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You settle into the bucket seat and pull the door shut, sealing yourself inside the cockpit. Swaths of black leather surround you, interrupted only by swatches and lines of shocking green. That green—the door panel inserts and pulls, the center console, the instrument binnacles, seat piping, stitching—echoes the Ithaca Verde of the exterior, a green so shocking only a Lamborghini could get away with wearing it.
You insert and twist the key; behind your head, the V10 snarls to life, rasping mean-spiritedly with the initial startup, as though angry to have its slumber interrupted. It settles into a thrumming, pulsing idle; its unseen gyrations seem to shiver minutely through the interior, tickling your backside and eardrums, tingling your spine, and suggesting, however minutely, that there's something very different about this particular Gallardo.
You select Auto mode on the drive select panel, prod the accelerator timidly, and the car jumps ahead, then lurches as you back off the pedal.
Give it some gas, weenie, a small voice advises from somewhere inside your head. You're going to piss it off.
You flip the column-mounted downshift lever, drop to Second, and lean in hard; the tires immediately burn, scrabbling for traction as the tach needle ascends. The Gallardo shimmies sideways and you reach for third. This time you lean in gradually; the V10 inhales deeply, noisily, and the car surges to the horizon as though propelled by raging storm winds. The exhaust wail rises to fever pitch at the top of each gear; you're forced to flip through the ratios with grim urgency as the Lambo flings you into the distance.
Were you following the car instead of inside it, you'd see flames bursting out of the tailpipes with each upshift—before being left in a wake of swirling dust and stinging sand. From your vantage point inside the Lambo, the world outside begins to melt into something like an impressionist's interpretation of the Southern Nevada desert.
From a 10,000 square-foot facility next door to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Insane Speed specializes in insanely fast import and domestic project builds. As this green Gallardo SE would indicate, they have also expanded into insanely high-performance exotics.
This one relies on a twin turbo system sourced from Florida's Heffner Performance, well known on the exotic tuning scene by its mid-engine turbo systems for Ferrari, Audi R8, and of course Lamborghini—including both Murciélago and Gallardo variants.
Insane Speed is a certified Heffner installer, but they also have the fabrication abilities to back up such high-powered builds as this, including full machining and electronic tuning capabilities. This build began at ground zero; the V10 engine was pulled, then pulled apart and its innards removed.
The factory Lambo crankshaft was balanced and micropolished while the cylinder bores were reinforced with Darton sleeves. The crank was then reinstalled and fitted with Carrillo H-beam connecting rods and ACL main and rod bearings. Forged CF pistons push this strengthened and blueprinted drive assembly.
And high-strength it absolutely has to be to withstand the onslaught of combustion Armageddon raining down from the top, where the Heffner induction system and Insane Speed fuel supply have been shoehorned into the carbon-covered rear-midship engine bay. Induction begins with a pair of conical K&N filters, blows through high-flow turbo inlets and into a duet of 71mm Twin Precision chargers. Pressure is modulated upstream with a pair of 50mm Tial blow-off valves, and regulated downstream by a pair of 44mm Tial wastegates. Before being catapulted into the combustion chambers, the intake charge is chilled by twin Spearco water-to-air intercoolers.
Insane Speed provided its own fuel supply setup to match the high-boost forced aspiration, what they call a Twin Surge Tank system. This consists of two billet surge tanks, fabricated in-house, and each with a pair of Bosch 044 fuel pumps installed within. A Teflon/braided stainless steel system of lines feeds upgraded fuel rails and 2,000cc injectors. The forced-induction and fuel-feed systems are masterminded and integrated by a Motec M800 ECU and a TurboSmart boost controller. All of the electronic alchemy to get the induction, boost and fuel systems working in concert was also performed in-house at the Insane Speed facilities.
According to Heffner's own testing, the top-level TT setup is good for about 1,200 hp on 100-octane fuel.
According to Insane Speed, with their proprietary fueling and electronics programming, the Gallardo V10 is capable of even more. Strapped to the shop's in-house dyno, the Lambo reportedly spun the rollers to the tune of 1,340 hp and 1,001 lb-ft of torque at around 20 psi of boost before losing traction on the rollers. Insane Speed's Todd Allen reckons this build is capable of turning out upwards of 1,500 hp with even higher boost.
To ensure the power levels don't grenade the rest of the drive system, the transmission is shored up with a heavy-duty twin-disc clutch and pressure plate combination. Chrome-moly halfshafts ensure the power transfer doesn't fling a wheel or two into the weeds on hard acceleration. Custom billet lower control arms and adjustable Penske coilover spring-and-damper assemblies suspend the chassis over a set of 19-inch HRE 843R monoblock wheels. A set of Toyo R888 rubbers has the unenviable task of hooking all this power to the ground. Hopefully the guys buy those in bulk.
Behind the HREs, the brake assemblies use the standard OEM calipers, but these now clamp down on bigger slotted and ventilated Brembo rotors, a full 15 inches across in front. Because of the massive binders, 19s are the smallest wheels that can be used. Allen figures if he could find a way to fit drag radials to the car, the lower gears would become a bit more usable. For now, he uses the Gallardo to run superbikes at speed on the highway.
The most obvious exterior mods are the Superleggera carbon diffuser (a real OEM piece) and the Heffner carbon decklid. The rest is fairly invisible: a full-body clear "bra" and a ceramic windshield coating to prevent costly pitting and gouging from the sand, small stones and doomed insect life that tend to hurtle toward the car at ludicrous speeds.
Hard on the enlarged Brembos now, you wrench yourself down from what feels like terminal velocity and grind to a violent halt. You turn the key back to kill the engine and emerge from the cockpit, weak-kneed and sweaty, fighting off the sudden and powerful urge to smoke a cigarette.
The Lamborghini ticks audibly, a sound like tapping fingers, waiting, daring you to take another run.
The factory-spec Gallardo V10 made 512 hp, more than enough power for most mortals. Having over 1,000 at your disposal—much less 1,300-plus—can only be described as… well, as insane. But going insane can never have been so much fun.
Insane Speed/Heffner Performance Gallardo TT
Longitudinal mid-mounted engine, all-wheel drive
5.0-liter V10, dohc, 40-valve. Darton sleeved block, micropolished OEM crankshaft, Carrillo H-beam rods and rod bolts, CF forged pistons, ACL main and rod bearings; Heffner Performance Turbo System (Twin Precision 71mm turbochargers, dual Tial 44mm wastegates, dual Tial 50mm blow-off valves, custom stainless steel mid- and downpipes, custom stainless exhaust system, high-flow turbo air inlet and discharge plumbing, twin Spearco water-to-air intercoolers, K&N conical air filters); Insane Speed Gallardo Twin Surge Tank fuel system (dual Bosch 044 in-tank fuel pumps, dual Insane Speed billet surge tanks, Injector Dynamics 2,000cc injectors, E85-safe Teflon/stainless line system); Motec M800 ECU, Turbosmart Eboost boost controller
Six-speed E-gear automated manual. Heavy-duty clutch and pressure plate, chrome-moly halfshafts
OEM calipers, slotted Brembo rotors
Wheels and Tires
HRE 843R, 19-inch
Toyo R888, 245/35 (f), 305/30 (r)
Heffner Performance carbon decklid, OEM Superleggera carbon rear diffuser
Peak Power: 1,340 hp
Peak Torque: 1,001 lb-ft
0-60 mph: 2.8 sec. (est.)
Top Speed: 210+
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You've done the hard part: You lost weight. But after all that hard work you're now wondering:
How do I keep it off and stay in shape?For starters, it's good to be aware of common roadblocks in maintaining weight loss. For many it's easier to keep up healthy habits during the workweek, but temptations can increase on weekends and holidays. Try to stay focused no matter what time of the week or year it is. Time is on your side; studies show that people who can keep the weight off for at least 2 years are far more likely to maintain that new weight in the following years.
Negative thoughts can be a barrier to exercise. All-too-common phrases like "I'm too tired," "I have no time" or "It's too hard to maintain a routine" make it all too easy to put off exercise and put on the pounds.
Educate yourself. Keeping the weight off requires know-how. Learn from others who've succeeded and follow their example.
According to the National Weight Control Registry:
- 98% of adults who successfully maintained their weight loss have modified their eating habits.
- 94% have increased their level of physical activity, especially walking.
- 78% eat a healthy breakfast every day.
- 75% weigh themselves weekly.
- 62% watch less than 10 hours of television per week.
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How can we modify our food intake?
- Keep using a food diary and document everything you eat and what time you eat it. This lets you to keep track of exactly what you are eating. It also gives you an idea of when those hunger pangs are most likely to strike. Next time you'll have a healthy snack ready before you dash off to the vending machine.
- Always watch your portion sizes during the day. Refer back to our Suggested Servings for Each Food Group page for help.
- Plan your weekday meals ahead of time and prepare them over weekends. That way they'll be ready when you come home each night. If you're low on time and energy, just reheat and eat. Only this time it'll be a healthy prepared meal instead of ordering fast food or a frozen dinner.
- Along with your food diary, keep a weight notebook and weigh yourself weekly. This will provide numerical evidence that you are making progress and maintaining your weight. Sometimes it is hard to notice your success just by looking in the mirror.
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- Use the NFL Play 60 app with your kids!
- Take the stairs instead of the elevator or escalator at work or at the mall.
- Set aside an hour after dinner and go for a brisk family walk.
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- Park a little farther away from the office door every day to increase your walking.
- Call up a friend you haven't seen or talked to in a while and go for a walk or to the gym together.
- Cut back on watching TV as a family. Plan a game night once a week. Games like charades are great because they get the family up and active while still having fun!
Smart breakfast ideas.
- If you don't have time in the morning for a sit-down meal, plan ahead and have a box of high-fiber, whole-grain cereal or healthy granola bars in your desk drawer at work. Keep fresh fruit at home and in your office to grab on the go.
- Travel a lot with your job? Throw some packets of low -sugar instant oatmeal in your suitcase for a quick, easy-to-make meal in your hotel room!
- Plan a healthy breakfast the night before and have everything set out so there is no confusion or wasted time in the morning. If you have to hurry in the morning you're more likely to forget healthy habits.
- Choose low-sugar, high-fiber, high-protein items while shopping at the grocery store. Remember, breakfast is a very important meal and should not be skipped.
- Make sure you establish a social support network of friends, family and medical professionals who will reinforce your healthy eating decisions. Also, find ways to motivate yourself to keep up your hard work. And remember, at the end of the day, it's up to you. Hold yourself accountable for the decisions you make.
- Remember to avoid binge eating and eating as a response to negative emotions and stress.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Former Haitian President Jean-Claude Duvalier must face charges for serious human rights violations that took place during his rule, the United Nations said.
Responding to reports from Haiti Duvalier may face only charges of financial corruption rather than ones relating to human rights abuses during his time in power, the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said torture, rape and extrajudicial killings during Duvalier's reign have been extensively documented by Haitian and international human rights organizations.
"The High Commissioner has consistently reminded Haiti of its absolute obligation to investigate these well-documented serious human rights violations and to prosecute those responsible for them," UNHCHR spokesman Rupert Colville said Tuesday at a news briefing in Geneva, Switzerland.
Colville said justice must be ensured for Duvalier's victims
"We are extremely disappointed at reports that Mr. Duvalier may not be charged with any human rights crimes, despite numerous complaints by victims to the prosecutor," he said. "It is clear under international law that there is no statute of limitations for such crimes, and the U.N. human rights office has provided technical assistance and legal advice stressing this point."
Human rights groups have long called for Duvalier's arrest for human rights abuses and U.N. officials have offered Haitian authorities technical assistance for prosecuting crimes committed from 1971 until 1986 when Duvalier was in power.
Duvalier returned to Haiti last year after 25 years of exile in France.
A ruling by Judge Carves Jean, chief investigating prosecutor of Haiti's Supreme Court, that Duvalier can only be prosecuted for financial crimes was submitted for review by Haiti's attorney general, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
"Today's wrongheaded decision, if upheld on appeal, would entrench Haiti's culture of impunity by denying justice for Duvalier's thousands of victims," said Reed Brody, legal counsel for Washington-based Human Rights Watch. "Haiti has an obligation to its people to investigate and prosecute the grave violations of human rights under Duvalier's rule."
Haitian President Michel Martelly, linked by family to Duvalier, is seen as sympathetic to the former ruler, the Journal reported. Martelly often said he favors reconciliation and has called on Haitians to join together to unite the country.


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The act or practice of an investor or a group of investors buying a majority stake or a significant minority stake in a publicly-traded company such that it can dismiss current managers and replace them with handpicked successors. Raiding often occurs when the company's share price has recently fallen significantly. It is less commonly called venture arbitrage. See also: Hostile takeover, Greenmail.
An attempt to purchase a sufficient number of shares of a company's stock through a tender offer so that control of the target's operations can be taken away from its current management. Also called venture arbitrage.


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Latest Victim of the Housing Market: McMansions
Many homeowners struggle to find buyers for their million-dollar properties.
CLAREMONT, Calif., Feb. 7, 2008 -- In 2005, Ahmad Hamadanian and his wife, Mitra, bought a new 5,600-square-foot home in Stone Canyon Preserve, a luxury development in Claremont, Calif. They paid more than $1 million for the stucco mansion with five bedrooms and 5½ baths. In a few years, they figured, they could sell the house and make a bundle of cash in the rising real estate market.
"We thought it would be all right," Ahmad said.
Derisively nicknamed "McMansions," these mass-produced luxury homes fueled the real estate boom. With 4,000 to 6,000 square feet of living space and price tags of at least $1 million, buyers were all but guaranteed their homes would appreciate by hundreds of thousands of dollars as soon as they signed on the dotted line.
Today, after sinking hundreds of thousands of additional dollars into landscaping, granite counters and high-end appliances, the Hamadanians have listed the house for $1,995,000. It's been on the market for six months, and they have yet to receive an offer.
Hamadanian owns an Italian restaurant and his wife is a doctor, but with their house nearly 100 percent financed and monthly loan payments of $6,500, they're worried.
"After five years, our mortgage is going to jump high, like maybe twice as much," Mitra Hamadanian said.
Losing an Investment
People once had to place their names on a waiting list to buy a luxury home, but now owners trying to sell compete with new homes offered at lower prices, bank-owned properties and so-called "short sales," in which a home sells for less than the value of the mortgage.
Compounding the problem, buyers have disappeared because the subprime and 100 percent loans that made so much growth possible are gone.
"The people who qualified for the kinds of loans that bought these houses no longer qualify," said Char Constantino, a broker with Century 21.
Not only do those people no longer qualify, but many who did take risky financing are losing their homes. Foreclosures in Los Angeles were up 381 percent in the last quarter of 2007 from the same period the previous year.
This percentage does not even reflect the number of instances in which lenders have agreed to a short sale.
Abraham Prattella is a broker who represents 15 short sales, one of them in Stone Canyon Preserve. It was a home originally bought for $1.35 million and appraised just this past December for $1.4 million. The property is not landscaped, and the lawn is dirt. Prattella has it listed at $999,000.
"What happens is, we sell this house for about a million dollars now, and when the guy next door is selling his house for 1.5, it won't compare at that price," said Prattella. "The home value has to be lowered."
Weathering the Storm
Just up the street, Rudy Diaz is offering his 5,300-square-foot house for $1.888 million. It's landscaped and loaded with granite counters; the kitchen is beautiful.
"I originally bought the house based on the fact that I don't have a retirement [fund]," Diaz said.
In other words, he bought the house not only as a place to live but as an investment. Now with one daughter out of the house and another on her way out soon, he wants to sell. But in three months he hasn't received even a lowball offer on paper.
According to Prattella, it's the fallout from the loan crisis that's preventing families like the Diazes from selling.
"There's so many homes now, and everybody is low-balling every offer, because they know that the consumer has the actual power," Prattella said. "Anybody who wants to actually sell their house, they're dropping the prices drastically."
Constantino says her clients have to make some hard choices. "They have to sell at today's market, at a price that they are not willing to sell it for. Or they have to ride the storm," she said.
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Chen's nephew arrested allegedly in reprisal for his escape
According to ChinaAid Association, a US-based human rights group, Chen Kegui, the nephew of Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, has been arrested on suspicion of murder. It says the arrest was made in revenge for Chen Guangcheng's actions.
The arrest took place in Shandong Province on Wednesday. The nephew's lawyer told the group that the nephew wounded 3 intruders at his home after noticing his parents had been beaten. More than 20 people who were allegedly local officials invaded the home following Chen's escape from house arrest.
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The group says if convicted, Chen's nephew could face the death penalty. It says the arrest is a reprisal against his uncle and that a fair trial cannot be expected. It condemns Shandong authorities and urges the United States and other countries to press China on the matter.
The blind activist told NHK by telephone that he had been informed of his nephew's arrest by his mother in Shandong Province, adding that his brother is also being threatened. Hesaid he wants to appeal through the media for their safety.
The US government said on Thursday that it had conveyed its concern to Chinese authorities about reports of the arrest of Chen's nephew. The Chinese government has not issued any comment.
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Chen, who is now receiving treatment in a Beijing hospital and preparing to go to the United States to study, said his nephew was a scapegoat of officials angered by Chen's audacious escape and demands that they be investigated.
Asked why police in his home province of Shandong in east China would arrest his nephew, Chen said, "Revenge."
"I think this is revenge gone wild, and it's their final battle," he told Reuters by telephone from the Beijing hospital where he is being kept.
Citing descriptions from relatives, Chen said his nephew acted in self-defense, picking up a kitchen cleaver after police and guards stormed into the home of Chen's older brother, where he was staying, after midnight.
"They beat him savagely," Chen said of his nephew. "He was beaten so badly that his face was covered in blood. I heard he was beaten so badly that three hours later his face was still bleeding," Chen said,
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Three-day debate found that trade affects – and is affected by – such issues as food security, job creation, poverty levels, productive capacity and the status of women.
A discussion forum entitled "Why Trade Matters in Development Strategies" was organized by UNCTAD from 27 to 29 November, and attracted trade experts and national officials in charge of development planning.
Representatives of civil society and the business community also were present, as were speakers from five agencies that are members of the UN Inter-Agency Cluster on Trade and Productive Capacity: the Food and Agriculture Organization, the International Labour Office, the International Trade Centre, the United Nations Development Programme, and the United Nations Environment Programme.
UNCTAD is lead agency of the Inter-Agency Cluster.
The objective of the forum was to identify links between trade and development policies, and to specify what sorts of technical assistance can ensure that trade has a positive impact on development. Government officials from Bhutan, Lebanon, Togo, and Yemen gave presentations on how trade and development policies are linked in their respective countries.
Other participants were officials who have taken part in UNCTAD's regional and national workshops on Integrating the Trade Dimension in United Nations Development Assistance Frameworks. Over the last two years, workshops have been held in Guatemala, Lebanon, Lesotho, Mali, and Nepal.
Topics explored over the three days included the interrelation of trade and food security, poverty reduction, women's empowerment, productive capacity, job creation, and the environment.
The meeting reached a broad consensus that trade affects economic progress in developing countries through a wider range of channels than might be expected. Therefore, participants said, it is imperative that the trade dimension be included in development strategies and plans. Speakers also agreed that the effects of trade on the issues considered can differ significantly depending on the specific situation of each country and that therefore there cannot be a "one-size-fits-all" approach applied to all countries.
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Early Years
Cooke was born on November 3, 1830, in Winchester and was the son of Maria W. Pendleton Cooke and John Rogers Cooke, an attorney and member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829–1830. His twelve siblings included the poet Philip Pendleton Cooke, and he was also a cousin of the writer and Maryland congressman John Pendleton Kennedy. Cooke spent his early childhood at Glengary, his family's Frederick County farm. After the house burned late in the 1830s, the family moved to Charles Town, in Jefferson County (now West Virginia), and shortly thereafter to Richmond, where Cooke lived until the Civil War. He hoped to attend the University of Virginia, but he repeatedly had to defer his plans because his father—perpetually in debt—could not afford the tuition. Although Cooke studied law with his father and began to practice in 1851, he was, in his own words, "dragged by literature," and he read voraciously works by Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Washington Irving, among other British and American writers.
Cooke became friends with John Reuben Thompson, who in November 1848 published Cooke's poem "Avalon" in the Southern Literary Messenger . Thereafter Cooke's stories and essays regularly appeared in southern as well as northern periodicals, including Harper's New Monthly Magazine and Putnam's Monthly magazine. In 1854 Harper and Brothers published anonymously the first of his many historical romances, Leather Stocking and Silk; or, Hunter John Myers and His Times, a novel with title and characters inspired by James Fenimore Cooper and set in the Shenandoah Valley early in the nineteenth century. Cooke also anonymously wrote The Youth of Jefferson; or A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 (1854). A few months later the New York publishers D. Appleton and Company brought out The Virginia Comedians: or, Old Days in the Old Dominion, a historical romance set in pre-Revolutionary Virginia and chronicling the romantic pursuits of Champ Effingham, an aristocrat and sometime cad. The widely praised novel went through several printings during Cooke's lifetime and continues to be considered his best work.
Cooke's literary successes allowed him to abandon his moderately successful law practice in the mid-1850s. He published three more novels, Ellie: or, The Human Comedy (1855), an experiment with the contemporary social-problem novel; The Last of the Foresters: or, Humors on the Border; A Story of the Old Virginia Frontier (1856); and Henry St. John, Gentleman, of "Flower of Hundreds," in the County of Prince George, Virginia (1859), a sequel to The Virginia Comedians. Even though modern critics view his 1850s fiction as romanticizing colonial gentry and perpetuating the myth of the Virginia cavalier, Cooke saw himself as a critic of aristocracy. As at least one literary historian has pointed out, however, Cooke's view of the aristocracy was conflicted. Champ Effingham, who at the novel's beginning stalks the actress Beatrice Hallam and acts dishonorably, has been rehabilitated by the end.
Civil War
While fighting in the major eastern campaigns from the First Battle of Manassas (1861) to Appomattox Court House, Cooke continued to write prolifically. His Civil War diaries fill four notebooks, and his war dispatches appeared under the pseudonym Tristan Joyeuse, Gent., in Richmond's Southern Illustrated News, among other periodicals. Later he collected and edited these accounts for Wearing of the Gray (1867). In 1863 Cooke published The Life of Stonewall Jackson, which he later revised and issued as Stonewall Jackson: A Military Biography (1866).
Although he is recognized as one of the first writers to treat the Civil War in fiction, critics lament that he did not exploit his war experiences to explore the subject in more depth and with more forthrightness. This is especially true because Cooke's war diaries and various statements suggest that he understood war to be quite different from the romantic adventures of his books. "I never liked the business of war," he told an interviewer after the Civil War.
Gold lace on my coat always made me feel as if I were a child tricked out in red and yellow calico with turkey-feathers in my headgear to add to the gorgeousness. There is nothing intellectual about fighting. It is fit work for brutes and brutish men. And in modern war, where men are organized in masses and converted into insensate machines, there is really nothing heroic or romantic in any way calculated to appeal to the imagination!
Cooke's books, it seems, were an attempt to refashion modern war in the romantic, intellectual image of Cooke himself. This transformation served an important purpose. Cooke's tales "resisted Reconstruction and glorified the Confederacy while at the same time slowly fueling the spirit of reunion," the historian David W. Blight has written. "Cooke demonstrated how easily for some the horrible memory of combat and campaigning could be converted into purposeful nostalgia."
Later Years
On September 18, 1867 in Millwood, in Clarke County, Cooke married Mary Francis Page, who died on January 15, 1878. Their one daughter and two sons included Robert Powel Page Cooke, a physician who participated in Walter Reed's experiments to determine the cause of yellow fever. The family lived at the Briars, their Clarke County estate, where Cooke wrote, entertained, and farmed. His new agricultural knowledge informed the plot of one of his best novels from the postbellum years, The Heir of Gaymount (1870). The productive Cooke published more than a dozen other novels and novellas, and two historical works, as well as many essays for various periodicals. He was an early member of the American Historical Association.
Cooke's work holds a significant place in Virginia's literary history and in nineteenth-century American literary culture. He was arguably the most famous Virginia writer of his period, a skilled historical romancer in the tradition of Walter Scott, James Fenimore Cooper, and William Gilmore Simms who repeatedly turned to Virginia's past as his inspiration for fiction. Although sometimes viewed as derivative and careless, and especially faulted for inadequate revision, Cooke's writings embraced a breadth of subject matter, from colonial Virginia history to class in contemporary Richmond, in a wide variety of genres that gives his work enduring interest. In part because of his success in gaining recognition from northern editors and readers, his career illustrates connections between northern and southern publishing in the nineteenth century.
John Esten Cooke died, probably of typhoid fever, at the Briars on September 27, 1886. He was buried in the Old Chapel Cemetery, in Clarke County.
Major Works
- Leather Stocking and Silk; or, Hunter John Myers and His Times: A Story of the Valley of Virginia (anonymous, 1854)
- The Virginia Comedians; or, Old Days in the Old Dominion (2 volumes, 1854)
- The Youth of Jefferson; or, A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 (anonymous, 1854)
- Ellie; or, The Human Comedy (1855)
- The Last of the Foresters; or, Humors on the Border. A Story of the Old Virginia Frontier (1856)
- Henry St. John, Gentleman, of "Flower of Hundreds," in the County of Prince George, Virginia: A Tale of 1774–'75 (1859)
- The Life of Stonewall Jackson. From Official Papers, Contemporary Narratives, and Personal Acquaintance (1863); revised as Stonewall Jackson: A Military Biography (1866)
- Surry of Eagle's-Nest; or, The Memoirs of a Staff-Officer Serving in Virginia. Edited, from the MSS. of Colonel Surry (1866)
- Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes and Adventures of the War (1867); republished as Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of the War, with Thrilling Narratives of the Daring Deeds, Willing Sacrifices and Patient Sufferings Incident to "Wearing of the Gray" (1871)
- Fairfax: or, The Master of Greenway Court, A Chronicle of the Valley of the Shenandoah (1868)
- Mohun; or, The Last Days of Lee and His Paladins. Final Memoirs of a Staff Officer Serving in Virginia. From the MSS. of Colonel Surry of Eagle's Nest (1869)
- Hilt to Hilt; or, Days and Nights on the Banks of the Shenandoah in the Autumn of 1864. From the MSS. of Colonel Surry of Eagle's Nest (1869).
- Hammer and Rapier (1870)
- The Heir of Gaymount: A Novel (1870)
- Out of the Foam: A Novel (1871)
- A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee (1871)
- Doctor Vandyke: A Novel (1872)
- Her Majesty the Queen: A Novel (1873)
- Pretty Mrs. Gaston, and Other Stories (1874)
- Justin Harley: A Romance of Old Virginia (1875)
- Canolles: The Fortunes of a Partisan of '81 (1877)
- Professor Pressensee, Materialist and Inventor (1878)
- Stories of the Old Dominion from the Settlement to the End of the Revolution (1879)
- Mr. Grantley's Idea (1879)
- The Virginia Bohemians: A Novel (1880)
- Fanchette by One of Her Admirers (1883)
- Virginia: A History of the People (1883)
- My Lady Pokahontas: A True Relation of Virginia. Writ by Anas Todkill, Puritan and Pilgrim with Notes by John Esten Cooke (1885)
- The Maurice Mystery (1885)
- Poe as a Literary Critic (edited, with an introduction, by N. Bryllion Fagin; 1946)
- Stonewall Jackson and the Old Stonewall Brigade (edited by Richard Barksdale Harwell; 1954)
- Outlines from the Outpost (edited by Harwell; 1961)
- John Esten Cooke's Autobiographical Memo (edited, with a preface, by John R. Welsh; 1969)
Time Line
November 3, 1830 - John Esten Cooke is born in Winchester.
November 1848 - The Southern Literary Messenger publishes John Esten Cooke's poem "Avalon," marking the beginning of his prolific literary career.
1851 - After studying with his father, the attorney John Rogers Cooke, John Esten Cooke begins to practice law. His focus, however, is on romantic literature, which he reads voraciously.
1854 - Harper and Brothers publishes anonymously the first of John Esten Cooke's many historical romances, Leather Stocking and Silk; or, Hunter John Myers and His Times, a novel with title and characters inspired by James Fenimore Cooper and set in the Shenandoah Valley early in the nineteenth century.
November 1859 - John Esten Cooke joins the Richmond Howitzers, an artillery unit raised in the wake of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry.
July 21, 1861 - John Esten Cooke participates in the First Battle of Manassas as a member of the Richmond Howitzers.
January 31, 1862 - After rising to the rank of sergeant in the Richmond Howitzers, John Esten Cooke is discharged.
Spring 1862 - John Esten Cooke serves as a volunteer aide-de-camp to Confederate general J. E. B. Stuart, who was married to Cooke's first cousin.
May 19, 1862 - John Esten Cooke receives a commission as first lieutenant of artillery in the Confederate army.
June 12–16, 1862 - John Esten Cooke joins Confederate cavalry general J. E. B. Stuart on his famed ride around George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac during the Maryland Campaign.
August 8, 1862 - John Esten Cooke is promoted to captain of artillery in the Confederate army, with the rank retroactively effective July 25.
1863 - Following Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's death on May 10 following the Battle of Chancellorsville, John Esten Cooke publishes The Life of Stonewall Jackson. It will be revised and reissued in 1866.
October 1863 - John Esten Cooke is temporarily assigned to duty in the adjutant general's department of Confederate general J. E. B. Stuart's command.
May 1864 - John Esten Cooke is named assistant inspector general of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia's artillery corps.
April 9, 1865 - Following Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, John Esten Cooke is paroled from service in the Confederate army.
September 18, 1867 - John Esten Cooke marries Mary Francis Page. The couple will have one daughter and two sons while living at the Briars, their Clarke County estate.
January 15, 1878 - Mary Francis Page, wife of the author John Esten Cooke, dies.
September 27, 1886 - John Esten Cooke dies, probably of typhoid fever, at the Briars, his Clarke County estate. He is buried in the Old Chapel Cemetery in Clarke County.
Further Reading
Cite This Entry
- APA Citation:
Beaty, J. O., & the Dictionary of Virginia Biography. John Esten Cooke (1830–1886). (2014, November 4). In Encyclopedia Virginia. Retrieved from http://www.EncyclopediaVirginia.org/Cooke_John_Esten_1830-1886.
- MLA Citation:
Beaty, John O. and the Dictionary of Virginia Biography. "John Esten Cooke (1830–1886)." Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Humanities, 4 Nov. 2014. Web. READ_DATE.
First published: April 6, 2009 | Last modified: November 4, 2014
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Sasha is back in NYC for one night only with "The Education of Professor Weiss."
Come enjoy amazing songs and stories as Sasha shares the trials and tribulations of being an MFA student. With songs from Kurt Weill to John Mayer, she'll take you from the front of the classroom to behind the bleachers. Accompanied by Dan Micciche and also featuring special guest singers, it's a night you don't want to miss.
The concert takes place tonight, January 3rd, 2013 at 9:30pm. The Duplex is located at 61 Christopher Street, NYC. $10 Cover & 2 drink min. For reservations, call 212.255.5438 or click HERE.
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The three White House officials being advised on the progress of the botched transfer were in addition to the top leadership of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Both Acting Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) Kenneth Melson (photo above) and U.S. District Attorney for Phoenix Dennis K. Burke resigned their positions over "Operation Fast and Furious" August 30. The operation was not merely responsible for the transfer of more than 2,000 guns to the Mexican-based Sinaloa drug cartel, but many of the weapons were high-powered weapons such as AK-47s, AR-15s and two different models of .50 caliber armor-piercing sniper weapons with a kill range of over a mile.
The ATF supposedly transferred the guns to the drug gang beginning in November 2009 to set up a sting that would enable the prosecution of the gang's drug lords, but the ATF lost track of all the guns and to date there have been no high-level prosecutions of drug kingpins related to the gun transfers. But the guns have been traced to the site of a dozen violent crimes in the United States and hundreds of violent crimes in Mexico. Among the U.S. crimes related to the "gun walking" scandal was the shooting death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. The program shut down after negative publicity over Terry's death in December 2010.
President Obama promised June 29 that, "As soon as the investigation is completed, I think appropriate actions will be taken."
The ATF announced August 30 that U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota B. Todd Jones would take over as acting ATF Director: "U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota B. Todd Jones to serve as Acting Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and ATF Acting Director Kenneth Melson to become Senior Advisor on forensic science in the Office of Legal Policy (OLP)."
The other political victim of the gun walker scandal was U.S. District Attorney for Phoenix Dennis K. Burke. Burke resigned the same day as Melson, August 30. The U.S. Attorney's office had a role in the botched gun sting, as part of a joint task force under which the operation was managed. Burke's top aide was also reassigned. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency also had a role in Fast and Furious.
Melson's demotion was the first major sacking related to the scandal. Other officials involved in the day-to-day operations suffered no career consequences for the gun-walking scandal. After the Los Angeles Times reported that three of the leaders of Fast and Furious — William G. McMahon, William D. Newell and David Voth — had been promoted to the Washington headquarters on August 16, the ATF countered what it termed "inaccurate" reporting and called the move to headquarters a "lateral transfer."
The Phoenix office Newell headed directs ATF operations in Arizona and New Mexico, while McMahon was the head of operations for the ATF in the entire western half of the nation. The ATF claimed in an August 17 press release that the three "were laterally transferred from operational positions and moved into administrative roles, they were not promoted. They did not receive salary or grade increases nor did they assume positions with greater responsibility." Newell, the agent in charge of the Phoenix office "reassigned to the Office of Management to assist with the [Office of the Inspector General] investigation and congressional inquiry."
The ATF "lateral transfer" and explanation troubled some congressional investigators, however. "The Justice Department is trying to explain to us that it was a lateral move and they aren't getting more money and so it really wasn't a promotion," Senator Charles Grassley told NewsMax August 16, "But I think it is a move to keep them quiet."
Photo: Kenneth Melson
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What you need to know before you go
Cambodia is finally on the tourist map and is fast becoming a prominent tropical getaway in Southeast Asia. Its Khmer culture is well known, but there's far more to see. A short boat ride from the mainland will take you to quiet and untouched islands such as Koh Rong and Koh Kong. The legacy of Cambodia's artistic past can still be seen in the handicrafts and silverware found in Siem Reap and Phnom Penh's bustling markets, where you can discover excellent craftsmanship at excellent prices.
Most travelers to Cambodia will cite the iconic Angkor Wat as one of the reasons they pack their bags for the country. The beautiful and extensive temple ruins of Angkor are a highlight of Siem Reap. Cambodia also has a rather morbid history because of the Khmer Rouge regime, but thankfully the country is a far friendlier place today.


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Expert Advice for Safaris
Game drives and the Big Five—pulling off a classic African safari is easier (and cheaper) than you might think.
Africa's a big place. How do I decide where exactly to go?
To the uninitiated, planning a safari can seem daunting, but it doesn't have to be. Wildlife excursions are largely confined to eastern and southern Africa, where the Big Five (lions, leopards, rhinos, elephants, and Cape buffalos) converge. Within those regions, there are some basic rules that help distinguish the kind of experience each country offers.
On the approachable end of the spectrum, Kenya and South Africa are among the easiest-to-navigate nations in Africa. Both have well-developed tourism infrastructures with accessible parks, plush lodges, and plenty of flights and outfitted trips, so safaris there tend to be simple to arrange and comparatively cheap. On the more adventurous side, Tanzania and Uganda in the east and Botswana and Zimbabwe in the south offer more rugged, unique experiences and fewer crowds, although generally at a higher price. Once you decide which type of adventure you'd prefer, it seriously helps to zero in on specific trips by tapping a safari-savvy travel agent. Travelhub.com has a robust database that lists hundreds of travel agencies, and it allows you to search specifically for safari specialists.
How much can I expect to pay?
Regardless of how you do it, safaris don't come cheap. A weeklong trip is typically at least $4,000: Guided safaris start at roughly $250 per person per day—and that's before you've paid for airfare to Africa. International flights aren't usually included in safari packages and typically cost $2,000 or so. That said, there are some strategies that help keep prices relatively low. Booking your initial flight through an Africa-focused ticket consolidator, such as Premier Tours (premiertours.com) or Magical Holidays (800/228-2208) can save you up to 30 percent. Also, if you don't mind a little rain, you can cut the cost of lodging in half by traveling during the wet season, from November to March. The Mara Serena Safari Lodge in Kenya's Maasai Mara reserve, for instance, charges $260 for a double room in early December and $600 for that same room during the peak July–October period. Also, storms are brief and usually limited to the afternoon. "Personally, I think you're missing out if you never see a rain shower in Africa—they're spectacular," says Bill Given, a biologist and researcher at the Denver Zoo who also guides custom safaris for his company, The Wild Source (thewildsource.com). "The worst that happens is you get a little wet and wind up spending a few hours indoors watching a powerful display of Mother Nature." Finally, make sure to read the fine print. Much like an ocean cruise, a safari with a higher price tag may end up being cheaper than one that costs less up front but requires paying extra for one-off experiences as you go. Upgrades such as traveling in a private group, visiting private game reserves, and hopping around on charter planes will quickly ratchet up costs, sometimes to the tune of $1,000 a day. And those splurges don't always pay off: "You don't necessarily get better wildlife experiences by spending lots of money," Given says. "At some point, the steep rates are because the lodge has a spa and you're eating gourmet, six-course meals."
How do I find a good outfitter?
Bottom line: It's all about your guide. "That person will absolutely make or break your trip," says Peter Allison, who chronicled his own adventures in Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide. "A good guide will not only point out where the lions are, but will also teach you how to listen to calls, follow tracks, and spot that lion tail in a field of tall grass." Allison recommends looking for outfitters that specifically tout the expertise of their trip leaders. Fodor's The Complete African Safari Planner, which lists descriptions of 24 reliable agencies, is a good place to start. When you speak to the company representatives, don't hesitate to ask about the strength of individual guides, and be sure to request references. Finally, because animals move based on migratory and weather patterns, a good safari operator will adjust itineraries throughout the year to maximize wildlife sightings. Consider it a red flag if a company offers the exact same trips year-round.
Any other general tips?
Focus on the experience, not your photo album. If your head is behind a lens the whole time, you may not be able to take in the bigger picture. Also, don't have unrealistic expectations about the number of animals you'll see. "Some novices expect every plain to be carpeted with cheetahs chasing gazelles," Allison says. You're not on a Discovery Channel show; it's a vacation. So keep an open mind and remember that every animal has its charms, from warthogs ("possibly the only animal that looks better from the back than the front," Allison says) to zebras ("no less fantastic-looking than unicorns").
By the Numbers
8,000 Approximate number of wildebeests born each day in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park, from December through March
29 Number of elephants per square mile at Botswana's Chobe National Park—some 120,000 in all
19,300 Size, in square miles, of Tanzania's Selous Game Reserve, Africa's largest national park (about the same area as 19 Rhode Islands!)


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Rebecca Terrell
New American
Jan 28, 2013
The Internet is rife with details about the firearms Adam Lanza used to kill 20 children and 6 adults before turning a handgun on himself at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14. But information about Lanza's medical history is scarce, breeding speculation that he may fit the profile of school shooters under the influence of psychotherapeutic medication.
"In virtually every mass school shooting during the past 15 years, the shooter has been on or in withdrawal from psychiatric drugs," writes Lawrence Hunter of the Social Security Institute. "Yet, federal and state governments continue to ignore the connection between psychiatric drugs and murderous violence, preferring instead to exploit these tragedies in an oppressive and unconstitutional power grab to snatch guns away from innocent, law-abiding people."
School shooters on psychotropic drugs include:
• Eric Harris, one of the assailants at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, in 1999, whose autopsy revealed he had a therapeutic level of the antidepressant Luvox in his system;
• Steve Kazmierczak, who killed six including himself at Northern Illinois University in 2008 while in withdrawal from the antidepressant Prozac;
• Jeffrey Weise, a student at Red Lake High School in Minnesota, who killed ten and wounded seven in 2005 while on Prozac;
• Kip Kinkel, an Oregon teen who murdered his parents and proceeded on a shooting spree at his high school in 1998, killing two and wounding 25, while in Prozac withdrawal;
• Toby Sincino, a 15-year-old who shot two teachers and himself in 1995 at his South Carolina school while on the antidepressant Zoloft.
The list of criminals on psychotropic drugs includes such infamous names as Ted Kaczinski, John Hinckley, Jr., and the Amish school killer Charles Carl Roberts IV. While committing their violent acts they were all taking antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI).
"One of the things in the past that we've known about depression is that it very, very rarely leads to violence," observed psychiatrist Peter Breggin in a Fox News report. "It's only been since the advent of these new SSRI drugs that we have murderers, sometimes even mass murderers, taking antidepressant drugs." The Physicians' Desk Reference, an authoritative source of all FDA-approved drug-labeling information, identifies hazardous side effects of psychiatric drugs, including suicidal and homicidal ideation.
Despite the abundance of such evidence and a glut of scientific studies proving real danger, "there has yet to be a federal investigation on the link between psychiatric drugs and acts of senseless violence," according to the Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR). In the face of the Obama administration's knee-jerk agitation for gun control, Hunter suggests, "It is pharmaceutical makers, not law-abiding gun owners or gun manufacturers, who should be held to account for the series of 'lone-wolf' mass shootings that have occurred since the widespread use of psychiatric drugs began."
Fox News reported after an initial search of Lanza's home investigators found no indication the 20-year-old was taking prescriptions. Other evidence suggests he was. Louise Tambascio, a friend Lanza's mother, told CBS News' Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes, "I know he was on medication and everything." ABC News also interviewed Tambascio, who repeated, "I knew he was on medication."
Connecticut's chief medical examiner is currently conducting toxicology exams to determine if Lanza was using any behavior-modifying drugs, according to CT Post. It will be several weeks before the medical examiner's drug tests are complete.
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The inimitable Paul Auster launches the limited edition manuscript of his New York Trilogy with fellow author Luc Sante at the Strand's Rare Book Room. Paul will undoubtedly share never before seen or heard thoughts of The New York Trilogy's journey from infancy to publication.
Some words about the limited edition manuscript:
Specialized in the reproduction of major manuscripts, SP Books are happy to present three drafts from Paul Auster's New York Trilogy. In 2014 the publisher went to the New York Public Library to explore the papers of one of our greatest contemporary writers, Paul Auster. This colossal archive bears witness to the evolution of a novel, the generation of a publication through all its intermediary stages, from beginning to end.
After summarily sketching out the plot, he writes his first versions in notebooks which represent weeks, months, or years of his life. There are usually around ten handwritten and as many as three typewritten drafts of a single text, the latter containing numerous corrections in pen. The document he hands his publisher is the final version of a text that has gone through many incarnations.
A veritable time capsule, the book contains hand- and typewritten manuscripts of The New York Trilogy, carefully selected in cooperation with Paul Auster to shed light on this major work's architecture. The first, a handwritten sketch of City of Glass, entitled New York Confidential, is followed by a nearly definitive typewritten version of Ghosts, initially called Black Outs, and a quite advanced manuscript of The Locked Room, whose first title was Ghosts. Like Mr. Auster's enigmatic New York, this is "an inexhaustible space, a labyrinth of endless steps".
Paul Auster is the bestselling author of "Winter Journal," "Sunset Park," "Invisible," "The Book of Illusions," and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. He has been awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, the Prix Médicis étranger, an Independent Spirit Award, and the Premio Napoli. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Luc Sante's books include "Low Life," "Evidence," "The Factory of Facts," "Kill All Your Darlings," and "The Other Paris." He teaches at Bard.


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Here are some swatches from the "Lake Moss" NYX trio, the one on the very left is similar to MAC's "Beauty Marked":
And from the ICING Palette I purchased a few months ago...
I am trying to get a tutorial going using some of these colors in the palette, just have been so busy and enamored by the MAC Pigments!
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Here are some swatches from the "Lake Moss" NYX trio, the one on the very left is similar to MAC's "Beauty Marked":
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- Anonymous said...
What is that 3rd palette??? IT'S GORGEOUS!
I'm going to wait till you get more pigments, I definately want the vanilla.
How do accept payments? Paypal?
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Great blog Vanessa! :)
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The one on the far left really does look a lot like Beauty Marked. that's awesome to find it in a pigment type.
Feel free to check out my new blog as well. i will be posting makeup stuff also.
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