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BLACK BROOK - The owner of a lakefront campground on Silver Lake has filed a lawsuit against an environmental advocacy group and its top official, seeking $2.1 million in damages.
LeRoy Douglas and the Douglas Corporation of Silver Lake filed a civil action lawsuit in Essex County Supreme Court Nov. 23, claiming the actions of the Adirondack Council, and specifically the organization's board chairman, Brian Ruder, led to unnecessary Adirondack Park Agency enforcement against him and interfered with plans to sell some of his land.
Douglas now seeks $2.1 million as relief for more than $100,000 in legal fees he's incurred to have the enforcement matter settled and for money he's missed out on by not selling eight lakefront parcels.
In 2006, the APA issued Douglas a non-jurisdictional letter for his subdivision of seven lakefront lots, but began an enforcement file against him for allegedly widening a road on his property that passes through a wetland area.
"I did everything I could in the world to appease the Adirondack Park Agency when this first started," Douglas said.
A hearing on the matter led to a settlement, but the agency decided to re-open enforcement in March 2007, claiming he failed to follow through with his promise to narrow the road.
In late September, Douglas and his attorney, Matt Norfolk of the Lake Placid law firm Briggs & Norfolk, brought forth evidence they said points to illegal collusion between the Adirondack Council and the APA in regards to the case.
Included among the documents was a letter from the Adirondack Council legislative director Scott Lorey to APA Enforcement Committee Chairman Cecil Wray. It specifically refers to Douglas as a developer "most in need of deterrence" and urges the APA to "carefully investigate his developments and take decisive action against all infractions of the APA Act and Freshwater Wetlands Act."
The letter is dated April 7, 2008, just days before the APA enforcement committee rejected Douglas's application to have a prior APA enforcement proceeding against him thrown out.
Norfolk also cited a series of e-mails to APA enforcement program supervisor Paul Van Cott that spoke specifically about Douglas's enforcement matter and directed him to take specific action in order to find Douglas in violation.
"I am prepared to support whatever you can do here with my own legal team to back you up and help with research and other tasks," one of the e-mails states. "Please deal with this with all the force that the APA has in its arsenal."
The sender's identity in each of e-mails is blacked out with marker, but Norfolk says they came from Ruder, who owns land close to Douglas's on Silver Lake.
In a surprise move, the APA agreed to permanently withdraw the enforcement case against Douglas Nov. 9, provided his remediation of the road is confirmed by APA staff.
Now, Douglas is going after the non-governmental organizations he says purposely sought to tie up his assets in a legal dispute.
"All these organizations are in collusion with each other," said Douglas, "and I'm about to prove it in court."
Douglas admits there was nothing explicitly stopping him from selling his land, but he values the eight parcels at $250,000 each and said he could not, in good conscience, sell them without the assurance that the APA would allow for their development.
"I just held off selling any of them for that reason," he said. "I would have been able to sell several lots by now."
Norfolk said proving that there have been damages will not be difficult; what will is proving Adirondack Council staff induced the APA to act as it did.
Adirondack Council spokesman John Sheehan said Nov. 23 that the organization had yet to receive any formal papers indicating the suit had been filed.
"We believe this is frivolous, that it will be dismissed, and that there is no grounds for any complaint regarding our complaint to the Adirondack Park Agency," Sheehan said.
Still, Douglas is convinced that something must be done to keep the APA from allowing private organizations to have too much influence.
"What they're doing to people has got to stop," said Douglas. "The APA is not God. They're supposed to be working with us, not against us."


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I know it's autumn/fall for many of my blog readers, but here it's glorious spring! Here's a few pix of stuff in flower at Tillia House (yes, my little stone cottage has a name). The house was rented for many years and its garden suffered the neglect that rented property gardens do, so I'm in the process of turning it into a wonderland. I've planted around 25 roses, mainly old fashioned and David Austin varieties, plus a myriad of fruit trees and perennials. It'll take 2 or 3 growing seasons before it starts to look really good.
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Sunday, September 10, 2006
Spring is sprung
Posted by Shirley Goodwin at 11:19 am
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- Helen Suzanne said...
I think your seasons are going to keep me going through our winter shirley. thank you for showing :)
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- emmyschoonbeek said...
wonderful have a very good spring
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- Ali Honey said...
Hi Shirley,
I hope you have Charles Austin amongst your collection. It has a wonderful perfume. I have several others but it is my favourite for smell. Meg is my favourite for flower shape and amazing stamens.We have Spring too....lovely.
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- Janet said...
beautiful! Wish I was there!
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I'm sure it's not that simple, but you aren't maybe by chance not using enhancement (build or that -javaagent) and relying on the OpenJPA feature that allows to run even unenhanced in some kind of degraded mode (there is a log at the beginning if you're in that mode), and we noticed that "change tracking" seems very unreliable in that mode, and you easily get unncessarry SQL UPDATE statements. Note also the https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENJPA-507. If you're sure you're enhancing (correctly; not e.g. having Eclipse overwrite your .class), this is surely something else; sorry. -----Original Message----- From: Tedman Leung [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] Sent: mercredi, 7. mai 2008 19:12 To: firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: update always called on commits (still) Hi while back we had a discussion on updates (or more specifically preupdates) always being called even when no changes where made. I noticed there was an issue OPENJPA-506 openned for this and currently closed - but this still occurs. Both anotated @PreUpdate methods as well as updates are always called even on read only operations. Does anyone know if this is considered an open issue or a fixed issue? I'm running OpenJPA 1.1 checkout from SVN on April 28th, 2008 which is long after the fixed date of Feb 1 2008. This is now causing me even worst problems due to a recent change in my application where I switched from using @PreUpdate to @Version to keep track of the last updated time of an object. Previously the lastUpdated field was useless because it was just the last time some one read the object, now it's throwing OptimisticLockException because requests are thinking some one else updated the object (when in reality it was just readonly). -- Ted Leung firstname.lastname@example.com You know you're in trouble when snow starts to clog your ram jets. ____________________________________________________________ • This email and any files transmitted with it are CONFIDENTIAL and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed. • Any unauthorized copying, disclosure, or distribution of the material within this email is strictly forbidden. • Any views or opinions presented within this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Odyssey Financial Technologies SA unless otherwise specifically stated. • An electronic message is not binding on its sender. Any message referring to a binding engagement must be confirmed in writing and duly signed. • If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original.
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Since wrapping the eighth season of The Bachelorette, Emily Maynard has been keeping busy as a mom, a business woman, and (it sounds like) a single lady on the dating scene. She's designing her own jewelry line and, thus, seems to be hoping to promote herself as a serious fashionista. In fact, she recently dished to HuffPo about her style dos and don'ts -- specifically involving what to wear on a date and what women love to wear that men absolutely hate.
Em revealed that she freaks out about being "more dressed up than he is, or less dressed up." So her solution? "I don't think you can go wrong with a pair of skinny black jeans or leather pants and a cute top with some funky heels, and just make it your own with the accessories." Cute, except, not everyone can rock skinny black jeans and leather pants, but okay ... But when she moved on to talking about the styles women love but men hate, she hit it out of the park.
She noted the two biggies:
Red lipstick. Every guy I've ever been around does not like red lipstick, for some reason. And the boxy look -- the shift dresses that are popular. Guys don't really love those either.
I've gotta say I agree. Take a tip from Tai in Clueless who once wisely noted, "College girls wear less makeup on their face, and that's why guys like them more." Ha, it's true! Most men really seem to prefer when we rock natural/"is she or isn't she?" makeup over the bold lips look.
Case in point: My fiance even once said to me, "Are you wearing makeup?" And I said, "No." And he said, "Good, I like you this way best." Cute, right? But also proof that as much as we may believe it will help us achieve a certain style, a painted-on red pout is just not their fave.
Similarly, "the boxy look" hides our shape, our butts, hips, sometimes even our breasts -- which of course men are major fans of!
Seriously, I think we and all the fashionistas of the world are the only ones who are constantly trying to hide our real shape and features! Men would rather see us in all our natural, curvy glory. Not that Emily Maynard knows all, but maybe we should take her tip into consideration more often!
What's something you like to wear that you avoid because your guy doesn't like it?
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text: Well, ya'll may have noticed I've been quiet all summer (well, that is if you pay attention to me at all. ), and I'm sorry to say that it's not because I've been so bogged down with gigs I can't see straight. Nope, I've been spending the past 2 1/2 months getting stalked. And not the good "rock star" kinda stalking. More like the baaaaaad "rock star" kinda stalking. I've been stressed beyond belief. Strange and often insulting messages left on my driveway and walkway to my house, phone calls at all hours, and being hounded online almost all night (hence why I ain't been around). I thought ignoring it would make it go away (and sometimes it does) but in my case it has'nt. It's only gotten worse. Hell, I'm being IMed from four different SNs belonging to the same person as we speak. I had to turn on the indication "ping" just to hear myself think. Up untill this started I thought stalking was only something that happened to celeberties and spurned lovers. It's not, and I'm finding out the hard way. And it's easy to get down on myself, think that its my fault. I know it's not, but you start feeling like that anyway. Especially me, who has a big emotional problem not being liked. Anyways, other then venting I wanted to share a little bit of what I've learned, since this tends to happen more to younger people (late teens, early-to-mid twenties) and I know we have alot of youngun's on here. 1.If you think your being stalked, GO TO THE POLICE! Even if to just give them the basic info. Get a relationship started so that if it continues you have something to go off of. Cops, in general, don't like going out of the way to solve "small" crimes so expect to do alot of the leg work yourself (Don't let that deture you. They'll help you any way they can, they want to help, but often in most towns the police are WAY overworked). 2. DOCUMENT EVERYTHING! This includes printing out E-mails and instant messages, keeping a log of when you see strange people outside your house, and recording and transcripting any phone conversations you may have with the person stalking you. 3. BE PREPARED! In order to take control back of your life you have to make steps to stop whats going on. And one of them is to always be prepared for when and if the stalker decides to disturb you. In general, I like to keep it light so I stick with a new pen, a small notebook that fits in your back pocket, a cell phone (for calling 991 or a police call number if necessary) and a small, disposable camera. Try to get everything you can (pictures of cars, liscence plate numbers, the people themselves), log everything that happens, and by no means carry a weapon. BIG MISTAKE. A weapon, unless your trained to use it, can be taken and used on you very easily. Having the phone company put a trap on your phone is also good, as is getting a small tape recorder with a suction-cup microphone for recording conversations and voice messages. 4. TALK ABOUT IT! You'd be suprised how many people have gone through it. And everyone I've met who has had it happen to them (and many that have'nt, suprisingly) have been more then happy to help me work through this. 5...and most importently...IT'S NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED OF! ...sorry for the long post, but I had alot of guts to spill. Thanks for listening.


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It turns out Marquette County Road Commission v. EPA, the mining haul route case I've followed for a few years, is not dead yet. Back in June, the Sixth Circuit denied a petition for an en banc hearing. That seemed the end of it. Now, a TV6 report says that the Pacific Legal Foundation's Mark Miller is talking — once again — about Supreme Court review.
A Petition for a Writ of Certiorari was filed on October 25th. A response is due on November 28th.*
Maybe Miller knows something about the composition of the court post-Kavanaugh I don't. The Sixth Circuit firmly rejected his argument — that the EPA's objections to the Marquette County Road Commission's plan for County Road 595 were tantamount to a "veto." Now, he believes
the U.S. Supreme Court will read our petition, review our case on the merits, ultimately, and agree with us that the road commission's plan as approved by the state should at least be considered by a judge as compared to the EPAs decision to reject that plan.
If I follow what Miller's saying here, the Supreme Court is going to review a case that was denied en banc hearing at the Sixth Circuit, and then recommend that a judge — what judge? an administrative law judge? in what court? — consider the Road Commission's plan and weigh it against the objections of the EPA. I think I got that right.
Jim Iwanicki, Marquette County Road Commissioner, has another set of expectations:
the purpose of the lawsuit is to have the U.S. Supreme Court review the decision of the Michigan Appeals Court to side with the EPA and to get an explanation as to why the the EPA turned down the permit in the first place….Iwanicki says he wants answers on the EPA's decision. He says the road commission was not given a solid answer on why the EPA ruled against the road's construction.
The construction of 595 would have gone through undeveloped wetlands.
"There is no mechanism right now to build 595," said Iwanicki. "Right now it is more of the issue of, were we treated fairly and was the permit looked at properly. If not then those people that didn't look at it properly should be addressed and called forward on the carpet."
I wonder if these are actual expectations, or if Miller and Iwaniki — and StandU.P., the dark money 501c4 behind the push for CR 595 — are rabble rousing.
*Update: on November 21st, Solicitor General Noel Francisco requested, and the Supreme Court granted, an extension to December 28th to file a response. The reason given: "the heavy press of earlier assigned cases to the attorneys handling this matter."
Second Update, 4 December: Two amicus curiae briefs were filed on November 28th in support of the Marquette County Road Commission by the Southeastern Legal Foundation and the Mackinac Center for Public Policy and the County Road Association of Michigan and Stand U.P., the 501c4 dark money organization promoting CR595. Both briefs take their cue from the argument that failed in the Sixth Circuit, asserting that the question before the court involves an "arbitrary and capricious EPA veto."
Update, 19 December. The Department of Justice has requested a second extension, until January 28, 2019, to file a response. The reason given is, again, "because the attorneys with principal responsibility for preparation of the government's response have been heavily engaged with the press of previously assigned matters with proximate due dates." The request goes on to note that counsel for the Marquette County Road Commission does not oppose a second extension. So we can't expect anything like a resolution in this case until the New Year.


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My presentation is tomorrow and I am more than a little nervous. I know that there's no sense to being frightened, because I have to do it, frightened or not, and it's only a two minute piece, but this fear does not back down in the face of cold logic. It's weird -- and if I weren't in said state I'd find it fascinating -- because in general I'm not frightened by things, but the idea of public performance fills me with a cold, dark terror.
I've come up with a bit of blather about an aspect of technology -- I chose The Gimp as it's something about which I know at least a little -- and after some practice I've got it to fit into two minutes with a little wiggle room if I need it. It starts with a joke -- oh dear -- and ends with some blatant tubthumping for the open source movement, and with any luck I will never be asked to speak in public again.
It's only two minutes; what a sissy I am.
I'm Kelvin Green. I sometimes draw. I sometimes write. I'm trying to get better at both.
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Two Minutes of Terror
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Wed, 10 October 2012
What's so great about Hammurabi anyway right? Eye for an eye, that whole business? There's a lot more to him than you might think!
And if you're digging the authentic music in this episode, visit northpacificmusic.com/Sumerians.html to find where to purchase all the great albums ensemble de Organographia have recorded!
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Thu, 4 October 2012
Sumer's time is coming to an end but they still have some fight left in them! Also I do my best to read a bit of ancient Mesopotamia poetry.
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Direct download: TPHOOW_-_CHAPTER_10.mp3
Category:History -- posted at: 2:00pm EST
Fri, 28 September 2012
The world's first empire...how exciting! Sargon and the Semites are now up to bat on TPHOOW! (I love that band)
Direct download: TPHOOW_-_CHAPTER_9_SARGON.mp3
Category:History -- posted at: 5:19pm EST
Mon, 24 September 2012
Hope you enjoyed Gilgamesh, but it's time for some ACTUAL history! Sumer is all about angry city states contesting for the iron throne. No, wait, not iron. Maybe reeds...or brick, but no iron, and no dragons.
Direct download: TPHOOW_-_CHAPTER_8_LAGASH.mp3
Category:History -- posted at: 12:00pm EST
Sat, 22 September 2012
In which we listen to a 5,000 year old epic story of true friendship, overcoming the whims of the gods, and a man's desperate quest for immortality. Plus I have way too much fun with Audacity, there's that too. Guest starring the ever so lovely Alexandra!
Direct download: TPHOOW_-_Chapter_6.mp3
Category:History -- posted at: 10:45am EST
Thu, 20 September 2012
It's Sumer time and the livin's easy! Mesopotamia 6,000 years ago was a heady time to be alive! Sure the occasional rain storm might melt your city but who cares? Ninkasi, Goddess of Beer will help you through those difficult times!
Direct download: TPHOOW_-_CHAPTER_6_SUMER.mp3
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Sun, 16 September 2012
You say you want a revolution? Would you settle for the greatest invention of all time?
Direct download: TPHOOW_-_CHAPTER_5.mp3
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Thu, 6 September 2012
Are you ready to rock? Because we're heading into the workings of the prehistoric mind...where taming former enemies, drilling into skulls, stone age fetishes and art await!
Direct download: TPHOOW_-_CHAPTER_4.mp3
Category:History -- posted at: 4:10pm EST
Wed, 29 August 2012
In case you can't tell from the title, our exciting third episode has something to do with Prometheus' gift to humanity! But that's not all, how about some scientific reasons about skin pigmentation, evidence of another human species on this Earth, and why I choose to use BC/AD. Check it out!
Direct download: TPHOOW_-_CHAPTER_3.mp3
Category:History -- posted at: 12:00am EST
Thu, 23 August 2012
The second episode, more anthropology than history but c'mon, you want the full story right? So let's talk about climate change, evolution, and meat eating! There's something to upset everyone!
Direct download: THPOOW_-_CHAPTER_2.mp3
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It took Dorian a split second to react to Noelle standing at his front door. His arm whipped to his waistband and seized the gun, swinging it to her face. She grabbed the muzzle and forced his arm down, sending the gun flying. Dorian grabbed the thief by her lapels and dragged her into the apartment. She used her forearms to break his grip and block his strikes as he came at her full force. She was the reason he was out of a job & under investigation. She had seduced him, made his drop his guard for one minute, and outfoxed him, something he could proudly say didn't happen often. Dorian hated to admit it to himself, but he had a point to prove. Continue reading
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He pushed deeper inside of his wife. Her gasp pushed her warm breath onto his full lips, her brow furrowed in borrowed ecstasy. He wound his arms around her, sharing the air between their mouths and the sweat on their skin. "Tell me you love me," he said as he watched her. She squirmed on top of him, trapped like a field mouse and its slithering predator. He filled her again and again with no remorse for her moans. "Tell me. Say it."
"I love you."
He rolled over deftly, still tucked away but she was different, her scent spreading through the room: honeysuckle and orchids. She pushed her knees back so he could peer down and watch her love bloom for him. He pressed his lips onto her knees as he dipped inside of her. He could feel every muscle inside of her twitch around him and he felt himself unravel with every thrust. He wanted to hate her; he wanted to stop and drag her into the deepest hole the federal government could provide. Yet, he wanted nothing but to bury himself deep inside of her, to release the thick sorrow and melancholy that kept him captive. He was trapped in quicksand; a harrowing love for his dead wife and the forbidden lust he possessed for the thief.
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Olivia squealed as Dorian picked her up in a bear hug and swung her around. "Congrats, baby!" she laughed. He set her down gently and kissed her cherry red lips. His graduation from Quantico was a huge achievement, however, it wasn't the reason behind his fluttering heart. "Marry me," he said, his forehead pressed against hers. "Shut up," she said, slapping his chest and laughing. He caught her arm and sank down on one knee. He reached in his inner pocket and produced the blue box holding the single solitaire. "Olivia…" he began. They'd only been dating for 8 months but Dorian was sure the sun rose and set with her. "I've never been in love before you. I've never known someone so amazing, so loving, so deserving of everything the universe has to offer and if you say yes, I promise I will spend the rest of my life trying to give it to you." Olivia's eyes swelled with tears at the beautiful man knelt before her. Her head was nodding before she could get the words from her lips. "Yes!"
"Where the fuck is the power?!" Dorian yelled into his earpiece, making his way through the dark and panic. It was her, it had to be. As soon the power was out, she slipped from his grip and into the darkness. "I had her!" he yelled as he got closer to the Markov. "Sanchez, do you have eyes?!"
"I can't see shit! It's pitch black!" The party began to grow more and more anxious in the dark, escalating to some screams and raised voices. "Everyone, everyone, please remain calm! We are working on this issue as expeditious as possible! If you can all just stay where you are to prevent any further injuries," Mayor Hayes said from somewhere in the dark.
"Maverick, what the fuck happened? We still had time!" Noelle said, pushing through the obscured guests. "I may or may not have blown the power for the entire Eastern grid. Don't worry, I'm working on getting it back! I guess it couldn't handle the surges I was sending to the security systems and I didn't realize that…"
"Maverick! Focus! I wasn't in position! How long until the power comes back on?" Noelle barked when suddenly, the lights flickered on in the manor. "The entire grid just came back live! I didn't do this!" Noelle had nearly made it to the display holding the Markov when she noticed the glass case was already empty. "Oh my God, it's gone."
"What's gone?"
"My wedding ring! I took it off to wash my hands and when I looked back, it was gone!" Olivia half-sobbed. "Hey, no, it's ok, baby, we'll find it."
"I can't believe I even took it off…" she said as he pulled her into his chest. "Don't cry baby. If it's really gone, we'll just get another one."
"That's not why I'm crying….I…I just haven't told you…" Dorian's heart dropped into his stomach. Her tone had changed and he immediately feared the worst. In the few months they'd been married, they'd been fighting more frequently. At first he wrote it off as the end of the honeymoon phase, but after the things she said to him last night, he slept on the couch. He silently prayed for control over his temper over whatever she told him, no matter how awful. He pulled her away and looked in her tearful eyes. "My emotions have been all over the place and making me a little crazy lately and I just decided to take a test and….I'm pregnant." She could tell Dorian was braced for bad news and it took a few seconds for his steely resolve to melt. "You mean…I'm gonna be a daddy?"
She had to move fast when she saw the Fed making his way towards her; it would be a matter of seconds before he and his backup surrounded her. She ducked out of sight into a nearby hallway. She needed a few seconds to look over the plans for the house again when she spotted it out the corner of her eye: her father's coin. Tied to string, it dangled on the doorknob catty-corner to her position. She crossed the hall and examined the coin closely. She instantly recognized the symbols on either side. How did it get there? Who put it there? Questions burned in her mind until her adrenaline prodded her. It had to be a sign. She pushed the door open and slipped inside.
The office was decorated warmly: pewter green wall, gray carpet and a large oak desk decorated the east side of the room. A French double door was situated on the other side, showcasing the grounds towards the main entrance. Someone had given her a way out. She had no time to contemplate the mire; she needed to run. Now. She kicked off the gold heels and pushed through the doors in a full sprint.
Dorian had made his way to the front door as the party continued on inside. He scanned the view until he spotted the woman in white hopping into her red Corvette. He drew his weapon and pointed in her direction. "FBI! FREEZE!" There was no way Noelle was giving up that easily. She peeled away from the curb, almost hitting the valet and burned rubber down the driveway. "Dammit!" Dorian yelled as he galloped down the stairs. He made his way to the Mustang being pulled around. "FBI! I need this vehicle," he said as he shoved the valet out the way. He sped around and down the driveway after the thief.
"Shaw, where the hell did you go?"
"I am in pursuit of the suspect! Female, African American, approximately 25-30 years old, driving a red 2017 Corvette!"
"I'll put local P.D. in the loop. Dorian, are you SURE she has the bracelet?"
"Affirmative. I'm going after her ass," Dorian said, before hanging up the phone. The hum of their engines ripped through the air as they sped down to the expressway. Dorian remained mere paces behind her as she zig zagged through traffic trying to lose him. Noelle hit redial as she dodged a Caravan in the farthest lane. "Maverick, I need you to get me out of here. I got a Fed on my tail!"
"Whoa, FBI?! How did that…"
"Never mind, Gina! I need to lose him!"
"Take the expressway for 4 more miles. You're close to the Casup Basin. There are a few cabins still in those woods." Noelle stomped on the accelerator hard and shot away from her pursuer, eager to get out of sight. "Exit's on your left!" Maverick yelled as she watched her GPS display of Noelle's location. Noelle turned the steering wheel hard and zoomed across three lanes to get off the freeway. "Shit!" The Fed yelled, nearly having to make a U-turn in front of several cars.
"Push, Olivia, push!"
"I CAN'T!" she yelled before collapsing back into his arms. "Please…we can still make it to the hospital, Dorian," she sobbed. Her labor began and progressed quickly, too quickly for them to make the trip to the hospital like they'd planned. "How long before that ambulance gets here?" Dorian barked into the phone. "I'm sorry, sir, but they are still 20 minutes out due to the collapse. From the sound of things, I'm gonna have to walk you through delivering your daughter," the 911 operator said calmly into the phone. Olivia, slick from sweat, shook her head furiously. "No, no, no, no, please, I can't—" she began before she was overwhelmed by another contraction. She let out a scream that sent a shiver down Dorian's spine. "Dorian, can you please look between Olivia's legs and describe to me what you see?" He kissed his wife on the top of her head before changing his position on the bathroom floor. "Oh my God! I think I see the head!"
"Ok, Olivia, that means you're crowning. You need to push as hard and as long as you can so you can have your baby tonight, ok?"
"No, no, we had a plan. Dorian, tell her, we had a plan," she said, on the brink of exhaustion. "Hey, hey, look at me," he said to her. "You are going to have our baby tonight. But I need my warrior right now. I'm not giving up on you and I'm sure as hell not letting you give up. So on my count, I need you to push hard and long so we can meet our kid, ok?" The tears welling in Dorian's eyes were enough to convince her. "With me, one, two, THREE!"
"Shaw, what….your….-cation?" Dorson yelled into the phone. His connection faded the farther he drove into the woods around the lake. "She's in the Basin! I'm not gonna lose her!" he yelled before the phone disconnected. He threw the phone into the seat next to him and pushed on. Noelle steered the car deeper and deeper into the darkening woods but with every turn she made, the headlights behind her followed. Dorian pushed the car next to hers, both of them casting heated glances at one another. He turned the wheel and bumped the back of the Corvette with the front of the Mustang. Noelle shot an incredulous look at the Fed before she tried to zoom away, however, the ground had become too muddy for the car to gain necessary traction. Noelle, afraid for her life, veered the car away from his last bump and steered the car over a log. The car skidded down a slight embankment and rolled twice before landing on its lid. Dorian slammed on the brakes but the mired ground sent him sailing headfirst into a large oak tree.
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It felt as if they had been sitting together for hours, but 17 minutes had only passed since Dorian walked into the room. Dr. Wilhemina Harris stared at him through her cat eyed glasses, legs crossed at the knee and a notepad balanced in her lap. Dorian was, what she defined as, a textbook pessimist; he never believed in therapy or "shrinks". Culturally, Dorian was raised to believe therapy was a waste of money. If you couldn't "pray" your problems away, you bottle them and push them down until you developed an ulcer. He cleared his throat loudly and dramatically, as he silently prayed she would just give up the stalemate and let him leave. "So…tell me about the case you're on," Dr. Harris said as she patted her notebook. "That's classified," he said flatly. "I'm actually qualified to any information involving case files. I do work for the FBI as well," she said. Dorian folded his arms, subconsciously on the defensive. Continue reading
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The wind howled on the 20th floor of the construction site. Noelle took another deep breath as she prepared the gun and grappling hook. Her next contract was located deep within the walls over 1000 feet away. The hair on the back of her neck stood erect, apprehensive to complete a job so soon and so close to the one before. "Are you ok?" the voice chirped into her earpiece, startling her slightly. "I'm fine," Noelle said questionably. "Like I was saying, Rex Tech just went public 6 months ago. $534 MILLION, can you believe? I applied for a job but they told me I was too…" the girl rambled on in her ear. Noelle rolled her eyes and called back. "Radio silent, Maverick, until I'm across," she snarled back to her "Eye in the Sky". With another deep breath, she aimed the gun and fired. The hook exploded from the gun and shot across the skyline until it secured itself to the neighboring rooftop. She secured the gun to the exposed beams near her and attached the rappelling hook on the tension line. With a 'click', she took a running leap over the edge.
After what felt like an eternity, she landed on the gravel that covered the roof. "I'm across," she said. "Ok, at the door, there will be a card access. Use the key I gave you and let the algorithm do the rest," Maverick said. Noelle removed it from her pack and slid the key into the reader and waited for the handheld device to flash green. "I can only disable the cameras for 40 seconds at a time with 1 minute intervals. Any longer and a secondary security system is engaged and will send out a silent alarm. You need to get down 5 floors to get to the next blind spot, directly under the camera on the 15th floor. Got it?"
"Got it."
The lock disengaged and Noelle took off galloping down the stairs. "30 seconds," Maverick said into her ear. She made it to the 15th floor and she jammed the hacked key into the reader. "10 seconds." It felt like it took longer before the light turn green and the latch on the door withdrew. "8…7…6…" Maverick counted down as Noelle used her foot to slow the door from slamming. With barely a second to spare, she dipped beneath the security camera that was settled in the corner. "Cutting it a little close, are we?" Maverick said, her keystrokes audible from the phone. "Maybe you should rewrite this algorithm to be a little faster," Noelle said. Another 30 seconds needed to pass before the cameras could be looped again. She was careful not to exhale too hard or move in any way. "Ok, loop is restarting…now!"
Noelle took off into a sprint down the hallway. She repeated the memorized directions from the map she studied: right, right, left, right. There were no cameras where she was going. She met with the large cherry wood door, out of sync with the other doors on the floor. She jammed the lock picker in once more and gained another accepted access. She dove into the room and waited, still catching her breath. When she stood, she surveyed the office of Vice President of Research and Development quickly. The view was breathtaking, meaning that she was in the correct place. The painting on the wall was flush against the wallpaper. The desk was tempered glass and contained no drawers. The bookcase on the opposite was awkwardly shaped; each shelf was misaligned on its intended symmetrical side. Noelle scanned it momentarily before she grinned to herself and shoved the two halves apart. Surrounding the case along the wall and floor were unmistakable tracks, used to wheel the shelves back and forth to hide and reveal the safe. "A billion dollar company and they cheap out with a McGinnick," Noelle said as she pulled off her backpack.
"I'm in," she grinned to herself as she removed the borescope from the hole she drilled just above the dial. "Wait, what?" Maverick said as her keystrokes furiously tapped in the background. Noelle spun the handle and the safe popped open with a dull clank. "Literally NO ONE can crack a McGinnick that fast! How did you…"
"I have my ways," Noelle said. She had been trained by the best. Her father's words rang in the back of her head: "Nothing is impenetrable. Patience opens ANY lock." Inside of the safe were stacks of cash, manila folders and a group of microchips settled into a display. "Ok, which one is it?" she said as she began flipping through the nonsequential bills. "Hang on," Maverick said, her fingers moving like lightning. "Seriously, you couldn't have figured this out before I got it open?"
"It says all of them."
"What? I thought you said A microchip, not 20," Noelle said, looking back at the display. "He says it is impossible to know which is which so bring them all."
"You make sure you let him there is an upcharge," she said. She took the plastic display from the safe and dumped it into her backpack. She glanced at the money again and grabbed it as well. "Alright, I'm gone. Set up the meet." she said as she swung the safe closed.
She made it back across the line a few minutes later. Just as she began to celebrate another win, she was met with a swift kick to the torso that knocked her on her back. She jumped back up and looked up at her attacker. They were dressed in all black and wore a black ski mask, but from their stature, she could tell it was a man. "Who the hell…" she began before the man attacked again. She was deft at blocking his moves; his punches and kicks were met with her own. He pulled a knife from his hip and swung it at her, causing her to jump backwards too close to the edge. He reached out and grabbed her hand to pull her back. He swung the knife again and barely missed her flesh, but he had severed the strap to the backpack she wore. He grabbed it and tried to take off running, but she jumped on his back and tackled him to the ground. He elbowed her on the side of the head and pushed her off of him. They both held a steady grip on the bag, swinging at one another for one moment of slack. As they fought, she felt her father's coin unlodge itself from under her shirt. The mystery man glanced down at it and back to her before he snatched it from her neck and kicked her away. "Wait, no!" she yelled as she took off after him. She followed him as far as she could but he disappeared into the night with her prized possession.
The meet was scheduled for an hour later at the Zen Gardens restaurant. The man enjoyed his dinner at the back table; 4 of his most loyal henchmen surrounded him, each of them strapped with a semi-automatic gun. The bell rang to signal someone had entered. Before the man could address the woman, she had stormed inside and pushed the table right against his bulging stomach and pinned him to the wall. His henchmen had their guns aimed right as her back as she held the man in position. "Who else did you contract out for this?" she yelled. The man coughed into his napkin and tried to defuse the situation. "I placed an ad and you answered."
"Did you send someone else after me?! To push me off a building?!"
"Now why would I do that and you've done what no one else could for me?" the Asian man said. He signaled to his men to lower their weapons; he felt powerful enough to not feel threatened by her. "He stole something from me and I want it back. Until I do, I'll be keeping this," she said, holding up the backpack. She released her grip from the table and began to walk out when the man began speaking again. "You may not want to go too far with that information. I'd hate for something to happen to that pretty little head of yours." The henchmen moved into her path and blocked her way to the door. She spun and faced the man as a scowl spread across her face. "Sit," he said, his hand extended toward the chair next to him. "Let's talk business."


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To Halloween or not to HalloweenPosted: October 22, 2015 Filed under: Culture, Faith, Family | Tags: Family, Halloween, Holidays 2 Comments
Even though Thanksgiving is a holiday established from a tradition dating back to colonial America, and July 4th is the day we celebrate the declaration of our independence from Great Britain, I think I could make a case for Halloween being the most-celebrated holiday in the US. Certainly it is looked forward to with much excitement and costume-planning by adults and children; even pets get dressed up. Stores make a mint selling large amounts of candy as well as costumes. People decorate their lawns and homes with elaborate, usually creepy, decorations; haunted houses and trails abound; costume parties are a given.
I don't remember Halloween being all that special to me as a Jewish child growing up in Brooklyn, nor how young I was when I was allowed to dress up and trick or treat in my neighborhood. I remember as an adolescent doing "Trick or Treat for UNICEF." The holidays that were most important to me were the Jewish ones, celebrating the miraculous intervention of God in the lives of my ancestors, reminding me that God was still a very present Being in my life, and just being really fun family times.
When two of my children were young, we allowed them to dress up and trick or treat in our neighborhood in Dayton, OH. The costumes were usually made by the kids themselves and not very elaborate. In those days, kids could still get homemade cookies or treats from the neighbors without fear of malicious damage, and we limited our kids on where they could go and how much candy they could eat.
When I became a Christian and started to look at the origins of Halloween, my views on celebrating this holiday changed. A friend of mine, who'd been involved in the occult before she became a Christian, was aware of the background of Halloween as a day celebrated by satanists, witches, and other occult groups, a holiday celebrating death and the macabre. When my husband and I decided not to celebrate Halloween, we were in a very distinct minority. Initially, to avoid the constant ringing of the doorbell, we'd leave the house early in the evening on the designated "Beggar's Night" and return when it was over. After a while, people realized we were not participating and just stopped coming by, so we just hung out at home as on any other night of the school year.
We have plenty of friends and family members who do celebrate Halloween – some of our own now-grown kids do – but we have never tried to preach to them or belittle them for their choice to do so. When a child I know shows me a costume, I admire it, but I still don't take part in Halloween parties, Harvest parties, or any other celebration of this day. I usually don't express my opinion on this unless asked, but a recent article posted on FaceBook by a friend seemed to demand a response. The Christian author offered three choices for Christians on Halloween: to avoid the holiday, to celebrate the holiday, and to redeem the holiday. Somehow, those Christians who choose to avoid celebrating Halloween are often chastised – I've heard sermons preached about it – as if, by not engaging the culture in this area, we are not truly being ambassadors for Christ, not really being "in the world yet not of it." Kind of reminds me of when we home schooled our children, or had our home births; people would make offensively defensive remarks to us, as if by our own personal choices, we were condemning theirs, though that was never the case. We would share our reasons, engage in discussion, and move on.
It's been so long since I've done the research that I don't remember the details of all the reasons not to observe the holiday of Halloween. The article I mentioned gave some of the background – the Druids, the pagan worship, the involvement of the Catholic Church – and I won't go into much of it. You can always check it out on your own. I just have several points I'd like to make. Whether you agree with me or not, that is fine. Just expressing my opinion (which is getting increasingly hard to do in this country)…
First, no matter how you try to dress up the holiday – pun intended – with Disney character costumes, Biblical people costumes, Reformation leader costumes, or just very cute, original, and well-made costumes, you cannot really get away from the fact that the basic thing about Halloween is its scare factor. Halloween is all about being scared….because it is all about ghosts, witches, demons, and, to quote Yoda, "the Dark side." Whatever lightness and fun you may feel at a harvest party or when taking your kids trick or treating in your neighborhood is not the same lightness and fun that is exhibited in decorations, movies, and the general Halloween atmosphere: it is SCARY. Personally, I don't see the value in deliberately choosing to be scared, whether or not you think the scary things are real, but demons and witches ARE real, and they are not people-friendly; they serve a master whose goal is to corrupt and destroy people. Thankfully, we serve a Master who is greater than theirs, and I don't feel that I honor Him by celebrating His enemy's holiday.
Second, I disagree with the opinion that you have to participate in the holiday in order to engage people in a dialogue about Christ. I know people who choose to do this, and that may work for them, but it hasn't for me. I need to stand up for what I believe to be true and to be willing to politely and kindly explain my views to anyone who asks me. "but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect," ( I Peter 3:15 ) To draw a parallel between the pagan animal sacrifices to their gods, and the rituals instigated to deter demons on All Hallows' Eve, and the Jewish animal sacrifices ordained by and offered to Elohim is clearly to miss the point….. I would not participate in other pagan rituals, nor will I in this one, no matter how it has been sanitized. There is no equivalence between worshipping gods and worshipping God.
Years ago, when our kids were young and we were living in Dayton, OH, we knew another family who chose not to celebrate Halloween. One year, though, they decided that they would have a Halloween party for the neighborhood kids, hoping to reach some of them for Christ. No one came. Finally, they called us and asked us if they could just come over and hang out with us. While we were together….noshing, chatting, playing games….they mentioned a neighbor who was really struggling, becoming conscious of her sinfulness but unable to move from bondage to freedom. We ended up spending time in fervent prayer for her, and that night, she received the Lord as her Savior. That was probably my most memorable Halloween, because, instead of trying to be part of something we could not condone, we engaged in spiritual battle against the forces of darkness and won a victory. That was redemption – not of the holiday – but despite the holiday.


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Get an overview of TestFlight and how it can be implemented in the development environment.
- [Instructor] As a developer, you may have heard of TestFlight, and you probably have seen it as an option to choose in iTunes Connect. However, if you're a busy developer like myself, you probably haven't had a chance to fully wrap your head around this utility quite yet. Well, today we're going to demystify this fast and easy to use tool to aid in your beta testing needs. Now in the old days, if you didn't have access to the device, beta testing in Xcode has been a cumbersome procedure that's involved a complicated provisioning and deployment process across both test users and their devices.
Beta testing with users outside of a developer's immediate organization would then prove to be a timely and difficult task to undertake. However, those days are no more. TestFlight is a service from Apple which is available for devices on iOS 8 or later and is found within iTunes Connect. It allows you to send beta builds of an app over the air to a select group of testers. By this, we mean that we can deliver our app to a device without needing to tether it via cable to our development machine, nor does it mean that we'll be faced by a complicated deployment process either.
Your software testers will interact with the service by using the TestFlight app, which is where they would go to install your app and provide feedback. You could submit your build for your iOS, watchOS, and tvOS apps. Unfortunately, this isn't available for Mac OS. The way TestFlight fits into your overall development cycle is quite easy. So first, we've done the hard part, which is to build our app. We've probably done some internal testing by ourselves for a bit, or if we're working with our team, we've done some testing with our team, and at this point we're feeling good about our work thus far.
For a lot of developers, this amount of testing is sufficient enough that they will want to immediately submit this app for review to the App Store. However, we're missing an important area of discovery that can happen by having others outside of our immediate circle test our app. So what we'll do instead is add the TestFlight testing procedure in as a step before we submit for app review. The TestFlight procedure itself can be broken up into the following parts. First, we'll upload a build to TestFlight. Next, we'll want to invite a group of testers to be a part of our beta test group.
We'll then make that build available to them and allow them to start using our app. Along the way, we'll gather feedback which will then be discussed and iterated over with the team. If necessary, another build would be sent over to our testers to address any bugs or showstopping problems that may have arose during testing. Something to note is that you can always add testers in TestFlight even after you started the testing round. This process will then continue until the build is ready to be submitted to the App Store, in which case we will then look to release our app.
Now, there may be variances to this process from development team to development team, or even if you're an individual developer, but this is the overall basic approach to this procedure. So it's no question why TestFlight should be implemented into your overall development cycle. While it's not required to do so before submitting to the App Store, it does provide you with the opportunity to receive some really good insight about your app and in turn, it'll increase your chances of success in the App Store. Something to note as well is that there are other services available that have similarities to TestFlight, however this is a free and easy to use system that is built right into Xcode and the entire Apple development ecosystem.
Now that we're familiar with the service and see its benefit to us, let's move on to our next lesson where we'll talk about what to expect when using TestFlight.
- What is TestFlight?
- Using TestFlight
- Inviting testers
- Completing testing