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This '64 Chevy C10 Is Rooted In The Family Tree
One of the cool things about keeping a truck in the family for almost half a century and more than a couple of generations is the sentimental attachment the develops during that time. Of course, that sentimentality might be hard to overcome when it's time for a rebuild. No doubt the Carden family from Phoenix loved their '64 Chevy Apache C10 warts 'n' all, but the warts weren't what they loved the most. So after years of faithful service, complete with the wear and tear that comes with it, the truck was treated to an overdue and much-deserved makeover.
"We all contributed to the many 'character marks' that were on the truck," says Nathan Carden. His mom, Jan, backed into it with a '63 Suburban; a herd of deer hit it and lost; and a runaway car got it as it sat in a parking garage. Nathan did some bed massaging with a lawnmower during his high school grass-cutting career.
That's the kind of stuff you expect from a truck that's been in the same family since rolling off the assembly line, and driven hard in the years since. Jim Carden, Nathan's father, ordered the brand-new C10 Fleetline in 1964. Within months it took it's first big road trip into Alaska. The following year, Jim and his bride Jan drove it to Yellowstone for their honeymoon. Photos from over the years show the pickup with and without various camper shells, for use on numerous Carden family camping and hunting trips. "All of the kids in the family learned to drive behind the wheel of that truck," Nathan said. "Even my future wife learned to drive the pickup."
In 1986, the Chevy underwent some sheetmetal repair and a fresh paintjob. In 1994, the brakes went out. A wall stopped the truck, and it stayed stopped for the next 12 years, out of commission, but still part of the family.
When Nathan decided to get the truck back on the road for his dad, and eventually himself, he contacted Randy Clark at Hot Rods & Custom Stuff in Escondido, California. In addition to the truck, Nathan delivered a handful of photographs, covered with handwritten comments about the condition of the truck and questions about the rebuild. "Can we keep Custom cab trim? Or replace?" "Spotlight came with tk when new." "Have chromed steel replacement grille-new in box" "Original oak bed-very dried out."
The project was not intended as a nostalgic restoration back to the truck's original appearance, but as an upgrade of virtually every inch of the truck. The work began with disassembly, which, Randy Clark points out, is the moment when you find out exactly how much work you have ahead of you. In this case, life under the Phoenix sun had kept the truck relatively rust free.
Classic Performance Products provided the frontend kit. Replacement components include a dropped spindle and 1-inch drop front coils, contributing to the pickup's nice rake. Front disc brakes, power steering, and a Pitman arm are also part of the package. The rear remains stock, with a Brothers aluminum gas tank replacing the original. The painted steelies have been replaced by 17×10 and 17×8 billet aluminum Radicalli 6-spokes from Intro Custom Wheels, wrapped up in Nitto NT450 radials.
The engine compartment was equally upgraded, loaded with an LS2 engine package from Turn Key Engine Supply in Oceanside, California. Exhaust is fed through a set of Sanderson small-block Chevy Blockhugger headers and Flowmaster mufflers. The TH700-R4 automatic transmission backs up the LS2.
The interior of the cab is as far from stock '64 Apache as you can imagine. A pair of late-model T-bird buckets have been upholstered in two-tone blue-gray leather at HR&CS. The seats flank a similarly styled custom console featuring ample storage and a pair of retractable billet beverage holders from Extreme Metal & Paint up in Anacortes, Washington.
The dash is packed with the original gauges, rejuvenated by Classic Industries. An Eliminator steering wheel from Billet Specialties is mounted on a shifter column from Flaming River, with a Lokar accelerator pedal and brake below. Vintage Air keeps the temperature just right, and Nu-Relics supplied the power windows. The inside door panels are dressed up with armrests, door handles, and window cranks from Brothers Performance.
Brothers Performance also provided the hidden tailgate latch. The "very dried out" original oak bed was pulled out and replaced with some fresh new oak from Mar-K Quality Parts. The Truck Shop provided some of the replacement trim pieces, installed over the PPG Midnight Blue paint, sprayed at Hot Rods & Custom Stuff. Two pieces of original trim that survived are the left and right Custom cab trim. As Randy at Hot Rods & Custom Stuff pointed out, "the word Custom on that side trim has a whole new meaning now."
Now that the Cardens' '64 Apache has been revived, it's status in the family has been restored as well. As Nathan put it, "Obviously we have a lot of history with the pickup, and we can't wait to start the next chapter in its life."


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Hirudo medicinalis needs it's own post, don't you think?
For hundreds of years, bloodletting was considered a way to "even out" the humors of the body, which included blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm. (I'm going to have to do a whole post on humors and bloodletting. This stuff is too interesting!) The first documented usage of leeches happened in 200 BC by a Greek physician.
Someone who suffered from too much of the "sanguine" or blood humor tended to have flushed skin. This is also why people with infections and fevers, also looking flushed, were bled.
|Get this man some leeches, STAT!
Sort of.
Leeches have two interesting compounds in their saliva--an anticoagulant called hirudin and an anesthetic. That way, once the leech bites, the host has no idea and the blood keeps flowing nicely, since most animals are equipped to clot off a cut pretty soon after a bite. Mosquitoes have their own way to keep the blood flowing too.
Adult leeches can suck down 15x their body weight and not need to eat again for a year. They are hermaphrodites. I used to work in a lab in college, and one of the neighboring labs studied leeches. They used to feed them by hanging condoms filled with blood into their tanks. Let's say it together, shall we? Eww.
Today, the hirudin compound if now synthesized and used an an anticoagulant to prevent blood clots.
Leeches themselves are used to help promote circulation after reconstructive and microsurgery for two reasons:
- Leeches can decompress tissues engorged from bleeding or poor venous circulation
- They can remove hematomas (collections of blood)
- Once detached, the bite sites continue to bleed, which can promote circulation of the affected tissue.
Do remember any good leech scenes from books you've read? Do you have any plans to use them in your writing?
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Ironman UK
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Dubbed one of the UK's friendliest towns, Bolton has something for everyone in the IRONMAN family. Athletes can take a nature walk with the kids, go shopping, and dine in cozy pubs and restaurants as they prepare for race day.
The beautiful lake swim takes place in Pennington Flash. There are numerous viewing opportunities for spectators at the start and T1. Cyclists will embark on a 112-mile, two-loop journey from Pennington Flash and onto the breathtaking Lancashire countryside. The bike course includes the famous Sheep House Lane climb twice where spectators can get up close and personal with the athletes in true Tour de France style. The run begins at T2 at the Macron Stadium and athletes will head into Bolton town centre, where they complete three loops of a circuit before finishing in Le Mans Crescent in the shadow of the Albert Hall.
IRONMAN UK offers 40 qualifying slots for the 2018 edition of the IRONMAN World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.


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Happy Holidays!
Barring any breaking and hot baseball-related news, I do not expect to be posting many entries to WasWatching.com over the next four days. Therefore, I wanted to take this time now to wish all the readers of this blog a safe and happy holiday season.
I hope you all have a wonderful holiday observance.
Look for more stuff here starting next week!


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Storyteller visits MFA's 'She Who Tells a Story'
Lebanese-born photographer Rania Matar toured the MFA exhibition "She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers From Iran and the Arab World" with curator Kristen Gresh. Matar, who lives in Brookline now, is one of 12 prominent women featured. The exhibit also showcases photographers Jananne Al-Ani, Boushra Almutawakel, Gohar Dashti, Rana El Nemr, Lalla Essaydi, Shadi Ghadirian, Tanya Habjouqa, Rula Halawani, Nermine Hammam, Shirin Neshat, and Newsha Tavakolian. . . . Meanwhile, Organizers of the Visiting Nurse Association's fall gala, including the event's honorary chairs, Next Street president Ron Walker and wife Shawnda, held a kickoff luncheon at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel the other day. The "Heroes in Health Care" gala hopes to raise $1.5 million to support the VNA of Boston's Child Health and Free Care Programs. . . . Singer Paul Simon and his 16-year-old son were in Boston last week as part of a tour of ballparks, and dropped by the Greater Boston Convention and Visitors Bureau while walking the Freedom Trail. Simon told CVB service rep David O'Donnell that he's been in the studio working on new material. . . . "General Hospital" actor Bradford Anderson, who plays Damien Spinelli on the soap opera, had dinner at the Kowloon with about 20 fan club members. . . . Recuperating Pats tight end Rob Gronkowski dined with retired lineman Matt Light at Strega Waterfront. . . . Weldon Worldwide owner Jerry Robbins dined at Oishii Too in Sudbury Thursday with Celtics forward Kelly Olynyk.


text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - Valley of Death Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Work in Progress View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "Valley of Death" -- Transcendent --memberMember #Joined: 12 Nov 2000Posts: 251Location: Somewhere, Sometime, Somehow Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2001 1:08 am Hi everyone, Here's a moody picture. Not my materpiece, but hell, crit away. Gabriel Back to top faustgfxmemberMember #Joined: 15 Mar 2000Posts: 4833Location: unfortunately, very near you. Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2001 2:28 am reminds me of stephen king's the march. or whatever that's called in this god damned language. ------------------ sky high with a heartache of stone you never see me 'cos i'm always alone/ministry the law of lead now reigns!@#!/earth crisis firstname.lastname@example.com icq#35983387 http://faustgfx.0wns.org Back to top BugscratchmemberMember #Joined: 23 Sep 2000Posts: 313Location: Germany Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2001 3:31 am Looks good. Reminds me of one of your last pieces, Death, but is significantly better than that. I especially like the sense of depth in this one. -bugscratch Back to top -- Transcendent --memberMember #Joined: 12 Nov 2000Posts: 251Location: Somewhere, Sometime, Somehow Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2001 5:30 am Faust : I've never heard of such a book, or language. Bugscratch: Yup, you've got me. I'm rather blunt when coming to naming my 2d pics - I never put enough thought into that. They don't deserve a good name anyway. Back to top IN5/NE-D/VEGuestMember # Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2001 6:24 am I like this pic alot, its very moody as you say, it does have a good sense of depth, maybe to show the depth alittle more you could sharped up this nearest tree?? Maybe add a few more branches?? ") Back to top CuddlymemberMember #Joined: 02 Jan 2001Posts: 161Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2001 8:00 am wooooo... man, I'd hate to have to walk down that road... very nice atmosphere. Love the work on the sky. Back to top CosmemberMember #Joined: 05 Mar 2000Posts: 1332Location: UK Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2001 8:26 am looks pretty cool man, has that tim burtonish surreal thing about it. Are those figures or lights down the path? if they are figures there style remind a litle of the guy who painted the scream, ed vard munch i think. Back to top IcannonmemberMember #Joined: 13 Sep 2000Posts: 597Location: st.albert, AB, Canada Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2001 4:37 pm this is cool. i like it :] Back to top shardikmemberMember #Joined: 09 Apr 2000Posts: 494Location: Buffalo, NY Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2001 4:58 pm The book by stephen king is "The Stand" Back to top Hlid SkjalffmemberMember #Joined: 24 Oct 2000Posts: 126Location: St. Petersburg, Russia Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2001 5:21 pm The branches on the right tree look JPG-fucked up :-))))))))))) I dunno why... And, you're right it is Moody. Back to top Simon GustafssonmemberMember #Joined: 04 Jun 2000Posts: 249Location: London, UK Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2001 5:27 pm HA! This is great. looks like sunday. ------------------ simonworks firstname.lastname@example.com Back to top ShijimamemberMember #Joined: 23 Nov 2000Posts: 53Location: oregon-usa Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2001 9:01 pm for a valley of death there are very few dead people in the pic?? was up with dat? Back to top samdragonmemberMember #Joined: 05 May 2000Posts: 487Location: Indianapolis Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2001 1:10 am Nice, needs some spooky shadows creaping around on the path. Back to top -- Transcendent --memberMember #Joined: 12 Nov 2000Posts: 251Location: Somewhere, Sometime, Somehow Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2001 3:45 am Hey everyone Thanks for the replies - I took my picture and a couple of your suggestions, and then "cleaned" it up just a tad. Nothing major, unfortunatly, it might just be wasting your bandwidth, but hey, here's the new version. Shijima : Well, the trees are dead. And it's the valley you walk through after you die. So there will be no dead people, naturally. Just souls. Cos : A very keen observation Thanks. I never looked at them as figures, but now that I do ... they actually do look like figures Back to top Eorandjunior memberMember #Joined: 01 Dec 2000Posts: 35Location: Finland Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2001 3:53 am Nice balanced feeling here! Atmosphere is very intense. Somehow this picture makes me want to turn my monitor clockwise about 10 degrees. Maybe the setting on this makes illusion of falling to left? (the road?) But that might not be a bad thing. 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Ideal for a couple and shorter stays in Taos Ski Valley, the Edelweiss offers a limited number of lock-off "Hotel Rooms" for rent during much of the year. These units have a single king or queen sized bed (a few have a pair of twins) and a maximum occupancy of 2 persons.
Note that these units are "lock-off" units, that is they are a bedroom and bathroom that are part of a larger condiminium unit that can be locked off with double doors and accessed by a separate entrance. As such these units may be smaller than the term "hotel room" may imply to guests. For longer stays we highly suggest the larger one bedroom condos for more room and amenities.
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Olivier Ratsi's latest project Onion Skin is an attempt to create an unreachable plane by physical means. Two walls are connected at 90 degree angles, and a series of visual light displays plays simultaneously off of the joined walls, created a uniquely intangible, unreachable dimension. This type of work is typically elaborate for Ratsi, who describes his works as "The deconstruction or fragmentation acts mainly as an emotion trigger, which does not aim at showing what things could be, but more at questioning their references."
Shapes that begin to form are quickly changed, morphing into others and blending into a seemingly 3-Dimensional landscape. Ratsi, who is also the co-founder of visual art label AntiVJ, gives the viewer a sound component to coincide with Onion Skin's hypnotic geometric shapes overlapping, peeling and unfolding. Ratsi explains, "Its aim is to generate a break with the meaning of the original items, to propose a new viewing angle and to provide the public a new field of experience, another way of looking at space and time."
Onion skin is currently installed in Belo Horizonte, Brazil (until November 30th, 2013), after which it will be included at an exhibition at the Parque Lage in Rio De Janeiro (December 7th and 8th, 2013). (via designboom)


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What is RPM? Responsive Process Management (RPM) allows an organization to sense and respond to changing conditions and customer interactions as they occur, enabling these businesses to analyze and track what is about to happen as opposed to what has already happened.
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Kris Humphries Is Using Kim Kardashian's Own Words to Prove Their Marriage Was Fraudulent
Basketball player and shortest Kim Kardashian hubbie (so far) Kris Humphries is currently in the middle of an epic fight to prove Kim married him under false pretenses -- which would thus give him leverage to get a much-desired annulment.
Based on information from a "trustworthy" source, Kris "believes the key to proving that the marriage was fraudulent lies in the production and filming of the Kardashian reality shows."
For example, after the wedding but before filming began for the fourth season of 'Kourtney & Kim Take New York,' he had some of his belongings shipped from his home in Minnesota to Kim's house in Los Angeles. "She began freaking out about it and questioning if it was a good idea for him to move in," the insider reveals.
Yes, because what could be more untoward than a married couple living together? Think of what everyone would say!
"A short time later," the source goes on, "Kim began to bombard him with text messages and phone calls ordering him to come back to New York and be with her because filming was about to start. Kris says he couldn't believe it." The implication here being that Kim only wanted him around when the cameras were rolling.
After about a month of marriage, Kim was filmed on the season premiere of the show complaining to Kourtney about how hard it is to live with her new husband. "I can't live with Kris, he is such a slob ... I'm not used to someone in my space, let alone messing it all up ... I don't know if I can live with him at home in L.A.," she whined.
Not exactly the most damning evidence unless the court case is about Kim Kardashian being the petulant child she is. Still, Humphries' crack legal team is scouring the reality show for evidence to use in their deposition.
"The deposition will take place in the next several months, after having been postponed several times due to scheduling issues on both sides," the source explained, saying the delay has proved beneficial for Kris and his team.
Kris also believes the family is trying to tarnish his name. In a recent episode, "Khloe is filmed complaining to Kim about how long the divorce is taking and bitching that Kris doesn't talk, but 'barks like a dog.'"
And in an interesting twist, California law dictates that if Kris and Kim are still married when she has her adventurous baby, he'll be legally assumed to be the father.
Given his vocal proclivities, we're guessing he'll call it Rover. But who's to say. Sometimes puppies just name themselves.


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For anyone that has ever had a puppy I am sure they encountered the same funny actions from their pets. Tinker, our Maltese was about 1 year old when this video was shot. Tinker loves her Snoopy? a little too much!
Now Tinker was spayed around 6 months and never went into heat. Nor has she really been around other dogs, so her 1st attempt at a little humping action is very funny. I started laughing so hard I had tears in my eyes. Poor baby just had no idea what she was doing.
If you love puppies then this video is for you. Not much action in the beginning but the end is very funny.


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Have you ever had a conversation through machine translation? Many problems arise: "computer bug" may become "computer insect," and complex ideas like "he asked me to figure this out first when we talked last time" may translate very unpredictably.
In a lab study, we asked a native English speaker and a native Chinese speaker to brainstorm together, some using English as a common language, and others using machine translation.
Machine translation helped the native Chinese speakers produce ideas (Figure 1) but both native and non-native speakers viewed machine-translated messages as less comprehensible than English messages (Figure 2).
This result gives hope for combining machine translation and second language ability to better support inter-lingual communication. It may be effective to use machine translation to help people produce messages in their native languages, while leaving incoming messages untranslated and leveraging people's second language proficiency for comprehension.
For more, see our full paper to appear at CSCW 2013, Machine Translation vs. Common Language: Effects on Idea Exchange in Cross-Lingual Groups
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What makes Cisco's Intelligent Automation so Intelligent?
This is a must read for those who want to deeply understand the philosophy behind Cisco's automation product portfolio
It should not be news to you that Cisco has invested in software products to drive the management and automation of clouds, datacenters, and applications. Intelligent Automation is the name that we have for the management and orchestration solutions in the Intelligent Automation Solutions Business Unit in Cisco's Cloud and Systems Management Technology Group.
What is so intelligent about Cisco's automation products? Besides the official marketing and product management answers, I polled our Business Unit and Advanced Services teams and got the following responses (which I distilled a bit). Oh and by the way, one constraint was that we cannot use Intelligent in the definition of Intelligent Automation (harder than you might think).
The top winners for the best contributions are: Oleg Danilov (Solution Architect), Mynul Hoda (Technical Leader), Peter Charpentier (Solution Architect), Frank Contrepois (Network Consulting Engineer) and Devendran Rethinavelu (QA Engineer).
Get the Best of Policy and Orchestration (Making a product work well takes concerted architecture influenced by the real world)
- Achieve the union of Policy and Orchestration in one platform, with the separation of the execution platform from the behavior modeled through service design and automation content
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- Leverage advanced correlation technology – being able to intercept an event, correlate it against other metrics collected, and make a decision that drives specific actions under that context
Knowledge, Knowledge, Knowledge (Like my Grandfather-in-Law said: Location, Location, Location)
- Implementation of human knowledge and best practices into automation
- Knowledge is collected and authored by subject matter experts
- Enables problem solving through human friendly methods, behaviors and reuse
- Knowledge that goes way beyond rote step-by-step process
- The automation occurs at the intersection of the knowledge and context
Easy to Use (Making something easy to use and yet extremely powerful…. The legacy of Steve Jobs and others)
- Automation that is adaptable to different and changing circumstances, technology domains (application, infrastructure, network, virtualization, end user)
- And at the same time efficient in execution for the problem at hand
- A complete, consistent, efficient and measurable management of the end to end process that sees automation (of the many components of your architecture) as one of the tasks in a higher level process
- Solves complex problems with a direct visual link from the users brain to a visual result represented by the service logic and workflow, in other words it models natural human cycles: Experience –> Design –> Implementation that you can follow from start to finish as execution occurs
Finally, I can credit our founding architect Derek Even (Solutions Architect) with a great summary:
"Consider the fundamental difference between animals and humans. Humans have the intelligence to inquire into the truth of their existence, accumulate and communicate their knowledge. It is the same with Intelligent Automation, rather than blindly following a set pattern of behaviors or script, Intelligent Automation solutions build in knowledge applied to real-time decisions that allow automated systems to act more like humans than animals."
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At Abe and Lexi's Theo and Cameron return from a hike and Theo says he wants his mommy to come with him and Cameron camping in the summer. Lexi's noncommittal but hugs her son. When she and Cameron are alone, she asks him to spend time with Theo when she's gone. Cameron already planned on it. Celeste interrupts and suggests Lexi make some DVDs for Theo to watch as he grows up. They set up a recorder and while Theo does his homework, Lexi creates the first DVD. She apologizes for not being able to be with him. She calls him her angel and tells him when he needs her, he should go somewhere private and listen for her to whisper how much she loves him. She breaks down in tears. Later, Theo runs to Lexi with a Mother's Day card. She uses it for a DVD cover.
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Cameron accepts a request, EJ puts Stefano on notice, and Bo and Hope want to follow a lead to Italy.
Harmon drops by the mansion to update Stefano on what's going on. As soon as he knows where Shane Donovan has the coin, it's his.
Bo, Hope, and Shane discuss the coin at the ISA office. They wonder what it might mean to Stefano and hope Billie is able to lure EJ away from Stefano. Hope takes a better look at the coin and notices a familiar engraving on the coin.
At the park, EJ assures Billie that Stefano claims not to be involved in clearing John Black's name. Billie fills him in on Alice's IOU and Bo and Hope calling in the debt. EJ wonders why Billie is trying to drive a wedge between him and his father. Billie thought EJ had a right to know. EJ reminds her she hates him as much as she hates Stefano. Billie thinks since Stefano just murdered six people, EJ's looking better and better.
Roman lets Austin into the safe house and tells him where he can find Carrie. Meanwhile, Carrie and Rafe break away from a kiss after she hears Austin's voice. Rafe heads downstairs and Austin finds Carrie, while Roman berates Rafe for risking bringing Austin there. Upstairs, Austin greets Carrie. Downstairs, Roman confronts Rafe about his feelings for Carrie. Does Rafe know how much pain this is causing? Upstairs, Carrie refuses sex with Austin. After a near-death experience, put things into perspective. She has something to tell him. Downstairs, Roman tells Rafe that if he and Carrie get together, Sami will never forgive either of them. Rafe should stick with Nicole and be a good father to his baby. Upstairs, Austin stops Carrie from confessing to show her the scrapbook Billie made her on his behalf. Roman pounds on the door. They have to leave. Austin tells Carrie he's still the guy she fell in love with. He promises a life filled with new happy memories and leaves. Later, Carrie beats herself up in front of Rafe over not being able to tell Austin the truth.
EJ bursts in on Stefano at the mansion, looking for answers. "Did you really think I wouldn't find out that you were the person who got John Black exonerated?" He tells Stefano he knows about Bo and Hope cashing in Alice's IOU. Stefano admits the truth. He owed Alice Horton a favor. He made the promise in order to protect EJ. EJ smirks. No wonder Stefano's angry. He let his nemesis go for a man who isn't even his son. Stefano agrees that since John's dead, all is well that ends well. EJ wants to pretend they're still family but Stefano again refuses. EJ's left with no other choice. EJ learned how to be cold, ruthless, and unforgiving, at Stefano's knee. He puts Stefano on notice. He'll use everything he was taught against Stefano. Stefano asks why they can't just go their separate ways but EJ thinks it's too late for that. Stefano kicks him out. EJ thinks he's lucky Stefano's not his father. "It's going to make becoming your worst nightmare much easier."
Billie returns to the ISA office and gloats over her talk with EJ. She wouldn't be surprised if EJ and Stefano are at each other's throats right now! Shane contacts someone and learns that the markings on the coin were made by a private family jeweler in Perugia. Santo DiMera used that same jeweler. Bo and Hope want to follow the lead. Shane refuses. He's more worried about smuggling them back to the safe house. Shane decides to leave them locked alone in the office to do more research for a while. Billie and Shane leave and Bo uses that moment to kiss Hope. Moments later, Harmon turns up and cons Becky to let him into Shane's office. Hope hears the door being jiggled. Harmon gets Becky to unlock it and he goes inside. He's alone and rifles through Shane's things when he hears a noise. He takes out a gun and goes to the other room, where Bo and Hope are hiding.
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After four weeks of pouting, shouting, rolling my eyes, kicking the ground, folding my arms and refusing to have my photograph taken, I was ready to come home from my glorious mother-daughter bonding vacation in China.
There's a reason we grow up and move out of our parents' homes -- and it might be closely related to the reason grown-up children shouldn't spend 24 hours a day with their mothers. "Are you ready for the Great Wall of Mom?" asked my brother's boyfriend a week before I left. I really didn't know what I was in for.
After years of barely surviving 20-minute, semi-weekly phone conversations, I became convinced that the key to improving our relationship was to spend a month navigating China together, from Hong Kong to Beijing. This was going to be the trip where we broke through all of our trivial differences and perceived slights, finally learning how to appreciate each other as individuals. I was clearly labouring under the delusion that if you put two warring bees in a jar, they would immediately resolve their issues and go get some iced lattes.
Instead, we made each other miserable as we suffocated under the weight of too much time together. True, the country was magically dense with historical sites, stunning landscapes and unrecognizable but delicious foods. But a haze of discord pervaded as we struggled to rise above petty dramas. The Terracotta Warriors left us breathless on a beautiful, sunny day -- but they were still clouded over by an ugly disagreement over my refusal to purchase a cute skirt.
Kathryn Borel Jr. had similarly lofty ambitions when her 26-year-old self planned a three-week wine trip through France with her sometimes-inaccessible father in 2005. They drove several hours a day in a small diesel car through Alsace, Burgundy, Cotes du Rhone and Languedoc. "The idea behind the trip was to bond over wine -- a thing that he loves," says Borel, whose memoir about the experience, Corked, is being published in January by John Wiley & Sons.
Of course, things rarely go that smoothly. Borel soon found herself displaying "arch-brat behaviour." She had saddled the trip with so much significance that any defections from a perfect father-daughter exchange became crushing. "[I was] scared that I was missing this huge opportunity to get to know him," she says. "At the end, we'd both relaxed and everything became interesting and fun and significant. But this didn't happen without me wanting to drive the car into a tree at one point to commit murder-suicide."
Sara Dimerman, an author and therapist in private practice in Thornhill, says that it's normal to bring a little extra baggage on an adult family vacation in the form of regression, exhaustion from requisite quantity time and the reemergence of seemingly timeless issues. "Rather than travelling as equal companions, parents and children can fall back into old patterns and habits," says Dimerman. "They may be reminded of what really irritated them about each other."
Family members often bring out the worst in us, sometimes resulting in behaviour that would appall us if we directed it at a non-relation. (Thanks a lot, unconditional love, for making me act like a jerk.) "When you're with someone you're not as familiar with, you're more at an arm's length and you're not going to be as easily triggered by idiosyncratic behaviour," says Dimerman. In other words, when a friend leaves you waiting in a restaurant for 15 minutes, you aren't reminded of that time she forgot to pick you up at soccer practice.
So are family vacations a good idea if your relationship is already strained? "It's a nice idea, but maybe you need to take a therapist with you," says Dimerman. Of course, just because my mother and I often didn't get along, or because the silences sometimes made me feel even more estranged, doesn't mean that the trip sandbagged our relationship. The mother-daughter bond is, of course, more complicated than that.
My mom left China a few days before me, and things had been tense leading up to her departure. I was looking forward to feeling more like myself and less like a surly 15-year-old. But as I watched her awkwardly navigate her overstuffed backpack, I was suddenly struck with the urge to ask her to stay. I was sure we could do better; I would try harder and be nicer and less judgmental. And maybe in return, she could stop referring to me as "full-figured."
"I think our next trip should be on motorbike across a warmer country," she said unexpectedly. "Maybe we could have a travel show and we could stop and cook something every now and then."
I was incredulous. "A cross-country cooking travel show on motorbike?" I asked, helping her into a cab bound for the airport. "What could possibly go wrong?"
"Exactly," she said, failing to detect my sarcasm. "You know, you've got to be a little crazy to enjoy yourself."
She hugged me tightly and got into the cab. And for the first time in a month, I started to miss my mom.


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A's hit early, often to extend dominance over Twins
MINNEAPOLIS -- The A's sure like to beat up on the Twins, and they keep finding different ways to do so.
In the opener of a three-game set at Target Field on Monday, it was a team effort that sculpted Oakland's 8-3 victory.View Full Game Coverage
MINNEAPOLIS -- The A's sure like to beat up on the Twins, and they keep finding different ways to do so.
In the opener of a three-game set at Target Field on Monday, it was a team effort that sculpted Oakland's 8-3 victory.View Full Game Coverage
"Probably the only way we didn't score was walk with the bases loaded," said Jed Lowrie. "We did a little bit of this, a little bit of that."
Scott Kazmir labored through six innings, but got by with what he had, and his teammates did plenty of work at the plate to help out their 2-0 lefty in what was Oakland's seventh straight win against Minnesota, and 12th in its last 14 tries.
Since the start of last year, the A's have scored 76 times against the Twins, who only have 26 in that same span.
"When we're swinging well," said manager Bob Melvin, "we feel like we have a deep lineup."
The A's posted 10 hits on the day and totaled five runs through the first three innings against Kevin Correia, who was tagged for six runs in all through 5 2/3 innings.
Both starters combined for 127 pitches through the first three frames, with Kazmir surrendering three runs during that stretch, before settling down and relying on his cutter for quick outs. He retired nine of his last 11 on a day when he wasn't feeling 100 percent.
"If you ask him, he's probably going to say, 'I threw OK. I didn't have my best stuff,'" said catcher Derek Norris. "But you know what? When he needed to, he made the pitches he needed to make to get out of jams. He gave up a couple of runs, but it's going to happen, and he had a little stiffness in his back, which didn't allow him to get through on some of his pitches."
"I wasn't as sharp as I'd like to be, to say the least," said Kazmir. "It wasn't pretty out there. But I got to the third inning and was just trying to get as many quick outs as I could to get as deep as I possibly could."
Norris aided the cause with his first homer of the season, a solo shot to left-center into the visiting bullpen off righty Samuel Deduno in the sixth. Each of the catcher's four hits this year have come off a righty, despite a platoon system that has him starting mainly against left-handers.
The A's have only faced one southpaw through their first seven games, though, and Melvin needs to keep Norris fresh. He's also trying to get one of his hottest hitters in the lineup more. Alberto Callaspo was 2-for-4 with an RBI on Monday, his first start in four days. Callaspo is hitting .444 through his first three games.
"Callaspo's a guy I need to get in more," said Melvin. "He's really swinging the bat well early in the season, and you know you're always going to get your matchup with him."
Callaspo's RBI double was part of a three-run third that also featured a two-run base hit off the bat of Brandon Moss, who also opened the second inning with a walk and scored on Yoenis Cespedes' double.
Aaron Hicks' RBI triple in the second got the Twins on the board, and two more runs off Kazmir in the third narrowed Oakland's lead to 5-3. But Norris' homer in the sixth got the A's going again, and after a balk call on Deduno in the seventh gave the A's yet another run, Oakland added on one more time courtesy of a sacrifice fly from Cespedes.
Lowrie nearly had a home run of his own in the third, but it was ruled foul, even after a replay review. The A's shortstop left the game in the seventh inning after getting hit by a pitch, and he was deemed day to day with a lower right leg contusion.
It was an otherwise positive day for the A's, who will now enjoy an off-day Tuesday before resuming play in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
"I keep saying it, one through nine, anybody can come through, no matter if they're batting cleanup or eighth or ninth," said Norris. "Everybody has their strengths, and everyone knows those strengths and don't go outside of them. Makes us just a great overall ballclub and very deadly down the stretch of the whole season."
Jane Lee is a reporter for MLB.com.


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Orphan works – Frequently asked questions
1. What are orphan works and why is a directive to deal with them needed?
Orphan works are works like books, newspaper or magazine articles, or films that are still protected by copyright but for which the copyright holders cannot be located in order to obtain copyright permissions. Orphan works are found in the collections held by European libraries and cultural institutions.
The digitisation and dissemination of orphan works pose a particular cultural and economic challenge: the absence of a known right holder means that cultural institutions are unable to obtain the required authorisation, to digitise a book, for example. Orphan works represent a substantial part of the collections of Europe's cultural institutions (e.g. the British Library estimates that 40 per cent of its copyrighted collections – 150 million works in total - are orphan works).
That is why common rules on how to deal with such works are needed in order to proceed with large-scale digitisation projects, such as the Commission's Europeana portal.
As part of its Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Strategy (see IP/11/630), the Commission adopted on 24 May 2011 a proposal to establish common rules on the digitisation (the conversion of analogue data, for example images, video, and text into digital form) and online display of so-called 'orphan works'.
Following the trilogue agreement by the European Parliament and the Council on 6 June 2012 (see MEMO/12/421) and the formal approval by the European Parliament on 13 September 2012, the Directive has finally been adopted today by the Council. It will enter into force by the end of the year. Member States will then have two years to transpose the Directive at national level.
2. What organisations will benefit from the Directive?
The new Directive applies to
Provided that all the conditions set out in the Directive are fulfilled, these cultural organisations will be entitled to digitise orphan works and make them publicly available on-line in all Member States on the basis of an exception to copyright applicable in the whole EU.
3. What works are covered by the Directive?
The Directive applies to following categories of works first published in the EU who are still protected by copyright but whose authors or other right holders cannot be anymore identified and located:
The Directive also applies to unpublished works (such as letters, manuscripts, etc) under certain conditions.
4. What are the main elements of the new Directive?
First, the directive contains rules on how to identify orphan works. It states that a cultural organisation that wishes to digitise and make available the work has to conduct a diligent search to find its copyright holder(s). In this search, it should rely on sources such as databases and registries. One such tool that exists in the book publishing sector is ARROW, the Accessible Registry of Rights Information and Orphan Works. It is hoped that other sectors will also develop similar central rights information databases. Doing so would greatly simplify and streamline the conduct of a reliable diligent search.
Secondly, the directive establishes that if a diligent search does not yield the identity or location of the copyright holder(s), the work shall be recognised as an orphan work. This status shall then, by virtue of mutual recognition, be valid across the European Union. This implies that once a work is recognised as an orphan work, it shall be recognised as such across the European Union and the organisations will be able to make it available online in all Member States. The Directive also foresees the establishment of a single European registry of all recognised orphan works that will be set up and run by OHIM, the European Trade Mark Office based in Alicante.
Thirdly, the proposal establishes the uses that can be made of the orphan works. The beneficiary organisations will be entitled to use orphan works to achieve aims related to their public interest mission. They will be allowed to conclude public-private partnerships with commercial operators and to generate revenues from the use of orphan works to cover the digitisation costs.
The Directive also foresees a mechanism to allow a reappearing right holder to assert his copyright and thereby end the orphan work status.
5. What more can be done to promote digital libraries?
Orphan works, while important, are only one of the issues that digital libraries face in their quest to make Europe's cultural heritage available online. The other issue is obtaining copyright permissions for the online display of out-of-commerce works.
Out-of-commerce works are works that are still protected by copyright but are no longer commercially available because the authors and publishers have decided neither to publish new editions nor to sell copies through the customary channels of commerce. It is of crucial importance for a digital library project that out-of-commerce works are not left behind.
The Commission has therefore promoted an "out of commerce" stakeholders dialogue which led to the signature, on the 20 September 2011, of a Memorandum of Understanding on out of commerce books and learned journals between libraries on the one hand and publishers, authors and their collecting societies on the other. The Memorandum of Understanding contains the Key Principles that these parties will follow to license the digitisation and making available (including across borders in the EU) of books or learned journals that are out-of-commerce. It aims to encourage voluntary collective licences. (See IP/11/1055)
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Since Verizon launched the first LTE mobile broadband network almost 2 years ago, the super-fast wireless Internet technology has made steady inroads across the U.S. Verizon says its Long Term Evolution network reaches more than three-fourths of the country. Competitor AT&T launched its LTE network last year, and Sprint joined the party just a few months ago.
Most if not all high-end smartphones for these carriers introduced in recent months take advantage of LTE's impressive speeds. There's one big exception: Apple's iPhone. But the next iteration, rumored to be announced early next month, is expected to work on LTE.
While early adopters are excited about the technology, the masses may be surprisingly indifferent. A survey by the analyst firm Piper Jaffray found that almost 47 percent of its 3,000 respondents didn't think they needed LTE, according to CNet.
On top of that, most didn't really have a feel as to which 4G network is the best:
The survey also found an ambivalence about the networks, with 51 percent of respondents indicating that either they didn't know who had the best 4G network or that all 4G networks were the same. Of those who did have an opinion, Verizon Wireless was deemed by most to have the best 4G network, followed by AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile.
The survey was aimed at figuring out whether Sprint's nascent, smaller LTE network would dissuade people from buying the next iPhone tied to that carrier – assuming the device will support LTE, of course.
"The answer was a somewhat surprising 'no,' Piper Jaffray Senior Analyst Christopher Larsen wrote in a research note. "We think this shows that despite all the 4G advertising, consumers aren't really focused on it. This is good for Sprint as the LTE coverage laggard of the three national iPhone carriers."
The next Apple handset, which is being called the iPhone 5 by most of the tech press, is rumored to have a larger screen, a faster processor and work with AT&T's, Sprint's and Verizon's LTE networks. I wouldn't be surprised if LTE was the feature Apple chose as the standout in its marketing, similar to Siri's starring role for the iPhone 4S. I could see Apple calling it next smartphone the iPhone LTE.
Despite their "meh" attitude toward LTE, the majority of the respondents said they planned to buy the next iPhone:
Of the 55 percent apparently contemplating an iPhone purchase, 44 percent indicated they would choose Verizon as their carrier, compared with 29 percent for AT&T, 14 percent for Sprint, and 13 percent for T-Mobile (which isn't expected to offer the new smartphone).
So why do so many potential smartphone buyers aren't that energized by the possibility of owning an LTE device? I suspect it's because they haven't actually used one. Under ideal conditions, LTE can provide data speeds that are faster than most people's home Internet connections. Consider, for example, these speed-test results from a variety of dates and locations around Houston grabbed with a Samsung Galaxy S III phone on Verizon's network.
If all you ever do is look at e-mail and largely text-based Web pages, these numbers may not get your juices flowing. But if you're a heavy user of apps, watch video or navigate using digital maps, these kinds of speeds dramatically enhance the mobile experience.
I suspect as LTE becomes more common, appreciation for its capabilities will increase. An LTE-based iPhone will accelerate that in a dramatic way. Once you've tried LTE, it's hard to go back to 3G.
What about you? If you don't yet have LTE, are you interested in upgrading to it? If not, why not?


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Either way, I really need to work on my neck fierceness.
And yes, babyproofing, which gets pointed out every time I post a photo with these shelves and mess o' wires in the background. It's like some of you think I'm an idiot, or something. I don't know where you ever got that idea.
Tivo is still breech, which he demonstrates every day with vicious kicks to the cervix and...uh, whatever else is down there, and jeez, I prefer getting pummeled in the lungs, all things considered. We can watch him kick and squirm under my skin, something I never get tired of seeing but I think it creeps Jason out a little bit. Or maybe it's just because I point to it and say SEE THAT? IT'S COMING, GO MOVE SOME FURNITURE ALREADY AND THEN DRIVE MY ASS TO IKEA.
I'm finally gaining weight at the recommended rate, I think, thanks to a daily intake of multi-thousand-calorie burritos with extra hot sauce and chocolate milkshakes, which are the only things that reliably sound delicious. Just for the love of God, don't talk about toast. Toast and I broke up. Similar to my breakup with tequila a few years ago. You don't need the details. It's best if we all just move on with our lives and besides, I have tortillas now.
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Update: Ashley Greene was sleeping at home when the blaze that wrecked her Los Angeles condo broke out on Friday morning .
Initial reports suggested the actress was not around, but it's now clear Greene, her brother and a
boyfriend were fast asleep when an unattended candle set the star's sofa on fire.
They were evacuated and the men then attempted to get back into the burning apartment to rescue the star's two dogs.
One of the dogs died in the blaze and a second was treated for injuries sustained in the fire.
Firefighters quickly arrived at the scene and were able to contain the fire damage to Greene's home in the historical Granville Towers building.
Original Post: "Twilight" star Ashley Greene's dog has died after a fire destroyed her condo in a historic West Hollywood landmark.
Firefighters were called to her third story Granville Towers pad on Friday morning and were still investigating the cause of the blaze when WENN went to press.
Reports suggest one of Greene's two pooches died at the scene, while the other suffered injuries and has been taken to a vet for treatment. Three people were also treated for injuries as a result of the fire.
The actress is not believed to have been at home when the flames broke out, but her brother and an assistant were spotted entering and exiting the building on Friday, according to TMZ.com.


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Ann Voss Peterson says: Almost exactly two months ago, Joe and Amazon launched the Jack Daniels and Associates Kindle World. There are currently 43 stories, and it's been fun to watch that list grow and see all the great reviews piling up.
Watching Joe's project unfold has been especially exciting for me, since Joe and I have also been working with Amazon on a second Kindle World. And now Joe has been nice enough to let me announce that this week is the official launch for the new Codename: Chandler Kindle World!
When Joe first approached me about collaborating on this crazy, over-the-top, action-packed spy thriller series, I was a little intimidated. I'd written romantic thrillers previously and loved writing and reading fast-paced stories. But Codename: Chandler isn't your usual thriller. It's what I like to call an action movie in book form. It is non-stop and bigger-than-life in every way imaginable.
And let me tell you, writing Chandler is a blast!
Just as with the Jack Daniels and Associates World, The Codename: Chandler World is a little different from other Kindle Worlds (as of this writing), because authors who write Codename: Chandler can keep the rights to characters they create. This means is your character can team up with Chandler (or one of the other CC characters) or fight her, or have sex with her, anything you want to imagine!
Joe explains in more depth in this blog post. But here's the TL;DL version:
Joe sez: The takeaway here is that writers can do cross-overs and mash-ups, which is a fun way to cross-pollinate fans, and could never be done before in KW.
I encourage everyone reading this to check out the Codename: Chandler launch stories. Simply click on the title under the cover art below.
In the upcoming weeks, many of these authors will share their experience on this blog. As far as experiments go, this one is pretty big. It has never been done before, and we're in uncharted waters. I'm looking forward to seeing how it goes.
And if you're interested in writing in the Jack Daniels and Associates Kindle World, or the Codename: Chandler Kindle World, you can. You don't need my or Ann's permission or help. You don't even need to tell us. You can do it entirely on your own. It's easy, and you keep half the royalties. All you have to do is follow the Codename:Chandler guidelines. So check those out, check these out, and mix your characters with ours.
Looking forward to seeing some cool stories!
Here's the list of titles so far:
Her codename is Chandler. She's a spy for a secret government agency. Trained to be the best of the best, no man is her equal.
That is, until she meets Repairman Jack.
Travelling to the Big Apple, Chandler isn't told what her mission is. Only that it's a big one. Forced to scavenge for weapons, she meets up with New York's #1 vigilante, and sparks fly.
But Jack and Chandler have more to deal with than each other. When a blackmail scheme turns into a terrorist plot, it will take their combined efforts to save the city.
Or die trying.
Iconic Codename Chandler meets Texas transplant Samantha (Sam) Lacroix at a high school under siege in Chicago.
Action and interaction boil and overflow over each other in this fast paced, witty encounter between two experienced crime fighters.
Having to deal with four kids (teens and younger) caught in the cross-fire, is just a bonus.
She's an elite spy, working for an agency so secret only three people know it exists. Trained by the best of the best, she has honed her body, her instincts, and her intellect to become the perfect weapon.
A deadly parasite has infected several people in the city of Chicago. But they were only the test subjects; a psychopath's experiment before unveiling his real plan.
Chandler's mission is simple: execute the CDC researcher who released the parasite before he unleashes it upon the entire city, and possibly the world.
But things are not as they seem, and the mission does not go as planned.
Hang on tight. Things are about to get deadly.
Rick Ryker is a courier. He will deliver anything, anywhere, no questions asked. He has never failed to deliver his package. Until now.
Chandler is a government assassin. She will kill anyone, anywhere, no questions asked. She has never failed to take out her target. Until now.
Ryker isn't supposed to open the package. Chandler is supposed to destroy the package. They both go against orders…and their decisions set in motion a game they have no choice but to play. A game where the world is the playing board and the stakes are everyone on it. Ryker and Chandler don't like to play by the rules, but if they get caught cheating, the consequences will be disastrous.
FATE is a Codename: Chandler novella that takes place between EXPOSED and NAUGHTY.
What happens when Chandler is sent to the grim city of DenMark in Upstate New York to kill a man? She winds up running for her life from a secret society named The Mannerbund Group. Like Hydra Mannerbund is an ultra secret group that creates atrocities throughout the world. Unfortunately for Chandler Mannerbund has one small snag - OzValt Grant.
OzValt Grant, former Sniper, former homicide detective of the Fifth Precinct for the city of DenMark is one of a kind. He has one foot in stopping all the evil at work in DenMark created by the sinister covert Mannerbund Group/ They want him dead. When Chandler gets shot wandering down an alley in Grant's vicinity what happens? THEY RUN LIKE MAD.
This is the first story in a trilogy following the evolution of the relationship between assassin Chandler and jack of all traits, OzValt Grant.
Unstoppable Agent
An ultra-covert organization has taken up a contract for a nigh-unkillable madman who masquerades as a philanthropist. When elite spy Chandler has the target in her sights, success lays just one squeeze of the trigger away . . . or so she believes. Instead of her mission ending, things are about to take a weird twist.
Unsuspecting Bookworm
Venkat has been dreaming of becoming a field agent for the Malleus Librum Society, a secretive organization dedicated to recovering ancient grimoires. That dream has just come true, but at a sanity-threatening price. Shadowed by a fast talking mentor with a supernatural secret, Venkat must retrieve De Vermis Mysteriis, a five-hundred-year old black magic spell book penned by a necromancer.
Unspeakable Evil
In addition to vast wealth and unsavory criminal resources, the megalomaniacal Jeeves Peabody has access to otherworldly allegiances and horrifying allies. He is a formidable opponent, one neither Chandler nor Venkat can succeed against alone.
Unlikely Allies
Two women from wildly different worlds must band together against this common foe. Their chances are slim. Even working together, how can an elite superspy and a magically-minded librarian triumph over a villain aligned with the forces of soul-crushing doom?
Unknown Threats
In a world teeming with mystic and mundane dangers, ignorance is no defense, but even a little knowledge can be deadly . . . The only way to survive is to amass enough
Scary Intel
Chandler, one of three surviving identical septuplets all trained as government assassins, is determined to leave her old life far behind. Finally feeling at home in the country of Panama as a grade school English teacher, her sisters find her and she is forced to choose between running or staying to fight for her new life.
STAY takes place after the events in THREE by J.A. Konrath and Ann Voss Peterson and continues the thrilling adventures of Chandler in an exciting new Kindle Worlds story. STAY also introduces Melissa Stone into the Codename: Chandler world. To see more electrifying adventures with Melissa, be sure to check out Steve DeWinter's Peacekeepers X-Alpha series.
His codename is Heathcliff. He's an assassin for a secret government agency. Trained to be the best of the best, Heath has only two flaws; his insatiable thirst for revenge, and the inability to resist a beautiful woman.
Crusading lawyer Charlize Street is determined to be one of the good guys. In a city like Detroit, justice is hard to come by, especially in the halls of power. So when a senator known for doing good deeds is smeared with criminal allegations, Charlie is determined to clear his name. But she isn't prepared to handle the senator's sexy bodyguard, a man who exudes both charm... and danger.
Once Charlie starts looking into the case, she finds herself with a target on her back. But she's not alone. Heath insists on helping her, although she can sense he has his own agenda. Soon the heat is coming from more than just the people who want to stop her. And she wonders if there is anyone in the Motor City she can truly trust.
STREET is the prequel to DETROIT RULES, book one in Linda Style's new STREET LAW series.
She's an elite assassin and spy. The ultimate weapon. Her mind, body and instincts have been trained to perfection.
Codename: Chandler
A mercenary is preying on Chicago's citizens – and he has help from one of Chandler's fellow assassins.
Chandler teams with David Garrett, an MMA fighter and spy, to track down and terminate these killers even as another mortal enemy watches from the shadows.
RESCUE by J.A. Konrath (coming soon)
Her codename is Hammett. She assassinates targets for a secret government agency.
But sometimes work becomes personal.
His name is Tequila. He's a leg breaker for the mob, currently retired.
But sometimes retirement doesn't stick.
They say that no one knows what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object.
They also say that bad attracts bad.
Hammett and Tequila are about to find out if those old sayings are true.
Four more stories have also been added to the Jack Daniels & Associates Kindle World:
Someone is killing random people in New York and Chicago.
The blood of innocence have been spilled, or are they innocent...
When a serial killer case comes to Chicago Detective Herb Benedict is stumped. Several dead but with no correlation except that the ballistic tests have come back positive for the same suppressor used with different calibers in Chicago and New York. Damn! It is a serial case. Herb contacts his old friend and former partner Jack Daniels for her professional opinion, but Jack is up to her eye balls in baby duty - literally.
Checking the NCIC database Jack finds out that the serial killer has left several dead in New York State, most recently in a small city named DenMark. Jack knows DenMark well, especially one of it's former boys in blue, OzValt Grant. Against her better judgment Jack contacts the DenMark Fifth Precinct inquiring about the serial killer connection as well as Grants current whereabouts.
It doesn't take long for the bullets and blood to fly once Jack and OzValt Grant hook up.
Sleeper Towers Fall is the first volume of another explosive Jack Daniels/OzValt Grant trilogy.
Lately, private detective, Harry McGlade has had a lot of free time on his hands since a few questionable photos of him in bondage ended up on social media. Things change when a woman with a problem and a last resort knocks on McGlade's door.
Abby Leray is out of options. Her sister disappeared six months ago after signing a contract to wrestle in Mexico for the wrestling organization Lucha Doom. Fearing that Francis was sold into sex slavery, Abby turns to McGlade to bring her sister home. To do so, McGlade must infiltrate the underbelly of Lucha Doom where wrestling may just be a front for something much bigger.
Harry McGlade is a character who appears in J.A. Konrath's Jack Daniels's series. Jack makes a cameo in LUCHA DOOM.
LUCHA DOOM is an 11,000 word novella filled with humor, violence, mystery, and several scenes that will make you say, "That's just wrong."
You've been warned.
Toronto police Inspector Bill Roberts is called to the scene when mutilated remains of a body are found in a dumpster. He soon discovers a connection between the body and a series of unsolved reports of missing people in the City of Toronto.
Six months after Lt. Jack Daniels of the Chicago police is almost blown up in Toronto, she returns to get an award for her help in catching a hit man. While she is there, she begins to suspect her partner Herb may have joined the ranks of Toronto's growing list of the missing, and insists on taking part in the investigation. Jack joins forces with Inspector Bill Roberts in a race to discover the disturbing cause of the disappearances before Herb becomes the next victim.
With guest appearances by Jack's former partner, Harry McGlade, and by Jack's cat, Mr. Friskers, this story will keep you flipping pages non-stop until the end.
This novel is approximately 240 pages, and ties in the Jack Daniels characters of author J.A. Konrath, and the Bill Roberts characters of author Silas Payton. If you like either of these authors on their own, you'll love this story bringing their two worlds together.
Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack Daniels" of Chicago's Violent Crime Unit has faced serial killers, terrorists and assassins. With a quarter of Chicago's police force sidelined with the flu, Jack finds herself doing double duty arresting drunks. That is, until she gets that phone call no one wants to get.
Gil DiMauro was a friend of Jack's. When Gil's beaten, bloody corpse is pulled from the river, she vows to find the killer.
Only, things aren't what they seem.
Murder, blackmail, revenge and insurance fraud all figure into a conspiracy with a dirty cop at the center and Jack Daniels hates dirty cops.
The Japanese Slipper Murders is a 12,000 word story (about 40 pages long) written by Gordon Hopkins, a professional fraud investigator and author of the novel, FRAUDSTERS.
After barely surviving the horror of the Parkside Strangler, Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels and her friend, P.I. Jillian Varela, decide to head to Cancun for a little well-deserved R&R.
But instead of a relaxing two weeks at a five star, luxury resort, a grisly death lands at their feet, and a young girl is arrested.
It should be simple, but in Mexico, you are guilty until proven innocent. And if the Policia Federal find out what Jack and Jillian are up to, they'll be spending a long time in less than luxury accommodations.
And finally, a book that I've been meaning to mention, and one that will be featured in an upcoming blog post:
FBI Agent Nick Bracco arrives with a team of agents along with his mafia-connected cousin Tommy to help search the underground for the terrorist.
When the teenager kills a Chicago cop, a vicious manhunt engulfs the city. Bracco reaches out to Lieutenant Jack Daniels for her help with local connections like longtime bookie, Tequila Abernathy, and she agrees to join the task force.
What Bracco doesn't realize, however, is that Jack knows of the kid and believes he is trying to escape from the terrorist organization that trained him for the job. A belief based solely on her intuition.
The problem: There's powerful intelligence verifying the existence of a terrorist cell with an explosive device set to go off in downtown Chicago on Black Friday.
With just hours to go, Jack finds herself chasing the teenager alone and unarmed, ready to test her instincts.
Bracco believes the teenager is there to detonate the bomb.
Jack believes she can save the kid and find the bomb before the terrorists push the button.
Someone is wrong.
Dead wrong.
And the citizens of Chicago will have to pay the price.


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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge on Monday stopped Texas from preventing Planned Parenthood from getting funds through the state's Women's Health Program — a decision the state immediately appealed.
U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel in Austin ruled there is sufficient evidence that a law banning Planned Parenthood from the program is unconstitutional. He imposed an injunction against enforcing it until he can hear full arguments. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott appealed Yeakel's decision to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, asking that it remove the injunction.
The law passed last year by the Republican-controlled Legislature forbids state agencies from providing funds to an organization affiliated with abortion providers. Texas law already required that groups receiving federal or state funding be legally and financially separate from clinics that perform abortions.
Eight Planned Parenthood clinics that do not provide abortions sued over the new law. The clinics say it unconstitutionally restricts their freedom of speech and association to qualify to take part in state health programs.
The judge accepted Planned Parenthood's argument that banning the organization from the program would leave women without access to clinics for basic health services and check-ups.
"The court is particularly influenced by the potential for immediate loss of access to necessary medical services by several thousand Texas women," Yeakel wrote in his ruling. "The record before the court at this juncture reflects uncertainty as to the continued viability of the Texas Women's Health Program."
Texas officials have said that if the state is forced to include Planned Parenthood, they will likely shut down the program that serves basic health care and contraception to 130,000 poor women. Yeakel acknowledged that was a risk.
"The court observes that if the federal funds are phased out, Texas does not provide another source of funds, and the Women's Health Program terminates, the controversy now before the court may be of no consequence," he wrote.
The Women's Health Program was established to provide care for poor women who would not otherwise qualify for Medicaid. It supplies cancer screenings, annual exams, and access to birth control.
Xelena Gonzalez of San Antonio said she received abnormal test results and needed a follow-up appointment just before the state law took effect in March, and her area Planned Parenthood clinic lost funding. She said she couldn't afford the lab fees and other costs of going to another provider. She said she is thrilled she can return to Planned Parenthood to follow up.
"It's a tremendous relief that someone is looking out for women," Gonzalez said Monday, referring to the judge's decision. "It makes me upset that these are men, for the most part, who are making decisions affecting our reproductive health and that they would try to shame us."
Catherine Frazier, spokeswoman for Gov. Rick Perry, said the state will pursue all legal options to keep the law.
"Texas has a long history of protecting life, and we are confident in Attorney General Abbott's appeal to defend the will of Texans and our state law, which prohibits taxpayer funds from supporting abortion providers and affiliates in the Women's Health Program," Frazier said.
Patricio Gonzales, CEO of Planned Parenthood Association of Hidalgo County, called on the Republican governor to stop trying to shut down Planned Parenthood in Texas.
"No woman should ever have to fear being cut off from her doctor's care because of shortsighted political games," Gonzales said.
The court's decision comes after the federal government cut off funding to Texas because of the state regulation excluding affiliates of abortion providers. Federal officials said the rule violates federal law by restricting women from choosing the qualified medical provider of their choice.
Perry promised to make up for the lost federal funds. State health officials say maintaining the program was cheaper than allowing it to expire, because ending the program would result in a spike in unplanned pregnancies among poor women who rely on Medicaid, which is also funded by the state.
Planned Parenthood won a similar injunction earlier this year against the state's new requirement that doctors perform a sonogram before conducting an abortion. That injunction was overturned by the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit and the law allowed to stand.
No matter what the appeal court decides, Yeakel's decision is temporary. A final decision will come after he presides over a full trial. Whatever decision he reaches will likely be appealed.
Associated Press writer Angela K. Brown in Fort Worth contributed to this report.


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New Rules
So Starbucks finally opened a store to try to go toe-to-toe with the high-end coffee crowd. The signs were there all along; from half way across the world, even I knew that they had bought the company that manufactures clover and remember people complaining about how Starbucks had apparently gone and bought up all the Blue Batak so that it was difficult for the little independent dudes to get any?
Read the Cho's article, take a look at the photos on flickr: from a five minute glance it looks like the new store is a cold and calculated attempt to jump into the little independent dude space. Take a look at the bolts sticking out of the back of the LM, the old-school kettles, chalkboards and enough recycled timber to take on even MD. This is grunge manufactured with decimal point precision.
Naturally, I think that the gut reaction of anyone interested in high end coffee will look at this venture with cynicism. I mean, they can't really be cool if the process by which they create the image of being cool is detached, calculated and analytical ... can they? These guys are just stepping into the little independent space and presumably regurgitating all the same messages about "single origins" and other buzzwords that the high-end coffee movement has been all about; any bets the coffee won't actually be all that good ... will it?
But let's take a step back for a minute. It's not as though putting together a funky looking cafe, presenting the public with a beguiling array of buzzwords and information about coffee and still selling a pretty crappy product is something that Starbucks has a monopoly on (if, indeed, that is what they are doing here). There are any number of little independent roasteries out there that are free-riding on the work of the good guys. I think that many of us have been to a cafe or roastery where the barista behind the expensive multi-boiler wundermachine has waxed lyrical about the fantastic properties of the coffee of the day, only to serve something that was disappointing, if not defective, but in no way lived up to the hype. Similarly, I think that many of us have been sold coffee accompanied by a whole page of information about it, but that two seconds of research will show is actually one of the cheaper, commodity type coffees right off the offer sheet of a large broker. (Sidebar: I'm in no way bagging the large brokers; they have stunning coffees as well as crappy coffees - the challenge for the roaster, as always, is to find them.)
The good news for the consumer is that Starbucks will hopefully mop the floor with independents who talk the talk, but don't walk the walk. Starbucks has the cash, the marketing brains and the clout to beat these guys at everything that they do. The only advantage that the independents have in wining the marketing "war of words" is that they are not associated with the Starbucks brand and can position themselves free of the baggage that that entails. Hopefully competing with this new entrant will mean that independent little guys will have to deliver better quality. The news is good for those that do; hopefully this new Starbucks store will act as a stepping stone to get consumers in the USA moving towards the best coffee.
So overall, I'm quite optimistic about the impact of this new venture on the consumer (as opposed to on little independent roasteries) - more competition is usually better. I do have one gripe, though - whilst the "inspired by Starbucks" tagline obviously does the job of getting the consumer to understand that it is a Starbucks store, it is a bit of a slap in the face to all of the independent stores that would seem to have been the real inspirations for it.