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MSU Astronomers Find New Galaxy
An international team of astronomers led by a Michigan State University faculty member have discovered a new galaxy they say may be the densest galaxy known in the local universe.
Jay Strader, MSU assistant professor of physics and astronomy, says as many as 10 thousand of our suns is crammed into a space the size of the distance between our sun and the next closest star, Alpha Centauri.
The research is detailed in the recent edition of the publication Astrophysical Journal Letters. The "ultra-compact dwarf galaxy" was found in what is known as the Virgo cluster, a collection of galaxies about 54 million light years away from our own Milky Way Galaxy.
Strader says what makes this galaxy, dubbed M60-UCD1, so remarkable is that about half of its mass is found within a radius of only about 80 light years.
This would make the density of stars about 15,000 times greater than found in Earth's neighborhood in the Milky Way.


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We all have moments where there is a little voice in our heads that sounds loud and clear and tells us exactly what to do, but sometimes that voice isn't so clear and we get confused.
How does it work?
The Herman's Head App, let's you record messages to your future self, and after a minimal customization screen, it would play those voice recordings during the day, when the headphone are on
For Example: "Don't listen to them" , "Give him a hug", "She is your friend", "Smile" , "Just ask her!"…
The best thing is the social part of the app, which lets you be in someone else's head for the day! You can choose to listen to your friends or someone else's inner voice recordings or simply choose from the app's Personalties Library
"Just LIKE this post, it will make you feel good"

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Uniqlo Takes Its Pile of Cheap Clothes Into the MidwestBy
Uniqlo, already bent on becoming the world's largest apparel-seller, is finally planting its cheap, colorful cashmere flag in America's Heartland. The company said today that it will open a massive store on Chicago's Michigan Avenue in fall 2015.
There are currently 21 Uniqlo stores in the U.S., according to Fast Retailing, its Tokyo-based parent, but the brand has remained decidedly bi-coastal. The farthest it has ventured from an ocean to date is a Pennsylvania mall. A Web store for U.S. customers launched in late 2012).
Did it take Uniqlo executives years to realize Windy City residents might be interested in down jackets and really warm underwear? Probably not. The company has simply been very cautious. It has tried to create clusters of retail—regional islands of colorful capri pants and cotton t-shirts. It is especially particular about hiring and training, part of its effort to cultivate Zen-like customer service. This is why Uniqlo cashiers always hand a credit card back with two hands and a little bow.
New York and San Francisco were the company's beachheads. A slate of Boston stores will open in the next three months, with two Philadelphia stores scheduled for ribbon-cuttings in October—and then, Chicagoland. When finished, Fast Retailing said the Michigan Avenue flagship will be its second-largest store in the U.S.
Uniqlo's competition in the "world's-largest" category have long been on Chicago's "Miracle Mile." H&M opened a store on Michigan Avenue in 2003, filing a spot abandoned by FAO Shwarz. Zara followed suit in 2009.
There are now 2,718 Fast Retailing stores worldwide, compared with 3,285 H&M locations and 6,393 shops run by Zara's Inditex. Look out Shaumburg, Davenport, and Des Moines, Iowa!


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This Torch Red, 540 horsepower pony car reincarnation was found nestled in between plebeian commuter cars in this Kipps Bay area garage. Considering what an absolute beast this thing is on the road it almost seems a shame to lock it up inside a concrete prison. Let's hope the lucky owner exercises this baby as much as possible.
Garage Queens – Mustang Shelby GT500: East 26th St., NYC
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"it almost seems a shame to lock it up inside a concrete prison." – we talking carburetors or social commentary. I feel that way about my desk job at least once a week.
My pops has one in black. The most powerful car i've ever driven or had the pleasure of driving in. The sound it makes when hitting the higher gears is priceless. I'm not sure what's going on under that hood, but someone tell me. Is it some sort of turbo engine, fuel injection?
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Discussion in 'Fantasy Sports Central' started by Darth Tater, Aug 20, 2009.
I really like you Woody. You're the Larry Brown of our Hockey League. I mean that in a good way.
I'm in. I'm fine with a goalie minimum of 0, 1 or 2. Three was too high IMO. If your goalie got injured during the week, you were FUBAR'd with weekly lineups.
I'm in. I think you need at least a 2-game goalie minimum. Otherwise, someone could just get one stud goalie and then start a second goalie that doesn't even play. This guarantees you two categories (gaa, save pct).
Larry Brown-like. Huh?? Let's see... Old Cranky Urinary problem Talks all the time Hot with the ladies A winner What's not to like!!! Thank's Roscoe
Two sounds good. 1. Darth 2. Roscoe 3. Know All 4. Woody 5. Raxrets 6. Jammer 7. Bill Laimbeer
I checked last year's league. Missing so far are bezeach, Mikhail, Reds, and Superstarov. If they all join that makes 11 so I will expand the league to 12. Hey Rascoe, isn't this thread in the wrong forum? I meant to place it in Fantasy Sports Central. Actually, I thought I had. Must be the onset of Alzhimers.
It might just be menopause...
1. Darth 2. Roscoe 3. Know All 4. Woody 5. Raxrets 6. Jammer 7. Bill Laimbeer (RESERVE LIST. LAST RESORT ONLY.)
I think September 1st is the date we can start setting up. Who else is interested?
I'm in...
1. Darth 2. Roscoe 3. Know All 4. Woody 5. Raxrets 6. Jammer 7. Bill Laimbeer 8. bezeach
The league is set up. I will send you guys the info in a bit. The LIVE draft is Sunday, September 20th at 11:15 EST. If a lot of folks hate that I will change it. I will send out constant reminders because Woody is old and he forgets. I added one bench position. That was the only change so far.
Yes, Woody is old. Yes, Woody frogets. But, Woody never forgets to set his lineups, or properly use is goalies. And yes, he ends up in FIRST PLACE!!!!! P.S. Is that 11:15 a.m., or 11:15 p.m. (a.m. is too early, p.m. is too late)
1. Darth 2. Roscoe 3. Know All 4. Woody 5. Raxrets 6. Jammer 7. Bill Laimbeer 8. bezeach 9. Mikhail If Super and his friend join, I will expand the league to 12 and we will need one more person. (Or we can just kick out Jammer or Woody...Take your pick). My team is the potato chips....errrr...Ice Chips.
Thanks Darth. It's tough to decide who to kick out if it comes to that. On the one hand, I like Woody, and on the other hand, I like Jammer. And on the one hand, Woody is the oldest guy in the league, but on the other hand, Jammer is a Canuck. But Woody likes the Wings, and Jammer likes the Habs....
It's a very easy decision for me since I can't stand either one of them. So I will kick them both out, but I can't kick them out until they sign up.
I've just signed up. Let's see.... I'm the kickee, and you are the kicker. Right???
I'll kick you out as soon as I get home. Don't bother coming back. I will be changing the password and all the locks. There will be no forwarding address. RETURN TO SENDER. What is your team name, "First to worst"?
Can we move it a little later? That's church time for some folks.
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Let's face it … Technology is changing the landscape of how film, music, and literature are being presented to the marketplace. Netflix is doing the bulk of its business via streaming (either through its website or on various other consoles such as the Xbox 360 and the PS3). Services like Rhapsody and iTunes are making downloading music quick, easy, and affordable.
Recently Amazon reported that eBooks for the Kindle, Nook, or eReader outsold printed books for the first time in history. Without question, all of these new modes of distribution are the wave of the future. One company, Crossroad Press, has positioned itself at the forefront of the eBook and audiobook market in a big way by gathering together an impressive list of titles by such respected authors as Skipp & Spector, Tom Piccirilli, Chet Williamson, Al Sarrantonio, Melanie Tem, Elizabeth Massie, Brian Hodge, David Whitman & Weston Ochse, and Crossroad Press owner, David Niall Wilson. As impressive as Crossroad Press' roster is now, plans are in place to release even more eBooks and audiobooks. (In the spirit of full disclosure, they even published my novel, No Flesh Shall Be Spared , on November 24, 2010.)
Dread Central recently spoke with David Niall Wilson about Crossroad Press and Wilson's extensive and remarkable bibliography.
Dread Central: Let's start by getting some of background. Where did you grow up, when you started writing, did you do the whole English Major thing, what your first publication was… that sort of thing?
David Niall Wilson: I grew up in a small town, Charleston, Illinois. My step-dad was a barber, and my mom ran one of the food services at the local university, Eastern Illinois University. I lived on a hill beside a lake and a river, out in the middle of nowhere, and then later on in a very old haunted house in town. I spent a lot of summers with my grandparents in an even smaller town – Flora, Illinois – and a lot of who I am, and what I have ended up writing, came from those early, formative years. I always said I would be a writer – right up until the time that I started saying that I was a writer – and then on into the time when I actually started writing. In High School I wrote a couple of stories that stuck with me, and a lot of pretty bad poetry that still managed to win contests. I read every book I could get my hands on. I had mountains of comic books, old paperbacks, even older hardcovers grabbed from yard sales and basement boxes. My childhood was spent very isolated, so I had to entertain myself, and books were my chosen weapons. I plowed through Tom Swift, the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, The Three Investigators, and pretty much every similar series by the box load. I read historical epics by Kenneth Roberts, and nearly everything by Abraham Lincoln one summer on an odd mental bender. Somewhere about halfway through high school, I was told to go to a bookshelf and pick out a book for a book report. The book I found was THE SIRENS OF TITAN, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. I read it that night, and returned to my teacher the next day to ask a: had she read this book and b: would I be graded down if I actually talked about all the – well – SEX – in it. She assured me she was quite aware of the contents, and I never looked back.
I worked my way through Vonnegut, all the classic science-fiction authors, and moved into fantasy series books where I could get more pages for the buck. Since I read constantly and very quickly, it was always a problem keeping myself in books. For all that, and for all the good grades and studying, I did not go the English Major, college route. I joined the US Navy the minute it was possible to do so. My desire to get out of that place stemmed from an up-and-down social life and a drunken, domineering step-father that I hated. I had to go, and the quickest way out was to sign up – so off I went. And even then, I was in an odd place. My last year or so in high school was spent studying to be a minister in The Church of Christ. I had determined that's what I wanted to do – to preach on a campus somewhere. It wasn't until several years into my US Navy career that I came to my senses and realized that organized religion was never going to be my cup of tea. Not long after that, the guys on the ship started passing THE SHINING around, and I was hooked. I left the fantasy novels behind very quickly, started reading every bit of horror I could get my hands on, shifted from religion to studying the occult, the kabala, odd bits of history, and started writing more seriously.
My career really began, I suppose, when I signed up for the WRITER'S DIGEST course, "Writing to Sell Fiction," which was a short story course. My assigned instructor was J. N. Williamson, who not only taught me a lot during that short period, but introduced me to the horror small press, which was very active at the time, and got me to join H.O.W.L – later the HWA (which I eventually became president of). Everything since then has been a progression. I was having little luck selling short stories, so I started my own magazine, THE TOME. I did thirteen issues and grew that thing to international distribution, but we couldn't get the money from the distributors when we needed it, and it folded. That magazine got me the connections I needed, and my stories started to sell. Then, after Karl Wagner reprinted my vampire story "A Candle Lit in Sunlight" in YEAR'S BETS HORROR XIX, I started to have luck with books. I sold the novel THIS IS MY BLOOD, based on that short story, and then on the basis of that novel sale managed to sell (just on pitches) a STAR TREK VOYAGER novel and a WRAITH Novel to White Wolf Publishing, who then commissioned a DARK AGES VAMPIRE Trilogy. Everything expanded quickly from there, and it's been a long, interesting ride to say the least. My first published piece was a poem titled: A Poem… My first published story was "A Charm Against Boredom," a dark fantasy piece published in a photocopied hand-stapled thing called Dark Starr. My first novel sold was THIS IS MY BLOOD, but the first published was the Star Trek Voyager novel: CHRYSALIS.
DC: You straddle the worlds of horror, dark fantasy, and sci-fi in your writing. Do you think there is much room for overlap given the conventions of each genre? Which sandbox do you prefer?
DNW: This is a pretty common question, and one that I don't have a solid answer for. I have tried, through most of my career, to write the stories that present themselves to me. What I mean by this is, if I happen to be struck by what I think is a great science fiction idea, that's what I write. If a cemetery catches my eye, or some bit of news, or a snatch of borrowed conversation floats to me on the breeze – I tend to run with it. I don't think about what genre I'll write to, or what market I'll try to hit – at least not all the time. Obviously my licensed work has had to be reigned in somewhat, but even there I've bucked convention and often had to bicker and battle with editors because I wrote something the way I felt it – and they wanted it the way they thought they could market it. My novel DEEP BLUE could be considered a horror novel, a fantasy novel, a dark fantasy novel, paranormal, or even urban fantasy.
The work that has mattered to me over the years has not been written to genre specifications, and the rest is – for the most part – just filler. I tend to be more comfortable with dark fantasy than anything else. I think it's the way my mind works, and it's certainly where my tastes lean these days as a reader. Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman – King and sometimes Koontz … Caitlin Kiernan and Kathe Koja are all authors who push the boundaries of our reality so that they sort of slide over the line and let in the magic. If I could only choose one genre to work in, and if there is a genre classification that fits it, I suppose it would be simply Dark Fantasy, which encompasses a lot of different types of settings, characters, and stories without being too narrow and restrictive.
I detest genre classifications, as a rule. It leads down an inevitable pipeline to marketing hell where authors are stuffed into boxes regardless of shape and size, and seldom let out again once packaged. It leads to wonderful horror novels being classified as Paranormal Romance, or not published at all because the horror section has been whittled down, but this section over here? The one with the Glittery Vampires? Or that one, where everyone wears leather and brass and rides in a zeppelin? Those are hot…can we slot it in there, do you think? I think not. Maybe if I write enough, and long enough, I'll get the privilege afforded the very few … a genre of my own where I write whatever the hell I want to write and it sinks or swims on the merit of the stories and characters.
DC: I know you're a runner. How does running influence you and help you to be more creative / focused?
DNW: It's funny you should ask that. I haven't always been a runner; it's an obsession that comes and goes. When I'm running, I listen to audiobooks, or I think. A few years back I was writing a novella, "The Not Quite Right Reverend Cletus J. Diggs & The Currently Accepted Habits of Nature," which was based in my fictional town of Old Mill, NC. Old Mill is based loosely on a combination of several places here in NC. There's a little of Hertford, where I live, of Old Mill, even smaller and closer to the swamp, and the surrounding countryside which I take a lot of license with. When I was writing that piece, most of the parts came to me while I was running. In those days I got up at 6:00 AM and ran about 2.5 – 3 miles every morning. The course through town that I set up passes through a very old graveyard – Catfish Hunter, the baseball player, was buried there, as were hundreds of old North Carolinians with very cool family names and ornate grave markers. I also ran down the street by the water, which is where the oldest and grandest of the historic homes are located. Each has a sign out front stating what year it was built, and who built it. There is a hardware store run by a man named (I kid you not) Eerie Haste. The side of the wall is painted with a huge mural that involves Native Americans and a rebel flag. Cletus J. Diggs, my protagonist, grew up in this place, and I found bits and pieces of his life all over those streets, yards, parks, and gravestones.
I also remember using my running time when I started one of my works that is still in progress: TATTERED REMNANTS. In TATTERED REMNANTS the protagonist is a sociopath who binds books. He's found ways to keep himself mostly out of trouble over the years, but he creates books that truly capture the essence of what they are about. A butterfly book bound to look like a butterfly, colored with the dust from wings… a book about rats that uses bones in the spine, rat hair, and other bits and pieces for the finer trim…he is not well. Each day when I set out to run, I'd first go over the last thing I'd written in my mind. As I ran, I tried to take it further – tried to figure out what came next, how the characters would react, and how I could move the plot ahead. The key to this was, I could not write a word until I was finished running, so I had nothing to do but create and let it all sort of grow and evolve in my mind. I think when it's done that this will be one of the finest things I've written. Mostly, though, in a life so full that sleep is only occasionally an option, running keeps me healthy, raises my energy level and ability to focus, and gives me time to listen to audiobooks. I need a steady diet of stories to keep me sane.
DC: What impact did your winning the Stoker Award have on your writing career? What are your thoughts on writerly organizations like the HWA (Horror Writers of America) for which you served as President?
DNW: I don't know that winning the award, per se, has made a huge impact. I suppose that the line "Bram Stoker Award Winning Author" might sway someone one way or the other a time or two, but mostly it just looks good and makes you feel like you've accomplished something. I think the gift awards like The Bram Stoker Award grant to authors is that of inspiration. There may be little or no economic return if you win, but this doesn't stop the desire to have one of those little haunted houses for your very own from getting into your head. Once it's there, it can inspire you to write harder, promote better, and that is enough good to come out of it for anyone, I think. I actually have two…the first was for poetry, and the second for a short story. The year that my story, "The Gentle Brush of Wings," won the award, the collection that it appeared in, DEFINING MOMENTS was also a finalist. Having my colleagues honor me in that way – knowing that it was other writers who chose me that particular year to honor, felt like one of the many plateaus you seek along your way to accomplishing your goals in life. You want to sell a story…then you want to sell a book…then you want to win an award. Each time you reach a plateau, it inspires you to move on to the next. I'm proud of the two awards. They sit beside the love of my life, Patricia Lee Macomber, my sometimes collaborator and always better half's Stoker, won for editing the online magazine CHIZINE. It's a sense of legitimacy, I suppose…acknowledgment that, while you aren't tearing the world apart with your prose, you can write. As for writer's organizations, it's all about the networking. When all is said and done, you meet people who understand what you are talking about. You share with professionals who have similar interests. You learn from people who have been doing what you want to do longer than you have. You help one another when you can, and you create an extended family of creatives who you can call on in times of need, or who may call on you – another chance to feel legit. Writer's organizations and awards aren't going to make, or break a career, but used wisely, and with some perspective, they can advance that career and help to sustain it.
DC: I know you routinely participate in the NaNoWriMo exercise. How influential has that been a) to you writing and b) as a motivational tool?
DNW: I have a lot of affection for NaNoWriMo. When I first decided to sign on and do it, I was at a very down point in my career. I'd just left an agent who kept asking me to come up with new versions of THE DA VINCI CODE. I must have written five or six extensive outlines with fifty pages of sample chapters for her. She didn't like any of them. It was always something she "couldn't be enthusiastic" about. I had recently gotten divorced, and my life was in upheaval…in short, it sucked to be me. Then I got an e-mail out of the blue from author Janet Berliner, who'd read something of mine (don't recall what) and wanted to know about who was representing me. You may recognize Janet's name – she is also a past president of the HWA, a Bram Stoker Award-winning author, and, back in the day, she had her own agency. Janet wasn't actively agenting at the time, but her partner and protégé Robert Fleck was. Bob and I hit it off, and I kicked off from the old agent like I was leaving a springboard. About that time, I sold my novel DEEP BLUE. This (as you might suspect) eased my angst a bit. That left me with a new agent and nothing new to be agented, so I decided to hit the NaNoWriMo challenge running. My family had just gone through Hurricane Isabel, which was a very sobering experience. I had a proposal for a novel that the previous agent had determined was no good, but I still liked it. I sat down, and I began to write. In 30 days (29 actually) I wrote THE MOTE IN ANDREA'S EYE, a sci-fi-ish romantic thriller that is sort of FOREVER YOUNG meets Twister. It was nearly 80k words, and I'd done it in a month. I sold that book to the same publisher that had taken DEEP BLUE exactly one month after I finished writing the rough draft, and I never looked back. I started finishing the novels that I'd started for the previous agent, and revising older ones that were taking up space on my hard drive. I finished THE ORFFYREUS WHEEL one year, GIDEON'S CURSE (still not quite done, but more than 50,000 words one November) and the first of my urban fantasy series THE DECHANCE CHRONICLES, all during consecutive years of NaNoWriMo.
Last year I wrote a book with bestselling author Steven Savile, a sort of dark fantasy western, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER meets CARNIVALE meets DEADWOOD – with angels. That is with several publishers now…this year I wrote a science fiction novel – THE SECOND VEIL: TALES OF THE SCATTERED EARTH –which, along with some partners who have also written licensed fiction over the years, I hope to turn into a large franchise. In other words? NaNoWriMo has been good to me. Let me state as I usually do, writing 50k words in a month is just not the big deal it seems to be. It's only 1,667 a day – most working writers claim to write 2k or more, so they do this all the time. I certainly write that much on a monthly basis…but NaNoWriMo allows me to create one new thing that is just mine each year, and I remain positive and grateful for it – regardless of what anyone else things. My son Zach finished the challenge this years as well (he's 17). He wrote the first 51k of CAPTAIN SHI AND THE SEARCH FOR ETERNAL YOUTH BOOK I and I could not be more proud.
DC: You've written a number of books (Deep Blue, The Mote In Andreas's Eye, Maelstrom, Vintage Soul, The Grail's Covenant Trilogy and Stargate Atlantis: Brimstone to name a few) and screenplays (Killer Green, Redneck Dragon, and The Milk Of Paradise). Is the writing of one more difficult that the writing of the other?
DNW: I'm not really sure. It's very much like my answer about genre – sometimes I see a movie in my head, and sometimes I see a book. Other times they interchange. One project of mine started long ago as a short story about a priest who experienced The Stigmata. ON THE THIRD DAY was published in my first fiction collection, but the story wouldn't let me go. Eventually I thought it might make a good project for learning how to write a screenplay, so I pulled it out and tried writing it as a feature film. The problem was, it was too short. It sat that way a long time, and then, in a period when I was doing a lot of screenwriting, I pulled it out and lengthened it with a lot of new material. Once again that story grabbed me, and the next thing I knew I was writing it as a novel. It's currently out as an eBook… I like screenwriting. I tend to lean toward dark humor more than other genres when I am in that mode, and it's very liberating for me to just let go and work on something that I have no idea what I'm going to do with. That's how the screenwriting is for me.
My first feature, written from an outline provided to me by producer/director/actress Roasanna Jeran of Blurgirl Productions, was GODHEAD. It was produced, but it took seven years from the time I wrote the first script to the time I saw the digital final. It's a very strange film in which I may have broken some record for use of the word fuck…it's the alchemical process in film, told by the dual characters Magus and Zero…there is alchemy, a Beau Gestesque Viking funeral, a peep hole in the floor…but there is no Oscar, obviously. It is what it is…a very artsy feature put together by a filmmaker who – up to that point – worked mostly in shorter length art film. Since then, though I have been optioned, nothing I've written has made it to the silver screen. I still have great hope for KILLER GREEN, and the more recent REDNECK DRAGON – but for me it's a secondary thing. I know I can sell stories and novels, and while they take a bit longer to complete, they are my comfort zone. On the other hand, it takes a lot less time to finish a screenplay, and the format is very simple and direct. I like working in both worlds, and hope to have plenty of opportunities to do so.
DC: Your novel, This Is My Blood, contains a fictional gospel of Judas Iscariot. In it, Mary Magdalene is portrayed as a fallen angel who is cursed with a form of vampirism and Judas is portrayed as being the best of the apostles and the only one who fully understands Christ's teachings. He even lays down his own life for the salvation of all. Was it uncomfortable or weird for you when the translated coptic codex that was said to be written by to Judas Iscariot was released?
DNW: I found that whole thing hilarious, to be honest. I wrote my novel and my fictional book of Judas many years before that came to light, but the parallels were astonishing. My agent and I tried for a short period to point out the similarities just to see if I could get a burst of marketing out of it, though that never really happened. It didn't really feel any way at all, though. My version was sort of my literary reaction to those early years I mentioned studying for the ministry, and the things I came to realize about organized religion along the way. The most important concept I address in THIS IS MY BLOOD is that of Mary Magdalene's perspective. In my novel, she is a fallen angel. She does not require faith to sustain her – she knows full well there is a Heaven, and a Hell – has walked the streets of both. She is disgusted with the weakness of the apostles, and their dishonesty. I find it odd myself that an entire religion has been built on the backs of those men who – even while their savior walked at their sides and performed miracles – could only worry over whether they'd be harmed, or fight over who would be in charge once Jesus was gone. Man is like that – always has been, and likely always will be. With Mary looking in from the outside, I was able to observe from a distance and concentrate on pointing out the flaws.
DC: I am not someone who really "gets" poetry. Can you talk a bit about what I'm missing and why you write it?
DNW: I like things to be distilled. I like whiskey, and I like poetry, and I suppose it's why I like the idea of alchemy – boiling the world and the man away until only the purest essence remains. If a novel is like a movie, a short story is sort of a slide show, and a poetry is a still shot. You can encompass a lot in a single photograph, but you have to do it with artistry. You have to use just the images available in that one instant to create a reaction in those who view the shot. Most photographs are just photographs – some are absolutely inspiring. It's the same with poetry. You have a very few words to create an impression – or an image – or a story. You have only the bare-bones of the language, but it's not the important parts that are cut away – it's the detritus. Most poetry is crap. Poetry as an occupation is a thing of the distant past. That doesn't mean good poetry has left us – it just means that it has become something you do for the sake of doing it…not for reward, or adulation – though some still seem to believe it works that way. Musical lyrics are poetry, and among the most powerful left to us. We lack an outlet in our society for spoken poetry, and to read it is just not popular or cool…not in the way it once was. I have written a lot of flash fiction, and it's similar in nature. You are after emotion and reaction. You want to bring something to life, but do so with as small a catalyst as you can provide, while investing as much emotion as possible. It isn't easy. It's much, much harder to write a poem that will stick with people than it is to write a story, or a screenplay. It's the difficulty that brings the magic. I doubt this answer has been much help at all…and I will end it by simply saying that, like most of my writing, I write poetry because it comes to me. I write down what inspires me in the moment. Sometimes it's a poem.
DC: You run Crossroad Press and Macabre Ink, which distribute eBooks and audiobooks. How did you make the jump from writer to publisher and what were the motivations behind that decision?
DNW: I resisted electronic publishing for a very long time. In the day, it was mostly a place where people went who failed to find traditional publishers, and I was not then, nor am I now, ready to relegate myself to that group. Things have changed though, as is their nature, and so – being the sort of guy who will catch a passing car rather than have to walk a hundred miles later on, I jumped into the fray. All I intended at first was to get my own fiction into eBook formats. I started with collections and short stories, and started branching into my own out of print novels and novellas soon after. It took a lot of study, work, frustration, and time to start getting it right, and I managed to do that just as things were really taking off for Amazon and the Kindle. Some of my friends noticed, and I said I could do their books too. From that, it blossomed. I set up my business model, taking as little as I felt I could without doing the work for free. Next was the audio. I love audiobooks, and I've always wished some of my titles could make it to that format, but it's a rough business. They mostly produce audiobooks for titles they feel have huge marketing potential, or that come from best-selling authors. Narrators got paid up front, authors got an advance that probably never earned out, but if it did, were given only about ten percent beyond that point.
Enter the home studio, and Crossroad Press. After paying to have my first book done – ROLL THEM BONES – it occurred to me that, just like the changes in eBooks and print editions, audio was due to be turned on its ear. Too much of the work was being done by authors and narrators, and too much of the money was ending up in the accounts of the big publishers. I created a new, revenue and risk sharing model, and started knocking on virtual doors. We now have more than twenty titles in Audio with another small mountain in production. We have major distribution, have garnered some great reviews and attracted some amazing narration talent, and are on the verge of making something big and wonderful from my small dream. In the process, I've gotten several of my own titles into audio as well, which has been fun, gratifying, and inspiring. I have learned a great deal from my partner, Jeffrey Kafer of Springbrook Digital and from each of the authors and narrators I've had the privilege to work with.
To finish answering your actual question…the motivation started as a need to get my own work into digital formats to meet the challenges of this new, downloadable world we live in. It ended up as that same motivation, only directed at a number of authors instead of just myself. Whatever anyone may believe, my entire focus is on helping each author and each narrator get the most they can get for their work, while maintaining control. I am not out to get rich unless it happens, but I do love to help people.
DC: Where are the Crossroad Press and Macabre Ink releases available?
DNW: Our books can be found at all the normal outlets, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple, as well as at Overdrive.com – a library and school distributor. We are always adding new outlets, though of course we prefer it when people buy direct at The Crossroad Press Store.
DC: How do you go about choosing what titles Crossroad Press and Macabre Ink represent?
DNW: At first, as I said, it was my own titles, and those of friends. What I quickly came to realize was that there is a huge mountain of books out there that have been out of print a long time, and have great reviews and generations of readers who've been denied them. That's what I started with. I went after (and still go after) out of print paperback books in all genres…I started with guys like Bill Crider who wrote horror as Jack MacLane back in the day, and added in Ronald Kelly and Sid Williams, T. M. Wright and Elizabeth Massie – names that are known – books that are available only in difficult to find out of print paperbacks or hardcovers. Now the same principle is opening bigger doors. As you know, John Skipp and Craig Spector's novels, starting with the already available THE LIGHT AT THE END, will all be coming to digital life through us. We have the audiobook of Poppy Z. Brite's LOST SOULS about to hit – all from that same Splatterpunk time-frame. These books are as timeless as horror fiction gets – they still speak to readers after decades have passed – and readers want them. Now, through the wonders of eReaders and MP3 players, they can have them. As well as the Skipp and Spector novels, we've published Craig's first solo novel, "A QUESTION OF WILL," and his musical debut as well, an MP3 released titled – aptly – SO LO.
Along with those old books, we're getting a lot of new collections of fiction out by our authors, and even branching into some original fiction. We have published a couple of my own novels that never made it to traditional print, as well as the recently released NIGHTJACK by Tom Picirrilli and the the sci-fi—horror thriller THE SUFFERER'S SONG by Steven Savile. Every day we get something new from one source or another. For instance, it was Craig Spector who sent me the e-mail that said "You've got to read this" and led me to you, and your novel, NO FLESH SHALL BE SPARED. This is the kind of book that excites me the most because it is new – it is, in my opinion, the most original 'zombie' novel I've encountered in years, and I think it has a chance of making a huge splash. We'll be in at the beginning of that with the electronic edition, and hopefully following up with the audiobook – when the rest of the world catches on, I'll be able to say we were part of something new and cool. In the end, that's what it's all about in marketing, and in life. You need to stay relevant. You need to be part of what's going on around you, or it goes on without you, so I try to keep myself "living" and not just sliding from day to day. New music – new books – new people.
DC: Obviously you're banking on the continued success of eReaders. Can you talk a bit about what you think the impact of things like The Kindle and The Nook will have on the fiction market. Do you think they will ever replace books in the public's mind?
DNW: There are distinct boundaries, and then some blurred ones. I live in both worlds. I grew up with cheap paperbacks and comic books. I quit buying books on impulse when they started costing (about) $5.99 and became much pickier, and I think it was about that time that the decline of books as a constant form of cheap entertainment started to wane. I have shelf after shelf of books. I have so many there have been arguments and fights over the shelving, and I don't see myself giving them up. On the other hand, I love my Kindle, and when I need something quick and cheap to entertain me, that's where I turn. Now I buy books that I can see myself wanting to keep in print editions, and the rest I read electronically, or listen to on my MP3 player. This new generation will soon reach the point where they believe there have always been eBooks, Kindles, Nooks, whatever. They will grow up reading on their iPods and hiding under the sheets to do it. It's not important (at least not to me) how the stories reach the readers, as long as they do. As long as I get the chance to use my words to help people launch to some other, better place, or scare the crap out of them, or make they cry and wish for something that I created to be true, damn it, and REAL…as long as it's like that? I'm good. I don't' think any time soon print books will disappear, but the acceptance of the electronic is simply inevitable. Try and find a kid who remembers a VHS now, or who doesn't think there have always been cell phones – or even one who remembers what an actual cellular phone WAS (since they are all digital now). It's the present, and it's the future. It's a digital revolution, and I intend to ride the wave.
DC: What's upcoming for you as a writer and for Crossroad Press and Macabre Ink as a publisher?
DNW: As a writer, I have a ton of things in progress. A lot depends (as usual) on the fickle tastes of editors. I have a number of books out being considered for publication. I am working on several more projects. I mentioned a few upstream in this interview, TATTERED REMNANTS is one, the DECHANCE CHRONICLES, my urban fantasy series – if I manage to get the rights to the first book back from the hands of the bunglers who mis-marketed it and only sold 60 copies – will be marketed again as a series. I have a historical zombie novel titled GIDEON'S CURSE that needs to be finished, and on the science fiction front I'm working on a huge multi-world space-opera style project with some other authors titled THE SCATTERED EARTH. I also have a book of short stories written with Neil Gaiman due sometime in the future. We're waiting on one last story from Neil, and then the publisher and artist Lisa Snellings have to finalize the presentation and details. All the stories in that book are inspired by Lisa's art and written by myself, or Neil.
Crossroad Press has so much coming up I hesitate to even try and encompass it in a short answer. For starters, we have the rest of the Skipp & Spector novels to get out, starting with the next release in a week or two – their last novel, ANIMALS. We have started to gather the works of Al Sarrantonio, and we are in negotiations for works by a number of other bigger name authors, each of whom add credibility and marketing power to the company. We have launched The Digital Drive-in – a review site where we will be featuring regular podcasts, video commercials, audiobook excerpts, readings by authors, and a lot more over the months to come. You can see what we have so far at The Digital Drive-in site. You can also keep up with the Skipp & Spector news at here. We are branching out tentatively into music publishing, starting with Craig Spector's SO LO and we are investigating some avenues for print-on-demand copies of our original novels. We have audio coming up from world-famous narrator Dick Hill, who will be narrating T. M. Wright's bestseller A MANHATTAN GHOST STORY, and the haunting performance of Mr. Chris Patton of Poppy Z. Brite's LOST SOULS. I can't say from day to day what I'll be doing, or where I'll be doing it, but one thing is certain. I'll be busy. I'll leave you with a quote from my work-in-progress TATTERED REMNANTS, which I suspect will be the best thing I've done to date. The quote if from an old librarian named Mortimer who has been teaching my protagonist, Lucien, how to repair and bind books. It's spoken on the occasion of Lucien's first solo-creation – a book made up of the tattered remnants of many old, ruined books… "Never forget," the old man said. "Your work defines you. That book will be a thing of beauty when you are no more than a whisper of dust in the wind. Most of the words inside were written long before I was born. It's not as important what you are working on as it is how you go about that work. Never halfway. Never without thought and planning. Never without a vision in your mind of what it should be in the end."
DC: Where can people get in contact with you?
DNW: I can be found on my website, my Facebook page and of course on Twitter.
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CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - A husband and father, who was among five adults and children found dead in a suburban Calgary home, became a suspect on Thursday in the grisly killings that police attribute to domestic violence.
Alerted by a relative, police discovered the bodies of the man, his wife and their two young children, as well as a female tenant, on Wednesday morning. Officials would only describe the crime scene as gruesome.
The children's one-year-old sister was found alive in the house, located in a well-tended neighborhood in the Western Canadian city's northwest, and taken into protective custody.
Calgary Police Chief Rick Hanson told CBC Television that "the events are looking towards the male in the house."
He has called the killings a "domestic homicide," but has so far stopped short of labeling them a murder-suicide.
Officials have not identified the dead, but several media outlets reported they were Joshua Lall, a 34-year-old intern at an architectural firm, his wife Alison Lall, 35, and daughters Kristen, 5, and Rochelle, 3. The tenant was reported to be Amber Bowerman, who worked for a college newspaper.
Speaking to reporters after the chief's comments, Police Inspector Guy Slater said the father, described by neighbors as a friendly family man who was active in the community, was only one possible suspect.
"The chief's comments still stand. Obviously, the preliminary indicators from yesterday's investigation have led us down that path and we continue to pursue that as one of many possibilities," Slater said.
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This has been going on for about 6 months now.
I'm 39.2 pounds and holding steady. The neck of a gazelle, the tuck only a seamstress could create and the speed of a Cheetah! My coat is glowing, skin is FABO and teeth are perfect! What's better.....thyroid meds have been REDUCED!!
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My friends.....I eat rabbit, goat, chicken, beef, turkey, ostrich.....even a little bisson!
Can you guess what's been going on...can you??
Even Dad (AKA The "INTROVERT") want's to share this amazing change for those who are interested.
It's our new(ish) raw diet!! Dinner has NEVER tasted so good!!
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Dad: OK, calm down! (Sheepishly smiling) Look, it's a cute fluffy baby..... right??
Mom: Is that the one you were trying to convince The Kid to get? I can't believe it!
Dad: ...But look at him, poor little baby; he would have died a horrible death!
Mom: You just beat all... I'm SPEECHLESS!
Dad: But.....but....
Mom: No buts about it! Do we even have another cage? What about the other one, you know HE and SHE = THEM!
Dad: It's all taken care of! I'll take care of him, feed him, clean the cage.... you don't have to worry about a thing!
Mom: Why would I worry? He's ADORABLE! I'm so happy!
Dad: Hahh?
Mom: (looking guilty) Well, I guess he's not a problem if he makes you happy. Had you left him we would have always wondered....
. ...funny how things change, isn't it!
M ommy now spends frequent time with the freeloading...."Sighthound Off Limits" rodents! They're named Tink and Puck. They were recently invited to our veterinarians Open House as "Model Exotic Pets". Hello, I'm both exotic and have the body of a model, but was I invited?
I digress.......
Many of our friends have been asking how we've been lately...
In short....
At this very moment Zak in sleeping in a hamper.
I'm sleeping with the fishies ...and I LOVE it!
Dad has rediscovered French Impressionism.
Mom refuses to commit "Seedlingaside".
...And The Kid is all about this thing called an S O L.
Doesn't make any sense, does it? We're a weird little group, but happy!
The Kid: Mom.... do you think Ferrets are cute?
And then...
Mom: They're so...so... well.... CUTE!
The Kid and Dad (in unison) CUTE???
Mom: Well look at them, little fluffy babies. If I'd have known it was going to be this easy, we could have made this trip weeks ago!
The Kid: (shaking her head) Dad, I think we should pick one before Mom changes her mind again.
Dad: I like the gold one over there...we should get him.
The Kid: Hello...this is supposed to be MY pet!
Dad: (still looking at the gold rat) Oh, sure honey, I got carried away. Which one do you like?
The Kid: I like the one with the gold streak going down her back. Do you think I can hold her?
Dad finds someone to help and as The Kid is holding her new potential pet, Dad suddenly asks to hold the gold rat.
Mom: OK, it's time for pie.... I'll be next store.
Dad: Is that the one you want?
Dad and the kid put her rat on hold to be picked up the next day so they could get a proper cage and food. The next day Dad goes and picks up the new rat that The Kid decided to call "Tink". Apparently, he also got a bit of distressing news.
Dad: Sir, has anyone bought that gold rat?
Clerk: Oh I'm sure they will, the ones that don't get sold as pets will be sold as feeder rats...but don't worry, we'll restock at the end on the month.
Much later that day...
Tavar: What are you doing...what is THAT?
Dad: I couldn't just let him stay there to land in the belly of a snake! Look at him, poor thing.
Tavar: Yes you could! One rat is bad enough...but two, it's an infestation! Does Mom know?
Dad: Ummm, well...no.
Tavar: Can I chase him? Mo and Patches were nuggets, this guy looks like a ham hock...Mmmmmmm. Horrible nasty beast.... hope I don't get fleas or the plague!
The Kid: Tavar, you know that's a common misconception. Rats make great pets; they're in expensive, easy to take care of, very social and can even be taught tricks...unlike some dogs I know!
Tavar: Thank DOG...we have nothing in common!
Mom: Hello everyone…busy day at work! Anything interesting happen today?
Tavar: (pointing an accusing finger) Why don't you ask HIM!
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Bad: guy enters a Waffle House.
I did notice the perp had a Hi-Point, and the GG a Glock. Coincidence?
This is a discussion on Good: Waffle House customer shoots and kills armed robber within the Carry & Defensive Scenarios forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Deputies: Waffle House customer shoots and kills armed robber | GoUpstate.com A Roebuck man - less than two hours into his 19th birthday - entered ...
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A Roebuck man - less than two hours into his 19th birthday - entered the Waffle House on Chesnee Highway with a gun and attempted to rob the restaurant before a customer fired his weapon, killing the teen, authorities said Saturday.
Spartanburg County sheriff's deputies responded to the Waffle House at 2230 Chesnee Highway just before 1:15 a.m. Saturday. Two masked men had entered the restaurant with the intention of robbing it, and at least one of them was armed, authorities said.
A customer, who is a concealed weapons permit holder, thwarted the robbery by pulling his gun and attempting to hold the men until deputies arrived. When one of the men pointed his gun at the customer, the patron fired, killing the teenager.
The teenager, later identified as Dante Lamont Williams, of 827 S. Edisto River Drive, Roebuck, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a written statement from Coroner Rusty Clevenger. Williams had been shot in the head and chest.
Sheriff Chuck Wright said he does not plan to charge the customer, who he says is very upset about the shooting.
During a news conference Saturday night, Wright said even after the masked men entered the restaurant, the concealed weapons holder waited until the robbers began ordering customers to the floor and employees into the back - while waving a gun - to act. After pulling his .45-caliber Glock, the customer ordered the men to stay put until deputies arrived. Only after Williams pointed his Hi-Point 9mm at the man, did the customer fire, Wright said.
The way you get shot by a concealed weapons permit holder is you point a gun at him, the sheriff said.
After struggling with the customer, the other suspect fled the restaurant and has not yet been identified. One shot was fired by the customer during that confrontation, but only after the masked man tried to grab the gun, the sheriff said. The robber never presented a weapon, but Wright said deputies are considering him armed and dangerous until he is found. Deputies don't think the second robber was injured, but aren't sure.
The sheriff's office is asking anyone with information about the identity or location of the second suspect to call CrimeStoppers at 1.888.CRIME.SC.
No customers or employees were injured. A dozen people were in the restaurant at the time.
Wright did not release the name of the customer, saying with one suspect still on the loose, he did not want to put the man in danger. The sheriff said he would release the name of the man, who is local and in his mid 20s, in a week.
Wright said he felt bad for Williams' family, saying that the young man does not have a criminal record.
This kid wasn't a troublemaker, the sheriff said.
The Waffle House where the shooting occurred was busy with customers Saturday afternoon. A manager referred questions to a corporate spokesman, who couldn't immediately be reached for comment.
Fighting back
In October, in the wake of an attempted rape at a popular park in Spartanburg County, Wright implored female residents to obtain concealed weapons permits, saying that residents need to fight back. The comments made national news and precipitated a spike in concealed weapons classes.
In the months since then, several instances of residents shooting or attempting to shoot aggressors have occurred, including a homeowner who shot a man staying inside a vacant Converse Heights home.
Wright described Saturday's shooting as another example of how a (concealed weapons permit) may save your life.
Bad: guy enters a Waffle House.
I did notice the perp had a Hi-Point, and the GG a Glock. Coincidence?
We love Sheriff Wright! Sadly, he's in the neighboring county but we still like him. Our sheriff is pretty cool too, just not as vocal.
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I'd like to know how the sheriff defines troublemaker.
Williams had been shot in the head and chest.
Yep, CoM and Head...this CCW holder followed the rules of combat.
Proverbs 27:12 says: The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
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One of our county councilman is stirring up his constiuents and trying to make issue with Sheriff Wright's advocacy of CWP. The county councilman is outclassed by Sheriff Wright, but he is still getting headlines.
Something tells me that this was the first the LE community was made aware of his employment as a street thug. Just a wild guess that armed robbery wasn't his first foray into crime.
Happy Birthday, scumbag!
Another dumb criminal bites the dust.


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Cuz is Reaching New Horizons. Yes, The Dog Park.
Cruz has been reaching new plateau's every week. His recall is nearing 100% with collar on. His sit is around the same. By the way the sit command is coupled with a stay, meaning when he sits he's not to move until released. His place command is good and his wait command is also near 100%. He is doing so great and has made a 180 turn around. Even when we are not training just hanging out, his demeanor has changed so much. He's being much less bossy, trying to run everything.
So he has done so good in all phases, I thought why not hit the dog park? We just don't get enough dog on dog reaction training around home. Where better to go than the dog park to get some more training on our reactivity? We went Thursday and we were all alone and we worked on commands and stuff. He held his sit while I walked to the other side of the park, and did excellent.
We headed out Friday afternoon. We got there and it was busy. We just worked the outside of the park letting dogs come and go and working on our commands. He wanted in bad. I was reluctant. From what I was seeing, the owners were huddled in the center of the park and their dogs were running un-supervised along with little dogs that really were not suppose to be in the big dog side of the park. So we just hung out in the front and worked. People were looking up at me like there was something wrong with me and Cruz. "Why weren't we coming in?" I kind of chuckled to myself. These were regulars to the park. We just kept doing our thing and then called it a day. Cruz did pretty good.
Saturday came around and we went back but this time we worked outside a little and then we went in. I was satisfied with what I seen, owners actually watching their dogs. So we worked a little more then it was off leash time. Some of the same people were there as on Friday. Should have seen the looks on their faces when they seen me taking Cruz off the leash. They remembered me from Friday. I think they were concerned. Such a big dog and a GSD to boot equals trouble. At least that's the look they had. Understandable. First time Cruz has been off leash around other dogs since we started the E-collar. Amazing, the difference it has made. Not so over the top of every dog all the time. Acceptance of other dogs sniffing without getting all beside himself. We did a lot of work. Recalls, sits etc. He done really really good.
So we went back today. Different people different dogs. He was even better today. He came when called, sat when told to, and generally was the calm among the craziness that happens at dog parks. What a trooper. We walked the perimeter several times and it actually felt Cruz my wife and myself were a cohesive unit sticking together. It was nice. I think the true bonding is taking place finally. I'm very proud of Cruz. Total 180 from where we've been just a couple weeks ago. It's nice to walk into somewhere and not be the center of attention because of behaviors.
Don't get me wrong. There are gaps, but those gaps keep getting filled everyday and there is plenty of work to do. We're far from perfect, but the success so far is worth bragging on.
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Lots of things are for teens and young adults — Twilight, Hunger Games, and the certainty that they've somehow uniquely discovered sex. I'm not sure I'd put the nearly 1000-page turgid prose that is Atlas Shrugged into that same category. Besides, if Obama had truly read and comprehended it, he would have understood Rand's vision of capitalism and free markets as the vehicle that would deliver the greatest good to the greatest number of people. You can disagree with Rand's proposition, but if you read Atlas Shrugged and take away the message that the rich do nothing but think about themselves and eat the poor for lunch, well, I'd say you have a comprehension problem.
I think Rand oversimplified things in that book, which is amazing given the length of the novel. I also strongly disagree with her atheism and her dismissal of personal charity. However, neither of those make Atlas Shrugged teen fare, nor do they negate some of her other points about the nature and overall beneficence of free markets as compared to command economies.


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"Mangled Horses, Maimed Jockeys," a 6,400-word article splashed across the front-page of last Sunday's New York Times, might have been a fair and useful piece of investigative journalism had it stuck to its scope: Rates of equine injuries and fatalities at some tracks, particularly Quarter Horse venues in the Southwest, are alarmingly high. There also are legitimate questions about the quality of oversight and regulation in an era when some of these tracks are operated by casino companies whose primary interest in racing is to secure licenses for their slot-machine operations.
The article, however, went well beyond that, generalizing about an entire industry with broad and unsupported strokes. Much worse, the paper then published a self-congratulatory editorial two days later, titling it "Horses to the Slaughter" and calling racing a "disreputable" industry whose participants have little regard for the welfare of its horses and riders. The editorial, written with the teary outrage of an 8-year-old who has just learned that ponies don't live forever, states that the "real pillars" of racing are "the casual and continued mistreatment of vulnerable, overmedicated and ultimately disposable athletes."
Much of the Times's overreaching conclusions stem from a proprietary analysis of supposed breakdowns, based on a computer analysis of comments in results charts. I knew something had gone badly awry with its analysis when I saw that Saratoga Race Course – by all previous measures one of the safest tracks in the world – had clocked in with 5.6 breakdown "incidents" per 1,000 starts over the last three years, above the national average in its survey.
Jeff Scott, a knowledgeable racing writer for the track's hometown paper, The Saratogian, manually went through the same results charts for the last three years, and counted only 25 such incidents compared to theTimes's 53. He theorized that The Times had included horses leaving the course in steeplechase races but The Times on Thursday denied including such cases.
The Times resorted to brewing its own statistics because of the lack of reliable historical data. Racing indeed has until recently been negligent in keeping such records. Yet a discrepancy of this magnitude regarding the premier race meet in American racing calls the accuracy of the entire analytical undertaking into question.
Even if these rates were correct, they exist in a vacuum without a comparison point to 5, 10 or 20 years ago. Nobody knows if the situation is the same, better or worse than at any other time in history, but that is an inconvenient fact in the broader narrative The Times has been trying to tell for almost a decade now: that the sport is barbaric and its participants are crooked and uncaring.
Facts to the contrary, the paper's coverage has consistently suggested that the deaths of Barbaro and Eight Belles were the result of a culture of drugs and neglect rather than regrettable but unpreventable accidents; that Big Brown lost the Triple Crown because of steroid usage rather than a common hoof problem that came at an inopportune time; and that the federal government must come riding in on its own white horses to save the sport from itself and its incompetent overlords.
Politicians wasted no time jumping on the Times article to attempt to revive their grandstanding calls for federal intervention.
Racing "has reached an alarming level of corruption and exploitation," thundered Sen. Tom Udall of New Mexico, without documenting any actual corruption, much less any efforts he has made to improve the obviously underfunded regulation of racing in the state he represents.
"The doping of injured horses and forcing them to compete is deplorable and must be stopped," said Rep. Ed Whitfield of Kentucky, who is trying to revive his and Udall's failed 2008 bill that would put racing under the control of the Food and Drug Administration and ban the use of therapeutic raceday medications. It is unclear at best that either of those steps would improve equine welfare or racing safety.
The racing industry's official response to the Times article has been disappointingly timid. A statement from the National Thoroughbred Racing Association called it "sobering," a particularly poor word choice implying that the industry has been drunkenly turning a blind eye to the familiar issues the article addressed. The statement concluded with an odd internal call for all industry participants to "consider all options for enacting nationwide reform in a more comprehensive, lasting way," which many will read as an invitation to Federal intervention.
Racing should react more swiftly and forcefully to these assaults on its very existence and do a better job of explaining the efforts it is making to improve the sport and take care of its horses. It's pretty clear that if racing doesn't stand up for itself, nobody else will.
Can't wait for the teary-eyed NY times to start taking up the plight of the cows. I'll give them 100 bucks for every race horse and they give me $1 for every cow.
these politicians and mainstream media have a lot of nerve talking about corruption. These are such noble professions.
This is how politicians have their pockets lined with more money from the racing industry. The Times is just setting the stage for more grease money. Our corrupt politicians are the beneficiary, because race horsing, as we all know, isn't going anywhere.
as one of the biggest fans of horseracing for over 30 years,i unfortunetly have seen enough,enough of the cheating by jockeys,enough of the dopping by trainers,enough of the industry turning a blind eye to all the infractions,you can dispute the times articles statistics,but they are dead right when they say that corruption ,exessive greed and exploitaxion are the norm,all the racing industry does is excuse the cheating and make excuses for its complete lack of oversight,the whole industry should be regulated and watched by law enforcement,its like a mafia enterprise right now.
As Woody Stephens (a hall of fame trainer) once said "This is not a game for people in short pants". donot know why everybody has to be so poliitically correct anymore. everything has to be a sensation - tragedy is bad just get over it like everbody else does.
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It's really easy to kill the messenger here, and the NY Times played loose with the facts, but when you have pictures of dead two year old horses discarded in a dump we have a problem. Horse racing is now behind the power curve of public opinion and we seem to be helpless in stopping these bad actors from ruining the sport. One more high profile breakdown - in the Derby or Breeders' Cup and we will be under full attack. And there is no sense in trying to defend ourselves when Dutrow, Mullins and all of the other amateur chemists continue to ply their trade with impunity. What do we do when we are under attack? We go after the inconsistencies in the article rather than fixing the problems - the problems that all of us know are there. Wait until someone starts doing the math with all of the foals that never race, where do they go? We all know where they go...
Mr Crist, the NYT does not even publish entries much less other Horseracing info They have so many discrepencies That their Motto "All the news fit to print" is spin of the Media and that is all.. UnfortunatelyPeople believe what they read. media
Steve, this is well stated, and much appreciated. In Maryland, we have an even greater discrepency, tha at saratoga. The Times stated that Laurel breakdowns were at 3.5/1000 and Pimlico was 3.8/1000, I have the actual number for the year, and it was 0.96/1000. Granted, we had an exceptionally good year, but on average, we are around 1.5/1000, a far cry from the Times figure.
I had a string of email communication with Walt Bogdanich, and his most damning retort to me: From: Bogdanich, Walt [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 12:19 PM To: Dana Reis Subject: RE: by-lined article of Walt Bogdanich, Joe Drape, Dara L. Miles, Griffin Parmer Perhaps you should express your opinion to the Jockey Club which includes quarter horses and thoroughbreds in its injury data base. QH and TB are regulated by the same state racing commissions and race under the same rules. Both have riders on their back. Feel free to email me and I will share all of my communication with you. He has no interest in learning anything about horses or statistical truths, and simply wants to have a lame last word. It is a contest as to who is worse, the politicos grandstanding on his set of half truths (although half is a lot to cede), or him. It is a disgrace.


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To be honest and from a purely logical POV - if you are under serious threat, the last thing you should have to worry about is whether you kill the darned perp!! The bat sounds one very good option as does Maglight, even tho you are leary of using either to the max.
Trouble is, in extremis - how does anyone measure their force level - I mean - one blow to the guy's head? Not enough. Try two more - ah better - but now he is on floor with cranial fracture!!!
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'"Pre-heritance" makes canny parents generous … A combination of high house prices and 40% inheritance tax is prompting the over-55s to give financial support to children to help them purchase a home of their own, rather than leaving them an inheritance which could be subject to inheritance tax.'Citywire 12th September 2004
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According to a national survey in the UK, 82% of people over 55 said they would prefer to give financial support to their children or grandchildren before they die. 44% said they would consider releasing equity from their homes in order to give their children or grandchildren the finances necessary to buy their first house or to cover the cost of weddings or education. It seems that parents are increasingly beginning to recognize the advantages of giving financial support to their offspring at a time when they really need it, thereby also potentially avoiding the pitfalls of inheritance tax, tax paid on inherited money or property. The term pre-heritance, also sometimes written preheritance, has filled the gap in the lexicon as a description of this growing trend. It predominantly occurs in the uncountable form, although by analogy with the noun inheritance there is some evidence for countable use, as illustrated in the second citation above. There is to date no evidence for the use of related verb and adjective forms pre-herit or pre-herited, though these may emerge in the future.
The term pre-heritance has been formed by blending the prefix pre-, meaning 'before', and a contracted form of the noun inheritance. In forming the new word, the noun inheritance has been subject to the process of what linguists would call clipping. Clipped forms usually result from removal of the end of a longer word, such as the form ad or advert from the noun advertisement, but occasionally examples occur, as here, where the beginning of the word (in-) is removed. In some cases, clipped forms become more frequently used than the words on which they were based, as for example plane as a clipped form of aeroplane or airplane. The word inheritance has its origins in Anglo-Norman French enheritaunce, which means 'being admitted as heir'.
This article was first published on 23rd May 2005.
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The appellant is a company incorporated under the Companies Act in the year 1992. M/s Mano Pharmaceuticals Private Limited is a Division of the appellant's company for which an agreement was entered into by the two companies, in 2003. Subsequently, M/s Mano Pharmaceuticals Private Limited had filed an application under the Trade Marks Act, 1999 (hereinafter referred to as "the Act") for registration of trade mark 'METO'. A request on Form TM-16 was filed to amend the name of the applicant to 'M/s Mano Pharma (a Division of Orchid Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Limited)' on 24.02.2003. Without taking the request on TM-16 on record the trademark office issued the registration certificate on 24/02/2005 in the name 'M/s Mano Pharmaceuticals Private Limited'.
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Wednesday, November 10th, 2010 by Michelle McLees
Virginia Beach. (November 9, 2010) JES, a leading engineering solutions company specializing in foundation repair, basement waterproofing and crawlspace moisture control, was recently named to Hampton Roads Roaring 20 - an award that recognizes 20 of the region's fastest growing companies that are making significant contributions to the local economy. To qualify for this prestigious honor, a company must be headquartered in Hampton Roads for at least three years, have realized gross revenues of at least $2 million in 2009 and experienced three years of growth.
Established in 1993, JES has grown from one employee into a company with three locations and over 100 employees with a 64% increase in annual gross revenue over the past three years. Founded by Jesse Waltz, a professional engineer, in his native Pennsylvania, JES originally focused on waterproofing basements. However, when he relocated the business to Virginia to be closer to family, he quickly realized that the area did not have as many basements so structural repairs were added to the company's services, which is now the biggest part of the business.
While JES was growing, Waltz also consulted around the country on foundation repair and business management, but still wanted to monitor his business while away from the office. As a result, Waltz developed BizWiz®, a Web-based business management system designed for the foundation / basement / crawlspace repair industry and other home improvement industries. BizWiz provides real-time data on a company's activities and performance, including leads, sales, marketing, gross profits, personnel and other information. Currently this management system is being used by 40 companies in the United States and Canada, and it is revolutionizing the way they do business.
About JES Construction
JES is a structural engineering solutions firm specializing in residential and commercial foundation repair, basement waterproofing systems, and crawl space moisture control systems. The company is Virginia's largest authorized dealer for Foundation Supportworks' products, Basement Systems® products, and CleanSpace® crawl space encapsulation products. JES operates out of three locations in Virginia including Virginia Beach, Chester, and Manassas, and serves Virginia, Maryland, Washington D.C. and Northeastern North Carolina. For more information about JES Construction please visit www.jeswork.com.
About the Roaring 20
The Roaring 20 award honors 20 of Hampton Road's most dynamic businesses based on revenue and employee growth. Finalists were chosen based upon a formula that takes into account both dollar growth and percentage rate of growth over the company's three most recent completed fiscal years. Other judging criteria included critical factors that resulted in company growth, challenges/obstacle overcame and future outlook of long-term sustainability. An independent panel of judges of local business leaders and university business faculty worked with Cherry, Bekaert & Holland LLP to evaluate and assess the criteria.
For more information contact:
Eric Lackey
Office: (757) 558.9909
Toll Free: 877-JES-WORK
Cell: (757) 749.5875
Michelle McLees
Office: (804) 425.9914
Toll Free: 877-JES-WORK
Cell: (804) 519.1909