The question was recently asked on a NaNoWriMo Facebook page, “Those of you with children, when do you squeeze in time to write?”
The correct answer? Two words: Duct Tape. Your children will appreciate it later when you’ve earned enough in royalties to pay for their therapy.
The National Park Service is reporting that on July 5, 2013, a smoldering fire was discovered in the crown of a giant sequoia tree along the Congress Trail in Sequoia National Park’s Giant Forest. This fire is a hold-over from the Circle Meadow Prescribed Fire, conducted in the summer of 2012.
An unusual combination of conditions enabled this fire to smolder through the winter and re-surface as the weather became warmer and drier. The severe drought conditions of the past winter created the dry environment that allowed this fire to continue to burn undetected within the giant sequoia.
The smoldering giant sequoia continues to intermittently emit smoke along the upper portions of its trunk and from the very top of the tree. A few branches have fallen from the tree. The Congress Trail is closed between the House and Senate groups of trees until conditions are safe for visitors. Over 95 percent of the Congress Trail remains open, and visitors can still see the trees that make this trail so popular, including the House and Senate groups of trees, the President Tree and the McKinley Tree.
The Planes of Fame Air Museum’s living history event for August is Whistling Death – Solomon Islands, featuring the Vought F4U Corsair.
From the Planes of Fame Museum’s website:
Open to the public, Planes of Fame Air Museum (Chino, CA) presents its monthly Living History Event. The topic for the August 3 event is ‘Whistling Death – Solomon Islands’, featuring the Vought F4U Corsair. A speaker panel of distinguished aviation experts, historians and veterans is featured, followed by a question & answer period and flight demonstration when possible. The F4U Corsair will be on display and perform a flight demonstration. At 12:00 noon, the Membership Sponsored raffle flight will occur.
I had wondered about this for awhile; having an interest in photography, I’ve got a copy of Master Your DSLR Camera. When I went to the BetterBook site, I noticed that the ebook was available as an app. It’s an ebook. It’s for sale on iTunes. It’s #1 in the iBookstore, but way lower on the app store. I saw this as probably a failure of Apple; they must have categorized the ebook incorrectly, or the ebook creator had made a mistake with the upload.
Turns out that the publisher – Open Air – is selling 10 to 30 times as many ebooks through the app store as they are through iBookstore. Being #1 in the iBookstore is 10 sales a day. Ranking around 7th in the App Store translates to 150 sales a day.
Laura Hazard Owen wrote a piece about this particular book over on PaidContent, titled “Want to publish an ebook for iOS? Surprising tips from iPad publisher Open Air.”
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The Planes of Fame Air Museum’s living history event for July is the Flying Tigers and the AVG, featuring the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk.
Quick Stats from the Planes of Fame Museum’s website on their P-40N:
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