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Lexi is thrilled that EJ, Abe, Chad, and Cameron brought Paris to the square. She feels special and thankful. EJ says, "Well done, Abraham," and Abe says Melanie tutored him in French. He croons, "Je t'aime," and in turn gets a kiss and a dance. Abby's glad EJ and Abe aren't at each other's throats and mentions being close with her own brother. She learns that Cameron knows JJ from St. Albain school. EJ takes off while Melanie and Chad have their caricatures drawn. Gabi shows up and Abby and Cam stare at Abe and Lexi wistfully while Abby notices Gabi's jealous gaze on Mel and Chad. Gabi asks to take Chad aside. Lexi goes to her brother. He tells her Paris becomes her. She thanks him for Paris and for getting along with Abe. She asks if he's alright and he reluctantly confesses he's not. She assumes it's about Nicole. He admits he misses her more than he could have imagined. Nearby, Celeste consults her Tarot cards and Chad tells Abby that Gabi's been getting phone calls from her stalker. Abby wants to see Gabi's phone but Gabi gets uptight and refuses. She deleted the calls, which were blocked, anyway. Elsewhere, Lexi tells her brother that she sees him living a wonderful life. As much as he screws up, she sees good things happening.
Check And Mate.
Stefano falls for Bo, Hope, John and Rafe's deal, EJ makes an admission, and Gabi has more stalker news.
Victor walks in on Maggie's birthday dinner. They kiss and dine. Later, Henderson jokingly asks how many candles he should put on the cake. Victor tells him, "None." He doesn't want to burn down the house.
Sami whines about hearing that Will went to Marlena for advice. Lucas chastises her for talking to EJ about a private family matter and for running out on Will. Sami begs Lucas to help her fix this. She loves Will no matter what. She explains why she ran off. Lucas tells her Will and him are alike. They get really angry with her and then forgive her. They hug and Sami expresses her fear. She goes to find Will and Lucas leaves a message for Will, telling him they love him and Sami's on her way to apologize.
Carrie wakes up, startled from a nightmare and calling out to Rafe. Marlena's in her bed and relieves her concerns about what's going on with the others. Carrie runs off to throw up. Marlena makes her some tea and they discuss Carrie telling Austin the truth and how she feels about Nicole's baby. Carrie respects Rafe for commuting to Nicole and her baby. It makes her love him more. Carrie takes Ibuprofen for a headache, and Marlena asks if she's late. "Do you think I'm pregnant?" Carrie worries.
At Pier 19, Bo, Hope, Rafe, and John discuss what to do when DiMera gets there. Bo mentions how Shane's recording everything in a surveillance van. When Stefano calls, Bo fakes a "Russian" accent and pretends he's Nevsky. He tries getting Stefano to continue negotiations. Stefano agrees to meet. He turns up later and comments on the disguises. "Nevsky" claims he has had security issues and doesn't want to be photographed. Stefano heard he had another buyer and demands he deliver what he paid for or else regret it. He makes a show of telling him he's not intimidated and is unarmed. "Nevsky" says they've a deal. Stefano hands over the money and "Nevsky" says they've everything they need. Everyone pulls off their disguises. "Looks like it's check and mate," John says and Bo arrests Stefano, who smiles.
Lucas shows up and Maggie rushes into his arms. She's glad he's staying in Salem. Victor's surprised Lucas remembered his birthday. They make small talk and Victor pointedly asks what it's like to be working with Sami. Lucas thinks it's good for the kids. He wishes Victor a happy birthday and Maggie sees him out. Victor and Henderson discuss Lucas' visit. Henderson admits Maggie prepared dinner this evening. Victor wants to ensure Maggie stays happy. She can never learn the truth. Maggie walks in and has heard.
Sami interrupts Lexi and EJ's conversation at the square. She loves the Parisian motif. She tells EJ she's off to find Will to make things right. Celeste tells her son about the danger surrounding Abigail. "Your cards say whatever whack thing it is you want them to say." Celeste calls him foolish. Melanie and Abby discuss Gabi's stalker. Melanie lets it slip that she and Chad haven't been getting a lot of alone-time since Gabi moved in. Abe has the accordionist play Lexi's favorite song and they dance.
Sneak peek!
A man in a suit arrives at SPD to demand Stefano's release.
Maggie blows up, Victor thinks she's overreacting and Maggie walks out on him.
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Reading 1: Three Days of Carnage at Gettysburg
(Refer to Map 2 as you read the description of the battle.)
Units of the Union and the Confederate armies met near Gettysburg on June 30, 1863, and each quickly requested reinforcements. The main battle opened on July 1, with early morning attacks by the Confederates on Union troops on McPherson Ridge, west of the town. Though outnumbered, the Union forces held their position. The fighting escalated throughout the day as more soldiers from each army reached the battle area. By 4 p.m., the Union troops were overpowered, and they retreated through the town, where many were quickly captured. The remnants of the Union force fell back to Cemetery Hill and Culp's Hill, south of town. The Southerners failed to pursue their advantage, however, and the Northerners labored long into the night regrouping their men.
Throughout the night, both armies moved their men to Gettysburg and took up positions in preparation for the next day. By the morning of July 2, the main strength of both armies had arrived on the field. Battle lines were drawn up in sweeping arcs similar to a "J," or fishhook shape. The main portions of both armies were nearly a mile apart on parallel ridges: Union forces on Cemetery Ridge, Confederate forces on Seminary Ridge, to the west. General Robert E. Lee, commanding the Confederate troops, ordered attacks against the Union left and right flanks (ends of the lines). Starting in late afternoon, Confederate General James Longstreet's attacks on the Union left made progress, but they were checked by Union reinforcements brought to the fighting from the Culp's Hill area and other uncontested parts of the Union battle line. To the north, at the bend and barb of the fishhook (the other flank), Confederate General Richard Ewell launched his attack in the evening as the fighting at the other end of the fishhook was subsiding. Ewell's men seized part of Culp's Hill, but elsewhere they were repulsed. The day's results were indecisive for both armies.
In the very early morning of July 3, the Union army forced out the Confederates who had successfully taken Culp's Hill the previous evening. Then General Lee, having attacked the ends of the Union line the previous day, decided to assail the Union. The attack was preceded by a two hour artillery bombardment of Cemetery Hill and Ridge. For a time, the massed guns of both armies were engaged in a thunderous duel for supremacy. The Union defensive position held. In a final attempt to gain the initiative and win the battle, Lee sent approximately 12,000 soldiers across the one mile of open fields that separated the two armies near the Union center. General George Meade, commander of the Union forces, anticipated such a move and had readied his army. The Union lines did not break. Only every other Southerner who participated in this action retired to safety. Despite great courage, the attack (sometimes called Pickett's Charge or Longstreet's assault) was repulsed with heavy losses. Crippled by extremely heavy casualties in the three days at Gettysburg, the Confederates could no longer continue the battle, and on July 4 they began to withdraw from Gettysburg.
1. Which army had the advantage after the first day of fighting? What were some reasons for their success? Could they have been even more successful?
2. What was the situation by the evening of July 2?
3. What evidence from the previous day's fighting brought General Lee to decide on the strategy for Pickett's Charge on July 3? What was the result of that assault?
4. Why did General Lee decide to withdraw from Gettysburg?
Reading 1 was adapted from the National Park Service's visitor's guide for Gettysburg National Military Park.


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Before the legal non-tampering tampering period began, Browns receiver Josh Cribbs declared during a radio interview that his agent is "meeting with several different teams" and that "[t]here is a lot of interest" and that "[t]here are already numbers brought to the table" and that "[t]hings are happening" and that "[w]heels are turning behind closed doors."
It should be no surprise, then, that Cribbs is one of the rare players to whom specific teams are being linked, now that the legal non-tampering tampering period has opened.
According to Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, five teams have interest in the receiver/return specialist: the Giants, 49ers, Patriots, Cowboys, and Cardinals.
Typically, a mega-list of interested teams comes from the agent, and not from a poll of the 32 teams. Especially when all 32 teams are running scared under the threat of a tampering investigation if negotiation inadvertently crosses the vague line between talking and agreeing.
After months of leading teams to believe that everything but a signed contract may be procured during the three-day negotiating window, the NFL abruptly warned teams on Friday that, while there can be discussions, there can be no offers and no agreements and no leaks of any agreements.


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So what exactly is a "clinker"?
None of these fine gentlemen, of course.
They're working hard creating the pump pit for our new Hyena Falls.
They're pouring the concrete quite carefully, so that it's even and cures properly.
So who's at the top end of the long chute?
Why, it's Gary! He's in charge of watching for "clinkers."
Basically, a clinker is a chunk of already-cured concrete which has clung to one of the fins inside the cement mixer.
As a totally unenlightened female, what comes to mind is my KitchenAid mixer – and how I have to stop it mid-mix to scrape the brownie batter off the beaters. (Oh, and to have a taste as well.)
A clinker can be far more serious than a simple lump in the brownie pan. So if Gary misses one of the cured clumps, he hollers, "Clinker!" to warn the crew below to fish out the clump and toss it in the reject pile.
Okay, so now that we're talking about brownies, I just have to share my recipe for Voyage Extreme Brownies (they're every bit as extreme as The Voyage!). This recipe will never be called a clinker – promise!


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Story highlights
- Ashton Kutcher is playing Steve Jobs in Joshua Michael Stern's biopic "Jobs"
- Kutcher ended up in the hospital after trying to follow Jobs' all-fruit diet
- All-fruit meals can exclude valuable nutrients from your diet, nutritionist says
After learning that Ashton Kutcher had landed in the hospital trying to follow Steve Jobs' all-fruit diet, CNN reader Sumday had just one question: "All I really wanted to know was why this diet was bad?"
Jobs first fell for extreme diets during his freshman year of college, according to Walter Isaacson's biography "Steve Jobs." Jobs and his college friend Daniel Kottke became vegetarians after reading "Diet for a Small Planet."
Then Jobs read "Mucusless Diet Healing System" by Arnold Ehret; Ehret believed in eating nothing but fruits and starchless vegetables like spinach, carrots and cucumbers. Jobs began with two-day fruit fasts, eventually going for a week or more. "I got into it in my typical nutso way," Jobs told Isaacson.
Ehret's fruitarian diet, also called the Eden Garden Diet or Ehretism, is often used as a type of cleanse, according to LiveStrong.com. Designed to detoxify the system, it can do more long-term harm than good.
When you only eat fruit, you're excluding a lot of valuable nutrients from your diet, says Marisa Moore, registered dietician and spokeswoman for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
"Protein is one of the main ones that comes to mind," she says. "(Without protein) you lose body weight. Protein acts like a building block for your muscles and skin and organs."
The same goes for fats, Moore says. Although they often get demonized, fats play an important role in our hormone levels and brain function.
Kutcher told reporters at the Sundance Film Festival that he ended up in the hospital with pancreas levels that were "completely out of whack."
Fruit contains a lot of natural sugar, which needs to be controlled by insulin in the body, Moore says. It's the pancreas' job to release that insulin; Kutcher's pancreas may have been overworked if his body was receiving an overload of sugar.
Many readers wondered if an all-fruit diet could have led to Jobs' pancreatic cancer, which led to his death in October 2011. Scientists don't know what causes pancreatic cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. Certain inherited DNA mutations might play a role, as well as chemicals in our environment or diet.
Even if you don't overwork your pancreas, you're probably not eating enough calories on an all-fruit diet, Moore says. That puts the body into starvation mode, which can result in serious medical conditions like osteoporosis, severe dehydration and even heart failure, according to the National Eating Disorders Association.
Here's the bottom line: Fruit is natural. It's nutritious. The government recommends eating 1 to 2 cups of it a day. Just don't go all "nutso" on it.


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The Maginot Line and the TCP Sequence Number Inference Attack
In the recently posted research paper "Off-Path TCP Sequence Number Inference Attack: How Firewall Middleboxes Reduce Security", Zhiyun Qian and Z. Morley Mao from the University of Michigan discuss a method to try to infer the sequence numbers in use by a TCP connection – and if successful, how to try to hijack the connection and inject data on it in order to, as an example, steal credentials to web sites (banking, social networking, etc.)
Before talking further about their research, I would like to talk a bit about the Maginot Line. The Maginot Line was a line of fortifications located in France, established after World War I, and roughly following France's borders with Germany and Italy. The idea behind it: in case of another war with Germany, the line would hold the enemy attacks, giving the French Army the chance to regroup and counterattack. The problem: the line only extended so far up North. So during World War II, and instead of attacking the line from the East, the German army completely bypassed it – by attacking Belgium first and then flanking the line.
So a lot of resources were allocated to set-up defenses for a very specific attack scenario – but that scenario never happened, as an easier way was found to bypass the defenses. And the mere fact of allocating so many resources to counter a specific threat significantly reduced the number of resources available to protect against other threats.
The method posited by Qian and Mao on their research paper strongly reminds me of the assumptions made by the French while building the Maginot Line.
As we were saying before, the paper discusses a method to try to infer the TCP sequence numbers for a connection. The process of inferring those sequence numbers is partially based on the behavior of many stateful packet filtering devices – TCP packets for a given session are allowed to traverse the device if their sequence number is within a range of values, while packets with a sequence number outside that range are dropped. They discuss multiple attack scenarios – on top of this behavior on the device, each scenario also has a set of additional prerequisites that have to be true before they can attempt to infer the TCP sequence numbers in use. Some scenarios require the client to have a coarsely predictable TCP initial sequence number. Some require a firewall to be deployed in front of the server that the client is communicating with. Some require the attacker to be "closer" to the host under attack than the legitimate server. Some require multiple firewall devices to be deployed between the TCP connection endpoints.
While the set of prerequisites vary between attack scenarios, one prerequisite remains constant for all the attacks they call "On-site TCP hijacking" – an unprivileged malware application has to be installed on the client under attack. The purpose of this unprivileged malware is to provide the attacker with information required to attempt the TCP sequence number inference process – the first step before attempting to hijack the TCP connection.
And the ability to install unprivileged malware on the target machine brings with it a world of attack possibilities – not the least of which is the ability to infer TCP sequence numbers. But we will talk more about this later.
Since the paper was made public, the Cisco PSIRT has been working with the appropriate product teams analyzing its impact on Cisco's stateful firewall products. Our investigation isn't finished yet, but we have tentatively identified features and behaviors on our products that would make some of those scenarios either unfeasible or very unlikely to be successful. We will be publishing a more detailed technical explanation once we're done with our analysis. But in the meantime, we would like to bring up some points that we think have to be kept in mind when performing the risk assessment for this new research:
- We do not consider this a vulnerability of any Cisco product. We consider this a clever use of a combination of behaviors that are enforced by design, and that are actually desirable and beneficial – as an example, the TCP sequence number checking. The device is performing as expected. It has to be clear that the published research cannot be used to subvert the security of the device itself.
- We do not consider this to be a vulnerability of the TCP protocol itself either
- The requirement to have a "helper" malware application installed on the client under attack should be carefully considered. We completely understand that users may install applications without considering their true origin or ultimate purpose – there is little we can do at the firewall to prevent this behavior.
But if we start from the assumptions that "applications that users install on their device may have hidden malware components" and "users may install applications without considering their security impact" – can we not then come up with a different attack scenario? One with far better chances of being successful?
Let's say an attacker wants to obtain the user credentials to a certain service. The attacker can then either distribute malware that would provide him with the information required to try to perform a TCP sequence number inference attack. Or the attacker can distribute for free an application with hidden malware that while pretending to "keep your passwords safely encrypted in a secure vault, ready for access when you need them" – it is actually sending those credentials to a server under the attacker's control.
By going with the second option, we achieve the desired result of obtaining the credentials, but avoid the convoluted (and far from assured success) process of trying to infer the TCP sequence number of a connection, attempting a TCP session hijack, and then injecting data to steal the credentials.
As I said before: we are still investigating the feasibility of this methodology against our firewall devices. But as in the case of the Maginot Line: let's make sure that we perform the appropriate risk assessment, we understand that those attacks require a significant number of prerequisites, that attack success isn't guaranteed, and that, at the end of the day, there may be "easier" and "faster" ways to achieve similar (or better!) results.
While we certainly love to discuss the intricacies of the TCP state diagram, side channels and blind injection attacks – we think that, all things being equal, an attacker will go with the alternative that is easier, faster, and with higher chance of success than trying to implement a TCP Sequence Inference Attack.
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Here are some unofficial requirements for crafting a summertime pop hit:
1) Give it a four-on-the-floor rhythm bright enough to give you sunburn.
2) Considering the current Top 40 climate, it should probably involve some surging synths.
3) A sense of escapism is key.
Just make it something like Dragonette's new single, "Let it Go," really.
"We don't need a cure for the weight of the world, 'cause it's floating 'round in the universe," coos frontwoman Martina Sorbara on the chorus. "Just swing it like it's tied by a string that you hold, and let it go," she continues over a cresting wave of keys. The tune, released online last week, is the first single off the Toronto/London, UK dance-pop act's third album. (Title and release date info have yet to be announced, though it's expected before the warmer months are through.)
"It just feels summery and carefree," says Sorbara over the phone from Manhattan, explaining why "Let It Go" is the perfect first taste of Dragonette's new album.
There's one more reason, too. "It just kind of sums up a bit of the mind-frame going into the album, and then coming out of it, starting with the writing of this record," she says. "The end of making this album just felt really good, breezy. But something had to change. … I think that song is about making that change, changing your mind."
The "weight of the world," so to speak, was heavy on Sorbara and bandmates Dan Kurtz and Joel Stouffer about two years ago, when the group began writing the follow-up to 2009's Fixin to Thrill. "All of a sudden we were excited to write, and then all of a sudden it just kind of stopped," Sorbara explains.
"We had a good excuse!" she laughs -- that excuse being "Hello," the hit collaboration with French DJ Martin Solveig. Released in the fall of 2010, the band picked up their first Juno this month for the tune, winning Dance Recording of the Year. We bet you a lift ticket and a pitcher of Kokanee Dragonette will play it when they hit Whistler's Telus World Ski and Snowboard Festival for a free outdoor show April 19 -- a date they'll play between the back-to-back weekends of the 2012 Coachella festival.
As "Hello" producer Solveig told Billboard earlier this year, the hit -- which sold 1.1 downloads in the U.S. -- "probably got me to work with Madonna." (He contributed to three tracks to the pop queen's MDNA, including lead single "Give Me All Your Luvin'" -- though Sorbara says Dragonette never received a call from Madge, in turn. "Martin tried to get me in on the first single," Sorbara says, revealing she recorded a demo of the song with her friend, Solveig. "I sang the part that Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. sing before they did," she continues, "but [Madonna] said I sounded too much like a child." Sorbara's OK with it, though. "If I was Madonna, I would've chosen Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. too, probably, because they're really cool," she laughs. "They're more on the level, if you will.")
And when it comes to the perks of being involved in "Hello," Sorbara says, "It's brought our band and our voice all around the world. There has been virtually no downside -- apart from going into the album, and trying to write the record."
About that: "Hello" proved a bigger distraction than your average ear-worm. For one, a surprise hit brings an uptick in demand -- which led to an erratic schedule of short tours and one-off performances for much of the last year. "I think it would have been foolish of us not to go out with some of the opportunities that song created for us," she says, "but it meant not sticking yourself in studio in front of your computer and writing." (She and husband/bandmate Kurtz recorded album no. 3 from home. "No big, fancy studios. That's not how we roll.")
"Hello" also meant good-bye to modest expectations. "Our manager was like 'COME ON,'" Sorbara recalls, laughing, "And the label's like 'So, what's Dragonette up to?'" And then there was the pressure coming from within the band, never mind the demands of Team Dragonette.
"I think after 'Hello' came out and was just kind of like everywhere, it just made us -- maybe it just made us be more conscious of what we were doing, and it just kind of changed the energy and maybe stressed us out a bit more," says Sorbara. "When we started writing our record it was, 'OK! That song was really good so, like, this next stuff better be good!'"
No good came of setting that goal, though. "You have to just turn all that off for a second, and just think about the album that you want to make," says Sorbara. "Or not! Or just think about nothing and just write a f*cking song!" she adds with a giggle.
That moment came -- though not until eight or nine months ago.
Sorbara says she's a long-time Paul Simon fan. "I listened to Graceland obsessively, trying to think, 'What if all these songs were dance songs?' … I just thought of that album, imagined if it was rewritten as a dance album."
Frankly, "Let It Go" isn't exactly an homage to "Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes." ("I don't think I really ever executed it a tiny bit," admits Sorbara -- though there's a melody featured in an online preview of album track, "Giddy Up" that sounds like a straight up Simon-ism -- or at least a little something like the "doo-doo-doos" employed in "You Can Call Me Al" or "Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard.")
What Sorbara hit on was more of a mood -- one that wound up guiding the new record.
"I distinctly remember kind of feeling a little bit bored of the darkness and the dark club-ness of dance music -- in da club, getting' drunk -- just this kind of mentality of dance music being really, not seedy, but all about the nighttime, and the nightlife," she says. "And I just thought, wouldn't it be amazing to write a sunshiny, synth-y, kind of dance record. Like, I don't even think that what we do is really pure dance music, but I just thought, wouldn't it be nice to bring this kind of music out into the fields. Out of the clubs and into a nice, green, meadow," she giggles.
Certainly, the bubble and squeak of "Hello" didn't evoke meat-market sleaze -- or even the prowling, man-eater persona of earlier Dragonette tracks like the spare, nymphomaniacal synth-pop of 2007's "I Get Around" or the brash, electro-pop come-ons of "Fixin to Thrill."
"I think we've pushed it into a little bit of a different direction," she says of the "chipper" pop fans will find on Dragonette's third album. "The mainstream has been tugging towards this, you know, electronic side of pop and now it's even getting really heavy. F*cking Skrillex up for like 25 Grammys? It's amazing! The mainstream pop world is sounding more like the stuff we were doing then," she says. "It's like what I was saying about taking the dance music out of the club because it's kind of boring. I think that's the place it's in now, and I think that's how we've moved on: by bringing it to the flowery meadow."
Dragonette plays the The Telus World Ski and Snowboard Festival April 19. For more festival info, visit www.dose.ca/whistler


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Like everyone else in KDP Select, I've been paying attention to my Kindle Unlimited page reads.
When the new accounting began at the beginning of this month, I had 33,000 daily page reads. I had no idea if this was good, or bad. It was what it was.
But I was intrigued to see my Amazon Author Rank go up. My best rank was #1, but for the past two years I've been hovering around #1000. On June 30 I was #854.
Now I hover around #400. I got to #267 last week, and now I'm at #441.
Since I haven't released any new solo novels in two years (I have three coming out by fall, two Jack Daniels thrillers and a Jack Kilborn horror), the only explanation I have for this jump up was the new KU rules.
By the end of the first week, my daily reads were up to 60,000. By the end of this month, they're at 85,000.
Now, this all could mean absolutely nothing. Maybe my page reads have remained static, and Amazon's new accounting system is simply finding its groove.
Maybe people are finishing my books, and the more they read the more they want to read. Or maybe a lot of people are starting them and not finishing them. The likeliest answer is some readers finish, some don't. Page reads, by themselves, don't give us enough information.
Amazon has the tech to pinpoint how much a reader has read of your work, and where they stopped reading. I've pleaded with Amazon to allow authors access to this information. It would be invaluable. As writers, we've never been privy to how quickly readers read our work, if they finish it, or when they choose to put the book down. I'd love to look at trends. Do I have any books where readers tend to quit before finishing? Where do they quit? I know I could use this information to fix books, make them more reader-friendly, and get a higher page read.
Our books are on the verge of being crowdsourced. To wit:
Crowdsourcing, a modern business term coined in 2005, is defined by Merriam-Webster as the process of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and especially from an online community, rather than from traditional employees or suppliers.
Now, I became a writer via the legacy publishing industry. I collected 500 rejections before I sold a word. For roughly a decade I worked and worked and worked to improve my craft, and when I finally got a pub deal I worked even harder. My publishers gave me feedback. I got better. I attended conferences, and made friends with peers, and we traded WIPs. I got better. By the time this Kindle thing happened, I had a pretty good idea of how to tell an engaging story.
But I never had the opportunity crowdsourcing presents.
While I've worked with professional editors and writers, the only true reader feedback I got was from friends and family, and they're biased. Reviews are feedback after publication, but rarely are they specific enough to help authors (unless the author has really screwed up.)
But if I knew 1000 readers stopped on page 156 of one of my books, and never returned to it, that information would be worth a lot to me.
One of the big advantages to ebooks, which doesn't get mentioned often, is their fluidity. A paper book pubbed by the Big 5 is static. Once it's released, that is pretty much the version that exists forever. But ebooks have the ability to update. Change. Improve. Evolve.
We're on the cusp of an unprecedented level of feedback. These are exciting times. What other medium can tailor its IP to its audience to this degree? Readers don't like it? Fix it!
Since 2009, I've been open about sharing data. I think it's good for the writing community.
Now, I invite you to share your KU data. Post anonymously if you feel uncomfortable going public with your numbers. But I'd like to know what your daily page read count was on July 1, and on July 28, and if you notice any upward/downward movement. Also, share your author ranks from those dates, and mention if you've released anything new this month.
Though its still too soon to know if our books are being read to completion, I think getting an idea of how other writers are doing will be beneficial. At the very least, we won't feel isolated with out own subjective data points.
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It was hard to feel sorry for Jenelle Evans on this season of Teen Mom 2. She spent so much time making trouble for herself that it completely overshadowed the fact that she is just a kid struggling to deal with adult issues. But if you had a hint of sympathy for her as she wandered from couch to couch, essentially homeless and broke, it's time to kick it to the curb.
It turns out Jenelle has a steady income after all -- enough to force a judge to tell the teen mom that she is ineligible for a court-appointed attorney because she makes too much money. In court for the vicious girl fight with a North Carolina teen named Britany Truett that was caught on video last month, the mother of little Jace was forced to reveal her finances. It turns out she makes at least $1,000 a month, ostensibly from her contract with MTV.
Calculating her expenses, Evans said she pays her mom, Barbara, $130 in child support, spends an estimated $50 on food, and has about $230 in installment type payments due monthly. Together that still only takes up half of her "salary," leaving enough money to pay a lawyer in the court's eyes.
Which begs the question: why the heck was she always "homeless" and hitting up food banks for free eats? And why did she have to "borrow" her mom's credit cards this past season? She's not making "big money," but she IS making enough to put away a little bit toward an apartment, especially in a state where the cost of housing is well below the national average.
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This is from Fox News.
I am glad this family finally got this young mans letters.
There was only part of this story that fired me up.
It was were the uncle said it was a war we could not win. BS.
If it was not for the politicians meddling we could have won the war.
Then we had that commie loving bastard Cronkite saying the war was lost.
The North Vietnamese said they were beaten,If we had kept up bombing them.
COLUMBIA, S.C – Four letters from a courageous South Carolina soldier who tried to tell his family about the fearsome battles that raged around him in Vietnam were returned to his family Saturday, some 40 years after he was killed.
Military representatives of the Army's 101st Airborne Division presented the letters from Sgt. Steve Flaherty of Columbia to his uncle Kenneth Cannon and sister-in-law Martha Gibbons during a ceremony at the state's memorial honoring Vietnam veterans.
Flaherty was killed in combat in Vietnam in 1969. Vietnamese soldiers took the letters after Flaherty's death. They were turned over to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta last month when he visited Vietnam.
"It's a miracle these letters have shown up after all this time," Cannon said, taking a peek into the envelope that held the missives. The 80-year-old Navy veteran said the family had decided to study them in private because of the emotion of the moment.
"They are in remarkable condition to be 40-years old," he added. "I know Steve would be glad they are back home."
Gibbons, 73, said the family decided to donate the letters to a South Carolina military museum that is planning an exhibit honoring the nearly 1,000 South Carolinians who died in the conflict.
"This way they can be preserved for anybody to see," said Gibbons, 73, from nearby Irmo. "It means a lot to us."
Lt. Col. Townley Hedrick, deputy commander of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division, shook Cannon's hand and kissed Gibbons on the cheek as he presented an envelope containing the letters.
Gibbons said she was grateful to the Vietnamese officer who retained them for so many years.
"We didn't know they were out there," she said.
Cannon said he'd been able to read some excerpts from the letters that had been released by the Pentagon, in which Flaherty spoke of the carnage his unit experienced and his own fear and determination.
"I felt bullets going past me," Flaherty wrote, according to the excerpts. "I have never been so scared in my life."
The young soldier said his unit "took in lots of casualties and death," adding, "we dragged more bodies of dead and wounded than I can ever want to forget."
Flaherty wrote at one point that a "sweet card" he had gotten "made my miserable day a much better one but I don't think I will ever forget the bloody fight we are having. … RPG rockets and machine guns really tore my rucksack."
By 1969, the war had sharply divided Americans back home, but Flaherty wrote he still believed in the mission.
"This is a dirty and cruel war but I'm sure people will understand the purpose of this war even though many of us might not agree," he wrote.
Cannon said his nephew was "a frightened young man, and who wouldn't be? He knew he was fighting an enemy he couldn't see in a war we could not win."
Cannon and representatives of the Army said Flaherty had been born in Japan and was adopted by his South Carolina family at the age of 9, after living in an orphanage dedicated to help children born to Japanese mothers and U.S. military fathers. The mixed heritage made it difficult to assimilate into Japanese society at that time.
Flaherty grew into a stellar student and athlete, even getting an offer from the Cincinnati Reds to join their major league baseball team, Cannon said.
"It's regrettable he died so young. He's history now, he made history," Cannon said. "He felt it was his duty to fight for the country he loved. We are very glad to have Steve's letters and this part of Steve's life back in South Carolina."


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San Diego, Calif. – UC Santa Barbara's season ended in San Diego as the Aztecs walked away with the convincing 69-46 victory in the first round of the WNIT. Though the game will go down as a loss, Gaucho history was made that night.
In her last game as a Gaucho, Sweets Underwood put together a career performance and etched her name into the UCSB record books by joining the 1,000-point club. She became the 24th player in the program's highly decorated history to do so.
"I know Sweets didn't get to finish off the Cal Poly game she wanted to," head coach Carlene Mitchell said. "So it was great to see her take hold of this opportunity. It will be nice for her one day to look back and understand what a great career she had at UCSB."
Underwood netted a career-high 24 points against the Aztecs and led the Gauchos with nine rebounds.
The senior forward entered the game with 999 career points, and she didn't wait to eclipse the 1,000-point mark as she scored just under three minutes into game action.
With the Gauchos down 9-4, Underwood took the ball in the paint, where she has scored the majority of her points, and buried a short jumper. Even after just making her way into the UCSB record books, she knew there was still plenty of basketball left to play.
On the following Aztec possession, Underwood made her defensive presence known when she denied a Courtney Clements shot and sent it out of bounds for the block. UCSB would eventually take the ball back and have Nicole Nesbit register her first basket of the night to bring the Gauchos within one at the 9-8 score.
That was as close as Santa Barbara would get to the Aztecs.
SDSU was a team that seemed to be on track for the NCAA tournament, as they garnered a 26-6 record, including a program record 17-game win streak. However, their loss to Fresno State in the Mountain West Championship game kept them out of the big dance. The team figured they would at least earn an at-large bid into the tournament, but their name was never drawn. Entering the WNIT, the team wore a chip on their shoulder, feeling like they had something to prove. And they showed it in front of their home crowd with Courtney Clements leading the charge.
Clements led the floor with a 31-point performance, shooting 10-17 from the floor and an impressive 7-10 from downtown.
The transfer from Arizona finished the first half with 21 points, helping the Aztecs pull out to a 20-point halftime lead. That margin proved to be large enough for SDSU to secure the victory and a trip to the second round of the WNIT.
The Gauchos were also aided by Destini Mason, who had 10 points and a pair of steals. Kirsten Tilleman finished second on the team with seven rebounds.
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|Oracle® HTTP Server Administrator's Guide
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Server2's configuration is complementary. If you decide to partition the namespace by content type (HTML on server, JSP on server2), change server configuration and move files around, but do not have to make changes to the application itself. The resulting configuration of server1 might look like the following:
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The small town of San Pedro, Belize is known for their cobblestone roads and tiny streets packed with golf carts. Thats right, the main source of transportation on this tiny little tropical island is the golf cart. So, we rented our own cart & set off with all 4 kids in tow, to discover and explore the island of Ambergris Caye, Belize. What a fabulous day we had! Our little adventure really gave my kids a look at how the locals of Belize live and created some great memories.
We stopped at a small local school that many of the poorest children in San Pedro attend. My kids were fascinated by the differences from their school in the U.S. and are still compelled to do something to help the school children of San Pedro. We even left the school with a basketball from our local University.
We had to stop at my favorite San Pedro restaurant, Waraguma, for some lobster papusas! Yumm!!!
Minor injuries are a must on every adventure with my brood. Yes, I almost fed my 8 year old to a 100 pound Tarpon fish. A little blood with a few tears and he was all recovered.
After leaving the town, we navigated through the north end of the island. We rode through the tiny jungle lined paths and made a quick stop for cereal and pasta at the Mata Grande Market.
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After a long and often contentious campaign, President Barack Obama won re-election in Tuesday's race.
With 270 electoral votes needed to win, Obama had 303 to Republican Gov. Mitt Romney's 206. He won the hotly-contested swing states including Ohio, Virginia and Colorado. As of Wednesday morning, Florida remained still too close to count, although the president was holding on to a 45,000 vote edge.
Obama also won the popular vote, 59,697,251 to Romney's 57,074,675 as of Wednesday morning.
As expected, Obama won his home state of Illinois with more than 57 percent of the vote, with 2,912,872 votes to Romney's 2,087,366.
In Bureau County, Romney edged ahead of the president, earning 8,151 votes to Obama's 8,118. The Libertarian Party candidate, Gary Johnson, received 226 votes, and Green Party candidate Jill Stein received 104 votes.
Romney won in 28 of Bureau County's 50 precincts with Obama winning in 21 of the precincts. The vote was a tie in Westfield 1, with each candidate receiving 80 votes.
Locally, Romney won by slim margins in LaSalle, Lee and Marshall counties. Obama won Putnam County by 58 votes.
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7 'Gotchas' Of Cheap Car Insurance
Some insurers promise [|]cheap car insurance rates[:|] even if you've got a string of speeding tickets or bad credit. How can they do it? The answers are in the fine print of their car insurance policies. Behind a seemingly great bargain could lurk a series of exclusions and limits that reduce the likelihood you can file a claim.
But you can't tell solely by the price they charge. Shopping for affordable insurance isn't like shopping for cheap gas. One insurance company's quote could exclude coverage that another might include at the same price.
"It's OK to compare prices, but once you see the prices, you have to find out what's covered and what's not covered and make sure you're comparing apples to apples," CarInsurance.com consumer analyst Penny Gusner says.
7 Fine-Print Gotchas
Preferred or standard car insurance policies are geared to drivers with clean or moderately clean driving records and decent credit ratings. Nonstandard policies are designed for risky customers who don't qualify for standard or preferred rates. Some are written specifically for specialty cars, like a Ferrari or a restored '57 Chevy.
Smaller companies that specialize in catering to high-risk customers or classic car owners used to dominate the nonstandard market. But today many major insurers, such as Allstate and State Farm, sell both standard and nonstandard policies.
With [|]nonstandard car insurance[:|] accounting for about a fifth of the private passenger auto insurance market, according to industry analyst Conning & Co., it's easy to see why insurers want a piece of the action. But no insurance company is going to take on extra risk without offsetting it, either by charging higher rates, reducing coverage or both.
Here are seven surprises that might be hiding in cheap nonstandard policies:
1. No coverage, or reduced coverage, for some drivers
Generally a standard policy covers you, the listed members of your household, and friends or relatives you let borrow the car occasionally. But if you've got a risky driver living with you -- a teenage boy with a speeding ticket, for instance -- a nonstandard policy might require you to exclude him from coverage.
Some nonstandard policies also exclude coverage for permissive drivers -- people who use your car occasionally with your permission. Or they might exclude coverage for permissive drivers under age 25 or 21. In some states insurers can include step-down provisions in their policies. Under a step-down provision, the liability limits are reduced to state required minimum levels when someone who's not named on the policy drives your car. So even if you pay for higher-than-required liability coverage, you could have less protection when you let a friend borrow your car than when you're driving.
See "What is a permissive user?"
2. More driving record checks
"If you're a preferred driver, an insurance company may check your driving record once a year or maybe once every other year," Gusner says. But if you already have a checkered driving history, then the insurer might check your driving record every six months, before each coverage term begins, so it can adjust the premium accordingly.
See "Your driving record: What you need to know."
3. No special benefits
Don't count on getting some of the extra goodies advertised by major insurers on TV for their best customers. "Usually a nonstandard policy will come without the perks of a standard policy -- no vanishing deductible or accident forgiveness," Gusner says. Even those perks aren't really free -- those customers' premiums are higher -- but they aren't usually an option for the nonstandard customer.
See "What is full coverage?"
4. No coverage for punitive damages
If you cause an accident and are sued, some nonstandard policies exclude coverage for punitive or exemplary damages. That means you'd be on the hook for paying those damages if a court sides with the other guy.
See "The basics of a personal liability umbrella policy."
5. Less coverage for repairs
Under [|]collision or comprehensive coverage[:|], a standard policy generally pays for the full cost of repairs unless the car is declared a total loss. If the car is totaled, the policy pays the depreciated value of the car -- its market value immediately before it was damaged.
But some nonstandard policies take depreciation into account even for repairs. Instead of paying the full amount to repair hail damage on an older car, for instance, the policy would pay only a percentage of the cost, based on the vehicle's depreciation.
See "How does an insurance company decide to total a car?"
6. Lower mileage allowed
Some policies designed for specialty cars have very low mileage caps, such as 2,000 miles a year. Even if you don't use the car for everyday driving, the allotment may not be enough if you travel to car shows. Think about how much you'll drive the car, and make sure the policy includes enough mileage to cover it.
See "Insuring your keepsake car."
7. No coverage for pizza delivery
Some nonstandard policies exclude liability and physical damage coverage when the car is used for any type of business purpose -- including delivering newspapers or pizzas.
See "What is a delivery exclusion?"
The Bottom Line
Ask your current agent, your car insurance company's customer service representative or the agents where you compare insurance quotes online whether you fall into the nonstandard category.
- Explain how you plan to use the vehicle and who will drive the car.
- With the caveats above in mind, read the full policy to learn what's covered and excluded.
- Ask questions to make sure you understand how the rules apply before you need to make a claim.
By Barbara Marquand for CarInsurance.com.
The original article can be found at CarInsurance.com:
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Man Punches Woman Over Flyers-Penguins Hockey Argument
Pennsylvania hockey fans' allegiances are geographically divided. Most fans in the western half of the state root for the Pittsburgh Penguins, while fans in the east cheer for the Philadelphia Flyers. The teams' heated rivalry is one of the best in the NHL, but one fan took the battle too far this weekend in State College, Pa., in the center of the Keystone State.
According to police reports, two men were arguing about the Penguins and Flyers at a bar on Saturday night when a 23-year-old woman offered her opinion on the matter, causing one of the men to punch her in the eye and flee the scene. The woman gave a description of the man to police: he is college age, 5'9" and brown eyes, which makes him one of 3.2 zillion guys fitting that description in State College and nearby Penn State University. Authorities were reviewing surveillance footage to get an image of the man, as well as more evidence as to what happened in the incident.
It's a wonder this sort of thing doesn't happen more often (the fighting-over-sports part, not the guy-hits-a-girl part). While hockey fans in Pennsylvania have a natural rivalry, sports fans everywhere are constantly encouraged to argue with each other by sports talk radio and TV. Trash talk and a good sports argument can be fun, but when it leads to violence, it's probably saying more about national culture than we'd like to admit.


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Esther Louise Woodward 1914 - 2009 Brazoria, Texas
Graveside services for Esther Louise Woodward, 95, Brazoria, Texas, will be at 11 a.m. Monday, Dec. 14, at Hubbel Hill Cemetery, Tonganoxie.
Mrs. Woodward died Monday, Dec. 7, 2009 in Fulshear, Texas.
She was born Jan. 29, 1914, in Bonner Springs, the daughter of Roy A. and Fannie M. Mills Wilber. She was a homemaker and secretary.
Mrs. Woodward was a member of the Glee Club in high school and attended Kansas University and Emporia State Teachers College, where she was a member of Alpha Sigma Tau.
On July 31, 1941, in Oskaloosa, she married George R. Woodward. He died Oct. 12, 2008.
Survivors include two daughters, Georgia Hanson, Fulshear, Texas, and Sharon Knight, Alvin, Texas; six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
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Erik Stolhandske prepped at Robert E. Lee High School in San Antonio, Texas...Played both goalkeeper and forward in high school, but he was an First Team All-State, All-5A Region IV, All-City and All-District...He was also named Robert E. Lee's Male Athlete of the Year and MVP of the Texas High School All-Star Classic...Led his school to the District 5A and Region IV championships...In the Houston City Championships his Robert E. Lee team played a match against Judson High School that went to penalty kicks and Stolhandske stopped all four Judson penalty kicks...Played for Hector Sandoval.
Born August 24, 1982 in San Antonio, Texas...Also played football in high school...Will major in Pre-Biology and hopes to be an orthopedic surgeon...Was deeply involved in campus activities in high school, including Student Council...On the club level he played for the Warriors Soccer Association of Austin...Parents are Victor and Dana Stolhandske.


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New Haven, CT - The Yale women's swimming and diving team celebrated the 2007-08 season with its annual awards banquet Tuesday April 8.
Senior Laura Aronsson, senior Katelyn Kane, and freshman Ileana Lucos all won multiple awards during the banquet.
Lucos won the Heaton High Point Award, given to the swimmer or diver who has scored the highest possible number of points for the team in dual meet competition for the past season.
Seniors Caroline Dowd and Katelyn Kane shared the William Leeming Jelliffe Award. This award is given annually to "that senior who has shown the greatest progress and development in swimming ability and outstanding leadership during her college years." The prize is given in memory of William Leeming Jelliffe by his father, the late Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe.
Kane also won the MacLeish Memorial Swimming Trophy. Established in 1936 by Hassted R. Vanderpoel `35S, in memory of Kenneth MacLeish, 1918 who was killed in World War I, this trophy is awarded to "that member of the Yale Swimming Team, who through his or her efforts and high ideals in sportsmanship and loyalty, best exemplifies the spirit of Kenneth MacLeish."
Aronsson, junior Brenna Davis, and freshman Becca Stern shared the S. Livingston Mather Swimming Award, donated by the late S. Livingston Mather, Class of 1905.
Lucos won the Harry Burke Award. The Harry Burke Award honors Yale's retired former freshman swim coach Harry Burke and is awarded for outstanding contribution to Yale Swimming by an underclassmen.
Sophomore Susan Kim won the M. Davies Award. This prize was donated by the family of Melindi Davies, class of 1998. It is awarded each year for outstanding performance in breaststroke swimming.
Junior Laura Strittmatter won the Eleanor "Bobbie" Dawson Award. This award goes to "that upper-class member on the women's team who has contributed immeasurably to the Yale swimming tradition by her dedication and personal achievements". The award honors the former secretary to Robert Kiphuth and Phil Moriarty, a national official, and supporter of Yale Swimming, Eleanor "Bobbie" Dawson.
Aronsson also won the Tim Jecko Award. This trophy is given annually for outstanding performances in individual medley. Tim Jecko was a member of the 1956 United States Olympic Team. He won many national championships and held many records at Yale in freestyle, butterfly and individual medley. The award was established in 2004 by Tim's classmates of the Yale Class of 1959.
Finally, Kane was presented with the Robert J.H. Kiphuth Award. This award honors the former Yale Varsity Swim Coach and United States Olympic Coach, Robert J.H. Kiphuth. It was established in 2003 by the Yale Swimming Association and is "awarded to that individual who has shown outstanding service, dedication and loyalty to Yale University and the Yale Swimming Program."
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Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis won't be back on the field for Sunday's season finale against the Bengals, but he is back on the active roster.
The Ravens have moved Lewis from short-term injured reserve to the 53-man roster, but they have already announced that he will not play Sunday.
Lewis had to be activated this week if he was going to be able to play in the playoffs, and the Ravens' hope has been that Lewis could get back on the field in the postseason. That still appears possible.
Lewis suffered a triceps tear in Week Six and has been out since then. There has been talk that the injury could have been season-ending, and there has also been talk that Lewis could retire this offseason. But it's looking good for Lewis to get at least one more game, on January 5 or 6 when the Ravens host either the Bengals or Colts in the playoffs.


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Does anyone else feel that Home Performance is becoming commoditized?
The final nail for me is BPI requiring BA candidates to be capble of energy modeling. Why would you want to do that? To my knowledge, limited as it may be, there is no good modeling tool yet.
Furthermore, the algorithms the engineers and mathematicians use to quantify the results of my labor are based on proven facts from field measurements (I hope), not 'educated guesses'.
If that is true, and you are an innovator, to put it politely, you are screwed.
I am encountering this now.
I see a crawl space full of plumbing, ductwork, spiders, and wasted heat. I want to lay EPDM on the ground in that space, spray closed cell foam from the underside of the subfloor down to the EPDM and all across the EPDM. To me that is the best way to handle that situation. My modeling tool doesn't 'get' that approach and does not award me any juice for savings on reduced duct leakage, no frozen pipes, warm floors, no rotted floor joists, no mold farm, etc.
If I see a furnace and AC unit in an attic, i want to either cathederalize the attic or make a conditioned mechanical room in the attic. Again, the modeling tool does not properly award me for that.
I am a novice level professional on HVAC. I am sure there are abundant innovations in that world our amateur software systems cannot accurately describe or award. Rennai space heaters for instance cannot be used in the program in NY because they are not efficient enough, but you can put a 97% furnace on a 10x10 supply plenum with an open cabinet in the basement for return and it will not get questioned unless it gets inspected.
There are still a lot of innovators in this business. There are still a lot of innovations to experience. Modeling will damage the ability of these innovators to compete and prove their innovations are valuable.
This level of intrusion by program into practice is only designed to do one thing, limit competition and award compliance.
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Hi Pat,
A good friend (business owner) once told me to avoid anything hot, as in a really good opportunity. I failed to follow his advice when I decided to retire into the energy performance business and I have learned he was right, but I do enjoy this field. Although I expected things to go crazy I didn't anticipate the government push to enhance their job numbers. Throw in the early decision to leave the software in the hands of free enterprise and we have a real can of worms.
As for "The end of Innovation" I'm of the opinion it hasn't started yet. Between correcting the existing industry and incorporating the tsunami of technology that is just starting, there is more to do today than 10 years ago. Yes, the work will be somewhat different, but more work than the current army of auditors can handle.
Add to this that the majority of all work being done is way short of what will be justified when energy costs double or triple. Remember, all of that gas we have discovered in the US will be sold at world market prices which show little sign of going down. Imagine every home being required to meet some medium level of energy efficiency. Just a medium level, combined with all of the other repairs so many homes need will keep the construction industry and ours, busy for 50 years.
No, I'm very optimistic.
I agree with you Pat, BPI is making some serious errors. My angle is a little different. I see it as "Piling On" or "Scope Creep." I see BA as the 101, and they are turning it into masters level. If anything I think BA should cover LESS, not more.
Piling more on diminishes the importance and complexity of these tasks. Improperly sets expectations that performing good Modeling and Design is monkey work. Something a cave man could do.
We've steered clear (so far) of BPI as we saw it as bureaucratic - we didn't see it as the commodity base that you mention - but we do now! Good points Pat. Modeling has a place in this business but affordability and end results should be the driving forces. The modeling tool doesn't automatically do the things you mention - the person doing the modeling should be able to... some modeling tools won't allow variables and others are very good at it. Sadly the Gov is embracing the simplified versions of modeling which don't allow the innovation you speak of.
BPI provides about half of what they need to provide to be a real value to the consumer or contractor.
They don't track results.
They don't measure quality.
They don't rank contractors.
They don't teach consultative sales.
They don't teach comprehensive design.
They don't show contractors how to evolve from product to consultative selling.
They don't mentor at any level.
They leave it up to the contractor to take it from theory to practice. They basically take the baby and toss him the pool. Some survive, some don't, none swim well. "Here's an airplane. These things fly in the air. Good luck!"
If they don't start offering value to consumer and contractor, they will forever be dependent upon suckling from government programs.
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Have you been dreaming of traveling to a far-flung destination? Or perhaps you're tinkering with taking the kids on a local weekend away? Whether you're in the market for a vacation or a staycation, head for the LA Times Travel Show (www.LATimes.com/travelshow), which takes place today and tomorrow at the Los Angeles Convention Center (www.lacclink.com) With over one hundred California vacation vendors represented (www.visitcalifornia.com) and nearly one thousand international destinations, the LA Times Travel Show can't be beat for researching and deciding on your next travel destination.
The travel show features a vast array of cultural and travel-based programs, including speakers ranging like travel gurus Arthur Frommer and Rick Steves, and style aficionados Amanda Jones and Booth Moore. Whet your appetite at the Culinary Stage, featuring chefs creating international taste treats before your eyes, or the LA Times Tavel Show Cultural Stage, on which entertainers from around the world will perform (www.LATimes.com/travelshow/schedule). Children can frolic through the LA Times Travel Show Kids World, which includes a or roll across an indoor pond in a human hamster ball (www.thebubblerollers.com).
Splash recommends the following destination booths, which are sure to be hot vacation spots for the next several years.
Ecuador (www.ecuador.travel, booth 921)
While only the size of Nevada, Ecuador is considered one of the seventeen most ecologically diverse planets on earth, Ecuador recently won a top award from National Geographic Traveler Magazine for its efforts to increase sustainable ecotourism. The sheer scale of offerings from this small country boggles the mind: vast sun-swept Pacific beaches, the towering, snow-capped peaks of the Andes Mountains, the mystique of the Amazonian Rainforest and the wonder of the Galapagos Islands, where centuries ago a British naturalist named Charles Darwin devised a theory of evolution which remains controversial to this day. The idea of a combined trip to the Andes Mountains and the Galapagos Islands has my travel taste buds salivating.
Mexico (www.visitmexico.com, booth 1133)
Mexico's tourism industry recently triumphed over a year of bad press relating to the country's drug cartel violence, and emerged a strong favorite among American travelers. This writer was surprised that, in speaking with nearly a dozen American travel agents who regularly send clients to Mexico, none of them reported a single incident involving an American tourist. Mexico boasts thirty-seven UNESCO World Heritage sites, more than any country in the world. The Mexico Tourism Board (www.visitmexico.com) has mapped out several thematic tours on its website, including the culinary Mole Route and the spirited Wine Route and Tequlia Route.
Travelers to Mexico in 2012 can choose from an array of inventive and timely special tours, including Mundo Maya, a series of cultural, astronomical and archaeological events based on the famous Mayan calendar, and a peninsular swing through to the states of Campeche, Quintana Roo and Yucatan focused on UNESCO sites and ecological preserves.
Africa Safaris and Luxury Tours
The destination that most captured my attention, however, is one many Americans describe as a top dream trip: An African wildlife safari. I could barely tear myself away from the wildlife videos at Rhino Africa Safaris (www.rhinoafrica.com, booth 1635), Steady Safaris LTD (www.steadysafaris.com, booth 1633) and Serengeti Pride Safaris (www.serengetipridesafaris.com, booth 1641). I spoke at length with Africa expert Dave Herbert, founder of South Africa-based Great Safaris (www.greatsafaris.com), who told me excitedly about how train travel on the continent has grabbed steadily more attention among tourists in recent years. The legendary Blue Train between Cape Town and Johannesburg is billed as "the world's most luxurious train" because of the gold dust smelted into the window glass to reflect the sunlight. Another luxury train runs from Cape Town, South Africa to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in four round-trips weekly, currently running at one hundred percent capacity. And I was surprised to learn that a number of other countries, including Tanzania, Botswana, Kenya and even Uganda have made major infrastructure improvements and are seeing annual double-digit increases in Western tourists that are giving continental mainstay South Africa (www.southafrica.net, booth 1117) a run for its money.
If the above don't pique you're interest, this traveler can attest that any visit to India (www.incredibleindia.com, booth 1325), Thailand (www.tourismthailand.org, booth 1225), Israel (www.goisrael.com, booth 1506) and Jordan (www.visitjordan.com, booth 1619). Keep an eye out here for future in-depth articles about my experiences as an American who lived in these countries, as well as my trips through VietNam, Cambodia, Singapore, Indonesia, Laos, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland and Spain.


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Watch The Atlantic City Air Show [LIVE VIDEO]
The Atlantic City Air Show is underway on a perfect summer day!
Watch a live video stream of the Air Show and follow along with the official Air Show Twitter feed, #ACAirShow.
"Thunder Over The Boardwalk" is the centerpiece of a week-long series of events honoring our women and men in uniform and illustrating that the Jersey Shore excitement isn't confined to weekends, in the view of Greater Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce President Joe Kelly.
High-flying thrill seekers will find overhead:
- Blimp, Helicoper and Tow-Banner Aircraft Flybys
- World Unlimited Aerobatic Champion Rob Holland
- The 4CE Three-Craft Aerobatic Team
- Raiders Three-Craft Demo Team
- Firebirds X-Treme Aerobatic Team
- Matt Chapman CAP 580 Aerobatics
- Jim Beasley Jr.'s Spitfire and P-51D Mustang Demonstrations
- L-39 and YAK-9 Solo Flights and Formation Flights by Warrior Aviation
- Dan McClung's Eagle Talon and Andrew McKenna's AT-6 Demos
- Air Force Heritage P-51s
- Harrier Demonstration
- Geico Skytypers
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Hopefully rain will pass , looks like it on radar. If you played with yourself the first time Kelly you wouldn't be in the situation you are now.
My partner Anthony with the shot of the night!! 100+ foot deuce on hole 15!!
That was a fun league tonight. Worth the price of admission to watch CD, Jake, Jordan, and Tank shred the course.