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Imagine producing enough high-quality nuclear fuel tubing to encircle the Earth more than three-and-a-quarter times. Imagine generations of families working for the same company, and even in the same facility. Imagine 20 percent of the current plant population having a family member who worked at the facility. For the employees of the Westinghouse plant in Blairsville, Pennsylvania (USA), these contributions to the nuclear industry and the world are a reality.
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Westinghouse Blairsville Plant, which manufactures zirconium-alloy tubing products used in nuclear fuel assemblies for Westinghouse nuclear fuel, our licensees and other customers worldwide. The state-of-the-art manufacturing plant is located on a 485-acre site in Blairsville, Pa., approximately 40 miles east of Pittsburgh and 60 miles southeast of Westinghouse headquarters in Cranberry Township, Pa.
Our doors opened in 1955, at which time the plant served as a metal foundry and once made various items including castings and turbine blades. We began manufacturing zirconium-alloy tubing in the 1960s – a focus constant in the decades since.
While our plant has undergone many changes in the last 60 years, two very important items have remained steadfast:
Our commitment to safety is paramount with a constant focus on quality and customer support
At Westinghouse, safety is our first priority with a steady focus on quality and customer support. At SMP, we use high tech manufacturing and inspection systems to meet the exacting standards and demanding tolerances required by our customers, providing assurance that every tube and component manufactured and inspected at our plant is of the highest quality, with a constant focus on safety.
Our talented and dedicated workforce
Our employees are critical to our success. The facility employs more than 300 skilled laborers and professionals over three shifts – providing around-the-clock expertise. This is a dedicated group of employees; in fact, more than a quarter of our current workforce has 25 or more years of experience at our facility.
Cecilia Hewitt, Debbie Keegan, Brett Leysock, George Marshall, Rod Marshall, Dave and Greg Smith, and Ray Stopa are all second-generation employees of the Westinghouse Blairsville Plant – following in their parents' footsteps here. Butch, Jim and Ryan Buczak along with Robert, Gary and Brian King have the unique privilege of representing three generations at this facility. Stories like this are common at the plant, and I know it stems from the deep-seated pride that our employees have in our plant, our work and in the part that we play to contribute to our communities.
I applaud our team and those who came before us to create this world-class operation. I look forward to the innovative work that I know will continue to be produced by our current and future workforce for another 60 years. Through a strong knowledge transfer program and the support of employee development, we will help our customers generate safer, cleaner, more reliable energy for more people for many years to come.


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I love Music, Computers and Theatre. Math, Physics and Linguistics though, have been sort of pet interests of mine over the last few years. So this video series was perfect for me. Professor of Nuclear Physics at the University of Surrey, Dr. Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of the discovery of the atom at the beginning of the 20th century, up to the latest developments in quantum mechanics today.
Part 1 (The Clash of the Titans)
Part 2 (The Key to the Cosmos)
Part 3 (The Illusion of Reality)

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I had a red banner gym weekend, although it got off to a shaky start. I wasn't intending last Friday to be a rest day, but I never made it to the gym. I was a little bummed by my failure to exercise, since I had taken a planned (and deserved) rest day just two days prior, but I didn't dwell on it. Instead, I decided to make the most of my Saturday and Sunday workouts, and that's exactly what I did.
My Saturday and Sunday workouts had additional significance, because my gym membership expired on Sunday. I wrote a few posts last month about my decision to switch gyms, and now that transition is complete (there's more to this story, and I promise to share it soon!). Buh-bye, Burbank Athletic Club, and thank you for 4 wonderful years, and hello, Crunch! Since Burbank Athletic Club has two locations, I thought I'd spend my final weekend as a member hitting both of them – a little farewell tour.
On Sunday, I hit the downtown location, and had a great workout: after warming up, I did 35 minutes of weights, 5 minutes of rowing, and 17 minutes on an elliptical. But my Saturday workout at the northwest location is the momentous one, because it was during that workout that I reached TWO big milestones.
Milestone #1. For the first time ever, I did a full set (3 x 10 reps) of bench presses with over 100 pounds of weight. It was 105 pounds, to be precise – 30 pounds on each end of the bar, and the bar itself is 45. Woo-hoo!
Milestone #2. For the first time ever, I climbed over 100 stories on the StairMaster! I wish there was more of a story to go along with this, but there isn't. I got on the StairMaster, threw a towel over the display, and started climbing. I had some great music, and before I knew it, I had climbed 75 stories, and I decided in that moment to that I'd push myself to get over 100. I had been close before – my last outing on a StairMaster resulted in a 98-story climb – but today I went 104. HOLY FUCKING SHIT, I CLIMBED 104 STORIES! It took 22 minutes and I burned 375 calories.
Time to add a new building to My Skyscraper Collection! Unfortunately for me, nowhere on the planet is there a building that's exactly 104 stories tall, so, instead, I'm adding a 102-story building, and it just happens to be one of the most recognizable buildings ever constructed:
The Empire State Building is a landmark and an icon for New York City, and was the tallest building in the world from its completion in 1931 until the World Trade Center was completed in 1972. It's currently the tallest building in New York City, the third tallest building in the U.S. – after Willis (Sears) Tower and Trump International Hotel and Tower (which I added to my collection last week) – and the 19th tallest building in the world.
I've been inside the Empire State Building, but only the lobby – the line for the observation deck was way too long. I've read a lot about the building – a few years ago, I read a fantastic book called "Higher" by Neal Bascomb, which is the nonfiction account of the two rival architects who raced, in the 1920s, to build the tallest building in the world. While they were pushing to outdo each other, and creating the Chrysler Building and Manhattan Company Building in the process, a third architect and developer entered the fray, announcing plans for an even bigger and taller building – the Empire State Building.
"Higher" is an absorbing read – meticulously researched and hard to put down. It goes into detail about how the Empire State Building was built – it "went up like a rocket ship" in under 14 months, and the statistics surrounding its construction are jaw-dropping: Over 3,400 workers clocked in daily. An average of 10,000 tons of steel erected each month. 500 truckloads of material delivered every day – that's 1 truck a minute. 10 million bricks were laid. 6,500 windows were installed.
Some other Empire State Building fun facts:
- On a clear day, you can see five different states from the observation deck: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania.
- The 102nd floor was originally intended to be the landing platform for blimps that would be moored to the building's spire, but after a couple failed attempts (it was way too windy), this idea was abandoned.
- In the early 70s, after the World Trade Center was completed, it was proposed that 11 additional stories be added to the Empire State Building, to once again make it the tallest building in the world. The idea was rejected.
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Gone are the days when newspaper advertising was the primary recruiting resource for employers. Today's recruiters seem to have limitless channels for connecting with potential candidates (job boards, social media, videos, billboards, etc.) – which can be as much of a curse as it is a blessing. The number of options available makes it difficult for talent acquisition leaders to know which tools and strategies they should be investing in. How much can today's recruiters rely on the conventional wisdom? Which new technologies are over-hyped?
With these questions in mind, the Human Capital Institute and CareerBuilder recently collaborated on a new research study to find the answers. The results of the study challenge and debunk the most common myths and misconceptions recruiters and hiring managers believe about attracting, engaging and selecting great talent.
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Daikin Applied (UK) Ltd is committed to minimising its impact on the environment. In 1992 we were the first in our industry to discontinue CFC-based air-conditioning products and invest in the new environmentally safe refrigerant.
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Damien Wilkins launched Gemma Bowker-Wright's debut collection of stories The Red Queen. We're grateful to be able to share his launch speech.
It really is my great privilege to say a few words about Gemma's extremely fine first book.
Of course all books are hard to write, let's face it. But I've always thought that a book of short stories comes with some unique and fairly punishing challenges for the writer. Novels, you know, work through accumulation, more of the same, another scene, another scene and so on. Novels are word-count and momentum, a distance event. After a while, if you're lucky and good, you feel the thing rise up and it's running and you're running alongside it.
Set out to write a collection of stories and at first, if you're lucky and good, it's running, you're running, maybe even quite fast—hell, you're sprinting and a wonderful light comes on, you see everything—then a hole opens up and you're back in the dark—oh, that's the end of your story—your first story—and you need to climb out of the hole and start running again. You need to do this eleven more times, in Gemma's case, before you have the book.
The short story is a kind of interrupted art form. It's always stopping you in its tracks. The writer, as much as the reader, submits to a greedy world of beginnings and endings. Always starting again, books of stories work through periodically—about every 15 pages or so in Gemma's case—aiming blows at the reader's brain and heart. It's best to read one and walk away; read more than two and you'll need a concussion test. Because the best collections do feel like contact sport: bursts of feeling, incident, illumination, exchanges between people that look like one thing but somehow generate meaning far beyond those moments.
The Red Queen, Gemma's book, is full of all of the above. It details a dozen different scenarios—and Gemma is brilliant at openings that state plainly where we are and what we should pay attention to; she's a natural at getting us underway—and then in deft strokes, worlds are summoned: the world of university students, the world of couples, of scientists, trampers, radio announcers, broken families, recovering families, abandoned children, hesitant adults. And even though I said you have to take breaks between stories, you also start to feel the deep pleasure and often the productive disquiet of returning themes across the stories, of shared concerns, the lingering sense of unfinished business which marks the real writer.
Real writers, as we know, don't have themes, just obsessions. In this public forum I won't say what I think Gemma's are—you need to buy the book and work those out for yourselves. But in one of the stories, the narrator observes of her relationships with others that 'Something had changed between us—a slight repositioning that I couldn't put my finger on.' Gemma's terrific achievement is to dramatise this 'slight repositioning', to communicate how change in our lives occurs on a sliding scale—there are massive movements but also the smaller shake-ups and who's to say whether we might not register love or separation, beauty or terror in surprisingly minor ways.
Searching his memories for a full picture of the father who left the family years ago and now returns awkwardly and loudly for birthdays or holidays, the young man in the terrific story 'Cowboy' remembers the time when he was fifteen in a bar and his father tried to show him how to pick up women. The father fails and the son feels 'intensely lonely and yet buoyant at the same time, as if he could float up off the stool. It seemed, then, as if he was watching his dad from a great distance, like he was up there suspended below the ceiling, looking down at his dad's head, all that way below him, balding and unprotected.'
Gemma knows how to calibrate the pressure of her prose so that we always feel a finger is being put on some tender spot.
Sometimes these spots are great undercurrents of emotion; at other times, these spots are simple isolated images: I love lots of the noticing in this work, as say when a daughter during a funeral describes her father's knee jiggling 'throughout the service, like a dog running in a dream'; or when a woman sees that the back of a man's knees are hairless, 'the skin a silvery colour'. Turns out Gemma is a poet of knees.
The core of the collection was first written in 2011 during Gemma's MA year and I haven't read the work since—I was struck by how firmly their atmosphere, which frequently rests in a haunted version of our outdoors—hills, gardens, bush—had stayed with me. I only had to read a few sentences and I was back inside these worlds. That also makes me think these stories will stick around inside your heads.
One of my favourites here is an 8-page story called 'The Takahē' about two young women, students, on an island in the Sounds for a research project monitoring weta. But what they really want to do is see a takahē. There are two DOC rangers on the island and one of the students get obsessed about their lives, if they're a couple, if they're having sex. It becomes clear that the two students are out-of-their depth, unsuited to each other, consumed with an appetite for experience, poised on some terrible edge. But the fierceness of this longing is contained and compressed in the telling. Nothing much happens but the slight repositioning feels momentous. Amazing.


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Kim Kaselionis, CEO of Circle Bank
As a girl, Kim Kaselionis daydreamed about becoming a flight attendant and having 10 children.
That's a far cry from where she sits now, in the CEO's seat at Circle Bank, but the self-described lover of accounting says this job is a natural fit.
"You've just got to be open sometimes to the opportunities life puts in your path," she said in an interview last week at the Novato branch, where the employees offer freshly baked cookies to customers.
That's not to say Kaselionis' success as a businesswoman has fallen into her lap.
Following the breakup of her first marriage, Kaselionis - armed with an accounting degree from Cal State Hayward - enrolled at the University of Phoenix.
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"It was the only place where I could drag my kids at night and continue on with my education," she said. "So at age 40, I got my MBA. It's never too late to go back to school."
Just as valuable to her are the life lessons she learned growing up the oldest of 10 children in a blended family.
"You learn a lot about sharing, about teamwork, about responsibility, accountability - and survival," said Kaselionis, who was born in Orange County but moved with her family to Marin when she was about 11 and her mother remarried. "Being the firstborn in a household of multiple children, the parents lean on the older children. You're the babysitter, you're the meal provider, you're the teacher."
Then there's the influence of her mother, Kit Cole, who was one of the first female stockbrokers in California and now heads Circle Bancorp, the parent of Circle Bank.
In the 1980s, Cole collected about $2 million from women by holding tea parties in order to form New Horizons Savings, the predecessor to Tamalpais Bank.
"I owe a lot of my entrepreneurial spirit and behaviors to being her oldest child," Kaselionis said.
In fact, it was because of Cole's fundraising on behalf of other investors to build New West Savings and Loan - which eventually would become Circle Bank - that Kaselionis became involved in the institution. At the time, SEC rules prohibited Cole from serving on the boards of competing banks, so Kaselionis stepped in.
Today, one of her brothers also works at the bank, in the loan department.
The family is still close. Six of the siblings - including the ones who live in Alaska and Australia - returned to Marin recently to celebrate Thanksgiving.
Kaselionis had much to be thankful for. In September, Circle Bank, with assets of about $300 million, posted its 45th consecutive profitable quarter. And October marked her fifth healthy year since being treated for cancer.
She's also in the fourth year of her marriage to Tomas Kaselionis, a Federal Emergency Management Agency worker and National Guard reservist whom she met when he coached her son's football team.
"We're a big football family," said Kaselionis, whose favorite pastime is photographing her sons' football games, which she started six years ago.
"It's a wonderful way for me to really engage in their lives. Not only do I get to be on the field and be part of all the action, but when I'm done we can sit down and go through all the photos."
She also can use them to give back to the school by posting them on Varsity Pix, which donates money to Marin Catholic High School whenever Kaselionis' pictures are bought from the site.
Giving back to the community is a core value not only in her personal life, but for the bank as well.
"I think that we have a responsibility to support the fabric of our communities in which we serve," she said.
Whether it's janitorial service or the coffee they brew, the bank looks to its customers first before hiring outside.
The cookies it offers are baked from dough the bank buys from Homeward Bound, a local organization that provides shelter and training for homeless people.
"One of the reasons many community banks are still around is because they are very entrenched in their communities, they understand their borrowers," Kaselionis said.
All five branches, which together employ about 70 people, are equipped with dog bowls and biscuits, and the newest location in Noe Valley offers stroller parking.
Circle Bank plans to expand its reach in the nine-county Bay Area and recently filed plans for an initial public offering in which Kaselionis hopes to raise $20 million to $30 million.
"More people are really wanting to get back to basics and develop a relationship with their financial partner," she said.
Kim Kaselionis
Work: CEO, Circle Bank.
Age: 49
Family: Husband Tomas; sons Tino, 19, and Dominic, 18 (on Monday); daughter, Tiana, 16
Residence: Novato
Hobbies: Photographing sons' football games, the beach, skiing, dinner-and-a-movie family night
Can't live without: Family, sugar
You might not know: She grew up the oldest of 10 children.
Quote: "You can do anything. And if you don't think you can do it, fake it - you'll get there."


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Feed books now onlineBy Country News
With farmers struggling through drought, the Victorian Government's sheep and beef drought-feeding books have gone virtual, alongside a range of online management tools to help farmers respond to the tough conditions.
Agriculture Minister Jaclyn Symes launched the books as a set of online practical tools, now available in farmers' pockets through the Agriculture Victoria website.
The books have been a feature of the government's meat and wool services since the 1980s, and the digital update allows quick access to practical tools for farmers as well as recommended resources to use in conjunction with the information, like EverGraze, Grazfeed and useful spreadsheets.
The website provides image libraries of pasture and grazing crops to help farmers estimate the value of what stock are eating, as well as supplement and ration-choice information, hay bale weights and the energy and protein requirements of various cattle and sheep classes.
Climate information, water management and information about unusual feeds are also available, so farmers can calculate dam storage capacity and stock water requirements, as well as learning about the key climate factors that influence Victoria's seasons.
While the information has been available in the past, the new digital update puts all these resources in one place, able to be updated as weather conditions change, and farming research and technology evolves.
■Farmers can access the new Feeding Livestock information at: www.feedinglivestock.vic.gov.au


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Valencians love to be outside and, as the workday ends, will explode from their offices and flow down the sidewalks like lava, before coming to rest in one of the city's many plazas. There are hundreds of plazas in Valencia, but here are some of the historic center's most well-known.
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A tangled web of streets, alleys and plazas, El Carmen has largely shaken off its seedy past to become Valencia's most famous neighborhood. For many, El Carmen is the city; when you "go downtown," this is where you generally end up. With hip restaurants, cool shops, insane street art, excellent museums, and an eclectic mix of people milling about its plazas, El Carmen is beautiful, strange, and occasionally sketchy, but it's never boring.


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Many of the battles fought by sustainability advocates are unfortunately against ignorance instead of ideology. This takes many forms, from climate change denial to lawn watering to changing a light bulb. Failure to understand science is obviously a problem but a bigger problem we face is failure to understand the concept of science.
This may sound strange but there are examples all around us. This morning I heard an interview with a legislative candidate in Dallas who clearly stated that he wanted creationism to be taught in science class. Although this is actually a poorly veiled ruse to establish a state sponsored religion, it has ramifications that go way beyond simple attempts by the Tea Party to rewrite the constitution. Anyone with a rudimentary understanding of science will find this farcical, but failing to acknowledge and fight against this War on Science is dangerous. The general public has a seemingly increasing inability to discriminate between science and religion, or to even understand the basics of the scientific process. So failing to address every aspect of this War on Science makes working towards a more sustainable planet increasingly difficult.
You don't have to march, protest or yell to help. Simply and politely explain the difference between science and religion when you find yourself with someone who doesn't understand. Keeping quiet implies agreement, and we can't afford it.


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Updated at 2:05 p.m.:
After checking tape, I've revised Combs' quote about the depth of the recent recession, which she said she underestimated -- and was not alone in not fully appreciating.
Original item at 11:22 a.m.:
The state's roaring economy will cool some and produce only 4.4 percent growth in net revenues over the next two years, compared with nearly 23 percent in the current budget cycle, Comptroller Susan Combs said Monday.
Combs, releasing revenue estimates that impose a ceiling on how much money lawmakers can spend in the upcoming session, said the state will have $8.8 billion in unencumbered general funds when the current cycle ends on Aug. 31.
State taxes, fees and investments then will generate $96.2 billion in the next cycle, of which $3.6 billion will be added to the rainy day fund, she said.
"The outlook for both the economy and state revenue is for continuing expansion as the fast growth of the economic recovery gives way to sustainable, moderate growth," Combs said.
All told, lawmakers will have $101.4 billion available for general-purpose spending over the next two years, she said. That includes the $8.8 billion ending balance in August and the net revenue of $92.6 billion in the coming cycle. They face about $7 billion in patchwork desired for the current budget, including a $4.7 billion Medicaid IOU they left unpaid as they wrote the budget last session.
The Legislature, which convenes on Tuesday, will write a budget for 2014-2015.
Combs, saying no one in Washington or at the Federal Reserve Bank forecast the severity of the recent recession, dismissed questions about the accuracy of her revenue estimates at the start of the 2011 session.
"It was a very, very deep recession, the largest since the ending of World War II," she said. "I'm suggesting: Continue to take a look at the volatility" of major sources of state tax revenue.
Sales tax, oil and gas production taxes and motor vehicle sales tax have spun off unexpected revenues, with collections climbing at "an amazing trajectory," said Combs, a Republican known for close collaboration with other GOP state leaders.
But she said after double digit growth this cycle, the sales tax will grow by 2.4 percent in the fiscal year that starts Sept. 1 and by 5.9 percent the following year. For those years, she projects gross state product -- not adjusted for inflation -- will grow by 5.3 percent and 5.8 percent, respectively.
Combs said housing starts in Texas haven't recovered to the torrid pace of 2006, and instead more nearly resemble the 75,000 permits a year clip of the 1990s.
She cited as drags on her optimism several factors: Europe's financial and economic problems, a slowing Chinese economy and the prospects of higher federal taxes and stricter federal regulations affecting fossil fuel energy.
"What goes up must come down," she said of state revenues.


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TRA BMX Racing: Fiftyfoe and Freddie Househam.
BMX racing fun with Florida's Fiftyfoe and United Kingdom's / United Bikes rider Freddie Househam. The track was wet but that didn't keep these riders from having a good time. Jimmy Rushmore, Marky T, Nutter, and Nutter's dog Raja all … Continue reading
TRA Fastest Run Comp – Catty Halloween Jam
Bethlehem, PA (October 30, 2015) – The TRA Fastest Run Comp went down at the Catty Halloween Jam on October 24, 2015. 18 riders entered to burn up some of the best trails in the world and battle for the … Continue reading
Elevated Visuals Edit: TRA BMX Double Cross and Dirt Jump Comp
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Sekt Edit: TRA Double Cross and Dirt Jump Comp
Doug Foulke is at it again, always down for supporting the trails whether its Posh, Catty, or this great edit right here from the TRA Double Cross and Dirt Jump Comp.
2014 TRA Double Cross and Dirt Jump Comp – Full Event Report
Bethlehem, PA (October 15, 2014) – The TRA Double Cross and Dirt Jump Comp was held Sunday, October 5th, at the TRA backyard compound near Bethlehem, PA. Twenty seven riders from around the globe came together for this historic event … Continue reading
Chris Doyle Interview on the TRA Double Cross with Al Cayne
Al Cayne caught up with Chris Doyle at the 2014 TRA Double Cross and Dirt Jump Comp. Check it out here at Sugarcayne.com
BMX Legend Van Homan Explores the Future of BMX Racing
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Miss Snark, recently a nonfiction agent told a member of another board that "most" book contracts are going to royalties of 10% on wholesale price. I was surprised to hear this; I can't imagine either agents or authors going along with it. In your experience, is this the new trend
First there is no such thing as "wholesale price". The only price that is ever printed anywhere is the retail price and all prices to wholesalers and others are discounts based on that retail price. The distinction is important. To wit:
$20.00 retail price. This is the price printed on the book, that you pay at the local indie store.
$10.00 WalMart's price to you. This is what they charge you when you buy your books with tires, a case of cough syrup, a cake, three gallons of gin, and an electric cattle prod.
Wal Mart gets a discount of 55% off the retail price. They sell it to you for 50% off the retail price. Of such small sums, in great volumes, is a fortune made.
Now, the indie store on the corner where you buy your books, talk to the owner, and pet the cat that reads Proust, that store owner pays a 48% discount off retail for the books she sells to you at full retail.
Now in case some of you aren't good at math, I'll just tell you: the indie store owner pays more to buy it from the publisher, than you can buy it for at WalMart. Naturally some of them take umbrage at this.
Anyway, what does this have to do with how royalties are counted.
Well, lots.
It used to be they paid you based on the number of books sold. More books, more money. Yum yum, sign me up for that.
Well, as you can see, paying you $2.00 for a book sold at the indie store means the publisher keeps a decent chunk of change:
LESS: $9.60 discount taken by indie store owner (48% of $20)
EQUALS: $10.40 gross to publisher
Less: Commission to author: 2.00 (10% of hardcover retail price)
Equals: $8.40 first net to publisher.
You sell enough of that you'll make some dough.
Now: look at the Wal Mart equation
Retail: $20.00
Less: $11.00 (55% discount given to big box store and HIGHER)
Equals: $9.00 gross to publisher
Less commission to author: 2.00 (10% of hardcover retail price)
equals: $7.00 first net to publishers
well, it didn't take long for publishers to realize that authors were not absorbing the pain of box store discounting so they changed how royalties are calculated.
They started factoring in the discounts.
Now it's 10% on retail price for books sold at standard discounts
and 6-8% for books sold at "steep discounts".
And some of the smaller publishers pay you a percentage based not on retail price but on "net"... the price they get after the discounts are taken.
The only way to figure out if its a good deal or even acceptable is to run the math.
I do it with every offer.
This has been going on for years.
It's industry standard now.
Doesn't mean we have to like it.
And the reason there is no "wholesale price" is cause the price changes for each wholesaler depending on what discount they get: its not a standard number. Discount is the piece of info that lets you calculate how much they paid per book.


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In his recent "hot mic" moment, John Kerry responded to news of civilian deaths in Gaza with these words:
It's a hell of a pinpoint operation. Hell of a pinpoint operation. We've got to get over there. I think we ought to go tonight.
The truth is that Kerry's desire to "get over" to the Middle East has nothing to do with any lack of precision in Israel's military operations. Kerry lives to inject himself into international disputes. The civilian deaths are just an excuse; a disabled dog would have served just as nicely.
Unfortunately for this would-be shuttle diplomat, Kerry has worn out his welcome in Israel. The Times of Israel reports:
Michael Oren, who until recently served as Israel's ambassador in Washington, said Monday that US envoy John Kerry was coming to the region despite Sunday's hot-mic incident, making it clear that he had not been invited. . . .It was plain from those remarks that Kerry decided on his own to come to the region, Oren said, rather than being invited to do so.
In comments to Channel 2 on Monday afternoon, Oren cited the Obama administration's strained relations with Egypt, and the "tension" in ties between the US and Israel. To Israel's chagrin, he said, America has consequently not been able to play a more constructive role in this crisis, whereas previous administrations had been able to do so in past crises.
He commented on the way the Administration handled the Arab spring, the blame it placed on Israel for the failure of the peace process, and the US's strained ties with Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi.
Oren is hardly the only knowledgeable Israeli who feels this way:
Oren's comments followed remarks Sunday by Channel 2′s veteran Arab affairs analyst Ehud Ya'ari, who said that as far as Israel is concerned, the secretary of state's ceasefire trip was premature "and bad for Israel," and that he should have left it to the Egyptians to lead the ceasefire effort. Ya'ari said many people, "including senior American officials," tried to convey this to Kerry.
This marks the continuing trend of the Obama administration "to give credit" to the Muslim Brotherhood, in this case Hamas, Ya'ari said, except that now it's graver, because "we're in a war."
Israel has long been the only important nation that takes the Obama administration seriously. The rest of the world does what it wants, but Israel foregoes building needed housing, engages in futile "peace" talks, apologizes to Turkey when the apology should have run the other, etc. — all against its better judgment and only because the U.S. wants it to.
I don't doubt that Obama browbeats Israel in part because he doesn't much like the Jewish State. But I also suspect he does so because Israel is one of the very few nations that still listens to him.
A president has to be able to throw his weight around somewhere.
But now it looks like Obama and Kerry have gone to the well once too often. As Oren makes clear, the Obama administration "has. . .not been able to play a more constructive role in this crisis" because it has forfeited its credibility with the key players, the first and foremost of which is Israel itself.
As John says, "Israel's best course is simply to ignore Obama and his messenger, John Kerry. Thanks to the track record of these two, Israel may finally do just that.


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Weekends away: spring bank holiday weekend The weekly-unless-there's-nothing-decent-happening clashguide to ensure you don't miss the good stuff at next weekend's worthwhile festivals:
Dot To Dot
Fred Perry sponsorship is all around. For some reason the usual Bank Holiday Monday Manchester date has been moved back to Friday which doesn't seem entirely in keeping with the alldayer flavour, but there you go. The headliners and big stage lineups are uniquely underwhelming this year and there aren't any of the usual surprising US visitors - trust us, we've seen Liars, Trail Of Dead and Beach House at D2D in the past - so these are a little more sparse than usual.
FRIDAY 24th - Manchester
15:45 Butcher The Bar (Deaf Institute)
16:05 Heart-Ships (Sound Control Loft)
17:30 Golden Fable (Attic)
18:00 Bipolar Sunshine (Gorilla)
20:30 Nadine Shah (SSR)
21:30 Blackeye (Attic)
21:45 Wolf Alice (Deaf Institute)
23:00 London Grammar (Gorilla)
23:30 Story Books (Joshua Brooks)
00:15 Bo Ningen (Zoo)
01:00 Pins (Sound Control Loft)
SATURDAY 25th - Bristol
13:30 The Lonely Tourist (Fleece)
17:30 Golden Fable (Louisiana)
18:15 London Grammar (Academy 1)
18:30 Pins (Thekla Top Deck)
19:30 Hawk Eyes (Thekla Top Deck)
20:00 Only Real (Thekla)
20:30 Bipolar Sunshine (Louisiana)
21:00 The Ramona Flowers (Exchange Basement)
21:30 Story Books (Birdcage)
22:15 Hysterical Injury (Stag & Hounds)
22:30 Wolf Alice (Louisiana)
23:00 Bo Ningen (Thekla)
SUNDAY 26th - Nottingham
14:00 Bitter Strings (Rock City Main)
14:30 Pins (Rescue Rooms)
16:00 Golden Fable (Red Room)
17:00 Hawk Eyes (Red Room)
18:00 We Three And The Death Rattle (Corner)
19:45 Gallery 47 (Rescue Rooms Bar)
20:00 Blackeye (Red Room)
20:30 Dancing Years (Stealth)
21:30 Bipolar Sunshine (Stealth)
23:15 Chapel Club (Rock City Basement)
23:30 Bo Ningen (Rescue Rooms)
Handmade Festival
Full disclosure, we're involved with the organisation of this festival, which really means sending out a lot of emails every couple of weeks and receiving two back, so you'll excuse the push, but if we weren't involved this new Leicester city festival using often unusual spaces - there's a pop-up cinema in a 15th century guildhall, for one thing - would be very much worth a look. Tickets only £25 for the three days too, an extra tenner if you want to see a Robin Ince-helmed afterparty on the Monday.
Rolo Tomassi, Maybeshewill, Codex Leicester (People's Photographic Gallery)
Arcane Roots (Firebug)
Johnny Foreigner, My First Tooth (Firebug)
Sam Duckworth, Grace Petrie (Cookie Jar)
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Her Name Is Calla, Peter Wyeth, Katie Malco (Bishop Street Methodist Church)
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12:55 Charlie Boyer & The Voyeurs (Laneway)
13:00 Gabriel Bruce (Eat Your Own Ears)
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17:55 King Krule (Village Mentality)
18:15 Everything Everything (Eat Your Own Ears)
18:20 Connan Mockasin (Shacklewell Arms)
19:10 Wild Nothing (Shacklewell Arms)
19:30 Bat For Lashes (Eat Your Own Ears) OR Daughter (Laneway)
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20:20 Do Make Say Think (Village Mentality)
20:40 Four Tet (Eat Your Own Ears)
21:50 Animal Collective (Eat Your Own Ears)
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17:00 August Actually
17:40 Eat Y'Self Pretty
18:20 Cosines
19:40 Victoria & Jacob
21:00 Ace Bushy Striptease
22:20 Allo Darlin'
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TONY EASTLEY: The furore over what Sydney broadcaster Alan Jones told a Young Liberals dinner about the Prime Minister's father has now morphed into a debate over what constitutes public online campaigning and cyber bullying.
The Alan Jones program on 2GB went to air this morning without ads and Mr Jones says that was a result of what he believes is cyber bullying against companies that advertise on the station which he partly owns.
He says advertisers have been ambushed in a modern day form of corporate sabotage.
Lindy Kerin reports.
ANNOUNCER: Breakfast with Alan Jones on 2GB...
LINDY KERIN: Back on air, but ad free. The social media campaign targeting companies advertising on the Alan Jones show has taken its toll.
ALAN JONES: Advertisers trying to go about their business and exercise their choice as to where they spend their money and with whom they want to communicate have chosen over many years to advertise on this program.
This is as you know because it is a successful program, it has perhaps the largest audience in the country, and advertisers, often companies and small businesses who may not agree with things that are said want access to this audience in order to market their product. It's a pretty simple story.
In the light of comments which I made for which I've apologised there are now comprehensive threats to destroy these businesses if they don't comply with a boycott of this program.
LINDY KERIN: But the Sydney broadcaster told listeners today that the social media campaign has gone too far and he's described the tactics as appalling.
ALAN JONES: One petition calls on signatories to "destroy the joint". The target of that destruction are advertisers. Indeed on Facebook these people urged to do the destroying actually call themselves destroyers. They congratulate one another after they've targeted an advertiser, jammed up the emails, girls on the switchboard in tears.
LINDY KERIN: More than 70 companies have already walked away from 2GB. Over the weekend the Macquarie Radio Network took the unprecedented step and suspended all advertising on the Alan Jones Show.
It says the reaction to broadcaster's comments about the Prime Minister's late father have made it necessary for the network to call time out.
Alan Jones says 60 per cent of companies who advertise with him are on struggle street and they cannot withstand the harassment.
ALAN JONES: They cannot withstand 20,000 abusive emails, hundreds of spiteful phone calls. This is a modern form of corporate sabotage.
LINDY KERIN: Over the weekend 2GB has surveyed its listeners. It says the majority acknowledge Alan Jones' apology and their attitude towards the program hasn't significantly changed.
And that was clearly the feeling among talk back callers this morning.
CALLER 1: You made an error of judgement, you said you were sorry, but the swinging voters now want your blood. All you have truthfully have highlighted is the ruination of our wonderful country. I will return to Woolworths after I hear an ad on your program.
CALLER 2: We are in the land of free speech, isn't that right? And you had free speech. It might have been a little bit tongue in cheek, it might've been a little bit below the belt, however for your audience it was okay. And I think what they did hear is really blasphemous, it's wrong. And I praise you, the fact that you've got the balls to stay on the air.
CALLER 3: I just wanted to ring up to offer my support too. I'm absolutely appalled at what's going on here. To think this is happening in Australia, to think that this has to go to this extent just to me points out, it reflects more on the other side.
ALAN JONES: We're in an ugly place.
CALLER 3: These are the people that are in charge making decisions on our behaviour, they're nothing but bullies.
ALAN JONES: That's true, true.
TONY EASTLEY: Alan Jones, broadcaster, ending that report from Lindy Kerin.
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Ad-free Alan Jones back on air
Lindy Kerin reported this story on Monday, October 8, 2012 08:00:00
TONY EASTLEY: The furore over what Sydney broadcaster Alan Jones told a Young Liberals dinner about the Prime Minister's father has now morphed into a debate over what constitutes public online campaigning and cyber bullying.


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U.S. presidents and other senior policymakers often come into office knowing little about the 17 federal agencies and offices that make up the U.S. intelligence community, but in short order, they come to rely heavily on its unique technologies, tradecraft, and expert analysis. The intelligence community's mission is to provide national leaders with the best and most timely information available on global affairs and national security issues—information that, in turn, can help those leaders achieve their foreign policy objectives.
The president is the country's top intelligence consumer and the only person who can authorize a covert action, and the services he receives from the intelligence community can be invaluable—providing early warning of brewing trouble, identifying and disrupting threats before they materialize, gaining insight into foreign leaders, and discreetly affecting developments abroad. For the relationship between intelligence producers and consumers to work effectively, however, each needs to understand and trust the other.
The most common misperception about the intelligence community is that it makes policy. It doesn't. As Allen Dulles, the director of central intelligence from 1953 to 1961, once said, "Intelligence is the servant, not the master, of foreign policy." A new administration considers and articulates what it stands for and what it hopes to achieve; it develops policies and informational priorities, and then it deploys the resources of the intelligence community based on those priorities.
The intelligence community, in other words, cannot operate in a vacuum. It must be told what to look for and what is most important. The White House must be disciplined in its tasking; if everything is a priority, then nothing is. Moreover, it needs to remain engaged and update its thinking. Over time, some issues will rise in importance and some will fall. Without regular dialogue and guidance, the intelligence community will do what it can to respond appropriately to global changes and improvise ways to balance competing requests. But the tradeoffs will often go unnoticed by senior


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Canon is promoting sustainable economic growth by applying proprietary optical and image-processing technologies to manufacturing.
Supporting constant innovation to adapt to changing conditions is essential to the realization of a sustainable society. Amid growing adoption of IoT, big data, AI and robot technologies as part of the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution of broad technical change, there are increasing possibilities for personalized, made-to-order or customized products and services.
Advancing the expansion of B-to-B operations as part of Phase V of its Excellent Global Corporation Plan, Canon aims to create new value by using proprietary optical and image-processing technologies developed over many years in the industrial machinery field.
In semiconductor manufacturing, building on conventional lithographic approaches as high-end device manufacturing moves into the IoT era, Canon is aiming to establish nanoimprint technology to achieve semiconductor-device miniaturization at lower cost. Semiconductor chips, which are often likened to the heart of electronic equipment, are an essential part of modern life due to their presence in everyday equipment ranging from smartphones and PCs to televisions, air conditioners and automobiles. In line with the Society 5.0* vision promoted by the Japanese government, the key to a future sustainable society will be the use of data through innovative science and technology such as AI, IoT and robots. By enabling the manufacture of high-performance semiconductor chips for large-scale processing of big data, nanoimprint lithography technology can make a significant contribution.
In other sectors, OLED Panel Manufacturing Equipment (Canon Tokki) and sputtering equipment (Canon ANELVA) are essential elements in supporting enriched consumer lifestyles. In addition, in the field of factory automation, we are accelerating collaborative efforts to develop system solutions in a bid to help increase industrial manufacturing productivity.
Canon believes expanding business within this sector can contribute to the realization of SDG 9 to "build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation." Besides promoting increased efficiency for existing industries, we also hope to foster sustainable economic growth by actively contributing to development of new industries.
As the brains of electronic equipment, semiconductor devices are essential parts in the IoT era when everything is linked to the Internet. This trend is driving the growth in demand for flash memory used in mobile devices and such applications for semiconductors as automobiles. Canon supplies semiconductor lithography equipment for semiconductor high-volume manufacturing. The functionality and memory capacity of semiconductor devices continue to rise as chip manufacturers adopt more complex circuit patterns and large-scale integration. Our focus is on the use of nanoimprint lithography, a ground-breaking technology for stamping circuit patterns onto wafers at high resolution rather than following the conventional lithographic approach. This will support process migration while also achieving significant reductions in manufacturing costs. Our semiconductor lithography equipment using nanoimprint technology is currently installed at leading chip manufacturer Toshiba Memory Corporation, where its suitability for mass-production purposes is being assessed.
Elsewhere, CANON ANELVA manufactures sputtering equipment for use in semiconductor production, based on high-vacuum thin-film process technology. The firm is also the world's sole supplier of sputtering equipment for hard disk drive (HDD) head production. Moreover, equipment supplied by Canon ANELVA is helping to boost performance while dramatically reducing the cost of production for communications devices used in high-speed 4G and 5G networks.
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McFarlane kills Oz rumours
There have been quite a few rumours about Todd McFarlane's planned sequel of The Wizard of Oz, rumours from just how dark it's going to be to who's set to star as Dorothy, rumours which seem like finger in the air guess work that anything else.
Now McFarlane has been talking about them and addressing them directly, and at the same time killing them, or at least seriously reining them in.
The previous rumours had Dakota Fanning as the lead, rumours coming through a British tabloid known for these crazy rumours, and totally un-sourced.
However the biggest killer, and the one I keep harping back to time and time again, is the fact that the script wasn't finished, and without a finished script I don't see a lead signing up to the project, especially one that seems as risky as this.
A sequel to one of the most classic films of all time, or rather another sequel to it, and one which is going to seriously change tact and direction with a big modernisation? No, I don't see her signing up, and that's what Todd McFarlane says too.
"I haven't heard that. If we just do a sugary sweet Dorothy that everybody has seen over and over for 50 years, as far as I'm concerned, that's too obvious. I'm happy to go with whoever will get the most people in the seats, but sometimes that can change from month to month."
That's the quote direct from the man through Empire, and he has more to say about Oz, revealing that the really dark version that the original writer Josh Olson was talking about in the previous story, may not be the one we see as there's a rewrite underway.
"They're on their second iteration right now, trying to get it into a zone that makes sense. Josh Olsen wrote a draft that didn't quite strike Warners fancy. Everyone was a little lukewarm. They wanted it more sexy! So they were going to do a rewrite and get some fresh eyes on it…
…I think my "Twisted" version is a little scary for Warners to embrace. I essentially pitched Lord of the Rings. It was big, it was bold and it wasn't a very pretty place. It was badass! There's no Baum in it at all. When they bought it from me, my thing was, turn off the MGM mindset. It's a public domain property, let's go invent some cool new ideas, which basically will surprise people. What's going to get a new generation to go look at Oz is if you reinvent it on some level."
So the previous writer's script is out the window, along with McFarlane's really dark vision for Oz, a complete standalone, recreated version of the story that was totally different to the source vision. Now they're going back to the source novel which looks more like it's a complete change of direction from the dark version onto the source version.
Finally he addresses those same rumours in the tabloid about it filming in the UK, insanely stupid rumours considering the script is just about to hit the second draft.
"That's putting the cart before the horse. That depends on what kind of budget comes in, where the confidence level is for the studio execs, where they'll have the most success stretching their dollars."
So that original rumour story can basically be thrown in the bin, and now we've heard from Todd McFarlane - no casting, second draft of the script coming to change the story, no firm date, wait and see.


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Tuesday, 15 March 2016
David Deyong Jewellery: A Chocolate Free Easter Alternative!
Earlier this month I wrote about a monogram pendant that I was gifted from a new company called Kaya Jewellery. In the photograph that I took of it, I had layered it with two other necklaces; my Links of London chain complete with an assortment of charms that I've collected from here, there and everywhere (which I wear every day) and also a brand new locket.
Quite a few of you commented on the locket on Instagram so I thought I'd give it a little mention over here, especially seeing as it's Easter next week - and I think it would make a pretty neat alternative to chocolate if you're looking to get a gift for someone special.
It's a sterling silver polished oval locket from British jeweller, David Deyong. I really, really love it because it's such a perfect, simple, classic design - but you can make your own mark on it by putting a photograph or teeny tiny object inside it to make it extra meaningful.
You all know how much I like timeless jewellery that never goes out of fashion. I've always thought of lockets as being particularly special - they always seem to get handed down the generations within families - but there's always a time and a place for on-trend pieces, and it just so happens that lockets are very in Vogue at the moment, so now really is the perfect time to invest in a piece like this.
This pretty little egg shaped locket will last way beyond Easter Day, unlike the millions of chocolate bunnies that will get devoured before breakfast in my house ;) It costs just £79.99 (although you can opt for a longer chain length at a premium) and it is available online here, or at a number of stockists across the UK (check the store locator here).
David Deyong very kindly gave me this locket as an Easter present. I didn't have to write about it but I chose to because it's one of my favourite pieces of jewellery! As always, all words are my own and are entirely true.
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Last year, my best friend was the catechist for my daughter's 2nd grade religious education class, and I had the chance to see an awesome teacher at work.
This friend of mine doesn't consider herself a great teacher, but I'm here to tell you that I'm on the campaign trail to bring her back into the classroom. One of the things she did so well was tap into real-life experience and share resources with the kids during classes. She made the sacrament preparation a natural extension of family life and a seamless part of the class she taught.
So when I saw the first four books from the new "Sophie Wonders" series from Liguori, she's the first person I thought of. And sure enough, when I showed them to her, her response was, "Man! I wish we had had those books last year!"
- Sophie Wonders about the Eucharist
- Sophie Wonders about Reconciliation
- Sophie Wonders about Anointing
- Sophie Wonders about Holy Orders
When I looked through these books and shared them with my daughters, I was struck by two things.
First, the author, Debby Bradley, is brilliant. When I read that she's a long-time catechist who came up with the idea after noting the lack of such resources, I could only nod.
Yeah, she gets it.
And I suspect Bradley's also a parent. Sophie's questions could have happened in my home (or van, as it were).
The illustrations are beautifully done too, and that's huge. These books are written for the four- to eight-year-old age range, and good illustrations are as important as good writing.
These books are a great introduction to the sacraments. I'm looking forward to seeing the last two books in the series this spring when they're released.
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TITLE: Preparing today's students for tomorrow's choices
Maine Career Development Association is proud to offer our second discussion-based webinar. This will be held at multiple sites across Maine and one location in RI. There will be a site coordinator at each location to lead discussions based upon the presentation.
|Mid Maine Technical Center
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Preparing today's students for tomorrow's choices means that learning in the K-12 classroom should be connected to career and college information. This session includes information to help students understand choices for meaningful post-secondary decisions.
Focus will be on ways that participants can help prepare students for choices:
- Participants will learn about "all aspects of businesses" and how this information helps students understand post-secondary choices and career mobility.
- Does college really mean success and more money? Is there too much promoting "college for all?"
- What are we doing to "prepare" students for college and the choices it represents? Participants will be introduced to common mistakes students make and the vocabulary they need to navigate their choices.
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Her work has included development of career development materials for workforce development, education and business partners. Kristen's projects have included extensive development of career resources and materials for Capital Area Michigan Works!, the Ingham Intermediate School District, Michigan Occupational Information System (MOIS), Michigan Virtual University, and a UAW/General Motors Partnership. Learn more about Kristen by visiting www.CDFtrainer.com