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Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Club & Lodge
Orlando, Fla. • July 25 - 29
ORLANDO — Kyle Stanley, 17, of Gig Harbor, Wash., fired an impressive 5-under-par 67 in the opening round of the HP Boys Junior Championship at Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Club & Lodge to take a three-shot lead after the first round of play. Ryan Thomas, 17, of Alameda, Calif., is second on the leader board behind Stanley after carding a 2-under-par 70.
The HP Boys Junior Championship is a 72-hole event conducted by the American Junior Golf Association at Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Club & Lodge, home of the PGA TOUR'S Bay Hill Invitational. The par-72 layout is being played at 7,189 yards. Past Champions of the event include Tiger Woods (1992), David Duval (1989) and Jim Furyk (1987). The event, which features of 90 of the nation's premier junior boys, includes participants from 22 states, Chile, Colombia and Japan.
Stanley, who began play on No. 10, recorded four birdies on his first nine, which helped him to an impressive 4-under-par 32. Stanley would card three birdies on his last nine and finished with a three-shot lead.
"I feel like I hit a lot of good shots today," Stanley said. "I made a birdie on No. 10 and fed off that all day."
Stanley recorded second-place finishes at this year's Rolex Tournament of Champions and the Pacific Northwest International Junior presented by Jeff Troesch and was the champion of the 2004 Hargray Junior Championship.
Thomas, who was grouped with Stanley, shot 35 on the front and back nine during Tuesday's first round. After carding four birdies, Thomas hopes to continue his strong play during the second round.
"You have to hit some good golf shots," Thomas said of the course. "You have to keep it in play and putt well."
Thomas, who was the 2005 champion at the Las Vegas Founders Junior Golf Championship, hit all nine greens in regulation during the first round and looks to do more of the same Wednesday.
Tied in third place at 1-under-par 71 are Jordan Elsen of Kenosha, Wis., Samuel Saunders of Windermere, Fla., and Josh Jones of The Colony, Texas.
Rounding out the top 10, tied for sixth at even-par 72 are Rickie Fowler of Murrieta, Calif., and Patrick Reed of Baton Rouge, La. In a seven-way tie for eighth place, Jason Kang, of Valencia, Calif., Nick Geyger of Santiago, Chile, Peter Uihlein of Bradenton, Fla., Arnond Vongvanij of Bradenton, Fla., Erich Johnston of Fort Wayne, Ind., Nicholas Smith of Ocala, Fla., and Chase Wright of Muncie, Ind.
The American Junior Golf Association is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the overall growth and development of young men and women who aspire to earn college golf scholarships through competitive junior golf. The AJGA, the largest Association of its kind, has a junior membership (boys and girls ages 12-18) of approximately 5,000 junior golfers from 50 states and 30 foreign countries.
Titleist, the AJGA's National Sponsor, has been the catalyst and driving force behind the Association's success since 1989. Rolex Watch USA, a supporter of the AJGA since 1983, became the inaugural AJGA Premier Partner in 2004.
AJGA alumni have risen to the top of amateur, collegiate and professional golf. More than 160 former AJGA juniors currently play on the PGA and LPGA Tours and have compiled more than 300 wins. AJGA alumni include Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods, Davis Love III, Mike Weir, Charles Howell III, Jim Furyk, Dottie Pepper, Grace Park, Cristie Kerr and Beth Bauer.
The second round of the HP Boys Junior Championship will begin at 7:00 a.m. Wednesday at Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Club and Lodge off of Nos. 1 and 10 tees. For more information about the HP Boys Junior Championship call tournament headquarters at (407) 876-8095.


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Does that make ReactOS the Vista of the open source world?!!!
And Firefox. And Chrome after that, with strong open source competition already in place. It's always good to bring new ideas into the fray.
Unfortunately, the developers of MS-Dos (CP/M) and Windows 3.1 (OS/2) also didn't feel that way.
Fortunately, the developers of GNU, Linux, Wine, Open Office, didn't feel that way.
It does however speed things along when the big corporation is willing to invest megabucks in a project like Firefox.
None of those projects were "replications" like ReactOS aims to be.
1) GNU: GNU's Not Unix. GNU started as a bunch of work-alikes to standard Unix tools, but added lots and lots of new features. Later, GNU got involved with the GCC project, which is now the standard C/C++ compiler for many, many people. No one else has ever made, or attempted to make, a C/C++ compiler that operates the same across a wide range of CPU architectures; mostly, compilers were made for only one architecture.
2) Linux is only sup
But after 11 years in development it never reached a satisfactory level of usability
That sounds familiar [wikipedia.org]
Seriously though they could use the logo from his shirt...
If you read the actual post, what this guy is doing makes a lot of sense. He's not re-writing ReactOS from scratch, he's just taking the parts of ReactOS that have worked out reasonably well (the kernel, bootloader, etc.) and tossing the stuff that hasn't worked out so well (the Win32 API subsystem). It just so happens that another project, WINE, did a really impressive job at getting that Win32 API layer implemented, and rather than maintaining two completely independent versions of it, piggybacking off the WINE work should make ReactOS usable relatively soon, and able to run a large number of existing Win32 applications.
Whether you think ReactOS is a sensible project or not, clearly some people think a complete, Open Source, Windows-compatible OS has some real value, and kudos to them for figuring out how to make that happen, or at least getting very close.
I have a couple questions. . .
* Why did it take them 11 years to figure out that there was a large degree of overlap between Wine and ReactOS and maybe they should leverage the Wine work?
* How much overlap, really, is there? Wine, I believe, depends upon the presence of certain Posix system calls, X11, Alsa, etc? That is to say, largely, if I understand Wine correctly, it takes a Win32 API call and basically 'maps' it to the appropriate Posix and/or X11 API calls, and fixes up/converts parameters as necessary (in some cases, maybe 1 Win32 API call results in multiple 'native' API calls of functions with 'smaller' functionality that adds up to the Win32 API). However, the ReactOS people don't *have* a Posix kernel, X11, ALSA, etc underneath. This is kind of why I always figured there wasn't much interaction between Wine and ReactOS. How is it that they can get around this problem?
From the powerpoint presentation linked by TFA, Wine keeps all their X11-specific code in a module that is accessed by wrapper functions. The guy wrote his own module to make the wrapper functions work with ReactOS instead.
Wine didn't always have that separation between X and the Win32 API. It took quite some time for the project to reach the point where it would have been feasible to take just the Win32 specific parts and plug them into ReactOS. Specifically, 11 years ago it would have made a lot more sense to design things the way the ReactOS ended up implementing their Win32 layer rather than use use Wine's implementation.
I've been following both projects for many years (since 1994 or so for Wine) and neither project made the colossal mistakes that people seem to think that they did - it may seem that way in hindsight, but given what was available at the time when the decisions were made, they made perfect sense.
Wine won out in the marketplace because its design allowed it to get some applications running with relatively little work. Getting every last detail of the Windows platform implemented proved to be very difficult, though. ReactOS promised to offer a way to solve those last niggly details relatively easily, but the need to solve them was pushed so far into the future that nobody found the idea all that exciting. Plus, just getting a usable desktop environment running with ReactOS proved to be a massive undertaking, one that the Wine project didn't have to tackle at all. Add to that the work needed to write drivers for real hardware, a minimal set of tools that you'd need to run ReactOS as your OS, and probably a few hundreds of really important pieces that you would need to get anything done with it, and you're looking at a huge amount of work.
Even if ReactOS never ends up as a viable desktop OS, I can see a possible future for it as the Windows NT replacement of choice for embedded systems, similar to what FreeDOS ended up.
.... How is it that they can get around this problem?
#ifdef POSIX
#elif REACTOS
Not too hard.
It took 11 years before Wine got far enough along that it was so much less effort to convert Wine instead of write their own, that they could mentally justify scrapping their own code.
People frequently have a problem writing off with sunk costs.
A quick search gives me:
There are many levels of POSIX compliance ranging from POSIX.0 to POSIX.12. These levels represent an evolving set of proposals, not all of which have been ratified as standards.
The POSIX subsystem in Windows NT is POSIX.1 compliant. POSIX.1 compliance requires a bare minimum of services, which are provided by Windows NT. When a POSIX application runs on Windows NT, the POSIX subsystem is loaded and it translates the C language API calls— for POSIX.1 support— Win32 API calls, which are then serviced by the Win32 subsystem.
http://scilnet.fortlewis.edu/tech/NT-Server/architecture.htm [fortlewis.edu]
Though I'm not sure of the validity of that today considering it's last modification date was: Tuesday, March 24, 1998
But it maybe points to the level at which he wants to build from? (really, I'm just pulling stuff from thin air on this because I never really got around to reading up on Posix compliance. I just kind of knew Windows had minimal support already.)
Maybe they can run Mono on it and have a big ol' circle jerk
Clearly some people think a complete, Open Source, Windows-compatible OS has some real value.
I use ReactOS to test some MinGW [mingw.org] - based programs I write for windows.
I find the EULA for Windows unacceptable [theregister.co.uk].
But I still want my software to run on it.
Maybe they should rename it?
But it's ReactOS + the good parts of Wine. How about DistilledOS?
In the private sector, he'd get fired by his boss for trying to do the right thing and not just kludging in another feature and shipping.
In the OSS world, he will (hopefully) persevere and be proven right a thousand times over!
That's it!!! Vindicate me, baby!
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. -- John G. Pollard

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Couldn't they just start making driver signatures verify with the hardware they support instead of the OS? Screw the OS saying whether or not it's legit, does the actual hardware it's meant for say it's legit code?
Yes, that's working out really well for Motorola's publicity department with the Droid X just now.
There is a small difference to note, however; One is addressing an entire hardware set (motorola) the other is using code from a piece of hardware (is it a sound card/network driver certificate that got jacked?)
Actually, bad example. let me see what my medicated brain can re-think.
It's more like this, Motorola is stopping you from using hardware you purchased in a manner you wish with a hardware security check, where on the other hand, someone usurped a certificate from Realtek and used that to bypass secur
Did you even read the summary? Realtek's signing keys were stolen. That's why Verisign revoked them. Putting the verification keys in hardware wouldn't fix this issue.
Did you read my idea? Run verification key PLUS CODE through the hardware itself. If the key matches the hardware but the code produces BS results in the hardware (such as a nonsensical static when it should get several test tones,) then it gets denied.
So, you're saying you want to be stuck with the buggy driver that ships with the hardware, rather than the at least semi stable one that ships a year later?
Run verification key PLUS CODE through the hardware itself. If the key matches the hardware but the code produces BS results in the hardware (such as a nonsensical static when it should get several test tones,) then it gets denied.
Nothing short of fully sentient artificial intelligence can tell malicious code from non-malicious code. And even that can only make an educateted guess, and will be wrong every now and then.
And all of that just because microsoft refuses to make a secure operating system [...]
Can you outline what features and capabilities of a "secure operating system" are missing from Windows ?
lack of a *.lnk based root kit, the ability to audit the source, the lack of ability to run 99% of the viruses in the wild.[1]
Can you run any version of windows from something like a ramdisk, so there is no real way to write to the disk? how about the old, start the system up, shut it down, but leave iptables running router hack? A highly transparent bug/flaw reporting system, with a quick turn around?
If you hear of a mac mini pro, let me know.
[1]yes yes, all strawmen, but the issue for me is the last ve
How about fixing vulnerabilities when they're found, for starters? This is what the discussion is about -- MS's refusing to fix a known vulnerability in their newest operating systems. This is an EPIC security fail. Getting rid of the deeply flawed "securith through obscurity" where they know about a vuln but stupidly, arrogantly, and unethically thinking nobody will find it for another. Not getting rid of hActive-X. And that's just for starters, the list is almost endless. MS appears to not take security s
Indeed, I should patent it quickly, so that it may not come to pass without my blessing!
And because the users refuse to switch to an operating system that works.
The number of PC users is about 1 to 1.2 billion, based on most estimates I've seen. That would put the number of Windows users at 900 million to 1 billion, at all skill levels.
I will take that as pretty strong evidence that the Windows OS works just fine for those who use it.
In that way, when companies refuse to develop free drivers for GNU/Linux, we won't be able to make our own because the hardware will reject them.
I suspect that signed drivers are inevitable, whatever your platform.
The number of PC users is about 1 to 1.2 billion, based on most estimates I've seen. That would put the number of Windows users at 900 million to 1 billion...I will take that as pretty strong evidence that the Windows OS works just fine for those who use it.
Join the dole, 3 million can't be wrong
The number of PC users is about 1 to 1.2 billion, based on most estimates I've seen. That would put the number of Windows users at 900 million to 1 billion, at all skill levels. I will take that as pretty strong evidence that the Windows OS works just fine for those who use it.
I don't think I've ever met a non-nerd that even knows what an OS is. When I tell people there's a free replacement for Windows that doesn't get viruses, their jaws drop; they have no clue. Windows came with their computer and it's al
let me see what my medicated brain can re-think.
Did you bring enough to share with the whole class?
The ATI video card I have fails hard on XP64, so I got a driver some random guy that has nothing to do with ATI made instead, and it works great. If I were stuck using only drivers that were ATI-approved, I'd be majorly SoL.
I'm all for having the hardware verify that the driver actually is a valid driver for the hardware in question, just make sure that's ALL it does, or we'll lose the ability to use someone's hack to force a piece of hardware to work.
Welcome to the world of ATI-Fail. Enjoy your stay
yep, and it's what the "TIVO" clause in the GPL3 is for. I bought the hardware, I can do as i like with it, including blend it, make it into a rocket(not for sooting at something, but like a model rocket), use it to prop the window open, etc. The reason that TI doesn't like it, is they sell the same hardware with additional software features for a premium this way, and people buying a lowend calculator and flashing advanced firmware on it hurts their profit part.
It also assumes the hardware has enough processing power - on its own - to handle approving the driver. That's not easy when the driver very possibly supplies the firmware that the hardware executes.
We should not care about security too much. Security is the opposite of freedom, and by concentrating our efforts on security we may end up with completely locked environment.
Welcome to the physical world. If you do not like security and are afraid to be locked out of your own house, you are free to remove the lock on your front door.
Security is the opposite of freedom,
No, it isn't. You do not have to sacrifice freedom to gain security. Yes, that's what the authorities have been telling you forever, but that's just because they want/like the power that comes from limiting freedom, and use people's fears to make them think that they will be more secure if their freedoms are reduced. But it's bollocks.
Freedom is not antithetical to security. You can have both. In fact, it has generally been shown that the less free a society is (think pol
Couldn't they just start making driver signatures verify with the hardware they support instead of the OS?
That's a really, really bad idea.
Drivers are for hardware, yes, but they're also for software too. As soon as you switch to that type of signature verification model, you lose the ability to load drivers for virtual hardware, like ImDisk. [ltr-data.se] Microsoft's iSCSI initiator is also a virtual mass storage driver, and that wouldn't work either.
There's probably a gazillion other examples, but generally speaking, driver and software signing as it's currently implemented is working well enough for most things. It's
it's hardly an OS problem if some wanker has written a nasty driver then signed it with a legit cert
dam i consider most of my linux wifi driver malicious
it's hardly an OS problem if some wanker has written a nasty driver then signed it with a legit cert
I somewhat disagree: it clearly shows the flaws in an either/or trust model of that kind. Either it's signed and it's trusted to do anything at all to your system or it's not trusted to do anything at all... you only need one rogue signing key to break that model.
Do you propose a better model?
Yes, don't trust anything unless you absolutely have to. In user land, for example, we have SELinux and Apparmor to prevent applications from accessing things they shouldn't; protecting the kernel is obviously harder.
How about the Linux model, where if the user decides to load it then it can do absolutely anything with the system?
Generally speaking, Linux drivers are only installed if signed by the distro repository, and you have to trust that key: if it's compromised you're toast. Windows has three bazillion drivers signed by three bazillion keys and only one needs to be compromised.
Nor will Linux drivers be loaded automatically from a random USB key just because you browsed there.
Generally speaking, Linux drivers are only installed if signed by the distro repository
Actually, for most distros, "drivers" (code executed as root, which is the main barrier in a Linux-system) are installed if they're signed by _any_ key in the keyring, including 3:d-party repositories.
Many people add 3:d party repositories to access newer versions of various packages, or packages not included in the distro, significantly increasing the attack vector. If you manage to get a hold of a key for any of those repository-signers, you pretty much have root-access to thousands-millions of users.
One of the things Linux distributions must really rethink is the concept of 3d-party software, and how it can be integrated and allowed more safely than it is today.
One concept could be special repository-system for 3:d-party packages, chrooted to separate container, and not allowed to execute any scripts during installation (or allowed, but at non-root privileges). Another idea could be per-user installs of 3d-party apps that installs to $HOME/.local or similar, and never root.
This is still far fewer keys than a Windows install has, and you still need to get the package into the repos as well (so you need to steal a key an crack a repo server).
In addition, no key will let you attack more than a fraction of Linux installs. It would be nasty if someone got hold of an Ubuntu key (as its the most popular distro) and they managed to place a package on the Ubuntu repo server, but most Linux installs would not even be exposed to the risk, and only those Ubuntu users who install the malw
I have exactly three keys on my keyring: Adobe, Fedora stable, Fedora testing. I seem to remember that, with the addition of RPM Fusion, this is all that Fedora users ever install, statistically.
My roommate has an HP printer, Wacom tablet, nVidia graphics card, Logitech trackball, Intel motherboard, and Creative soundcard. Not counting plug'n'play drivers, he's already going to have more keys to track if he ever upgrades from XP.
Just an anecdote.
Nor will Linux drivers be loaded automatically from a random USB key just because you browsed there.
That's the big point. It doesn't matter if drivers are signed or not nor does it matter if someone steals a random signing key IFF the OS doesn't go installing drivers from random USB keys that get plugged in.
USB devices are well defined so that as long as the vendor doesn't do something incredibly stupid like hiding all of the functionality behind a vendor specific extension, you don't usually need a bunch of special drivers.
For the exceptions or where the USB driver is just enough to let a userspace progr
Still, on most Linux distros you're talking about maybe a dozen keys that the user themselves specifically trusted, and the chances of any 2 Linux users trusting the same 3rd party will be remarkably small. Under the Windows model, any Verisign trusted certificate will get you access, there's got to be millions of those (unless they restrict drivers to a different root certificate than app or website signing, but even then it'll be in the thousands), and if any one is compromised then every Windows user w
Which is why I say that simply being signed is not a good enough reason to just let some driver on a random device be installed.
Yes, don't trust anything unless you absolutely have to. In user land, for example, we have SELinux and Apparmor to prevent applications from accessing things they shouldn't; protecting the kernel is obviously harder.
You can set Windows to trust even less. In general a user can't install drivers at all on Windows, it takes an administrator to do it. If the administrator decides to install something without checking it well first, you're boned no matter what other steps you took.
Nor will Linux drivers be loaded automatically from a random USB key just because you browsed there
This is not a problem with the model, it is a bug in the implementation. Are you saying linux doesn't have any coding errors in it?
With this bug, the code only runs as the current user. So if the current user isn't an administrator, there's no ri
>>>It's like saying a politician told a lie.
Yes but some people still think politicians/government are completely honest so they need a reminder from time to time that they aren't. Likewise some people think Windows is safe. Just this morning a Slashdotter posted that Windows is no more insecure than Linux. This story proves them wrong. (If this was Linux it would be fixed within a week, but some resourceful OSS programmer.)
Microsoft statement via Technet blog:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2010/07/16/the-stuxnet-sting.aspx [technet.com]
there is no link here to any article that claims Microsoft has no plans to patch the flaw.
To be fair the summary states
it has no plans to patch the flaw right now
Which is in the 2nd link actually.
Microsoft said it is investigating the flaw and looking at possible solutions, however there was no clear indication that the company intends to patch the flaw in the near future.
Well, from that quote to the summary, there is quite a stretch, but what did you expect ?
I know Slashdot's editorial standards have dropped, especially when it comes to Anti-Microsoft articles, [...]
That's not really correct. Slashdot has excellent editorial standards when it comes to Anti-Microsoft articles, and have been serving up some of the best ones on the Internet for going on a decade now.
I swear we get this article every couple of months. The google researcher patch was released this patch cycle after slashdot gave us a dozen breathless articles about how MS won't fix it. Its our two minute's hate. Yet, people still buy it. I guess if you're so anti-corporate you'll believe anything that is compatible with your bias. Its like guys who are into 9/11 conspiracy theories who later talk to you about UFO abductions and the hushed-up car that gets 100 mpg or somesuch. They want to believe bullshi
I didn't put it through exhaustive tests, but I actually tried to make some link files and put them on a usb drive and have them install something when I accessed the shortcuts in Windows explorer. No luck whatsoever. I looked for some working examples but I couldn't find any, either.
And funny, I did some work for a large oil/gas company that stored the config files for some flowmeters on usb thumb drives and left them in the battery boxes. It was really fun when the first wave of thumb drive viruses hit! T
Well, it's clearly some kind of bug in the icon handler for shotcuts, as Microsoft's workaround is to disable that with Regedit, which results in every shortcut having the generic file icon (a rather plain looking Start menu results). I'd guess it some sort of buffer overrun related to custom icons in the shortcut or something like that. Quite nasty really, you look at a directory with Explorer and Windows will execute code because Microsoft seemingly can't load an icon without it causing a major problem.
The MS Security Advisory (2286198) [microsoft.com] states,
The vulnerability exists because Windows incorrectly parses shortcuts in such a way that malicious code may be executed when the user clicks the displayed icon of a specially crafted shortcut.
Sounds like a vulnerability in the way the Details panel in Explorer is updated when the user highlights a maliciously malformed icon. However the MS page did indicate that the user has to actually click on the icon, so it appears that simply autoplaying the drive would not be enough to infect you (unlike some of the PDF/JPEG - or was it PNG - exploits that I seem to remember which infected your computer by an exploit of the code that generated the Explorer thumbnai
Well, looks like I might have misunderstood the advisory. Further down in the details:
When attempting to load the icon of a shortcut, the Windows Shell does not correctly validate specific parameters of the shortcut.
From this, it appears that the part about clicking was rather misleading in that you do not have to click the icon for the exploit to execute.
However, it also requires a secondary malicious binary in addition to the malicious shortcut, and it seems to me that AV software could easily be updated to detect and clean this sort of malformed file. In the meantime, I would suggest disabling Autoplay and using particular caution
I think Microsoft is right on this issue. This problem is truly not theirs, except for the amount it negatively affects them. (Which they can do little except attempt spin control on the issue.)
They designed their driver verification process intelligently: By implementing the requirement of the drivers being signed by an appropriate third-party certificate registrar (VeriSign in this case), thus leaving the issue of managing the business of encryption keys to the established so-called "experts".
Part of the process of obtaining a trusted VeriSign cert such as the device driver key involves the company desiring a high-trust certificate of this nature involves signing and complying with a detailed set of procedures describing the physical/organizational processes how to handle and store the signed keys in a very secure and documented "chain of trust".
In the case where the security chain was broken by a (previously) trusted third party, in this case we'll probably find that RealTek is the cause of the issue by not properly following the chain of trust requirements, or how else would a rogue employee be able to sign his malicious driver?
A decade ago, I was a systems engineer for the internet banking division of a large bank that owned a bunch of other regional banks, and I was a "primary key custodian" (A defined role in the chain of trust requirements), so I was the one who would handle the technical details as far as getting the cert created and installing it on the web banking servers. (Just SSL certs rather than driver signing certs, but at the core they're the exact same thing.)
The amount of procedural rigamorole for handling the certs was complex, and well thought-out. I would create our private key in front of a few handpicked suits from corporate and data security who would observe me as I created our unsigned private key, then I would look away while one of the security people entered a complex password that I was not allowed to know, then I would get the cert signed by VeriSign which would require the security guy to re-enter the password that I did not know, then we would get the certs back, print out several copies, seal them in an envelope, all of us would sign it and take it to a safety deposit box. The security guys were not allowed to have a copy of the unsigned private key, and I was not allowed to know the password to the VeriSign-signed (VeriSigned?) key.
[And it's been 10 years since I worked there, and the certs were only one-year certs (renewed each year going through the same type of process), so don't come try to hold me hostage for any info about the bank, my info expired 9 years ago!
So it looks like RealTek may have dropped the ball on their cert handling procedures. Maybe VeriSign was lacking in their process auditing as well. Who knows? (I don't)
But to blame this one of Microsoft is assinine, how were they supposed to do anything different?
I suppose Microsoft could release a Windows update that revokes trust for any cert signed by VeriSign, but would be devastating to online commerce as VeriSign has a near monopoly on the certificate registry market, so encryption would suddenly stop working on nearly all online businesses overnight.
The flaw that isn't going to be fixed "in the near future" is the "if a shortcut's icon is shown in Windows Explorer, then automatic execution of malicious code may occur" (perhap's this is some sort of buffer overflow in the icon parameter reader?). The best workaround? Disable the display of icons for shortcuts. Attack vectors? WebDAV, USB sticks, and LAN shares mostly. To that end, I'd imagine Microsoft is directly at risk given they likely have multiple rather huge LAN and it's already been demonst
The flaw that isn't going to be fixed "in the near future" is the "if a shortcut's icon is shown in Windows Explorer, then automatic execution of malicious code may occur"
I'm still not sure where that idea comes from. Microsoft admitted a flaw in the icon display code for shortcuts ("When attempting to load the icon of a shortcut, the Windows Shell does not correctly validate specific parameters of the shortcut."), so presumably they will be patching it shortly.
But to blame this one of Microsoft is assinine, how were they supposed to do anything different?
Do you have any familiarity whatsoever with this situation?
Windows has an acknowledged flaw/vunlerability related to its handling of
If you can install a hardware driver with an exploit, you can also install a worm, rootkit, etc. This attack happens to install a device driver. If Realtek's private key had never been compromised, then instead of installing a malicious device driver, you'd have Windows users plugging in infected USB thumbdrives and immediately becoming members of botnets. The flaw is in the Windows system and its handling of shortcut files.
It is that flaw and only that flaw for which Microsoft is being blamed.
I suppose Microsoft could release a Windows update that revokes trust for any cert signed by VeriSign
Why would they do that when Verisign can revoke only this specific Realtek cert? In fact that's exactly what they have done.
Seriously. Did you even bother to read the summary? At all? I'll quote it for you. This is the summary, verbatim:
"Microsoft has acknowledged the vulnerability that the new malware Stuxnet uses to launch itself with
.lnk files, but said it has no plans to patch the flaw right now. The company said the flaw affects most current versions of Windows, including Vista, Server 2008 and Windows 7 32- and 64-bit. Meanwhile, the digital certificate that belonging to Realtek Semiconductor that was used to sign a pair of drivers for the new Stuxnet rootkit has been revoked by VeriSign. The certificate was revoked Friday, several days after news broke about the existence of the new malware and the troubling existence of the signed drivers."
Emphasis is mine. Now go clean the egg off your face.
Clearly you know your stuff about Windows and there's no real excuse for posting without reading the article properly.
However, having read several of your responses, your arrogant tone with people sucks & you've become the caricature that people paint of "IT know-it-alls" who they hate calling when they have a problem with their PCs.
Having been in telecoms/IT support myself for some 30 years now, I've discovered the secret to a happy life is to treat others respectfully for them to respect you back - if
I'm not Windows expert, but isn't this exactly the way the certificate system is supposed to operate? This sounds like a security success story, not a failure.
Driver needs certificate to work with OS. Driver is found to contain security flaw. Certificate is revoked, OS refuses to recognize driver, security hole is closed. Now driver manufacturer has to clean up their act before their drivers are allowed back in the house.
The headline reads "Microsoft has no plans to patch new flaw", but isn't the certificate revocation at least as good as a patch? More so, because it seals off any *other* undiscovered bugs in the driver? Or am I missing something?
I'm not Windows expert, but isn't this exactly the way the certificate system is supposed to operate? This sounds like a security success story, not a failure.
Driver needs certificate to work with OS. Driver is found to contain security flaw. Certificate is revoked, OS refuses to recognize driver, security hole is closed. Now driver manufacturer has to clean up their act before their drivers are allowed back in the house.
The headline reads "Microsoft has no plans to patch new flaw", but isn't the certificate revocation at least as good as a patch? More so, because it seals off any *other* undiscovered bugs in the driver? Or am I missing something?
Please see this post [slashdot.org] where I correct a similar false notion. Then, please berate your teachers for failing to transmit basic reading comprehension skills to you. Hint: the signed malicious device driver is incidental and is not the flaw that Microsoft may or may not patch.
Sorry for the tone but I just don't see what part of this is difficult to understand.
The article doesn't say it, and at no time was Microsoft reported as saying there were no plans to patch this bug.
Just because you are unaware of them reporting they will release a patch does not mean they have no plan to patch it.
They have offered workarounds and appear to be treating this seriously.
Just because it's the weekend and they haven't told you there will be a patch available monday DOES NOT mean they are ignoring or refusing to work on patching this.
On OS X; you have to run "Keychain Utility" and its preferences to enable OCSP functionality to check certificate revocation. Does Windows mechanism to check certificate revocation run by default?
So, revoking certificate won't mean a thing until some windows update (aka updated root certificates) comes. That would -of course- change if Microsoft takes it serious enough to ship a 5 KB (yes, kilobyte) Windows out of band update which won't require reboot or impossible to cause issues.
Don't they have slightest
...If the reason for the Delay in fixing the bug is with purely commercial...
Think about it.
MS probably own a fair whack of shares in most of the big AV vendors. MS tips off the vendors of the exploit and they find a way to mitigate the effects (not fix the problem).
The Vendors then use the month or so between MS scheduled updates to panic the masses that they need to renew their AV subscription to help with this new virus attack.
Once they have milked the masses for a month or so of re-subscriptions, MS the
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HOLT - Two soccer fields at a Holt elementary school are vandalized over the weekend. A car or pickup truck was driven over the fields near Horizon Elementary school several times, making large, deep, muddy circles in the grass. A school official says the damage to the fields amounts to about $500.
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Bruce Buschel, proprietor of new-ish restaurant Southfork Kitchen, on Long Island's tony East End, has spent more than a year detailing the trials and tribulations of opening his establishment in the Start-Up Chronicle blog in The New York Times. He writes honestly and openly about problems big and small, in a voice that will sound uncannily familiar to fans of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Questioning conventional wisdom at every turn with refreshing candor, Buschel's blog has a developed a rabid following of fans and foes, both of which he seems to relish.
I talked to him recently about whether he feels that the blogging has been a blessing — or perhaps something worse.
Bruce, you've received a lot of advice and praise as you've blogged about your restaurant's conception and opening along the way. Any regrets?
I have no regrets about blogging about this. At certain times, I have regrets about certain details or specifics. I'm sorry if somebody is frustrated or doesn't get what they're looking for. I just hope it's not in vain — not vain as if vanity, but vain as in all for nothing. I believe that if somebody puts out something as honestly as they can, somebody else will benefit. That's my personal mission. I have no lessons and nothing to teach other than to relay my own experience. And, because I've never opened a restaurant before, I may be more open to the oddities and the peculiarities of the process.
How has blogging about things after the fact been helpful to you as a restaurant owner, from an operations perspective?
It's very helpful. I imagine it's similar to people keeping a diary. I've always used sitting down and writing to figure out what I'm feeling. Like e-mail, though, sometimes you have to read it and say, "Hmm…this is not for the public. This was written in a moment of anger or frustration. Let me see what I think about this in a day or two." And, that's a lesson in most restaurants: You can't stop the show in the middle of service. It's been an exercise in long thinking and patience.
Has this been good PR for attracting diners? Or are many patrons oblivious?
It's both. People are aware of it to a degree, but I would hope it's good PR, even though that's not the purpose of it. I'm sure some people read it and it becomes bad PR!
What's the best bit of advice you've gotten via crowdsourcing?
I think I went to crowdsourcing because of the comments on the posts. I was stuck in old-fashioned, advertising PR cycles. When I wrote about that, people kind of pushed me into social media. Generally, the comments are really well-spaced across the spectrum and I'll get counsel from east, west, north, and south. So, it's a pretty good pluralistic response. I usually weigh a whole lot of factors before making a decision in the restaurant.


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The gibbous Moon pushes through a ring of stars tonight — a wide ring known as the Winter Circle. The Moon is about half-way between Procyon, the brightest star of the little dog, and Pollux and Castor, the "twin" stars of Gemini.
The Winter Circle is one of the largest asterisms in the night sky — a pattern of stars that doesn't form a constellation. Indeed, the Winter Circle incorporates stars from six constellations, most of which form their own distinctive pictures. And it spans a huge swath of the sky — about six times the width of your fist held at arm's length.
At the center of the circle is orange Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars of Orion, which forms one of the most easily recognizable pictures in the night sky.
At the bottom of the circle is Sirius, the brightest star in all the night sky. It's part of the constellation known as the big dog. And to the upper right of Betelgeuse is Aldebaran, which forms part of the V-shaped face of Taurus, the bull.
The patterns that flank the Moon are a bit tougher to identify. The little dog looks more like a doggy toy — a stick outlined by just two stars. And while it's easy to make out Pollux and Castor, which represent the heads of the twins, it takes a little more effort to make out their bodies.
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Dear Editor (and, more importantly, people of Estes Park), once again I am honored to write to announce the start of the United Way's Estes Park United campaign. Briefly, this campaign is totally unique here in Estes Park with 100 percent of all money raised (yes, 100 percent, no administrative costs or anything taken off of the top, the bottom or anywhere else) going to three youth oriented programs serving the Estes Valley. This year's recipients are the Estes Valley Investment in Childhood Success (EVICS), the Kid's Café, and the Estes Park Learning Place. Since we have applied funding to these wonderful non-profits in the past you might wonder whether the need still exists. Look no further than the Trail-Gazette from Wednesday June 26, 2013. To better serve their customers, the Kid's Café offered new activity and literacy programs five days per week this year. Unfortunately they had to cut them back when the response was so great it exceeded their ability to deliver. This was not an activity that we were asked to fund for this year (it is entirely new this year and our funding is for the next year) but it is an activity that we will be helping to fund in 2014.
These successful youth oriented agencies are set to continue to make a difference in the lives of many of Estes' youth. All they need is our support. In the next three months you will hear much more about this campaign including, most importantly, how you can help. Among other activities there will be a day where many of the wonderful restaurants in Estes donate a percentage of their profits to the campaign.
I have proudly been involved with this campaign since its inception. I know that Estes Park cares about its youth. Please help us make a difference. When asked, please be generous. Please visit us at estesparkunited.org.
Thank you.
Chuck Levine
Estes Park
Fund-raiser was a success
On June 15, we successfully had a benefit to support the Karl Ertl family. What a huge success. All of us who helped make this such a great time of community fellowship would like to thank the folks who donated and attended.
We are so thankful for you all. Special thanks to Bo Winslow and his staff. Also, the Rocky Mountain Opry. They created an atmosphere of fun. And, of course, all the merchants of Estes and friends who donated. Thank you all. What a privilege and honor to serve and work in this community.
To everyone who organized, set up, served, entertained and cleaned up: God bless and thank you.
Bob, Sue and Lena Pavlish; Jim and Karen Barleen, and the rest of team Ertl
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A heartfelt thanks from a grateful campaign manager
Eight months later, Election Day 2012 may seem like a distant memory, and one that some of us may wish to forget. I, however, rank among the majority of Estes Park residents who joyfully celebrated the re-election of President Barack Obama on November 6, 2012. In addition to being a faithful supporter of the President and the Democratic Party, I had the distinct privilege of organizing and managing the President's campaign efforts in Estes Park, Wellington, and Red Feather Lakes. A full-time resident of Estes Park for nearly a decade, I left my position on the management team at the YMCA of the Rockies to engage in what would ultimately become the most challenging, most rewarding, and most satisfying experience of my entire 32 year existence.
As it turns out, re-electing the president in a critical swing county of a key battleground state comes close to a 24 hour a day, 7-day-a-week job. While sleep was scarce and interaction with friends and family rare, I had the immense fortune of being surrounded and supported by the kindest, most passionate, loving, dedicated, inspirational, and generous volunteers a campaign organizer could possibly ever comprehend. These extraordinary individuals, many in their 70s and 80s (and even 90s) volunteered countless hours registering voters, making phone calls, canvassing door-to-door, and getting out the vote for a cause they passionately believed in. In addition, they fed and cared for me, brought Hudson to the vet, and assisted with many of the routine, day to day tasks one can no longer accomplish when one is working over 120 hours per week to help re-elect the President of the United States. In the process, these incredible people became my surrogate family. The genuine love and support showed to me by these remarkable individuals simply cannot compare to any experience or interaction I have ever or will ever have. Zealously devoted, they selflessly gave of their time, talent, and resources to ensure the outcome we all worked steadfastly to achieve. Due in full to their tireless efforts, President Obama won Estes Park by 133 votes, Larimer County, the State of Colorado, and of course, the election. I am eternally grateful for each one of you.
While anything I say or do will gravely fall short of the thanks and appreciation they wholeheartedly deserve, I want to take this opportunity to publicly express my sincere gratitude and love for each one of you; you are my most treasured friends, and now also truly a part of my family. It was both a pleasure and a privilege to know and work alongside you and I look forward to keeping in close contact for years to come.
To say that my time spent on the campaign was one of my greatest life experiences is an understatement. It was, and continues to be, the singular factor that has cemented my life-long desire to enter public service. I will be leaving Estes Park this summer to begin law school in Washington, DC. A very bittersweet decision, I am looking forward to the new challenges and opportunities that lay ahead. Forever holding the love of my campaign volunteers in my heart, Estes Park will always remain the fabric of my being. Thank you for your love, support, kindness, and acceptance. Continue to do what you think you can't, and together we can change the world.
Joe Ardito
Estes Park
Fit Family 5 Mile benefited Estes organizations
The Fit Family 5 Mile event held on Saturday, May 18 was again a big success. Over $9,000 was raised to benefit local non-profit organizations. Lifelong Learning of Estes Valley Preschool and Families For Estes. The organizing committee, LLEV, and FFE all send out a big "Thank You" to the following businesses for their outstanding support:
Event Sponsor: Estes Park Family Medical Clinic; Gold, Silver, & Bronze sponsors: 1st Colorado Realty, Bank of Colorado, Envoy Mortgage, Stanley Hotel, Estes Valley Recreation and Parks District, Basis Architecture, Insurance Associates of Estes, Estes Park Mountain Shop, Coffee on the Rocks and The Rock Shop, Animal Medical Center of Estes Park, Reed's Logging and Tree Service, Rambo's Longhorn Liquor Mart, Cheley Colorado Camps, and Estes Park Feed and Seed, Poppy's Pizza and Grill, and Bank of Estes Park
In-Kind Sponsors: Ed's Cantina and Grill, Cross-Fit Estes Park, Master's Printing, YMCA of the Rockies, ClimbingLife Guides, Ames Adventure Outfitters, The Estes Park Resort, The Rock Inn, Starflower Dance Company, Twin Owls Steakhouse, Crystal Pines Water Company, Signs of Life, Kirk's Fly Shop, Buckwheat Organic Market, Kind Coffee, The Trail-Gazette, and the Estes Park News
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Research firm Canalys this morning offers an update on its approach to the personal computer market, in which the firm departs from other market observers by counting Apple's (AAPL) iPad as effectively a personal computer; other firms such as Gartner and IDC separate tablets as distinct from their PC quarterly estimates.
Canalys's method means "one in six PCs shipped in Q4 2012 was an iPad," they write, giving Apple the leading position in the PC market, in the firm's view, in Q4.
Out of a total of 134 million PC units shipped in Q4, including both traditional PCs but also tablets, "Apple continued to lead the PC market, shipping 27.0 million units and taking its share over 20% for the first time. Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) shipped 15.0 million PCs, beating Lenovo (LNVGY) by 200,000 units to regain second place, with both vendors taking an 11% share.
In Canalys's view, laptop computers "continued to falter," with unit shipments flat, year over year, while "The pad segment, however, grew 75% to 46.2 million units, with full-year shipments totaling 114.6 million units," referring to tablet computers.
Apple's iPad sales were probably driven by the mini version, though it lost control of the majority of tablet sales for the first time:
Apple's growth in the pad segment was driven by strong demand for the iPad mini. Its overall shipments, however, were hampered by supply issues. Canalys estimates that the mini made up over half of Apple's total pad shipments, with its attractive price point and compact design leading to significant cannibalization in the iPad range and wider PC market. Despite record shipments, Q4 saw Apple's pad share dip to 49%, becoming the first quarter it has not controlled over half the market. 'Apple timed the launch of the iPad mini well,' said Pin-Chen Tang, Canalys Research Analyst. 'Its success proves there is a clear demand for pads with smaller screens at a more affordable price. Without the launch, Apple would surely have lost more ground to its competitors.
Amazon.com (AMZN) may have shipped 4.6 million units of its "Kindle Fire" tablet, the company thinks. Samsung Electronics (005903KS) and Google (GOOG) probably put pressure on Amazon in the U.S. market, with their Galaxy Tab and Nexus 7 devices, causing sales to decline here even as the company expanded overseas, Canalys thinks.
As for Microsoft's (MSFT) Surface tablet, the firm states simply, "Microsoft struggles with pads – only 3% of pads shipped in Q4 2012 used a Microsoft operating system."
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Shacknews contacted Sony when the glitch was initially discovered, and has yet to hear back about if the next firmware update will restore that functionality. Obviously, PSP owners with limited storage space appreciate being able to use the PS3 as a media hub without having to constantly redownload content.
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With three games scheduled in the next two days, the Red Sox have announced that Hideki Okajima has a sore left wrist and will be put on the shelf for a few days. (Jeemer discussed his inherited runner troubles here.)
This news comes in addition to the Red Sox needing a spot starter for Tuesday -- and possibly Wednesday, unless one of today's starters, Daisuke Matsuzaka or Tim Wakefield, returns after three days rest.
But with a short-handed bullpen, the Red Sox need both starters to go deep into the games today. It would also be helpful if Mike Timlin, Craig Hansen and Manny Delcarmen (who has worked only twice in the last 10 games and only three innings this month) would pitch well.


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I was so excited to receive the Truth & Life Dramatized Audio Bible in the mail that I started listening to it right out of the package. An audio recording of the New Testament, voiced by a cast of professional actors, this 18-CD compilation is an engaging, professional audio version of the Bible perfect for listeners of any age.
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This long overdue review of the Truth and Life Audio Bible is one of the most difficult reviews I have yet to complete simply because I find it difficult to articulate the experience of immersing oneself in Scripture in this fashion.
The immersive feeling is a testament (no pun intended) to the level of production put forth into this resource. Not only does the all-star cast perform to the level one would expect but the subtleties of the score and sound effects is what completes the picture for the mind's eye.
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I was really looking forward to this, primarily because I wanted to hear John Rhys Davies reading scripture. Sadly, Davies does very little – though he can read out the titles of the Pauline letters like no one else. Unfortunately, I found that this was pretty heavily oversold. Numerous blurbs all over the box rave about the number of hours spent, and the number of people involved; reviewers gush about how this is the definitive audio production of Scripture, how the listener is really transported back to the ancient world and the Scriptures come alive. I don't know, maybe other people are able to suspend their disbelief a lot more effectively than I can, but I found that this was fairly mediocre given the hype.
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Elitserien Game Night: 12-26-12
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Brynas 1 @ HV 71 2 (OT)
Johan Harju, Brynas, 0-0-0, E, 5 SOG, 2 PIM (interference)
Season totals: 33 GP, 11-6-17, +5, 37 PIM
Brynas managed to force a regulation tie and secure a point before falling in the extra-session to HV 71 on Wednesday night in the first game action for either club since early December. It was the fifth-straight for HV 71 against Brynas. Former Lightning netminder Johan Holmqvist, who stopped thirty-one of thirty-three shots in the match, took the loss. Johan Harju registered a game-high five shots-on-goal. Brynas (13-9-4-7, 54 PTS) continues its road swing Friday against Farjestads (14-10-4-4, 54 PTS), another club that has enjoyed recent success in meetings between the two clubs as winners of the last three matches.
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MANHATTAN — Think there are no dining options on Christmas Day other than a homecooked meal, Chinese takeout, or fast food? Think again.
Manhattan is packed with restaurants that are offering hungry holiday diners delicious options. In fact, more than 400 restaurants around the borough were offering reservations on Christmas Day.
Here's a sampling. Be sure to check ahead to make sure there are still tables available.
Marcus Samuelsson's uber-popular Red Rooster in Harlem is offering a Christmas buffet complete with "a festive mix of holiday classics, Rooster signatures, and Marcus' yuletide favorites" from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. for $55 per person. Kids eat for half price.
The 24-hour, 7-day-a-week Dominican food hub La Casa del Mofongo at 1447 St. Nicholas Street at 182nd Street will be serving up holiday specials for Christmas Day.
Famed Chinese restaurant Suzie's, at 163 Bleecker St. is staying open until 1 a.m. on Christmas Day.
Live jazz hotspot Garage Restaurant and Cafe is open from 11 a.m. - 2 a.m. Christmas Day, and will be serving up a four-course Christmas Day Brunch for $28.95 and a Christmas dinner for $49.95, with cornish hen, duck confit, and chocolate bread pudding.
Katz's Deli, the New York City deli staple, is open year-round and offers massive gut-busting sandwiches to satisfy your holiday glut.
Fishtail by David Burke is offering a 7-course "Feast of the Seven Fishes" for $75, featuring oysters, caviar, and lobster lasagne among other goodies.
For a meal that's not as wallet-busting, try Big Daddy's diner at 1596 Second Ave., which is open until 10 p.m. on Christmas Day
The Park Avenue Bistro is open from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. and serving an a la carte Christmas Day menu with items including lobster bisque, crispy duck or leg of lamb and desserts like chocolate Molten cake.
Crudo is offering a three course prix fixe for $35 per person on Christmas day. The Mulberry Street Italian restaurant specializes in fish and oysters.
Comfort food outpost the Cupping Room Cafe will offer a five-course prix fixe Christmas meal for $55 a person, starting at 6 p.m.
Fatty Crab, part of the Fatty 'Cue empire, is rolling out its "No. 1 Fatty" Chinese menu for Christmas Day, and will be open from noon to 10 p.m.
Those in the mood for a healthy, free-range organic Christmas should head to Josie's West. The restaurant is serving Christmas Day brunch from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. and dinner from 3:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
La Promenade des Anglais is open for brunch from noon to 3:30 p.m. and dinner 4:30 p.m.
And Italian casual dining hub Maria Pia is open for Christmas Day with a special holiday menu.
Pulino's pizzeria will be open until midnight Christmas Day, serving up its regular menu of brick oven pizza and Italian specialties.
And Chinatown is rife with restaurants serving up their standard meals for Christmas Day, or try the Michelin bib gourmand NYC 2011 award winner Red Egg, which serves Cantonese and Szechuan style, as well as dim sum.
Marseille has a Christmas Day three course Prix-Fixe menu for $39.95 a person.
And star chef Gordon Ramsay's Maze won't be naughty Christmas Day with a four course tasting menu from noon to 9.30 p.m. that costs $105 per person, according to OpenTable.com
Kutsher's Tribeca, the new Jewish-American bistro at 186 Franklin St., is featuring a different type of potato latke each night of Hanukkah, topped with everything from pear butter to melted leeks. Kutsher's is also serving a special Chinese-themed menu on Sunday, but as of Friday morning it was sold out.


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New Ulm Actors Community Theatre requests the honor of your presence at a marriage (and a murder) Miss Inga Schleissithoff, daughter of Otto and Ivan Schleissithoff to Mr. Dino D. Dahmdan on Friday and Saturday, June 28 & 29, "Murder at the Schleissithoff Wedding".
A hog farmer from Essig is not happy that his daughter is marrying the son of a Mankato mob boss but the wedding invitations have gone out.
Doors open at 6pm at the New Ulm Holiday Inn. $39/per person in advance. Tickets online: newulmact.com or at New Ulm Chamber or call 507-359-9990.


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- If your surgery is for 1:00 PM or earlier, you may not have anything to eat or drink after midnight (night before surgery). This includes chewing gum. If your surgery is after 1:00 PM, you may not have any solid food after midnight, but you may have clear liquids until 8:00 AM. Clear liquids include coffee or tea with no milk or cream, clear juice, water, jello, or broth.
- Please bring a list of medication(s) (including doses) that you are currently taking.
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- If you are a diabetic, please check with your physician regarding your insulin dose or oral medication.
- Please leave your valuables/money at home.
- If you are scheduled to receive anesthesia (other than local) you will need someone else to drive you home.
Lourdes Hospital Ambulatory Surgery Patients can be dropped off and picked up at the Main Entrance at the back of the hospital. After patients are dropped off, drivers can park in Lot G. Turn into the main entrance of the hospital at West Drive (across from Kneeland Avenue). Proceed past the Emergency Room and DePaul Pavilion to parking lot G. Please enter the hospital through the main entrance at the rear of the hospital. If you have any special needs (e.g., wheelchair needs) or any questions, please do not hesitate to call Pre-Admission Testing at 607-798-5791 or Ambulatory Surgery at 607-798-5321.
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Ambulatory Surgery patients who have pre-registered may go directly to the Atrium or other place of service (as indicated by your physician). The Atrium is located on the main floor. From the main entrance, follow the Ozanam hallway to elevators 1 & 2. Take elevators 1 & 2 to the main floor. When you get off the elevator, take the hallway to your immediate right; follow this hallway to the Atrium, which will be located on your left. Please check in with the receptionist prior to going to Ambulatory Surgery.
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Welfare Drug Testing Debate
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming lawmakers are considering requiring some welfare recipients to undergo drug tests.
The bill is set to get its first hearing in Cheyenne on Friday.
House Bill 82 would require people applying for certain welfare programs to pass a drug test. Anyone testing positive for drugs would be ineligible for benefits.
It's sponsored by Rep. David Miller, a Republican form Riverton, and others.
Colorado lawmakers are considering a similar proposal.
Last year, about three dozen states debated making drug screenings a requirement for receiving government aid. A handful passed laws, including Florida, where the regulation is being challenged.


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Any time your husband uses the phrase "pink foam" to describe part of the meal you just served him, you know it's not a good night. So, tonight's supper will not be making it into a post any time soon. Instead, we're going to focus on the wonderful goodness I served up a few weeks ago when I finally made Kate's Gluten Free Egg Rolls.
My take-out Chinese cravings are now one step closer to being fulfilled, because these egg rolls are the best I've ever tasted – crunchy, flaky crust bursting with a flavorful, hot, and juicy filling. Dip it into a sweet and sour dipping sauce and you are in heaven.
I procrastinated about making the egg rolls, even though they were #1 on John's most wanted foods, because I thought it would be a "big ordeal". So, imagine my surprise when the whole process went smoothly and was quite enjoyable. That being said, this is not a recipe that I could whip out in 30 minutes, but it's definitely one that I'll be making again on a weekend night when I want to relax and cook at my own pace (i.e., with toddler in bed and adult beverage in hand).
Kate's recipe uses ground pork in the filling, but we simply substituted crumbled tofu which I think would probably have fooled a meat-eater. I also upped the xanthan gum since we don't use gelatin (if you don't know why, email me; I decided it was too gross to put in the post!). Other than that, I followed the recipe perfectly (which is unusual for me) and the egg rolls turned out perfectly.
(Oh wait. I didn't really follow it perfectly because I accidentally doubled the liquids, and then had to add more flour, and then ended up with a ton of the dough, which ended up turning into a brick in my refrigerator because I left my mind somewhere and forgot to freeze the dough. I also had leftover filling which somehow remained on the counter overnight and had to be thrown away. It was a very wasteful evening, but completely worth it because the eggrolls were so yummy!).
(Long time readers that are counting the number of parentheses will already have guessed that I'm past the point of exhaustion and am babbling away simply because my fingers won't stop typing.) In summary, please make these because once you have eaten them you can never truly believe that this whole gluten free thing is that bad. And while you are at Gluten Free Gobsmacked getting the recipe, be sure to check out Kate's other recipes. They are all superfabulous =)
P. S. This post is part of the gluten free event "Adopt-A-Gluten-Free Blogger". The event roundup will be hosted by Gluten Free Goodness sometime after August 11th. If you'd like more information, the event page is at Book of Yum.
(There, I'm done. I'm going to bed. It's only 9:06 which may be the latest I've been up this week. Why am I so tired?!?!)


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'Opportunity' Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary Roving Mars 51
An anonymous reader writes "Ten years ago today, six and half months after launch, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's six-wheeled, solar-powered Opportunity rover landed on the surface of Mars, tumbling into a previously unknown feature now referred to as the 'Eagle Crater'. Opportunity and its twin Rover Spirit, which had arrived three weeks earlier, proceeded to crawl over and through plains, craters, and sand dunes, collecting and analyzing soil and rock samples, and taking panoramic photos of their surroundings, blowing orders of magnitude past the original projected 90 day mission timeframe. Spirit's mission drew to a close after it became irretrievably bogged down in soft soil in 2009; scientists lost contact with the rover in early 2010. Meanwhile, Opportunity is still going strong, with scientists announcing new evidence this past week of an ancient mild watery environment conducive to microbial life. Several web sites have mined the NASA archives to assemble tributes commemorating 10 years of work from Opportunity: Time, space.com, Information Week/Techweb. There's also a bricks-and-mortar tribute; the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC has just opened an exhibit featuring photos sent by the two rovers."


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By Kiki Keane
I have been glued to the TV the last few days. So many exciting things have been going on in the news. Okay, really one exciting thing has been going on in the news: the North Korean rocket launch. It has been exciting because DPRK has let in some foreign journalists to cover the whole thing. Granted it has been a highly orchestrated affair, but it is still interesting and says a lot about how N. Korea wants the world to see them and how they see themselves.
Today, DPRK launched the rocket and it promptly failed. I can't say I was surprised. What is surprising is that North Korea has admitted to its own people that the rocket failed. I don't think anyone expected that to happen. The question now is whether DPRK will follow up with a nuclear test in a show of strength.
I mostly watch NBC and MSNBC so the following links are all from those websites. Richard Engel is the reporter.
Display of devotion at unveiling of Kim Jung Il's mural (April 9)
Inside North Korea's capital (April 10)
Mission Control room (April 11)
Launch and failure (April 12)
There should be more reports coming. I've heard rumors of more tours in Pyongyang.
Also, if you would like to see some really interesting pictures of DPRK you should check out Richard Engel on Twitter (@richardengelnbc)
Came across this website. It was created by DPRK and KFA (Korean Friendship Association). It's purpose, it seems, is to build international ties with DPRK.


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(CBS/AP) SUWANEE, Ga. - Five firefighters are relieved after authorities said a gunman facing financial problems took them hostage in a Georgia neighborhood on Wednesday and demanded that utilities be restored at his house.
The firefighters were responding to a report of a medical emergency in a neighborhood north of Atlanta where they encountered an armed man who demanded that his cable and power be turned back on at the house, which was in foreclosure.
Authorities said the firefighters were held for hours, with one firefighter allowed to leave to move a fire truck. But with police fearing the remaining firefighters were in immediate danger, SWAT teams set off a stun blast and stormed the house, and the gunman was shot dead during an exchange of gunfire.
One SWAT team member was shot in the hand or arm but was OK afterward, and firefighters suffered only minor injuries, authorities said.
Gwinnett County police on Wednesday night didn't immediately release the name of the dead man or discuss details of the operation. The firefighters and a wounded police officer were treated at a nearby hospital and were good condition. Some had already gone home.
"In talking to the firefighters and their families just now, they're relieved," Gwinnett County Fire Capt. Tommy Rutledge said at a news conference late Wednesday outside the hospital. "They're simply relieved that the situation is over, that their family members are with them and that they're safe."
He went on to say "firefighters are resilient people and so they're brave and they're daring and they have a passion to help people" and that the five will be back on the job when they're able to.
Dozens of police and rescue vehicles surrounded the home Wednesday afternoon and a negotiator was keeping in touch with the gunman, police said. The situation remained tense until an enormous blast went off and rocked the neighborhood of mostly two-story homes and well-kept lawns.
Soon after the stun blast, officers exchanged gunfire with the suspect and a SWAT member was shot in the hand or arm, said Gwinnett County Police Cpl. Edwin Ritter. Ritter would not say how the gunman was fatally shot, saying it was being investigated.
"The explosion you heard was used to distract the suspect, to get into the house and take care of business," Ritter said in a news conference. He said the situation had gotten to the point where authorities believed the lives of the hostages were in "immediate danger."
The gunman demanded several utilities be restored, Ritter said. According to public records, the home is in foreclosure and has been bank-owned since mid-November.
"It's an unfortunate circumstance we did not want to end this way," Ritter said. "But with the decisions this guy was making, this was his demise."
Firefighters were able to use their radios to let the dispatch center know what was going on, the fire department's Rutledge said. Ritter said officials decided to "get control of the situation" and do it swiftly.
The incident took place about 35 miles northeast of Atlanta, in the Interstate 85 corridor, and Rutledge said firefighters did not believe there was any danger in responding to the initial call. One engine and one ambulance responded. Ritter said authorities didn't yet know if the suspect may have faked a heart attack or some other problem to bring the firefighters to his home.
"Our firefighters responded to a call they respond to hundreds of times, and that's a medical emergency," Rutledge said.
Asked what kind of weapon or weapons the suspect had, Ritter said he didn't immediately know. He said investigators were in the house where the suspect's body remained.
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SUWANEE, Ga. (AP) -- Authorities say a gunman holding four firefighters in suburban Atlanta has been shot dead by SWAT members and that all the hostages are slightly injured but should be OK.
Gwinnett County Police Cpl. Edwin Ritter said Wednesday evening that a SWAT officer has been shot in the hand.
Minutes before the police announcement, one big explosion followed by several smaller ones or gunshots were heard in the Suwanee neighborhood about 35 miles northeast of Atlanta.
Police and fire officials say five firefighters responded to what seemed like a routine medical call in Suwanee and were eventually taken hostage by an unidentified suspect inside the house. They say one was let go to move the fire truck.
Four firefighters who responded to what seemed like a routine medical call were being held hostage Wednesday by a gunman who has barricaded himself in a home in suburban Atlanta, authorities said.
Five firefighters responded to the call in Suwanee and were eventually taken hostage by an unidentified suspect inside the house, Gwinnett County Police Cpl. Edwin Ritter said. The gunman released one of the firefighters to move a fire truck.
Authorities were not releasing information on what happened inside the home, but did say it doesn't appear any of the firefighters has been hurt.
The gunman's motive was unclear to police and fire officials, and a SWAT team and negotiator have made contact with the suspect.
Fire department Capt. Tommy Rutledge said the medical call seemed routine and firefighters did not believe there was any danger. One engine and one ambulance responded.
"Right now we just want our firefighters to be released. We want them to be able to go home safe to their families," Rutledge told WSB-TV.
Television helicopter footage showed police and fire trucks surrounding the neighborhood of mostly two-story homes and well-kept lawns about 35 miles northeast of downtown Atlanta. Residents were not being allowed in to their neighborhood. About 50 bystanders gathered outside the subdivision while police and SWAT officials surrounded the house. According to public records, the home is in foreclosure and has been bank-owned since mid-November.
The firefighters are cross-trained as emergency medical technicians, said Rutledge, who would not speculate on whether there was a real emergency at the home.
"Our firefighters responded to a call they respond to hundreds of times, and that's a medical emergency," he said.


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Wednesday, October 10, 2012 - Mekhi Phifer initially turned down EMINEM's movie 8 MILE because he was offered the role two days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and was too terrified to fly to the set.
The actor was invited to join the project shortly after two hijacked airplanes crashed into the Twin Towers at New York's World Trade Center in 2001, while a third slammed into the Pentagon in Virginia and a fourth crash landed in Pennsylvania.
Phifer had no intention of stepping foot on a jet in the wake of the disaster, and admits he was happy staying put in Los Angeles where he was shooting medical drama ER.
He tells Vibe magazine, "I was due to start ER and 9/11 had just happened. They was like, 'OK, we want you to fly to Detroit.' It was like, September 13. 'I ain't getting on no plane! I'm staying here and I'm gonna be
a doctor, goddamn it!'
"I hadn't read the script yet, and they were so hush-hush about the script that I had to sit and read it in (director) Curtis (Hanson's) office because they weren't releasing it. But when I read it, I thought, Oh, this is kinda slick! They had me go to Detroit to see if me and Em (Eminem) was going to have chemistry."
Phifer immediately took a liking to the hip-hop star and agreed to play
his best friend in the film, adding, "This cat (Eminem) became my man so
fast that I was like, 'This is gonna be dope.' And when I met all the rest of the guys, I was all in. It was the best decision I ever made."
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The Crimson has beaten Dartmouth in six straight games, matching its longest win streak vs the Big Green (OAC).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Christine Clark and Victoria Lippert combined for 41 points to lead the Harvard women's basketball team past Dartmouth, 88-66, Saturday afternoon as the team opened its 39th season of Ivy League play.
Clark finished the day with a game-high 22 points and shot 8-of-11 from the field, including a perfect 5-for-5 from the line. Lippert contributed 19 points with four three-pointers as each pulled down a team-high seven rebounds. Shilpa Tummala shot a perfect 4-for-4 from the floor and hit two three's for a career-high 10 points.
Harvard (10-5, 1-0 Ivy League) shot 46.3 percent (31-67) for the game and 40.0 percent (10-25) from the three-point line. Dartmouth (2-13, 0-1 Ivy League) meanwhile, shot just 39.6 percent (21-53) and was outrebounded by the Crimson, 42-32. Faziah Steen was the Big Green's leading scorer with 18 points as Lakin Roland added 13.
The Crimson isnow 22-17 all-time in Ivy League openers and 19-12 under Head Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith.
Harvard opened the game on a 10-2 run which included eight straight points by Lippert. Over the next four minutes Clark added six points and Lippert hit her second-three of the game as the Crimson defense stiffled the Dartmouth's offense for a 19-4 lead at the second media timeout. Harvard continued its offensive surge and lead by as many as 20 points, 30-10, on a made free throw by Emma Golen at the 6:14 minute mark.
The Crimson cooled off as the Big Green heated up with a 13-4 run over the next three minutes to cut Harvard's lead to 10, 34-24 with 3:41 to play before intermission. Temi Fagbenle stopped the bleeding with a pair of free throws and five points by Tummala extended Harvard's lead back to 20, 46-26. The Big Green scored the last four points of the half, however, and Harvard went into the locker room leading by 16, 46-30.
The Crimson shot 14-of-29 for the half and was a perfect 13-of-13 at the line against a 9-of-24 performance for Dartmouth. Lippert led all scores with 16 points on 5-of-7 shooting as Clark chipped in 13 points while going 4-of-6. Harvard held a 22-10 advantage on the glass and a 14-10 edge in points in the paint.
Harvard struggled in the opening minutes of the second half as Dartmouth took advantage to cut the lead to 11, 50-39, with 15:26 to play.
After four minutes of back-and-forth baskets, Harvard exploded with a 17-0 run including seven points from Clark to take a 23-point lead with 7:53 remaining. A three-pointer by Jasmine Evans at the 3:19 minute mark put the game away as the Crimson led by 31, 83-52.
Harvard will travel to Dartmouth, N.H., on Saturday, Jan. 26. for a rematch with the Big Green. Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m.
Game Notes: Harvard has won six straight games against Dartmouth, matching the program's longest win streak against the Big Green ... Harvard's 46 first-half points were the second most for the team this season behind a 48-point performance against UMass ... Christine Clark went over 20 points for the second straight game and the fourth time this season ... Victoria Lippert moved into seventh place on the Crimson's all-time scoring list with 1,304 career points while Christine Clark moved into 16th place with 1,050 points.


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