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Chapter 9: Peace Accords | The Midas Protocol
Hank Raglan returns to Unalco unsure what the Rosebud fight will cost him. Benny arranges a meeting that produces a handshake, though Hank’s doubts remain. These reusable components explore the chapter’s uneasy peace and the workplace pressures that make it possible.
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The Scratching Post: Fairway Thirteen — A Ghost Story Inspired by Pittsburgh's North Park
I've been having a lot of fun lately experimenting with animated storytelling.
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Cool Filmz: Eight Men Out and the Trouble with Losing on Purpose
Throwing a baseball game sounds easy enough until you ask somebody who has spent his whole life trying to win to go out there and do it. That was what interested me most about Eight Men Out when I reviewed it for Cover-Ups.com on May 10, 2007. The gamblers, the money and the conspiracy got me in the door. Watching the players struggle with what they had agreed to do was what kept me watching.
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The Weapon That Learned To Swim: A Brief History of Torpedoes
Before the torpedo became a sleek metal predator packed with sonar, guidance software and enough engineering to make a Victorian inventor weep, it was basically an underwater bomb with ambition.
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Bingham's Notebook: Midas Protocol - Chapter 8 - "Caroline's Choice"
Caroline Friday’s elective becomes the doorway into the Bingham murder investigation. Her question about the death penalty wins Bill Murdock’s attention; her choice of Rusty Gibb’s case brings her into the mystery that will shape her future.
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The Scratching Post: Oktoberfest, Corndogs and Showing Up When Nobody Is Watching
It was one of those weekends that seemed to disappear almost as soon as it started.Friday turned out to be a lot of fun. The rain held off, and I made it down to Canonsburg for the Oktoberfest celebration in Washington County. Saturday brought another good time as we celebrated a milestone birthday for a close friend we affectionately call Hollywood.
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The Funny Newz: Alien Abduction and Organ Processing Centers Drawing Fire for Heavy Water, Electricity Use
Communities say Rarf Nangork's rapidly expanding facilities are straining local utilities, while apparently remaining surprisingly unconcerned about what happens inside them.
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Alien Real Estate Mogul Rarf Nangork Quietly Buying Up Earth, Insists He Has No Plans to Flip Planet
Alpha Centaurian billionaire says rapidly expanding property empire is merely a diversified investment portfolio and humans should “stop being so fucking paranoid”
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Cool Filmz: Déjà Vu and the Fun of Chasing Yesterday
Back in May 2007, when I reviewed Déjà Vu for Cover-Ups.com, the idea of the government hiding a time machine was enough to get me interested. Tony Scott directing Denzel Washington gave me another reason to show up.
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Quantum Soup: The Quantum Thermometers Reading Nuclear Fingerprints
A nuclear material has a story to tell, provided you can read the light coming off it. That sounds like a convenient talent for a spy in a science-fiction thriller. In practice, it involves painstaking measurements, overlapping radiation signals and, increasingly, thermometers so cold and sensitive that a single particle of light can register as a burst of heat.
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- Bingham's Notebook: Jack Barons and The New Year's Hat In The Midas Protocol - Chapter 7 - "Hank's Apartment"
- Bingham's Notebook: Hank and Addison in The Midas Protocol - Chapter 7 - "Hanks Apartment"
- Bingham's Notebook: Jack Barons In The Midas Protocol
- Bingham's Notebook: Midas Protocol - Chapter 7 - "Hank's Apartment"
- The Scratching Post: The Midas Protocol – Dare I Rewrite the Past?
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