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FLASH FIRE – Copyright © 2015 by Dana Marton.
All rights reserved. Published in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of the author. http://www.danamarton.com
Chapter Three
Town of Furino, Chiapas State, Mexico, 4 days later
Clara doubted she'd make it halfway to the door, if the men caught her spying.
The dim, one-room cantina ten miles from Mexico's southern border reeked of booze, smoke, and sweat, the haphazardly arranged tables and chairs—none of which matched—the very picture of chaos. The scene was an affront to Clara's senses as she sat in the darkest corner. The place made her scalp itch.
Three freaking days wasted.
But no matter what it took, she was going to make progress today.
She'd snuck into the cantina during a loud argument—every man on his feet, gesturing wildly and waving weapons. Her dark baseball hat pulled over her face, she'd skirted the wall and hurried to the farthest table in the back. Since then, she'd been doing her best to stay invisible so she might overhear something resembling a lead.
Her cases tended to progress smoothly from point A to point B and beyond. Not this one. She'd been waiting for Walker since Wednesday night, renting a room at the dilapidated, rooster-infested guesthouse across the road.
At least the cantina was chicken-free. Mostly woman-free too. Dressed for undercover work in a plain T-shirt, faded jeans, and a pair of well-broken-in cowboy boots, Clara was hoping anyone who wasn't looking too hard would mistake her for a boy.
Where in hell was her facilitator?
How could her father hook her up with someone so unreliable?
Clara hadn't talked to the general since the embassy. She tried to keep her feelings bottled up on the subject. But she'd called her mother to ask how her father's first chemo treatment had gone, and to tell her that she loved her. At one point, she would have to deal with her father's mess, but she was determined to find Rosita first. She wanted to hear straight from the girl what had happened.
As she kept scanning the room, her gaze snagged on the largest of the men. The others called him El Capitán. He could have walked straight out of an old Western: ammo belts crisscrossing his round belly, silver pistols by his sides in silver-studded holsters, black boots, black pants, black shirt, black sombrero—all embroidered with silver thread.
His greasy mustache hung to his double chin, bracketing a cruel, fleshy mouth. Clara strained to hear—without appearing to listen—what he was saying.
The captain sat about fifteen feet from her, four empty tables between them. She could only see him in profile, but then, as if sensing someone watching him, he swung his head toward her. His beady brown eyes fastened on Clara. He stilled for a moment before flashing a yellow-toothed grin.
"Gringa! When did you come in?" he shouted over in heavily accented English. "Come here. Let Pedro look at you."
Clara bit back a groan. So much for her disguise of a boy. All eyes were on her suddenly, narrowed, disapproving gazes, and more than a few predatory leers.
"Come on, gringa. I don't bite." The captain's lips stretched into a toothy, suggestive smile. He winked. "And when I do, you'll like it."
She'd seen the captain before from her window at the guesthouse, always with at least a dozen well-armed thugs around him, people scampering out of his way on the street. If she had to make a guess, she'd guess he was the baddest bad guy in Furino.
She must have hesitated too long, because he pushed heavily to his feet and walked toward her, his boots shaking the rough-hewn wood floor with each step.
His smile didn't reach his eyes as he stopped in front of her table. "What brings you to Furino?"
"Writing a book about the Mayan sites." She reached down behind the cover of the table as if to scratch her leg in a nervous gesture, pulled her Glock from her cowboy boot, and lay the gun on her lap.
Bringing a weapon into the country, even a pocket knife, was illegal, but her father had arranged for a small Glock through the marines at the US Consulate in Merida, along with a temporary embassy ID that would grant her diplomatic immunity if she was caught with the firearm.
She didn't want to use the gun. She was to avoid doing anything that would bring her to the attention of local law enforcement. Hopefully, she wouldn't have to shoot. She had a fair idea that this was just a pissing contest, Pedro exerting his dominance.
The man reached for her. He didn't waste time on asking; he went straight to taking what he wanted. "You give Pedro a kiss, and I buy you a drink."
He wiggled his moustache, his fat fingers closing around her arm and biting into her skin as he roughly yanked her to her feet.
But by the time they were chest to chest, she had her gun at his double chin.
Something dark and dangerous stirred in his eyes as he stilled, a cold and calculating expression hardening his features.
She'd underestimated how high his blood Neanderthal level was. She saw death on his face as clearly as if the words judge, jury, and executioner were tattooed on his pockmarked skin.
Should have let him kiss me.
Instead, she had initiated a deadly confrontation. Back down. Turn it around. They stood in the darkest corner, his large body blocking sight of her and her gun from his men. He hadn't lost face. He could still let this go. They could still have a laugh over the misunderstanding. He could decide he liked her for being spunky.
She plastered a smile on her face and opened her mouth to diffuse the situation, but the back door banged open and a scrawny kid burst in, yelling for Pedro, then yelling something else in Spanish so rapidly Clara had no hope of comprehending a word.
Pedro dropped his hand from her arm. "You wait here until I come back."
If doom had a voice, she'd just heard it.
But as Pedro walked out, Clara sat back down instead of running. He could find her anywhere in town. She couldn't exactly blend in and disappear in a place the size of Furino.
And she wasn't going to run, in any case. She had come here to retrieve a disappeared person. She was going to take Rosita home. Then she was going to let her father handle the rest however he wanted to handle it. At that point, her job would be to stand by her mother.
She pushed those thoughts aside and refocused on the cantina. She needed to keep in investigator mode. Don't think about the personal connection.
From what she'd overheard so far, Pedro was Furino's "godfather." Clara doubted much went on in town he wasn't involved in or didn't give his permission to at least.
Now she just had to establish some kind of rapport with the guy and get him talking. She slipped her gun back into her boot. Let's not remind El Capitán of that little misstep, shall we?
She waved over the waitress the men called Margarita. "Could I have a bottle of tequila with two clean glasses, please?"
The order would take most of the pesos she'd stuffed into her pocket before coming over, but she needed something to break the ice with El Capitán.
The waitress cast Clara a baleful look. The women who served the men at the cantina also took the time to sit on the men's laps and fondle them, and periodically take a customer in the back. Maybe Margarita thought Clara would be competition.
But after a glance at the swarthy bartender, who gave a barely perceptible nod, the waitress said, "Sí, señorita."
In Mexico, most cantinas didn't allow women unless they were prostitutes. But since El Capitán had said he'd be back for her, Clara was safe from removal for the moment.
As Margarita sashayed her petite but voluptuous figure back to the bar, Clara made no comparisons between the waitress's exotic feminine allure and her own tall, flat body. Nobody would ever call her a sensuous beauty. She dealt with it. She had other admirable qualities.
When Margarita brought her order, Clara cleaned the glasses on her T-shirt, then lined them up neatly with the bottle.
She scanned the room again. Her facilitator could advise her on the local criminal element. She resisted grinding her teeth.
She'd gone to work at Civilian Personnel Recovery specifically because the missions were lone-wolf operations. She did not, as a rule, work with a partner. And she most certainly did not work with partners who made appointments around Thursday.
The amount of time she'd wasted waiting for that idiot…
At least she'd talked to Rosita's cousin and found out more about the circumstances of the young woman's disappearance. And she'd gone to the Mayan ruins, plus walked around town to play up her cover as a travel writer, acting like the average American tourist. She'd used the time to get the lay of the land. And she'd made a game of picking out the main local players—none of whom inspired any confidence.
The majority of the town's shady-looking characters seemed to end up at the cantina at least once a day. Unsavory-character Grand Central. If a crime had been committed in Furino, these were the men who'd had a hand in it.
Most of the banditos sitting around the tables seemed capable of kidnapping. Or straight-out murder. Aggravated murder wasn't out of the question either.
Her local connection, if he ever showed, should be able to give her some real understanding of the local criminal power structure. She hoped he was good at what he did, even if he was just some hippie who'd come down for the spiritual Mayan sites located around the small town of Furino, then stayed for the tequila and the weed.
She'd run into a few of those already. One Canadian guy ran a bicycle rental; another old hippie from Jersey sold tie-dyed T-shirts with Mayan symbols superimposed over psychedelic swirls.
She expected her facilitator to be a mellowed-out travel agent slash travel guide who could help her with the maze of dirt roads that weren't on any map and didn't show up on her GPS. The area had a number of indigenous villages without names, logging camps, and temporary shanty towns where people fleeing South America stopped to rest on their way farther north.
She hoped the guy was on his way instead of permanently delayed somewhere, pushing up agaves. Anything could happen to a man, or a woman, down here.
Clara pulled her baseball hat deep over her face and listened to the resumed conversations around her.
The talk centered on the local armadillo races and Chiapas FC's chances in an upcoming soccer match at Tuxtla Gutiérrez. The two events seemed to hold equal importance for the patrons.
She looked for patterns: who talked to whom, who deferred to whom, who watched whom with suspicion. In the past hour, she'd identified five distinct groups, each with its own captain, with El Capitán being the overall head honcho.
Drug runners? Gun runners? Human traffickers?
Before she could figure it out, the front door banged open, and she turned that way, still hoping for her travel guide, finding herself staring at a mercenary who looked like he'd just stepped out of one of those high-testosterone video games.
Okay. Wow. Because…wow.
A machete strapped to his back, a semiautomatic slung over his shoulder, a handgun in the side holster, and an army knife on his belt, he walked into the cantina with a swagger that said he could beat any man in town and could take any woman to bed. If he wanted.
He was taller than the locals, his hair a few shades lighter, a couple of days' worth of bristle covering the lower half of his face. He wore army boots, cargo pants, and a black T-shirt that did nothing to conceal a distracting amount of muscle. White flashed as he chomped on the cigar between his teeth, his eyes covered by sunglasses.
Clara slid down in her chair and backed farther into the shadows as she watched him. So Pedro wasn't alpha dog of the local pack. Thisguy was most definitely the top predator in Furino. His body language seemed completely relaxed, yet power emanated from his every pore.
All around, hands surreptitiously migrated to the tops of the tables, as if making sure the newcomer didn't accidentally misinterpret any move as someone going for a weapon.
The mercenary claimed the empty stool at the far end of the bar. He didn't ask for a drink. The bartender poured him one anyway. He didn't so much as crook an eyebrow at a woman. But Margarita went to sit on his lap and rubbed against his well-built chest like a cat. She just about purred.
The waitress's lustrous mahogany hair tumbled to her waist in waves, curling and swinging all over the place. She looked wild and free. Clara touched a hand to the strict bun tucked under her baseball hat.
The mercenary tossed back his drink with one hand while putting the other one on Margarita's bare knee, running his palm up her thigh, under her short red skirt. He bent to her neck and nibbled her. Or maybe whispered something into her ear, because Margarita laughed. And then he was laughing too, a throaty sound of pure seduction.
One second, Clara was glaring at them with annoyed disapproval, and the next she suddenly felt her own skin heat, as if the man was touching her, his callused palm running over her naked skin. A long-neglected part of her body tingled, waving a flag. Hey, remember me?
At the bar, Margarita flattened her palms against the muscles of the mercenary's chest and caressed them, moving lower and lower.
Clara blinked. What the hell was wrong with them? Then she clenched her jaw. What the hell was wrong with her?
It had to be the heat. A dozen fans whirled overhead, swirling the hot, humid air without providing much relief.
The mercenary chatted on with the bartender, as if being publicly fondled was par for the course for him, certainly nothing to remove his sunglasses over.
Appalling. Both his behavior, and that Clara would feel hot and bothered from simply watching the outrageous bastard.
Then he finally slid off his glasses, and the next second his unerring gaze pinned Clara, and it was too late to turn away or slide down in her chair, because he'd caught her watching him.
He gave a knowing smirk as he shooed the waitress off his lap and patted her curvy behind. He never looked at the woman again as he sauntered toward Clara, six feet of pure muscle and laser-focused attention.
The scene should have been the opening shot of an action movie—light glinting off hills of muscles, determination in every masculine move, a cocksure grin. Casting directors all over Hollywood would have peed their pants at the sight of this guy.
He dropped into the chair across from Clara, his muscled thighs spread. She clamped her own thighs together. His white teeth flashed in the dim light of the cantina as he chomped on his cigar and took stock of her.
"Are you lost, Cupcake?" His I'm-a-bad-boy-and-you-know-it voice scraped along her nerve endings. He was definitely American. East Coast, if she had to guess from his accent.
Her grandmother used to say there were men the devil put on earth to test good women. Clara was tempted to ask the guy whether he'd just zip-lined in from hell.
"Go away," she said instead.
His smile was worth a thousand words, most of them dirty. His voice dipped. "How can I, when your eyes begged me to come over?"
She rolled said eyes so hard, she might have caused permanent damage.
One: she hadn't begged in her life.
Two: the only thing she wanted was to hit him over the head with the bottle of tequila between them on the table. She was trying to keep a low profile, and he was drawing every eye to them.
He smiled around his cigar. "What's your name?"
DOD Investigator Clara Roberts, she badly wanted to say to wipe the superior smirk off his face. "None of your business."
His eyes were a brilliant multicolor green like the rainforest, alive and full of secrets. He let his gaze travel over her chest from left to right, then from right to left with undisguised disappointment.
He tsked. "No tits, no manners." He shook his head. "You should try to have at least one or the other. A pair of great tits covers a multitude of sins."
When his gaze reached hers again, the very fires of hell glinting in his eyes, he said magnanimously, "Don't worry about it, Cupcake. You look like the brainy type. Believe it or not, that appeals to some men. I think I read that on the Internet." He edged his chair forward until their knees touched under the table.
A tingle ran up her thighs at the contact. She shifted her legs away from his. "Please leave."
"I can't. You need me." He flashed an infuriatingly cocky grin. "Walker."
A who?
Her mouth dropped open. Light Walker? The hippie travel guide Walker? The one she'd been picturing with long, thinning hair, wearing a tie-dye shirt?
Why on earth would her father send his daughter to a man like this?
Before Clara could figure out what to do with Walker, Pedro stalked back into the cantina. El Capitán was yelling obscenities over his shoulder to whomever he'd been talking to outside. Then the door swung shut behind him, and his gaze swept the room and settled on Clara.
His mouth twisted into a snarl as he strode toward her. "You're coming with me." He narrowed his eyes at Walker. "The puta is mine."
Walker rose in a measured move and stood toe-to-toe, nose-to-nose with the captain, all easy like, displaying none of Pedro's bustle. The cantina fell silent around them. The hostile looks they exchanged said the two men knew each other, but there was no love lost between them.
Clara wouldn't have minded knowing what their relationship was exactly.
Pedro's eyes narrowed another notch. "I don't have time to argue. Don't get into the middle of this, gringo."
Walker hesitated only for a second, then his expression hardened as if he'd come to some sort of decision.
"I'm pressed for time myself," he said around his cigar and pulled his knife from his belt in a lightning-quick move, shoved the blade into the man's abdomen, and yanked up hard.
Clara had no time to react other than jumping to her feet. Her gore rose from the wet sound of the blade being pulled back. She stared wide-eyed as the captain grabbed his belly to hold in his guts, a stunned look on his pockmarked face.
And suddenly she could smell the contents of his stomach.
Oh God. She swallowed hard so she wouldn't gag. She needed to look away, but she couldn't.
She'd never killed a man. Unlike in action movies, most law enforcement officers never killed in their entire careers. She'd certainly never seen a man disemboweled. Light Walker, on the other hand, hadn't so much as blinked.
Before she could fully recover, Walker shoved the man onto the nearest chair, then reached across the small table, practically pulled Clara over it as he hauled her against him. He spit out his cigar and slanted his lips over hers in a primal gesture of claiming, his left hand all over her butt, while his right hand wiped then put away the knife and went for the semiautomatic to hold the room at bay.
Her head—and her stomach—were still reeling when his lips pulled away from hers as abruptly as they'd swooped in.
"Chica's mine for the night. Whoever wants her tomorrow, you work that out amongst yourselves," he said to the den of thieves in general, then sauntered to the back door without letting go of her.
Pedro sat slumped over in the chair, a pool of blood spreading on the floorboards under him. His men rushed to his side. Since the altercation had taken place in the dark corner, they probably hadn't fully seen what had happened.
And Clara didn't want to be there when they figured out the particulars. She didn't protest when Walker pulled her through the back door. Stunned speechless, she followed him.
Her "facilitator" wasn't a hippy travel guide. He was a stone-cold killer.
The door swung closed at their backs, and Clara squinted into sunshine as Walker dragged her down the rickety wooden steps, his arm a metal band around her middle. The level of noise behind them in the cantina doubled, then tripled, a beehive that had been disturbed. The shock of Pedro's sudden death was wearing off at last.
"Now what?" she asked, not that she was admitting that Walker was calling the shots. Maybe for the moment. But any second now, she was going to get her act together and take charge.
"Now we run." Walker let go of her waist, grabbed her wrist, then sprinted forward, crossing the dirt road that was lined by derelict houses on each side, the cantina and the guesthouse the best of the bunch.
He dragged her toward the jungle that began a hundred feet or so behind her guesthouse, and she did her best to keep up, wondering if she could outrun an army of drunken bandits. And whether the bandits were any worse than the man she was running with.
To be completely honest, she wasn't entirely sure if she was being rescued or kidnapped.
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2. Commit to taking 15 minutes every day to push your limits. As a freelancer, you're used to being sedentary, so this may not be easy to start with. But put it in your mind that you're going to spend the MINIMUM 15 minutes every day and log it in your Day Planner just as you log project work for clients or marketing.
3. Forget it. Set your appointment time to workout and don't think about it again. Don't dwell on the fact that you don't really WANT to get up and expend energy that you don't have. Don't think about how tiring it'll be in the beginning. Don't even think about how good it's going to feel when you're done. Set an alarm on your phone on your calendar, anywhere, but when it goes off, do it - without thinking about it.
4. Write about it. At the end of your 15 minutes of whatever you did, write it in your journal, but don't just write what you did, write HOW YOU FELT. You'll be hard-pressed to find someone who was miserable while they worked out. Those little endorphins tend to take over and help you forget your stress and frustration to make you feel good. Look at what you wrote often and engrain that feeling of bliss that comes when you work out. Eventually, working out will become something that you NEED mentally and physically.
5. Get a partner. Virtual or otherwise. Working out with someone that has the same goal - to be fit - is easier and more fun. Make it a competition or a co-opetition (working together to support each other). With someone to cheer you on and discuss your ups and downs with, you'll be inspired even when you don't want to work out and they'll remind of how far you've come when you want to give up.
Use these tactics, hit your peak and increase your freelance income starting TODAY! What stops you from improving your business by improving your fitness?
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Schneider Electric created a patch for an unsafe ActiveX control vulnerability in its SoMachine software, according to a report with ICS-CERT.
Andrea Micalizzi reported this remotely exploitable vulnerability to the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) who then reported it to ICS‑CERT.
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SoMachine HVAC-Application Version 2.0.2 and previous suffer from the issue.
An exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code.
Schneider Electric's corporate headquarters is in Paris, France, and it maintains offices in more than 100 countries worldwide.
The affected product, SoMachine, is software for developing, configuring, and commissioning a machine in a single software environment, including logic, motion control, HMI, and related network automation functions. SoMachine sees action in the commercial facilities sector. Schneider Electric said this product sees use on a global basis.
An ActiveX control appears intended for restricted use, but it ended up marked as safe-for-scripting.
CVE-2016-4529 is the case number assigned to this vulnerability, which has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.3.
No known public exploits specifically target this vulnerability. However, an attacker with a low skill would be able to exploit this vulnerability.
Schneider Electric released a patch that resolves the vulnerability.
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Scholarly Profiles
Impactstory | ORCid | Selected Works | CV (PDF)
Book Chapters
M. Heller and H. Ma (2016). "Collaborative Growth Towards Discovery: Becoming Stronger Through Change". In: Exploring Discovery. ALA Editions.
Journal Articles
M. Heller and F. Gaede (2016). "Measuring Altruistic Impact: A Model for Understanding the Social Justice of Open Access." Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication. 4(General Issue), eP2132. http://dx.doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.2132. (Twitter Responses) (Citations)
Bedoya, J., M. Heller, C. Salazar, and M. Yan. How to Hack It as a Working Parent. The Code4Lib Journal, no. 28 (April 15, 2015). (Twitter Responses) (Citations)
Heller, M., & Brooks, M. (2013). Library Labs. Reference & User Services Quarterly, 52(3), 186–190. (Citations)
Book Reviews
2009-present: 31 book reviews for Library Journal on subjects including ecologically sustainable gardening, Roman and Greek history, and Judaism. (Sample Reviews)
Heller, M. (2013). A Review of "Digital Libraries and Information Access: Research Perspectives." Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 25(2).
Heller, M. (2013). A Review of "Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works". Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 25(1).
Heller, M. (2012). A Review of "Digital Media: Technological and Social Challenges of the Interactive World". Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 24(4).
Heller, M. (2012). A Review of "Strategic Planning for Social Media in Libraries". Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 24(3).
Heller, M. (2012). Don't Make Me Think: a Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (New Riders) by Steve Krug; Information Ecologies: Using Technology With Heart by Bonnie A. Nardi and Vicki L. O'Day. Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 24 (1), 69-69.
Conference Presentations
(scheduled) Heller, M. and F. Gaede. (2015) Open Access Institutional Repositories and Social Justice: What Kind of Impact Are We Having? DLF Forum, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
Heller, M. (2015) All You Want to Know About LibGuides v.2. LIBRAS Public Service SIG, Chicago, Illinois.
Heller, M., K. Hill & J. Samples. (2015) Post-Conference Workshop 1: Cleaning Up the Metadata Mess with OpenRefine: A Hands-on Approach Electronic Resources and Libraries, Austin, Texas.
Bedoya, J., M. Heller, and M. Yan. (2015) Libraries and Family: Is the Academic Library Community Supporting You? Electronic Resources and Libraries, Austin, Texas.
Bedoya, J., M. Heller, C. Salazar, and M. Yan. (2015) How to Hack it as a Working Parent. Code4Lib Conference, Portland, Oregon. (Video starts at 39 minutes in) (Slides)
Heller, M. (2015) G is for Gorey—D is for Digital Humanities. ACRL Digital Humanities Interest Group, ALA Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois.
Heller, M. (2014) What Does Your Repository Do?: Calculating and Measuring Impact. LITA Forum, Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Slides)
Heller, M. (2014) What Does Your Repository Do?: Understanding and Calculating Impact. Digital Commons Great Lakes User Group. Valparaiso, Indiana.
Heller, M., P. Go & A. Strohm. (2014) Web Analytics for Digital Collections: Appraising Collections and Assessing Impact. Assessment in a Day: IACRL Preconference, Oak Brook, IL.
Heller, M., K. Hill & J. Samples. (2014) Cleaning the Metadata Mess: Using OpenRefine to Transform and Share your Library's Data. Electronic Resources and Libraries, Austin, TX.
Heller, M. (2013). Panelist, The Road to Open Access. Chicago Area Theological Libraries Association Fall Conference, Deerfield, Illinois.
Heller, M. (2013) Automating Your Way to Easy Faculty Scholarship Collection Development. Digital Commons Great Lakes User Group. Bloomington, Illinois.
Heller, M. (2012) Creating Web Applications for Data Collection Easily and With the User in Mind. LITA Forum. Columbus, Ohio.
Heller, M. & Brooks, M. (2012). Building a Library Lab for Emerging Technology–No Research Programmers Required. American Library Association Annual Conference, Anaheim, California.
Heller, M. (2012). Social Networking the Catalog: A Community Based Approach to Building Your Catalog and Collection. LITA Webinar, Virtual.
Heller, M., Orlov, A., & Orenic, K. (2012). Creating Pedagogically Meaningful Experiences for Student Workers. Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries, Oak Brook, Illinois.
Sietmann, C., Hill, J., Wroblewski, J., & Heller, M. (2012). Say You Want an Institutional Repository . Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries, Oak Brook, Illinois.
Heller, M. (2011.) Model for Building Community Collections. Internet Librarian, Monterey, California.
Gerster, M., Heller, M., Rhoades, K., Sietmann, C., & Zou, N. (2011). The Wider View: The Role of the Library in Accessing Information. 2011 Caritas Veritas Symposium. River Forest, IL.
Heller, M. (2011). Social Networking the Catalog: A Community Based Approach to Building Your Catalog and Collection. LITA National Forum, St. Louis, Missouri.
Heller, M. & Gerlich, B. K. (2011, March). Using the READ Scale to Track the Effort of Assessing Electronic Resource Access Issues. Electronic Resources and Libraries, Austin, Texas.
Heller, M. & Taylor, N. (2011, February). Chicago Underground Library's Community-Based Cataloging System. Code4Lib, Bloomington, Indiana.
Heller, M. & Taylor, N. (2011, May). The library catalog as social glue: Using local data to establish relevance, visibility and transparency in communities. Media in Transition 7, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Heller, M. (2010, June). Research on the Go: Reference in 140 Characters. American Library Association Annual Conference, Washington, District of Columbia.
Taylor, N. & Heller, M. (2010, November). Chicago Underground Library's Community-Based Cataloging System. Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, Chicago, Illinois.
Heller, M. (2008, February). Is the World Getting Any Smaller? Library 2.0 and International Library Communication. BOBCATSSS, Zadar, Croatia.
Academic Online Writing
Heller, M. (2015). Removing the Truthiness from Google. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=5011 (Tweets)
Heller, M. (2015). Educating Your Campus about Predatory Publishers. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=5002 (Tweets)
Heller, M. (2014). Trapped in the Glass Cage. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=4905 (Tweets)
Heller, M. (2014). Migrating to LibGuides 2.0. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=4653 (Tweets)
Heller, M. (2014). Making Open Access Everyone's Business. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=4739 (Tweets)
Heller, M. (2014). A Short and Irreverently Non-Expert Guide to CSS Preprocessors and Frameworks. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=4503
Heller, M. (2014). What Should Academic Librarians Know about Net Neutrality? ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=4396
Heller, M. (2013). Lightweight Project Management Tools in the Real World. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=4237
Heller, M. (2013). Taking a Practical Look at the Google Books Case. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=4011
Heller, M. (2013). Revisiting PeerJ. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=2912
Heller, M. (2013). What Should Technology Librarians Be Doing About Alternative Metrics? ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=2569
Heller, M. (2013). Reflections on Code4Lib 2013. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=2946
Heller, M. (2013). Revisiting PeerJ. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=2912
Heller, M. (2013). Citation Manager Roundup. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=3463
Heller, M. (2013). Collecting Data: How Much do We Really Need? ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=3486
Heller, M. (2013). A Librarian's Guide to OpenRefine. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=3276
Heller, M. (2013). What Should Technology Librarians Be Doing About Alternative Metrics? ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=2569
Heller, M. (2012). Linked Data in Libraries: Getting into the W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group ACRL Tech Connect. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=1208
Heller, M. (2012). Creating quick solutions and having fun: the joy of hackathons. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=1443 (Cited by Saunders, L., Rozaklis, L., & Abels, E. (2015). Repositioning reference : New methods and new services for a new age.)
Heller, M. (2012). Linked Data in Libraries: Getting into the W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group ACRL Tech Connect. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=1208
Heller, M. (2012). Lazy Consensus and Libraries. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=391
Heller, M. (2012). Personal Data Monitoring: Gamifying Yourself. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=692
Heller, M. (2012). Real World Semantic Web?: Facebook's Open Graph Protocol. ACRL Tech Connect. http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=855. (citation)
Samples of College and Graduate School Work
There's No One Like Moses: Some Problems with Authority Headings in Non-roman Scripts.
Student paper written for Advanced Cataloging course in 2007.
Original cataloging record
Cataloged for the University of Illinois Residence Hall Library System in 2007.
What Came After Gibbon: Anglo-American Impressions of the Emperor Julian
Written for Bibliography course in 2007, this bibliography traces nineteenth and twentieth century English language writing about the Roman Emperor Julian.
The Strangest Man That Has Ever Been: Socrates' Influence on Julian and Kierkegaard
Senior thesis, 111 pp., written in 2006.
Antigone on Campus
Junior thesis, 44 pp., written in 2005.


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Several individuals do not succeed in their passion to maintain a healthy diet due to the lack of knowledge of eating healthy at work. When at work, many find it difficult to stay committed to a diet plan due to several unavoidable reasons such as colleagues might request to eat with them, availability of lots of delicious food at workplace, etc. It's quite possible that most of us might be tempted to eat unhealthy food quite often as we spend a lot of time at work place without many healthy food options. Given ahead are easy to follow tips that can make the workplace a nutritionally positive experience.
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From the homies at curbcrawlers: The first release on the new Institubes sub label called Sound Pellegrino is due to be released this February 20th on Beatport. Given the honors of christening the labels 001 press, we see the so hot right now duo Zombie Disco Squad with the accordion fueled Eurovision and Esperanto on the A sides.
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Cruz shocked the political world when he announced that he would support Trump in the November election.
The Texas senator had previously shaded Trump at the GOP convention and spent months on the campaign trail sharply criticizing him as unfit to serve as president, and his decision drew sharp condemnation from some members of the Never Trump movement.
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Global warming from winemakers' perspectives
I didn't expect to be writing about global warming so soon again after my last post. But I spent a week at wine shows talking to winemakers, so of course the subject came up. It was a pleasure talking to … Continue reading
It's enough to give you nightmares
I've noticed as I get older that I don't sleep as well as I used to. So I set aside time to listen to Dr. Matthew Walker's interview on "Fresh Air." He's the director of UC Berkeley's Center for Human … Continue reading
New Adventures on the Wine Route
The first book I read when I was thinking of becoming a wine importer was Kermit Lynch's Adventures on the Wine Route. And I think if you asked most people in the wine business, they'd tell you it was an early … Continue reading
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Last of the summer wine recipes
As promised in the previous post, this is the last of three summer wine recipes. I'll be posting more recipes, of course – but this is the last of a series designed specifically for summer eating. In addition, I made … Continue reading
Summer recipes, Part 3 — with a whole bottle of wine in there
Happy August! Cy and I have been on vacation. I meant to put up a recipe while we were away, but it just didn't happen. Mostly because there wasn't a rainy day where I'd have been inside looking for things … Continue reading
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Summer recipes, part two. Now with more wine.
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Summer recipes, part 1
It has definitely been a summer of eating so far. And Cy and I haven't even left for our week of lobster rolls and twice-a-day cocktails. So many good things to eat this year! I didn't get a chance to … Continue reading
Making wine Instagram-mable again
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10th Anniversary Musings, Part 2
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I am SO behind on my sesssion sneak peeks and I apologize for that. With this being such a busy time of year for me I just don't have the time to keep up with the blogging on a daily/weekly basis! I have such a long list of things I need to blog and just not enough time in the day to get it all done :)
Okay..so enough with the excuses...here are a few cuties from a while back that I never got the chance to blog!


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Sid at 70
It used to be a commonly held belief that older people in the UK were rather dull: they'd worked hard (maybe played hard too), but now they just watched day-time TV, played bowls and went to bingo; or, they were stuck in a retirement home, or small suburban bungalow - anyway, they would be sad and lonely...
I wanted to find someone who would challenge the stereotype. I was naughty, lied about my age on the SAGA website and found Sid. He was a gift: an interesting man who became a dear friend. He died last year. I miss him.
This is a small selection from a body of work I made about Sid.


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Sun protection system made of stainless steel by GKD
The headquarters of South African National Roads Agency Limited, also known as SANRAL, was completed in 2011 and is a prime example of sustainable architecture. By providing the metallic mesh that offers both decorative and functional properties, GKD – Gebr. Kufferath AG played a key role in the success of this project. The office building is located in Pretoria, capital city of the Republic of South Africa. With an average of 300 days of sunshine a year, this is one of the sunniest regions in the world.
SANRAL's task is to ensure that the country's main traffic routes remain in perfect condition without harming the environment. Energy efficiency was therefore the guiding theme of the striking, two-storey office building erected in the Val de Graz area of Pretoria according to the plans of the South African architects "activate architecture". The building shell, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting and shading of individual building sections pay homage to this theme in a holistic way.
Depending on the intensity of sunlight the side in question is exposed to, single or double glazing has been used for the facade. In addition, a sun protection system made of Omega stainless steel mesh by GKD – Gebr. Kufferath AG developed specially for this building was installed.
A custom-made design made of meshed metal with varying densities measuring approx. 780 m² encases the facade of the building. In total, 161 individual elements were fixed to the top and bottom frame of the metallic mesh with flat profiles and a tensile construction, and holder profiles were used to attach them to the facade. To guarantee optimum sun protection while ensuring the greatest possible degree of transparency of the metallic mesh, some of the sun protection elements were fitted to the facade in an axially twisted position depending on the angle of sunlight.
Together with the overhanging concrete roof, which offers additional shading for the facade, this unconventional solution gives the 8,500 m² building its unmistakable character.


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With just two weeks to go until Christmas week, we're presuming that many of you are still in the process of gift buying for your friends and loved ones.
We all spend a little more than we should over the festive period when we really don't need to. Many people run themselves into the ground with debt over Christmas with the outlook that they will be able to pay the debt off in the new year- but it doesn't always work out that way.
So, rather than spending more than you can afford this year on gifts, why not cut back on the amount you spend while still buying everyone gifts? It is possible, and we're here to show you how!
Budget Your Spending
Rather than going out onto the high street or browsing the net with no limit to your spending in mind, why not figure out how many people you need to buy gifts for and set yourself a realistic budget to stick to.
Knowing what you can afford to spend is key to sticking to it. Make sure you are taking into account any bills that will need to be paid so that you don't find yourself short when the time comes to pay it.
You will need to be strict with yourself when it comes to sticking to the budget that you have set, but it will be worth it when you don't have a huge amount of money to pay out come 2016.
Keep Saving
You may not want to dip into any savings that you have, but it is much better for you to take expenses out of your own money than to owe it to a bank, or even another friend or family member.
Make a note of how much you have taken out and pledge to add some of your pay each month back into your savings pot. This way, you won't have to come up against any charges from your banks or have to run up any large credit card bills.
Cheap is Cheerful
No one said Christmas requires you to spend thousands of pounds on gifts, so why do we? The main problem is that we buy presents that retailers tell us that we need.
Rather than agreeing with retailers, why not restrict your gift buying to cheaper presents, thus getting more for your money? Alternatively, you could always hand-make Christmas gifts, or hand out gift vouchers so that the person receiving it can buy what they want rather than receiving something that they may not need as a present.
Christmas doesn't have to be an expensive event, and there are ways in which you can cut corners when it comes to saving money yet still enjoy the festive season. Christmas debt is avoidable, you just need to know how to reduce your spending effectively.
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HPP Andelsbuch – Water Intake Bezau – Rubber Dam
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In order to improve the flood water alleviation of the water intake structure of the HPP Bezau an existing bypass channel shall be equipped with a rubber dam. The by-pass channel was constructed after the big flood event in 2005 and features currently a fuse plug. The current situation is not satisfactory in terms of sediment management and frequently the HPP operator has to excavate accumulated sediments upstream the water intake in order to provide the required freeboard to 2 bridges over the river.
The awarded consulting services comprise analysis of the existing structures, detailed design and structural analysis of the concrete weir, conceptual layout and detail design of the rubber dam, analysis and detailed design of the flood water channel, preparation of the tender documents for the civil works and the rubber dam.
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Rosy Quince Jam
In creating this blushing preserve, I set out to capture not the quince fruit itself, but something much more elusive: its intoxicating fragrance. The knobby yellow creature's romantic, floral, fruity perfume is a scent not quickly forgotten. It is also a scent that seems to easily dissipate with the application of sugar and heat that is necessary if you plan to eat (and enjoy) quince. This is a storied fruit, not to be taken lightly. Helen of Troy bribed Paris to award a quince to Aphrodite as her prize in a beauty contest, starting the Trojan War. The fruit that launched a thousand ships. I had to capture THAT. Years of experimentation with ways to preserve it that reflect it at its fragrant peak had, until this year, yielded only disappointment. Finally this year, I whipped something up that gave me—a Lifelong Obsessive Autumn Quince Sniffer—a shiver in the best way. Lovers of the world—of quince and otherwise—this rosy preserve is for you.
Ingredients: quince, cane sugar, lemon juice, Stonebarn Brandyworks Quince Liqueur, rose water, orange blossom water.


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|Ta-da, the American Harvest Snackmaster
The beauty of the dehydrator in general, and making fruit leather specifically, is you can use that slightly overripe fruit no problem. In fact the riper the fruit the sweeter the leather, plus you don't need to throw anything out because its gone a bit soft.
You can also totally experiment and use any fruit combination that strikes your fancy - blending together whatever you have on hand!
Making fruit leather really is as easy as 1, 2, 3.
#1 - Choose your fruit combinations, working with the following proportions: 3 cups fresh fruit, juice of half a lime or ~1 Tb lemon juice, ~1-2 Tb honey (or agave nectar) as needed.
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- Cherries, plums, lemon juice, honey
- Strawberry, mint leaves, balsamic vinegar
- Papaya, strawberry, lime juice, agave nectar, lime zest
- Peaches, strawberries, lime juice honey
- Mango, strawberry, lime juice, mint, honey
- Apricot, cherries, lime juice, honey, lime zest
#2 - Spray fruit leather tray lightly with vegetable oil spray (Pam or canola work well) to prevent sticking. Pour mixture evenly into fruit leather trays and use a spatula or spoon to smooth out. Place tray in your dehydrator and dry at 130°-140° F until fruit feels leathery and there are no super sticky spots on the top or bottom.
|Pour evenly into tray and smooth with a spatula or spoon
The amount of pectin determines how well it will bond as a solid sheet when it dries.
Fruits naturally high in pectin include apples, apricots, blackberries, blueberries, guavas, peaches, pineapple, plums and more. Fruits naturally low in pectin include cherries, citrus fruits, melons, strawberries, raspberries and almost all vegetables. If you have a low pectin combo, you can always add a little applesauce to the mix to make sure it forms into a sheet well.
|Fruit leather ready to be removed
Taste your puree once blended and add sweetener accordingly, but remember that it will become sweeter once dried.
The above combinations took between 10-12 hours, though I now realize I could have done them in considerably less time, but as a first-timer I was overzealous about the instructions of making sure there were no sticky spots (thus the rephrasing in my instructions above to no "super sticky" spots) and I did pour them quite thick. Still, though some of it first felt more like fruit brittle when it cooled down, it still tasted great and did became softer as it absorbed moisture from the air.
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I cut my sheets into thirds so that I could provide a variety of flavors per item for the food swap, plus each piece was equal to an entire cup of fresh fruit which seemed like plenty (though easy to forget when you're chomping down on this tasty treat)!
Fruit leather is a real joy not just because it's so simple and easy to adjust to whatever you have on hand, it also lends itself very well to experimentation. You can add yogurt into the mix and even use all kinds of garnishes such as coconut, sesame or poppy seeds, chopped nuts and dried fruit or granola (though refrigeration is recommended if you do this and aren't going to eat rolls right away).
|My fruit leather trios at the swap
If you have any tried-and-true favorites or other innovations making fruit leather or using a dehydrator, please share as comments below or shoot me an email. This novice is hooked!
* Note: you can make fruit leather without a dehydrator if your oven can maintain an even and low oven temperature. See here and here.


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2004 Clark-Claudon Estate Cabernet
Leading Our Second Decade of Exceptional Terroir Driven Wines
At Clark-Claudon Vineyards the 2004 vintage was a convergence of season, terroir and raising the bar; leading to a classically beautiful Cabernet Sauvignon. Place and commitment to excellence again made the difference in 2004. It was a condensed growing season with early bud break, warm days, cool nights and one challenging heat spike. The result was a small harvest of intense, flavor packed fruit. Hence, the 2004 vintage, from an unusual, but exceptional year, is making Cabernet enthusiasts smile.
Clark-Claudon Vineyards contains multiple exposures that translate into a broad range of Cabernet Sauvignon fruit expression. The highest portions of our mountain estate yield rich, deeply-colored Cabernet with impressive tannins. The lower portions enjoy more shade where vines thrive in deeper soils producing gentle and perfumed wines. As a result, we can play to the strengths of each vintage and build complexity in the blending process. This proved to be essential in 2004. Our commitment to excellence meant excluding the Cabernet Sauvignon lots from the highest elevations where the vines were exposed during the October heat spike. The middle and lower parcels of our estate were harvested nearly 2 weeks later under perfect ripening conditions. The result of this rigorous selection is one of our most elegant, classically beautiful, Estate Cabernets.
Using only 70% of our production our 2004 Estate bottling is a pure varietal expression of Cabernet Sauvignon. A compelling mixture of cassis, violet and cherry dominate the aromas while 24 months of aging in French oak imparts a fine-grained texture and lingering chocolate finish. The hallmark of this vintage is an elegant, silky texture that is imparted from mature vines and gentle handling in the cellar. At the table enjoy this wine with richly flavored beef dishes, lamb, earthy wild mushrooms and savory cheese. Drink now-2020.


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The people here are polite and friendly; the food is amazing. I'm told that the finest dates in the world come from Saudi Arabia. My own small sample would seem to confirm that. But for a country that celebrates friendship and good food to such a degree, I don't at all get this paranoia about relations between men and women--part and parcel and a natural extension of the experience and celebration of our life on this earth. Family, friendships and food...there is nothing more to this existence IMHO.
Apparently red objects associated with Valentines Day are banned here, leading up to a black market for these same objects because men will be men, and women will be women, and no amount of religious piety can overcome basic human needs and desires. I guess it's easy to make light of the situation, but in Saudi it's real, and it sucks for lots of unmarried young men who think of women 95% of the time and for women who want to be treated like equals 100% of the time.
I don't believe that this is a Muslim thing, because there are plenty of Christians who believe that a womans place is in the home. All religions are distorted by extremists. I guess Saudi is what happens when the disagreeable guys are ahead.