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In her final workshop in the “Healing through Hypnotherapy” series, Ilene Haykus will explain how to discover and resolve underlying issues to help you recover from injury or disease.

Hypnotherapy is one of the most successful therapies in use, as an adjunct to traditional medical treatment, for injury, pain and disease. Events and issues in your life can contribute to physical conditions including injuries from accidents, chronic pain, allergies, heart disease and cancer. In this workshop Ilene will focus on helping you heal.

“Healing from Injury and Disease” will be held Saturday, Dec. 18, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at a cost of $35. Anyone may participate. It is not necessary to have taken any of Ilene’s previous workshops in the series. Please call Southwest Light and Learning Center, 759-2983, for information and location of this class, or you may call the instructor at 731-0553.

Haykus holds a master’s degree in psychology from Antioch University. Her background includes training in both traditional and alternative forms of counseling and hypnosis. In 1992 she was awarded credentials as an instructor of hypnosis from the Colorado State Department of Higher Education and the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners. She teaches professional certification trainings in hypnotherapy under the auspices of the Alchemy Institute Inc., a state-licensed vocational school.

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Unemployment rate dips

The unemployment situation in the county continues to improve, with the rate dropping to 8.1 percent in September from 8.7 percent in August, a Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) report indicated on Monday.

September’s numbers also suggested a trend showing improvement over last year’s unemployment rate, with the past three months outperforming the same months in 2010.

The unemployment rate for September of last year was 8.8 percent.

That is especially good news since 2011 started off trending to be worse than 2010 — a year that had the worst average unemployment in 24 years. Although 2011 is still on pace to be worse than last year as far as unemployment, the overall yearly average will be skewed due to high unemployment numbers during the first half of this year, especially during the first quarter.

However, since July, unemployment has turned around, performing better than the third quarter of last year by half a percentage point.

The state of Colorado also showed improvement in unemployment numbers. After locking in at 8.5 percent during the previous three months, the state’s unemployment rate dropped to 7.9 percent in September, the CDLE said Monday.

The state and county are doing substantially better than the nation as far the employment situation, which has stalled at 9.1 percent. Hoping to address the country’s unemployment, President Obama announced on Monday that he would bypass congress approval to pass, by executive order, portions of an almost $500 billion jobs proposal.

The president’s $447 billion package reduces payroll taxes that employees and small businesses pay, giving small businesses a tax break for hiring new workers. The proposal also allocates $140 billion for construction projects such as repairing roads and bridges, as well as modernizing schools.

Costs for most of the plan — about $400 billion over 10 years — would be offset by new limits on tax deductions for charitable contributions and other expenditures that are available to individuals making more than $200,000 a year and families making more than $250,000 a year. The rest would come from new limits on deductions for owners of corporate jets, hedge funds and oil and gas companies.

Last week, Senate majority leader Harry Reid revised the president’s plan by proposing a 7-percent “Millionaire’s Surtax” increase on income taxes for Americans making $1 million or more a year, while dumping President Obama’s previously proposed tax increases, following a rejection earlier this month by Senate Republicans (and some Democrats) of the president’s proposal.

Although the county has appeared to improve its jobs situation with minimal federal help, it could be argued that a reduction in the area’s Civilian Labor Force (CLF) — the numbers of employed and unemployed — has led to a decrease in the unemployment rate.

The CLF decreased by 3.5 percent from September of last year and 4.6 percent from August of this year.

However, a decrease in the county’s CLF does not necessarily indicate a drop in local area population; workers who land jobs in surrounding counties or states would be dropped from CLF population counts.

Furthermore, CLF numbers show fluctuations from month to month, and all indications suggest that the number of workers in Archuleta County available for employment remains relatively unchanged from last year.

Given the relative stability of CLF numbers, along with a consistent trend in improving unemployment numbers during the third quarter of this year, suggests that the local economy has begun a slow, but steady, rebound from harder times characterizing the last two years.

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Encounter Pages II contains twenty-two short scenarios of mostly low or mid-level encounters ranging from levels 1-15 that can be used as side-treks for PCs who need a little extra experience, to liven-up the downtime between major adventures or when the GM just needs something on the fly. Though written as stand-alone items, there are also suggestions for incorporating the encounters into a larger game in in your word or the world of Porphyra.

  • Cuisse De Grenouille, C’est Bon! (CR 1)
  • The Wrong Kind of Toys (CR 1)
  • Parade of the Conquered (CR 2)
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  • I Told You To Clean Your Room! (CR 3)
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  • Are Those Real? (CR 7)
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  • He’s Come Home (CR 8)
  • Arena of Arrogance (CR 9)
  • Legacy of Death (CR 12)
  • And the Red Hand Held Sway (CR 15)
  • Summit of the Sea (CR Varies)
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This pdf is 32 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial/ToC, 3.5 pages of SRD, leaving us with 26.5 pages of content, so let's check this out!

Now what exactly do we get? Essentially a collection of encounters to be inserted into your campaign, much like Raging Swan's "Random X Encounter"-line. The encounters span the CR-range from 1 to 15 and come with full stats for uncommon creatures. Some of the stats deviate from bestiary II or III standards since the creatures are taken from Tricky Owlbear's stellar monster-book "Forgotten Foes". That out of the way, here we go!

So what are the encounters? We get a chef attacked by killer frogs (he ordered large frog legs and tsathoggua was not pleased), a merchant that sells devil-possessed dolls, a parade of captive orcs in the streets, a hall with stranded ethereal travelers, a rich merchant's daughter whose refusal to clean her room created (with a rod of wonder) a junk elemental, a vegepygmy/shrieker symbiotic relation, planar portals guarded by greymalkin, arrowhawks defending their floating eggs (Genius!), mermaids who are not what they seem, the maze of a Shedu, mining camps besieged by spider eaters, nightgaunts guarding portals of time, a beastmaster's performance going horribly wrong, help a two-headed troll solve cyclopean riddles, vanquish water demons, greater basilisks and snake-like inphidians, prevent a bodak's murder-spree, test their mettle in the arena vs. amazons, help, hinder or attack a special marut called Red Hand and resolve a dispute between tritons and locathath.

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editing and formatting are very good, I didn't notice any significant glitches. Layout adheres to PDG's printer-friendly 2-column standard and the pdf comes fully bookmarked. The stock-artworks are nice and production-value-wise, I can't complain.
In contrast to Raging Swan Press' offerings, these encounters are less tied to terrain, more versatile and easy to insert, but pay this versatility with being more generic, since they lack the terrain-features and similar complications. What this pdf does to offset this minor downside is interesting: Each of the encounters comes with 3 complications for the DM to make the encounters more complex. This simple, yet effective method alongside the creativity and sometimes tongue-in-cheek humor of a couple of the encounters makes this a very solid addition to a GM's library. While not on par with e.g. the by now legendary "Caves & Caverns", this is still a purchase DMs should definitely contemplate and thus will clock in at a solid verdict of 4 stars.

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CAVITE: Bacoor - St. Michael Archangel Parish Church

January 18, 1752 when parish of San Miguel Arch Angel of Bacoor was established through "cedula real", a permit issued by government. Before, people of Bacoor had to ride a boat just to attend masses and faced dangers of huge waves of the sea.

This Parish was established by secular or diocesan priest. One of them was Fr. Mariano Gomez delos Angeles from Manila and eventually became Caviteno by heart. He was one of the people then accused to be one of the people who started revolution and killed at Luneta together with two other priests, February 17, 1872.

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Current Parish priest told a lot of stories behind this church and the thing I really remembered was this church has a part that was removed. Before it was bigger, has extensions at the side of the altar. But because of too much area, it was decided to renovate and cover the unused part. You can see the old brick markings at the side  walls of the church in front just beside the altar.

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Rick Sadowski  -  NHL.com Correspondent | Sunday, 11.17.2013 / 2:23 AM

DENVER -- It looks like new coach Peter Horachek has breathed new life into the Florida Panthers, and the Colorado Avalanche have suddenly fallen on hard times.

The Panthers played a strong all-round game Saturday at Pepsi Center to defeat the slumping Avalanche 4-1 for their second win in the past three games and first road victory since a season-opening win Oct. 3 against the Dallas Stars.

Goalie Tim Thomas made 32 saves for his 200th NHL win, Brian Campbell had a goal and an assist, and Tom Gilbert chipped in with three assists for the Panthers, who have gone 2-3-0 since Horachek replaced Kevin Dineen as coach Nov. 8.

"We actually got the lead," Thomas said. "We haven't had the lead very often, but when we have had it, we've played pretty well. We play very composed with the lead, and that's a good sign. It's been our goal at times this year. The last thing we need is to have problems in that area. The last five games, the effort's been there -- maybe not for the full 60 minutes but for a good chunk of it."

The Avalanche have allowed the first goal in three consecutive games, lost all three and fallen into third place in the Central Division, behind the Chicago Blackhawks and St. Louis Blues. Chicago visits Pepsi Center on Tuesday.

Making matters worse, the Avalanche lost leading scorer Matt Duchene early in the third period to an oblique muscle ailment. He will be reevaluated Sunday.

"We have to stay positive, there's no doubt about it," Avalanche coach Patrick Roy said. "But I hate to lose a game like this in front of our fans. They deserve better than this from our part. To me, effort is not a problem. I don't like our focus. We made some poor decisions without the puck and in our positioning. I thought our defensive coverage was not as good as it should have been.

"We have to go back to basics and make sure that we are better with our sticks in our zone, and behind the net we got beat to the front. Hey, listen, it's good for me to see that. It's a nice learning process, and it helps us to evaluate our players and know where some of our guys are."

The Panthers used second-period goals by Campbell and Tomas Kopecky to take a 3-1 lead into the third period, making it the second time this season they led after two periods.

"The best thing is we got off to a better start," Campbell said. "Coach emphasizes that. It's nice playing that way, working hard for each other and making sure we're getting pucks out. It's nice playing with a lead. It's a good feeling, and that's what you want all the time."

Jonathan Huberdeau closed out the scoring at 12:16 of the third during a scramble in front of Avalanche goalie Semyon Varlamov.

Kopecky skated in alone on Varlamov and slid a backhand shot between his pads at 13:53 of the second to make it 3-1. Kopecky scored two seconds after the Panthers' fifth consecutive power play of the game expired.

Campbell gave the Panthers a 2-0 lead at 1:15 on the second half of a power play that started at 17:39 of the first period when the Avalanche's Nate Guenin was assessed a double minor for high sticking Huberdeau, who was cut near his mouth.

Campbell ripped a shot from the left point for his third goal of the season, all of them coming in the past four games.

The Panthers came into the game in a 1-for-20 slump on the power play in the past six games.

"We moved it around better tonight, changed up a few things," Campbell said. "It's frustrating because we've been top 10 the past few years and not a lot has changed."

Said Horachek: "We changed a couple of things with the pairings up top and showed them some video on how we wanted to attack. They managed it very well; we got some chances. You could really say three goals were directly responsible from the power play."

Roy changed his top three line combinations at 7:00 of the second period, and the move paid off when Ryan O'Reilly scored at 7:23, cutting the Panthers' lead to 2-1. O'Reilly, skating with John Mitchell and PA Parenteau, moved into the right circle and scored as Mitchell drove to the net.

The Avalanche had a couple of good chances after that, but Gabriel Landeskog shot wide from the slot and Thomas made a save against Nathan MacKinnon.

The Panthers took a 1-0 lead at 12:40 of the first period on goal by Brad Boyes, who was in tight on the right side when he accepted a pass from Scottie Upshall and shot the puck by Varlamov's glove.

The goal came eight seconds after the Avalanche finished killing off Parenteau's hooking penalty.

"It was a tough call, but it is what it is," Parenteau said. "They scored just when I got out of the penalty box. It was a tough break, but we can't take those penalties as a team. We talked about it. In the future, we're going to try not to take them."

Scoring Summary
1st Period
12:40FLA Brad Boyes (7) ASST: Scottie Upshall (5), Tom Gilbert (5) 1 - 0 FLA
2nd Period
01:15FLA PPG - Brian Campbell (3) ASST: Tom Gilbert (6), Scottie Upshall (6) 2 - 0 FLA
07:23COL Ryan O'Reilly (8) ASST: Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau (7), Cory Sarich (4) 2 - 1 FLA
13:53FLA Tomas Kopecky (2) ASST: Tom Gilbert (7), Tim Thomas (1) 3 - 1 FLA
3rd Period
12:16FLA Jonathan Huberdeau (5) ASST: Nick Bjugstad (5), Brian Campbell (9) 4 - 1 FLA
Three Stars of the Game
Tom Gilbert
Tom Gilbert
G: 0Shots: 2
A: 3Hits: 1
PTS: 3PIM: 0
+/-: 2TOI: 22:41
Brian Campbell
Brian Campbell
G: 1Shots: 1
A: 1Hits: 0
PTS: 2PIM: 0
+/-: 0TOI: 25:43
Scottie Upshall
Scottie Upshall
G: 0Shots: 1
A: 2Hits: 0
PTS: 2PIM: 0
+/-: 1TOI: 16:54
Penalty Summary
1st Period
03:42FLA Jonathan Huberdeau  Tripping against  Nathan MacKinnon
07:57COL Gabriel Landeskog  Interference against  Tomas Fleischmann
10:32COL Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau  Hooking against  Matt Gilroy
17:39COL Nate Guenin  Hi stick - double minor against  Jonathan Huberdeau
2nd Period
11:51COL Jan Hejda  Slashing against  Nick Bjugstad
3rd Period
shots by period
Team Stats
Power Plays1/50/1
Faceoff Wins2628
Blocked Shots1013
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ballot boxesElection Commission issued schedule for 2013 elections. The schedule announced by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday, May 11 vote in the National Assembly and Provincial Council elections immediately treat the movement.

According to the notification ECP, the return of persons in all districts must today (March 23) issued a notice requiring potential candidates to submit nomination papers. Returning Officer from March 24 to March 29 items will be accepted. Communications will be from March 30 Review.

ECP, the appointment of the new paper format designed column in the financial history of potential candidates and their families list was sent to the region. Under consideration of the proposed program, the returning officer shall send a scanned copy of the Headquarters Committee ECP composed of Commission officials, the Federal tax (FBR), the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) and the National Database and Registration Committee (NADRA “) will be checked candidates or their assigns, if the government defaulted loans, tax or other fees.

Returning officer for filing review after April 5, according to the Committee’s comments and opponents of the opposition presented. April 9 may submit nomination papers to accept or reject the call.

These people have reservations about the decision of the returning officer, will be moved to the Electoral Tribunal, provides an opportunity. Court Judges of the High Court, the case to solve, April 16.

A withdrew its candidate in the April 17 candidates who want to keep. The final list of candidates, polls show the next day, April 18.

In addition to election day, the schedule is also applicable to the reserved seats for women and ethnic minority candidates. All parties must submit a list of candidates for the seats reserved in advance.

272 of the 342 seats in the National Assembly, directly elected by the interrogation. The remaining seats, 60 are reserved for women and 10 non-Muslim minorities.

Similarly, the Punjab Parliament to 297 seats directly challenged a total of 371. 67 seats reserved for women, eight are reserved for minorities.

Parliament in the province of Sindh, a total of 168 seats, 130 are directly challenged, 29 reserved for women and nine reserved for minorities. Similarly, in the Khyber – Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, in direct competition for the 51 seats reserved for women 22 is reserved for non-Muslims, a total of 124 seats.

Balochistan Assembly, at the same time, there are 51 places directly challenged, 11 are reserved for women and 3, a total of 65 seats reserved for ethnic minorities.

The distribution of seats reserved for the basis of the number of seats won by political parties in the direct election of women and minorities. However, regular seats in the election of women and minorities may also be questioned, either as an independent or party tickets.

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Wednesday, 7 September 2011

A Concrete Château

In Bourg-la-Reine almost by accident, I spot a building that makes the detour seem worthwhile. As I pull out my camera and start taking pictures, a window opens behind me and out pops a head. “Do you know what that building is?” it asks.

The head belongs to an ancient lady, perhaps as old as the building itself. I shake my head, and she begins to tell me its story.

The house was built by an entrepreneur called François Hennebique at the beginning of the 20th century, and was possibly the first such private residence to be built using reinforced concrete. It was designed to be not only a home to his extended family, but also to act as a showroom highlighting the many possibilities offered by concrete constructions (and therefore by Hennebique's own company).

Hennebique was passionate about the material, famously declaring that ‘on peut tout demander au béton armé, et il peut tout reproduire’ (you can ask anything of concrete, and it can reproduce everything). He may not have been the original inventor of many of the procedures he employed with concrete, but he was most certainly the best businessman in the field and also a fine marketing man.

As will become quickly clear, he was also a man of many snappy catchphrases, and this house was the key to one of those – “Travailler en ville, se reposer à la campagne” (work in the city, relax in the country) he said, describing his reasons for building a home outside of the city in which he worked (nb – a future post will deal with the Paris offices of his construction company).

Difficult as it is to imagine today, this house was indeed originally a country residence, albeit one which – importantly – was situated close to a train station, and thus accessible in less than 30 minutes from Paris. Built alongside the railway line, it also acted as a permenant advertising structure for people passing by on trains.

Despite Hennebique’s claims about wanting to relax in the countryside, perhaps his real reason for building a house in Bourg-la-Reine was to escape the rigid and restrictive planning reglementation in Paris. Hennebique wanted to build something extraordinary, and this house is certainly an eccentric construction.

The rule he most wanted to bypass was the one restricting a building’s height, principally to incorporate the 40 metre high water tower that still stretches above the building today (known locally as ‘the minaret’). The tower was not just an extravagant folly, but also a fully functional feature, and was used to water the crops on the various terraces which would supposedly help the home to become partially self-sufficient.

Along with the tower, other features such as the curved terraces and cantilever beams seem to exist only to show off the possibilities of concrete. The rest of the design is in accordance with Hennebique’s motto – and another catchphrase - "fleurs, lumière et aération" (flowers, light and ventilation), with the large windows and rooftop terraces bringing it into line with other hygienist constructions of the era.

There, you’ve had a personal guided tour” says the old lady, before carefully shutting her window. She’ll return to her quiet life, waiting for the next curious visitor to stop outside, whilst I’m left to ponder on what has become of the building today.

In truth, though striking, the building is not a complete success, and is even ugly in parts. It is of course no longer a single home, and has been divided into apartments, apparently some of the most sought after in the town. To give an idea of the scale of the original property, one article reports that an entire family today lives in what was Hennebique’s dining room, and another is lodged in his living room.

The building was finally given protection in 1972, but not before a shamefully ugly extension was added at the front in the 1960s. Perhaps this addition, more even than the decline of Hennebique’s own construction business, shows how low the stock of concrete had fallen at the time. His house still remains to show the heights it can attain.

La Maison Hennebique
1, avenue du Lycée-Lakanal
Bourg-la-Reine, 92340
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Thérèse said...

Incroyable! mais vrai...

Cergie said...

J’ai habité durant deux ans à Bourg la Reine, rue des Rosiers. Rue du lycée Lakanal ? Je situe cela près du parc de Sceaux. Le béton a une très belle finition lorsqu’il est réalisé avec soin et à la fois permet de faire ce que l’on veut mais n’a de limites que celles du talent.

Joy said...

Great story thanks. Pity about the ugly extension to the house - don't suppose anyone would push to have it removed?

julien zator said...

If you're really interested in concrete buildings, go to Amiens.

By 1.5hour at north of Paris, the whole city sweat concrete and after war spirit. There you could meet with the "Tour Perret", the highest concrete building in Europe until the " polish Warsavian Nation Tower" broke the record.

Adam said...

Julien: I have never visited Amiens, but I am a big fan of Auguste Perret, and will shortly be posting something on his two 'homes' in the 16th arrondissement.

Kiki said...

this is SUCH a fascinating article and I am 'bouche bée' reading this story! I don’t particularly like concrete but it seems that here, a clever, innovative and resourceful man made something to many people’s liking…. I have the great privilege to live in a meulière and I adore the coolness of the stone in summer and the warmth in winter; but not many people are so lucky. I am glad you could teach me something here and I’ll look out for this building if I should happen to get off the train at Cergie’s former home street!

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Wampus Pond RowboatsNamed after the Indian from whom this land was bought in 1696, Wampus Pond means “opossum.” A recent cultural resources inventory performed by Parker Harrington indicates that early 20th century rock shelters, several Native American artifacts and remnants of historically significant residential developments were found within or near the park.

The natural pond, at one time known as Wampus Lake Reservoir, was once part of the New York City water supply. In 1963 the county bought Wampus pond and 93 acres from the City of New York.

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Wheelchair accessibleParkingDrinking waterPicnickingSwimming prohibitedRowboats available weekendsFishingNo campfiresIce skatingNature studyPlease recycle

  • County park pass is not required for admission
  • Directions: Route 128, Armonk
  • Park hours: Rowboats are available weekends and holidays, from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., from Memorial Day through Labor Day.
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  • Dogs: Must be leashed. Please pick up after your pet. No dogs allowed in picnic areas.


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Physician Compare

Physician Compare, a website developed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), makes physicians’ and other healthcare professionals’ Medicare participation available to the public to assist them in making informed choices. The release of this data also serves to encourage practitioners to improve the quality of care delivered.

The following information and assessments are provided1 :

  • Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) Measures
  • Patient health outcomes and functional status
  • Continuity and coordination of care and care transitions, including episodes of care and risk-adjusted resource use
  • Efficiency
  • Patient experience and engagement of the patient, caregiver and family
  • Effectiveness, safety and timeliness of care
  • Other information designated by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services

CMS has used a phased approach to report group practice quality program participation and quality of care ratings data since the reporting began in 2010. Information is now being included on specific physicians including name, address, education, specialty training, hospital affiliation, and successful participation in PQRS or e-prescribing.

CMS has also added a section on quality programs for each group practice including2 :

  • Which group is satisfactorily reporting in the 2012 Group Practice Reporting Option (GPRO) under PQRS or are successful prescribers under the e-prescribing incentive program;
  • Which individual practitioners successfully participate in the Medicare Electronic Health Record Program (EHR);
  • Practitioner reporting PQRS cardiovascular prevention measures; and
  • Practitioners earning the PQRS maintenance of certification incentive that began in 2013.

CMS plans to begin publicly reporting the Clinician and Group Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CG-CAHPS) data for group practices of 100 or more in early 2014. They will also be reporting CG-CAHPS data measures for practices of 25- 99 practitioners that voluntarily submit these measures for PQRS.

For diabetes mellitus and coronary artery disease group measures that include 20 or more patients, CMS will include posting data from the 2012 PQRS GPRO web interface.

CMS also expanded quality measure reporting to include calendar year 2015 performance on all measures collected through the GPRO website for all size groups participating in 2014 PQRS GPRO. There are plans to expand reporting in 2014 and 2015 to include GPRO performance reported through the registry and the electronic health record (EHR). Public reporting of certain 2014 PQRS individual measure data is planned for 2015, if technically feasible.

Practices may review quality data in advance during a confidential 30-day preview period. No formal appeal process will be available, but if an error is found, the data will be corrected prior to publication.

For more information, see Section G, Physician Compare Website of the final rule.

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Monday, 21 January 2013

Report from outside Beth Israel - Just keep on hanging there!

This is the latest report from outside Beth Israel Temple, Ann Arbor, Michigan
It's particularly interesting to me because it underlines the power of the 'lone soldier on the cross' - the immense power of the single individual who just keeps on hanging there. Nelson Mandela understood it (so much so, that they ended up  begging him to come out of jail). Ernst Zundel understood it too and, of course, Jesus Himself absolutely understood it.
And while you're at it, check out some other points of interest. Read the AIPAC text below the report and don't miss the fascinating activities of Colonel Richard Kemp.

And by the way, if you're still wondering about the ethics or otherwise of mounting vigils outside synagogues - just check where the AIPAC event is being held!
Revving up the Taxi Squad

Readers may remember our vigil report of December 15 in which we reported the upcoming Michigan AIPAC meeting* in nearby Southfield, and may be wondering why no protest was being planned. Well, as they used to say, the buck stops here, and this writer, after receiving no support from any other activist group, decided to drop the plan.

Bad decision, according to 73-year-old vigiler F, who informed all that he was planning to protest the Lobby, which is presently stealing the US government's foreign policy decisions from "We the People", by himself.

Part of the perceived problem of this particular protest lies in the physical location of this fortress, aka Shaary Zedek synagogue. Though its peaked roof is visible from a nearby expressway, the place is situated on two small, low-trafficked streets. Not an ideal location for a public protest.

Still, Vigiler F feels that this criminal theft of his government should not go unanswered, and that – as Paul Eisen puts it – even one person is a vigil. Would Jews in the 1930's permit a meeting of the German-American Bund to proceed without a protest? We think not.

So, embarrassed into revving up the taxi squad, we can report the commitment of five, dedicated and fully peace-trained protesters to travel the 40 miles to this "house of warship", and shine the light of truth – however small – on the most powerful lobbying group which has ever invaded and occupied the US Congress. Please join us: Our protest will run from 5:45 – 7:15 pm on Monday, January 28 at 27375 Bell Road, Southfield, Michigan.

Nine vigilers

We are anti-"Israel"; are you?

Henry Herskovitz

Jewish Witnesses for Peace and Friends

The 2013 Michigan Winter Event

 - text from AIPAC's invitation:

On the Battlefield: Israel's Legacy of Morality

Col. Richard Kemp

Former Commander,

British Troops in Afghanistan

Monday, January 28, 2013

6:00 pm - Leadership Reception*

*The reception is exclusively for Club Members who have generously contributed a minimum of $1,500 to AIPAC's 2013 annual campaign.

7:00 pm - Community Program & Dessert Reception

Congregation Shaarey Zedek

27375 Bell Road

Southfield, MI

To RSVP please contact

Brittany Cohen at (312) 253-8968 or

Please respond by January 21.

The event is free and open to the community.

Dietary Laws Observed.

About Colonel Richard Kemp

Colonel Richard Kemp has been actively involved in fighting terrorists around the globe for 35 years. He was Commander of all British Forces in Afghanistan with responsibility for counter insurgency operations, disarmament and reintegration programs, development and training of the Afghan national security forces, reconstruction and defense diplomacy. He set up a joint counter terrorist operation with U.S., Canadian and Afghan forces that achieved major operational success against Al Qaida terrorists in Kabul.

He spent the last five years of his three decade military career at the UK Cabinet Office in Whitehall. He was a member of the Cobra national crisis management committee and chairman of the Cobra Intelligence Group. He was an active member of the groundbreaking UK-U.S. Joint International Security Strategy Group. He headed the Joint Intelligence Committee’s international and domestic terrorism team and the Iraq politics and security team, responsible for UK national intelligence assessments. He made many fact-finding trips to Iraq, and in 2005 worked in Baghdad, Fallujah and northern Iraq on intelligence and counter terrorism for the US Ambassador.

Previously Colonel Kemp completed a total of 14 active duty tours as a military commander in Northern Ireland and in many global hotspots. Working alongside U.S. forces, he took part in the liberation of Kuwait in 1991. He commanded British troops in the United Nations Protection Force in Bosnia and was counter terrorism adviser to the Macedonian government. He was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his work on the July 2005 London bombings and in Iraq; Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for intelligence work in Northern Ireland; and was awarded the Queen’s Commendation for Bravery for his action during the Bosnia conflict.

Colonel Kemp is Special Adviser on international terrorism to the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, a commentator in the national and international print and broadcast media on defense and security, and author of “Attack State Red”, a best-selling book about the conflict in Afghanistan.

With Colonel Kemp’s years of service has come a unique understanding of the critical decisions military leaders must make during times of war including decisions of life and death, of morality, humanity and ethics. An example of this is when in 2009, Colonel Kemp carefully studied Israel’s actions in Gaza - a defensive operation following years of unrelenting Hamas rocket and mortar attacks on Israeli civilians. When he heard that former Judge Richard Goldstone was conducting an investigation into Israel’s operation on behalf of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Colonel Kemp immediately offered up his findings and valuable analysis. Judge Goldstone declined the offer. A few months later, the Human Rights Council was holding an emergency session to discuss Judge Goldstone’s findings – also known as the Goldstone Report. Given that it was an open session, Colonel Kemp was able to present his unbiased analysis. He has sought to provide objective, expert commentary and analysis on that subject as well as more widely on Israel’s security including conflict with Hizballah and the Gaza “flotilla” incident.


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QUESTION Any flowroute customers using their CNAM function?

Discussion in 'Open Discussion' started by AndyInNYC, Mar 31, 2014.

  1. AndyInNYC Active Member

    I'm using the once 'built into' PIAF. Not sure if they have better/proprietary sources or if they are just (essentially) using the same functions we are.

    So, if anyone has experience yet - it's $.0039/call - I'd appreciate hearing. The add-on price isn't bothersome, I just don't want to create any problems on the PIAF side or if it adds no value given how PIAF already pulls caller-id.

  2. atsak Guru

    The CNAM dip offered by carriers (flowroute, any of them) plug into a real database that the Telco's all participate in to update CID information (I think it's called the LIDB; can't remember). Depending on the calls you get, you may prefer OpenCNAM, which should give you very good caller ID info, or you can also look at bulkvs.com which I think is a flat rate of $1 a month or something like that.
  3. jeff.h Guru

    I have been with Flowroute for a few years now and when I started with them they did not offer CNAM delivery on inbound calls. I set everything up to use CID Superfecta with Superfecta Cache, OpenCNAM and Bulk CNAM in that order and every thing else disabled. It's been working excellent for several years now.

    That being said, I tried using Flowroute's CNAM last year when they started offering and I never had any luck with it actually passing me CNAM info, so I stopped using it.
  4. envisean New Member

    Just to be sure, we went back and tested our CNAM with Asterisk based systems and found no issues. Of course, there are a few wrenches that could fall into the works. Some third party CNAM providers pull data from non-definitive sources, which will occasionally return caller-ID name on numbers that don't have an LIDB CNAM value. And Of course, not all callers are going to have CNAM stored on their service (especially in the new world of VoIP).

    jeff.h, your issue might have been interference from other modules overwriting the CNAM value delivered in our calls, or possibly obstruction from residual left by the other services you disconnected. We've seen both of those issues. Would you mind posting your config, so I can take a look? If you'd like to contact our support team, we can help troubleshoot.
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  5. jeff.h Guru

    Thanks for the offer Sean, but my current setup is much more cost effective and working great. If I ever have the need to have you guys provide the inbound CID I'll get your support involved. I should also mention that I had tried it on a brand new fresh install of PIAF at the time and had no other third party modules installed. That all being said, it's been over a year since I last tried it and it might work now, but it would actually be more expensive for me to switch at this time.

    Other than that, the services have been outstanding.

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Sunday, April 4, 2004

Mets' Leiter hit in head by line drive
Al Leiter and the New York Mets got a scare when the left-hander was hit in the head by a line drive Saturday.

Retooled Red Sox, optimistic Orioles get started
BALTIMORE The first game of the 2004 baseball season on American soil features the debut of two managers, the unveiling of the Baltimore Orioles' overhauled lineup and the start of another quest by the Boston Red Sox to win the World Series.

Old NASCAR guard ready to shine
FORT WORTH, Texas Move over ''Young Guns,'' some of those old NASCAR drivers aren't done yet.

Voters narrowly reject funding
A proposition to provide borough funding for cocurricular school activities narrowly failed, officials announced Friday. What that means to the future of the student programs remains to be seen, though.

Peninsula servicemen glad to be back after representing country
When Roland Rea joined the Army, he thought little of the possibility of being sent to a war zone.

DAV says services available for vets
Military veterans trying to get veteran health care and other earned benefits often find themselves bogged down in the morass known as government bureaucracy, but a group conducting its state convention in Kenai can cut through some of the muck.

Opportunity comes knocking
Employers and employees got together under one roof Friday for the annual Kenai Peninsula Career and Job Fair, held at the Kenai Mall.

Helene M. Rust
Kenai resident Helene M. Rust died Thursday, April 1, 2004, at Central Peninsula General Hospital in Soldotna. She was 79.

Gladys Leonard
Gladys Leonard, mother of longtime Kenai area educator Betty Leonard, died Thursday, Feb. 12, 2004, in Lecanto, Fla. She was 94.

Schools need more money from Juneau
Now that Kenai Peninsula voters have said no to a measure which would have allowed the borough to fund school activities, the big questions are: What does it mean? and What next?

Election season in the air
Like professional golf, lost puppies and wintertime in Alaska, the political campaign season never really goes away. Instead, it simply hibernates for a few weeks each year, only to emerge more surly and stinky than the previous fall.

Ad campaign should be dropped; POMV plan should not be
Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. officials are correct to drop their plans for a $1.4 million media campaign aimed to drum up support for a change in the way the fund is managed and dividends are calculated.

Despite grisly attack, Bush says there will be no retreat from Iraq
WASHINGTON The murder and mutilation of four American contractors near Baghdad and the grinding death toll of American soldiers put a grisly face on the U.S. occupation of Iraq.

Planets make appearances this month
Even though the nights are getting considerably shorter, we'll still have a great planet show going on this month.

4-H leader recognized for hard work
A common perception of 4-H clubs is that they're all about livestock, so you must own or buy a steer, sow, goat or another animal to join.

Seward, Yale announce engagement
Melissa Seward of Mishawaka, Ind., and Robert Yale of Colombus, Ohio, were engaged Sunday, Feb. 15, 2004, and plan to be married in October in Colombus.

Best, Hunt plan April wedding
Lisa Ann Best and Lance Hunt of Soldotna plan to be married Friday, April 30, 2004, in an evening ceremony at Trinity Christian Center in Soldotna.

Nenana Ice Classic grows as ice flows out of Tanana
ANCHORAGE Tom Waters saves all year to indulge in his only hobby: guessing when ice will melt.

Fields, Cordle have November ceremony
Cristel Lee Fields and Sheath Talon Cordle of Kenai were married Saturday, Nov. 1, 2003, in an afternoon ceremony at First Baptist Church of Graham, Texas.

Holy whah! Some Yoopers fear their colorful dialect may be fading
HOUGHTON, Mich. Dan Junttila is a proud Yooper, spun from the same rich tapestry as the fathers, husbands, brothers and sons before him who came to America and forged a close-knit community around the copper and iron ore mines in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Davis, Presley marry in Soldotna
Deborah L. Davis and Sean R. Presley were married Monday, Jan. 19, 2004, in an evening ceremony at Kalifonsky Christian Center. Pastor Steve Toliver officiated.

Around the Peninsula
Dog mushing fun run, barbecue todaySoHi after-prom committee to meetPark board to discuss reduction to budgetsKPSD to display students' artworkParent organization to discuss gangsGenealogical society to meetPreschool to hold fund-raiser

My best friend
Beagles Hannah and Rudy can't resist begging for a little snack when owners Aaron and Lillian Bucholz of Kenai make toast.

For ferrets, entertainment is key
All pets require a tremendous amount of stimulation and interaction in their daily lives, and ferrets are no exception. In order to stay mentally and physically healthy, ferrets need more than just food, water, a litter pan, bedding and a bedroom. Of course, single ferrets also will need much more attention than a pair or a group of ferrets will need.

Park plagued by drugs and hookers goes to the dogs to clean up
SEATTLE (AP) A park known for open drug use and prostitution has gone to the dogs for a cleanup.

Adu makes debut
WASHINGTON Chants of ''Freddy, Freddy'' echoed throughout the stadium Saturday whenever a D.C. United player missed a scoring chance early in the second half.

Area bodybuilders earn awards at state event
A handful of residents from the central Kenai Peninsula recently made the trip to Anchorage for the 2004 National Physique Committee Alaska State Body-building, Fitness and Figure Championships and returned home with proof that the area has plenty of flex appeal.

Player, coach continue tradition of excellence for Ninilchik girls basketball
The Ninilchik Wolverines girls basketball team, which last weekend won their fifth consecutive Alaska class 2A state title, swept the individual state 1A/2A Anchorage Daily News/Alaska Media All-State awards announced Saturday.

Marbury stars as Knicks rock Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA Stephon Marbury had 20 points and 12 assists in the New York Knicks' 86-75 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Saturday night.

Sports Briefs
Ice Hawks suffer loss at NationalsMitchell retains interim IBF crownSerena Williams wins Key Biscayne finalKenseth takes lead just in time to win BuschBeard, Curl win awards in women's basketball

Blues make playoffs
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Brian Savage scored the tiebreaking goal at 2:43 of the third period, and the St. Louis Blues beat the Nashville Predators 4-1 Saturday, clinching their 25th consecutive playoff berth.

Bynum's late layup wins game for Tech
SAN ANTONIO In an NCAA tournament full of late misses, Will Bynum made the shot that kept Georgia Tech's surprising run going.

UConn comeback nixes Blue Devils
SAN ANTONIO With a stunning end to a game that looked lost, Connecticut added another twist to an already impressive season. The Huskies proved they can win the close ones, too.

Sorenstam scrambles, stays in front at Office Depot Championship
LOS ANGELES Annika Sorenstam is where she's tough to catch in front.

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Study recommends rail service between Mat-Su area and Anchorage

Posted: Monday, September 10, 2001

ANCHORAGE (AP) -- A study estimates it would cost $28.2 million to launch commuter rail service between the Mat-Su area and Anchorage.

The study, completed by Houston, Texas-based Wilbur Smith Associates, said like many commuter rails nationwide, the service would require subsidies -- more than $2 million annually during the first years of operation.

The study offers a blueprint on how to implement a commuter train linking Anchorage to the fast-growing cities of Girdwood, Eagle River, Palmer and Wasilla.

For two decades, planners and railroad leaders have looked at whether commuter rail makes sense. Thousands of people who live in the targeted cities commute to Anchorage every day for work and school, sometimes spending more than two hours behind the wheel navigating icy highways and whiteouts. Commuter trains could reduce highway traffic, pollution and driving stress.

The state-owned Alaska Railroad already has spent tens of millions of dollars straightening its tracks to shorten travel times and make train service safer.

But the question remains: Would enough people abandon their cars and take the train to justify the money it would cost to build and run the line?

The study done for the Alaska Railroad recommends running a commuter train from Anchorage to Wasilla, but says Girdwood service should wait because costly track upgrades are needed and there are few regular commuters.

It would cost $28.2 million to build five stations and buy the trains for the Wasilla service. That would jump to $70.1 million if Girdwood was added, the study said.

The Federal Transit Administration funded most of the $250,000 study, with the railroad chipping in $50,000.

Commuter trains are used throughout the country to reduce traffic, often between suburbs and downtowns. But they're not without controversy. Many have exceeded their construction budgets and, once built, need millions of dollars a year in subsidies. In other cases, ridership has grown slowly, casting doubt on whether subsidizing commuter rail is fair to the public.

Consistent schedules, competitive fares and reasonable travel times are a must to make the service successful, the study said.

It suggests service initially begin with two trains departing Wasilla at 6 a.m. and 6:45 a.m., with stops at the Glenn-Parks highway junction, Eagle River and Elmendorf Air Force Base.

The trains would arrive 66 minutes later in downtown Anchorage, where buses would shuttle passengers to hospitals, universities and other major employment centers. At 5 p.m. and 5:45 p.m., trains would depart for Wasilla.

The study estimates that in the first years fewer than 360 of the estimated 18,200 daily commuters in the Mat-Su area and Eagle River would take the train to Anchorage.

Total trips per year would range from 152,000 to 190,000, increasing to 256,000 by 2015, the study said.

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Letter to the National Anti-Vaccination League
(S619: 1905)

Editor Charles H. Smith's Note: A letter of support sent to the annual meeting of the National Anti-Vaccination League, and later printed on page 6 of the 1 April 1905 issue of The Vaccination Inquirer. To link directly to this page, connect with:

Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace sent the following:--

     I have really nothing to say, except to repeat what I said last year. Your "Appeal to the Public" is admirable, but it will not influence the right people. Nothing but the fear of an adverse vote will do that. If our supporters do not unanimously put "measures before men," and loudly declare that they will vote for no one who is not whole-heartedly against all compulsion and all Government interference or influence in support of vaccination, then the power and prestige and influence of the medical profession will beat us, as they have beaten us in making the last supposed relief of the "Conscientious Objector" an excuse for more tyrannical compulsion than before. Nothing but the use of our voting power will influence our rulers. To parody "HAMLET," we may say--"The VOTE'S the thing by which to catch the conscience of the King."

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Saturday, November 9, 2013

Best Tales of the Apocalypse, Available Now From Permuted Press

Some say the end is near. Some have been saying it for thousands of years. John of Patmos wrote about it in the Book of Revelation. Baptist preacher William Miller actually set a date for it. 1844. He was wrong. So were all those who constructed and stocked bomb shelters in preparation for Y2K. So was Marshall Applewhite. And in 2012, the human race, along with John Cusack, dreaded the end of the Mayan Long Count calendar. Nothing happened. Except we bought new calendars. And yet, with wars waging in the Middle East and economies melting down and North Korean and Iranian dictators making all sorts of threats, some are still worrying about the end of the world. And I say, “Good.”

Anyone who has ever seen The Secret should understand the concept of how negative thoughts manifest negative actions and outcomes. And almost everyone grasps the idea of mind over matter. Even if you don’t believe in all that New Age shit, simply lift your arm. Simply punch something. Your will over matter be done. In other words, if we think it, if we believe it, we can make it happen—simply with the hands we’re given. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Sure, we might not be able to control certain things. The earth will quake, rivers will flood. Supervolcanoes may darken the sky. Now, mind over matter does suggest we have some
control over these things, collectively, and I could blather on and on about interlinked electromagnetic fields, the holographic universe, and the interconnectedness of it all—but you don’t believe in that shit. So we’ll focus on the obvious thing we can control: ourselves.

Just as negative thoughts can manifest negative outcomes, positive thoughts can manifest positive actions and results. If unconditional love were everyone’s guiding value, the world could be a much brighter place (natural disasters, animal attacks, and accidents aside); our precious bodily and planetary fluids would be less spastic and more sacredly cymatic in design. If our societies, governments, and economies fostered unity instead of hierarchal competition and greed, our focus might shift toward feeding each other instead of ourselves. We might actually live up to our dogmas, to robes from filthy rags. But alas, you don’t buy into any of that pinko commie bullshit. Good for you! Even better for me.

Because the second we stop cogitating on and worrying about (and setting dates for) the apocalypse, the second the apocalyptic genre goes tits up. As an editor and creator and capitalist in that literary category, I cry out against the New-Age hippy mindset to preserve paper, human spirit, and love. I guzzle from the glass that’s half full. I empty it. And I let future generations suffer the desert left behind.

So, please, let us crack open yet another tome of the apocalypse. Let us savor the blood. Let it rain. Because the more we think about it, the more we read about it, and the more it manifests. In my bank account. In fact, as I write this, I feel the power behind it grow. I feel a movement afoot. And I feel well supped on its spoils.

D.L. Snell - Editor

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Saturday, November 2, 2013

New Acquisitions for the Month of October at Permuted Press

Permuted Press continues its tradition of partnering with talented authors to release great, unique horror titles. October, 2013 brought a flurry of activity with the following acquisitions.

SP Durnin, Keep Your Crowbar Handy Series:
Formulated in classic zombie horror style, Keep Your Crowbar Handy is a 6 book series to be published by Permuted Press. Architect of the KyCH world, SP Durnin, has done extensive rewrites and edits from the original 170,000 word epic first edition and is birthing new life into this series.

RJ Sevin, Buster Voodoo:
A washed-up janitor from Six Flags New Orleans investigates the disappearance of children in Marie Laveau’s zombie nightmare.

Vanessa A. Ryan, Horror at the Lake: A Vampire Tale:
Susan Runcan wants to clear the name of her famous archeologist grandfather Lindon Runcan, who died fifteen years earlier. Although Lindon claimed thieves stole the ancient artifacts from his last expedition in Egypt depriving the Egyptian government and his backers of the spoils, Lindon stole them himself. Susan inherits the artifacts from her uncle, including a mysterious gold medallion, as well as her grandfather's stately home in the town of Lake Masley. She comes hoping to the lake to learn the reason her grandfather risked his career for these artifacts. But instead, she finds a town gripped with fear ruled by rumors of murders.

Rhiannon Frater, Pretty When She Dies, Pretty When She Kills, and Pretty When She Destroys:
An ordinary woman is murdered by an ancient vampire and reborn as a powerful vampire necromancer. Now it is up to her to save the world.

Rhiannon Frater and Kody Boye, Midnight Spell:
Two lifelong best friends ostracized in their small town – he is gay, she is a witch –  cast a midnight love spell. They and their new love interests will have to battle a force of darkness which has killed in their town before and will kill again.

Rhiannon Frater, The Mesmerized:
A woman in Las Vegas witnesses a horrific, supernatural mass event and must team up with the few people left unaffected to save their loved ones from the new terror controlling the world.

Mason James Cole, Pray to Stay Dead:
Set in the 1970's, five friends try to survive the zombie apocalypse. Bram Stoker award winning author Jonathan Maberry calls PTSD, "a brutally entertaining collision of zombie thriller and grindhouse action."

Tony Monchinski, I Kill Monsters series:
Nine books are pending release in the I Kill Monsters series. The series begins in August, 1998. Boone is a hard-drinking, cocaine-snorting, steroid-injecting kid with a hot temper. He's a racist, and he just so happens to be a terrible shot. Boone runs with a crew that makes their living the old fashioned way. They steal for it. Robbing vampire clans of their blood and flipping it to rival blood suckers has been quite lucrative... until they rob the wrong vampire. Now the hunt is on.

Tony Monchinski, Dervish:
A group of disgraced military types are used as test subjects in a new weapons system combining alternate universes, inter-dimensionality, and time travel. Using their special forces experience, they have to survive fighting armies of the past, present and future.

Tony Monchinski, Gassers
Tony Monchinski, author of the best selling Eden series will be delivering a new action/horror work in 2014 for future release.

Brendan Deneen, The Ninth Circle:
This dark, surreal novel inspired by Dante's Inferno introduces us to teenager who runs away with a traveling circus in hopes of finding a better life after becoming enraptured by the bewitching blue eyes of Hairy Carrie, the bearded lady. Soon, he discovers that nothing is ever quite what it seems.

Craig DiLouie, The End of the Road:
As five college friends cross America in a minivan to find themselves, they chance upon a road that isn’t on any map that they can't resist exploring. When they finally find themselves, they won’t like what they find. This short story is now available at major online retailers in eBook format.

Jessica Meigs, The Becoming Series 4, 5 and 6, Under Siege, Descent and Redemption:
Jessica Meigs continues her best selling series, The Becoming, with three new works with Permuted Press. Look for these releases throughout 2014 and 2015.

Stephen A. North, Beneath the Mask:
Rumors claim the whole earth is under siege. Is it an alien invasion or terrorist attack? Tampa, Florida is quarantined and Military Police are called up for the crisis. Sergeant Alexander Cray is on a patrol that begins with a deadly encounter at an interstate truck stop and continues through a trek across a panic-stricken, lawless metropolis.

Stephen A. North, Drifter
In the year 2099, facing joblessness, a spiralling crime rate, and an unquenchable demand for offworld human labor and soldiers, Earth's rulers begin using forced transportation to other planets. Do your time and maybe you will get a second chance at life on Earth as it should be. When condemned killer Mace Christopher is sentenced to Test Group Six on the hell planet known as Bacchus III, he knows his chance of survival and his second chance at the good life just got even slimmer.

R. Thomas Riley and Roy C. Booth, Mortuary of Madness
Young William Ackerman, the last family member in a long line of controversial morticians, had to get out of the small, stagnating town he grew up in before it smothered him to death. Saddled with the recent death of his father and plagued by ugly family rumors of experimentation with reanimation, William had reached his breaking point. All William ever wanted was health, happiness, and a family in his life, but all of those dreams suddenly change when his childhood sweetheart is wrenched away by her money-hungry parents. This eerie, macabre tale of revenge follows one man's tortured descent into madness, explores the hazards and trappings associated with greed, and shows the evil that men are capable of when pushed to the limit. This novel is based off of an original screenplay by Actor Jim O'Rear.

Look for these and many others from Permuted Press at retailers throughout 2014 and beyond.

Monday, October 7, 2013

Permuted Press Acquires New Story Set in J.L. Bourne's Day By Day Armageddon Series

A new short story from JL Bourne, Grey Fox, set in the universe of his successful Day by Day Armageddon series, has been acquired for independent publisher Permuted Press by Michael L. Wilson from Marc Gerald at The Agency Group for North American English publication. Bourne says his readers will have "stumbled upon a ticket with service through the apocalyptic wastes, but this time the train is a little bit older, a little more beat up, and maybe a little wiser." Grey Fox will be available in eBook format at major online retailers on Tuesday, October 15th. For additional media inquiries, email

Monday, September 30, 2013

Permuted Press Announces New Acquisitions for the Month of September

September was a busy month at Permuted Press. In addition to a record breaking Friday the 13th sale, we've also been working on new arrangements with some fantastic authors. Here are a few bite size glimpses at what's ahead in 2014 and beyond.

Craig Saunders: The Setting Sky
"Post-apocalyptic adventure with dark skies following a meteor strike."

Elise Walters: Tentyrian Legacy
"A Story of Destiny, Love, and Vampires Centuries in the Making."

Iain McKinnon: Denying Thanatos
A new work from the author of Domain of the Dead, Remains of the Dead and September's Demise of the Living

Jack Hanson: Cry Havoc
"Science Fiction involving dinosaurs in the future with machine guns. Yes. Dinosaurs with machine guns."

Jeremy Robert Johnson: Skullcrack City
"Weird dystopian sci-fi noir with brain eating zombies"

Jonathan Moon: Hollow Mountain Dead
"The story of a cosmic evil being awoken from its centuries of slumber within a populated mountain during the late 1800’s in the American West."

Michael Gardner: Downfall (Book 1), Aftermath (Book 2) and Retribution (Book 3)
"Dejected from the loss of his girlfriend, Mathew Ryland finds himself leading a motley crew of survivors in a world where the dead stalk and consume the living. "

Steven Pajak: Mad Swine 3
"Originally, Mad Swine was planned to be a two book series, but it became clear when the book reached beta readers that they wanted more and there were enough materials and unanswered questions so this is the third."

Steven Pajak: Project Hindsight
"A sci-fi/thriller/adventure about remote viewing, government conspiracy and mysterious disappearances."

Timothy W. Long and Jonathan Moon: The Boom Generation
"At random times people are exploding in a manner that creates human bombs with bones as shrapnel when Gerald Coin escapes his office building and realizes that he is not safe with his own wife and child because anyone of them, at any time, can become a weapon."

Tom Calen: Scars of Tomorrow Series: Torrance (Book 1), The Ignota (Book 2) and Tears of the Sowilo (Book 3)
"Did Torrance, the man from the woods, in fact save humanity or did he simply deliver us from one Hell to another?"

Tonia Brown: Skin Trade 1, 2 and 3
"The skin trade is the terrible deed of trapping and skinning zombies for profit."

Bryon Morrigan: The Ancients
"The first in The Ancient City dark fantasy series."

Sean Schubert: Alaskan Undead 4: Resolution and (untitled)
"The Alaskan Undead series continues, and an entirely new series begins."

Caesar Diogenes: The Secret of the Black Crystal
"Meet Maat Winslow, a psychic paranormal investigator in New York City."

Each of these releases will be available as eBooks at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo and Smashwords. You will also find them in print immediately following their electronic release.

Friday, August 30, 2013

Permuted Press Announces New Acquisitions

We've been busy this summer at Permuted Press, and have recently inked new publishing deals with some of your favorite authors as well as a few new names. Here are some things to look forward to in 2014 and beyond.

Brian P. Easton: Autobiography of a Werewolf Hunter: The Lineage
Continuing his successful Autobiography of a Werewolf Hunter series, Brian P. Easton will bring Permuted his third book in the series.

Briar Lee Mitchell: Ghostie
Briar is new to Permuted's list of authors. Next summer, she will introduce us to a 60-foot Megalodon shark thought to be extinct that makes an appearance off the California coast with deadly consequences.

C. Dulaney: From The Ashes - Roads Less Traveled 4
C's first three books with Permuted, the Roads Less Traveled series, have consistently been among our top sellers. The ink just dried on our latest agreement with her which will bring her 4th installment to eBook and print in the future.

Derek Gunn: The HMS Swift Adventures
In Permuted Press circles, Derek Gunn is better known for his book The Estuary and the forthcoming reissue and new works in the Vampire Apocalypse series. Derek is a prolific author, and we are excited to have obtained the publishing rights to two novellas and one full length novel which collectively make up The HMS Swift Adventures. Derek describes the series as "action on the high seas with a lesser known history of the emerging world." Describing the period in which the series is set, he calls it, "a time for exploration and great discovery but it is also a time when horrors and dark forces that have lain dormant in the world begin to wake."

D.S. Sager: Evil Vein 1 and 2
In the first book of the Evil Vein series, Dark Beginnings, Hal Johnston thought he had created the perfect serum in an attempt to save his dying wife; one which could extend human life indefinitely. Instead, it went horribly wrong and de-humanized her. Hell bent on revenge against the cruelties of the world, Johnston releases the drug into the small port town of Tylerton, California with devastating results.

Gareth Wood: Black Horizon 1, 2 and 3
Gareth, author of the popular Rise series, is developing a new saga involving several astronauts who have spent hundreds of years in suspended animation on the moon. They are awakened as they fall into the Earth's atmosphere hundreds of years after going to sleep. The Earth they return to is nothing like the one which they left.

Jacqueline Druga: Sleepers 1, 2 and 3
With Healing, book #2 of her Flu series, approaching release in November, Jacqueline Druga has brought Permuted her self-published Sleepers series which will be finding new life with a set of new edits and new artwork. Additionally, it will be available in print for the first time in early 2014.

Jason S. Hornsby: Desert Bleeds Red
Jason, author of Eleven Twenty-Three and Every Sigh, The End, is approaching completion on his latest work, Desert Bleeds Red. Jason promises "demons, travels through desert wastelands, exotic locales, evil international intrigue, Biblical parables, symbolism and haunting imagery, a little sex, and lots of gruesome violence."

M.L. Katz: The Information Thieves
M.L. Katz will be a new name to Permuted readers. Even though her first books with us, the Raft People series, have not yet officially hit our press, M.L. calls The Information Thieves her personal favorite of the stories she has written. Set in the Raft People universe The Information Thieves follows a later generation of characters who explore future history.

Michael S. Gardner: The Downfall Trilogy
Great zombie novels are what built Permuted Press to what we are today, and Michael Gardner continues the tradition with three new books, Downfall, Aftermath and Retribution. In Downfall, Mathew Ryland, dejected from the loss of his girlfriend, finds himself leading a motley crew of survivors in a world where the dead stalk and consume the living.

Rob Fox: Z-Day is Here and Z-Day Is Here One Year Later
When Rob Fox isn't writing writing for the screen, currently being consumed with creating two new television pilots and two feature films, he spends his leisure time crafting zombie novels. His two Z-Day books, originally released by Library of the Living Dead, are finding new life with Permuted by seeing re-release in 2014 or 2015.

Steven Pajak: Mad Swine 3 - New Dawn
Steven's Mad Swine series was originally envisioned as two books, but readers quickly developed an insatiable appetite for more. Even though much of Mad Swine 3 still resides in the mind of Mr. Pajak, upon its manifestation to the page Permuted Press will be there to deliver it to hungry readers.

Each of these releases will be available as eBooks at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo and Smashwords. You will also find them in print immediately following their electronic release.

Thursday, August 29, 2013

A Discussion with D.L. Snell and Thom Brannan

We recently sat down with D.L. Snell and Thom Brannan, co-authors of the Pavlov's Dogs series and discussed a few topics their readers ask from time to time...

On Co-authoring:

D.L. Snell: I tend to do most of the plotting for the PAVLOV’S DOGS series, and on the first book Thom did most of the actual writing—I came in after him and revised, added, and edited, creating the second draft and streamlining our separate voices.

Thom Brannan: That was my biggest concern. In our natural voices, D.L. and I don't sound a lot alike, though we think along the same lines. Comparing writing styles, I'd say D.L. was a smart phone, whatever's newfangled now, with all the bells and whistles and fancy apps the kids are crazy about... and I'm a rotary phone. We both get the same basic job done, but his style is so pretty. But the final product, after several rounds of revision, sounds enough like the both of us that it's like a legitimate third entity. DTLBS.

DLS: For the second book, THE OMEGA DOG, we switched things up: I wrote about half the book (hell, the outline alone was half a book), and Thom contributed a ton of fantastic ideas to the plot. Just as an example…

TB: ... I'm thinking, too. Hold on. I think one of them was keeping Chan at Command, like Bonnie in the back of the Knight Rider truck, doing diagnostics (or April, depending on when you watched) and holding a gun to Kaiser's head. Oh! Ken keeps the sword!

DLS: Yes, that, and… Thom worked on an oil rig out in the Gulf and was also a submariner in the Navy. When I told him we needed to get our characters from Northern Mexico to the Yucatan, he mentioned something about always wanting to write a submarine crew. He also mentioned pirates. It was pure gold, and I set about finding a way to incorporate those elements into THE OMEGA DOG. I can’t wait to see how readers react to what we came up with.

TB: *holding an imaginary book*: “Oh, no you di'int!”

DLS: We had so much fun with this element that if we ever do a third book, there will be a lot more action out in the Gulf.

TB: Especially for those readers who saw the pirates and felt short-changed with the absolute dearth of sea-battles in THE OMEGA DOG.

On Writing a Series:

DLS: The most important thing is that PAVLOV’S DOGS ends, not on a cliffhanger, but on a note of finality. Thom and I didn’t even plan to write a second book. I mean, we’d talked about it and we’d established a very minor story thread that could spin off into new material, but… I didn’t want readers to reach the end of the first book and feel forced to continue the series, you know? I see reviewers complaining about that all the time.

TB: Definitely. It seems to me that planning a series is incredible hubris. Are you sure you have enough story? And if you do, are you sure you're going to have enough fans to sustain it? Star Wars strikes me as a great example. Write your first book, give it a definite ending. Finish that story. And if people like it, then you can leave the next one open and continue on, secure in the knowledge that you're reaching people.

DLS: As we were editing PDogs, though, I was thinking of ways to continue the story. Then it struck me. We’d left this huge narrative gap that readers won’t even notice, not until they start the second book. The gap was purposeful in that we were leaving something unsaid; but in that silence I found opportunity, and it spurred the entire sequel.

I’m really hoping it’s a twist readers will love. Already, one reader has commented on it over at Goodreads: “The book opens at the very moment where we were abandoned in PAVLOV’S DOGS… and then something awesome happens. Awe. Some. It is a complete game-changer... a really cool scene that opens up exciting possibilities.” Once Thom and I knew we were doing a sequel, we started planting seeds in the first book, which was still in editing. Little things. Seemingly inconsequential things, like that one of the characters was an Eagle Scout or that there was a pilot on the island (we now refer to him as Chekhov’s Pilot). Having both books in the works at the same time was invaluable; the sequel didn’t have to be chained down by what had happened in the first book because if we needed something, we just went back and planted it to pay off later. I can’t wait for fans of the first book to see how we pulled it all off.

TB: There was one thing we wanted to do that would have required a massive amount of change to the first novel, so that idea was abandoned. But after the dust settled and both books were written, the idea was still there between us. That's where DOG YEARS comes in. More on that later.

DLS: Thom, are you talking about the Hide?! Anyway… like the first book, THE OMEGA DOG ends on a note of finality. But you better believe Thom and I planted seeds for a possible three-quel. If the stars ever align, we have some awesome ideas that will send the series, and the entire zombie and werewolf genres, into a great leap forward.

On Writing Inventive Zombie Stories:

DLS: Writing in the zombie genre is getting increasingly difficult because so much ground has been covered by so many awesome writers and filmmakers. And something I’ve learned is that, while you have to come up with something fresh each time, you also can’t stray too far from basic zombies—sprinters or shamblers—before you start losing your core audience. In PAVLOV’S DOGS our real innovation is the werewolf. Not just the fact that we pitted the two monsters against each other—that alone was new—but we’ve done some fun stuff with our shapeshifters, and readers have really appreciated the ingenuity. As the Guilded Earlobe wrote, “PAVLOV’S DOGS is a unique story with a fascinating scientific tint…”

TB: See that? We terrify with science. Thank you, Mary Shelley.

DLS: In THE OMEGA DOG, we started to play around with the zombies a bit, and we even broached the idea of… well, it’s something I can’t tell you without giving too much away. But I will tell you that the Mayan ruins, and maybe an authentic Mayan ball game, have something to do with it. Finally in the third book, if it ever does materialize, we’re kind of hitting the reset button—kind of. We’ll get back to our roots, while adding something so freaking cool… Let’s just say I really hope it’s in the stars for you to read what we’ve got planned.

TB: I like to think there's nothing wrong with the original monsters, as well. Not everything has to be, ah, a stunning new breakthrough in horror technology.

DLS: Totally.

TB: To that end, we took a step backwards in time for the prequel novellas, DOG YEARS, both in timeline and concept. DOGS YEARS takes place starting thirty years before PAVLOV'S DOGS, and you get to see nascent versions of both these core creatures, the zombie and the werewolf. Before all the chaos from the last act of PAVLOV'S DOGS, before the accelerated madness from THE OMEGA DOG, the DOG YEARS story takes you back to a simpler time, when it was just a couple of bugs in a coffee can.

DLS's and TB's books Pavlov's Dogs and The Omega Dog are available now in eBook and paperback.

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

An Excerpt from The Omega Dog

And now an excerpt from the sequel to PAVLOV'S DOGS...

Six Days Ago

"KILL ME!" the Omega Dog shouted.

He lay defenseless at Ken Bishop's feet, lit by the halogen lamps of the sparring cage, just a shaggy torso with one arm and a head. The werewolf's lower intestines steamed in a pile below his gaping abdomen.

Usually the Dogs healed rapidly, but Ken knew Omega Kaiser wouldn't heal. He had witnessed firsthand what the infection had done to the Omega's nemesis, Alpha McLoughlin. The Alpha's golden-haired form now lay decapitated on the concrete behind them, one of many corpses littering the cageâ€”one of many littering the island.

Sick Dogs didn't heal.

Ken should have let the Alpha finish ripping Kaiser apart, should have let him rip the bastard's throat out. But Ken had liked Alpha McLoughlin, before the infection had taken him. So he had put the Alpha out of his misery, he had cut off his head with a sword. Mac would have wanted it that way.

"The messed up thing is," Ken said, still clenching the haft of the executioner's blade, "before this, I would have never met you. But seeing what you've done, I don't have to know you to know that you're a monster."

The Omega's shredded, exposed diaphragm clenched and shuddered at his attempts to draw breath.

"New world," Ken said. "Maybe we're all monsters now." He gripped the handle of the sword in both hands and raised it up.

But something stopped him from bringing it down. This Omega Dog, this pitiful beast before him, had destroyed everything the zombies hadn't. He had enslaved Ken's friends, had pitted them against each other in the sparring cage. He had even pitted Ken against his best friend, Jorge. And for what? For sport?

So even though it had been Alpha McLoughlin who had bitten and infected Ken's girlfriend, Kelly, even though it had been Kelly's germs that had spread across the island like locusts setting upon a cash crop, Ken blamed the Omega Dog for every-thing.

All these stilled corpses, Dog and human alike... Kaiser did not deserve to join them. He deserved to wallow in their shit and gore.

Ken lowered the sword.

"Night," he said. And then he walked out of the sparring cage and latched the gate behind him as Kaiser tried to howl, managing only a wheeze.

* * *

Omega Kaiser lay there for some time after Ken left him in the sparring cage. He stared up at the night sky beyond the halogen lights, up at the uncaring moon. He listened to Ken shouting, echoing, searching. And he felt himself slipping away into deep space.

Lights flashed behind the Omega's eyes, leaving impressions of memories, like sunspots on his retinas caused by radiation from that old Egyptian mirror, the moon.

He saw his Master, Dr. Crispin. Saw him clutching a gaping wound in his throat. Kaiser gulped, tasting the ghost of his Master's blood.

Before his very eyes, the man in the moon transformed, became the gray outlines of Alpha McLoughlin. Infected and unable to heal, the Alpha started healing anyway. Healing, as he was wolfing down chunks he had ripped from Kaiser's body. Chunks like the Omega's leg, and his entire lower half.

Kaiser forced his head up off the concrete. Past his own still chest and everything missing below it, everything spinning and wobbly like the earth, he made out the Alpha Dog's headless corpse, its gory, matted, golden fur.

So that wound hadn't healed. But everything else, thanks to fresh meat...

"Jorge!" Ken shouted, somewhere else on the island. Ears twitching, Kaiser snorted at the sound. The familiar voice helped him reorient himself. The boiling anger helped him find himself.

After all he had done and destroyed, the Omega Dog wanted only to die. But he couldn't now, not like this; he was infected. And more than that, he wanted Ken's head on a plate. Wanted to scoop the brains out with his claws and savor each slippery piece.

Should have killed me, the Omega Dog thought.

He wished there was a way he could die and get revenge simultaneously. It would be almost honorable. Atonement for contributing to the horrible downfall of the best man he had ever known, Alpha McLoughlin.

With his one arm, Kaiser pushed himself over so that he could crawl. The movement dizzied him again, and he lay there for some time, staring at the dust covering the concrete. Then he dragged himself forward, hearing his lower entrails dragging be-hind.

The first corpse Kaiser came upon reeked of something far fouler than death and voided bowels. And it very obviously had hemorrhaged from every orifice and pore.

Infected, he thought, and kept crawling, kept sniffing for something fresh. Some human who had died before being spoiled, or some savory bit tossed aside. But his sense of smell had dulled. He practically had to bury his nose in the piles of gore to make a determination.

The sixth dead man Kaiser came upon lay atop yet another dead man. He saw the blood on the topmost one and figured that he, too, had hemorrhaged. Kaiser sniffed him anyway.

He caught a whiff of something different.

Something stronger, richer.

The Omega Dog pushed the top body off and suddenly the bottom one opened its eyes. The man's pupils focused on Kaiser, and he whimpered, tried to spring up from his hiding place, tried to scream.

But the Omega Dog was faster.

He pinned the man's head to the concrete with his one black-taloned claw and shot forward, snapping his fangs shut on the survivor's throat. Hot blood pumped and pulsed as if Kaiser held a still-beating heart between his jaws.

Skin and muscle and esophagus and veins stretched and tore as the Omega Dog pulled back. And for the briefest second, the man's scream, now just air whistling out of his ruined neck, stirred the Dog's dark fur.

Kaiser gulped down the meat, mostly unchewed, and then shuddered as his body quickly processed it. Because of enzymes, because of catalysts, and because of a mutant thyroid and probiotics, the Omega Dog's metabolism worked incredibly fast.

Almost as fast was the regenerative process. The stump of Kaiser's missing arm began to grow a new length of bone almost immediately. From marrow to spongy bone to compact bone, and all the blood and lymphatic vessels running throughout, his humerus began to take shape out of nothing.

Magic, Dr. Crispin had once called it. Indistinguishable, anyway.

The Omega's sole regret was that he had been nourished by the blood of a coward.

"Jorge!" Ken yelled again, this time from a different part of the island.

Muscles, ligaments, and tendons latched on to the Dog's new growth of bone, and soon the smooth subchondral tissue of his elbow formed, and then the cartilage. Fat and skin accreted as well, but, layer by layer, the whole miracle was slowing down. And then the new growth started to stink and fill with pus.

No, no, no, Kaiser thought.

His victim had relaxed and had grown still beneath his paw. The coward's gaping windpipe had stopped its wet whis-tling.

The Omega Dog knew there was an essence to life, something fleeting. Something that stayed with a dead body only for so long before the cells powered down, leaving nothing but microorganisms and acids and decay.

He tore off another piece of the man's throat before it was too late and quickly gulped it down, shuddering again as his injured arm struggled to heal and grow around the infection.

It would work, but he still had his whole lower body to re-generate, all those complicated organs, his powerful legs. He was surprised he could digest at all, what with the lower third of his gastrointestinal tract exposed and leaking sludge.

Kaiser lifted his head, but barely registered that Ken was now calling out a different name. All he knew was he didn't have much time before Ken Bishop was sailing away from the island and out of his clutches.

He needed legs.

Kaiser found his eyes wandering back to Alpha McLoughlin's corpse. Missing head, but the rest of him...

The Omega Dog grabbed one last bite from his prey and left the rest for later, crawling toward the remains of the Dog who had once been his superior, his general, his Alpha.

The Dogs had been trained to fight as one. Kaiser decided to force the issue.


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Cherub in the Kitchen | Cherry Salsa

Whole Foods recently ran a contest for kid-friendly cherry recipes and honestly I can’t think of a better time for them to have done this.  This house has been overrun with cherries.  And Cherub’s always wanting to help in the kitchen.

Here’s a no-cook cherry salsa that we came up with together, that uses seasonal raspberries and tomatoes, too.  Her favorite task was to pit the cherries: smashing them lightly with a glass and removing the pit.  It was roll-y, juicy, slightly messy fun.  I recommend an apron for this part.

As for the final product, it was, in a word, devoured.  I love that she gets an extra boost of fiber along with a good amount of vitamin C.  She loves to scoop big, delicious mounds into her mouth.   Everybody’s happy.

While this recipe is super kid friendly, don’t let it stop you from serving it next time you’ve got a bar-b-q or a casual family get together.  It’s wonderful.  No chilies means it’s not too spicy and the hint of cumin lends it just a bit of sophistication.  And we all love that.

Firecracker Cherry Salsa, Serves 4

1/2 c. sweet red cherries, pitted and quartered

1/2 c. red raspberries, quartered if large

1/2 c. minced tomato, or perhaps some grape tomatoes, quartered would be fun, too

Green tops from two green onions, thinly sliced

Juice from 1/2 a lime

1 t. olive oil

1/2 t. cumin

1/4 t. salt

1/8 t. or 15 twists from a pepper mill

Combine all ingredients in a bowl.  Serve with pita or tortilla chips.

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2 Comments to “Cherub in the Kitchen | Cherry Salsa”

  1. I am so happy that I found a pound of cherries hiding in the back of the fridge because this is exactly what I want to eat. Thank you!

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Police have released the identities of three men killed in shootings in North and South Philadelphia that also wounded a fourth person.

Investigators say 46-year-old Michael Butler and 39-year-old Robert Alvin were shot to death shortly after midnight a few blocks from Temple University. Both were pronounced dead at the scene just after 12:30 a.m. Saturday.

In South Philadelphia, police say, 25-year-old Adolf Bradford of Edgewater Park, N.J., was shot and killed just before 4 a.m. Saturday. Another man in his 20s was shot in the throat and taken to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.

Police said Sunday that no arrests have been made in either case.

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