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It's perhaps the grimmest Top 5 List you'll read this year, but it's also a fitting tribute to some good writers. Via USA Today: The publishing world lost five celebrated writers in 2008. Their books will live after them...
(Click here to see who.)
Nothing succeeds like success...and graphically detailed autopsies. Via CNN.com: When Patricia Cornwell began writing thriller novels, she ruled the world of forensic science...Now the author is bombarded with CSI-like information from every side -- from Bones to Forensic Files to, well, CSI.
(Click here for the grisly details.)
Remember the day after the election, when the media claimed that the USA was now a post-racial society? And then do you remember the day after that, when they had to try and find a way to spin the Springfield, MA church burning and the white-on-black violence that occurred the night of the election? Well, it took seven weeks, but the papers are finally beginning to return to their senses. Via TheWashingtonPost.com: In all likelihood, prejudice, intolerance and nationalism will...be with us always. But what, you ask, does any of this have to do with books? Read on, my friends, read on: And two new slim volumes -- both remarkably thoughtful and compressed, both by extraordinary writers, and both addressing the gaps between disparate cultures -- will just as likely continue to remain relevant and timely.
(To find out which "two slim volumes" they're referring to, click here.)
Friday, December 19, 2008
Book News, In Brief
It's perhaps the grimmest Top 5 List you'll read this year, but it's also a fitting tribute to some good writers. Via USA Today: The publishing world lost five celebrated writers in 2008. Their books will live after them...
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Thursday, December 18, 2008
Quote of the Day
"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
Mark Twain, a.k.a. Samuel Clements, a.k.a. Li'l Twain
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Go, Look: Corpus Libris
From the C.L. blog:
Corpus Libris began as a fun little photo essay on a Thursday night while working at Skylight Books in Los Angeles. As we kept going and going, I realized that many, many more people could enjoy and create similar photographs. The possibilities are practically endless! So, send me your Corpus Libris (body/book) photos, and perhaps I'll post them here.
(Well, what are you waiting for? Go, Look! And while you're there, see if you can't find this week's guest columnist, AutumnBottom. She's the one who tipped me off to this sweet site.)
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Book News, In Brief
Booksellers: It's time to dig out the passwords to your old ebay seller accounts. BookFinder.com has posted the Top 10 Out-of-Print Books in America. There's gold in them thar stacks!
Trust me, I'm as sick of these year-end round-ups as the rest of you. But The Best News Corrections of 2008? That's something worth linking to. (Thanks to the Bookninja for the heads-up.)
Bilious b*tch Ann Coulter is autographing a limited number of copies of her new book, Guilty. All you have to do is order it via WorldNetDaily, and the Far Right's answer to Oprah will personalize it for you. I'm ordering a copy this afternoon, on the proviso that she make it out to 'All My Friends at Planned Parenthood.' I'll let you know how it turns out.
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Time's 2008 Person of the Year? An Author.
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Book News, In Brief
A personal message to our valued customers: Try this, and we'll show you the door
. Via Forbes.com: Haggling is no longer limited to used car lots...Retail prices are an artificial, arbitrary number. Ticket prices are not ordained by some almighty being. They are created by humans. Anything that results from a negotiation is negotiable.
Q: How is it that while book sales are down, poetry prospers? A: Filthy rich philanthropists. Via the AP: Poets & Writers, a nonprofit literary organization, has received a $2 million donation to support its Jackson Poetry Prize, a $50,000 award founded in 2007 for emerging American poets...The money comes from the Liana Foundation, a philanthropic organization based in N.J. and co-managed by poet Susan Jackson.
John Updike has written a promotional blurb for the first of a series of 500-word erotic e-book offerings. While Updike's 'elder statesman' status makes him an awkward choice, there's another, even less flattering reason he might want to refrain from putting his name on porn. Via The Guardian UK: What sets the story apart from other moby-lit offerings is the seal of approval from John Updike...Coincidentally or not, Updike last month won a lifetime award for Bad Sex in Fiction.
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Oy vey! Hanukkah is Only Five Days Away!
Hanukkah starts this Sunday at sundown. Have you bought your Jewish friends their gifts yet? We Chosen Ones don't want to wait 'til the 25th for our presents any more than you want to wait 'til the 29th* for yours. But you jolly Gentiles needn't despair. (Despair is our thing!) Books Etc. has put together a list of Hanukkah Gifts for Adults.** You use this, and you'll go from insensitive shmoiger to goen Goy -- instantly.
*The 29th is the last day of Hanukkah, y'all.
** Don't worry about our kids. They're easy. They want video games, just like the uncircumcised ones.
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10 Tips from a Former Traveling Sales Rep
...Part 2!
If you missed the first half of AutumnBottom's epic, two part guest column, click here. And shame on you for arriving late to the party.
The Final Five
-Sales Pitch-
We reps think it's wonderful when buyers have looked at the catalogue before we come in and you already have an idea of the titles that interest you and the numbers you might want to order. It's amazingly, wonderful helpful. That said, stay flexible. Or at least give the appearance of flexibility. We've worked hard on our sales pitches and, chances are, the books that we actually HAVE a pitch for are important. It's just nice to have a receptive audience.
Everyone loves to complain. I'd say it's the "great unifier" because nothing brings people together like kvetching. The company I worked for had a very...unique catalogue. It was about 16 inches tall, 10 inches wide, and 200 pages of flimsy newsprint. Putting a positive spin on it, I'd say something like, "It certainly is easy to spot!" But really, it was just a gigantic pain in the ass, and my buyers never hesitated to let me know.
Chances are, if you have to say to your rep, "I don't know if anyone has ever complained about this..." they have heard it a million, billion, trillion times over. At every single meeting I got a complaint about the catalogue. No, wait, I lie. There was one meeting with a design store in Beverly Hills where the buyer loved our catalogue. Silly Californians.
I'm sorry, where was I going? Oh yes. Complain about the catalogue to me all you want. Complain about having to pay freight or how we print our company's name on the cover of every book, but please, don't punish me for it. As a lowly rep I simply do not have the power to change these things. My buyers telling me that they wouldn't order books until we changed the catalogue just made me think they were jerks. But don't tell them I said that.
-Keep Your Appointments-
I toyed with the idea of making this heading "Keep your *fucking* appointments" to drive home the importance of this topic. As a traveling rep I cannot even begin to describe how annoying it is to take the time and effort to fly somewhere 1,000 miles from home and have the person you were supposed to meet cancel on you when you show up at their store. I completely understand cases of sickness or other emergencies, but when it's simply because you forgot to tell the babysitter that you needed her until 4 pm.... I had one guy in LA who would cancel on me almost every time and it was always because he'd already gone home and didn't want to fight traffic to come back "so maybe we can meet next time you're in LA". Gah!!!!
-Pass Along the Kind Words-
There is almost nothing better than praise. I loved, reveled really, in being told by my customers that they loved meeting with me. I loved that they felt taken care of by me and that I cared about them and their businesses. It was even better when I heard from my boss that one of my bookstores had taken the time to call New York to let her know that I was doing a good job. Something like that goes a long way in assuring job security and letting the muckity-mucks know that the people in the field are taking care of the customers.
-Always Use a GPS-
So this one has no bearing on you, the bookstore, whatsoever. But should a new traveling sales rep happen upon this list, this is the most important thing ever. Buy a GPS and take it with you wherever you go. Expense it, write it off on your taxes, or just eat the cost of it, but it is the most valuable tool in your arsenal.
The first three or four trips I went on, I printed out a veritable encyclopedia of MapQuest Maps and spent all my time in the rental car with my head buried in those print-outs and a map provided by the rental car company. I didn't see any of LA, Calgary, or Portland. But on a fateful trip to Denver I was offered a GPS unit at the rental counter and my life changed. I was able to drive around the city admiring the buildings and the mountains and avoiding pedestrians while a pleasant Englishwoman fed me turn by turn directions. I stopped at Best Buy on my way home from the airport and picked up one to take with me wherever I went.
It made my travels so much easier knowing that when I stepped off an airplane in a strange city I could just plug in my little friend (God that sounds dirty) and I could navigate the city like a native. My greatest fear while traveling was not that the planes would crash and burn or my buyers would block the doorways of their stores (that did happen to a fellow rep of mine) but that I would forget my GPS at home and be completely, utterly lost. See what technology hath wrought?! Anyway. GPS is a gift from God. Go buy one.
Again, if you dug what Autumn wrote, PLEASE CHECK OUT HER LIVEJOURNAL! Homegirl is mad funny and she posts regularly. Oh, and if you work in a bookstore, make sure you print this out and show it to your travelling sales reps. It'll make them feel loved.
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Book News, In Brief
city makes good. Boston has been named one of The 3 Best Cities for Bookworms. MSNBC explains why.
Bottomless Belly Button author/artist Dash Shaw has been crowned one of The Top 100 People of 2008 by USA Today. Pop Candy's Whitney Matheson has the accompanying interview.
Dorothy Sterling, author of perennial classroom favorite, Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman, died December 1st at her home in Welfleet, MA. The self-described "accidental historian" was 95.
The Washington Post pulls no punches with this one: Most Textbooks Should Just Stay On the Shelf. This is a follow-up to an article they did about the $8 billion-a-year textbook industry's unwillingness to include any science breakthroughs post-Einstein.
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Monday, December 15, 2008
10 Tips from a Former Traveling Sales Rep
Ah, a guest column. These are always fun. Fun for me, the blogger, because I get to slack off in my duties. Fun for you, the reader, because my shtick is getting stale and y'all have been craving something better...you ungrateful bastards. Anyway, today's column was written by former traveling sales rep and current bookseller AutumnBottom. (That's her LiveJournal name, anyway. Witness Protection rules prohibit us from divulging her true identity.) If you like what you read here, make sure to check out her LJ. She's funny as f*ck and a brand new mom. Oh, and she's got cool hair, too. The trifecta!
Autumn's caveat: I was only a sales rep for 1.5 years with one smallish publisher, so I can't say for sure if this list would apply to a seasoned veteran of Random House or Simon & Schuster. Besides, I wasn't a particularly successful rep having had a bit too much empathy to push hard for the big sales. But anyway....
- Sales Numbers-
As reps, we're the low-man on the sales chain totem pole which means that we report to sales managers who, in turn, report to points higher on. I was constantly struggling with trying to please my bosses whose sales mantra was "Don't take no for an answer," and trying to maintain my trusting relationships with my bookstores. I guess what I'm trying to say is when your rep is trying to convince you to take a display with 20 copies of a $50 book and seems to keep circling back around to it after you thought you'd moved on, it's because of the pressure from "on high" and not because your rep is an asshole.
Ask your rep for sample copies. Always. It never hurts to ask and, more often than not, they can get it for you. And, as was often the case with me, remind your rep about your request after a couple of weeks if you still haven't seen your freebie. It's totally not that we don't like you. It's just that we're busy people and things sometimes slip through the cracks.
Being a traveling sales rep is a lonely, lonely experience. It only took one week of business travel for the luster to wear off. Sitting in a restaurant by yourself is fun on occasion but when you do it for two to three weeks out of every month.... I was eternally grateful for the few buyers that I became friends with and could count on socializing outside of a business context with when away from home. If you like your rep, and you're willing, invite them out for a beer after work. They'll love you for it and be even more willing to go the extra mile for you.
-High Heels and Weak Arms-
I am all of 4 feet 11 inches tall. For my job I carted around a suitcase filled with 60 lbs of art and architecture books. By the time I finished hauling it out of the trunk of my rental car, dragging it through the gravel of the parking lot, and bouncing over the sidewalk into a store, the last thing I wanted to do was carry it up three flights to the buying office. If you are a brawny buyer and your rep happens to be wearing high heels or shops in the petite department please, please, please, offer to carry their suitcase.
-Free Lunches-
One of the major perks of being a buyer is having your rep take you out to lunch. There is nothing like free food in the middle of your day! However, if you've only bought three books out of the catalogue, for the love of Pete, don't order the lobster in truffle sauce. I'm not saying you need to satisfy yourself with the bar nuts, but try to order according to...well...your order.
Oh, come now. You didn't think I was going to give you all of Autumn's awesomeness in one fell swoop, did you? And rob myself of a second day of slacking off? Not a chance. If you want to read The Final Five Tips from a Former Traveling Sales Rep, your punk asses are gonna have to come back here tomorrow. Until then, you can visit Autumn here.
Added on 12/16: Link to part 2
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Book News, In Brief
(now with editor's notes!)
Dear Bobby Brown: Don't be cruel. Yes, it's your prerogative, but after building a buzz with those juicy, leaked portions of your autobiography, do you really think that anyone's going to buy a re-written, scandal-free edition?
(Editor's note: Wait, where's the Humpin' Around reference I asked for? That song is the bomb, yo.)
It's like the snake eating its tail...or something like that. For those who like to read about reading, USA Today has five recommendations for books about books.
(Editor's note: And don't forget about Inkwell Michelle's positive review of Shelf Life by Suzanne Strempek Shea. It's a book about bookselling, so technically its a case of 'the snake eating the snake handler'...or something like that.)
Enraged by the fact that "in 2007, one of every fifteen hardcover novels sold was a James Patterson title," Cleveland.com decided to "dig beyond the lists of what's selling the best to find what's best to read." Okay, so it's actually just another Best Of list, but at least they're honest about their superiority complex.
(Editor's note: Cleveland.com?! What, was TheMiddleOfNowhere.org down for repairs? The NYTimes just posted their official, year-end Best Of book list. You might've mentioned this instead.)
Yesterday's Telegraph UK had an interesting article about the mass library closings currently taking place in England. My fiscally-conscious first reaction was, "Those lucky British bookstores..." Then it hit me, with no libraries around to infect kids with the reading virus, there will be far fewer book buyers in the years to come. Now my fiscally conscious conscience is afraid. Very afraid.
(Editor's note: My first reaction was a selfless, "Oh, the inhumanity!" But maybe that's because I'm a better person than you.)
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Blood Tree: Silver Edition by Scarlett Dawn
Publication Date: October 25, 2015
Where there is Dark, there is Light.
The two halves make a whole.
Or do they battle for dominance?
Kenna Julius is your average teenage girl. She has a bossy mom, a new boyfriend in school, and she never dreams of enchanted lands or fairy tale castles.
She lives in the real world.
Or so she thought...
Juliet Julius watched her daughter grow into a fierce young woman. She protected her. She guarded her. She sacrificed all she had to give.
Now it's Juliet's turn to live.
But she may have a sinister problem of her own...
Susan Julius has loved one man her entire life. He's brilliant, strong, and powerful. And he has never given her any indication he feels the same way.
Though, situations are about to change.
One will be deadly. The other will awaken desire...
October 26, 2015
Part One ~ Kenna's Story
Another fascinating world to escape to!, September 12, 2015
Scarlett Dawn has done it again! With her usual flare she transports us to a world full of awesome yet completely different from all of her others. A young Kenna is unexpectedly thrown into her fairy truth & we jump forward a bit to an older Kenna who is now very comfortable in this alternate world of light vs. dark fairies. While the characters are well developed I personally would have enjoyed a little less jumping & more background, but I don't think the story was lacking from it. As always I was sucked into this tale & begging for more! Looking forward to Part 2!!
Part Two ~ Juliet's Story
Are you Light or Dark? Guess what...In the dark it really doesn't matter!, September 18, 2015
After reading book one I found book two to be very enlightening! We are transported back in time in Mom's POV, which happened to give us a much better idea of this world where the fairies are divided: light vs. dark. The choices made in that dark room may have changed their lives forever, but it just goes to show that in the dark none of that was important at that moment. Choices = Consequences but who are the ones that actually pay the price?
I am fairly certain that anyone who has been a teenager/parent of a teenager/is a teenager now can recognize Juliet's story as any of the million versions we have lived ourselves. What you might not expect ... the snarky Ms. Juliet & how quickly she pulls you into her dilemma. I laughed just as much as I tensed up awaiting what would happen next. I have no doubt that Scarlet Dawn will bring much more entertainment with our fairy friends! Can't wait to get my hands on the next story!
Part Three ~ Susan's Story
This just keeps getting better & better!!!, October 26, 2015
These 3 stories flowed flawlessly for me. While each book focuses more on the new lead character I love that we got to revisit the characters we already met & adore in the previous books. These fairies are quite addicting & I really hope to see more from them very soon!
Pssst...Be prepared for a few more steamy steams here than the previous 2 installments.
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She lives in the Midwest, adores her music loud, and her fries covered in melted cheese.#1 Bestseller in Witches and Wizards Romance and award-winner, Scarlett Dawn is the author of the Forever Evermore new adult fantasy series, which include King Hall and King Cave.
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Under 30 Minutes
1 Hour
Black Bean Tamale Pie with Cheese Crust
It's as easy as pie and tastier too. Here's why: it's made with CHI-CHI'S® Salsa and green jalapeños sitting on top of a mouth-watering cheese crust.
1/2 pound ground lean beef
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup chopped green bell pepper
1 (15-ounce) can black beans, drained and rinsed
1 cup CHI-CHI'S® 16 oz Thick & Chunky Salsa Medium
2 cups shredded sharp Cheddar cheese, divided
1/4 cup milk
1 large egg
2 tablespoons CHI-CHI'S® Green Jalapenos Whole, minced
1 (8.5-ounce) package corn muffin mix
WHOLLY GUACAMOLE® dip to serve
CHI-CHI'S® 16 oz Thick & Chunky Salsa to serve
1. Heat oven to 375ºF. Grease 9-inch pie plate.
2. In large skillet, cook beef, onion and bell pepper until beef is no longer pink. Stir in beans, salsa and jalapeños; remove from heat.
3. In medium bowl, combine corn muffin mix, 1 cup cheese, the milk and egg. Stir just until moistened. Press mixture over bottom and up side of pie plate. Spoon beef mixture into crust.
4. Bake pie 20 to 30 minutes or until set. Remove from oven; sprinkle with remaining 1 cup cheese. Bake 2 to 5 minutes longer or until cheese is melted. Let stand 5 minutes.
5. Cut pie into wedges. Serve with guacamole and salsa.


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The route from Montana to pick up Penny Cummings took me south through Idaho and into northern Utah, where a hard right turn onto I-80 pointed the minivan toward Sacramento. It wasn't a pleasant run. For one thing, the Cummings apartment turned out to be a second story walkup on the edge of Watts, in an ugly tenement considered to be no man's land, not precisely claimed by any of the major gangs but not a safe zone, either. If I knew I was heading into territory owned by the Bloods or the Crips, I could pick my colors to suit.
This way, any color at all might be an invitation for a bullet. Nothing like adding a little more uncertainty to an already uncertain situation.
Worse, I was going to have to pluck the young hacker right out from under her stepdad's nose. Piercings (Penny) had passed on the word that Abe the horny cop would be on night shift all week, but could I trust that? About as much as I trusted the government to take care of me in my old age, maybe. The word that Mommy Dearest would be firmly passed out by eight p.m. sounded pretty good; hardcore alcoholics can be reliable that way. But I couldn't trust that, either. I couldn't trust anything. Not even Penny herself. Okay, so she was one of the most brilliant hackers Mr. Gray had ever come across, but she was fifteen, for cry-yi. I didn't know this kid. I owed her. Hell yeah, we all owed her. But trust? That was another matter entirely.
Plus, I'd never once been anywhere near Los Angeles County. In the trucker's logbook case beside me, I had MapQuest and Google Earth printouts up the ying-yang, enough to give me some sort of idea of the building layout and the way the streets ran in the area, but using GPS was out of the question. Yeah, I did have two one time use cell phones with me for extreme emergency use only, one in each shirt pocket, but even they had been surgically altered, their GPS chips removed.
Silver lining? Cops didn't patrol Penny's home area much. In fact, that part of the 'hood was so poor, the drug dealers and street ho's didn't even bother much with it.
Then there was the getaway van I was driving. Jack had been promised it was mechanically sound, but somebody lied. The engine ran all right, the oil had been changed, and after I added a shot of Slick 50 to the crankcase, it quit using oil. There was only a little slippage in the automatic transmission. But the front end shimmied like a go-go dancer on crack at anything above 55 miles per hour. I worried about that all the way to Winnemucca before giving up and stopping at a shop to have it aligned. The right front tire was also a little too bald for my taste, so I decided to buy two new tires for the front and take my chances with the thieves in the city. I paid cash, of course, but the stop put me half a day behind schedule.
The plan was already going to hell.
Not that I was expected in the 'hood at any particular time. Penny had been informed through roundabout Internet messages, warned to have her bugout bag ready and be ready to run by Tuesday evening–but that I could be as late as Saturday evening. Jack and Mr. Gray had wanted me to have some wiggle room there, for which I was grateful.
Something was eating at me, though. I just couldn't quite put my finger on it. It might have been the simple fact that Jack Hill wasn't along on this run to back my play. On the third day out, running on occasional two hour naps at rest stops, I thought about that all the way down I-5, over the grapevine, and into the L.A. basin. I thought about it…but I couldn't quite convince myself that was it.
I got into the city proper just at dusk. Figuring I needed to eat even if I had no appetite, I stopped at a Jack in the Box, walked in the door…and everybody in the place gave me the eye. It wasn't my skin color; the place was plenty dark enough. It took me a while, first visiting the restroom and then getting in line to order some of what passed for food in the place, to figure it out. There was something in the way I carried myself that these people didn't like. They weren't about to get physical with the big black bald headed dude with the bushy beard, but they thought I was a cop. Nobody said it, but I was sure of it.
Well, if that didn't beat all.
Back in the van, I quickly discovered the Jack Burger or whatever they called it was utterly inedible. No wonder the locals looked so weird; their guts must be tied in knots from eating this stuff. Only the oversized Dr. Pepper was palatable enough to get down.
It might not have been the smartest way to go about it, but I decided I absolutely had to case out the place. Cruising by more than once would be as suicidal as being a politically conservative black woman who spoke her mind, but one go shouldn't make anybody sit up and take too much notice.
I was glad I did, and I was glad our crew had sent the guy with the eidetic memory. Once done with my multi-street weave-through, I got the heck back out of there and found a 7-11 store that looked like it didn't get robbed more than once a week. The clerk was even white, more or less, though he hadn't washed recently enough to qualify as more than off-white, really. They even had packets of Grandma's cookies, raisin oatmeal and peanut butter flavors. It was getting dark now, closing in on 9:00 p.m. Mama Cummings should be three sheets, face down and snoring on the couch by now. Cop Dad's beat didn't include the home tenement. All I had to do was think things through for a few minutes while munching cookies and I'd be out of excuses.
Parking: Leave the van on Whatsit Street, two blocks over.
Approach: Walk around and down the street like I owned it, pop on into the stairwell–which was not locked or gated in any way, the only security being the doors to the apartments themselves–and climb on up to knock on the door. Using a simple double rap, of course, and standing to one side of the doorway as I did so.
Departure: Penny's room had a small window overlooking the street. She'd darn well better be watching for me. Barring that, she was supposed to be listening for the double knock. So, give her the password to identify myself as her black knight in ratty hoodie, escort her down the stairs, walk back around the two blocks like we owned them, get into the van and drive away. Piece of cake. Ten minutes away from the van, tops, and the street where I'd be parking it shouldn't be a problem. I hoped.
Emergency Exit: If something went wrong and the manure hit the rotating blades, Plan B. Instead of traveling back around to the minivan by way of the cracked sidewalks, dart straight across the street from the front of the tenement, through the narrow gap between two houses–not more than eighteen inches wide, but I could make it through there if I went sideways. Then hook right, down the alley a few yards, vault the back yard fence, cross said yard diagonally, which would get me to cover under a wilted mishmash of palm trees and brush, don't ask me the species. Through that on a slight hook, dive through the front window of an obviously deserted house; the glass had been broken out ages ago. Out the back door, and so on and so forth, four more distinct maneuvers, and I'd come out the front of a deserted building just a few yards behind the minivan.
That run, if it came to that, I could make in right at one minute flat. What Penny the hacker could do if I had to drag her through that way, who knew? But at least I had a bugout route; it was better than nothing.
I parked the vehicle right where I'd hoped; there were only three other cars parked on the entire block, and none of them had moved since I'd cased the street two hours earlier. The street lights didn't work here, which suited me just fine. Nobody came down the street looking for trouble or a set of wheels to jack; I couldn't have asked for a better situation.
So why was I hyperventilating? Man, I'd have given a whole bunch to be back up in the mountains, freezing in the snow and setting a trap for an armed robber on the run. Those were the good old days.
On the way around to the Cummings building, I only passed one other dude, a skinny little guy going the other way on the other side of the street, half my size and either strung out on meth or wishing he was. He kept his head down, eyes on the sidewalk, making sure to avoid eye contact with me. Good. On a mission like this, a fellow damn sure wants to be the most horrible thing that goes bump in the night. There was a bit of light to see by on Penny's street, not streetlights, but a quarter moon feebly batting at the ever present L.A. smog. I didn't need the night vision monocle riding in my cargo pants pocket–not yet, anyway–but the night could still be best described as dark and ominous.
The hinges creaked loudly enough to make me jump when I used a fold of my hoodie to open the door to the walkup without leaving prints, but at least Penny's intel had been accurate; it wasn't locked. It didn't even have a lock.
Inside, I took a moment to adjust my eyes to the greater darkness before starting the climb. Something is wrong. Every nonexistent hair on my shaved head screamed at me to get out of there. This was the place? Yes, this was the place; I was certain of that. But…I pulled out the night vision monocle and put it on. Immediately, the infrared picked up the image of a mouse on the upper landing, nibbling at a little scrap of something. Piss poor stereotype; it should have been a rat. Reaching back, I drew the Taurus .22 from its pancake holster. Anything else I could do? I couldn't think of anything.
Okay, cowboy, get on with it. I began easing up the stairwell, one step at a time, listening to the occasional board creak, the pounding of my own blood in my ears, the ever present city sirens in the distance. Something is wrong! One more step…halfway there….
The one time use cell phone in my left hand pocket vibrated, nearly giving me a heart attack. For a split second, I thought about not answering–but no. That phone linked to Mr. Gray himself, the right hand one connecting to Jack Hill. Gray wouldn't be calling unless it was truly Life and Death important. Carefully, I unbuttoned the pocket flap, lifted the phone out, flipped it open.
"Yo," I spoke, so softly that at the other end, Gray would have to know it was not a good time to talk. It was his voice that came back, all right, but not as I had known it; his tone was clipped, precise, fraught with tension.
"It's a trap!" He snapped. "Abort! Penny Cummings is a federal agent!"
The phone went dead. The nerves in my fingers went dead as I returned the phone to my shirt pocket and froze in place–and the apartment door at the head of the landing swung open. Had I not had the night monocle in place, I'd not have been able to make out her pert young face, backlit as she was, but her voice was the epitome of gentle femininity. "Mr. Trotter?" Her eyes, I realized, were beautiful. The powerful police flashlight she held in her left hand, the beam flicking on and swerving swiftly to blind me, was not. She was fast.
With my adrenaline already sky high, I was faster. The three hundred practice rounds with the Taurus paid off; she never felt the double tap that drove two .22 caliber slugs through the bridge of her nose and scrambled her brain.
I didn't wait to see her body hit the floor; I was already flying back down the staircase. A man's voice, screaming curses, I heard that. On the very last step at the bottom, I tripped, went with it, slammed the door open with my shoulder–my good shoulder, thank God!–and tumbled out onto the sidewalk. The fall saved my life; the sharp -crack!- of bullets coming my way filled my hearing; I could literally hear nothing else.
Eternally grateful for the law enforcement professionals who can't shoot straight under pressure, I sprinted across the street…but stopped next to the narrow passageway between the houses that I'd selected as my escape route. The male fed who'd played the role of Penny's abusive stepfather came barreling out through the front door of the tenement, still firing–until his weapon's slide racked back on empty and he had to pause to change magazines. I didn't dare dart off between the houses; he would have seen which way I went. Besides, if he got the right angle in time, I'd be a sitting duck for ten seconds at least.
So I assumed my favored kneeling position, used the night vision monocle to compensate for the lack of ambient light, and emptied my pistol, carefully but quickly. It was a lot longer shot that the twenty-one feet I'd practiced, the man was obviously wearing a vest, and I knew there'd be flyers. Which there were, but I was pretty sure three of the seven bullets nailed the agent firmly enough to give him a checkup from the neck up. He was falling before the final round left the barrel.
I didn't waste time reloading. What I needed now was invisibility. Even if there were more agents behind the downed man, they'd be ultra cautious about poking their heads out of that door now.
It had been a major operation. That was made clear to me by the time I'd scooted under the brush; a chopper was already roaring in, its multiple searchlights searing the crime scene with blazing illumination. Fortunately, they clearly didn't know which way I had gone; they were hesitating, probably covering the downed officer.
By the time I broke out on the street behind the minivan, the chopper was searching, but not yet aiming this way. It felt like forever, but really, not much time had passed; it would take more smarts than the average fed possessed to realize I could have gotten this far away this quickly.
Or so I hoped, but that didn't mean I turned on the lights right away. Running dark would put a bullseye on my back if they saw me doing it, but…there. I didn't bother trying to read the street sign, but there was a street with plenty of traffic. Now I did put the lights on, stopped nicely at the nonexistent stop sign, turned right, and eased into the flow.
I wasn't out of the woods yet, but I was well on my way out of the 'hood.
The minivan would have to go…or would it? My prints and DNA were all over the thing; there was no way to avoid that. Yes, I'd need to change vehicles, but not, I realized, in California. Certainly not in L.A. County. Unless…no, I didn't know the area well enough. If I could dump the vehicle in a deep-assed lake or burn it to a crisp…but no, not here or anywhere near here. I was going to have to hope Jack's pick had been a good one. Certainly there were thousands of these old silver gray Chrysler Voyagers around, right?
Curiously, the News at Ten on the radio had nothing about the shooting. Cover up? Or a simple lack of media interest in another black on black shooting, none of the talking heads yet realizing federal agents were involved?
Because they most certainly were federal agents. I replayed the scene in my mind again and again, Miss Penny Whatever-Her-Real-Name-Was, her beautiful voice, the sweep of her police flashlight as she whipped it out and around toward me. Hacker my ass. I'd just gunned down not one but two feds, one of them a girl who looked like she could be my sister. Hell, considering my worthless old man, she might have been my sister. I'd killed a girl, a child–well, no, not a child. If she was undercover for the feds, she certainly wasn't just fifteen years of age. Twenty-five, maybe, with a baby face.
At any rate, she wouldn't be celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday.
Why the trap? I couldn't figure it; it made no sense. More than that, how had we all sucked into it, bought her story, hook, line, and sinker? Mr. Gray, I was sure, had the answers. He almost didn't have them in time, but he had them now.
It dawned on me that if it hadn't been for the delay required to repair the minivan, I'd have likely pushed on down into L.A. County early enough to try to make the pickup one night earlier–and Mr. Gray would not have figured out what was going on in time to warn me. Thank you, POS minivan. Thank you from the heart. Maybe I should keep the thing forever. As far as I knew, nobody in law enforcement had eyeballed the thing.
Okay, maybe that was going too far. Get out of California!
Sunrise found me thinking I might just make it, though I was rummy as all get-out from lack of sleep. The fake beard and cheek pads had gone to a fiery death in the desert, the hoodie had been discarded in a pile of arroyo trash left behind by northbound illegal immigrants, and I was back in my western clothes, my big black hat disguising my big black bald head. It was bright enough out that no one thought twice when I left my shades on at the restaurant in Kingman, Arizona–where Oklahoma City bomber and patsy Timothy McVeigh had a history, no less–so my bloodshot eyes were hidden as well.
I hadn't yet come up with a believable story to tell about Treemin Jackson of Montana's Rodeo Iron scouting down this way for a possible Arizona franchise, but I was working on it, just in case. And I found out I had an appetite, enough to wrap myself around a double order of biscuits and gravy, washed down with a gallon or so of hundred mile coffee. I was good to go.
Once back on I-40, I decided it was time to use my right hand one time phone to call Jack. Gray would certainly have alerted him right after he called me; the folks at Ovando must be going nuts with worry by now. Besides, I had my cover story ready, just in case the feds were actually listening. Not that I believed they were nearly that good, but still.
Jack picked up on the second ring. "Go!"
"Yo, Jack," I said cheerily, "the Arizona franchisee turned out to be a bust. I'd still like to see Rodeo Iron up and running in this state, but believe me, Kingman is not the place for it."
"Wasted run, then?" I could hear the relief in his voice, but he was thinking all the same.
"Pretty much. Wasted, wasted." If I knew Jack, he'd get the message; I'd wasted two people, fighting my way out of the trap.
"So, you coming through Salt Lake on your way home?" Translation: He needed to know my route.
"Nah. Should, maybe, but I was thinking maybe I'd stop in and get myself some shirts. You know I can't resist a good store once I find one." Code: Meet me in Sheridan, Wyoming, where I first got back into western attire by buying clothing at the Corral West store a couple of years ago.
"Shirts are good," he replied. "Might pick up one or two myself."
Awesome. He'd beat me to Sheridan, have a motel room waiting. He'd also have it figured out where we could safely dump the minivan. Hopefully, he'd also have some answers.
Now I just had to drive as long as I could until the coffee ran out, find a rest area, and get some sleep. For the first time in a long time, I felt like I could sleep.
"So, Jack, we're heading to Missoula first?" The minivan was history, crushed and recycled and out of my worry zone. Hill piloted his Subaru Outback westward, fueling up at Park City while I grabbed a few snacks to go, and we were back on I-90.
"Believe we should. Your girls can't wait to see you, as I'm sure you know, but they understand. Gray is beside himself; if he doesn't get a chance to apologize and explain, he might just have a stroke."
I sighed, pure pleasure, relaxed and safe. Or as safe as things ever got, anyway. "All righty then. Let's go see Mr. Gray."
It was early evening when we walked into the Half Castle, past the guard with the halberd and into the secret conference room on the other side of the restroom. For the first time ever, I was looking at a disheveled Mr. Gray. He looked like he'd slept in his fancy suit, his eight hundred dollar shoes were scuffed, and his tie was nowhere to be seen. He hadn't shaved, either.
"Treemin!" He rushed forward, literally rushed, grabbed my hand and shook it furiously. "Thank the Powers that Be!"
"Um," I said, "Good to see you, too."
He gathered himself with an effort. "Have you eaten?"
"Not recently," I admitted.
"Ah. Well then. Do you mind if I, heh, order you and Jack some take-in–as opposed to take-out, get it?–and you can eat while I explain. That is, if my explanation doesn't make you lose your appetite."
"After what I've been through," I said, "it would take a lot to make me lose my appetite."
"Good, good."
Minutes later, Jack and I were leisurely helping ourselves to a mountain of Chinese food. Gray began his explanation.
"Please believe me, I knew none of what I'm about to say when you left on your rescue mission. Several of our best hackers, people who have worked with us for years–more than a decade in one case–started picking up on things. Something didn't feel right to them, and when something doesn't feel right to a really talented hacker, they take that feeling seriously. Without that instinct and the determination to figure out what's really what, a lot more of them would get arrested and prosecuted.
"It would take days to tell the long version, but the short version is that our people finally spotted Penny Cummings–who is really FBI Agent Sharon Blakely–"
"Was," I interrupted.
"Was. Agent Blakely should be considered in the past tense."
"You mean–"
"Yes, Mr. Gray. Your little mercy mission came within one split second of getting me killed, stone cold dead. Or just as likely, arrested and interrogated and investigated until we had feds crawling all over Montana. But I did not die, and Piercings Cummings aka Sharon Blakely did."
"You–" Gray's face had lost all color. His people had obviously not yet realized that Blakely was dead.
"Yes, I. Don't get me wrong. Our hearts were all in the right places. Yours, the real civilian hackers, Jack, me, all of us. Knowing what we did, thinking as we do, it was inevitable that we'd send somebody to pick up the poor persecuted Penelope, wasn't it? The feds wouldn't have known who–and I'm sure they still don't know who, or I'd be dead already–but those assholes figured to lay a trap that would bring in a physical body. They'd grab that body, alive if they could, and torture his ass until he told them all about all the hacker networks and wannabe terrorist organizations and whatever else their puny little minds could conjure up. Am I right? They couldn't crack the hacker's circle in any real way, so they tried an end run.
"But you know what? The road to Hell really is paved with good intentions, my friend. I'm not faulting you, or me, or Jack, or anybody else that was in on helping me decide to go put my big back ass on the line. Besides, yes, you unknowingly threw me out there in the shark pool, but you also literally saved my life with that phone call. I thank you. From the heart. I really do. I want us to keep working together. We need to work together. But that was the last time I or Jack or anybody else is going to toodle on down the road to save the damsel in distress from the flaming dragon. From here on in, either we know you well, personally, or you can fry in hell and be served up as a side dish for the Devil's breakfast. Oh, and one more thing. I didn't just have to kill Miss Blakely to bust out of that trap; I had to cap another fed, too, a guy, probably the one pretending to be the abusive stepdad. I don't know if there was a third agent in the apartment or not, a woman pretending to be passed out drunk on the couch. I didn't get that far. But our misguided Good Samaritan bullshit has burned the bull right in the balls. The feds seem to be keeping these killings quiet for now, don't ask me why, but they're not forgetting. The entire Federal Bureau of Investigation is by God pissed, no two ways about it. If they ever get the slightest whiff of our scent, either Jack's and mine or your organization's, it's all over but the screaming. Am I clear?"
Gray looked stricken. "Clear as glass," he whispered. "Treemin, I'm sorry."
"Shit, Gray, I'm sorry, too. Maybe we got past this one. Maybe. You haven't identified any of us to any of your other contacts, right?"
"No…you're known on the YouTube video from the attack up on the Highline, but that's it. None of the other items. Even the wolf DNA analysis was done blind; the lab had no idea who was requesting the workup."
Seeing me wind down, Jack stepped in. "What we had here was a wakeup call. With the possible exception of Tree, who really didn't want to go on this mission in the first place, every one of us called it wrong. But Tree did it right; he even made sure he didn't use his bare hand to open the door to the walkup where Blakely and crew were waiting. If he hadn't sprung the trap, we wouldn't have known that your hacker network had been so thoroughly infiltrated. But the federal hackers who were playing the game didn't know why somebody wanted to know the Execution Committee's location in Pittsburgh; I doubt they realize, even now, that the EC was hit at all, or even what the EC is, what it really does.
"So it seems to me that we've been granted a gift. You've learned that all hackers need to be vetted a lot more thoroughly than they have been in the past. If we blew it, if a clue has been left that will eventually lead to one of us, well, we can't do anything about that. But if we did escape the big bad Uncle Sam wolf by the hair of our chinny-chin-chin, then we'll come out of this as tempered steel. What doesn't kill us really does make us stronger."
Silence settled in the room after Jack's declaration. He and I munched quietly away, wading through teriyaki chicken, vegetable egg foo young, and sesame beef dishes, washing it all down with copious drafts of tea. Gray sat on his stool, staring at the floor, thinking.
"I promise you this," he said finally. "I will never again even hint at suggesting you two might want to take a particular course of action. I'll admit, I did originally mention the arrest of young Piercings in the hope that you would do something about it. When you did act on it, I felt thrilled at first, excited. I guess I was getting a vicarious high from being the knowledge provider behind the scenes. Then when I found out it was a trap…I've never felt that kind of terror. I almost couldn't make that call to you, even though I knew I had to. Not that I hesitated; the minute I understood, I picked up the phone. But…I don't ever want to be in that position again. If you had been caught, or God forbid killed, I don't think I could have lived with myself."
"Suicide?" I cocked an eyebrow, honestly amused."
"Yes," he nodded. "Suicide. I do believe I'd have done it."
Jack and I both laughed out loud. "Shoot, Gray," Hill said between bursts of mirth, "you wouldn't have needed to do that. I can think of fifteen or twenty people who'd have done it for you!"


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The Fred Fallacy
Let me start this post by stating how much respect I have for venture capitalist Fred Wilson. He is easily in the top-5 influential thought leaders […]
Let me start this post by stating how much respect I have for venture capitalist Fred Wilson. He is easily in the top-5 influential thought leaders in the entrepreneur-investor ecosystem. His blog "AVC" is required reading for everyone on both sides of the table. But today he really pulled the trigger too quickly on a post.
He was postulating about a product idea – where entrepreneurs might pay for a report that lists what each venture capital firms' investing criteria is, based on their track records (something that arguably should be on their websites). Let's set aside for a moment that he is proposing a $100 fee for each entrepreneur seeking funding, here's the crux of his argument:
The PWC Money Tree report says that 4,356 startup investments were made in 2014. So I imagine that somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 entrepreneurs are going out to raise VC money on an annual basis right now. If we take the middle of that range (7,500) and assume that an entrepreneur would pay $100 for such a report (probably a lot more but I'm being conservative), then the total available annual market for a service like this would be $750,000 a year. If you could reach 20% of that market, then you have $150,000 a year of income.
Here are a few things I find a little disturbing: A world class venture capitalist thinks that between 5,000 and 10,000 entrepreneurs are chasing 4,356 venture deals. Doing some simple math, the average entrepreneur has a 44% and 87% chance of obtaining venture capital. Every experienced entrepreneur in the world just let out a collective guffaw upon hearing this whopper.
While it is true that venture capitalists invested $48.3 billion in 4,356 deals in 2014 – but only about half those deals were early stage deals and only a third of the total money went into early stage deals. In other words – most venture capital is not invested in startups. The vast majority of deals and money goes into expansion-stage and later-stage companies.
There are hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions of entrepreneurs who are seeking capital (most of them are not that picky where the money comes from). Regardless of this number – last year only 2,357 startup companies received seed or early stage capital from venture capitalists.
Here's what is so unnerving about Fred's back of the napkin analysis: If an entrepreneur walked into his office pitching a startup with such flagrantly flawed assumptions, he'd probably be dismissed out-of-hand. But what's even more disturbing, is that this offhand idea seems to display a sense of a disconnect from his customer: The Entrepreneur. He first assumes that 75% of the market is attainable, and then tosses out the 20% figure arbitrarily, and assumes a price the typical customer would pay based on very little evidence.
OK – we'll cut Mr. Wilson some slack (his contribution to the entrepreneurial knowledge-base over the years warrants this deference), and this was just a casual idea, not a serious pitch. At the same time, it's useful to turn the tables every once in a while (something every entrepreneur fantasizes about every now and then). Could a venture capitalist withstand the same scrutiny for his ideas, as he gives the entrepreneur?
Written by CJ Cornell
Serial Entrepreneur. University Professor. Software Engineer. Media Executive. Venture Capitalist. Researcher. Marketer. Advisor. Mentor. Author and Speaker. Founded or co-founded nearly a dozen companies in software, digital media and television.
For the past few years I've been Co-Director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship and Professor of Digital Media & Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University, and the university's first full time Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Currently Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at New York Institute of Technology and Managing Director at Propel Ventures LLC.
2 Responses to The Fred Fallacy
fred wilson says:
i was counting the number of entrepreneurs that want to raise from VCs, not the number of entrepreneurs who want to access capital for their businesses.
i've continued this discussion with today's post
CJ Cornell says:
No worries. I wanted to make sure this post was not about "calling you out" – but rather an example, to entrepreneurs, of flawed market assumptions. I understand your post was just about tossing out an interesting idea, and new ideas should not be burned at the stake because a few assumptions have not yet been validated.


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Is An Early Spring a Good Thing for Wyoming? [POLL]
The world's most famous rodent weather man, Punxsutawney Phil, has predicted an early spring for us. We can look forward to climbing temperatures, sunny days, and rejuvenation of our landscape. Since we have had one of the driest winters in the record books, is an early spring a good thing?
Wyoming, especially the central portion, has been experiencing an extremely dry winter. Record low snowfall amounts have some worried about the upcoming season's drought. We can typically expect a good snow pack in the mountains that will gradually melt and trickle down giving us plenty of water. This will not be the case this year. We can still hope for a wet spring regardless of when it arrives. Wyoming has seen substantial spring snow storms in the past, so we can still get much needed moisture. Once we move out of the snowy months we can still receive some spring rain showers.
"April showers bring May flowers", lets hope this old saying comes true this year. A wet spring would be a welcome one. If we are to receive an early spring, let us keep our fingers crossed for moist one.


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6 Jul 2011
July 4th, part 3
Buried deep (page 240) in the book, Now, Discover Your Strengths, by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D., is the sentence, "Communism's demise was inevitable because it offered respect to the community but never the individual, and so it drained itself of vitality and spirit, one person at a time."
Wow! Think about that and its implications for a moment.
While the the focus on the community, rather than the individual, is only one of the reasons for Communism's demise it is an important and under-appreciated reason. Some people seem predisposed to focus on groups rather than individuals. And those who focus on groups seem to favor groups of different sizes, from the family, to the village, to the earth.
I belong to the small group of people who believe the individual is important -- much as the authors of our Bill Of Rights did. Further, I believe that the voluntary cooperation between individuals results better and more satisfying lives. That noble goals do not justify ignoble acts, such as coercion.
Consider Buckingham's and Clifton's insight the next time a politician presents their solution to the crisis of the day.
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There is almost always a balance between community and individual drives. It is not a case of 0 or 1, but a statistical balance that shifts over time and context.
Some personal observations:
For the case of almost pure community orientation, one can look at the Inuit. They have no concept of personal ownership, in the harsh situation that formed their culture, you die without the tribe.
The most interesting thing is how these situations shift. When facing a common crisis, community drive comes to the fore. When the binding force lessens, the individual drives come to the fore.
The challenge with depending purely on voluntary cooperation is working on larger, complex problems with longer term horizons. All these factors produce a situation that motivates intimidation, manipulation and poor risk analysis.
A case in point would be looking at the track record related to tobacco over the last 50 years. Someone else's desire to smoke affects my desire to not breathe a toxic plume. The obvious public health choice does not fit well with the voluntary cooperation model. Then there is the clear manipulation of information and discussion by the people who stand to lose if the logical choice is made.
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So you know how the new TSA regulations went into effect yesterday, where you can only fly without ID if you "cooperate" with the TSA? Well, it turns out you also have to take a test about your personal life. They call up a service to administer it, and the last question they asked was which political party am I registered under (I correctly answered "democrat" and they still let me on board).
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Carr worked in the office of Sen. Johnny Isakson. He started in 2004 and became chief of staff in 2007. His previous positions include stints at Georgia-Pacific, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation and with Alston & Bird in Atlanta. He received his law degree and Bachelor of Business Administration degree at the University of Georgia.
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The U.S. and Europe atopic dermatitis market is growing at a significant CAGR due to change in lifestyle, increase in atopic dermatitis population, and pollution and climatic changes. Growing prevalence of the food allergies and growing focus on new therapies are the key factors drive the U.S. and Europe atopic dermatitis market growth. Furthermore, increase in use of pharmacological products in developed countries. Increase in R&D expenditure to develop novel biologics, and improvement in healthcare expenditure might increase the growth of U.S. and Europe atopic dermatitis market over the forecast period. However, the challenge is time to be taken in drug adoption, high price and legal regulations might hamper the growth of U.S. and Europe atopic dermatitis market. Similarly, highly generalized nature of the atopic dermatitis market and lack of awareness on drug usage hinder the growth of U.S. and Europe atopic dermatitis market over the forecast period.
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Some of the players in U.S. and Europe atopic dermatitis market are Sanofi (France), Galderma SA (Nestle) (Switzerland), Allergan (U.S.), Novartis AG (Switzerland), Bristol-Myers Squibb (U.S.), Bayer AG (Germany), Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd (Japan), Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (U.S.), Pfizer Inc. (U.S.), Encore Dermatology, Inc. (U.S.), Medimetriks Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (U.S.), and LEO Pharma A/S (Denmark), to name a few.
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Instructions1. The first thing we do is download the game's installation files.
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17 Jan – Chinese godmother of modelling, Grace Han is unperturbed with Eric Tsang's threats of a lawsuit, following her allegation that he harassed her models in the past.
As reported on Mingpao, on 11 January, following Eric Tsang's denial that he was one of the two showbiz big names that raped former actress Yammie Lam in the past, the former Asia-Pacific president of Ford Models decided to speak up and accused him of sexually assaulting other female celebrities in the past, and alleging that everybody in the entertainment industry knows this.
Han also claimed that one of her models was invited to a karaoke bar by the producer while she was in Hong Kong, and then allegedly found her drink spiked while she was in the loo. Grace stated that the unnamed model was able to get away from the situation, although unfortunately all the other models did not.
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