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CONCORD, N.C. -- Roush Fenway Racing announced today its driver line up for the No. 09 Zaxby's Ford F-150 for the remainder of the 2008 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season. Travis Kvapil will pilot the truck for 10 more races, including this weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Bobby East will drive in seven races, his first coming at Kansas Speedway on April 26, and John Wes Townley will compete in six races. His truck series debut will be at Mansfield Motorsports Park on May 24.
"I am pleased with the group of drivers we have scheduled to compete in the Zaxby's Ford F-150," said Jack Roush. "Travis has had so much success in the truck series over the years, and he will be a great asset in helping our two younger drivers learn the program. Bobby and John Wes both have a tremendous amount of potential and I look for them to run well in their respective events."
Kvapil finished seventh in his first race in the Zaxby's Ford F-150 at Auto Club Speedway two weeks ago. In 122 starts, he has accumulated nine wins, 48 top-five and 77 top-10 finishes. He won the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series championship in 2003. His 11-race truck schedule is in addition to his full-time Sprint Cup schedule with Yates Racing.
East has made 24 starts in the Craftsman Truck Series, and 11 starts in the Nationwide Series over the past three years. His best finish to date in the truck series is an 11th-place at ORP in 2006. His best Nationwide finish came at Homestead last year where he placed 12th.
In addition to his six truck races this season, 18-year-old Townley, will run the full schedule in the ARCA RE/MAX Series for RAB Racing in 2008 with hopes of capturing the Rookie of the Year title. He finished 11th in the season opener at Daytona.
Townley began his racing career in go-karts at the age of nine. From there he has successfully competed in the INEX Bandolero Division, NASCAR Camping World Series, USAR Pro Cup Series, and in the ASA Late Model ranks, where he took home a victory at New Senoia (GA) Raceway on September 15, 2007.
About Roush Fenway Racing
Roush Fenway Racing operates 13 full-time motorsports teams, five in NASCAR Sprint Cup with drivers Matt Kenseth, Jamie McMurray, Greg Biffle, Carl Edwards and David Ragan; four in the Nationwide Series with Kenseth, Biffle, Edwards, McMurray, Ragan, Erik Darnell and Colin Braun; three in the Craftsman Truck Series with Darnell, Braun, Kvapil, Bobby East and John Wes Townley; and one in the ARCA RE/MAX Series with Ricky Stenhouse, Jr.


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Nelson DeMille
Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:38
Nelson DeMille is the author of: By the Rivers of Babylon, Cathedral, The Talbot Odyssey, Word of Honor, The Charm School, The Gold Coast, The General's Daughter, Spencerville, Plum Island, The Lion's Game, Up Country and Night Fall. He also co-authored Mayday with Thomas Block and has contributed short stories, book reviews, and articles to magazines and newspapers.
Mark Thwaite: What gave you the idea for Wild Fire?
Nelson DeMille: Wild Fire is a work of fiction based on a rumour, repeated on the internet, about a government plan very much like the one I call Wild Fire. The Anti-Terrorist Task Force is based primarily on the actual Joint Terrorist Task Force (with some literary license). Various acronyms in the book such as ELF, NEST and Kneecap are factual, and accurate to the best of my knowledge. Hopefully, the story I tell will play out only in the pages of the book...
MT: How long did it take you to write it? Is that typical for you Nelson?
ND: From concept, to outline, to finished product, it took about 18-24 months. This includes the research I did, and two to four drafts, plus final editing and proofreading of the galley (proof copy). This is typical for my books as I work to that time frame for all of them.
MT: How do you write? Longhand or directly onto a computer, straight off or with lots and lots of editing?
ND: I do a lot of research for all of my books. There are three ways to do research: reading; interviewing people; going on location. Usually, I begin by reading about a subject until I have enough knowledge to interview people who are in that profession or occupation that I'm writing about - policemen, FBI agents, scientists, forensic people, and so on. Then I go to the locations where my novels are set, such as Moscow (The Charm School), St. Patrick's Cathedral (Cathedral), Ohio (Spencerville), and so forth. I think you feel much better as a writer to say, 'I stood in the middle of Red Square' when you've written about it. Some day, I'd like to set a novel in Tahiti!
To research Wild Fire I visited the Adirondacks and stayed at The Point, a pricey resort on Saranac Lake where John Corey stays in the book. I had already been in the area many times as a kid, on vacations. This time around we looked for bears. I wanted to encounter one. They're all over the place, but you never run into one when you want to. Corey makes much of looking for bears in Wild Fire.
MT: Wild Fire is your twelth book -- does it get easier or harder to keep them coming?
ND: Each of my books is quite different. They are not interchangeable. That's why I end up doing a lot of research for each one. I enjoy every one of the books I write so I wouldn't say they get easier or harder.
MT: How do you write? Longhand or directly onto a computer, straight off or with lots and lots of editing?
ND: First I write longhand on legal pads, using #1 (very soft tip) pencils. Then I type up the chapter onto the computer, and print it out for reading and editing. Once I've decided on the edits I alter the text on the computer and the process continues for each chapter, over and over as needed, until the novel is finished.
MT: What do you do when you are not writing?
ND: I have a young child so I'm enjoying fatherhood for the third time in the new home we built for ourselves. I separate my three worlds, the world of the house, the writing studio and the business office.
MT: Do you have an idea in your mind of your "ideal" reader? Did you write specifically for them?
ND: No I have a wide variety of readers. I often get feedback from readers through my website nelsondemille.net so I get to hear from the people who enjoy my books. My books are for everyone who like dramatic thrillers.
MT: What are you working on now?
ND: I'm currently working on my next novel, which is a sequel to The Gold Coast and is keeping me busy for now. I've also been working with producers and screenwriters on a television series featuring the returning protagonist Paul Brenner, who first appeared in The General's Daughter and returned in Up Country.
MT: Who is your favourite writer? What is/are your favourite book(s)?
ND: I tend to read dead authors, so if I like their books, I don't feel tempted or obligated to write to them. Which dead authors? Okay, mostly dead British authors - Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, Arthur Conan Doyle, Aldous Huxley, Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Eric Ambler, George Orwell, and others too numerous to mention. For dead Americans, I like Hemingway, Steinbeck, and Cheever. I also like Updike and Tom Wolfe, but they're not dead, as of this writing. I wrote to Tom Wolfe once, after he published The Bonfire of the Vanities, and he never wrote back. I wouldn't expect Hemingway or Steinbeck to write back - they're dead. But Tom Wolfe owes me a letter.
MT: Do you have any tips for the aspiring writer?
ND: Pick the subject which fascinates you most, do as much research as you can into that area - the history, people, location. Be prepared to spent a lot of time writing and rewriting.
MT: Anything else you would like to say?
ND: If you enjoy reading Wild Fire, John Corey also appears in Plum Island, The Lion's Game and Night Fall. My best wishes for a happy, healthy, and peaceful New Year.
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Michael Blastland
Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:38
Michael Blastland was born in Glasgow. A journalist, he started on weekly newspapers before moving to the BBC where he makes current affairs programmes for Radio 4. He lives in Hertfordshire, often with his daughter Cait, less often and less quietly with his son Joe. His book, Joe, is a touching memoir about life with his mentally disabled son.
Mark Thwaite: What gave you the idea to write a book about your experiences with your son Joe?
Michael Blastland: A whole bunch of motives: the most proximate to starting to write was when Joe escaped in a DIY store and was found cheerfully sitting on a display toilet with his trousers around his ankles, Saturday shoppers ambling around, not a care in the world or a jot of self-consciousness. "Interesting" I thought, among other less printable things. But it fed the resolution to find out as much as I could about the theoretical understanding of how children like Joe see the social world. I'd also wanted, for some time, to ground that thinking in a real life, namely Joe's, to try to bring it to life. And I hoped it might be some use to people who had stared for as long as I had at a child who seemed such an enigma. It had also struck me that other personal books about autism, good as they are (and some are superb), invited questions they didn't pursue about what it told the rest of us, which I thought might be a way of gaining wider attention for autism.
MT: Was it a difficult process writing about such a personal matter so candidly?
MB: It was hard to write, but not because it was personal. The fascination of Joe has been one of the greatest consolations of life. And once in that state of mind, there seemed little point except in telling it how it was. Frankness has a funny way of becoming a writing habit.
MT: How long did it take you to write it?
MB: About six months to write and about eight years to think about.
MT: Do you think those who aren't mentally unwell will be able to understand something called normality better if we can understand the mentally ill?
MB: I think I do. I'm not sure that we properly understand ourselves without others who are different, and with whom we can compare. For example, I don't think we can properly appreciate the sophistication of our social understanding, or perceptions of others, until we see what goes wrong in those who are not so instinctively socially astute. Then we begin, as researchers into autism have begun, to see our capacity for decoding other people's consciousness for the breathtaking skill that it is. It is analogous, I think, to discovering one day that there were such things as mirrors. Imagine the shock of recognition and I think we get close to the scope of the realisation possible from greater self awareness of our social and perceptual faculties, all brought about by thinking of what autism can or can't usually do. What we can also understand better is which are the differences that truly matter. One or two people thought that by raising questions about Joe's nature I was doubting his humanity. I hope I was affirming it, and doing so by placing him squarely amongst the rest of us.
MT: How do you write? Longhand or directly onto a computer, straight off or with lots and lots of editing?
MB: Straight into a computer, with appalling posture in an old chair at an old desk, and then lots of revision until the restlesness fades or exhaustion wins.
MT: What do you do when you are not writing?
MB: I lke pointless kinds of exercise: running nowhere in particular, skating around in circles. Also time with friends and children, especially wandering around the local countryside or staring at the sea. And I like weather. Hard to explain, that one. I just like weather, every sort, and being in it. There's a gale at the moment, thrashing through the trees, rattling the windows, there's Monteverdi playing too loud, and it's thrilling.
MT: Did you have an idea in your mind of your "ideal" reader? Did you write specifically for them?
MB: I'm not sure. It was always an ambition to try to reach a wider audience than those with a personal interest alone, using the idea that we can all understand ourselves better through someone like Joe; but I also had in mind the reader who came to the book after a recent diagnosis for their child or a long period of increasing desperation. Most of all, though, I think I had Joe himself in mind, wondering what he would say about the book, were he able.
MT: What are you working on now?
MB: A book about the hailstrom of numbers that assail us, in the news, in politics, in life, and how to see through them, not with the need of any sophisticated maths, statistics or economics, but with images, ideas, and tricks from everyday experience. I hope it will be called something ike The White Rainbow, one of the chapter headings, which might convey the idea that it's not numbers as we usually approach them. It's co-written with Andrew Dilnot and linked to the Radio 4 series we make together called More or Less. It'll be out from Profile in August 2007.
MT: Who is your favourite writer? What is/are your favourite book(s)?
MB: That's hard. One favourite? Thats too hard. An eccentric selection, fiction and non-fiction would have to include Henry James, Swift, Johnson, the Gawain poet, William Empson, John Maynard Keynes, Primo Levi, and I still find myself opening a huge edition of Shakespeare I remember blowing what seemed like half a student grant on; more recent, Ian McEwan, Jenni Diski, Mary Midgley, Thomas Nagel, Saul Bellow. I think there's an intermittent touch of genius in Zadie Smith, and I've just been introduced by a wonderful translation of Stephen Mitchell's to Gilgamesh.
MT: Do you have any tips for the aspiring writer!?
MB: Am I not aspiring any more, then? I'll take any tips you've got. So maybe that's the adivce: keep looking and listening. And get a good chair.
MT: Anything else you would like to say?
MB: Thanks for asking.
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Ryan Knighton
Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:38
Ryan Knighton is the author of Cockeyed: A memoir. His comic essays and journalism have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Salon.com, The Globe and Mail, The Daily Telegraph Magazine and many others. Ryan is also the subject of the documentary film As Slow As Possible, to be released in 2007. He lives in Vancouver, Canada.
Mark Thwaite: What made you want to write a memoir about your blindness?
Ryan Knighton: Well, it was sort of by accident, really. Originally I wanted to write a book of personal essays about anything and everything that blindness has shown me. Not a book about, you know, how awful the blinkered life is, or how well I can weep lyrically into my sleeve about my circumstances (I'll save those dippy books for other people to write), but I wanted a book that would use blindness as a perspective for talking about other, more interesting things, such as how language changes, and family, and masculinity. Any number of things really. Then, when I strung a few of these personal essays together, I realized I suddenly had recurring characters in my stories, people I've known, and a series of situations I went through, and that they needed connective tissue. That's how the memoir crept to the foreground, colonized my imagination, and became more interesting to write about than just the ideas. You can still spy a few vestigial tails from the original essays - little oases here and there of oddball musings, nothing more than armchair philosophy in my estimation -- but I still like those moments. They add another texture to the book, some other element of reprieve from all the comedy and tragedy, not that those are so easily distinguished from one another, I think.
MT: Was it painful to relive the memories of your loss of sight?
RK: No. writing this book a few years ago would have hurt, perhaps, because I was still busy trying to outrun my blindness and act like a sighted person, and all that stupidity. But, in fact, I had a helluva good time writing the book. I laughed a lot and writing, even the tragic kind, is always an easier gig than digging ditches or pumping petrol. Think about it this way, maybe: to my mind, comedy and tragedy are often born in the same place, at the same time. Slapstick is painful and funny all at once, and always has been. Couldn't have felt good to be Curly when Larry or Moe poked him in the eye. In the case of my story, whatever stung at first, and hurt for a long time and caused me so much discomfort and embarrassment, well, all that feeling was part of the immediacy of what was going on. In looking back, however, tragedy and pain diminish, and the absurdity emerges from a distance. The dark gives away to the light, the sting morphs into a tickle. What's more, you need both darkness and light when composing any picture. So, no, writing about what happened to me didn't hurt at all. Living it did, indeed, but not reliving it.
MT: How long did it take you to write Cockeyed?
RK: The first draft took eight months and was ridiculously long. I wrote every morning for maybe four or five hours, and always at the same spot at the kitchen table. I even developed a superstition. Because the book was coming so easily at first, I was skittish that if I moved spots, then the book wouldn't know where to find me anymore. The inertia was strong, too. I'd write every day, maybe a thousand loose words, and I always knew what I was going to write tomorrow. Never had a better job. And I have to confess, I loved being edited. Everybody should be lucky enough to have an editor that they trust. The best analogy I can give is a good editing feels like you've been readying yourself to show the world your school photo from 1984 - Flock of Seagulls hair and all -- only to have an editor come along and offer to doctor the photo, all of it. For the better, of course. An editor is always right, and makes a writer look the way we intended but hadn't the style to pull off.
MT: Are you angry/bitter about your blindness?
RK: Hoo boy. Haven't got time. Bitterness and embarrassment are the most common side-effects of blindness, and they're far more crippling. Sure, I felt both at some points - hell, I'm not superhuman, nor a saint - but it's so bloody boring, too, feeling all balled up inside and white-knuckling against the fates every waking moment. Rather, today, I consider myself a fortunate alien. That is, as a writer I've got an embarrassment of riches for material, and not just about blindness. Simply put, I am the naive observer, the newborn, always puzzled by the fuss about whatever is going on in this very, very visual culture. It's a natural perspective for satire. And to be a provocateur. I mean, let's be honest: I walk around with a white stick. I like to poke people with it and see what they do. Writing is no different, if I'm doing my job.
MT: How do you write? With a brail machine of some kind or directly onto a computer? Straight off or with lots and lots of editing?
RK: I use a voice synthesizer in my computer and touch-type. As I type it says nothing, but when I move the cursor back to any line, the machine reads me that line. So, I type a lot, then go back and listen, and fix accordingly. I can hear typos and whatnot, as well. The more interesting thing about the machine, though, is how much it has shaped my prose style. That is, you can imagine what it's like suffering a bland computer voice in your ear all day. Like having an ice pick slowly press into your skull. Yeesh. To fight it, then, I write in a very casual voice, and use as much slang and colourful language that a good sentence will allow me to comfortably shove down its throat. What I'm doing when I'm writing is not only spinning a yarn, but trying to make my computer sound like a human being, or at least an approximation of one who's company I don't mind sharing. A lot of readers have emailed me and said how much they liked the book just for the sentence style. That's been a really swell thing to hear. I owe it to a poorly intoned machine.
MT: What do you do when you are not writing?
RK: Mostly I loaf on my couch and play my guitar badly. I'm a big rockabilly nut -- all that sort of roots country and blues stuff -- which I listen to while I'm writing or noodling on email. I also hang around my gym and push heavy objects around most afternoons. Good anger management if I've bumped into a few too many poles recently. Otherwise, well, I like to cook and I like making dinner for my gal since she's a busy corporate exec and needs to keep her strength up.
MT: Did you have an idea in your mind of your "ideal" reader? Did you write specifically for them?
RK: It might sound selfish or silly, but I imagined myself as the reader. I figure I can't be so different from everybody else, so if I'm engaged in the story I'm telling, or prompted to laugh aloud or blush at certain moments in the writing, well, I figure I can't be the only one in the world who will, and what other measure do I have for how well a chapter is going? So I think of my body and its gut reaction as my first reader.
MT: What are you working on now?
RK: I'm just starting to chip at a book about becoming a new father. This answer is shortish because I don't like to write about what I'm writing about. One will poach the pleasure from the other. Suffice to say I've got an arsenal of oddball stories and editorial takes on the wiggy modern world of parenting, and the private world of not being able to see my daughter, or what I'm doing. Or what we're all doing.
MT: Who is your favourite writer?
RK: Changes all the time. Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London was a very important book for me. I mean, here's a guy who wrote forty pages about being a dishwasher and showed us all how shapely writing can make anything a compelling read. Even the kitchen sink has a good story in it. The list grows from there: the American blind punk satirist Jim Knipfel is a good chum and one of my favourite prose workers. Will Self comes to mind, too. I adore the 1950's Canadian novelist Ethel Wilson, but I have to say I don't read much fiction these days, mostly memoir and other non-fiction. Dunno why. My teeth just sink into those genres better, I guess.
RK: What is/are your favourite book(s)? How accessible are (especially your favourite) Braille books? How do you find audio books?
MT: I don't read Braille. Never will, I suspect. The computer technology and MP3 files of books on the web are just so easily accessed and used that Braille's essential role as a blind technology has changed. I like audiobooks fine, but somebody has to stop the actors from performing the damned things as one man or one woman shows. They steal the pleasure of making up voices in our own heads for characters and, let's be honest, a novel is not a dramatic monologue and simply doesn't work that way, nor was it intended to work that way. As well, while I'm grousing, would somebody please smack the person who decided books are too long, the same person who seems to be of the opinion that audiobook readers share the attention span of goldfish? Abridged books are a venial sin, if you're into that sort of judgment. I tell you, when I'm Emperor, somebody is going to have something to answer for.
MT: Do you have any tips for the aspiring writer!?
RK: Writing is a verb first, a noun second. If you're interested in being a writer, don't' bother. Keep posing at bohemian bars in black and having long discussions with your chums about the virtues of deconstruction. Most of that will chew up the time needed to actually write a book. In my experience, writing is something you do, and that's the whole story. No mystery. A writer is somebody who writes. A lot. That last phrase is the difference. But if a young writer is interested in "being a writer" more than writing itself, well, that's a bad case of bassakwardness.
MT: Anything else you would like to say?
RK: Who is Richard and Judy!?
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Tom Harper
Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:38
Tom Harper (real name Edwin Thomas) won the CWA debut award in 2001 for The Blighted Cliffs. He also wrote The Mosaic of Shadows and Knights of the Cross, published by Random House. He lives in York.
Mark Thwaite: What gave you the idea for The Siege of Heaven?
Tom Harper: The events of Siege of Heaven are what I was heading for all along, and they actually drove the whole series. The capture of Jerusalem by the First Crusade is the climax of one of the most extraordinary campaigns in history, a true triumph against the odds. But it's also a bloody cataclysm, as the crusaders massacre every man, woman and child in the city – leaving a legacy of hatred that persists to this day. The combination of such dramatic material and so much modern relevance gave me plenty to work with.
MT: How long did it take you to write it?
TH: It took about 18 months, which is twice as long as it usually takes me to do a book. Part of the reason for that was simply length – the first draft was literally twice as long as the other novels, though it's been pared back a bit in the final edit. But a big part of the delay was that it's a very confused piece of history to make sense of and incorporate into a well-paced story. After the siege of Antioch (the end of Knights of the Cross), the crusaders had routed their enemies and were only a couple of weeks away from Jerusalem. They could have wrapped up the whole business in a month or two. Instead, they sat around bickering, going nowhere, for the best part of a year. Finding a way to understand why they did that, and then tell that story in a way that's clear and dramatically satisfying, was the major challenge for this book.
MT: How much research do you do for Siege?
TH: Several months' worth – on top of all the research I'd already done for the previous two books. I had this fond idea that each successive novel would involve less research than its predecessor, but in fact the opposite's true. It's definitely a case of the more you know, the more you know you don't know. Then there's the scale of the novel: whereas Mosaic of Shadows all took place in Constantinople, and Knights of the Cross entirely at Antioch, Siege goes from Turkey to Egypt, then back via modern Syria, Lebanon and Israel. Walking the ground is very important to me, so a big part of the research for this book was visiting Jerusalem and travelling through Israel.
MT: Was writing Siege of Heaven a very different experience to writing your naval fiction?
TH: It's very different in a number of ways. The early nineteenth century that I write about is a period of history that's very close to us: there are buildings and furniture from that period that are still in use, and there's an almost infinite supply of written and physical records of that society. In comparison, the 11th century seems an awfully long way away. Europe was just emerging from the dark ages, so the surviving material is very thin on the ground. To give one example: if you want to see a sword used in the later middle ages, you can find any number of them in castles and museums, as shiny and sharp as the day they left the forge. If you want to see a sword from the era of the crusades, you have to travel a long way to see a fragile piece of rusted iron that's been dragged out of a river. It requires you to use much more historical imagination to fill in the pieces – which often means looking beyond the obvious.
MT: How do you write? Longhand or directly onto a computer, straight off or with lots and lots of editing?
TH: Most of the time I write straight onto a computer, though sometimes if I'm stuck I find it helpful to go out to a local café with pen and paper and do it the old-fashioned way. Getting the words out is hard enough that I hate having to throw them away, so I plan the novel as completely as possible before I start writing, so as to minimise the rewriting afterwards. That said, a novel's too huge to keep the whole thing in your brain (at least my brain), so there's inevitably a good bit of editing to be done afterwards. I'm very lucky with Siege to have a terrific editor who can really cut through what I've written to see where things need to be clarified or tightened.
MT: What do you do when you are not writing?
TH: Week to week, I try and balance the long days in the house on my own by spending as many evenings as possible out of the house with friends. Being based in York is great for getting out on weekends to do some walking in the dales or on the moors, and I'm lucky to have the flexibility to travel further afield too.
MT: Did you have an idea in your mind of your "ideal" reader? Did you write specifically for them?
TH: Like most writers, I set out to write the sort of thing that I would want to read, so I guess my ideal reader is actually me. I write what I like, and hope that it'll appeal to other people as well. Obviously there's a danger of self-indulgence there: I think the key is to focus on what you would want to read, not just what you want to write. The only other imaginary reader I worry about is an hypothetical historian who's the world's biggest expert on the subject and a pedant to boot, who's always peering over my shoulder pulling me up on any factual mistakes.
MT: What are you working on now?
TH: I'm taking a short break from the middle ages to leap forward to the 20th century, with an Indiana Jones-esque archaeological adventure. It's set in the post-war Mediterranean, and involves an assortment of spies, adventurers, archaeologists and ex-Nazis chasing around after lost treasures of antiquity. After all the effort of the last book, I wanted to do something different that would be pure fun; hopefully this'll fit the bill.
MT: Who is your favourite writer? What is/are your favourite book(s)?
TH: I'm in awe of Neal Stephenson. To have written a novel that became a self-fulfilling prophecy of the internet (Snow Crash) would be enough of an achievement for most writers; to then jump into historical fiction and write such complex, intelligent, dazzlingly vast novels (e.g. Cryptonomicon) is nothing short of extraordinary. He's totally irreverent to history, and yet ends up with something that feels more authentic than any number of self-consciously 'historically accurate' novels. I love John Le Carre and Donna Tartt, while historically I've been heavily influenced by George MacDonald Fraser and Bernard Cornwell.
MT: Do you have any tips for the aspiring writer!?
TH: Always remember the reader. This doesn't mean cynically chasing audiences – you've got to tell the story you want to tell – but you should always focus on telling it in a way that grips the reader. Novels require more engagement from the audience than just about any other form of art or entertainment; if you don't give your readers a good reason to keep going, they'll stop.
Aspiring writers with a criminal bent (in their fiction rather than their personal habits) should check out the CWA's Debut Dagger competition, which I've organised for the last two years. It asks unpublished writers to send in the first chapter and synopsis of a potential crime novel, and it's launched the careers of over a dozen authors, including me (before I organised it).
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David Edgerton
Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:38
Born in Montevideo in 1959, David Edgerton is one of Britain's leading historians, and has challenged conventional analyses of technology for 20 years. Currently the Hans Rausing Professor at Imperial College London, he writes for the broadsheet press and is a regular on television and radio. He lives in London. David's most recent book is Shock of the Old.
Mark Thwaite: What gave you the idea for Shock of the Old?
DE: For years I felt that lots of assumptions underlying our thinking about technology and history weren't quite right. These thoughts developed over the years, mostly in lectures, but I got a chance to write them up for the great French historical journal the Annales. The reaction to that paper convinced me that I was on to something. A second important influence was traveling to India, Malaysia, Argentina and Uruguay in the mid-1990s. These visits made obvious the need for a global technology of technologies in use, as well as providing many examples of long-lived machines. What was in a sense obvious about technology in these countries applied just as much to Britain or the USA, but was not so visible there. But none of these ideas would have turned into a book without the intercession of my wonderful publisher, Andrew Franklin.
MT: How long did it take you to write it?
DE: Longer than planned! Just how long is between me and the publisher.
MT: What is it that annoys you most about the "promoters of new technologies", and the gurus of the "Information Age", and how they talk about technology?
DE: That they want us all to be as ignorant as they are. We know a lot about technology and have a good sense of where things are likely to go, but they want to take us into a future in which all our knowledge is supposedly redundant.
MT: In your book, are you really saying any more than innovation isn't as innovative as we think it is and that some old(er) technologies (steam, coal) have a remarkably longlife?
DE: Yes I am. I am also saying that we innovate in old technologies, indeed that to think of technologies as old or new is a mistake. All technologies are a mixture of old and new. But I am also saying that we don't have a good picture of what technologies, now and in the past, were significant, or indeed what was invented in any particular historical period. I'm saying that most innovations that are highlighted are not as innovative as their promoters would like us to believe.
These are in any case, preparatory steps. In my book I explore not just that general argument, but also use it to look afresh at the relations between technology and war, technology production, technology and the nation and so on. I think I am making original arguments about the particularities of these relations.
MT: How do you write? Longhand or directly onto a computer, straight off or with lots and lots of editing?
DE: Straight onto the computer, with lot of editing. There must be a better way, but ... It is a pleasure, when away from a computer to get out and notebook and a fountain pen, and some of the key parts of the book started life in that way.
MT: What do you do when you are not writing?
DE: I'm reading, teaching, administering!
MT: Did you have an idea in your mind of your "ideal" reader? Did you write specifically for them?
DE: Since it took me a while to work out whether I did or didn't the answer has to be no. But in a book of this sort I did have to have in mind specialist in many subjects, and readers who would come to the book from very different positions from my own.
MT: What are you working on now?
DE: I am going back to British history. I've started researching a book on science, technology industry in Britain in the second world war, for Penguin.
MT: Who is your favourite writer? What is/are your favourite book(s)?
DE: My favourite book of fiction is Robert Musil, The Man without Qualities. I remain a critical fan of George Orwell as a writer of non-fiction.
MT: Do you have any tips for the aspiring writer!?
DE: Make sure you have something to say before deciding to write .
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The Rev. Dr. William A. Salley is celebrating 30 years as pastor of Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church, a span during which he has baptized more than 2,000 people and performed more than 400 weddings.
A graduate of what is now Charleston Southern University, Salley has received the Morris College Presidential Citation and been honored for service by the S.C. House of Representatives. Among other roles, he is finance committee chairman of the Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of South Carolina and serves as an instructor for the Pastors and Ministers Division of the Charleston County Congress of Christian Education.
He also is a trustee of Morris College in Sumter and is moderator of the Charleston County Association.
Education and mission work have long topped his priorities. In 2006, Jerusalem Missionary's sister church in Nairobi, Kenya, named their newly constructed basketball court after him.
Salley and his wife, Susan Salley, have nine children, 27 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
The following events, all held at the church, will honor each him. Each is at 7 p.m., except for Sunday at 5 p.m., and all are free and open to the public:
Tuesday, Charleston County Baptist Association honors him.
Wednesday, his wife, Susan, is honored.
Thursday, Cooper River Baptist Association with moderator the Rev. Clary Samuels.
Friday, service by the Rev. Isaac J. Holt, vice moderator of the Charleston County Baptist Association.
Sunday, the Rev. Dr. Curtis Hill, moderator of Union No. 3 of the Rocky River Baptist Association.
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Kenya Moore Says Learning That Walter Asked Out Kandi Burruss Made Her "A Little Insecure"
Kenya Moore doesn't come across as an insecure person, but in her latest BravoTV.com blog the beauty queen opens up about something on the second episode of The Real Housewives of Atlanta that made her worry a bit, and it has everything to do with her man, Walter.
She writes, "Naturally, when Walter told me he tried to date Kandi it made me a little insecure, because it hadn't been that long ago AND she turned him down. He knew I had already hung out with Kandi, so I was suspicious as to why he was just telling me."
While Kenya does seem a bit high-maintenance, we kind of understand why she was a little uncomfortable after Walter told her about his past with Kandi Burruss, even though nothing really happened.
As it turns out, Kenya also had another reason to worry about her beau. She explains, "I had also heard of other celebrity women he had asked out too, so I questioned his motives."
We aren't sure if Kenya and Walter are still dating today, but we do know that Walter does go on the upcoming cast trip to Anguilla. What's more? Kenya seems to have gotten over Walter's connection to Kandi.
"I really like Kandi and to know he tried to date her didn't sit well with me. But nonetheless I had to get over it," she writes.
Do you think Kenya really got over it, or will the issue come up again later this season? Weigh in below!
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Kerr-Vance defeated St. David's 9-7 in varsity baseball action at Granville Athletic Park.
Wyatt Evans led the Spartans at the plate, going 2-for-5. Adam Medlin, Lane Humphries, Dustin Smith, and Jacob Bowen each registered hits and Daniel Wilkerson drew four walks and scored twice.
Wilkerson started the game on the mound before he was relieved by Dustin Smith and Tyson Carrier.


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Michelle Morin's Natural HabitatIllustration // Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Michelle Morin is an artist who lives and works on the North Shore of Massachusetts. She studied painting and art history at Massachusetts College of Art. Michelle has worked for many years in the horticultural field cultivating a true relationship with plants, wildlife, and their distinctive habitats. With many years designing and maintaining gardens, Michelle has narrowed her primary focus to nature as a subject to reference...
Ramon Bruin's Illustrative IllusionsIllustration // Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Netherlands-based artist Ramon Bruin creates amazing 3D optical illusions all with the help of a little graphite from an ordinary pencil. As he puts it, trying photo-realism was just another way for him to push his boundaries and add another technique to his portfolio. The 31-year-old Ramon is mostly self-taught and impressively versatile in his creative endeavors, including 9-years of experience in airbrushing and all the knowledge he gained from his Academy studies.
The Work of Victo NgaiIllustration // Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Victo Ngai is a NY based illustrator from Hong Kong, graduated from Rhode Island School of Design. "Victo" is not a boy nor a typo, but a nickname derived from Victoria - a leftover from the British colonization. Some of her clients include The New Yorker, The New York Times, Leo Burnett, McDonald's, Adidas Hong Kong, Bank Simple, Tor Books and the International Herald Tribune.
Anna Kapustenko: VanillaJuxtapoz // Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Russian illustrator Anna Kapustenko has created this soft, innocent portrait of a dreamy little ginger, titled ' Vanilla'. Based in Kharkov, Anna specializes in book graphics, illustration, watercolor and mixed media. There is a lot of mystery behind the work of this artist, which often borders on fairytale fantasy and tenderness.
Marija Tiurina's Illustrated GIF'sIllustration // Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Its pretty obvious- I'm a huge sucker for animated GIF's, and illustration, and the combination of the two just blows my mind. Here is a selection of a few from UK based illustrator Marija Tiurina. While they are simply sketches compared to the talent-filled array of her portfolio, they are like perfect little mini-movies for me, short enough for even the shortest of attention spans. Enjoy.
Rudcef's Compathy Through IllustrationIllustration // Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Strangely enough, Rudcef majored in statistics. Though after graduation, his cousin passed away and he abandoned everything and started to draw. Sometimes he feels like he felt eager to leave evidence of existence behind. He draws for compathy, meaning he hopes to share what he's feeling when he's drawing with others, whether the feelings are of happiness, grief, illustration allows him to pass that on. His drawings are raw, graphic depictions, situations and portraits. LOVE.
Heart and Lungs IllustrationIllustration // Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Heart and Lungs Illustration is Marta Monteiro's illustration and drawing portfolio. She graduated from the Fine Art - Sculpter course at the Oporto University of Fine Arts, in 1999 . Lives in Penafiel, Portugal, and has worked as a teacher, illustrator, animator and film director. Fun, humorous renderings with great the appeal of classic vintage prints.
Alex R. Kirzhner's New Shade of BlackIllustration // Tuesday, December 11, 2012
New Shade of Black is the portfolio site dedicated to the drawings, paintings and prints of Alex R. Kirzhner. Living in New York, Alex creates beautifully intricate renderings of sometimes graphic and gory subject matter. His skill level and attention to detail is apparent throughout all of his work.
New Work From Natalie ClappIllustration // Monday, December 10, 2012
Natalie Clapp is a Baltimore based illustrator that has been on a constant tumbling ocean of finding her way in the creative world. Inspired by the innocence and ignorance of bliss, and the rugged and chaotic line of the natural earth, she explores her art with a whimsical sophistication. She is currently working as a graphic designer for in Maryland, while simultaneously pursuing a career in illustration.


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By tully | "Boredom at Its Boredest" by Michael Tully November 3, 2006 at 12:51AM
After many months of screening throughout the country, Kat Candler's JUMPING OFF BRIDGES finally makes an appearance in NYC this weekend. I highly recommend you check it out. It's a moving work that addresses the hard-to-swallow subject of teen suicide with grace and sensitivity, yet it also doesn't shy away from the tragic reality of the situation. It screens tonight and tomorrow night at 7pm at the Pioneer Theater. Go here for details.
VOLVER also opens today. I have to say, I was very underwhelmed by the latest "film by Almodovar!" when I saw it last month at the NYFF. Perhaps it was the environment in which I experienced it: a packed Walter Reade, with people guffawing like they were watching BORAT. I don't know, it just felt like everyone was trying wayyyy too hard. Though I'm sure it's my own baggage, I can't deny feeling like VOLVER is the kind of movie old ladies watch in order to feel 'cultured' and 'high-brow.' Maybe it's just me, but the entire thing felt like a frivolous, unbelievable mess.
Speaking of BORAT, that's what I'll be seeing this weekend, as I'm in good ol' Nashville, brain-deep in editing the Silver Jews doc. I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say that trying to put this thing together is one of the most difficult things I've ever done, cinematically speaking. But I think we're getting there. I think. Or am I confusing 'think' with 'hope?' Only one way to find out. And so back to work we go...


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The Piranhas Swim Team that meets Friday evenings at Mount Pleasants R.L. Jones Center is not made up of the fastest young swimmers. Their strokes are not the most polished. But you would be hard-pressed to find a more enthusiastic group of swimmers.
These kids are practicing for the Summer Special Olympics. Its a neat, neat program, said Jeff Garrard, aquatics coordinator for the Mount Pleasant Recreation Department.
Garrard said the Piranhas Swim Team grew out of a summer camp program that lasted a week. Realizing there was nothing for the young athletes after the weeklong camp, the Mount Pleasant Recreation Department started the team.
Initially, there were only six or seven young swimmers, but by the end of the summer, it had grown to 15 with four going to the Summer Special Olympics in Columbia. Now, as many as 30 swimmers of all ages show up for weekly practices.
One of the teams outstanding swimmers is Brianna Leask, a 17-year-old junior at Bishop England and a daughter of Noah and Lisa Leask. Briannas sisters, Logan, 14, and Peyton, 8, are volunteers with the Piranhas and swim for the Mount Pleasant Swim Club. They also are members of the RiverTowne Redfish Swim Team.
Its hard to find an atmosphere where (Brianna) can feel part of a team, said Lisa Leask. This program, and we have been participating for eight years, has been amazing. She gets to meet a whole bunch of kids in the Mount Pleasant community and also go to Columbia to compete in the Special Olympics Summer Games and meet kids from across the state. Its really been a blessing to be part of this program.
Leask said Brianna has won several gold medals, along with some silver and bronze, in the Special Olympics. And she has swum relays with Logan in which they have won gold. The 50-meter freestyle is her favorite event.
We are so grateful to be able to come and spend time with this program, Leask said. Shelli Davis and Jeff Garrard work to put together a lot of swim events in addition to the swim team. We have socials. And the program is run by volunteers. The coaches that work with this team dont get paid to do this.
Garrard said the swimmers must be 8 or older to compete in the Special Olympics. Mount Pleasant holds a swim meet in April to prepare the young swimmers for Special Olympics in Columbia.
Mount Pleasant Piranhas swimmer Brianna Leask (right) and sister Logan Leask, a Piranhas volunteer, are joined by Gov. Nikki Haley after Brianna participated in the 2012 Special Olympics at Fort Jackson. Leask won a gold medal in the 25-yard freestyle.×
Logan Leask, whose sister, Brianna, swims for the Mount Pleasant Piranhas, is a volunteer with the team that is training for the Special Olympics this summer in Columbia.×
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Founded in 2001 by the late Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, the academy is devoted to encouraging students to pursue careers in STEM-related fields.
The more convenient and affordable online format will provide elementary teachers of grades 3-8 and school counselors with online STEM training in background preparation, classroom activities, and teaching strategies, and allow them to progress through the same key topics with discussions and project-based work moderated by course instructors as the traditional academy.
Based on the Canvas Learning Platform, the online training program includes real-time tools that allow users to interact with the instructor, as well as collaborate with peers. The program also features a notification tool to remind teachers about class discussions and assignments and an interface designed to provide easy access to online sessions that include videos, e-books, integrated media recordings, and virtual labs. Additionally, the Canvas App Center offers a variety of smartphone apps for iOS and Android mobile devices.
"We know most students are engaged and curious about science and math in the early elementary grades," said Sally Ride Science CEO Sheryle Bolton, in a prepared statement. "But too many students — particularly girls and under-represented minorities — lose interest in those disciplines by the end of middle school. Economists tell us that more than 80 percent of all jobs in the coming decades will require some kind of STEM background. It is essential for our nation's future that we help prepare students to seize this opportunity."
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LAS CRUCES, N.M. -The New Mexico State equestrian team will head out to Waco, Texas, April 12-14 for the 2012 National Collegiate Equestrian Association National Championship, at the Extraco Events Center. The NM State Hunter Seat team was seeded No. 6 and will face Oklahoma State in the first round, while the Western team was seeded No. 9 and will take on Fresno State.
"I am very pleased on where the team has been seeded," head coach Audrey Buck said. "We have the ability to beat both Fresno in the western and Oklahoma State in hunter seat. Then next two weeks are going to be intense at practice, and we have a lot of things to do to get ready, but I am very confident that we will be prepared for nationals."
The Aggies finished the regular season with an 8-7 overall record and a 4-2 record at home. NM State lost to Oklahoma State once this season and twice to Fresno State as an entire team. The Hunter Seat team tied Oklahoma State, 5-5, while the Western team fell 7-3 in Fresno to begin the season and 6-2 in Las Cruces in the regular season finale.
"Our team has been putting the hard work it will take to be successful at this year's national championships," Buck said. "It is now up to us to go out and put solid riders together and show the rest of the equestrian world we belong among the nations best."
Competing for the Western team in Waco, Texas will be Chelsea Campbell, Megan Gould, Stefanie Story, Tara Wilson, Jessica Woolsey, Lauren DeVoe, Clarissa Edgerton, Brynn Larson and Marissa Bartmann.
The Hunter Seat squad will be represented by Amy Lang, Laura Bostwick, Emily McConnell, Amber Tassel, Elizabeth Solomon, Stephanie Gershon, Ruby Jenkins, Hannah Swarthout, Brianna Raab, Sydney Morse and Erica Daniels.
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All aspects of the IRIS2 Project are progressing well. The major effort in the facility modifications portion of the project has been associated with design, fabrication, and installation of the Target Room HVAC system. Design of this system was completed in the fall and a construction contract was subsequently awarded. The system will be installed and operable by April 1. Most of the project effort to date has been focused on design and procurement of long lead-time technical equipment components. Design of both high voltage platform structures has been finalized with National Electrostatics Corporation (NEC). The injector beamline platform will be received in May, and the instrumentation platform in August. Acceleration tubes have already been received. A contract for fabrication of the first stage mass separator magnets has been awarded to Sigma Phi. The rectangular dipole is slated to arrive in Oak Ridge in early July, and the two sector dipoles will arrive in late July. High voltage conduit design has been completed and components ordered. Abbott Plastics and their Canadian provider of polyethylene are producing the major components of the conduits. Each of the four conduits will consist of an aluminum pipe surrounded by an 18.5″OD x 8.5′ID x 16′long polyethylene extrusion. Delivery is expected by the end of January. After arrival at ORNL, the assembly will be inserted through rectangular polyethylene laminations for additional isolation and ease of insertion into the concrete shielding wall. ES Inc. has delivered the 10-foot extension of the HPTL crane and it has been installed. A portion of the automation package has also been received. The system should be fully operable by April. Support structure for localized shield around the target ion source has been fabricated, received, and partially installed. Both the upper and forward shielding sections will be movable and another side will be fixed. Fabrication of the individual shielding planks is also under way. Overall, the IRIS2 Project is on schedule and on budget.


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by min, whose attic is an endless abyss Now that my kids are grown, I think I've finally learned to distinguish a doll from an action figure. Despite the name, action figures don't move much…some do…but it isn't required. Dolls often have eyes that open, arms and legs that bend, sometimes waists that twist, some […] [Read More]
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by min, who can't begrudge any adult for enjoying toys Two days after I completed a blog post about how 'adult' my children have become, I walk into the kitchen to find Reggie (age 21) playing with these. They're not drugs. I know they look like drugs…but they aren't. They are little capsules with sponges […] [Read More]
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by min, who just goes on. It's been a while since I blogged. No excuses, just life whirlwinding around me. I've been to two funerals, celebrated three friend's birthdays, taken a road trip to Savannah and have cried in sympathy for a friend who lost a child. My daughter is living twelve miles away and […] [Read More]
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by min, who is without a doubt, a hat person My sister Nutso gave me a new hat: I was all set to run out and buy a pair of alligator shoes to match when one of the kids pointed out that it was not an alligator hat. It is a T-Rex hat. Anyone know […] [Read More]
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Rated #1 gay guesthouse in North America by Planet Out, this is a fantastic hotel. The Royal Palms previously occupied a different location but moved into this new building in 2011, with 2 pools, a small restaurant, bar, and spa. The rooms are all-white minimalist chic, with amenities found in major hotels, and service is quite good. The pool is usually crowded with a mix of guests as well as locals who come by for the day.
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Noey310 gave this placemake a u-turn!I used to live a block away and loved the fact that the RP was a really nice gay mens resort and I would drop by to have drinks and lunch with friends every now and then, and enjoyed the drag shows and all the events on the weekends, especially the tea dance on sundays, but no more, now its a family friendly resort, and it does cater to exclusively to gay men, now its anybody and everybody! what a bummer! well it was good while it lasted, same goes to the rest of the gay oriented spots in the area, soon it will all be "family friendly" that is all fine if thats what your looking for! am a gay man and I love to have fun around my gay friends, when I want to be in a family friendly place I'll go visit my own family in N.Y. Thank you... Good Bye RP you really suck now!
jakbqwik gave this placeNot a men's resort and barely gayIt appears to have changed owners or management. Sadly, I was not informed when booking my annual visit. Now I am stuck here for six days! HELP! There are more women than men staying here, which makes it uncomfortable and quite LOUD. The remainder are older hetero couples and even some TEENAGERS! I won't be back.
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By Mark S. Johnson, Kelvin Leibold and Paul Kassel, ISU Extension and Outreach
Iowa State University Extension and Outreach has scheduled three North Central Iowa meetings for crop producers in response to questions related to the late spring, dry summer and slow crop development. Extension specialists will discuss crop maturity, crop drying and potential effects of an early frost. Other topics covered during the meetings will include crop management, fallow syndrome and fall nitrogen management. Grain marketing and a grain market price outlook also will be on meeting agendas.
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Iowa State University Extension and Outreach and the Iowa USDA-Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) have scheduled an Advanced RUSLE2 workshop for Sept. 26, 2013, at the Polk County Extension Office in Altoona. This workshop starts at 8 a.m.
This workshop will enable participants to explore practice-based changes that can be implemented to reduce erosion. It will focus on RUSLE2 principles, dividing fields for RUSLE2 and dominant critical area, and understanding tillage operations and conservation practices both in RUSLE2 and the Iowa Phosphorus Index. A special emphasis will focus on combination tillage tools, strip cropping, use of cover crops, and terraced fields. The workshop will also explore the use of different template options in the software for use in watershed planning and the use of shortcut keys.
Registration is currently open only to those participants who have previously attended the Introductory RUSLE2 and Iowa Phosphorus Index workshop. The cost is $200 if registered prior to Sept. 23 or $225 for registration after Sept. 23. Walk-ins are not allowed and registration is limited to 30 people. Participants are required to bring a laptop computer pre-loaded with the most current version of the RUSLE2 and Iowa P-Index software. A total of six credits have been applied for in the Certified Crop Adviser Program and three professional development hours will be available for engineers. Click here to register or to access driving directions or workshop requirements.
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The Long Island press is reporting that yet another mistress of Sandra Bullock's husband, Jesse James, has crawled out into the limelight and claimed that she, too, had an affair with the married man.
The latest mistress to show herself is Melissa Smith. Sources say he contacted her on MySpace after seeing a photo of her posing in front of a car at a West Coast Choppers party. She claims the pair had unprotected sex on a couch in the bike shop, and that Jesse James referred to himself as "Vanilla Gorilla."
US Today is reporting that Jesse James routinely "trolled the Internet" in search of tattooed women to meet him at his bike shop. The long list of mistresses may not be completely tallied.
The first mistress reported associated with Jesse James is his own tattoo artist Michelle "Bombshell" McGee. The controversey surrounding his connection with her has speculations circulating about his involvement with white supremacists.
TMZ is reporting that an ex-employee of West Coast Choppers filed a sexual harrassment suit against Jesse James and his company back in 2007, which was settled for just over $700,000.
The National Enquirer has listed 11 mistresses as their current count on the Jesse James list of affairs.
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http://www.variety.com/article/VR111...n+kevin+spaceyKevin Spacey will return as Lex Luthor in "Superman: Man of Steel" and appear in "Telstar," Nick Moran's film version of Moran and James Hicks' 2005 darkly comic West End play about flamboyant '60s record mogul Joe Meek.
"Superman" director Bryan Singer met with Spacey in New York while the latter was appearing on Broadway in Eugene O'Neill's recently wrapped "Moon for the Misbegotten." Singer was about to pitch his "Man of Steel" sequel to Warner Bros.; "Superman Returns" scripter Michael Dougherty is now writing the screenplay.
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Chronis819 Main Street Vancouver, WA 98660
Phone: (360) 690.0032
Located in: Vancouver, WA
BarFly's Review of Chronis
As the boss says "lots of grumpy old fucks".
Karaoke Th-Sat at 9pm.
Tue: Taco night 50 cents/1 or $2.50/6 at 7pm.
Darts x2, pinball, golf.
I was in the service for almost 20 years and when I got out most places I lived across all 50 states treated me like a leper. The Pacific Northwest is the only place that treated me. With respect and I felt like I belonged at Chronis as they accepted me and treated me with respect and affection and as I travel, I send them postcards! That's how much I love Chronis! Also, Terry makes ass - kicking pancakes on weekends!GO SEAHAWKS!!!
This place is like a second home to me. The staff are super friendly and the karaoke is killer! Whoever wrote before about how the karaoke sucks hasn't been there recently. It has all been updated with a multimedia display and tracks fresh off the Top Hits billboard. The bartenders are so nice and the DJ is also the most kick ass, friendly person you have ever met as well as an extremely talented singer. Come to Chronis' and you'll have strong drinks, pool tables, darts, lotto, a good time, and lots of good singers to keep you entertained.
Alot has been improved over the past years and the KJ updates her music consitantly!! If u cant find a song just ask..guarantee if she doesnt have it, she will get it for the next time!! The sound is good! This place has a great friendly atmosphere! Appearance wise, ill give it a 5 but for the most part...its fun, friendly, and they definitely have GREAT drinks! So I give this place a thumbs up for a relaxing, all around fun place! No clicks here!! Come down and see for yourself!
I enjoy the drinks and people here, but the karaoke - sucks! The system is bad, the selection is bad, the rotation - okay that's decent most of the time. They definitely need to update their selection I don't think they have anything new from the last 4 or 5 years.
I have been to Chronis many times. I really like it in there. It feels like a neighborhood bar. I have always found the staff to be friendly. I have noticed at least 1/2 the bar customers are regulars and have been there pretty much every time I go in there and they do seem to like to keep to themselves and not be too friendly to new people - but so what! There are plenty of other friendly customers and I have always met people and had fun in there. I do wish they would update their karaoke selection. They really really need a wider selection. However, lots of people sing some really great classic rock songs that you rarely hear in karaoke. If you go in during meal time - they have some unique awesome Greek food.
The place isnt clickish at all, they just enjoy getting to know new people. I was new to the neighborhood, and they took me in like i was a old friend.. wish i still lived near there,
Great Food and atmosphere if you like sports. Yes, it may seem to be clickish as the bar owner can become friends with the patrons as he is a very likeable guy and she is just as likeable .... until you piss them off. And as a business owner they have that right. As far as drinking "every night", not so. He actually sits and visits just to get to know people without drinking. They do have business there daily but take off about 2-3 days a week. People from out of town have stopped in and enjoyed the fun and carefree atitudes amoung some of the bartenders. Come in with a good attitude and they will treat you with a good attitude.
I stop into this place on occasion, when I'm in the neighborhood. The crowd is very clickish and are friends of the owner. I know this because he is sitting with them drinking every night. The service is fair and the prices are reasonable. Compared to the other entertainment choices in downtown Vancouver, this is as good a place as any to get wrecked.


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Don't keep this man from his Astros scores
Joan Shattuck Internet service was spotty in Norway's fjords during a summer cruise on the Crown Princess. And the ship didn't provide newspapers. The co-pilot and I have taken about 60 cruises during the past three decades, and one tradition remains constant: Each day at sea, usually mid-morning, we make our way to the lobby, […] [Read More]
Cruise the Black Sea with Mikhail Gorbachev
Lefteris Pitarakis : Associated Press A 10-night cruise on the 296-passenger Silver Wind will start in Istanbul. Enrichment programs on upscale cruise ships attract some of the world's best-known scientists, historians, politicians, authors, actors, chefs and other professionals. But Silversea Cruises may set a new bar with its World Leaders Symposium cruise programs. The fifth […] [Read More]
With luxury on sale, now is a good time to splurge
In our previous blog, we looked at ways to save money on four of cruising's most luxurious lines: the Yachts of Seabourn, Silversea, Regent Seven Seas and SeaDream Yacht Club, all currently offering special discounted promotions. Today, let's consider four more highly regarded cruise experiences for those who appreciate both a splurge and a bargain. […] [Read More]
Freebies make luxury cruises cheaper than you may imagine
SEABOURN CRUISE LINE The Seabourn Odyssey carries only 450 passengers. Cruise No. 1: Base fare $2,000. Cruise No. 2: Base fare $3,000. Which is cheaper? The answer may not be as easy as you suspect. The expenditures listed above are what you'd pay to get on a ship. But as veteran cruisers know all too […] [Read More]