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THE PRIEST'S GRAVEYARD BOOK REVIEW

Ted Dekker’s The Priest’s Graveyard is a riveting suspense/thriller character piece. The story starts with a woman named Renee Gilmore who feels a pressing need to deliver a written confession to a Father Andro, a Bosnian priest, from a Danny Hansen, who suffers a terrible personal heartbreak that shapes the rest of his life. It ends with a plea for God to have mercy on his actions. The scenario concludes with Renee's confession to Father Andro, “The rest begins with me.”

From here, Dekker emp...

Will Trump and Perry Revive Proposed Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository?

By David Wagman | Posted 27 Jan 2017 | 13:00 GMT | From the IEEE Spectrum Will Yucca Mountain rise again?

The answer may be more political than technical. And the topic of long-term nuclear waste storage is just one of dozens facing Energy Secretary-designate Rick Perry , should he be confirmed by the Senate. 

The remote Nevada site is just one of several options for the new administration to consider. Yucca Mountain in Nevada was legally designated decades ago as the site for long-term storage...

Female Protagonists in Crime Fiction: What You Need to Know

By: Brian A. Klems | January 18, 2017 Raymond Chandler, in The Simple Art of Murder, famously described the heroic detective: A man who is neither mean nor tarnished. Who is unafraid and honorable. He is lonely, but well fit for the adventure of uncovering the truth. Above all, he is a good enough man in any world, and the best man in his own.

Chandler helped create the thrilling heyday of noir and hardboiled fiction where men (always men) took on corruption, fraud and violence, and ofte...

How to Write Better Villains: 5 Ways to Get Into the Mind of a Psychopath

By: Guest Column | January 16, 2017 In New York Times bestselling author Peter James’s latest Detective Roy Grace novel, much of the narrative is from the point of view of antagonist Jodie Bentley, a psychopathic Black Widow systematically marrying rich men and killing them in the most sinister of ways.

Here, Peter James lists his top five tips for how to get in the mind of a psychopath to be able to write one effectively:

1. Where to find a psychopath who will talk to you – the importance o...

COMMENTARY: Dean Heller and Dina Titus introduce legislation aimed at heading off efforts to revive Yucca Mountain in Nevada

PostedJanuary 14, 2017 - 9:02pm
From the Las Vegas Review-Journal

By Dean Heller and Dina Titus
Special to the Review-Journal

Since 1987, the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository has been a thorn in Nevada’s side. Because of bad politics, not sound science, Nevada quickly became the federal government’s No. 1 targeted location to permanently store all of the nation’s nuclear waste.

Since then, Nevadans have been fighting tooth and nail to block this misguided proposal — and we aren’t finished y...

Will Rick Perry bring high-level radioactive waste to Texas?

By Asher Price - American-Statesman Staff
Posted: 12:00 a.m. Sunday, January 08, 2017

Highlights:Waste Control Specialists have long sought a high-level radioactive waste storage permit for Texas site.

Waste Control Specialists was once controlled by a top Rick Perry donor.
With Perry as governor, company managed to license and build low-level radioactive waste facility.

As governor, Rick Perry urged the federal government to make Texas the repository for highly radioactive waste from around the n...

“ALL THAT IS NECESSARY FOR EVIL TO PREVAIL IS FOR GOOD MEN TO KEEP SILENT!”

At the present time, this 18th or 19th-century adage doesn't have a definitive author, though Edmund Burke's name gets the most attributes, it nicely ties into the theme of this post.

In the horror thriller, The Silence of the Lambs, an FBI agent-in-training confides in an incarcerated former psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter to track down another serial killer known as, Buffalo Bill, who skins his victims.

In the psychological thriller, The Bone Collector, a gifted quadriplegic e...

Reid's retirement could rescue Yucca Mountain plan

By Susan Ferrechio ( @susanferrechio ) • 12/21/16 12:01 AM
Susan Ferrechio Chief Congressional Correspondent The Washington Examiner
The long-stalled plan to open a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada has a strong chance of being revived in a Trump administration, especially now that Harry Reid, the longtime opponent of the project, will no longer lead Democrats in the Senate.

The Trump transition team has already signaled interest in reviving the site, which was legally designat...

Barbara Neely: A part-time novelist shares her secrets

By Nicki Porter | Published: August 1, 2016
Mystery writer Barbara Neely wrote her first novel Blanche on the Lam while working a 60-hour-a-week, full-time job. The book became the first mystery novel by an African American woman to be published by a major publishing house in the 20th century. Neely wrote several other Blanche White mystery novels, which were re-released by Brash Books earlier this year.

Neely’s award-winning mystery books discuss race, gender and class issues, but they’re al...

Will San Onofre's waste wind up at Yucca Mountain?

*Here's a tie-in story t0 a pair of San Onofre stories on this blog from March and April within The Waste Lands Report.*

By Rob Nikolewski | Contact Reporter
November 21, 2016 | 2:10 PM

Yucca Mountain is back onthe bargaining table on Capitol Hill.And if the nuclear waste repository in Nevada gets back on track— and that’s a big “if,” considering the controversial site has been debated for going on 40 years and sixpresidential administrations— it could provide a destination for the 3.6 million p...