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CAMPBELL, Ohio - Three teenage girls are being held in Mahoning County's Juvenile Justice Center, two of them charged with aggravated burglary after allegedly breaking into a Campbell home with a gun as the residents were sleeping. The third teenager is charged with obstruction for allegedly trying to impede the police investigation.
Ron Kelly of Whipple Avenue says he's shocked to learn that the people accused of breaking into his home early Thursday morning, through an open window, as he and his daughter slept, were just 15 and 16-years-old.
"My daughter was in her room, and I was in my room. I'm glad we didn't wake up," Kelly said.
Campbell Police say the suspects were armed with a 9-millimeter handgun and willing to use it.
"Statements were taken that they were prepared to knock on a door and put a gun in someone's face and pretend like they needed help at four in the morning if they could not find a target to just burglarize," said Interim Campbell Police Chief Drew Rauzan.
The teenage suspects allegedly stole approximately $7,500 worth of gold jewelry from the Whipple Avenue home as well as an iPhone.
That iPhone became central to the investigation.
"When the victim called us, we had advised them to start, what's called "pinging" the cell phone," Detective-Sergeant John Russnak said. "iPhones have a unique feature where you can send out a signal and you can track where the phone is."
They got a hit on the exact location of the iPhone at a home on Sanderson Avenue, just two blocks away from the scene of the crime.
The elderly homeowner consented to a search, and the teenagers in the home denied any knowledge of the crime; however, evidence was found, including the iPhone, in one of the teenager's bedrooms.
Two teens have now confessed, with one detailing the operation in a nine-page statement.
Campbell Police say the girl's statements were chilling, Detective-Sergeant Rusnak says, "It turns out they had attempted a home invasion right before this one, where they busted out a window and waited to see if anybody woke up. Somebody did wake-up, so they left and decided to hit the Whipple Avenue house. They had planned to do another one after that."
Detectives reveal the teenagers were planning their crimes by messaging either other over what's called "Kik," an app that police say allows you to do messaging to each other, text messaging, but you can do it in groups.
When asked why the girls allegedly committed the crimes, "They wanted money. They said we wanted to get some money," Detective-Sergeant Rusnak said.
Police not only obtained confessions, and recovered all of the jewelry allegeldy stolen by the two of the suspects, they also recovered the handgun. It was stashed inside a box in the ceiling tiles of one of the girl's homes.
Interim Chief Rauzan says, "They have already eluded to the fact that this is not their first time doing these types of things. They made it clear from their confessions that there was going to be an easy way and a hard way, and that they were prepared to go the hard way which was robbing people, and that's why they had the loaded 9-millimeter."


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The Minnesota Timberwolves are adding further stock from overseas after signing French swingman Mickael Gelabale on Thursday.
As of now, the terms of the contract are not available, but Mickael Gelabale will immediately join the Minnesota Timberwolves on Friday as soon as Lazar Hayward's 10-day deal expires. It is unknown at this stage whether Mickael Gelabale too has been signed onto a 10-day contract or he could play out the rest of the season with the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Mickael Gelabale's addition helps shore up depth for the Minnesota Timberwolves, who've battled numerous injuries to their key players throughout the season. Minnesota Timberwolves' Kevin Love is out with a fractured hand, Brandon Roy is dealing with knee issues, Chase Budinger is rehabbing from a torn meniscus while Malcolm Lee too will be sidelined for a long stretch after undergoing knee and hip surgery. J.J. Barea has been kept limited with back issues, and Ricky Rubio is making a gradual comeback from ACL surgery.
Mickael Gelabale had been playing overseas for Valencia (Spanish League). Over five games for Valencia, Mickael Gelabale has averaged 11.0 points and 3.4 rebounds on 40.0 percent shooting from the field while playing 20.3 minutes per game.
However, Mickael Gelabale recently expressed interest in coming back to league, leaving after two seasons with the Seattle SuperSonics.
The Minnesota Timberwolves had been the front-runners amongst teams showing interest in acquiring Mickael Gelabale.
The 29-year-old Mickael Gelabale was a second-round pick by the Seattle SuperSonics in the 2005 drafts. Mickael Gelabale played 109 games for the Seattle Supersonics, averaging 4.5 points and 2.1 rebounds in 15.6 minutes per game, before leaving NBA in 2008, to continue his basketball career overseas. Mickael Gelabale boasts a 32.1 shooting percentage from beyond the arc.
The 6-foot-7 Mickael Gelabale signing with the Minnesota Timberwolves makes him the sixth player on the roster with international background.
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3 High Yielding REITs with Sticky Tenants
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As a landlord, perhaps the most important factor to your success is choosing your tenants wisely. Irresponsible tenants who trash your property, don't pay their bills and refuse to renew their leases can seriously crimp profits. In this article, I highlight three high-yielding real estate investment trusts (REITs) with a tenant base that should be the envy of any landlord. While all three REITs serve different industries, they share one important common trait: their tenants have excellent financial health and have little incentive to move to different properties, giving these companies excellent pricing power. Furthermore, all three REITs sport attractive dividend yields ranging from roughly 4.7% to 6.7%, making them worthy of a close look for income-seeking investors.
The lineup
The first REIT we will discuss is HCP (NYSE: HCP), which leases to a wide range of healthcare tenants including hospitals, research labs, and senior care housing. As one can imagine, moving a hospital, research lab, or senior community center to another location is a difficult task -- think about the disruptions it would cause sick, bedridden patients to have to be moved to another location, or the burden it would cause to transport medical equipment. Perhaps due to the sticky nature of its healthcare customer base, HCP has been able to secure favorable triple-net leases (which shift the burden of operating expenses such as utilities and tax on the customer and also mandate automatic rent increases during the life of the lease) for the majority of its current leases, which allows it to generate steady and fat profit margins from year to year.
The second REIT is Government Properties Income Trust (NYSE: GOV), which primarily leases to the state and federal government. When it comes to financial stability and creditworthiness, it doesn't get much better than the U.S. government, which is a plus for this REIT. Some investors may worry about the ongoing government budget cuts, but that hasn't slowed down Government Properties' ability to lease to government tenants. The company was able to increase the total number of properties leased from 71 to 84 during the course of 2012. I believe lower public sector spending can actually help the REIT because more government organizations may choose to sell properties they own to raise cash, and instead lease the office space they need. In fact, this own-to-lease trend may be partly responsible for GOV's strong recent results, boding well for the company's ability to weather government budget cuts.
The last REIT I will mention is Digital Realty Trust (NYSE: DLR). Digital Realty operates tech-related properties housing corporate data centers and internet gateways. Corporate data centers in particular are mission critical to DLR's tenants, as major disruptions at the data center level can bring the daily operations of the entire company to a grinding halt. Much like we saw with HCP, this critical nature of the properties leased by DLR gives the company a base of sticky, loyal customers who are loath to move their data center infrastructure to another location. As a result, DLR is also able to implement the landlord-friendly triple net leases on the majority of its properties.
Valuation and conclusion
All three REITs I have mentioned offer compelling dividend yields, ranging from roughly 4.7% for HCP to 5.2% for Digital Realty and 6.7% for Government Properties (based on stock closing price on July 9, 2013). Comparing price-to-earnings ratios for REITs tend to be a futile exercise, so I will compare their price to funds from operations (FFO) ratios instead. The reason for this is because net income incorporates non-cash depreciation expenses, which usually don't matter for REITs since most of their depreciable assets are land and property. Land and property don't usually depreciate over time, but may actually gain in value as the years go by and land prices appreciate; therefore, funds from operations, which adds non-cash depreciation expenses back to net income, is a better proxy for a REIT's true financial performance. Below is a table summarizing the three REIT's valuation multiples:
Valuation Metrics (based on July 9, 2013 closing share price)
Based on both dividend yield and price to FFO ratios, it seems that Government Properties and Digital Realty offer more reasonable valuations than HCP. Valuation for Government Properties looks particularly reasonable, with a dividend yield greatly exceeding the market (and REIT industry) average, and a modest price to FFO ratio. I think Government Properties' share price may be pressured due to concerns about government budget cuts; however, as I explained previously, tighter public budgets may encourage government entities to lease more and not less as they sell properties they own to raise cash and move operations to leased properties. As such, I believe Government Properties may warrant a look for risk-averse investors who are thirsty for yield.
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In this installment of the Design Challenge we are pitting the European Commission against those ever sensible Swiss.
According to the estimates of people who specialise in estimating such things there are roughly 400,000 escalators in operation worldwide, which collectively generate a power bill North of $260 million a year (seems kind of low but since I'm not an escalator expert, lets just go with it!) As such energy-saving "sleep mode" escalators, which only begin operating as people approach, have become all the rage particularly in Europe. Seems like a win-win solution for everyone…we save the planet by reducing energy consumption and at the same time enable the ever expanding waistline of the world (SCORE!)
Here's where things get interesting. When you approach a pair of normal escalators, which are 10'-15' in front of you, your brain interprets explicit visual cues (one going up & one going down) and in a millisecond generates a P3a response which sends you along a trajectory in the right direction. Things start to get a bit fuzzy when you approach a pair of stationary "sleeping" escalators, which only begin operating after an infrared beam located ~5 feet from the first step is triggered.
Which brings us back to the two polaroids up above (click on the photo for a higher-res version). The picture on the left is from a European Commission building in Brussels. You can't tell it from the resized picture but there are actually four escalators next to each other in the following arrangement:
Lower Flr - Upper Flr - Upper Flr - Lower Flr
I happened to be there for a conference and what I observed repeatedly over the course of three days were the results of shoddy design. In the absence of visual cues (moving stairs) people who wanted to go down to the ground floor would continually walk up to the "sleeping" escalator on the left, trigger the infrared beam @ 5', and then almost trip as they stopped 1' short of the first step which was going in the "wrong" direction (in this case up).
To be fair the escalator manufacturer must have recognised this would be an issue, so they implemented a replacement visual cue, but the design and placement of that cue was so poor it almost seems as if it was an afterthought. Based on observations it seems like the vast majority of people failed to recognise that small red "stop" light, which was behind the reflective plexiglass on the right and out of their direct line of sight, from 10'-15' away. Of course that bright accent light on the blue walling, pulling eyes upwards didn't help the situation either!
Contrast this to the picture on the right which was taken in Zurich Airport. As I was waiting for my flight I must have watched this escalator go on and off about 20 times while at least 100 people streamed down without issue. By simply moving those indicator lights 2' forward and upwards to eye-level the designers were able to transform a halting and inarguable dangerous situation into a seamless experience that no-one (expect a design geek like me) thought twice about!
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A little bit of over-Photoshoped work for Photo Friday today...
Welcome to Friday, and Yani's World of Snark...
I realised this morning that I've been fairly snarky at work the last few days, particularly in the general direction of the Boss Manchild. And not without good reason... I gave him stuff last Friday that he swore he would get back to me by that afternoon. A week later and I'm still waiting on it.
Of course, as soon as I started pondering that thought (and had a bout of additional snarkiness this morning), he actually got his arse at least partially into gear and gave me enough stuff back so that I had a project that kept me completely occupied for the whole day (and I'll have to finish up on Monday).
Even so, I've got no qualms whatsoever about walking away from the place come next Friday whether the job is finished or not... they know I'm going, they know there is X amount of work that needs to be done before I go, and yet they (and BMC particularly) drag their feet with it.
We'll have to see how it all works out though I guess.
I decided that today needed to be a Market Day... I was in need of a Central Market excursion, so I took an hour for lunch and toddled on over.
Obviously the Universe heard me whining the other day, because there's a store that opened since the last time I was over there... Little Tokyo! (complete with exclamation point I might add)... sadly they only had a three teir Bento box, but with any luck they're getting more in next week. For now I settled for getting Ma a little mouse/bear/keyring thing in a pink kimono... all cute and stuff.
Oh, and as I was going into the store, who should be outside in his chef's outfit and red Crocs but Simon Bryant, Executive Chef at The Hilton and star of The Cook and The Chef. Hey, I said it was a true story, I never said it was interesting!
Then I got some bad service (I've been standing looking at things for like five minutes, could you at least ASK me if you can help me, ya stupid bint) and a brooch made with Japanese paper for Ma (it's like clear resin over the paper, it's loverly).
After that I hit Goodies and Grains for Vegie Chips and dark couverture chocolate (and bonded with the serving girlie over their Rocky Road... she made appreciative faces when I told her I make mine with Turkish Delight) and kind of wandered around aimlessly looking for anywhere in our pathetic little "Chinatown" that might have the kind of box I'm after. No luck.
But then I stopped off at one of those hippy dippy stores (a new one, rather than the one I've visited previously) and found a very cool Bastet statue... most of the smaller ones aren't nearly as detailed and interesting, but this one was just very regal and gorgeous... and also the last one left in the store... and now she's mine (and headed for the Christmas Abyss).
Oddly I didn't actually buy a damn thing inside the Market proper... just skirted around the edges. I should have bought some apples, even though I really didn't have time to be hungry all afternoon.
And I got distracted by a hot, skinny guy in one of the Chinese supermarkets who was wearing impressively filled bike shorts... nummy!
While we're on the topic of men, the Universe has decided to throw redheads at me. Okay, "throw" isn't quite the right phrase since I haven't caught any of them yet, but I think I've seen more cute redheaded boys (and we're talking BRIGHT CARROT ORANGE, none of this Strawberry Blonde nonsense) this week than I've seen for months. Can I have one now... please? I promise not to break him (very much)!
Oh, and speaking of Signs From The Universe... today on my way to work I saw two Crumpler bags (okay, one was a paper bag, but it still had the Crumpler logo on it). I couldn't tell you the last time I saw even a single bag (the logo is a different story, because you see that around as a sticker in weird places from time to time), but today, two. So obviously I'm supposed to buy one (see, I can justify anything!).
Also, I'm in geek-related mourning... David Tennant is quitting Doctor Who *pout*. But I've think I've decided which of the names being bandied about that I want to replace him... Paterson Joseph, because he would be the first black Doctor, and how fucking cool would that be! Either him or James McAvoy (aka Mr Tumnus)... coz, again, nummy!
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I hope it is a guaranteed deal, back up C is a need, plus I'm hoping the Steam Whistle people aren't sleeping on the marketing potential of the Steamer for their brand.
I'm a secret agent.
Don't tell anyone.
Don't sleep on T 'Bro.
Edit: or Fields if he gets minutes.
I hope the mods discourage refering to women as "hoes" here. It's not funny, it's sexist.
I'm totally into the Bruno draft, and looking forward to seeing him play in Toronto. However is he really more athletic than Kyle Anderson?
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Yeah, now I wanna see him jump over Bebe.
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I always assumed you where named after the HTML tag.
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Intersting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caboclo
While he's ranked pretty low overall, he's pretty high for a Freshman. I wish they would do an age adjusted WS, kinda like the position adjusted WS, where they subtract the average WS for the...
OK, my big board
20: Tyler Ennis, KJ McDaniels, Elfrid Payton, Kyle Anderson, Shabazz Napier, Jordan Adams
Would be pretty excited about any of these guys. Not sure how getting Ennis, Payton...
Just to be clear, I said the deal would need to *include* Birdman and a 1st, to start with. It should also include other picks, and Novak or Hayes going that way, but I didn't intend to predict...
Any deal with Miami needs to include Birdman and the 26th pick (or 2015 pick).
If Miami is really interested in Lowry, I think MU should really go for it. I like Lowry, a lot, and hope he returns,...
Can we give him his own forum then, so this doesn't pollute every thread.?
DeRozan is a league average starting 2, which is awesome and better than most draft picks turn out to be. But you gotta take the chance that Masai can do better with a lottery pick, especially with...
If anybody offers a lottery pick for DeRozan you take it and run!
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The only PG clearly better than Lowry (not counting potential) is Chris Paul. Lowry is solidly in a group of at least 6 players in that second tier.
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Amir is much better. He's in the neighbourhood of Tyler and 2Pat, though both of them fit better with a role to play. He's better than Hayes, but maybe not as a bench vet that can also play C. Just...
Players I like for the team, in no particular order, plausibly acquirable:
- Gorgui Dieng, backup C
- Cory Joseph, backup PG
Both of the above for backups.
- Nikolas Batum, starting SF
Stevo, problem is that DeRozan and Ross and both only passible starters, so if you keep DeRozan as a starter, you need to upgrade SF, wich means you need trade assets, and Ross is one. If we can...
Legit Starters, must keep: JV, Lowry, Amir
Passable Starters, trade at least one: TRoss, DeRozan
Key backups, keep some, trade some: 2Pat, TH, Fields
Passable backups, no problem keeping, but...
mcHAPPY? I'm sorry, but we should get a say in this. I reject this name change.
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I definitely see if we could get James Johnson back.
I say we pull out the stops to get Ennis instead, maybe target Orlando's 2nd first rounder (13th) or Philadelphia's (11th). Should be much easier to get these, since that far down the draft teams are...
Jordan, Magic, Kareem, Bird
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Terrence Howard's ex-wife filed legal docs with a graphic allegation -- that the actor sucker punched her in the face, grabbed her by the neck and threw her against the wall.
In the docs -- obtained by TMZ -- Michelle Ghent alleges the brutality occurred during a trip last week to Costa Rica. She says the fight started after she told Terrence she had no interest in firing up a relationship with him -- they divorced in May.
Michelle says after Terrence hit her, he glared at her and walked over to a bedside table where he kept 2 curved knives -- 4-6 inches in length.
Michelle says she panicked and then pepper sprayed him. At that point she claims Terrence knocked her down and then kicked her repeatedly in the head.
In addition to the black eye, Michelle says she suffered contusions and swelling.
And, she says, he referred to a prior warning he had given her on a trip to Bora Bora -- threatening to kill her.
For his part, Terrence claims in his legal docs that she made up the story to damage him, timing it for his movie premiere of "The Butler." Terrence claims she threatened to kill him and he believes she's serious. He also says she's been admitted to a psych hospital in the past.
Michelle got a temporary restraining order Tuesday, requiring Terrence to stay clear of her.
It seems he tried to beat her to death the way Chris Brown did to Rihanna. She has a long lump from the top to them bottom of her forehead in the last picture, the area above her elbow is deeply bruised, and she has abrasions across her nose and a black eye.
It looks like what happened to Rihanna. At least this creep was overwhelmed with the mace in his eyes so he couldn't do more. That was very smart of her to be ready and fight back. She needs to keep that attitude.
This guy is a hateful low-life even blaming her for attacking him instead. Some people really have over inflated ego syndrome. They think they can attack whoever they want and then blame the victim besides.
She really doesn't look able to attack anyone. I don't think he sees her as a threat to anything but his worthless pride.
hey stupid, if you had no interest in him, why were you there?
Let me start by saying I'm not a huge fan of Terrance Howard but I do think he is a decent actor.
I do have questions:
1. Why would you go away with a man you divorced? It's over, move on.
2. Did she contact the local authorities in Costa Rica?
3. Why would you go away with your ex who physically abused and threatened you before go away?
Don't put yourself in a position to be around someone who has hurt you before.
If you look at the two of the pictures she seems to be missing a black eye!?
Comparing the pictures, notice how she has a black eye in some pictures and it disappears in others?
Why would she go with him on a trip when he supposedly beat her before? Battered women are just that BATTERED!
From a couple of friends I know who had met him while filming years back (They were extras in one of his movie) he's a douchebag and a diva on set. He also gave my friend his number and kept flirting and telling her to go back to his trailer with him. This is also when he was still married. So I don't doubt he's an ******* and is capable of hitting a woman.
Dudking a LOT of sense man, I mean like wow!
Implying that if he had first taken a fighting stance that she would have counterpunched his lights out?
As Judge Judy would say, If he threatened to Kill you on your previous trip to Bora Bora, WHY would you go with him to Costa Rica? And why would you go on an trio with him?....Sorry, don't believe her. She sounds nuts
Not defending him at this point... but.... if she divorced him because of violence, and if she had no desire to rekindle a relationship, then why did she go on a vacation with him? What did she THINK would happen (based upon her previous allegations?)
Shouldn't have to tell a bitch twice!
Wait you're surprised, he has been beating up his wife for years. Oh yea, thats right you guys only care about Chris Brown's incident 5 years ago. The media nor America gives a damn about domestic violence unless they can benefit off it. So sad.
Why were these idiots together in Costa Rica in the first place????
Now you can all get off of Chris Brown.


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We hit Magtheridon's Lair yesterday and ended up with FOUR pallies in the group - 2 prot, 1 ret and 1 holy. It was great; we were running out of ideas for blessings! :D
I ended up with light, sanc, kings and might. All of those are great things for a tank to have in terms of threat output and surviving, but I have to wonder what you'd do for the other roles with all 4 available. Wisdom, Salv and Kings are no-brainers for caster DPS, for example, but what do you get paladin 4 to do?
And should a tankadin have the same four as me, or would they be better off replacing one of those with wisdom for better threat-production longevity?
The fourth blessing for a caster DPS should probably be light incase they need to be spot healed by a paladin. The fifth (fourth if paladins wont be healing) blessing for casters would be sanctuary. The 80 damage reduction applies to ALL damage not just physical, so it helps with all incoming damage to the party. You asked about casters, but blessing of sanctuary is always good to apply for any class if all other decent pally blessings are applied. Any reduction in raid damage helps.


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RISKS-LIST: Risks-Forum Digest Monday 2 January 2012 Volume 26 : Issue 70
ACM FORUM ON RISKS TO THE PUBLIC IN COMPUTERS AND RELATED SYSTEMS (comp.risks)
Peter G. Neumann, moderator, chmn ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
***** See last item for further information, disclaimers, caveats, etc. *****
This issue is archived at <http://www.risks.org> as
The current issue can be found at
Election integrity (Bob Fitrakis/Harvey Wasserman)
3 of 2011's worst data breaches involved medical records
(Healthcare Tech Review)
Skype Information Leakage and decoding of encrypted packets
(Stephan Burschka via Lauren Weinstein)
Re: Risks and aircraft control - how does voting fit into this?
(John Levine)
AZ Humane Society lies, kills man's cat, blocks Facebook comments ()
Re: Internet of things (David Magda)
Re: IMDb and Amazon vs. the "Ageless Actress" (Peter Houppermans)
Re: "Risks of focusing on risks" (Bob Paddock)
Expiring CharlieCards causing confusion and frustration (Monty Solomon)
Abridged info on RISKS (comp.risks)
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:28:47 PST
From: "Peter G. Neumann" <neumann () csl sri com>
Subject: Election integrity (Bob Fitrakis/Harvey Wasserman, commondreams.org)
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
Has America's Stolen Election Process Finally Hit Prime Time?
It took two stolen US Presidential elections and the prospect of another one
coming up in 2012.
For years the Democratic Party and even much of the left press has reacted
with scorn for those who've reported on it. But the imperial fraud that has
utterly corrupted our electoral process seems finally to be dawning on a
broadening core of the American electorate---if it can still be called that.
The shift is highlighted by three major developments:
1. The NAACP goes to the United Nations
In early December, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP), the largest civil rights organization in America, announced
that it was petitioning the United Nations over the orchestrated GOP attack
on black and Latino voters.
In its landmark report entitled Defending Democracy: Confronting Modern
Barriers to Voting Rights in America, the NAACP directly takes on the new
Jim Crow tactics passed in fourteen states that are designed to keep
minorities from voting in 2012.
The report analyzes 25 laws that target black, minority and poor voters
``unfairly and unnecessarily restrict[ing] the right to vote.'' It notes ``a
coordinated assault on voting rights.''
The Free Press has been reporting on this coordinated assault since the 2000
election, including the heroic struggle of voters in Ohio to postpone the
enactment of the draconian House Bill 194 that was the most restrictive
voting rights law passed in the United States. (See Voting rights activists
fight back against new Republican Jim Crow attack in Ohio.)
The NAACP points out that this most recent wave of voter repression is a
reaction to the ``historic participation of people of color in the 2008
presidential election and substantial minority population growth according
to the 2010 consensus.''
It should be no surprise that the states of the old Confederacy -- Florida,
Georgia, Texas, and North Carolina -- are in the forefront of repressing
black voters. Three other Jim Crow states with the greatest increase in
Latino population -- South Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee -- also
implemented drastic measures to restrict minority voting.
The report documents that a long-standing tactic under fire since the 1860s
-- the disenfranchisement of people with felony convictions -- is back in
vogue. This has been coupled with `severe restrictions' on persons
conducting voter registration drives and reducing opportunities for early
voting and the use of absentee ballots complete these template legislative
Most of these new Jim Crow tactics were initially drafted as model
legislation by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a secretive
and conservative corporate policy group whose founder, according to the
NAACP, is on record in favor of reducing the voting population in order to
increase their own `leverage'.
The Brennan Center for Justice estimates that the 25 laws passed in these 14
states could prevent as many as 5 million voters from voting, a number
easily exceeding the margin of victory in numerous presidential elections.
Ohio's HB 194, which awaits a 2012 referendum vote, would disenfranchise an
estimated 900,000 in one of our nation's key battleground states.
An important statistic in all the legislation is that 25% of African
Americans lack a state photo identification, as do 15% of Latinos, but by
comparison, only 8% of white voters. Other significant Democratic
constituents -- the elderly of all races and college students -- would be
disproportionately impacted.
Ohio voters have just repealed a draconian anti-labor law passed by the
GOP-dominated legislature and the state's far-right governor John
Kasich. Whether they will do the same to this massive disenfranchisement
remains to be seen. But the fact that it's on a state ballot marks a major
leap forward. Ohio activists are also drafting a constitutional amendment
that includes revamping the registration, voting and vote count
procedures.(Can we transform labor's Buckeye victory into a new era of
election protection?
2. The Justice Department awakens
On Friday, December 23, 2011, the U.S. Justice Department called South
Carolina's new voter ID law discriminatory. The finding was based in
part on the fact that minorities were almost 20% more likely than whites
to be without state-issued photo IDs required for voting. Unlike Ohio,
South Carolina remains under the 1965 Voting Rights Act and requires
federal pre-approval to any changes in voting laws that may harm
minority voters.
The Republican governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley denounced the Justice
Department decision as `outrageous' and vowed to do everything in her power
to overturn the decision and uphold the integrity of state's rights under
the 10th Amendment.
The US Supreme Court has upheld the requirement of photo ID for voting.
Undoubtedly the attempt by US Attorney General Eric Holder to challenge this
will go to the most thoroughly corporate-dominated Court in recent
memory. The depth of the commitment of the Obama Administration to the issue
also remains in doubt.
3. The EAC finally finds that voting machines are programmed to be partisan
Another federal agency revealed another type of problem in Ohio. On
December 22, 2011, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) issued
a formal investigative report on Election Systems & Software (ED&D)
DS200 Precinct County optical scanners. The EAC found ``three substantial
* Intermittent screen freezes, system lock-ups and shutdowns that prevent
the voting system from operating in the manner in which it was designed
* Failure to log all normal and abnormal voting system events
* Skewing of the ballot resulting in a negative effect on system accuracy
The EAC ruled that the ballot scanners made by ES&S electronic voting
machine firm failed 10% of the time to read the votes correctly. Ohio is one
of 13 states that requires EAC certification before voting machines can be
used in elections. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported in 2010 that the
voting machines in heavily Democratic Cuyahoga County had failed during
testing for the 2010 gubernatorial election. Cleveland uses the same
Republican-connected ES&S ballot scanners -- the DS200 opti-scan
system. Ohio's Mahoning County, home of the Democratic enclave of
Youngstown, also uses the DS200s. The same opti-scan system is also used in
the key battleground states of Florida, Illinois, Indiana, New York, and
Voting rights activists fear a repeat of the well-documented vote switching
that occurred in Mahoning County in the 2004 presidential election when
county election officials admitted that 31 of their machines switched Kerry
votes to Bush.
But a flood of articles about these realities---including coverage in the
New York Times---seems to indicate the theft of our elections has finally
taken a leap into the mainstream of the American mind. Whether that leads to
concrete reforms before another presidential election is stolen remains to
be seen. But after more than a decade of ignorance and contempt, it's about
time something gets done to restore a semblance of democracy to the nation
that claims to be the world's oldest.
Bob Fitrakis [bio and various succeeding commentaries omitted.
Some RISKS readers may consider Fitrakis's analysis politically motivated.
From a RISKS perspective, it is merely a reevaluation of many issues that
have appeared here in the past. Democracy should be for Everyone,
just as The Internet is for Everyone! PGN]
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:07:22 -0500
From: Healthcare Tech Review <weekly () healthcaretechreview com>
Subject: 3 of 2011's worst data breaches involved medical records
Special Report: 3 of 2011's worst data breaches involved medical records
-- From Healthcare Tech Review <http://healthcaretechreview.com/>
We've reported before on how valuable health information is for criminals.
http://healthcaretechreview.com/stolen-medical-records-lucrative/ patients'
That explains why a few of the worst data breaches organizations experienced
in the past year involved the theft of electronic medical records.
29 Dec 2011 by Scott Gibson
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC), a nonprofit consumer protection group,
recently published its list of the six worst data breaches of 2011. Of those
that made the list, three involved health information.
Medical records are a big target for criminals, PRC said, because of the
amount of sensitive information they contain. Those records often contain
not just coveted Social Security numbers and dates of birth, but also data
that can be used to commit insurance fraud or buy and resell prescription
These were the three most significant health data breaches of 2011:
* Sutter Physicians Services and Sutter Medical Foundation: A desktop
computer containing patient data was stolen from Sutter's administrative
offices in Sacramento, CA. The PC was password-protected, but data was not
encrypted, and approximately 3.3 million patients whose providers use
Sutter's services had sensitive information exposed. Sutter has been sued
for negligence in protecting the patients' information and failing to
notify affected patients in a timely manner.
* Health Net: Nine servers went missing from Health Net's data center in
Rancho Cordova, CA, containing the names, addresses, Social Security
numbers, and health and financial information of 1.9 million policy
holders. The theft was discovered in January, but affected customers
weren't informed until three months later.
* Tricare/SAIC: Backup data tapes containing information about patients from
military hospitals and clinics were stolen from an employee's car. The
data on the tapes was unencrypted and included patient medical information
potentially spanning years from 1992 to 2011. An estimated 5.1 million
patients may have been affected, and a $4.9 billion lawsuit has been filed
against Tricare and SAIC.
Those breaches had some elements in common -- they all involved data that
was unencrypted and were carried out by stealing physical equipment
containing data. Also, in two of the incidents, a major issue was the
failure to notify people whose information may have been stolen.
The lessons for health IT professionals:
1. Make sure all sensitive data is kept encrypted
2. Pay attention to physical security as well as information security
3. Create policies and train employees to be careful when they
transport sensitive data outside of the office, and
4. If a breach does occur, organization must make sure law enforcement
and affect people are notified as soon as possible -- it pays to have
a breach plan in place before an incident occurs.
[PRC's 6 Worst Data Breaches among 535 cases noted by PRC in 2011 (not
just healthcare) were also reported in *Information Week*: Sony, Epsilon,
RSA, Sutter, Tricare/SAIC, and Nasdaq. PGN]
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:18:05 -0800
From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
Subject: Skype Information Leakage and decoding of encrypted packets
Stephan Burschka, Chaos Computer Club Congress (YouTube / ~1 hour)
Datamining for Hackers - Skype Information Leakage and decoding of
encrypted packets [via NNSquad]
"This talk presents Traffic Mining (TM) particularly in regard to VoiP
applications such as Skype. TM is a method to digest and understand large
quantities of data. Voice over IP (VoIP) has experienced a tremendous
growth over the last few years and is now widely used among the population
and for business purposes. The security of such VoIP systems is often
assumed, creating a false sense of privacy. Stefan will present research
into leakage of information from Skype, a widely used and protected VoIP
application. Experiments have shown that isolated phonemes can be
classified and given sentences identified. By using the dynamic time
warping (DTW) algorithm, frequently used in speech processing, an accuracy
of 60% can be reached. The results can be further improved by choosing
specific training data and reach an accuracy of 83% under specific
Date: 30 Dec 2011 05:17:05 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl () iecc com>
Subject: Re: Risks and aircraft control - how does voting fit into this?
vote online", but also "if we can rely on software to fly our planes, why
can't we rely on software to run our elections".
If people were trying as hard to subvert avionics software as they are to
subvert voting software, we wouldn't use software to fly our planes either.
It's a totally different environment.
It certainly doesn't help that most voting software seems to be written by
people who flunked out of junior high school programming classes, but even
if it were better written, the threat models are not even a little bit
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 3:30:11 PST
From: "Peter G. Neumann" <neumann () csl sri com>
Subject: AZ Humane Society lies, kills man's cat, blocks Facebook comments
Rescue group in crisis mode after cat euthanized
http://j.mp/vHgXOn (AP / TriCityHerald, Phoenix, Arizona)
"Animal lovers threatened to pull donations to an animal rescue group and
the public flooded the agency with scathing comments and calls after a man's
cat was euthanized when he couldn't afford its medical care, prompting the
Arizona Humane Society to go into damage-control mode Wednesday.The group
has hired a publicist, removed dozens of comments on its Facebook page and
directed a team of five volunteers to respond to the overwhelming calls and
emails it has received since The Arizona Republic published a weekend story
about Daniel Dockery and his 9-month-old cat, Scruffy."
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:25:44 -0500
From: David Magda <dmagda () ee ryerson ca>
Subject: Re: Internet of things
In RISKS-26.65 and 26.66 there were reports of HP printers being vulnerable
to being compromisable. The original researcher, Ang Cui, has now given the
technical details at this year's Chaos Communications Congress (28C3):
Weaknesses within the firmware update process allows the attacker to make
arbitrary modifications to the NVRAM contents of the device. The attacks
we present exploit a functional vulnerability common to all HP printers,
and do not depend on any specific code vulnerability. These attacks cannot
be prevented by any authentication mechanism on the printer, and can be
delivered over the network, either directly or through a print server
(active attack) and as hidden payloads within documents (reflexive
http://boingboing.net/2011/12/30/printer-malware-print-a-malic.html (via)
A video of his one hour presentation is available:
As Boing Boing mentions, there was also a paper on attacking via PostScript, which is found in just about every medium-
to high-end printer out there:
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:33:39 +0000
From: Peter Houppermans <peter () houppermans com>
Subject: Re: IMDb and Amazon vs. the "Ageless Actress" (Weinstein, R-26.69)
There is an interesting gap in privacy legislation between the US and EU.
This is why European (and Swiss) privacy laws demand that such permission is
given EXPLICITLY.
Having it buried in another contract in six point light grey Sanskrit
characters on a white background is not acceptable - the section that deals
with handing of personal data must be separate, needs to clearly spell out
what that data is going to be used for and may NOT be defaulted to "yes" in
the case of the use of tick boxes.
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:21:13 -0500
From: Bob Paddock <bob.paddock () gmail com>
Subject: Re: "Risks of focusing on risks" (RISKS-26.68)
Some items from my blog:
"In the Law of Unintended Consequences, the site Insurance Institute for
Highway Safety, Highway Loss Data Institute, tells us in their September
28th, 2010 report that, Texting bans don't reduce crashes; effects are
slight crash *increases* because the Texter is trying harder to hide what
they are doing, becoming even more distracted."
based on report from: http://www.iihs.org/news/rss/pr092810.html .
Now we also have Distracted Doctors:
and the potential for Distracted Pilots
(the paper being replaced by a device may have already been a distraction):
As Bob Frankston points out, it is not the device that is the problem,
it is the persons behavior that is the problem.
http://blog.softwaresafety.net/ http://www.designer-iii.com/
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 02:09:46 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com>
Subject: Expiring CharlieCards causing confusion and frustration
Excerpt from
Expiring CharlieCards causing confusion and frustration
For frequent riders, the expiration proves largely invisible: Their cards
get an automatic software upgrade, and two-year extension, when swiped. But
irregular riders may find themselves suddenly unable to use their plastic
CharlieCard. ..
A few weeks ago, reader Irene Gruenfeld of Sudbury and her husband took
their 5-year-old twins on a stroll through the city with a promise of a Red
Line ride from Charles/MGH back to their car in South Boston. They had more
than $10 on each of their cards, but the station gates failed to open,
displaying an "expired'' message. The vending machines presented similarly
cryptic information. No staff was present, forcing them to buy the paper
CharlieTickets spit out by the machine, which cost 30 cents more per ride.
When the CharlieCard was introduced, five years was the industry standard
for the still-emerging smartcard technology. Manufacturers at the time
recommended a programmed "sunset date'' to stave off problems that might
arise from frequently used cards nearing the end of their useful life, he
said. As it became clear the cards could last longer, more recently issued
CharlieCards have been given sunset dates of 10 years. Most of the 6 million
issued have the longer lifespan, he said.
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On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration said sunscreens must protect equally against two kinds of the sun's radiation, UVB and UVA, to earn the coveted designation of offering "broad spectrum" protection. UVB rays cause burning; UVA rays cause wrinkling; and both cause cancer.
The rules, which go into effect in a year, also will ban sunscreen manufacturers from claiming their products are waterproof or sweatproof, because such claims are false. Instead, they will be allowed to claim in minutes the amount of time in which the product is water-resistant, depending upon test results. And only sunscreens that have a sun protection factor, or SPF, of 15 or higher will be allowed to maintain that they help prevent sunburn and reduce the risks of skin cancer and early skin aging.


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Armed Forces Day occurs on 29 June and local authorities around the country were invited to hoist the flag simultaneously on Monday, 24 June.
Each year, over 3,000 flags are lofted around the British Isles, 500 by local authorities, as the nation demonstrates its support for armed forces personnel.
The flag was hoisted by Tim Cox, Lord-Lieutenant of Warwickshire, as well as Chairman of Warwickshire County Council, Cllr Dave Shilton, Cllr June Tandy and Cllr Bob Stephens and the High Sheriff, Keith Sach.
Mr Cox said: "Armed Forces Day raises the awareness of the commitment of the armed forces and of our gratitude towards service personnel for the sacrifices they make on a daily basis."
Chairman of Warwickshire County Council, Cllr Dave Shilton, said: "The County Council is pleased to show its commitment to armed forces personnel, past and present."
Cllr June Tandy, Leader of the Labour Group also lent her support and said: "We owe a debt of gratitude to the members of the armed forces so raising the flag, and showing our support, is something that we are proud to do."


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That only makes sense though, right? After the expansion comes out, Wrath epics will hardly be used anymore. Or are you saying that even new gem transmutes (assuming they've been implemented already) will be cooldown-less? I'm thinking that come Cata there's not going to be a market for e.g. Cardinals anyway, so no big loss, right?
A more general Queue question, what's going to happen to all our JC, enchanting, LW learned recipes with the XP? It seems like the number of gem types is going to drop a (no SP, no MP5, no def etc). Also, for JCs I'm pretty sure it's been reported that some gem types will change color. Will we still have all our recipes but they do different things (runed and sparkling do the same thing) or are some recipes just disappearing altogether?


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By some sort of cosmic irony, Mitt Romney's defeat in the presidential election is now being held up as a sign that the ultra-conservatives exercise too much control in the Republican Party. Critics charge that if the Republican Party wants to become political relevant again, it must subdue its more radical elements and start putting forth more moderate candidates. Social issues need to be abandoned in order to attract more women voters, and the Republican line on immigration needs to be reconsidered in order to reach out to Hispanics.
According to this narrative, Republicans nominated Romney as a result of their "devil may care" attitude toward the broader electorate. And while this may or may not have been true in some of the other races around the country, anyone who followed the Republican Primary, however, knows this is patently false. To the contrary, Romney got the nod mostly because Republicans felt that he was their best chance to beat Obama. That assessment might have actually been correct, at least inasmuch as Romney never promised to spend his presidency talking about the dangers of contraception, somehow resisted the urge to talk about his policy toward U-beki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan, and because- no matter how much he loves America- that patriotism never lead him to cheat on his wife. Excuse me: cheat on his wives.
So it wasn't as if Republicans were ignorantly throwing out the most radical candidate imaginable. On the contrary, Republicans nominated the candidate who they didn't really believe in themselves: is it such a wonder that the rest of America didn't either? Mitt Romney, the "etch-a-sketch" candidate, was supposed to be the perfect candidate largely based around the fact that he would say anything, be anyone he needed to be in order to become President.
In the end, it was Romney's lack of conviction, his lack of authenticity that became his defining characteristic. By the end of the primary, rather than an "etch-a-sketch," Romney became the "color-by-number" candidate: unhesitatingly trying to give conservatives, then Americans, everything they said they wanted. He became the best facsimile conservative around. He knew he couldn't become "severely conservative" overnight, but he could be something so close that the untrained eye wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
Romney said all the right things, appealed to all the right groups, and looked the part. To give an example that Romney himself is probably fairly familiar with: he aced the job interview. And as any job applicant will tell you: when you apply for a job, you tweak your resume to fit the position you are applying for, and then you tell them what you know they want to hear. Mitt Romney found out all too late that Americans are suspicious of "cookie-cutter" candidates; in that much, at least, the general electorate is wiser than the Republicans gave them credit for.
After all of the talk of the "lesser of two evils" and all of the nose-holding-while-voting, one lesson from this election should be patently clear: the problem is not that Republicans believe too strongly in their own principles. The problem is that Republicans continually vote for the "lesser of two evils" because they don't actually believe their principles will work in practice.
When I filled out my absentee ballot, I wrote in Ron Paul for President and I caught hell for it from family members who told me I was "throwing away" my vote. What Romney's failed candidacy shows, however, is that the real ones "throwing away" their votes are the ones who vote for the supposedly "electable" candidate who in the end stands for absolutely nothing.
Because it doesn't matter how moderate and pragmatic the Republican nominee is- the Left will ultimately paint him as a radical. The solution to the Republican Party's electoral woes is not to continue moving toward the center until (to paraphrase Mittens) we allow absolutely no daylight between ourselves and the Democrats, but rather to articulate a clear alternative to their policies. Let's face it: we'll never out-pander the Left.


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Hannibal (novel)
First edition cover
|Thomas Harris
|United States
|Hannibal Lecter
|thriller, horror
|Delacorte Press
Publication date
|8 June 1999
|Media type
|Print (Hardback & Paperback)
|484 pp (first edition, hardback)
|ISBN 0-385-33487-7 (first edition, hardback)
|Preceded by
|The Silence of the Lambs
|Followed by
|Hannibal Rising
Hannibal is a novel written by Thomas Harris, published in 1999. It is the third in his series featuring Dr. Hannibal Lecter and the second to feature FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling. The novel takes place seven years after the events of The Silence of the Lambs and deals with the intended revenge of one of Lecter's victims. It was adapted as a film of the same name in 2001, directed by Ridley Scott.
Seven years after the Buffalo Bill case, FBI agent Clarice Starling witnesses her career crumble around her. A drug raid goes wrong and Starling kills an armed meth dealer in self-defense: the dealer was carrying her own baby while shooting at Starling. Fugitive serial killer Hannibal Lecter, who has been living in Florence, Italy under an assumed name, sends her a letter of condolence and requests more information about her personal life. Desperate to catch Lecter, the FBI finds a use for Starling once again. She meets with Barney Matthews, former orderly of Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. He tells her how Lecter stated he would never go after her if he escaped.
Meanwhile, Mason Verger, a wealthy, sadistic pedophile who was left horribly disfigured after a "therapy session" with Lecter, plans to get revenge by feeding Lecter to wild boars, using Starling as bait. He is aided by corrupt Justice Department agent Paul Krendler, Starling's nemesis. Rinaldo Pazzi, a disgraced Italian detective, pursues Lecter in the interests of collecting Verger's bounty on him. However, Lecter disembowels and hangs Pazzi in the same manner as his ancestor. Lecter waves at a camera, the footage of which is later seen by Verger. Lecter kills one of Verger's men and escapes to the United States, where he begins pursuing Starling.
The novel briefly touches upon Lecter's childhood, specifically the death of his beloved younger sister, Mischa. The two were orphaned during World War II, and a group of German deserters found them on their family estate and took them prisoner. The Germans, after checking the limbs of both siblings, had taken Mischa away. Lecter later found some of Mischa's milk teeth in a stool pit used by the deserters, indicating to young Hannibal that they had killed and eaten his sister.
Barney briefly works for Verger, and gets acquainted with Verger's sister and bodyguard Margot, a lesbian bodybuilder whom Verger molested and raped as a child. Their friendship is briefly strained when he makes a pass at her, but they eventually reconcile, and Margot tells him that she stays in her hated brother's employment because she needs Mason's sperm to have a child with her partner, Judy.
Lecter is captured by Verger's men, and Starling pursues them, determined to bring Lecter in herself. One of Verger's men shoots her full of tranquilizer as she releases Lecter. The wild boars break through the barricade separating them from Lecter, but they lose interest in their intended prey when they smell no fear on him, instead going after Verger's men. In the confusion, Lecter carries the unconscious Starling to safety, and escapes with her. At the same time, Margot forcibly obtains Mason's sperm by sodomizing him with a cattle prod, and then kills him by shoving his pet Moray eel down his throat. Lecter, who had briefly treated Margot after her brother abused her, has urged her to blame the murder on him, which she does by leaving one of his hairs at the scene.
Using a regimen of psychotropic drugs and behavioral therapy, Lecter attempts to brainwash Starling, hoping to make her believe she is Mischa, returned to life. She ultimately proves too strong, however, and tells him that Mischa will have to live on within him. Lecter captures Krendler and lobotomizes him, and then he and Starling dine on Krendler's prefrontal cortex, sauteed with shallots, before Lecter kills him. The two then become lovers, and disappear together.
Three years later, Barney and his girlfriend go to Buenos Aires to see a Vermeer painting. At the opera, Barney spots Lecter and Starling; fearing for his life, he flees with his girlfriend.
Although the ending was controversial, reaction to the novel was generally very positive. Robert McCrum, writing in The Guardian, called it "the exquisite satisfaction of a truly great melodrama". Author Stephen King, a fan of the series, has said that he considers Hannibal to be one of the two most frightening popular novels of our time, the other being The Exorcist.[1]
Charles de Lint criticized Hannibal as a huge disappointment, citing "its disturbing subtexts, which . . . set [Lecter] up as a sympathetic character," and Harris' "twisting [Starling] so out of character simply to provide a 'shock' ending."[2]
The first printing of Hannibal was 1.3 million copies. It was the second highest bestselling novel in 1999.
- Hannibal Lecter
- Clarice Starling
- Mason Verger
- Margot Verger
- Jack Crawford
- Rinaldo Pazzi
- Paul Krendler
- Barney Matthews
- Cordell
- Oreste Pini
- Dr. Doemling
- Carlo Deogracias
- Romula Cjesku
- Gnocco
- Ardelia Mapp
- Evelda Drumgo
- Notes
- ^ King, Stephen (13 June 1999). "Hannibal the cannibal". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-12-10.
- ^ "Books to Look For". F&SF. January 2000.
- Bibliography
- James, Tiffany. "Hannibal / 20th-Century American Bestseller". Retrieved 26 December 2010.


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"Because the woman is great, she's beautiful, she's an American actress," Bukovic explained why is he so why obsessed with Pretty Woman.
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