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It seemed like a typical night at a ship repair yard one rainy evening. Operating for more than 15 years — 13 of which had been at this particular location in California — the shipyard was home to around 1,300 employees working round-the-clock shifts. For a particular 35-year-old journeyman electrician, one of approximately 60 employed by the company, this shift would sadly be his last.
Working from 4 p.m. until midnight, the man was sent out by his supervisor to perform electrical maintenance on a high-voltage transformer, which provided power to numerous essential areas and systems, including shipboard activities, confined spaces, lighting systems, and power hand tools. The assignment took him to the south power transformer, located outside in the southern portion of the shipyard, where the task at hand would expose him to high-voltage equipment (12,000kV and 600A) — a condition that would ultimately lead to his death.
The accident
According to his coworkers and supervisor, the man's electrical experience had been primarily working with low-voltage equipment; however, he had worked with high-voltage on occasion. Instructed by his supervisor to inspect the transformers throughout the shipyard, this process involved ensuring the high-voltage conductors in the transformers were properly insulated — a job a local electrical company had performed on several occasions earlier that month. (It's important to note that around 9 p.m., while inspecting these transformers, he accidentally turned off power to a dry dock somehow, leaving a large number of employees without power until it was restored.)
The plans changed, however. With a shift change came a new set of instructions from a new supervisor. This time, the worker was told to stop what he was doing and proceed with two new tasks. First, he was to troubleshoot and repair a ground fault in the center yard. Next, perform maintenance service on the high-voltage transformers.
At approximately 10:20 p.m., while working alone performing maintenance work on the south transformer, the victim was discovered lying unconscious and unresponsive face down on a wet surface by a coworker. Emergency crews were called to the scene. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) was initiated by coworkers and continued until arrival of paramedics at approximately 10:26 p.m.
At this time, the victim did not have a pulse, was absent of blood pressure and respiration, and was asystolic on the cardiac monitor. An esophageal obturator airway (EOA) was placed, and he was administered intravenous normal saline, epinephrine, and atropine. No clinical response was noted, and he was transported to the local hospital. Upon arrival at the hospital emergency room at 10:54 p.m., the victim was unconscious and unresponsive with CPR in progress. Despite aggressive resuscitative efforts, including six defibrillation attempts, no clinical response was noted, and death was pronounced. Cause of death? High-voltage electrocution.
The investigation
Informed of the incident the next day by a Cal/OSHA safety engineer, a California Fatality and Control Assessment Evaluation (FACE) investigator arrived on the scene. Aided by a copy of the Cal/OSHA Report and the medical examiner's autopsy report, the forensic investigator began to gather evidence. This process would uncover several findings.
First, he established that environmental conditions at the site were very poor that night due to a recent rain and inadequate lighting. The victim was also not wearing any personal protective equipment (PPE), and there was no ground provided for the transformer at this location. A pair of protective gloves were found on the north side of the transformer by the victim's supervisor along with several tools (crescent wrench on top of the transformer and small hand tools in the victim's tool belt) as well as a can of all-purpose degreaser found inside the transformer where the victim had been working.
Neither coworkers nor the victim's supervisor could explain what the aerosol was being used for, although some speculated it may have been used to detect cracks in the wire insulation.
The investigator also found that the panels in the power supply room were not labeled, nor was there a label or warning sign at the incident site. The panel that provided electrical current to the south transformer was found in the "Open" position — a position that de-energizes the unit — when observed by company officials after the incident.
Although the conductors in the transformer had been de-energized by the victim, there may still have been backfeed or stored energy remaining in the conductors. There was no testing equipment located in the immediate area, making it appear that no tests had been made by the victim to ensure that all the cables were de-energized before he began his work that evening. As noted earlier, there was also no ground in place at the south transformer. The victim did not try to install a ground to the transformer, possibly because grounding the unit prior to beginning his work could have exposed him to an increased electrical hazard.
When interviewed for this case, coworkers hinted at the fact that the victim may have been reprimanded after the initial power outage around 9 p.m., thus causing him to act hastily with regard to his other tasks later on that evening. The next power outage occurred at approximately 10:10 p.m., allegedly at the time of the accident.
The lesson
On the surface, it appeared that safety was a priority at the shipyard. For example, safety meetings were conducted on a regular basis, according to management. Employees were also given several types of safety training, including on-the-job, classroom, manuals, videos, and guest speakers. This was complemented by weekly safety meetings, called "gangbox meetings." Nevertheless, there were no written safety rules available for the California FACE investigator to review during the time of his site investigation.
After conducting his analysis, the investigator formed the following conclusions, offering these recommendations to prevent similar tragedies from happening in the future.
Recommendation #1 — Employers should have an Injury and Illness Prevention Plan (IIPP) that addresses specific electrical safety training for supervisors and employees working with electrical equipment.
According to the investigator, this incident could have been prevented if such a plan had been developed and implemented. In addition, a communication system should also be in place, offering employees the opportunity to express concerns regarding electrical hazards in the workplace.
In fact, under Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations (CCRs) Section 3203(3), employers should include a system for communicating with employees in a form readily understandable by all affected employees on matters relating to occupational safety and health, including provisions designed to encourage them to inform the employer of hazards at the worksite without fear of reprisal. Per Section 3203(7)(f), employers should provide a plan that states supervisors should familiarize themselves with the safety and health hazards to which employees under their immediate direction and control may be exposed.
Recommendation #2 — Employers should have a standard operating procedure (SOP) stating that all high-voltage work be performed by a licensed electrician.
In this case, the victim was not yet a licensed electrician.
Recommendation #3 — Employers should have a proper ground in place for all electrical transformers and equipment.
In this particular case, the incident could have been prevented if a ground had been in place at the south transformer. Excess electrical energy in the cables at the transformer that evening may have contributed to the electrocution.
Under Title 8 of the CCRs Section 2943 (f), suitable grounding devices shall be used — first connected to a ground before being brought into contact with any de-energized conductors or equipment to be grounded. The other end shall be attached and removed by means of insulated tools or other suitable devices. When removed, they shall be removed from all conductors or equipment before being disconnected from the ground.
Recommendation #4 — Employers should have an SOP that clearly outlines guidelines for a lockout/tagout system.
If a lockout/tagout system had been in place, this accident may not have occurred. Employers should instruct supervisors and employees in the operation of such a system. The individual doing the electrical work should de-energize and lock the power panel before beginning to do any electrical work. A single key to the lock should be kept by this individual until all electrical work is completed.
Under Title 8 of the CCRs Section 4413, employees shall be instructed to retain possession of the key(s) to the lock(s) and personally remove the lock(s) or, if used, blocking means upon completion of work.
Recommendation #5 — Employers should have all power panels and transformers labeled so that it is evident where electricity is provided and from which panels.
In this specific location, the power panels and transformers were not labeled. Proper labeling may have acted as a visual reminder to the victim with regard to which panels control which equipment. A warning label on the transformer may have also reminded the victim to take safety precautions when working with high-voltage electricity. Under Title 8 of the CCRs Section 2811, permanent and conspicuous warning signs shall be posted on all doors or gates that provide access to enclosures containing exposed energized parts and conductors. Such signs shall be legible at 12 feet and shall read substantially as follows: "WARNING - HIGH VOLTAGE - KEEP OUT."
Recommendation #6 — Employers should have an SOP addressing the necessary environmental conditions for certain types of work activities, such as electrical maintenance work done in the outdoors.
The victim in this incident was working under wet conditions and with poor lighting. This incident may have been prevented if there had been an SOP stating that no electrical work was to be done outdoors in adverse weather or without sufficient illumination when working at night.
Recommendation #7 — Employers should train employees in the proper use of personal protective equipment (PPE).
Unfortunately, the victim in this case was not wearing gloves or any other type of PPE. Employers should have adequate personal protective equipment at the workplace and provide training for employees on the proper use of such equipment.
Recommendation #8 — Employers should have an SOP stating that two employees should work together when working with high-voltage electrical equipment.
Contrary to this recommendation, the victim in this incident was working alone. A coworker may have reminded the victim to wear PPE or may have suggested that the victim not continue to work under the poor environmental conditions in existence that evening. Under Title 8 of the CCRs Section 2940(c), only qualified electrical workers shall work on energized high-voltage system.
Except for replacing fuses, operating switches, or other operations that do not require the employee to contact energized high-voltage conductors or energized parts of equipment, clearing "trouble" or in emergencies involving hazard to life or property, no such employee shall be assigned to work alone. Employees in training, who are qualified by experience and training, shall be permitted to work on energized conductors or equipment connected to high-voltage systems while under the supervision or instruction of a qualified electrical worker.
Although hindsight is 20/20, there is a considerable possibility that if the employer had followed even a few of the recommendations above, the tragedy may not have occurred.
Editor's Note: This article was excerpted from a FACE report with permission from NIOSH. All FACE reports involving electrical injury and fatalities can be accessed on the Web at www.cdc.gov/niosh/face/default.html.
For questions pertaining to this article, contact Virgil Casini, a senior investigator for the Fatality Investigations Team, Surveillance and Field Investigations Branch, at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Division of Safety Research at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Morgantown, W.V. He can be reached at (304) 285-6020 or [email protected].


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Producing a blockbuster IP litigation hit, Epilogue: Closure to the story.
The first five articles in this series discussed the importance of the initial casting of the IP litigation team, the first steps in laying the groundwork to ensure that ongoing litigation expenses are controllable and predictable, and some ideas for trial that can significantly reduce litigation costs. This article provides some ideas for limiting costs during an appeal and other litigation matters in the future.
Now that your trial is over and you have hopefully received a favorable jury verdict, you can relax if the other side is not going to appeal. However, if the opposing party is going to appeal your favorable verdict, or if you did not receive a favorable verdict, your next steps will be important in determining how much the appeals process could cost your company.
Should you appeal?
If you receive an unfavorable final decision on the merits you will have to decide whether to appeal or to accept the decision. Before you incur the additional expenses associated with the appeal, you should work with outside counsel to honestly evaluate your chances of success on appeal. For example, even though you might feel the judge committed errors, were those errors significant enough to rise to the level of reversible error? Lower courts are generally given significant discretion by appellate courts, and establishing that reversible error occurred can be an uphill battle. One notable exception to this overall deference is in the patent arena, however: the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has a relatively high rate of reversal of district courts on often case-dispositive issues such as claim construction, patent validity and infringement. If you determine that the district court likely committed reversible error, and that this error was outcome-determinative, then an appeal may be warranted.
If you or the opposing party appeals
Some cost-saving measures are highly effective at mitigating costs during the appeal process, regardless of whether you are the appellant or the appellee.
First, as fully explored in the fifth article in this series, you should work with outside counsel to choose your arguments carefully. Going with the "kitchen sink" approach is never a good idea. Although it might be tempting to fully explain every error the judge made, you should resist this temptation and focus your time and efforts on your most effective arguments, with particular attention to any errors that were outcome-determinative. By including too many arguments on appeal, not only brief-writing and brief-preparation costs are increased, but you may inadvertently irritate the appellate judge.
Second, working in a cooperative manner with opposing counsel can also save costs in the appeals process. For example, many jurisdictions allow counsel for appellant and appellee to submit a joint appendix to the appellate court. Appendices can be very time consuming and expensive to create, but those costs may be shared if the parties agree on a joint submission.
Third, although it might seem counterintuitive, counsel may save expense by hiring a third-party vendor that specializes in assisting outside counsel in the formatting and binding of the appellate briefs and appendices. For example, some circuits require that each appellant and appellee submit numerous bound hard copies of their briefs. Certain vendors specialize in this process and can be much cheaper to use when compared with using outside counsel for the same tasks. Likewise, the vendors are generally very familiar with the numerous local rules for that circuit's appellate court and are quite effective at ensuring compliance with all the local rules such that the briefs are accepted on the first go-round and the need for costly reprints is avoided.
Fourth, counsel should determine if oral argument is truly necessary. In many circuits oral argument is rarely granted. Moreover, many practitioners suspect that oral argument is frowned upon by the appellate judges, who are confident that the case may be decided on the briefs and see the oral argument as a waste of time. Michael A. Wolff writes in From the Mouth of a Fish: An Appellate Judge Reflects on Oral Argument, "We are at a point in our history when oral argument in appellate courts has greatly shrunk." Similarly, Warren D. Wolfson in Oral Argument: Does It Matter? pointed to "a growing disdain for oral arguments."
After litigation
Finally, after the litigation has fully concluded, inside and outside counsel should evaluate what worked and what didn't, and if applicable, how to avoid the problem in the future. For example, inside and outside counsel should have honest conversations with each other to determine what strategies were successful, what ideas should have been pursued, and what level of value outside counsel provided throughout the litigation process. Second, if similar litigation involving similar issues may be possible in the future, outside counsel should prepare a summary memorandum describing key successful arguments or other tips and tricks that proved helpful. This summary could be referenced by a new litigation team by quickly updating new counsel and preventing unnecessary work.
Last, if inside counsel has not already consulted with outside counsel to identify any internal problems or policies that contributed to the existence or expense of the litigation, the conclusion of the case is a good time to assess these policies or occurrences. By assessing and improving corporate policies, future lawsuits may well be avoided.
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In Mortal Kombat: Unchained, an ancient evil has returned from beyond death and threatens the very existence of the realms. Will the champion of the Elder Gods have the power to defeat the threat borne of Deception? The game delivers the most complete fighting experience and progressing the lethal intensity which the franchise has been known for since its 1992 debut in arcades, Mortal Kombat: Deception is set to revolutionize the fighting game genre. With unlimited online competition, Mortal Kombat: Deception features multiple fatalities per character; multi-tiered death traps, stage fatalities and interactive Kombat backgrounds, taking the Mortal Kombat series to an all-new level of pain for the players.
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I have been a huge fan of the Mortal Kombat movies since its first film, and that fanaticism has continued into the gaming aspect. Mortal Kombat: Unchained takes off from the storyline of the 2004 Mortal Kombat: Deception for PlayStation 2. Being patterned after the 2004 release, Unchained features mostly the same strengths and weaknesses that Deception had.
The game features the classic One-on-One skirmish with two added quirky extras namely: Chess Kombat and Puzzle Kombat. Chess Kombat puts on a basic tactical layer over the one-on-one bout similar to that of the traditional computer game Archon. Instigated by Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, the Puzzle Kombat is, as you can probably guess, a cutthroat puzzle game. Also featured is a story-based mode called KONQUEST, which unfortunately gives the player a dizzying spin into heaps of interminable and convoluted tales about the Mortal Kombat universe. One new feature that the game offers is the Endurance Mode where it lets you fight with consecutive opponents, which ironically has too many interruptions. Players new to the game are likely to get awed by the overwhelming counter-intuitive quality of the controls. Each featured fighter has 3 different fighting stances that include a weapon-based stance. Each stance has its own moves and combos that you're supposed to memorize; plus a set of special moves unique to each character.
The roster has about two dozens of diverse characters to pick your choice from, featuring newly added characters such as Shao Kahn, Jax, Frost, Goro, Blaze, and Kitana fighting alongside the series of favorites like Liu Kang, Scorpion, Raiden, and Sub-Zero. With various interactive fighting arenas for combat, the game provides more exciting gameplay. The combat has an inflexible feel to it, though. It seems unresponsive no matter how hard you try to click; it may take some time to learn all of the controls as well as particular fighter's move combos. However, fighting can be very tactical and full of thrill once you get used to the controls, especially if you're trying to get the upper hand on the ad Hoc WI-Fi match with a friend.
The full 3D visuals don't seem quite as detailed in the PSP as Deception in PS2, although the game still appears and sounds great and definitely runs smoothly enough. The audio is so evil-sounding with some hard core sound effects, a suitably vicious announcer, a decent collection of authentic grunts and realistic screams topped with some moody, sinister-sounding track; adding to the images of gruesome fatalities – these all add up to the classic dark feel of the game.
Now, this may seem very exciting to newbies, but to players who got to play Deception in PS2, nothing much has changed in Unchained with the exception of the Endurance mode. The online mode which was a key feature of Deception was removed from Unchained for the PSP. Another annoying thing the game has is its extremely lengthy loading time during the extras and even in One-on-One fighting; taking as long as 20 seconds to load and slowing down your progression from one fight to the next. But if you're an avid Mortal Kombat fan like me, all these things are negligible and the game remains to be very enjoyable indeed.
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Countywide school board members meet Tuesday, Feb. 12, in special session to send a still-forming budget for the first fiscal year of the consolidated school system to the Shelby County Commission.
And "still forming" is the operative term in what amounts to the first of two rounds of budget interaction between the school board and the commission, which provides all local funding to the merged school system.
From Tuesday's session, the general budget estimate from the school board goes back to staff for either fine-tuning or an overhaul. And from there it goes to county commissioners who will discuss it in detail at a Feb. 23 budget retreat.
The idea is for commissioners to have an idea what the school board wants or needs in the way of funding and let the school board know what the commission is willing to do through the county property tax rate in the way of extra funding.
A Sunday afternoon public hearing at Houston High School in Germantown on the budget drew a standing-room-only crowd of several hundred.
A steering committee of administrators from both school systems went, in most cases, with the Memphis City Schools model over the extra cost of expanding what Shelby County Schools does across the much larger set of schools in Memphis when it comes to staffing and pupil-teacher ratios.
And those are the two areas of the most concern to parents over several public hearings in the last week.
"I think their real focus was trying to bridge the numbers gap. … You can't just look at the numbers," countywide school board member David Pickler said. "Our job is to get a budget that reflects the needs of the school system."
He and school board members Mary Anne Gibson and Joe Clayton hosted the Sunday meeting with school board member Kevin Woods also in attendance.
"We have to speak with one voice," Pickler told those at Houston High saying those who haven't spoken up because they plan on shifting to a set of suburban school districts should be involved now in the countywide school district because the suburban school districts are "in the future."
"It can't be accomplished if we stay in this room and we don't go out and advocate at our school board and demand that they level up to Shelby County Schools," Gibson said.
Houston High School band director Jim Smith urged the school board to "submit a budget of real needs."
"No one's going to fire you over saying this is what you need," he added. "You don't have to be ashamed of doing more with less. Our issue here is we can't do more with nothing."
That was as close as any one got to saying what suburban residents said repeatedly as the suburban towns and cities began organizing municipal school districts – raise my taxes if you have to. I will pay more.
Instead the crowd Sunday questioned the efficiency of the Memphis City Schools system.
They also continued to voice the fear that the merger has become about what they consider to be a leveling down to Memphis City Schools standards.
Pickler and Gibson argued against the notion that the merger is about parts of both school systems coexisting across boundaries that will no longer exist later this year with the merger.
Sunday's discussion very tentatively gave voice to the idea that sentiment may be building on the school board to at least talk about seeking more than $80 million to $90 million extra in funding from the Shelby County Commission.
Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell has warned there is not support on the County Commission for a tax hike to fund even that much more.
Last week, county commissioners talked in general about the schools merger as they specifically discussed a single residency requirement for a countywide school system formed from two school systems that have different requirements and standards on that and other personnel policy matters.
"This is where the rubber hits the road on consolidation," commissioner Heidi Shafer said as she suggested a phase-in period for such changes and the accompanying funding. "Consolidation does mean consolidation. I'm fine with a phased-in approach. It can be five years or so. But I think we all need to come under one umbrella at some time – not separate but equal."
Commissioner Sidney Chism said the reality of the schools merger is already at hand.
"There's only one system. I'm getting real tired of hearing about 'my system,'" he said. "We're there. … If we can't work it out, then nobody's afraid to go to war. It's an easy thing to get into but it's a big thing to get out of."
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One of Terence Rattigan's most celebrated plays is given a new screen adaptation in this drama written and directed by Terence Davies. Hester Page (Rachel Weisz) is rescued in the midst of a suicide attempt by her landlady Mrs. Elton (Ann Mitchell) when she smells gas. As those around her ponder why a beautiful woman would choose such a fate, we learn that Hester is not really Hester at all — she's actually Lady Collyer, the wife of well-known and respected judge Sir William Collyer (Simon Russell Beale). However, Lady Collyer has never known love or satisfaction in her marriage, and she fell into an affair with Freddie Page (Tom Hiddleston), a former RAF pilot. Lady Collyer has become hopelessly infatuated with Freddie, leaving her husband and living with Freddie under an assumed identity. But the woman who now calls herself Hester soon discovers she loves Freddie far more than he loves her, and between his drinking and neglect for her, it seems she's given up her old life for one that has no future. This marks the second time The Deep Blue Sea has been brought to the screen; Vivien Leigh starred in the 1955 version directed by Anatole Litvak.
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AEDG Implementation Recommendations: Interior Lighting Good Design Practice
The Advanced Energy Design Guide (AEDG) for Small Office Buildings, 30% series, seeks to achieve 30% savings over ASHRAE Standard 90.1-1999. This guide focuses on improvements to small office buildings, less than 20,000ft2. The recommendations in this article are adapted from the implementation section of the guide and focus on lighting walls and ceilings; task lighting; reflectances; lamps and ballasts; occupancy sensors; multi-level switching; electric lighting and daylight controls; exit signs.
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A cylinder that's truncated under an angle. It can be truncated at an angle both at the top and the bottom. The length is measured over the axis of the cylinder.
The bottom angle can also be rotated around the axis, as if the already truncated cylinder were twisted.
Mitered cylinders, or tubes, are used a lot in engineering to connect tubes. For those who like to make boxes with this template: a top and a bottom piece are also provided.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The Yale women's soccer team plays the first of three straight Ivy League road games on Saturday at Harvard. The stretch will go a long way in determining whether Yale stays in the race for the league title. After dropping their opener last Saturday to Princeton, the Bulldogs are in need of a win. Kickoff is slated for 11:30 a.m. at Ohiri Field and fans can follow Live Stats of the game from gocrimson.com.
Yale (5-4-1, 0-1 Ivy) went 326 minutes, 2 seconds without scoring before Maggie Westfal's goal early in the second half of Wednesday night's win over Bryant. The wait for another goal wasn't nearly as long. Emma Whitfield scored just 4:52 later as the Bulldogs cruised to victory. Westfal and Whitfield have combined for 10 goals and 28 points this season.
Harvard (3-3-3, 0-1) is in a similar situation to Yale. The Crimson dropped their Ivy opener, 2-0 at Penn last Saturday. The loss snapped Harvard's six-game unbeaten streak. Freshman Melanie Baskind leads the Crimson with eight points and three goals and is tied with Katherine Sheeleigh with two assists. Sheeleigh (one goal, two assists) and Erin Wylie (two goals) are second on the squad with four points. Baskind, Sheeleigh and Wylie have each contributed one game-winning goal.
Lauren Mann is 2-3-2 in net and has stopped 41 shots for a .820 save percentage (41 of 50). She also has posted a 1.19 goals-against average. Laura Dale (1-0-1) earned her first career shutout at Fairfield and has now stopped 21 of 22 shots (.955 save percentage) she has faced this fall. She also has a 0.45 goals-against average to her credit.
Yale has won three straight games against Harvard, including a 2-1 overtime victory last year at Reese Stadium. Westfal scored the game-winning goal just 3:04 into the extra period. Caitlin Collins also had a goal for the Bulldogs.
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Yes, this is cool and terrifying and mesmerizing. But I swear to Subway Jesus, if you miss and hit the third rail and delay my commute, I will piss on your grave.
The skater, Koki, nailed the trick back in March on the lower level of the 145th St. IND station in Manhattan. It's part of Tengu: God of Mischief, a video compilation of urban skate tricks by director Colin Read.
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"We waited till about 5 a.m. to get this trick but it was worth it. I wasn't sure Koki was going to do it when we went down, but after a few run ups he landed it first try."
Over at Gothamist, where we found the GIF, you can see a couple trailers for the film, which include clips of his aborted run-ups.


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Numbers have a magic of their own. Random guesses become formal estimates. Estimates become assumptions. Assumptions become facts. But facts are often hard to come by in the world of Marketing, except when it comes to email marketing.
For example, we now know that our favourite medium returns more than twice that of search and other online channels. Some analysts say you could triple it yet again if you factor in online sales resulting from email campaigns!
So, fortunately for all of us, email marketing is not only cost effective, it is highly measurable and can be analysed for a variety of success factors, e.g. subject lines, messaging, design/layout, spam, links and interactive content, etc. For the purposes of this report, we used several popular approaches to measuring and comparing email campaigns with the goal of highlighting trends and techniques to help you, our customers, continuously improve your results.
The statistics were gathered over a period of six months by our email experts and will be updated and re-released on a regular basis. We'll be sure to let you know when the next report is coming!
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Why Metrics Matter
Analysing and comparing the major aspects of email marketing campaigns is the only reliable way to ensure mistakes aren't repeated and successes are. Because email marketing is so measurable and easy to manipulate, there are a multitude of opportunities to test, assess, and modify each message before it goes out - without spending an extra dime. Analysing the results provides yet another opportunity to evaluate the content, timing and techniques, and ensure each campaign is better than the last. Remember, the goal is to generate sales, but ROI determines your profit margins.
While we recommend the use of Email Analytics to optimize your campaigns, it is extremely useful to assess and compare email marketing outcomes for larger volumes of emails over longer periods of time. These statistics can reveal both common errors and new best practices and help our valued SOHO and SMB customers improve productivity, increase profits, and reduce costs.
Open Rate
Open rate: the total number of emails opened which were tracked as viewed, divided by the total number of HTML messages sent.
How are open rates tracked?
To track open rates, HTML emails contain a piece of code requesting the display of a tiny, transparent (i.e. invisible to the viewer) image. When a recipient enables images to display upon when reading a message, the sending server receives notification of when and by whom the image was displayed, hence tracking" the "open". The entire process takes place in the background in a matter of milliseconds.
Unfortunately, open rates are becoming less accurate as more recipients use mobile devices or disable image display for more efficient browsing. Many email clients also refuse by default to display images. The result? When images are blocked, the "open" cannot be tracked even though the message is read.
As we develop new formulas to assess the impact of these "blocking" devices, open rates will remain a critical factor in helping marketers determine the success of subject lines, personalization techniques, and overall brand recognition and customer relationships. See how to use email open rates below.
Click-Through Rat
Click-Through Rate (CTR): The percentage of recipients who click on a link divided by the total number who receive the link. For example, to calculate the click-through rate of an email campaign, divide the number of click-throughs by the number of emails delivered (multiply this number by 100 to express the result as a percentage). Include clicks from both text and HTML versions of a message.
Short or Long? Subject Line Length
Open rates by subject line length
The subject line is probably the single most important element that drives open rates. Bad subject lines, poor open rates. Good subject lines, good open rates. But what role does character length play? While there's much discussion at both the "short" and "longer" ends of the length spectrum, we found a middle ground that proved successful for our sample group.
In contrast to the "shorter is better" argument, the emails with subject lines of more than 25 characters generated more open rates in our study sample. So it seems that email marketers still prefer "longer" subject lines to short ones, but not too long! The optimum range we recommend is 25-50 characters.
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When creating your subject line, try to be concise and, above all, relevant. Be aware that if they are either too long or too short, your open rates will suffer. Again, the optimum length we recommend is 25-50 characters.
To write a successful subject line, make sure it accurately summarizes your message. You want to tell the recipient what's inside the email, not try to sell the content in one line of text. However, it should be compelling and use language that is appropriate for your target audience. For example, you wouldn't use "Biz" instead of "Business" in a report you send to business executives, but it might be perfect for your SOHO prospects.
Subscription Age Tracking
Open rates by subscription age
Our results show that for the first 12 months after sign up, the newer the subscriber, the higher the open rate. Recipients who signed up for your newsletter a month ago or less tend to open messages more frequently than those who signed up 3 to 6 months ago. However, subscribers who have been on a list for more than a year are more responsive, perhaps indicating that it takes time to build customer loyalty and sustain interest. This provides yet another reason to communicate with customers on a regular basis, or risk losing them in that all-important first 12 months.
Click rates by subscription age
Consistent with our open rates, recipients who signed up less than one week prior tend to show more interest in, and act more often on, email messages. Again, this tells us subscribers are more enthusiastic at the beginning of the subscription and that their engagement diminishes with time, with the worst results occurring between 3-6 months into the subscription. Fortunately, the click-through rate increases again over time, according to our study, but why wait? Use the Tips below to reduce your risk!
|Open Rate
|Click Rate
|Less than 1 week
|28,50%- 16,59%
|1 week -1 month
|22,97% - 19,94%
|1 month - 3 months
|16,89%- 18,19%
|3 months - 6 months
|8,86% -13,00%
|6 months -1 year
|10,72% - 13,74%
|more than 1 year
|12,06% - 18,54%
The drastic drop in open and click-through rates between 3-6 months after sign up shows that mail marketers need to work harder at keeping new customers interested and engaged. While it's expected that you'll lose money on most new customers due to the cost of acquisition and the lower average value of first purchases, don't stop "selling" after they become subscribers. In fact, that's when you need your "second wind" campaign. Why? Existing customers are almost always easier to persuade and more prone to purchase. So if you want to increase the lifetime value of every subscriber you win, it's essential to view them as valuable assets that need to be nurtured to continue delivering value, i.e. income!
Timing Is Everything!
Open and click rates by day of the week
Open rates will vary significantly for the same email sent on different days, so timing is critical! This is another aspect of email marketing that is very easy to control in order to optimize your results.
According to our data, Thursday is currently the day when the majority of broadcasts are sent by GetResponse, with Monday a close second:
- Thursday: 17,46%
- Monday: 17,04%
While most messages are being sent out on Thursdays, the majority are read on Mondays. It's possible that savvy marketers choose the 4th workday as Friday leaves little time for last-minute changes...and fewer emails get read as the weekend begins. However, if your email is waiting in recipients' inboxes on Monday morning, they are much more likely to take action and click on your links!
Click Rate
Click rates by hour of the day
Note: the highest click rates occur around the lunch hour. That's when many of us have plowed through our "to do" lists and take a few minutes to catch up on personal and promotional emails. So we have another good reason to make messages short and enticing - you may be competing with food!
To increase your open and click rates, try sending very early in the week or close to the end of the work week. However, just as every audience is different, what works for some industries may fail miserably for others. For example, businesses that make most of their money on the weekends and holidays, like restaurants, retail stores, and entertainment venues, should get better results later in the week, rather than on Mondays. Bottom line? Experiment to find out what works best for your target market. And, as always, we'll be here to help you with the latest metrics, tutorials, and support!
Closing remarks
The statistics in this report were gathered from November 2008 through April 2009 and are based on our customers' email marketing activities. We believe they are typical of most SMB and SOHO marketing results over a 6-month period and can serve as a valuable baseline for follow-on reports. However, email marketing is constantly evolving and we are committed to measuring and updating our statistics on a regular basis to make sure you stay ahead of the curve.
Please let us know if you would like us to include any other topics or categories in our analysis and we will do our best to comply!
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SAN FRANCISCO — Samsung Electronics Co. struck social media gold when Oscars host Ellen DeGeneres used one of its smartphones to take what has now become the world's most famous selfie.
DeGeneres never mentioned Samsung, a major Academy Awards sponsor, but handed actor Bradley Cooper the company's Galaxy Note 3 for the celebrity-filled shot that included Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Kevin Spacey, Jared Leto and Lupita Nyong'o.
The Oscars selfie was such a viral hit that it crushed the previous record set by President Obama after his reelection in 2012 and temporarily knocked Twitter's service offline as fans retweeted it more than 700,000 times in the first half hour alone.
"We crashed and broke Twitter," DeGeneres said from the stage. "We made history."
The selfie holds the record as the most popular tweet ever, making the picture worth every dollar Samsung paid for the sponsorship, said Peter Sealey, chief executive of the Sausalito Group strategic marketing company.
"That was a social media home run. It really was," Sealey said.
Samsung said Monday that the selfie was not scripted and that it would donate $3 million total to two charities picked by DeGeneres to thank her. It also began running an ad on Twitter: "Record-breaking selfie taken on #TheNextBigThing! Noted."
The South Korean electronics maker used the Oscars to introduce its "One Samsung" campaign that promoted a variety of products including the Galaxy Note Pro Tablet, the Galaxy S5 phone, the Gear 2 smartwatch and a curved ultra-high-definition television.
Samsung did not disclose how much it paid to be a sponsor, but according to research firm Kantar Media, the company spent $24 million from 2009 to 2013 to be one of the top advertisers on the show during those years.
Samsung's Note 3 phone was a fixture on Sunday's broadcast. On Monday, DeGeneres tweeted that she gave everyone in the audience of her namesake TV show a Galaxy Note 3.
Product placement is the practice of paying to have merchandise featured in a scene. It has become a multibillion-dollar business as more viewers skip commercials, making product placement an effective and less intrusive way to get brands in front of people.
James Bond carried the Sony Xperia T smartphone throughout "Skyfall." On Showtime's "Homeland," CIA agents were contacted in the field over Skype. Cisco's videoconferencing tool TelePresence made a cameo in "30 Rock" when Jack Donaghy was forced to use it after getting bed bugs. In an episode of "Hawaii Five-0" a character is told to "Bing it" as Microsoft tries to get people to use "Bing" as a verb the way they use "Google."
Facebook got tons of free publicity with the award-winning 2010 film "The Social Network" which was an unauthorized look at the company.
The biggest role in a movie yet for a technology company: Google in last summer's comedy "The Internship." The Internet giant's campus in Mountain View, Calif., was the setting for the film in which Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson play down-on-their-luck watch salesmen searching for a second chance as Silicon Valley interns. Google lent its brand to the 20th Century Fox movie and let the production film two days on site without charging location or licensing fees.
But for years, one Silicon Valley has been most famous for getting free screen time, and that's Apple.
Starting in the 1990s, the Macintosh began appearing on "Seinfeld" and in "Independence Day."
With new devices such as the iPod and iPhone swiftly gaining popularity, producers started to clamor to get those devices onto television and into movies. Carrie Bradshaw used a MacBook on "Sex and the City," and Michael Scott was given an iPhone on "The Office."
Apple products showed up in more than one-third of films that topped the U.S. box office between 2001 and 2011, according to a study from Brand Channel.
According to testimony in 2012 from Phil Schiller, Apple's global chief of marketing, in its patent lawsuit with Samsung, Apple does not pay for its products to be used by Hollywood stars in movies and television. But it does provide the gadgets free of charge.
That was the case in a dramatic product placement in the first season of Netflix's "House of Cards." In one scene, there were no fewer than nine Apple devices (five iPhones and four iPads) as Spacey's character Frank Underwood and an aide monitor multiple police radio feeds.
These kinds of Apple tie-ins reinforce the perception in popular culture that Apple produces premium devices.
Samsung, on the other hand, spent millions in marketing dollars for its sponsorship of the Oscars, which included more than five minutes of air time to showcase its devices.
As part of its deal with ABC's "The Oscars Backstage," Samsung sponsored a series of 10 promoted tweets of celebrity selfies sent from the Twitter account @TheAcademy. The photos were taken on a "Twitter Mirror" — essentially a framed tablet mounted on a wall.
But the coup de grace was DeGeneres' tweet, which as of late Monday had received about 3 million retweets and 1.6 million favorites. The star-studded photo also had 2 million likes on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" Facebook page.
"Sorry, our bad," @TheAcademy tweeted after the selfie temporarily disrupted Twitter service.
Twitter declined to comment on the service glitch resulting from the DeGeneres tweet except for a statement on its status blog: "Between 19:05 and 19:29 PST today, some users may have experienced issues viewing and sending tweets on twitter.com and Twitter's mobile apps. Traffic was redirected away from the components that were experiencing problems, and the issue has now been resolved."
But Twitter did celebrate DeGeneres' record-making moment with this tweet: "The envelope please … to @TheEllenShow — this is now the most retweeted tweet with over 1 million RTs. Congrats!"
A person familiar with the situation but not allowed to speak publicly about Twitter's Oscar night said that the social media company had no role in the selfie and that its soaring popularity was entirely "organic."
"Pretty nice placement, and I wouldn't be surprised if we see Samsung working in that it was used for making that record-breaking tweet happen," said Danny Sullivan, founding editor of Search Engine Land.
In an emailed statement, Samsung said it was "delighted to see Ellen organically incorporate the device into the selfie moment that had everyone talking."
Even so, Samsung still has some mighty competition from the iPhone in becoming the smartphone to the stars.
DeGeneres took the world's most famous selfie with a Samsung phone, but she — or at least her Twitter account — tweeted backstage at the Oscars with an iPhone.
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Times staff writer Chris O'Brien contributed to this report.


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Mitt Romney, President Obama Battle for Key Puerto Rican Voters in Florida
KISSIMMEE, Fla. – Puerto Rican voters in Florida are a conundrum for the presidential candidates.
Unlike national Latino voters whose main concerns revolve around immigration and deportation issues, Florida's two biggest Hispanic groups -- Puerto Ricans and Cuban Americans -- have legal statuses that make illegal immigration a tangential issue for them.
Their chief concerns center on Florida's struggling economy, leaders of both parties say. And Florida's high unemployment and foreclosure rates have hit Puerto Ricans hard.
That's a dilemma for President Obama. He's counting on big Puerto Rican support to help offset Cuban-American precincts, mainly in Miami, where Republican Mitt Romney expects to do well. Some analysts say he may fall short.
"The Puerto Rican vote is going for Obama," said Florida-based pollster Brad Coker. "But I don't think it's going by the same margin" as in 2008.
More than 1.5 million Hispanics are registered to vote in Florida, nearly 14 percent of the state total. About 592,000 are registered Democrats, and 463,000 Republicans.
Obama's team is working hard to get Puerto Ricans to the polls. Along with the Spanish-language ads on TV and radio, the campaign is organizing raucous caravans with decorated car windows and loud speakers on trucks, a tradition in Puerto Rico elections.
"There's a passion in this election I've not seen in a long time,"
"The issue is, can we motivate the base for a huge turnout," said Bill Richardson, a Latino and former New Mexico governor, as he helped organize a caravan Friday in a heavily Hispanic Orlando neighborhood. Early reports are good, he said, "but we have to drag them out, like we're doing here in this caravan, to motivate early voters."
Richardson, who briefly ran for president in 2008, said Hispanics' enthusiasm for Obama was lagging earlier this year. He thinks that changed in June, when Obama announced that about 800,000 young illegal immigrants with no criminal records could legally stay in the country.
"What has brought the Hispanic community enthusiastically back to the president has been his decision to halt the deportations," Richardson said.
Others are less sure. Dario Moreno, a political scientist at Florida International University, noted that Puerto Ricans and Cubans "don't have an immigration problem."
Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens, and can vote for president if they live in a state or the District of Columbia. Cuban immigrants have special legal standing that stems from the United States' long-running tension with the Castro government.
Moreno said Puerto Ricans and Cuban Americans take umbrage if political rhetoric reaches into emotional areas. He cited instances in 2008, when some GOP candidates said America was "losing its culture" because so many residents speak Spanish. Puerto Ricans and others see that "as not only anti-immigrant, but anti-Latino," he said.
There have few such over-the-line remarks in this election, Moreno said. Even when Romney suggested illegal immigrants "self deport," it didn't resonate much with Florida's Puerto Ricans and Cuban descendants, Moreno said.
Kelvin Soto, a Kissimmee lawyer who largely grew up in Puerto Rico, agrees that Romney "has done a very good job" of toning down contentious comments from the GOP primary, such as when he criticized Texas' policy of granting in-state college tuition to illegal immigrants. What most of his Hispanic friends recall, Soto said, is that Romney has promised to create 12 million jobs.
"People don't want to investigate it, because they fear it might not be true," said Soto, an Osceola County school board candidate who was campaigning Saturday at an early voting site.
Calvin Gutierrez, 18, said most of his friends support Obama, "but the economic situation has gotten worse," and many are unenthusiastic. "There are a few who have stopped supporting him," although they're unlikely to vote for Romney, said Gutierrez, a college freshman hoping to go into medicine.
Two former Florida Republican governors, Bob Martinez and Jeb Bush, said in interviews Saturday that Romney is making good inroads among Hispanics, including Puerto Ricans. They said these voters question why Obama didn't push for immigration reform when Democrats controlled Congress in his first two years as president, Bush said.
Martinez, a Tampa native whose ancestors came from Spain, said "Hispanic" covers a wide array of Floridians with ties to Cuba, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Mexico and other places. They have different traditions, needs and motivations, he said, and no one-size-fits-all campaign approach will work.
Many Latinos work in the hard-hit construction and landscaping industries, he said. "The common denominator for everybody is the economy," Martinez said. "There's a passion in this election I've not seen in a long time," he said, and Romney is benefiting.
Christina Martinez, 42, is a Puerto Rican Floridian sticking with Obama. He deserves more time to heal the economy she said as she waited to vote in Kissimmee on Saturday, the last day of early voting in Florida.
Martinez has four daughters and one grandson, and she doesn't like Romney's record on women's rights, Medicaid, education or the economy. As for Obama, she said, "I think he did great."
Martinez and others who live in struggling, largely Spanish-speaking communities may tip the balance for or against Obama in this, the biggest tossup state of all.
Based on reporting by the Associated Press.
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The nitty gritty on Ballad: it's a companion book/ sequel to Lament, but it stands utterly on its own if you haven't read Lament. It's the story of James, a kick-a$$ bagpiper who's offered an irresistible deal by a dangerous faerie muse. There is nookie, slight gore, and of course homicidal faerie action. Also angst. And a king of the dead. It's good times.
The rules for this contest are the same as the Shiver video contest. There will be four prizes to four people:
1) One advanced review copy of BALLAD, mailed immediately upon end of contest
2) One finished copy of BALLAD, mailed when I get my copies (September)
3) One OTHER finished copy of BALLAD, mailed when I get my copies
4) A frame of the winner's choice from the video
To be eligible for the lovely prizes, you must post the trailer on your blog or Facebook or twitter. Obviously I'm happier if you embed the video (code below) on your blog or FB rather than just link it, but obviously on Twitter you have to just link. Every place you link it to is an additional entry. Places I'll accept as valid entries: Facebook, livejournal blog, blogger blog, wordpress blog, Twitter, Myspace (if anyone still uses the devil's playground that is Myspace). You can post it anywhere else (please do!) but those are the only ones I'm counting.
Please note this contest is also being mirrored on my blogger blog.
So: the video. I animated a storyboard for it with several hundred panels, and then my sister and I headed into the studio to record the jig I'd written for it. The tune will be available for free download on my site closer to the book's release date (October 1st). (The Shiver music is already available there.)
Here's the video:
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And here is the plain old link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ooq9ioOgcmY
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I have been using the Veterans Face Book group to discuss Vets issues because I prefer knowing who is posting, as opposed to the often anonymous posts on the Forum. Yesterday I posted on Face Book concerning International Results. The post was immediately removed by someone who presumably disagreed and rather than enter into a rational discussion found it easier to delete the post and all my previous posts to this group. I can no longer access the group and so am posting on the Forum.
I understand that other postings on the timetable for the Open Championships have also been removed. I find this type censorship intolerable. If someone disagrees they should put their views forward, not suppress other peoples views.
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My niece had haircut when she was 8 months old.
When did you first give your baby's hair cut?
I had my son's hair cut at a kids' salon two months before he turned 2. Since then, I do it at home-not well, but I hack it off!
Sad,but true! I used to be a hairdresser,so my son had his first haircut at 3 days old and my daughter at 3 weeks old.I used safety,nail scissors,so that I was sure,not to harm my babies,but would not suggest this to anyone else,who doesn't have prior skills.
It's extermely difficult to get children under 4 years of age,to sit still for a haircut and due to this,there is a risk,particularly,with a sharp pair of scissors around eyes and ears.
At the same time,long whispy bits of long baby hair,hanging down,do not look particularly attractive,but care and safety,are the top priorities,in cutting youngsters hair.
My son is 18 months and he has never had a hair cut.
He has curly hair, so its about down to his neck now, his bangs are kinda long, so I just out them to the side.
He doesn't sit still, he's a VERY active kid, never likes to sit down, so I don't think I would be able to cut his hair.
BUt I don 't want too. My husband's side of the family is spanish and the boys have long hair as babies and get their first hair cut around 4 years of age, which is what i want to do.
my twins never had a haircut until they were 3 years of age. they never had the hair to get cut before then. So i suppose it would depend on how long the baby's hair is...
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Topic: The Goran Chronicles--of Ore and Gore
Well, this is my first attempt at a completely original fanfic. It uses my custom Mandalorian, Kal Goran. The reason for his name will become obvious in the story, maybe faster for you Mando'a buffs (which I'm not, I'm afraid I resorted to the dictionary). The name of the Story will also become plain with time.
Feedback is appreciated by everyone.
Prologue: The Warriors Beginning
Kal Goran was standing outside his family's home, thinking. It was late, several hours after dinner. He wore only a tunic, for he had no need of armor on a peacetime Mandalore. Though that's not entirely true, he thought. Mandalorians were never at peace.
He stared out at his surroundings. It was an old farmhouse, one that his grandfather had built himself years before. There was no farm now, but there was a barn for animals, which doubled as a private sparring ring.
A short distance away was another building, whose large chimney was belching dark smoke. Kal smiled to himself. His father must be forging again.
It was their family trade—had been, for as long as anyone could remember. Centuries ago, some ancestor had taken up the trade, and passed his knowledge from father to son—even daughter, occasionally. He had taken the name too—Goran was roughly translated as Smith in Basic.
It was a good trade—even when Mandalorians had been scattered far and wide, and could scarcely call themselves a culture anymore, people still wanted weapons and armor, even if it was purely ceremonial. Many of his ancestors had plied their trade in the service of rich aruetii who desired "authentics†for decoration in his mansion. Even a few minor Moffs had desired more exotic decorations for their luxurious palaces.
But in recent years, that had all changed. Mand'alor Fett had completed the task that Fenn Shysa had started—the reunification of Mandalorians and their society, and their return to the strength and glory not known since the days of Jaster Mereel and Jango Fett. Now, Mandalore was populated by several million, even after the Vong'ese had attacked and slaughtered a million Mando'ade. More were returning, and many needed weapons and armor, and the skill of the Goran family was still remembered by many.
Kal had spent many hours at the forge, crafting weapons and armor for various warriors. He was young, but had started far younger, having made his first blade at seven years old. He had crafted his beskad at fourteen and his current armor at sixteen. For the last two years, word of his skill had spread, and he had been commissioned for various pieces several times. But he had never been able to test his own skills as a warrior. He was eighteen years old. He knew it was time. Past time, really.
He started walking towards the forge. His father, Orar, was just pulling a midsized blade out of the bellows, hammering it into shape with one of his smaller hammers. It was already close to completion, and the hammer only had to fall once more, and Orar plunged the blade into the waiting barrel of water. It hissed shrilly and let off steam, and Orar pulled it out, set it down, and looked up.
"Kal! I'm glad you're here.†He held up the completed blade. "What do you think? Blades like this are getting more popular, lately.â€Â
"It's an excellent blade. Should serve its master very well.†Kal took a breath. "Buir, I need to talk to you.â€Â
Orar nodded. "I know.â€Â
Kal's head jerked back slightly with surprise. "You do?â€Â
"Yes. I've known this would be coming for some time. You're a Mandalorian, and you're a Goran—being a warrior is in your blood. And you're of age—its time you proved yourself. That's what you wanted to say, am I right?â€Â
"Well…yeah. I can't call myself a man until I've proved it to myself, and that means fighting, even if it's just bounty hunter work. I've got my training and instincts, weapons and armor, all I really need is experience and a--â€Â
"—ship. I knew you'd need that, and I've got that covered for you. I'm giving you my ship.â€Â
"Tra'kad? But it's yours….I couldn't take it from you.â€Â
"Kal, I'm an older man now—I won't need it again. The rest of my life will be forging weapons and armor for others. I will fight if my Mandalore calls me, but if not, then I will stay here and do what I do best. I was always a better smith than a warrior. But you—you're different. You are an exceptional smith, like all of our family. But you are also a born warrior, and that's what separates you from me. That's I'm giving you Tra'kad.†Orar took off his apron and hung it on a peg.
"But that's not all I'm giving you. As you can imagine, I've made a lot of money from my trade—in your few years, you've made a few credits of your own. Some I've spent a few on upgrades for Tra'kad, but I still have most of it saved up, in various banks on Aargua and Mygeeto. I used some of it on a Bes'uliik.â€Â
This time, Kal was rendered speechless. "Father…I can't take it. That's far too much.â€Â
"No, its not. Its what you deserve. And you'll probably need it. It'll fit in Tra'kad, for when you need more maneuverability.â€Â
"In that case—thank you. I'll use it well, father.†He stepped forward, but Orar stopped him. "Not yet, son. There's one last gift.â€Â
Kal stopped, confused. What else could his father possibly have for him?
"Its nothing as flashy as the first two, so don't be too expectant. He stepped over to his workstation, picking up a small blade. "I made this for you—a ge'kal. Its an armpit knife—you never know when it might come in handy.†He handed it to Kal. "
Kal couldn't say anything for a moment. This was the best gift his father could have given him. He stepped forward and embraced his father. "I'll treasure it.â€Â
--Captain Dynamic--


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Saturday, February 21, 2009
Bookshelves: Before and After Blog
63 comments:
- Leah:) said...
you have to read Evernight (has a bit of sexual content, but not much) and extras and peeps and a lot of those hardcovers!
Love the shelves!
- February 21, 2009 at 10:09 PM
- Yan said...
omg omg the Summoning! mail it straight over here Lemore!
- February 21, 2009 at 10:11 PM
- The Not So Closet Geeks said...
Your bookshelves are so neat! Eventually my bookshelves got so full that I had to start storing some in the attic D=
I waited a bit too long, though. I had a shelf collapse first.
- February 21, 2009 at 10:15 PM
- Nymeth said...
Blogging is a dangerous, dangerous thing :P I very nearly doubled the amount of books I have since I started two years ago.
- February 21, 2009 at 10:16 PM
- Amy said...
I wish I had all those nice pretty shelves! (and all those nice pretty books. and maybe 4 times the space I have now!)
- February 21, 2009 at 10:18 PM
- Alea said...
Oooooh! I want to come visit and look at all of your catalogs, looks like you have a lot!
- February 21, 2009 at 10:22 PM
- Yan said...
stupid typo...
- February 21, 2009 at 10:24 PM
I don't feel quite so bad about my books now. Thanks for posting this.
- February 21, 2009 at 10:51 PM
- Genevieve said...
So many good books! Read Graceling, that one was amazing. : )
- February 21, 2009 at 10:58 PM
- H said...
I'm jealous of your bookshelves as well as your books =) I wish I had that much room devoted to just books. And so neat too!
By the way, I loved Just Listen. You should try it.
- February 21, 2009 at 10:58 PM
- Adele said...
So jealous.
And it occurs to me that you lucky Americans get hardcovers of everything. Here in Oz our only options are paperbacks sigh.
The only YA hardcovers I own are Harry Potters and Octavian Nothing.
- February 21, 2009 at 11:12 PM
- Alea said...
Wow, apparently I need to move to Australia! I hate Hardcovers!
- February 21, 2009 at 11:18 PM
- bookfool said...
I had an extra bedroom that I was stashing books in. Slowly, without letting anyone in on it, I was transforming it into the library I'd always wanted. Then...disaster. My niece, (hubby's sister kid) moved to the So. Cal area and needed a place to stay for "a little while, until she found a place she could afford". That was October 1st. Her Navy boyfriend proposed to her in Jan., wedding is set for the end of Sept. It looks like I'll have a houseguest a whole lot longer than I thought I would. Now I have books stacked all over the place again. And I wistfully look at that bedroom door, knowing I was so close. Sigh.....
- February 21, 2009 at 11:19 PM
- Shooting Stars Mag said...
nice! i still really need to get Identical. It sounds great.
- February 21, 2009 at 11:19 PM
- Taren said...
I'm a little bit in love right now!
- February 21, 2009 at 11:21 PM
- Ladytink_534 said...
Goodness! Oh there are quite a few here I would love to read. Love your bookcases :)
- February 21, 2009 at 11:23 PM
- Linda J said...
I used to have bookshelves and books like that...now I tend to sell most of my books at garage sales. However, once we have an empty nest in the fall, I can see my collection starting to grow again!
- February 21, 2009 at 11:23 PM
- bethany said...
Those are great!! thanks for sharing your books with us :)
- February 21, 2009 at 11:34 PM
- prophecygirl said...
Your bookeshelves look amazing! So neat and tidy :)
- February 21, 2009 at 11:56 PM
- Chelle said...
You have Generation Dead waiting for you! I looooved that book. Seriously loved. And Graceling was very good, too.
Thanks for posting the pics - I always love seeing what other bibliophiles' shelves look like!
- February 22, 2009 at 12:00 AM
- PJ Hoover said...
That's a serious lot of books!
Over spring break, I'm building bookshelves!
- February 22, 2009 at 12:12 AM
- susan said...
Full shelves are as beautiful as pieces of art.((sigh)) I have 5 bookshelves. To keep the peace in my house, I have not asked for another one.
- February 22, 2009 at 12:21 AM
- mari said...
I am loving seeing everyones bookshelves. Thanks for sharing. Lots of great books to read!
- February 22, 2009 at 12:53 AM
- Mishel said...
I absolutely love looking at bookshelves (= I have yet to acquire any but I'm working on it. My books are nestled quite snugly in a extra large plastic container. I miss seeing them on shelves though.
- February 22, 2009 at 2:22 AM
- Janssen said...
Wow, those are fantastic. What a fun bunch of pictures.
- February 22, 2009 at 4:57 AM
- Bookworm said...
Luvvv your shelves, so organized and full of great books! (:
- February 22, 2009 at 6:07 AM
- Thao said...
I love your bookshelves, looks so neat and beautiful. I hope you'll add more in the future
- February 22, 2009 at 6:25 AM
- Beth F said...
Love your photos! I like the clean look of the white shelves. We have natural wood, which can look a bit heavy.
- February 22, 2009 at 2:42 PM
- Staci said...
Love those photos...what a dream!!
- February 22, 2009 at 4:16 PM
- Dar said...
Love these pictures. I love your shelves. I wish I had that many and so neat too.
- February 22, 2009 at 8:24 PM
- Reader Rabbit said...
You have to read just listen!
Your bookshelves are awesome! My mother won't let me buy any more bookshelves and my whole room is cluttered with books...
I have no idea what's going to happen to them in september when I'm not at home O_o
- February 22, 2009 at 8:25 PM
Your bookcases are lovely!
I shelf my books by author's last name in alphabetical order. For fiction and literature, I single out the ones to be re-read and put them on a different case. I only put away my books when I have finished. New Books usually sit on my desk.
- February 22, 2009 at 8:29 PM
- Marie said...
looks awesome! :-)
- February 22, 2009 at 10:10 PM
- Luanne said...
I don't know why - but I love looking at other people's bookshelves - a different kind of voyeurism!
- February 23, 2009 at 1:11 AM
- sharonanne said...
I just got a new bookshelf from my brother for my birthday. I've only been blogging for 6 months and my book collection has doubled.
- February 23, 2009 at 1:21 AM
- wrigleyfield said...
Oh, crap. Mine already look like your "after" and I've just started blogging. What will happen to me???
- February 23, 2009 at 8:36 PM
- Amy said...
omGOODNESS! I have like 1/8 the amount you do...
- February 23, 2009 at 9:33 PM
- Beth Kephart said...
I squint, searching for Undercover and NBG.
(just kidding; I'm so amazed by the abundance)
- February 24, 2009 at 1:19 PM
- Lenore said...
Beth - They are on the very top of the right shelf. That's where all my signed books are (mainly so the cat can't get to them!)
- February 24, 2009 at 1:21 PM
- Serena said...
Gee what has book blogging done for you! LOL Where did you find those shelves...those are great...do they come in black?
- February 24, 2009 at 7:35 PM
- Lenore said...
I got the shelves at IKEA. Sure had fun putting them together! Don't recall seeing black, but then I wasn't really paying attention. IKEA visits are always super stressful because it is so crowded.
- February 24, 2009 at 8:24 PM
- Serena said...
I know what you mean about ikea trips being stressful. If you remember the name of the shelves, I would appreciate it.
- February 24, 2009 at 8:28 PM
- Lenore said...
Ok the bookshelf in the middle is called LACK. It has heavier, thicker shelves so it can hold art books. It does come in black. It is flanked on both sides by BILLY shelves. They come in black.
The one in the other picture is EXPEDIT. It comes in a brownish-black. It can be placed horizontally or vertically.
- February 24, 2009 at 8:58 PM
- Alea said...
I was wondering if that was a Billy! I have one but it's in pieces in the basement. It was my bookshelf at college, no room for it at home!
- February 24, 2009 at 9:00 PM
- Lenore said...
Yeah, this the third apartment the BILLYs have moved with us to and parts of them look pretty scruffy actually! The shelf in the middle (that you can't remove) is starting to really bend on both of the BILLYs. We made the mistake of putting heavy books on them at one point and they've never recovered. That is what is so nice about the LACK shelves. They don't bend.
- February 24, 2009 at 9:07 PM
- Alea said...
Oooh yeah. I noticed that with mine too and ended up keeping all the heavier stuff on the very bottom. The LACK does look nice! And I really like the EXPEDIT! That's the one I've been lusting after for a few years. Now I'm wondering if I should lust after a taller one, it's a rather short one.
- February 24, 2009 at 9:10 PM
- Lenore said...
Lust after this one:
- February 24, 2009 at 9:11 PM
- Alea said...
Yeah that's the one. It's kind of short though. I think I need something that almost goes to the ceiling lol! I like that you can double stack in it though!
- February 24, 2009 at 9:14 PM
- Serena said...
Lenore: I think the ones with the square cubbies are the ones that would work best for me and my book stacks. Is that the Expedit? I think I've seen them at IKEA. Time for me to head back there and grab them
- February 24, 2009 at 11:21 PM
- Serena said...
Does the Expedit come in taller? Or are there ones like it with a different name that are taller? OOO
- February 24, 2009 at 11:22 PM
- Lenore said...
Yes, the sqaure cubbie one is the EXPEDIT. I love mine!
- February 24, 2009 at 11:22 PM
- Lenore said...
Yes, follow the link in my answer to Alea. It has 16 squares.
- February 24, 2009 at 11:23 PM
- Alea said...
I know the Expedit comes 4 squares tall and 2 squares tall, what about 1 tall? I think I'd like to do 4 tall + one more on top! :P
- February 24, 2009 at 11:29 PM
- Lenore said...
I am so NOT going to answer that question. Since when did I become an IKEA product manager?! ;)
But no, I don't think a one column exists. There is a really thin LACK, but it is 5 squares wide. Maybe you could put it on the bottome :P
- February 24, 2009 at 11:33 PM
- Alea said...
HAHAHAH! You know, maybe a 4 and 2 wouldn't be bad. The 4 only goes up to like my neck, as long as the 2 stayed and didn't move/fall on me, that might be SWEET!
- February 24, 2009 at 11:35 PM
- Lenore said...
Please ask your local IKEA is that is possible. I don't want to be responsible for your death.
- February 24, 2009 at 11:37 PM
- Serena said...
Lenore: You should be getting paid for this. :)
- February 24, 2009 at 11:38 PM
- Alea said...
Haha! Will do! You know who I am jealous of, people with built in bookcases...
- February 24, 2009 at 11:39 PM
- Lenore said...
I just read that entire thread to Daniel and we are laughing so hard that we are crying.
- February 24, 2009 at 11:40 PM
- Alea said...
HAHAHAH! That's the best kind of laughter!
P.S. Unless I'm imagining it I saw you wrote something about the The Season on someone's blog, READ IT NOW!!!! I have 40 pages left, I love it!
- February 24, 2009 at 11:43 PM
- Lenore said...
Yeah, on Vanessa's blog. Well, I wish I could read The Season now, but they sent it to Kansas and I have to wait until my father sends me a box. *Cries*
And yeah, built in bookcases are made of awesome.
- February 24, 2009 at 11:51 PM
- Alea said...
Oh no! I hope it's soon! I'm in love with the book!
And you know what else is made of awesome, bookcase ladders!
- February 24, 2009 at 11:54 PM
- Callista said...
Wow! I'm using only one new bookshelf at the moment and it's small but that's becuase I have stacks and boxes of books and I've made shelves out of other things like my computer desk.
- February 25, 2009 at 8:58 PM


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