#halabi press release

[sojutrait]

Sorry if this has been asked before (i looked but couldnt find anything) When will you be bringing back the halabis legacy?

just missing them <3

UHHHHHH short answer: never say never

long answer: GUHHHH BUHHH BUHHHH

it’s not really a priority for a myriad of reasons.

this might be a random ass reference but it lowkey started feeling like the netflix show elite where all the main cast is gone and they’re just beating that dead horse till it’s glue. like if the whole save combusted after ollie’s gen i genuinely would’ve been satisfied. i’ve never been one to like to draw something out id rather a piece of media die with dignity rather than fizzle out until it had to be taken out back like old yeller

another reason is gus’ gen was sort of formed around growing together and exploring that but i kinda did that already independently from them? so it would just sort of be redundant. once your sim got pissed on once you’ve seen it a thousand times

third, the save is like. extremely bloated hejrjdkd. a billion townies (i’ve since changed how i deal with npcs so it doesn’t bug me much like in my current household file) that need makeovers and a billion and one cousins i need to keep track of. it’s just a lot of work to even get the save right before i can even play

SO YEAH that’s all sad but tbh, i wuv them so who knows? i’ve turned around ideas in my head for how i could bring them back. maybe a time jump into a new save, maybe something else i haven’t thought of tbh if y’all have an idea i’m all ears. but like i said it’s not really a priority and i don’t wanna force myself into doing anything just for the sake of posting them bc i’m too hedonistic for that. i only do things that give me that sweet sweet dopamine

in the meantime i like how there sort of. canonized? on my blog ehehe. like using nadine and dante for my barbie and ken poses, i wanna keep doing stuff like that! like treating them like little ocs bc i could never just abandon them on the side of the road im not THAT much of an absentee parent

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The team working on the wording of the bank's statement gathered in Stuart Fowler's office and included representatives from Allen Allen & Hemsley as well as Westpac's Dunne and his assistant Barbara Filipowski. The group formulated a series of advertisements headed 'Westpac Confidential Letters – the facts':

Westpac is dismayed that certain parties have ignored the rulings of the courts with regard to the Westpac Confidential Letters.

Westpac is concerned that certain individuals approach the administration of justice as a game in which they use their best endeavours to evade the rulings of the courts.

The reading of the documents in the South Australian Legislative Council we believe is a clear breach of a fundamental parliamentary convention and has jeopardised several principles which are cornerstones of our society.

Westpac is also disappointed that Senator McLean appears to have ignored the spirit of the ruling by the President of the Senate by distributing the documents outside the Senate chamber . . .

Westpac is unable to reveal or comment in any detail on the confidential letters since they remain the central issue in a number of legal cases, both recent and long-standing, before the courts . . .

But Westpac wishes to have the public record set straight about the circumstances in which the letters were written.

The letters in question are letters of advice sought by the bank from its external solicitors in November and December 1987. They relate to the management by Partnership Pacific Ltd (PPL) of foreign currency exposures for a small number of clients . . .

There is no doubt that the letters contain opinions critical of the way in which certain activities of PPL were conducted . . . PPL has now been merged into the back.

The legal position which the bank has taken in relation to these two letters has been endorsed by the courts. It is very important to note that Westpac in each of its actions against:

—John Fairfax Group Limited (receivers & managers appointed), David Syme & Co Ltd (receivers & managers appointed) and Anne Lampe

—the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

—Federal Capital Press of Australia Ltd, publishers of the Canberra Times

—Naji Halabi and Others

has been granted injunctions restraining the disclosure of the contents of the two letters.

In the proceedings Westpac has brought against Naji Halabi and five other members of his family, the judge ordered all defendants to detail the circumstances under which copies of the letters came into their hands. Mr Naji Halabi swore an affidavit in which he claimed that he could not comply with that part of the Court's order because to do so may tend to incriminate him. In the course of argument in Court Mr Halabi's counsel handed up to the judge a document listing a number of criminal offences for which his client could potentially be liable, as the bases for declining to provide the information required by the judge's order . . .

One of the constrains placed upon the bank and its advisors is that it has not been free to comment extensively on all relevant matters surrounding events of the past month because of the pending criminal and civil trials set down for April and June . . . The bank is unwilling to take any step (by public comment or otherwise) which might be prejudicial to a fair trial . . .

The bank has on five separate occasions issued press releases to explain why it was taking the court action it has pursued. The bank's press releases have been ignored entirely or in large measure by the media, although some journalists and others appear to have no hesitation in making use of documents obviously obtained unlawfully . . . a quantity of bank documents have been stolen. They have been copied and distributed in such a way as to cause the bank maximum embarrassment . . . regardless of the quite responsible criticism levelled at the bank in the media Westpac has not succumbed to nor will it ever succumb to threats to pervert the course of justice. That is the larger issue confronting the bank.

"Westpac: The Bank That Broke the Bank" - Edna Carew

[jordanianroyals]

Is there any interview of any Jordan royal couple of the day they announce their engagement like Prince William and Kate Middleton have??? If there any can give us the link

Yes but the Jordanian royals, unlike the Europeans, do not have this tradition of engagement interviews. They have photo calls sometimes or just simply release engagement portraits or family photos. 

The only engagement interview I can think of right now is King Hussein with Lisa Halaby (Queen Noor) in 1978 after they announced their engagement to the public. The press was invited to the photocall and they had a short interview.

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AI software helps radiologists detect mind aneurysms

http://tinyurl.com/y6exu8fw Docs may quickly get some assist from a man-made intelligence software when diagnosing mind aneurysms – bulges in blood vessels within the mind that may leak or burst open, doubtlessly resulting in stroke, mind injury or loss of life. The AI software, developed by researchers at Stanford College and detailed in a paper revealed June 7 in JAMA Community Open, highlights areas of a mind scan which can be prone to include an aneurysm. “There’s been plenty of concern about how machine studying will really work inside the medical subject,” stated Allison Park, a Stanford graduate pupil in statistics and co-lead writer of the paper. “This analysis is an instance of how people keep concerned within the diagnostic course of, aided by a man-made intelligence software.” This software, which is constructed round an algorithm known as HeadXNet, improved clinicians’ skill to accurately establish aneurysms at a stage equal to discovering six extra aneurysms in 100 scans that include aneurysms. It additionally improved consensus among the many decoding clinicians. Whereas the success of HeadXNet in these experiments is promising, the workforce of researchers – who’ve experience in machine studying, radiology and neurosurgery – cautions that additional investigation is required to judge generalizability of the AI software previous to real-time scientific deployment given variations in scanner {hardware} and imaging protocols throughout completely different hospital facilities. The researchers plan to deal with such issues by multi-center collaboration. Augmented experience Combing mind scans for indicators of an aneurysm can imply scrolling by a whole bunch of photographs. Aneurysms are available in many dimensions and shapes and balloon out at difficult angles – some register as not more than a blip inside the movie-like succession of photographs. “Seek for an aneurysm is likely one of the most labor-intensive and demanding duties radiologists undertake,” stated Kristen Yeom, affiliate professor of radiology and co-senior writer of the paper. “Given inherent challenges of complicated neurovascular anatomy and potential deadly end result of a missed aneurysm, it prompted me to use advances in pc science and imaginative and prescient to neuroimaging.” Yeom introduced the thought to the AI for Healthcare Bootcamp run by Stanford’s Machine Studying Group, which is led by Andrew Ng, adjunct professor of pc science and co-senior writer of the paper. The central problem was creating a man-made intelligence software that would precisely course of these giant stacks of 3D photographs and complement scientific diagnostic follow. To coach their algorithm, Yeom labored with Park and Christopher Chute, a graduate pupil in pc science, and outlined clinically important aneurysms detectable on 611 computerized tomography (CT) angiogram head scans. “We labelled, by hand, each voxel – the 3D equal to a pixel – with whether or not or not it was a part of an aneurysm,” stated Chute, who can also be co-lead writer of the paper. “Constructing the coaching information was a reasonably grueling activity and there have been plenty of information.” Following the coaching, the algorithm decides for every voxel of a scan whether or not there’s an aneurysm current. The top results of the HeadXNet software is the algorithm’s conclusions overlaid as a semi-transparent spotlight on prime of the scan. This illustration of the algorithm’s resolution makes it simple for the clinicians to nonetheless see what the scans seem like with out HeadXNet’s enter. “We had been how these scans with AI-added overlays would enhance the efficiency of clinicians,” stated Pranav Rajpurkar, a graduate pupil in pc science and co-lead writer of the paper. “Somewhat than simply having the algorithm say {that a} scan contained an aneurysm, we had been capable of carry the precise areas of the aneurysms to the clinician’s consideration.” Eight clinicians examined HeadXNet by evaluating a set of 115 mind scans for aneurysm, as soon as with the assistance of HeadXNet and as soon as with out. With the software, the clinicians accurately recognized extra aneurysms, and due to this fact decreased the “miss” price, and the clinicians had been extra prone to agree with each other. HeadXNet didn’t affect how lengthy it took the clinicians to resolve on a analysis or their skill to accurately establish scans with out aneurysms – a guard in opposition to telling somebody they’ve an aneurysm after they do not. To different duties and establishments The machine studying strategies on the coronary heart of HeadXNet may probably be educated to establish different ailments inside and out of doors the mind. For instance, Yeom imagines a future model may concentrate on dashing up figuring out aneurysms after they’ve burst, saving treasured time in an pressing scenario. However a substantial hurdle stays in integrating any synthetic intelligence medical instruments with each day scientific workflow in radiology throughout hospitals. Present scan viewers aren’t designed to work with deep studying help, so the researchers needed to custom-build instruments to combine HeadXNet inside scan viewers. Equally, variations in real-world information – versus the information on which the algorithm is examined and educated – may cut back mannequin efficiency. If the algorithm processes information from completely different sorts of scanners or imaging protocols, or a affected person inhabitants that wasn’t a part of its authentic coaching, it may not work as anticipated. “Due to these points, I believe deployment will come sooner not with pure AI automation, however as a substitute with AI and radiologists collaborating,” stated Ng. “We nonetheless have technical and non-technical work to do, however we as a neighborhood will get there and AI-radiologist collaboration is essentially the most promising path.” ### Extra Stanford co-authors are Joe Lou, undergraduate in pc science; Robyn Ball, senior biostatistician on the Quantitative Sciences Unit (additionally affiliated with Roam Analytics); graduate college students Katie Shpanskaya, Rashad Jabarkheel, Lily H. Kim and Emily McKenna; radiology residents Joe Tseng and Jason Ni; Fidaa Wishah, scientific teacher of radiology; Fred Wittber, diagnostic radiology fellow; David S. Hong, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences; Thomas J. Wilson, scientific assistant professor of neurosurgery; Safwan Halabi, scientific affiliate professor of radiology; Sanjay Basu, assistant professor of drugs; Bhavik N. Patel, assistant professor of radiology; and Matthew P. Lungren, assistant professor of radiology. Hong and Yeom are additionally members of Stanford Bio-X, the Stanford Maternal and Youngster Well being Analysis Institute and the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute. Patel can also be a member of Stanford Bio-X and the Stanford Most cancers Institute. Lungren is a member of Stanford Bio-X, the Stanford Maternal and Youngster Well being Analysis Institute and the Stanford Most cancers Institute. To learn all tales about Stanford science, subscribe to the biweekly Stanford Science Digest. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! will not be accountable for the accuracy of reports releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing establishments or for using any data by the EurekAlert system. Source link

[marjaystuff]

Agent In Place (The Gray Man Book 7)

Mark Greaney

Berkley Press

Feb. 20th, 2017

Agent in Place by Mark Greaney has lots of action, some current events, and a great storyline. The main character, Court Gentry, known as “The Gray Man” ventures into places where not many would dare to go having to overcome some very bad people. The reader feels as if they are placed right into the center of the Syrian Civil War as they go along for the ride with Gentry as he faces all of the different factions and players including mercenaries, the Free Syrian Army, ISIS, the Russians, just to mention a few.

The novel begins with ISIS about to execute Court. The story then backtracks a week ago to show readers how Gentry got in this mess to begin with. Because he was never an official employee of the CIA, Court decides which missions he will choose, some for the Spy Agency and some from freelance work.  In this case he is working on his own for the Halabys, leaders of the Free Syria Exile Union who hires him to kidnap the mistress of the Syrian President, the model Bianca Medina. The plan is to have her release information that will deal a serious blow to the Syrian regime and hasten the end of the cruel civil war. Complications arise when she refuses unless her son is rescued from the grips of his father, Ahmed al-Azzam, the Syrian President. After agreeing to this new job, Gentry realizes that there is a tangled web including Syria’s First Lady who wants Bianca and the heir to the throne dead. The tension ratchets up even higher from here.

His nickname of “The Gray Man” suits Gentry since he always seems to keep a low profile and work in the shadows.  He's a fiercely loyal and trustworthy individual and when he says he's got your back you can believe him. What makes him special is his desire to do what is necessary to make sure the bad guys never are a threat again. It is a welcome relief considering the real world has the bad guys winning way too much.  

Elise Cooper: ��Wishful thinking on your part about Syria?

Mark Greaney:  I wanted Court to operate with a mission he thought of as noble.  Because I have been interested in this Civil War ever since it started I decided to create this idea for the story.  Assad is currently using chlorine against his people and seems to get away with quite a bit.  It seems over the years governments say, ‘we will never let this happen again.’  When it happens again they look the other way and appear to do nothing.  It is pretty pathetic.

EC:  Do you think some readers will think it impossible for Court to enter into Syria and come out alive?

MG:  I hope not.  Look at the mass murders in Rwanda.  I firmly believe if we had sent in five hundred Marines we could have saved most of the approximately 800,000 who lost their lives in just ninety days.  I wanted to show how even one person can have the power to make a difference.

EC:  You show some of the multiple factions in Syria?

MG: Many of those who are anti-Assad or in my case anti-al-Azzam are radical Jihadists.  There is the saying, ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend,’ but the reverse is also true.  Then there is Russia that basically wants to use Syria as an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean, where they have a military presence.  All these groups including those against the Russians commit atrocities, but then there are the innocent children and those who just want to live their lives.  It is not like World War II where there were distinct good guys versus bad guys.  

EC:  What about your Syrian First Lady, Shakira Azzam?

MG:  There is a kernel of truth about this character and the real Syrian First Lady.  In this book, she is a power broker because she is the villainous.  She is beautiful, brilliant, and was once referred to as ‘the Rose of the Desert’, and ‘Lady Diana of the Middle East.’ But in actuality she is a master manipulator and wants to be in control. Now, after seven years of a Civil War, her public image has been destroyed, and she is now referred to as ‘The First Lady of Hell.’

EC:  How would you describe Bianca?

MG:  She is gorgeous and very naïve.  I think she was duped.  I hope she became a sympathetic character as the story unfolds.  Her viewpoint was skewed by what the Syrian regime put out.  I think throughout the story she gains strength and realizes the truth about what is happening.  

EC:  It is surprising that you write about Syria having a liberal attitude about Islam?

MG:  A lot of people are surprised by the attitudes in Syria.  Women do not have to wear the hijab, they date, and there are some Muslim men who drink.  If these same people lived in Afghanistan they would have their heads chopped off.  Damascus has a lot of bars and discos.  Even the Christians there are not persecuted, mainly because they support Assad.  

EC:  I remember reading that Walt Disney would act out his scenes.  Since your action passages are so detailed do you do the same?

MG:  I think about them a lot.  I will be walking my dog and try to figure out how Court will get out of trouble.  The scene in the hotel where he is fighting ISIS and Bianca’s bodyguards I tried to find the right weapons he would use, his plan to avoid any surveillance cameras, and his escape route.  Something else I think about, ‘did I write this type of action before?’  It gets harder and harder to keep it fresh after writing sixteen thrillers.

EC:  Do you want your action scenes to be realistic?

MG:  It is very important to me not to make them so complex they are not understandable.  Of course, I am obviously pushing the envelope, but I do want everything to be possible.  I hope Court is not viewed as a Superhero like Captain America.  Instead, he should be seen with vulnerabilities and can get hurt at any time.  

EC:  What do you want readers to get out of the story?

MG:  Really good entertainment, but I always put in themes of adversity, courage, and the virtue of right/wrong.  Although Court is now cynical he does have a moral compass.  I want him over time to be weathered physically and mentally.  I am a reader also and I enjoy fiction because it is much fairer and just then what is actually happening in the real world.  This is why I put current events into the storyline, to make it more interesting and to shine a light on my novels about something that is happening in the world.  

EC:  Can you give a shout out about your next book?

MG:  The next book follows right after this story.  Court will be back working with the CIA.  His mission involves finding the person responsible for the leaks that are getting a lot of people killed.  The Russian female operative, Zoya Zakharova, now turned CIA asset, will be at the center of the next book that will also bring back Matthew Hanley and Suzanne Brewer.

THANK YOU!!

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1969 UCLA: first station in a nationwide computer network

New Post has been published on https://www.aneddoticamagazine.com/ucla-first-station-in-a-nationwide-computer-network/

1969 UCLA: first station in a nationwide computer network

Today in 1969, UCLA issued a press release stating it “will become the first station in a nationwide computer network which, for the first time, will link together computers of different makes and using different machine languages into one time-sharing system.”

Supported by the Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA), the aptly named ARPANET would link multiple universities and other hubs of advanced computing into a network – a network that was, for all intents and purposes, the internet! It would be decades before Tim Berners-Lee would release his work on the World Wide Web, but the internet, as a network, began on this day in 1969.

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BLOG TOUR - Mind Virus

  Welcome to

THE PULP AND MYSTERY SHELF!

DISCLAIMER: This content has been provided to THE PULP AND MYSTERY SHELF by Roger Charlie Book Tours. No compensation was received. This information required by the Federal Trade Commission.

About the Book

Robin Fox is a peace-loving professor of world religions, trying to atone for his crimes as a U.S. Army interrogator. But at a Washington prayer rally, a suspect is caught trying to disperse a rare encephalitis virus, the same one used in an attack in Iraq that Fox once foiled. A CIA agent, John Adler, asks Fox for help.

Troubled by this request, Fox consults Emily Hart, his colleague at the United States Peace Research Institute and wife of its strongest supporter in Congress. She, however, has her own troubles. Leila Halabi, a Palestinian peace educator, has disappeared on the way to Washington for a lecture tour. Fox accepts Adler’s request, in exchange for the CIA’s help in finding Leila.

Fox works with a joint FBI-CIA interrogation team, and worries that Adler’s prejudice against Muslims is clouding his judgment. The suspect eventually reveals that he is part of an international conspiracy to eradicate religion, “using one virus to cure another”.

Fox deduces that the next attack is planned for Israel during Passover. Meanwhile, Emily learns that Leila has been imprisoned in Israel, and travels there to campaign for her release. Spurred by danger to the woman he loves – although he could never admit it, even to himself – Fox boards a plane that will reach Tel Aviv before her.

By careful observation, Fox catches another suspect at Ben-Gurion Airport. Now a hero to Israel, he persuades the head of Shin Bet to release Leila and let him interrogate the suspect.

He infers that the next attack is planned for Jerusalem on Holy Saturday. Joined by Adler, he sets up surveillance at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, but fails to prevent an explosion.

Suspecting that this attack was a diversion, Fox reinterprets his clues and concludes that the real target is the Vatican. He and Adler fly to Rome in time to catch a suspect in the act of planting an aerosol device in the dome of St. Peter’s during Easter Vigil Mass. Fox breaks her silence by intimating that her love for the group’s mastermind has been betrayed. She reveals the name by which she knows him, and gives up enough information to identify the next target: Westminster Abbey, at an Easter service with the Royal Family attending. But at the same time, he receives a menacing message: Emily has been abducted by the mastermind, who threatens to kill her if any cameras catch Fox there.

Fox goes to London, enters the Abbey in disguise, and uncovers the most elaborate strategy yet: a sleeper agent in the Abbey choir planted the virus in a fire extinguisher, and used a time-release flammable agent to make the Archbishop’s vestments spontaneously combust.

After stopping the attack, Fox roughs up the suspect but learns nothing. His escort from the Security Service takes him to question the mastermind’s mentor at Oxford. Shocked to hear how his teachings have been twisted, he gives up a name: Theodore Gottlieb. They go to Gottlieb’s house, to find him calmly awaiting them with high tea and high explosives.

After a standoff, the bombs detonate and set fire to the house. Fox, cut off from the police, has to chase Gottlieb to the room where Emily is being held hostage. Using his military training, he succeeds in seizing Gottlieb’s pistol, but his principles of nonviolence will not allow him to shoot. They struggle, Gottlieb falls, and the firefighters rescue Fox and Emily in time.

They return to Washington. Adler has promised to tell the Saudis about the final target, Mecca during the Hajj, but Fox suspects he is lying and goes to the Saudi embassy himself. A furious phone call from Adler confirms his suspicions: the CIA was planning to let the attack proceed, and use an Army-designed antiserum to blackmail the entire Muslim world.

After launching Leila’s tour, Fox and Emily walk together through the GWU campus. He yearns to tell her that, when he was sure his life was over, his only thought was of her. But discretion trumps valor, and when they say goodnight, his true feelings for her are still a secret.

  Interview with the Author

What initially got you interested in writing?

  I’d have to go back in time and ask my 6-year-old self; he’s the one who got me hooked on writing stories, and I haven’t been able to stop since. I finished my first novel-length manuscript in high school, and after a slight detour when I was led astray by the siren song suggesting that publishing academic papers in peer-reviewed journals would be a more prudent channel for my literary ambitions, I’m happily back on track with creative writing.

  How did you decide to make the move into becoming a published author?

  The time was right. I had a story inside me that wouldn’t let me rest until I shared it with the world. Did I tell it well? You can judge for yourself.

  What do you want readers to take away from reading your works?

  I hope they’ll take away a new perspective. This book has a religious theme, and religion, whether you’re a believer or not, affects everyone and everyone has an opinion about it. And for most people, these opinions are so strongly entrenched that you could hurl arguments at them until doomsday and never move the needle; the only chance you have of getting anyone to see an alternate point of view is through story. Wherever you fall on the scale, from firebrand evangelical to firebrand atheist, you’ll probably find something in this book to challenge you. Judging from the reviews, it will make your heart beat faster – and it might raise your blood pressure, too!

  What do you find most rewarding about writing?

  I love the way the story takes on a life of its own. I think writing, as an art form, is less like painting or sculpture and more like growing bonsai: you may start with a clear image of the finished product, and you can twist and trim your material into the shape you want, but it’s still a living thing, and it sometimes wants to grow in a different direction from the one you had in mind, so you have to be flexible and acknowledge that it might know better than you. There are times when a character seems to be speaking to me, suggesting something I hadn’t previously thought of. I love those moments, because it feels not so much as though I’m creating the story out of nothing, as that it’s telling itself through me.

  What do you find most challenging about writing?

  The difficulty of getting Time, Energy and Inspiration in the room together: they all seem to have such crazy schedules and I can rarely get more than two of them to sit down with me. Sometimes I wake up bursting with ideas, but can’t get a moment to write them down until late at night when I can barely keep my eyes open, let alone remember what the muse was whispering in my ear that morning. Other times, I’m well rested and have a rare block of free time, but the well is dry. I often resort to stealing moments throughout the day for writing – and if you piece together enough stolen moments, eventually you have a book.

  What advice would you give to people wanting to enter the field?

  There’s a Japanese saying: “Do the best you can and await orders from heaven.” If you have a story inside you fighting to get out, then write it, and polish it, to the best of your ability. Then, when the time is right, it will find its audience. It took years of pounding the pavement before I found my editor, but in light of world events during that time, I’ve come to feel that perhaps the story was waiting until a time when it would be most relevant. So if you ever have moments when you start to doubt your story will ever see the light of day – and I suppose every aspiring author does – don’t be discouraged. It always seems impossible until it’s done.

  Is there anything else besides writing you think people would find interesting about you?

  I’ve lived most of my adult life in Japan. How I got there, and what I’ve been doing there, would be the subject for a whole different interview, but in large part, I have my life in Japan to thank for this book. Living in a very secularized society helped give me the inspiration for the story, and the desire to keep some kind of connection with my homeland helped light a fire under me to write it.

  What are the best ways to connect with you, or find out more about your work?

  You can find out more about Mind Virus and my other works on my website: charleskowalski.com. Looking forward to seeing you there!

  About the Author

  Charles Kowalski currently divides his time between Japan, where he teaches English at a university, and his family home in Maine.

His previously unpublished debut novel, Mind Virus, won the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’ Colorado Gold Award and was a finalist for the Adventure Writers’ Competition, the Killer Nashville Claymore Award, and the Pacific Northwest Writers’ Association literary award.

Other novels and short stories by Charles Kowalski:

“Let This Cup Pass From Me” (Finalist, American Fiction Short Story Award (New Rivers Press); Honorable Mention, The Maine Review Short Story Competition)

“Arise, My Love”

“The Evil I Do Not Mean To Do”

Charles can be found at his website, and on Facebook and Twitter (@CharlesKowalski).

  About the Publisher

About Literary Wanderlust

Literary Wanderlust publishes well-written novels and short story anthologies in the romance, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and thriller genres, as well as obscure history and research topics. Visit us at www.literarywanderlust.com

  BLOG TOUR – Mind Virus was originally published on the Wordpress version of The Pulp and Mystery Shelf