An open Window begins with Jill Flowers, a local girl with aspirations of becoming more. It follows her from Mobile Alabama to New York City and beyond. New loves, friends and family follow Jill on this exciting page turner.This is the first in the Flowers Family Series. Book excerpt: As Jill sat alone by the window of her fifth foor apartment in New York, she remembered the last time she looked out of the large picture window of the cabin in New Hampshire. The scenery was quite a bit different now. The cluttered skyline made her ache for he warmth of the cottage and the even warmer embrace...

Rise from the ashes... The Age of Death has passed and the shattered cities lie in desolated ruin. The forces of rage that troubled the world slumber once more. The Phantasms have come, the Mythics have gone. The heroes of the final battles can now look around them and from the shattered pieces of the world of Talvair build a new image, their image. Welcome to Ascendant, an East Coast LARP where visions are feared and creatures of myth have faded into seclusion. Here, by the Pool of Shuh Lien, the forces of good have triumphed over the forces of evil at long last. It is now up to heroes of...

Do you agree with the prediction that PCs will replace PLCs in certain Advanced Automation applications? Perhaps the most critical component, the Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) provides reliable and real-time control over machining processes. As older PLC technology becomes obsolete, PC-based controllers now offer hardened platforms rivaling the reliability of dedicated PLC hardware. Read along as enterprising visionaries challenge career-long convictions regarding the reliability of non-traditional automation control systems for advanced automation.