From Blank Page to Bestseller in 1 Day: How an Entrepreneur Author Made It Happen

Inc. Magazine By Bill Murphy Jr. Executive editor of operations, Some Spider, and founder, ProGhostwriters.com

Marc Angle sent a link to this article in Inc. Magazine.  Mike Nemeth is a 2004 USMA graduate.  If you are a big Facebook user then you can connect with Mike and follow him more closely at https://www.facebook.com/CenterStall/

Lots of people want to become bestselling authors, but I learned recently about an entrepreneur who turned a prank into a bestselling book in a single day. His secrets?  An ambitious joke, a well-timed Facebook post--and an enthusiastic audience of thousands.

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Joe O'Connell Receives AUSA Sunshine Chapter Earle L. Denton Award

Joe O'Connell is our current Vice President of the West Point Society.  Not many people know how busy Joe is with his job and other activities.  He has been an very active member of the AUSA Sunshine Chapter and is currently on their board.  Joe recently received an award from the AUSA Sunshine Chapter.  Word leaked out to me and I was able to get a picture and some information about the award.  The picture shown here is of Mike Genetti ('75) and Earle Denton's wife presenting the AUSA Sunshine Chapter Earle L. Denton Award.  Let's all congratulate Joe on this achievement and also Mike Genetti, who was the 2014 award winner, for all the work they have done with the AUSA Sunshine Chapter over the years.  You can click on the picture for a larger view.

Joe O'Connell, COL, USAR (Ret), USMA Class of '83, was awarded the AUSA Sunshine Chapter Earle L Denton Award for Outstanding Support to the Central Florida Army Family. The award was established in 2009 and the title of this award recognizes Lieutenant Colonel Earle L. Denton, United States Army (Retired), who has been an energetic and committed leader for more than thirty years, successfully advocating many issues and causes benefiting both the Army Family in Central Florida, and the larger population of veterans from all of America’s armed forces. Earle was a Friend of West Point and often attended the Founders Day events with our Society.

The Politics of Pie Cutting at West Point’s Mess Hall

From the website "AtlasObscura" --- submitted by Frank Albritton

UNTIL THE MID-1990S, SQUARED-AWAY PLEBES (what they call “freshmen who have their s**t together” at the United States Military Academy—better known as West Point—located some 60 miles up the Hudson River from Manhattan) carried a circular piece of paper in two small Zip-Lock plastic bags under their hats whenever the mess hall was serving pie. They always knew when pie would be on the menu because they always knew when everything was on the menu; part of their job as the punching bags of the United States’s finest military academy was to know what was for lunch.

The Big Picture - Camp Buckner Summers

It's those lazy days of summer right now and I'm sure many of you are thinking of that whimsical summer you spent at Camp Buckner. Here's the perfect video to take you back to those days.