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BLISS TO BULLETS: . Meeting by chance at a Pearl Jam concert in Mountain View, Camilla Montez Huxtable and Lawrence Knapp receive their master's degrees from Santa Clara and Stanford, ski together in the Sierras, sun on Martin's Beach, and marry in the Catalina chapel in Monterrey. He moves from computer-related jobs to Google and then a Venture capital firm on Sand Hill Road, while she teaches natural science to elementary grades. Like thousands of young Millennials seeking relief from the tensions of Silicon Valley, Larry and Camilla investigate alternatives and select Boise, Idaho, whose lush riverside location offers affordable homes on historic tree-lined streets and year-round recreational opportunities for their young daughter and son. On a downtown storefront, Larry founds Boise's first venture capital company for local start-ups, while Camilla moves from substitute teaching at Washington School to founding a natural science center. Their years of blissful living are countered by Trump-inspired renegades from Idaho's Panhandle. Adrian Marchetti Moore, hard to admit the PTSD he'd suffered after an IED attack in Iraq, lives in Priest River on his disability check and EBT food card, spending afternoons at Pluto's Bar. Joined by sawmill workers Andy and Chuck, Adrian moves to a remote summer cottage above Priest Lake, where the three hold target practice out of public earshot. Inspired by local racists like Brother Nathaniel and leftovers from the Aryan Nation, Adrian pulls together the most militant of the anti-government activists and forms a militia. They take over the state.

Today, Kendall Square is known for its ties to MIT as a place for innovation and research; but it became a center for invention and manufacturing during the Second Industrial Revolution, between 1880 and 1930, making machines to eliminate much of the hand labor found in making candy, baked goods, Soaps, and packaging materials.

Casino Balconies Collapse 88 confirmed dead 100's injuredThis headline in a 1980 issue of the Denver Transcript highlights a construction catastrophe. How did it happen? Who was at fault? That's what architect Woodford Stickley and attorney Angela Adams were hired to find out. As forensic investigators they sort through tangled evidence to determine why a building failed and provide expert testimony during legal proceedings. The partnership developed when Stickley answered Adam's call for help on a personal injury case. Her request came as a construction slump threatened to wipe out his new practice and an emotional crisis portends an early end to an equally new marriage. Stickley overcomes the two challenges as he learns to untangle the threads of building disasters, sort out his relationships with the opposite sex and keep up with the pace set by a lady lawyer who is as proficient in the sport of hang gliding as she is in weaving a convincing legal argument. Their work leads them to all parts of Colorado, picking up bits of local lore as they go, to solve the mysteries of a construction crash, condominium failures and the tragic casino balcony collapse.