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18 million pounds of PhD study opportunities available.
Newcastle University has been awarded three new Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) from the Engineering & Physical Science Council (EPSRC). These three CDTs will develop the researchers and leaders of the future and drive innovation and investment across the UK.
The aim will be to attract some of the best minds from across the UK, and internationally, with the first cohorts starting in September 2019.
These centres will provide cohort based PhD research opportunities, with 180 fully funded four-year PhD studentships available over a five-year recruitment period, starting September 2019.
Designing our future cities, enabling the transition from fossil fuels to electric vehicles and designing new drugs to fight disease are some of the key challenges facing society.
For a world leading generation of engineers, scientists and practitioners trained in geospatial data, analytics, modelling and visualisation.
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You will acquire expertise in clean, electric propulsion systems in future automotive and aerospace transport infrastructures.
For the next generation of researchers at the interface of molecular and medical sciences.
Our aim is to develop a molecular understanding of the biology of diseases. We want to investigate the tools and technologies needed for transformative research in medical sciences.
We are also a key collaborator in three additional CDTs. These centres will also offer fully funded four-year PhD studentship opportunities.
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Renewable Energy Northeast Universities (ReNU) is an added value doctoral training programme funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
Over the next 5 years it will create a pipeline of highly skilled doctoral graduates that will drive forward innovation in small scale renewable and sustainable distributed energy. It is a collaboration between Newcastle, Northumbria and Durham universities.
If you have a strong academic background in a science, technology, engineering or mathematics discipline and are motivated by the opportunity to create a more sustainable future then find out more information on our website.
Please note that only UK Nationals automatically qualify for a full studentship award (fees and stipend) under the UKRI Terms & conditions. Additional eligibility terms apply for EU &International students. Please enquire directly to each CDT.
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Fantastic opportunity to join a leading London membership association as Event Executive. Within this role, you will be working on a large events portfolio working within the wider events team to deliver outstanding events. Working end to end across the events, you will be tasked with organising and managing event logistics, liaising with industry experts and suppliers, creating and updating marketing, working on the delegate experience besides being onsite for event delivery.


This military field style strap works well with your sport or aviator watch. The top has a nylon weave that looks like cloth, but is very durable. Medium padded construction. 3-4mm. Needs very little break-in time to conform to wrist.
Not much to say, because it does what it is supposed to do. A no-nonsense band that I put onto a field watch, which is a great match. The band is solid, comfortable, and compliments the field watch.
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CBS: Is This The Year One Or More Of 'CSI,' 'CSI:Miami,' & 'CSI:NY' Get Canceled?
I thought last season was the season that one of the CSI shows would get canceled, and CBS instead pulled Undercover Boss off the schedule to give it another hour it could shoehorn another aging drama into its schedule.
In this case, once bitten is not twice shy, I think it's likely, once again, that at least one of the CSI family gets canceled. Perhaps more than one. If current ratings were the only determinant, I think the original CSI has the best chance at renewal, and CSI: Miami and CSI:NY are about even. Sadly for my prediction purposes, it's very likely that the syndication economics, completely hidden to us, will be the main determining factor on which of them stays and which goes.
The three additional episodes ordered for A Gifted Man this season are meaningless from a show renewal perspective. They're just scheduling filler before a replacement show can take the timeslot. A Gifted Man is 100% dead.
Rules of Engagement has had its season order shortened for this season. While it has the ratings for renewal, CBS sitcom success may not leave it room in the schedule next season unless CBS expands its sitcom hours. For that reason, it's now a "toss up" for renewal.
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Mr. Horner's class is full of young engineers. Read more here.
Mr. Horner's 6th grade class has been busy with the engineering process. They have had to build towers and move cups without touching them. They finished up the unit with a bridge process. Using the engineering process, they had to design a bridge that could support a toy car between two desks. The only materials they had were spaghetti noodles hot glue. The engineers had a lot of fun with this hands-on project!


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Hours of Porn Plays in New Zealand Store After Hacker Attack
A promotional screen at Auckland's Asics store was used to broadcast hours of explicit videos on Sunday morning.
by Gavin Butler
September 30, 2019, 2:40am
Screenshot via Google Maps.
Early morning shoppers in central Auckland were exposed to several hours' worth of porn yesterday morning when hackers gained access to a large promotional screen above a storefront. The pornographic video played continuously on the screen at the entrance to the Asics clothing store until staff arrived at 10 a.m. to turn it off, the NZ Herald reported. A spokesman confirmed that the screen was hacked, although it isn't clear what motivated the screening of the explicit video.
"Our Shortland Street store was subject to a cyber security breach," the spokesman told Reuters. "We are currently investigating the situation and working to mitigate it happening again in the future."
Eyewitness reports vary as to exactly how long the porn was up on the big screen. One onlooker told the NZ Herald that "the video ran for a long time, maybe two hours from 8 a.m. until the shop staff arrived at about 10 a.m.," and that "some people were shocked, but others just stopped and watched."
Another witness, however, claimed that the footage was playing from as early as 1 a.m.
"I took a second look because I just couldn't believe what I was seeing," said the woman, who was on her way to breakfast with her 7-year-old son. "It's totally inappropriate and offensive, not something that you want kids exposed to and it's also embarrassing for Auckland as a tourist destination."
Asics brand manager Greig Bramwell offered an apology to everyone affected by the broadcast.
"We are currently investigating the situation and working to make sure it cannot happen again in the future," he said, according to Stuff . "We sincerely apologise to those who saw the content."
A similar incident took place in Perth, Australia last year, when hackers gained access to a public screen in the centre of the city and displayed the homepage of the internet's biggest porn site, PornHub.
"Unfortunately, it appears that these screens were compromised this evening and, for a brief period of time, some inappropriate content was displayed on one of the screens," a spokesperson from the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority (MRA) told the ABC at the time. "Both screens were immediately turned off and power has also been switched off to the units to eliminate all possibilities of a recurrence."
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Reporter Marcela Marín Arias
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Ciencias Ambientales y de la Construcción
Does the institution have written policies, guidelines or directives that seek to support sustainable purchasing across commodity categories institution-wide?:
A copy of the policies, guidelines or directives:
The policies, guidelines or directives:
We have a format that lists environmental criteria for sustainable purchases. Also, we comply with the conceptual and methodological guidelines for sustainable public procurement developed by the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia.
Does the institution employ Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) when evaluating energy- and water-using products and systems?:
Which of the following best describes the institution's use of LCCA?:
A brief description of the LCCA policy and/or practices:
Does the institution have published sustainability criteria to be applied when evaluating chemically intensive products and services (e.g. building and facilities maintenance, cleaning and sanitizing, landscaping and grounds maintenance)?:
A brief description of the published sustainability criteria for chemically intensive products and services:
- We have safety data sheets in compliance with NTC 4435 criteria.
- The products must be labeled according to the Globally Harmonized System.
- The detergents must highly biodegradable (more than 60%).
- The concentrations of phosphorus and surfactants in the detergents must respect the limits established by national regulations.
- The cleaning products should not contain components referred to as "very toxic" for aquatic organisms.
- Suppliers must train employees in the use, dilution process, and adequate disposal of cleaning substances.
- Suppliers must have a post-consumer program for the correct final disposal of product packaging.
Does the institution have published sustainability criteria to be applied when evaluating construction and renovation products (e.g. furnishings and building materials)?:
A brief description of the published sustainability criteria for construction and renovation products:
- The contracting company must comply with the requirements established in the Social and Environmental Management Manual for Construction Works by Área Metropolitana del Valle de Aburrá.
- The company is responsible for the storage and final disposal of the special waste generated (rubble, wood) observing national regulations.
- The company must manage the (domestic and non-domestic) wastewater generated.
- The company must ensure that noise levels and emissions into the air do not affect the environment or human health.
Does the institution have published sustainability criteria to be applied when evaluating Information technology (IT) products and services (e.g. computers, imaging equipment, mobile phones, data centers and cloud services)?:
A brief description of the published sustainability criteria for IT products and services:
The ITM purchases equipment that meets the following characteristics:
- Low energy consumption (Energy Star or its equivalent)
- Mercury-free (Hg) LCD monitors
- Suppliers must have a post-consumer program to make use of the electrical and electronic waste.
- Computer equipment should come with an extended warranty period (compared to the same equipment in its category).
- Equipment with SSD (solid-state drive) technology is preferred.
Does the institution have published sustainability criteria to be applied when evaluating food services (i.e. franchises, vending services, concessions, convenience stores)?:
A brief description of the published sustainability criteria for food services:
Does the institution have published sustainability criteria to be applied when evaluating garments and linens?:
A brief description of the published sustainability criteria for garments and linens:
Does the institution have published sustainability criteria to be applied when evaluating professional services (e.g. architectural, engineering, public relations, financial)?:
A brief description of the published sustainability criteria for professional services:
Does the institution have published sustainability criteria to be applied when evaluating transportation and fuels (e.g. travel, vehicles, delivery services, long haul transport, generator fuels, steam plants)?:
A brief description of the published sustainability criteria for transportation and fuels:
- Fuel sellers must be licensed to operate and meet environmental requirements.
- We buy cars with low fuel consumption per kilometer driven.
- We purchase cars equipped with diesel engines, which consume less gasoline than other vehicles. The company that maintains the cars must guarantee the correct handling and final disposal of waste.
Does the institution have published sustainability criteria to be applied when evaluating wood and paper products?:
A brief description of the published sustainability criteria for wood and paper products:
The ITM prefers to buy refillable markers, biodegradable paper, and that produced from recycled material or sustainable forestry. The paper must have ecological characteristics, the pencils are produced with recycled plastics, the ring binders and folders are made of recycled cardboard, and the products we buy do not have excessive packaging.
Does the institution have published sustainability criteria to be applied when evaluating products and services in other commodity categories that the institution has determined to have significant sustainability impacts?:
A brief description of the published sustainability criteria for other commodity categories:
CRITERIA FOR BATTERIES: Low heavy metal content, high durability, and preferably rechargeable. The seller must have a post-consumer program.
CRITERIA FOR COOKING OILS: The seller and the company that collects the waste oil must be registered before the environmental authority and comply with Resolution 0316 of 2018.
CRITERIA FOR HAZARDOUS WASTE: The hazardous waste management company must have a permit issued by the environmental authority for waste transport and storage, in accordance with Decree 1076 of 2015.
The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Cause of Seizures in Individuals with Angelman Syndrome
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By Neha Madugala, Cognitive Science, '22
While browsing recent scientific achievements and breaking news in the scientific community, I came across an article declaring that the 125-year-old neuroscience mystery surrounding perineuronal nets (PNNs) is finally resolved. PNNs have stumped neuroscientists for decades, yet their importance is undeniable. To understand the extent of this discovery, I read more about PNNs and found that they have a key connection to Angelman syndrome, which causes severe epileptic seizures in children. The new findings from the Philpot Lab identifying the purpose of PNNs draw a connection between PNNs and seizures, and this information can lead to improved medications and therapeutic treatment methods.
The genetic disorder Angelman syndrome results in developmental and intellectual disabilities in children. Symptoms start to appear from the ages of six to twelve months with more severe symptoms, specifically epileptic seizures, occurring around the ages of two to three years old (1). Angelman syndrome is defined as the loss of function of the maternal UBE3A gene due to abnormal prenatal or postnatal development. Around 70% of cases are due to the deletion of the UBE3A gene on chromosome 15 (1). Other cases are a result of a mutation in the maternal copy or, more rarely, a mutation being passed down by genetic inheritance.
Furthermore, scientists have observed that the neurons of people with Angelman syndrome have an abnormal amount of perineuronal nets (PNNs). PNNs were first identified in 1893 by Camillo Golgi (3). They consist of the extracellular matrix around the cell bodies and proximal dendrites of neurons. PNNs usually surround neurons of the Central Nervous System – the neurons of the brain and spinal cord (3). Over the past decade, it has been determined that PNNs play a critical role in neuroprotection, neuroplasticity, strokes, Alzheimer's disease, and epilepsy. Both the UBE3A gene and PNNs affect the rate of transmission of electrical signals in the brain.
Researchers are currently trying to decipher the exact role of the UBE3A gene and PNNs. They believe that PNNs may be an indicator of excitatory activity in the brain. By restoring the function of the maternal gene or activating the paternal gene, which is silenced in the parts of the brain affected by Angelman syndrome, researchers believe that they can predict and prevent epileptic seizures. Current efforts are focused on therapeutic treatment and enzyme inhibitors.
UBE3A Gene
While researching seizures in individuals with Angelman syndrome, a team of scientists from the Philpot Lab at UNC School of Medicine investigated gene therapy as a potential solution. The study used a mouse model and inserted a dormant UBE3A gene into the mouse's brain that can be activated by chemical signals. The goal of the study was to test if improvements could be seen in individuals with Angelman syndrome if the UBE3A gene was repaired after birth. If the gene is restorable, then Angelman syndrome could be curable if caught quickly enough.
Gu et al. found that restoration of a working gene could prevent epileptic seizures if turned on at the age of three weeks, but resulted in no improvement in adult mice. Three weeks of a mouse's lifetime equates to the early childhood of a human, which suggests that there is a significant chance that Angelman syndrome can be reversed if treated early enough.
Gu et al. wanted to further test if the gene needed to be restored in all types of neurons. They first tried removing the UBE3A gene from only excitatory genes and found that the absence of the gene from only these neurons did not result in seizures. Furthermore, when they removed the UBE3A gene only from inhibitory neurons, they observed more seizures than if the UBE3A gene was missing from both excitatory and inhibitory neurons.
Since the UBE3A gene is correlated to neurons firing faster, these results suggest that the main role of the UBE3A gene is to ensure that the inhibitory neurons fire faster than the excitatory neurons. Without the UBE3A gene in inhibitory neurons, excitatory neurons continue to send electrical signals after a message has been sent because the inhibitory neurons are unable to fire fast enough to stop the excitatory neurons' signals. Therefore, scientists primarily need to repair the gene in inhibitory neurons, so these neurons are able to fire quickly enough to prevent excess electrical activity.
Perineuronal Nets
During their experiments, the Philpot lab team found an abnormal accumulation of PNNs in the hippocampus of individuals affected by Angelman syndrome. This accumulation of PNNs did not occur in the hippocampus of individuals without this disorder. Gu et al. determined that these distinct structures act as biomarkers for "enhanced seizure susceptibility." Furthering these findings, Sontheimer et al. at Virginia Tech looked at the role of PNNs in preventing seizures.
In their study, Sontheimer et al. used a mouse model with glioblastoma, or brain cancer, to test which features of brain cancer lead to seizures. They found two key aspects that led to seizures: the neurotransmitter glutamate and the enzyme MMP (Matrix metalloproteinase). Glioblastoma is typically restricted by the size of the skull, but glutamate and MMP help create space for the highly-metastasizing cancer to continue to spread (5). The team suspected that these two features may directly affect the PNNs, which in turn results in seizures.
Glutamate kills cells around the tumor to create more space for the tumor to spread. Interestingly, glutamate targets cells that have the UBE3A gene and produce the neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), which lowers membrane capacitance, or the ability to store electrical charge and as a result send electrical signals quickly (5). GABA is typically found in inhibitory neurons, which stop the firing of neurons after a message has already been relayed. GABA helps prevent excess electrical impulses, which in turn can prevent a seizure.
Glioblastoma also secretes the enzyme MMP, which dissolves the PNNs (5). Sontheimer et al. conducted an experiment where only the enzyme MMP was added to a healthy brain. The team found that the loss of the PNNs resulted in seizures.
PNNs, found mainly on inhibitory neurons, prevent excess electrical impulses after a message has been relayed by releasing the neurotransmitter GABA, lowering the membrane capacitance. If the PNNs are missing from GABA-releasing neurons, electrical impulses will not be inhibited fast enough. Therefore, there will be excess electrical impulses leading to sudden surges of electrical activity, or seizures. These results suggest that a potential treatment could be an enzyme inhibitor, but more research is needed to fully back this medication.
Furthermore, these findings directly correlate to the findings of Gu et al. who found that more seizures occurred when the UBE3A gene is missing from inhibitory neurons. This suggests that both PNNs and the UBE3A gene are essential in preventing excess electrical activity. Since people with Angelman syndrome are only missing the UBE3A gene but still get seizures, it has been suggested that both the gene and PNNs must be present in order to prevent seizures.
Angelman syndrome consists of two major factors: the presence of the UBE3A gene and PNNs. Gu et al. found that Angelman syndrome could be reverted if the gene was activated during early childhood. Furthermore, the Philpot lab study suggests that seizures, in general, may be correlated to PNNs. These findings are crucial for further research on preventing epileptic seizures for other neurological disorders, in addition to Angelman syndrome.
For both Angelman syndrome and glioblastoma, the neurons that release the neurotransmitter GABA are responsible for preventing seizures. For Angelman syndrome, the UBE3A gene in the inhibitory neurons is mutated, and for glioblastoma, the PNNs are dissolved. These findings suggest that both the gene and nets are necessary for preventing excess excitatory activity. Further experimentation is needed to support these claims.
These findings not only have the potential to revert Angelman syndrome, but they also may help prevent one of the most severe symptoms of a multitude of neurological disorders: epileptic seizures. Findings like these can help uncover more about how the brain works and also help improve the quality of life for those with neurological disorders.
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"Perineuronal Nets and Epilepsy | Neuroscience." LabRoots, LabRoots, Inc., www.labroots.com/trending/neuroscience/13240/perineuronal-nets-epilepsy.
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I would like to know if is it possible to get all the active alerts for a country. I have tried to make requests like ..../alerts/q/Spain.json or similar but i didn't obtain nothing.
In negative case, I would like to know if it is possible to make this with an autocomplete query. I have tried too but same result, nothing.
but for a whole country, like Spain.
No, there is no way to pull a whole country at once.


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TDL3 Rootkit x64 Goes in the Wild
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We talked about TDL3 rootkit some months ago as the most advanced rootkit ever seen in the wild. Well, the last version of TDL3 was released months ago and documented as build 3.273. After that, no updates have been released to the rootkit driver. This was pretty suspicious, more so if you've been used to seeing rebuild versions of TDL3 rootkit every few days to defeat security software.
Obviously, the rootkit was stable and it is currently running without any major bug on every 32 bit Windows operating system. Still though, the dropper needed administrator rights to install the infection in the system. Anyway, the team behind TDL3 rootkit was just too quiet to not expect something new.
They actually built a nice gift for every security vendor, because TDL3 has been updated and this time this is a major update; the rootkit is now able to infect 64 bit versions of Microsoft Windows operating system.
But this TDL3 release can be considered as the first x64 compatible kernel mode rootkit infection in the wild. Our Prevx community spotted the infecting dropper more than 9 days ago and we are now seeing new samples reported every day. This means the infection is spreading on the web, by using both porn websites and exploit kits.
Speaking about the infection itself, we are still analyzing the infection. Though at first glance we don't feel it could be considered as a brand new TDL3.
It looks like someone got TDL3 sources and added bootkit infection to it. This is because the TDL3 rootkit is now targetting the Master Boot Record, as MBR rootkit did years ago and as Whistler Bootkit is currently doing.
To bypass both Kernel Patch Protection and Driver Signature verification, the rootkit is patching the hard drive's master boot record so that it can intercept Windows startup routines, owns it, and load its driver. Both Windows security mechanisms are bypassed.
Even the rootkit build version changed from 3.273 to 0.02. It looks like a beta build. We say this because from our first internal tests, the rootkit didn't always fully work.
Our current idea is that TDL3 sources could have been sold and the new team who owns them has started adapting the rootkit to x64 platform by adding to it a bootkit infection technique already showed by Whistler bootkit and Stoned v2 bootkit.
What is more important is that with this new TDL3 release a new era is officially dawned; the era of x64 rootkits. How this develops, we're not sure.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2010/08/27/alureon-evolves-to-64-bit.aspx
However, the authors of these attacks have not been resting. Just under a month ago, we became aware of a new variant of Alureon that infects the Master Boot Record (MBR) instead of an infected driver. While this new variant did not affect 64-bit machines, it had an inert file called ldr64 as part of its virtual file system. More recently, we discovered an updated variant that successfully infected 64-bit machines running Windows Vista or higher, while rendering 64-bit Windows XP and Server 2003 machines unbootable.
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LIVE on August 25 (in Spanish): How COVID-19 fueled the protests in Cuba, Guatemala and Colombia
The session will be streamed live on YouTube
Written byMelissa Vida
Translated byGeorgia Popplewell
Translation posted 20 August 2021 18:53 GMT
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From Cuba to Colombia to Guatemala—countries with very different political contexts—people have taken to the streets in recent times to demand change. What do these countries have in common?
The common factor that seems to have pushed citizens of these countries to the brink is poor management of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This past July, people in Cuba expressed, in an unprecedented wave of protests, their frustration over the scarcity of food and medication. This was a symptom of growing malaise over the government's handling of the pandemic, in addition to external factors such as US sanctions and demands for more political freedom on the island. What is the state of things in Cuba right now, beyond the ideological divisions?
In Colombia, a national strike has been in effect since May, led by various sectors of society. Protests by an impoverished Colombian citizenry against an increase in taxes soon went viral on social networks thanks to reports of extreme police violence. Today news of the Colombian strike no longer makes international headlines, although it is still ongoing. What is happening in Colombia now?
Guatemala has some of the lowest vaccination rates in the hemisphere, but that's not because people don't want to be vaccinated. Protests led by indigenous groups have shaken the Central American nation whose government has been accused of mismanaging the pandemic and failing to deal with the devastating effects of climate change, amid allegations of corruption. Why aren't we hearing about what's going on in Guatemala?
Join us to gain a better understanding of why people in these countries have risen up in defense of their lives on August 25 at 15:00 GMT, for the next episode of our Global Voices Insights live webinar series. The session will be conducted in Spanish and is free and open to the public. Register below to receive a reminder about the event:
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The session will feature the following panelists:
From Guatemala, Paulina González, Maya Tz´útujil Ancestral Authority and First Carrier of the Council of Elders and Third Carrier of Ajpop Tinaamit, from the department of Sololá.
From Colombia, Diego Armando Hernández Álvarez, student of Social Communication-Journalism, social activist, and co-founder of Des-Igual, an alternative communications platform.
From Cuba, Lynn Cruz, actress, producer, playwright and director of Teatro Kairós, where she directed the play El Regreso (2011), Los Enemigos del Pueblo (2017), Patriotismo 36-77 (2018). She is currently preparing the production Sala-R. In 2018, she was barred from working as an actress within Cuban institutions due to her political opinions.
We look forward to having you join us on Wednesday, August 25 at 15h GMT (click here to convert to your local time zone).
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Q: Azure blob storage, How to access all files content with Access Token I wonder if it is possible to do:
- I have a blob storage with some html webpage. That storage is private. I cannot be set as public access. Only user with tokens may access it.
It is possible to access single files using SAS token based authentication generating URI and a query string, but that only works for 1 file. I.E. I access a index.html page, but when I click a link on that page, access token is not passed, so I get 403 error for that subpage.
Is it possible to make it such, that token would allow all the subpages to access?
I wonder if it is even achievable.

A: Assuming:

*

*By access token you mean Shared Access Signature (SAS) token and

*All the files are in the same private container

It is certainly possible to access sub pages.
For that, first thing you would need to do is create the SAS token on the blob container and not on an individual file (index.html in your case).
Since the page is an HTML page and not generated dynamically, what you would need to do is when someone clicks on a link to a subpage, using JavaScript you would need to append that SAS token to the link.
For example, if there's a subpage called index2.html and when someone clicks on the link for that, using JavaScript you would read the query string from the URL for your main page (which is essentially the SAS token), append that SAS token to the link and then redirect the user to that link.

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"Over a decade ago, I had the distinct pleasure of studying with Cathy Shea at her International School of Colon Hydrotherapy in Juno Beach, Florida.
As a gastroenterologist, I was well aware that many of my patients' illnesses were directly related to intestinal permeability, poor nutrition and constipation.
current practice and future trends of colon hydrotherapy. The book reviews the basics and business of this therapy and nutritional guidelines are provided.
Dear Cathy, Thank you for your gifts of sharing, love and wisdom. What a great and life changing experience with you. Through you I now know that life is not about finding myself. However, it is about creating who I am. You are a great educator Cathy. You have steered me to go confidently in the direction of my passion and start living the life I have always dreamed of. You will forever be cherished by me.
Cathy, I am sitting here remembering you smiling and walking among us students, breathing deeply and reminding us to breathe, without a word. How I needed that and still do. I'll never forget the freedom, also, that washed over me when everyone outside the bathroom cheers the sounds coming from within! That was so awesome!
You are the mother of so much deep good out there in the world and it is endless….ever expanding LOVE! Lisa, you are that peaceful loving presence that holds space and keeps everything running so smoothly (and so much more)….absolutely essential! I love you both so very much and am so blessed by knowing you in my life. May our bond remain strong and connected beyond all things.
Though it has been many years since I took your class Cathy, your love and light as my teacher stays in me. I am so grateful to have crossed paths with you in this life!
What a wonderful and dynamic soul you are Cathy! I am so blessed to have been part of your first Tuscany class! The rest of my Italian trip was all about God showing Himself…awesome!
Hi Cathy, glad to hear from you! Our Clinic is getting better now with the addition of Colon Hydrotherapy. Both of us are very grateful that we attended your course, and we learnt a lot, not only the colon therapy but also the positive mentality towards everything, complimenting each other gives us more motivation. I hope to meet you soon, and I believe Dr. Lim also wishes to see you soon.


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This section gathers posts that showcase highlights from the collection, as well as links made between documents in the collection through serendipitous discovery.
This section highlights exchanges and conversations between the Artexte research community and the contemporary art community. It includes interviews, responses to articles or blog posts, or documentation of institutional partnerships.
This section features the work and observations of the individuals who frequent Artexte, including researchers, authors, students and artists.
This section is dedicated to employees, interns and volunteers who discuss their professional experience.
A conversation with Michèle Champagne
Michèle Champagne's residency at Artexte followed the contours of happiness, its industry, vocabulary and legibility. Happiness. An emotion? A feeling? Or an object of measure?
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Michèle Champagne is a graphic designer who moves between visual research, creative direction, and publication design. She works with publication as a "two-way" conversation, and she meanders through open source dynamics, collaborative authorship, and reader participation. After completing a Masters of Design at Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam in 2011, Champagne is recognized for her collaborations with Droog, Mediamatic, Metahaven, Penguin Random House, Strelka Institute, and VPRO. In 2016 she co-founds A-B-Z.co, an international school dedicated to design, art, and computation. She lives in Montréal.
Piper, Adrian. Colored People, Scarlet With Embarrassment, 1991.
Piper, Adrian (1991). Colored People, Tickled Pink.
Ctrl Space. Reveley, Willey (1791). Plan of an Inspection House.
Crtl Space. Magritte, René (1929). The False Mirror.
J2 I know that you've trained in graphic design and likely have a very different relationship to visual art than someone with another background, so, I'm curious about what sparked your interest in this collection. Could you discuss what led you to this project?
MC What attracted me to the collection was its contemporary nature: knowing it was specific to the times. My research looks at the vocabulary of the happiness industry, whose latest incarnation is rather novel. To be sure, the industry has a history, anchored in Jeremy Bentham's panopticon ambitions in the eighteenth century, and in the rise of positive psychology and human resources in the twentieth century. But since the early twenty-first century, we've seen the emergence of a new belief that our emotions are objectively knowable, that they can be measured, analyzed, and integrated into workplace strategies, health care strategies, and security strategies. Even audience engagement strategies… so many strategies.
Recently the industry has been welcomed in the heart of global economic management, as happiness indexes at the United Nations and 'wellness' gizmos at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The industry also lies at the heart of some of the world's most powerful computer sciences, like with Facebook's DeepMask or Google's TensorFlow algorithms which survey images for smiles, faces, emotions, and so much more. "Our hopes are being strategically channelled into this quest for happiness, in an objective, measurable, administered sense," writes political economist William Davies in The Happiness Industry, from 2016. "Questions of mood, which were once deemed 'subjective,' are now answered using objective data."
Why is Davos so concerned with our feelings? Why does Facebook study our moods? Feelings. Moods. Emotions. What are we even talking about? Happiness? Or life satisfaction? Individual attitudes? Or social mores? The industry has an answer: happiness is not only scientific but individual, repeating the mantra of positive psychology that happiness is a personal choice. If you're feeling down, it's your own fault, and if you want to feel better, it's up to you to make a change. Well, it's up to you, your FitBit and MoodPanda, that is. Happiness, the industry says, is a solitary pleasure.
Economists, scientists, and psychiatrists have convinced many of us that happiness is life's ultimate goal. Why do we let them do that? Why does the search for happiness take precedence over building knowledge? Nurturing compassion? Or any other ideal? The industry's terms of engagement are questionable and that's why I'm at Artexte: to ask artists, curators, and writers how they define and interpret the terms. In the book Adrian Piper: Colored People[1]1Anon. (1991). Adrian Piper : Colored People. London, England : Adrian Piper ; s.l. : Book Works., we find participatory photography playing with the "colloquial metaphor of color as mood," and in the catalogue Ctrl [Space]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother[2]2Campbell, Duncan , Darnton, Robert , Druckrey, Timothy , Farocki, Harunet , Foucault, Michel , Katti, Christian , Schmidt-Burkhardt, Astrit , Virilio, Paul , Zbikowski, Dörte (2002). Ctrl Space : Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother. Karlsruhe, Germany : ZKM Center for Art and Media. we find a seminal genealogy of panoptic art and architecture at the turn of the twenty-first century.
Petit dictionnaire des idées reçues sur la folie et autres considérations (2001). Cogiter.
Petit dictionnaire des idées reçues sur la folie et autres considérations (2001). Fonctionnaire.
Petit dictionnaire des idées reçues sur la folie et autres considérations (2001). Pharmacie.
J2 What is it about art documentation that enriches or feeds your investigation into this industry and these terms?
MC If art counters the industrial narrative of psychic life, then art documentation plays a role too. Folie/Culture's DSM-V+, Dévidoir de syndromes magnifiques[3]3Côté, Benoît , Desmeules, Geneviève , Matte, Hélène (2007). DSM - V +, Dévidoir de syndromes magnifiques. Québec, Qc : Inter Éditeur ; Folie/Culture., (DSM-V+, Reel of magnificent syndromes), from 2006, documents an event by the same name and of the same year. The book is designed as a reader, as a collection of essays, and is laced with colour photographs from the event's panels and performances. DSM-V+ countered the psychiatric industry's monumental DSM, or Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, along with its normative and prescriptive tendencies.
The book reminds us the industry is not simply there for our own Aristotelian flourishing, but in the service of certain socio-cultural and economic strategies. "To us," writes editor Alain-Martin Richard, "it seems important to practice within this lively niche, by putting art and madness in parallel, in their respective capacity to invalidate and revolt against normative measures. It seems like that is what the DSM puts its finger on: measuring the world, this desire to confuse the pseudo-scientific humanities with the hard sciences and with the help of digital tools."
Also interesting: Folie/Culture's Petit dictionnaires des idées reçues sur la folie et autres considerations[4]4Leclerc, Suzanne , Martel, Christine , Pageau, Yvan , Simard, Danielle (2001). Petit dictionnaire des idées reçues sur la folie et autres considérations. Québec, Qc : Folie/Culture. (A little dictionary of misconceptions about madness and other considerations), from 2001. It offers an absurdist and alphabetical guide through psychiatry's labyrinthian terminology.
Calle, Sophie (1985). The Shadow (Detective).
J2 Is there something you think belongs in the collection that you didn't find? Anything you think that could enrich this kind of analysis in art practices?
MC What is missing is the documentation of art that addresses the happiness industry particularly. A great deal has changed since George Orwell outlined Big Brother in 1984. Today, Psychopolitics[5]5Byung-Chul, Han (2017). Psychopolitics : Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power. New York, NY : Verso. goes beyond 'biopolitics,' 'digital healthism'[6]6Beattie, Alex (2018). Out of Network : Controlling workers by controlling their technology use. Real Life. is a thing, and both public and private organizations exploit the most intimate details of our mental lives and put them to use for their own strategies. Facebook is an obvious example. They not only lend and sell our psychological profiles to third parties, but they also went above and beyond the PRISM[7]7McLaughlin, Jenna (2015). Top European Court Rules that NSA Spying Makes U.S. Unsafe for Data. The Intercept_. requirements set by National Security Agency, as Edward Snowden revealed in 2013. This is now the business of everyday life.
Traditionally, artistic concerns about surveillance have been framed by the rhetoric of security, the self, and identity. Or, surveillance is seen as something framed by voyeurism, pleasure, or entertainment. The popularity of the Big Brother television series comes to mind, as well as Bruce Nauman's Going Around The Corner Piece, from 1970, and Sophie Calle's The Shadow (Detective), from 1985. The Ctrl [Space] catalogue covers all of these terrains.
What is missing, however, is documentation of art that confronts the kind of surveillance that scans and senses our smiles, screams, and gamma waves with the promise to increase our happiness, health, and well-being. If some of us still believe there are limits to how much our lives should be measured and administered, there must also be limits to how much positive psychology we can possibly opt for. Any study of ubiquitous surveillance must now include a look at happiness pseudo-science and the do-good, be-well sentiments that so cleverly immunize it.
Suggestions for the collection: Giuliana Bruno's Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film, from Verso Books, 2018. Julia Bryan-Wilson, Lauren Cornell, and Omar Kholeif's Trevor Paglen monograph, from Phaidon, 2018. Hito Steyerl's Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War, also from Verso Books, 2017. I'd also love to see Metahaven's films The Sprawl (Propaganda about Propaganda), from 2015-16, and Information Skies, from 2017. Both films looks at how digital platforms can push our emotional limits and challenge our ability to perceive truth from falsity.
Balcaen, Jo-Anne (2005). Screaming Girls.
J2 One last question, what is the most surprising thing you've experienced or discovered during this residency?
MC Jo-Anne Balcaen's video Screaming Girls[8]8Balcaen, Jo-Anne (2005). Screaming Girls. s.l. : Jo-Anne Balcaen., from 2005. The silent video borrows from footage of teenage girls at rock concerts in the nineteen sixties. At first we see the girls' simple smiles of joy and wonder, which then escalate into a frightening fury of screams. Even bodies shaking uncontrollably. Are the girls happy or hysteric? Out of curiosity, I'd love to run Microsoft's emotion recognition software on the video.
Other articles on this blog
Exploring the performative practice of self-publishing
Adrian Piper : Colored People
Anon. (1991)
London, England : Adrian Piper ; s.l. : Book Works
e-artexte.ca/id/eprint/12315/
Ctrl Space : Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother
Campbell, Duncan , Darnton, Robert , Druckrey, Timothy , Farocki, Harunet , Foucault, Michel , Katti, Christian , Schmidt-Burkhardt, Astrit , Virilio, Paul , Zbikowski, Dörte (2002)
Karlsruhe, Germany : ZKM Center for Art and Media
DSM - V +, Dévidoir de syndromes magnifiques
Côté, Benoît , Desmeules, Geneviève , Matte, Hélène (2007)
Québec, Qc : Inter Éditeur ; Folie/Culture
Petit dictionnaire des idées reçues sur la folie et autres considérations
Leclerc, Suzanne , Martel, Christine , Pageau, Yvan , Simard, Danielle (2001)
Québec, Qc : Folie/Culture
Psychopolitics : Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
Byung-Chul, Han (2017)
New York, NY : Verso
www.versobooks.com/books/2505-psychopolitics
Out of Network : Controlling workers by controlling their technology use
Beattie, Alex (2018)
reallifemag.com/out-of-network/
Top European Court Rules that NSA Spying Makes U.S. Unsafe for Data
McLaughlin, Jenna (2015)
The Intercept_
theintercept.com/2015/10/06/top-european-court-rules-that-nsa-spying-makes-u-s-unsafe-for-data/
Screaming Girls
Balcaen, Jo-Anne (2005)
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Das liechtensteinische Allgemeine bürgerliche Gesetzbuch (ABGB) wurde ursprünglich vollinhaltlich aus Österreich übernommen (ABGB).

Entwicklung

Naturrechtstradition
Das liechtensteinische (bzw. österreichische) ABGB von 1811 ist neben dem französischen Code civil die älteste noch in Kraft stehende, von vernunftrechtlichen Gedanken (Naturrecht) geprägte Zivilrechtskodifikation.

Einführung
Das ABGB wurde am 18. Februar 1812 unter der Herrschaft Johann I. Josef von Liechtenstein eingeführt und in Kraft gesetzt. Das ABGB wurde in Liechtenstein nicht in einem Rechtsakt eingeführt. Die §§ 531 bis 824 (über das Erbrecht) wurden erst mit der Fürstlichen Verordnung vom 6. April 1846 betreffend die Einführung der §§ 531 bis 824 ABGB in Liechtenstein übernommen.

Das ursprünglich 1812 übernommene Sachenrecht des ABGB (§§ 285 bis 530 ABGB) wurde 1923 durch die weitgehende Übernahme des Sachenrechts aus dem schweizerischen ZGB abgelöst und in einem eigenen Gesetzbuch (SR) geregelt.

Änderungen
Wie auch in Österreich (öABGB) wurde in den Text des ABGB in Liechtenstein in den ersten hundert Jahren kaum eingegriffen. Erst durch die Herausnahme des Sachenrechts aus dem ABGB und den Erlass eines eigenen Sachenrechts (SR) 1923 wurde wesentlich in die Kodifikation eingegriffen. Liechtenstein hat die drei Teilnovellen zum ABGB von 1914, 1915 und 1916 (Österreich) erst sehr viel später und auch nur teilweise übernommen. Durch die weitgehende Einführung des schweizerischen Sachenrechts aus dem ZGB wurde jedoch eine Anpassung an das deutsche Bürgerliche Gesetzbuch von 1896 teilweise vorgenommen. Weitgehende Reformen des ABGB erfolgten dann erst wieder in den 1970er-Jahren.

Neukodifikationsbestrebungen
Zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts bestanden Bestrebungen, das liechtensteinische ABGB und weitere aus Österreich übernommene Regelungen durch Neukodifikationen zu ersetzen. Diese Neukodifikationen sollte weitgehend durch die Übernahme schweizerischer Bestimmungen aus dem ZGB erfolgen. Dazu wurde 1923 das Sachenrecht und 1926 das Personen- und Gesellschaftsrecht kodifiziert. Beide Gesetzbücher sollten Teil des zu schaffenden liechtensteinischen ZGB sein.

"Das Projekt eines liechtensteinischen Zivilgesetzbuches wurde bislang, nachdem das Sachenrecht, das Personen- und Gesellschaftsrecht in den 20er Jahren und das Eherecht in den 90er Jahren des vorigen Jahrhunderts maßgeblich abgeändert und neu in eigenen Gesetzbüchern in Kraft gesetzt wurde, noch nicht fertig gestellt"

Einteilung des ABGB
Die Einteilung folgt dem Institutionensystem:
 Präambel/Promulgationsklausel
 Einleitung: Von den bürgerlichen Gesetzen überhaupt (Allgemeiner Teil)
 1. Teil: Von dem Personenrechte (Personenrecht, vgl. Allgemeiner Teil; Familienrecht)
 2. Teil: Von dem Sachenrechte (Sachenrecht; Erbrecht; Schuldrecht)
 3. Teil: Von den gemeinschaftlichen Bestimmungen der Personen- und Sachenrechte (vgl. Allgemeiner Teil)

Auch das liechtensteinische ABGB wie das österreichische ABGB begreift unter "Sachenrecht" das Sachenrecht im heutigen Sinn, das Erbrecht und das Schuldrecht. Die liechtensteinische wie die österreichische Rechtswissenschaft sieht diese Einteilung als historisch an und lehrt das Zivilrecht überwiegend ungeachtet dessen nach dem Pandektensystem.

Gesetzestext
Den aktuellen Gesetzestext des ABGB (und das gesamte geltende liechtensteinischen Landesrecht) findet sich im LILEX, der Liechtensteinischen Gesetzessammlung (siehe Weblinks).

Soweit die Bestimmungen des ABGB noch in der Urfassung aus 1811 bestehen, gilt es, den historischen Sprachgebrauch bei der Interpretation zu beachten (z. B. "Genugtuung" = Schadenersatz). Das liechtensteinische ABGB wurde in den letzten Jahrzehnten jedoch, im Gegensatz zum öABGB, sehr weitgehend dem modernen Sprachgebrauch angepasst.

Durch den Umstand, dass viele Bestimmungen des ABGB mit dem österreichischen ABGB übereinstimmen, kommt den Kommentaren zum ABGB aus Österreich und der österreichischen höchstgerichtlichen Rechtsprechung eine große Bedeutung zu. Dies insbesondere auch, da es in Liechtenstein bislang keinen umfassenden Kommentar zum ABGB selbst gibt. Hinsichtlich der aus der Schweiz übernommenen und implementierten arbeitsrechtlichen Bestimmungen (§ 1173a, Art 1 bis 113 ABGB) wird zudem die schweizerische Lehre und Rechtsprechung zur Auslegung des ABGB herangezogen.

Literaturhinweise zur Vertiefung
 Klein-Bruckschwaiger, 150 Jahre österreichisches ABGB, in: Juristenzeitung (JZ) 23–24/1963, S. 739–742.
 Fijal/Ellerbrock, Das Österreichische ABGB vom 1. Juni 1811 – ein Jubiläum besonderer Art, in: Juristische Schulung (JuS) 7/1988, S. 519–523.
 Brauneder, Das österreichische ABGB als neuständische Zivilrechtskodifikation, in: G. Klingenberg/J.M. Rainer/H. Stiegler (Hrsg.), Vestigia Iuris Romani. Festschrift für Gunter Wesener, Graz 1992, S. 67–80
 Brauneder, Allgemeines Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, in: Cordes/Lück/Werkmüller/Schmidt-Wiegand (Hrsg.), Handwörterbuch zur deutschen Rechtsgeschichte (HRG), 2. Auflage, Bd. 1, Berlin 2008, Sp. 146–155, ISBN 978-3-503-07912-4
 Antonius Opilio, Arbeitskommentar zum liechtensteinischen Sachenrecht, Band I bis III, EDITION EUROPA Verlag, 2009/2010.

Weblinks
 Gesetzestext ABGB

Quellen und Verweise

Rechtsquelle (Liechtenstein)
Rechtsquelle (19. Jahrhundert)
Zivilgesetzbuch

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Most nights, 4 goals is enough to win in the NHL. Not Thursday. It was enough for a point, but the Isles drop the game in a shootout. On to the trick.
1. The Isles twice rallied from 2 goal deficits.
2. The Isles are now 10-3-2 when they score 4 or more. All five losses have been by a 5-4 score with one ending in OT and tonight's shootout.
3. Each team scored their second goal of the game shorthanded. (Dom Moore for the Leafs and Sean Bergenheim for the Isles) Begenheim could have had a 2nd shorties had he converted on a penalty shot.
4. The Islanders have failed on all three of their penalty shots this season (Okposo vs NJ, Weight vs. Carolina) and have lost all three games by one goal. The Isles were also on the wrong end of the only penalty shot against them this season when Simon Gagne scored against Yann Danis on Valentine's Day. The Isles have now been stopped on 15 of their last 16 penalty shots (Ryan Smyth scored the only PS goal for the Isles in that stretch).
5. The Isles have lost 7 straight back-ends of back-to-backs (0-5-2).
6. Despite the shootout loss, the Isles are 7-1-2 in their last 10 at home vs Toronto and are 5-1-3 in their last 9 overall at home.
7. Dean McAmmond scored his first goal in an Islander uniform; Mark Streit and Jon Sim had the other Islander goals. Streit now has 12 goals on the season; only five NHL defenders have more. Streit also leads the Isles with 44 points -no Islander defensemen has led the team in points since Denis Potvin did so in each of his first 4 NHL seasons.
8. Joey MacDonald made 29 saves for the Isles while Vesa Toskala had 40 stops (6 in overtime) for the Leafs. Toskala was one better in the shootout, though, allowing only a goal to Jeff Tambellini (now 3-4 career in shootouts) while Jason Blake and Tim Stapleton (the latter in his first NHL games) scored in the shootout for Toronto. Blake also had 2 assists and 6 shots for the Leafs, who got regulation goals from Kulemin, Moore, Kubina and Anthropov.
10. Up next: The Sabres visit Long Island Saturday as the teams conclude the season series. The Isles trail the series 2 games to 1 and 4 points to 3. Buffalo embarassed the Isles 7-1 in their first LI vist..


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Pavlov 'Lite' Planned For Oculus Quest Launch In December
The developer behind Counter Strike-like multiplayer shooter Pavlov VR announced a planned release date for the Oculus Quest version, tentatively dubbed Pavlov 'Lite'. The Quest version is expected to launch on December 19 and will also be free-to-play, according to the game's developer.
The Quest release date was announced on Twitter by developer Dave Villz. He previously announced the game would be coming to Quest, but had not given an indication of a release date. He previously noted the Quest version would not support cross play with PC VR players.
Back in May, Villz tweeted some footage of the game running on Oculus Quest just a few days after the headset's release. The PC version of Pavlov is still in early access on Steam and is a paid game priced at $10. PC players have access to custom content, such as maps, via the Steam Workshop, and this content presumably wouldn't be accessible in the Quest version. We're curious to hear more about the Quest version of the game and should note that in November Facebook is releasing the Oculus Link USB-based connection enabling a VR Ready PC to treat the Quest like a Rift. Pavlov VR supports a range of VR headsets via its Steam release, including Rift, so we'll be curious also if the PC version will work over that connection.
We reached out to Villz on Twitter to ask if he anticipated the Rift version of Pavlov would work on the Quest via Oculus Link. We also asked if the Pavlov 'Lite' release date was confirmed with Oculus for release via the Oculus Store, or whether it would be released outside of the store via a sideloading service like SideQuest. We'll update this post if we receive those answers and we'll bring you updates on Pavlov 'Lite' for Quest as soon as we have them.
Sairento Untethered - Oculus Quest
https://youtu.be/iTsS91A6Cn0
Red Matter: Oculus Quest Gameplay Showcase
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AenHqh5VJsw&t=51s
Oculus Quest Sideloading "Same Process" As Oculus Go
Eager to sideload apps not available from the store when you get your Oculus Quest?…
Harry is a gaming and tech journalist based in Melbourne, Australia. While he started his journalism career in the competitive Overwatch and esports scenes, he couldn't resist getting into the ever-evolving industry of virtual reality. Harry started with UploadVR as the Community Moderator before joining the full-time staff as a News Writer.


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Laurie Halse Anderson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
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National Book Awards Finalist
FSG Books for Young Readers
208 Pages, Ages 12-18
The first ten lies they tell you in high school.
"Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Only her art class offers any solace, and it is through her work on an art project that she is finally able to face what really happened at that terrible party: she was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her. Her healing process has just begun when she has another violent encounter with him. But this time Melinda fights back, refuses to be silent, and thereby achieves a measure of vindication. In Laurie Halse Anderson's powerful novel, an utterly believable heroine with a bitterly ironic voice delivers a blow to the hypocritical world of high school. She speaks for many a disenfranchised teenager while demonstrating the importance of speaking up for oneself.
Speak was a 1999 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature.
Edgar Allen Poe Award Nominee, American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults, Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon Award, School Library Best Books of the Year, Kentucky Blue Grass Award, American Library Association Quick Picks for Young Adults, Horn Book Magazine Fanfare List, BCCB Blue Ribbon Award, Booklist Editors' Choice, National Book Awards Finalist, Michael L. Printz Award - Honor, Edgar Allan Poe Award Nominee, Golden Kite Award Winner, NYPL Books for the Teen Age, American Library Association Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adults, School Library Journal Best Books of the Year, ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adults, PA Carolyn W. Field Award, ALA Best Books for Young Adults, Golden Kite Award for Fiction, California Young Reader Medal, Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library
FIRST MARKING PERIOD
WELCOME TO MERRYWEATHER HIGH
It is my first morning of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomachache.
The school bus wheezes to my corner. The door...
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Praise for Speak
"Speaking out at the 'wrong' time-calling 911 from a teen drinking party-has made Melinda a social outcast; now she barely speaks at all. . .While Melinda's smart and savvy interior narrative slowly reveals the searing pain of that 911 night, it also nails the high-school experience cold. . .An uncannily funny book even as it plumbs the darkness, Speak will hold readers from first word to last." —Starred, The Horn Book
Laurie Halse Anderson is a New York Times bestselling author of books for kids of all ages--including Fever 1793, Chains, Twisted, and many others. Known for tackling tough subjects with humor and sensitivity, her work has earned numerous national and state awards, as well as international recognition. Two of her books, Speak and Chains, were National Book Award finalists. Anderson was honored with the 2009 Margaret A. Edwards Award given by the YALSA division of the American Library Association for her "significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature."
Anderson was born in Potsdam, New York in 1961. Growing up, she loved reading and listening to family stories. She graduated from Georgetown University in 1984. Before becoming a full-time writer, she was freelance journalist, and then worked part-time at a bookstore to earn money while working on her fiction. Mother of four and wife of one, Laurie lives in northern New York, where she likes to watch the snow fall as she writes.
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The Life and Loves of the Real McCoy
1950s, Boxing, John Lardner, Profiles, Sports, True
By John Lardner
The hotel manager and the detective stood looking down at the man on the bed, who had killed himself during the night. "Norman Selby, it says on the note, and Selby was how he checked in," the manager said. "Wasn't that his right name?"
"It was his right name," the detective said. "But he was also McCoy. The real McCoy."
Kid McCoy lived by violence, by trickery, and by women. He fought 200 fights, and was beaten in only six of them. He married eight women—one of them three times—and shot another to death. For the murder, he paid a light price, lightly. There was vanity in him, and guile, and wit, and cruelty, and some larceny, and a great capacity for enjoying himself. Above all, there was self-satisfaction. At no time in his life—not when he was world's welterweight champion (with a strong claim to the middleweight title, as well), nor when he was a bankrupt, nor a jailbird, nor a Broadway favorite, nor a suspected jewel thief, nor a semi-professional adulterer, nor a mellow old pensioner, owing his job to a friend—at no time did he do or say anything that displeased himself. No one knows why, on an April night in 1940, he suddenly lost his contentment with Norman Selby, alias Charles (Kid) McCoy, and wiped it all out with one impatient gesture.
The Kid wasn't sick, or broke, when he checked in alone at Detroit's Tuller Hotel that night. He had work. He was 66 years old, but in good shape, still with a lot of gray but curly hair over his fair-skinned, boyish face, and still nearly as neat, trim, and supple of body as ever. Registering with the night clerk, he had left a call for 10 the next morning. It was when he failed to answer the call that the manager went up with a passkey, and found him dead. An overdose of sleeping pills had put him out, and away. There were two or three notes in the room. In one of them, he asked the paymaster at the Ford Motor Company, where he'd been working, to turn over such wages as were due him to his eighth and final wife. In the longest note, the Kid said, in part:
To whom it may concern—For the last eight years, I have wanted to help humanity, especially the youngsters who do not know nature's laws. That is, the proper carriage of the body, the right way to eat, etc. … To all my dear friends, I wish you all the best of luck. Sorry I could not endure this world's madness. The best to all. (signed) Norman Selby. P.S. In my pocket you will find $17.75
As to health laws—it was true that McCoy had invented, and tried to sell, a so-called health belt, or health suspender. As to "this world's madness"—most of the madness the Kid had known had been of his own arranging, and he had endured it well and gaily. As to helping humanity—the Kid had always helped himself. An old-timer, seeing the dead man lying there among his last words, would have reflected that never before had McCoy played so sweet, peaceful, and tender a part. The old-timer might have suspected a trick.
McCoy had made up his face with talcum powder, and his eyes with indelible pencil. The prop cough was from many dime novels of the time.
Once, in 1895, in Boston, a welterweight named Jack Wilkes was dismayed by McCoy's looks, as they climbed into the ring to fight. The Kid's face was as white as a sheet. There were dark hallows under his eyes. Every few moments, he put his left glove to his mouth, and coughed rackingly. When they clinched in the first round, McCoy whispered, "Take it easy, will you, Jack? I think I'm dying, but I need the money." Wilkes took it easy; he mothered McCoy. But in the second round, just after a cough, McCoy's coughing hand suddenly snapped out and pushed Wilkes's guard aside, and his right hand drove against his chin, and knocked him unconscious. For that bout, McCoy had made up his face with talcum powder, and his eyes with indelible pencil. The prop cough was from many dime novels of the time.
In Philadelphia, in 1904, McCoy fought a large, highly-touted Hollander named Plaacke. In the second round he began to point frantically at Plaacke's waistband. "Your pants are slipping!" he muttered. "Pull 'em up!" Plaacke reached for his pants with both hands. McCoy hit him on the jaw, and knocked him down. "Stay down, or I'll tear your head off!" he snarled. The Dutchman was terrified by the savagery that had suddenly come into the Kid's voice and by the cruelty that transfigured his impish face. He stayed down, and his American manager sent him back to Holland on the next cattle boat.
When McCoy ran a gymnasium in New York, in the early years of this century, he said to a new pupil one day, as the latter came in the door, "Who's that that came in with you?" The pupil turned to look. McCoy knocked him down. "That's your first lesson—never trust anybody," he said. "Five dollars, please."
The Kid got a lifelong pleasure out of teaching this lesson. Once, only a few months before he died, as he was driving along a road in Wayne County, Michigan, his car had a slight collision with a truck. Both vehicles stalled. The drivers got out, and the trucker came at McCoy, braying abuse. "I'm a little hard of hearing, Mack," McCoy said, cupping his hand to his ear. The trucker brought his chin close to the ear to make his point clearly, and McCoy, whipping his hand six inches upward, knocked him cold.
On the morning he was found dead, a true student of the ways of Kid McCoy, seeing the suicide notes, would have looked twice to make sure the Kid was there too. They were not the first suicide notes he had written. In 1924 McCoy was living with a divorcee named Mrs. Theresa Mors in a Los Angeles apartment. When Mrs. Mors was fatally shot by her lover, the police, investigating the crime, discovered near her body a message from Norman Selby which began—as his last one on earth was to do—"To whom it may concern." The message suggested that the Kid meant to end it all—but no dead McCoy went with it. In jail, a few days later, McCoy moved on to still another strategem, feigning insanity to protect himself from the murder charge. A visitor found him walking around his cell with a blank look on his face, stopping now and then to lick bits of cardboard and stick them on the walls.
A change set in when the kid grew older, when he fought only when he had to and felt the pressures and hardships of life as a job-hunter and part-time con man. That was how it was in 1905 when he married Lillian Ellis, the young widow of a millionaire.
"What are those for?" the visitor asked.
"Quiet!" McCoy said. "I'm making a trap for that rat, her husband."
The law, to be on the safe side, called in a team of alienists to examine the sudden madman. "He's at least as sane as the rest of us," the scientists reported. He was. The state, in proving its homicide case against him later, said that the Kid had had no notion of killing himself. He killed the lady, it charged, for a very intelligent reason—she was rich, and she wouldn't marry him.
Of all the rich and beautiful women in the life of McCoy, she must have been the only one who wouldn't. It was curious, the way the pattern of the Kid's loves and marriages changed with the changes in his own career. When he was young, tough, and fight-hungry, scrapping first with skin-tight gloves and then by Marquis of Queensberry rules, first on turf and covered bridges and dance-hall floors, later in the ring, outboxing scientists like Tommy Ryan, the welter champion, mauling and knocking down heavyweights like the powerful Tom Sharkey—in those times his love affairs were brief. About his first marriage, at 22, to an Ohio girl named Lottie Piehler, McCoy once said: "A few months after l married her, I met a burlesque queen who finished me as a married man." He wasn't finished, he was just starting. But he had to keep on the move. There was less sense of investment, of security for McCoy, in those early matings. There was even romance in some of them. Certainly, he loved Mrs. Julia Woodruff Crosselmire, whose stage name was Julia Woodruff. Certainly, she loved him. He caught her eye by breaking up a free-for-all fight in a railroad car, one day in 1897 on a trip from New York to Philadelphia. In the next few years, they were married three times and divorced three times.
A change set in when the kid grew older, when he fought only when he had to and felt the pressures and hardships of life as a job-hunter and part-time con man. That was how it was in 1905 when he married Lillian Ellis, the young widow of a millionaire. Julia had recently cut him loose for the last time—as a matter of fact, he had divorced her, the only time it happened that way with McCoy.
"She ran away with a man named Thompson," the Kid used to say. "They took a tour around the world, and when they got back, I seceded."
On the morning his engagement to Mrs. Ellis was announced, the Kid was lying in his bed in the Dunlop Hotel, in New York, when the telephone began to ring. "Before I could get my shoes on that day," McCoy said, "the phone had rung a hundred times, and a hundred friends had touched me for a million dollars." Mrs. Ellis told the press that she knew what she was in for. "I know I'm not getting any angel, but I'm satisfied," she said. The Kid himself was so moved that he wrote a wedding poem:
"Dogs delight to growl and fight,
But let men be above them,
It's better to have a gal for a pal,
When he really knows she loves him."
In a sense, McCoy said, these lines were his farewell to the fight game. For now, at least, he was through—"Even though Jeff," he said, "is the only man alive who can lick me." He was referring to James J. Jeffries, the retired heavyweight champion of the world.
The phrase which keeps his name famous was born in San Francisco, in 1899. At least, McCoy always said so; and while he was one of the most fertile and tireless liars of his generation, there's a good chance that he was telling the truth.
High-flown though it sounded, the last statement may well have been true. It's possible that for his weight, which ranged from 145 pounds to 170, McCoy was the finest fighter in the world, when he was at his best. "A marvel, a genius of scientific fighting," James J. Corbett called him. "Vicious, fast, and almost impossible to beat," said Philadelphia Jack O'Brien. It was a strange fact about McCoy that he did not need his tricks to be great. He cheated because he loved to cheat, just as, in the early days, he married women because he loved them. Fighting on the level, he would still have been the real McCoy.
The phrase which keeps his name famous was born in San Francisco, in 1899. At least, McCoy always said so; and while he was one of the most fertile and tireless liars of his generation, there's a good chance that he was telling the truth. The Kid went to the Coast in March of that year to meet the rough, hard-punching Joe Choynski. A little earlier, in San Francisco, a Joe McAuliffe had easily whipped a man named Peter McCoy. Kid McCoy, following this low-class act with a better one, gave Choynski a savage beating in 20 rounds, knocking him down 16 times. The press hailed him with gratitude: "Choynski is beaten," a headline said, "by THE REAL MCCOY."
As to how Norman Selby got the name of McCoy to begin with, there are two stories, both told by McCoy, and both plausible. He was born, probably in October 1873, in Moscow, Indiana, a little farmland crossroads northwest of the town of Rushville. The Selby family moved to Indianapolis when Norman was small. When he was somewhere between 14 and 16, he and two other boys ran away by train to Cincinnati. Cops met them at the Cincinnati station, alerted by their fathers. "Are you Norman Selby?" a cop asked Norman. "I'm Charlie McCoy," he said. The night before, through the train window, he had seen a sign, "McCoy Station." When he made his first prizefight it was under the name of Charlie (Kid) McCoy.
In a story the Kid told another historian, he once saw a burlesque act featuring the exploits of two real-life safe-crackers, Kid McCoy and Spike Hennessy. In the theater lobby, for a dime, you could buy a book on the lives of McCoy and Hennessy. The Kid read the book, was taken with the daring, aggressive character of McCoy, and borrowed his name. Either way, there's no doubt that he began fighting early in life as Kid McCoy. Some say his first bout, for $5 or $10, was against Charleston Yalla. Some say it was against Pete Jenkins, in St. Paul, in 1891. In St. Paul, the Kid, who was pausing there to wash dishes, joined the Baptist Church, because you had to be a member to join the YMCA, which had the only sports-training facilities in town. He beat Jenkins in four rounds.
After March 1895, the Kid was a fighter with a reputation; he was "the man who beat Shadow Maber." To Maher, he was "that bloody trickster." Shadow, an Australian fighting in the States and a boxer of note, met McCoy in Memphis. Near the end of one round, Maber heard a strong, clear voice say, "The bell has rung. Go to your corner." He started to turn for his corner, and McCoy, the author of the unofficial announcement, belted him in the jaw. McCoy went on to beat the weakened Australian in 10 rounds.
He had marvelous speed and elusiveness, the Kid did, besides his tricks and the cruel, cutting power of his punches. By practising endlessly, he was able to run sideways, or backward, nearly as fast as the average man can run forward. "In a backward race, in fact," he said once, "I could probably beat any man in the world." He improved the use of his left hand by eating, writing, and throwing a ball left-handed. From every good fighter he fought or watched he learned something. Bob Fitzsimmons, then recognized as world's middleweight champion, was training for a fight in New Orleans while McCoy was down there for a bout of his own. The Kid picked up a few dollars sparring with Ruby Robert.
"You're a cunning bugger," Fitz told him after McCoy, feinting a left, drove his right straight into the pit of Bob's stomach, showing that he had mastered one of Fitzsimmons's favorite moves. "And you can hit almost as hard as I can."
"For the same reason," the Kid said.
"Wot in 'ell do you mean by that?" the Cornishman asked. He did not like to think he was giving away too much.
"You're knock-kneed, Bob," McCoy said. "I figured the reason you hit so hard is because your punch comes up from the knee instead of the waist or the hip."
"——!" said Fitzsimmons unkindly. He considered that the theory was buncombe, and he may well have been right. It was a fact, however, as McCoy then demonstrated, that the kid had schooled his own knees to come inward by walking around for 20 minutes or a half hour at a time holding a fifty-cent piece between them.
Fitzsimmons (who was to win the heavyweight title from Jim Corbett in 1897) was too big and strong for McCoy who in those years weighed in at about the welter limit, 145. The welterweight champion of the world was Tommy Ryan, thought by many to be the most skillful boxer extant. Ryan and McCoy were matched to fight for the welter title in Maspeth, Long Island, in March, 1896. It was a match Ryan had no worries about. McCoy had sparred with him, too, a couple of years earlier, and McCoy had deliberately made a poor impression-chiefly by a kind of cringing timidity. Once, in a workout, he had asked Tommy not to hit him around the heart. "It makes me sick, Mr. Ryan," he had said. "And it gives me a sharp pain that scares me. I wouldn't fight if I didn't have to."
In their fight for the championship, Ryan did his best to hit McCoy around the heart—and every place else where he thought there might be an opening. But there were no openings, to speak of. And in the 12th round, getting impatient and beginning to swing wildly, Ryan exposed his own chin, and caught a straight right on the end of it that drained all the strength and science out of him and left him helpless. McCoy then slashed and mauled the champion until the 15th, when he knocked him out.
It was in Africa, the Kid used to say, that he developed the "corkscrew punch." The phrase, like others coined by this prince of phrasemakers, became known all over the world. The corkscrew punch, probably, was only a left hook to the head, like other left hooks. Like other hooks, it involved a turning of the wrist, just before impact. But McCoy declared, and the world believed him, that he gave his left wrist an extra, prolonged spin that increased its velocity and its power to cut and maim. "It was the principle of rifling," he said. "I learned it by studying a rifle in South Africa."
It was in South Africa, too, at Bullawayo, that McCoy fought a 250-pound Negro called the King of the Kaffirs. In the first round, McCoy, running backward, lured the giant into McCoy's corner. The King, in sudden pain and confusion, looked down at his bare feet, and the Kid, at the same moment, brought up his right hand and knocked the Kaffir senseless. The floor, as it happened—we have McCoy's complacent word for this—had been sprinkled with tacks by McCoy's seconds just as the fight began.
It was strange, the way the elements of human nature were mixed in this curly head, behind the bland, youthful face and the smooth, bragging tongue. The Kid could not help lying-his picaresque imagination worked day and night to add to his own legend. He could not help swindling-his fight with Corbett, in 1900, after Corbett had lost the heavyweight title, was called by contemporaries one of the most flagrant fixes in ring history. One reporter wrote, "It was the cleverest boxing match ever seen, as it should have been, considering how carefully it had been rehearsed in advance."
But there was far more than greed and deceit in McCoy; there was courage and ferocity. He could fight, against odds, like a tiger. Under such conditions, Maurice Maeterlinck, the playwright, who had seen the Kid fight in Europe, once described him as "the handsomest human on earth." McCoy must have been like that on the night he fought Tom Sharkey—after he had given up the welterweight title, had outgrown a brief claim to the middleweight crown and was fighting them as big as they came.
Sailor Tom Sharkey was not a giant—he was squat, but massive, and very tough. In 45 rounds of fighting, the great Jim Jeffries was never to knock him down once. Sharkey and McCoy met on January 10, 1899, at the old Lenox Athletic Club, in New York City. It was the biggest gate of McCoy's life; there was $46,000 in the square brick arena that night. The Kid was about Sharkey's height, but he looked like a thin, pale boy beside the Sailor. His legs were slender, his stomach was concave at the narrow waist. Such power as he had was bunched in big arms and low, sloping shoulders. Running like a burglar, he made Sharkey commit himself with rushes and lunging swings. Then the Kid let the gap close. He countered the swings. He hooked Sharkey's head with his left, and drove straight rights against Sharkey's teeth and cheekbones. Twice he floored the man whom Jeff could not bring down. By the end of the ninth, it looked like McCoy's fight for sure, and the patrons were screaming for him to finish it. The truth was, the Kid himself was finished. He had used up all his strength on a head like an oaken bucket; in the tenth, his legs went dead. Sharkey caught him in that round, first with a body punch that seemed to cave in the Kid's ribs, then with a smashing blow on the jaw. Paul Armstrong, the playwright who wrote "Alias Jimmy Valentine," was covering the fight. Of the Kid, at the very last, he wrote:
"He clawed the canvas like some deep-sea crab … rattled along on all fours … and then bobbled into a meaningless heap."
In 1900, the Kid ran a night club in the cellar of the Hotel Normandie, at the comer of Broadway and 40th Street. He ran it until a matter of what the police called "larceny from a customer" by McCoy came up—then the customers began to abstain from the Kid's saloon. In 1904, he filed a petition in bankruptcy, having $25,000 worth of debts and no assets. The debts included one of $320 for clothing, and another of $569 for repairs to a fast, red car. It was natural that the Kid should react to this slump by marrying Lillian Ellis, the rich widow. It was natural that when Mrs. Ellis detached him, after three or four comfortable years, he should marry Mrs. Edna Valentine Hein, the daughter of a silverminer. The Kid impressed Mrs. Hein favorably, before the marriage, by winning a street fight from Mr. Hein.
The janitor found Theresa lying dead on the floor of the bedroom she had shared with McCoy. She had been shot once, in the left temple. A .32 pistol lay nearby. A photograph of the Kid had been placed across her breast. Also clearly visible was a suicide note signed Norman Selby leaving his estate to his mother.
It was one of the few fights he had, in those years. When occasional spells of non-marriage, meaning poverty, overtook him, and· McCoy was obliged to fight professionally again, he found the going hard. It was the flesh that was weak—not the two-edged brain. A lad named Young Jim Stewart climbed into the ring in New York one night, during these downhill days, to see what McCoy had left. He went to the Kid's comer before the bout to pay his respects. McCoy, waving to friends in the crowd, pretended not to see him. Stewart, hurt, but not mortally so, returned to his corner. When the referee called them out for instructions, McCoy tramped heavily on the youngster's feet and bumped him accidentally in the eye with his elbow. Next McCoy grabbed Stewart by the nape of the neck with one hand, pulled down his head, and cracked him two or three times in the jaw with his other fist. "What I want to know, Mr. Referee," said the Kid, deferentially, "is whether it's all right for him to hit me like this?" "No, it ain't," said the referee. Young Jim Stewart survived these preliminaries, and the fight got under way and went six rounds to no decision.
"Tell me, Mr. McCoy," said Stewart afterward, "did you expect to soften me up with that stuff with the referee?" "God knows, boy," the Kid said. "You can never tell till you try."
In the last fight on his record, McCoy met a British seaman, Petty Officer Curran, in London, in 1914. The bout was scheduled for 20 rounds—a long, weary haul for a man of forty. Three-quarters of the way through it, McCoy's feet had gone nearly flat. His nerves were snapping in his body like little twigs. Suddenly, the timekeeper, sitting by the ring in evening clothes, took a tall glass of whisky-and-soda from an attendant, and placed it carefully on the apron of the ring. A moment later, the Kid ran into a punch from Curran, fell to the floor near the timekeeper's seat, snatched up the highball and drank it off. The fight went the full distance. It was close, but McCoy, making his last post a winning one, got the duke.
Though he was still debonair, still a strutter, McCoy was plainly at the end of his rope, financially, when he beat his way home from London at the start of the first World War. The U.S. Army bought his meals for the next few years. Enlisting in 1915—tired, played out, turning to the security of a uniform and steady pay as he had turned to marriage when he was younger—McCoy served on the Mexican border in 1916, and on the home front generally in the wartime years, mostly as a boxing instructor. There was another fling left in him, but in the Army, for awhile, he charged his batteries, and marked time.
When his enlistment was up, the Kid headed for California. He got a few bit parts in Hollywood, but this career died quickly. In 1922, he became an official bankrupt again—assets: two suits of clothes. One way and another, he took the busy, hot town for a dollar here and a dollar there, and hung on. And in the summer of 1924, he found his way into the life of still another woman with money and a husband she did not like.
Theresa Weinstein Mors was on the point of divorcing Albert E. Mors when she met McCoy. She was in her late 30's, and easy to look at. It is not known just how she came to meet the Kid, but on August 4, when their friendship became a matter of record, she described him to the police as her "bodyguard." The police had been called in by Mors, who complained that his wife and McCoy had used him roughly. The visit had been for the purpose of discussing the Mors' property settlement. The Kid, of course, had the habit of discussing things with his knuckles. In this case, however, it was Mrs. Mors who hit Mr. Mors in the mouth, while McCoy protected her.
A divorce followed, and the Kid and Theresa took an apartment together, under the names of Mr. and Mrs. N. Shields. There's good reason to believe that the Kid wanted marriage in more than name. Mrs. Mors, at least for the time being, did not. For this reason, and perhaps for others, it was a quarrelsome partnership. It came as no surprise to the Shields' neighbor, in the next apartment, when, on the sultry night of August 11, at a few minutes after midnight, she heard a woman's voice in the Shields' flat cry out, "Oh, my God, don't do that!" The cry was repeated. Then came a single gunshot. The neighbor investigated, but only to the extent of trying the Shields' door, which was locked. It was not till 10 a.m. on the 12th that the janitor found Theresa lying dead on the floor of the bedroom she had shared with McCoy. She had been shot once, in the left temple. A .32 pistol lay nearby. A photograph of the Kid had been placed across her breast. Also clearly visible was a suicide note signed Norman Selby leaving his estate to his mother.
At almost the same moment the police discovered the note and the body which did not match it, the Kid himself was running amok a few blocks away, with another gun, in an antique shop owned by his mistress. It was a wild scene he made there. Disheveled, apparently drunk, he burst into the shop with his gun out. He told the men there, mostly employees, to take off their shoes and pants. He put a dance record on the phonograph and, under cover of the noise, went through the pants pockets for money. Then, cursing with all the foulness he could muster from 51 years' experience, he went out the door again and, in the street, shot and seriously wounded the first three people he met, two men and a woman. The police caught up with him as he was running blindly through Westlake Park.
Had he been drunk? McCoy, though he'd taken some wine in his time, had never been given to drinking. Had he been faking madness, to set up a defense against a murder rap? Maybe. At any rate, his wildness, real or feigned, subsided after a few days in jail, and at his trial he told the jury in serious, sensible tones that Theresa—"the only woman I ever loved"—had shot herself to death in his presence. It was a story the Kid was to stick to for the rest of his life. The prosecution, in rebuttal, pointed out that Mrs. Mors, a right-handed woman, had been shot in the left side of her head. The prosecutor told the jury that McCoy had said to his sister, after the crime, "I had to kill that woman." It took the jurymen 78 hours to decide whom to believe. In the end, they disbelieved McCoy. He was sentenced to 10 years for manslaughter, and to two terms of 7 years each for the larceny and mayhem of his last daffy stand in Theresa's antique shop: a total of 24 years.
When he came out in 1932, paroled after a little more than seven years, the Kid had established one of the purest records in the history of San Quentin—never a mark against him.
The rap seemed to mean that the Kid would die of old age in San Quentin. There was one way to escape such a fate—sweetness, light and good conduct on a scale such as McCoy had never before attempted.
When he came out in 1932, paroled after a little more than seven years, the Kid had established one of the purest records in the history of San Quentin—never a mark against him. With him he brought a canary named Mike, a prison pet as harmless as the new McCoy. His future life was to be mild and pastoral, too. Years before, he had given boxing lessons to a Navy fighter who used the name of Sailor Reese. In 1932, under his real name of Harry Bennett, the sailor had become personnel chief for Ford, in Detroit. Bennett gave the parolee a job as watchman in one of the Ford public gardens. The new line on the payroll read: "Norman Selby. Age, 59. Farmhand." The terms of his parole kept the Kid close to Detroit for five years. When, in 1937, he became totally free—the Kid used to say he'd been "pardoned," but it was really just the formal ending of parole—he went on living in Detroit and working for Ford.
He did make a few trips out of town after the papers came through. One of them was to Rushville, Indiana, near the place of his birth, where he took unto himself an eighth wife, Mrs. Sue Cobb Cowley. Another was to New York, where the Kid and an old fellow-wizard, Philadelphia Jack O'Brien, pottered around town together for a day, cutting up touches and reviewing the past. Wherever he went, the Kid seemed happy. His marriage went well. His job was for life. When he lied, he told contented lies that showed the old vanity, the old satisfaction with Norman Selby, alias Kid McCoy. One day a man asked him if he ever saw his former wives.
"You won't believe it," the Kid said smugly, "but I see them all, regularly. Every year I give a party, and every woman I've ever been married to comes to Detroit to see me again."
He gave a roguish smile. "Why wouldn't they come, for me?"
The Kid was not crazy, or senile. He simply liked this lie and all the others that celebrated the glory, the beauty, the cunning of Kid McCoy. In everything he did, as his days dwindled down to the last and strangest one, his mind and his body worked smoothly and well.
And then, suddenly, smoothly and well, he killed himself. Perhaps there had been one special sin in his life that was too big for him to live with any longer. If so, nobody knows what it was but Kid McCoy.
[Photo Credit: Still from The World's Champion (1922) via Wikimedia Commons]