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Hobby Musings: TRISTAR Continues Hidden Treasures in 2022
by Kelsey Schroyer | Dec 21, 2021 | GTS, Hobby Musings, Mint Musings
Hobby Musings: TRISTAR Continues Hidden Treasures in 2022 – One of the longest-running products in the hobby is TRISTAR's Hidden Treasures line. Started almost 20 years ago, it has featured mystery products that include anything from signed 8x10s to autographed jerseys. TRISTAR provided me with a couple of boxes to open for media review. For a football mini-helmet, I pulled Cowboys Hall of Famer, Randy White. In addition to his signature, he also included his HOF year inscription. The Roy Sievers 8×10 and the Joe Pignatano baseball I pulled also included inscriptions. All three items came already authenticated by TRISTAR, along with an info card detailing the accomplishments of the players. To find out more about Hidden Treasures, as well as what TRISTAR has on tap for 2022, I had the chance to catch up with Jeff Rosenberg.
KS: Jeff, TRISTAR Hidden Treasures has turned into a long-standing product for the company. Did you ever imagine when it started that it would have this kind of longevity?
JR: You know, at the time we started it, I was only worried about that year. Conceptually, I thought we had something that could last, but from a practical standpoint at the time, longevity was hard to see. My original feeling was just as people would open up packs of cards looking for their favorite players, they would want to open signed memorabilia products too. It has been satisfying to see the line have this kind of longevity.
KS: What are some of the newer upcoming Hidden Treasures products?
JR: Looking ahead to 2022, we're doing some World's Greatest Card Chase products for baseball and football. Our very popular football jersey product is returning next year. Every edition seems to sell out, so we wanted to do another one for collectors.
We'll also continue to segment some of our products like football mini-helmets and baseballs. In addition to the regular product, we'll also have Platinum. For Platinum mini-helmets, those will be geared more towards the high-end side. For the baseball product, it'll focus more on baseballs that include inscriptions or players who are harder to find.
While my Astros didn't win the World Series, we'll be commemorating the Braves' title with a signed baseball product in March. Overall, people love the products and they continue to sell out, so we want to keep providing opportunities to obtain them.
KS: 2021 saw the company being able to have big in-person signing events amid the pandemic, including the National. All in all, how was 2021 for TRISTAR?
JR: 2021 went really well. We were very excited for it, coming off a tough year in 2020. We lost the shows completely in 2020. In June 2021, we got to do the Houston show, then the National in July. We were also able to start traveling and do signings with athletes again around May and June of this year. It was a start to getting back to normalcy while living with and dealing with the pandemic.
KS: What have been the biggest challenges with conducting the in-person signings during the pandemic?
JR: Three major ones. The ability to acquire the goods and products was tough. There were backlogs for things like jerseys and helmets, which made it hard to procure the product for signings. Getting to the talent for signings was also tough since people weren't really flying. Then even conducting the signings was a challenge. We've been cautious with our employees and the talent when it comes to being in a room together. It's been a series of unique challenges we've never come across before.
KS: What extra steps and precautions, if any, have you had to take with the autograph signings and photo opportunities during COVID?
JR: On the private signing end, we had our employees take COVID tests before and after signings. Also, we do mask wearing for ourselves and the talent.
KS: Jeff, you had Spencer Rattler at last year's National. With NIL deals for college athletes continuing to expand, do you foresee having more amateur athletes doing signings?
JR: I really do. I think that's going to become a normal things at shows. Everybody's trying to figure their way out in order to be compliant with the rules. We love doing baseball prospect signings and would often have minor league prospects who had just been drafted coming out and do signings. Now, we'll have college athlete prospects from the various sports doing them more. For example, at our Houston show early in the year, we'd always have a few top prospect signers who are expected to be drafted. For the 2022 show, we'll have Texas A&M DE Demarvin Leal, who's projected as a first-round draft pick. In addition to him, we may end up having some A&M players who are still college athletes.
KS: Hidden Treasures aside, what does TRISTAR have planned for 2022?
JR: We're sticking with our roots and putting on the shows, the signings, and the packaged products. As I mentioned, we have our big Houston show in February. We're bringing in seven members of the Astros' Hall of Fame for signings, including Larry Dierker, Jeff Bagwell, and Lance Berkman. We've also got Roger Clemens' son, Kody Clemens, coming in for it. Other top-ranked baseball prospects, including Bryce Elder and Marcelo Mayer, will also be on hand, along with several Hall of Famers from multiple sports. At the end of the day, we're just trying to grow our business even further and continue to give customers what they want.
Hobby Musings: TRISTAR Continues Hidden Treasures in 2022 – More Resources
For more news and updates from TRISTAR, you can visit their website, tristarproductions.com, as well as their social media pages.
Twitter: @tristar1
Instagram: @tristar1
Facebook: TristarProductions
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Kelsey's ability to bring hobby coverage to the mainstream sports fan has been a true asset. GTS is happy to feature his thoughts on collecting in Hobby Musings. The opinions expressed are his and do not necessarily reflect those of GTS Distribution.
Kelsey Schroyer
Kelsey Schroyer is a longtime hobby enthusiast and avid collector. His interest in collecting began when watching Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez give Babe Ruth a Hank Aaron rookie card in "The Sandlot." Since then, he's never looked back, focusing primarily on adding to his baseball Hall of Fame collection. He lives in Plainville, Connecticut with his wife Danielle.
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The next morning, Marla was sick so we stayed at the camp. She was feeling better the next day and we headed back to the dig. We worked hard and cleared a lot of rock, found some very small bone fragments. There were a lot of people the next day and they had us go down and work on the big sauropod femer that we saw the first day. It was huge! and very sadly starting to deteriate. They had to get it out by the end of the season or it would be lost. This was the second season they had been working on it and we soon found out why. The earth around the bone was extremely hard. They gave us hammers and chizles so we could dig a trench around the bone, making it possible for them to lift it out. We worked all day and made a trench 1 inch deep and about 6 inches wide. My trench was just a about 1 1/2 feet long. Extremely hard rock! Before we left we went up to where the others were digging and one of the girls had unearthed a preditor tooth. It was the first sign of preditor in the area, so they were very excited. All the other bones they had found had belonged to herbivors.
We would like to go back some day and do that again, but it was time for us to go. We spent the night at the camp then took off the next morning and went up around through Cody then around to Yellowstone Park. We walked the trails to the mudpots and, of course, we had to stay for Old Faithful to errupt. We spent the day and found a campground south of the park and finished off our adventure.
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Peugeot Eco Cup: 72 cars, 1,000km, hardly any fuel
Have you entered the Peugeot Eco Cup challenge? We have, and we are quietly confident that our entry will, erm, probably end up in the bin.
Peugeot has launched the Eco Cup in an attempt to highlight the miserly fuel consumption of its latest diesels, specifically the HDi varieties of its 207 supermini, 308 C-segment hatch, 3008 oddball and 5008 MPV. All of the HDi cars turn in impressive mpg figures and the Eco Cup is a clever attempt to drum up some attention for them. We're not sure what happened to Peugeot's "Blue Lion" eco branding, by the way – the label is notable only by its absence on the Eco Cup web site.
The challenge will see four teams drawn from entrants across 18 countries compete in a race between Paris and Geneva, starting on the last day of February and concluding 36 hours later, in time for the opening of the Geneva motor show. And by race we mean crawl, really – with the emphasis on tortoise- over hare-style progress. The winners will be the drivers who use the least Derv to complete the cross-border route and, with 622 miles to cover, competitors could make the distance within the allotted time by travelling at less than 18mph. We assume most will go slightly faster and stop for a rest, of course.
By way of a line in the sand, Peugeot works racing driver Stéphane Sarrazin has taken each of the four cars along the fixed route to record a consumption score that the Cup finalists will need to beat. And don't imagine that Le Mans veteran Sarrazin is a lead-foot who has racked up scores in the low teens – in his day job, careful fuel conservation can keep a driver out of the pits and on the podium. His highly impressive scores are:
207 HDi: 80.7mpg
3008 HDi: 70.7mpg
Entries close on 12 February, and all you have to do is pick your favoured vehicle and then write something clever, witty or pithy, in 140 characters or less, that encapsulates the secrets of greener motoring.
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Palm Beach County's code enforcement team apparently needs to hire Rocky Balboa.
Code enforcement isn't looking to beat someone into submission. But they are trying to chase down a chicken – or at least its owner.
Palm Beach County Mayor Shelley Vana directed county staff to look into the possibility of identifying outside groups that could spell out and put a price tag on the county's most pressing infrastructure needs.
Palm Beach County Mayor Shelley Vana had had enough.


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10-12-17 Your Northern Energy Update
Warning: Alaska treads troubled economic waters in the middle of a fiscal storm. Politicians are making the financial crisis worse by creating state subsidies and ratepayer risks. The story below again reminds us of the Administration's payoff to Interior Alaska supporters via a subsidized Fairbanks gas utility (i.e. when South Central's Enstar customers paid for their own). Not to mention the otherwise uneconomic Fire Island wind generation project and an infeasible Alaska LNG\pipeline scheme. Note how two local politicians in the story below are discussing a strategy for squeezing more money from Juneau for their government gas project. -dh
Lojewski's lead in Fairbanks assembly race tumbles to 5 votes; recount possible. Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. Lojewski's lead in Fairbanks assembly race tumbles to 5 votes; recount … together soliciting the state for more money for the Interior Energy Project. (Has crony capitalism become pervasive in the 49th "pioneering state", and could it be our downfall? -dh)
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New bill aims to reverse Obama restrictions on offshore drilling
A U.S. House panel took up a bill Wednesday that would, among other things…
Democrats in Congress join fight against Pebble Mine
Opponents of the proposed Pebble Mine in Southwest Alaska are getting a boost from Democrats in Congress.
The Latest: EPA to review comment request on Alaska proposal. he U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it will review a request to extend the public comment period on its proposal to lift the restrictions…
Industry, environmental groups speak out as Hilcorp paves the way for drilling in federal Arctic waters. Regulators are taking input on what could be the nation's first oil production platform in federal Arctic waters.
As Trump administration removes federal roadblocks, Pebble Mine fight shifts to state
The proposed Pebble Mine is gaining momentum again, based on a settlement with the Trump Administration.
Small oil company moves forward with plans for fracking in Cook Inlet. A small company chasing oil at a fracking operation in Cook Inlet indicated in August it likely could not drill additional wells…
Politicians criticize Trudeau's reaction to critics of Energy East demise, CBC.ca. (TSX:TRP) announced it was shelving its Energy East line, which would have taken crude from Alberta across Canada to ports and refineries in New …
Editorial: Plugged pipelines. Calgary Herald. Calgary Herald … signals from the Trudeau government — insisted that upstream and downstream greenhouse gas emissions form part of the review, …
Could 2018 bring higher oil prices? Forbes
Daily Signal (10/10/17) reports: "The Obama administration's Clean Power Plan aimed to reduce carbon emissions by one-third by 2030. However, it ran into multiple lawsuits from more than 150 entities, including 27 states, 24 trade associations, 37 rural electric cooperatives, and three labor unions, according to the EPA. On top of that, 34 senators and 171 House members filed an amicus briefing arguing the Clean Power Plan was illegal. On Feb. 9, 2016, the Supreme Court halted the implementation of the program."
-Committee approves bill to overhaul presidential monuments power … -Judge will not shut down Dakota Access pipeline during new review … -Bloomberg pledges $64M for anti-coal initiatives … Pro-Trump energy group blasts plan to help coal, nuclear … -EPA's 4-year strategic plan does not mention 'climate change' … -Trump's repeal of Obama's climate rule: What to watch for
For our wind and solar friends demanding subsidies. These realities now hurt Alaska ratepayers and conventional power sources and deserve consideration. -dh
Wind Concerns Ontario (10/11/17) reports: "Sunday was a different story: at 3 AM wind power was working in the night, generating 1,145 MWh with another 2,797 MWh curtailed (wasted, held back, not added to the grid). Ontario's ratepayers were paying $135/MWh for the grid-accepted wind and $120/MWh for the curtailed wind. The HOEP was a negative $3/MWh so the grid-delivered wind was costing ratepayers $415.95/MWh or 41.6 cents/kWh! In total, that one hour cost ratepayers $476,274 for unneeded generation. On top of that, because Ontario demand for power was low (most of us were fast asleep so the LED lights were out), Bruce nuclear was steaming off excess generation (we pay for that), OPG was probably spilling water (we also pay for that), and we were exporting 2,802 MWh to Michigan, New York and Quebec and picking up the $3/MWh cost."
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Dave Harbour, publisher of Northern Gas Pipelines, is a former Chairman of the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, a Commissioner Emeritus of NARUC, NARUC's Official Representative to IOGCC and Vice Chairman of NARUC's Gas Committee. He served as Gas Committee Chairman of the Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners. He also served as commissioner of the Anchorage Bicentennial Commission and the Anchorage Heritage Land Bank Commission.He earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree: English, at Colorado State University, a Master of Science Degree: Communications-Journalism at Murray State University and graduated from Utility Regulatory School for Commissioners at Michigan State University. He served as a Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs at Alaska Pacific University, taught bank marketing classes at the University of Alaska and was an English teacher at Los Alamos High School.Harbour served in ranks of Private - Captain during a 4-year assignment with the Army in Korea, Idaho, Georgia and Fort Meade and received the Meritorious Service Medal among other commendations.Harbour is also a past Chairman of the Alaska Council on Economic Education, the Alaska Oil & Gas Association Government Affairs Committee, the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, the Export Council of Alaska and the Department of Commerce's District Export Council. He is a past President of the Alaska Press Club, American Bald Eagle Foundation, Consumer Energy Alliance-Alaska and Common Sense for Alaska.Harbour was instrumental in founding the American Bald Eagle Research Institute (UAS), the Alaska Support Industry Alliance, the Downtown Anchorage Business Partnership, and Arctic Power.He also served as CEO of several small Alaska organizations, including the Anchorage Parking Authority and Action Security, Inc. Harbour is also Chairman Emeritus of the Alaska Oil & Gas Congress.Harbour's wife, Nancy, is a professional, performing arts administrator and his three boys, Todd, Benjamin and William work in the fields of environmental management, energy marketing and medicine.
By wpnorthern|2017-10-12T10:32:39-09:00October 12th, 2017|AGDC, Alaska's Fiscal Crisis, Alaskanomics, Alternate Energy, Arctic Policy, Canadian Energy Policy, Commentary, Crony Capitalism, Dakota Access Pipeline, Energy East Pipeline, Federal Obstruction, Federal Progress, Interior Energy Project (IEP), LNG, NEB|0 Comments


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What is LifeCare?
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Name chosen for new assisted living and memory support residence at Edgewood Retirement Community
Natural beauty of campus and culture of hospitality influence naming of The Woodlands Inn at Edgewood
NORTH ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS | June 22, 2017 —Edgewood Retirement Community has announced that its new Assisted Living and Memory Support residence will be called The Woodlands Inn.
Designed to resemble a charming New England inn, The Woodlands Inn will take advantage of the natural beauty of Edgewood's campus and offer residents a truly comfortable, home-like environment in keeping with the Community's tradition of personalized hospitality and resident-centered care.
Based on the innovative Small House model, The Woodlands Inn will offer one Assisted Living residence and three Memory Support residences, each of which will accommodate 10 people with their own private bedrooms and bathrooms. The Small House model has been shown to give residents a reassuring sense of community that empowers them to maintain their highest level of independence and autonomy in a safe environment.
Each residence at The Woodlands Inn will feature a central hearth living area, an open kitchen and dining area, a den, a spa, and a private courtyard and garden. Another important feature of the Small House model is consistent staffing with each residence having a dedicated team of highly trained staff on site 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Construction is currently underway on this expansion to the Edgewood campus and is expected to be complete in spring 2018. The Woodlands Inn will provide a new care option for people in the greater area and prior residency at Edgewood is not a requirement.
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Earlier this year, a young couple commissioned GilBartolomé Architects to build this futuristic-looking pad, which they've nicknamed 'The House on the Cliff.' Perched on a 42-degree incline, the two-storey home in Granada, Spain, boasts a swimming pool, terraced living room, several balconies, and an auditorium that can host up to 70 people.
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January 15, 2023 by Lynette Crawford
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Some welders make as much as $77,000 a year, but they often work long hours under difficult conditions. Only the best welders are considered for these sought after positions since mistakes in these types of welding jobs could ruin them.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a welder's salary is $42,000 a year. Half of welders in the U.S. earned more than that figure, and half earned less. The average starting pay for welders is $17 per hour according to the Fabricators and Manufacturers Association.
Contract welders can make more than $100,000 a year because of the specialized skills they need.
Welders in New York make an average of $44,500 per year. Depending on skills, experience, employer, bonuses, tips, and more, welder salaries in New York can be as high as $89,500.
It makes sense to pay well. If you stick at welding for a while, you can make some money. Entry-level welders earn $40,000 a year on average, and the increase keeps going up, up to between $50,000 to $500,000 with experience in a good field.
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The median entry level wage for welders is about $20 per hour, making it one of the highest paying skilled trades. It's an accessible career since you need a high school degree to start learning the trade.
The majority of welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers work full time. Many manufacturing firms have two or three 8- to 12-hour shifts each day, which allows them to continue production around the clock if necessary.
Stress and frustration accompany the production of the welds and beads. It can be difficult to make a weld with the wrong material or arcs. A lot of welders try to make welds that look good. They experience a lot of stress when they perform their job.
Commercial divers' underwater welding salaries can go as high as $300,000 a year. Why does the pay range have such a large range? Most underwater welders make a living by working on projects.
The milk theory says that when welders drink milk, the calcium in it will help the body absorb toxic heavy metals that can be found in welding fumes.
The use of welding techniques can lead to lucrative business opportunities. A lot of expenses are saved by most artisans and metal workers when they work from home.
There will be nearly 400,000 welders, solderers, cutters, and brazers employed in the United States next year according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Metal, transportation, machinery, architecture, structural, and construction are some of the industries in which manufacturing jobs can be found.
See also What Welder Makes The Most Money?
Commercial divers can make as much as $300,000 a year. Why does the pay range have such a large range? Most underwater welders make a living by working on projects.
A welder who has advanced knowledge of the trade and years of experience is referred to as a'master welder'. The skills, certifications and salaries for master welders can be found in the quick-reference table.
The average yearly salary for welders is $48,590. The average wage is $36,560 and goes up to $75,734.
The hourly wage for welders is between $20 and $85. There are specific job tasks. The wage is adjusted for inflation. The lowest-paid welders will earn less than $26 an hour in 2021, while the highest-paid welders will earn over $130 an hour.
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About this Talk: The eighteenth century was a rich period for the emergence of ideas that we continue to grapple with today. Contemporary ideas such as "political justice," or "human rights," not only appeared in the conceptual framework of eighteenth-century political, social, or philosophical theory, but the terms themselves also became part of the cultural lexicon. These compound concepts, in which two pre-existing terms are brought together into a new configuration with a single, stable meaning, form a critical backbone of eighteenth-century thought. In this project, I have trained a set of aligned vector models to trace the ways in which these kinds of concepts emerged within the eighteenth century. Using a new visualization that shows the changing relationships between the constituent parts of complex concepts over time, I focus the lens of this new tool on the concept of political revolution. With this method, I explore how the various changes in the discourse of revolution over the course of the eighteenth century set the stage for the political upheavals of the American and French Revolutions at the century's close.
About the Speaker: Mark Algee-Hewitt's research focuses on the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in England and Germany and seeks to combine literary criticism with digital and quantitative analyses of literary texts. In particular he is interested in the history of aesthetic theory and the development and transmission of aesthetic and philosophic concepts during the Enlightenment and Romantic periods. He is also interested in the relationship between aesthetic theory and the poetry of the long eighteenth century. Although his primary background is in English literature, he also has a degree in computer science. As the director of the Stanford Literary Lab, he is working to bring his interests in quantitative analysis, digital humanities and eighteenth-century literature to bear on a number of new collaborative projects. His forthcoming book, The Afterlife of the Sublime, explores the history of the sublime by tracing its discursive patterns through over 11,000 texts from the long eighteenth century, seeking clues to the disappearance of the term at the end of the Romantic period. As a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University, working with the Interacting with Print Research group, Dr. Algee-Hewitt was also involved in a variety of projects that combine literary interpretation with quantitative analysis. He is a co-coordinator of the Book History BiblioGraph, a new dynamic online resource and recommendation engine that visualizes connections between contemporary resources on Book History using statistical methods.
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Filed under: ebooks,publishing,publishing industry,writers — Tags: authors, ebooks, publishing industry, publishing revolution, self-publishing — admin @ 12:26 am
There's a huge change happening in the publishing world. It's not very good for readers, and it's going to be very, very tough on writers. It's a fundamental shift in how publishers and those who support the publishing industry make a profit. This shift is occurring not merely in one area, but throughout the industry from top to bottom, and it's happening rather quietly. The odd thing is, for all the attention focused on parts of this shift, no one seems to be stepping back and putting together the whole picture.
Among SF/Fantasy writers, there's a maxim called Yog's Law, that states, "money flows toward the writer." That is, writers should never pay to be published, to have their manuscripts read by an agent, to be edited after they've signed with a publisher, and so on. This maxim was valid back in the days when charging the author almost always constituted a scam. The writer's job was to create, and having done so, his/her goal was to sell the creation to a publisher who then shaped it into a marketable form and distributed it to the public.
That's all changed now. Say goodbye to Yog's Law: it's about to join the typed manuscript with two carbons and those skinny galley proofs in the dustbin of publishing history. Writers are becoming the publishing industry's second most important paying customers. This is not a prediction. It's already happening. Things are shifting to the online platforms more and more, the internet is dominating the publishing enthronement and weve switched to Salesforce to help us keep track with the constant changes in tech.
In the book-publishing model that was current from around 1900 to the 1990s, an author's role in the process was "the talent." He or she delivered a manuscript to the publisher and was paid a lump sum originally intended to support the author until the book was in the marketplace. This "advance" was paid against future royalties as stipulated by the contract–it was calculated on the assumption that the book would earn much more. Aside from writing the book, the author participated to some extent in promotion, but this was planned and paid for by the publisher.
By the end of the 1970s (the recession might partly explain this), publishers started angling for "blockbusters," titles which would become huge best-sellers and generate vast profits. In order to attract and keep authors and/or books that seemed likely to generate that kind of audience excitement, publishers began competing with each other and offering larger and larger advances. Although publishers have always been very secretive about their financial details, it was generally understood that most books published never earned as much in royalties as the author had already been paid. They were a loss for the publisher. It was the very few best-sellers that effectively subsidized the rest of the catalog. In pursuit of these, advances rose to outrageous heights, and single book deals turned into huge make-or-break risks.
This was not a practical way of running a business, and publishing houses rapidly folded or were bought by large media conglomerates that could afford to run the book division at a loss–not that they wanted to do that indefinitely. The conglomerates devoted the bulk of their funding and energy to promoting the biggest sellers, while so-called "mid-list" books were tossed out onto bookstore shelves with very little fanfare or promotion, given a few weeks to prove themselves, and were quickly remaindered if they didn't take off. Mid-list authors found themselves doing promotion on their own, without the publisher's support or financial backing for things like book tours.
The wealth, high profiles and celebrity status of a few top-tier authors attracted many more aspiring writers to the field. Agents and publishers were swamped with queries and manuscripts, the so-called "slush pile." This led to a sharp increase in the number of disappointed hopeful writers accumulating rejection slips and frustration. They were a booming demand just begging to be met.
The second half of the 1990s saw the appearance and rapid development of three new going concerns. The first was the Internet, which gave aspiring writers an entirely new way of networking with potential readers, promoting themselves and getting to be known outside their immediate social circles. Second, these years saw the founding of several "self-publishing companies." Unlike the old style vanity press, or true, author-does-it-all self-publishing, these companies didn't require authors to front thousands of dollars for a large press run. They exploited digital printing ("print on demand" or "POD"), allowing books to be produced, economically and almost instantly, in any quantity from one on up, as they were ordered. Trafford, Lightning Source, PublishAmerica, XLibris, iUniverse, Authorhouse, and other companies popped up during these years, and aggressively recruited aspiring authors in venues like Writer's Digest magazine.
Despite the utter scorn and contempt heaped on self-publishing by the professional writing community, despite lawsuits and scandals and complaints against some of the companies, despite the fact that these books rarely sold to anyone besides the author and his/her friends, the "self-publishing companies" became immensely successful. Although "self-published books" rarely if ever saw the inside of a bookstore, the third going concern to erupt in this period was Amazon.com. All the "self-published" titles appeared there, so authors could feel that their books were legitimately on sale, side-by-side with the biggest literary stars.
The companies operated at virtually zero risk, because all the expenses were paid by the author, with a very generous mark-up. Most of them sold "publishing packages" with various tiers. Those that did not charge the authors for services required them to purchase a certain number of books. The books weren't even printed until they'd been ordered and paid for, and the "services" provided in the packages generally could have been obtained by the author independently for a fraction of the cost. The companies appealed to writers who wanted to publish their books without learning all the complexities of the publishing business. The companies also angled their marketing directly at the injured pride and stinging rejection felt by so many aspiring writers, and the bait was almost irresistible.
So the "self-publishing companies" grew and grew. Since 2000, scores of smaller firms have been founded–more than 100 of them at minimum–sometimes calling their programs by other euphemisms, such as "co-publishing" or "publishing partnerships." Meanwhile, a number of the original companies have been collected together under the aegis of Author Solutions Inc., the world's first self-publishing conglomerate.
But they all have one thing in common: they make their money from authors, not from selling books. The companies do make a small amount from book sales, and they certainly are happy to see a title take off and sell lots of copies, as, extremely rarely, one does. But with "publishing packages" generally starting at around $500 and going up to as high as $25,000 for a "package" that ostensibly includes pitching the book to the film industry, these companies are raking in the bucks.
By 2009, faced with closing bookstores and declining sales (and another recession), it was inevitable that traditional publishers would start to wonder how they could tap in to this lucrative phenomenon.
Christian publisher Thomas Nelson didn't create much excitement when it launched its "self-publishing" arm, West Bow Press. Nor did Hay House when it opened Balboa Press, or LifeWay when Cross Books was announced. But when Harlequin, a major respected romance publisher, started up a "self-publishing" division named Harlequin Horizons, the professional writing community went crazy. Writers' trade organizations RWA, MWA and SFWA delisted Harlequin as an "approved publisher" amid frantic accusations that Harlequin was cheapening the profession and sinking to the level of the much-reviled PublishAmerica. Consequently, Harlequin renamed its "self-publishing" imprint DellArte Press–but that's the only thing it changed.
Publishers aren't the only businesses aiming for a piece of the "author services" market. The venerable writer's magazine, Writer's Digest, has started a "self-publishing" imprint of its own, named Abbott Press. Like the publishing companies above, Writer's Digest is collaborating with Author Solutions Inc., which provides the actual services to the writers, but other "author services" programs are handled independently. Bowker, which controls and sells ISBNs to publishers, is offering an "author services" package, which includes one ISBN number. Barnes & Noble now runs PubIt!, for "self-published" ebooks, and the indie music packaging service CDBaby has launched BookBaby.
Ebook self-publishing, so far from being the "revolution" it's hyped to be, is simply the next level of the "self-publishing" wave. Like "self-published" print books, "self-published" ebooks are produced entirely by the author. The only difference between "self-published" ebooks and "self-published" print books is that the ebook enterprises–Smashwords, Fastpencil, PubIt!, Kindle and so on–don't charge upfront for "publishing packages." Instead, they operate as "author mills," collecting pennies per unit sold, but signing authors and churning out titles in such vast numbers that their profits are enormous, because the financial investment for the ebook distributor is negligible. Whatever costs are involved in creating and marketing the book are paid by the "self-published" author.
But authors aren't only paying to publish their books–they're paying, willingly or otherwise, for the marketing and promotion afterward. As I describe here, "self-published" authors are now being charged fees to submit their books for reviews. Even traditionally published writers have been paying for marketing and promotional services for a long time, as publishers stopped bothering to promote mid-list titles. Companies providing those services have been well-established for a decade or more.
This is the REAL "publishing revolution." It's not epubbing. The notion that epubbing per se is some kind of "revolution" is absurd. It's a logistical challenge for the nimble and a nightmare for the big companies locked into the status quo, but a change in publishing format is not a "revolution." Nor is "self-publishing" a "revolution." Authors could always self-publish. No one ever stopped them. Given what most of the "self-publishing companies" charge for their "packages," it hasn't even gotten much cheaper.
No, the "revolution" is that authors are now paying to be published, by the tens of thousands. The burden of reaching readers, building an audience, and making a profit is wholly on their shoulders. This is happening at breakneck speed in spite of the fact that "self-publishing" is no more "acceptable" than it ever was. In this broader context, the fine distinctions between true self-publishing, POD subsidy presses, vanity presses and self-published ebooks is meaningless. "Self-published" books of any kind are shunned by retailers, reviewers and book bloggers and dismissed by traditionally published authors. That hasn't changed one particle–in fact, the prejudice has gotten even stronger as "self-published" books flood the market. "Self-published" writers are barred from every professional writers' trade group, guild and union, and denied eligibility for their awards. Readers avoid them, saying they "don't want to pay to read somebody's slush pile." Yet hordes of authors, both new and experienced, are embracing "self-publishing" anyway.
But they're not challenging traditional large publishers. They're doing them a favor.
I'm no more omniscient than any other pundit, but this is where I see things going. The media conglomerates will sign far fewer book deals, and they'll be looking for "properties" that can adapt readily to other platforms, such as movies or TV series, as well as being blockbuster books. The publishing houses will have "self-publishing" branches and authors that don't get a big contract will be referred to these programs. Any "self-published" book or author that rises above the churning mass of 99-cent ebooks and POD paperback novels to earn significant attention and profit will be approached by a big publishing company and offered a deal. The publishers won't be subsidizing a loss-leader mid-list with their best-sellers anymore, and they won't be shuffling through slush piles trying to guess what might pay off. They'll let the writers and the free market take on all the risk and expense, and sift out the chaff for them.
With all those authors fighting to be noticed, the pay-for-review and pay-for-promotion industries will be booming, along with other "author services" like editing and cover design. There will always be a few James Pattersons, J.K. Rowlings, and Stephenie Meyers (and independent successes like J.A. Konrath), but everyone else will be digging deeper and deeper into their own pockets, and paying out far more money than their books ever earn in sales.
I find this scenario plausible for three reasons: first, it makes perfect business sense for the big publishing companies. They'll never run short of writers; collectively, agents and publishers now reject hundreds of manuscripts every day. Offering writers a paid platform to prove they'd be a worthwhile investment, and making a profit off the writer either way, is a win-win deal for the publisher. Second, this forecast aligns with the general trends of corporate business practices and economic disparities in the United States, which appear in no danger of changing anytime soon. Third, it's already happening.
This will be a very grim situation for writers. But what can they do? For every writer who holds out, twenty star-struck would-be celebrities will rush to sign up in their place. Just ask James Frey! It's not going to be a lot of fun for readers, either. But after all, who cares about them? Not the publishers: they're making their money off the "self-published" writers.
I don't know what will happen to small publishers in this game, but chances are, they'll continue pretty much as is–and a lot of them will eventually concede and start offering "author services" just to survive. The "self-publishing" rage is hurting small presses a lot more, because many writers are choosing that route instead of querying a small press, thinking that they'll make more money on their own. The way things are going, small publishers might want to buy stock in Author Solutions Inc. and Amazon.com.
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In the past three years, it has become a lot harder for By Light Unseen Media's books to get reviewed–so much harder, in fact, that I'm starting to wonder whether the time and money I invest in trying to get reviews of finished books could be more fruitfully spent.
In 2007, when Mortal Touch was released, I researched reviewers carefully and only queried or sent copies to those who reviewed that genre of book. I was hopeful but realistic. By Light Unseen Media had no other titles in print at that time, and Mortal Touch got no pre-publication reviews. I queried 26 reviewers, sent out 17 review copies and wound up with 8 reviews, including one that was syndicated and appeared in the Boston Globe's book blogs and the Midwest Book Review.
By 2010, I had refined my techniques considerably. I'd built a long list of book review and genre blogs, with various preferences and specializations, and I carefully matched titles to reviewers. I only queried blogs that were active and current and obviously taking new books. For each query I sent out, I read the review submission guidelines and followed them exactly. By now, By Light Unseen Media had released half a dozen titles by several different authors. We were getting pre-publication reviews from Publishers Weekly and Library Journal. I sent books with a simple review packet that included information about the book, the author and the publisher, including distribution information. Since I reviewed books for Blogcritics, I saw publicist queries and review packets from the biggest publishers. I thought By Light Unseen Media's review queries and packets were up to professional standards, certainly for a company of our size.
Our last title, Blood Justice, received a pre-publication review from Publishers Weekly. I queried a total of 45 bloggers and reviewers, most of them carefully selected from my long database (the author discovered several himself). In a few cases, the submission guidelines specified to just send a book, or I had sent books to the blogger previously. Most of them, however, asked for a query by email or webform. Of the 45, 6 replied saying they weren't interested or were too backlogged with books. I sent out 10 review copies. 4 bloggers reviewed the book. The remaining 29 bloggers never responded to me at all, not even an auto-reply.
But that's much better than my own second book did. The Longer the Fall got a pre-publication review from Publishers Weekly. I sent out 46 queries to book bloggers and reviewers. 5 of them replied saying they weren't interested. I sent out 8 review copies. I got one review, from Harriet Klausner. From the remaining 33 reviewers I queried, I heard not a single word, not so much as a cricket chirping. Several bloggers who wrote favorably about Mortal Touch either ignored the query for The Longer the Fall or accepted a review copy and have never reviewed the book.
Our third 2010 release, Krymsin Nocturnes, fared similarly, after getting pre-publication reviews from both Publishers Weekly and Library Journal. To date, I've queried 54 reviewers and book bloggers, received 8 refusals, sent out 9 copies, and Krymsin Nocturnes has gotten one review, from Harriet Klausner. (I'm in her debt. Seriously.) I admit that the San Francisco Chronicle was a long shot. It's the author's local newspaper and I figured it couldn't hurt to see if they would be interested in a hometown author (I guess not). I sent The Longer the Fall to the Boston Globe in the same quixotic spirit. But 34 reviewers never responded to me in any way whatsoever, not even to say "buzz off" (although by now, I'm kind of getting the hint).
A couple of the bloggers who reviewed Blood Justice didn't notify me they had done so, and I only found the reviews as I was checking on the copies I'd sent out. One of them was a joint write-up with a similar book that left me rather puzzled. The reviewer wrote, "Both of these trade paperbacks are by imprints I've never heard of and I suspect they're both print on demand that you'd probably find most easily by ordering them through Amazon. For all I know, they're self published although if so I've read professionally published work that wasn't as well written." Now, I'm delighted that Blood Justice got a mention, especially one that says it's well written! But I'm not sure why the reviewer said "By Light Unseen," as he called us, is an imprint he'd never heard of. I'd sent him books before. Blood Justice had a review packet accompanying it, and the copyright page has complete details including our Mission Statement. But most of all, I know this gentleman! We're in the same regional writers' group and I've met him!
Clearly, I didn't make much of an impression on him.
I spend a lot of time looking at book review blogs. What I'm seeing now is that book bloggers–apparently–only want to review books from the big publishing companies. They're all reviewing exactly the same few big release books–and nothing else. In a given week or month, I'll see ten, twenty, fifty reviews of the exact same titles. When the blogger runs out of mainstream books, he or she blogs about random topics, or picks a favorite old classic published decades ago and does a fondly nostalgic write-up on that. I've also seen them review games like the Happy Wheels game, which is fine but if you are going to be a book blogger, stick to your subject. And retrospective articles about old books are becoming more and more common on book blogs.
The implicit message from the book bloggers seems to be, "Don't call us–we'll call you." The only way to get reviewed these days, it seems, is to make your book conspicuous and important enough that it attracts the blogger's attention and he or she wants to read it, and asks you for a copy (or buys one, as some do). I found a post from a young blogger explaining the right way to approach a publisher and request a complimentary review copy. It was a good post and sound advice, but I couldn't help feeling a pang of irony when I read it.
I'm guessing that the bloggers have been so overwhelmed by "self-published" (i.e. published by the vanity/subsidy companies like AuthorHouse, XLibris and so on) authors that they're refusing to look at anything that isn't a recognizable big name imprint. So much of the "self-published" stuff is desperately, horribly bad–unreadable bilge–and the authors, spurred on by the companies and all the marketing gurus, are unprofessional, persistent and entitled. "Self-published" authors flood the Amazon forums with constant self-promotion and pester Barnes & Noble continuously (which is why Barnes & Noble was so incredibly rude to me). I'm sure they're aggressively hounding all the book bloggers all of the time, and consequently the book bloggers, like oldtime speakeasies, only open their doors to celebrities and personal friends. I'm having to remove more and more bloggers from my list because their guidelines now say, not only "no self-published books" but "no POD books." A lot of the "self-publishing companies" let their customers use an "imprint" name, so the bloggers can't tell whether an unfamiliar imprint is a small press or a camouflaged book from PublishAmerica.
In the last few months, there have been several online uproars sparked by authors who took public exception to comments made in reviews, and either sniped at the reviewer or complained on their own blogs. There have even been rumors of an alleged "YA Mafia" of authors supposedly intimidating book bloggers to only give them glowing reviews, or be cut off from receiving future review copies. You can bet that I have less than no sympathy for these prima donna authors. They don't know how lucky they are to be getting reviewed at all. They're taking their privilege for granted and then complaining about it. Right now, I follow some twenty book bloggers and genre review websites on Twitter. Not one of them will review By Light Unseen Media's books. A number of them have submission criteria that ban me from even sending a query.
Book bloggers have the absolute and unqualified right, of course, to review–or not review–whatever they choose. It's their time and their blogs. I'm not trying to criticize them. After all, book bloggers do this for the love, no one pays them a dime for all their hard work, right?
That might be about to change. There's a whole new review game in town and some of the biggest names in the industry are already on board.
"Self-published" authors (usually flattered with the label, "indie") are now being aggressively solicited to pay for the privilege of being considered for a review. They're not paying for the review, of course–that would be unethical! The descriptions of these services all very carefully explain that the author isn't paying for a review. The fee is simply for submitting the book, and "to cover costs."
Kirkus, one of the big pre-publication reviewers, has been running such a program for a number of years. It used to be "Kirkus Discoveries" and now is called "Kirkus Indie," and costs $425 per title–$575 for "express service" (which I guess means the review comes out before the copyright expires). Irene Watson's Reader Views has also been running for a while. With Reader Views, the review is "free" but the accompanying "publicity package" costs from $95 to $495. There are a few smaller pay-to-submit review websites. About a year ago, The Jenkins Group launched The Critics' Bookshelf, in which "indie" authors can list their book, for $179 per title, in a sort of catalog that is mass-mailed to reviewers, media outlets and so on. The Critics' Bookshelf is premised on the imaginative notion that book reviewers are desperately searching for more books to review.
Now two more of the big pre-publication reviewers have realized that there's money to be made from all these hungry "self-published" authors. ForeWord has initiated ForeWord Digital Reviews: web-only reviews for which you can be considered, for a submission fee of $99 per title. Meanwhile, the granddaddy of them all, Publishers Weekly, offers PW Select, a special quarterly supplement for "self-published" books. Authors can submit their books for $149 per title. Subscribers get the fee waived, but how many "self-published" authors subscribe to Publishers Weekly? (You get a partial subscription with your book listing, which may be another motive for PW: to boost circulation.)
The catch to these fee-for-service programs by Kirkus, ForeWord and Publishers Weekly, of course, is that they firmly segregate all the "self-published" books into their own isolated and well-labeled section, rather than evaluating them in fair comparison with the mainstream books that get reviewed for free. I can guarantee you that the only people who will ever read these reviews will be other "indie" authors looking for their own review. No one else will waste their time. That big red "S" pasted on every book reviewed in these special sections doesn't stand for "self-published," and everyone knows it.
I can't help wondering how long it will be before the book bloggers catch on to this gold mine. After all, a "self-published" author who's already spent anywhere from $500 to $15,000 for a "publishing package" can hardly balk at a "submission fee" of $49 or $99 to have his or her book reviewed on a high-traffic blog alongside big-name bestsellers, right? Why shouldn't successful book bloggers get some compensation for their considerable time and trouble? A fee would help select out the serious authors (or at least the well-funded ones) from the mere dilettantes. It's a no-brainer! Some book blogs already take paid advertizing. Submission fees for "self-published" and other unsolicited titles is a logical next step.
Whether or not book bloggers will head down this road, I have no idea, but charging fees for services that once were free is certainly becoming universal, in all areas of life. More and more, it's looking like the old standby of paid advertizing is the most effective marketing tool according to https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/6-ways-to-increase-your-website-traffic-get-ready-to-work-smart.740933/. At least it's honest. Everyone knows what an advertizement is. But readers and consumers are already cynical and overwhelmed by "social networking" and "news articles" and "infomercials" that are nothing but marketing and promotional puffs in disguise. As fee-for-service reviews proliferate, readers will quickly stop trusting those, too. Even now, the two major reasons that readers will pick up a new book are familiarity with the author and recommendation from a personal (non-professional) friend. Publishers and authors can't control those and they can't buy them, and readers know that. It used to be that the impartial, professional book review almost qualified as a personal recommendation for readers, precisely because of the perception that a review was a gift, and not for sale. I'm very sorry to see that change.
Of course, I'll continue to send out complimentary review copies of By Light Unseen Media's books to any book blogger or reviewer who wants them, without hesitation. Paperbacks, ebooks and ARCs are all available and always will be. But the handwriting is on the wall, and it's obvious that small press publishers have to find–or maybe invent–other creative ways of connecting their books and their potential readers.
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package org.spongepowered.eventimplgen.signature;

import javax.inject.Inject;
import javax.inject.Singleton;
import javax.lang.model.element.TypeElement;
import javax.lang.model.type.ArrayType;
import javax.lang.model.type.DeclaredType;
import javax.lang.model.type.ErrorType;
import javax.lang.model.type.ExecutableType;
import javax.lang.model.type.IntersectionType;
import javax.lang.model.type.NoType;
import javax.lang.model.type.NullType;
import javax.lang.model.type.PrimitiveType;
import javax.lang.model.type.TypeKind;
import javax.lang.model.type.TypeMirror;
import javax.lang.model.type.TypeVariable;
import javax.lang.model.type.UnionType;
import javax.lang.model.type.WildcardType;
import javax.lang.model.util.AbstractTypeVisitor8;
import javax.lang.model.util.Elements;
import javax.lang.model.util.Types;

/**
 * A writer to convert a {@link javax.lang.model.type.TypeMirror} into its descriptor string.
 */
@Singleton
public class TypeToDescriptorWriter extends AbstractTypeVisitor8<StringBuilder, StringBuilder> {

    private final Types types;
    private final Elements elements;

    @Inject
    TypeToDescriptorWriter(final Types types, final Elements elements) {
        this.types = types;
        this.elements = elements;
    }

    static char descriptor(final PrimitiveType primitive) {
        switch (primitive.getKind()) {
            case BOOLEAN:
                return 'Z';
            case BYTE:
                return 'B';
            case SHORT:
                return 'S';
            case INT:
                return 'I';
            case LONG:
                return 'J';
            case CHAR:
                return 'C';
            case FLOAT:
                return 'F';
            case DOUBLE:
                return 'D';
            default:
                throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unknown primitive type kind " + primitive.getKind());
        }
    }

    @Override
    public StringBuilder visitIntersection(final IntersectionType t, final StringBuilder builder) {
        return this.types.erasure(t).accept(this, builder); // todo: is this right?
    }

    @Override
    public StringBuilder visitPrimitive(final PrimitiveType t, final StringBuilder builder) {
        return builder.append(TypeToDescriptorWriter.descriptor(t));
    }

    @Override
    public StringBuilder visitArray(final ArrayType t, final StringBuilder builder) {
        builder.append('[');
        return t.getComponentType().accept(this, builder);
    }

    @Override
    public StringBuilder visitDeclared(final DeclaredType t, final StringBuilder builder) {
        return builder.append('L')
            .append(this.elements.getBinaryName((TypeElement) t.asElement()).toString().replace('.', '/'))
            .append(';');
    }

    @Override
    public StringBuilder visitTypeVariable(final TypeVariable t, final StringBuilder builder) {
        return t.getUpperBound().accept(this, builder);
    }

    @Override
    public StringBuilder visitWildcard(final WildcardType t, final StringBuilder builder) {
        if (t.getExtendsBound() != null) { // upper bound declared
            t.getExtendsBound().accept(this, builder);
        } else { // no (or only lower) bound, j/l/Object
            this.elements.getTypeElement("java.lang.Object").asType().accept(this, builder);
        }
        return builder;
    }

    @Override
    public StringBuilder visitExecutable(final ExecutableType t, final StringBuilder builder) {
        builder.append('(');
        for (final TypeMirror param : t.getParameterTypes()) {
            param.accept(this, builder);
        }
        builder.append(')');
        return t.getReturnType().accept(this, builder);
    }

    @Override
    public StringBuilder visitNoType(final NoType t, final StringBuilder builder) {
        if (t.getKind() == TypeKind.VOID) {
            return builder.append('V');
        } else {
            return builder;
        }
    }

    // Skipped types

    @Override
    public StringBuilder visitError(final ErrorType t, final StringBuilder builder) {
        // ignore
        builder.append("L!ERROR!;");
        return builder;
    }

    @Override
    public StringBuilder visitNull(final NullType t, final StringBuilder builder) {
        // todo: not representable in a descriptor?
        return builder;
    }

    @Override
    public StringBuilder visitUnion(final UnionType t, final StringBuilder builder) {
        // not representable in descriptors (only usable in catch statements))
        return null;
    }
}


Morgan Aqua, a large recycling company that a year ago purchased from Hermanos Lirola the El Ejido recycling plant (yes, the one that's been on fire for months), has denounced Hermanos Lirola for "massive frauds and tax theft totalling over 13 million euros".
Morgan Aqua purchased four companies from a company owned by the three Lirola brothers (Ejido Medio Ambiente, Contendedores Lirola, Contenedores Ejido and Hermanos Lirola, all SL's working together and owned by the same three brothers), a sale which finalised last July, just before the whole damn recycling plant caught fire. It's been burning ever since, as millions of tons of plastic rubbish isn't easy to extinguish, and a special fire unit has been onsite for months trying to make sure the fire burns out by itself happily.
It seems that the previous owners had been receiving vast amounts of government money to collect and dispose of all this plastic, but instead hid it all in a big pile behind the greenhouses, until it all caught fire.
Morgan Aqua now says that A) it's not responsible for the fire, as it was still taking over the plant when it caught fire, and b) internal audits since taking over the companies show that the three brothers had been engaging in massive frauds, tax evasion and pocketing of public money, to the tune of at least 13 million euros, and has turned all the files over the Tax authorities and the Police.
Meanwhile, the fire continues and we carry coughing in the smoke. Well, not me, but Chris does, poor bugger. As if it's not bad enough that he lives in the penthouse on the highest building in Almerimar, thus being perfectly positioned to catch the low smoke ridden breezes off the fields, he's also a half meter taller than anyone else.
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The most compelling pictures from the week's news, May 2-8, 2015.
In this photo, Harlem Globetrotters' Hi-Lite Bruton, second from left, Ant Atitkson, third from left, look at teammate Flight Time Lang, right, help Pope Francis spin the ball on his finger as they meet during the general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 6, 2015.
People watch a shadow play performance at Changgyeonggung Palace in Seoul, May 6, 2015.
A policeman holds a plastic water bottle containing a yellow-crested cockatoo to transport illegally at the customs office of Tanjung Perak port in Surabaya, East Java province, Indonesia, May 4, 2015.
Police arrested one man traveling by ship from Makassar, Sulawesi with 22 of the endangered cockatoos inside water bottles.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews gather near a bonfire as they celebrate the Jewish holiday of Lag Ba'Omer in Bnei Brak, May 6, 2015.
The holiday, which marks the end of a plague in the Middle Ages that killed thousands of disciples of a revered rabbi in the holy land, is celebrated by lighting bonfires across the country.
The Spanish Civil Guard released an X-ray image May 7, 2015 taken with a border scanner showing an eight-year-old Ivorian boy hidden in a suitcase smuggled from Morocco across the border into the Spanish governed territory Ceuta in North Africa.
The Spanish Civil Guard arrested the woman transporting the suitcase. The boy's father was arrested trying to cross the same border a few hours later.
Damaged houses are seen from an Indian Helicopter in Khanigaun, Nepal, May 6, 2015.
The 7.9 magnitude earthquake that hit Nepal Saturday 25th April left many houses, buildings and temples destroyed and over over 7,000 dead. Regular aftershocks have hampered recovery missions as locals, officials and aid workers attempt to recover bodies from the rubble.
A police officer douses a man, who was hit by pepper spray after defying a curfew, with water as he lies detained in west Baltimore, May 2, 2015.
Thousands took to the streets of Baltimore on Saturday as anger over the death of young black man Freddie Gray turned to hopes for change following swift criminal charges against six police officers.
Sumo wrestlers of Nishonoseki clan appeal to the winner of a training bout for the next opponent during a joint training session ahead of the May Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo, May 2, 2015.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry takes a selfie with a baby elephant while touring the Sheldrick Center Elephant Orphanage at the Nairobi National Park, Sunday in Nairobi, Kenya, May 3, 2015.
Boys play football in the Balbala area of Djibouti on May 4, 2015.
A man touches a beached humpback whale with his foot in Pacifica, California on Tuesday, May 05, 2015.
It was the second dead whale that washed ashore in Pacifica this month.
Competitors in action in the parctise session during day 3 of the FINA/NVC Diving World Series at Aquatics Centre in London, May 3, 2015.
Russian servicemen take part in a rehearsal for the Victory parade on Moscow's Red Square May 4, 2015 in preparation for the 70th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II on May 9.
Malaysian Hindu devotee (C) carrying an idol walks on hot coals during a firewalking festival at a temple in Kuala Lumpur, May 3, 2015.
Firewalking or 'Thimithi' is a festival originating in southern India celebrated in honor of Draupadi, who is considered the incarnation of Mariamman. Devotees partake in the ritual as an act of purification and as an ordeal to prove innocence, with the Hindu faithful believing that only those who lack faith will be burned - many fire walkers do escape the act without injury.
Cosplayers dressed as "Star Wars" stormtroopers stand in front of Milan's Duomo as part of Star Wars Day, May 3, 2015.
Disabled Palestinians take part in a local sitting volleyball championship in Gaza City, May 4, 2015.
Some of the participants lost their limbs after being injured in past rounds of conflict with Israel, according to the organizers of the event.
Singer/songwriter Elton John (R) and pastor of the Saddleback Church Rick Warren (L) shake hands prior to a hearing before the State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC., May 6, 2015. The subcommittee held hearings on global health problems.
Jean Claude Niyonzima, a suspected member of the ruling party's Imbonerakure youth militia, pleads with soldiers to protect him from a mob of demonstrators after he emerged from hiding in a sewer in the Cibitoke district of Bujumbura, Burundi, May 7, 2015.
Niyonzima fled from his house into a sewer under a hail of stones thrown by a mob protesting against President Pierre Nkurunziza's decision to seek a third term in office.
An Israeli border policeman hits a Palestinian in the face as Israeli forces bulldoze a farmland in Soba village near the West Bank city of Hebron May 6, 2015.
Palestinians said they were informed by the Israeli army that they do not have the needed Israeli-issued permission to own lands there.
A six-year-old acrobat performs at the opening of a tourist festival in Bozhou, Anhui province, China, May 3, 2015.
Margaret Smith aids patrons while portraits of former U.S. President Bill Clinton (R) and current candidate for the Republican nomination for the 2016 presidential election, Mike Huckabee, adorn the information booth at the Hope visitor center in Hope, Arkansas, May 5, 2015.
People take part in a candlelight vigil to to pray tribute to the victims of the devastating April 25the earthquake at Boudha Stupa in Kathmandu, May 7, 2015.
The death toll is more than 7,000 with countless people left homeless or unaccounted for.
Pernilla Nilsson of Sweden competes during round one of the women''s 4 x 100 metres on day two of the IAAF/BTC World Relays, Bahamas 2015 at Thomas Robinson Stadium in Nassau, Bahamas, May 3, 2015.
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge leave The Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital with their newborn daughter Charlotte in London, May 2, 2015.
An aerial view shows the area around a car, used the previous night by two gunmen who were killed by police, as the FBI and local police investigate in Garland, Texas, May 4, 2015.
Texas police shot dead two gunmen who opened fire on Sunday outside an exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad that was organized by a group described as anti-Islamic and billed as a free-speech event.
Buddy Prasad Grg, 45, is carried by villagers and Nepalese soldiers towards an Indian helicopter after being injured during an aftershock in Lampuk, Nepal, May 6, 2015.
A major 7.9 earthquake hit Kathmandu mid-day on Saturday 25th April, and was followed by multiple aftershocks leaving over 7,000 people dead.
Eighteen deceased officer's names were added to the NYPD's Memorial Wall. Officer Brian Moore was laid to rest Friday, May 8, 2015 after he was shot in the face while on duty.
Children suffering from Thalassemia undergo blood transfusion in Lahore, Pakistan World Thalassemia Day, May 8, 2015.
The World Health Organization (WHO) set May 8th as World Thalassemia Day to raise awareness of the disease, a genetic blood disorder caused by abnormal formation of hemoglobin, which leads to anemia. Thalassemia is the most common genetic disorder passed on to children.
Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett (L) plays table tennis with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates during the Berkshire annual meeting weekend in Omaha, Nebraska, May 3, 2015.
More than 40,000 Berkshire Hathaway shareholders poured into Omaha to celebrate Buffett's 50th anniversary running the company, at what the world's third-richest person calls Woodstock for Capitalists.
Las Vegas - Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. in the ring before the welterweight unification championship bout at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, May 2, 2015.
Mayweather defeated Manny Pacquiao in a unanimous decision in what many called the "Fight of the Century".
Portraits by contemporary artist JR, collected during the month of March 2014, are displayed under the dome of the Pantheon in Paris, May 7, 2015.


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\usepackage{metatron}
\title{LedgerSMB Coding Standards}
\author{The LedgerSMB Development Team}
\begin{document}
\maketitle

\tableofcontents

\section{Introduction}
Consistent coding style contributes to readability of code.  This contributes in
turn to fewer bugs and easier debugging.

While consultants which implement custom solutions for their customers are not
required to follow these coding guidelines, doing so will likely contribute to
efficiency of the project and, if desired, the likelihood of having the changes
accepted in the main source tree.

\section{File Organization and Whitespace}

Files should be organized according to three principles: atomicity, performance,
and readability.  While there is no stated maximum file size, there is no reason to
group large amounts of code together when only a small subset of that code will
be executed on any given run of the program.  Similarly, core API for a single
data structure entity may be grouped together even if each run may touch only a
small part of the code so that these functions can be maintained together in a
logical way.

Nested blocks of code should be indented with a single tab.  This way,
programmers can adjust the tab width of their editors to their preferences.

Lines longer than 79 characters are not handled well by many terminals and
should generally be avoided.  Continued lines should be indented by one more tab
than either the line above or below (i.e. if the line above is indented by two
tabs and the line below by three, indent the continued segment by four).

Lines longer than 79 characters cause problems in some terminals and should be
avoided.

\section{Comments}

In an ideal world, the code should be sufficiently readable to be
entirely understandable without comments.  Unfortunately, this sort of
ideal is seldom attained.  Comments should be used to annotate code
and add information that is not already a part of code or programming
logic itself.

Comments may include arguments and return values of functions (for
easy reference), a summary as to why a particular design choice was
made, or a note to alert future programmers that a particular chunk of
code deserves additional attention.  Comments should not, however,
merely indicate what the program is doing or how it does something.
If such comments are required, that is a good indication that a block
of code requires rewriting.

Additionally it is a good idea to provide a brief description at the top of each
file describing, in general terms, what its function is.

\section{Function Organization}

Functions should be atomic.  While there is no maximum length to functions, long
functions may be an indication that a function may be non-atomic.

In general, when more than one line of code is being copied and
pasted, it should instead be moved into its own function where it can
be called by all entry points.

\section{Security Practices}
\subsection{Open}
Perl's Open command should be called using its 3-argument form.  The 2-argument
form is considered dangerous because input could be used to override the file
mode.

\end{document}


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NQ and IMT-GT Webinar on Exploration & Utilisation of Low-Medium Geothermal Resources For Green House Gas Reduction
NQ News
NewQuest Geotechnology (NQ-Indonesia) in collaboration with The Centre for IMT-GT Subregional Cooperation (CIMT) and IMT-GT Working Group on Environment (WGE) will held a webinar entitled Promoting Sustainable Energy in the Subregion: Exploration & Utilisation of Low-Medium Geothermal Resources for GHG Reduction on 28 April 2021.
Low to Medium temperature geothermal resources in ASEAN, spreads not only in Indonesia and the Philippines, but in almost all ASEAN countries.
In Malaysia, according ERIA - Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia research 2017, there are around 273 MW geothermal potential that can be developed from 3 locations: Ulu Slim (Perak) has potential of 148 MW, Apas Kiri (Tawau) has potential of 85 MW, and Segaria - Sungai Jipun - Gunung Pock (Kunak) has potential of 40 MW. One exploration well has been drilled in Tawau prospect but the project is halt until now. There are also several geothermal prospects need to be detailed survey such as Lojing (Kelantan), Ulu Langat and Batang Kali (Selangor), and Sungai Denak (Perak).
In Thailand, according to a study by Department of Alternative Energy Development and Efficiency in 2006, 112 hot brine sources are found in regions of Thailand except in the northeastern part. Water temperatures on the surface level ranged from 40°C to 100°C. The current power production from geothermal energy is 0.3 MW from binary cycle power plant in Fang geothermal field.
In Indonesia, Geothermal exploration activities began a century ago in 1920 and operated first geothermal power plant PLTP Kamojang-1 with a capacity of 30 MW in 1983. Now Indonesia's geothermal installed capacity is 2.13 GW, ranked second in the world after USA. After completed surveys in all high temperature locations, exploration activities have continued to medium temperature geothermal spread over 167 locations start in the last few years.
This webinar is intended to share countries activities and experiences, information exchange on Low-Medium Geothermal Exploration with expected outcome developing Low-Medium geothermal resources in Regional ASEAN, particularly in IMG-GT member countries.
This webinar will present speakers from: all IMT-GT countries, ASEAN Secretariat (ASEAN Center of Energy), University of Malaya, NewQuest Geotechnology, and ICLEI India.
The Indonesia–Malaysia–Thailand Growth Triangle (IMT-GT) started as an early attempt at economic liberalization & integration in ASEAN. It was formally endorsed by Indonesia's President Soeharto, Malaysia's Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohammad, and Thailand's Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai in 1993. (Wikipedia).
Webinar Date: 28 April 2021 (Wednesday), 09.00 AM (Jakarta)
Register Link: http://tiny.cc/webinar-geothermal-reg


My name is Celina, WELCOME to my Ready to Wear STORE!
I have been a Clothing Designer for as long as I can remember. My first client was Barbie, and my first seamstress was Linda, but I have the pleasure of calling her "MOM".
I enjoy the entire process of Fashion Design. I love drawing an initial concept, then drafting the pattern, and creating fabrications, if I need to, as well as sewing the concept into the final creation. I have shown my Runway/Custom Designs internationally.
My Ready to Wear Line is extracted from concepts taken from my Original Runway Designs. I have created every Design, they are all original Images.