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Two phishing1 attempts made it through the work spam filter earlier this month, and they show the creativity of bad guys as they try to get access to your machine. The attempts at social engineering were interesting enough I thought I'd describe them here. We're getting pretty close the line where we can't tell a legitimate e-mail from ones with nasty side effects.
The Fake Bounced Message
This message has the appearance of being a bounced e-mail from a server called 'cyber.net.pk'.
There is, in fact, a server called 'cyber.net.pk' (.pk is the country code for Pakistan), but if you look at the IP address in the headers of the message it is actually a computer in China (127.72.91.188, or "188.8.131.52.board.xm.fj.dynamic.163data.com.cn").
Received: from cyber.net.pk (126.96.36.199) by mail.lyrasis.org (10.10.10.2) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 8.1.436.0; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 06:48:44 -0400
The payload is in the 'document.zip' file. I downloaded it without opening it, and uploaded it to the Microsoft Malware Protection Center. It told me that it was a version of Mydoom — an old e-mail worm that installs a backdoor on your computer. Mydoom is listed on Wikipedia as dating from early 2004, so maybe this isn't all new — but this is the first one I've seen leak through the e-mail firewall in quite some time.
Fake Scanner-to-Email Message
This one piggybacks on the capabilities of newer networked scanners and all-in-one printers to send copies of documents by e-mail.
This one looks like a document from one of our internal HP printers. The give-away here, though, is that the message asks the user to follow a link to retrieve the document. The real hardware just sends the document as an attachment. (There also isn't such a thing as an HP Officejet 88824A.) It isn't beyond the capabilities, though, for bad guys to combine this attack path with the document attachment one above and make you think you were received a document from a network scanner. The lesson to be learned here, I expect, is that you shouldn't open documents that appear to come from networked scanners unless you have sent the document yourself. If it appears to come from someone else, call that person and ask if they really sent it.
In short — be careful out there everyone, and if you see something suspicious or unexpected, ask someone about it. (Oh, and keep your anti-virus and internet security software updated!)
- I think these would be classified as spear phishing as defined by Webopedia: "A type of phishing attack that focuses on a single user or department within an organization, addressed from someone within the company in a position of trust and requesting information such as login IDs and passwords. Spear phishing scams will often appear to be from a company's own human resources or technical support divisions and may ask employees to update their username and passwords. Once hackers get this data they can gain entry into secured networks. Another type of spear phishing attack will ask users to click on a link, which deploys spyware that can thieve data." [↩]


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good as his brother was.
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Italian real estate investment funds: market structure and risk measurement
This paper describes the Italian real estate investment funds industry, providing an overview of the distinctive features and risk factors of this sector. By using accounting and supervisory data, we: (1) compute the returns of the real estate assets in the portfolio of these funds; (2) construct a price index and a total return index of the real estate assets held by the Italian funds; (3) define a risk assessment process based on three different aspects - their financial profile, income structure and property price behaviour. This analysis allows us to select funds with a weak financial structure, poor returns, and a high probability that in a three-year interval their property portfolio will fall below their net liabilities (defined as the difference between debt and liquid assets). The proposed risk assessment can be seen as the first step towards a more intensive supervisory analysis and can also be useful for investment purposes.
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wikiHow to Back to School Shop for an Elementary School Student
Do you want to go back to school in fashion, but can't find any articles that are for kids in elementary school? Finding flattering clothes can be hard, but here are some simple directions that will impress all your classmates!
1Make Outfits. Buying sixteen shirts and twelve pairs of jeans won't make any great-looking outfits. In fact, buying more accessories leads to making more impressive outfits, so remember to keep an eye out for this.
2Set a Budget. Remember to not go over the set budget. This will give you great financial skills for the future. Make sure to "okay" this said budget with your parents/guardians. Make sure it is not too low, though.
3Bring a close, trustworthy friend with you on your shopping trip. This will allow you to get a taste of other people's styles, but also stick with yours. And a true friend will tell you if you look fantastic or not.
4Buy Some T-Shirts. Great brands are American Eagle, Aeropostale, Abercrombie and Fitch, etc. Make sure these shirts fit your body shape, and make you look good. Make sure to enforce your favorite styles in these shirts. V-Necks and Scoop Necks are great suggestions!
5Buy Some Jeans. Boot-cut or skinny - jeans look great with everything! Boot-cut looks great with stylish flats and skinny looks great with casual tennis shoes and posh boots. Try to lean towards light colors in boot cut jeans and dark colors in skinny jeans, unless they are tapered.
6Buy Some Skirts. I recommend two jean skirts, one dark and one light. They look amazing when layered, and boys often like it when girls show a little bit of a feminine side.
7Buy Pairs of Leggings. These are to go with your skirts. Make sure the legging colors are solid, as they make you look more mature, and definitely make sure they match your skirts. They should still stand out, so don't wear white on white or black on black.
8Buy Pairs of Fashionable Shoes. Colorful Converse look amazing with skinny jeans! High-Top or Low-Top, black or blue, they all look amazing and are great for running. Also, stylish boots look good with skinny jeans! I recommend silver or black flats with boot-cut jeans, skirts, and leggings. Shoes make the outfit, as they say, so make sure they match!
9Buy Accessories! This is the most important part. Get some beautiful headbands or flower clips for your hair. Buy some eye-stopping jewelry too; Claire's is a great place for cheap but nice-looking jewelry. Dress scarves, earth-colored belts, nice sweaters/jackets, and magnificent hats look good too! You may want to buy a small make-up bag too, which is referred to the next step.
10Buy Some Unnoticeable Make-Up. Unnoticeable Make-Up makes you look better, and can go unnoticed for a whole day! Get some moisturizing chapstick (make sure you buy it from a good brand). Buy some shiny, nontoxic lip gloss in light shade. Apply thoroughly and lightly, and make sure you apply after the chapstick. Finally, spray some good-smelling, mature perfume over you, but make sure it is light and not excessive! You want yourself to smell good, not intoxicating!
11Get Some Hygiene Supplies. As you grow, hygiene becomes more important. No one wants to be around or likes a sweaty, bad-smelling kid. If you want to attract your crush, you have to have good hygiene. Buy some gentle soap for you showers, as you should take every day, and some antiperspirant deodorant, as you should apply every day.
12Last Thing To Buy - Some Essentials. Moisturizing lotion make your skin look soft and feel soft...and feel good. Facial cleanser is good too, because it prevents acne and other skin blemishes. Also, since you should brush your teeth every day, you should get whitening toothpaste and refreshing mouthwash.
13Be Confident That You Look Good, and Believe in Your Inner Beauty. If you go to school thinking, "What will my friends think?" then that's completely wrong. You have to believe in yourself. If you think it looks good, then it looks good. Total friends will never make fun of your clothes. If you can't shake it, shop for some confidence.
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Obamacare not on White House's negotiating table - Labor vs. Obamacare: A primer
By Kyle Cheney
With help from Paige Winfield Cunningham and Brett Norman
Story Continued Below
OBAMACARE NOT ON THE WHITE HOUSE'S NEGOTIATING TABLE — Obama's not bluffing. His administration means it when it says it won't negotiate away the central elements of his health reform law — and defunding or delaying it would be dead on arrival. POLITICO's Jonathan Allen reports that the president's domestic agenda has largely stalled, so he's defining success as depriving Republicans from chipping away any more at his signature achievement. Republicans, of course, have been quick to remind everyone that Obama has approved several measures delaying or repealing relatively small portions of the health law. http://politi.co/17ueBHr
— REP. EYES FUNDING PLAN THAT DELAYS OBAMACARE — Pro's Jennifer Haberkorn reports that Rep. Tom Graves has introduced a joint resolution to fund the government for 2014 and delay and defund Obamacare until 2015: "The legislation could be considered in the attempt to fund the government and keep Obamacare opponents happy in the House. The plan was backed by dozens of conservative Republicans. Senate Democrats have already said they wouldn't support anything that defunding the health law." The text of the resolution: http://1.usa.gov/1eo8wCu
Happy Friday and welcome to PULSE, where we've got whiplash from Obamacare's trajectory over the last week. First we watched as Syria swamped the agenda, threatening to crowd out Congress's fervor for a health law fight. Now, Obamacare's everywhere. It's gummed up the Senate's energy debate, upended House leadership's agenda and is crowding out tax reform from the debt ceiling talks. Anyone else dizzy? http://politico.pro/1e7TRdF
"PULSEman, come together with your hands."
SOURCES: PENNSYLVANIA GOV. TO BACK MEDICAID EXPANSION — It's a one-eighty for Republican Gov. Tom Corbett, who spent most of the year rejecting calls from Democrats and pro-Obamacare advocates to support expansion, which could extend coverage to more than half a million Pennsylvanians. Industry and legislative sources say Corbett's ready to embrace a version of expansion that relies on the private sector to provide coverage, a model akin to what Iowa and Arkansas are pursuing. CMS says it's "eager" to work with Corbett on expansion, and Health Care For America Now celebrated the change of heart by describing it as a "very big deal" and a rejection of D.C.'s "rank partisanship." http://politico.pro/1avaFrc
— OHIO MEDICAID EXPANSION FIGHT GETS PERSONAL FOR KASICH — The Columbus Dispatch reports on a pitched exchange between Gov. John Kasich and a Republican lawmaker who's so far spurned his call to support Medicaid expansion. The two squared off in an impromptu public confrontation — initiated, apparently, by Kasich — within earshot of reporters. Kasich summoned the lawmaker, Rep. Marlene Anielski, and in a private but animated conversation was overheard saying, "The conversation was private, but Kasich, who was pointing his finger at times, could be heard by The Dispatch saying, "Marlene, it's our money. It's not their money." The Dispatch story: http://bit.ly/17ZxtNk
LABOR VS. OBAMACARE: A PRIMER — What are unions griping about when it comes to Obamacare? Pro's Brett Norman dives into organized labor's beef with the health law — from its exclusion of Taft-Hartley plans (and what, exactly, a Taft-Hartley plan is) to their demands for the Obama administration to the response from the White House and Republicans. http://politico.pro/1auLzsr
— GOP LAWMAKERS TOUT UNION CRITICISM OF OBAMACARE — Republican lawmakers on the House Education and Labor Committee cheered unions' criticism of the Affordable Care Act on Thursday, calling it an "encouraging" sign that the coalition that initially supported the law has frayed. http://1.usa.gov/19Mdx1Q
OBAMA EXCHANGE CHIEF HEADING TO THE HILL — The Obama administration's exchange czar Gary Cohen will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee next Thursday about how prepared his agency is for enrollment in the insurance exchanges, which open Oct. 1.
TAX REFORM THREATENED BY OBAMACARE FIGHT — Another casualty of the Obamacare battle in Congress could be tax reform. Pro's Kelsey Snell and Rachel Bade report that the fighting could derail efforts to use the federal debt ceiling as leverage for a tax code overhaul. "Clearly, I think there's more interest in Obamacare in relation to everything we talk about," Rep. Pat Tiberi (R-Ohio) told the duo. "It's the issue that unites our conference." http://politico.pro/1bb6R17
MCCONNELL LEADERS APPLAUDS HOUSE VERIFICATION BILL — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he "commends" the House for passing a subsidy verification bill yesterday. "An administration official testified recently that HHS would be 'sampling 100 percent' of subsidy applicants to verify their eligibility, but that's hardly reassuring considering the administration's poor track record on meeting Obamacare deadlines combined with the billions of dollars involved," he said in a statement. McConnell is co-sponsoring a similar Senate bill.
FIREARM ASSAULT TREATMENT COST MORE THAN HALF BILLION — A new report from the Urban Institute crunches the numbers on the hospital costs to treat gun assault injuries: $630 million in 2010. That's for more than 36,000 emergency room visits and 25,000 hospitalizations. Men account for 91 percent of the costs, mostly males aged 15 to 34. And fully 80 percent of those treated in gun assaults either have public insurance (52 percent, mostly Medicaid) or are uninsured (28 percent). Just over half are from ZIP codes in the poorest 25 percent of ZIP codes by income, and 7 percent are from the top 25 percent. The brief: http://urbn.is/160utgX
** A message from the American Academy of Dermatology Association: Dermatologists are on Capitol Hill this week with a prescription to protect public health ? advocating for Congress to preserve patient access to dermatologic care, promote life-saving medical research, and support skin cancer prevention efforts. Learn more about these initiatives to protect public health: http://www.aad.org/members/aada-advocacy/federal-legislative-affairs. **
PANEL BACKS LONG TERM CARE REFORMS — The Long Term Care Commission established to replace Obamacare's CLASS Act in the Jan. 1 fiscal cliff deal voted 9-6 to back recommendations to Congress, delivering bipartisan support for a plan that includes "site-neutral "payment, a streamlined Medicaid waiver process and a rethinking of scope-of-practice laws. The recommendations are expected to be released today, but some were revealed by lone Republican dissenter, Heritage Foundation's Chris Jacobs, in a letter delivered yesterday evening. The letter: http://politico.pro/15YssD1
ELI LILLY SUES CANADA OVER DRUG PATENTS — Eli Lilly have filed a $500 million suit against Canada, contending that abridged the companies drug patents on top sellers like the ADHD drug Strattera and the schizophrenia drug Zyprexa. Pro's Adam Behsudi reports: "The pharmaceutical company says Canadian courts unfairly threw out these patents when challenged by generic drug manufacturers, using a legal doctrine that requires a company to provide an unreasonable amount of scientific data in order to secure the patent." Critics said the suit was a signal that private companies had gained too much clout over government decisions. http://politico.pro/160G5k6
HHS READYING WEBSITE TO GUIDE BUSINESSES ON BREASTFEEDING POLICY — The Obama administration is laying the groundwork for a website to help employers with "challenging work environments" — like farms and factories — comply with an Obamacare requirement to provide breastfeeding space for new mothers. In a solicitation for proposals, HHS describes plans for a website that will feature "lactation space and time solutions from over 150 businesses." In addition, the site will host 29 videos to "show how human resource directors, employers, and supervisors have provided support to lactating employees" in the workplace. The health law requires large employers to offer "reasonable break time for an employee to express milk for her nursing child for 1 year after the child's birth each time such an employee has need and a place other than a bathroom, that is shielded from view and free from intrusion from coworkers and the public." Employers with fewer than 50 workers can seek an exemption if the requirement would cause "undue hardship."
ADMINISTRATION PAYS $10M TO PLUG HOLES IN INCENTIVE PAYMENT PROGRAMS — CMS has awarded a $10 million contact to Baltimore-based Arch Systems to investigate persistent problems with "data integrity" in the Physician Quality Reporting System and the Electronic Prescribing Incentive System, according to federal contracting documents. "Since the inception of the PQRS and eRx Incentive Programs, there have been reports uncovering data integrity issues and misunderstandings regarding data submissions, and suspicious attempts of "gaming" the system to earn … incentive payment," according to the documents. "Despite extensive education and outreach efforts, mandatory support calls, and special training sessions, these data issues persist." Arch will be charged with finding gaps in reported data. The contracting documents: http://1.usa.gov/1d8oPzt
BE AN EDUCATION PRO — We're excited to announce that POLITICO Pro Education, the newest Pro policy area, will officially debut Wednesday, Sept. 18, with original reporting, breaking news and insight into education policy. Subscribers will also receive exclusive early-bird editions of Morning Education. Interested in access to Pro Education? Email firstname.lastname@example.com or call (703) 341-4600.
Monday: Led Zeppelin, "Ramble On"
Tuesday: Stevie Wonder, "Superstitious"
Wednesday: Michael Jackson, "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"
Thursday: Beastie Boys, "Intergalactic"
Friday: Soundgarden, "Spoonman"
WHAT WE'RE READING, by Jose DelReal
The New York Times reports that an FDA advisory committee voted 13-0 to approve a preoperative drug facilitating breast cancer surgery and treatment. http://nyti.ms/15ZBJL5
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are pursuing a proposal to check facility fees charged by hospitals for emergency room visits, according to a report by the Center for Public Integrity. http://bit.ly/16oUjQ5
Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Foundation explain the controversial "cadillac plans" provision of the ACA. http://bit.ly/1bcnE3E
According to The Star-Ledger, Barnabas Health — which employs over 19,000 people — is laying off employees, citing Obamacare as the reason. http://bit.ly/13TyZ4b
The New York times reports on a new study in The New England Journal of Medicine that finds decreasing estrogen levels in men may be linked to increasing waistlines. http://nyti.ms/15kOsv6
Trader Joe's is eliminating health insurance plans for employees who work less than 30 hours per week. Bloomberg reports: http://bloom.bg/1d8FtPn
The Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday chastised Florida for barring outreach efforts in the state, reports Reuters. http://reut.rs/18Y4SqQ
** A message from the American Academy of Dermatology Association: Dermatologists are on Capitol Hill this week with a prescription to protect public health. As good stewards of medicine, dermatologists are advocating for Congress to preserve patient access to dermatologic care, promote life-saving medical research, and support efforts to prevent skin cancer. Dermatologists diagnose and treat more than 3,000 diseases, including skin cancer, eczema, infections, psoriasis, immunologic diseases, and many genetic disorders, and are committed to working with the greater house of medicine to provide the most effective and cost-efficient care and therapies to their patients. Learn more about these initiatives to protect public health: http://www.aad.org/members/aada-advocacy/federal-legislative-affairs. **
** A message from UNITE HERE: We've all heard President Trump repeatedly speak about a need to bring drug prices "way down." And 77% of Americans agree that prescription drug costs are unreasonable. Trump also has gone on record saying that drug companies are "getting away with murder" – a point 73% of Americans agree with, saying drug companies make too much profit. Yet, Trump recently nominated drug company executive Alex Azar to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Azar's appointment would contradict Trump's pledge to "drain the swamp" and change Washington D.C.'s pay-to-play atmosphere, where a revolving door shifts federal regulators to high-ranking corporate execs, and back into government positions. Alex Azar's past as a pharma profiteer disqualifies him from DHHS. To learn more about Azar the Price Gouging Czar, check out this website, including a white paper examining his time at Eli Lilly. www.saynotoazar.org **


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The Missouri Ethics Commission just released lobbyist gift data for January 2017. Here are your updated rankings of the Missouri House and Senate. The MEC has yet to update their list to reflect just the 2017 elected officials, so this list will include both 2016 and 2017 members. We've ranked elected officials by the amount they received personally. The second number represents how much staff and family members received (as reported to the MEC).
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McMillan, Uri
Ph.D. Yale University, 2009
Performance Studies, Black Cultural Studies, Aesthetics, and Queer theory
Awards and Honors
William Sanders Scarborough Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Study of Black American Literature or Culture, Modern Language Association (MLA), 2016.
Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, awarded to the best book in theater history and performance studies, American Society for Theatre Research, (ASTR), 2016.
Selected Publications
Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance, (New York University Press, 2015). NYU Amazon Introduction
"Nicki-aesthetics: The camp performance of Nicki Minaj," Women and Performance: a journal of feminist theory, Special Issue: All Hail the Queenz: A Queer Feminist Recalibration of Hip-Hop, Vol. 24, Issue 1, March 2014: 1-9. LINK
"Objecthood, Avatars, and the Limits of Human," GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Special Issue: Queer Inhumanisms, ed. Mel Y Chen and Dana Luciano (spring 2015)
"Mammy-Memory: Staging Joice Heth, or the Current Phenomenon of the 'Ancient Negress,' "Women and Performance: a journal of feminist theory, Special Issue: Aging, Vol. 22, No. 1, March 2012, 29-46. LINK
"Crimes of Performance," SOULS: A Critical Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, Special Issue: Race, Crime, and Capital. Vol 13., Issue 1. 2011: 29-45. LINK
"Relics of the Future: The Aesthetic Wanderings of Simone Leigh." Evidence of Accumulation (exhibition catalogue), New York: The Studio Museum of Harlem, 2011: 6-8. LINK
"Ellen Craft's Radical Techniques of Subversion," e-misferica: Performance and Politics in the Americas, Issue 5.2, Race and Its Others, 2008. LINK
Additional Information
Uri McMillan is a cultural historian who researches and writes in the interstices between black cultural studies, performance studies, queer theory, and contemporary art. His first book, Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance (NYU, 2015) is on black performance art, objecthood, and avatars staged by black women artists. He has published articles on performance art, digital media, hip-hop, photography, and nineteenth-century performance cultures in varied arenas such as Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies, and e-misferica (all are available for download at urimcmillan.com). In addition, he has lectured at art museums, including MoMA PS1 and the Hammer Museum, and published numerous essays on black contemporary art for the Studio Museum of Harlem. His work has been supported by the Ford Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.


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Marmol looking good since return
Marmol looking good since return
Marmol has thrown three scoreless, hitless innings since returning from the disabled list Monday. He has struck out four in those three innings and not walked anyone.
"That's a good sign," Sveum said Sunday about the lack of walks by Marmol. "The bullpen is finally shaping up a little bit, not that we have guys set in any role. To their credit, they've done a good job in whatever role I've put them in. I've called down there and [James] Russell gets up in the seventh or ninth or whatever."
Marmol was 2-for-4 in save situations and had walked 18 in 11 1/3 innings before losing the job as closer, and Sveum isn't concerned about getting Marmol back into it.
"I'm not setting any goals to get anybody anywhere except to win baseball games somehow and keep the other team from scoring once their starter is out of there," Sveum said. "The bottom line is to work the matchups as best as you possibly can to keep the other team from scoring."


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I remember reading an interview with Philip Roth some years back in which he bemoaned the passing of the fanatical reader — the true...
"Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love"
edited by Anne Fadiman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 244 pp., $20
I remember reading an interview with Philip Roth some years back in which he bemoaned the passing of the fanatical reader — the true bookworm who curls up every night for a good four-hour stretch of unadulterated, uninterrupted literary consumption. Clearly, Roth had never met or had forgotten about Anne Fadiman. The former editor of The American Scholar, Fadiman is the baby-boomer bookworm par excellence — our Charles Lamb, our Hazlitt, our Borges.
"Ex Libris," a collection of essays about her life as a reader, was a tour de force of wit, confession, erudition and gentle crankiness. It was also extremely reassuring for the rest of us book fiends. How comforting that someone else suffered agonies at the prospect of merging her books with her spouse's or harbored an "odd shelf" of volumes devoted to an eccentric obsession (Fadiman's is Arctic exploration; Philip Larkin's was spanking).
In her new book, "Rereadings," Fadiman has invited 17 lucky fellow bibliophiles to share the covers. Their assignment was blissfully simple and, for a bookworm, simply blissful: Each was to choose a literary work (book, story, poem, even album cover) that made an "indelible impression" before the age of 25, read it again now, and write about it. The results, which originally appeared in The American Scholar, turned out to be less essays than memoirs in miniature "at whose heart," writes Fadiman, "lay that most galvanic of topics, the evolving nature of love." The best pieces are so good I wanted to buttonhole someone to read aloud favorite lines. Vijay Seshadri, an Indian-born poet and reviewer, describes teaching Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" to Sarah Lawrence College freshmen a week after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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How wary and incredulous these kids seemed when he read them the lines, "I am the mashed fireman with breast-bone broken … tumbling walls buried me in their debris,/Heat and smoke I inspired … I heard the yelling shouts of my comrades."
Improvising wildly in the face of his students' numb resistance, Seshadri declared that the poem reveals Whitman "not as the pantheist, the mystic, the sage, but as the Christian soldier setting out to harrow the underworld."
Luc Sante revisits his sulky adolescent obsession with Rimbaud ("I wanted to be seen reading it," he writes of Enid Starkie's big dense Rimbaud biography. "I wore the book as much as I read it") — and finally lays to rest the fantasy that he is Rimbaud's incarnation.
"Quite beyond lacking his genius, I could never have been anything like him. As a teenager I was constructed entirely of doubt, most of it self-doubt, and I am not much different today."
Seattle Times book critic Michael Upchurch recounts how a youthful infatuation with Christina Stead's Depression-era banking epic "House of All Nations" led to his own stint at a New York financial printing company during the glittering, cocaine-dusted Reagan '80s. Returning to Stead's masterpiece two decades later, Upchurch is enthralled all over again, even though he has long since given up any hope of following in her footsteps. The novel, he concludes, still "catches me up passionately in a subject matter that, on the surface, I have no interest in as a reader and no talent for as a writer."
A few of the gatherings are slight, forgettable or just plain odd. Arthur Krystal failed to persuade me that H.C. Witwer's 1920s boxing novel "The Leather Pushers" was worth exhuming. Evelyn Toynton's adult disappointment in finding that all the "elements" of Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited" are "equally lovely, and therefore equally inconsequential," somehow misses both the magic and the repellent piety of this novel. Barbara Sjoholm's rereading of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen" in the Jukkasjärvi Ice Hotel in Arctic Scandinavia seemed a bit too contrived.
But these are quibbles. On balance, Fadiman has done such a fine job of selecting and arranging these pieces that they become a kind of a composite literary coming-of-age memoir — from the geeky, horny adolescent madly thumbing "Franny and Zooey" or "Lord Jim" in some shag-carpeted suburban bedroom to the sadder but wiser critic, novelist, poet who gazes wistfully at the ghost of a younger self rising from the pages of a once-loved book.
"As I read I indicted myself," confesses Sven Birkerts, recollecting an unrequited teenage love that coincided with his first immersion in the feverish romance of Knut Hamsun's "Pan." "I had, in stages, without ever planning it, traded off that raw nerved-up avidness. We do not survive the dream of love, not at that pitch."
Moments like this — and there are many of them — make "Rereadings" an absolute delight for those of us who live to read (and reread).
Seattle resident David Laskin's most recent book is "The Children's Blizzard."


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Mystic Christianity was written by William Walker Atkinson, under the pseudonym Yogi Ramacharaka. His 1906 book Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World, is associated with the thinking behind the recent phenomena surrounding the 2006 movie, The Secret. Running throughout nearly all of the teachings and messages of Jesus, is to be found the constant Mystic Message regarding the existence of the Spirit within the soul of each individual - that… (more)
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Aboard a busy ship in the Pacific
This was a special week at Fair Oaks Lodge for two reasons. It was the week our folks, still residents in the community, had a chance to take part in what happens in the future by casting their vote, a vote that carried every bit as much weight as that of the most prominent citizen on main street.
Changing one's address is just that: a change of address, with the same interests in the politics of their town that they have always had. We are grateful for any iota of togetherness that dispels the feeling of being left out, not counting anymore.
The annual Halloween treat party is another way, when we have the fun of putting treats in the hands of adorable little princesses or angels, of fearsome pirates or even devils, and many others. We missed them last year when the event was canceled because of flu.
This week well known and respected lawyer Carl Peltoniemi sits in the seat of the storyteller. Carl was born in 1923 in New York Mills to Walter and Thora Peltonieimi. He has one sister. Walter was a farmer as well as post master.
After high school, Carl attended Moorhead State University, then joined the Navy. He went to Northwestern College in Chicago and St. Paul College of Law.
Carl was sent to serve in the Asiatic-Pacific theater as captain and navigator of USS LST 943 (Landing Ship Tanks), which delivered tanks and troops from their ship to the beach (an amphibious assault ship). The LST saw action in Okinawa as well as Iwo Jima. She had seven officers and 124 men.
A clear photo of the LST-943 claims a well earned place of honor on Carl's wall. She was in the thick of the battle at Red Beach with Kamikaze pilots aimed her way, missing by inches. The air was full of anti-aircraft shells.
LST 943 is credited with downing two Japanese zeros. She was decommissioned in 1946, falling to the cutting torch in 1947. While it obliterated the craft, her brave service record will stay in the annals of history.
Carl married Marilyn Baglien in 1947. While in college Carl worked as a claims adjuster in St. Paul. They have three children.
After graduation, Carl's first position as a lawyer was in Duluth, then to Wadena where he practiced law until his 84th birthday.
When Carl was offered a judgeship, he turned it down. He liked being a lawyer. He recalled that in all of the 57 years, he has worked with only two homicides.
Carl has been intensely interested in forestry, serving as president of the State Forestry Association two terms. Besides planting many species of trees in his back yard, Carl owned an 80 acre plot of pine in the Nimrod area.
Until certain health issues get straightened out, Carl is spending some time under our big roof. Marilyn comes over on her motorized chair from their apartment at Fair Oaks to spend afternoons with him.


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'Speedmetal' by Shadetree Fabrications has gone undefeated at the Ultimate Builder Custom Bike Shows this year, capturing the Freestyle class in Atlanta, Dallas, Chicago and now Indy.
As imagined, with so many winners in attendance from previous events, each of the five classes was extremely tight with a point or two deciding the first three places. Judging is based on the AMD Championship of Custom Bike Building format whereby builders judge each other's bikes.
To celebrate the US Championship, powersports firms jumped in to provide awards including Harley-Davidson with a Screamin' Eagle 120R powerplant, Avon Tires with two sets of tires, Yoshimura with a slip-on and gift certificate as well as JDA providing gift certificates. Bell offered up a couple Custom 500 lids pinstriped by Skratch. HelmetLok and Wizard Products kicked down products for all the placing competitors, too.
On hand for the US Championship and to show some love to the competitors were Cycle Source and IronWorks Magazines. They awarded feature articles to Paul Anderson with his 1946 WLA and Jay Hart with his 2012 / 1977 Harley-Davidson FL, respectively.
Kyle Shorey of Shadetree Fabrications took Indy by storm. Shorey has won each show he has entered, taking the top prize in Atlanta, Dallas, Chicago and now Indianapolis. Speedmetal began life as a customer's Saxon Crown chopper but now is so much more. The wheels, engine, brakes and tranny were salvaged from the donor bike. Speedmetal features a prototype Springer, which has gone through extensive on-road testing and will be available to the public later this year. With his win in Indy, Kyle is now the leading money winner in the series with $12,500.
1. Kyle Shorey, Shadetree Fabrications – Speedmetal
2. Don Weimer – Bastard Deluxe, 2012 Softail Pro Street
3. Bobby Grias Breaklite Motorsports – White Out, 2008 Hayabusa
Modified Harley
Adams Karns turned his shop-worn 2001 Sportster into a primo new school board tracker that rocked the 2013 US Championship of the J&P Ultimate Builder. The sled features a Twisted Choppers rear, custom gas tank, highly modified DNA springer, a powdercoated engine and Karns Kustoms exhaust. Karns snared a lion's share of the booty
One of Russ Brown's booth babes adds a little eye candy to the slick custom motorcycles entered in the Ultimate Builder Show in Indy.
at the show, winning a Harley-Davidson 120R engine courtesy of The Motor Co. to go with $3000 cash for winning the Modified Harley class, in addition to other prizes.
1. Adam Karns, Karns Kustoms – 21, 2001 Harley-Davidson Sportster
2. Jon Shipley, Hoosier Daddy Choppers – Fire House Racer, 2013 Custom Board Tracker
3. Bob McAreavey – 2009 Road King
Performance Custom
Break Lite Motorsports brought out Boosted Ego, their 2009 Hayabusa, and took the win in the Performance Custom class at Indy. It boasts a 360mm rear wheel and C&S Customs extended 360 single sided swingarm and Tricky air ride with modified front suspension to give the bike a correct ride height.
To get the performance just right, the bike features twin-bottle nitrous, a Velocity Stage 2.5 turbo kit, GTX Turbo, an undercut transmission and lock-up clutch.
1. Breaklite Motorsports – Boosted Ego, '09 Hayabusa
2. Tony Odom, Fancy Cycle – Greatful Dead Bike, '07 ZX14
3. Mike Stout, DNOC – Down-n-out Busa, '08 Hayabusa
Retro Modified
Will Ramsey of Faith Forgotten Choppers brought Dead at 19, a highly modified 1981 Harley-Davidson FXW, to the show. It started as a basket before Ramsey cut the cast neck off, then redesigned and built the entire frame with American made DOM tubing and American cast iron. Nearly all components were hand fabricated in-house. The gas tank and oil tank were hammered from flat sheet. The wheels are HDW aluminum. The paint was chosen to represent the paint of a modern new-school BMX bike. Paint was shot by Brian and Emeric Howell of RGW with striping by Danny Taylor. This bike is a rider and when delivered to its new owner in Southern California, it will serve as a daily rider.
1. Will Ramsey, Faith Forgotten Choppers – Dead at 19, 1981 H-D FXW
2. Don Weimer – Revelation, Weimer Triumph Bonneville
3. Mike McFadden – El Dora, '74 Honda CB550
Modified Street
Nicole Kelleher's custom bike was built by Breaklite Motorsports and took first place in Modified Street. The 2010 Yamaha YZF-R6 called Street Angel features a modified front fairing, custom chrome wheels, and one of the coolest extended swingarms around for sportbikes.
Jon Shipley of Hoosier Daddy Choppers brought their Fire House Racer to Indy, a 2013 Custom Board Tracker with a killer Springer and thick spokes, and just missed out on winning the Modified Harley class.
1. Nicole Kelleher, Breaklite Motorsports – Street Angel, '10 YZF-R6
2. Brewdude, Brew Bikes – 9605, '73 Honda CB350
3. GIO, Blacksmith Motoring – El Vendetta, 2008 Yamaha Roadliner
Additional Awards
Mike McFadden won the Show Dog Award sponsored by Rocking K Custom Leather for his promotion at the show. Tom Hedrick won the People's Choice Award with Rings, a 1987 Harley-Davidson Heritage Softail. He took home a Custom 500 Bell helmet that was pinstriped by Skratch.
The Ultimate Builder Custom Bike Show is produced by www.bikerpros.com. The Ultimate Builder competition is awarding over $100,000 in cash and prizes over our 13-event series.
The big money winners to date are:
Kyle Shorey – $12,500
Bruce Bolden – $3000


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Examines current topics and issues associated with computing and software systems. Offered: AWSpS.
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This is the class which served as a product development lab for cool applications. It was originally named Competitive Engineering, but it's been updated. In this class, you will be given the opportunity to scope and justify a software application for a real customer.
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Is there any tent camping area's around OBX? Can you camp on the beach?
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i think there's a couple...personally ive been to the 1 down in frisco, pretty chill place
The outer banks has quite few and the one recommended abov is by far the best. As for on the beach, beach camping is pretty rough and....sandy.
Buxton, has one as you make your way to the point, but its wide open and not very private. There is another one once you past the spaceship on the left called Buxton Woods? I think. Frisco Woods is the bomb though. Just watch out for the salty sea hag that works behind the counter.
Rodanthe has KOA which is adjacent to the beach.
Have fun.
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I think the one in Frisco is simply called Frisco Campgrounds. I haven't actually stayed there, but a friend did and recommends it. I did drive in once to check it out. There is a beach ramp adjacent to the drive entering the campground, which is nice. There is also a store across Hwy 12.You can't technically camp on the beach down there, but this is pretty damn close.
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For the Frisco ramp, look for Billy Mitchell Rd. Once you're on it, you'll pass a small airport on your right. If you have a 4X4, make sure to drop the air in your tires to 20 lbs. Also, make sure you drop the air BEFORE driving out on the sand. There are always people getting in the way and blocking traffic to the ramp because they are dropping their air when they should have done it earlier. If you don't have a 4X4, the Frisco Pier is near by and is a closer walk with pretty much the same sandbar. With all that being said, Frisco really isn't worth checking in the summer, unless the wind switches and comes from the north. This usually doesn't happen until early fall. Odds are, it is usually blown out and small in the summer with the SW wind.
Thanks for the info.
Frisco Woods is a nice little campground. Right in between Frisco Pier and the lighthouse. This time of year however, your best bet would probably be North End Campground in Rodanthe. It's walking distance to both the pier and S-Turns, and as of last week has one of the best sandbars in the area right out front. There is no camping on the beach anymore. As a matter of fact you can't even drive on the beaches between 10PM and 5 AM.
The Frisco camp ground is f-ing awesome. It reminds me of living in some kind of ewok village or something. All kinds of little nooks and crannies. You can pick a smaller spot or bigger more open spots closer to the top of the dune. By far my fav. camp ground down there.


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Subject: [S-I] Migration Studies
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:16:54 EST
While not immediately applicable to most of us, some may interested to know
about this project at the University of Aberdeen.
CFP: Irish and Scottish Migration and Settlement: Intellectual, Political
and Environmental Frontiers
The AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of
Aberdeen will host a series of three one-day interdisciplinary
conferences in 2008 looking at the global experiences of Irish and
Scottish migrants and their descendants. Participants are invited to
consider the varied ways in which Irish and Scottish overseas
settlement led to the exploration of new intellectual, political
and environmental "frontiers." Keynote speakers include Patrick Griffin
(Univ. of Virginia), John MacKenzie (Lancaster University), Lindsay
Proudfoot (Queen's University Belfast), and David Wilson (Univ. of
Toronto). Each one-day event will focus on a different theme:
Intellectual Frontiers (23 February 2008); Political Frontiers (3 May
2008); and Environmental Frontiers (21 June 2008). Proposals for
papers (100-200 words) should be sent by 15 December 2007 to Dr.
Michael Brown () or to Dr. Rosalyn Trigger
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Open house times set at Hancock school
There will be an open house for the parents of kindergarten through 6th grade students at the Hancock School. The open house for kindergarten - second grade is Wed., Aug. 24. Kindergarten will meet at 5:30 p.m., first grade at 6 p.m. and second grade at 6:30 p.m.
On Tuesday, Aug. 23 grades 3-6 will meet with third grade at 5 p.m., fourth at 5:30 p.m., fifth at 6 p.m. and sixth at 6:30 p.m.
Parents are invited to attend these special open houses to review curriculum, meet with teachers, and get schedules in preparation for the new school year.
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Tropical deforestation is responsible for about 20 percent of total annual global warming emissions, making it second only to fossil fuels in terms of climate impact. Forests play a major role in regulating global temperatures by absorbing heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it in their cell walls. Earth loses more than 18 million acres of forestland every year—an area larger than Ireland—according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
The best way to reduce emissions from tropical deforestation is to help ensure these trees are not cut down in the first place. Your purchasing decisions can play a role in this effort:
Wood: When buying wood products, look for labels that indicate the wood comes from sustainably managed forests. There are several forest certification programs in place worldwide. For home improvement projects, you can avoid new wood products altogether by using reclaimed wood for floors and wood-free materials (such as composite resin boards) for other projects.Coffee: Make your daily cup o' joe using shade-grown coffee beans, which are grown under a forest canopy. In addition to supporting the preservation of forestlands, shade-grown coffee requires less fertilizer and pesticides to grow compared with coffee grown under full sun. A quick Google search can lead you to online coffee retailers if you can't find any at your local grocery store.
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Survival tactics only for die hards…
Love knows no bounds except when you get dumped. Heinz Muller dumped by a Brazilian woman he flew all the way from Germany to be with (he met her over the internet) has been now living for 13 days at the airport because he has no where to go and no money.
Reports the Sydney Morning Herald-
The 46-year-old former pilot passes the time wandering the airport in Campinas, an industrial city about an hour's drive from Sao Paulo, or using his laptop perched on a luggage cart. Occasionally he speaks to workers and passengers in basic Portuguese mixed with some Spanish.
Muller arrived in Rio de Janeiro on October 2 and can stay as long as he breaks no laws, said a spokesman for Brazil's civil aviation authority, who spoke on condition of anonymity in keeping with policy.
Talk about living life on the edge, of course life isn't completely miserable for the disillusioned Muller, who is now receiving the pity of locals who are bringing him free food.
Of course like us you're probably wandering why Muller just doesn't return home (we have to assume he flew into Brazil with a round trip ticket). Silly us- he's in love and waiting for her to change her mind…one day.
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JUST when I think we've reached the nadir of public trust in government, political integrity sustains another blow. Now Maryland's General Assembly is mired in the second investigation in as many months into allegations of the ethical misconduct of a state legislator.
Former state Sen. Larry Young was ousted by the Senate last month after the panel found he had violated ethics laws. Now, Del. Gerald J. Curran's business dealings are under investigation.
To some close observers of the Maryland legislature, these revelations came as no surprise. Many legislators encounter conflicts when performing public business. While most handle their conflicts adequately, they do so in a political culture that regards ethical talk as prudish. It is the culture that must change if we expect elected officials' behavior to change.


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By Rich Levine
SAN FRANCISCO The Celtics kick off the second half of their season Tuesday night in Golden State, but before you even think about looking past the 26-29 Warriors, here are a few names to consider:
Vin Baker. Jiri Welsch. Mike James. Mark Blount. Jumaine Jones. Marcus Banks.
Why are we mentioning these incompetent (OK, Mike James wasnt that bad) ghosts of Boston past? Well, because all six of those fine gentlemen were wearing the Green and White the last time the Celtics won a game in Golden State.
Thats right. Its been that long. The date was December 29, 2003, and since then the Cs have lost six straight games in Oracle Arena, including all three in the Big Three era.
As to why . . .
Its a great building, number one, said Doc Rivers as the team resumed practice Monday night in San Francisco. They havent been to the playoffs consistently and yet the fans are there every night. The place has unbelievable energy. I love the energy. I just dont like the results lately.
"The matchups they create with all the smalls they put on the floor is tough. And all the smalls can create their own shots. Its not like theyre standing there being shooters. They can all handle the ball. They can all shoot the ball. They create problems.
This years Warriors have created plenty of problems of late. They won seven of their last nine games before the All-Star Break, and six of those came against teams that would currently make the playoffs. The aforementioned smalls leading the way are Monta Ellis, whos the leagues fifth leading scorer at 25.3 a game; second-year sharp shooter Stephon Curry, who's scoring 18.4 and dishing out six assists a night, and swing man Dorell Wright, who joined Paul Pierce and Ray Allen in this weekends three-point contest and is averaging a career best 16.5. In all, the run-and-gun Warriors are the leagues seventh highest scoring team at 102.9 a game.
But despite all the potential issues Golden State presents, Rivers says that the Celtics biggest enemy might be themselves.
Getting back on defense will be key, he said, but our main concern is us. Coming off the break you have to get everybody right, while playing a team thats very good offensively. So, that makes it tough.
But while the Warriors are most known for their offensive firepower, they also have one of the leagues best and most active rebounders in their front court. David Lee, who was acquired from the Knicks this past offseason, is averaging 15.9 points and 9.4 rebounds a game this season, and a career double-double (1410) against the Cs.
Hes a great player, said Kendrick Perkins, wholl be one of the men responsible for keeping Lee contained. He brings a lot to that team. Hes the reason they have however many wins they have. David Lees averaged double-doubles in this league, but were a defensive team so thats how were going to beat them.
Easier said than done for a team that now only has one player remaining from the last time they won a game in Golden State.
I cant even remember the last time, said Pierce.
OK, anyone have Jiri Welschs number?
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I don't remember it myself, but I'm told that the first word I ever said was 'car'. I haven't talked about much else since. I grew up in the village of Romsley, to the south of Birmingham in central England. At 18 I went to Loughborough University to do a degree in Automotive Engineering – the plan being that it might lead to an interesting motor industry job, and if it didn't it might help me become a motoring writer. I was sponsored by Ford, and worked for the company in Brentwood, Basildon, Swansea and Dunton in the 'sandwich' year of my degree course in 1990/91.
Early freelance
Though the opportunity was there start climbing Ford's greasy pole, I thought better of it and instead started freelancing for car magazines. The first was Car Design and Technology: at Loughborough I'd written to them asking for a staff job, and editor Anthony Curtis suggested instead that I write some articles for them as a freelance. Sadly the only story I did for CD&T never appeared, because the publishing company folded.
Encouraged by that small beginning, I started freelancing for other car magazines – notably the shoestring Jalopy and the fine old journal Practical Motorist in what turned out to be its twilight years. I also worked for Car Mechanics, 4x4 Magazine (another title that would soon disappear) the Evening News paper in Worcester and the Post Office's senior citizens magazine, Active Life.
On the staff: Fast Car
In 1994 I joined Fast Car magazine as a Staff Writer. I was hired to strengthen the magazine's technical content, at a time when Fast Car was highly regarded for its technical articles and product tests. So I spent a lot of time testing aftermarket exhaust systems and the like. I also ran the magazine's technical advice section and had my own column for a while, called 'More Go... With Noakes' (headed up by Alastair Loxton's 'speeding desk' cartoon, left).
Within a year of joining the magazine, I'd been promoted to Technical Editor, and went on to be Deputy Editor.
Some of my colleagues from that era would go on to achieve great things: my first editor, Danny Morris (on the floor, left) became a publishing industry managing director; Ian Strachan (giving Danny a good kicking in the pic) wrote motoring stories for The Sun before moving on to a motor industry job; Dave Roberts (black shirt in the pic) and Charlotte Blight are established freelance journalists; Melissa Moorhead, the wonderful art editor who made so many of the magazines I worked on look so good, went on to do the same thing for IPC's Ideal Home; Andrew Charman, also now freelance, became chairman of the Southern Group of Motoring Writers and now writes about cars and heritage railways.
After two years with Fast Car I moved across to a new magazine from the same publishing company, Retro. The magazine for 'old cars with attitude' turned out to be ahead of its time, and a year later it was relaunched as the more all-encompassing Classics Magazine.
In 1999 I was invited to join the Guild of Motoring Writers, the premier group of motoring journalists in the UK and the following year I became Editor in Chief of Classics, at the same time developing a new internet magazine called It's on the Net.
Later I was involved with the launch of a Fast Car special called The Guide, and the relaunch of Fast Bikes.
Freelance again
By the end of 2002 I was keen to spend less of my time being a manager and more of it writing, and I went back to freelancing. By then I'd already made contact with The Crowood Press and had begun work on Mercedes SL - The Complete Story. Soon after I was offered the chance to write The Ultimate History of Aston Martin, and more book projects have followed.
I continued to write for Classics and for It's on the Net, until the latter was hived off to a different arm of its publishing company and never seen again. Since then I've written for CAR, Auto Express, Classic & Sports Car, Classic Car Weekly and the motoring enthusiasts' website Pistonheads.com, amongst others.
In 2006 I moved to Warwickshire to take up a part-time post at Coventry University, teaching on the unique Automotive Journalism MA course run by the School of Art and Design. But I still spend most of my time doing what I most enjoy: writing about cars.
In 2007 Haynes published Ford Cosworth DFV: The Inside Story of F1's Greatest Engine which at the end of the year was awarded the Guild of Motoring Writers' Timo Makinen Trophy.
Being a motoring writer is more of a paid hobby than a job. It's a petrolhead's dream. How else would you be able to talk to World Champion drivers, ride in a two-seater F1 car, interview designers and engineers, get invited to launches in interesting places and drive all sorts of fascinating cars?
It's the best job in the world.


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Louisiana's Boating While Intoxicated Laws
Read about the consequences of boating while intoxicated (BWI) in Louisiana.
By Josha Egan
Louisiana law prohibits operating a watercraft or vessel while intoxicated by drugs, alcohol, or a combination of the two. A person can be convicted of boating while intoxicated (BWI), sometimes called boating under the influence (BUI), for operating a watercraft while:
- under the influence of drugs or alcohol, meaning "impairment, however slight, to the ability of a person to operate" a watercraft, or
- having a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of .08% or greater.
(State v. Reeder, 189 So. 3d 401 (2015); La. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 14:98 (2016).)
BWI Penalties
The consequences of a Louisiana BWI mainly depend on the offender's BAC and number of prior BWI convictions.
For purposes of determining whether a BWI is a first or subsequent offense, all the following count as prior convictions:
- DWI and BWI (including out-of-state convictions)
- vehicular homicide
- third degree feticide
- vehicular negligent injuring, and
- first degree vehicular injuring.
(La. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 14:98 (2016).)
BWI penalties might include fines, jail time, and driver's license suspension. For instance, for a first BWI with a BAC of .2% or greater, an offender generally faces $700 to $1,000 in fines, at least 48 hours in jail, and a two-year license suspension. (La. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 14:98.1(A)(3) (2016).)
See Louisiana BWI Penalties for more about the consequences of a BWI conviction in Louisiana.
Affirmative Defenses
Louisiana's BWI statute provides affirmative defenses for certain types of BWI charges.
One such defense involves prescription-drug labeling. The defense applies to BWI suspects accused of being under the combined influence of a prescription drug and alcohol. Such a suspect can escape conviction by showing that the manufacturer's packaging did not contain a warning against combining the medication with alcohol. (La. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 14:98(d)(ii) (2016).)
Another defense is available to suspects accused of boating under the influence of only a prescription drug. The defense is that the defendant took the drug, but didn't "knowingly" take significantly more than the doctor prescribed or manufacturer recommended. For example, suppose James takes four anti-anxiety pills when his prescription directs that he only take two. He might have a valid defense if he can convince a jury that he honestly—but mistakenly—believed his doctor told him to take four. (La. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 14:98(e)(ii) (2016).)
Sentencing law is complex. For example, a statute might list a "minimum" jail sentence that's longer than the actual amount of time (if any) a defendant will have to spend behind bars. All kinds of factors can affect actual punishment, including credits for good in-custody behavior and jail-alternative work programs.
If you face criminal charges, consult an experienced criminal defense lawyer. An attorney with command of the rules in your jurisdiction will be able to explain the law as it applies to your situation.
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If you've been arrested for or charged with boating under the influence in Louisiana, get in contact with an experienced BWI attorney. The facts of every case are different. A good BWI attorney should be able to explain how the law applies to the facts of your case and help you decide on your best course of action.
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Time Right for Newton to Retire
Kevin Pelton, stormbasketball.com | April 27, 2010
After two days of training camp with the Seattle Storm, Chelsea Newton's body made the decision for her: She was ready to retire from basketball. Newton had been considering retirement for more than a year because of the physical toll her style of play took on her body, but wanted to come to camp with the Storm to make sure the time was right. It was, and Newton walked into Storm Head Coach Brian Agler's office after Monday practice and shared her decision with him.
"I asked Chelsea to really sleep on it and listened to what she had to say," Agler said in announcing Newton's retirement to the media after the Storm's practice on Tuesday. "From our standpoint, she's been somebody we've coveted for a period of time to be part of the Storm. We were looking forward to her being a part of our team this year. That being said, as much as we appreciated her as a player, it was a matter of really respecting her and appreciating her as a person. We are obviously supporting her on this."
"It's time for me to move on," said Newton, explaining her decision. "I've gone through six surgeries in my career and my body is just beat-up. I can't continue to play the way I need to play at a high level being in the pain that I'm in. It's just not the same for me anymore. I want to be able to walk when I'm 40."
While Newton is just 27, she had dealt with multiple injuries in recent seasons. She underwent knee surgery last summer, but it was her right shoulder - originally injured in college - that ultimately caused Newton the most problems. She had it operated on twice, but tweaked the shoulder overseas and was still bothered by it this week. Newton feared another surgery would have left her shoulder non-functional. Besides the pain, the injuries left Newton unable to play the game in her trademark style.
"If you've seen me play, if you know anything about me, I'm a go-getter - take charges, hit the floor," she said. "It was harder for me to get down and do that."
Jenny Boucek understood the sentiment. The Storm's director of player development and scouting, who coached Newton from 2007-09 as head coach of the Sacramento Monarchs, recognized the same readiness to retire and excitement about the next chapter of her life she felt when her playing career came to an end after one year in the WNBA with the Cleveland Rockers.
"When she talked to me yesterday, I could see in her eyes," Boucek said. "I knew exactly where she was. I could see in her countenance it was right. She didn't have to explain it, because I knew that feeling."
Newton hopes basketball continues to remain part of her life as she pursues a career in coaching. She spent the 2006-07 season working at her alma mater, Rutgers, as director of basketball operations under Hall of Fame coach C. Vivian Stringer. Newton said she'll be sending out her resume and searching for an opportunity, though she's also looking forward to taking some time off and relaxing at home in Louisiana between now and then.
Boucek believes that the same attributes that made Newton such a joy to coach will also help her during her own coaching career.
"You always knew that she was doing the right thing, saying the right thing," said Boucek. "That's why she's going to be a great coach - because she already thinks about what is best for the team in her decision-making and her actions. As a coach, that's ideally how you make your decisions."
Newton retires having played five WNBA seasons, four of them with the Monarchs. During her rookie campaign, she achieved the highlight of her playing career, helping lead Sacramento to a championship as the team's starting shooting guard.
"As a player, you want to accomplish some things," Newton said. "I'm just lucky and grateful that I was able to win a championship and be part of a great team in Sacramento. When you think about that, there's nothing else better. There's a lot of players who have retired and never won."
Never considered much of a scorer, Newton nonetheless carved out a niche as a second-round pick because of her defense (she was named to the WNBA's All-Defensive Second Team in 2007) and her heady play. She started all 34 games each of her first two seasons with the Monarchs. Three of her four Sacramento squads made the postseason, and Boucek credits Newton's leadership as being key to the Monarchs making a run in 2008.
"We had lost several in the row, we were last in the West, and they had a players' meeting," Boucek recalled. "You never know what they're saying in there. But then we went on to win seven in a row right before the Olympic break. We had a lot of vets on the team, but I found out through the grapevine that Chelsea was the one that spoke up. What she said resonated with the team and became their mantra for the rest of the season. She had a good finger on the pulse and enough respect (from her teammates) that she was very influential in turning the season around."
Leadership like that will be a big part of Newton's WNBA legacy.
"What do people say about Chelsea Newton?" asked Boucek. "I guarantee they all talk about her being the ultimate teammate, the ultimate warrior, the ultimate winner. Your team is better when she's on the floor. She's one of the smartest players I've ever coached. She has intangibles at the highest level. It doesn't show up on the stat sheet all the time, but you want her on your team, you want her on the floor, especially at big times in the game, you want her in the trenches with you. "


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Insider Trader is your inside line on making, selling, buying and using player-made products.
Back in the early days of the Azerothian economy, enchanters performed enchants with their own mats. You didn't sell anything you didn't have all the mats for, with the exception of special items such as Righteous Orbs for exclusive, high-end enchants like Crusader. When you were out of mats, you closed up shop for the day. Players laughed in your face if you asked them to provide their own mats, and anything for sale on the Auction House was overpriced to the nth degree. Enchanters developed relationships with crafters in other professions to create items that disenchanted into useful components. Players who leveled enchanting purely to disenchant items and sell the resulting reagents were frowned upon and hid their identities behind banker alts and mules.
Today, it's a disenchanter's market. Disenchanting has become a profitable "gathering" profession in and of itself. Groups expect enchanters to "shard" items on the spot during instance runs so that members can choose a more valuable shard instead of an undesirable BoP drop. Disenchanting is a whole new "profession"! Read on for Insider Trader's look at disenchanting as a money-making venture in its own right.
Insider Trader is your inside line on making, selling, buying and using player-made products.
Disenchanting is the simplest "gathering profession" of all. You never need to set foot outside town. You collect BoE greens and blues to disenchant through your own farming and instance runs or by mailing them to yourself from other characters, as well as by buying underpriced blues and greens off the Auction House.
Becoming a disenchanter
Disenchanting makes a solid choice of profession for an alt. Training is a cinch, there are no recipes to farm or travel for, and if you're content to stick with the lucrative low-level item market, you don't need but a handful of levels under your belt. Especially if other primary professions offer attractive BoP advantages for your high-level characters, relegating enchanting to an alt parked back in town can be a profitable and convenient solution for making money off your BoEs.
If you run a lot of instances where BoP blues can go to waste without anyone around to disenchant them, you may want to pick up enchanting on your main. Enchanting also provides some nice enchanter-only ring enchants -- a worthwhile consideration for some classes.
A few things to keep in mind when creating a DEer:
- Your ability to disenchant high-level items is linked to your enchanting level, which is in turn linked to your character level. You'll need an enchanting skill of 275 to disenchant Outland BoE greens, so you'll need be at least level 35. If you're content to DE old-world items of level 60 and below, you can get by with a skill of 225 – and even less, in many cases, since items in still lower level brackets represent one of the most profitable niches for DEing.
- If you're making a DE twink, don't choose a Draenei. Draenei are the only race that cannot train their enchanting skill in Shattrath City due to faction concerns. (Find out why, and learn how to get to and get trained in Shattrath, in Insider Trader's Uldaman or bust!) (Edit: As of patch 2.3, you can train up to 300 in old world cities, so this is no longer an issue. Thanks, Zoltan!)
- Disenchanting itself will provide skill points during the early levels, but you can't go all the way on DEing alone. If you're aiming for a higher skill range, read various enchanting guides to find cheap and easy enchants to level up on. If you have the entrepreneurial energy, you may want to make or buy and re-sell equipment from the Auction House to enchant, which you can re-sell at a marginally higher profit. If you have cash to spare, pick a cost-effective formula in a good skill range and simply enchant and re-enchant a single piece of gear to get the skill-ups.
- Park yourself in the capital city of your choice (not Shattrath City – you want to be near an Auction House) ... and prepare to reap the profits!
Because DEers make their money by selling enchanting reagents on the Auction House, you'll want to familiarize yourself with how the Auction House works and the process of competitive buying and selling.
There are several UI mods that will simplify your life as a DEer and seller of enchanting mats.
- Auctioneer, the king-daddy of auction add-ons, helps you search and suggests prices for your items based on a database of other items in your server's AH.
- Enchantrix tells you what items are disenchantable and what disenchant into.
So how do you figure out what will disenchant into what? The type of dust, essence, shard or crystal you get depends on the item level of the item you disenchant. Although what you get from any given item is always somewhat based on chance, there is a general method to the madness.
- Dusts most frequently DE from green (uncommon) armor (75% chance, vs. 20% chance from uncommon weapons).
- For essences, it's reversed – DE green weapons for the best chance of getting essences.
- Shards come from blue (rare) items of any type, purple (epic) gear with an item level of 55 or below, and very rarely from green gear.
- Crystals come from item-level 56+ purples, or very rarely from blues.
- Disenchanting results are determined by item level, not required level (the level required to wear or use the item). You may want to load a mod that displays so-called "iLevels" so you can better judge what you'll want to DE.
- The higher the item's level within a level range, the more dust or essences you're likely to get. (For example, a level 35 item might yield 1-2 dusts, while a level 37 item might give you 3-4.)
- Blue items almost always provide a shard. Greens DE into shard only about 4-5% of the time.
- Nexus and Void Crystals come from epics. The chance of getting a crystal from a blue is less than 1%.
- Some green items are not disenchantable at all – notably, quest items, replaceable quest rewards such as Zul'Gurub armor sets, vendor-purchased BoP gear including PvP and faction reputation rewards, Twilight Trappings pieces from Silithus, enchanter-made wands and ammo.
Buying and selling
Whether you get your DE items from yourself, other characters or in the Auction House, you'll want to compare the AH sales value of each item against what you're likely to make from selling what it DEs into. (With Auctioneer and Enchantrix installed [see above], this is easy as pie.) If the item value is less than those of the expected disenchant materials, buy it and DE it!
Remember, disenchanting is a game of averages. You might get one lousy dust from an item one time but two phat essences the next. You'll make a solid profit in the long run, so don't let short-term setbacks take you by surprise.
A few tricks based on market demand:
- Low-level dusts and essences (up to level 40) are usually used by other enchanters who are skilling up. Because they're buying in large quantities, you can sell in full stacks. Low-level shards are harder to sell, because nobody wants to skill up on more expensive materials.
- Past level 40 or so, you'll begin running into customers who are looking to buy just enough reagents to cover an enchant they need. Singles and small stacks are often in higher demand and sell for proportionately higher prices. Lobotomy on Blizzard's EU forums suggests setting stack sizes to the amounts commonly required by individual enchants: Dream Dust: 1, 2, 5, 10; Illusion Dust: 1, 4, 6, 15; Greater Eternal Essence: 1, 2, 4, 6, 10; Large Brilliant Shard: 1, 2, 4, 6; and so on.
- There's no deposit required for enchanting reagents in the Auction House. You can use the longest buyout period without fear of losing money if the auction expires without a purchase.
- Because players are looking for reagents for their personal enchants, the value of individual lesser essences is often higher than a flat one-third of the greater essence they're derived from. (A greater essence breaks down into three lessers, and three lessers combine to make a greater. Same principle for large and small prismatic shards.)


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Albert Markov, Violin
Albert Markov immigrated to the United States from Russia in 1975 and made his sensational debut with the Houston Symphony in May, 1976, prompting a New York Times reviewer to write: "The audience roared approval, coming to its feet for three standing ovations, Mr. Markov wowed them with dazzling pyrotechnics."
Following performances with symphonies and solo appearances at Carnegie Hall in New York, Markov performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and played a great media acclaim in concert halls in Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, Philadelphia, Houston, Toronto, Montreal and other cities of North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. He appeared with such conductors as James Conlon, Neeme Jarvi, David Zinman, Andrew Litton, Lukas Foss, Sixten Ehrling, Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Sergiu Comissiona, Sir Charles Groves and others.
After almost 20 years of absence from the Russian concert stage, Mr. Markov entered the music scene again in Moscow in May, 1994.
His recent works are the Violin Concertos, Formosa Suite for Violin and Orchestra (both recorded by Mr. Markov with the Russian National Orchestra on the Sunrise label) and the Symphony "Kinnor David" premiered in Moscow. Albert Markov is the only concert violinist of the 20th century who has created major compositions and which are performed internationally and are commercially recorded.
His recordings are on Sunrise, Melodia and Musical Heritage Society labels. His compositions, which have been published by G. Schirmer (USA) and Muzyka (Russia) are: Sonatas for Solo and Duo Violins, Three Rhapsodies, Caprices.
Mr. Markov is the Music Director of the Rondo Chamber Orchestra appearing both as a soloist and conductor. Mr. Markov teaches at the Manhattan School of Music. Among his students are prize winners of the International Competitions and members of the leading orchestras. Mr. Markov's Violin Technique and Little Violinist (G. Schrimer, USA) are worldwide recognized violin methods.
Mr. Markov studied at Kharkov and Moscow conservatories under Lechinsky and Yankelevich. Winning the Gold Medal in the Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels, he was concertizing extensively.
Aram Khachaturian wrote: "Albert Markov's activities have had many facets . . . in all spheres of actions, he shows a remarkable talent. As a violinist, he is one of our best. As a teacher, he has trained excellent violinists. As a composer, he is remarkable in the originality of his compositions. In summary, Albert Markov is an outstanding musician."


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· There is a troubled space between how immigrant writers are seen and how they see themselves, especially when they tap into an ongoing news story, as 19-year-old Faïza Guène discovered when she published her first novel, Kiffe-Kiffe Demain, last year. The daughter of North African immigrants to Paris herself, she wrote about the daughter of North African immigrants in Paris, Doria, whose father returns to Morocco in search of a younger wife who can give him sons. There were immediate attempts to co-opt Guène into being the acceptable spokesperson for the disenfranchised North African immigrants of suburban Paris. But even when riots erupted a few weeks ago, she would have none of it. It wasn't as if she was denying reality - "For a TV show everything is all glittery and shiny. Then you go home and the elevator is broken and the hallway smells of urine!" as she told one newspaper. It's more that "I was sick and tired of hearing only black stories about the suburbs, so I wrote about the trivial, daily things that happen here ... " She sold 180,000 copies in hardback.
· That was in 2004; foreign rights for her book have now been sold in 22 countries and it is to be published here next year as Just Like Tomorrow. The book offers unusual challenges because of her use of language, her English translator Sarah Adams told Radio 3's The Verb last week. Guène uses Verlan, or backslang, spoken in the banlieu: words are cut in half and flipped (Verlan is what happens when this is done to "à l'inverse"), then garnished with Arabicisms. The title is an example of the latter influence: Kif-kif is a term French soldiers brought back from Algeria, which "means more of the same", says Adams; add "demain" and it means "same shit, different day". "Kaif", however, is Arabic for wellbeing, and in the banlieu "kiffer" has come to mean to fancy, to rate, to get turned on by: the title then becomes both optimistic and pessimistic. And all rather tough to render into English. Adams' solution was to look to the street slang of her own neighbourhood, Brixton, in London, but she is careful to point out that rather than swapping one immigrant culture for another, she has looked for a believable "urban street language in a developed western country. You want something that sounds authentic and not translated."
· Meanwhile, in LA, The Simpsons are taking on literature: Tom Wolfe, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Franzen and Gore Vidal will all appear, providing voice-overs, next year. Vidal is the only one who does not meet a sticky end under a runaway granite boulder. "Franzen's scream has a hint of falsetto," said the LA Times this week. "Chabon writhes as he lets out an anguished moan." Wolfe had a little more trouble getting into the part. "He screams softly, this southern gentleman, his trademark white suit unwrinkled, his spats unwavering even as a giant granite boulder hurtles down upon him ... 'Aaaaaaaahh! Wait, no, that wasn't good, let me start over'.
"'Why don't you try, "Aaaaahhhh, my suit!" suggests a rail-thin, nerdy-looking writer.'"
This seems to work better. "'Ahhhhh, my suit! It's gabardine!'"