Title: Vested Interests

Author: kadhfanfiction

Pairing: Grissom/Sara

Rating: Teen

Status: Complete

Summary: Her first full night back in Vegas leads Sara to realize that one of the best things about being married is having someone not only to share your interests with but also your life.

Author's Note: Takes place post 10x01 "A Family Affair," circa September 2009.

Vested Interests

givesushope
It's that glorious time of year when we reunite with loved ones (we neglected all year), stuff our faces to excess, and pass out in front of the TV. Perhaps a recalibration of the thanksometer is in order. A spin-off of the popular GivesMeHope.com site, this community invites you to document moments of kindness, generosity, and pure human love in 350 words or less.

veggieslackers
Despite its mainstream appeal, Thanksgiving is not for everyone. There are those struggling with food disorders, for whom this day causes endless conflict. There are the cash-challenged, who can't afford the gluttony we've grown to expect. There are the lonely, who don't have loved ones nearby. And let's not forget the vegetarians, who decry the animal cruelty. But there's one more group we often overlook: the terminally lazy! This community of lazy vegetarians offers easy recipes for an animal-friendly feast.

fashin
Just in time for holiday shopping season, this fashionista community brings you the world of haute couture in the form of sumptuous photos, video clips, and candid commentary. There's also a sugary sprinkle of mainstream movie discussions and debates on such pressing social issues as manicure styles and celebrity colonics. If you need a break from the daily grind to indulge your girlie side, this is twinkly pink on steroids.

Not correcting for spelling/grammar ('jorga'? Really?)( MILD spoilers below the cut )

Title: Love or Future
Author: tidbit2008
Fandom/Pairing: CSI: NY - Mac/Stella
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Summary: Just a bit of fluff.
Spoilers: None.
Disclaimer: I own nothing but my inspiration.

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Title: Seeing Red
Author: tidbit2008
Fandom/Pairing: CSI: NY - Mac/Stella
Word Count: 252
Rating: PG
Summary: Mac gets hit over the head. 2nd person.
Spoilers: None.
Disclaimer: I own nothing but my inspiration.

Disclaimer: Completely not mine.
Title: Long View of Life
Fandom: CSI: Crime Scene Investigations
Pairing: None
Rating: Mature for Content
Summary: It feels like I've intruded on a family, the redheaded stepchild you're all waiting to screw up so you can send them to their room.
Warnings: OCs.
Notes: AU, Greg-centric. Nine (9) chapters, all linked internally.

( Long View of Life )

Title: Hard Sell, Chapter 5
Author: Zelda Ophelia (zeldaophelia)
Fandom/Character: CSI:NY;  girl!Flack (Dawn Flack), Stella, Mac
General info: Genderbender; Not mine; T
Notes: A huge thank you to eternal_sadist, significantowl, avidbeader, and the wonderful ladies at postonthursday who helped make this fic happen.
Summary: Pre-series. Dawn Flack (not a junior, though everyone wants to add that on) is finally getting her first solo case, without her training partner to tag along. But when one death becomes three with little evidence, she's needs all the help Mac and Stella can give her to find this guy.

( Hard Sell, Chapter 5 )

Hello lovelies! For those of you that don't already know me, I'm Emily, and I'm going to be helping Lys out with the reminders for our Fundraiser. Every little bit makes a difference, so let's get those donations in!

Remember to read the rules and refer back to the post for ANY questions!! In a FEW weeks I'll put up how much we've raised like last time!!

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How wild is that Jorja would be in a movie about race cars? And I find this out on the day I buy my first car (not a race car, a Hybrid)?

But, yes, Jorja will be in an indie film called 3 Weeks To Dayton, featuring Jorja Fox as Cheryl, Lucas Ardagna as Worm and Scott Cohen as Chuck.( Read more... )

No Sara in the last two episodes, but we do get to see her for this one! According to Dustin Lee Abraham on Twitter, "Fox is all over Lover's Lanes." Let's hope so! :) Here's the promo for next week's episode, courtesy of allaboutmarg's YouTube Channel.

TITLE: Show Me
AUTHOR: vanillabug
RATING: T/PG-13 (will be NC-17/M in later chapters)
CATEGORY: Catherine/Sara Romance
DISCLAIMER: Don't own anything!
SPOILERS: Anything up to “Crash and Burn” is fair game.
ARCHIVE: With Authors Permission VanillaBug1@comcast.net
STATUS: WIP

SUMMARY: Catherine and Sara, along with Greg and Nick attend the Annual Pacific Coast Conference in San Francisco. How long can Catherine and Sara keep denying that they are nothing more than friends? CATHERINE/SARA PAIRING (will be rated M in later chapters)

Show Me
Chapter 3 is HERE at my graphic/writing journal sweetpinkpotion.

Enjoy!

Title: Science Of Silence
Authors: Pseudomoviestar & Armandlegg
Based On: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Pairing: GSR
Rating: T going to M in later chapters
Status: WIP


Notes: We started this nearly a year ago on a whim to complete NaNoWriMo '08, obviously that didn't happen. So here we are, finally ready to begin posting. This was written in 8 states, three hotel rooms, countless pots of coffee and sleepless nights, two major computer catastrophe's, a 20 hour road trip, to many days spent pouring over lyrics, several cases of beer and God only knows how many packs of smokes later here we are. Any similarities to any other stories posted is purely coincidence.

We hope you enjoy!

Summary: She knew she would get a reaction the second she hit send. What kind she had no clue, but a reaction none the less.

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8

Notes augmented

We've enhanced and de-bugged Notes. If you haven't tried it yet, now's the time! You can create a private note when you ban multiple users. You can also delete multiple notes at once. Lastly, paid users have the option to add a note (visible only to you) whenever you add or remove a friend (guaranteed to avoid embarrassing social mishaps). If you don't currently have a paid account, you can upgrade now! It only takes a few minutes and costs less than a bad shopping mall haircut (plus, it's way more fashionable)!

Product tweaks and bug kill

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3. The issue causing random comments to vanish has been fixed!
4. If you visit a LiveJournal page and get prompted to log in, you'll be returned to the same page after you sign in (Thanks, Dreamwidth)!
5. If you don't edit the timestamp for an entry at all, the entry timestamp will indicate the time the entry was posted instead of the time the Update Journal page was loaded
6. Comments with paddings/backgrounds render correctly within the comment box (and will no longer wrap outside the box and break frames/margins)

New FCK fixes rich text editor!

1. We've updated our RTE (Rich Text Editor) to FCKeditor version 2.6.5
2. When switching from the RTE to HTML editor, links for syndicated feeds are no longer broken
3. RTE now functions properly in Safari 4.0
4. An extra line/space will not be auto-inserted whenever you switch from RTE to HTML editor
5. The insert image link now works correctly in all browsers

LiveJournal Cares

We’re pleased to introduce you to lj_cares, a new LiveJournal community dedicated to raising awareness and funds for U.S. charitable organizations that improve the health and well-being of people around the world. Each month, we’ll spotlight a nonprofit that is making a significant global impact through medical research, public outreach, and/or humanitarian social programs. Charities will be selected in accordance with the U.S. calendar of national health observances based on a high rating (of over 60%) on Charity Navigator and global scope of impact.

In this, our inaugural month of November, we will celebrate national adoption month by offering a charitable virtual gift (priced at $2.99) to support Love Without Boundaries, an organization that saves the lives of orphans with life-threatening diseases and places them in loving homes around the world. LiveJournal will donate 100% of the proceeds from the sale of charitable vgifts (we'll cover the cost of credit card transaction fees). To learn more about Love Without Boundaries, please visit lj_cares and read about how they helped save Baby Kang and the Rainbow Twins from fatal illnesses, who are now thriving in nurturing families. You can purchase your Love Without Boundaries gifts in the Virtual Gift shop.

Papered in postcards

A couple of weeks ago, we asked you to send in postcards to surround us with LiveJournal community. Thanks for coming through! We've received postcards all the way from Germany, Finland, and Canada and from all over the US, including Texas, Florida, Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, Indiana, Hawaii, and Oklahoma just to name just a handful. We're thrilled with our improved decor.

Please keep the love coming for one more week by writing to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. Be sure to include your username, since we'll be drawing the names of ten random contributors next Thursday to win paid account credits!

Photos of the week

We have more dazzling images posted by talented LiveJournal photographers from around the world. We're hoping to span the entire globe, so please continue posting and tagging. Of course, you can also sit back and enjoy the view at lj_photophile.

You can see a sample of this week's gorgeous photos and check out spotlight communities and awesome user content after the jump!

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Curtains

We thank you, once again, for joining us. See you next week!

Saturday February 27th, Jorja Fox* will come to my town, Chicago, to host a fundraiser to stop dog fighting. Spotlight Humane is Chicago's 5th annual gala to raise money and awareness to one of the cruelest 'sports' in America.

Tickets are $150 and cocktail attire is suggested.

All proceeds from the event will benefit The HSUS's End Dogfighting in Chicago campaign. This innovative program is designed to educate youth about the brutality and dangers of dogfighting. It also supports expanded police efforts to find and arrest dogfighters citywide.

*Jorja's appearance is subject to schedule changes. My appearance is unlikely due to the cost and the attire ... I don't think I own anything cocktail, but I'll be donating!

The comments are set to screened so the first 4 people to reply with their fav Jorja picture will have them posted on next weeks round... then we'll do it again.

Keep in mind, those first four people who's picture get put up... your comments will not show until next thursday.

Feel free to comment. :-)

-The pictures... Must be of Jorja or any of the characters she plays.
-Another character of person can be in the picture. As long as Jorja is at the fore front of the photo.
-It does not have to be HQ. But don't make it pinky sized either... and steer clear of watermarked pictures, unless you can cut them out yourself.
-Feel free to add a caption to your picture. Just don't make it rude or anything.

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Title: Hard Sell, Chapter 4
Author: Zelda Ophelia (zeldaophelia)
Fandom/Character: CSI:NY; girl!Flack (Dawn Flack), Stella, Mac
General info: Genderbender; Not mine; T
Notes: A huge thank you to eternal_sadist, significantowl, avidbeader, and the wonderful ladies at postonthursday who helped make this fic happen.
Summary: Pre-series. Dawn Flack (not a junior, though everyone wants to add that on) is finally getting her first solo case, without her training partner to tag along. But when one death becomes three with little evidence, she's needs all the help Mac and Stella can give her to find this guy.

( Hard Sell, Chapter 4 )

EDIT@08:16 UTC/GMT. Wow. That was ugly. I expected it to go for 30 minutes and have maybe 1 minute of broken connectivity. Instead it lasted over 4 hours and we had 10 minutes of downtime directly related to the load balancer upgrades and then another 5-10 minutes of downtime when our primary Pingback database server crashed and the secondary couldn't take over; which could have been indirectly caused by the network upgrade missing a self-VIP.

Anyways, we're up, we're working, the load balancers are barely breaking a sweat right now and I need some food and a shot of whiskey. I don't even *like* whiskey!!

Thanks mhwest and dnewhall for helping out!

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On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

Title: Hard Sell, Chapter 3
Author: Zelda Ophelia (zeldaophelia)
Fandom/Character: CSI:NY;  girl!Flack (Dawn Flack), Stella, Mac
General info: Genderbender; Not mine; T
Notes: A huge thank you to eternal_sadist, significantowl, avidbeader, and the wonderful ladies at postonthursday who helped make this fic happen.
Summary: Pre-series. Dawn Flack (not a junior, though everyone wants to add that on) is finally getting her first solo case, without her training partner to tag along. But when one death becomes three with little evidence, she's needs all the help Mac and Stella can give her to find this guy.

( Hard Sell, Chapter 3 )