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In an unusual move designed to deflate another public strafing like the one that wounded Susan Rice, the Obama administration is coming to the defense of a potential nominee who has not yet been chosen: former Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Republican who is the leading candidate to succeed Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.
Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, did not get a swift defense from a network of supporters around Washington when she came under fire for her initial comments about the attack in Benghazi. Hagel allies, however, are jumping to his defense at a time when critics, especially strong supporters of Israel, are attacking him on the Hill, in the press and — beginning today — in ads on cable-news stations.
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An Obama administration official, while cautioning that Obama "honestly has not decided who he's going to pick," said Hagel "would walk into the Pentagon and command immediate respect based just on his résumé. He actually traveled with the president to Iraq and Afghanistan in 2008 because they'd come to share similar views about the war. …The attacks on him as somehow anti-Israel are patently unfair and can be explained. At the end of the day, the president has clearly shown his commitment to Israel and he decides that policy."
Hagel, a former senator from Nebraska who was awarded two Purple Hearts for service in Vietnam, would be the first Vietnam veteran to head the Pentagon. And as a former infantry sergeant, he would be the first enlisted person, according to Hagel advisers.
Former Hagel staffers on Wednesday began widely circulating a "Facts on Chuck Hagel" two-pager: "Chuck Hagel is being misrepresented as anti-Israel and 'soft' on Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah. These accusations misrepresent Senator Hagel's positions on natural security, Israel and the Middle East."
Read the fact sheet.
An official with a Jewish organization emails: "When the [Anti-Defamation League], the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the American Jewish Committee come together on something, it is remarkable and rare. … [A]ll three have raised serious alarms based on long standing interactions with Hagel, not over an isolated vote … Why make Democratic senators … walk the plank on this, when by finding a qualified Democrat, we can please the base?"
Much of the foreign policy establishment, however, is defending Hagel for Defense:
William S. Cohen, who was defense secretary under President Bill Clinton, and a senator and House member from Maine, said in a phone interview that Hagel is "enormously qualified," and praised him for being a moderate Republican, a diminishing breed on the Hill.
"He has shed blood and taken blood on the battlefield, and that gives him a lot of credibility with the military, and a number of his colleagues," Cohen said.
"I took positions when I was a senator that were not those of President Bill Clinton," Cohen added. "Once you join a national security team, you're not a sovereign, independent agent anymore. The president wants the secretary of defense to raise issues and give him the best possible advice, and then the president decides. The notion that somehow Senator Hagel has taken positions that might not be the same as the president is really quite irrelevant. The president will tell him what the policy is."


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I've been looking for two replacement locks for a Crestline window sash. The window was purchased from Menard's in 1993. I contacted Crestline about where to find the replacement locks and they gave me the name of two possibilites, neither of which have been able to provide the locks. In the meantime I discovered that Crestline customer support is also Menard's customer support. It's possible that Menard's owns Crestline. After I mentioned that the windows were purchased from Menard's they were more helpful. I sent them photos of the existing locks so they could see what I have. They sent two locks for me to try with an alternate set I could order if the first set didn't work. Neither set works.
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From its beginnings, the Boy Scouts of America had a strong foundation of woodcraft, nature study, and conservation. Many activities in Scouting come from activities of Native Americans. Many of the principles that Scouts uphold come from the conservation ethics of early founders, in particular Ernest Thompson Seton and Daniel Carter Beard. The BSA has taught more than 110 million young environmentalists throughout its history. Currently, with nearly 5 million members, the BSA continues to train the youth of America in principles of conservation and environmental science.
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- Environmental Science merit badge is on the Eagle Scout required list (requirement 3.h.).
- This badge is one of the merit badges required to earn the World Conservation Award.
- This badge is one of the merit badges required to earn one of the William T. Hornaday Awards.
- The BSA Environment Troop Program Feature offers meeting and activity plans to include Environmental Science as one of your monthly themes.
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Related awards
- Ecology Awards
Science Awards (Environmental Science is an applied science)
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External links
- EnviroLink
- Fort Collins Science Center
- Human Dimensions of Global Enviromental Change
- Introduction to Terrarium & Vivarium Keeping
- The Internet Consumer Recycling Guide
- MAPS - Measurement of Air Pollution from Satellites
- Earth Awareness Educational Resources
- Earth911
- Nonpoint Source Pointers (Factsheets)
- GLOBE - Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment
- Green Peace
- Endangered Species Program
- CRC Endangered Species Science - from the Smithsonian
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Agency's Director Offered to Resign Last Summer in Wake of Snowden Leaks
WASHINGTON—Shortly after former government contractor Edward Snowden revealed himself in June as the source of leaked National Security Agency documents, the agency's director, Gen. Keith Alexander, offered to resign, according to a senior U.S. official.
The offer, which hasn't previously been reported, was declined by the Obama administration. But it shows the degree to which Mr. Snowden's revelations have shaken the NSA's foundations—unlike any event in its six-decade history, including the blowback against domestic spying...


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Obama's Nuclear Proffer Gets Russian Rebuff
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BERLIN—Standing before a towering emblem of the Cold War, President Barack Obama called for steep reductions in nuclear weapons through negotiations with the Russians, as a step toward what he conceded was the "distant" goal of eliminating global arsenals.
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Click above for the video of the Fila/Trina Turk fashion show we sat in on over the weekend.
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If you spread out different moments in Jason Anick's career, you'd likely find him playing different instruments. There was the fiddle at the beginning, at another point he strapped on a guitar, mandolin found its way into the mix. But the Marlborough native always comes back to the fiddle. That's what he mostly plays in Rhythm Future Quartet, the Gypsy jazz group that hits the stage of Club Passim in Cambridge on Feb. 19.
Anick, who also lived in Medford for a number of years and recently moved to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, comes from a family which, when he was a kid, made a lot of music around the house, with him on fiddle, his older brother on piano, his dad on various strings, and his mom on bass.
"I had a phase in my early teen years where I was hearing whatever pop music was out there," said Anick, 31. "But also, my dad was exposing me to a variety of styles of music. When I was 12 he brought me to see [Gypsy jazz violinist and Django Reinhardt cohort] Stephane Grappelli, so after that we were listening to a lot of Django and Grappelli records. But we also listened to a lot of classical and bluegrass, and when I was around 15 or 16 I got into listening obsessively to jazz."
Besides being a prolific composer and a teacher at Berklee College of Music, Anick has always found time to play live. There's been the long stint playing fiddle with the John Jorgenson Quintet, his work on both fiddle and mandolin with his own Jason Anick Quartet, a regular Tuesday night gig with a revolving group of pals at The Burren in Somerville, and now he's leading Rhythm Future Quartet. Named after a Django Reinhardt tune, and dedicated to keeping the swinging acoustic sound of Gypsy jazz alive, the band consists of Anick, Finnish lead guitarist Olli Soikkeli, Max O'Rourke on second guitar, and bassist Greg Loughman.
"There was a music camp in Northampton called Django in June," said Anick. "All these European Gypsy musicians would come and play, so an hour from where I grew up this mecca of Gypsy jazz emerged. I started going there when I was 16. Later on, when I was about 23 and making a career out of playing Gypsy jazz, I started teaching there. And that's where I met Olli and Max."
It would be a while before the current band came together, as Nick was busy as a sideman with the Jorgenson group.
"That was fantastic," he said. "But I also love to lead bands, and I love to compose and arrange music, so I wanted an outlet for that. I was about four or five years in with John, and I was looking to start my own group that could be playing a bit more of my own vision of this style of music, with my own original material. Then Olli and I hit it off at the camp, and he mentioned that he was looking to move to the U.S. I said if we started a group, that might help him get a visa."
It soon happened, and the group, with original second guitar Vinny Raniolo, did their first gig at Redstar Union in Cambridge, where part of the deal was a live video shoot.
"That was about 3 1/2 years ago," said Anick, "and that video became our first promotional material. A clip from that, of us playing Django's 'Minor Swing,' (easily found on YouTube) is still our most popular video to date."
There's always a good chance that standard tune will be on the set list at Club Passim, but it's a sure bet the quartet will be featuring tracks from their most recent CD, last year's "Travels."
"That album tells you where we're at right now, with a healthy mix of original material and uniquely arranged standards where we put our own stamp on things," said Anick. "We've got some new originals in the works, as well, so we'll debut some new stuff at the show."
Anick's also got another project going, working with his old Framingham pal, pianist Jason Yeager, another Berklee teacher. Their new release in March, titled "United," will feature Berklee staff heavyweights George Garzone on sax, Jason Palmer on trumpet, and John Lockwood on bass.
Anick is thrilled to be making a living in the world of music.
"It's tough," he said. "But if you love it, you try to figure out how to make it work. You can diversify and have different interests, different projects, and get yourself out there."
Rhythm Future Quartet plays at Club Passim in Cambridge on Feb. 19 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $20; info: 617-492-7679.
Upcoming concerts and club dates
Feb. 17:
Folksinger-songwriter Tom Mallett sings and plays at Amazing Things Arts Center in Framingham. Tom Smith opens. (8 p.m.)
The annual and always spectacular Joe Val Bluegrass Festival returns to the Sheraton-Framingham from Feb. 17-19, with a cornucopia of performances (on two stages) and workshops. Among the artists at the 32nd edition: Jerry Douglas and the Earls of Leicester, The Grascals, Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass, Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers, The Becky Buller Band, Blue Highway, Jeff Scroggins & Colorado, many more. (Info: 617-782-2251)
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The current edition of Masters of Hawaiian Music, featuring George Kahumoku Jr, with Nathan Aweau and Kawika Kahiapo happens at Club Passim in Cambridge. (5 & 8 p.m.)
Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls perform tunes from their most recent album "Positive Songs for Negative People" at Agganis Arena in Boston. (6:45 p.m.)
Feb. 22:
Mr. Ho's Orchestrotica brings a taste of exotica (and, who knows, maybe some Bach) to the Regattabar in Cambridge. (7:30 p.m.)
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I am trying to customize my gestures for my touchstream mini.
I am using version 1.6
using MyGesture editor i changed the File operations Save cord to be be a C key.
When i hit transfer device. a message shows up brefily in transfer box saying it doesnt detect my mini and then it continues with transfer.
When done my edits dont work when i use my mini.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- July 6, 2000 -- OSC (Ohio Supercomputer Center) and The Ohio State University (OSU) will present SI00:Adventures in Computing and Networking onJuly 17-28, 2000.
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Columbus, Ohio -- June 7, 2000 -- Studies show that by the time many middle-school girls enter 9th grade, they've already lost interest in math and science. They turn to more "socially accepted" subjects like English and art. For many girls, math and science are just too boring, too hard, or too uncool. Besides, everybody knows that math and science are for boys, right?
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- May 24, 2000 -- ECom-Ohio today released its statewide and regional assessments of Ohio's readiness for electronic commerce. At the event, key leaders in government, education and industry unveiled action agendas designed to help Ohio lead in the coming e-commerce revolution. The action agendas require key industry, infrastructure and educational changes to be made at both the state and regional levels.
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- MEDIA ADVISORY
Columbus, OH -- January 7, 2000 -- An audience watched a surgeon sew up a herniated bladder as another surgeon, two miles away in the Rhodes State Office Tower, collaborated with him as part of a live demonstration of Internet2 technology on January 11 .
Columbus, Ohio -- November 23, 1999 -- Employers, businesses, hospitals and the government are moving toward computerized systems.
Portland, OR -- November 16, 1999 -- The Portland Group, Inc. (PGI) and OSC (Ohio Supercomputer Center) today announced that OSC has acquired 200 copies of PGI Workstation, PGI's suite of parallel Fortran, C and C++ compilers and tools for Linux workstations. The announcement was made from SC99, the world's largest conference for high performance computing sponsored by ACM SIGARCH and the IEEE Computer Society.
Columbus, Ohio -- October 11, 1999 -- More than 80 national and international research institutions and networking organizations are participating in Megaconference, the world's largest H.323 Internet video conference, being held today in Seattle. Megaconference runs in conjunction with the Fall Internet2 Meeting, taking place today through Wednesday. The Megaconference is a permanent, continuous multipoint H.323 Internet video conference organized and supported by the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) located in Columbus.
Columbus, Ohio -- September 22, 1999 -- OSC, in cooperation with the University of Toledo and the Edison Industrial Systems Center will host a meeting in Toledo on September 30, from 9:30 to 2:30 on the applications of computing technology to product design and manufacturing process flows. A followup meeting will be held on October 21 at the same location to discuss possible research agendas that will be produced using information from the first meeting.


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General Order No. 1, Headquarters of Kansas Volunteers, For the Protection of the Ballot Box
Author: Lane, James Henry, 1814-1866
Date: July 18, 1857
This printed document was issued by James H. Lane and indicated that Lane had been authorized by the Free State government in Topeka to organize militia companies in order to protect ballot boxes on election day. It included instructions on how to organize the companies.
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Have some people seen her?
Has/Have any of you seen her?
You go first, Frank!
Was there something hard about that which I missed?
When you chose any as the subject in #2, what motivated you to do so?
It is a pronoun -- an indefinite pronoun. Those are often missed because people only think of the personal pronouns.
Is "det." short for "determiner"? I think that is a British, not American, term.
Anyway, "any" can be an adjective or .a pronoun, and as a pronoun can combine with "-body" or "-one" or "-body else" etc.
At least this is true, using the terms I know.
You say these, Frank:
Have any of you...?
Has any of you
We both know this:"any" can combine with "-body" or "-one" or "-body else"
Has anyone (=pronoun) (of you = modifier) seen her?
With 'any' goes 'have' and with 'anyone' (any + one) goes 'has'.
Now see these again:
Have any of you seen her?
Has anyone of you seen her?
They mean the same thing; but then, the subjects, which the sentences are about, should they not be the same in the two sentences, concerning their number? Or are they the same in number, only their number-assigning properties are different?


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The lobby of Viking Gym is lined with a large trophy case, and in it sits five state championship plaques commemorating each of the five state boys basketball titles won by Grainger High. There are three more memorializing the three title won by the boys program of Kinston High, which opened in 1970.
The lobby of Viking Gym is lined with a large trophy case, and in it sits five state championship plaques commemorating each of the five state boys basketball titles won by Grainger High. There are three more memorializing the three title won by the boys program of Kinston High, which opened in 1970.
There are jerseys once worn by Jerry Stackhouse and Cedric Maxwell, who both went on to the NBA. There are articles left behind by Reggie Bullock, a McDonald�s All American in 2010 who will suit up for North Carolina today in the ACC tournament. But there is very little from Kinston�s girls basketball team, if anything, in the expansive case.
That�s because until Saturday, the Vikings have never been this deep into the season.
What began as a dream last March will become a reality on Saturday when Kinston takes part in its first girls basketball title game when the Vikings face Canton Pisgah at noon at the Dean E. Smith Center in Chapel Hill.
The girls program made history last season when it reached the regional finals but was denied its first trip to the championship when Siler City Jordan-Matthews crushed Kinston 68-21.
This year, the Vikings made amends for that loss by defeating the Jets 56-37 to go as far as any girls basketball team in Lenoir County history has gone before.
�Our girls are really excited about this opportunity. I�m excited for them,� Kinston coach Hubert Quinerly said during Monday�s state championship press conference.
�It�s just something that you dream about before because of all the hard work they put in � it�s just a culmination of everything. Like I tell them, you�ve got five days, one game left.�
This year�s senior class � Annie Thi, Alexis Williams, Monique Lofton and Starneka Clark � were freshman when this journey began.
They went 13-11 that year and were bounced from the first round of the state playoffs by Jacksonville Northside, but returned the following year to reach the regionals for the first time since 2003 but couldn�t get past Graham in the regional semis.
Last year as juniors, the quartet won their first regionals game but were denied their first trip to the state finals when they ran into the Jets.
This year, they are joining the boys in blue heaven � the Dean Dome.
�It hasn�t really hit me, like, Oh my gosh,� Lofton said. �Our first team goal was to win the conference; we did that. Our second was win the playoffs; we did that. Third was to win the regionals and we did that and our final goal is the state championship, and we�re on our way.�
Like the boys, the girls have used a disaster of a Christmas tournament to fuel their fire to a streak of 17 straight wins.
Kinston (26-4) lost three in a row at Bunn in the Bunn Christmas Classic, including a loss to the host school. When they returned to practice the following week, Quinerly made sure they didn�t forget those losses.
Run, run, run they did. And ever since, the Vikings have ran away from virtually every opponent.
�After we lost those three games at Bunn we were like a totally different team. Losing was like, definitely not us, especially three in a row,� Lofton said. �When we came back to practice we paid for all those losses. We ran like we had never ran before.
�We thought we were going to die,� Lofton joked. �I thought I had asthma and I don�t even have asthma.�
Kinston clinched its second straight outright conference championship in a 63-39 win over Tarboro on Feb. 5, and two games later started a streak of holding four of its next five opponents in their teens in a 49-17 win over North Pitt.
The underdog Vikings went to Pittsboro Northwood and handed it a 65-57 loss in the third round of the state playoffs to get back to the regionals for a third straight year � and a rematch with Bunn.
Kinston got the best of Bunn in this one, 49-45, then paid back Jordan-Matthews for last year�s embarrassing loss to get to the state championship.
While getting there is great � and the Vikings will get a plaque commemorating such accomplishment � winning it will be even better.
�We had to make sure our girls were ready to roll when the time came,� Quinerly said on getting over the regionals hump.
�To get past Jordan-Matthews is good, but to be in the state championship is awesome.�
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What's with all the presidential visits to battery-manufacturing plants?
President Obama's trip Thursday to just such a plant in Holland, Mich., was his fourth automotive-battery-focused stop since being elected. To riff off of President Clinton's mantra "it's the economy, stupid," it's almost as if Mr. Obama's catch phrase about what's important could be, "It's the battery, bozo."
The reason is that batteries are central to the president's election-year message that green-tech will lead America into well-paid jobs and a revived economy. But politics aside, the $2.4 billion the Obama administration has funneled to the advanced battery industry points to a tooth-and-nail struggle as the United States endeavors to catch up to Asia in making cutting-edge lithium-ion batteries for use in vehicles.
"The workers at this plant, already slated to produce batteries for the new Chevy Volt, learned the other day that they're also going to be supplying batteries for the new electric Ford Focus as soon as this operation gears up," Obama said Thursday at the Compact Power plant in Michigan. "By 2012, the batteries will be manufactured here in Holland, Michigan. So when you buy one of these vehicles, the battery could be stamped 'Made in America' – just like the car." Last week, he visited an electric-truck plant in Kansas City, Mo.
Developing US manufacturing prowess in new batteries is vital, analysts agree. Those batteries will power next-generation electrified plug-in vehicles, which are expected to dominate auto sales within a decade, they say. The nation that dominates batteries is also likely take the lead in overall auto manufacturing.
"The Obama administration is making a concerted effort to prevent the failure of the US auto industry, and that will bolster development of the US battery industry through 2012," says John Gartner, a senior analyst at Pike Research, a Boulder, Colo., clean-tech research company. "But political shifts and market realities could remove that safety net."
Nine battery plants in the works
The huge federal investment has single-handedly vaulted the US toward becoming the globe's major supplier of advanced batteries for plug-in vehicles. Government funds have helped to finance 26 of 30 electric-vehicle battery and component plants now under construction – including nine lithium-ion battery manufacturing plants. Four of the nine are expected to be producing batteries by year's end.
By 2012, those 30 factories will have enough capacity to supply 20 percent of the world's advanced vehicle batteries, according to a new report by the US Department of Energy. That share could rise to 40 percent by 2015.
"There's no question this federal investment has given US battery manufacturers a huge push in the right direction," says Vishal Sapru, industry manager for energy and power systems for Frost & Sullivan, a market research firm. "The funding has contributed significantly to giving the US at least a chance to play in this arena."
But he and others note that the US industry will need additional research and development funding to develop technologies that are more advanced than lithium ion, if the US is to become solidly planted as a global leader in electrified vehicles.
China, Korea, Japan, and India are today's dominant producers of lithium-ion batteries for cell phones and personal appliances. They have a running start. China is currently leading the world in the market for electric-only vehicles, according to Pike Research.
"Are we playing catch-up with Asian nations in this battery race? Yes, we are," says Ann Marie Sastry, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan and CEO of Sakti3, a battery startup company. "Sure, someone can always say it's stupid to pour billions into batteries when all these other countries are ahead of us. But it's also the price we have to pay to even get into the game."
Next two years crucial
The next two years will be crucial for the US industry, analysts say. By 2012, all the battery plants are slated be cranking out systems for cars. But will there be enough battery demand from automakers?
The danger, says Dave Hurst, another Pike Research senior analyst, is that federal funding might dry up before the domestic battery industry is on firm footing.
"We're seeing a big backlash, politically, from bailouts," he says. "So if we start seeing future funding dry up, that's going to be a problem for the industry in the longer run – after 2012, when you start to see a shakeout from battery plants bought or sold or, worst case, closing."
Pike Research estimates that global sales of plug-in vehicles will reach 1,081,000 by 2015 – with one-quarter of that total, or about 285,000 vehicles, in the US. That's about the right amount to support all the battery factories in the US – except for one thing. Many of those vehicles – such as the plug-in Prius –will get their batteries from overseas manufacturers.
That means there may not be quite enough demand to support all the US battery suppliers by 2015 – and definitely not enough demand by 2012, when most are slated to be in full production, Pike Research says.
Frost and Sullivan's Mr. Sapru offers a different assessment. He sees global demand for plug-in vehicles growing 127 percent annually through 2015, to about 756,000 vehicles a year. The US portion could be as much as half of that – although the market could be much larger depending on the strength of economic rebound and gasoline prices, he says.
"Obama coming to Michigan is about him bearing witness to the bud of an industry that could one day be a really good engine in our economy, if it is cultivated, fertilized, and nurtured," says Robert Kruse, former director of global vehicle engineering for hybrids, electric vehicles, and batteries for General Motors, and now principal of EV Consulting in Detroit.
Though the US battery industry will have to battle for primacy in first-generation new-battery technology, the long term is bright, he says. It's crucial that third- and fourth-generation battery technology be nurtured in the US – just as China, Japan, and Korea have done with borrowed US lithium-ion technology.
"What Obama has done was absolutely necessary for the US automotive industry to survive and grow," he says. "Now it's poised, with electrification, to grow into something very substantial – but only if the government looks long term. That's where we have to put our money."


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TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisia's new government said Wednesday it has freed all the country's political prisoners and also moved to track down assets stashed overseas by its deposed president and his widely disliked family.
Tensions on the streets appeared to be calming as the administration tried to show it was distancing itself from the old guard.
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Hundreds of protesters led a rally in central Tunis demanding that former allies of deposed President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali stop clinging to power. Later, about 30 youths in the capital broke a curfew and set up camp near the heavily guarded Interior Ministry, bringing mats, food and water for an overnight sit-in. Police didn't bother them.
In recent days, police had fired tear gas and clubbed protesters.
The U.N. said more than 100 people have died in the unrest that surrounded Ben Ali's ouster.
He fled to Saudi Arabia on Friday after 23 years in power, and a caretaker government is now struggling to calm this moderate Muslim nation on the Mediterranean Sea, popular among European tourists and seen as an ally in the West's fight against terrorism.
Some 33 members of Ben Ali's family have so far been taken into custody while trying to leave the country, as was the Senate president, national TV said.
Ben Ali's longtime prime minister, Mohamed Ghannouchi, kept his post and is trying to convince Tunisians a new era has arrived — even if the composition of the interim government has many faces from the old guard.
Interim President Fouad Mebazaa went on television and promised to live up to the people's revolt, which he called a "revolution."
"Regarding security, you have certainly noticed that it has improved," he said. "We have discovered the leaders of the chaos, and have stopped the gangs and those who put fear in the hearts of people. The situation is moving toward stability."
Some were doubtful of promises of change.
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Hafed al Maki, 50, who works at the country's largest insurance company, said he would not wait for the 60-day constitutional limit for new presidential elections to pass "because that is enough time for the old cronies to set their roots in and start their old ways again, thieving and taking our resources. No way that's happening again."
Opposition figures and the prime minister's office have said that the 60-day limit is unrealistically short, and the delay will more likely be six to seven months.
Swiss officials estimate Tunisian government officials have put about $620 million into Swiss banks, and the anti-corruption group Transparency International France and two other associations filed suit in Paris alleging corruption by Ben Ali and his wife.Video: Arab leaders fear spread of Tunisian unrest (on this page)
A French government minister said the Tunisian central bank director, Taoufik Baccar, has resigned following widespread rumors that the deposed president's wife fled the country with a stash of gold. The central bank has denied an unsourced report in the French newspaper Le Monde that said Leila Trabelsi was believed to have taken 1.5 tons of gold out of the country, possibly bringing it to Switzerland.
But "rumors about that exist, and for that the president of the Central Bank of Tunisia has resigned," Nejib Chebbi, a longtime opponent who took a post in the unity government, told BBC World News.
Chebbi said an investigation would take place.
Tunisia's official TAP news agency also reported that the Central Bank had taken control of Banque Zitouna, a bank founded by a son-in-law of Ben Ali, to protect the deposits of accountholders and prevent a run on the bank.
The national prosecutor's office moved to investigate overseas bank accounts, real estate and other assets held by Ben Ali, his wife Leila Trabelsi and other relatives. His relations — especially his wife's family — were seen as corrupt and dominated many businesses in the nation.
The Swiss president said that her country's federal council agreed to freeze any assets in Switzerland belonging to Ben Ali, to help work up a possible criminal case over alleged stolen funds.
In Geneva, the United Nations' human rights chief, Navi Pillay, said she was sending an "assessment team" to Tunisia in coming days, and estimated more than 100 deaths have occurred so far during the unrest in Tunisia.
Tunis' stock exchange, many shops, schools and universities remained closed and some workers have gone on strike. A curfew remains in place, thought the government shortened it as security improved.Interactive: Tunisia protests, country profile (on this page)
Mustapha Ben Jafar, one of several new ministers who dropped out of the unity government Tuesday out of concern about the old guard's strong presence, met Wednesday with the prime minister to discuss conditions for a possible return.
He told The AP that the prime minister assured him all political prisoners have now been released, along with Islamists convicted under the country's draconian 2003 anti-terror laws — which were widely criticized by rights groups for being too sweeping and imprecise. It was unclear exactly how many such prisoners were freed.
In another effort to ease tensions, the government released 1,800 nonpolitical prisoners who had less than six months to serve, the official news agency reported.
Senate President Abdallah Kallel, a strong Ben Ali ally and a one-time powerful interior and defense minister, was taken into custody along with his wife as they tried to fly to Paris Wednesday, Tunisian national TV said. Security officials said without elaborating that the couple was barred from departing pending investigations.
Tunisia's unrest has rattled the economy, which had seen impressive growth in recent years. Moody's Investor Service downgraded Tunisia's government bond ratings Wednesday, citing "significant uncertainties" surrounding Tunisia's economic and political future.
Moody's cut the rating by one notch, to "Baa3" from "Baa2," and also downgraded its outlook to negative from stable. The new rating is one notch above "junk bond" status.
Bouazza Ben Bouazza in Tunis, Maggie Michael in Cairo, and Greg Keller in Paris contributed to this report.
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President Obama briefly visited a late Tuesday meeting at the White House that was focused on legislative repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" during Congress' lame duck session, reports The Advocate. The meeting was held by House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina and Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett and brought together representatives of the Center for American Progress, the Human Rights Campaign, Log Cabin Republicans, Servicemembers United, the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network and the University of California Santa Barbara's Palm Center.
"'The President stopped by to directly convey to the participants his personal commitment on this issue,' said a White House official, speaking on the condition of anonymity."
As noted previously by R20, White House LGBT liaison Brian Bond warned participants via email that any discussion of pending DADT litigation was proibited, otherwise the meeting would end. White House officials later explained the precaution was due to the fact that White House counsel and LCR litigants would be in the same room.
Meanwhile: At Tuesday's White House press briefing, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was asked if the President has reached out to individual Senators to change "no" votes to "yes." Gibbs reply:
"To my knowledge, it hasn't taken place yet. But, look, the only way we're going to get something through the Senate is to change the vote count and to move past—look, you got to get—you're going to have to get past a promised filibuster and—in moving to the bill. And certainly the only way we can move to that bill is to change some of those votes.
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It's a small group of potential voters but one that Gabriel Gomez is clearly at ease with — about two dozen people who gathered in a recreation room at the Chelsea Soldiers Home to hear a fellow veteran discuss his uphill fight to become the next US senator from Massachusetts.
Gomez, wearing his trademark olive green bomber jacket, chats with the vets about the type of aircraft he piloted before becoming a Navy SEAL and the need to improve health care for service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
He describes his hectic campaign schedule in military terms: "Reveille was 05:00 for me today," he explains. And his quest to defeat Democratic US Rep. Edward Markey in the June 25 special election often sounds more like a military endeavor.
"Where we come from, you're mission focused," he tells the group. "You accomplish your mission, and that's what you're focused on."
He continues: "You don't have 37 years to accomplish a mission." It's a dig at Markey's long tenure in Congress and a reminder of his own pledge to serve no more than two full terms if elected.
While Gomez, 47, has made his military background a cornerstone of the campaign, he'll need more than the support of veterans to win an election in a state where Republicans — with the notable exception of former Sen. Scott Brown in a 2010 special election to succeed the late US Sen. Edward Kennedy — have fared poorly in recent years.
A political unknown before entering the race to succeed John Kerry, who resigned to become secretary of state, Gomez won a low-key Republican primary over two opponents April 30 but now faces a better financed candidate with the state's formidable Democratic machine on his side.
Gomez, who at times seems to campaign as much against his own party as the Democrats, has sought to position himself as a socially moderate, fiscally conservative alternative to Markey, whom he holds up as a symbol for an entrenched and out-of-touch Washington political establishment.
But Markey has dismissed his opponent's attempts to distance himself from the national GOP, claiming he shares many of the same views as conservative Republicans on issues such as gun control, taxes, Social Security and abortion.
On the latter, Gomez, a Catholic, has explained that he is "pro-life" by faith but has no intention of changing current abortion laws. He hasn't ruled out, however, voting for a US Supreme Court nominee who opposes the landmark Roe. v. Wade decision.
The son of Colombian immigrants, Gomez was born in Los Angeles and was a toddler when his family moved to Washington state, where his father worked as a salesman for a company that sold hops.
Gomez, who did not learn to speak English until kindergarten, enjoys conversing in Spanish with Latino residents on the campaign trail. He often weaves Spanish into speeches and briefly spoke Spanish in a recent debate with Markey in Springfield.
"I saw how this country embraced my parents and gave them a chance at the dream, gave me a chance at the dream," Gomez said during an interview with The Associated Press earlier in the campaign.
Gomez attended the US Naval Academy and served in the Navy for nine years, first as a pilot before pursuing his dream to join the elite SEAL team. It was a risk because Gomez knew he wouldn't be able to return to pilot status.
"I didn't want to have any regrets in life ... and I really had a strong desire to go be a SEAL," he said.
Gomez was stationed in South America, where he met his wife, Sarah, who was working in the West Indies as a Peace Corps volunteer. The couple would later settle in Cohasset and raise four children, the oldest of whom is now 13.
After leaving the military, Gomez attended Harvard Business School and launched a lucrative career with the private equity firm Advent International.
While he has touted his business experience, his time at Advent has also been a source of controversy in the campaign as he has come under withering attack from Democrats for revealing little about his clients in financial disclosure forms. He has said that during the time period covered by the forms, he didn't directly provide services to Advent's portfolio companies.
Gomez — whose only prior foray into politics was an unsuccessful run for selectman in 2003 — has reacted angrily to campaign ads run by his opponent. He's called Markey "dirty" and once described him as "pond scum."
Markey said the ads were only intended to highlight differences on issues and not attack Gomez personally. Gomez rejects any suggestion of being thin-skinned but concedes that the aggressive tone of the campaign might have caught him off-guard.
"I think the one thing that has surprised me and maybe shouldn't have surprised me is the level of ... misleading and dishonest ads that are out there, mischaracterizations of my positions," he said.


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text: This paper shredder design by Hong-Li Zhuo Roy may look like a regular shredder at first, but it's actually supposed to be "Green". We're not sure how the innards are supposed to work, but it takes your crappy credit card applications and transforms them into Post-It Notes. Quite cool if they can actually pull it off, but until then we'll just keep on feeding our shredded papers to our neighbor's dog after we lace it with Rohypnol. [Yanko Design]


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I enjoy Zendo -- it's a beautiful inductive logic game, loosely "Mastermind on steroids". One player has a secret rule which the others try to guess; they create sculptures ("koans") which are marked white if they follow the rule ("have the Buddha-nature"), black if not. In the example in this photo, one possible rule is "contains a non-red piece not touching the table".
It's difficult to see that in the koan in the upper right, the yellow pyramid is not touching the table; it's completely supported by the red pyramid.
You're right. I didn't see that the red one was holding the yellow one off of the table.
Cool game -- I might get this one.
There is/was a boxed set for Zendo, with pyramids, black and white stones, green stones ("guessing stones" you can earn that allow you to guess the secret rule), instructions, and a deck of suggestions for secret rules.
But you can get the pyramids (a.k.a. Icehouse pieces, Treehouse pieces, or Looney Pyramids) separately. I find small travel Othello (reversi) pieces, black on one side, white on the other, more convenient than black and white stones for indicating correctness of koans. And any other sort of chip or stone works for guessing stones.
I enjoy Scrabble, though I haven't played it in ages. Seems to me Yahoo used to have a version of it that you could play online, but it's long since gone, drat it!
I played that Yahoo game years ago! I just checked, and Literati at Yahoo Games is alive and well.
(or try this to bypass the initial ad: http://games.yahoo.com/games/login2?page=lt&ss=1 )
When I played Literati on an old, crappy computer, once upon a time, the computer hung up and I had to reboot and reconnect -- just before playing a bingo (using all seven letters in my rack for a significant bonus). That happened again in the same game. My opponent concluded I was a "faggot and a cheater", obviously using some sort of anagram generator that disrupted the internet connection.
Love that scrabble cat LOL! So cool! Yes impress your friends and use words like erudite!
I still DOOM now and then. Helps me get my ya-ya's out, shooting the daylights outta mutants and like that there! I'm so retro that I will occasionally fire up GZDoom (have to use that with Windows 7!) and tackle the original Doom and maybe take half an hour to wipe out all those levels (though I don't always go after that one hidden level).
Sometimes you just gotta stomp on the bad guys!
And a remark I made elsewhere reminds me - I should fire up DOSBox and see if I can get Inforcom's "Trinity" to work on it. I used to love those old text-based RPG games ... still do, really.
DOOM is an awesome game Loren!
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When settlers first ventured into the wilderness west of the original 13 American Colonies, they encountered a strange phenomenon. In the silent woods, they found strips of flattened and downed trees, often in paths several hundred yards wide and miles long. The settlers called them "wind roads," and blamed them on the Storm King, a mythological figure who, according to early American folklore, galloped through the night skies amid bolts of lightning and wicked storm clouds.
The awe and terror that American weather inspired in early settlers is one of the most compelling motifs of Lee Sandlin's compulsively readable Storm Kings: The Untold History of America's First Tornado Chasers. The book is both a history of America's relationship with violent weather and the story of the scientists and meteorologists who sought to understand and ultimately predict the storms of the American heartland. Like much of the history of science, the story of this quest is rich with controversy.
Sandlin begins with Benjamin Franklin, who first realized that weather moves from west to east in America; who first identified tornadoes as a specific type of storm; and who once followed a funnel cloud through the Pennsylvanian wilderness. But the study of tornadoes became more contentious in the 19th century during the so-called storm wars, when James Espy, America's first meteorologist, and weather enthusiast William Redfield engaged in heated public debates about the nature of tornadoes.
Sandlin's story is in some respects a history of bureaucracy. During the Civil War, the government formed the US Army Signal Corps to foster communication on the battlefield; when the war ended, the corps became the first national weather bureau and issued the first national forecasts in the 1870s. But later in the century, the personalities who led the corps ran afoul of Secretary of War Robert Lincoln, which eventually led to the military losing control of the bureau and the creation of a civilian national weather service.
To Sandlin's credit, his story remains lively and interesting throughout these sections. But his writing is most compelling when he leaves behind the Washington power struggles and transports us to the Midwest to witness the terror of the people who survived some of the worst storms in US history: the fire tornado that destroyed the town of Peshtigo, Wis., in 1871; and the tri-state tornado that swept through 219 miles of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana in 1925. Sandlin grew up in the Midwest and was obsessed with tornadoes. His fascination is evident throughout his narrative.
Tornado predictions became more commonplace after 1948, when a tornado swept through an air base in Oklahoma and destroyed millions of dollars' worth of equipment. After that disaster, weather officers Robert Miller and E.J. Fawbush were tasked with devising a tornado prediction system. To everyone's surprise, they were successfully able to predict one five days later. Later in the century, Prof. Tetsuya Fujita's scale for measuring a tornado's destructive power and the advent of Doppler radar both contributed to more accurate and measured predictions for these violent storms.
But Sandlin reminds us that violent storms can and do still devastate areas of the United States, such as Joplin, Mo., which was partially destroyed by a tornado in May 2011 despite early warnings. Sandlin's book is not simply a historical text about a problem that has been solved by technology; rather, it is a cautionary tale about the frequently unpredictable role that weather continues to play in our lives.
Emily Cataneo is a journalist and book critic based in Boston.


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BOSTON, Mass. -- The University of Massachusetts Boston men's lacrosse team broke from a two-goal halftime lead by scoring eight times in the third quarter in posting a17-1 non-conference victory over Johnson State College Saturday afternoon at Boston College High School.
John Powers (Marshfield, MA) scored four consecutive goals in the third quarter and Dom Ficherea (Scituate, MA) struck three times, both also assisting on a goal in the period for UMass Boston (3-2). It was the season-opener for Johnson State.
After Matthew Malek (East Barre, VT) tied the game for the Badgers with 42 seconds left in the first quarter, Johnson State was held scoreless the rest of the match. The Beacons finished with a 70-13 advantage in shots.
Sophomore Craig Frehill (Norwell, MA) was credited with the win in goal for UMass. He made three saves before giving way to freshmen AJ Collette (West Springfield, MA) and James Bischoff (East Lyme, CT), who finished up in net.
In his collegiate debut, Jay Palmisano (Barre, VT) of Johnson State (0-1) stopped 26 shots, nine in the second quarter when he limited the hosts to just two goals.
Fichera led UMass with five goals and Powers totaled four goals and two assists.
UMass visits Florida Southern College Tuesday at 4 p.m. while Johnson State travesl to Becker Sunday at 1 p.m.
Story written by Bob Molta (Eastern Connecticut State University Sports Information Director)


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Eugene Woo co-founded vizualize.me because he was tired of looking at regular resumes. He was inspired by Chris Spurlock, who got a job at Huffington Post after his interactive, infographic resume went viral last February. So he decided to launch his own company based on the concept ( you can check it out here).We caught up with Woo briefly to talk about hiring. Here are a few takeaways:How did you get your company off the ground? Last spring we went to Start-up Weekend in Toronto, where we pitched our idea to a panel of investors: visual resumes. Midweek after the event, we had about 12,000 people signed up. That's how it started. We went public about a month ago. Now we have close to 100,000 users.You built this company based on your personal experience with hiring. While recruiting and hiring for my other company [ Apptellect], I looked at loads and loads of resumes. They were usually 2 to 3 pages and 1,000 words. They never carried the correct info. I'd always Google, check Facebook. A lot of data is online, on social networks. When I was hiring for this company, I told people on my blog: "Don't send your resume, because I don't read resumes. I won't read an attachment."How big is your company? Currently we have two other co-founders, Kenneth Lee [Chief Developer and Hacker] and Hannah Wei [Designer and Front-End Ninja], and two part-time employees who focus on social media and blogging. Why are employers — including yourself — fans of infographic resumes over regular ones? The advantage of the infographic resume is that you can summarize everything in five seconds. It's nice to look at. There's also the potential for employers to pay more attention and more time with your resume. But on the flip side, it also helps them eliminate candidates more quickly. For example, if they want someone with 10 years of experience, and it's easy to see [via the timeline] that the candidate has only had 5 years, they can dismiss you pretty quickly. The employer doesn't have to calculate the years. In that way, this resume helps with pre-screening.What's Vizualize.me's business model? The service is free, but we're launching premium accounts, which will cost $50/year.
Right now we take data from LinkedIn to fill the infographic resumes. We've talked to them, but we don't have a formal partnership. Since users usually improve their LinkedIn resume while in the process of updating their Vizualize.me profile, we provide more data to LinkedIn.
Is the model sustainable? Why is this the future of hiring? I've had lots of interesting conversations with recruiters. They want to put a face to the candidate. That's why they go to social media — getting a sense of who people really are through Twitter and Facebook. People hire people. Paper resumes are not personal. This then gives them a place to go. More and more recruiters are using social media to figure out who you are. You have to use these tools to your advantage.
In a Fast Company profile, you said that most CEOs and company founders you're spoken to don't read cover letters or resumes in detail.Do you?
I've done hiring for quite a lot of companies, including many senior leadership roles — for GE, and my other startups, including Apptellect. And very often I also do hiring for my friends who own companies.
If I'm hiring for someone with a technical background, I'll scan the resume for it. Then look for more information outside the resume. I'd Google the candidate, I'd look at their Facebook, Twitter, read their blogs, get a sense of who the person is. Humanize the name on the piece of paper.
If employers are looking to Facebook and Twitter to research candidates, should people be more concerned about "cleaning up" their online data? We did a survey with recruiters, and 9 out of 10 said yes, they'll Google you. But I'm not the person who sees a crazy photo and disregards a candidate. I also have photos of myself socializing on Facebook. I won't use it against anyone. Rather, I use Facebook to reinforce the application — I see what groups and activities the person is involved in.
Most recruiters are trying to fill a job. Chances are they'll overlook those things, unless it's a blatant crime. I don't care about a photo of you drinking beer.
What's the most important thing you look for in a candidate?
First, you have to have the skills and the experience. If I'm looking for a mid-level software engineer, you have to have the skills. If there's someone who doesn't necessarily have all the skills, they should highlight something else. I look for initiators. I want to know that this person is interested in what he or she does. I'll see what the person writes about in their own blogs. This will set the person apart from the 9-to-5 guys.
Once you decide on a candidate, how many interviews do you usually have with a person?
Usually I just do one screening interview. I'll ask the person to describe what they do. If I'm hiring for someone to work in social media, I'll ask what social media campaigns they liked. What sites they go to. Understanding Internet culture is an important part of social media. I'm on the Internet all the time. If they go on Reddit, I can sum them up. I'll know if they're a personality fit with the company culture.
How is it different hiring for a start-up versus a large company like GE?
When hiring for Vizualize.me, we put out a tweet, which reached people who already knew of us and wanted to work for us. We wanted people who are passionate about our product in the first place. I don't have to worry about them.
At Apptellect, I was looking at about a dozen resumes every week. It grew to about 12-13 people. I'm now a distant partner, but I still do some of the hiring.
Is the paper resume is obsolete? I don't think the paper resume is obsolete. Just like paper letters are not obsolete. But they're lessening in value. An online resume will tell you more and more. A paper resume is less and less helpful.


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A two-decade wait for a new album by My Bloody Valentine may be about to end.
"We are preparing to go live with the new album/website this evening," the influential band wrote on its Facebook page late Saturday. "We will make an announcement as soon as its up."
After revealing in December that the album -- My Bloody Valentine's first since "Loveless" in 1991 -- had been completed, frontman Kevin Shields told fans at a London concert this week that it could be released in a matter of days.
In the late '80s, My Bloody Valentine spearheaded the so-called shoegaze scene with a series of highly distorted yet tenderly melodic recordings. The band dissolved while attempting to complete a follow-up to "Loveless," though it reunited in 2007, going on to play shows, including a 2008 gig at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, and a headlining slot at Coachella the next year.
Shields told England's NME in November that "with this [new] record, people who like us will immediately connect with something. Based on the very, very few people who've heard stuff -- some engineers, the band, and that's about it -- some people think it's stranger than 'Loveless.' I don't. I feel it really frees us up, and in the bigger picture it's 100 per cent necessary."
At press time the band's website appeared to be down.
[Updated Feb. 2 at 7:27 p.m.: An earlier version of this post misidentified My Bloody Valentine as British. The band was actually formed in Dublin, Ireland. Also, as of late Saturday, the new My Bloody Valentine album reportedly is available at the above website. However, the site remains crashed as of this writing, possibly due to a crush of visitors. We'll update as we hear more -- good luck, everyone.]
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Great Cipher, But Where Did You Get That Key?
Today, there are many strong cryptographic algorithms and protocols, standards for their use at every layer of the network, and interoperable implementations in many products and in open source. When used appropriately, they provide strong safeguards against attacks that target our networks. Unfortunately, none of this good cryptography will protect anybody if it is used with secrets that are guessable.
Humorist Gene Weingarten claims he knows the secrets that protect the U.S. nuclear launch codes: 070494, which happens to be the date of Obama's daughter's birthday. No doubt the secrets are actually better chosen than that, but the joke conveys an important truth: you can't expect everyone to choose passwords well. You should regard passwords that are human-generated or human-memorable as being guessable. A cryptographic system is only as strong as its weakest element. When human-generated keys are used in cryptography, the system should not be expected to resist a knowledgeable attacker.
The most secure key management technology is digital certificates; you should use them when you can. If for some reason you can't, and you need to use shared secret keys, then you should make sure that those keys are generated by a uniform random process, and not by an administrator in a hurry. I will get to advice on certificates and key generation later, but first, I would like to explain why passwords and cryptography don't mix well.
Let's use the Internet Key Exchange (IKE) as an example. IKE establishes the keys that are used to encrypt and authenticate data packets in Internet Protocol Security (IPsec). IKE is a flexible protocol that can provide a great deal of security, which uses the Diffie-Hellman public key protocol to establish shared secrets between two endpoints. It can provide forward secrecy, so that the compromise of a device today will not reveal any of the keys used to encrypt yesterday's sessions. IKE was designed with an expectation that certificates would be available to authenticate each of the endpoints. However, it can also be used without certificates and instead rely on a Pre-Shared Key (PSK). When a PSK is unpredictable, and only shared between two endpoints, it is every bit as secure as certificates. Many administrators found PSKs easier to use than certificates (who among us would deal with a certification authority if they could avoid it?) and IKE-PSK is now a common practice. But the security ramifications of how PSKs are chosen should be understood.
The IKE standard describes the PSK as "a key derived by some out of band mechanism." In contrast, some current configuration examples and documentation call it a "group password." There is a crucial distinction here: a key is generated uniformly at random, while a password is not. This is not just some abstract distinction; it is a difference that is exploitable by an attacker.
IKEv2 became a standard in 2005, but IKEv1 is still widely deployed. IKEv1 can work in either Aggressive Mode or Main Mode, while IKEv2 is simpler and does not have modes. If a poorly chosen PSK is used, then IKEv1 Aggressive Mode is particularly vulnerable. If an endpoint accepts Aggressive Mode exchanges, then an active attacker interacting with that endpoint can get enough data that they can perform an offline dictionary attack against the PSK. In that type of attack, an automated process runs through common passwords and for each candidate password checks to see if that candidate would produce the data that was produced by IKE. Offline dictionary attacks are very powerful; the attacker has many tools at their disposal, including parallel processing and precomputation. An attacker using precomputation can greatly reduce the amount of time needed to find a password; that technique is a time-memory trade-off. An offline dictionary attack is also possible when an attacker on the path of the IKE exchange can passively observe an Aggressive Mode exchange. Additionally, if the attacker is on path and can perform a man-in-the-middle attack and substitute custom messages into the session, then the attacker can gather the information needed to perform an offline dictionary attack against either IKEv1 Main Mode or IKEv2. In this case, the attacker must be the responder; that is, the attacker needs to wait until the intended victim initiates a session. Nonetheless, on-path attacks are easier to perform than you might think, because DNS and ARP cache poisoning can be used during an attack to cause the path of an IKE exchange to go through an attack machine. There are tools to perpetrate dictionary attacks on Aggressive Mode, and a similar tool to attack Main Mode or IKEv2 would not be much harder to construct. In short, offline dictionary attacks on IKE PSKs are a significant threat. These attacks can also be performed against the authentication mechanisms used in OSPF, RIPv2, and TCP-MD5 authentication used to protect BGP sessions. If a pre-shared key is poorly chosen, there is no place for it to hide from a knowledgeable attacker.
If you have to use pre-shared keys, then you should generate them with a tool. The ubiquitous OpenSSL library often comes with a command line tool that can be used to access the library's functions from a shell. The command 'openssl rand 16 -base64' will output 16 bytes of random data. Cisco's command line interface expects a particular character set: all printable characters except for '!', which indicates the start of a comment. It is not hard to convert a string of random characters into a random string of 'base 94' characters, suitable for use as a PSK in Cisco's CLI. The following short shell script does this by using the POSIX 'tr' utility to implement the rejection method. It generates twenty base 94 characters to provide a strength equivalent to a 128-bit key (since 94^20 is slightly greater than 2 to the power 128). The keys produced by this script can be used in OSPF, RIPv2, and TCP-MD5, as well as IKE. This script is easily adaptable to other character sets and to other random sources such as /dev/random. Be sure that the OpenSSL version that you are using doesn't have a vulnerability in its random source; if you have a recent version, that should not be an issue.
# pskgen.sh - generates secret keys
# set environment to "C" to avoid i18n processing that confuses trLC_ALL=C; LANG=C
# base94 is all of the printable characters (octal range 040-176), # including the space character, except for the '!' character # (octal 041) base94="4042-\176" function usage { echo "usage: $0 [-128|-192|-256]"; echo " generate random key containing printable characters except !" echo " by default, output is 20 characters (128-bit strength)" echo " -128 causes output of 20 characters (128-bit strength)" echo " -192 causes output of 30 characters (192-bit strength)" echo " -256 causes output of 40 characters (256-bit strength)" exit 1 } hash openssl 2>&- || { echo >&2 "error: openssl application not found" exit 2; } if [ "$#" == "1" ]; then if [ "$1" == "-256" ]; then keylen=40; # a 256-bit key requires 40 base-94 characters elif [ "$1" == "-192" ]; then keylen=30; # a 192-bit key requires 30 base-94 characters elif [ "$1" == "-128" ]; then keylen=20; # a 128-bit key requires 20 base-94 characters else usage fi elif [ "$#" == "0" ]; then keylen=20 # generate a 128-bit key by default else usage fi let cropnum=keylen+1; let numbytes=keylen*4 numchars=0 while [ $numchars -lt $keylen ]; do X=`openssl rand $numbytes | tr -dc $base94 | colrm $cropnum` numchars=${#X} done echo "$X"
There are several proposals for Password Authenticated Key Exchange (PAKE) protocols that are not vulnerable to offline dictionary attacks. The original was Bellovin and Merrit's clever Encrypted Key Exchange protocol. In recent years, several protocols that achieve the same end but through different means have been proposed to standards. These PAKE protocols are interesting, and they clearly improve on the security of IKE when a password is used as a PSK. However, they are still vulnerable to online dictionary attacks: an attacker willing to interact with a gateway (which is the same as the attack model as for Aggressive Mode IKE) can guess passwords at will. Given the fact that, in any population of typical users, someone is going to choose a guessable password, this is a consequential flaw.
After a PSK has been chosen, it needs to be distributed to both of the endpoints that use it, in some way that keeps it secret. If all of the VPN devices are provisioned in a single location before they are connected to the network, this is easily done. Otherwise, it is necessary to use a secure communication method such as SSH. (Though beware of the man-in-the-middle attacks against SSH that can happen when there is no verification of the public keys.)
A better idea is to use certificates, and avoid the challenges of key generation and key distribution. With certificates, the device generates a public/private keypair and enrolls the public key with a Certificate Authority (CA) to get a certificate that can be used to authenticate it to anyone that trusts the CA. This is the best option with both IKE and TLS/SSL. The IOS Certificate Server is not a full-featured CA, but it has exactly the functionality that is needed to provide certificates for VPN uses. Many third-party certificate authorities can also be used; the Microsoft CA is popular with enterprises. The Secure Device Provisioning feature can be used to introduce a device to the VPN infrastructure by sharing certificates.
Devices can use certificate enrollment protocols to automatically request certificates, but wouldn't it be better if certificates were already in place when you bought the box? That is the goal of the 802.1AR Secure Device Identity (SDI) standard. Devices that support this standard come from the manufacturer containing a private key and a corresponding public key certificate issued by the vendor. The certificate contains enough information to identify the manufacturer, the serial number, and other information such as device type. You can think of this standard as a secure and enhanced version of the IEEE Organizationally Unique Identifier. An organization deploying devices that contain Secure Device Identity certificates can remotely authenticate those devices, and establish secure connections with them, based on knowledge of device types and serial numbers. This capability brings a significant change in the scalability of setting up a secure network. Ideally, the organization will issue their own locally significant certificates to the devices, using the SDI certificates to authenticate the certificate enrollment. When these technologies are fully developed, it may be that they make certificates easy enough to use that they gain the prevalence that they deserve. Until then, don't forget to choose your keys well.
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Hi David
Excellent post. Here's a command that will mitigate an IOS device from replying to ikasmp aggressive mode requests.
crypto isakmp aggressive-mode disable
When's the next post please?? 🙂
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What? "function"? Not ok.
rm -rf pskgen.sh
printf "usage: $0 [-128|-192|-256\n
generate random key containing printable characters except !\n
by default, output is 20 characters (128-bit strength)\n
-128 causes output of 20 characters (128-bit strength)\n
-192 causes output of 30 characters (192-bit strength)\n
-256 causes output of 40 characters (256-bit strength)\n" && return 1;
. . .
++ dd if=/dev/ && uuencode
or, if you insist on using openssl's mechanism ("`" doesn't nest well:
X=$(openssl rand $numbytes | tr -dc $base94 | colrm $cropnum)
And I disagree. I think that composite mechanisms are better.


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Former Democratic aide turned journalist George Stephanopoulos appeared on Wednesday's Good Morning America to spin the loss of a Conservative Party congressional candidate in New York as a "big loss for Sarah Palin." He enthused, "A big win for the Democrats who poured it on in the final days especially Vice President Biden who came in the final day."
Stephanopoulos seemed much more animated in discussing the New York race than he did the Republican gubernatorial victories in New Jersey and Virginia. He extolled, "The bottom line, when there is a civil war inside the Republican Party, a Democrat can squeak through in a district that has not gone to the Democrats since about the Civil War."
Referencing the ramifications the GOP victories could have on the health care debate, Stephanopoulos began, "Well, I actually asked a White House official about that this morning." Could this be White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel? (Early this year, it was revealed that Stephanopoulos has daily phone conversations and strategy sessions with Emanuel.)
The This Week host did allow that the two defeats on Tuesday will give some Democrats in the Senate "pause."
In an earlier segment, reporter Jake Tapper touted similar lines. Of the White House, he repeated, "They say all along, they've said these elections were not referenda on President Obama." After co-host Robin Roberts pointed out that Barack Obama repeatedly campaigned for New Jersey's Democratic governor Jim Corzine, Tapper again explained, "Well, obviously they would have liked to have won those elections but you had a New Jersey's case a very unpopular governor..."
He then parroted, "So they don't see this as an indication of President Obama's popularity or success there." It's true, as Tapper pointed out, that exit polls in Virginia and New Jersey say that the President wasn't a factor in their decision. However, just like Stephanopoulos, he played up the White House's perspective on the importance of the congressional election, but not the GOP wins.
Tapper asserted, "...The tea party crowd were complaining that the Republican nominee was insufficiently conservative and basically she was chased out and the Conservative Party nominee lost to the Democrat last night." Left out of that assessment? The fact that liberal Republican Dede Scozzafava quit the race and endorsed the Democratic nominee. Shouldn't that impact be discussed? (Host Diane Sawyer again referred to Scozzafava as a "moderate" Republican.)
A transcript of the Stephanopoulos segment, which aired at 7:03am EST on November 4, follows:
DIANE SAWYER: Let's dig in on all of this by bringing in our chief Washington correspondent George Stephanopoulos for the bottom line. George, good morning to you.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Hey, Diane. How is it going today?
SAWYER: All right. Well, let's take a look at what happened in Virginia and New Jersey, particularly the independent vote which seems so interesting to me this morning. As we know, Senator Obama won it a year ago. But 2-1? 2-1, The independents were now going Republican. What does that mean?
STEPHANOPOULOS: In both states, Diane, this is really, really important. Independents now are the largest voter group in the country. They outnumber Democrats. They outnumber Republicans. And if you look back to the last three elections, 2006, 2008 and last night. These independents have become the predators of politics and incumbents are their prey. The number one issue out there right now, Diane, is the economy. Look at the exit polls in Virginia and New Jersey last night. 89 percent of voters said they were very- were worried about the economy in New Jersey. 84 percent said they were worried about the economy in Virginia. That's what is on independents' mind and the successful Republican candidates last night really focused on that.
SAWYER: And of course, jobs, a big issue in the campaign in Virginia but let me ask again digging in a bit on the economy, it seems it's not just concern about what's going to happen in the days ahead but concern about the deficit being built up. What does this say to the White House about, for instance, health care at this moment?
STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, I actually asked a White House official about that this morning. And they're going to try to push hard on their argument but that by addressing health care you are addressing the problem of the deficit in the future. Now, that's going to be a hard sell with some of these, especially moderate Democrats in the Senate who are very wary of health care right now. So, last night, the Democrats got a mixed message ago on health care. They actually picked up a vote for it with that congressional race up in New York 23, getting another Democrat in the House. Speaker Pelosi needs every Democrat she can get. But, I think the election results last night will give pause to some of the Senate Democrats who the White House needs to vote for this health care reform bill.
SAWYER: And we talked about that congressional race in upstate new York where Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh intervened. There is a statement from Sarah Palin says that says "the cause goes on. Don't get cynical." But what's the bottom line on what happened there?
STEPHANOPOULOS: The bottom line, when there is a civil war inside the Republican Party, a Democrat can squeak through in a district that has not gone to the Democrats since about the Civil War. So, this is a big surprise for the Democrats here. I think it was a big loss for Sarah Palin. A big win for the Democrats who poured it on in the final days especially Vice President Biden who came in the final day. But I know that this is- this war will now continue as Jake suggested. We'll see Senate primaries in Illinois and in Florida. But I think a lot of national Republicans will step back and say if we don't get this under control we're going to squander a big opportunity next year.
SAWYER: Okay, George, and we've got a few other developments. I know you know about them from election night. In Maine, you probably heard about this, voters were voting on gay marriage. They decided against gay marriage, 53 to 47 percent. Down south Atlanta is now headed for a runoff in the race for mayor. The leading vote getter was a council woman who would be the first white mayor of Atlanta in a long time if she wins next month.


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A solution for Bristol's pit
In Bristol this Tuesday, March 11 at 7:30 p.m., the Zoning Board of Adjustment will meet to continue discussions regarding the proposed Lathrop gravel pit. It's a complicated project with an Act 250 filing as thick as a big-city phone book, but the central question that needs public input and board leadership is relatively straight-forward: Is the proposed location of the pit the appropriate place for a large-scale mining operation, and should the public have a chance to clarify wording in the town plan that has created much of the ambiguity pertaining to this project?The ambiguous wording is the phrase "in any district" found in section 526 of the town plan. The dueling interpretations of the phrase contend that the phrase would allow gravel mining 'in any district' in the town (supposedly including the village or any other residential setting) or, opponents of the pit argue, that the phrase meant that mining was allowed 'in any district' (industrial, etc.) where mining was allowed. Logic would suggest that full-scale mining operations — with rock-crushers and the consequential noise and dust that would come from such an operation — would not be suitable for residential zones or mixed rural residential, commercial zones. The Bristol Planning Commission, which has the authority to clarify zoning by-laws and revise them if necessary, has said it will take up this section of the town plan at upcoming meetings. That's welcome involvement because surely the commission members will make every effort to seek public opinion to determine the will of the community. Town plans, after all, are approved by a majority of the town's residents and crucial aspects of the plan should be reviewed and revised, if necessary, with the public will in mind.To make such a review effective in this case, however, the ZBA needs to effectively "table" the current discussions on the Lathrop gravel pit until a decision is reached. The technical process to allow that to happen is for the ZBA "to reject without prejudice" the most recent permit application. Such a rejection doesn't kill the project, just puts it on hold until the ambiguity is clarified. Once that issue is resolved the permit is back on tract and the ZBA can proceed with full confidence that they know the public's will. It's a common-sense approach to take.Concerning facts about the case, a few clarifications are needed: • Environmental Court Judge Thomas Durkin did not rule that the proposed pit "fit the town plan." Rather, Durkin remanded the case back to the Act 250 board for further review. In the initial Act 250 ruling, the pit did not pass muster on Criteria 10, which asks if projects comply with the town plan. Lathrop suggests mining is allowed on the proposed site according to the town plan, but that's only if the 'in any district' clause is interpreted in his favor. • The gravel operation would employ four people — mainly family members who are currently working for the existing business. • Property values: Lathrop claims that values would not be hurt and cites two pits in which property values near them have increased in the past five years. But, of course. Those property values were devalued years ago when the pits were first started. Once devalued, inflation itself will cause almost any property to increase. But take a house valued at $250,000 that doesn't have a gravel pit nearby, and then put one there — and the public can determine the common sense of that equation.• Act 250 does not require or mandate mining of the proposed land before it can be used for other purposes, as Lathrop claims. Rather, Criteria 9D and 9E suggest that extraction of the earth's resources is one consideration of development, but that balance is key. The criteria asks developers to: "Demonstrate that the project will not interfere with the future extraction of earth resources; and demonstrate that if the project involves abstraction of earth resources, it will not unduly harm the environment or neighboring land uses and will be reclaimed for an alternative use." The very nature of zoning is to preclude activities that would be disruptive to the lives of other residents in certain zones and to allow those activities in the appropriate zones. Hence, pig farms aren't allowed within residential zones; toxic chemical plants are relegated to industrial zones; and so on. That's the purpose of the town plan. • Nor has the ZBA granted the Lathrops a gravel permit. The ZBA did decide in the Lathrop's favor, but that decision has been challenged. A permit is not issued until the challenges and due process are completed.From the town's perspective, what's important in this ruling is that the community feel confident the decision has been made based on an accurate interpretation of the town's zoning laws. That interpretation can be most accurate by allowing the public to clarify its intention. The planning commission is the appropriate board for that duty, if the ZBA will just allow them that opportunity. From a practical and financial matter, such a move also makes sense: Currently the town is having to pay legal costs for its lawyer's involvement in this case; and those costs will mount depending on the number of appeals and counter appeals that are made. In short, it seems fairer to the town taxpayer and to the applicant to get clarification on this issue and then to move forward with that knowledge in hand.Angelo S. Lynn