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The watch officer took one brief look at Tyler's face and slid the visitor's pass across the desk. "Have a nice day."
Tyler resented jumping through hoops for bureaucratic nonsense, and he really couldn't stand being jerked out of the field until the crazy task had been completed. Crazy because any undercover agent worth his salt could fool a shrink.
But regular evals were part of his job as an undercover agent—at least, they had been part of his job until he'd been exposed by the press after his last case closed. As a bonus, his new job—interim job, he reminded himself—also required a visit to the shrink. Lucky him.
In his experience, shrinks came in two varieties, the cheerful and sympathetic wanna-be-your-friend type and the slice-and-dice, cut-out-the-cancer type. He didn't like either one, preferring to deal with things on his own time. Or not.
The utilitarian gray halls of the Sea Breeze, Florida, Police Department weren't complicated, and within minutes of entering the building he found Dr. VanDoren's second-floor office.
The doctor had a white message board on the outside of the door. Someone had drawn a smiley face on it. Great. VanDoren was one of those.
He pushed the cracked door all the way open, knocking on it with two knuckles.
The woman at the desk was on the phone. Lake-blue eyes widened as he entered the room. She pulled an appointment book from a teetering pile on her desk and ran a finger down it, still speaking softly into the phone.
When her finger reached his name, she looked up, giving him a bright smile. She motioned to a chair and raised a finger for him to wait.
He eyed the club chairs. In one she'd left her purse and computer bag. In the other a neat stack of papers and assorted files. He picked up the stack and laid it on the corner of her desk.
Tyler relaxed into the soft leather and watched her as she talked on the phone. She'd turned slightly away from him toward the window. As she spoke, her hands moved in animated gestures. Bright April sunlight streamed in, gilding the corkscrew blond curls.
"All right, then. Talk to you later." She placed the phone on its cradle. "What can I do for you?"
"I'm here to see the doctor."
"About?" She picked what looked like a random envelope from a stack of mail and sliced into it with a wicked letter opener sporting the police seal on its handle.
He stared unblinking, waiting while she glanced over the sheet of paper before tossing it into the trash can. When she lifted her eyes to meet his again, he said, "I think I'll just talk to the doctor—"
She raised one slim eyebrow, a private joke sparkling in her eyes.
Right. "You're Dr. VanDoren."
"Yep." The doc picked up another envelope and cut it open, giving the contents a cursory glance before it followed the last one into the trash can.
"I bet you're killer on the witness stand." He didn't stop to think that his words weren't exactly complimentary.
The psychologist tilted her head. "Defense attorneys do tend to underestimate me."
Another envelope lost its fight with the slick blade in her hand. This one she filed on top of a lopsided pile on her desk before she met his eyes again with a faintly perplexed look, as if surprised to find he was still sitting there. "So why are you here, Mr. Clark?"
"Tyler." He forced himself to sit still. He'd done the same thousands of times before when he'd been undercover and under the close scrutiny of everyone from drug lords to mafia kingpins.
The doc laid the letter opener on top of a stack of unopened envelopes and turned her full attention to him. "Tyler, then. What brings you to my office this morning?"
She surely had to have been briefed by Captain Conyers, but the rule with shrinks, if there was one, was to play along. With practiced ease, he relaxed into the moment, showing her the person she wanted to see.
"I've worked undercover for the DEA for the past several years, mostly in Chicago. My cover was blown nationwide during that big bust the SBPD made a few weeks ago. Basically I had two choices. I could work a desk for the DEA or I could go out on my own."
She laced her fingers, leaning forward on her elbows. "So you decided to go out on your own. What brings you back to Sea Breeze?"
"The personal reason—my family is here. Professionally, I know how drug dealers think. I'm here to teach certain techniques to your police force so that they can spot an infiltration into your community before it gets out of control."
"Your consulting job isn't what brought you to my office." Doc VanDoren's wide blue eyes made him want to tell her everything. His life story. His past.
She had some kind of weapon in those eyes. They looked all innocent, making him want to believe she was easily led. She wasn't.
"I'm here because Conyers wants to make sure I haven't gone over the edge." The blunt words lay heavy in the air.
"And have you?" Her question was equally blunt, unsurprised.
Was the fact that he had to think about it bad?
The doc stood and rounded her desk, her navy-blue skirt swishing as she walked. She sat on the edge of the chair beside him, but didn't touch him. "Tyler, whatever you say here won't go any further. One of the reasons I have a job is to make sure that our law-enforcement personnel have a safe place to talk about the things that happen to them."
Tyler cleared his throat and made himself lift his eyes from where her skirt slid to show her knees. The words came with some difficulty. "I never crossed the line."
Something in his voice must've given him away. She narrowed her eyes. "Okay."
He fought the urge to elaborate. More words just meant more chances to get himself in trouble. He'd learned that early on in undercover work. The less said, the better. People either believed you or they didn't.
She smiled and a dimple winked just under the left corner of her lips. Cute, that was the word for her. He might've asked her out if things were different.
But, he reminded himself, things were different. And real life harder to slip back into every time he came out from under cover.
The doc rubbed one pink-tipped finger across her bottom lip. "I think I can clear you for work with the department."
Tyler took a deep breath. He could hear the hesitation in her voice. "But "
"But if you'd like to come in again, the door is always open. Even with breaks, three years is a long time to be undercover."
He had to make a serious effort to calm the resentment that surged at her words and remind himself that he would do what it took because he needed the job.
He needed the time to figure out what he was going to do with the rest of his life. His mother said God had plans for him.
Tyler could just imagine those plans. "I'm fine."
"I'm sure that's true. Let's just make a note to check in while you're readjusting to life on the outside."
He gritted his teeth into a smile. "Sure thing, Doc."
Gracie VanDoren stood. "I'll see you in a day or two?"
She held out a hand to the ex-special agent. He didn't think he'd crossed the line. Between her quick eval and the glowing letters of commendation from his superiors at the DEA, she had no reason to suspect he wouldn't be fine in the field. She just wondered what his definition of "the line" was.
He got to his feet. His hand swallowed hers as he held it. Dark eyes studied hers. "Why wait? Have dinner with me tonight."
She slid her hand from his grasp with a quick smile. "Thank you for the sweet offer, but I don't date."
He leaned a shoulder on the door frame, lady-killer smile spread across his face. "If you don't date cops, that's no problem. I'm not a cop."
"It's not that. I don't date, period." She rounded her desk, putting it between them. The more space the better. She smiled again and picked up the letter opener.
"You don't really?"
The disbelief on his face would have made her laugh if she hadn't seen dozens of variations of the same look over the past ten years. She chose not to date. Period.
She had lots of reasons, but the biggest was that she wanted a real relationship, one built on friendship and trust. Mutual faith.
She ignored the little voice inside that whispered, "Yeah, how's that been working out for you?"
"Let me know if you'd like another appointment." Gracie reached for the stack of mail on her desk yet to be opened. She knew when he left because the room just felt empty. He was something.
He hadn't said anything inconsistent, exactly. No huge waving red flags. He seemed remarkably secure, but there was something in his eyes. It was instinct, really, more than anything concrete that made her think he might want to talk. Just something.
Gracie sighed and picked up another envelope from the precarious stack on her desk. She sliced into it and slid out a single sheet of paper.
Block letters shouted the message: I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL YOU DIE.
Her pulse thudded over the roar in her ears, her breathing short and shallow. Her fingers tightened unconsciously to grip the paper.
"What does it say?" The deep voice came from the door.
She dropped the thing on her desk. Looking up, she met Tyler Clark's too-shrewd brown eyes. She gave herself a second for her heart rate to return to something resembling normal and said, "Nothing. It's just a bill I forgot about. Already back for another appointment?"
He walked closer. "Whatever that is, it isn't 'nothing.'
Something in that note scared the daylights out of you.
What did it say?"
Gracie pushed the paper toward him. He didn't pick it up, but he scrutinized it. "Is this the first one you've gotten like this?"
She laughed—a quick, non-humorous burst. Without saying a word, she opened a file drawer, pulled out a file and tossed it on her desk. About an inch thick, it held the letters. The phone calls, those were just in her memory.
He flipped through the pages like a deck of cards.
"All these?"
"I've testified in the majority of felony cases in this county in the past four years. Most of the offenders think they wouldn't be serving time if it wasn't for me," She shrugged. "I'm a convenient scapegoat. And they send me love letters."
He dropped the stack on the desk. "Is that what they're calling them these days?"
Gracie pursed her lips, giving the file the stink eye. In one way, it was a testimony to the fact that she did her job. In another, it just showed that some people weren't willing to take responsibility for their own actions. Mostly she tended to file the letters and forget them. Yet something about this one sent a shiver of premonition up her spine.
"I need tea."
"What?" Tyler Clark's dark eyebrows drew together.
She hadn't realized that she'd said it out loud. What did that say about her mental health? "Don't you know that a good cup of tea cures everything?"
"Didn't know that, but duly noted. Are you going to give that letter to your CSI team, see if they can figure out where it came from?" He eased a hip onto the corner of her desk. He towered over her, but she was used to that, working in what was still generally a man's world.
"No. It's not necessary."
"You really think that's smart?"
She lifted one shoulder. "I almost always file the letters and never hear from them again. Writing the letter is the play for them. Most of them are in prison anyway."
"What about the ones that just got paroled?" Tyler crossed his arms, the fabric of his dress shirt taut against his biceps.
Gracie swallowed hard and leaned back in her chair. "In cases I testified in, I get a courtesy call from the warden before the inmates are released from custody."
He nodded. "Any calls recently?"
"One or two." Answering his questions, she felt a little like the patient instead of the doctor.
The former agent stood and tucked his hands into the pockets of his boot-cut jeans, his shirt tails hanging loose. Did he know what his attire said about him?
The dress shirt would be considered required, but the jeans and untucked shirt said he wasn't a rule follower. So, she would guess, yes. She smiled up at him.
His face held a toughness, his demeanor an edginess that came from years of living a dangerous double life. But his eyelashes were a black, sooty smudge as he blinked at her. Pretty.
She smiled wider.
"It looks like you have two options, Doc. You can report it to one of the very skilled detectives in the SBPD. Or you can put the paper in your file and forget about it."
Gracie opened her mouth to say she planned to forget it as he said, "I highly suggest option one."
She closed her mouth and scowled. For the first time, she saw a real hint of amusement in Tyler Clark's eyes.
He tilted his head and a dark curl fell across his forehead. "There could be one more option."
"What would that be?" She leaned back in her desk chair and crossed her legs.
"Consulting for the SBPD doesn't exactly fill my day planner. If you'd like to give me the note and the names, I can check it out for you. I have some investigative experience."
Tyler was being modest. The letters she'd read from his superiors at the DEA had been glowing with praise for Tyler's talent as an agent.
She didn't want to be the person who ignored the thing that could've saved her life. She also didn't want to give credence to something she knew from experience was most likely an empty threat. If they followed up on every letter she got, it would be a massive waste of manpower.
Tyler picked up one of Gracie's cards from the holder on her desk. "Gracie? As in 'Amazing'?"
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Love Inspired is always good, but I particularly enjoyed this one. The characters are interesting, and the premise creates the suspense that makes the story. Tyler's family adds another angle that gets deeper with the other books in the series. This is a good, quick read, just right for an evening of totally enjoyable reading since you won't want to put it down.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
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I really enjoyed this book. It was a good read and I had trouble putting it down. There was a lot of action in it. Love Inspired Suspense are my favorite series. If you are a Christian they are especially wonderful because you get to enjoy a good book that is "clean" as well. I love how God is talked about in these books. He is prayed to and kept in their lives. It is the kind of books I have always wanted to read. I am glad I have found this series! There is still everyday lives and real things that people go through, but they pray and ask God for guidance, and yet plenty of romance and suspense too! The perfect combination of all! just loved it!!!!Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
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WHEN HE WAS a young man Billy Beane could beat anyone at anything. He was so naturally superior to whomever he happened to be playing against, in whatever sport they happened to be playing, that he appeared to be in a different, easier game. By the time he was a sophomore in high school, Billy was the quarterback on the football team and the high scorer on the basketball team. He found talents in himself almost before his body was ready to exploit them: he could dunk a basketball before his hands were big enough to palm it.
Billy's father, no athlete himself, had taught his son baseball from manuals. A career naval officer, he'd spend nine months on end at sea. When he was home, in the family's naval housing, he was intent on teaching his son something. He taught him how to pitch: pitching was something you could study and learn. Whatever the season he'd take his son and his ¬dog-¬eared baseball books to empty Little League diamonds. These sessions weren't simple fun. Billy's father was a perfectionist. He ran their pitching drills with military efficiency and boot camp intensity.
Billy still felt lucky. He knew that he wanted to play catch every day, and that every day, his father would play catch with him.
By the time Billy was fourteen, he was six inches taller than his father and doing things that his father's books failed to describe. As a freshman in high school he was brought up by his coach, over the angry objections of the older players, to pitch the last varsity game of the season. He threw a shutout with ten strikeouts, and went two for four at the plate. As a ¬fifteen-¬year-¬old sophomore, he hit over .500 in one of the toughest high school baseball leagues in the country. By his junior year he was six foot four, 180 pounds and still growing, and his high school diamond was infested with major league scouts, who watched him hit over .500 again. In the first big game after Billy had come to the scouts' attention, Billy pitched a ¬two-¬hitter, stole four bases, and hit three triples. ¬Twenty-¬two years later the triples would remain a California schoolboy record, but it was the way he'd hit them that stuck in the mind. The ballpark that day had no fences; it was just an endless hot tundra in the San Diego suburbs. After Billy hit the first triple over the heads of the opposing outfielders, the outfielders played him deeper. When he hit it over their heads the second time, the outfielders moved back again, and played him roughly where the parking lot would have been outside a big league stadium. Whereupon Billy hit it over their heads a third time. The crowd had actually laughed the last time he'd done it. That's how it was with Billy when he played anything, but especially when he played baseball: blink and you might miss something you'd never see again.
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JUNE 29, 2007--K-12 teachers in St. Croix and Pierce counties are gaining fresh ideas for curriculum content and new teaching methods in their classroom at a two-week summer workshop at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.
The workshop is hosted at UWRF and funded by a grant from the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which provides professional development for educators.
Teachers can earn graduate academic credit and are taught by faculty from the UWRF College of Arts and Sciences, College of Education and Professional Studies, and the College of Business, as well as peer K-12 teachers.
For the past three years, UWRF has offered the seminars to teachers in less populated, northern Wisconsin counties where professional development opportunities are not readily available. Now for the first time the seminars are being offered in this region.
Mary Manke, associate dean of the college of education and professional studies, said that it was time to "bring the project home" for local teachers.
Some 37 teachers from Prescott, Ellsworth, River Falls, St. Croix Central, Hudson, Somerset and Osceola were invited to attend the seminar to introduce new content to use in classrooms through techniques called "backward design" and to enhance learning for all students through "differentiated instruction."
Backward design means that teachers first decide what concepts the students will learn and then design the classroom activities to teach students those concepts. Traditionally teachers begin by planning activities for their classes and then plan concepts to teach around those activities.
Differentiated instruction is a process to approach teaching and learning for students of differing abilities in the same class. The process recognizes the diversity of students' background knowledge, readiness, language, preferences in learning, interests, and ability to react responsively. The intent of differentiated instruction is to maximize each student's growth and individual success by meeting or assisting each student at where he or she is in the learning process.
Combining backward design with differentiated instruction helps teachers adapt instruction so all kids along the spectrum of abilities are able to benefit from the unit, Manke said.
The first week of the seminar focused on new, exciting content to apply in classrooms from new studies, current literature and other timely materials available in their content areas.
In the second week, teachers used backward design and differentiated instruction to plan units for use in their classrooms.
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NEW YORK– Carmelo Anthony scored 23 points, J.R. Smith kept up his surge with 20 and the New York Knicks snapped the San Antonio Spurs' seven-game winning streak with a 100-83 victory Thursday night.
Steve Novak added 15 points and Tyson Chandler had 10 points and 14 rebounds to help the Knicks bounced back from consecutive losses by dominating the final period against the Spurs, who may have run out of gas in their second game in two nights.
Tim Duncan and Tony Parker each had just 11 points for the Spurs, who lost Stephen Jackson to an unusual injury, then lost what had been the NBA's longest winning streak.
Jackson played just three minutes off the bench before spraining his right ankle when he took a shot then fell back into a waitress working the sideline in front of Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Smith, who had scored 25 points in his last four games as a reserve, highlighted his outing with an acrobatic dunk in the fourth quarter that brought fans to their feet. The pass came from reserve point guard Pablo Prigioni, who had one of his most complete games since coming to the NBA at age 35, finishing with six points and nine assists.
The Knicks put away what had been a close game for three quarters, scoring the first 10 points of the fourth to take a 17-point lead. The Spurs, playing for the fourth time in five nights, went with reserves from there and never put much of a dent in it.
San Antonio, which averaged 111.7 points on 53.4 percent shooting during its winning streak and rang up 117 points on Wednesday in Milwaukee, shot just 36 percent. Gary Neal led the Spurs with 12 points.
Spurs coach Gregg Popovich praised the Knicks' defense before the game, though it had slipped during their stretch of three losses in four games. Looking for a fix, coach Mike Woodson gave Marcus Camby a start at forward in hopes of ending the Knicks' slow starts, and they allowed just 19 points in the first quarter.
Amare Stoudemire had 10 points on 4-of-10 shooting in his second game of the season after knee surgery. He seemed more aggressive than in his debut Tuesday but is clearly without his typical explosiveness, having a number of shots blocked when he tried to power his way inside.
Leading 67-60 after three, the Knicks opened the fourth with a 10-0 run that made it 77-60 on Novak's 3-pointer with 10:24 remaining. New York poured it on from there, the lead growing to 20 when Smith caught a lob from Prigioni around his waist while in the air and slammed it home. Novak followed with another 3-pointer on the next possession to make it 95-72.
Jackson entered the game just 13 seconds in, but his night was over late in the period after his bizarre injury. Jackson launched a 3-pointer from the corner with 3:23 left, stepping backward out of bounds after the miss and falling onto the waitress. He limped back onto the court as the Knicks played with a 5-on-4 advantage that led to Anthony's 3-pointer. The Spurs then took a timeout and Jackson limped off toward the locker rooms.
It was unclear if the waitress was serving Bloomberg, who was seen eating a box of popcorn shortly after.
Woodson said before the game he thought the Spurs were the best team in basketball right now, though Popovich dismissed that as gamesmanship he learned from Larry Brown. San Antonio sure didn't look its best while losing for the first time since a 112-106 setback at Denver on Dec. 18 and getting held well below its NBA-best 105.9 points per game.
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- The IRS has lost more emails of
employees in its tax exempt division. The revelation from the House Ways and Means
Committee follows Friday's disclosure that a computer crash eliminated thousands
of emails from former division chief Lois Lerner. Investigators now say another
six division employees had their computers crash. Among them was Nikole Flax,
chief of staff to then-deputy commissioner Steven Miller. Miller resigned last
year when the agency admitted it had improperly handled tax exempt applications
from conservative groups. Two Republican lawmakers call on the Justice Department
to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the IRS. (Associated Press)
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China's economy registered 7.4 per cent growth in the first quarter of the year — a figure that most emerging economies would perhaps deem robust, but the slowest growth in China over the past five quarters, underlining renewed concerns here over falling investment, a cooling real estate market and a slump in foreign trade. Growth in the first three months fell from 7.7 per cent in the last quarter of 2013.
Chinese officials said the figures reflected the economy entering a new period of lower growth where the focus would be on structural adjustment — away from investment-driven growth to boosting domestic demand and high technology industries — rather than on achieving double-digit growth rates.
"After high speed double-digit growth rate of over 30 years, we have now entered a new stage of transformation and transition," said Sheng Laiyun, Director-General at the National Bureau of Statistics. "This is still around our set target of 7.5 per cent so it is within our expected range," he said. "If you look at the world, a growth rate of 7.4 per cent is still a high speed growth rate."
Nevertheless, the slowing down economy has concerned analysts, with growth this year, if below 7.6 per cent, likely to be the slowest since 1990. Growth has continued to decline since 2010, when the economy grew 10.4 per cent propelled by a massive $586 billion stimulus plan put in place after the financial crisis by a leadership worried about job losses.
A subsequent surge in fixed asset investment has, however, worsened imbalances, and created bubbles in sectors such as real estate and steel — where a boom also helped fuel record imports of ores from countries like India — prompting the government to put in place a rebalancing plan. "This is like driving a car uphill," Mr. Sheng said, "If you slow down, it is a bit easier to drive more steadily. We are now in a crucial period of shifting gear."
Yet, the government has found it hard to hit the brakes: this quarter, despite the overcapacity fears, fixed asset investment grew 17.6 per cent, although 3.3 percentage points lower than last year. Investment in real estate grew 16.8 per cent. However, sales of commercial buildings and residential buildings were down by 5.2 per cent and 7.7 per cent, respectively.
Mr. Sheng said the 'brightest spot' was signs of readjustment. Domestic demand was making a greater contribution to growth, with retail sales up 12 per cent and consumption accounting for 65 per cent of GDP, he said.
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Nikesh Murali, winner of the Commonwealth Short Story prize for the Asian region in 2011, talks about his determination to become a writer, and his style of writing
Nikesh Murali, the winner of the Commonwealth Short Story prize for the Asian region in 2011, resides in one Commonwealth country while he hails from another where all his stories are located. A true blue 'Trivandrumite' now living in Canberra, he belongs to a new generation of writers who believe success is not an accident, but something with a pattern that needs a determined path of preparation.
Nikesh admits he always knew that he wanted to be a writer and his planning for life reflects just that. "I started writing and publishing my poetry mostly in e-zines. Lecturers of Mar Ivanios College, where I did my Bachelors degree in English Literature from, fostered and encouraged my creative pursuits." He is currently doing a part-time Ph.D. in Creative Writing at James Cook University in Australia.
"I think a PhD in Creative Writing will give my literary fiction manuscript the gravity it needs to make it to a major publisher."
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This is his first international win, but he has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2007 as well as for a few local writing awards in Australia. So where do his stories come from?
"My fiction is mostly set in India and is written for an Indian audience and an international audience that would like to connect with stories from our region. The Maoist, the story which won the Commonwealth prize is inspired by my longstanding concern for the brutal civil war that has been raging in the red corridor and my distaste for middle class Indians who would much rather ignore the whole issue than use their clout to improve the condition of people there. The Prostitute is a real life story narrated by a friend."
If he is so concerned about his part of the world, then why did he leave it and choose to live elsewhere? "I was not fleeing; I left India partly because I needed the distance to tell these stories effectively. I was seeking a vantage point, the sharp eye of an outsider. "
Nikesh started off with poetry, but soon took up fiction. "I wanted access to more readers and that is how I took up writing short fiction. I have been writing and regularly publishing short fiction since 2005. I have been lucky finding an audience for my stories via online magazines and academic journals. I was also recognised locally in Townsville, in the state of Queensland for my fiction. I was nominated for Townsville Award in Writing twice."
So, what does he like to read? His reading? "My favourite is Marquez and my literary god is Cormac McCarthy."
So what does the Commonwealth recognition mean to him? "The Commonwealth Short Story prize win has definitely given me the recognition I need to progress to my next goal which is to write longer works of fiction."
His connection with Malayalam Literature? "I have started reading some of the classic Malayalam novels. Legends of Khasak is a favourite. I am also reading works by M.T. and Mukundan. I am working on a novella set in Kerala as homage to O.V. Vijayan. I would like to get some short stories translated into Malayalam and get it published in Kerala. It's just that I am more comfortable writing in English."
How about his graphic novels? "You often write what you read. So it was a natural progression for me to work with artist Vinay Brahmania to create a children's graphic novel titled Veera the Guardian set in a fantasy world where a rag picker turns into a super hero. The series was so successful that the publishers were inundated with phone calls from readers demanding more. Vinay and I have a few more projects in the pipeline. Indian comic book industry is undergoing a revival and I am glad to be a part of this new wave of writing."
Nikesh is also currently at work at a supernatural romance for young adults which he hopes will be "India's answer to the Twilight series and I hope I can write a grammatically correct, less sparkly version." Nikesh is a communications manager in the Australian Public Service. He is also a creative writing trainer.
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Ok guys, these posts are getting a bit off topic,please continue discussion on expanded evolution lines in Gen 6 as that's what the thread is for. Thank you.
Ok guys, these posts are getting a bit off topic,please continue discussion on expanded evolution lines in Gen 6 as that's what the thread is for. Thank you.
I'd love to see Girafarig to get an evolution this generation, if it means that I get to see a Giraffe that's actually tall this time around.
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I have a feeling that Sylveon isn't the only Eeveelution this time around. Every even generation so far has given us two new eeveelutions, so why can't we get another one? They still need one more type to finish off the old special types that governed the first three generations. That's why I think that we're getting a Dragon Type eeveelution. I've even worked out what it's stats could possibly be based on the average for dragon types:
Atk: 130 (dragons have high Attack)
Def: 95
Sp. Atk: 110 (average for dragons is fairly high here)
Sp. Def: 65
Speed: 60 (low speed compared to attack)
All the Eeveelutions have a few moves in common (Tackle, Helping Hand, Tail Whip and Sand-Attack, along with Last Resort) so a dragon type Eevee would have Quick Attack to make up for its low speed. Twister and Dragon Rage would be low level moves that it could learn. DragonBreath would be another move to match what they others can learn at around the same power. Dual Chop I could see filling in for right after, or a new Dragon move. Dragon Dance would fill in for the non-damage move. I'd say probably counter, Dragon Tail or some other new move could go to fill in the next slot. Dragon Pulse would go to fill in the next move. Outrage would end up filling things out in the end.
In the end, the only moves that wouldn't be used are Dragon Rush and Dragon Claw, which don't really fit in the whole Eeveelution sense. Just a thought as to how things could go.
I would love to see a Dragon Eeveelution :D I also would love to see a baby evolution for Absol because I think it would be very cute :3
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if we get a dragon or bug eevee, i'd like those two to be paired with a ghost eevee, since of all the types, those three are the least "elemental" and would fit together well. although, if fairy is a/the new type, it would also fit with those other three as non-elemental sort of.
anyway, i'm bummed sylveon is probably the only eeveelution this time. oh well. just ensures more future generations. xD
i've also been thinking more and more that i'd like to see quilfish. people wanted one for genV and it didnt happen, and i still think the little guy has potential. :D
I think that if they expanded largely on the Gen III Pokemon it would be cool, but what id be more interested in is more split evolutions like Tyrogue so we could evolve into different Pokemon based on one stat or another.
Re-visiting Banette, I just found some really cool designs for a Banette evolution that I thought I'd share here. They both take a different approach too, so there is some pretty cool variation.
Distortion Form:
Ignore the 'form' part and imagine it's a Banette evolution. I absolutely love this idea purely because it works INCREDIBLY well with Banette's back-story and original concept. I'd probably change the design a bit, but I really like the idea of Banette's zipper-mouth opening and releasing all that evil energy and hatred - like a demon within - finally able to exact revenge on the careless child who abandoned it. It just works so well.
Personally I don't like the jester-approach as much as the Distortion idea, but only because I love the Distortion idea so much. What I like about the jester-approach is just how horrifying and fear-inducing Shupputeer looks; it fits the bill perfectly. Surprisingly it also does kind-of work with Banette's back-story, concept, etc; during Banette's life-time of neglect, hatred and carelessness, it learned to manipulate others and control them. With it's new-found manipulative abilities, it became a master puppeteer of life and death, so-to-speak.
I think these designs would have great potential if they were actually Pokémon.
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Aka using a firestone on a Simisage or leafstone on simisear would make it a Grass/Fire Monkey. Would allow for a cool fire/grass, fire/water and water/grass set of monkeys that each would learn a different set of TM (no level up moves) and ofc a completely unique set of pre evo moves from whichever Pan they evolved from.
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Tom Delay wants to revamp the courts [1]and hold judges accountable for not bowing to the political needs of the legislature. President Bush is asserting his executive authority to detain Muslims indefinitely without charges and without representation. It is time for the judicial branch to step up and defend us before Congress and the Bush administration erode all our civil liberties and turn the judiciary into a puppet of corporate and political America.
There is a group of lawyers who are doing just that. The Center for Constitutional Rights lists more than 200 attorneys who are working on 140 Guantanamo prisoners' habeas corpus petitions and "challenging the government to explain why it is holding them." Read more about these attorneys and their clients in the CagePrisoners.com [2].
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We started this thing with absolutely nothing in the bank. We're doing it in a way that, we hope, will keep expenses to a minimum. Online publication will essentially eliminate printing, distribution, and inventory costs, for example. But we will, unavoidably, incur some expenses, and we welcome help.
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Seeing pickles or thinking about pickles or reading the world pickle…pickle, pickle, pickle…will cause most people's mouths to water. It is an involuntary action but one which contributes to Americans voluntarily consuming 20 billion pickles every year. That means that every American, including you, eats about eight pounds of pickles annually. Evidently we have not been able to escape the legacy of Amerigo Vespucci, a pickle peddler from Seville, who lent his name to our continent.
We have, while eating so many pickles, won several wars and grown rich. Given the current state of affairs perhaps we should eat more or perhaps we should eat less. It is a question beyond my reckoning. But the kind of pickles we should eat is simple. We should eat the genuine kosher dills made by the Goldin Pickle Company of Dallas. These are the Platonic pickle, the idea form other pickles aspire towards but never equal, the finest pickles that have ever been made or will ever be mad. Even God in Heaven, the Host of Hosts, serves Goldin pickles.
The Goldin Pickle Company and, by extension, the Goldin pickle, exist today because a long tradition happened to be maintained by a happy accident. The long tradition began somewhere along the Indus River far back in antiquity, which was when and where the cucumber was first cultivated. Ancient traders carried seeds from this heavenly plant to the Tigris Valley in Mesopotamia around 2000 BC. Here pickling joined smoking and salting as a way of preserving food, and the knowledge of pickling and the lust for pickles soon spread to all people in all lands. But the inspiration, nay the genius, for making pickles did not spread evenly. Pickles made by Oklahomans, for instance, are justly treated with contempt outside that state's borders and recent archaeological finds indicate that this true at least far back as the Bronze Age. The finest expression of pickling seems to have traveled along trade routes from Mesopotamia to Eastern Europe where, sometime in the nineteenth century, somewhere in czarist Russia, a member of the Goldin family either concocted or had the discretion to recognize the recipe that would produce the finest pickle ever.
That is the heritage. The happy accident is actually a combination of two happy accidents. The first is the Goldin family bringing the recipe when they immigrated to the United States. The second was the Goldins' coming to Dallas and opening a meat market 58 years ago. And the third (much to my amazement, I now discover it was a combination of three happy accidents) was the Goldins' decision to keep a barrel of pickles they made from their family recipe in front of their market. The meat company customers, being no fools, recognized immediately the treasure the barrel contained. As time went on the Goldins got an increasing number of demands for their pickles, so many, in fact, that 30 years ago Mr. Simon Goldin, along with his sister, Mrs. Mary Friedman, closed down the meat business they had built up with their father and opened the Goldin Pickle Company in a small, single-story frame building across the street from Fair Park. The Business has remained in that location to this day.
Pickles, besides making one's mouth water, also have the effect of making people think up silly jokes, and when I pulled into the Goldin Pickle Company's small parking lot I was filled to the brim with jokes. I had amended Mae West's classic line to "Hello, big boy. Is that a pickle in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?" Funny, yes; but still I felt this would not be a line I could use when introducing myself to Mr. Goldin. I thought I might be able to spring a few of the gags I'd received in a package from the Pickle Packers International, Inc., an organization for "those who think pickles" that has "served the pickle industry for over half a century." They had informed me that pickles, tired of being served with hamburgers and hot dogs, but not with chicken, had form a Pickle Liberation Movement whose members demanded to be referred as Ps. And when I noticed that the recent-model automobile in the lot, the nicest one there and obviously Mr. Goldin's, had personalized license plates that read PICKLE, I thought I might be able to get away with some of those What's-long-and-green-and-swims-in-the-ocean?-Moby-Pickle jokes that had me so popular in high school. But when I walked inside I wondered what had made me think jokes were going to be necessary. Mr. Goldin, a small, dapper, healthy-looking man of fully 76 years, dispelled my forced hysteria with his straightforward answers to my questions, his enthusiasm for our subject, and his quiet assurance that, while he made the best pickle ever there were things in the world more important than pickles no matter how good those pickles were. All of which is only to explain why I could hear Mr. Goldin tell me, "The genuine kosher dill is a perishable pickle," and have that register on my brain as something mildly funny at the same time it was a useful and more or less intriguing piece of information.
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Pretty good use of your body and good arm (pronation) movement.
You have some good advice above already. But adding in the greater shoulder rotation will take a long time to get the timing down.
What I would recommend you working on first is the following:
1. Get a more agressive shoulder angle by getting your tossing arm up straighter.
In pic 1, Pete has his shoulder angle so steep that his tossing shoulder is straight up, and his hitting shoulder is straight down.
[Note that over the hitting his sequence in pic 10, he will end up with his hitting shoulder straight up, and his tossing shoulder is straight down. That reversal takes his arm through a longer distance, giving more time to build up speed.]
2. Don't drop your tossing arm too soon - it looks like you are letting your tossing arm drift down too early.
If you let your tossing arm start to drift down to early, you will lose that steep shoulder angle I recommend above.
Look how long Pete's tossing arm stays straight up in the above photos from pic 3- pic 9 while he is increasing his knee bend and forming more of a bow shape to get into his optimum trophy position to exlplode from.
3. Get a little more lean back of the upper body. See pics 3-9 above. As you have your tossing arm up and are then bending your knees and getting into more of a bow shape, bend back FROM THE KNEES WITH YOUR HEELS OFF THE COURT (not by arching your back) to get more of the lean back you see Pete gets by pic 9 in his trophy position.
[This will not only help your swing, but help prevent a shoulder injury from opening up the shoulder angle, with less impingement on the most superior of the rotator cuff tendons (supraspinatus).]
As you do this, you will notice you've got to change the angle of your racquet so it appears that you are not hitting with as straight an arm through racquet angle as you currently do.
But that means you will have a better pronation movement - with the increased power that a more powerful pronation will give you.
You can see this appearance of the racquet looking at more of an angle to the hand at ball impact in pic 19 above. But notice in the preceeding pics how the racquet/arm can be pronated through a greater distance for more power, plus the greater low to high motion for more spin.
4. "You've got to drop the left shoulder" - Jim McLennan
In this video, Jim emphasizes that getting great shoulder over shoulder action is good for your shoulder - there is no pinching of the rotator cuff.
But this is also the way to fully utilize your upper body movement for maximal power and spin.
Look at that first sequence of the Sampras serve above. In pic 1 his tossing shoulder is straight up and his hitting shoulder is straight down.
His shoulder angle totally reverses in the next sequences, so that at ball strike (pic 7) his hitting shoulder is straight up and his tossing shoulder is straight down.
Again, I think you can incorporate all these tips fairly easily into your current already pretty good serve.
After incorporating these, I think you THEN can go on to incorporating the big shoulder turn that will get you even more power.
But as you can see from the above sequence where Pete ends up with his
facing the court that this needs to start during the ball toss, and I think for most this harder to add in than the above, even though it should eventually be your goal.
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Call him Aaron History. Diamondbacks second baseman Aaron Hill became the second player in major league history to hit for the cycle twice in a season when he repeated in a 9-3 victory at Milwaukee on Friday. It was the second time Hill had done it in 11 days and the first double-cycle since Babe Herman had two for the Brooklyn Robins in 1931. "He's been locked in lately," D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said. "It's a great, great feat." Hill hit a ground-rule double that bounced over the fence down the left-field line in the first inning, looped a single to left-center to help ignite a five-run third, hammered a hanging breaking ball from Randy Wolf for a two-run homer and an 8-1 lead in the fourth, and tripled to right center to drive in the D-backs' final run in the sixth. Hill hit his first cycle in four plate appearances in a 7-1 victory over Seattle on June 18. He struck out in his fifth at-bat Friday. "It feels great. First and foremost, it is fun to contribute and win ...
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In today's Back 9 Links, BuzzFeed looks at how Facebook's newsfeed isn't that newsy. Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
Useful, thought-provoking and random links for the entrepreneurially-minded that caught our eye on Tuesday, August 19:
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text: Prior to teaching at the University of Utah College of Law, Louisa Heiny was a Professor of Legal Writing at the University of Colorado Law School from 2003 to 2009. While at CU, she taught Legal Writing, Appellate Advocacy, Trial Advocacy, Criminal Procedure, and Criminal Law. In her first year, the student body named her the Outstanding New Professor. Professor Heiny was a member of the Colorado Supreme Court Sub-Committee on Plain Language Jury Instructions, as well as an Appellate Judge for the University of Colorado Office of Judicial Affairs. Professor Heiny studied law at the University of Colorado School of Law, where she was an associate editor of the University of Colorado Law Review and a Rothgerber Teaching Fellow. After graduating salutatorian and Order of the Coif, she clerked for Chief Judge Lewis T. Babcock of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado and practiced as a Deputy District Attorney in the Denver District Attorney's Office.