from Maryland, immigrated to Kentucky in the late 1700's through the early 1800's.
Thomas E. Green married Jane Warren in Washington County, Kentucky in 1819. It's likely that they were married in the original church building of Saint Rose, part of which still exists. It became part of the new building and is now the Eucharistic Chapel.
The register of Saint Rose Church shows that John M. Warren (#34) and his wife, called "Old Mrs. Warren (#35) were buried in the Saint Rose Cemetery. Thomas E. Green (#16) and his wife, Jane Warren Green (#17) were also buried there. Thomas E. Green's brother, James, married Jane's sister, Nancy. Though many of our ancestors were buried in the Saint Rose Cemetery, not many have headstones. The headstone of our closest ancestor buried there (shown above) belongs to Jane's sister, Nancy Warren Green.
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In November 2006, Franklin Avenue blogger (and current TV Guide L.A. bureau chief) Mike Schneider led 15 friends all the way from downtown to the ocean on a daylong, 15.8-mile trek along Wilshire, which he calls "the spine of Los Angeles." By last year, the annual Great Los Angeles Walk, which traverses a different boulevard each year, had ballooned to 300 people and included food trucks, local luminaries as guest speakers, historical context from the LA Conservancy and an after-party in Santa Monica. Held on the Saturday before Thanksgiving, Schneider's yearly excursions familiarize locals with urban beauty and obscure landmarks such as Ray Charles' recording studio, encouraging ambulatory exercise in a notoriously car-heavy city. This year, Schneider says, "Our downtown-to-the ocean walk this year (Nov. 17) will spotlight Melrose," starting at 9 a.m. on the front steps of Walt Disney Concert Hall. He tweets his location every mile or so to keep the group together, charges no entry fee and solicits advice from L.A. experts like former L.A. Weekly food writer Jonathan Gold and L.A. Observed's Kevin Roderick. What better way to prepare yourself for a month of holiday bingeing? (323) 356-2536, greatlawalk.com.
—Amanda Lewis
Pat Grossi's stage name is Active Child, which refers to his precious, youthful tendency to put his ears right up to the speaker to get a better listen. The moniker is a bit cringe-inducing, and indeed the lyrics on the Pasadena resident's 2011 full-length debut album, You Are All I See, aren't for those too cool to attend school. They're unfiltered, unvarnished, filled with pummeling emotional honesty, through the eyes of sometimes-vindictive characters whose feelings are crushed over and over but nonetheless expect next time to be different. "I fall in love, way too fast," he sings on "Way Too Fast." "You're so damn cold, soon you'll be all by yourself." Produced by composition genius Ariel Rechtshaid, Grossi's songs are often accented by electronic flourishes and harp, and almost all of them feel like climactic scenes in dramatic movies — the part where we learn Bruce Willis is dead, or that the woman in The Crying Game is a man. This is not music for the ironic of heart. activechildmusic.com.
—Ben Westhoff
If there is one band that represents the multicultural mix of Los Angeles, it's La Santa Cecilia. Since its Latin Grammy nomination last year, the Boyle Heights–bred group has been representing L.A. at major festivals in Texas and New York. (It's exciting, particularly for those who can remember them packing La Cita in their early years.) They're also picking up the attention of critics, through pieces on NPR's All Things Considered and Latino USA. Further, their hybrid of Latin, rock and world music has caught the attention of groups like Cafe Tacuba, Lila Downs, Ozomatli and Los Lobos, all of whom have had La Santa Cecilia open shows for them this year. Anyone who has attended their concerts can attest that lead singer Marisol "La Marisoul" Hernandez has one of the most powerful voices in the city, in any genre. lasantacecilia.com.
—Eddie Cota
Each summer the Levitt Pavilions in Pasadena and MacArthur Park put on free shows; the scene is relaxed, the views are nice, and the lineups are absolutely first-rate. Although a good portion of the musicians are from L.A., they come from all over the world, and include Weekly favorite acts like Dam-Funk, Fool's Gold and Buyepongo. (There's a particular emphasis on Latin alternative music, with a spotlight on new and underappreciated groups.) It's suitable for the whole family but edgy enough for serious music aficionados, there are great food vendors and, hey, did we mention it's free? MacArthur Park: 230 W. Sixth St., Westlake. (213) 384-5701. levittla.org. Pasadena: Memorial Park, between Walnut and Holly on Raymond Avenue, Pasadena. (626) 683-3230, levittpavilionpasadena.org.
—Molly Bergen
South Los Angeles rap collective Black Hippy was assembled by Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith, who, via a handwritten sign hanging in their Carson studio, lets them know that they should strive for charisma, personality, swagger, substance, lyrics, uniqueness and work ethic. In an era of one-off dance club hits, it's the "substance" that the group — rappers Jay Rock, Ab-Soul, ScHoolBoy Q and breakout star Kendrick Lamar — seems to take to heart most particularly. Their hard-edged raps pay strict attention to craft and structure, while remaining suitable for car stereos and self-medication time. With members dropping first-rate solo efforts in rapid succession, the collective has linked up with Dr. Dre's Aftermath Records, and a group effort is in the works. So much concentrated talent is a bit dizzying — and supergroups never seem to work — but our money is still on Black Hippy living up to their reputation as this decade's N.W.A. topdawgmusic.com.
—Ben Westhoff
Smooth steel curves cut the skyline at unexpected angles and sharp creases, which is partly why no other building in L.A. proclaims "21st century" like Walt Disney Concert Hall. The acoustics and visuals inside are as impressive as the exterior, which makes it easily the best place to hear an orchestra in Southern California. Whether it's symphonic or choral music, an organ recital or a jazz, pop or folk-music show, the sound is detailed and warm. Meanwhile, seating surrounds the stage — something that is rare in the United States. Conducting geeks can sit behind the orchestra, while thrill seekers can purchase a front-row seat in the balcony (or side and rear terraces) for an extra adrenaline rush. Even the parking garage directly below is clean, safe and easy to use. Want to learn more? Take the free, self-guided audio tour narrated by actor John Lithgow, architect Frank Gehry and L.A. Philharmonic conductor laureate Esa-Pekka Salonen. 111 S. Grand Ave., dwntwn. (323) 850-2000, laphil.com/philpedia/about-walt-disney-concert-hall.
—Christian Hertzog
A rapper's box of tricks is pretty sparse, consisting of little more than his voice and his rhymes. Fortunately Blu, the underrated rapper originally from San Pedro, has been blessed with the best of both. His voice, smoky and sensual, slides effortlessly through complex lyrics that reference everything from Scripture to Shakespeare to Notorious B.I.G. (Not for nothing, he also has the sexiest descriptions of sex in the rap game.) His collaboration with local dream-weaving producer Exile, Below the Heavens, is one of the few albums from the aughts that made L.A. Weekly's greatest L.A. rap albums list, yet surprisingly few people have heard it. Remedy that. While you're at it, pick up their latest collaboration, Give Me My Flowers While I Can Still Smell Them, and expect to be spirited away to the duo's magical, nostalgic world. noyork.tumblr.com.
—Rebecca Haithcoat
Los Angeles used to be a major jazz hub. From the 1920s until the 1950s a small strip of Central Avenue, around Vernon Avenue, played host to every major jazz figure passing through town, including Louis Armstrong, Lester Young, Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker. These days almost every building from that era is gone, save for the Dunbar Hotel, which housed many of those aforementioned musicians. Seventeen years ago, however, an initiative to preserve the region's jazz heritage began. A great oral history CD titled Central Avenue Sounds was released, the Dunbar is under renovation and the Central Avenue Jazz Festival was born. The free, two-day festival held each July now features legends and younger cats alike, and attracts thousands of people. It's a great annual reminder of this town's once-vibrant jazz scene, as well as a hint of what it could be again. 42nd Street and Central Avenue, South L.A. centralavejazz.org.
—Sean J. O'Connell
There are a number of nice jazz rooms in Los Angeles, but none as accessible and forward-thinking as the Blue Whale. Joon Lee's dark, low-key room atop Little Tokyo's Weller Court consistently books some of the most important jazz musicians not just locally but globally — we're talking folks like John Daversa and Dwight Trible. It's an indispensable part of the scene, and it's actually a very pleasant place to hang out. People bring dates and sometimes, believe it or not, there are more women inside than men. (OK, that doesn't happen very often.) In any case, the Blue Whale has done a lot to boost the city's jazz profile, and it gives some really great musicians ample space to stretch out. 123 Astronaut E.S. Onizuka St., Ste. 301, Little Tokyo. (213) 620-0908, bluewhalemusic.com.
—Sean J. O'Connell
A few doors north of Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, Working Stage Theater recently was renovated with a Dwell magazine–worthy façade, seating for up to 60, surround sound and soundproofing. It's a bustling, creative environment — the sort of place that people who've never been to Hollywood might imagine exists on every block. For a very reasonable fee, the owners make available the theater space, as well as lighting and taping experts. If you've written a script or play, there's no better way to polish your work than to test it live onstage. And while the space is perfect for play and script readings or personal film screenings, its services go deeper: If the theater-loving owners believe a new play shows promise, they may offer to co-produce — helping shape it and finding the actors, among other things. Thanks to its upgrades, the space also is used for film shoots. 1516 N. Gardner St., W. Hlywd. (323) 521-8600, workingstage.com.
—Jill Stewart
Are you the geek in the DoomBuggy craning his neck in Disney's Haunted Mansion ride, looking for the hidden projectors and strings that make the ghosts move? Yes? El Camino College's Multimedia Effects in the Haunted Mansion is the workshop for you. Taught each October for $35 by Natural History Museum senior media technician Chris Weisbart, what began as a historical survey of dark rides evolved into a three-hour DIY hacker forum. Weisbart covers basic animatronics and teaches you how to create many of the Haunted Mansion's beloved illusions — the ballroom's dancing and dueling ghouls, the candelabra hovering in the endless hallway, the singing busts in the graveyard. Last year, students built their own talking Madame Leota severed head floating in a crystal ball. Don't be afraid of the tech. The original Imagineers were mostly Disney artists who taught themselves the hardware tricks. Done right, a piece of glass, a flashlight and a bedsheet combine to make a pretty convincing and elegant spook. 16007 Crenshaw Blvd., Torrance. eccommunityed.com (see Visual Arts). —Gendy Alimurung
Los Angeles has some great public libraries. With the ability to order any book from any branch, all of the libraries can be pretty great. But South Pasadena, that tiny tree-lined enclave, has created the library we all wish we could have. Entirely self-contained, the budget for music and movies seems to be endless. New albums roll in every day, and the entire Criterion Collection hovers on the shelves waiting for someone to spend three weeks with Nanook of the North. Aside from the intriguing choices, the lights are on seven days a week at South Pasadena Library, and it stays open until 9 p.m. Monday through Wednesday — making it practically a late-night spot by sleepy suburban standards. 1100 Oxley St., South Pasadena. (626) 403-7340, ci.south-pasadena.ca.us/library. —Sean J. O'Connell


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Thank the high heavens! Common's voice has been sorely missed and according to Revolt TV he is on his way back to our ipods soon! For awhile now there has been a need for something super lyrical coming out of the Chi to balance out what is being played in mainstream rotation.
Take a look at what Common had to say about it below!
Doesn't he seem like the kind of guy you could call if you were stuck on the side of the road with a flat tire in the middle of a blizzard? He is so giving and so humble all the time… he just seems like the kind of guy you would want on speed dial if you accidentally cut half your finger off trying to chop an onion real fast like the chefs on The Food Network! But…we digress!
Bottom line…Common has new music coming out…Hip Hop Hooray!
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Timm Rosenbach Bolts Griz to Weber State
Weber State University earlier this week, announced the hiring of Timm Rosenbach as their new offensive coordinator.
Rosenbach, a former NFL quarterback spent the last season as the offensive coordinator for the Montana Grizzlies.
He was hired in February by now former Griz head coach Robin Pflugrad, who was fired just a month later. Rosenbach oversaw an offense that utilized two young quarterbacks, Trent McKinney and Shay Smithwick-Hann, and a stable of running backs that averaged well over 200 yards per game.
Current head coach Mick Delaney was not available for comment, but a nationwide search for a new offensive coordinator will begin next week.