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"It's still a little bit of a blur," Rahal said of last year's race where the bobble gave the win to Justin Wilson and a runner-up finish for himself. "I can't say that I've gone and watched it."
This weekend's Firestone 550 – set to broadcast live in primetime on ABC-TV beginning at 7:30 p.m. CT – offers Rahal the chance at vindication and an opportunity to snap a winless streak that stretches 83, which dates back to 2008 at St. Petersburg when he became the youngest winner in open-wheel history.
Last year's agonizing finish may continue to run through his head, but it is certainly far from haunting Rahal. Instead, it is serving as motivation as he helps his new team – co-owned by his father and 1986 Indianapolis 500 winner Bobby Rahal – pursue its first victory of the season.
"It always will be one that got away from me until I win my next one," Rahal said. "Then I won't think about it. There are a lot of cases where I look back and it's frustrating that you didn't get to see it through. This is certainly one of them.
"It would have been nice to win and get rid of all the questions of when I'll win again, and all that sort of thing. But I think it adds fuel to the fire to come back here and do a good job this year. I'm extremely excited with the Rahal Letterman Lanigan boys. I think we are going to put a great car on the track and we'll have a good chance to win."
This season has provided a fresh start for Rahal and the chance to partner with his father for an entire season for the first time in his six-year INDYCAR career. Rahal, after spending the two previous seasons with Service Central Chip Ganassi Racing, agreed to join Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing during the offseason. The team features co-owners Bobby Rahal, CBS Late Night Show host David Letterman and businessman Mike Lanigan.
The move to create the father/son team comes after what has been a roller coaster ride during Rahal's five previous seasons. He spent his first two seasons in the IZOD IndyCar Series with Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing before a 2010 season that saw him drive for four different teams – Sarah Fisher Racing, Dreyer & Reinbold Racing, Rahal Letterman Racing and Newman Haas Racing – during a 12-race span.
Finding stability with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing has him confident that a return trip to Victory Lane is not far off.
"When we first sat down and discussed this as a possibility, it just made the most sense for us to work together to get Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing back to where the team was in their glory days and there is no doubt that we can get there," Rahal said. "This is probably the most excited I have been to join any team because I see the potential behind what my dad and the rest of the team have been able to accomplish over the last year with (previous RLL Racing driver) Takuma (Sato)."
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Van der Hamen was born in 1596 and baptized in Madrid, where he lived all his life. His father was a Fleming of noble ancestry, his mother was half-Spanish and half-Flemish, claiming descent from the Spanish nobility. The family was prosperous and provided its sons with a solid education; in fact Van der Hamen's brother Lorenzo distinguished himself as a man of letters.
Nothing is known of the painter's artistic training, except that it occurred in Madrid. The earliest record of his work as a painter dates from 1619, when he received payment for a still-life painting from the crown. This was the genre for which he would become famous, although he was also an excellent portraitist.
Van der Hamen held an appointment in the royal household as a member of the Royal Archers, an honorary corps of guards. However, his application to become a royal painter was not successful. He died in Madrid in 1631 at the young age of thirty-five. [This is an edited version of the artist's biography published, or to be published, in the NGA Systematic Catalogue]
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Do you ever have super random thoughts enter your head while cruising the lake or sitting on the deer stand?
Admit it. You do and so do I, so this week I will ponder some of these thoughts, some of which are quite perplexing.
#1-Why do fishing lures go out of style? With bass on heavily pressured lakes I realize they sort of build up a resistance to certain lures after they have seen them thousands of times but why would a Slug-Go not work today as well as it did in the early 1990s? Think about it.
#2-Does anyone really think we will ever get feral hog numbers under control? You read a lot about the idea of controlling them but in reality, there is no way to stop the advance of hogs other than some sort of natural "cure" such as a major disease outbreak.
#3-Since hogs have been on my mind much lately here is another one. Are hogs really as damaging to other forms of wildlife as we hear? I can understand the damage to ground nesting birds due to their rooting but hog numbers are at record levels and deer numbers throughout virtually all of their range are high. Ditto for turkeys. Have hogs really had a negative impact on them?
#4-At some point trophy hunting of deer may become completely irrelevant. I can see the day where people with the financial resources simply pay shed antlers of raised bucks and claim as a trophy. In reality, we are not far from that right now.
#5-Crossbows have been legal for use in the archery-only whitetail season for several years now and amazingly (sarcasm mode turned off) bow hunters have not lost opportunities, there haven't been a plethora of crossbow-related incidents and deer numbers have remained steady.
In my 20 plus year career of covering the outdoors, I have never seen anything as lame, unnecessary and downright childish as the opposition of crossbows by a vocal minority of the archery industry.
I will never forget being in a room with numerous Texas bow shop owners, representatives from archery companies, landowners and state wildlife officials and having a leader of an organization tell me they even oppose crossbows for the handicapped.
Thankfully, these people did not get their way.
#6-The most challenging animal to hunt in Texas is the aoudad. If you purposefully seek a mature aoudad on open range or on a large high fence facility, you are up for an extreme challenge. Amazing creatures.
#7-Does anyone care about red snapper any more? Sure, we all love to eat them but has the federal red tape nightmare surrounding the fishery killed your interest for pursuing them. That along with fuel prices has pretty much done it for me although I am not opposed to catch them.
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Lyft finally rolls out in New York City boroughs, but with commercially licensed drivers behind the wheel, not ordinary people.
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The ride-for-hire service's move into New York City has been put on hold. But the company says a restraining order wasn't the reason.
Harley's latest bike is radically different than anything the company has made before, and its engineers think it's uniquely suited for city streets. Join us as we find out.
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"To our hacker allies, our fellow occupiers, our militant comrades all over the world, the time for talk is over: it's time to hack and smash, beat and shag."
The call to arms issued last week by the international hacker group Anonymous was accompanied by a frenzy of online hacking. Attackers took down the websites of a tear-gas manufacturer in Pennsylvania, the Nasdaq and BATS stock exchanges and the Chicago Board Options Exchange. A few days later they hacked into websites owned by the Federal Trade Commission and the Bureau of Consumer Protection.
The messages they left behind—about their opposition to everything from the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a controversial new treaty for enforcing intellectual property rights, to violent suppression of democracy protestors in the Middle East—had the air of giddy jubilation.
"Guess what? We're back for round two," the hackers wrote in reference to their attack on the FTC websites, their second such raid on the agency in less than a month. "With the doomsday clock ticking down on Internet freedom, Antisec has leapt into action. Again. Holy deja vu hack Batman! Expect us yet?"
Comic posturing aside, the hackers seemed amazed by their success: A barely organized ragtag "team of mayhem," as one Anonymous offshoot dubbed itself, was knocking down the Web infrastructure built by major corporations and large government agencies as if it were nothing but paper backdrops in a school play.
The hackers hadn't discovered some secret digital weapon. They weren't exploiting some zero-day vulnerability in a core application. They weren't backed by a powerful government agency. They didn't even have the advantage of surprise—the group has been around in one form or another for almost a decade.
Yet they were winning—easily—against targets as noteworthy as the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency, the White House and Citigroup.
The victories underscore what is perhaps both the main point of the global Anonymous movement and the secret of its success—that the people in charge, whether they be in Alexandria, Egypt or Alexandria, Virginia—are too corrupt, too complacent and too careless to be trusted. Almost nothing makes that point as effectively as Internet security: Officials have known that the networks were vulnerable for well over a decade and have chosen to do little about it.
Anonymous lays siege to websites using a method called "distributed denial of service" or DDoS. There is nothing new about a DDoS attack, which basically floods a computer that is connected to the Internet with messages, such as connection requests, until it crashes.
The threat of DDoS was raised as far back as February 2000, when successful attacks on Amazon, eBay, CNN, Buy.com and Yahoo made headlines around the world.
Since then the size and frequency of DDoS attacks has continued to increase. Akamai, whose content delivery network spans 80,000 servers in 70 countries, recently reported that DDoS attack incidents had soared 2,000 percent in the past three years. Experts describe DDoS attacks of 10 Gigabits per second and larger as "the new normal." IT analyst groups like Forrester and Gartner regularly advise their clients to invest in DDoS protection.
But the ongoing rout of large government and corporate sites by Anonymous indicates few are listening.
They failed to take down amazon by their own admission
In this article it incorrectly states they did take down amazon. I was reporting a correction
Where in the article does it say Anonymous took down Amazon. Might I suggest a more thorough re-read?
"The threat of DDoS was raised as far back as February 2000, when successful attacks on Amazon, eBay, CNN, Buy.com and Yahoo made headlines around the world."
The words "successful attack" imply a successful attack, which would be taking the site down. Attacking a site with a DDoS and failing to knock the site offline would not be considered by anyone a successful attack. Yet this article refers to the attack as having been successful.
Might I suggest you take your own advice, Carlos?
I think not Eric. The statement about historical DDoS attacks makes no reference to any Anonymous involvement. Also you may be interested to know Anon came into existence 3 years after the attacks that were mentioned. Am I going too quickly for you?
I posted a link showing an attack where anon failed to take down amazon. Show us where there is a reported story of them being successful attacking amazon.
or any successful ddos attack on amazon. The problem with launching that attack on Amazon is that they are built to withstand one every year during the holiday shopping season since thats what happens to them during their normal business.
Dear o dear 571ll57udl3y. You are disputing a fact that never appeared in the original piece. As Elise explained, in her article she mentioned that DDoS attacks had been in the spotlight since 2000 and pointed to the fact that Amazon had been targeted (there is no mention of Anonymous). So, providing information about a failed attack by Anonymous a decade later has no relevence to what was written. Show us proof Anonymous existed and failed in a DDoS attack on Amazon IN THE YEAR 2000.


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Despite paying dealers a $5,000 incentive on every Buell sold, there's still 1,302 of "America's sportsbike" remaining at the time of writing. Harley really, really, really wants you to buy one. To help, it's set up a bike finder detailing the numbers of specific models remaining and their location. Expect very good deals.
In other news, the last Buell ever made, an XB12Scg was donated to the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum in Alabama. Someday, a father will point at it and explain to his son, "Yes Timmy, America once did produce good motorcycles."
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BOSTON — The boy who was killed in the Boston Marathon bombings was remembered by neighbors Tuesday as a vivacious 8-year-old who loved to run and climb.
Martin Richard was among the three people killed in the explosions Monday, according to U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch, a friend of the family for 25 years. The boy's mother, Denise, and 6-year-old sister, Jane, were badly injured. His brother and father were also watching the race but were not hurt.
They had gone to get ice cream, then returned to the area near the finish line. Neighbor Jack Cunningham said Martin's father was a runner but had been injured and didn't run the marathon.
"They were looking in the crowd as the runners were coming to see if they could identify some of their friends when the bomb hit," Lynch said. He described the family as very strong and said they were doing better than might be expected.
On Tuesday morning, candle burned on the stoop of the family's single-family home in the city's Dorchester section, and "peace" was written in chalk on the front walkway. A child's bicycle helmet lay overturned on the front lawn.
"What a gift. To know him was to love him," said longtime friend Judy Tuttle, who remembered sitting at the dining room table having tea with Denise Richard while Martin did his homework. "He had that million-dollar smile and you never knew what was going to come out of him. Denise is the most spectacular mother that you've ever met and Bill is a pillar of the community. It doesn't get any better than these people."
Neighbor Betty Delorey, 80, said Martin loved to climb the neighborhood trees and hop the fence outside his home.


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Caruso has deep roots and years of dedicated involvement in Hofstra Law's extensive alumni community. For the past five years, he served as president of the Hofstra Law Alumni Association and as a member of the Dean's Advisory Board.
"Chris will be a strong leader in realizing our top priorities: preparing students for today's job market and helping them find jobs," said Dean Eric Lane. "Beyond his strong relationship with the alumni, he brings to the Law School a fresh understanding of the current legal job market."
Reporting directly to Dean Lane, Caruso will oversee the marketing of Hofstra Law and its students to all segments of the legal community by proactively building strategic relationships with employers and with alumni to further enhance students' employment opportunities. His hiring is part of a reorganization of the Office of Career Services to emphasize an outward focus on job placement.
As president of the Alumni Association, Caruso oversaw the restructuring of the Alumni Association and established committees focused on career services, development, diversity and enrollment management with the goal of having alumni be directly involved with key areas of the Law School and be a resource for incoming and current students as well as alumni. For example, there are now 24 active members of the career services committee who work closely with the Office of Career Services to better meet students' needs.
"In my new role as associate dean for career services, I plan to expand upon these efforts and develop new initiatives to help students find jobs," said Caruso. "The Law School needs to continue to build new relationships with alumni and all employers so that students have increased job prospects. I will work tirelessly to ensure that they are well prepared for these opportunities."
Caruso is a 1997 graduate of Hofstra University with a B.A. in economics. After graduating from Hofstra Law in 2000, he began his legal career as an associate at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP. For the last 10 years he has been at Moses & Singer LLP — most recently as a partner — in the practice area of business reorganization, bankruptcy and creditors' rights.
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