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The Devil in the Clock (The Mick Callahan Novels Book 5) - by Harry Shannon
In his new Mick Callahan Novel, Harry Shannon, has Mick retired from the limelight of being a well known television psychologist, working now in private practice, doing his best to get his life together. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that this would make a pretty dull story, but what happens to catapult our hero into action and call in every favor owed and more in hunting down a seemingly untouchable professional killer will rock his world and shock the reader.
It's one of those situations where you know something is going to happen, yet when it does it just about knocks you out of your reading chair.
Much like in the Sheriff Penny Miller zombie series, The Hungry, Harry Shannon imbues his characters with snappy dialogue and sharp attitudes. All of the characters in The Devil In the Clock are richly realized, none more so than Big Mike...
"Despite his fairly recent arrival in the city, the stories about Big Mike were already legendary. He had many enemies and a flair for the melodramatic when dispatching them. There was one story about severed heads used as bowling pins. The driver thought that one ridiculous, but the image was certainly chilling, and Uncle Lev had sworn he'd seen some cell phone video of Mike throwing a gutter ball."
Even when not immersed in non-stop action, Shannon has a way with words...
"A trio of teenaged girls appeared and stood to his right. The excited kids whirled in a chattering circle like a colorful ball of electrical energy, popping gum and competing to see who could use the word "like" the mot times." and later..."The giddy teenagers drifted away, like really babbling like happily like it was awesome."
The Devil In the Clock is told with lots of detail and very vivid images, as a result this one doesn't read like a story, it reads true, if you know what I mean.
I must admit, I had not read any of the previous Mick Callahan Novels. I picked this up because of how much I've enjoyed the author's zombie series, The Hungry, and I though it would be interesting to see what he would do in another genre. The result is satisfying, but I suspect it would be even more so if I had read the prior books. I'll have to go back and correct that one of these days.
The Devil In the Clock is available now in print and soon as an e-book through Amazon.com.
FUBAR: A Collection of War Stories - by Weston Ochse - 30 years of military expertise shines through
In his introduction to FUBAR, Weston Ochse comments, "This collection you're holding in your hands or listening to, for all intents and purposes, it is me."
This assemblage of short fiction, a novella, and essays puts Ochse's 30 years of military experience to good use. The adage, "Write what you know," is proven here, whether it's a piece on the rigors of basic training or fighting monsters from a rift in the desert of Arizona, each story rings with the sound of truth.
Although, nearly all of the tales in this collection have appeared elsewhere, only the most hardcore Weston Ochse fan is likely to have read them all. Personally, I had only read one before.
Mixed with his essays on the military experience are some excellent pieces of fiction. For me, one of the most enjoyable was "When I Knew Baseball." A slick combination of Lovecraftian horror and what it means to me a soldier. "Family Man," about a Vietnam POW of twenty years is a powerful story of survival. "The Last Kobyashi Maru" was just great. Powerful, sad, and still entertaining.
Nearly all of the fiction is spot on and I did enjoy the insights provided by the essays sprinkled throughout the collection and one more thing I really liked was the author's notes after each piece. I love seeing how a story comes together.
FUBAR: A Collection of War Stories is available now, in a variety of formats, from Cohesion Press who have made a name for themselves with their SNAFU series of Military Horror anthologies. Be sure to check those out, too.
Blood Red (Blood Trilogy Book 1) - by Jason Bovberg - A different take on the apocalypse
I'm always hesitant to read a book from someone who reaches out to me requesting a review, particularly if I've not read any of the author's previous work. However, if I say no, then I would miss out on surprises like Blood Red.
The story features a strong teenager named Rachel who, in the space of an hour, sees her entire world become a red-tinted nightmare. Most of the people in her world are gone, well not completely gone, they seem to be becoming something else. No this is not another zombie novel. What is happening is decidedly different and completely original in the horror genre.
Blood Red is filled with little treats, details that make the story. Example, with darkness coming there's a need for light. Instead of conveniently finding a flashlight in her Honda's glove compartment. The writer had Rachel and her friend break into a Target store by the light of a cell phone until it runs out of juice. A well-conceived scene played out to perfection.
Blood Red is incredibly imaginative and reveals its secrets slowly. Even though its a work of fantastical fiction dealing with impossibilities, I found the story to be believable and totally enjoyable.
Although we get some answers by the end of book 1, its quite evident that there is plenty left to be revealed in the subsequent volumes.
Published by Permuted Press, Blood Red is available now as an e-book from the usual online retailers. If you like it, book 2 is also available and book 3 should be published later this year. I'll be reading both for sure.
Consumption - by Heather Herrman - Quite an imaginative horror story
Something terrible happened before the fire that destroyed Cavus, Montana, in 1937. Now, it's happening again.
There was a lot I liked about Consumption. For example, the story of how John and Erma met and fell in love was magical; wonderfully crafted, ultimately believable, which made what happened next so heartbreaking.
I also liked the story of Lucy McClarin, told through her journal, the circus, and what happened in 1937.
Then there's the Black Squirrel Festival and finally, the Feeder and its influence over the people in this small Montana town.
For the longest time, it seems something big is about to happen, but it just remains hidden. There are moments of brilliance in Heather Hermann's writing and at times what is happening in Cavus is truly disturbing. As a reader, you just need to be patient with this story, when it all comes together, it does so with a big bang, and it all works rather well.
Overall, this is quite an imaginative horror story. I love the words the author has for her mother in the acknowledgments, "Mom, if it helps you can pretend this is just a children's book for adults." That it is.
Consumption is available as an e-book from Hydra, an imprint of Random House.
Footsteps In the Sky - by Greg Keyes - And now for something completely different
A combination of Hopi legend, fantasy, and space opera, Footsteps In the Sky is a complex tale of the Fifth World, the result of terraforming over millennia.
The story is set more than 400 years in the future, with the Hopi people inhabiting the Fifth World. They appear to be descendants from Earth's 20th Century Hopi. The tale is not so much about how they got there or even why, it's more about division, discovery, and the strong possibility that those who prepared this planet for them are thinking about starting over.
Although filled with intrigue, back-stabbing, and many original ideas, I just found this work to be a bit overbearing. It may be a matter of sensory overload since there was so much happening all the time.
A demanding read told in a convoluted way, Footsteps In the Sky was a nice diversion from my usual horror fare, but ultimately not something I would like to make a steady diet of. As challenging a read as this was, this is another time I was glad I saw this one through to the end as it is the kind of story that stays with you well beyond the time spent between the pages.
Footsteps In the Sky was originally written in 1994 and has been re-released as an e-book from Open Road Media and is currently available from a variety of online retailers.
Although I was glad I read it, I can't really recommend this to others. Of course, your mileage may vary, so don't let me stop you from giving it a shot.
Point Hollow - by Rio Youers - Literary horror at its finest
If I had to find something to complain about with regards to the work of Rio Youers it would be that he is not terribly prolific. Three years since his last novel is a very long time. Of course, that last novel was Westlake Soul, one of my favorite books of the last five years and now he's given us another gem.
Point Hollow presents the reader with a new and intriguing premise that gets off to a wickedly good start. Old Bear Mountain is known to the locals as Abraham's Faith. At thirty-four hundred feet, it was the tallest of the peaks surrounding the town of Point Hollow. It was also a place of which the locals tend to steer clear.
When he was ten years old, Matthew Bridge had a terrifying experience with the mountain, one that would (although he couldn't recall what had happened) haunt his dreams well into adulthood and could end up costing him his marriage.
The characterizations in this novel are strong, Rio's skill at creating conversations is excellent, he shows the ability to do with words what a great artist can do with paints and a canvas.
At times disturbing and exceedingly dark, the story flows quickly through its 280 pages and is one of the most complete novels I've read in some time. The truth, when revealed, is horrible beyond words And the last third of the book was just a heart pounding race to the finish.
Youers may not be pounding them out like James Patterson or even Stephen King, but what he creates places him right up there with the leading writers of modern horror.
I can honestly say Point Hollow is my favorite read so far in 2015 and it's going to be a tough one to top. Do yourself a favor and get yourself a copy, available now in paperback or ebook from ChiZine Publications.
I give this one my highest recommendation.
Tuskers II: Day of the Long Pig - by Duncan McGeary - The aporkcalypse continues
I sometimes think I should feel a bit guilty when I get excited about a book like Tuskers II. After all, it's just a tall tale of a group of survivors fighting off intelligent pigs or javelinas to be more precise, but truth be told, it's fun to check ones brain at the door once in a while.
I love it when a book starts with action right from the start. Within pages of the beginning of Tuskers II we find this gem..."He toppled over and fell into two parts. The lower part of his body went backward, the top part went forward, and the insides splashed wetly between them." No lie, chapter one will knock your socks off.
Despite the quick start, the story seemed to drag for a bit, but later broke some new ground as the porkers showed more intelligence than they had before, even displaying a hunger for learning. It was also interesting to see divisions developing in the ranks of the animals.
All told, Tuskers II: Day of the Long Pig was another fun look at evolution run amok. Available now from Angelic Knight Press, the horror imprint at Ragnarok Publications.
By the way, there is a huge twist at the end, which will play into subsequent books in the series.
Crossfades: A Dystopian Novella - by William Todd Rose - A bit surreal, but enjoyable
"The official description of Crossfades described them as being like that moment in movies where Acts One and Two briefly coexist; they meld into a composite for a moment--both scenes visible, yet semitransparent--but eventually one asserts its dominion over the other and the plot moves on."
Chuck Grainger has a job that is at the same time both a dream and a nightmare. His official title was Recon and Enforcement Technician, Level II, he thought he'd be some kind of cosmic cop, but now he just feels more like a glorified janitor.
This story is out there, way out there. Much like Chuck when he's on assignment, trying to guide a soul who's passed on and for whatever reason can't quite cross The Divide. At times, surreal Crossfades is definitely creepy, and there is also an anomaly that has come up, leading to things getting out of control. Although above his pay grade, Chuck goes in to try and sort things out, and that's when the trouble really starts.
I really struggled to find the point of the story and it was really only my desire to always finish the books I start to read that kept me going. In the end, I was glad I did as there was a nice payoff for the reader.
Crossfades is published by Hydra, a Random House imprint and is available only as an ebook.
Recommended if you're feeling adventurous. I liked it enough to request the sequel Bleedovers which will be released on September 1, 2015.
All Good Things (The Breadwinner Trilogy Book 3) - by Stevie Kopas - Excellent finish to this zombie series
It's often said that the third time's the charm. The old adage has never been truer than in the final book in The Breadwinner Trilogy. When I read book 1, The Breadwinner, a few months ago, I was not overly complimentary. Things improved with book 2 Haven, and here we are, at the end of the series, with All Good Things. This was one of the best zombie books I've read in recent memory. Elevating my overall opinion of the series to the point where this is what you really should be reading to get over your zombie withdrawal while The Walking Dead is on hiatus.
All Good Things begins with the death of a principal character, an event that actually occurred at the end of book 2, but the fallout intensifies here. One of the things I really like about The Breadwinner Trilogy is that, although there are zombies and plenty of gore, it's really about the complex relationships of our little group of survivors. "...the small group locked away in Emerald City had found some sort of solace in one another. They'd found some remnant of normalcy in the things they did together to fill their time. No matter how insignificant it all seemed, there were plenty of reasons they gave one another to keep living."
In All Good Things I found the characters to be more fully developed, displaying real feelings and raw emotions. I also realized they had more to fear from each other than from the "eaters" as the author refers to her undead.
I'm happy to say there are several OMG moments in this book as Kopas does not hold back at all. No spoilers, but I can say the reader should expect the unexpected in this very satisfying conclusion to The Breadwinner Trilolgy.
All Good Things is available now as an ebook from Permuted Press, through Amazon.com, and will be in paperback soon.
Strongly recommended. Get the entire series and spend some quality time with the undead.
Boom Town - by Glenn Rolfe - Fun with alien slime
The fact that Boom Town is dedicated to Art Bell and George Noory should tell you all you need to know about this fun little romp into the world of the unknown. Be it aliens among us, global conspiracies, or any other weirdness in the world at large, you're likely to hear about it on Coast to Coast AM. Still don't know what this is all about. Take a moment and google it.
Inspired by such madness, Glenn Rolfe has created an entertaining little diversion about the fictional town of Eckert, Wisconsin. It all started in 1979 when a young couple observed a saucer-like craft hovering over Hollers Hill. They saw a blue beam blasting down from the center of the craft into the hill and causing the ground to rumble. Now the "booms" are back. What does it all mean and what is the mysterious blue ooze discovered nearby?
Reminiscent of the great old-time creature features, Boom Town is quite imaginative and at times disgusting as such a story should be. Take them. Bring them. Ascend.
As enjoyable as this read was, I would have loved to have known more about what was really going on, but much like many of the mysteries explored on Coast to Coast AM, we may never know.
Boom Town is available now as an ebook from Samhain Horror and from Amazon.com.
The Bear Who Wouldn't Leave - by J.H. Moncrieff - Part of the Childhood Fears series from Samhain Horror and it's very good
"Sometimes evil looks like a fuzzy teddy bear." How's that for an opening line?
Josh Leary is your typical ten-year-old. I live with one of those and I'd just like to say what a fine job writer J.H. Moncrieff did in capturing the spirit, the attitude, and the fears of such a child. Fears like..."how I was always sure someone was chasing me whenever I ran upstairs from the basement." Ha, that was me when I was a kid, but those fears never stopped me from watching scary movies in the dark and then calling upstairs to my mother, asking her to turn on the lights so I could go to bed.
When his step-father gives him a stuffed bear with the unlikely name of Edgar, Josh wants nothing to do with it. After all, what ten-year-old boy wants a toy bear to begin with. Plus, there's the fact that Josh doesn't really like the new man in his mother's life. Truthfully, I couldn't say who I found creepier, Edgar or Josh's step-father.
The Bear Who Wouldn't Leave preys on those childhood fears and manages to juggle the three potential threats in a way that kept me guessing to the very end. Is it really Edgar doing all these bad things, is it Josh's step-father making it look like Edgar, or is there something wrong with Josh himself.
Part of what I loved about this novella was Josh's friend Sean, not his best friend, but a good friend whose creative cursing was magnificent.
Although the idea of an evil teddy is not terribly new, and at times you could easily predict what might come next, the result still hits you in the face like a ton of bricks.
A terrifically fun read with kids on an adventure and an evil teddy to boot.
The Bear Who Wouldn't Leave is a terrifically fun read which I finished in one sitting and as a result I will add J.H. Moncrieff to my list of writers to watch.
The book is available now as an ebook from Samhain Horror and can be purchased through Amazon.com.
For a quick, fun, horror read you can't do much better that this one. Highly recommended.
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Unseemly Science - by Rod Duncan - Book 2 in The Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire series
Unseemly Science is the followup to the well-received first book in the series The Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire. In both books there are some elements of Steampunk, certainly an element of Alternate History, and the feel of a classic Sherlock Holmes story as told by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Rod Duncan continues to weave these elements deftly into a wonderous tale of mystery and intrigue.
Slipping back into the world Rod Duncan has created for his characters to play in was a bit like putting on a well-worn, comfortable, pair of gloves. Set in the not so United Kingdom following a civil war which left Englad split into two separate countries, the Kingdom and the Anglo-Scottish republic.
The back-story of Elizabeth Barnabus follows. Elizabeth once lived in the Kingdom with her father. Through no fault of his own, and thanks to the Patent Office. his daughter is forced into the servitude of a Duke of the Kingdom. Before that could happen , Elizabeth escaped to the Republic where we find her 6 years later helping her "brother" in his business as a private detective.
In this new volume there is talk of an extradition treaty looming between the divided countries. This would not bode well for our heroine. While trying to avoid the authorities, Elizabeth stumbles onto a dark mystery putting her very life into jeopardy.
To be honest, I didn't care for Unseemly Science as much as I did The Bullet-Catcher's Daughter. For a good part of the book the writer broke no new ground, bringing back the same characters from book 1, but once we got into the mystery in the second half of the book, I found it much more enjoyable.
In addition I found the notes that begin each chapter to be very entertaining, particularly those from The Bullet-Catcher's Handbook.
Unseemly Science Book 2 in The Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire series is available now in both paperback and e-book formats from Angry Robot Books. No word on book 3, but if this one is a success, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
Recommended. BTW, this story works as a stand-alone, but I would recommend reading book1 as well.
Nightmare in Greasepaint (Childhood Fears) - by L.L. Soares and G. Daniel Gunn - If you have coulrophobia you may want to steer clear
With a cover featuring the most frightening clown since Pennywise (kudos to artist Scott Carpenter), Nightmare in Greasepaint will do nothing to ease your fear of clowns, particularly if you suffer from coulrophobia.
The opening of this novella from L.L. Soares and G. Daniel Gunn sets the mood perfectly.
"Some family legacies are best left buried.
Will Pallasso has brought his wife and young son, Billy, back to his childhood home to settle his late mother's affairs...and remove all traces of his haunted past. But now hideous memories are coming back to Will, and Billy has started suffering from night terrors. Returning to this house was a big mistake. Some memories should not be disturbed, and some nightmares will not stay buried forever.
Especially nightmares that wear greasepaint spattered with blood."
Nightmare in Greasepaint does not disappoint. The start of the story is more psychological horror with the house bringing back memories of what had happened to Will as a child and what he had done, but as the story develops the tension builds, much like the climb to the top of a super-coaster and then reaches incredible speeds as you plummet back to earth.
A very satisfying and quick read from Samhain Horror. Available as an ebook from their website and at Amazon.com.
The Cure - by JG Faherty - Everytime you think you can relax...BANG.
Opening line..."She was born with the power to cure. Now she's developed the power to kill." I'm in.
Leah Degarmo is a veterinarian with the power to cure with just a touch, but her gift comes with a dark side: whatever she takes in she has to pass on, or suffer it herself.
I've read a number of stories recently where the principal character has interesting powers and I don't mind telling you they have all been among my favorites.
The Cure is certainly a page turner and I couldn't wait to see what was going to happen next. As the story grew and the pressures on our heroine mounted, so did her talents, what starts out as a simple way to help pets and their owners turns into something much more terrifying.
When her secret gets out and into the hands of some very bad people that's when it really hits the fan, but by the story's end when things seem to be calming down, they are actually much worse than ever.
With just a small suspension of disbelief, the plausibility of everything else is rather simple and there is an overall feeling of helplessness throughout. Every time you think you've seen the worst that could happen, something even worse happens. Fun.
I get the feeling the end is not really the end, although I have not seen any word on plans for a sequel, there is plenty left to be explored.
The Cure is available in paperback and ebook formats from Samhain Horror through their website and Amazon.com.
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The tools are in your hands to bring all of these changes into your life. In Money Games, experienced business professional Randy Petrick offers a collection of eighty-five activities and lessons for people who are not wealthy but would like to be.
Twenty-eight years ago, Petrick's net worth was $1,500. Today, he's rapidly approaching multimillionaire status. By following the action steps outlined in Money Games, Petrick believes almost anyone can acquire significant assets and have fun doing it.
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There comes a time in a person's life when they may be unable to care for themselves and live independently. They usually turn to their family and loved ones for a solution. This is why you find many households where the grandma or grandpa lives with their child and grandchildren. But what if moving in with a loved one isn't possible? Nursing homes are a great alternative whenever an individual of older age needs constant care that their family can't commit to providing due to work or other circumstances in their own life.
Nursing homes are seen as a solution, a place where the burden of constantly worrying about the safety of an older relative can be alleviated. Families move older relatives into a nursing home blindly trusting that the staff will take care of their loved one's physical and emotional needs. Unfortunately, there are many cases of nursing home staff being neglectful and cruel to residents. According to the Horst Law, this kind of mistreatment can come in many forms and unfortunately, some forms of abuse are hard to spot. According to the National Center on Elder Abuse, approximately 10% of nursing home residents suffer abuse.
The effects of nursing home abuse can vary from emotionally damaging to altering the individual's health or life. For example, if a resident's medicine is distributed incorrectly, they could suffer severe medical consequences or even death. On the other hand, a person may not die from physical or sexual abuse, but the emotional trauma that surrounds those circumstances may be just as life-altering.
Nursing homes and their staff are under contract. This allows for staff to not only be held civilly liable, but also criminally liable in many cases. As the family member of a loved one who has undergone nursing home abuse, you should seek restitution for their suffering. Nursing homes are liable for their staff and how they behave at work. Do not let a staff member's negligence alter your loved one's health or emotional state.


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MEEK AT THE MOVIES —- Lovelace ( 2.5 STARS )
^ Amanda Seyfried as Linda Lovelace in "Lovelace"
Well I remember back in college (and no, I was not in college when "Deep Throat" was released in 1972) my dorm neighbor having a poster on his door of an old man with a shit-eating grin on his face and a T shirt saying "I choked Linda Lovelace to death." At the time — pre-Viagra time — I found the image devilish and perverse, now I find the notion sad, ironic and somewhat misogynistic, sentiments reinforced by the new bio-pic "Lovelace," which details the infamous porn star's story from the POV of her controversial 1980 memoir, "Ordeal."
For those not in the know, Linda Lovelace (born Linda Boreman) was the first adult performer to become a household name and a regular punchline for Johnny Carson and other late night talk show hosts as the free-love '60s melted into the commercialism of the '70s. Part of that was because she was simply the star of one of the first adult films with high quality production values and a (ahem) plot—one where Lovelace's ingénue can't find her clitoris because it's in the back of her throat. The film caught fire (it would make 600 million, all Lovelace got was $1,250). Hugh Hefner (played with avuncular smarm by James Franco) was a fan, Lovelace got the red carpet treatment and some even embraced the film as an anthem of female sexual liberation, but behind closes doors, was a different story — one of abuse at the hands of her husband, Chuck Traynor.
As Lovelace, Amanda Seyfried (Les Misérables) smoothly carries off the tricky dichotomy of sex kitten and battered spouse, and not just as a victim or shooting star, but as one caught up and swept away by something momentous and out of her control. Peter Sarsgaard, taking on the thankless role of Traynor, adds some adroit and menacing flourishes, but the role's a one-note and one of the many minor flaws that addle this film.
Over the years many have doubted Lovelace's spin, so much so—and it's depicted in the film—that the publishers made her take a lie detector before printing "Ordeal." Filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffery Friedman, who collaborated on "The Life and Times of Harvey Milk" and "The Celluloid Closet," play the bio-pic straight up and pedantic, much like they did with "Howl," though in telling Linda's story, they piquantly delve into the business side of the industry, which oddly enough, is not as sleazy as you'd think. All the sleaze that there is in the film, is heaped on Traynor who shills out his wife out for quickies and worse. (Traynor, who it seems was addicted to porn stars, would later go onto marry Marilyn Chambers).
Lovelace herself only made a handful of adult movies and later joined with Gloria Steinem to speak out against the porn industry. She never hid from what she did and in that, Epstein and Friedman capture the soul of a woman caught between two extremes and unable to escape her past, yet able to come to terms with it as a mother, wife and daughter (of very conservative parents). It's an intriguing and touching portrait that owes much to Seyfried. Like Lovelace, who died tragically in a 2002 car accident, she proves she's more than just a pretty face and capable of so much more.
The eclectic array of pop-up cameos include Chloë Sevigny and Sharon Stone, two women also known for pushing sexual boundaries in film : Stone for her panty-less leg cross in "Basic Instinct" and Sevigny for performing full on fellatio in "Brown Bunny," the same act that made Lovelace a worldwide sensation.
—– Tom Meek / Meek at the Movies
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Sonya Ann Kenney says:
Excellent review. Since I ahem did see the movie Deep Throat in college (first porn movie), I will add this to my movies worth seeing list. Thanks, for another terrific review-Movie Maestro.
hereandsphere says:
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Josaka: Why Are Record Labels Ignoring Fans?
Music and user-created content go hand in hand – a love of music inspires many people's first web pages. Kevin Harrington, former trouble maker at Sony and once a marketing director at the BBC, has taken the the idea several steps further – dissatisfied with the lack of involvement from big record labels, he set out to create the sort of web portal that would link local bands with their biggest resource – their fans.
The result was Josaka (you'll have to visit the site to find out what that means), one of the most popular local music resources in the UK, with an impact felt across the world, not just in leafy Berkshire.
I talked to Kevin to find out his thinking on music's relationship with the internet, owning the relationship with the music fan, and of course, getting the labels to "shut up whinging and pay attention to the fans."
What inspired you to start building a site with this amount of content?
My first interest in creating a website was pretty much around the whole subject of "Why the hell does it cost £150,000 to have a corporate website created that has virtually nothing on it?" So, I set out to discover how complex or how simple it really was.
The site started off back in 1999, and it set out to support live music in Berkshire. Starting off creating a site from nowhere then, it was very much "Let's do this and see what happens."
It lists just about everything that I can think of that is going to help people find gigs or musicians. The consequence of having a huge amount of content on the site and having it pretty Google-friendly is that people all over the world are finding it, and there have been great successes: there've been local bands who've had their music played on American radio stations, just because of information that's been published on Josaka.
Have you tried going through some of the websites from big labels to find information? The success of Josaka is hardly a surprise. There's no competition locally, and there's nothing going on nation-wide that competes with it.
Why live music? Were you drawn into this because it was something that record labels had completely ignored?
I have a love of live music, and at the time [of the launch of the website] I was actively involved in doing sound for a band, my wife's a singer – live music is a very important thing. And I play the guitar badly.
What thinking did you bring to the website that was different from that you'd seen around the internet at the time? What influenced you?
There wasn't a huge amount around at the time that could be classed as competition for Josaka, and this whole discussion of what is competition for a site is an interesting thing. At the time my thinking was very much "Why are we talking about this as a medium, why aren't we talking about what the content is all about?" If you just start thinking about the content, that's ultimately what influenced how the site developed.
The fact it's on the internet does determine certain ways of delivering content, but the core thinking has to be "Who is the audience? Who is the consumer of this? Who's going to benefit? Who's going to read the pages on the site?" It has to be a very consumer orientated thought-process that gets you round to deciding how the site should be.
If I was the publisher of a magazine, I'd be much more concerned about the content rather than the format.
Why do you think the internet and music go together so well? It's not just a delivery mechanism is it?
The reason the internet and music are so right for each other is that everything can be now, everyone can share, everyone has an equal voice if they've got something sensible to say, and the cost of getting the message around is remarkably economical.
What surprises me is that the people who complain about the costs of overheads to their business, like big record labels, don't use the internet better. They should be the ones that are leading the way, they should be the ones that are setting up ground-breaking websites that aren't just about saying "Aren't we bloody wonderful?" They should be standing right in the middle ground and saying "Hey, we're the heart of the music community!", and they should allow themselves to be criticized on their own websites. They should use the format for distributing samples themselves, and take control of things. In it's own little way, Josaka does that, but if I was a record label, if I was a Sony, I'd do it for the whole country. Just think of the impact that would have if it was done on a genuinely approachable, honest, open and fair way.
The whole issue of being able to share files and download MP3s, whilst important is not the core reason why there are websites about music. There are countless websites that you can't download music from. I think the reason why the whole area of music and the internet sit well together is music becomes successful when it's accessible and there's a community feel about it. What the internet allows is a very strong feeling of community to develop quite quickly, which other delivery formats like a magazine don't tend to do.
A comparison to that would be the NME [infamous UK music newspaper, the New Musical Express] – there's very little sense of community with a thing like the NME. With a website, you can very quickly get that feeling of ownership from readers of the site by allowing them to have their views published in discussion forums and so on.
Now that we have websites about music, and bands' own websites, particularly small bands – what social effect do you see this having on consumers? How will self-created content affect consumers' habits?
There are obvious positives and negatives. On the negative side, the fact is that it is so easy for people who have no marketing, press or media experience to be able to publish their views – in seconds people can go and create themselves blogs or websites and if they get the tone of it wrong it can put people off going to see bands or going to see events.
I have recent experience of people saying that to me, from running quite a lively discussion forum on Josaka. I've had people who have read the discussion forum and decided not to go to an event because it sounded too cliquey. A lot of people go and publish things without enough consideration for how it's going to be read.
The responsibility of publishing content on the internet is a considerable one, but there are no great rules for it. My analogy is if I went and stuck a huge transmitter on the roof of my house and started broadcasting radio or television, there'd be a whole lot of rules I'd have to comply with, and that'd be after I got my license, if was lucky enough to get one. I'd have to take it all very seriously, and there would be a lot more consideration about the content, but on the internet it's remarkably free – and long may it be so. The downside is that people can pitch stuff in the wrong way for their target audience and consumers. On the positive side, there's this wonderful, raw unedited immediacy to it, and it means that bands who in the past could never get feedback from audiences are now receiving it – good and bad – and they're able to respond back, and dialogues start happening. That's an enormously positive thing.
Now so many bands have web pages, how can they stand out? How do they still get exposure with the internet so crowded?
Ignoring the number of band websites for the moment, the real problem is that a band's site is generally speaking a dull affair – which is why many bands have gone down the "let's have loads of Flash everywhere" route. How many things can a band say during the course of month that's going to get people returning to their site? I think that's been the issue since bands first started having sites – if it's just one band's content, it's not going to be that exciting, it's not going to be refreshed, there's not going to be that much news on there. There are exceptions of course. Sites like Josaka have benefited the Berkshire music scene as everyone is linked from the bands page, and all the key headline news gets published It becomes the place to go to find out the latest news about bands who are quite often 15, 16 years olds, pro, semi-pro – it doesn't matter what size or scale they are, they all get a sensible airing if they go to the effort of making an event.
What's the most exciting part of Josaka for you?
Free entry to gigs?
One of the most pleasing things is that it's been going for more than five years, uncontested and running successfully. It's been doing that because it's not run on a commercial basis – it doesn't need income to survive. My standards for it mean that it has to get better and provide better content, and it has to grow – it has to constantly evolve and improve.
There are many sites locally that have tried to do similar things but they've always started off by saying "We'll get some offices, they'll cost UK£10,000 a year, we'll have a finance director, we'll get our income from banners." You know the maths as well as I do – how many banner ads are you going to have to sell off a site to pay your rent?
For me, the most exciting thing is saying "This is a vehicle to promote live music"– at its core it has to be the content that lets it survive – not its saleability for banner ads. Editorial and content-wise it has to be successful first. If at one point in the future it became a commercial site, that would have to be in a way that didn't dilute, interrupt or interfere with the content.
How much consultation with the public do you do to find out what people want? Do you talk to people at gigs? Questionnaires?
Most of the major changes on Josaka over the years have been driven out of asking the visitors to the site: I've done questionnaires and invitations to people to come up with ideas.
Because it's such a passion, because it's so successful, it consumes a lot of time – it's my principle activity outside of money earning things. I'm going to another gig tonight, I produced a radio programme yesterday for Reading college.
What do you think are the key things you've learned?
I guess in the earlier stages I spent too much time quietly developing it and pushing it towards people and some of my character traits of being a control freak were probably too much to the fore. I've learned that the discussion with the audience and getting them involved, getting them to contribute, has been the major breakthrough for the site. When it finally twigged that it couldn't be a sort of stand back "here's the music business, come and get it" kind of thing, that was a turning point for me.
What thinking and ideas do you most admire in the industry?
We're still a long way off downloads becoming that significant in the market place, and the current whinging from the music industry about how downloads are increasing and single sales are decreasing…
Down 32% this year, I believe…
… allegedly. If you're in a band, the record label always tells you that you lose money on singles, you make money on albums. The singles are there to promote albums. There is an argument that says that the record labels should shut up whinging and be pleased that single sales are going down.
Album sales are going up…
If I sit down in front of my TV, there's probably about fifteen channels of music on there that are playing new singles weeks before they're launched, and they give me an idea of what an album might sound like. Let's stop talking about downloads, let's talk about how the music industry should promote their artists and bands so that these profitable things called albums sell. I think people are getting much bigger samples of music from cable and satellite than from downloads.
Downloads of singles and samples are probably a very positive thing for the industry.
The start point has to be labels appearing to engage the subject sensibly, and most of their forays into working with downloads seem to be led by the finance director. A bit of understanding of how the consumer wants to do things is the way forward.
Make music available to buy – the only reason P2P sites exist is because it's often the only place to get some music. People are prepared to pay money. Record labels trying variable levels of pricing could actually end up setting the right price quite quickly.
As legal music services open up, people do use them. They often only turn to download sites when a particular piece of music isn't available to buy.
A lot of people genuinely don't realise the laws they're breaking – that doesn't make them innocent but shows how poor communication has been by the entire industry. Most people do respect the issue of copyright – what they don't accept are the excessive levels of profit that appear to be made by record labels.
If record labels want to genuinely defend, and explain, and get CD consumers to agree that £17 is a fair price for a CD I'd like to see them put the case.
The industry needs to start thinking about the consumer. They're worried – quite rightly because they're looking after shareholders – about what appears on the balance sheet and the various costs of doing but let's start worrying about what the audience wants.
I know a lot of people who would prefer to download music from an official band site. Why? Because they're going there to sample a track before they decide to buy an album and they want to find out a bit more about the band. Pure download sites, whilst they're very functional, actually from an industry point of view would be better if there was relevant and informative content surrounding it.
Then as an industry we could be saying "We might not be making a lot of money on the download of samples, but we know at the same time we are able to get the message across about a band or about an act, we're able to get the imagery across, we're able to get across gig dates, we're able to sell merchandise, we're able to talk about tour dates and we're able to get people to subscribe to discussion forums."
If I was running a band, one of my concerns would be about owning the relationship with the audience, owning the relationship with the person who is listening to the track. I want to be able to communicate with them – and that's what the internet's about, two way communication, it's not just about someone downloading a track. That contact with either an existing or potential fan is enormously valuable. We know music fans are fairly promiscuous types of people, so use let's a bit of intelligence, let's use the medium to grab hold of them and retain them.
Napster has launched several new sites this year. When we discovered that the UK was twice as expensive at the US and Canadian versions, we were told by Napster that it was because UK industry charged higher wholesale prices than elsewhere. Why does the record industry in the UK seem twice as greedy as elsewhere?
To be blunt, they're completely out of touch with the consumer. They cruise into work and answer a few emails before they go out for lunch. How many gigs do they go to? How many people in bands do they talk to? How many people in audiences do they see? Do they really have had any respect for the people that are fans?
I know there are exceptions to that, but as an industry it's unapproachable. Even the big bands have suffered from the problem of becoming unapproachable. A lot of the bands that are linked from Josaka will use the sense of community that's been engendered by the site to get to know people, to communicate both ways, to build up a base so that they can tell people about new material they've got. It becomes a friendly, fun thing to do. Music is not just about listening to music, it's about who you listen to music with, where you listen to and and the group of people that you associate with. It's a lot more than just having an MP3 or CD.
This brings us back to creating community sites, doesn't it?
I know that Josaka has taken a ton of effort and has more than 1,400 pages on it so I recently did a cost structure on what it would cost to put together from scratch and produce that level of content, and it came out in excess of £100,000.
What really surprises me is that, with the relative ease of being able to put together an informative and useful website, why so few people have managed to do it in other areas. If every county had one, and they linked together, you'd have a really powerful tool to then go to record labels and say "Hey, if you want to get your message across, get the tone right for this audience and we can start talking to people through this vehicle." And what happens? Big record labels ignore community sites.
Interestingly, there are quite a lot of small indie labels that probably employ up to ten people that send sampler CDs, press releases because they know where it's at, they know where the audiences are.
So it's greed and apathy from within, then? You don't think it's because people are getting less interested in music, because they've got lots of other things to spend money on like DVDs and games?
I see absolutely no evidence that people are becoming less interested in music, I see plenty of evidence that they're getting pissed off with the pap that they're being given by record labels. Time and time again, regurgitations of something that was once great, now in a really bad form by bands that frankly shouldn't be bands.
There's a healthy desire for recorded music, night clubs, live music, outdoor gigs, festivals. If people want to get involved in a market that is highly lucrative the music industry is the one to be in. Run efficiently, there's a whole load of money to be made – but you can only ever make money in business if you're doing what the customer wants.
I think you're wrong to say that music labels are suffering from greed and apathy. I believe they think they're being really dedicated, I believe they think they're doing a good job.
The bottom line is, I think they're out of touch with who the consumer is, do they really understand what the consumer thinks and believes or are they just going by the surveys they read in the Sun?
Headline news is an easy thing to respond to – it's easy to react against "Single sales are 32% down!", but what genuinely lies beneath that? I said earlier, I think that single sales being down is a good thing. Why should I spend £4 on a single? When I want the content of a single it's because I want to understand what a band sounds like. By the time I've spent £4 I might as well buy the CD, but I probably won't – I'll probably just be a bit pissed off about it, so I'll wait until I hear it on the radio. Or, hey, I might go and download it.
A lot of people on Berkshire Live might say "I've come across this band" and post a link to a track and all of a sudden you've got people talking about a band that hadn't been talked about before. It's exciting stuff, it's dynamic, it's real, it's immediate. For the big record labels, immediacy is not something that's in their vocabulary.
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Fraser Lovatt has spent the last fifteen years working in publishing, TV and the Internet in various capacities, and believes that they will be seperate platforms for at least a while yet. His main interests at the moment are exploring where Linux is taking home entertainment and how technology is conferring technical skills on more and more people. Fraser Lovatt was born in the same year that 2001: A Space Odyssey was delighting and confusing people in the cinemas, and developed a lifelong love of technology as soon as he realised that things could be taken apart, sometimes put back together again, but mostly left in bits or made into something the original designer hadn't quite planned upon. At school he was definitely in the ZX Spectrum/Magpie/BMX camp, rather than the BBC Micro/Blue Peter/well-behaved group. This is all deeply ironic as he later went on to spend nine years working at the BBC. After a few years of working as a bookseller in Scotland, ("Back when it was actually a skilled profession" he'll tell anyone still listening), he moved to England for reasons he can't quite explain adequately to himself. After a couple of publishing jobs punctuated by sporadic bursts of travelling and photography came the aforementioned nine years at the BBC where he specialised in internet technologies and video. These days his primary interests are Java, Linux, videogames and pies - and if they're not candidates for convergence, then what is?	View all posts by Fraser Lovatt
Posted on 9 June, 2004 Author Fraser LovattCategories Content, Music, User Generated Content (UGC)
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I made a list of my comics....but my name is not on the public stash list...i tried importing my list from excel where they are listed..it gives me an error..can someone help me get these comics listed on this site??
Go to your stash, and underneath the "My Stash" column there is a "Public My Stash Manager." Click the boxes next to your categories to make them public and then hit update.
Note: The importer was modified on 5/11/2010, so please make sure you read the instructions below before using the importer.
You can only import Tab Delimited Text (.txt) files. You can either create a Tab Delimited Text file from scratch using the column headings outlined below, or you can download this Excel template and use it to create the Tab Delimited Text file.
Click File -> Save As, and in the drop down box labeled "Save As Type" select "Text (Tab delimited) (*.txt)", and then click Save (a warning message might popup notifying you that formatting will be lost, that's fine, click Yes or Ok).
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Only 50 Comic Titles will be loaded onscreen from your processing queue at any one time (no restriction on how many issues per title). If you have more than 50 titles, just refresh the page after processing some of them, and more titles will be loaded.
Once the 50 titles have loaded, the importer will automatically start searching the StashMyComics.com database for matching titles, as matches are found they will be displayed in the right hand column.
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Check the issues you want to stash (most will be automatically pre-checked by the importer) and then click the Stash button.
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okay my list is in public now but i want to add more comics and this list is not adding to my stash..they are books that i couldnt find in the database..does that mean i cant add them..i have like 400 more books..
If there are books not in the database then you will need to use the "submit new issue/series" tab at the top of your stash, and the admins will get them uploaded (and you will earn some points!).
It could also be that the titles you have don't match how they are listed in the database. I encourage you to use the search function to double check.
Use your points to enter into giveaways (located on the bottom right of the homepage). There is an active one right now! You can also earn points by submitting missing cover images.


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New Phila approves agreement with Career Center
By Lori Feeney | Published 1:58 am Dec 15, 2021
At the Dec. 13 meeting of the New Philadelphia Safety, Health and Service Committee, chair Kelly Ricklic urged passage of two pieces of legislation out of committee and to full council for emergency passage.
The first was a resolution for a management contract between the city and Buckeye Career Center for the services of a firefighter training position. Under the agreement BCC would pay a $30,000 stipend for the city to hire the trainer during a one-year exploratory period.
According to Jim Parrish, New Philadelphia fire chief, the position used to be covered by a part-time individual who worked on evenings and weekends. "Training is a big component of the fire service," Parrish said.
The agreement will make training available during normal business hours. It also will offer an alternative to completing a college firefighter program.
"A lot of discussion and thought went into this plan," Parrish said. "We win with people. We win with well-trained people and good equipment."
Parrish said the goal is to make the New Philadelphia Fire Department the go-to place for other departments to receive firefighter training.
"To me, it's, I think, it's outstanding when the city can partner with any group in the community to utilize same resources rather than vying for two resources," Ricklic said. "I think it's outstanding that we can work together as a community like this, and I think this shows what Buckeye Career Center stands for and what our city stands for."
Councilwoman Cheryl Ramos asked if the hours spent at BCC would be separate from the hours working for the city.
Marvin Fete, the city's law director, said the arrangement is for the hours to be separate, and councilman Dean Holland said, "There is not going to be a conflict between city time and Buckeye time."
Councilman and committee member Rob Maurer said the agreement includes a clause allowing either party to back out of the agreement at any point for any reason.
Councilman John Zucal said the person will be a city employee, not an employee of BCC. He also commended the leadership at BCC and Parrish of the fire department.
"The way I understood it from individual conversations with the chief, he went to great lengths to ensure that a conflict would not take place," Zucal said. "What I think is critical is that they've built in various clauses that say 'if this isn't working, we can get out.' It's really going to be a win-win."
Parrish confirmed Zucal's statement. "Eight months from now, we want to sit down and really see if we want to continue down this road."
The second piece of legislation moved out of committee was an ordinance pertaining to a recently finalized opioid settlement agreement between OneOhio and Johnson & Johnson and its U.S.-based Janssen Pharmaceuticals Company.
Fete outlined the terms of the national agreement, which he said orders the company to pay $5 billion over no more than nine years. The money will be distributed to individual states affected, and the states will distribute funds to local governments.
"As you know, we previously passed legislation approving settlements with the other companies involved in lawsuits that have been commenced on behalf of the attorney general for the State of Ohio," Fete said.
At that time, he said, an agreement had not been reached with Johnson & Johnson.
"I personally think people should have been held criminally liable," Fete said. "But this is the best outcome of a bad situation."
According to Fete, Tuscarawas County ranked 18th in drug-overdose mortality rates out of Ohio's 88 counties.
Before adjourning, Ricklic thanked Zucal and Rob Maurer, both of whom are retiring as councilmen, for their service to the city.
"These two members have done a lot for our community in the area of safety, health and service," Ricklic said. "They've done a lot for the city; they did a lot before I was here. I'm going to miss both of you."


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Info for Cpt of USAir 687-1/16/13-FDX Intl JS
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Jumpseating from PHX to EWR on 1/16 and when I went to go introduce myself to the crew, the Captain was interested that I was a FedEx guy. It seems that he got stuck at an international destination for a few extra days trying to get out, and was a little annoyed that FedEx won't take him on an international jumpseat back to the US. I tried to explain to him that it wasn't FedEx's policy, but the FAA's (I was actually wrong on that point, it isn't FedEx OR the FAA, but the TSA's policy). He told me "it's not the FAA, it's FedEx." I tried to explain to him about our lack of a inflight security coordinator (i.e. Flight Attendant) and that our whole upper deck is considered the 'flight deck' and just like I can't jumpseat on USAir internationally on the flight deck, neither can we allow offline jumpseaters on our "flightdeck," which, unfortunately includes the courier compartment. I could tell he still wasn't buying it, because he could jumpseat internationally on Atlas.
I apologized that he had to spend a few more days out and offered to get him some more information about the international jumpseat prohibition. I don't know about why Atlas is different than us with regard to international jumpseating, but if there's an Atlas guy/gal on here, maybe they could explain.
Either way, if the Captain of USAir 687 PHX-EWR on 16 Jan 13 reads this forum, or someone know who he is, please point him here and pass this information along. Again, it's not FedEx who is denying the jumpseat internationally, but the TSA, and hopefully it will change sooner rather than later.
I appreciate the ride home and thanks for the hospitality.
Update to International Jumpseat
The TSA has had a prohibition on international jumpseating since 2001. You can't ride in an American, Delta or Continental cockpit right now just as they can't ride in ours. They have in-flight security coordinators designated behind the IRCD in flight--so they can extend an open cabin seat--ONLY--to a jumpseater. Our entire upper deck becomes the "flight deck" any time the IRCD is opened. Remember how we operated with the Supernumerary pilots being scheduled to ride in the back as in-flight security coordinators to try and keep up with TSA AOSSP mandates (Aircraft Operators Standard Security Program)? So, if you try to ride a US carrier abroad--you will be denied the cockpit just like are forced to deny the cockpit, by the regulators--not FedEx. The only exception to this is Puerto Rico--in which management--not ALPA has elected to leave closed. I have repeatedly ask them to open those stations--which are DOMESTIC as far as the TSA is concerned, and where we have other US carriers offering us the cockpit jumpseat.
Now, having said all this--there is potential relief on the way, which is leading to the rumors. Pistole, in response to a white paper I wrote in DC with ALPA National Staff, has finally approved international flight deck access via CASS to US carriers that maintain a MCL. We do. All long haul international US carriers do. However, this will come on just like the evolution of CASS. One carrier at time, and at a trickle. Just like CASS. Every air carrier has to change software, and amend all manuals and technical writing to incorporate this provision into their AOSSP and operations software. Plus--an operator can't even start until each air carriers individual TSA PSS initiates it. Further ARINC, the CASS server host, has to incorporate "fences" to maintain integrity of CASS access to the flight deck for those few air carriers that maintain an MCL only. If an off line CASS pilot gets into the flight deck abroad that is not on an MCL, that aircraft will not be allowed entry into US airspace. That check doesn't happen until four hours prior to that point. Therefore, any diversion would cost an airline hundreds of thousands of dollars and would risk operators opting out of CASS to prevent future problems.
So our hands--just as every other major airlines hands--are still somewhat tied by the regulators. I am sure you well know by now how fast regulation change takes place at the Federal government level of TSA and FAA. Ever heard of flight and duty times and the FAA reauthorization bill?
This is just another example of what ALPA does for you that gets no exposure. It's all going on, and the FedEx committees involved work it every day behind the scenes. Updates are communicated via the message line, the website, AirLine pilot magazine, P2P and textcaster. If you don't regularly visit those venues or have auto feed to your devices and email, I would highly recommend you do so that you get that information as soon as changes apply.
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Not trying to argue but the Captain is considered to be the IFSC.
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Quote:"Jumpseating from PHX to EWR on 1/16 and when I went to go introduce myself to the crew, the Captain was interested that I was a FedEx guy. It seems that he got stuck at an international destination for a few extra days trying to get out, and was a little annoyed that FedEx won't take him on an international jumpseat back to the US. I tried to explain to him that it wasn't FedEx's policy, but the FAA's (I was actually wrong on that point, it isn't FedEx OR the FAA, but the TSA's policy). He told me "it's not the FAA, it's FedEx." I tried to explain to him about our lack of a inflight security coordinator (i.e. Flight Attendant) and that our whole upper deck is considered the 'flight deck' and just like I can't jumpseat on USAir internationally on the flight deck, neither can we allow offline jumpseaters on our "flightdeck," which, unfortunately includes the courier compartment. I could tell he still wasn't buying it, because he could jumpseat internationally on Atlas".
FeDEX does not allow off-line pilots jumpseat from Memphis to San Juan, PR. which is a USA territory ( I dont know why) . I had been in many UPS Jumpseat from Louisville to San Juan, PR. I do ride in the flight deck of the MD11, A300 and 767 with no problem.. So, I think this FEDEX policy is something that guys has to get rid of it.
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Its not just Atlas that allows it. Evergreen allows it and Polar allowed it before they were merged into Atlas. There is no IRCD on those planes and the whole upper deck is the flight deck. Not sure about the other cargo carriers though.
It had been told to me previously by a FedEx pilot that it was an issue with management. I don't know one way or the other, but it seems odd that you can ride on some cargo carriers but not others.
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dash8driver said:
Probably has something to do with a jumpseater attacking the crew with a spear gun at FedEx
Grandpa +65 said:
I agree. Not being able to jumpseat to PR on FedEx is a management thing. Other international destinations is the TSA, not FedEx. Out JS guy (who also happens to be the national guy) is working on the PR issue. Everything else is out of our hands, unfortunately.
As much as I'd like to pin it on them, it's not management. UPS has the same restriction wrt international jumpseating. The only thing that I can think of is that maybe the TSA looks at scheduled vs non-scheduled operations differently.
B6Busdriver said:
You are correct. I think the point of it is, in our world, when a guy gets up out of the seat to go to the back, there is no flight attendant to block the door with a beverage cart, and no one else is up front with the pilot.
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Sluggo,
Normally, I'd at least try and put myself in the shoes of the Captain because that's a USAir West number and most of our guys are really cool. Maybe he had a bad day, got beat up by his wife, etc. I looked up the flight to see who it was and, imagine my lack of surprise when I saw he blocks his identity in our scheduling system. That's normally an indicator of a problem child. Using a round about way to figure it out...
All I can do is apologize for this guy. He's *VERY* unpopular among our pilot group because he lacks the social skill-set to know how to talk to someone in a way that doesn't come across as wildly confrontational. The Schedulers can't stand him. The flight attendants *HATE* him. Then again, I flew with him last year and had a surprisingly good trip. Maybe he was on meds or something. Even the F/A's who went through a range of hateful gyrations when I told them who the Captain was commented on his good behavior. I've suspected he was fresh from a carpet danced in front of the Chief Pilot regarding his antics but who knows.
Anyway, if you didn't catch it...when you left, the FO said, "Don't worry about it" under his breath. Also, on our flights to Mexico you can't ride in our jumpseat due to TSA regs or some such thing so he's on pretty thin ice giving you the what-for. Ignore him and please feel free to use our jumpseat any time you like. We're happy to have you riding along.
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get2flyin said:
Are you sure you checked the right day/flight? I did a search for 687/16 and the captains line was not restricted.
Sluggo, that's very nice of you to type out a letter of explanation/apology to a jerk captain. If he knew anything about jumpseat etiquette and FedEx jumpseat rules he wouldn't have, or shouldn't have been taking it out on you. Any similar circumstance that I face usually involves me writing down the info to take to my carrier jumpseat coordinator. Not much else can be done.
Guppiedriver said:
One of us is looking at the wrong thing. I just checked again and it was. Either way, water under the bridge now.
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Thanks. No need to apologize. I'm pretty thick skinned. It just seemed to me he didn't buy my explanation, and when I tried to explain how I couldn't ride on USAir internationally in the cockpit, he took it as that was why we were retaliating against him but not letting him jumpseat on us.
It's all good, though.
As I left, I did lock eyes with the FO in that silent mind meld that only FO's have. His eyes said "sorry about that," mine replied "don't feel sorry for me... you're the one that's gotta sit up here with him for the next 5 hours."
Truly, thanks for the ride, and hopefully we can reciprocate one day.
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Q: Android Load image on ImageView using arraylist This might be a problem that I might overlook again but if you could help me solve it, I will be very thankful.
Using this code to get images from drawable and sending it to Imageview.setImageResource (in which my Imageview is inside a gridview); everything works well
private   Integer[] imageIDs = {
            //R.drawable.image1,
            R.drawable.image2,
            R.drawable.image3,
            R.drawable.image4,
            R.drawable.image5,
            R.drawable.image6,
            R.drawable.Image7,
};

//Here is my another code to call imageIDs as ImageResource
ImageView iv = (ImageView)v.findViewById(R.id.grid_item_picture);
iv.setImageResource(imageIDs[position]);
//position is a default value of gridview starting from 0

Now what I trying to accomplish is to delete that array and convert it to ArrayList simply because need these inside data to be dynamic. And so I've created this new code
ArrayList<String> array_image = new ArrayList<String>();
        array_image.add("R.drawable.image6");
        array_image.add("R.drawable.image1");

and set the ImageView ImageResource to this code
iv.setImageResource(array_image .get(position));

I am getting an error saying:

The method setImageResource(int) in the type ImageView is not applicable for the arguments (Object)
  Can you help me fix/figure it out?

A: You are defining an ArrayList for Strings. However you need integers as resource identifiers.
Do it instead like this;
ArrayList<Integer> array_image = new ArrayList<Integer>();
array_image.add(R.drawable.image6);
array_image.add(R.drawable.image1);

A: Hey @Janwel try to use this one. This will work most likely.
List<Integer> mL = new ArrayList<Integer>();
mL.add(R.drawable.image2);

A: Please try with
ArrayList<int> array_image = new ArrayList<int>();
array_image.add(R.drawable.image6);
array_image.add(R.drawable.image1);

and then
iv.setImageResource(array_image .get(position));

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As a founding partner of Schochor, Federico and Staton, P.A., Kerry D. Staton tenaciously works on behalf of clients in Maryland and Washington, D.C., who have suffered medical malpractice, birth injury and other personal injury incidents. Additionally, on special motion, he has handled cases in Alabama, Pennsylvania and other jurisdictions.
In state and federal courts, Mr. Staton is a fierce advocate for people whose lives have been upended due to someone else's negligence. Part of his passion for helping these clients stems from the fact that he has seen firsthand what the effects of these events are; his own mother suffered severe brain damage due to negligent surgical care. Watching that happen, Mr. Staton knew he wanted to support people in similar situations to get on the path to recovery and hold irresponsible providers accountable for the harm they have caused.
To date, Mr. Staton has secured countless verdicts and settlements that compensate clients for their losses, including the physical damages they have experienced as well as the emotional turmoil they have undergone. Due to his successes, he has earned honors such as the following: being selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America; being elected as a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers; being a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum; and earning the highest peer rating possible of AV Preeminent* from Martindale-Hubbell.
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Company's specialized panel turns backpacks into shields
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More and more parents are looking for ways to protect their children while they're at school, and their research is leading them to a North Carolina company's product that turns a backpack into a bullet-proof shield.For Frank Stewart, the owner of Premier Body Armor in Kings Mountain, protection is a passion."My previous life I was a defense contractor. So we worked just with a lot of armor. We built armor vehicles for the military," Stewart told WYFF News 4's Mike McCormick. "We come from over 25 years of saving American lives."Stewart's company went on to focus on armor people can wear. The company's customer base was mostly made up of law enforcement officers.According to Stewart, Premier Body Armor is the only company to offer a curved steel plate for protection against the majority of high-powered rifles. It's made at the company's factory in Kings Mountain.Law enforcement officers eventually started asking for protection that they can carry in their backpacks while they're off-duty or working undercover, so Stewart started selling backpack panels built in his factory in Miami. "We really didn't invent the backpack panel. I think we've taken it to another level," Stewart said.The panel is made of Kevlar, the same material that's in a bulletproof vest. It's waterproof and weighs about 1 pound. "Then (the officers) wanted to know if they could buy it for their kids' backpacks, even small, really small backpacks," Stewart said.Stewart started offering panels in all sizes. They can slip right into any backpack.The recent school shootings ended up expanding Stewart's customer base."What's most terrible is the incident is happening, but once the incident happens people say, 'Oh my gosh. I've got to do something about it,'" Stewart said. "Since this last terrible incident in Florida, there's been a lot more activity on the website."The panels are about $150 each and they come with a five-year warranty."We have been in the life-saving business for a very long time and we continue that," Stewart said. "We love it. We come every day to work knowing that most of everything we sell is going to save somebody's life."
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More and more parents are looking for ways to protect their children while they're at school, and their research is leading them to a North Carolina company's product that turns a backpack into a bullet-proof shield.
For Frank Stewart, the owner of Premier Body Armor in Kings Mountain, protection is a passion.
"My previous life I was a defense contractor. So we worked just with a lot of armor. We built armor vehicles for the military," Stewart told WYFF News 4's Mike McCormick.
"We come from over 25 years of saving American lives."
Stewart's company went on to focus on armor people can wear. The company's customer base was mostly made up of law enforcement officers.
According to Stewart, Premier Body Armor is the only company to offer a curved steel plate for protection against the majority of high-powered rifles. It's made at the company's factory in Kings Mountain.
Law enforcement officers eventually started asking for protection that they can carry in their backpacks while they're off-duty or working undercover, so Stewart started selling backpack panels built in his factory in Miami.
"We really didn't invent the backpack panel. I think we've taken it to another level," Stewart said.
The panel is made of Kevlar, the same material that's in a bulletproof vest. It's waterproof and weighs about 1 pound.
"Then (the officers) wanted to know if they could buy it for their kids' backpacks, even small, really small backpacks," Stewart said.
Stewart started offering panels in all sizes. They can slip right into any backpack.
The recent school shootings ended up expanding Stewart's customer base.
"What's most terrible is the incident is happening, but once the incident happens people say, 'Oh my gosh. I've got to do something about it,'" Stewart said.
"Since this last terrible incident in Florida, there's been a lot more activity on the website."
The panels are about $150 each and they come with a five-year warranty.
"We have been in the life-saving business for a very long time and we continue that," Stewart said. "We love it. We come every day to work knowing that most of everything we sell is going to save somebody's life."


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A friend reminded me that Saturday marked the first anniversary of a day I thought would never come. It was Oct. 13, 2006, that President Bush signed an amendment that contained what many call the "Love Field compromise." The compromise allowed, for the first time in more than 26 years, the sale of flights from Dallas' Love Field airport to destinations beyond Texas and its contiguous states. The result is that travel to Dallas has gotten cheaper and more plentiful. (See this Dallas Morning News article from Sept. 30, 2007, which has a lot of great facts.) "Air fares to and from Love Field went down almost immediately after repeal of the anti-competitive Wright Amendment," said Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, Texas' senior senator who helped lead the way on the compromise effort. "We are now at the one year anniversary of the repeal being signed into law. Our collective effort was a long process, but I am proud that all parties could come together to provide more competition and significantly reduce prices for North Texas travelers." Having only lived in Dallas for 13 years, I often struggled to explain the Wright Amendment to friends, family, and perfect strangers. Since 1979, this now former Congressional amendment prevented Southwest from selling a ticket or marketing flights to its home airport from cities that knew darn well Southwest served it. We even had people call to complain that our web site was "broken" because it didn't list service to Dallas from the majority of our destinations. It generally took more than seven to ten seconds to explain why that was so, and how the US Congress could have approved such a thing. In my line of work as a spokesperson to the media, you rarely get more than ten seconds to explain anything. But, about the time I had somewhat perfected my ten-second quip, our CEO Gary Kelly shifted the sand in 2004, and we would embark upon one of the biggest legislative efforts in our history. The solution would put us in the room with our cross-town rivals, American Airlines, and bring together the cities of Dallas and Ft. Worth which often were likened to the Hatfields and McCoys. Where once we were divided over a piece of legislative paper, we now were united with a presidential signature for the benefit of the entire region. "In just the first year, travel to North Texas is easier and more affordable than ever," said our great Leader, Herb Kelleher, who is no stranger to the workings of Congress. The compromise immediately allowed "through-ticketing" of flights from Love to all Southwest's destinations, which still includes an interim stop, but nonstop flights will once again be allowed from Love in 2014. "Thanks to the hard work and support of Leaders such as Sen. Hutchison, it is the consumer who is the ultimate victor." My friend's reminder was a great reason to look back at how far we continue to come, and I truly appreciate what it is that bolts me out of bed in the morning to see what happens next!
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it has already been one year... my how time flies!! i still cannot believe that such a law would ever exist but it did. as we can now see the consumers are the biggest winners (FORMER) USS BLOG BOY
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Wow...it's been a year already. Well, I was one of the folks who emailed in letters to Congress about the silly Wright Amendment. I am glad someone finally listened! Thanks, SWA, for hanging in there. I love you, guys. I admire your company and the mostly I just love the employees. You guys make me feel like a million bucks each and every time I fly. Yes, I have other choices....but SWA is always my first choice. NOW, we just have to get you guys into Georgia and ATL!! Smooches and much LUV!!
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My favorite memory from the trip was on Easter, when we went to a special Easter service at the Garden Tomb (one of the locations where they believe Jesus may have been buried!) We worshipped and celebrated Jesus and His resurrection with people from all over the world...in the Holy City. It was such an amazing and surreal experience that I'll treasure forever.
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