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Juneteenth Celebration Set for June 15 in Macomb's Chandler Park
June 3, 2013
MACOMB, IL – The 10th annual Juneteenth Celebration in Macomb will be held Saturday, June 15 in Chandler Park.
The event, to mark the end of slavery, runs from 4 – 7 p.m. and includes a program and free food samplings, both beginning at 4:30 p.m. Other items planned throughout the afternoon include live entertainment, guest speakers, inflatable games, story telling and children's crafts.
Western Illinois University President Jack Thomas and Macomb Mayor Mike Inman will kick off the Juneteenth program at 5 p.m. with welcome remarks and the presentation of a Juneteenth proclamation.
The event is open free to the public and is put on each year by the Gwendolyn Brooks Cultural Center at Western Illinois University. For more information, call the center at (309) 298-2220.
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After last month's May 22 coup de etat in Thailand, protesters have recently adopted a unique hand gesture to unite them against the martial law led by Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha. Their method of silent demonstration may be familiar to those of us in America, since the hand gesture they use was first made famous in another arena of resistance.
The three-fingered salute used by Katniss Everdeen in the recent blockbuster and bestseller franchise of the "Hunger Games" has now become a symbol of solidarity for the people of Thailand. In the "Hunger Games" and "Catching Fire" movies, the people of a dystopian, totalitarian society also known as Panem show their support for one another by raising their three middle fingers in the air. This civil disobedience serves as a rallying mechanism for the people of Panem, and the people of Thailand are trying out its powers in the real world.
When the Thai resistors thrust the symbol into the air, they are making a decision to stand united against the governing military personnel. The three-fingers themselves have been interpreted to represent liberty, brotherhood and equality — all three of which make up the core tenets of the Thai peoples' fight against the military rule of Gen. Chan-ocha.
Many of the Thai people are willing to stand fearless in the face of weapons and security forces with only their hopes for a democratic future and their three fingers held high. Though the government in Thailand has attempted to regulate social media sites, some Twitter users have managed to get their messages out to the International World. One tweet from Manik Sethisuwan, read: "Dear #HungerGames. We've taken your sign as our own. Our struggle is non-fiction."
No longer is this a story just for the books or the movie screens; the Thai people are making their resistance real and the "Hunger Games" salute is just a part of their fight. When I first heard that the protesters were calling their struggle "non-fiction," I was surprised at how much I needed to be reminded of this true fact.
Ironically through social media, the struggle of the Thai resistors has become just another story to read about. In the news sections you can see blurbs of their story focusing on how uncanny it is that life could imitate art. Videos of the "Catching Fire" movie clips are often embedded within the articles as well to keep the audience interested as they read about a fight that has nothing to do with the United States. And then after a day or so, these articles become non-existent on the featured pages and instead are replaced with more exciting sounding news.
Katniss and Peeta in the "Hunger Games" may be household names, but the true heroes of resistance movements like the ones in Thailand are being forgotten as if they were nothing but stories. I think it's important to remember that the books and films we consume are not the only places where people are struggling against extreme oppression and despair. There are people out there fighting for a chance at real freedom, and it's not for the benefit of our entertainment.
Kathy Tun of Spring Valley is a sophomore at Illinois Wesleyan in Bloomington. She can be reached in care of this newspaper at P.O. Box 340, Princeton, IL 61356.

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Inside the Spectre
Inside the Spectre
Opening the Spectre can be a bit problematic as the notch is wafer thin - you need to wedge a fingernail under it and even when you've got the hang of it, it can still be a bit awkward. There is an alternative method, where you use the gaps on both sides (left by the elevated wrist rest – more on that below) to lift the lid, but it's not ideal due to the reduced leverage and the heavy lid (Gorilla Glass covered surfaced isn't light!).
Once you've got it open, there's a pretty obvious MacBook Pro look to the Spectre, with its silver palm rest and black screen. The feature that sets it apart is the sheet of Gorilla Glass that covers the entire wrist rest area and extends from the front lip almost to the bottom of the keyboard.
If you've seen an old, well-used notebook you might probably guess why the glass surface is here, as the wrist rest area always shows the most 'battle' wear, with watch straps, rings and sweaty palms constantly banging and rubbing away at its finish. It remains to be seen how well the Spectre will hold up, but based on our earlier tests, its Gorilla Glass laughs in the face of all but the most acidic-sweating user abuse (if such a person exists).
Display Matters
The 14-inch display has a native resolution of 1600 x 900 pixels, which is a nice improvement over the 1366 x 768 pixels resolution found on most other Ultrabooks (a notable exception being ASUS's Zenbook UX31, which also utilizes a 1600 x 900 pixels resolution display). Still, for the premium price, a full HD 1920 x 1080 pixels resolution would have been a very welcome addition - especially since this notebook has a full 14 inches of screen area.
While the Gorilla Glass is glossier than we would have liked, nevertheless, the screen is clear and bright, with excellent off-axis viewing angles.
Audio Delivery
Like pretty much every HP Envy notebook out there, the audio system is by Beats. Two front facing speakers are located on the base of the unit and produce a surprisingly loud volume - even 50% was bordering on wake-the-neighbors-noisy. Promotional materials state that the unit is also equipped with a Triple Bass Reflex Subwoofer but, even after taking the base plate off the unit, we couldn't physically find it. A jog dial found at the left side adjusts the volume, while a dedicated Beats button brings up the Beats sound-shaping software. A mute button and accompanying LED indicator is also found here.
The audio is fairly bass heavy, which may lend some weight to the existence of a subwoofer unit - although, we've found that most Beats products veer towards bass anyway. Regardless, it's still the best audio we've heard from an Ultrabook. The Beats equalizers and sound-shaping software are tuned for Beats headphones but also work quite well with other brand headphones and external speakers (less so with the unit's own built-in speakers).
Keyboard Usability
HP uses a flat-topped chiclet keyboard on the Spectre. Like a few other Envy models, it uses 'Radiance Backlighting' which provides brighter illumination, with each key having its own individual LED underneath it. The backlight will turn off when left idle for a while. One nice feature that adds to the premium feel is a proximity sensor that will activate the backlight when your fingers get close to the keys. (Now you know why the Envy 14 Spectre commands such an expensive price tag.)
The layout is essentially the same as HP's other Ultrabook, the Folio 13, with a slightly shortened spacebar and arrow keys doubling up as Home, End, Page up and Page down keys. Following what seems to have become a common trend, the function keys are reversed by default, performing their alternate multimedia functions without requiring the Fn + F key combo. As an interesting extra, the Spectre has a dedicated Twitter function: pressing Fn + T will launch the Twitter website.
Typing on the Spectre feels quite different compared to other notebooks thanks to its elevated glass wrist rest. It's an interesting feel with both good and bad points. While we liked the slightly improved wrist angle, and how the glass remained cool after hours of use (in this regard, it's even better than aluminum), we didn't like the slight but noticeable drag on the glass, although, you can get used to it after a while. The keys themselves are amongst the best we've tried on a notebook, with a firm feel and a generous amount of travel and resistance - much better than the often mushy and too-shallow keyboards of some other Ultrabooks.
Trackpad Responsiveness
The glass trackpad is slightly bigger than average size (it's much bigger than the rather small trackpad on the Folio 13 at least), but judging from the amount of space below that, it could probably still be a bit bigger. Like other Ultrabooks, it's a clickpad with a designated area (demarcated by a line) for clicking. The pad is slick and fast, with a fairly firm click, although we did notice an unreasonably large dead area towards the upper corners (which was also noticed on the previously reviewed Envy 15).
Multi-touch gestures are supported with differing levels of success: zoom in/zoom out was unreliable, and stuttery when it did work, while, on the other hand, two-finger scroll was surprisingly smooth. We would have liked to see the useful two-finger click to right click feature included too.
Ports and Connectivity
The guy at HP who designed the Spectre must be left-handed because every port on the machine is found on the left. Crammed tightly into a 10 cm wide area, you've got a DisplayPort, HDMI port, RJ-45 port, powered USB 3.0, powered USB 2.0 and a headphone/microphone combo jack. A multi-card reader can also be found closer to the front of the unit.
In terms of functionality, we've got to hand it to HP as they've included everything you need - the elusive RJ-45 port is an especially nice touch for an Ultrabook - but, and this is really nitpicking, while it might be nice to have everything conveniently located in one spot, we would have liked to see an extra USB port on the right-hand side for a wired mouse so the cable doesn't have to wrap all the way around the unit. With multiple peripherals plugged in, the left side can also get a bit crowded easily. Imagine if you plug in a fat device, such as a USB thumb drive or a 3G modem, they could easily block the adjacent port(s) and making them useless.
On the right, you'll find the power port, LED indicators for power and SSD activity and the previously mentioned Beats controls .The rear of the unit is free of any ports.
NFC Enabled
This is an interesting feature that, surprisingly, HP hasn't promoted much in their Spectre advertising, despite its uniqueness among Ultrabooks or even all other notebooks. NFC or Near Field Communication, is an emerging technology that lets you exchange data between your device simply by placing your smartphone next to the antenna located on the notebook.
For the Spectre, this area is located on the left side of the glass wrist rest. We tried it out with a Samsung Galaxy Nexus, which required downloading the HP Touch to Share app from the Android Market. Right now, it's a bit iffy and we were only able to get our phone linked about 50% of the time. Furthermore, the only thing it enabled us to do was share a URL on our phone with the Spectre, which seems a bit superfluous to say the least.
Hopefully in future, more applications will be available, as there's lots of potential in this area, although for it to be effective, the linking process will have to be more stable.


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Not a question about a specific incident, but more of a general question. Why do we go to such great lengths to spare the feelings of those who are rude to us? I just read the shoe shopping thread and then another one about a nosy stranger telling the OP to hurry up and have kids...In both of those instances the OPs were, IMHO, faultlessly polite. On the other hand, I don't think the perpetrators got that they were horrifically rude. Maybe I'm just getting old and impatient, but would it really have been so rude to say, "Ma'am, I don't know you and I am not interested in your opinion regarding my footwear/reproductive choices, etc." Maybe they weren't meaning to be rude, but they really were very rude. I can understand someone asking once, more as a conversation starter than a probing interrogation, "So, when do you think you'll have kids?" and easily accepting a non-commital answer. But if someone continues to relentlessly probe, etc. I think it's perfectly justifiable to say, "That is a very personal subject and I am not going to discuss that with you."Is a little bluntness really so terribly rude? I guess it is, and as I said maybe I'm just turning into an old grump, but as a childfree by choice person, I endured my share of awful, nosy questions from people, along with their "knowing" assertions that I'd change my mind (I didn't) or that I'd regret it forever (so far I don't).
and as I said maybe I'm just turning into an old grump,
I don't care at all about the feelings of someone who is rude to me. What I do care about is to ensure that my own actions are held up to my personal standards of behavior. That's why I make an effort to be polite to people: not for their sake, but for my own.
I can tell you that my FIL was the king of comments like the OP in that other thread received. At a certain point, I'd reached my quota of patience with boorishness and called him on it every time. He stopped saying that crap to me. Kept on saying it to others. Which proved my theory that you can teach (at least some) people to leave you alone if you are willing to step off of the "nice" pedestal.
But it can absolutely be a tactical decision.Many times the intruded-upon simply don't want the unpleasantness around them. If they push back, the unpleasantness lasts longer and gets stronger. So they deflect. It's what's easiest and most pleasant for them (and that's OK, as much as I sort of wish weeblewobble had been frosty).There's also the factor that someone who is so "over the line" as that will simply STAY over the line, and you'll just be "engaging the crazy." You'll prolong the interaction and increase that person's impact on your life. If you deflect and avoid (think: Teflon), it all ends faster and with lesser power.
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Steve Brannan, EdD, GSE alumnus '57, and professor emeritus, promoted a new pictorial book about the history of the university at the PSU Weekend event on Saturday, October 23. This annual event, sponsored by PSU's Alumni Association for alumni and the community, provided Dr. Brannan the perfect opportunity to share his passion for PSU's rich history with current students, faculty, and alumni.
The development of this book, Portland State: A History in Pictures, was spearheaded by Dr. Brannan while serving as chair of the History Preservation Committee for the Retirement Association of Portland State (RAPS).
Additionally, Dr. Brannan teamed with Doug Swanson, former PSU publications director, and Brent Schauer, former PSU photographer, to develop an Our History section on PSU's website.
For book information and ordering, visit the RAPS website.
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Federal prosecutors have asked for a court order that would prevent Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the accused Boston Marathon bomber, from seeing autopsy photos of people killed in the bombings, except for photos offered as exhibits at his trial.
Allowing him to view all the photos would "violate the victims' rights to dignity and privacy and subject them to needless harm and suffering," the prosecutors argued.
"Specifically, allowing photos of the mutilated bodies of the victims to be viewed by the man accused of mutilating them would needlessly revictimize the family members in the same way that innocent children who are photographed pornographically are revictimized whenever those photos are seen by others," prosecutors said in a six-page court filing Monday.
The prosecutors acknowledge that Tsarnaev has the right to review photos introduced in his trial, but they asked that he be prevented from viewing any photos accessible to his defense lawyers that will not be presented as evidence.
"Here, as in other cases where a defendant has no need personally to review sensitive or classified evidence that will not be used against him, the court has the power to fashion an appropriate order that will safeguard the defendant's rights without needlessly risking harm to others," the prosecutors argued.
Defense attorneys did not immediately respond to the request.
Tsarnaev, now 20, faces a 30-count indictment alleging that he set off the April 15, 2013, bombs that killed three people and injured more than 260. Many of the injured lost limbs in the attacks and were scarred by shrapnel.
He and his brother, Tamerlan, were also accused of the fatal shooting of an MIT police officer before they attempted to flee the area. Tamerlan, 26, was killed April 19 in a confrontation with police in Watertown.
Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty, though a jury will decide on a sentence if Tsarnaev is convicted.
US District Court Judge George A. O'Toole Jr. set a November trial date. The judge also set an April 16 hearing to hear several outstanding court requests, including a request by Tsarnaev's lawyers to loosen some of the prison restrictions placed on him at the federal prison at Fort Devens in Ayer.
In the court filing Monday, prosecutors said that in February they provided defense lawyers with copies of autopsy reports for Krystle Marie Campbell,29; Lingzi Lu, 23; and Martin Richard, 8, the three people killed in the bombings, as well as for Sean Collier, 27, the MIT police officer shot to death April 18. The prosecutors did not include the autopsy photos, however, citing their "sensitive nature," and they offered to make the photos available for review in the US attorney's office.
The defense lawyers refused to accept any limitations on Tsarnaev's rights to view the autopsy photos, however, and demanded copies of all of them.
Prosecutors asked O'Toole to grant an order preventing Tsarnaev from seeing all the photos under the federal Crime Victims' Rights Act, which, according to prosecutors, grants a crime victim "the right to be treated with fairness and with respect for the victim's dignity and privacy."Milton J. Valencia can be reached at MValencia@


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So we just adopted Belle, a 4 year old Tri female Cavalier. I live with my partner and our 2 little boys (aged nearly 10 and 18 months). We have been having the discussion for ages now about whether to get a dog (not a dog, a cavalier ).
I had kind of nudged the OH away from getting a puppy and we were going to go to the pound to get a rescue dog and I had been building myself up for the trip (I am the biggest sap ever and probably would have tried to take 10 dogs). Anyway, I came across an ad for Belle and when we heard her story we had to have her.
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New Movies: 'The Internship,' 'The Purge'
The summer movie season keeps chugging right along. (Yes, we realize it isn't technically summer yet, but as far as movies are concerned, it is.) This weekend we get a dose of comedy and a dash of the spooks, so take your pick, moviegoers.


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As Microsoft cuts cloud service prices as part of the kick-off of its Windows Azure Infrastructure Services rollout, channel partners have begun wondering how low prices might go.
The Redmond, Wash.-based company is reducing the costs of its virtual machines and cloud services by 21 to 33 percent as part of an effort to match Amazon Web Services prices for cloud compute and storage services. News of such cuts, combined with repeated price cutting at Amazon, is raising questions in the minds of channel partners regarding how to build profitable offerings in a market where such reductions are likely to reset customer expectations each time price cuts occur. Although ongoing contracts are not likely to be put at risk, new business can more easily be impacted.
"It's becoming more of a commodity-type business," said Greg Emplit, general manager of Nextpoint Information Systems, a Seattle-based channel partner. "All of a sudden, it's all about volume. It's kind of like the old hardware days, where the more you sell, the more you make, but you're not making very much on any one thing. The question becomes, where is the bottom, and how low do they go?"
[Related: Partners On Microsoft Azure: Success Hinges On Channel Engagement, Technology Keeping Pace]
Emplit believes that on the one hand, price-cutting will drive share shift, but he also added that the trend might stimulate more business by making customers more willing to adopt cloud solutions based on lower prices, when they otherwise might be more inclined to stay with customer premise solutions.
"I think there's enough new business out there that has not been closed, and that is what they are chasing," he said. "Right now, the solutions are a little bit sticky, and it can be difficult to change from one provider to another. We will have to see if that is still the case three to five years down the road."
Meanwhile, Daniel Cheng, president AMA, Inc., a Mississauga, Ontario-based channel partner, agrees that the price-cutting is designed to attract the mass market toward the cloud. But, he is hoping that the cuts are based on lower costs, rather than on margin reductions that could one day leave the channel holding the bag.
"Part of the cost-cutting ... is coming from efficiency, in the sense that [cloud services providers] are optimizing their data centers, and reducing the use of energy, and leveraging those kinds of initiatives," he said. "So in that respect, they can pass on the savings to the end customer. I'm hoping it will stimulate sales, but if this turns into a zero-sum game that threatens margins, then the loser is likely to be the partner because the service providers will certainly protect their own profitability."
As to share shift, Cheng expects that it will not only be driven by the price but also by the applications customers use.
"It's not always easy to shift from one provider to another," he said. "It is easier to shift with something like Web conferencing, for example, because things like that involve one-time events, for the most part. But for other applications, such as email, it can be a lot more difficult to move from one provider to the other in order to get a few extra points of discount."
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Laura R. Ment, M.D., is Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology and Associate Dean for Admissions and Financial Aid, Yale University School of Medicine. A graduate of Brown University and Tufts University School of Medicine, Dr. Ment received her training in both pediatrics and pediatric neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Her clinical interests include neonatal brain injury in both preterm and term infants, including intraventricular hemorrhage, periventricular white matter injury, neonatal seizures, stroke and neurogenetic developmental disorders. Dr. Ment also evaluates and cares for patients with developmental delay, epilepsy and neurogenetic disorders.
A former member of the NANDS Council of the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke at NIH and Chair of its Clinical Trial Subcommittee, Dr. Ment's research interests include adaptive mechanisms of developing brain. She was the principal investigator of two multicenter clinical studies exploring prevention of injury in preterm neonates, the long-term neurodevelopmental and neuroimaging sequelae of preterm birth and the genetic mechanisms responsible for these changes. Her magnetic resonance studies investigate neural connectivity in the preterm brain and typically developing fetus across the third trimester of gestation, and her most recent work employs state of the art MR imaging and emerging molecular technologies to identify sensitive, reliable and actionable biomarkers of growth and maturation of the developing brain.
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Johns Hopkins-Maryland NCAA Men's Lacrosse Notes
May 16, 2012
Johns Hopkins-Maryland NCAA Quarterfinal Notes
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The Game: Seventh-ranked and second-seeded Johns Hopkins (12-3) makes the short trip down to Navy's Marine Corps Stadium to take on rival Maryland (10-5) in the NCAA Quarterfinals. Faceoff is set for 12:03 pm on Saturday, May 19 and the game will air live nationally on ESPN2.
Last Time Out: Johns Hopkins jumped out to a 7-1 lead and never looked back in a 19-9 victory over Stony Brook in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Maryland built an early 6-1 lead, fell behind and then rallied late to top host Lehigh in its first round game.
A Look Ahead: The winner of this week's quarterfinal game between Johns Hopkins and Maryland will take on the winner of the Duke-Colgate game in the NCAA Semifinals next Saturday in Foxborough, Massachusetts. The time of that game will be determined on Sunday evening (May 20).
Noting JHU in the NCAA Tournament: Johns Hopkins is making its 41st consecutive appearance in the NCAA Tournament. By comparison, the next five longest active streaks of qualifying for the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Tournament add up to 37 consecutive appearances (Maryland-10, Virginia-8, Notre Dame-7, Duke-6, North Carolina-6).
At Navy in the NCAAs: Johns Hopkins is 2-1 all-time in NCAA Tournament games played at Navy. The Blue Jays knocked off Notre Dame in the first round of the 1992 tournament (15-7) and Navy in the 2008 quarterfinals (10-4) before falling to Virginia (19-8) in the 2009 quarterfinals.
Series History: Johns Hopkins and Maryland are meeting for the 109th time in a series that dates to a 10-0 Johns Hopkins win in 1895. The Blue Jays lead the all-time series, 68-39-1, but Maryland picked up a 9-6 win at Homewood Field earlier this season (April 14).
JHU-Maryland in the NCAA Tournament: It's been 14 years since Johns Hopkins and Maryland last met in the NCAA Tournament. The Terps took that meeting, 11-10, in overtime at Byrd Stadium.
Here are a few notes of interest about the JHU-Maryland series in the NCAAs: • Johns Hopkins and Maryland have met 12 times previously in the NCAAs with the Blue Jays holding a 9-3 advantage in those 12 games.
• Maryland has won two of the last three meetings (1998, 1995).
• The lower seeded team has won the last four NCAA Tournament meetings (JHU in 1987 and 1996 / Maryland in 1995 and 1998). Prior to that the higher seeded team had won five straight.
• Johns Hopkins ended Maryland's season with a loss in the NCAAs five times in a six-year span from 1977-82.
• The teams met three times for the national championship in the 1970s with JHU winning in 1974 and 1979 and Maryland taking the crown in 1973.
These are the Facts: Johns Hopkins enters this week's game against Maryland with an all-time record of 924-297-15 (.754). The Blue Jays own nine NCAA titles, 29 USILA titles and six ILA titles for a total of 44 national championships.
A Win For Johns Hopkins Would ...
• Advance Johns Hopkins to the NCAA Semifinals for the 29th time.
• Give the Blue Jays 13 wins for the second consecutive year and the sixth time in 12 seasons under head coach Dave Pietramala.
• Give JHU 13 wins for the 13th time in school history.
• Improve Hopkins' record to 34-9 (.791) under head coach Dave Pietramala in games played in the month of May.
Career Win Number 150: Johns Hopkins head coach Dave Pietramala picked up career win number 150 with the 12-6 victory vs. Towson in the season opener. He now sports an all-time record of 161-61 (.725), including a 138-44 (.758) record at Johns Hopkins. He ranks second all-time in school history in career coaching victories as only Hall of Fame coach Bob Scott (158 wins from 1955-74) has more victories than Pietramala while patrolling the sidelines at Homewood.
Representing the Stars and Stripes: Johns Hopkins head coach Dave Pietramala will serve as an assistant coach for the United States at at the 2014 Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) World Championships in Denver Colorado. Pietramala will serve under Richie Meade, the head coach at Navy from 1995-2011.
Homeschooled: Johns Hopkins' entire coaching staff is comprised of former Blue Jay standouts. In addition to head coach Dave Pietramala '90, Hopkins is led by associate head coach Bill Dwan '91, assistant coach/offensive coordinator Bobby Benson '03 and volunteer assistant coach Jamison Koesterer '07. Between the four of them they have eight combined national championships as either players or coaches at JHU (Pietramala 3 (1 as a player, 2 as the head coach), Dwan (2 as an assistant coach), Benson (1 as an assistant coach), Koesterer (2 as a player).
Odd, But True: Johns Hopkins has advanced to at least the NCAA Semifinals every year since the inception of the NCAA Tournament in years ending in "2". In 1972 and 1982 the Blue Jays lost in the national championship game; in 1992 and 2002 JHU fell in the NCAA Semifinals.
Second Time Around: Johns Hopkins and Maryland will be meeting for the second time this season on Saturday in the NCAA Quarterfinals. This will be the 18th time Johns Hopkins faces a team in the NCAA Tournament that it lost to during the regular season.
In 17 previous instances the Blue Jays avenged the loss 10 times (including three times in the championship game) and were swept seven times. This week's game against Maryland marks the sixth time the Blue Jays have faced a team that beat them during the regular season under Dave Pietramala. JHU has avenged the regular season loss four times in the previous five instances.
Working Overtime: The Blue Jays have won their last three overtime games dating back to last season and are now 19-9 all-time in overtime under head coach Dave Pietramala.
Play it and They Will Come: Johns Hopkins played in front of its second sellout crowd in three weeks at Loyola (April 28) as LU sold all 6,000 tickets available for its home game against JHU. JHU also played in front of a packed house of 8,500 on April 14 when Maryland visited Homewood Field.
Playing in front of large crowds is nothing new for the Blue Jays, who lead the nation in average attendance for all games played (6,529).
Six Over Six: The crowd of 6,000 that watched the Johns Hopkins-Loyola game on April 28 was the sixth crowd of 6,000 or more that Johns Hopkins has played in front of in 2012.
Eight of Nine: Johns Hopkins has played in front of a crowd of 5,130 or more in eight of its last 10 games.
Five of Top 10: There have been 10 crowds of 6,500 or more at a Division I men's lacrosse game this season and Johns Hopkins has been a participant in five of the 10.
Against Number One: The 10-9 overtime victory at Loyola (April 28) was JHU's second win of the season against a team ranked number one in the nation. Earlier this season (March 24) the Blue Jays knocked off then top-ranked Virginia, 11-10, in overtime.
The game against Loyola was also the 11th Johns Hopkins has played against a team ranked number one under head coach Dave Pietramala. The Blue Jays are now 7-4 in their 11 games against the nation's top-ranked team under his guidance. This is the first time in school history that Johns Hopkins has defeated a top-ranked team twice on the road in the same season.
Close Calls: Eight of the 11 games Johns Hopkins has played against teams ranked number one under head coach Dave Pietramala have been decided by one goal. JHU is 6-2 in those eight one-goal games.
Streaking: In case you didn't notice, Johns Hopkins is 20-4 in its last 24 games, 25-6 since the start of the 2011 season and 27-8 in its last 35 games.
Striking the First Blow: Johns Hopkins has scored on its first (6x) or second (6x) shot of the game a total of 12 times in 15 games this season.
Attack Oriented: Despite being forced to start five different players in three different combinations, the starting attack units the Blue Jays have trotted out have been effective and efficient. The unit has combined for 77 goals and 53 assists (8.67 points per game) through 15 games.
On the Flip Side: While the Blue Jay attack is collectively averaging 8.67 points per game, the Blue Jay defense has not been nearly as giving. In fact, the starting attack units Johns Hopkins has faced this season have totaled just 52 goals and 27 assists (5.27 points per game).
Bassett Now 25-6 in Last 31 Starts: Junior goalie Pierce Bassett picked up his 28th career victory in goal with the 19-9 win over Stony Brook in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Bassett is now 25-6 in his last 31 starts dating back to the start of the 2011 season and counts a 28-10 career record to his credit.
Through 15 games Bassett currently ranks sixth in the nation in goals against average (7.23) and 21st in save percentage (.531).
Bassett concluded his first full season as the starter for the Blue Jays last season and posted a 7.07 goals against average and a .570 save percentage. He finished fifth in the nation in GAA and 10th in save percentage. Bassett's 7.07 goals against average is the second best by a JHU goalie since 1993 (Jesse Schwartman's 6.68 GAA in 2005 is the best since records became available in '93).
Boland Returns: Senior attackman Chris Boland returned to the lineup against North Carolina after missing seven consecutive games with an injury he suffered 35 minutes into the season opener against Towson. Despite missing the second half against Towson and seven full games, he ranks third on the team in scoring with 16 goals and 13 assists for 29 points.
He enters this weeks' game against Maryland on a roll as he totaled three goals and two assists in a 13-6 win against Army and added three goals and four assists in last week's win over Stony Brook in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
In his last five NCAA Tournament games (dating back to the first round of the 2009 tournament), he has 12 goals and 13 assists for 25 points. He has played in seven career NCAA games, but all 25 of his points in the playoffs have come in his last five outings.
Boland pushed his career totals to 82 goals and 51 assists for 133 points with his effort against Stony Brook. He now has 12 career hat tricks, 31 career multi-point games and 20 games with four points or more.
Boland passed his older brother, Kevin '04, on JHU's career scoring list with his seven-point effort against Stony Brook in the first round of the NCAA Tournament (133-129). The Bolands are the first brothers in school history to both surpass the 125 career point mark.
Stanwick in Rare Company: Freshman Wells Stanwick scored the fifth goal in JHU's game-opening 5-0 run at top-ranked Loyola, added the final goal in a 4-1 game-opening run in the win over Army and chipped in one goal and one assist in the win over Stony Brook.
Stanwick has nine goals and 14 assists for 23 points in 12 games played this season. He missed three games early in the season with an injury, but still ranks second on the team in assists and tied for fifth in points.
Stanwick ran his streak of consecutive multi-point games to seven with one goal and two assists in the win over Albany before being held scoreless by Maryland and Navy. His run of seven straight multi-point games to open his career is the longest by a Johns Hopkins player (freshmen only - not transfers) since all-time leading scorer Terry Riordan opened his career with 18 consecutive multi-point games from 1992-93.
Palmer in Rare Company: Junior attackman Zach Palmer punched up three goals and three assists in last week's 19-9 win over Stony Brook in the first round of the NCAA Tournament to push his season totals to 26 goals and 26 assists for 52 points. He also ran his career totals to 58 goals and 56 assists for 114 points.
Palmer is the first player at Johns Hopkins with 25 goals and 25 assists in the same season since 2007, when Paul Rabil totaled 27 goals and 26 assists. The 25-25 feat is rare at Johns Hopkins as Palmer is just the eighth Blue Jay to reach this mark since 1980 (the eight have turned the trick a combined 13 times).
Offensive Notes of Interest: Below are several notes of interest about the JHU offense:
• JHU has scored at least one goal in 55 of 60 quarters this season and two or more in 46 of the 60 quarters.
• For all the talk about JHU being a slow-down team, the Blue Jays are averaging 36.2 shots per game. That number compares favorably to JHU's averages in 2005 (38.1) and 2007 (36.3) - the most recent years in which Johns Hopkins won the national championship.
• Johns Hopkins ranks 20th in the nation in scoring offense (10.67), 11th in extra-man offense (.434) and seventh in scoring margin (+3.53).
Defensive Notes of Interest: Below are several notes of interest about the JHU defense:
• Hopkins is surrendering an average of just 28.2 shots per game.
• JHU has held the opposition scoreless in 16 of 60 quarters this season (26.7%). • The Blue Jays rank third in the nation in scoring defense (7.13), 15th in man-down defense (.714) and seventh in scoring margin (+3.53) this season.
• Johns Hopkins has held each of its 15 opponents scoreless for a stretch of at least 13:05 and 10 of the 13 have gone scoreless for 19:30 or longer.
Now That's a Drought: The Johns Hopkins defense did not allow an even-strength goal for an amazing stretch of 116:37 from late in the win at Princeton through early in the fourth quarter of the win over UMBC.
About the Shutout: Shutouts in college lacrosse are rare, but JHU notched one with the 11-0 victory over Manhattan on March 6. Prior to that, the Blue Jays had last posted a shutout on March 26, 1988, when they knocked off Princeton, 9-0. The shutout vs. Manhattan was the 61st in JHU history with 57 of those coming prior to 1950.
Poll Position: The Blue Jays checked in at number seven in the final regular season USILA Coaches Poll and the Nike/Inside Lacrosse Media Poll. The Johns Hopkins Athletic Communications Office uses the USILA Poll to represent JHU's official ranking at the time of a game. Prior to falling out of the top 20 of the USILA Poll on April 26 and May 3, 2010 (JHU was receiving votes in both polls), the Blue Jays had been ranked in the top 20 in 367 consecutive polls dating back to the first poll in 1973.
More Poll Position: Including this week's USILA Poll, there have been 396 weekly polls since the inception of the poll in 1973. Amazingly, JHU has been ranked in the top 20 in 394 of those 396 polls. The Blue Jays have been in the top 10 in 373 of the 396 and the top five in 295 of those 396. Johns Hopkins has been ranked number one 104 times since the poll debuted in 1973.
Home Cookin': Johns Hopkins had its 12-game home winning streak snapped with the 9-6 loss to Maryland on April 14. The streak is the second-longest under head coach Dave Pietramala, who picked up his 75th career victory at Homewood Field with the win earlier this season against Delaware. Hopkins sports an 81-13 (.860) record in home games during his career at JHU.
JHU won a school and national-record 37 straight home games from 2001-06 under Pietramala's guidance and the recent 12-game home winning streak is the fourth home streak of seven wins or more since he arrived.
State Rivalries: Without question the Blue Jays play one of the most difficult schedules in the nation and a big part of the schedule are the in-state rivalries the Blue Jays have. Including wins this season vs. Towson, UMBC and Loyola and losses to Maryland and Navy, JHU is 56-6 (.903) against teams from Maryland under head coach Dave Pietramala.
First to 900: Johns Hopkins' 10-6 win at Towson in the 2011 season opener not only got the season off on the right foot for the Blue Jays, but also made history. The win was the 900th all-time in school history, making Johns Hopkins the first program to record 900 all-time wins. JHU now has 924 all-time wins.
That's 627 Games Over .500: The Blue Jays' all-time record is now 924-297-15 (.753) ... that's 627 games over .500. To put this in perspective: JHU has played an average of just over 15 games per season under head coach Dave Pietramala. Using a 15-game season as a reference, if the Blue Jays posted a 5-10 record for 125 straight seasons, they would still be seven games over .500.
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Justice Department Reviewing Nonpartisan Elections | News
The fate of nonpartisan local elections now rests in the hands of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Last week, state lawmakers approved nonpartisan elections for the new consolidated Macon and Bibb County government, the Bibb County Board of Education and the Macon Water Authority.
But federal law stipulates that any voting changes in Georgia must be approved by the Justice Department.
After Gov. Nathan Deal signed the nonpartisan elections into law, Bibb County Attorney Virgil Adams was required to submit the measures to the Department of Justice. Adams said Tuesday the laws have been submitted, noting that justice has a 60-day period to review the measures and determine whether to approve.
Meanwhile, opposition continues to grow over nonpartisan elections. A group called Citizens Against Non-Partisan Elections in Macon-Bibb, Ga., fired off a letter to Assistant U.S. Attorney General Thomas Perez, chief of the department's voting section and civil rights division.
"This is an urgent request for you to reject the pre-clearance of the recently passed Senate Bills (25, 26, 30 & 31) in the Georgia General Assembly that moves all nonpartisan elections for members of consolidated governments, from November to July, and that such elections shall be considered county elections...," the letter says.
That action, the letter says, "...drastically decreases African American voting strength. The voter turnout for the last election (2012) clearly shows that the July voter turnout was 40.34 % and in November the turnout was 73.28 %. These statistics strongly point out that elections in July will significantly dilute black voter strength."
The letter also notes that the Senate bills were sponsored "by five white legislators who represent a very small land area of Bibb County and all but one of them live outside Bibb County, namely, Senator Burt Jones, Senator Cecil Staton, Representative Bubber Epps and Representative Robert Dickey, who are all Republicans..."
The only execption, the letter continues, is Rep. Allen Peake, "a Republican who lives within the county. This is a situation where officials not affected by the change to nonpartisan elections in Bibb are imposing this veiled plan to decrease black voter strength on an area they do not live in," it says.
"We see this as an outright attempt to abridge voter demographics to overwhelmingly support Republican interests...," the letter says.
In addition to the Citizens Against Nonpartisan Elections, Macon City Council adopted a resolution during Tuesday's meeting asking the Justice Department to block nonpartisan elections.
The council resolution contains some of the objections stated in the citizens letter.
State Rep. James Beverly, who voted against the measures during the General Assembly votes, joined the opposition. He also said that state lawmkers who don't live in Bibb County pushed the measures through.
"The representatives who did that, they represent about 35 percent of Bibb County," Beverly said.
"Nikki Randall and I, Rep. Randall and I, actually represent 65 percent of Bibb County. We weren't consulted on it. The mayor (Robert Reichert) had an email, I suspect that went out a few months ago, talking about another way to do it and that wasn't considered," he said.
"So we have four representatives, three representatives, one of which lives in the community, two of which don't, making decisions about the majority of Bibb County," Beverly said.
State Rep. Allen Peake, a major supporter of nonpartisan elections, said throughout the process that opponents have a right to express their opinions.
Macon council member Elaine Lucas says some people have also voiced concerns about the district layouts.
"What happened was the Republicans paired high-performing Republican districts, precincts, with low-performing Democratic precincts, which sets it up for the Republicans to out-vote the Democrats the way that it was drawn. I think that is just awful. I think it's trickery," says Lucas.
Representatives of the Justice Department haven't responded to 13WMAZ's request for an update on the measure.


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Today With Sean O Rourke Friday 18 April 2014
The mid-morning current affairs magazine with the stories of the day, sharp analysis, sports coverage, in-depth features and consumer interest.
After 47 days of the Anglo Trial, the final verdicts came in yesterday.
Dearbhail McDonald, Legal Affairs Editor of the Irish Independent, joined Sean in studio.
Marie Louise O'Donnell joined Sean in studio to talk about an open-air performance of The Passion in Limerick.
A high school vice principal rescued from the sinking South Korean ferry has been found dead.
Sean was joined with more by John Power of the Yonhap News
The vast majority of people are probably looking forward to the Easter weekend, time off work, time to spend with family and friends. However, for some families, the long weekend is a nightmare of abusive partners, the threat of attacks from adult children and of having their children taken into care. Yesterday at Dolphin House in Dublin the Family Law Courts were open for emergencies only and Valerie Cox was there.
When Theodora FitzGibbon died in 1991, she had published 30 cookery books and had been an Irish Times food writer for nearly 20 years. Chef and television presenter Donal Skehan has just published a new collection of the best recipes from this grand dame of Irish cookery. He joined Sean in studio to talk about recipes for Good Friday.
Joining Sean for this morning's Gathering were Paul Drury, Daily Mail Columnist; Michael O'Regan, Irish Times Parliamentary Correspondent; Alan Hickey, Barrister; and Paul Melia, Environment Correspondent with the Irish Independent.
This Holy Week a number of people visit graveyards. Paddy O'Gorman went to visit Fingal Cemetery.
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HemCon Medical Technologies was once one of Oregon's rare biotech successes.
The Portland-based company won worldwide fame for its innovative bandages that use a substance found in shrimp shells to stop bleeding. Members of Congress steered millions to help the company develop its products, and HemCon's dressings were praised by battlefield medics for the ability to save lives.
"It's advances like this," a CNN reporter said of HemCon's products in 2006, "that are a big reason more U.S. troops are surviving serious wounds in Iraq, than in any previous war."
HemCon saw an even bigger market: selling the war-tested bandages to consumers, an opportunity that seemed unlimited.
That all changed in April, when the company plummeted into Chapter 11 bankruptcy court like a sky diver with a torn parachute.
The bankruptcy wiped out the value of millions of shares, many held by prominent local investors. Now court records and once-private documents—including a blistering letter from a shareholder—provide a rare look into the pivotal events and raw emotions that sent the once-promising company into free fall.
Taxpayers are on the hook for HemCon's failure, too. The U.S. Department of Defense contributed tens of millions of dollars to the development of HemCon's technologies, some of which were undergoing trials when the company declared bankruptcy. Documents also show the company ended 2011 owing an estimated $483,000 in state and federal income taxes.
"The bankruptcy filing was forced by the need to reduce amounts owed to creditors," HemCon president Nick Hart wrote to shareholders in the private Portland company on July 3.
"We found that the only way to do this was to cancel existing stock. Your HemCon stock will therefore no longer represent an interest in HemCon.â
That communication infuriated Portland divorce lawyer Jody Stahancyk, who, along with family members, bought nearly 30 percent of the first round of shares HemCon sold to private investors, records show.
"You each deserve a special place in hell for not facing the shareholders who invested in you," Stahancyk, 64, wrote to HemCon's board members and founders on July 5. "When the patient [HemCon] died, each of you Board Members should have signed the letter and made personal calls to shareholders. Your failure to be personally accountable speaks volumes of each of your lack of personal character."
Co-founded in 2001 by Dr. Kenton Gregory, a Portland cardiologist and serial entrepreneur, HemCon had a great story—its revolutionary bandage, manufactured in Oregon from shrimp shells, stopped bleeding cold.
"Between 2003 and 2008, the bandage was the standard-issue hemorrhage-control bandage for all U.S. Army soldiers and is credited with saving hundreds of lives on the battlefield," the company said in a July 2 court filing.
The seeming permanence of war magnified the promise of HemCon's technology. The U.S. Department of Defense spent tens of millions of dollars to help HemCon develop a process for incorporating chitosan—a substance found in shrimp shells—into bandages that control severe bleeding and, the company says in court filings, are naturally antibacterial.
Gregory, 57, and his co-founder, Dr. William Wiesmann, a Maryland medical entrepreneur, convinced numerous wealthy investors to back their company. Court filings read like a who's who of Oregon businesspeople, including Howard Hedinger, president of American Steel; Andrew Miller, chief executive of Stimson Lumber and one of Oregon's largest political contributors; financier Eli Morgan; and former barge line owner Peter Brix.
Only a year after the company began operations, and with wars escalating in Iraq and Afghanistan, HemCon won a U.S. Army contract. The federal Food and Drug Administration approved the company's bandages in 48 hours, which HemCon boasted was the "second fastest approval in FDA history."
The Army loved the bandages—but not everyone else did.
A 2005 investigation by The Baltimore Sun reported that HemCom bandages, after $29 million in Defense Department grants, weren't nearly as effective as advertised. While the U.S. Army praised the dressings, the newspaper said, studies by the Navy found the bandages were only slightly more effective than gauze. The Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force rejected HemCon's products, at $89 per bandage, in favor of an anti-bleeding treatment that cost about $9 each.
Still, the Army kept buying HemCon's products, reaching $35.4 million in sales in 2008.
Then disaster struck.
In 2008, the Army switched to a HemCon competitor. By last year, HemCon's sales to the Army had slipped to a paltry $600,000.
Competition wasn't HemCon's only problem.
It also borrowed $37 million in 2008 to buy an Irish company called Alltracel Pharmaceuticals PLC. Management in Oregon struggled to integrate that acquisition as sales plunged.
Soon HemCon faced another—ultimately fatal—challenge, this time in court.
In 2010, a federal jury in New Hampshire ruled HemCon had infringed on a competitor's chitosan patent and awarded that competitor $30 million in damages.
HemCon appealed, but the award was upheld this March—and that drove HemCon into bankruptcy.
For all its early promise, the company in bankruptcy showed assets of just $7 million and debts of $62 million.
In her letter, Stahancyk (who represented Gregory in a 1995 divorce) accused founders of failing to exercise control over HemCon.
"The company failed because the board failed to do their job," Stahancyk wrote. "Corporate opportunities were diverted to another company owned by you at a time when you knew or should have known that HemCon was in terrible trouble and in danger of failing.â
Stahancyk also accuses the founders of putting their interests ahead of other shareholders'.
"You, Kenton and Bill, sold founders shares for $8 a share without ever offering all of the preferred shareholders the option to do the same," she wrote.
Records show the Stahancyks' holdings were worth $1.18 million when the stock was worth $8 per share.
Stahancyk did not give WW her letter and declined to comment on it.
"The letter speaks for itself," she says.
Wiesmann did not return a call seeking comment.
Miller, the investor, defended his colleagues on HemCon's board as well as the founders. "Everything the company and its founders did was fully disclosed and well documented," Miller tells WW.
Gregory and Wiesmann "many times brought other business opportunities to the company," Miller says. "They did their duty."
To be fair to the founders, they owned a collective 44 percent of the company when it went bust, seeing an ownership stake once worth $27.6 million dwindle to being worth no more than a basket of shrimp shells.
Gregory says he regrets that shareholders lost money.
"We all wish that the lifesaving technologies that were created by HemCon would have translated into a reward for the investors and others that have worked very hard for this company,â he told WW via email.
But Gregory denies founders diverted assets.
"I am an entrepreneur and have started several companies over the years, including HemCon," Gregory says. "At various times I have brought potential business opportunities to HemCon. Some opportunities fit the business strategy and some didn't. The HemCon CEO made the final determination of whether to pursue these partnerships."
Gregory also says his sale of founders' shares was aboveboard.
"The sales were permitted under an agreement with the preferred shareholders," he says. "This was a fundraising strategy that the private equity firm advocated and the company followed. It is all well documented."
David Foraker, the attorney representing HemCon's creditors in bankruptcy court, says he's unaware of any inappropriate actions on the part of the company's founders or board.
HemCon will remain in bankruptcy until it can work out an agreement with clients, but it currently plans to sell about $10 million worth of new equity and continue pursuing a share of the bandage market.
One investor unlikely to buy any stock in the reorganized company? Stahancyk, who in her scathing email reminded Gregory about her work as his divorce attorney.
"Kenton, you came to me and asked me to risk for you," she wrote. "You promised to take the same kind of care of my investment that I took care of your children during your family crisis.
"In fact, had I made the choices you did, your children would be roadkill. I would have had my secretary send a letter over a holiday weekend letting you know you had lost custody of your children, while having collected a big fat fee.â


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that's the SSH key. The article is talking about the SSL key used by the embedded web server, ie. when you go to https://192.168.1.1/ [192.168.1.1] . TFA also specifically says this DOES affect DD-WRT.
that's the SSH key. The article is talking about the SSL key used by the embedded web server, ie. when you go to https://192.168.1.1/ [192.168.1.1] . TFA also specifically says this DOES affect DD-WRT.
From TFA: "Although at the moment the vast majority of the keys belong to various DD-WRT firmware, there are keys from Cisco, Linksys, D-Link and Netgear as well."
Damn. I missed it. Thanks for pointing that out!
DD-WRT, at least, installs with no SSL certificate in place and auto-generates one the first time it starts up.
This is really the correct solution, and a number of home routers actually do it.
Of course, there's a tradeoff. If you use a fixed certificate, you can have it legitimately signed. Then, if someone does a man-in-the-middle attack, you get the browser warning that they're using a self-signed certificate. Unless, of course, they're using the real fixed certificate. If, on the other hand, you use an autogenerated certificate, then the self-signed cert browser warning always appears (as you can only autogenerate self-signed certificates). The user learns that clicking through this warning is a necessary part of changing their router configuration. Then, any man-in-the-middle attack works, since anyone can make a self-signed certificate. (Yes, if they or the browser store the original cert and compare it to the new one, then this is no longer an issue.)
Realistically, I think this is a non-issue. If you're using home routers, they should only be configurable from the wired LAN, and only trusted people should be on that network.
If you're using home routers, they should only be configurable from the wired LAN, and only trusted people should be on that network.
Then what's the polite way to tell house guests why you're not letting them check their Facebook?
Silently drop DNS requests to facebook.com and shrug and say it must be a problem at their end when they ask?
Then they'd try Google, their webmail, and other sites on their Favorites, and see that I'm silently dropping everything. Then they'd bug me to troubleshoot the "problem at their end" for free, and if I refuse to whitelist the MAC of their laptop or tablet, and I further deny them the use of one of my own computers "just for a minute" that inevitably turns into fifteen or more, I'm perceived as inconsiderate.
Then what's the polite way to tell house guests why you're not letting them check their Facebook?
Simple: don't log in to the management interface of your router while you have untrusted house guests. Indeed, a man in the middle can only spy upon a conversation that takes place.
Now, if your guests ask you to reconfigure your router because they need something special, just pretend you don't know how to do that, or that you forgot your password.
Or, alternatively, only take in trusted house guests.
if your guests ask you to reconfigure your router because they need something special, just pretend you don't know how to do that, or that you forgot your password.
I could claim that online games that need incoming connections have to go through a vetting process. But with my disability, I don't know to what extent it'd be considered a dick move.
Or, alternatively, only take in trusted house guests.
That'd certainly be a dick move, especially if I am culturally expected to take in members of my extended family and friends of others living with me.
Then what's the polite way to tell house guests why you're not letting them check their Facebook?
This may make no sense whatsoever, but, could you have your wireless access point sitting between your modem and your network - i.e. so that someone accessing the Wi-Fi network does not have access to the internal network. If you want to access something on the network via Wi-Fi, you VPN back into it - everyone gets to access Facebook etc., but not content on your LAN.
If you need, restrict access to the a
could you have your wireless access point sitting between your modem and your network - i.e. so that someone accessing the Wi-Fi network does not have access to the internal network.
I could, but most home routers don't appear to support such a VPN setup out of the box, and most end users don't want to sit down for hours reading up on network security principles and the details of how to set up a VPN, especially when VPN is considered a "work thing", not a "home thing". The economies of scale in the home market currently favor devices whose design chooses convenience over security.
most home routers don't appear to support such a VPN setup out of the box, and most end users don't want to sit down for hours reading up on network security principles
A fair point indeed - I guess I was just proposing a solution to the problem, based on my own considerations about wanting to enable guest/visitor Internet access, but not wanting everyone on the LAN, and that it was not necessarily a solution which would be feasible/desirable for everyone.
Another solution might be Apple's Airport Extreme, which I believe will broadcast a guest Wi-Fi network, which doesn't touch the LAN side.
Generally, house guests should be using the wireless network. The router should be configured so that the wired network, but not the wireless, is permitted to access the router configuration.
Generally, house guests should be using the wireless network.
Then the excuse, based on my experience, would be as follows: "At home, I always used an Ethernet cable with my Xbox 360, so I never felt the need to buy the proprietary wireless adapter that costs as much as two used games [google.com]."
I don't understand. Are you saying that you don't have a wireless network at all, or you're talking about house guests using the Internet through your Xbox 360?
Running your own limited-functionality devices on your wired network is acceptably safe, regardless of who's actually using the device, is permissibly safe.
Scratch the second "is permissibly safe". I need more coffee.
If your network is wireless-only, clearly this won't work, and I think it's a fair request to want a wireless-only network.
The self-signed certificate applies to a lot of routers for small business and enterprise. It does not make sense to spend that much money just to get a cert from an authority.
I know that, for at least myself, the answer is VPN. So I am always configuring the routers from the LAN regardless of where I am. As a backup we allow a small number of trusted hosts to manage devices from the WAN. So from the datacenter we can always hit various branch offices and clients without a problem.
At the business and enterprise level, it's reasonable to demand more rigor, is all. For example, if you can install your own cert, then you can have your own non-authoritative CA, sign your router certs with that, and install the non-authoritative CA's cert on the machines that need to configure the router. Or, make sure your machines that are allowed to configure the router are using a system where the SSL cert is stored and checked in the future so that you can detect MitM.
Of course, there's always the wo
Thanks for this post. Could you explain why TFA says that DD-WRT routers are affected by this? If they behave as you describe (which is how I thought they behaved) why does the article indicate they are vulnerable to the static ssl key problem? Thanks for any info.
Encryption is only as strong as the idiots who implement it. The Soviets learned that the hard way during the early part of the Cold War, when they accidentally reused random one-time pad encryptors. That led to the NSA's VENONA project, and we decrypted a pretty good amount of Soviet diplomatic and spy traffic before they were tipped off.
Apple ran into something similar a long time ago for Mac OS X Server. The servermgrd daemon uses a self-signed SSL cert by default to secure communications with remote management tools. About four or five versions back the certificate was identical across all installations because it was contained in the installer package. Someone had to go down and show them that you could read all of the traffic by using sslsniff and the private key from your own copy of the installer. They changed to an individual, automatically generated certificate shortly thereafter.
From the article: "...making it a simple matter for an attacker to decrypt the traffic passing through the device". I'd think it would only be *to* the device.
I'd think it would only be *to* the device
That, and I think the attacker has to be on the network you're using to administer the device.
For a home router, with remote administration hopefully disabled, that would be your local net. So, if you have an attacker in your living room https:
Bingo. If they already have a sniffer on your local network, you were compromised long before they decrypted your routers login.
Most people send way more information over regular HTTP during the course of the day that you can imagine (people still using non SSL/TLS pop3/imap or SMTP is a great one).
If your wifi network is secured with WPA then I think HTTP traffic is encrypted to the router, no? And WPA isn't subject to this vulnerability b/c it has it's own user-generated encryption key, right? So this is only a problem if you're running an open wi-fi network (or using WEP ugh). Am I missing something?
Encrypted traffic going through the device to another nonidentical host will use a different private key.
If you're using your router appliance as the endpoint of an HTTPS tunnel [wikipedia.org], then tunneled HTTP traffic will be unencrypted after it leaves the appliance. It appears this would let someone sniff passwords for blogs, forums, and wikis, many of which don't use HTTPS due to the cost of a hosting plan including a dedicated IPv4 address, if someone can't sniff the route from the proxy to the HTTP site but can sniff the one from you to the proxy.
So if I have WPA2 on and configure my router via a wire how would knowing my routers SSL key be all that valuable?
Most routers can be configured to allow you to connect remotely over the Internet, using https to 'protect' your admin session. In practice, I don' know why most people would need to do this - for the most part, once you get one of those configured, you basically leave it alone forever. I suppose if you had a need to turn on port forwarding on some port, remotely, perhaps you'd want this. Maybe someone administering the router for a relative, friend, or client might want to enable it.
In any case, in the sce
Do people really change the passwords on their home router?
I suspect not...so this is pretty much a moot hack. I mean, why go through the trouble of sslsniff when you can just log in as admin/admin?
http://www.phenoelit-us.org/dpl/dpl.html [phenoelit-us.org]
You can't imagine the amount of griping this slowdown caused from the product/marketing teams. They really really wanted it hard-co
A possible security control for home networks would be to disconnect from the public network when you are doing administrative work on the router. Then unless the attacker has already placed a sniffer on the home network, the encrypted login credentials would not be visible from the public network while the administrative work was being done.
If the work involves the public network, perhaps the approach would be to disconnect during the login process and reconnect afterward. That might not prevent the atta
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By Michele Simon
[I met Michele Simon last year, at a panel discussion at NYU – she's a powerful advocate and speaker, and as you can see here, a terrific thinker. I believe that if you read this piece and its links, plus Tom Laskawy's, you'll understand why so many people are critical of Let's Move and especially the "cooperative" industry response to it.
Ms. Simon is also an author: check out her book, Appetite for Profit, and her site. – mb]
Recently, 16 major packaged food companies "pledged" to Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign that they would somehow remove 1.5 trillion calories from the U.S. food supply by the end of 2015. As I wrote here, there are many reasons to be skeptical about this announcement. Since my post others have chimed in with their own doubts. For example, see business writer Melanie Warner's excellent analysis, Food Industry's Calorie Reduction Pledge: Smart Marketing, but Dumb Nutrition. Continue reading


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Upper 90 Soccer Show - Leander Schaerlackens, Kyle McCarthy, PSG, DCU, MLS & Snack FoodThis week on the Upper 90 Show, Robert Bode is joined -- as always -- by Brendan Darr, Justin McMahan and Austin Sanders to discuss the biggest topics in soccer. The guys start off the show discussing the newest squad additions at Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), and if the French club is a true contender for the Champions League title after acquiring centre back Thiago Silva and striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic from AC Milan. D.C. area soccer fans will be able to see PSG this summer, when they face DC United at RFK Stadium on July 28th.


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Release Notes: This release fixes problems with code folding.
Release Notes: This new version improves the system popup for HTML preview and added features including code folding.
Release Notes: This version fixed the preview system via Web popups, can search for a function word in a Web page, integrates DevDocs, and has some bugfixes.
Release Notes: This release adds a system update, updated documentation, changes to the interface, a pack of icons for projects, and bugfixes.
Release Notes: This release improves the module projects and the module todo list, improves the interface, and fixes bugs and segfaults.
Release Notes: This version improved Webkit, ToDoList, compilation using SCons, and the installation script. The source code was purged of all compiler warnings. Many bugs were fixed.
Release Notes: This release adds a new self complementation and a new interface suitable for small screen systems.
Release Notes: This version adds the following functions: a download manager for webkit, a new autocompletion function, added documentation, support for the terminal, and the ability to open a file via the command line. A segfault has been fixed.
Release Notes: This version improves the search and bookmarks, and adds a help system for terminals and information on the edited file. It also fixes problems with shortcuts.
Release Notes: An error detection limit line. Adding tooltips to the gutter. Behavior modification of bookmarks. A Google search function. Addition of libnotify-dev.


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Bordier & Cie is to establish a UK presence through Berry Asset Management.
The Geneva-based private bank formed a strategic alliance with Berry in 2001, 20 years after Jamie Berry founded the firm. Bordier, which controls in excess of £7 billion, now owns 70% of the Berry stock, with staff owning the outstanding 30%.
Subject to FCA approval, Bordier & Cie (UK) aims to opens its doors for business in the capital within six months.
The new entity will comprise two units; the existing London Berry business will be the UK facing division and cater for existing clients, while a team will be recruited to establish an international division.
Bordier will operate from Berry's existing offices on Pall Mall, with current Berry chief executive Jamie MacLeod (pictured) and chairman Jamie Berry, serving as CEO and chair respectively.
MacLeod will lead a significant recruitment programme, across a number of disciplines, with an international business head and a team of relationship managers among his key priorities.
As part of the initiative, the Berry name will eventually disappear from the wealth management industry
Macleod emphasised that while the firm will not be operating under the Berry banner, the team that has driven the firm's success remains in place.
'Berry clients have always enjoyed the highest levels of client service - an industry-leading client/investment team ratio at the heart of our proposition – and they will continue to do so, for whilst the name on the door will change, the team which has made Berry successful will not,' he said.
'What will change is that our clients will be able to access a much broader investment offering. I am enthused to be given the responsibility for leading Bordier & Cie's business in the UK.
MacLeod added: 'Our evolution, towards becoming a sector leading wealth management boutique, is a huge tribute to the entire Berry team; my fellow directors and staff remain committed to the firm for the long term and look to the future together with confidence as we become further linked with the Bordier private banking dynasty that has been serving clients so well for 170 years.'
Grégoire Bordier, partner at Bordier & Cie said: 'This opportunity is a major strategic initiative for the Bordier Group, and I am delighted that the two "Jamies" have committed to building our proposition in the UK.'


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Club Track and Field/Cross Country
Our team shares a passion for competing at the top level of collegiate running. Regular trainng is part of this.
Organizational Meeting(s)
Contact one of the officers for more information about meetings.
There is no roster size limit. Members must be full time UD students.
Practice Information
The club is just forming and practice time is to be determined. The location of practice is Delaware Field House Indoor Track. The season runs November - March.
National and/or Regional Affiliation
Membership Requirements
Open to full-time male and female students. Members are required to attend all practices unless they have a class conflict. Dues are required.
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The Quasar DV codec (libdv) is a software codec for DV video, the encoding format used by most digital camcorders, typically those that support the IEEE 1394 (a.k.a. FireWire or i.Link) interface.
Libdv was developed according to the official standards for DV video: IEC 61834 and SMPTE 314M.
The project was started while we were both members of the Systems Software Lab at the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology. Erik is now a independent developer, active in numerous open source projects. Buck is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia.
A number of people have made significant contributions the libdv source code. See the AUTHORS file for the current list.
I consider libdv to be in beta for 1.0 release. There are now several projects using libdv.
Libdv can decode most DV streams, and has a fairly mature encoder. A fair amount of x86 optimized code is in place, although I estimate we are still 2-3x slower than the best commercial software codecs.
There are a number of sample applications included with libdv, including playdv and encode.
Not much, yet. Documentation is the most important pending task for reaching 1.0.
SourceForge hosts several libdv mailing lists.
Those seriously interested in working with the code will want to acquire the standards documents, but we can't provide them because they're not free. SMPTE 314M is sufficient and reasonably priced. It is available from SMPTE for about $34 USD.
Sony has freely-available document called DVCAM Format Overview that provides many of the details from the standards. DVCAM differs from regular DV in the physical tape, the compression format is unchanged. This should help a great deal in understanding libdv source code.
The current release is available at our libdv summary page on SourceForge.
We also have a sample video file for testing purposes. Be warned: this file is BIG, about 105MB. For the curious, this file was captured with a Canon Elura camcorder (now discontinued). The camera was operating in its progressive-scan mode, which is better suited to computer display. The scene is of a popular duck-pond (for the ducks anyway) here on OGI's campus.
Arne Schirmacher maintains an excellent Digital Video for Linux page.
For general information on DV, DV Central is a good place to start.
Please note that this software is only concerned with the DV video compression format, which is different from capturing the data from a camcorder. Most DV camcorders have an interface which can be connected to an IEEE 1394 (aka "Firewire") interface in a computer. See Arne's page for pointers to 1394 related software.
Similar packages:
- libdv4-dev
- libdv4
- gstreamer0.8-dv
- dvbackup
- libiec61883-0
- libiec61883-dev
- flac
- kino
- libtheora-bin
- dvgrab
- libavcodec-unstripped-52
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Pittsburgh, Pa., Jun 21, 2013 / 12:00 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Geneva College in Pennsylvania has been given temporary relief from having to provide emergency contraceptives in its health insurance plans, as required by the federal contraception mandate.
"The court has done the right thing in allowing Geneva College to suspend the enforcement of the Obama administration's abortion pill mandate for the student health plan while the case moves forward," said Gregory Baylor, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, which represents the college.
As a result of the June 18 order by federal judge Joy Flowers Conti, of Pennsylvania's Western District, protects Geneva College from including coverage for potentially abortion-causing drugs for its students for the time being.
The injunction will last "until this court makes a full determination on the merits of the case, or the United States Supreme Court or United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit renders a decision on the merits of this case or an adverse decision in a substantially similar case."
"All Americans should be free to live according to their faith rather than be forced into violating their own consciences," Baylor said. "That's no different for Geneva College, a Christian college that simply wants to abide by the very faith it espouses and teaches."
"The government should not punish people of faith for making decisions consistent with that faith."
The school, located in Beaver Falls about 30 miles from Pittsburgh, is contesting the controversial federal mandate by the Health and Human Services department which requires employers to offer health insurance covering contraceptives, sterilizations and abortion-inducing drugs, even if doing so violates the employer's deeply-held religious beliefs.
While the mandate includes a narrow exemption for some religious organizations and an "accommodation" for certain non-profit religious employers, it does not offer any protection for faith-based schools like Geneva College.
Geneva College "consciously and deliberately strives to integrate faith in Christ with all aspects of learning and living," and is associated with the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America.
While the school is not opposed to contraceptive coverage "in general," it does have moral objections to providing emergency contraceptives which "cause or tend to cause the termination of a pregnancy," it says.
Conti had initially – in March – dismissed Geneva's suit because it was not yet "ripe."
The college had only until June 20 to select an insurance plan for its students for the 2013-2014 academic year, and so Conti decided June 18 that the threat to the college's religious freedom was imminent enough to grant the injunction.
Conti found that "three Supreme Court decisions support Geneva's argument that there is a likelihood" it can win the case, on the merits of its rights under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
She also indicated that the college had made good arguments that its first amendment rights would be violated.
The judge was sceptical that forcing Geneva College to provide its students with contraceptive coverage is a compelling government interest.
"The tens of millions of individuals who remain unaffected by the mandate's requirements …contradict any notion that the government's interests are as compelling as defendants argue."
"Defendants (HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius) in the present case fail to show how exempting Geneva from the mandate will 'seriously compromise (the government's) ability to administer the program,' particularly where defendants are actively trying to exempt entities like Geneva," Conti added in her decision.
Conti also noted that without the injunction, Geneva College would "suffer irreparable harm" and that "public interest favors granting injunctive relief."
The decision does not affect the health insurance plans of Geneva employees, because the mandate will not go into effect for them for another six months, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
The school is one of nearly 200 plaintiffs in at least 50 cases across the country that have filed lawsuits challenging the HHS mandate on the grounds of religious freedom.
Geneva College is joined in its lawsuit by the co-owners of Seneca Hardwood Lumber Co., who are Catholics. They have long provided health insurance to their employees, though omitting coverage for contraception and abortion, in accord with their faith.


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SPRINGFIELD — Scherrie V. Giamanco, state executive director for USDA's Illinois Farm Service Agency (FSA), is reminding producers of the new acreage reporting requirements for fall seeded small grains, forage crops, apples and peaches.
Producers of perennial forage crops (grass, hay, alfalfa, and pasture) and fall seeded small grains (wheat, rye and barley) must submit a 2013 acreage report for these crops by Dec. 15. Producers of apples and peaches must submit a 2013 acreage report for these crops by Jan. 15, 2013. These dates are also the same date for these crops to be reported to your crop insurance agent when carrying federal crop insurance. For the 2013 crop year only, late-file fees will not be assessed if reported by June 30, 2013.
In prior years, reports for these crops were not due to FSA until later in the spring and summer. This change is part of an initiative at the national level to align acreage reporting dates between FSA and Risk Management Agency (RMA).
All acreage uses must be reported for a farm, including crops on non-cropland, such as hayed or grazed grassland, and other cover crops. It is also important to accurately report crops' intended use. Intended use is used to determine eligibility in many FSA programs and cannot be revised once reported.
Also, FSA often receive requests for information about how farmers and ranchers protect the soil and water resources of our nation.
"Producers with cover crops or other crops which protect the soil through the winter months should be recognized for their contribution to a better environment," said Giamanco." This year demonstrates the importance of cover crops. These crops will protect the soil from erosion and hold valuable moisture through the winter months, as well as being a source of feed or bedding for livestock. In addition to holding moisture, these crops hold any available nitrogen for next year's crop instead of letting it slip away into our streams."
Producers should contact their local FSA county office if they are uncertain about reporting deadlines. In order to meet FSA program eligibility requirements, producers must submit timely filed acreage reports. Reports filed after the established deadlines must meet certain requirements to be accepted and producers may be charged late file fees.
For more information on FSA crop reporting requirements and other programs, visit your local FSA office or visit us online at www.fsa.usda.gov/il.


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Sun Airway Plays Urban, Draws Ninja Turtles at SXSWPosted by Lucy on March 23rd, 2011
Sun Airway performed a hell of a set at the patio of Urban Outfitters last week at SXSW. The UO staff took a nice video and also played finger paints with them – check out their Ninja Turtle skills!!!
Many other cool videos of bands at Urban Outfitters are at their site here.


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Want to reduce your chances of developing heart disease and cut the risk of dying from it, as well as cancer and all causes, by a whopping 80 percent?
Then establish these four habits:
Exercise regularly.
Eat a Mediterranean diet.
Don't smoke.
And maintain a healthy weight.
In a landmark study published in the "American Journal of Epidemiology" earlier this month, Johns Hopkins University researchers scientifically validated the power of healthy living on dramatically curbing disease and death.
Researchers followed 6,200 racially diverse men and women, ages 44 to 84, who were free of heart disease at the beginning of the study, for a period of 7.6 years, monitoring those four lifestyle factors, according to lead researcher Haitham Ahmed of the Hopkins' Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease.
"Those who adopted all four healthy behaviors had an 80 percent lower death rate over that time period compared to participants with none of the healthy behaviors," says Ahmed.
The study adds, however, that only 2 percent, or 129 participants, satisfied all four healthy lifestyle criteria.
While local health professionals trumpeted the new study, they underscored the sobering realities of achieving those four habits. People still need discipline to reap the benefits of healthy living.
Reactions from three of them were remarkably consistent.
Dr. John "Jeb" Hallett, a vascular surgeon at Roper St. Francis Heart & Vascular Center, called the study "extraordinarily important" and says that every recommendation in it is "do-able."
"The Mediterranean diet may take some education. Exercising can be as simple as a total of 30 minutes of walking throughout the day. It does not have to be excessive aerobic exercise," says Hallett. "The two toughest things to do are control weight and not smoke."
Hallett says balanced weight-loss programs are highly effective and that smoking cessation is helped significantly by working with a doctor who can prescribe both pharmacologic and psychological help.
"Chantix is one medication that is highly successful in my practice for smoking cessation," adds Hallett.
Another helpful tool for many would be keeping a record, such as a journal, on eating, exercise and weight. Smokers who quit can benefit by recording the number of days since last smoking a cigarette.
"This all takes self-discipline, which is the greatest challenge for most of us," says Hallett.
Registered dietitian Melissa Stevens Ohlson, who worked at the Cleveland Clinic's Preventive Cardiology Department for 12 years and co-authored a lifestyle cookbook, says the study was consistent with others but that the "head turner" was the 80 percent reduction in health risks.
"Most people are acutely aware that not smoking, eating healthfully, maintaining a healthy body weight and exercising regularly lends some health benefit. There are scores of research studies to back it up," says Ohlson.
"The problem is, most Americans have trouble bridging the 'science' with their everyday lives. Not smoking in our society is a given. Exercising, well, we all have too many excuses why we couldn't fit it in. And Americans have been struggling with the battle of the bulge for far too long."
Regarding diet, she says Americans are inundated with too much misinformation on what to eat for good health and that they miss the "common sense approach to eating that people from the Mediterranean regions have traditionally been following for centuries."
"It's really not that difficult to follow," says Ohlson, who writes a blog, eatwellcharleston.com.
She notes that there is even confusion on the Mediterranean diet, which should be more of the traditional rather than modern Med diet.
"Unfortunately, they (people living in the Mediterranean Sea region), too, have succumbed to the Western style of eating, which includes more processed, ready-to-eat foods and fast foods," says Ohlson.
"The Mediterranean diet that is referred to in studies that have shown health benefits are traditional diets that include foods grown or raised locally or regionally, an abundance of fresh, seasonal produce like leafy greens, squash, peppers, tomatoes, berries, figs and melon; a variety of nuts and healthy unsaturated fats such as olives, avocado, olive or grapeseed oils; whole grains or, at the very, least minimally processed grains; red meats served as a side dish and sparingly; and an abundance of fish," says Ohlson.
"Those in the Mediterranean enjoy desserts, but more often in the form of fresh fruit and yogurt or a small pastry; not an abundance of highly processed store-bought desserts and sweets. Yes, they include wine or other alcohol on a regular basis, but in many cases, it's in the context of being enjoyed at a meal in a small serving."
Ohlson adds that the emphasis on vegetables should be on color — dark green and vibrant red, yellow, orange and purple — and variety. She urged people to go to local farmers markets, try new vegetables and fruits, buy freshly baked whole grain breads and pastas, and look for eggs from locally raised, cage-free chickens.
"Small steps toward a Mediterranean way of eating can reap big rewards and may even help shed excess weight."
Susan Johnson, director of the Office of Health Promotion at the Medical University of South Carolina, says she was at a conference in Atlanta listening to a "culinary medicine" presentation specifically on the Mediterranean diet when she first heard about the study.
"It is powerful in that it provides further evidence of what we already know: that there are a few, fairly simple lifestyle behaviors that can provide significant protection against chronic disease ... and that they (the behaviors) are within everyone's reach," says Johnson.
"I think for us in the field of prevention, it has more to do with how to incorporate these behaviors into lifestyles, cultures and environments."
Johnson, who has played a key role in leading MUSC toward having a smoke-free campus, says smoking continues to be "a tough one."
"If we can continue to make smoking more difficult for people, it eventually will change behavior. As a result of our tobacco-free campus and smoke-free medical district policies, we have had over 150 people sign up for our cessation program. Think about the money and potential lives saved by that."
Reach David Quick at 937-5516 or dquick@postand courier.com.


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VAIL, CO (March 27) - Residents and guests of the Vail Valley will have the unique opportunity to celebrate the success of Audi FIS Alpine World Cup champions Mikeala Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, CO) and Lindsey Vonn (Vail, CO) on Friday, March 29, as the Vail Valley Foundation and Vail Resorts host a "Celebration of Champions." The free event is slated to get underway at 5 p.m. MT at Mountain Plaza at the base of Vail Mountain, adjacent to Gondola One. In addition to special presentations, the Celebration of Champions event will also include free music, an autograph opportunity and the chance to join Vonn and Shiffrin on and around the stage for a group photo to support the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships.
QUOTESAndy Daly, Mayor of VailWe are truly honored to say that the Vail Valley is home to this pair of great international champions. We could not ask for better ambassadors to inspire the next generation of skiers in our community.
Chris Jarnot, Senior Vice Presicent and Chief Operating Officer, Vail We hope that everyone will come out to celebrate Lindsey and Mikaela. Not every community can say that two of best ski racers in the world call our valley home. We could not be more proud of their accomplishments and look forward to even greater things to come, especially as we look ahead to the 2015 World Championships in Vail and Beaver Creek.
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