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Kindness Goes Unpunished
A Walt Longmire Mystery
Craig Johnson - Author
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Walt brings Western-style justice to Philadelphia in this action-packed thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Cold Dish and As the Crow Flies, the third in the Longmire Mystery Series, the basis for LONGMIRE, the hit A&E original drama series
Fans of Ace Atkins, Nevada Barr and Robert B. Parker will love New York Times bestselling author Craig Johnson's mystery series—starring Walt Longmire, the straight-shooting sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming, and the basis for LONGMIRE, the hit A&E original drama series—-is attracting more and more fans with its distinctive blend of humor and action. In Kindness Goes Unpunished, Walt's pleasure trip to Philadelphia to visit his daughter, Cady, turns into a nightmare when she is the victim of a vicious attack that leaves her near death. Walt is forced to unpack his saddlebag of tricks to mete out some Western-style justice, and the result is another action-packed thriller from this star of crime fiction.
Philadelphia gets a taste of Western justice in "a series that should become a 'must' read" (The Denver Post)
I didn't wear my gun. They had said that it was going to be easy and, like the fool I am, I believed them. They said that if things got rough to make sure I showed the pictures, of which there were only twenty-three; I had already shown all of them twice. " 'Long, long ago, there lived a king and queen . . .' "
I looked around the room for a little backup, but there wasn't anyone there. They had said that I didn't have to worry, that they wouldn't leave me alone, but they had. " '. . . who didn't have any children. One day, the queen was visited by a wise fairy, who told her, "You will have a lovely baby girl." The king was so overjoyed when he heard the news that he immediately made plans for a great feast. He invited not only his relatives, but also the twelve fairies who lived in the kingdom.' "
"Where's your gun?"
My thought exactly. "I didn't think I was going to need it." They all nodded, but I wasn't particularly sure they agreed.
"How long have you been a sheriff?"
"Twenty-three years." It just seemed like a million.
"Do you know Buffalo Bill?"
Maybe it was a million. "No, he was a little before my time."
"My daddy says you're a butt hole."
I looked down at the battered book in my hands. "Okay, maybe we should concentrate on today's story . . ."
"He says you used to drive around drunk all the time . . ."
The instigator in the front row looked like a little angel but had a mouth like a stevedore. He was getting ready to say something else, so I cut him off by holding up Grimm's Fairy Tales open to the page where the young princess had been enchanted and put to sleep for a hundred years. "Why do you think the fairy visited the queen?" A dark-haired girl with enormous eyes who sat in the third row slowly raised her hand. "You?"
She cocked her head in disgust. "I told you, my name is Anne."
I nodded mine in contrition. "Right. Anne, why do you think the fairy visited the queen?"
"Because their daughter is going to fall asleep." She said it slowly, with the hearty contempt even young people have for civil servants who can't get it right.
"Well, yep, but that happens later on because one of the fairies gets angry, right?" Anne raised her hand again, but I ignored her for a slight redheaded boy in the back. His name was Rusty, and I quietly thanked the powers that be for word association. "Rusty?"
"My dad says that my Uncle Paul is a fairy."
I'm not sure when it was that my storytelling abilities began to atrophy, but it must have been somewhere between Sesame Street and The Electric Company. I think I used to be pretty good at it, but that was a long time ago. I was going to have to ask my daughter if that really was the case; she was now "The Greatest Legal Mind of Our Time" and a Philadelphia lawyer. When I had spoken to Cady last night, she had still been at the office library in the basement. I felt sorry for her till she told me the basement was on the twenty-eighth floor. My friend Henry Standing Bear said that the law library was where all the lawyers went to sleep at about $250 an hour.
"You are the worstest storyteller we ever had."
I looked down at another would-be literary critic who had been silent up till now and wondered if maybe I had made a mistake with "Brier Rose." Cady had loved the story dearly at an earlier age, but the current enrollment appeared to be a little sophisticated for the material.
"My daddy hides his medicine whenever anybody knocks on our door."
I tried not to concentrate on this child's name. I propped the book back up on my knee and looked at all of them, the future of Absaroka County, Wyoming.
"He says he doesn't have a prescription."
I was supposed to make the drive to Philadelphia tomorrow with Henry. He had received an invitation to lecture at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with his Mennonite photograph collection in tow. I thought it would be an opportunity to visit my daughter and meet the lawyer who was the latest of her conquests. The relationship had lasted about four months, a personal record for her, so I decided that it was time I met the prospective son-in-law.
"His medicine makes him fall down."
Henry was planning on driving Lola. I had tried to talk him into flying, but it had been a while since he had driven across the country and he said he wanted to check things out. The real reason was he wanted to make an entrance with the powder blue 1959 Thunderbird convertible; the Bear was big on entrances.
"He smokes his medicine."
We were going for only a week, but Cady was very excited about introducing us to Devon Conliffe, who sounded like a character from The Philadelphia Story. I had warned her that lawyers shouldn't marry other lawyers, that it only led to imbecile paralegals.
"My mommy says the only thing his medicine does is keep him from getting a job."
Patti with an "i," my daughter's secretary, agreed with me about lawyer interbreeding. We had talked about the relationship, and I could just make out a little reservation in Patti's voice when she mentioned him.
"He's my third daddy."
We were supposed to have dinner with the elder Conliffes at their palatial home in Bryn Mawr, an event I was looking forward to like a subcutaneous wound.
"I liked my second daddy best."
It would be interesting to see their response to the Indian and his faithful sidekick, the sheriff of Absaroka County. They probably wouldn't open the gate.
"I don't remember my first daddy."
I looked up at the kid and reopened the book. " 'Long, long ago, there lived a king and queen who didn't have any children . . .' "
Dorothy Caldwell turned toward the patties on the griddle behind her, lifted the press, and turned them. "What'd you read?"
I pulled Cady's personal copy from the stool beside me and sat it on the counter. Grimm's Fairy Tales. "Brier Rose"— "Sleeping Beauty" before Hollywood got hold of it.
She gave me a sideways look and then leaned over to glance at the love-worn cover. "Kindergarten?" She shrugged a shoulder as she placed the meat press aside. "Kids have gotten a little jaded since Cady's generation, Walter."
I set my glass down. "Well, I don't have to do it again until after the election." She slipped the hamburger, lettuce, tomato, and bacon onto a toasted bun and slid the plate toward me. "The usual?"
She nodded at the old joke, sipped at her own tea, and peeked at me over the rim. "I hear Kyle Straub is going to run."
I nodded and put mayonnaise on my burger, a practice she hated. "Yep, I've seen the signs." The prosecuting attorney had jumped the gun this morning and placed his red-white-and-blue signs in all the strategic spots around town before finding out for sure if I was really going to run again. So far, it had been the strongest motivation that I had had to continue my tenure.
"Prosecuting attorney/sheriff." She paused for effect. "Kind of gives you an indication as to what his administration would be like."
I thought about my original plan, to run for sheriff, put in half a term, and then hand the reins over to Vic, allowing her to prove herself for two years before having to face a general election. I chewed a chunk of burger. "You think Vic would make a good sheriff?"
Dorothy slipped a wayward lock behind her ear and looked past me. Her hair was getting longer, and I wondered if she was growing it out. The answer to my question about Vic, like everything else about Dorothy, was definitive. "Why don't we ask her?"
I fought the urge to turn and look out onto Main Street, where I'm sure a handsome, dark-haired woman was parking a ten-year-old unit in front of the Busy Bee Cafe. Wyoming had never elected a female sheriff and the chances of their electing an Italian from Philadelphia with a mouth like a saltwater crocodile were relatively slim.
"She's got the Basquo with her." There was a pause as I continued eating my lunch. "Those two are quite the pair."
Santiago Saizarbitoria had joined our little contingency three months ago and, with the exception of trying to put out a chimney fire single-handedly on an ice-slicked roof, had proven himself indispensable. I listened as the door opened and closed, the laden April air drifting through the brief opening. They sat on the stools beside me and threw their elbows onto the counter. In identical uniforms and service jackets, they could have been twins, except that the Basquo was bigger, with wrists like bundled cables, and had a goatee, and he didn't have the tarnished gold eyes that Vic had.
I kept eating as Dorothy pulled two mugs from under the counter, poured them full, and pushed the cream dispenser and the sugar toward the old world pair. They both drank coffee all day. Vic slipped her finger through the handle of her cup. "How was this afternoon's premiere at Durant Elementary?"
I took another sip of my iced tea. "I don't think we'll make the long run."
She tore open five sugars and dumped them in her mug. "I been here two years. How come they never fucking asked me?"
I set my glass back down. "It's hard to read nursery rhymes with a tape delay."
She stirred the coffee into the sugar and spoke into the mug. "That monkey pud Kyle Straub's got signs up all over town."
"Yep, I heard."
Saizarbitoria leaned in and joined the conversation. "Vern Selby was talking very highly about Mr. Straub in the paper yesterday."
"Yep, I read it."
All our radios blared for a second. Static. "Unit two, 10-54 at 16, mile marker four."
We looked at one another. Ruby had made a crusade of using the ten code in the last few weeks, and it was turning out to be a royal pain in the ass for all of us. I was the first one to guess. "Intoxicated driver?"
Vic was next. "Road blocked . . ."
Saizarbitoria took one last sip of his coffee and slipped off his stool; he knew the chain of command. He clicked the mic on his radio. "Ten fifty-four, roger." He looked at the two of us and shook his head. "Livestock on the road."
Vic and I shrugged at each other as she tossed him the keys. She sipped her sugar as he hurried out. "Do let us know."
Vic hitched a ride with me. As we walked up the steps of the old Carnegie Library that housed the Absaroka County jail and offices, I could smell her shampoo and the crab apple blossoms. We were about halfway up the steps when she stopped me with a hand on my arm. I turned to look at her as she leaned against the iron railing and slid that same hand up the black-painted steel bar. I waited, but she just looked off toward Clear Creek, where the cottonwoods were already starting to leaf. She glanced back at me, irritated. "You still planning on leaving tomorrow morning?"
I adjusted the book of fairy tales under my arm. "That's the plan, at least mine."
She nodded. "I have a favor to ask."
She sniffed, and I watched as the wrinkles receded from the sides of her nose like cat whiskers. "My mother wants to have lunch with you and Cady."
I waited a moment, thinking there must be more. "Okay."
She continued to look off toward the creek. "Super Cop might be too busy, but my mother is feeling negligent in her attentions toward your daughter." I watched as the muscles of her jaw flexed like they always did when she mentioned her father.
"I mean . . . It's not a big deal. She just wants to have lunch."
I nodded again. "Okay."
"You can go to my Uncle Alphonse's pizzeria—it's nothing special."
I smiled and dipped my head to block her view. "I said okay."
She looked at me. "It's a family thing, and like most of the family things concerning my family, it's fucked up." She sighed. "I mean . . . they should have gotten in touch with her a long time before this, but in their usual, fucked-up way . . ."
"We'll have lunch." I watched as she studied her Browning tactical boots. Her dark hair stood up in tufts of dissatisfaction. "I would love to meet any of your family."
"Uh huh." Nothing was ever easy with Vic; it was one of her charms. She started up the steps without me. "Just don't expect too much."
I shook my head, followed her, and caught the beveled-glass door as it swung back into my face. I gently closed it and walked by the photographs of the five previous Absaroka County sheriffs. I saluted the painting of Andrew Carnegie as I mounted the final steps to the dispatcher's desk where Ruby sat reading the last series of updates from the Division of Criminal Investigation down in Cheyenne. "What the hell is a 10-54?"
She raised her blue eyes and gazed at me through her salt-with-no-pepper bangs. "Ferg says that he's 10-6 today if he's got to work the next week and a half solid, and I'm 10-42 as of five forty-five for my church's ice-cream social."
I decided to ignore the flurry of tens. "Did he go up to Tongue River Canyon?" She nodded. The Ferg was my part-time deputy who made a full-time habit of harassing the local aquatic life with his hand-tied flies. He was going to have to take up some of the slack while I was gone, so I didn't begrudge him a day casting bits of fur and feather upon the waters. "Any Post-its?"
"Two, and that young man who is supposed to come in this afternoon."
"What young man?"
She shook her head. "The young man from Sheridan who applied for the other deputy position in Powder Junction. He said he'd be here before five."
I sat on the corner of her desk, looked at the time on her computer, and reached down to pet Dog. "Then he's got twenty minutes."
The beast's head rose, and Ruby examined the scar that a bullet had left near his ear; a tongue the size of a dishwashing rag lapped my hand. "Lucian called to see if you'd forgotten it's chess night."
"Damn." I was going to have to go over to the Durant Home for Assisted Living to see the old sheriff.
"Cady called."
"She's changed her mind and doesn't want us to come after all?"
Ruby wadded up the second Post-it and dispatched it with the first. "Not likely. She says for you to bring along your gun because she wants to take you to her shooting club on Thursday." We looked at each other for a moment, and then she raised an eyebrow. "Shooting club?"
I scratched the corner of my eye, where the scar tissue had healed. "It's this thing that Devon Conliffe's got her involved with."
She smiled. "Devon Conliffe again?"
"Yep . . ." I didn't sound all that thrilled, even to myself.
"This kid's got you worried."
She watched me scratch my eye for a moment longer, then reached up and pulled my hand away. I thought about it. "Me-thinks she doth protest too much."
Ruby shook her head. "She's scared you're not going to like him." She carefully released my hand. "He's young, handsome, accomplished, and makes about six times what you do on an annual basis. He has wooed and infatuated the most beautiful, intelligent, and precious woman that you know." She watched me with a smile. "It's perfectly reasonable for you to hate him." She batted her eyelashes. "Ten twenty-four?"
I looked at her for a moment, then trailed off to my office and wondered if anybody would notice if I slipped out the back. I sat at my desk and thought about calling the Bear to see if he didn't want to get going early. He wouldn't. I hit the second automatic dial button and listened as the phone rang at Henry's going concern at the edge of the Northern Cheyenne Reservation—free parking, no minimum.
He snatched it up on the second ring; it was his signature. "It's another beautiful day at the Red Pony Bar and continual soiree."
"Can we leave early?"
I hung up. There wasn't any reason to argue; I'd lose. I stared at the old Seth Thomas clock on the wall, thought of my packed bags by the door of my cabin, and sighed.
I punched the first number on my automatic dialing system and listened to the phone ring one thousand nine hundred thirty-six and one quarter miles away, to the place where my heart was on sabbatical.
"Schomberg, Calder, Dallin, and Rhind. Cady Longmire's office; can I help you?"
Patti with an "i." "Hi, Patti, you guys are working late."
"Yo, Sheriff. We've got a brief that has to be filed by tomorrow. How's things out in the Wild West?"
I leaned back in my chair and set my hat on my desk. "Uninteresting." I threw my feet up, something I rarely did, and almost flipped over backward. I grabbed the edge of the desk to steady myself. "Is 'The Greatest Legal Mind of Our Time' available?"
There was a clicking noise and the phone rang half a ring before she picked up. Near as I could figure, Schomberg, Calder, Dallin, and Rhind were getting their collective money's worth. "Cady Longmire."
I smiled in spite of myself; she sounded so grown up. "You're a punk."
There was silence on the line for a moment, then a slightly plaintive voice. "Have you left yet?"
"No, the Indian isn't packed."
Another short silence. "Is he still carrying the photographic find of the century around in hatboxes?"
"Probably. What's this stuff about bringing my sidearm?"
A quick sigh of exasperation. "I told you about it. Devon and I go to this shooting club over on Spring Garden on Thursday nights."
I was bored and decided to use up a little time arguing. "Why?"
Another, longer, silence. "It's something to do, Daddy. Don't start making judgments."
"I'm not. I just don't understand why you and a bunch of lawyers feel compelled to go out and shoot things on Thursday nights."
"We don't 'feel compelled' and we don't 'shoot things.' We go to a registered firing range, where we take out our secured weapons from the locked trunks of our cars, apply for our assigned ammunition, and shoot paper targets under the careful eye of a licensed instructor. He's an old fart, an Army guy like you."
"Whatever." She sniffed and got soft again. "I just thought you could meet him. It would be nice."
"Is this a Devon thing?"
Her voice turned sharp. "Bring your gun or don't. You're being impossible, and I have to go."
I looked at the phone. "I'll bring it."
The phone went dead in my hand. I put my feet back down, placed the receiver on the cradle, and thought about how I was making friends and influencing people. I thought about closing my door and taking a nap but, when I looked up, a tall, slim young man with sandy hair was looking at me through the doorway. "Sheriff Longmire?"
"I'm Chuck Frymyer." I stared at him. "About the job in Powder Junction?"
I motioned for him to sit down and pulled his file from the pile on my desk. Only a month earlier, we couldn't get two deputies to rub together, but now we'd had over a dozen applications for the job. Frymyer had the most experience, with two years in Sheridan County.
I looked at the young man's application; he was way overqualified. I glanced back up at him. "You do realize that this job is our equivalent of the French Foreign Legion?"
I tossed the file back on my desk. "You're going to be out in the middle of nowhere. Have you ever been to Powder Junction?"
"I've driven through it, on the highway."
"Under the best of weather conditions, it takes me forty-five minutes to get down there, so I need deputies who can take care of themselves and the southern part of this county."
"Yes, sir."
"Don't call me sir." I looked at him a while longer and figured that, like "Beau" Geste, he must have his own reasons for wanting to go off to the end of the world; it probably had to do with a woman, but maybe that was the romantic in me. With his two years of patrol duty, he'd be a nice addition to Double Tough, the other deputy I had down there. "You're sure you want to do this?"
He smiled. "Yes."
I stood up and stuck out a hand. "You may curse me for it later, but you've got the job. Get your stuff together and report here on Monday morning, eight o'clock, and we'll get you sworn in. Sheridan's uniforms aren't that much different from ours, but you can wear blue jeans in Absaroka County. Get a badge and a patch set from Ruby at the front desk; we'll order up the rest. No black hats—we're the good guys."
I leaned back in my chair as he smiled. Ruby appeared in the doorway and cleared her throat. "I have some bad news."
I leaned forward and rested my chin on my angers, which spread across the surface of my desk. "I'm on my way out."
"It's Omar and Myra. They're shooting at each other again." I raised my head and looked at her. "It's a 10-16, technically." She smiled. "I'm going to my ice-cream social. Have a good time in Philadelphia and give Cady a kiss for me."
And she, too, was gone.
I yelled after her. "Who called it in?"
I heard her stop in the hallway. She came back and picked up my hat, carefully dusting it off and placing it on my head. "Go out there, make sure they don't kill each other, then go over to the Home for Assisted Living and play chess." I looked up at her. "I'll take Dog with me, and if you decide to take him with you, just stop by on your way out of town."
I drafted Vic before she could get out of the office and told her it was a chance for us to say goodbye before I left; of course, we could also be shot by the matching set of .308s with which Omar and Myra usually held their domestic disputes.
Omar Rhoades was the big dog of international outfitters; if you wanted to kill anything, anywhere, Omar was your man. He led big-game hunts on all seven continents, but the most dangerous game he had ever faced was his ex-wife, Myra. They had been divorced for about a year now, but Myra had left her belongings at the Rhoades ancestral manse, and it was like a ticking time bomb as to when Myra was going to be back. The home they had built together was on the northern border of our county, about halfway up the mountain; if they were serious about killing each other, then they were already dead.
I banked the next turn and gunned the Bullet into the long straightaway.
Vic unlocked the Remington 12-gauge from the center hump. "The gate's open."
It was about a hundred-yard shot to the circular turnaround at the main entrance, and I missed the fountain by less than a foot. We slid to a stop, and I jammed the truck into park and unbuckled my seatbelt. Vic was already up the front steps before I could get out. "Hold up! It's one thing if Omar wants to shoot us, but I'll be damned if I'm going to be shot by accident."
I pulled my .45 and looked across the heavy, cherry- paneled door that hung open. Vic jacked a shell into the Wingmaster and looked at me. You could hear music, and I'm pretty sure it was Edith Piaf.
I took a deep breath and, after a second, stepped over the threshold.
Vic's voice lashed at me from behind. "Well?"
It was dark in the main hall, the gallery windows affording only a flat, yellow light from the dying afternoon. There was no one on the landing and no one in the entryway. "C'mon." I aimed at the stairway to the left, following the wall with a foot along the baseboard and kicked a broken bottle of Absolut raspberry vodka. There was no liquor on the floor, so the bottle had been empty when it hit. Great.
I looked past the mounted heads that led down the main hall toward the kitchen and passed under the cape mount of a particularly large buffalo. "Omar!"
Omar was a friend, having gone so far as to haul my ass up onto the mountain in a blizzard and fly my daughter, who had been caught in another, from Denver for Christmas, but drunk and full of rage he was capable of accidentally shooting either of us.
Vic moved along the wall next to me. "You want me to check the back?"
"No, we'll go upstairs; that's where the music is coming from." I took another deep breath and peered over the foot of the landing. "Omar?"
The furniture was toppled into the middle of the passage like a makeshift barricade. There were holes in the sideboard and the Chippendale chair, with splintered wood and upholstery stuffing scattered on the oriental runner. I slumped against the wall and looked at my deputy. "Either they're dead, or they can't hear us over Edith Piaf."
I started back up the steps; at least the barricade afforded some defense. At the top railing, I made the turn, thought about the layout of the second floor, and remembered that the master bedroom was at the end of the hallway. It was about forty feet to the door, which was closed, but even at this distance I could see where match-grade loads had traveled through it; ten rounds, maybe, at three thousand feet per second. Since Myra was the one who had been in Paris for the better part of the last year and since the music was French, I assumed it was she who was in the bedroom.
I was looking at the door when I ran my leg into the edge of the sideboard, causing the mirror to flip on its pivot and crash to the floor. Even with Piaf, it was a loud noise. I looked at the shards of mirror scattered across the expensive Turkish rug and thought about seven years of bad luck. Edith took a breath, and I made out the distinctive sound of a modular bolt action slamming home.
I dove behind the barricade and flattened myself against the floor as the first round splintered through the wood of the upturned edge of the sideboard. Less than two seconds later, the next round caromed off the door facing and dug into the floor just short of my outstretched right hand. I was attempting to scramble toward the stairway when Vic leaned out from the railing and snapped off two 12-gauge rounds into the ceiling, the salvo allowing me a rather ignoble retreat. I ran into Vic, and we both fell down the remaining steps.
I was lucky enough to have landed on the bottom; she was sprawled across my chest. We looked at each other, and she grinned. "That was close." We stayed like that for a moment, then she rolled off me and I slid against the wall. We were sitting there on the landing a full ten seconds before we saw Omar. He was standing in the foyer and was eating a ham and cheese sandwich and drinking a bottle of beer.
"What the hell?" He lowered the longneck bottle and cocked his head. "What're you guys doing? You could get killed up there." He started up the steps, and I noticed he had a .44 hunting sidearm in a holster at his leg. "I brought you guys a beer." We continued to look at him. "If you want a sandwich, the stuff's still out." He took another sip, and I thought about throwing him over the railing. He motioned for Vic to take the bottles, which she did after shuttling the shotgun under her arm.
"What's the story?"
He rolled his eyes and pushed his 50X silver-belly hat back from his forehead, the long curls of gold reaching to the collar of his white dress shirt. "She started drinking this morning, after we had a little talk." He took another bite of his sandwich—I have to admit, it was looking pretty good. "She said she had traded me in on two twenty-year-olds, and I told her she wasn't wired for 220. The conversation kind of deteriorated from there." He finished off the beer and threw the bottle so that it shattered against the hand-patterned drywall. He put his hand to the side of his mouth to direct the volume: "Bitch!"
Two more .308s slammed through the door above. Vic and I simultaneously ducked as the rounds sped harmlessly down the empty hallway above us.
Omar took both of the beers from Vic, opened them on his belt buckle, handed her one back, and took a swig from the other as the cap fell to the carpeted landing and rolled down the stairs. "You didn't, by chance, happen to count how many holes were in the door?" He continued to look after the bottle cap. "There's only one box of shells for that thing, sixteen in a box . . ."
I knew that there was an abundance of weapons in the Rhoades household. "What about all the other guns in the safe?"
"No ammunition. I moved it all downstairs."
They both took sips and looked at me. "Twelve." I nodded back to the landing. "And two more makes fourteen."
Omar nodded. "She's got two left." We all nodded, as he casually drew the big .44 from his holster, aimed it straight up, and fired two shots; the long-barreled Smith and Wesson bucked in his hand. A few pieces of the entryway, elk horn chandelier, and plaster ceiling fell down on us. "Cunt!" The .308 thundered in response, but this time only once. Omar took another swallow. "Wisin' up, conserving ammo."
I looked at Vic, who looked at Omar. "Any chance of talking to her?"
Omar laughed, and I looked at him. "Is there a phone in the bedroom?"
"Yeah." We traipsed down to the entryway table where an old-fashioned Belgian dial phone sat. Omar picked up the receiver, dialed the number for the bedroom, and handed the phone to me. "She's not going to talk to me."
The phone rang three times before Myra answered. "Bastard!"
"Myra, it's Walter . . ." She slammed the receiver down with an ear-shattering crack. I asked Omar to dial the number again. She didn't answer this time, but the thunderous report of the .308 and the brief squall and whine of the line informed us that Myra had shot the bedroom phone.
I hung up and looked at the two of them. Vic looked back at the landing. "She's out?"
Omar agreed. "Yeah."
I wasn't convinced. "How drunk is she?"
"Pretty damn, but she hasn't missed the door yet."
I crossed the landing, staying to the right, where I knew I could dive into the guest bedroom if she had ammunition left after all. The problem was that the closed door seemed a very dangerous twenty feet away. Credit the carpenters that built the Rhoades mansion—the floor didn't creak as I carefully made my way around the barricade.
I had holstered my .45; I had no intention of shooting Myra.
With the volume of the music, it was impossible to hear any movement in the bedroom. As Edith Piaf continued singing, I looked at what the 150-grain softpoints had done to three inches of solid wood and felt that familiar weightlessness in the trunk of my body.
I counted the holes in the door again, but the damage caused by the large-caliber rifle made it difficult to be sure how many shots had really been fired. I wasn't betting the farm. It did look as if the shot closest to the knob had taken most of the mechanism with it, and the door itself stood ajar about a quarter of an inch, so I opted for nudging the base of it with my boot; it opened four inches. I waited, but nothing happened. I nudged further, gently sweeping it back about halfway before my leverage gave out.
I took a deep breath to clear my head and stepped through the doorway into the outstretched barrel of the big .308. She had been waiting, but my left arm was still to my right so, with a sweeping gesture, I carried the barrel down and away from me in a backhanded pull that exploded a round into the floor. The sound in the room was just short of deafening.
I was going to kill Omar.
I made a grab for the front stock but missed as she stepped back, and the seemingly endless length of the bolt action swung up.
I had forgotten how good-looking Myra was, and the yearlong sabbatical in France with close to forty-eight million dollars had done her no harm. She had long, blond hair, the kind you see on the covers of magazines, and perfectly tanned skin that I'm sure had been kissed by the French Riviera. She was wearing a pink mohair cowl-neck sweater that barely reached the top of her thighs, and that was all. She was tall and lean, with strong, capable hands. The honking diamond that Omar had married her with was still on the left hand that pointed the rifle at my face. Above the scope was the palest blue eye, and as my lungs froze, the barrel dipped a little, and the sweater-matching pink lips smiled as slowly as glacial encroachment. I listened to Piaf singing "Le Chevalier de Paris" or "Mon Legionnaire," I wasn't sure which, and thought about how this wasn't the worst way to go.
The powder blue blinked, and I settled on "Le Chevalier de Paris" as the little bird trilled and softly breathed out her lovingly aching words.
Myra sagged a little, almost as if someone had punched her, and tossed the rifle aside. She stepped forward, her arms outstretched around my neck as the sharp fragrance of raspberry vodka scoured the inside of my nose and her sweater bottom rose higher. "Walter . . ."
"Good thing she likes ya." He brought his queen out. It was the second game, and my plans for an early evening had gone the way of my three pawns, two rooks, and a knight. I went with the other knight and felt a shadow of impending doom as his bishop slithered along diagonally. The stem of his pipe swung around and pointed at me like the barrel of a gun, the second of the evening. "You get 'er outta the house?" The pipe returned to his mouth.
I leaned back in the horsehide wingback chair and placed my hat on my knee. The old sheriff wasn't ready to end the evening and skimmed the other bishop across the board for a completely different attack on my king. "She's at the End of the Trail Motel over in Sheridan; flies out tomorrow."
It was quiet in the room as the old sheriff looked at me. Lucian's mahogany eyes flickered in the half-light of the kitchenette behind us. He shook his head. "Well, ya know how my marriage experience ended."
I did, and we sat there in silence for a while before I admitted a prejudice. "I hate the domestic stuff."
He nodded and watched me. "Like the third man in a hockey fight, ya get the blame and get the shit kicked out of you for yer troubles." He waited as I made another inane move. "I hear Kyle Straub's got signs up all over town."
I took a sip and crunched one of the cubes. "I heard that too."
"You gonna stand?"
"I don't think I've got any choice if I want to get Vic in."
He shrugged. "I'd vote for her, but I've got the weakness." Lucian was referring to his habit of addressing Vic's chest as if it had an identity of its own. "The rest of Absaroka County is another question. Now, you can make sure she's the next sheriff, but it's gonna cost you a year or two of your life." I made a face. "But then, I didn't know yer life in office was so damn bad." His gaze dropped back to the board. "Check."
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Alabama, Oregon could be nearing culture clash unlike any in BCS era
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'Bama, Oregon notched huge Week 10 wins with diametrically opposite approaches
Notre Dame is struggling in South Bend; Texas A&M made another SEC statement
Plus: My current BCS forecast, Heisman ballot in making, spreading the field, more
If a first-time college football viewer happened to be flipping between Saturday night's Alabama-LSU and Oregon-USC games, he may have thought he was watching two entirely different sports.
Down in Baton Rouge, the top-ranked Crimson Tide and No. 5 Tigers staged a thrilling, classic, low-scoring SEC showdown, this time with touchdowns (including a game-winner). When the folks down South boast about "big-boy football," they're talking about games like this, where field position came at a premium, LSU ran the ball 49 times and held possession for nearly two-thirds of the contest and Alabama ultimately survived, 21-17, when quarterback AJ McCarron came to life on a brilliant, five-play, go-ahead touchdown drive. Remarkably, it was the Tide's closest win since Sept. 25, 2010.
"The way we won," running back Eddie Lacy told reporters afterward, "it felt like an SEC championship."
Meanwhile, in the shadow of Hollywood, the second-ranked Ducks and No. 18 Trojans staged a nonstop action flick. When the folks on the West Coast (and the rest of the country) decry SEC football as boring, it's because they're frequently spoiled by shootouts like Saturday's, a game in which Oregon racked up a school-record 730 yards and scored the most points ever by a USC opponent. Chip Kelly's squad won its first four-quarter test this season, 62-51.
"Sometimes the matchups don't go in your favor," said Ducks defensive coordinator Nick Aliotti, whose unit allowed 615 yards but notched three turnovers. "But we got a couple more stops than they did and we won the game."
You couldn't ask for a better snapshot of the dichotomous state of college football than Saturday night's dose of dueling television drama. On FOX, there was Oregon, the poster program for everything new and different, revving the tempo and running an offense that manages to turn the inside handoff into something just as exciting and productive as the 40-yard bomb. On CBS, there was Alabama, the current standard-bearer for championship football, running much the same offense that's worked for decades upon decades of title teams before it.
You could not ask for two more stylistically opposite approaches, which is exactly why much of the country is thirsting for an Alabama-Oregon BCS championship showdown. It would be a culture clash unlike any in the event's 14-year history.
But of course, this being the BCS, it's never that simple. For those with particularly proficient remote control skills, Saturday night also offered the latest installment in No. 3 Kansas State's methodic march through a seemingly daunting Big 12 schedule. The Wildcats moved to 9-0 with a 44-30 win over 5-3 Oklahoma State despite losing star Collin Klein to an undisclosed injury in the third quarter. If Klein's injury proves serious, the Wildcats' inclusion in this discussion may prove moot, but as of now, they remain a spot ahead of the Ducks in the BCS standings.
If Alabama is the traditional, defensive-minded juggernaut and Oregon is the new-age, score-as-quickly-as-humanly-imaginable machine, Kansas State falls somewhere in between. Klein is an old-school, bull-headed quarterback, but he runs a fairly modern, shotgun-zone offense. The Wildcats' defense is more reliable than Oregon's, but it's not oozing with five-star talent like the Tide's.
The question of which two teams deserve to play in Miami will become an unending headache if somebody (including 9-0 Notre Dame) doesn't lose. But there's little question which hypothetical matchup would be the most fascinating.
"It's just two different styles," said Oregon AD Rob Mullens, who formerly worked in the SEC at Kentucky. "That's what makes it all fine. There are different ways to accomplish your goals."
Mind you, we've been down this road before (sort of), and it almost always ends the same way. In the 2008 title game, SEC champion Florida held a fast-paced Oklahoma offense that came in having scored 60-plus points in five straight games to just 14. Two years earlier, Urban Meyer's defense humiliated Ohio State Heisman winner Troy Smith. Saban's 2003 LSU team teed off on a Heisman-winning quarterback (Oklahoma's Jason White), and his 2009 Alabama team knocked out a finalist for the award (Texas' Colt McCoy).
On the other hand, the team that came closest to ending the SEC's streak is Oregon, which lost to Auburn on a last-second field goal two years ago. Alabama fans will be quick to point out that these Tide are not those Tigers, so dependent on one transcendent player (Cam Newton) and so mediocre defensively for much of that year. 'Bama presumably looks at the 51 points Oregon allowed Saturday and snickers. The Tide have allowed a mere 82 points in nine games.
(Note: Oregon lost three starting defensive linemen for parts of Saturday's game, including standout end Dion Jordan, a contributing reason why its previously stout defense couldn't remotely stop USC in the second half.)
Ducks fans would presumably counter that Alabama hasn't faced an opposing quarterback nearly of the same caliber as USC's Matt Barkley, and 'Bama certainly hasn't defended a player in the vicinity of Trojans star wideout Marqise Lee. In fact, the Tide's defense proved mortal for the first time Saturday in allowing previously unimpressive LSU quarterback Zach Mettenberger to go 24-of-35 for 298 yards.
Maybe Alabama would shut down the Ducks the way they have so many foes before them. Maybe Lacy and T.J. Yeldon would run circles around Aliotti's defense. And maybe Kansas State's ball-control approach is a smarter gameplan for topping the Tide than Oregon's breakneck philosophy. Only one thing is for certain: It would be fascinating to find out.
Apparently, it's written into Notre Dame's NBC contract that every home game must be incredibly dramatic, regardless of the opponent. A goal-line stand to beat Stanford? OK, it's Stanford. But a come-from-behind, triple-overtime 29-26 win over 4-4 Pittsburgh? Really, Irish? This is getting ridiculous.
All kidding aside, there's a strange phenomenon going on in South Bend. The Irish have now played five home games, and all of them have been decided by seven points or fewer. On the other hand, Notre Dame beat Miami 41-3 in Chicago and Oklahoma 30-13 in Norman. Ten of the Irish's 11 turnovers have come at home (including Everett Golson's fourth-quarter end-zone interception Saturday with the Irish down 20-12, one that seemed like a dagger at the time) as well as 33 of their 48 penalties.
Why does Notre Dame make things so much harder for itself at home?
"We're really trying to figure that out," Irish coach Brian Kelly said Sunday. "It might be, it is what it is. But we've looked at schedule, we've looked at limiting distractions. ... I don't think there's any question there's a lot going on here at Notre Dame. We really think we've streamlined a lot of those distractions, whether it's ticket requests, family and friends wanting tours of the football facility.
"I also think if we put some points on the board early against Pitt, we're not having this conversation."
Indeed, a week after redshirt freshman Golson played a near-flawless game on the road against top-10 foe Oklahoma, he and the offense were so stagnant early against the Panthers that Kelly yanked him yet again for veteran Tommy Rees. Rees proved no more effective. Ultimately, it was Golson who threw an 11-yard touchdown to T.J. Jones to cut the score to 20-12 early in the fourth quarter and then, after rebounding from his end-zone pick (which came at the end of a 91-yard drive), tossed a five-yard touchdown to Theo Riddick and scored the ensuing two-point conversion to tie the game with 2:11 remaining.
As is often the case in these NBC nail-biters, the Irish needed a little luck. After Cierre Wood fumbled into the end zone in the second overtime, Pitt kicker Kevin Harper missed what would have been a game-winning 33-yard field goal. It was revealed Sunday that Notre Dame should have been flagged on the play for having two players with the same jersey number on the field at the same time. "It was a coaching mistake," said Kelly.
Golson eventually scored the winning touchdown to escape yet another home scare and keep the 9-0 Irish's undefeated season alive.
"I know this -- we'll battle you at home," said Kelly. "We'll protect our turf, we'll find a way to win."
Good news, though: Two of Notre Dame's final three games are on the road.
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I'm not left with a slide for emergency/no sim installed sign, after putting my o2 sim in. What is the best way to solve this? I have read about using pwnage? But that requires Mac OS X I believe? So I'm waiting for an image (8 gig! :O) to download. If there is a better way then I'd be happy to do that instead?
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I'm trying to restore an iPhone. It was updated to 4.3.5 and locked when I've been given it. 4.2.1 seems to be having the most success restoring on itunes.
However I have TinyUmbrella which is using a save SHSH of 4.2.1 and have read that the gs.apple line in hosts needs to be removed for it to verify with Apple - but doing this means the restore fails straight away with error
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MOUNT VERNON Brian Rothenberg, founder and executive director of ProgressOhio, will be the featured speaker at the Knox County Democratic Womens meeting to be held on Tuesday, March 20.
The event will be held in Room 28 at the Knox County Educational Service Center, 308 Martinsburg Road in Mount Vernon beginning at 7 p.m.
ProgressOhio, a grass roots political action effort dedicated to the people of Ohio, has over 440,000 members firmly committed to the belief: Were powered by you! The group provides technical assistance to many community and government entities on a variety of issues affecting all Ohioans including the Repeal of SB5, the overturn of the attack on voting rights (HB 194) as well as the ongoing struggle to maintain health care and reproductive rights for women and the environmental and safety concerns of fracking. There will be an opportunity for the audience to discuss ideas with Rothenberg following his presentation.
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Ron Sweet joined head coach Lauren Sauer's JMU volleyball staff on March 2, 2010. He was promoted to Associate Head Coach following the 2011 season.
"I am thrilled to announce the hire of Ron Sweet to complete our staff," commented Sauer, who was hired as JMU's head coach in January. "Ron has been extremely successful in the coaching ranks for the last ten years, including several National Championships. His passion, determination and contagious personality will have an immediate impact in our program. We welcome him to our volleyball family and could not be more excited to have him and his wife, Jenni, here."
Sweet joins the Dukes following six successful seasons as head coach at Kishwaukee College in Malta, Ill. The Kougars are finished fourth nationally in 2009 following a string of three consecutive National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division II national championships from 2006 to 2008.
"I was drawn to JMU volleyball because of the beautiful campus and the way that the administration supports the program," stated Sweet. "I am also extremely excited to work with Lauren, Casey and the team. I look forward to bringing my past success to the court here at James Madison."
In seven seasons since becoming head coach at Kishwaukee, Sweet led the Kougars to an overall mark of 321-47 for an impressive .872 winning percentage. KC also placed ninth nationally in 2005, third in 2004, and fifth in 2003.
Sweet was twice honored as the NJCAA Division II National Coach of the Year. He was also Region Coach of the Year six times and Arrowhead Conference Coach of the Year on seven occasions. The American Volleyball Coaches Association named him the Mid-West Region Coach of the Year in 2006 and 2008. Sweet has coached 14 First Team All-Americans, 12 First Team Academic All-Americans, and seven AVCA First Team All-Americans. In 2008, Kishwaukee was the only non Division I school with its recruiting class listed in the top 30 nationally by Prepvolleyball.com.
Sweet began as an assistant coach at Kishwaukee in 2001, aiding the Kougars to a pair of national championships in 2001 and 2002 with an overall record of 103-5.
In addition to his time at Kishwaukee, Sweet is the head coach of Club Fusion, leading 17s and 18s elite teams and offering private volleyball lessons. In 2008, he was named Coach of the Tournament at the Prepvolleyball.com Tournament. During his tenure from 1999 to 2009, he coaches several teams to top 10 finishes in the open division and assisted clubs in 2002 and 2008 to Open National Championships.
As a player, Sweet captured a gold medal in the 2003 US Open National Championships with Team Paul Mitchell. He also captured silver medals with the squad in 2004 and 2005.
Sweet earned his bachelor of science in business management from the University of Phoenix in 2009. He and his wife, Jenni, will join the JMU program for the 2010 spring practice period and 2010 fall season.
Sweet completes Sauer's coaching staff for the 2010 season. He joins assistant coach Casey Steinbrecher, who was hired in early February.


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If Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's were running nuclear reactors instead of credit ratings, would they still be in business?
Given their record as architects of one ratings failure after another over the past decade — from scoring Enron an investment-grade credit just days before its bankruptcy to issuing platinum ratings on trillions of dollars of doomed mortgage-backed securities — the answer is almost assuredly no.
Yet even as Congress appears poised to pass the most sweeping financial reform legislation since the Great Depression, the proposed regulations may do nothing to change how the agencies operate. Tainted they may be, but beyond a reputational hit they seem poised to carry on as before.
The Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009, passed by the House in December, does call for rating agencies to beef up their internal controls, register with the Securities and Exchange Commission, bear more government supervision, and disclose more detail about their ratings methodologies. And it gives investors slightly more leeway to sue the agencies for gross negligence in their rating activities. A companion bill in the Senate, the Restoring Financial Stability Act of 2010, calls for many of the same changes, and also gives the SEC authority to deregister any agency for providing bad ratings over time.
But those proposals leave many critics unimpressed. "These kinds of things don't have much meaning," says Arturo Cifuentes, a structured-finance expert and professor at the University of Chile. As a former banker, CDO (collateralized debt obligation) fund manager, and senior vice president at Moody's, Cifuentes knows the rating-agency world well, and has testified extensively on rating-agency reform before Congress. "They are token things done in order to make the public vote for you in the next election," he says of the proposals.
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Consider the call for internal controls, which is aimed at muting the conflict of interest inherent in a business model where agencies are compensated by the issuers of the very securities they are rating. The legislation would seem to suggest that such controls don't already exist when in fact they do — often to little apparent effect.
Moody's, for example, had a credit policy group tasked with ensuring sound rating methodologies and procedures, according to former Moody's managing director Eric Kolchinsky, who testified to a House committee in September. Moody's also had a compliance group entrusted with enforcing laws and internal policies, but Kolchinsky claimed the credit policy group was routinely overridden by line managers in the name of winning business, while the compliance group was understaffed and had little professional compliance experience. Kolchinsky was suspended from his post last year after complaining about the firm's practices.
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GRANADA - Lori Balcom and Thomas McInerney announce their engagement and upcoming marriage.
Parents of the couple are Jay and Mary Balcom of Granada, Mike McInerney of Sundance, Wyo., and Wanda McInerney of Ekalaka, Mont.
Lori graduated from Granada-Huntley-East Chain High School in 2006, and Presentation College in 2012. She plans to work in the intensive care unit at Campbell County Memorial Hospital, Gillette, Wyo.
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Thomas graduated from Carter County High School, Ekalaka, Mont., in 2005, and North Dakota State College of Science. He works at Anadarko Petroleum, Gillette, Wyo.
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An Iraqi translator translates procedures during a joint neighborhood patrol between Iraqi police with a special weapons and tactics team and U.S. Army soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, 172nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team in Mosul, Iraq, April 23, 2006.
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U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Tom Romano guards a convoy's perimeter during combat training at Fort Bragg, N.C., on March 27, 2006, before deploying to Afghanistan. Romano volunteered for a year-long deployment with the Bagram Provincial Reconstruction Team. He is a security forces specialist from Minot Air Force Base, N.D.
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A U.S. Air Force airman engages "opposing forces" during the convoy operations block of the contingency skills training course at Fort Dix, N.J., April 1, 2006. Hosted by the Air Mobility Warfare Center and the 421st Combat Training Squadron, the course prepares airmen with the skills needed to operate in contingency environments.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice waves to airmen at Sather Air Base, Iraq, April 3, 2006, after she and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw attended meetings with Iraq government officials in Baghdad. She is accompanied by U.S. Air Force Col. Dennis Ployer, 447th Expeditionary Group commander, and Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. ambassador to Iraq.
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UIraqi soldiers of 1st Brigade, 4th Iraqi Army Division ride in up-armored Humvees during an assumption of command ceremony at Forward Operating Base Danger, Iraq, April 3, 2006. The 1st Brigade took command of the Samarra and Tikrit, Iraq, battlespace from the U.S. Army 3rd Brigade Combat Team.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld expresses his condolences to Jane Weinberger, wife of the late Casper W. Weinberger, at the funeral for her husband at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., on April 4, 2006. Weinberger took office as the 15th defense secretary on Jan. 21, 1981, and served until Nov. 23, 1987, making him the longest serving defense secretary to date. During his tenure in office, Weinberger spearheaded President Ronald Reagan's peacetime military buildup. Weinberger d
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- Twitter: browse your home timeline on your pebble watch.
- Events: find activities in your area such as music, community events, conferences and more.
- Photos: browse your Android photo gallery on your Pebble watch.
- Configure how your photos are converted for viewing using five adjustable filters.
- Configure which folders are searched for photos.
- Tip Calculator: quickly calculate 10, 15 and 20% tips (including totals) when dining out.
- Phone Pager: use your Pebble watch to find your misplaced Android device (or use your phone to find you watch).
- Ringtone: selectable ringtone and adjustable volume.
- Vibrate: vibrate the phone when being paged.
- Strobe Light: strobes the camera flash when being paged (may not work on older devices).
- Page your Pebble watch from you phone (vibration / backlight).
- App Bundles: multiple options for Utilities and Social bundles to save app slots.
Permission Breakdown
- Read / Write External Storage: used to install apps to Pebble watch and log Pebble Rocker errors.
- Camera / Flashlight: used by Phone Pager to create strobe light and Camera Control to take pictures.
- Record Video / Audio: used by Camera Control to record video (with sound).
- Disable Keyguard: used by Phone Pager and Camera Control to turn on screen (for legacy devices).
- Vibrate: used by Phone Pager to vibrate phone when being paged.
- Network Communication: used by Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter & Events apps. Also used for Analytics (can be disabled).
- Location: used by Foursquare & Events to find nearby venues.
- Access Wifi State / Change Wifi State: used by Android Settings to manage wifi state.
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Phone Pebble finder
Worried about your phone being snatched from your hand while it is unlocked and might contain sensitive information?
Worry no more... All you have to do is press a button on your pebble watch and listen or vice-versa. This will basically help you find your lost phone or pebble.
Sends timely/Distance based GPS position to your email when stolen phone is activated.
Shouts "I have been stolen!" when stolen phone is activated.
Force Vibrate pebble
Force Vibrate Phone
Force Ring phone
Sets phone volume to max
Shows Pebble Signal Strength
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Compatibility: Pebble 2.0 firmware
Pebble Locker
Bluetooth, wifi options and Pebble companion watch app require an in app purchase of $2.99
Once the app has been enabled as a device administrator, you can set a pin or password and have your device lock based on your preferences.
Device Support
Pebble Locker will not circumvent apps such as corporate email that require your device to have a pin, if you use an app that requires a pin or password on your device, Pebble Locker will not work for you. Pebble Locker will also not remove the pin or password on encrypted devices. Pebble Locker does not support pattern locks.
To uninstall you must deactivate Pebble Locker as a device admin and reboot
Please remember your pin/password, I cannot help you if you forget it and you will need to uninstall the app or factory reset your phone.
Additional Info
Read more and comment at http://lukekorth.com/blog/pebble-locker/
The source code is available on GitHub (https://github.com/lkorth/pebble-locker)
Pebble TaskWatch
Pebble TaskWatch for Pebble SmartWatch is a set of Pebble SDK 2 watchfaces customizable through Tasker and with full button support.
This is a do-it-yourself app for fine-tuning your watchfaces through Tasker, so a good knowledge of Tasker and some spare time are recommended :-)
You can associate any Tasker task with:
- Top Button Click/Double Click/Long Click
- Middle Button Click/Double Click/Long Click
- Bottom Button Click/Double Click/Long Click
You can insert in the watchfaces up to 9 custom text layers updatable from Tasker.
The layers 1-7 can contain date/time/battery expressions and can be up to 25 characters long, while the 8th/9th can be up to 100 characters long.
You can display up to 5 icons chosen from a list in the formats 16x16 or 32x32. The icons can be updated from Tasker.
Currently the supported watchfaces are:
- Empty white/Empty black (to use the text layers/icons with plain background)
- Tasker (to display current tasks description, text layers/icons are disabled in this face)
- Classic Analog + No Date/Pebble variants
- Simplicity
- Text Watch
- Pebble Mini + Bottom variant
- Plain Analog + Ticks/Pebble variants
Through the Tasker plugin you can:
- Launch/close the Watch App
- Change the Watch Face
- Change the text of the text layers, and activate/deactivate them
- Change the icons, and activate/deactivate them
- Set the button tasks to a custom configuration, or reset the default one
- Make the Pebble vibrate
- Show a toast message
- Send an alert to Pebble
- Launch a third party Watch App. Currently the supported Apps are*:
- Canvas
- Evernote
- Foursquare
- Glance
- K9ToPebble
- Music Boss
- Notification Center
- PebbleApps
- Pebble-Cal 2.0
- Pebble Calendar
- Pebble Cards
- Pebble Dialer
- PebbleNotes
- Pebble RSS
- PebbleTasker
- uTorrent Remote
- WatchNote
* If you wish to add other watch apps to the list please contatc me at email@example.com.
Launcher Watch Face:
If you launch another watch app on Pebble, when you close it Pebble will open the current watchface, and not Pebble TaskWatch, since it is a watchapp and not a watchface. The Launcher is an optional "fake" watchface, that when opened will launch Pebble TaskWatch, or one of the third party watch apps listed above.
Permissions explained:
- android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE:
to extract and install the WatchApps from external storage cache, and to backup/restore settings
to run tasks :-)
If you encounter any issue, please write me at firstname.lastname@example.com for support.
Pebble Phone Ringer Switcher
PBW developed with cloudpebble.net
Tested on Android 4.1. Should work with Android 2.3 and above.
Source on github.com/ruqqq
The Pebble smart watch connects to your Android phone and other Android devices using Bluetooth, alerting you to incoming calls, emails, messages and alerts. Customize your Pebble with hundreds of watchapps.
Key Features (require Android 4.0 or newer):
- Browse, find, and install watchapps and watchfaces for Pebble.
- Discover new and most popular watchapps by category: notifications, fitness, daily use, tools & utilities, remotes, and games.
- Watchapp locker: conveniently store your favorite Pebble watchapps when not in use.
- Receive notifications when software updates for Pebble are ready to install.
- Supports Pebble watchapps built with SDK 2.0, including the new JavaScript API.
- Troubleshoot issues and make suggestions right from the app.
Note: This app is intended to be used with a Pebble smartwatch. To learn more, visit https://getpebble.com/
Pebble Reader
Key features:
- Built-in file browser,
- Support for different character sets,
- Customizable appearance,
- Automatic detection of charset.
The application works only when connected Pebble to the phone .
Pebble Connect with httpebble
This app uses the httpebble protocol (http://kathar.in/httpebble/).
Further information and support can be found in the Pebble forums (http://forums.getpebble.com/).
The source code can be found on GitHub (https://github.com/lkorth/httpebble-android)
WatchNote for Pebble
It is available for Android smartphones and supports multiple notes in a list.
You can sync the app with your Evernote account to easily manage your Pebble WatchNotes from almost everywhere.
- Create and edit notes on your Android phone
- Send the notes to your Pebble smartwatch
- Easily share notes from other apps to WatchNote (Google Keep for example)
- Create a Watchapp that includes your notes to access them without a constant Bluetooth connection (internet connection is needed while creating the Watchapp)
On your Pebble you can switch through notes out of a menu, to display that note.
Pebble Remote
This is a simple program, it will broadcast an intent when a button on the Pebble Remote app is pressed. The following intents will be broadcast:
app.mathieson.ButtonTextWithoutSpacesLONG (3 button screen only)
Also you can detect the intent this way:
And this intent will carry with it two extras:
"button" - a string extra with the button name
"long" - a boolean, true if the button press was a long button press (always false in menu mode)
You can listen for these using Tasker, Automagic, etc. to create your own profiles and conditions on the phone. You can also set the names of the buttons on the app as well.
If you have any ideas on how to improve either the watch app or the android app please let me know! Also if you want this translated to your language then by all means just send me the strings and I will add the translation.
The app can be controlled using the following intents:
app.mathieson.GOTOWATCHAPP (any app)
Please see the Advanced Help to know more on how to use the app.
The advanced help can be found here:
Thanks to Patrick Simonds for all the great ideas and bug reports!
As of version 0.3, it features 5 applets :
- Weather : 7-day weather forecast
* OpenWeatherMaps
* Yahoo! Weather
* Full access to your SMS Inbox
* Answer with canned messages
- Agenda : Upcoming Agenda events (Android 4.0+ only)
- Utils applet :
* Phone battery and network info
* Find my phone
* Remote camera shutter
* Request weather data refresh
- Any.DO : Browse your tasks from your Pebble
This application will let you browse your content quickly and smoothly with a list based UI and complete detail screens.
Unlike most other watchapps, content is not limited to a few recent items, but is streamed to your watch on the fly.
The application is translated in english and partially in french.
The application is built in a very extensible way and more applets will be added based on your feedback, so feel free to tell me which content you would like to see on your Pebble !
If you encounter any issue, write at firstname.lastname@example.com for support.
Official forum : http://forums.getpebble.com/discussion/7551/android-pebbleapps-7-day-weather-full-sms-inbox-agenda
Push to Pebble
This application adds an entry to Android's share menu, this allows you to easily send text to the Pebble.
Why is this useful? That depends on your usage, it might not be useful at all! With this, you can pin text to the Pebble without an app on the Pebble that would take a watchapp slot.
How does this work?
The text is sent as a notification to the Pebble, so it uses the internal notifications app. Clicking any button on the Pebble will naturally dismiss the text.
You'll need to Allow notifications while screen is on in the Pebble app.
Pebble Dialer
PebbleDialler completely revamps calling controls. It allows you to answer calls, decline calls, toggle speakerphone, toggle mic mute right from your pebble.
You can also place calls right from pebble without even touching your phone, by browsing call history or filtering through contacts and groups.
Pebble Plus
-Added support for new pebble firmware +2.0.
We are pleased to offer you this application that will allow you to add new watchfaces to your pebble watch in a very easy way.
In this opportunity we offer you several free animated and static Watchfaces.
Pebble Notifications
* Pushes new notifications to watch
* Browse and dismiss active notifications directly from watch.
Requires Android 4.3.
Notification Center for Pebble
- Can display notifications from all apps
- Dismiss notifications right from your Pebble (Android 4.3+ only)
- View notification history
- View/dismiss your current notifications (Android 4.3+ only)
- Displays subtitle for all notification types
- No notification timeout (notification will stay there until you read it)
- Significantly longer notification text (read whole message on your Pebble)
- Time is still displayed with multiple notifications
- Switch between multiple notifications without scrolling all the way down
- Exclude notifications by app or by text (regex/keyword filtering)
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Aren't the only people who believe in an actual Garden of Eden Biblical literalists? And don't those people think the Earth is younger than the date of the last Ice Age?ReplyDelete
No, not really. While there are many "young earth" creationists, the majority of Christians believe the earth is indeed billions of years old. But that doesn't preclude a belief that the Garden of Eden was a real place. You can read a lot more about this at: http://www.reasons.org/human-origins/adam-and-eveReplyDelete
I have an ex-roommate who was 'Young Earth' creationist.ReplyDelete
You can't actually find the garden of eden, you can only guess where it is. The bible says that and angel guards the way to the garden of eden. So that means you can't find it because and angel guards it.ReplyDeleteReplies
You can't and will not find the Garden of Eden because it has been destroyed by the Flood as per the days of Noah.Delete
in theory, they say that the angels guard the way to the forest. But there have always been folklore/bible proof that only chosen ones can see or even get to what is there. I'm just stating that it is what have been duplicated the mostReplyDelete
The Bible is not folklore it's history, you can watch some biblical archeology vids on youtube. :)ReplyDelete
Creationism on the other hand, actualy has some pretty good points putting together everything in perfect order- underground oil and gas, strata, ice age, dinosaurs (read on modern day dinosaurs), supraorbital ridges and DNA which evolution can't. I'm a student of dental medicine former FIRM believer in evolution but I was honest enough to do some research without denying the facts stated at me and there are some pretty amazing things. If you take the Biblical record every "mystery" to science as to how the Earth was created fails to be mysterious any longer. And think about it: I have a 132 IQ and am a skeptic. For me to KEEP(!) believing it's either I'm deluded enough or it's true from a psychological perspective atleast. I've done alot of research. Evolution struggles! God bless you.Replies
Luckily you're not going to be a real doctor, so it doesn't really matter whether or not you believe in evolution. Good luck understanding the behavior of the microbial flora of the human mouth without it, but I'm sure you'll do fine just memorizing it.Delete
To Reginald: It's interesting how you choose to lower yourself by belittling Mr. Unknown, one who was brave enough to study the facts on his own. If you study the facts of evolution you'll see that evolution still has not been able to explain how life came from non-life, let alone the fact that Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection has not provided the appropriate amount of evidence to prove evolution. Still to this day no "real" intermediate species in the fossil record have been found. "Real" meaning not fabricated, Archaeopteryx is perfect example of scientist gone "mad", many scientist believe it was fabricated and sold to make a name for himself. Darwin believed that there would be thousands of intermediate species, so far the fossil record has failed in that arena completely. So now evolutionist are reaching out to the stars for their answers, have you ever wondered why there are so many alien movies? Because the atheist want us all to believe we are from outer space, which still doesn't explain how life in the universe get starter, it just sends the problem to another planet. What's next? Life in this world came from another dimension? That's right, it's called heaven!!!ReplyDelete
how can we really believe that its is the garden of Eden as the lord protected with his angels??
yes, we can believe it. but it is no longer protected by the Lord God Almighty. One never learns what happened to the serpent who tempted Eve. Look at this country. It was inhabited by the native americans who although they believe in their Creator, they do not worship Him. He just is. However, nationwide their is evidence of a serpent diety that they pay homage to. Look at the serpent mounds. study their folklore, myths. And as much as one believes in God the almighty, one should not disbelieve in Satan and his demons. where there is one there is the other and the fight for our souls goes on. I for one will stand up for God. And I am a Native American.ReplyDelete


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Comments On Jun 05, 2013:Only kidney belt I've owned, so I don't have anything to compare it to. Construction is good. Seems to be holding up. Most importantly, my back hurts a lot less after rides. As another reviewer mentioned, it's not very stiff, but I don't think it needs to be and would be less comfortable if it were stiffer.
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Comments On Mar 20, 2012:Not bad, probably great quality as I think Alpinestars makes great products. I was expecting slighty more rigidity though.
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text: I got this for my son on his CRF150R. He just moved up to this bike and had trouble with the stock clutch pull - couldn't finish a 90 min hare scramble. He absolutely loved it, use the clutch lever to feather it for more power if needed, or just downshift and twist the throttle. No more clutch arm fatigue at all. IMPORTANT NOTE: if installing on crf150r, make sure you include the needle bearing and stock washer on the throwout rod, then the Rekluse spacer washer and spring. The directions weren't clear on that - the rest of the install was a breeze.