The National Park Service is reporting that the first phase of the Ansel Adams rehabilitation project has finished, and that the Ansel Adams Gallery has reopened! It’s a great place to visit.
From the Press Release:
The Ansel Adams Gallery Rehabilitation Recently Completed at Yosemite National Park
Just got an email from the California Association of 4WD Clubs, Inc. letting me know that they’re not them anymore. They’re now the “California Four Wheel Drive Association, Inc.” which does roll off the tongue a bit better. From the email:
During the annual meeting in February the association’s delegates approved the bylaw proposal put forth by Steve Egbert to change the name of the association from the California Association of 4WD Clubs, Inc. to the California Four Wheel Drive Association, Inc. A new logo was also approved. The changes will be phased in slowly — we’ll keep you posted on when new decals and other items will be available.
You can visit their website HERE.
You can join the club HERE.
National Park Week is April 18 – 26 this year. Yosemite National Park has joined the National Park Service and the National Park Foundation’s public awareness campaign as the National Park Service ramps up for it’s Centennial in 2016.
From Yosemite National Park’s Press Release on the NPS website:
National Park Week 2015 Encourages Everyone To Find Your Park
Yosemite National Park joins parks, programs and partners across the country to encourage everyone to find their park and share their stories online at FindYourPark.com. Launched yesterday by the National Park Service and the National Park Foundation, Find Your Park is a public awareness and education campaign celebrating the milestone centennial anniversary of the National Park Service in 2016 and setting the stage for its second century of service.
There are many reasons that authors fail. The most glaringly obvious one is that they don’t treat their writing as a business.
Scrolling through my Facebook newsfeed, I came across a post that seemed to indicate that an eBook listed on Amazon was showing the wrong content when a potential buyer clicked on the “look inside” feature. The poster was “damning” the Look Inside feature.
So I asked a simple question: Did the original poster call and ask why the wrong content was showing?
The response showed that they had not done so.
Here’s the thing: YOU are the author. YOU are your business. YOUR BOOK is your product. Take some damned responsibility for it! Act like a professional!
Further examination showed that the eBook in question – which I looked up, accessed the “look inside” feature and downloaded the sample for – had been first published on December 19, 2013. By using the post date of the FB complaint, the date the interior file was updated can be extrapolated to March 27, 2015.
The eBook has no reviews.
News release from California Department of Parks and Recreation:
Goleta, Calif.—California State Parks is closing camping to El Capitan State Beach effective immediately, due to emergency repairs that need to be conducted to the beach’s well. The camping will remain unavailable until further notice.
A perforated well casing was discovered in the well that supplies water to the state beach. As a result, the El Capitan State Beach campground and showers will be closed until further notice. Day use facilities will be available. Camping at Gaviota State Park will reopen to camping immediately to provide an alternative camping location for visitors. Camping will be available on a first-come, first served basis.
