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Die Hard 2
Die Hard with a Vengeance
Live Free or Die Hard
A Good Day to Die Hard
Genre Action Thriller Action Thriller Action Adventure Thriller Action Thriller Action Thriller
Distributor 20th Century Fox Film Corporation 20th Century Fox Film Corporation 20th Century Fox Film Corporation 20th Century Fox Film Corporation 20th Century Fox Film Corporation
Release Date Jul 15, 1988 Jul 6, 1990 May 19, 1995 Jun 27, 2007 Feb 14, 2013
Domestic Gross $83,008,852 $117,540,947 $100,012,499 $134,529,403 $67,349,198
Production Budget $28,000,000 $70,000,000 $90,000,000 $110,000,000 $92,000,000
Running Time 2 hr 12 min 2 hr 4 min 2 hr 8 min 2 hr 8 min 1 hr 38 min
MPAA Rating Rated R for strong violence and pervasive strong language Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, language and a brief sexual situation Rated R for violence and language
Domestic Summary
Total Gross $83,008,852 $117,540,947 $100,012,499 $134,529,403 $67,349,198
Opening Weekend $601,851 $21,744,661 $22,162,245 $33,369,559 $24,834,845
Opening % of Total 0.7% 18.5% 22.2% 24.8% 36.9%
Widest Release 1,713 2,507 2,579 3,411 3,555
Close Date Nov 8, 2007 May 23, 2013
In Release 175 days / 25 weeks 179 days / 25 weeks 227 days / 32 weeks 191 days / 27 weeks 321 days / 45 weeks
Weekends at #1 0 2 1 0 1
Weekends in Top 10 11 6 6 5 3
Worldwide Summary
Worldwide Gross $83,008,852 $117,540,947 $100,012,499 $388,156,011 $304,654,182
Foreign Gross – – – $253,626,608 $237,304,984
Foreign % of Worldwide 0% 0% 0% 65.3% 77.9%
Domestic % of Worldwide 100% 100% 100% 34.7% 22.1%

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Honor Oak Park Station Forecourt
theplanner
Anyone else think that the pavement in front of HOP station is dismally narrow? It's quite hard to negotiate people entering and leaving the station plus the smokers out the front when you've got a buggy.
I had a thought and wondered where to raise it, so I thought I'd put it out to SE23.......Perhaps the road could be reduced to one lane with a parking bay or two between the station and zebra crossing for pick up and drop off, enabling a nice big forecourt. Even better how about pedestrianising the whole station side of the road bridge, after all there are two lanes on the other side?
kipya
This is a seriously good idea. The twin lanes over the bridges are clearly not needed since either side of the bridges the traffic is squeezed into one lane or less (going up Honor Oak Park is often half a lane each way). The traffic problems on Honor Oak Park are due to parking up the hill and again down by the traffic lights. The two bridges do not ease the problem in any way.
A pick up point would be very civilised instead of the current practice which requires people to park on the pointless double yellow lines (except that, ironically, they provide a pick up point)
The raised 'kerb' is anti-pedestrian in practice, and your point about people with buggies or luggage having to negotiate the narrow space is correct. I cannot understand why station users should have to be so inconvenienced in order to provide a superfluous second traffic lane.
Pedestrianising the space outside the station would be excellent.
I went and had a look at the space after reading the posting by theplanner and the only problem I could see was the siting of the bus stop on the other bridge, which would stop the traffic if it was the only bridge used.
I think there is plenty to commend the idea, and not squeezing pedestrians would seem to be a reasonable starting point. THis might be worth raising with other very local groups like HOPRA or HENBO.
ruthb
what an excellent idea - I am often walking past the station on way back from the rec with buggy and it's always a squeeze. That pavement in the middle of the road seems like a terrible waste of space too.
I'm no expert but it does seem like a good point to raise...
mljay
I often walk by with a buggy and though sometime I have to wait for a couple of seconds to get by I hardly think the congestion outside the station requires the proposed changes.
Surely there are better things to spend scarce resources on than a few seconds (or even a minutes) delay going past a station.
mrcee
Whilst I agree that in the current climate we need to allocate spend appropriately, I also think that maybe if potential revenue generation was submitted with this proposal it may have a better chance.
By increasing the forecourt we would be able to have a mini sunday market with a few stalls like the deli to get a small (never ending ;-) ) return on the initial costs.
oh dear mljay, that's a bit of a dismissive response! The idea was a positive suggestion about improving the environment, improving pedestrian safety, potentially allowing space for traders like the recent excellent deli-in-a-tent and improving the pick up and drop off arrangements. Also it could be done very cheaply by just adding some paving and re-routing the traffic around the other side of the bridge.
I don't want to pour too much cold water on this idea but, from Google Earth, it looks like the roadway on the uphill side is not much more than 6 meters wide. That wouldn't be enough for two buses to pass. I think it's clear from the Google Earth view that there are two separate bridges with a gap between them, so it's not just a question of rearranging the island. The rest of the road is wider than this and although parked cars narrow it there are now frequent gaps between the cars (as a result of yellow lines) which enable vehicles to pass. I'd think the uphill bridge is too long to rely on vehicles giving way before they enter the restriction.
Reducing the downhill bridge to a single lane would allow the footway to be widened but that's not likely to happen soon after the fairly recent works to put in the protective kerbs. BTW, I believe the kerbs are there to prevent vehicles ending up on the railway track rather than to discourage pedestrians!
Presumably the bridge on the station side was the original one and the other bridge was added more recently to get rid of a bottleneck. Anybody know when? I'd guess '60's since a pedestrian subway, now filled in, was incorporated, and such things were popular back then.
apologies for sounding dismissive.
It would be expensive, but an alternative proposal would be to set the railway station further back building over the railway lines.
Sherwood - Are you suggesting that the station should be rebuilt on a new bridge further north so that the pavement could be made wider to ease life for people with buggies? I'd guess that people with buggies would probably prefer to see the money spent on raising the platform or lowering the track so that they could actually get on trains - or am I missing something?
I'm with andrewr - or putting in lifts to access the platform.
Why does the station side of the road need two lanes of traffic which double yellow lines, when there is only a single lane both before and after the bridge?
By reducing this road to a single lane of traffic, a slightly wider pavement could be installed outside the station. Not enough for market stalls, but a little wider for pedestrians on a narrow bit of pavement outside an increasingly busy station.
Widening a pavement is not a horribly expensive change if it is considered a useful change.
Or they could build ramps.
lacb
As I have also mentioned in another thread, I second the motion for ramps. These are part built already anyway and would IMO be better and cheaper than lifts. In fact the effort spent on putting in temporary stair access is probably comparable.
The idea of widening the pavement is also good, especially if it allowed space for pick up and drop down. Cars currently wait in crazy places (on junctions, zebra crossings) to meet people arriving at the station. A decent architect could probably devise something with the space available.
A general observation: we are paying, year on year, above inflation fare increases purportedly to pay for investment in infrastructure. I do not think it is constructive to shoot down ideas on the basis of imagined cost when they are being discussed on a forum.
To AndrewR: I wholeheartedly support your initiative to make it easier to get on or off the trains. The problem as I see it is actually to do with the camber of the track as it curves. I suspect it will be expensive to address, but as I mention above that is no reason not to push the idea.
apparently lifts coming sometime in the next two years to HOP station.....now I just need some official support for my wider forecourt plans!!
Tezzyd
If you only had one lane, there would be nowhere to park the vehicles that are delivering the lift components or any other station improvments, and if a lorry or bus breaks down there it would be a total road block.
Also wouldn't it be contradictive to widen the pavement for better access then put a market there to clogg it up again.
I'm not having a dig this is just my thoughts.
I think you would need to build a new railway station suspended over the railway lines set back from the road.
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Q: Can someone explain the meaning of ((.)$(.)) (==) 1 (1+) 0 On haskell.org I came across this point free style function, dubbed "the owl".
((.)$(.))

Its type signature is
  (a -> b -> c) -> a -> (a1 -> b) -> a1 -> c.
It's equivalent to
    f a b c d = a b (c d)
and apparently,
    ((.)$(.)) (==) 1 (1+) 0
returns True.
So my questions are:

*

*What does the a1 in the type signature mean? Is it related to a?

*Is (==) some kind of function equality operator? Because 0 (==) 0 throws an error in GHCi.

*What does 1 (1+) 0 mean in this context? I don't see how this is even a valid expression.

*Why does the expression return True?

A: *

*The a1 is "just another type variable". It could mean anything, including a, but doesn't necessarily mean anything. Most likely it is different from a.

*(==) is the "forced prefix" form of == the regular equality operator form the Eq type class. Normally you'd write a == b, but that's just syntax sugar for (==) a b, the prefix application of ==.

*1 (1+) 0 doesn't mean anything in particular in this context, each of the three subexpressions is an independent argument to "the owl", which ultimately takes four arguments.

*We can walk through the reduction.
((.)$(.)) (==) 1 (1+) 0
===                          [ apply ]
((.)(.)) (==) 1 (1+) 0
===                          [ implicit association ]
((.)(.)(==)) 1 (1+) 0
===                          [ apply the definition: (f.g) x = f (g x) ]
((.) (1 ==)) (1+) 0
===                          [ implicit association ]
((.) (1 ==) (1+))  0
===                          [ apply the definition: (f.g) x = f (g x) ]
1 == (1+0)
===                          [addition]
1 == 1
===                          [equality]
True

As this page mentions, the owl is equivalent to a function f
f a b c d = a b (c d)

which is to say it applies its first argument, a function of two arguments, to its second argument and the result of applying its third argument to its fourth. For the example given ((.)$(.)) (==) 1 (1+) 0 that means you first apply (+1) to 0, then combine the 1 and the (1+0) using (==) which is what happened in our reduction.
More broadly, you might think of it as a function which modifies a binary operation a to take a slight variation on its second argument.

A: First, let's write _B f g x = f (g x) = (f . g) x.
Since f $ x = f x, we have (.)$(.) = _B $ _B = _B _B. Its type is derived mechanically, as
0. (.) :: (    b      ->             c             ) -> ((a -> b) -> (a -> c))

1. (.) ::  (b1 -> c1) -> ((a1 -> b1) -> (a1 -> c1))

2. (.) (.) :: {b ~ b1 -> c1, c ~ (a1 -> b1) -> (a1 -> c1)} (a -> b) -> (a -> c)

           :: (a -> b1 -> c1) -> a -> (a1 -> b1) -> (a1 -> c1)
           :: (a -> b  -> c ) -> a -> (a1 -> b ) ->  a1 -> c

a and a1 are two distinct type variables, just like b and b1. But since there's no b or c in the final type, we can rename b1 and c1 back to just b and c, to simplify. But not a1.
We can read this type, actually: it get f :: a -> b -> c a binary function; x :: a an argument value, g :: a1 -> b a unary function, and another value y :: a1, and combines them in the only possible way so that the types fit:
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Beyond bling - whither fine wine?
6 July We're republishing this free today as part of our Throwback Thursday series.
4 July To celebrate Independence Day, we invite a well-placed American in France to contribute to JancisRobinson.com. At the recent Fine Minds 4 Fine Wines think tank I described on Saturday, I was most impressed by the contribution of Christian Holthausen (pictured below) and asked him to write this article based on it and his view of the likely evolution of fine wine in his capacity as Directeur Export et Communication Internationale for Champagne AR Lenoble . Since then I see that he, like our very own Julia and Richard, photographer and friend Jon Wyand and guest contributor Simon Reilly, features on the shortlist for this year's Louis Roederer International Wine Writers Awards 2017, in Christian's case in the emerging wine writer category.
The panel discussion in which I was asked to participate at the Rolets' magnificent Chêne Bleu estate recently was entitled 'Beyond Bling' [our picture shows a gold-plated Brompton bicycle - JR], a particularly salient topic at the moment as the fine wine industry continues to seek ways to transform itself in the post-2008 era. Interest in wine may appear to have become a global phenomenon but some wineries are faring better than others. The most successful producers are those who have sought to reinvent themselves, some taking cues from the luxury market, others looking towards other industries for inspiration. The future of fine wine leaves little room for navel-gazing.
Conspicuous consumption may have gone out of style in many parts of the world over the last decade, but the luxury market is still a powerful force. LVMH, the world's leading luxury goods company, achieved sales of €37.6 billion in 2016, up 5% in a year defined by much political and economic uncertainty. The United States Commerce Department reported in January that total US consumer spending increased 3.8% in 2016 after a 3.5% rise in 2015. The Bain Report, the Worldwide Luxury Market Monitor, recently estimated a global personal luxury goods market of between €254 and €259 billion in 2017.
Consumers are spending – and they're spending money on fine wine. But consumer behaviour has changed. Like it or not, each of us is now a card-carrying member of a global world defined by interdependence and technology – and resistance is futile. For those of selling fine wine, adapt or suffer the consequences is the mantra of the day.
But which concepts actually define where we are at this moment in time – and what do we have to contend with in the years to come?
One of the most talked-about changes in modern consumer behaviour has been the desire for transparency, something I believe is actually a paradox. Across nearly every aspect of our lives, there's a burning need for transparency, for 'real-ness', for authenticity, for needing to know every single ingredient, every single step in the process. Yet we're simultaneously having a harder time than ever distinguishing truth from fiction, reality from construct, in this era of 'fake news'. It's well documented that suspension of disbelief is an important factor in the success of any circus sideshow act, something to remember when each of us has a custom news feed that supports our respective fundamental world views.
This is one of the reasons why people must understand that there is a continued need to interact with qualified experts in each field. We might want to see things with our own eyes, but it's always a good idea to have a teacher there to help you understand and interpret what you see. When it comes to wine, true transparency has to be witnessed at the source.
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Oenotourism is expected to increase in the future. Many parts of Europe need to catch up with their counterparts in California and Australia quickly. If you're a winery, you need to know that consumers are coming – and they'll want to taste your wines and learn everything about them. In addition, they're going to want to buy them directly from you, either on the spot or when they get back home. For some wineries, that will mean re-defining the route to market.
Will wine labels of the future be required to list every single ingredient along with every single part of the production process? It's looking more and more likely. The continued interest in the natural wine movement has certainly been a contributing force but not everyone understands how to interpret what is real and what is not. (Just look at the number of consumers who claim to be allergic to sulphites.) An investment in education will continue to be a vital part of the future of fine wine.
Consumers today think they are experts in nearly every single field. They take a couple of wine classes and say they're studying to be a sommelier. Just look at any thread on TripAdvisor or Yelp and you'll find someone who starts off a post with 'My husband and I are such foodies' or a person who says 'My girlfriend and I know all the Michelin-starred restaurants in France' (Michelin frequently being mis-spelt, a telltale sign of the amateurism that accompanies many 'trusted reviews') before launching into a tirade about everything that's wrong with the place they just visited on the other side of the world.
Nearly every person hopes to be perceived as an expert in almost every single category (food, wine, restaurants, hotels, fashion, art, real estate, etc) and the culture of social media promotes external processing and documentation. We're all writers, photographers, curators, content-developers, political experts and philosophers now.
'I know what I want and I want it to be a reflection of me' is a popular refrain.
Within the last decade, the retail world has been disrupted by custom retailers of all types and now everyone wants to be a designer. Even French high-fashion luxury goods manufacturer Hermès proposes that you pop into one of their boutiques and update your vintage scarves by dropping them into washing machines and dip-dying. Suddenly you can tell your friends you've designed your own Hermès scarf – and you love to recycle too!
But winemaking is not dip-dying. Genuine expertise is required.
At VINIV, you create your own wines under the supervision of one of the members of the team of winemaking consultants composed of Nicolas Labenne of Lynch Bages, Daniel Llose (chief winemaker with 41 vintages of Lynch Bages under his belt) and celebrated oenologist Eric Boissenot . The price ranges from €12,500 to €25,000 per barrel and you can design your own label.
Signs of consumption have now become so coded, it's no longer about the nouveau riche trying to appear wealthy as it was during the first part of this century. It's about the rich trying to appear 'just like everybody else' while simultaneously displaying coded signs for the benefit of their aspirational peer group. A lot of these codes are immersed in notions of self-care, health and altruism.
I recently spoke with a very wealthy woman in New York who asks her nanny to change into a white organic cotton ensemble (provided by the nanny's employer and washed nightly by the employer's housekeeper, no doubt in organic washing powder) as soon as she arrives for work in the morning. Her official reason is that she doesn't want her baby's skin to touch non-organic fabric but it's also an easy way to explain why your nanny wears a uniform.
Lindy West's recent piece for The Guardian about her day at Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop Festival in Los Angeles was fascinating. West concludes that many of the current range of popular consumer goods claiming to promote self-care ultimately serve to rationalise self-entitlement. One particularly interesting passage chronicles a group of Hollywood heavyweights delivering a 'bounty of platitudes about ambition, female friendship, self-care, their mothers and sticking to one's practice' while deliberately playing down the realities of wealth and the household staff that enable them to live well.
It's not cool to look like you're trying too hard – and formality continues to slip away.
Paris' famous Hôtel de Crillon reopens this week after a long renovation and Marc Raffray, the hotel's managing director, told The New York Times, 'We want to be humble, approachable and non-intimidating. Instead of having an air of formality, our staff will greet everyone with warmth like friends.' Rooms at the hotel start at €1,200 per night.
These new aspects of consumer behaviour have most certainly affected the ways we eat and drink.
Around the world, young waiters talk about foraging for obscure ingredients and everyone at the table stares blankly and nods, unwilling to admit that nobody has a clue about the difference between brining in sycamore sap or hickory sap. The most difficult table to get in town is often run by someone who looks as though he could have played with The Red Hot Chili Peppers. But you'll gladly wait three months for a table just to tell everyone who couldn't get in that it was one of the best meals of your life – and you have the photos to prove it.
In many wine circles, you're now expected to know just as much about Pét' Nat and Romorantin as you are about Chablis and Pauillac. Sommeliers are looking for obscure or lesser-known varieties, regions and production methods. Not all of this is bad of course. Many wonderful places like the Jura in France, Etna in Sicily and Kakheti in Georgia are finally getting some of the attention they deserve.
But in the larger scheme of things, marketing gimmicks are not going to last for much longer.
Generation z – should we be worried?
One of my biggest frustrations about current mainstream market research is that we keep lumping huge groups of diverse people into a dumpster category known as Millenials without stopping to wonder how each of the next generations is going to be different from one other. Since everyone is so concerned with the here and now, perhaps more than at any other point in human history, we're not looking far enough down the road ahead.
Let's assume for the sake of argument that Generation X refers to those born between 1960 and 1979 and that Generation Y refers to those born between 1980 and 1999. Then Generation Z would cover those born between 2000 and 2019. Those of us in the wine business don't spend nearly enough time thinking about them.
The world is already spinning too fast for Generation Z. All studies indicate that children today feel increased pressure to perform and are putting even more expectations onto themselves. Anxiety and depression are at an all-time high. Navigating the actual physical world is very difficult for them as it's been so difficult for them to distinguish between actual reality and the projection of a constructed reality since the moment they were born.
If Generation Y is often described as the Generation of Disruption, isn't there a chance that Generation Z (not to mention Generation Alpha, arriving soon as of 2020) is going to crave structure and order in the future more than ever? Millions of teenagers already seem to be yearning for something more autocratic. What happens once the next levels of artificial intelligence, virtual reality, big data and genetics research emerge as active forces in their lives?
At the moment, consumers are more aware than ever. That awareness puts a great responsibility on all of us, including those of us in the fine wine community, to build bridges, especially as we might need to stand together in the not-so-distant future. In addition, those of us who are wine producers are part of the greater agricultural community. We need to stop thinking of ourselves selfishly and collaborate more closely together. The false dichotomies (English sparkling wine v Champagne, natural v conventional, etc, etc) and sectarianism have to stop.
We must cultivate alliances between like-minded producers who care about sustainability, who worry about climate change, who champion human rights, regardless of where they are located in the world. This is the ultimate vision for which the fine wine community needs to strive moving forward.


BONTOC, Mountain Province – The constituents of this capital town are satisfied of the programs and services of the Bontoc Local Government Unit (LGU).
This was reflected in the survey conducted by the Research Section of the Mountain Province State Polytechnic College (MPSPC) under the 2018 Citizen Satisfaction Index System (CSIS) of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG).
Prior to this, the DILG, as the funding agency for the implementation of CSIS, inked a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the MPSPC for the latter to conduct data gathering, analysis and report preparation being an accredited institution in conducting research studies. In Mountain Province, the Bontoc LGU is the pilot study of the project being a national awardee of the Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG) last year.
With this, some random 150 respondents consisting of 75 males and 75 females age 18 years old and above were asked face -to – face questions on their awareness, availment and satisfaction of the programs and services of the municipal government.
Dr. Annie Grail Ekid, the CSIS Project Manager from MPSPC presented to the municipal officials and municipal department heads the survey results. The services rendered by the Bontoc LGU are categorized into Health, Support to Education, Social Welfare, Governance and Response, Environmental Management, Public Works and Infrastructure, and Economic and Investment Promotion.
Based on the Citizen Satisfaction Report, the respondents are generally satisfied with the above stated services with the Health Services that gained the highest level of satisfaction. Thus, the MPSPC – Research Section recommended for the sustainability of the various services and programs bring rendered by the Bontoc LGU.
Thus, part of the activity during the Utilization Conference for the Presentation of Results on October 25, 2018 is the Formulation of the Citizen – driven Priority Action Plan (CPAP) of the Bontoc LGU. This is to identify the interventions needed in order for the municipal government to address the programs and services that needs improvement, and provide solutions to issues and concerns raised by the respondents.
In his message, Bontoc Mayor Franklin Odsey thanked the DILG and MPSPC for their collaborative partnership in getting the pulse of the constituents of Bontoc on how government programs and services are delivered.
Odsey acknowledged that with the CSIS implementation, the Bontoc LGU will be informed of its performance as perceived by the respondents in the grassroots level.
He added that with the results drawn from the survey, the strengths, weaknesses or lapses of the municipal government are identified and will serve as avenue for improvement.
Odsey likewise urged the municipal officials and employees to continuously improve the delivery of public service.
"Let us be the bridge of our programs and satisfy our constituents," the mayor remarked.
Meanwhile, MPSPC President Rexton Chakas thanked the DILG for its trust and confidence to the college in partnering with them for the CSIS implementation that came into fruition.


HAMPTON HOMESSupporting the Local Community.
Hampton Homes are committed to supporting local and regional sporting excellence . We fully recognise the role sport can play in improving lives and bringing communities together. We are proud and excited to be sponsoring Great Britains' U16 Tennis Number 1, Felix Gill - he really is one to watch!
Local boy Felix has represented Great Britain in the 16U European Winter and Summer Cup, this resulted in him reaching the finals of the Junior Davis Cup in Budapest in September . Felix led the GB team as Number 1 and they finished 8th in the world! Felix regularly competes in both national and international tournaments and is under the LTA National Age Group Programme. He trains daily at David Lloyd, Coventry under the guidance of Leading Performance Tennis Coach, Gary Naughton.


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Smoldering Suspense, When Hearts and Lives are On the Line
Love and Protect
November 11, 2015 by Lori Ryan
Part of the The Heroes of Evers, TX Series series:
Promise and Protect
Serve and Protect
Honor and Protect
Desire and Protect
Cherish and Protect
Treasure and Protect
She was safe. The baby was safe.
The words echoed in Laura Kensington's head again and again. Patrick was dead. She was safe. The baby was safe. It was a mantra, and one she couldn't let go of as she crossed the country on the run.
Still, some part of her knew it wasn't true. If she was safe, why was she standing on a Texas ranch with barely a penny to her name asking a stranger to take her in? Because her husband's family was as dangerous to her now that he was dead as he'd been to her when he was alive.
Laura took a giant step back and sucked in a breath when Cade Bishop answered the door. The tingly feeling of arousal at the sight of the Texas cowboy was as unexpected as it was unwelcome. And it was proof she'd made another monumental blunder in a long string of mistakes. She couldn't do this. Couldn't stay and risk everything. Her baby, her safety, her heart.
Cade Bishop needed to throttle back his response to the woman seeking shelter from him. One look at her and his skin felt too damned tight and he was sure his heart would slam its way out of his chest. She needed his protection, not his lust. Keeping her safe from her past meant keeping a handle on his feelings at all costs, and he was sure as hell going to make sure he did both.
But when her past catches up to her, they'll both have to go on the run if he's going to keep his vow and save her from the dangers they anticipated--and from those they never saw coming.
Love and Protect is the first book in the Heroes of Evers, TX romantic suspense series. It is a standalone book that can be read in any order within the series.
"[J]ust when you wonder if you wasted eight pages of worry, the author launches the first of a stunning series of curve balls, and the game changes again. Well played, Lori Ryan. Well played." USA Today
contemporary romance, romantic mystery, romantic suspense
Laura's hands shook so hard, she had to fold them in her lap and grip one over the other to hold them still. Years of holding a well-honed mask in place were all that kept the façade in place.
"Tried to revive…." Her voice trailed off as the implication of what the man had said began to seep through the confusion in her head. They weren't here because Patrick had done something illegal. They weren't here to ask about her husband's actions or search the house or question her.
"I'm sorry, Mrs. Kensington, but your husband didn't make it."
The breath whooshed out of Laura's body in one swift motion, but no new breath seemed to want to fill her lungs. The shaking in her hands only increased and she felt lightheaded.
She sucked in a breath and tried to steady herself. "Patrick?" She couldn't finish the thought. Patrick is dead. The tears that welled in her eyes weren't tears of anguish or sorrow, or anything else that a wife should feel for her husband.
They were tears of sheer and utter relief. After three years of terror, of never knowing what would happen to her, of walking on eggshells—after a month of planning her escape from the monster she'd married—he was gone. Laura tried to choke back a sob but it came out in a rough moan, wracking her body as relief and shock tore through her.
It's over. Could it really be this simple?
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Mr. James L. Winter is a Principal with the Winter Organization, a family-owned real estate investment, development and management firm, whose portfolio includes commercial, residential, retail and industrial real estate located primarily in New York City and its suburbs. He holds a bachelor's degree from The Johns Hopkins University and a master's in business administration from Columbia University.
Mr. Winter was previously a Vice President in the Real Estate Finance Department of Chase Manhattan Bank and subsequently president of a residential building company. He currently serves as a Trustee of The Johns Hopkins University, a Director of the Metropolitan Parking Association of New York and as a member of the Real Estate Committee of the White Plains Hospital.


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Abstract: Understanding the impact of central government grants on decentralized health care provision is of crucial importance for the design of grant systems, yet empirical evidence on the prevalence of flypaper effects in this domain is rare. We study the decentralization of home care in the Netherlands and exploit the gradual introduction of formula-based equalization to identify the effect of exogenous changes in an unconditional block grant on local expenditure and utilization. A one euro increase in central government grants raises local expenditure by fifty cents, while adjustments occur through the number of hours as well as through substitution between basic and more advanced types of assistance. These findings suggest that conditioning of grants is not required for the central government to retain some control over the decentralized provision of care.