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What do managers do? A study of five CEOs and studies of managers conclude that managerial work involves interpersonal roles, informational roles, and decisional roles. These roles require developing peer relationships, carrying out negotiations, motivating subordinates, resolving conflicts, establishing information networks, making decisions with little or ambiguous information, and allocating resources. This article includes a commentary by the author outlining his perspective 15 years after the original publication of the article. McKinsey Award Winner.
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This delectable dinner features beers from Yards' Ales of the Revolution, authentically crafted brews inspired by the 18th-century recipes of founding fathers Washington, Jefferson and Franklin. Guests will enjoy their appetizers with Saison, a Belgian-style ale available only during the warm months, as a Yards representative discusses historic brewing. Then guests will be seated at Gadsby's Tavern Restaurant for a seasonal green salad topped with grilled salmon paired with Thomas Jefferson's Tavern Ale and followed by a rosemary pork tenderloin entrée served with roasted vegetables on a bed of rice and paired with Richard's Tavern Spruce Ale. Following dinner, delight in dessert with Porter Chocolate Truffles, made by Rob Kingsbury of Alexandria's own ACKC, and paired with Washington's Tavern Porter.
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After wrestlers like Trish, Lita, Chyna, Jazz had left the ring, the WWE Women's Division has become nothing more than a joke! Every now and then a jewel or two will pop up in the Women's Division such as Mickie James, Victoria and now AJ Lee. But other than that, there haven't really been much to look forward to and when there is, it's because the Female talent is latching onto one of the top Male
After reading some info on this site about what they are going to do with the Cena and Nexus storyline, I am hella mad. Why would they do that? Instead of letting Cena just turn on them why not let his slowly accept their way of thinking.
He would slowly see that with the power of Nexus he could run WWE. He would work his way into Nexus slowly but surly pushing Wade out of the picture
Well I must say, I am very impress with what I have seen lately with Kane. I just wonder why WWE have waited so long to used this very talent Superstar? He has the mic skills and the ability to put on a show.
So why wait so long to give him a major championship? This is how I would have done it. Once Kane came back and was able to talk I would have been building up his reputation.
I have been a long time WWF/E fan since the first time I've watched Stone Cold Steven Austin open a can of whip ass on Triple H, which would start my long and everlasting hate for his character.
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What Strange Creatures by Emily Arsenault
Morrow • $14.99 • ISBN 9780062283238
Published July 22, 2014
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What are you supposed to do on the second night your brother is in jail on a murder charge?
Should you watch The Colbert Report? Should you clean the black crud from behind your kitchen faucet? Should you make yourself a smoothie with protein powder?
I did all of these things trying to forget the prosecutor's words: Her body was found in a wooded area, about ten yards from the side of Highway 114. According to autopsy reports, she died of strangulation and also had a deep wound in her upper left thigh, consistent with assault using a screw-driver or scissors.
But what was I supposed to do? Was I supposed to settle into the situation and practice saying things like, "Jeff? You didn't hear? He's in the clink. Homicide." Or in reminiscent fashion, with a long, throaty cough and the resigned wave of a cigarette: "Back when Jeff was still on the outside . . ."
Probably I wouldn't need to practice. Probably one grows used to saying these things, as the first nights turn into first weeks, then months and years.
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Mary Kubica's startling debut thriller, The Good Girl, has been enjoying plenty of buzz and anticipation ahead of today's release.
Our reviewer has high praise for this "psychological puzzle that will keep readers on their toes" complete with an "especially satisfying" end reveal.
Mia Dennett, a 24-year-old art teacher, comes from a well-groomed family and seems poised to continue climbing Chicago's social ladder—until the day she vanishes without a trace.
Told from alternating points of view and timelines, this mystery is sure to keep you confounded until Kubica finally puts the pieces in order.
Watch the trailer below, but don't say we didn't warn you about the creep-out factor:
What do you think, readers? Interested in reading more? Check out our Q&A with Kubica for The Good Girl.
A chain of names leads to a chain of murders in Timothy Hallinan's latest hardboiled mystery, Herbie's Game. When a list of names linking back to a burglary goes missing, people on the list start popping up dead. Professional crook and sometimes detective Junior Bender takes up the case, and soon discovers that his recently murdered mentor and father-figure might not be all he claimed to be. Our reviewer says of the book: "With complex characters, spicy dialogue, clever plot devices and a liberal dose of humor—as is always the case with Hallinan—Herbie's Game is a fine read." (Read the full review here.)
Murakami is my favorite living novelist, and he has a new book coming out in a month or two, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, so I went back to his most recent book to get ready for the new one–sort of like a wind sprint in preparation for a race. Murakami is a dazzler and a magician: his books are as much cascades of imagination as they are conventionally organized stories. A young Tokyo woman caught up in a traffic jam abandons her taxi and climbs down a ladder leading from the elevated roadway into a new world— an urban rabbit-hole that ends in a Tokyo with two moons. Here a love affair with God only knows how much karma behind it takes place and events follow a kind of dream logic; a jazz-like riffing on themes of love and disappointment. I hope that doesn't make it sound too forbidding. Like all great magic, it's fascinating even when you don't know how it works.
Jade Lady Burning
By Martin Limon
Limon owns the impoverished world of Vietnam War-era Korea the same way James Lee Burke owns the Louisiana bayous. His Eighth Army investigator heroes, the sensitive Sueno and the combative Bascom---who's never seen a wall he isn't willing to walk through-- are (in my mind) among the great pairs in detective fiction. This, the first book in the series, sees the team pulled into the murder of a Korean prostitute, a crime no one, Korean or American, is eager to investigate. Limon nails two conflicting worlds: the U. S. Army with its rigid codes and knuckleheaded, cover-your-butt officers and occupied, pre-miracle Cold War Korea, a place marked by the truculence of an ancient society knuckling under to a new one. The New York Times named this one of their Best Books of 1992, and they got it right.
Amy Falls Down
By Jincy Willett
This is the most recent book by one of the world's funniest and most level-eyed writers. In this, her third novel, Amy Gallup, a reclusive writer whose moments of (relative) fame are safely behind her, takes a fall one day and hits her head against a birdbath. In a concussed state, she gives an interview to a hilariously earnest young reporter who sees profundity in everything Amy says and—voila!—Amy's on NPR and on her way to becoming America's most reluctant celebrity. Like all writers, I sit alone over a keyboard for months on end in a dark room like Howard Hughes (minus the Kleenex-box shoes) and am then hauled out for the performing-seal part of the job called "promotion," so Amy's adventures on panels, etc. literally made me laugh till I cried. And Willett is a tough, one-of-a-kind piece of work, as you might expect from someone whose Facebook page is anchored by a photo of an adorable baby behind a sign that says PLEASE DO NOT KISS ME.
Thanks, Timothy! Will you be checking out any of the books on his list?
Loyal fans of best-selling author Linwood Barclay will remember the Archer family from No Time for Goodbye (2007). Barclay's new novel, No Safe House, picks up seven years later. Once again, seemingly idyllic neighborhoods hold dark secrets, and the murder of two elderly locals has everyone on edge. The Archers are still recovering—and quite frankly not doing a great job of it. Their little family unit threatens to fall apart, and they soon once again find themselves fighting for their lives.
Barclay certainly has his finger on what makes for a fast-paced, intense tale of suspense and secrets. We wanted to know what books shaped him as a writer.
The Hardy Boys opened the door, but it was Lew Archer who really invited me in.
The first books I ever read—not counting The Cat in the Hat, which is a classic, but not really what we're talking about here—were crime novels.
The first honest-to-God hardcover crime novel I owned was a Hardy Boy book. It was The Great Airport Mystery, the ninth adventure starring brothers Frank and Joe Hardy. There were bad guys. There was action. There was a mystery to be solved.
I was hooked. I read as many Hardy Boys novels as I could get my hands on. The Tower Treasure, The House on the Cliff, What Happened at Midnight.
Somewhere around the fifth or sixth grade, I discovered Agatha Christie. The plots became more intricate, more inventive. I devoured the classics. The A.B.C. Murders, Murder on the Orient Express, And Then There Were None.
About a year after that, I stumbled upon the Nero Wolfe novels by Rex Stout, and loved those even more. The plots were every bit as good as Christie's, but there was something more. There was humor. Crackling dialogue. As memorable a character as crime fiction has ever had: Nero Wolfe himself. (Apologies to Sherlock Holmes fans. Yes, he's probably the single most memorable crime solver, but amazingly, at this point in my mystery education, I hadn't yet discovered him.)
Stout's books were terrific, and, oh joy, there were so many of them. By the time I'd read all of them, I was about 14 or 15, and looking for something new.
I found it on the squeaky, spinning paperback rack at the IGA grocery store in Bobcaygeon, Ontario. It was the Bantam edition of The Goodbye Look by Ross Macdonald, and what caught my eye was the quote at the top of the cover: "The finest series of detective novels ever written by an American." (That was from William Goldman's review in The New York Times, and a few short years later I would be blown away by his novel Marathon Man, which remains one of my favorite thrillers ever.)
No one seems to know whether blurbs work or not, but that one worked on me. I bought that book and was completely drawn in by the detective work of one Lew Archer. I followed him through this case and all the others available at that time, including The Galton Case, The Doomsters, The Zebra-Striped Hearse and, one of the best crime novels of all time, The Chill.
These were the books that changed me. These books showed me how an author could take the conventions of the mystery novel and use them to do more than figure out how someone was murdered in a locked room. Through Archer, Macdonald shined a light on America's darkness. He explored family dysfunction, alienated and troubled youth, the corruption of wealth and, in later novels, the destruction of our environment.
Macdonald may not have been the first to show the world that a mystery could be a novel, that it could be literature, but he was the first to show me. No writer had a greater impact on me up to that time, nor has any writer since.
Thanks, Linwood! Readers, No Safe House is on sale August 5.
Mystery fans: Was there a mystery you read at an early age that you'll never forget?
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The Bone Seeker by M.J. McGrath
Viking • $26.95 • ISBN 9780670785803
Published July 24, 2014
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If there's one thing that keeps drawing me back to M.J. McGrath's Arctic thrillers, it's the impeccably rendered sense of place. And I'm not just talking about the beautiful and dangerous landscape of the Canadian arctic, but also the historical and cultural details of the Inuit people. In McGrath's third mystery, following White Heat and The Boy in the Snow, half-Inuit and half-outsider Edie Kiglatuk—with the help of Sergeant Derek Palliser—investigates the murder of one of her summer-school students, a young Inuit woman who turns up in the toxic Lake Turngaluk. As this drama unfolds, an environmental conspiracy concerning the toxic lake begins to take shape. The Bone Seeker can certainly be read as a standalone—and should be read, especially by those who crave harsh northern landscapes—but I'd recommend revisiting Kiglatuk's previous adventures as well.
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She was gazing down at a dip in the land that locals called Lake Turngaluk, the Lake of Bad Spirits, though it was mostly dry now, pitted here and there by windings of briny marsh. Locals said the area was a portal to the underworld and that birds wouldn't fly over it for fear of being sucked under but Derek didn't hold with that kind of nonsense, prefering to believe that the birds didn't bother to visit because what was left of the water was devoid of fish, a fact that had nothing to do with spirits or the underworld and everything to do with contamination from the radar system. So far as Derek understood it, the site should have been cleaned up years ago but it had got mired in political horse-trading until, about a decade ago, Charlie Salliaq had dismissed the old legal team and called on the services of Sonia Gutierrez, a prominent human rights lawyer specializing in aboriginal land claims. They'd finally won their case against the Department of Defence last year. One of Colonel Klinsman's jobs was to organize a working party to begin the necessary decontamination work at the station and on the surrounding land, including the lake.
'How odd,' Edie said. She pointed out of the side window but all he could see were a few thin strings of cirrus.
'What?' Derek undid his belt and twisted his neck around, though it made his head swim to do it.
'A bear. They're usually on their way north to the floe edge by now.'
'You want me to swing back?' Pol asked Derek.
The policeman nodded and prepared himself for the stomach lurch. Ahead, the rows of tents and prefab units of Camp Nanook stood on the tundra in incongruous straight lines, as though on parade. The plane rose higher then banked sharply and wheeled round, retracing their route through a patch of cloud. Coming through into clear air they caught sight of the bear. Spooked by the sound of the aircraft engine, it was running for the safety of the sea.
The surface of the pool where the bear had been appeared to be bubbling and seething. Derek first supposed it was a trick of the light, but as the slipstream from the plane passed across it, the western bank seemed to expand, as though it had suddenly turned to gas. He realized that he never seen anything like this before. He turned back, leaning over Edie to get a better view.
'What the hell is that?'
She curled around and caught his gaze. There was something wild about the way she was looking at him now, the muscles in her face taut, her black eyes blazing.
He began to speak but she cut him off. 'They're feeding on whatever attracted the bear.'
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Ravenous mystery readers know that crime isn't limited to big cities. It's not even limited to Amish farms, charming British villages or too-perfect suburbs. Revenge and murder even finds its way to paradise, such as in Mark Troy's new mystery, The Splintered Paddle. In a guest blog post, Troy shares his insight into the dark side of Hawaii.
Where do most fictional private eyes hang their fedoras? That's easy: New York City, Boston, Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Far down on the list is Honolulu.
You can name the Honolulu private eye series on one hand. Television gave us Tracey Steele and Tom Lopaka in "Hawaiian Eye," and Thomas Magnum in "Magnum, P.I." The list of Hawaiian private eye novel series begins and ends with Charles Kneif's John Caine. Some mainland-based eyes, such as Sharon McCone and Adrian Monk, have had adventures in the islands, but none have stayed. The most famous Hawaiian crime fighters are police detectives Charlie Chan and Steve McGarrett (both incarnations), but, even with their inclusion, the list is a short one. One gets the sense that there just isn't much crime in the islands.
In the minds of most people, Hawaii is a paradise of golden sands, sparkling waters, waving palm trees and gyrating hula girls. Where are the mean streets? They are everywhere, but, like the changes in seasons, they are easily missed until you have spent time there.
Although I love Hawaii, its beaches and mountains, what I love most are its people and culture. By culture, I don't mean hula dances and ukuleles, but the circumstances of history and geography from which the spirit of the people is formed.
One of the tenets of Hawaiian culture is a long tradition of resisting mistreatment of its citizens and of taking care of the weak and helpless. That tenet is stated in the Law of the Splintered Paddle—Kānāwai Māmalahoe in Hawaiian. The law was the first edict promulgated by Kamehameha I after uniting the islands.
The Law of the Splintered Paddle is basically understood to mean that citizens have a right to defend themselves against mistreatment by the government and that the weaker members of society can expect protection from the more powerful members. The state constitution makes mention of the law and the Honolulu Police badge bears an image of crossed canoe paddles in reference to the law.
Ava Rome, the private eye in my stories, is an outsider. She is not Hawaiian by birth or upbringing, so she brings an outsider's perspective to the culture. In that, she is like many other private eyes. What sets her apart from other private eyes is her mission. Ava believes in the Law of the Splintered Paddle. She believes in protecting the defenseless. She has adopted this basic tenet of Hawaiian culture and made it her mission in life. She doesn't require innocence to take on a client, only defenselessness.
Ava's belief in the Law of the Splintered Paddle is fueled by a burden of guilt over her failure, as a teenager, to protect her brother from bullying. She is determined not to fail anyone else. She takes on a prostitute who is being harassed by a high-ranking police officer and a troubled teenager who has fallen prey to her own bad decisions and to the predations of a marijuana grower. Ava's greatest challenge, however, arrives in the form of an ex-con, whom she had arrested when she was an MP. He is out. He is seeking revenge, and he harbors a secret from her past.
The Splintered Paddle is the story of a private eye, Ava Rome, and her personal foray down the mean streets of Hawaii to protect the defenseless in the dark side of paradise tourists seldom see.
Thanks, Mark! Readers, The Splintered Paddle is now available.
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The year was 2004. The summer Olympics were in Athens, Greece. A whale exploded in Taiwan. Facebook premeried. But what was our Whodunit columnist reading? (You know—what really matters.)
Ten years later, check out our 2004 Top Picks in Mystery:
January 2004: The Frumious Bandersnatch by Ed McBain
In the 53rd book featuring the cops of the 87th Precinct, McBain (aka Evan Hunter) spun a "hilarious and diabolical"—and topical—web, skewering the music industry, sensationalist cable news coverage, George W and the Patriot Act. Read our review.
February 2004: Hard Revolution by George Pelecanos
Pelecanos fills us in on the backstory of D.C. private investigator Derek Strange, star of such titles as Soul Circus and Hell to Pay, from coming of age in the early '60s to his experience as a cop during the riots following the assassination of Dr. King. "Hard Revolution plants the reader in the middle of a population run amok, where the major difference between the criminals and the cops is possession of a badge." Read our review.
March 2004: Deep Pockets by Linda Barnes
Private investigator Carlotta Carlyle takes on the task of unearthing a blackmailer who threatens a Harvard professor over his illict affair with a student. First the student turns up dead, then the blackmailer, and the professor seems to be the culprit. As might be expected, he claims innocence, and it falls to Carlotta to uncover the truth. This pageturner comes highly recommended for fans of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series. Read our review.
April 2004: Sleeping Beauty by Phillip Margolin
In Margolin's chilling novel, true-crime author Miles Van Meter's bestseller told the story of the serial killer who killed several people in Miles' life and put his sister in a coma. Flash back six years to the story of high school soccer star Ashley Spencer, who escapes the murderer who kills her mother and father—the same killer who leaves Miles' sister comatose. But back in present-day, Miles reveals that all is not as it seems. "Sleeping Beauty is a must for suspense fans; red herrings abound, and the twists are as convoluted as the whorls of a killer's fingerprint." Read our review.
May 2004: Live Bait by P.J. Tracy
This Minnesota mystery comes from mother-daughter writing team P.J. and Traci Lambrecht. Homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth follow up their Monkeewrench (2003) adventure with an investigation into a string of octogenarian murders—and some of the victims were Holocaust survivors. Read our review.
June 2004: Loaded Dice by James Swain
Retired cop and gamesman Tony Valentine makes a living uncovering crooked gamblers. In his fourth appearance, he ravels to Las Vegas to investigate a lovely blackjack amateur who bears an uncanny resemblance to Valentine's deceased wife. "Swain is a master storyteller, often mentioned in the same breath with Elmore Leonard or Carl Hiaasen." Read our review.
July 2004: Little Scarlet by Walter Mosley
In the summer of 1965, the Watts riots rage in L.A., and Easy Rawlins is charged with investigating the murder of a young black woman, one who cared for a white man who narrowly escaped a mob of angry black youths. "Mosley captures the nuance of atmosphere and time better than any mystery author since Raymond Chandler; he is the unchallenged modern master of the craft." Read our review.
August 2004: The Wake-Up by Robert Ferrigno
"Robert Ferrigno is in many ways the consummate author," and in this edgy noir, who proves just that. Mostly-retired black-ops specialist Frank Thorpe comes to the aid of a mistreated vendor in an airport, and with that small act, "the first domino is pushed, the carefully arranged pattern goes awry remarkably quickly." The villains in this one make it a true standout mystery. Read our review.
September 2004: Destination: Morgue! by James Ellroy
This collection, packed to the brim with crime and murder, is composed of 14 pieces including three novellas, a profile of celebrity defendant Robert Blake, several true-crime stories and a wealth of autobiographical material that provide a template for writing a mystery novel. "If you feel that your favorites have gone a bit too soft around the middle, a touch mainstream, give James Ellroy a shot." Read our review.
October 2004: California Girl by T. Jefferson Parker
Part family drama, part murder mystery, this California tale is "first-rate; the true success of the book, though, is how well it captures the time and place, a sun-drenched, orange-scented utopia gone but affectionately remembered." Read our review.
November 2004: The Rottweiler by Ruth Rendell
A serial killer christened "The Rottweiler" starts picking off girls one by one and steals one token from each. When the victims' belongings turn up in an antique shop, the police begin to investigate the many quirky characters who reside in the building. Read our review.
December 2004: Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders by John Mortimer
Modern-day Rumpole shares with readers the details of his very first case, the defense of a young man accused of killing his war-hero father. "The Rumpole books are equally appealing to fans of British mysteries and aficionados of the bad-boy English authors of the '50s. They are clever, exceptionally relevant and crammed full of the sort of weird and wonderful quotes that stick with you long after you put the book down." Read our review.
Were you reading any of these winners in 2004?
Like his rebellious game warden Mike Bowditch, Maine author Paul Doiron has come a long way. His debut thriller, The Poacher's Son, was nominated for an Edgar Award, and each subsequent book has gained richness and nuance. In Doiron's newest novel, The Bone Orchard, Mike shows signs of becoming a real hero. Doiron shares a little bit about the journey he has made as a writer and how it is reflected in his hero's story.
When I began writing my first novel, The Poacher's Son, I had no idea I was about to change my life. I was a magazine journalist who had written a few nonfiction articles about Maine game wardens, and one Saturday morning, I started noodling around with a short piece of fiction—not even a story, just an anecdote—about a rookie warden and a marauding black bear. For reasons I still don't understand, I wrote the episode from the perspective of the young man, whom I named Mike Bowditch. It didn't occur to me that this might be the beginning of a crime novel, let alone a series of them.
I just wrote the story and, because I liked what I'd done, I kept going. I decided my warden should return home after dealing with the bear. What does he find there? A message on the answering machine. Who is it from? His estranged father. Who is his father? A notorious poacher in the North Woods. Mike Bowditch, I decided, has become a law enforcement officer to make amends for his dad's life of criminal acts.
As I continued writing, I found that one creative choice led inevitably to another. A son who chooses his profession as a rebuke to his father is going to have a lot of unresolved issues. He would be filled with anger and yet crave approval and respect. And because I was writing this story in the first person, it followed that Mike Bowditch would be blind to his own emotional problems. The plot of what I now recognized as the beginning of a novel took shape from this essential conflict in his character. The father is accused of having committed murder, but the son, despite his boiling resentments, cannot bring himself to believe that he is guilty.
Flash forward several years: The Poacher's Son is done, and I have just approached Ann Rittenberg, the woman who will become my literary agent. She asks if the book is the first in a series of Mike Bowditch novels. The idea had been brewing in the back of my mind while I was writing. Game wardens are Maine's off-road police force, and they are involved in the investigation of almost every major crime committed here. There were opportunities for my troubled-but-brave young warden to get himself messed up in any number of stories. In fact, I was itching to tell them.
I also recognized that few readers would continue rooting for an impetuous and headstrong protagonist if he didn't mature, no matter what other noble qualities he might possess. Rather than write about a character who stays the same from book to book, I decided, my series would be about the process of becoming a hero. How does it happen? What mistakes would Mike Bowditch need to make, both personally and professionally, from story to story, and how would he learn from them?
The Bone Orchard is my fifth book, and I have said that it is my best (although readers will get to decide that question for themselves), and I'll try to explain why. Over the course of the series we have watched Mike Bowditch get in recurring trouble with his superiors who believe he is unfit to be a law enforcement officer. At the beginning of The Bone Orchard, Mike has finally come to the same conclusion. He has left the Warden Service and is working as a fishing guide. He is trying to move on with his life. He has gone from troublemaker to caretaker, tending to both a mansion in the woods and the family of an incarcerated friend.
There's only one problem: "Just because you're done with the past, doesn't mean the past is done with you," Mike realizes. After his former sergeant Kathy Frost is forced to kill an unstable Afghan War veteran in what is a "suicide-by-cop" incident, she begins receiving threats. She blames Mike for having left the service, for not having been with her as back-up the night of the shooting. When she herself becomes targeted by a sniper seemingly out for revenge, Mike finds himself outside the investigation and second-guessing his decision to quit. His newfound maturity allows him to see that there are other ways of getting answers than going head-to-head with people. And he realizes, as he gets pulled into the hunt for the shooter, that he has all the necessary instincts and skills to be a successful law enforcement officer after all.
The Bone Orchard is about all the ways the past can haunt us and what we need to do to transcend it—lessons it has taken Mike years to learn. The novel isn't the conclusion of the series. But it is the end of a story I began writing one Saturday afternoon many years ago, and the beginning for a newly self-aware and heroic Mike Bowditch.
Thanks, Paul! Readers, The Bone Orchard is out now!
Author photo credit © 2012 Lori Traikos.
With The Catch, readers find themselves hanging on for dear life as Vanessa Michael Munroe—"the cleverest, fightingest and all-around baddest heroines in contemporary suspense fiction"—takes us to Djibouti for her newest no-holds-barred adventure. Munroe is the unforgettable brainchild of author Taylor Stevens, who has a fascinating backstory of her own: She was born in New York state and into the Children of God, raised in communes across the globe and denied an education beyond sixth grade. Stevens was in her 20s when she broke free, and she now lives in Texas.
It's easy to wonder how much of the inspiration for Munroe came from Stevens' own life. As it turns out, that seems to be the question on everyone's mind. Stevens responds, once and for all:
Whenever I walk into an event—be it a book signing, Q&A or author's talk—it's pretty easy to spot the participants who've read my biography and at least one book, but haven't yet interacted with me online or in person. It's easy because they're the ones wearing the guarded, concerned looks, subtly checking me out for signs of sanity, as if at worst I might be right on the edge of snapping and at best might need some soothing and comfort.
I suppose, really, this can't be helped. Unusual characters populate my books, and I've led an unusual life. This has resulted in the most frequently asked question: "How much of Vanessa Michael Munroe is based on you?"
At the beginning, this conflation between character and author baffled me. Vanessa Michael Munroe is a hyperpolyglot (someone who speaks more than 12 languages), born and raised in equatorial Africa. She took up with gunrunners at the tender age of 14 and carries the mental and physical scars of a violent adolescence. To plagiarize myself, "the knife became her way to salvation and the missionary's daughter, made to traverse the valley of the shadow of death, walked out the other side an apex predator." She's a chameleon, a hunter, an adrenaline junkie, self-contained, indifferent and shut off from the world—except when she's not.
Oh that I was so brutally badass. Can you imagine the results I'd get at PTA and HOA meetings? Unfortunately, Munroe and I are nothing alike. Well, except for a hijacked childhood—we do both have wacky backgrounds. Mine had me born and raised in an apocalyptic religious cult, growing up as child labor in cult communes, spending far too much time out begging in the cold, and having my education stopped completely when I was 12.
But I'd made peace with all that long before turning to fiction. I started writing as a way to bring to life a small, paranoid, corrupt country off Africa's west coast where'd lived for a little over two years. The thought of drawing on my childhood and adolescence for that first tale never even crossed my mind, and if it had, we would have had completely different characters—and probably not very good ones. I'm far too happy and enamored with life to belong in these intense, dark stories. I cry when I see sunsets and hear moving music, smile at everyone, am a total fraidy cat, and am overly empathetic to the point that my heart bleeds out onto my sleeve, which is super embarrassing. In perfect irony, I also hate suspense and violence—can neither watch it on screen nor read it in books—and yet that's what I write.
Because I'm so opposite the characters that populate these stories, and because Munroe was drawn completely from imagination and snippets of other fictional characters (Jason Bourne and Lara Croft), I couldn't understand at first how anyone could think she represented a real-life person, much less me. But then it got worse. People I'd never met used my fiction as a way to psychoanalyze the author, going on about my tormented psyche, insisting I was obsessed with violence against women, as if they knew me, as if assuming something about me magically made it true. Offended and insulted, I wondered if they also thought Carrie was based off Stephen King.
Once my skin thickened up a bit, once I realized how completely cool the character and author fusion was, I was able to embrace these assumptions for what they were: the ultimate compliment—proof of good storytelling—because the only way fantasy and reality can blend into such earnest beliefs is if the fiction feels real enough for the reader to assume that it had to have been drawn from real life, somehow.
These days I wear the conflation like a badge of honor, and when people ask me how much of Munroe is based on me, I look them dead in the eye and say, "all of it."
Taylor Stevens is the award-winning New York Times best-selling author of The Informationist, The Innocent and The Doll. Featuring Vanessa Michael Munroe, the series has received critical acclaim and the books are published in 20 languages. The Informationist has been optioned for film by James Cameron's production company, Lightstorm Entertainment. Her latest novel, The Catch, will be published by Crown on July 15, 2014.
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Bot'oberfest was a HUGE success! Held this past Sunday (Oct 14) at The Atlanta Girls' School, the unofficial attendance was estimated to be over 350.
Classes included Intro to NXT-G, Intermediate NXT-G, Advanced NXT-G, Robot Design Basics, Chassis Design, and Attachment Design. We also had a Judging class where attendees could listen to and ask questions of Technical and Project judges. Energy experts were invited and talked and answered questions on a variety of subjects related to this year's FLL challenge. And, of course, there was a scrimmage area where some teams tested their robots.
We also had a room for students with snacks and drinks (another HUGE hit) and a room for teachers/parents/coaches with coffee and food. Key sponsors were Georgia Tech and the GT Women in Engineering program... LEGO Education was also fully supportive of the event and provided some giveaways. Finally, YES (Youth Engaged in Science) donated a $250 gift certificate that could be applied to any of its enrichment programs.
All of the organizers (myself included) went into this with the full intention of providing access to our notes and materials to others who might be interested in setting up a similar style event in their area.
Kristie Brown, LEGO Ed rep for this Southeast area, is hosting much of the material on her website - you can download slideshows and support materials used by many of the presenters here.
LINK for emailing: http://legoeducation.typepad.com/georgia/botoberfest-2007.html
The feedback we have received so far has been overwhelmingly supportive. Thanks to all of you who attended and we hope you had a great time.
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- Rick Rhodes said...
350 People??? Whoaaa!
I liked the PPT presentations, particularly the one on building instructions.
Fay wants to know where Kristie gets her green facial makeup. :)
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- Christopher R. Smith (Littlehorn) said...
Fantastic Jim! Great News!
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- Jim Kelly said...
green makeup????
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- Rick Rhodes said...
On the minifig of Kristie on her Lego Ed Page. :)
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Only twelve more days--shopping or otherwise--remain until Christmas, so the traditional carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas," may come to mind. This song, playing on a continuous loop it seems nearly everywhere we go, may reflect feelings of the occasional frenzy of our time and this season.
The frenetic tempo and the building lyrics of ever increasing gift-giving and clearly rampant commercialism may be our own anthem at this time of our year. We may feel like we are searching for the "swans-a-swimming" or "the maids-a-milking" or "lords-a-leaping". Or we may we may be more practical by seeking out the "gold rings," the "geese-a-laying" or just a "partridge in a pear tree." Of course, we need to have a list of items and their quantity--ever-increasing in cost--to get everything right.
Most of us cannot afford the price of all the gifts in this song--more than $100,000--but that is not the important part of the carol. The gifts are given by my true love, and these extraordinary gifts are meant to be clear symbols of that love.
In Advent, throughout the season and this close to Christmas, we need to take a deep breath, to regain some clarity of thought, and remember that the importance of this time is the love God has for each of us and the real gift of the season, Jesus, a gift without price or measure. Our challenge is to reflect this same love in the gifts we give others, primarily because this is the gift we have received, in such abundance. This love is a far better gift than any maids-a-milking; this love is the true gift we receive and give. Geese-a-laying, indeed!
As we continue to prepare for Christmas, to welcome the greatest gift of love, we can remember that the greatest gift has already been given us, to each and to all. We are called to share that love with others, through the gifts we give, to be sure, but more importantly in the gifts of our time and ourselves that we can afford to give to those most in need.
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Not long after, traditional small-block enthusiasts began retrofitting these boxes into their older rides with incredible results. These gearboxes ultimately proved themselves durable on the street and bulletproof on the track.
Having seen the inner workings of a T56 firsthand, we can certainly understand why the T56 is such an incredible transmission, right out of the box. Ease of service, robust construction, and lightweight design all come together in what must be the best six-speed on the planet. If there was anything we could wish for, it would be Fifth being a direct 1:1 ratio for a tighter ratio set between First through Fourth gears. But we're being a picker of nits at that point because, really, what is there not to love?
As time passed, T56s started showing up at transmission shops at rebuild time. Many technicians treated it like any other transmission, often forgetting key processes while reassembling it, never realizing how significant the little details could make the T56 better than it was new. For instance, by blueprinting a T56 for minimal endplay, overall torque capacity can sometimes improve by as much as 40 percent. So when it came time for us to rebuild the T56 in one of our LS1 Camaro projects, we decided to go to Rockland Standard Gear.
Located in Sloatsburg, New York, Rockland Standard Gear is a company that specializes in all sorts of on- and off-road performance drivelines. From rock-smashing transfer cases in rugged four-wheel-drive trucks to American Le Mans race series transmissions, Rockland has been versed in racers' needs for many years. We knew that Rockland's experience would be overkill for our measly street-driven and occasionally strip-beaten Camaro, so we went with its Race Ready rebuild that ups the torque capacity of the factory T56 to a staggering 650 lb-ft of torque. As a point of reference, the T56s that were installed in the '93-02 Camaros and the '97-present Corvettes were/are factory rated anywhere from 400 to 450 lb-ft capacity.
As the vice president of the remanufacturing division at Rockland Standard Gear, George Kreppein Jr. showed us all the tricks that he had up both of his sleeves and didn't hesitate to tell us what works and what doesn't. Case in point: He wholeheartedly recommends carbon-fiber OE synchronizers and billet synchro keys with a steel shift fork on the commonly weak 3-4 gearset, but finds no value in bronze fork pads. He explained that the nylon OEM-style fork pads work very well and that the metallic units just beat up and wear the slider grooves unnecessarily.
As for why T56s fail, Kreppein mentioned that the reasons are typically ... er ... typical. That is, it's not usually the transmission's fault but everything that it's surrounded by. As he related, "The biggest cause for failure on these T56s is lubrication, which is the cause of most of the damage we see. Not enough fluid and the bearings and synchros get burned out real quick. Then it's usually the clutch. Most racers put in a heavy aftermarket clutch with one or two discs and it beats up the synchros real fast."
Kreppein warned us not to use a clutch disc setup that is much heavier than stock. If you think about it, it makes perfect sense. When rotational weight is added to the input shaft, it adds momentum and makes it harder for the synchronizer to slow down or speed up the gears inside to match them together as you reach for the next cog. This will wear the synchros quicker and make your transmission rough shifting in short order. This issue is more common on C5 and C6 Corvettes because, unlike Camaros, they come with an incredibly long (read: heavy) input shaft extension, and the use of a multi-disc clutch just makes an already bad situation worse.
Lastly, Kreppein added, "The most uncommon cause for failure is driver error by either missing a shift or going into the wrong gear. The mechanical failure rate on these T56s is so rare, it's scary. You hardly see broken gears or hard parts. This transmission is one of the best engineered in the industry, and I've seen them all."


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In popularizing the art of good eating, Julia Child has demonstrated to millions of stay-at-home cooks that a certain devil-may-care attitude and dram of humor are nearly as essential as the raw materials all cooks deal with regularly. As with her traditional TV sign-off — a raised glass and a jaunty "Bon appetit" — Julia inspires confidence, even among those who have never felt an urge for culinary derring-do.
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The New Funded Scope Requirement for the RSR: Who Should I Report?
Overview of RSR reporting guidelines:
- Reported services must have been at least partially paid for by Ryan White, based on the understanding that many services are paid for with several sources of funding
- Reported visits must have been at least partially paid for by Ryan White
- A service/visit should not be reported if non-Ryan White funds paid for the care, or if Ryan White dollars paid for the provider's salary, but not the service/visit itself
- Reported clients must have received at least one Ryan Whitefunded service/visit during the reporting period
For the RSR, HAB has a new policy regarding the scope of reporting requirements: only Ryan White-funded clients should be reported, in contrast to the RDR, which included clients eligible for Ryan White funding regardless of the funding that actually paid for their care. For the RSR, clients must have received a service at least partially covered by Ryan White during the reporting period to be included. HAB was motivated to make this change to gain a clearer picture of the services provided with its funds and to increase the agency's ability to demonstrate the value of Ryan White service provision. Although HAB is interested in improving transparency and accountability, the agency does not intend the RSR to be a cost accounting exercise. To avoid placing excessive reporting burden on you, HAB has rejected models that would require you to link each Ryan White dollar to a service. This document aims to help you identify what counts as a Ryan White-funded service and who counts as a Ryan White client.
What counts as a Ryan White-funded service?
A Ryan White-funded service is any service fully or partially paid for using Ryan White dollars.
You will submit information on service provision within the core and supportive services sections of the Client Record. A service should be included in the Client Record if it is fully or partially funded by Ryan White. As you often use multiple funding streams, such as Medicaid, Medicare or private insurance, along with Ryan White to pay for a service, your system should be able to identify a Ryan White-funded service using procedure and payer codes. Please note: the only service information reported in the RSR that does not necessarily need to be Ryan White funded is the date of a client's first visit at the provider agency (Element 1) and the date of a client's first outpatient ambulatory care visit (Element 47).
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- Do not report services in the RSR if you are unsure how they were funded. However, do report services on the RSR if Ryan White typically funds this type of service and you cannot confirm that Ryan White funding was not used.
- Do not report a service as Ryan White funded just because the salary of the physician providing care is Ryan White funded. The service itself must have been paid for with Ryan White funding to be reported, regardless of the source for the caregiver's salary.
- There is no need to recode services that were initially paid for by Ryan White but then retroactively funded by a third party payer (e.g. if the client later becomes enrolled in Medicaid). If a service was initially paid for using Ryan White funding, it should be reported in the RSR, regardless of later reimbursements.
- If a set of services is bundled, but Ryan White pays for at least part of the services, report this as Ryan White funded. Remember, for bundled services:
- All visit dates should be reported, even if they were covered as one service payment.
- Within a bundled service, you could have specific clinical services that need to be individually reported.
Who counts as a Ryan White-funded client?
A Ryan White client is any client that received a Ryan White-funded service during the given reporting period.
The types of services that a client receives will determine the information you need to report for the client. If a client receives any outpatient ambulatory medical care paid for by Ryan White during the reporting period, you must report in the Client Record all the client's demographic and clinic information, in addition to the Ryan White services they received in the core and supportive services section.
If a client does not receive any outpatient ambulatory care during the reporting period, but does receive other Ryan White-funded services, such as case management, you only need to report the client's demographic information and the services that the client received. You do not need to report any clinical information for clients that did not receive outpatient ambulatory care during the reporting period.
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- Be aware that you may need to report a client's clinical information prior to the time they started receiving Ryan White-funded services because of the two reporting periods in 2009 (January to June and January to December).
- For example, a client had private insurance for May and June, but began relying on Ryan White funds for ambulatory care starting in August. Do not report this client in the January to June period, but do report the client 3 in the January to December period, including all of their clinical information back to May and June.
- Only report demographic information for clients receiving support through Health Insurance Continuity Programs that are fully or partially funded using Ryan White base funds.
- You should report this information for clients for whom you answer "yes" on question # 27 - "Indicate (Yes/No/Unknown) if Health Insurance Premium funding were provided for the client at any time during each quarter."
- Do not report information in 2009 for clients who received support through Health Insurance Continuity Programs if the program was funded using non-Ryan White base funds (e.g. ADAP, State funding).
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- Use the table in the appendix of the Instruction Manual on the RSR page of the TARGET Center website as a guide for what information you need to report for a client depending on the services he/she has received
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