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BERLIN, MD. – James "Jim" Arthur Burke II, 61, of Berlin, MD, passed away August 4th, 2014 at the Berlin Nursing and Rehabilitation Center after a five year heroic battle against brain cancer. Born in Bangor, Maine, he was the son of the late James Arthur and Frances Emerson Burke.
He is survived by his soulmate and loving wife, Sue Burke and their daughter, Julie Burke (Rochester, NY). Also surviving are his brothers and sisters, Jackie and Bill Shockley (Berlin, MD), Joyce and Clint Getchell (Ocean City, MD), Joe and Cindi Burke (Newburgh, ME), twin sister Julie and Mike Jellison (Hampden, ME), and John and Carol Burke (Powellville, MD). In addition, he is survived by his Uncle Bobby Emerson (Orrington, ME), numerous cousins, nephews and nieces as well as his second daughter by previous relationship, Melissa Watson and her three children.
Jim worked at the Harborside Bar & Grill in West OC for 12 years. He not only worked there, but made it his second home. The crew was his extended family and he treated them like it; he mentored many and pranked them all. (Watch out for the bubble wrap!) He even remained loyal to his beloved Red Sox and New England Patriots throughout all the years. Jim made family a priority no matter what. He was a great brother, cousin, uncle, husband and dad. He was always there when you needed him, making jokes and pulling silly shenanigans. He will always be remembered as the "favorite uncle," "the fun one," "Silly Papa Jim," and "Sue's soulmate." For a man who was just a good "ol' hippie" he was one of the greatest old hippies out there. His positive outlook and wisdom was infectious. Full of spirit and good sayings, he made a difference in the lives of everyone he met.
Special thanks to everyone at Harborside Bar & Grill, his doctors over the past five years and the Berlin Rehab staff for all their love, care and support.
Jim Burke will be missed, but he will also be remembered. There will be a Celebration of Life held for him Tuesday, August 12th, 2014 at the Harborside Bar & Grill in West OC from 1-3pm wherein plenty of stories and memories will be revisited. A donation made in his memory may be made to the Make a Wish foundation or the Worcester County Humane Society. Arrangements are in the care of the Burbage Funeral Home in Berlin. Letters of condolence may be sent via www.burbagefuneralhome.com.


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You have Bratley for the weekend while his parents are out of town to attend a wedding. He seems to have forgotten the sting of that smack, as he has been a handful. You have already reminded him that you have permission to spank him, and you warn him he won't like it if you do.
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I'm interested to see how this is done, as well.
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Why edit submission action is not triggering email on Zapier?Asked by klausdyba on February 17, 2017 at 12:50 PM
Hello! I have a special question...
I made a form which is triggered by zappier (it makes a draft in google mail). It works fantastic,
So when I get my email response after someone filled out the form, everything works fine.
When I edit it (by the link at the end of my autorepsonder email), I also get the edited emails from jotform.
But it doesnt trigger zappier.
My idea is: Its a booking system for a studio. If I want to give them a better price, i edit the form, then he get the autoresponder email from jotform, but I dont get my triggered zappier-email to google mail...
In this google mail i have my conformation infos incl. all form field infos I asked for (adress, time etc). I use this to send it to my customer as a confirmation...
I hope my explanation makes sense...
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I have checked the Zapier that triggers to Gmail, for example, and noticed that it only sends when a new submission happens, there's not an option at the moment to trigger the Zap when the submission is being edited and I have tested it so I can confirm it.
Here's a screenshot of the setup page when creating the Zap:
This is the Zap that I used: https://zapier.com/app/editor/template/2603
What you could do is to integrate your form with Google Spreadsheet and then use this to trigger the email from Gmail or the Zap you're using, Google Spreadsheet will allow you to trigger the Zap when adding a new or updating an existing record.
Here's the link to the Zap: https://zapier.com/app/editor/template/144
Hope this helps.
Thanks so much! I will try that!
i almost managed to build a full booking system with jotform! Just awesome!All i need would be a jotform google calendar widget which would show busy dates (and non busy dates - synced with a google calendar). I hope some day someone will make this for jotform. Right now my customers have to look into another calendar, look for a free day and then choose this date in the datepicker.
Thanks again
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Hey Klaus, I'm glad this is all cleared up now. I moved the other question you have about Google Calendar to a separate thread https://www.jotform.com/answers/1069698
We'll have it addressed there shortly.
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Hi David,
Thank you for the response. I have been the only one to work out of JotForms for the last 3 days to our knowledge and I was not the one to delete the information. Can you tell me which account these were deleted from?
Thank you
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The airshow, which takes place on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th July on the Roker seafront, attracts large crowds from across the North East and beyond, and Metro is one of the key modes of travel.
Metro services are expected to be very busy over the weekend, so DB Regio Tyne and Wear, which operates the Metro on behalf of Nexus, recommends anyone heading to the Airshow on Metro should allow plenty of time to make their journey. Extra Metro services will be running to get people home after the event.
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"The Sunderland International Airshow is one of our busiest weekends of the year as thousands of people travel to Roker and the Seaburn seafront. We expect services to be busy on both days, Seaburn station in particular, with queues following the event. Extra Metros will be running but my message to customers is to please leave plenty of time for your journey.
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It seems a little ironic to me, that for one of the most valuable companies on this software-dependant planet of ours, it would be the increasing size of an industry in which that it once led the way, that would scupper its progress. But, that does appear to be the case, at least from this cushy position on which no immense pressure rests, in the instance of Microsoft's apparent 'demise'. I find it hard to describe it as such, considering the company still turns over $60bn every year, however there is more than an inkling amongst technology pundits that Microsoft's dominance in the software industry, has at last ceased, at least partially.
But why? What mistakes were made that led to such a seemingly impossible conclusion? Well, consider the changes that have occurred within the consumer technology industry as a whole, and we can find a potential explanation. Where once, there was a battle of who could make the best PC's, who could make the best software, who could make the best phones, for example, the general mood amongst consumers now, hints that what they're looking for, is who makes the best 'ecosystem'.
Now 'ecosystem' is a term that's been bandied around a lot more in recent months and years than ever before, and that fact alone gives this theory some credence, as what's on the punter's lips, is more than likely what's going to make them dip into their wallets. Even if it is Rebecca Black – you might remember her recent – short-lived – surge to the top of the iTunes downloads charts.
For this reason, Microsoft, a mere software company with no real standing in the hardware world, has been left behind, as they've repeatedly struggled to gain a foothold in the mobile sector so easily dominated by Apple and Google. It's also the reason that rather than talking about HP, Samsung, HTC competing with Apple, we've begun talking about Google, or Android, competing with Apple instead. And furthermore, it's the reason why Google has yet to really put a stamp on the PC industry, despite impressive sales figures of it's recently launched Chromebooks, running the cloud-based Chrome OS.
Consider the hypothetical merger of Google and Microsoft. Obviously it's one that will never come to fruition, nor has it been talked about, but the dominance enjoyed as a result would span the entire consumer technology industry. PC's, phones, tablets (though admittedly Honeycomb hasn't enjoyed the most rewarding of starts in life). However, this could be the scale of the success brought if Google and/or Microsoft had managed to build a proper ecosystem, before the term was coined.
This is potentially the level of success enjoyed by Apple at the moment, the company that is undoubtedly going to report record earnings next quarter after the launch of the iPhone 5, latest round of iPods, iOS 5, iCloud and OS X 'Lion' all within a matter of months. What Apple has done is create a binding environment of gadgets and 'app stores' that pretty much ensure that once you're in, you're in. It's a great business model for profit seeking investors, and one that has seen its fair share of copycats, including Microsoft and Google, believe it or not.
Microsoft is just now set to begin pushing its Windows Phone, Windows 8 on tablets and Windows 8 app store, though the latter pair won't take off until at least next year. Windows Phone has endured a troubled start, if reports are to be believed, and the desperation for a solution to this scalability-bred issue is becoming more and more apparent, with leading figures in the company even suggest dropping the 'Windows' brand altogether, though the integrity of this information is far from concrete.
It's almost become a standing joke that Microsoft is late to the party, though rather than making a grand, drunken yet impressive entrance like a rich high school jock from a low budget chick flick, tries to sneak in the back door and con consumers into believing they have the next big thing. So far, it hasn't washed.
Having said that, I don't believe the problems Microsoft faces were ever avoidable. Perhaps they had the ideas up their sleeves since the 80's, though I doubt it very much, but Apple has had a far greater grounding for success built on the fact that they make their own hardware and software together. Microsoft made huge success licensing software to third-party manufacturers, and has now hit a stumbling block because they haven't been able to innovate the hardware that has become even more closely-knit with the software that runs on it.
Be it coincidence, bad management or just sheer bad luck, Microsoft faces a mammoth problem in preparing its 'ecosystem' for the masses. Whether the solution lies in a rebranding of its key services, and the merging of them as suggested, is far from me to foresee, however one thing is clear: They can't get by just in one area anymore, nor can anyone as HP has found out and attempted to solve by buying Palm and subsequently webOS. There is a fight to be fought on all fronts and like the devices in it, the industry as a whole has converged, and as Apple's recent financial reports suggest, the consumer technology industry is more valuable, more overwhelming, but in this case potentially more destructive, than ever.


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- General requirements to enter France
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- How can I choose an appropriate visa for my situation ?
- What must be the validity of my passport ?
- What are the requirements for my passport ?
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- Is there an expedited process ?
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- Can the French Consulate help me if I have problems while I am staying in France ?
- Is it really mandatory for me to have a visa if I stay longer than 3 months ?
General requirements to enter France
Any foreigner going to France, whether they require a short stay visa or not, should be able to present to the immigration officer and/or the police if required, in addition to a valid passport, the following documents :
Proof of the reason of the trip:
• for tourism: a hotel reservation or proof of an organized tour.
• for business trips: a letter from the employer stating the reason of the trip to France and/or a letter of invitation from a business contact in France (company, institution, or individual).
• private visits: lodging certificate (proof of accommodation) from the host in France, issued by the city hall and stamped by the French consulate.
Proof of financial resources : cash, traveller checks, and/or valid international credit card.
Proof of repatriation: round-trip ticket or sufficient financial means to buy a return ticket - Entry visa to the country where you are staying temporarily or to your final country of destination.
The consulate general also recommends the travellers to be provided with documents proving the date they entered France : flight ticket, train ticket, or stamp on the passport by the immigration officer at the border.
We do not deal with progress enquiries nor help with your application.
Requests for progress on your application only slows down the processing of applications.
The Visa section cannot give you advice on how to set up your file, or what type of visa you should apply for, unless you formally lodge an application and pay the relevant administrative fee.
If you need help with your application or advice about France's immigration rules and requirements, you can seek advice from a qualified immigration adviser such as legally qualified professionals regulated by designated professional bodies.
However, this is done at the applicant's own responsibility.
Getting advice from third parties such as Travel Agents or Courier Agencies without checking our website afterwards will also be at the applicant's risk and will not engage the Consulate General's responsibility if your application is being rejected or refused due to missing documents or misleading given information. Only information provided by our website must be considered as valid and official.
How can I choose an appropriate visa for my situation ?
It is the applicant who has to choose an appropriate visa category and prepare all the required documents before booking an appointment on line on the website of the French consulate.
If you are not sure which category of visa you are needing, please read first all the guidelines for each category of visa in question on our website and see if you can bring all the required documents necessary for visa application to your interview at the consulate.
Your visa application will be refused if your application form and supportive documents are not complete.
What must be the validity of my passport ?
Your passport must be valid for at least 90 days after your date of return from the Schengen or French territory and -in case you do need a visa- it must have at least two blank "visa" pages. Make sure your passport has been delivered less than 10 years ago.
No visa may be issued on amendment pages.
What are the requirements for my passport ?
Passport valid for at least three months beyond the applicant's last day of stay in the Schengen states. Please make sure that:
* your passport has a minimum of two blank pages (to affix the visa and for border stamps). Only visa pages are valid, amendments pages cannot be used for visas or entry stamps.
* your passport is in good condition (any slight damage, even to the cover, can be considered as a breach of the security of the travel document and declined at the visa section or at the border)
* your passport allows proper identification of the bearer without any doubt (for example, passports of adults with passport pictures in their young ages may not be accepted)
* your passport has been issued less than 10 years ago (first issuance) . Even if it has been renewed since then by your country, we will decline your passport for a visa application and you will have to renew it prior to applying.
The officer of the visa section has full authority to decline a passport that wouldn't meet the requirements and request a renewed one before you can apply for a visa at the french consulate.
Refugees: persons residing in Canada with refugee status, even if they hold permanent resident cards, must have in their possession a travel document for refugees, 1951 Geneva Convention Model.
Copy of ALL the identifications pages of the passport (identification, picture, passport number, date of issuance, expiration date, and if applicable: extension & signature)
Characteristics for Photos
Visa Processing Fees
Contacting the Visa Section
Is there an expedited process ?
No. A visa application cannot be expedited. Make sure you apply in advance.
Processing time depends on the citizenship.
Applications cannot be processed more than 3 months ahead of time.
Apply in advance. Do NOT wait for the last minute.
- No emergency visa will be issued.
The visa section is open to the public on an appointment basis only. No walk-ins allowed.
How can I collect my passport ?
The visas are not issued on the same day so you may wait for our email and pick it up in person or may choose to get it back by mail (please provide us with a self addressed envelope at your expenses on the day of your appointment.
Can I use my Schengen visa, issued by the French Consulate, to travel to other European countries ?
A Schengen visa allows you to travel within all the Schengen space (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Slovakia, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Hungary, Malta, Slovenia, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic) unless stated otherwise on your visa.
(example: Schengen "-D" means you may not travel to Germany)
I plan to visit several Schengen countries, where should I apply for my visa ?
The Consulate of the main destination is responsible for issuing the uniform Schengen visa. If the main destination cannot be determined, responsibility for issuing the visa lies with the Schengen state of first entry. Please, apply at the Consulate of the country where you stay the longest.
For example:
You stay 6 days in France and 4 days in Italy: You must apply at the French Consulate
You stay 5 days in France and 5 days in Germany: You must apply at the French Consulate only if you enter France first.
You stay 4 days in France for business reasons and 10 days in Spain for tourism: You must apply at the French Consulate since your main destination is France.
Appointment Booking procedure
I couldn't print the confirmation for my appointment.
It is not a problem as long as your appointment is confirmed in the system. Simply show up at the time of your appointment.
How do I reschedule my appointment ?
If you are not able to attend, please free a slot by cancelling your previous appointment and reschedule another one.
You cannot change your appointment schedule on the same day of the appointment. Please try to reschedule 24 hours earlier or later than the appointment day.
The French Consulate will cancel all multiple appointments.
How is the screening on arrival in France
Besides having a valid passport containing a visa (except for nationals from exempted countries), foreigners wishing to enter France must be able to produce various documents to the border police, including:
Supporting evidence of the conditions of their stay in France (for tourists: hotel reservations, registration with an organized tour … ;
For a work-related stay: letter from the employer, invitation from a French organization… ;
For a private stay: "Attestation d'accueil"
Demonstration of means of livelihood in France (cash, traveller's cheques, currently valid international credit card…) ;
Assurance of return to country of origin (plane ticket…) ;
Those who are unable to provide these documents may be refused entry on French territory.
Can I work in France ?
No. Under no circumstances will a person holding a visitor visa be allowed to work in France without prior authorization.
Can I travel in Europe during my stay in France ?
You are allowed to travel up to 90 days in the period of 6 months without visa within the Schengen area during the validity of your French temporary residence permit ("carte de séjour temporaire") or a French long stay visa.
To travel outside the Schengen region, you should enquire whether you need a visa at the Embassy or consulate of the country you intend to visit.
Should I keep the original documents with me at all times ?
You will be asked to show the original of the documents submitted with your visa application when applying for your residence permit at the Préfecture.
You must keep your residence permit or passport with you, in case you are requested to show them to French authorities. You are strongly advised to keep a photocopy of those documents in a safe place, separated from the originals.
Can the French Consulate help me if I have problems while I am staying in France ?
The role of the French Consulate is limited to process and issue visas. If you wish to lodge a complaint, you should contact directly French authorities in France. Also, it is the responsibility of Embassies and Consulates of your country in France to assist you. However you may inform the French Consulate who issued your visa of any complaint you lodged.
Is it really mandatory for me to have a visa if I stay longer than 3 months ?
Yes. If your nationality is exempted from a short stay visa and you stay past the 90 days allowed, you become an illegal alien.
The long stay visa is mandatory for any foreigner staying in France for more than 90 days. It cannot be issued in France, you need to have it in your passport prior to departure from Canada.


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Information about the World of Warcraft characters inspired by the Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Liu Bei
"This man was no mere bookish scholar, nor found he any pleasure in study. But he was liberal and amiable, albeit a man of few words, hiding all feeling under a calm exterior. He had always cherished a yearning for high enterprise and had cultivated the friendship of humans of mark. He was tall of stature. His ears were long, the lobes touching his shoulders, and his hands hung down below his knees. His eyes were very big and prominent so that he could see backward past his ears. His complexion was as clear as jade, and he had rich red lips." (Source)
Sounds like a Night Elf maybe? It adds he was a shoe weaver; perhaps a tailor or leatherworker?
"For Liu Bei they made a pair of ancient swords;"
Twin swords means we're limited to Rogue, Warrior, and Hunter as choices. Rogue?
Zhang Fei
"Turning quickly he saw standing there a man about his own height, with a bullet head like a leopard's, large eyes, a swallow pointed chin, and whiskers like a tiger's. He spoke in a loud bass voice and looked as irresistible as a dashing horse. At once Liu Bei saw he was no ordinary man and asked who he was." (Source)
Gnome? Possibly Human.
"and for Zhang Fei they created a ten-foot spear called Serpent Halberd. Each too had a helmet and full armor."
Well, Polearm again, so Paladin maybe?
Guan Yu
"Liu Bei looked over the newcomer, item by item, and he noted the man had a huge frame, a long beard, a vivid face like an apple, and deep red lips. He had eyes like a phoenix's and fine bushy eyebrows like silkworms. His whole appearance was dignified and awe-inspiring. Presently, Liu Bei crossed over, sat down beside him and asked his name." (Source)
Although it says huge frame, the description sounds like a Dwarf to me -- especially with the beard.
"for Guan Yu they fashioned a long-handled, curve blade called Green-Dragon Saber, which weighed a full one hundred pounds;"
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Over the last five years or so, it seemed there was little that Dean G. Skelos, the majority leader of the New York Senate, would not do for his son.
He pressed a powerful real estate executive to provide commissions to his son, a 32-year-old title insurance salesman, according to a federal criminal complaint. He helped get him a job at an environmental company and employed his influence to help the company get government work. He used his office to push natural gas drilling regulations that would have increased his son's commissions.
He even tried to direct part of a $5.4 billion state budget windfall to fund government contracts that the company was seeking. And when the company was close to securing a storm-water contract from Nassau County, the senator, through an intermediary, pressured the company to pay his son more — or risk having the senator subvert the bid.
The criminal complaint, unsealed on Monday, lays out corruption charges against Senator Skelos and his son, Adam B. Skelos, the latest scandal to seize Albany, and potentially alter its power structure.
Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan, discussed the case involving Dean G. Skelos and his son, Adam. Credit Eduardo Munoz/Reuters
The repeated and diverse efforts by Senator Skelos, a Long Island Republican, to use what prosecutors said was his political influence to find work, or at least income, for his son could send both men to federal prison. If they are convicted of all six charges against them, they face up to 20 years in prison for each of four of the six counts and up to 10 years for the remaining two.
Senator Kenneth P. LaValle, of Long Island, who serves as chairman of the Republican conference, emerged from a closed-door meeting Monday night to say that conference members agreed that Mr. Skelos should be benefited the "presumption of innocence," and would stay in his leadership role.
"The leader has indicated he would like to remain as leader," said Mr. LaValle, "and he has the support of the conference." The case against Mr. Skelos and his son grew out of a broader inquiry into political corruption by the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, that has already changed the face of the state capital. It is based in part, according to the six-count complaint, on conversations secretly recorded by one of two cooperating witnesses, and wiretaps on the cellphones of the senator and his son. Those recordings revealed that both men were concerned about electronic surveillance, and illustrated the son's unsuccessful efforts to thwart it.
Adam Skelos took to using a "burner" phone, the complaint says, and told his father he wanted them to speak through a FaceTime video call in an apparent effort to avoid detection. They also used coded language at times.
At one point, Adam Skelos was recorded telling a Senate staff member of his frustration in not being able to speak openly to his father on the phone, noting that he could not "just send smoke signals or a little pigeon" carrying a message.
The 43-page complaint, sworn out by Paul M. Takla, a special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, outlines a five-year scheme to "monetize" the senator's official position; it also lays bare the extent to which a father sought to use his position to help his son.
The charges accuse the two men of extorting payments through a real estate developer, Glenwood Management, based on Long Island, and the environmental company, AbTech Industries, in Scottsdale, Ariz., with the expectation that the money paid to Adam Skelos — nearly $220,000 in total — would influence his father's actions.
Glenwood, one of the state's most prolific campaign donors, had ties to AbTech through investments in the environmental firm's parent company by Glenwood's founding family and a senior executive.
The accusations in the complaint portray Senator Skelos as a man who, when it came to his son, was not shy about twisting arms, even in situations that might give other arm-twisters pause.
Seeking to help his son, Senator Skelos turned to the executive at Glenwood, which develops rental apartments in New York City and has much at stake when it comes to real estate legislation in Albany. The senator urged him to direct business to his son, who sold title insurance.
After much prodding, the executive, Charles C. Dorego, engineered a $20,000 payment to Adam Skelos from a title insurance company even though he did no work for the money. But far more lucrative was a consultant position that Mr. Dorego arranged for Adam Skelos at AbTech, which seeks government contracts to treat storm water. (Mr. Dorego is not identified by name in the complaint, but referred to only as CW-1, for Cooperating Witness 1.)
Senator Skelos appeared to take an active interest in his son's new line of work. Adam Skelos sent him several drafts of his consulting agreement with AbTech, the complaint says, as well as the final deal that was struck.
"Mazel tov," his father replied.
Senator Skelos sent relevant news articles to his son, including one about a sewage leak near Albany. When AbTech wanted to seek government contracts after Hurricane Sandy, the senator got on a conference call with his son and an AbTech executive, Bjornulf White, and offered advice. (Like Mr. Dorego, Mr. White is not named in the complaint, but referred to as CW-2.)
The assistance paid off: With the senator's help, AbTech secured a contract worth up to $12 million from Nassau County, a big break for a struggling small business.
But the money was slow to materialize. The senator expressed impatience with county officials.
Adam Skelos, in a phone call with Mr. White in late December, suggested that his father would seek to punish the county. "I tell you this, the state is not going to do a [expletive] thing for the county," he said.
Three days later, Senator Skelos pressed his case with the Nassau County executive, Edward P. Mangano, a fellow Republican. "Somebody feels like they're just getting jerked around the last two years," the senator said, referring to his son in what the complaint described as "coded language."
The next day, the senator pursued the matter, as he and Mr. Mangano attended a wake for a slain New York City police officer. Senator Skelos then reassured his son, who called him while he was still at the wake. "All claims that are in will be taken care of," the senator said.
AbTech's fortunes appeared to weigh on his son. At one point in January, Adam Skelos told his father that if the company did not succeed, he would "lose the ability to pay for things."
Making matters worse, in recent months, Senator Skelos and his son appeared to grow wary about who was watching them. In addition to making calls on the burner phone, Adam Skelos said he used the FaceTime video calling "because that doesn't show up on the phone bill," as he told Mr. White.
In late February, Adam Skelos arranged a pair of meetings between Mr. White and state senators; AbTech needed to win state legislation that would allow its contract to move beyond its initial stages. But Senator Skelos deemed the plan too risky and caused one of the meetings to be canceled.
In another recorded call, Adam Skelos, promising to be "very, very vague" on the phone, urged his father to allow the meeting. The senator offered a warning. "Right now we are in dangerous times, Adam," he told him.
A month later, in another phone call that was recorded by the authorities, Adam Skelos complained that his father could not give him "real advice" about AbTech while the two men were speaking over the telephone.
"You can't talk normally," he told his father, "because it's like [expletive] Preet Bharara is listening to every [expletive] phone call. It's just [expletive] frustrating."
"It is," his father agreed.
THE WRITERS ASHLEY AND JAQUAVIS COLEMAN know the value of a good curtain-raiser. The couple have co-authored dozens of novels, and they like to start them with a bang: a headlong action sequence, a blast of violence or sex that rocks readers back on their heels. But the Colemans concede they would be hard-pressed to dream up anything more gripping than their own real-life opening scene.
In the summer of 2001, JaQuavis Coleman was a 16-year-old foster child in Flint, Mich., the former auto-manufacturing mecca that had devolved, in the wake of General Motors' plant closures, into one of the country's most dangerous cities, with a decimated economy and a violent crime rate more than three times the national average. When JaQuavis was 8, social services had removed him from his mother's home. He spent years bouncing between foster families. At 16, JaQuavis was also a businessman: a crack dealer with a network of street-corner peddlers in his employ.
One day that summer, JaQuavis met a fellow dealer in a parking lot on Flint's west side. He was there to make a bulk sale of a quarter-brick, or "nine-piece" — a nine-ounce parcel of cocaine, with a street value of about $11,000. In the middle of the transaction, JaQuavis heard the telltale chirp of a walkie-talkie. His customer, he now realized, was an undercover policeman. JaQuavis jumped into his car and spun out onto the road, with two unmarked police cars in pursuit. He didn't want to get into a high-speed chase, so he whipped his car into a church parking lot and made a run for it, darting into an alleyway behind a row of small houses, where he tossed the quarter-brick into some bushes. When JaQuavis reached the small residential street on the other side of the houses, he was greeted by the police, who handcuffed him and went to search behind the houses where, they told him, they were certain he had ditched the drugs. JaQuavis had been dealing since he was 12, had amassed more than $100,000 and had never been arrested. Now, he thought: It's over.
But when the police looked in the bushes, they couldn't find any cocaine. They interrogated JaQuavis, who denied having ever possessed or sold drugs. They combed the backyard alley some more. After an hour of fruitless efforts, the police were forced to unlock the handcuffs and release their suspect.
JaQuavis was baffled by the turn of events until the next day, when he received a phone call. The previous afternoon, a 15-year-old girl had been sitting in her home on the west side of Flint when she heard sirens. She looked out of the window of her bedroom, and watched a young man throw a package in the bushes behind her house. She recognized him. He was a high school classmate — a handsome, charismatic boy whom she had admired from afar. The girl crept outside and grabbed the bundle, which she hid in her basement. "I have something that belongs to you," Ashley Snell told JaQuavis Coleman when she reached him by phone. "You wanna come over here and pick it up?"
In the Colemans' first novel, "Dirty Money" (2005), they told a version of this story. The outline was the same: the drug deal gone bad, the dope chucked in the bushes, the fateful phone call. To the extent that the authors took poetic license, it was to tone down the meet-cute improbability of the true-life events. In "Dirty Money," the girl, Anari, and the crack dealer, Maurice, circle each other warily for a year or so before coupling up. But the facts of Ashley and JaQuavis's romance outstripped pulp fiction. They fell in love more or less at first sight, moved into their own apartment while still in high school and were married in 2008. "We were together from the day we met," Ashley says. "I don't think we've spent more than a week apart in total over the past 14 years."
That partnership turned out to be creative and entrepreneurial as well as romantic. Over the past decade, the Colemans have published nearly 50 books, sometimes as solo writers, sometimes under pseudonyms, but usually as collaborators with a byline that has become a trusted brand: "Ashley & JaQuavis." They are marquee stars of urban fiction, or street lit, a genre whose inner-city settings and lurid mix of crime, sex and sensationalism have earned it comparisons to gangsta rap. The emergence of street lit is one of the big stories in recent American publishing, a juggernaut that has generated huge sales by catering to a readership — young, black and, for the most part, female — that historically has been ill-served by the book business. But the genre is also widely maligned. Street lit is subject to a kind of triple snobbery: scorned by literati who look down on genre fiction generally, ignored by a white publishing establishment that remains largely indifferent to black books and disparaged by African-American intellectuals for poor writing, coarse values and trafficking in racial stereotypes.
But if a certain kind of cultural prestige is shut off to the Colemans, they have reaped other rewards. They've built a large and loyal fan base, which gobbles up the new Ashley & JaQuavis titles that arrive every few months. Many of those books are sold at street-corner stands and other off-the-grid venues in African-American neighborhoods, a literary gray market that doesn't register a blip on best-seller tallies. Yet the Colemans' most popular series now regularly crack the trade fiction best-seller lists of The New York Times and Publishers Weekly. For years, the pair had no literary agent; they sold hundreds of thousands of books without banking a penny in royalties. Still, they have earned millions of dollars, almost exclusively from cash-for-manuscript deals negotiated directly with independent publishing houses. In short, though little known outside of the world of urban fiction, the Colemans are one of America's most successful literary couples, a distinction they've achieved, they insist, because of their work's gritty authenticity and their devotion to a primal literary virtue: the power of the ripping yarn.
"When you read our books, you're gonna realize: 'Ashley & JaQuavis are storytellers,' " says Ashley. "Our tales will get your heart pounding."
THE COLEMANS' HOME BASE — the cottage from which they operate their cottage industry — is a spacious four-bedroom house in a genteel suburb about 35 miles north of downtown Detroit. The house is plush, but when I visited this past winter, it was sparsely appointed. The couple had just recently moved in, and had only had time to fully furnish the bedroom of their 4-year-old son, Quaye.
In conversation, Ashley and JaQuavis exude both modesty and bravado: gratitude for their good fortune and bootstrappers' pride in having made their own luck. They talk a lot about their time in the trenches, the years they spent as a drug dealer and "ride-or-die girl" tandem. In Flint they learned to "grind hard." Writing, they say, is merely a more elevated kind of grind.
"Instead of hitting the block like we used to, we hit the laptops," says Ashley. "I know what every word is worth. So while I'm writing, I'm like: 'Okay, there's a hundred dollars. There's a thousand dollars. There's five thousand dollars.' "
They maintain a rigorous regimen. They each try to write 5,000 words per day, five days a week. The writers stagger their shifts: JaQuavis goes to bed at 7 p.m. and wakes up early, around 3 or 4 in the morning, to work while his wife and child sleep. Ashley writes during the day, often in libraries or at Starbucks.
They divide the labor in other ways. Chapters are divvied up more or less equally, with tasks assigned according to individual strengths. (JaQuavis typically handles character development. Ashley loves writing murder scenes.) The results are stitched together, with no editorial interference from one author in the other's text. The real work, they contend, is the brainstorming. The Colemans spend weeks mapping out their plot-driven books — long conversations that turn into elaborate diagrams on dry-erase boards. "JaQuavis and I are so close, it makes the process real easy," says Ashley. "Sometimes when I'm thinking of something, a plot point, he'll say it out loud, and I'm like: 'Wait — did I say that?' "
Their collaboration developed by accident, and on the fly. Both were bookish teenagers. Ashley read lots of Judy Blume and John Grisham; JaQuavis liked Shakespeare, Richard Wright and "Atlas Shrugged." (Their first official date was at a Borders bookstore, where Ashley bought "The Coldest Winter Ever," the Sister Souljah novel often credited with kick-starting the contemporary street-lit movement.) In 2003, Ashley, then 17, was forced to terminate an ectopic pregnancy. She was bedridden for three weeks, and to provide distraction and boost her spirits, JaQuavis challenged his girlfriend to a writing contest. "She just wasn't talking. She was laying in bed. I said, 'You know what? I bet you I could write a better book than you.' My wife is real competitive. So I said, 'Yo, all right, $500 bet.' And I saw her eyes spark, like, 'What?! You can't write no better book than me!' So I wrote about three chapters. She wrote about three chapters. Two days later, we switched."
The result, hammered out in a few days, would become "Dirty Money." Two years later, when Ashley and JaQuavis were students at Ferris State University in Western Michigan, they sold the manuscript to Urban Books, a street-lit imprint founded by the best-selling author Carl Weber. At the time, JaQuavis was still making his living selling drugs. When Ashley got the phone call informing her that their book had been bought, she assumed they'd hit it big, and flushed more than $10,000 worth of cocaine down the toilet. Their advance was a mere $4,000.
Those advances would soon increase, eventually reaching five and six figures. The Colemans built their career, JaQuavis says, in a manner that made sense to him as a veteran dope peddler: by flooding the street with product. From the start, they were prolific, churning out books at a rate of four or five a year. Their novels made their way into stores; the now-defunct chain Waldenbooks, which had stores in urban areas typically bypassed by booksellers, was a major engine of the street-lit market. But Ashley and JaQuavis took advantage of distribution channels established by pioneering urban fiction authors such as Teri Woods and Vickie Stringer, and a network of street-corner tables, magazine stands, corner shops and bodegas. Like rappers who establish their bona fides with gray-market mixtapes, street-lit authors use this system to circumnavigate industry gatekeepers, bringing their work straight to the genre's core readership. But urban fiction has other aficionados, in less likely places. "Our books are so popular in the prison system," JaQuavis says. "We're banned in certain penitentiaries. Inmates fight over the books — there are incidents, you know? I have loved ones in jail, and they're like: 'Yo, your books can't come in here. It's against the rules.' "
The appeal of the Colemans' work is not hard to fathom. The books are formulaic and taut; they deliver the expected goods efficiently and exuberantly. The titles telegraph the contents: "Diary of a Street Diva," "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang," "Murderville." The novels serve up a stream of explicit sex and violence in a slangy, tangy, profane voice. In Ashley & JaQuavis's books people don't get killed: they get "popped," "laid out," get their "cap twisted back." The smut is constant, with emphasis on the earthy, sticky, olfactory particulars. Romance novel clichés — shuddering orgasms, heroic carnal feats, superlative sexual skill sets — are rendered in the Colemans' punchy patois.
Subtlety, in other words, isn't Ashley & JaQuavis's forte. But their books do have a grainy specificity. In "The Cartel" (2008), the first novel in the Colemans' best-selling saga of a Miami drug syndicate, they catch the sights and smells of a crack workshop in a housing project: the nostril-stinging scent of cocaine and baking soda bubbling on stovetops; the teams of women, stripped naked except for hospital masks so they can't pilfer the merchandise, "cutting up the cooked coke on the round wood table." The subject matter is dark, but the Colemans' tone is not quite noir. Even in the grimmest scenes, the mood is high-spirited, with the writers palpably relishing the lewd and gory details: the bodies writhing in boudoirs and crumpling under volleys of bullets, the geysers of blood and other bodily fluids.
The luridness of street lit has made it a flashpoint, inciting controversy reminiscent of the hip-hop culture wars of the 1980s and '90s. But the street-lit debate touches deeper historical roots, reviving decades-old arguments in black literary circles about the mandate to uplift the race and present wholesome images of African-Americans. In 1928, W. E. B. Du Bois slammed the "licentiousness" of "Home to Harlem," Claude McKay's rollicking novel of Harlem nightlife. McKay's book, Du Bois wrote, "for the most part nauseates me, and after the dirtier parts of its filth I feel distinctly like taking a bath." Similar sentiments have greeted 21st-century street lit. In a 2006 New York Times Op-Ed essay, the journalist and author Nick Chiles decried "the sexualization and degradation of black fiction." African-American bookstores, Chiles complained, are "overrun with novels that . . . appeal exclusively to our most prurient natures — as if these nasty books were pairing off back in the stockrooms like little paperback rabbits and churning out even more graphic offspring that make Ralph Ellison books cringe into a dusty corner."
Copulating paperbacks aside, it's clear that the street-lit debate is about more than literature, touching on questions of paternalism versus populism, and on middle-class anxieties about the black underclass. "It's part and parcel of black elites' efforts to define not only a literary tradition, but a racial politics," said Kinohi Nishikawa, an assistant professor of English and African-American Studies at Princeton University. "There has always been a sense that because African-Americans' opportunities to represent themselves are so limited in the first place, any hint of criminality or salaciousness would necessarily be a knock on the entire racial politics. One of the pressing debates about African-American literature today is: If we can't include writers like Ashley & JaQuavis, to what extent is the foundation of our thinking about black literature faulty? Is it just a literature for elites? Or can it be inclusive, bringing urban fiction under the purview of our umbrella term 'African-American literature'?"
Defenders of street lit note that the genre has a pedigree: a tradition of black pulp fiction that stretches from Chester Himes, the midcentury author of hardboiled Harlem detective stories, to the 1960s and '70s "ghetto fiction" of Iceberg Slim and Donald Goines, to the current wave of urban fiction authors. Others argue for street lit as a social good, noting that it attracts a large audience that might otherwise never read at all. Scholars like Nishikawa link street lit to recent studies showing increased reading among African-Americans. A 2014 Pew Research Center report found that a greater percentage of black Americans are book readers than whites or Latinos.
For their part, the Colemans place their work in the broader black literary tradition. "You have Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, James Baldwin — all of these traditional black writers, who wrote about the struggles of racism, injustice, inequality," says Ashley. "We're writing about the struggle as it happens now. It's just a different struggle. I'm telling my story. I'm telling the struggle of a black girl from Flint, Michigan, who grew up on welfare."
Perhaps there is a high-minded case to be made for street lit. But the virtues of Ashley & JaQuavis's work are more basic. Their novels do lack literary polish. The writing is not graceful; there are passages of clunky exposition and sex scenes that induce guffaws and eye rolls. But the pleasure quotient is high. The books flaunt a garish brand of feminism, with women characters cast not just as vixens, but also as gangsters — cold-blooded killers, "murder mamas." The stories are exceptionally well-plotted. "The Cartel" opens by introducing its hero, the crime boss Carter Diamond; on page 9, a gunshot spatters Diamond's brain across the interior of a police cruiser. The book then flashes back seven years and begins to hurtle forward again — a bullet train, whizzing readers through shifting alliances, romantic entanglements and betrayals, kidnappings, shootouts with Haitian and Dominican gangsters, and a cliffhanger closing scene that leaves the novel's heroine tied to a chair in a basement, gruesomely tortured to the edge of death. Ashley & JaQuavis's books are not Ralph Ellison, certainly, but they build up quite a head of steam. They move.
The Colemans are moving themselves these days. They recently signed a deal with St. Martin's Press, which will bring out the next installment in the "Cartel" series as well as new solo series by both writers. The St. Martin's deal is both lucrative and legitimizing — a validation of Ashley and JaQuavis's work by one of publishing's most venerable houses. The Colemans' ambitions have grown, as well. A recent trilogy, "Murderville," tackles human trafficking and the blood-diamond industry in West Africa, with storylines that sweep from Sierra Leone to Mexico to Los Angeles. Increasingly, Ashley & JaQuavis are leaning on research — traveling to far-flung settings and hitting the books in the libraries — and spending less time mining their own rough-and-tumble past.
But Flint remains a source of inspiration. One evening not long ago, JaQuavis led me on a tour of his hometown: a popular roadside bar; the parking lot where he met the undercover cop for the ill-fated drug deal; Ashley's old house, the site of his almost-arrest. He took me to a ramshackle vehicle repair shop on Flint's west side, where he worked as a kid, washing cars. He showed me a bathroom at the rear of the garage, where, at age 12, he sneaked away to inspect the first "boulder" of crack that he ever sold. A spray-painted sign on the garage wall, which JaQuavis remembered from his time at the car wash, offered words of warning:
MURDER . . . 30 Years
ARMED ROBBERY . . . 15 Years
ASSAULT . . . 15 Years
RAPE . . . 20 Years
POSSESSION . . . 5 Years
"We still love Flint, Michigan," JaQuavis says. "It's so seedy, so treacherous. But there's some heart in this city. This is where it all started, selling books out the box. In the days when we would get those little $40,000 advances, they'd send us a couple boxes of books for free. We would hit the streets to sell our books, right out of the car trunk. It was a hustle. It still is."
One old neighborhood asset that the Colemans have not shaken off is swagger. "My wife is the best female writer in the game," JaQuavis told me. "I believe I'm the best male writer in the game. I'm sleeping next to the best writer in the world. And she's doing the same."


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