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AN international team of expert scavengers is unearthing vital clues to Glasgow's hidden history in a £4.9million project.
Up to 80 archaeologists are digging sites along the five-mile route of the M74 extension.
They have already started to find unexpected evidence of how housing developed in the city and glimpses of early tenement life.
But they hope the public will help them fill in a few knowledge gaps at a series of open days, starting this weekend.
Digging at one site, between Eglinton Street and Pollokshaws Road, has unearthed an early tenement building, called Rosehill in maps from 1856.
The remains, with spiral stairs built into towers on an outer wall, show how toilets were introduced later as hygiene laws were toughened and ever increasing numbers of people crammed into tenement houses in the area.
The archaeologists, including some from Spain, Iran, America and Canada, have also found an early toothbrush made from horsehair, with a maker's mark burned into its bone handle.
Toys, including a tiny lead figure of a milk maid, have also been unearthed, along with grisly moulds of people's teeth. A silk weaver's comb hints the house occupants may have run a small cottage industry at one point.
Just feet away, the cobbled yard of a cooperage where barrels would be restored for sale and a farrier's, looking after dray horses used to pull wagons, have been uncovered far below the level of modern streets.
Consultant Hugh McBrien, from the West of Scotland Archaeology Service, said: "There are significant gaps in our understanding of early tenement life.
"Only certain kinds of information tend to have been recorded. No-one thinks to write down what everybody knows' but, in time, the people who knew it have gone."
Site director Michael Bardill said: "If you are excavating a 15th Century monastery, there is no-one around to tell you how people lived.
"But we hope people will come along to one of the open days or contact us to tell us what they know of these sites and share any pictures they have of the them in their heyday."
Transport Scotland has funded the scheme, which is run by Glasgow City Council through a partnership, HAPCA, formed by firms Headland Archaeology and Pre-Construct Archaeology.
The excavated sites will disappear from view again when construction work on the motorway begins in the spring, but items found will be at the heart of a discovery centre that will open at the Scotland Street School Museum.
The centre will also offer visitors a chance to try archaeology for themselves and take part in a "simulated dig".
Other sites will hold open days later, including Dixon's Blazes, a foundry in the Gorbals, where investigators hope to find clues to how workers and managers lived on the site.
Discoveries have already been made at the former Caledonian Potteries in Rutherglen.
The exhibition and oral history project will run until Spring 2009.
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This year the agenda of the global audit conference actually mentioned the conference will be held in Barcelona. BUT we were fooled…. the location of the conference is actually 2 hours drive away from Barcelona, in a small town called Peralada.
We were put up in a 5 star golf resort called, Hotel Golf Peralada Ampurdan. It's actually quite a nice place. Soothing, peaceful, quiet…. To me that translate to nothing to do! This place is famous for it's Wine Spa!!! Very tempted to try but it's just too expensive. Can use that kind of money to better use…. So, of course not forgetting, there's lots of winery aroud the resort too. We tried wine tasting one nite.. wasnt that good. Just ok.
The town is so small you can finish discovering the place in under 30 minutes. The resort is abt 20mins walk away from the town. There is even a small casino.
Here's some pics taken.
First batch of colleagues who just arrived from all around the world, hanging out on a sunday afternoon. Can you spot me?
This is the entrance to the resort's reception.
A view of the 18 hole golf course.
Peralada town. Look at the walls and the road… so small. Just enough for one car to get through.
The one and only cathedral in town.
Sunday afternoon walk – discovering the town with colleagues.

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With two weeks to go until Tough Mudder, I think it is very safe to say that I am not even close to being ready. I had fully intended to keep up with eating well and training whilst being off work for two weeks. Being ill for the first week and then being completely demotivated for the second, as being away for a long weekend, have not helped in the slightest. In fact, I think all I have managed to achieve is about an 8lb weight gain.
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Ahhhhh, those Mountain Bruins are busy cooking up a great event on Sunday, November 16 at the beautiful UCLA Conference Center. "Fall Festival: Salads and Sides for Autumn Feasts" will help participate learn to cook and prepared the perfect accompaniments for their autumn dinners.
This fun and interesting event will be led by the conference center's fabulous chef, Brian Goode. To add to the fun participants can take their own wine to the fun "cooking course."
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(All own brand, mostly white label value range)
Small chicken: £2.99 – £4
I00grms Sainsbury full roast coffee: 89p – £1.20
Small French stick: 20p – 49p
Indigestion tablets £1.29 – £2
Cooking bacon 670grms: £1 – £1.33
200grms peanuts: 28p – 48p
Litre orange juice: 42p – 69p
500grms mince: 89p – £1.20
6 loo rolls: £1.40 – £2
Totals: £9.36 – £14.39. That's an increase of nearly 54% in 20 months. As for pork, beef, lamb, or a nice bit of ham – and not that watery packet shit – no good asking me, I can't even afford to look at two lamb chops let alone buy any.
Not only are the politicians telling us we are at just over 5% inflation (a blatant fabrication), I heard one of the gobshites say the other day that pensioners will do quite well this year as their rise is linked to inflation. Well, if food is going up by around 30% every 12 months, a 5% increase isn't worth a light, especially when you add in 10/15% increases in gas and electricity prices.
And now they want to shift the goalposts and base future rises in benefits on average inflation instead of the rate as at September, so they can save a billion pounds – to give away to foreign countries and the IMF while British old people freeze or starve this winter.
No wonder a recent report has found the most shop-lifted items are now cheese and packets of cooked meat. A block of cathedral city cheddar (cheaper versions available) is now six quid. Six fucking quid for a square of cheese, are they having a laugh? That's almost 10% of a jobseeker's total weekly income and over 6% of a pensioners, while those bastards in parliament who are screwing all of us would pay that and more for a glass of wine to wash down their subsidised lunch and not bat an eyelid.
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I've always rather liked the idea that the self-published industry gives readers and writers alike the freedom to read countless books which would otherwise stay on the slush pile.
Until recently the only literary diet a reader could access were those deemed 'publishable' by editors with either strict house requirements or particular tastes. With self-publishing we, as readers, can now get hold of work that would not normally see the light of day and, in most cases, that's a good thing. Self-published work breaks the boundaries set by commercial publishing houses – who put trends and popularity above a good story. In fact, it sets new trends of its own. It brings a whole army of undiscovered talent into the fray. And it gives an unpublished book an outlet into the real world, where it would previously have gathered dust on a shelf.
But that freedom has its price. I write the above as a novelist, a fiction writer. Whose stories aren't true and whose readers know that. The problem comes when a reader moves from the fantasy to the fact. So-called fact.
One thing mainstream publishers have provided in the past is veracity. A non-fiction book should be factual, its findings and views rooted in truth. There should be sources, references, bibliographies. And if not, if a non-fiction book is expressing beliefs or views, it should be stated, plainly. A mainstream publisher will also apply some kind of censorship to what they publish, moral, legal or ethical.
This is where self-publishing falls over itself because anyone can publish anything. At all. I'm thinking in particular of the current outcry about 'To Train Up a Child: Turning the hearts of the fathers to the children', which teaches new parents how to beat their children (including infants) into submission. Amazon have this horrifying book on sale in both print and kindle form and are refusing to take it down.
I'm all in favour of freedom of speech, and everyone has the choice about what they read, but really?
The problem is, the written word is somehow more powerful than the spoken. Don't ask me why. Maybe it's because, subconsciously, we feel that if someone has taken the trouble to write something down, it must be true. Yes, most people would be able to tell that such a book is grossly inappropriate, but sadly there are those who would welcome such advice. There are also those who would actively seek out 'How To' books on sexually abusing children.
The fact that there are these kind of books out there, combined with the lack of censure that mainstream publishers have always provided is probably the worst downside to the self-publishing industry that I can imagine. Unfortunately, though, because anyone can publish anything, these and even worse books are out there. It's mind-boggling to me that Amazon don't run a cursory check over what they put up. They have the right to refuse to accept a book on their site – it's in their terms and conditions. Amazon, of course, aren't the only site that sells books or publishes e-books. These self-publish sites with print-on-demand services and e-book generation are springing up all over the place.
Yet to my knowledge there's no body set up to monitor the kinds of books being published. I'm not even sure it would be possible. But surely it should be the responsibility of sites like Amazon and Lulu to have at least guidelines in place to ensure books that encourage child abuse or terrorism never reach the public?
I don't want the self-publishing industry to get censored. I love the fact that every author has the chance to get exposure, to put their hard work up on the internet so people can buy it, and enjoy it. But while there are people who follow distasteful, immoral and downright evil practices, there will also be books to encourage and enable them. There has to be a line drawn somewhere.


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It's a little difficult to get a clear definition of narrative according to Ryan, but for the purposes of her book she seems to support the theory that narrative is "a medium-independent phenomenon" (p. 15), free to exist across a multitude of channels as long as it adhears to the "narrative script" (p. 9).
Where the Hell is Matt? meets the criteria of having narrativity, according to Ryan, in the three ways. First, it creates a world and populates it with characters and objects (p. 8). The videos introduce a character, Matt, and he displays himself dancing in an exotic location where a lone person dancing may seem out of place. Next, the world Matt inhabits undergoes changes of deliberate action (p. 8-9). Matt is shown dancing the strange dance in different locations and different settings throughout the world. Sometimes he is alone in the desert, and other times he is in the midst of others in urban settings. Finally, the video infers a plan or "causal relations" (p. 9) to Matt's actions. Toward the middle of the video, Matt is joined by others in his dance, revealing the possible goal or plot of Matt's video; to connect with different people from different places and perhaps show that we are not all that different from each other.
Ryan goes on to argue against the thought that "narrative is an exclusively verbal phenomenon" (p. 15). Language is perhaps the best way to express the narrative form, but other mediums such as pictures, music and dance can communicate the narrative sequence if the audience recognizes and relates to the visual or audible signals they are receiving. Matt is dancing. People see Matt dancing. People join Matt dancing. The barriers of difference and unfamiliarity are diminished and a connection between Matt and his fellow dancers is made. The medium by which the story is delivered can enhance the effectiveness of the narrative, but is not essential when determining whether a narrative exists or not.
Where The Hell Is Matt? actually combines media to present its narrative to the audience. The videos are purely based on visuals and sound to tell their story, but are backed up by language to clarify their meaning. Viewers who just don't get what the hell Matt is doing can navigate through his web site and read his blog to discover the motivations behind dancing badly all over the world. Although I think the videos on their own meet the criteria necessary to be considered a narrative, the entire web site taken as a whole satisfies the notion that only language can effectively communicate the causal relations or motivations that constitute a plot.


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Last night was a shocker to many including me, I watched a man break his own title in a manner which suggests the race was too easy and he was wants something tasking. In the past 15 months, Usain Bolt has won three Olympic golds, a world championship and set four world records. But tonight may been his most impressive feat yet.
This Jamaican sprint star shattered his own record in the 200m at the world track and field championships in Berlin, running a scintillating 19.19 and besting the second place finisher by over six-tenths of a second. (that's strange) His old record, set in Beijing was 19.30, that means he trained so well and made sure he achieved this accolade.
Well I thought this was impossible as in Beijing his race was considered a "Perfect race", instead Bolt burst out of the blocks, had a five meter lead at the midway and then accelerated down the stretch for yet another dominating victory. Not only this, did you see the looks on his face before the race? Well shows that he was so confident that the race was a done deal, well it is now history. When he came into this field last year, he looked so tired at the end usually he breaks a sweat during his races, but yesterday he was huffing and puffing during the final 15 meters. So much for the criticism that he was too lackadaisical at the end of his race.
After the race, He collapsed in joy on the track. Took a victory lap with the Jamaican flag, staged a race with the championship's mascot and had his hand kissed by a cameraman.
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1- Always know that what you achieved today is just a start point for better things, if he had relaxed on his previous record, he would have been shocked by his opponents.
2- Life has ways to shock us, with the way he beat them at 100m mark, you know he prepared and met opponents that couldn't match him.
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Much is made of Trump's use of Twitter, mostly from those who believe the tweets are caustic. Even Trump's advisers want him to stop. But historians think otherwise. The tweets, they argue, are as close as we will get to a presidential diary and, therefore, these outbursts in 140-characters or less are key historical records.
Read the full story at Politico, and judge for yourself.
It is, presidential historian Robert Dallek told me, "a kind of presidential diary."
"A kind of live diary," Princeton University political scientist Julian Zelizer said.
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Gayle eyes rest after tiring season
Chris Gayle, fresh off leading Jamaica to the first Caribbean Premier League title, has indicated he is eyeing a long rest after a hectic season of continuous cricket. In the last 12 months, Gayle has featured in 71 matches across different formats, 35 of them for five domestic T20 leagues around the world.
"It's been a long road, and I am very, very tired mentally," Gayle said. "It was a challenging time batting-wise in the Tri-nation series (against India and Sri Lanka) and then against Pakistan, and to have come and played a captain's part in the CPL has been really, really, stressing."
Gayle, whose captain's knock of 47 not out in the final earned Jamaica the CPL trophy, started the year with a stint with Sydney Thunder in the Big Bash League in Australia. He flew back to the West Indies to play two T20s for Jamaica in the Caribbean T20, scoring 85 and 122 not out .
Gayle then travelled back to Australia on West Indies duty for the limited-overs series in February before joining the Dhaka Gladiators in the Bangladesh Premier League. He played only one match in the BPL and hit a century that helped Gladiators make it to the final of the tournament. He then returned home for the series against Zimbabwe.
This was a precursor to his stint with Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL. The ICC Champions Trophy in England ensued in May before the Tri-nation in the Caribbean. West Indies then played five ODIs and two T20s against Pakistan and Gayle featured in every match of the series.
"It's been quite a lot, and I am really, really happy that it is over now. No more cricket for me until the next three months," he said.
Gayle's form took a dip after he scored a century in the first match of the Tri-nation series against Sri Lanka, but he managed to finish fourth in the batting charts of the CPL with 234 runs from nine games at an average of 29.25.
West Indies are slated to tour New Zealand starting in December. They are due to play three Tests, five ODIs and two T20s.
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Oh my word, do I love reading great kids books! The magical world of the Dust Fairy Tales, was recently introduced to me and I fell in love. A book that was cute, rhyming AND uplifting…. this one is a home-run! Michelle Eastman conquered a major feat with this one, because what some people don't understand, is just how hard it is to write a children's book that carries a positive message, without being preachy or sounding like an after school special. There is a fine line. What Eastman puts out in her Absolutely Aggie, is a message of belonging. To be and become the person you were created to be. Kids face hard truths each day, they get up, get on a bus or carpool head to school where parents aren't there to protect them from bullying, crass language, and situations where they aren't seeing themselves in the best light.
Absolutely Aggie is a young dust fairy who just wants to belong, but no matter how hard she tries she fails. She's not dressed well, her hair is unruly and her socks don't stay up. The other fairies don't see her as fitting in at all with her loud bagpipes either. So Aggie becomes a bit of a loner, until a new friend comes along. What happens next? You'll just have to read to find out!
If you're looking for a fun, rhyming story that will uplift a child and help them to believe in their abilities, then this is a great story. Dust Fairy Tales is beautifully illustrated with a powerful message that will raise spirits and inspire kindness. A sweet story with a big heart, you won't want to pass this one up!
(A picture of Michelle Eastman reading to her son:) )


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TOTBF #3 and days go by…
Posted by Catherine on June 26, 2008
…days go by and still I think of you
days when I couldn't live my life without you…
– Dirty Vegas
…well, I'm not pining away over anyone (both true and not so true…more on that later), but the days are SURE going by.
Just believe me when I say I have no idea which way is up or down any more these days!
Before I get into all the details, here's my submission for Pez-a-Doodle's Thinking Outside the Block Friday:
I know it may sound a little excessive of me, but…DON'T YOU LOVE IT?! So that's my candle holder-type dealyo. I know you can buy things sort of like this, but nothing beats making one all by yourself! So let's see, I used to square blocks perpendicular to each other. I squished on some Brilliance Dew Drop using a felt tool and then heat set. I then stamped with an Autumn Leaves (I believe…) acrylic stamp using black archival ink. For the tealight, I went all-out and used a PartyLite candle! All materials (except for the candle) can be found at Pezadoodle.com!
So, earlier last week, I joined Marti's Design Team and we dreamed up a little pet project together and things are totally hopping – of course, throw in other things such as weddings, trips to Jamaica (for SOME people – like I said, more on that later), work and friends and family and breakups…weeeell, that just requires more than twenty-four hours in a day!
So for everyone who is expecting something of and from me – don't give up on me just yet, I'm raring to make a come-back as soon as weddings are behind me. My cousin's wedding is coming and I'm practically the matron of honour – though I'm not, the wedding planner – though I'm not, and the florist/decorator – which I half am! Long story short, the REAL matron of honour sucks at her duties, I really would like to be a wedding planner (plus my cousin is working multiple jobs to get this wedding paid without too much debt underway) and my mom and I have an event decorating/planning business we're trying to get off the ground. So the wedding is a week from this Saturday so don't send out the search parties on me before then…I'll be MIA for sure as I think my cousin is trying to run me into the ground!
I also said I wasn't really pining away for anyone, but I WILL be for one WHOLE week! Like I said, we've been bombarded by weddings this year and The Mister and I had to split forces to be able to attend both weddings that we are a part of. The only crummy thing is, his wedding is in Jamaica and my wedding is…here. Ew.
So I'm trying really hard not to begrudge him the trip, but c'mon, this is JAMAICA! I've never been there…plus, I'm also kind of begrudging the wedding couple as he had to go into their package plan (so they could get whatever deal for having however many guests come) and it SO was not cheap. Then to top all that off, his wedding clothes (to wear on a BEACH) was in the excess of over $200, which is sadly more than my bridesmaid dress and shoes combined. Tsk, tsk, tsk…then we were invited to the couple's reception when they return home…I know it sounds really bad, but you bet there won't be any envelopes or nicely wrapped gifts with the words From: Mr. & Mrs. SillySkittles. In all seriousness, their present is The Mister's PRESENCE.
HAHAHAHA, do I not sound like the WORST wedding guest ever?! Hey, don't get me wrong, I just did the wedding thing, I understand what being part of a wedding means and my bank account and efforts and time can attest to that (*coughs* did like a bajillion of those TBBM favor boxes only to have those greedy bums rip them open to get at the delicious jelly beans inside [note to self: fill favor boxes with disgusting things…] without even ONCE commenting on the beautiful PACKAGING of the delicious jelly beans!
Okay, I'm sounding like a very whiiiny person today…so I'm going to have to bring this to a close. I've been working like a little house-elf (oh, HP, I MISS YOU!) trying to get some projects done ahead of time so I'll have some fun things from Marti's tutorials to show you this coming week! Stay tuned!
2 Responses to "TOTBF #3 and days go by…"
June 27, 2008 at 10:39 AM
Love the candle holder and whine away girlfriend 🙂 Hey, are those just stamping acrylic blocks or something else?? I'm sure you 've said and I've just missed.
June 27, 2008 at 5:51 PM
LOVE the candle holderm – too cute!! and oh whine away!! i will so try not to be a slave driver on you til AFTER the wedding!!! hahahahahah!!!


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It has been more than 10 years since I have put 'hook' to 'yarn', just never seemed to have the time. Retirement offers the gift of time that encourages creativity.
I learned to crochet by watching my mother, and while I am not the quintessential crocheter that my mother was (yet another blog), I persevere. I hope you enjoy the process and the finished results.
The instructions were were a FREE download.
pull the yarn through the two loops and the double crochet is completed.
A simpler pattern but a CLASSIC. My daughter sent me the link to this website.
The completed hat may be worn two ways: with the brim down (notice adornment) I chose to dress it up with a simple single crochet chain bow.
or with the brim folded .
Either way you wear it, it is guaranteed to keep you warm and dry on these frigid, snowy winter days.


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TINLEY PARK - The members of the Illinois General Assembly will not receive a pay increase again this year thanks to a new law sponsored by State Senator Michael Hastings (D-Tinley Park).
Hastings sponsored House Bill 643, which stops automatic increases in mileage reimbursements or per diem rates.
"I'm here to serve the people of the 19th District," Hastings said. "We are in the midst of trying times. I will continue to fight to ensure our legislature is working in the best interests of the people of Illinois."
House Bill 643 freezes the Illinois General Assembly's mileage reimbursement and per diem rates for the upcoming year. In addition, the initiative eliminates the upcoming cost of living adjustment for the members of the legislature and other offices set by the Compensation Review Board. The Comptroller's Office states that the cost of living adjustment would be 2.1 percent without the passage of a freeze.
This is the fifth time Hastings voted to cut his own pay. He has voted stop automatic pay increases and surges to reimbursement rates for General Assembly members since he has been in office.
House Bill 643 passed the Senate and House with bipartisan support.
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OK, this might be getting tedious. Or it might not be. But its been an eye opener. What is? Well, when I first started wearing a skirt absolutely nobody seemed to give a damn. Nobody looked twice, or I didnt notice anyone looking twice anyway. Not art students. Not Joe Public. (Just the other half of my sky who objected vociferously…………for five minutes, lol). But last week, as Ive already said, I was confronted by a man in a park whilst I was trying to enjoy a sarnie, whilst wearing a skirt………….and on the same day, in Loughborough I noticed lots of people looking strangely at me.
Today I noticed the same thing in and around Leicester College…………..students looked……………..students whispered……………..a tutor (unknown) also looked judgementally, even though the lady was wearing trousers……………irony…………. It was a strange feeling. Being judged. And I suddenly realised this is akin to how girls must feel as they walk anywhere. People, men mostly (probably) looking them up and down, rating their bodies and their dress sense……………for goodness sake, Ive done it myself in the past. And its not a great feeling. I understand now, and I also understand that it isnt sexy clothes that make men look, men just look, but other women also look and judge. But the stares of men must feel intimidating a lot of the time and I fully get it now.
I apologise ladies. It was my programming. It was my hormones. It was me being jealous. Now, can I please wear my non-bifurcated clothing in peace and harmony again? Thanks
Love all, hurt none and walk in soft shoes
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MNJHS Panthers of the Day - Thursday, 1/26/17Published by amy.ewell on Thu, 01/26/2017 - 16:12
Kendall Call
Hear the ROAR! A Panther is: RESPECTFUL, OUTSTANDING, ACADEMIC and RESPONSIBLE! Congratulations to Maddie Brook and Remington Fillmore for being nominated as our MNJHS Panthers of the Day on Thursday, January 26, 2017. Maddie was nominated by Mrs. McClain for always working hard to make sure she understands the material. Remington was nominated by Mrs. Wright for being great at leading their class discussions.


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WESTON, Conn. The conflict of interest case involving David Finkel could come to a close Tuesday night with the Weston Board of Ethics expected to discuss the matter at its first meeting of the year.
The issue arose when Finkel won a seat on the towns board of finance. Members of the Weston Democratic Town Committee said Finkel, a Republican, should not have been allowed to run because he worked as a consultant looking into overhead costs in the Weston school system.
According to Section 9.1 of the town charter, No member or employee of any board or agency of the town shall be financially interested, or have any personal beneficial interest, either directly or indirectly, in any contract or purchase order for supplies, materials, equipment or contractual services furnished to or used by the town or any of its boards or agencies.
In October, the ethics board decided there was a conflict as long as Finkel's company had a business relationship with the town. Then in November, Finkel told the Board of Selectmen that the matter had been resolved and he should be allowed to serve on the finance board. First Selectman Gayle Weinstein wrote a letter on behalf of the selectmen asking the ethics board to revisit the matter.
According to its meeting agenda, the board of ethics is expected to go into executive session Tuesday to discuss the Finkel issue. The agenda listed no other information about the case.
This will be the first meeting for two new ethics board members , John Albright and Robert Lamb, who were appointed by the Board of Selectman last month.
The Board of Ethics is expected to convene at 6 p.m. in the meeting room at Town Hall, which is located at 56 Norfield Road.
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Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leafs a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Robert Frost
I just felt like sharing that. I feel its a really good poem >:-] Happy New Years! Was I missed? Hmm? Hmm? Hopefully this year will bring us all many joys...(some friggin inspiration!!!)...and fun times!
Monday, January 4, 2010
4 comments:
- J Cosmo Newbery said...
Thank you for that. Peace indeed.
- January 4, 2010 at 2:07 PM
- the.kisser said...
that was beautiful. you actually have a beautiful side? *eyes wide open*
- January 5, 2010 at 8:30 PM
- Eddie said...
lol even a mind as polluted as mine has a "beautiful" side.
- January 6, 2010 at 9:35 AM
It is nice, I like it's message. thanks for sharing it!
- January 6, 2010 at 12:34 PM
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Lunch- waited until about 2. Had the following::
- Amy's Breakfast Burrito
- Carrots
- Sliced Cukes
- Yellow Bell pepper
- Natural Hummus
- Stonyfield Farms 'Banilla' yogurt
YUM! We went to the pool after lunch…I did about 25 minutes of Breastroke. I beat my brother, who dropped 6 seconds last week! xD
At the pool I had a baked oatmeal bar (Thanks, katheats.com) and a peach. The peach was perfect- juicy and ripe.
When we got back, I had dinner. Early, so I wasn't that hungry…
- 1/2 cup cubed watermelon
- salad with
- Mushroom,
- Orange Bell,
- Romaine,
- Tomato
- Amy's CA burger
- Whole-Grain Bun (Aunt Millie's, I think…no HFCS!!)
I hated having Amy's two meals in a row…but rather Amy's than Stouffers, thats what I always say!
Off to a golf lesson. Pray I hit the ball strait xDxDxD


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I am currently reading 2 of Ivan Illich's eye-opening books, "deschooling society" and "tools of conviviality". I've been highlighting many passages from these books, and making occasional side notes. I think I should share some of these here on this blog. So here comes the first, in the context of my first clinical psychology placement coming to an end.
I find it amazing that, to learn to become a psychologist, we must sit down and endure the pedagogy of other psychologists–despite their common lack of teaching skills–while being completely restrained from observing them in the exercise of the very skills they are presumably trying to teach us.
From such a model of skill transmission, only one learning outcome is guaranteed: the factual knowledge that certain lecturing psychologists have slightly less of a soporific effect on their audience than most!


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Sometimes, the things we love the most are the things that tie us down. And no matter how much we love them, or how much they are a part of our lives, we must break away...if we want to explore what else the world has to offer, to test what all we're capable of!
Same goes for my relationship with the city of Bombay. Bombay...Mumbai...whatever you call it, the headiness remains the same. I absolutely LOVE the city. It's a city unparalleled in the world. Sure, there are many great cities in the world but Mumbai has a character that's it's own.
This city has given me a lot, just as it's taken a lot from me. But now I've come to the point where I must break the strings that tie me to it & move away. Much as I love Mumbai, it's weighing me down.
It's a beautiful love affair I have with Mumbai, and to preserve its beauty I must say goodbye to it....until I'm ready to embrace it again.


text: So many people showed interest in my project's module system (called "the Dungeon Master") that I've posted it to cambridge.apple.com. Download the file /pub/MCL2/contrib/dm.hqx, which expands to six files. The files are: 1) source code ("dungeon-master.lisp"), 2) a detailed copyright notice ("copyright.text"), 3) user documentation in mss (Scribe) format ("dm.mss"), 4) PostScript format ("dm.ps"), and 5) text format ("dm.text"), and 6) a description of how to use the Dungeon Master ("dm-use.lisp"). The Dungeon Master supercedes CLtL1's provide and require functions with useful versions of said functions. It supports search paths and provides convenient functions for loading and compiling modules singly or in sets, in order to keep one's compiled code and lisp environment up to date. It is portable, with the exception of half a dozen configuration-dependent routines. These routines are defined for MCL2.0f and for Lucid 4.0.0 on RS/6000s, and may easily be defined for other configurations. Unfortunately, because of the way the package system is defined (or not defined) in CLtL2, it is impossible to reliably define packages in a distributed manner, such that they can also be modified on the fly (something which every developer always needs to do). The Dungeon Master also contains code to make it easier to define mutually dependent packages in a manner that follows spec. Send bug reports to email@example.com. I'll fix bugs as time allows, which, sadly, isn't much or often. Thanks to all who expressed interest. As I have posted the code, I will assume all respondants will download it from cambridge.apple.com, and I will not mail copies to anyone unless they specifically request it. Sue Felshin Lab for Advanced Technology in the Humanities MIT


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Service sector expands, steps up hiring
U.S. service companies expanded at a healthy pace last month and stepped up hiring, more evidence that the economy is growing and adding jobs.
The Institute for Supply Management said Wednesday that its index of nonmanufacturing activity dropped to 56 in March. That's down from February's 57.3, which was a 12-month high. Any reading above 50 indicates expansion.
Economists said the slight decline wasn't troubling because the reading was still at a healthy level that points to growth. And a measure of employment rose to near a six-year high reached in January.
The trade group of purchasing managers surveys roughly 90 percent of U.S. companies in all sectors outside of manufacturing. That includes retail, construction, financial services, health care and hotels.
Separately, payroll processor ADP said the economy added 209,000 private-sector jobs in March. The job gains in January and February were also revised upward. The ADP survey does not include government jobs.
The two reports were encouraging ahead of Friday's government report on March job growth. Many economists expect that will show the fourth straight month of strong hiring.
"The [ISM] survey still suggests that domestic demand is contributing more to the recovery," said Paul Dales, an economist at Capital Economics, in a note to clients. "This survey is still consistent with some decent rates of economic growth."
There were some cautionary signs in the ISM report, too. A measure of new orders fell but still showed growth. A gauge of sales and other business activity also declined.
Still, rising consumer and business spending is boosting hotels, restaurants, retailers, entertainment and recreation firms, construction companies and financial services providers, the ISM said. Sixteen of the 18 industries tracked by the survey reported growth.
Greater spending "reflects the increased confidence level of businesses and consumers," said Anthony Nieves, chairman of the ISM's services committee.
The economy has added an average of 245,000 jobs per month from December through February. That has pushed down the unemployment rate to 8.3 percent, the lowest in three years.


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Many people do not have adequate life insurance or disability insurance. This article explains the consequences when coverage is absent or insufficient.
S. Donnell Masak, CIC
COLUMBIA, S.C. (Dec. 5, 2011) — Many workers feel more strongly about insuring their homes and cars than insuring their ability to provide for their families after a death or disabling injury.(1) The result is a workforce underinsured for both life and disability protection — and vulnerable to severe financial hardship. The good news is employers can play a key role in providing access to this important protection and helping their employees understand their need for coverage.
That's one of the findings in a new white paper released today by Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company. "Back to the Basics: Building a Financial Safety Net Begins with Life and Disability Insurance" uses proprietary and industry research to show the risks American workers face without basic protection and how employers can help them become better educated and obtain coverage without affecting the bottom line.
"Families today are struggling to make ends meet," says Jeff Koll, Colonial Life's assistant vice president, life and disability products. "The death of a wage earner or an accident that puts the breadwinner out of work for a month or more can push many families into poverty. Basic life and disability insurance can help prevent that from happening. And it's usually very affordable when offered as part of a workplace benefits program."
Approximately 100 million Americans aren't protected by private disability insurance, (2) and four in 10 U.S. adults have no life insurance. (3) Even many of those enrolled in an insurance program provided by their employers are concerned their coverage is inadequate: 35 percent feel their plans may not adequately cover their inability to earn an income for an extended time due to illness or injury, and 19 percent felt their plans may not adequately cover the death of a primary wage earner. (4)
Misconceptions drive lack of coverage
The majority of wage earners believe they have only a 2 percent or less chance of being disabled for three months or more during their working careers.(5) However, the actual odds of a worker being disabled for at least six months is 33 percent. (2)
"One reason for this discrepancy could be what workers think causes a disability," Koll says. "Lifelong ailments aren't the main cause of disabilities. The vast majority — 91 percent — are caused by common illnesses or health conditions such as cancer, childbirth or heart attack. (6) That means many disabilities aren't covered by workers' compensation."
Most workers don't have the financial resources to maintain their family's current standard of living in the event of a disability or death of a wage earner. More than a third of households say they'd immediately have trouble meeting everyday living expenses if a primary wage earner died today. (7) In fact, 61 percent of American workers live paycheck to paycheck. (8) Their employers aren't unaware of this: In a recent Colonial Life survey, 65 percent of employers said they didn't think their employees would be able to maintain their current standard of living if they were unable to work for two or three months because of an illness or accident. (9)
Employers play critical role in protection
Employers can help their workers create an affordable yet strong financial safety net by offering voluntary life and disability insurance, the white paper explains.
"Voluntary insurance plans allow employers to offer cost-effective protection at little to no direct cost to the business," Koll says. "By integrating voluntary benefits such as the basics of life and disability coverage with existing medical benefits, employers can go a long way toward helping employees protect themselves against financial exposure."
The complete white paper is available in Colonial Life's online newsroom at coloniallife.com.
Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company is a market leader in providing insurance benefits for employees and their families through the workplace, along with individual benefits education, advanced yet simple-to-use enrollment technology and quality personal service. Colonial Life offers disability, life and supplemental accident and health insurance policies in 49 states and the District of Columbia. Similar policies, if approved, are underwritten in New York by a Colonial Life affiliate, The Paul Revere Life Insurance Company, Worcester, Mass. Colonial Life is based in Columbia, S.C., and is a subsidiary of Unum Group, one of the world's leading providers of employee benefits. For more information, call Colonial Life at (803) 798-7000 or visit http://www.coloniallife.com.
1 Mitchel, James O., "2011 Insurance Barometer Study," LIMRA, 2011.
2 Social Security Administration Fact Sheet, March 18, 2011.
3 "Fast Facts About Life," LIMRA, 2011.
4 Colonial Life & Accident Insurance company, Harris Interactive Survey, 2009.
5 Council for Disability Awareness Disability Divide proprietary research, March 2010.
6 Council for Disability Awareness, "The Disability Guide, CDA 2010 Consumer Disability Awareness Survey," March 2010.
7 Retzloff, Cheryl, "Trillion Dollar Baby — Growing Up," LIMRA, 2011.
8 CareerBuilder.com survey, April 2011.
9 Colonial Life insurance and disability insurance survey, October 2011.


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The Day of the Klesh(1979)
(The third book in the Ler series)
A novel by M A Foster
A science fiction novel from an author whose very well received first novel, "The Gameplayers of Zan", came out of nowhere. He followed it up with several other titles published by DAW - and then, one day, was no more. No new books were released by either DAW or other publishers.
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Chapter 1
The minute he walked in the door, Heather Webb fell in love. His suit fit him so perfectly that it had to be custom tailored. The white shirt still sparkled with newness, and small gold coins that Heather recognized as bearing the portrait of Maximilian of Mexico graced the cuff-links.
Even his shoes spoke of wealth.
If a man this obviously rich had to come to a run-down private detective agency without even calling ahead for an appointment, he was desperate--and she wouldn't let him walk out of here without a fight. A client like this could finance the agency for a month. She slurped a swallow from her coffee mug then waved the mug toward a chair somehow managing not to send coffee everywhere. "Won't you sit down?"
He straddled the chair. "Are you the boss?"
The visitor's distrustful blue eyes personified danger and control. That didn't surprise her. In her experience, people didn't get rich without stepping on some toes.
His voice was deep and sexy, but in a carefully manipulated way, as if he had taken voice lessons to develop just that rasp of sensuality. He certainly didn't fit the normal government-worker model that most of Washington D.C.'s privileged copied in their efforts not to seem too elite.
"I'm Heather Webb."
He ignored her implicit invitation to introduce himself. "I understand you do computer break-ins."
She didn't want to scare him off, but suddenly he seemed just a little too perfect. "I run a general purpose private detective agency," Heather explained. "One of our services is computer security audits." She'd put the ball back in his court and let him define himself through his words and actions. One of the best things about her job was that it gave her an excuse to be nosy.
"I'm looking for someone who can find out whether the computers at a company I'm interested in are secure."
She sighed. "We don't do third party work." In her circumstances she couldn't afford to take the risk, no matter how much money he might offer.
She should have known that having Mr. Rich Guy walk into her office was too good to be true. Especially a rich guy who looked like he'd be cool and collected in the middle of the Sahara desert. Despite Washington D.C.'s brutal August humidity, Mr. Rich-guy appeared completely comfortable in his wool suit and perfectly knotted silk tie. The man looked at her curiously.
"I'm Jack Eastland," he told her.
"Ah. Jack Eastland," she answered as if everything were suddenly clear. She didn't exactly hang around in D.C.'s high society, but you can't live in Washington without picking up some sense of who is doing what. His name meant exactly nothing to her.
His eyes widened slightly and she had the feeling that he had just run her through a cat scan and investigated every secret cranny of her being.
The sensation was a little frightening, but it wasn't altogether unpleasant.
He was built better than most businessmen she had known. In fact, he probably had to have his suits custom made, since his broad shoulders would burst through anything he could buy off the rack. He was a little old to be a professional athlete, probably somewhere in his mid-thirties, but he moved with a grace that spoke of power and economy of motion. He cleared his throat. "What makes you think I'm asking for a third-party search?"
"There must be some sort of convention going on," she told him. "Five minutes before you arrived, someone called asking for me to break into a major computer center.
Yesterday I got three calls. Everyone must want to find out what their competitors are doing. I don't blame them, but I can't help them. I don't do that kind of work."
"Aren't you walking away from a lot of business?"
She shook her head ruefully. "It's not worth losing my license over." More to the point, she couldn't afford to get her parents messed up in an investigation. Of course she wouldn't tell Mr. Eastland, or whatever his real name was, that.
"Well, Heather ..." he paused, "May I call you Heather?" She smiled. "Of course." He could call her Fido if he wanted, as long as he paid his bills.
"Fine," he told her. "I'll get to the point. I've recently picked up a company. Since then, my competitors have been eating me alive. Before I go on a rampage and make accusations about an inside job, I want to make sure that my competition isn't stealing my secrets off my own computer.
What you said about what's going on out there makes me even more certain that I need to look into this. Somehow I'm not convinced everyone shares your morals."
He reached into his suit pocket.
Heather fought her instinctive urge to reach for the automatic in her desk. Instead she set a false smile on her face. When his hand emerged with a gold business card box, she let out her breath in a whoosh. The card was printed on stiff linen stock paper that felt like money, only thicker. Jack Eastland, CEO, Wildfire Enterprises, the card read. Everything appeared too easy. In her experience, companies the size of Wildfire, one of D.C.'s biggest private companies, didn't send their CEOs out to hire detectives. Still, why shouldn't things be easy for once? All summer, business had been so bad she'd stooped to serving summonses for a couple of the law firms she worked with. A major computer security audit deal could be the break that made her company. Her parents' work in computer security was pretty well known in hacker
circles, but a high-publicity job would give her the chance to expand the agency.
"You understand I'll have to check on this?" she asked him. Jack Eastland looked like he could be a CEO, or anything else he put his mind to. Then again, she'd met con men who could assume the same air of power and arrogance.
"Of course," he said smoothly. "I hope you understand that I am in something of a hurry."
A year and a half in business for herself had trained Heather to go for the jugular. "I'll put together a complete proposal. In addition to the computer audit, I recommend that you hire my agency to handle on-site surveillance. I can practically guarantee that you'll have holes in your computer security. That doesn't mean that's where your leaks are coming from."
"I'm only interested in the computers," he answered.
His quick rejection of her suggestion piqued her curiosity. Clearly money wasn't the issue. In her wildest dreams, she wouldn't charge enough to make a company of Wildfire's size notice. So why was he dead set on ignoring her advice?
"It's your money," she told him. "You want me to do only half the job, I'll do half the job."
"Fine." Eastland gave her a smile that showed a row of perfect teeth set against a deeply tanned face.
She almost choked at his smile. No man had a right to look that good. Maybe he really was an actor. She'd certainly stand in line to watch him.
Abruptly he ended his smile and nodded.
Heather felt like she'd had the wind knocked out of her. That wonderful, warm, confiding, smile had been a fraud, an act. If he wasn't an actor, he should be. And not just because he was pretty to look at. He stood and looked to the door. "When can I expect the report?" "I have no idea."
That got his attention. His eyes snapped back to her. "Exactly what is that supposed to mean?"
"I already told you, I've got to check you out. Once I do, I'll put together a proposal. I'll estimate how much time and how much money the job is likely to cost."
"Let me rephrase my question, then. When can I expect the proposal?" Heather picked up her desk calendar and examined it closely. As she'd suspected, her August schedule remained distressingly similar to September and July--nearly blank. "Why don't you come by tomorrow afternoon. I'll be able to give you an estimate then." Eastland pulled a thin book from his suit jacket pocket and examined it closely. "I can get free between two and two-thirty."
"That should be plenty of time."
He nodded curtly. "I'll see you then."
Heather stood and held out her hand. A handshake wasn't a legal tie, but it tended to put people on more personal terms. The last thing she needed was for him to take his business elsewhere, especially since she was going to the trouble of putting together a proposal. Customers didn't seem to understand that a proposal is half the job. Jack's hand swallowed hers.
At his touch, a tiny thrill went through her body, almost like static electricity, except it couldn't have been that since she felt certain Jack Eastland would never allow human things like static electricity into his life.
He tightened his grip enough to let her feel his controlled power, then released.
"If I have any questions--" she started.
"You have my card. I'll instruct my secretary to page me without asking you anything."
"That should do it. See you at two."
Heather watched as he turned and strode toward the door. Something about him didn't quite fit. Sure, rich businessmen were dangerous. But Jack Eastland looked dangerous in a more active way than any simple executive should. He looked more like a man who'd take an enemy and break him in half than he did a capitalist out to exploit workers and customers.
Although he stood over six feet tall, Jack didn't move awkwardly. In fact, he somehow managed to step without a sound on the squeaky step she'd spent so much time installing outside her office. She revised her initial thoughts about the man. He might be bringing in some valuable business, but she wondered what his business would end up costing her.
* * * *
Jack checked off Heather Webb's name from his list and grabbed a taxi. He had time to visit another agency before lunch. With luck, he could finish this grunt work this week and get back to his real job. With her honey-blonde hair, hazel eyes, and legs that didn't know where to stop, Heather had been nice to look at. Unfortunately, she also seemed to see too much. He wasn't certain she'd bought much of his story. Still, she'd agreed to prepare a proposal--after she checked him out. He wasn't worried about her checkup. In his line of work, fail-safe paper trails were automatic.
He wondered how much Heather would try to gouge him for. Since he had no intention of actually buying anything, that wasn't much of an issue. Before she could put together a proposal, she'd have to do enough research to tell him what he needed to know.
Jack checked his notes on the next agency. This one was supposed to be even slimier than Heather's.
"Where too?" the driver demanded. His distinct Russian accent made him almost incomprehensible.
"Nineteenth and M," Jack answered, absently slipping into Russian to match the driver's accent.
The driver gave him a sharp look and floored the engine. He probably thought Jack was KGB, set to reactivate him.
* * * *
Heather took a yogurt from her office refrigerator and returned to her desk. Everything seemed to check, but it bothered her. Jack Eastland was too perfect--a rich man who just walked in off the street to offer her a legitimate job.
Private detectives don't stay in business without learning to suspect everyone, especially anyone desperate enough to want to hire a detective.
She wiped her forehead and checked her desk clock. In an hour of intensive computer digging, Eastland came up clean.
His recently deceased father had supposedly left him more money than he knew what to do with, although the father had lived in a modest Texas suburb and left almost no computer record at all. With the new-found wealth, Eastland had bought a couple of companies. Wildfire was his latest and largest acquisition.
More interesting than what she found on Eastland was what she didn't find. After a normal high school and college career, he had almost dropped off the computer trace.
That might mean he was just careful. Or it might point at organized crime. His low profile father with all the money pointed at the same thing. Despite what her parents thought, Heather didn't consider all businessmen the equivalent of the Mafia. Capitalism might be theft, as they claimed, but it was thievery without broken kneecaps and midnight executions.
The mob often took over and cleaned out mid-sized companies. If they had taken over Wildfire, they would put in an apparently clean front man. Eastland looked dangerous enough to lead a gang and tough enough to stay in control.
He'd be a perfect choice.
The job he'd hired her to do made some sense. In today's world, the mob would want to make sure their computers were leak free. The whole world knew how the FBI loved breaking into Mafia books and fingering the men with the money.
An organized-crime involvement could explain Eastland's unwillingness to let her extend the investigation to the rest of the company. He knew what she'd find. Still, wouldn't the Mafia have their own computer
The floorboard outside her office creaked and she looked up. "Darling, we've finished the Andreson audit." Heather's mother, Karen, peered at her through Coke-bottle-thick glasses and handed over a neatly typeset report.
When she'd gone into business as a private investigator, Heather had been concerned about having her parents as employees. Things had worked out wonderfully. Karen and Pete had worked incredibly hard and asked for almost nothing. She knew she was prejudiced, but she had never managed to reconcile her feelings for them with the notion that they were most-wanted criminals.
"Anything special?" she asked. Andreson had been another bluebird, like Wildfire. They hadn't been able to pay much, but it gave her parents something to do and at least contributed to the outrageous rent she had to pay for her office and the two apartments overhead. "You'd think that people would at least close up a few of the holes in their systems," her mother said with a sigh. "I guess this one is a little unusual because of the Middle-Eastern connection." "What's that?" All she needed was the licensing bureau breathing down her neck about some international reporting requirement. Her mother waved her hand vaguely. "It turns out that Andreson is owned by one of the countries over there." Then she brightened. "They've got a dedicated satellite link back to the headquarters and it's almost completely wide open. And the company has got to have government connections because you can go everywhere once you get there." If Heather gave her mother a chance, she'd rattle for hours about her computers. For all Heather had told Jack Eastland about being a general purpose agency, her parents' computer skills meant that computer audits formed the bulk of their business. More importantly, the work let her parents do something they loved while contributing to the agency. Heather preferred the part of the job hackers called social engineering. This hands-on side of computer security involved basic PI work--investigating, garbalogy, and tricking people into revealing what they didn't know they knew. Given her druthers, she let her parents handle the computer end and spend her time snooping.
"I'm glad you've finished that audit," Heather told her mother. "I need your help with a proposal for a company called Wildfire." Her mother's eyes widened and she collapsed into Heather's office chair. She shook her head firmly. "Don't touch it."
Karen had as much business sense as a pussycat, and she knew it. She had never before given Heather advice on how to run her company. "I thought there might be a mob connection," Heather suggested. "Still, I can't put a finger on anything." She looked her mother in the eyes. "What do you know about it? We could really use the money."
"I don't know if things are changed, but Wildfire was founded back in the eighties as a front to fund the Contras," Karen said. Heather sagged in her chair. That could mean the Mafia, whom the CIA sometimes used as a cover. It could mean the CIA itself. And the CIA was far worse than a Mafia connection. If the government was on to her now, she might have to give up everything she had worked for and head back to the road.
Could Jack Eastland's interest have any connection to the audit her mother had just finished? Middle Eastern contacts, Contras, CIA. Odd that it should all turn up in her office at the same time. And that phone call she'd gotten just before Jack showed up--from a man with a faintly threatening voice and an exotic accent. Work as a private investigator had taught Heather to distrust coincidence. Still, Heather left vast conspiracy theories to her parents. "That Contra stuff was years ago," she said. "Our prospective client recently bought Wildfire. Surely they've gone legit."
Karen shook her head. "Possibly," she said. She didn't look like she believed it. Absently, she got up, stood in front of Heather's computer, and started tapping on the keyboard.
Heather pushed back her chair and observed. She never failed to learn something when she watched her mother work. While she couldn't even begin to imitate the Zen-like oneness her mother achieved with the computer, she certainly could learn a few of the basic tricks Karen used instinctively.
Rather than attempt the Wildfire system, her mother found a floating bulletin board where hackers hang out, and scrolled through the archives.
"Bern Nylands tried a hack on them about two months ago," she finally announced.
"And he dropped out of sight about a week later. Nobody's heard from him since."
"I hardly think the government is going to hold someone incommunicado for two months because they try to break into a CIA company," Heather remonstrated. "Besides, hackers are always disappearing. Weren't you telling me yesterday that half the hackers you know have dropped out of sight? Surely they weren't all stupid enough to try to break into the CIA."
Her mother crossed her arms in front of her chest. "You don't have to tell me I'm paranoid, sweetheart. My paranoia has kept us alive for a couple of decades on the run. Maybe I'm being overly cautious. Still, something about this just doesn't feel right." She paused and patted Heather on the shoulder. "Do we really need the money?" "Not that bad." Whether Wildfire was involved with Mafia money as she'd
first suspected, or with the CIA, she couldn't afford to expose her parents to the risk.
"Why don't you join us for dinner?" Karen asked her.
One drawback to living in the apartment adjacent to her parents, Heather thought for perhaps the thousandth time, was that it gave them far too much insight into exactly how free her free time was.
"No thanks, Mom. I've got some calls to make."
Dunning clients wasn't the most glamorous part of her job, but Heather was good at it. After turning down Wildfire, she'd have to be damn good if they were going to pay the rent next month.
"All right. Let me know when we get our next job." Her mother left the Andreson report on Heather's desk and headed back toward her apartment. Heather waited until her mother had left, then dialed Jack Eastland's number. The ring sounded funny, as if coming from a satellite link rather than from an office down the street. While she waited for an answer, she yielded to her impulse and tapped her PC into the reverse listing phone directory, checking the number to see if it matched up with Wildfire.
It came back as unlisted. If it was a private line or an answering service, that could make sense. Still, it troubled her. Companies normally sought business, they didn't hide from it.
Finally a woman answered, repeating back the number Heather had dialed with no elaboration.
"I'd like to leave a message for Mr. Eastland," Heather explained. "One minute."
The sharp click told her she'd been put on hold. Not exactly the type of response she'd expect from a CEO's secretary. But this was lunch hour. Maybe she'd gotten the reception desk.
"Ms. Webb, Mr. Eastland can meet you immediately. He's at the Columbia House coffee shop right now."
"How did you know who I--" the dial tone told her she'd been cut off. Weird. She was certain she'd dialed the code to block Caller ID--it was an automatic gesture, like looking both ways before crossing the street, or making sure she knew where the back exit was before sitting down to eat. She must have dialed it. So how did Wildfire know who she was?
Money or no, she was feeling better about her decision to drop this job.
On impulse she typed out a bill for the time she'd wasted on Eastland's project. Maybe she shouldn't charge him for a proposal. Then again, she certainly wasn't in the business of giving out free samples. * * * *
"Glad you were quick," Eastland greeted her. He'd already claimed the farthest booth from the door and taken the seat that allowed him to
see anyone coming in. A couple of open cream packages on the table near his half-filled coffee cup made it clear he hadn't just arrived. The slight bulge under his left arm hadn't been there that morning or she would have tossed him from her office without any discussion. It was there now.
No way would Heather take the seat across from a man with a gun. Especially a man who insisted on sitting where he could watch the entrances.
She sat beside him, pressing her shoulder lightly against his right arm. She'd been around guns enough to want to know if he started to move suddenly.
Unfortunately, she also found herself in contact with a hard mass of muscle. Eastland's scent didn't match the polished finish of his suit. Rather than an expensive cologne, he smelled like soap and man. It made him seem more human, somehow. Sexy, too.
What was she thinking about? She was about to turn down a job from a guy with a gun and she was suddenly fantasizing about his body next to hers. She plopped his case folder in front of him and called out for a decaf. She didn't need a caffeine high now.
"I thought we were going to meet tomorrow. What's the emergency?" Eastland asked.
"And I thought you were seriously interested in doing business with the Webb Agency. Which of us got fooled more, do you think?" Did she only imagine that his muscled arm tightened against her side, twitching with his desire to pull his gun to seize control of a suddenly more dangerous situation?
"I think a computer security audit for Wildfire is a fairly serious piece of business, Heather," he answered.
"I've prepared a bill for the work I've done so far, Mr. Eastland," she replied, keeping it professional. "Do you want to read my report or have me summarize it for you?"
"I wasn't under the impression that I had a bill coming." "You've got a lot of things coming if you think you can just walk into a place with a line like you pulled on me."
He looked positively mystified.
For a moment, she wondered if her mother could have been mistaken. "Can you give me a summary of what you found, please?" he asked. The moment dissipated. If he was really who he pretended to be, he'd get up and walk away now.
"Certainly," she told him. "Since you get the bill, you get the report as well. I've made the bill out to Jack Eastland but feel free to change it to whatever name you think fits."
She shifted slightly so her thigh touched his. She wanted to pick up on any body language he sent.