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Today show spotlights Hatton Ferry
NBC's Today show put on a remarkable story–- complete with nuptials–- on the under-the-axe Hatton Ferry Monday.
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maybe if they stopped harrasing business owners those businesses could prosper and the govt would have enough money to keep stuff like this going.
20k a year shouldn't be too hard to find with all the waste in this county... perhaps we should have a contest thats points out the waste....
25 cents to keep the Hatton Ferry running. Not only should this be a local priority, but a state one as well. If you haven't been there don't miss the video and I'll bet you'll make a trip soon. Here's what you can do:
If you'd like to make a donation to save the Hatton Ferry, mail it to:
The Hatton Ferry Fund
c/o Old Dominion National Bank
P.O. Box 321
Scottsville, VA 24590
Wiping away the tears, beautiful story, wonderful video.
How often we lose what is most precious --let's not wait until it's too late.
"the fate of this little ferry depends on folks who cherish things that connect us."
When I first moved here, in 1997, I learned about this ferry and couldn't believe such a thing could exist in this day and age. I used the ferry a number of times back in the 90s and have always felt that it was like a special hidden gem; part of what made this area truly special. When the Hook first reported on its possible demise, I made a point of taking my son over the ferry. Ashley was running it that day and was exactly as you see in this video: a fine young man with the utmost respect for history, nature and hard work.
The world is full of tragedies, big and small. But if this ferry were allowed to perish, it would be a sad statement on our culture's priorities. Hopefully this Today story will generate sympathy and funds to keep the ferry afloat.
Great idea. I nominate getting rid of $515 dollar an hour Kurt Krueger as a way to fund all river ferries in the U.S.
Twenty five cents per albemarle resident to keep it going (per year)
Is that too high a price to pay to keep a little bit of history within a 45 minute (or less) drive?


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Syria rebels capture 4 villages in Assad's territory
BEIRUT Syrian rebels captured four Alawite villages on the country's mountainous Mediterranean coast on Monday as they battled government troops in one of President Bashar Assad's strongholds for the second straight day, activists said.
Alawites, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, dominate Assad's regime. The capture of villages in their heartland in Latakia province is a symbolic blow to Assad, whose forces have otherwise been taking territory in recent weeks in central Syria.
Syria's conflict has taken on an increasingly sectarian tone in the last year, pitting predominantly Sunni Muslim rebels against the Alawite-dominated regime.
- Deadly strike on weapons depot by Syrian rebels
- U.N. Head: Death toll of Syrian war now 100k
- Syrian rebels claim increasingly rare victory near Aleppo
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said rebels captured the villages after attacking government outposts in the Jabal al-Akrad hills on Sunday. The group, which relies on reports from activists, said at least 32 government troops and militiamen and at least 19 rebels, including foreign fighters, died in Sunday's fighting.
Much of Latakia has been under the firm control of Assad's forces since the beginning of the conflict more than two years ago, but some areas including the Jabal al-Akrad are close to rebel-held areas and have seen fighting.
It was a rare success for the rebels on the battlefield in recent weeks. Assad's forces have been on the offensive since taking the central town of Qusair in June, and last week captured a key district in the central city of Homs, an opposition stronghold.
Syria main's opposition bloc hailed the rebel advance, and said that Assad's troops had used the villages to attack rebel-held civilian areas.
The Observatory's chief Rami Abdul-Rahman said civilians in the four villages fled. There were no immediate reports of civilian casualties in the fighting.
Meanwhile, at the site of one of the regime's victories in Homs, Syrian Defense Minister Gen. Fahd Jassem al-Freij toured the ravaged district of Khaldiyeh Monday, praising troops for what he told state TV was a "military miracle."
Standing in front of the historic Khalid bin al-Waleed mosque in Khaldiyeh, al-Freij vowed the army will "triumph against this universally-backed terrorism which is being exported to us."
More than 100,000 people have been killed since the conflict started in March 2011 as largely peaceful protests against Assad's rule. It turned into an armed uprising after opposition supporters took up arms to fight a brutal government crackdown on dissent.
The Assad government claims it is not facing a popular revolt, but a conspiracy by Gulf Arab states and the West seeking to destroy Syria by supplying Islamic extremists with weapons and funds.
Also Monday, Human Rights Watch said ballistic missiles fired by the Syrian army into populated areas have killed hundreds of civilians in recent months.
The U.S.-based group said it has investigated nine apparent missile attacks that killed at least 215 people, half of them children, between February and July. The most recent attack HRW investigated occurred in the northern province of Aleppo on July 26, killing at least 33 civilians including 17 children.
HRW activists visited the sites of seven of the nine attacks and found no apparent military targets nearby, the group said. Ole Solvang, a senior researcher with HRW, said it's impossible to distinguish between civilians and fighters when firing missiles with wide-ranging destructive effects into densely populated areas.
"Even if there are fighters in the area, you cannot accurately target them and the impact in some of these cases has been devastating to local civilians," Solvang said in a statement.
The HRW called on Assad to stop indiscriminate attacks.
Government officials could not immediately be reached for comment. The military has repeatedly denied it is targeting civilians during the 2-year conflict, saying its troops are fighting "terrorists" hiding in civilian areas.
In his latest appearance late Sunday Assad called on the Syrians to unite behind the army's efforts to "defend their homeland"
"There is no solution with terrorism but to strike with an iron fist," Assad was quoted as saying by state news agency SANA. "With this kind of battles that aim at the destruction of the cultural identity and the Syrian national fabric, we either win together as Syrians or lose together."
Assad spoke while taking part in an iftar, the meal that breaks the dawn-to-dusk fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.


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Toyota All-Star Showdown - The Lowdown On The Showdown
NASCAR's Regional Tours Get Ready To Square Off
There's been a lot of attention directed to the NASCAR Nextel Cup "Chase to the Championship." This is the scenario wherein a driver had to be in the Top 10 (or within 400 points of the leader, but that was a moot point) in order to win the championship. For racers in NASCAR's four Elite divisions, the idea of being in the Top 10 to be rewarded actually occurred last year. For these drivers, the chase to the Top 10 is old news.
For drivers in the AutoZone Midwest, Northwest, Southeast, and Southwest Divisions, the honor of being in the Top 10 carries a special privilege. Only these drivers can represent their divisions in the second running of the Toyota All-Star Showdown.
The chase is a little different for racers in the Busch North and West Series, the two Grand National groups within NASCAR. They need to get into the Top 15 in their respective divisions to earn a similar invitation.
The idea behind the race is to bring the drivers from throughout the country to a head-to-head finale. The Elite Division cars use the same rules, so these 40 are tossed together in one race. The same holds true for the 30 cars that come together from the Busch North and West Series point standings.
The '04 event will once again be held at Irwindale Speedway near Los Angeles. This year's race will be held November 11-13. The feature races will be telecast live on SPEED Channel.
What to Expect Like many high-profile races, making the event is a challenge equal to winning the race. Those who qualify for the race can expect to have a day of practice, a day of preliminary events, and the final day devoted to the longer- distance features. Since California is 3,000 miles away from Cherryfield, Maine (the home of Busch North contender Andy Santerre), many of the teams will be on the road days before the race. For those with a West Coast address, the travel is lessened, but significant for some Northwest racers, as well.
For the '03 event, practice day gave the drivers a good look at the track that was unfamiliar to most. Irwindale Speedway is a half-mile track that is part of the NASCAR Dodge Weekly Series and hosts events for the NASCAR AutoZone Elite Division Southwest Series and the NASCAR Grand National Division West Series. The track offers progressive banking and a wide racing surface. In addition to its NASCAR events, Irwindale hosts open-wheel racing and drifting competition and serves as a model for speedway promotions.
The qualifying events will once again be held on Friday. The 40 racers in the Elite Division are lined up based on alternating points positions with the highest cars in the point standings starting in the rear. Each qualifying race features 20 cars and is run over a 50-lap distance. The Grand National Divisions use two 50-lap qualifying races with 15 cars in each event. The winners of each of the qualifying races will earn a front-row starting spot for the finale. The Grand National cars will contest 125 laps while the main event for the Elite racers will be 100 laps.
There is a unique twist to the feature event. The race will be stopped 25 laps short of the total distance for a 10-minute break. After the break, the field will be inverted for the restart. Also, there is a team competition during the first portion of the race. Drivers are representing their series, and the team scoring the lowest number of points, based on the running order at the break, will be declared the winner of the team competition. Purse and prize money for the '04 event will exceed $500,000.
Who Will Return? Making the field for the first event does not guarantee participation in any subsequent events. Everyone started the '04 season at the same spot. You have to earn your way in.
For 2004, there will be one champion returning while the other will be out of the picture. Austin Cameron, winner of the Grand National finale, is continuing a strong run in the West Series in 2004. Ironically, Cameron was not expected to be a part of the show in 2003.
Cameron's '03 racing was interrupted for cancer treatments, which thwarted a bid for the series championship. He managed to make the Showdown field as the last driver in, but his race day performance was far from back-of-the-pack. Cameron has continued his winning ways into the '04 season, including a series victory at Irwindale.
Elite Division winner Ron Breese Jr. will not be part of the action in 2004.
Victory at Irwindale In addition to Breese and Cameron, three other drivers won races, all in Friday night qualifiers. One of those drivers tasting victory was Randolph, New Jersey, racer Joey McCarthy, a competitor in the Busch North ranks. Since his win and subsequent pole position start, there has been plenty happening for McCarthy, who is putting together solid runs in 2004.
Just a few weeks before the start of the '04 season, McCarthy found out that his team was not going to race. It's no way to start a racing season.
Fortunately, there was a racing team two hours south of Randolph that raced the series on a part-time basis. McCarthy reached agreement with this team. He brought along a car he had purchased from the former team, giving them the same equipment as last year to tackle the schedule.
"We're taking this one race at a time," McCarthy says of the '04 season. "We're right there for these races. If we were in a little better position, we'd see some better finishes. We have some Top 5s and Top 10s to show for our effort. We don't have any major sponsorship help. We've got some great product sponsors that we appreciate, but without a big sponsor, this is tough."
From a geographic standpoint, the team is located no moe than 8 hours from their racing venues. However, New Jersey is a long way from California, and it takes money to travel across the country. If McCarthy is able to qualify, the team is going to have to stretch resources to get to Irwindale.
McCarthy looks at last year's Toyota All-Star Showdown as a positive experience for his racing career. "I was very impressed," he says of the track. "It was beautiful, the type of track you like to run." He also felt that the competitors had a mutual respect for each other, even though half the field may have never raced against the other half. "The guys I raced with from the West Series, guys like Austin [Cameron] and Mark Reed, were great. We ran side by side in the qualifier, and everybody respected each other."
It was McCarthy's responsibility to bring the field to the green in front of the TV cameras. On his outside was a familiar face-Busch North Champion Andy Santerre. McCarthy led the early stages of the race and was solidly in the running at the break after 100 laps. The break wasn't what the team needed.
"The inversion really hurt us," McCarthy recalls. "The first seven cars were so close on new tires. When you only have 25 laps, you don't have a lot of time to get back to the front. We kept getting cautions, and that doesn't help either. We needed a longer run. It was tough to get from Sixth up front. It made it a chess match. I had a good car, but a spin of the wheel set me back. They were doing it for a show, and it was a good show."
Since the track was unlike anything on the Busch North schedule, McCarthy and his series mates had to find the fast way around. After dominating the qualifying races over the "hometown" West Series racers, it was apparent that the learning came quickly. "We had to run it like Darlington, up high," McCarthy says. "It took awhile in practice, but we figured it out."
McCarthy's racing took him from the go-kart ranks. His father was a dirt Modified racer, but Joey went to the pavement, racing against tough competition at places such as nearby Flemington (NJ) Speedway. His aspiration is to take the step to move south and tackle the Busch Series. A repeat performance in the Toyota All-Star Showdown will certainly make the talent scouts take another look.
Among the Elite Davenport, Iowa's Justin Diercks might not want to talk about the Toyota All-Star Showdown. In the middle of August, his thoughts were nowhere near the November race. Fresh from his sixth win in the first 10 races of the AutoZone Elite Midwest Series schedule, Diercks was keen on winning the championship, and his pursuers were not rolling over. At that point, he was leading veteran Steve Carlson, but not by much.
"We have to take it one race at a time," says Diercks. "We worry about points at the end of the year. We're out to win races, and so far we've been pretty successful."
Diercks may have been lost in the shuffle in the 2003 Showdown crowd. The only publicity he got was negative. From the time the team headed to California, nothing seemed to go right. "We got wrecked in practice," he recalls. "On our way out there, the hauler broke down. When we got there, the lift broke and we couldn't get the car out. We were happy to finish and be a part of the team championship."
They didn't just finish . . . they finished Seventh as the Midwest Series put five drivers in the Top 10. That's not going to make it easy for the series drivers who return in 2004.
"The Midwest has bragging rights," Diercks says. "We won last year, so the guys we're taking this year have to step it up. Everybody else is going to be stepping it up to try to beat us. We've all got to have our program dialed in."
Like most competitors, Justin didn't really know what to expect last year. He'd never been to California, so it was a "working vacation" of sorts. "I was excited to be there," he says of the first Showdown. "It was interesting. The NASCAR officials from all the series were working together. Everyone was treated fairly."
It also gave him a chance to go wheel-to-wheel with drivers like Jeff Fultz, David Gilliland, and Jim Pettit. "I've read about them, but it was great to race them," he adds.
The trip in 2004 will again force Justin to dig into that vacation time. He works in the construction industry and has a weekly job that requires quite a bit of his attention. His car is owned by his parents, Steve and Lisa Diercks, and his father serves as his spotter. Mom and brother Spencer provided needed support. The crewchief is Nick Carlson, and Tim Carlson is the car chief. The car is a Lefthander chassis with Tesar Power. Sponsors include Iowa Illinois Taylor Insulation, Adrian Carriers, Shabbona Creek RV, TC Fab, Roemer Machine, and Precision Embroidery.
New Faces While the true lineup won't be set until the series finales, expect to see a number of new names on the race roster in November. Garrett Evans, who ran a part-time schedule in 2003, is expected to be a strong representative of the Northwest Series. J.T. Norris and Erik Darnell of the Southeast Series will likely represent their series well. Rip Michels, a Dodge Weekly Series regional champion in 2003, may find himself in the field from the tough Southwest Series.
On the Grand National side, David Gilliland, a representative of the Southwest Series last year, made the move to the Grand National side in the West Series and will be there. Stockton winner Mike David will likely join the West squad in 2004. From the Busch North team, expect second-generation racer Bobby Dragon and legendary Dave Dion to join up with the squad of top North racers.
A footnote on the roster: A driver can turn down an invitation. That invitation is then extended to the next position in the standings until a roster is filled from each series.
Showtime for the Showdown Once again, Toyota has stepped up and joined forces to set the stage for the excitement at hand. The anticipation is building as this unique short-track racing event heads to its sophomore season. Given last year's results, it's a tough act to follow, but it doesn't shrink from the challenge. It will be a true showdown.


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Think of it as a mansion with a high-tech security system — but the front door wasn't locked tight.
Using the Citigroup customer Web site as a gateway to bypass traditional safeguards and impersonate actual credit card holders, a team of sophisticated thieves cracked into the bank's vast reservoir of personal financial data, until they were detected in a routine check in early May.
That allowed them to capture the names, account numbers, e-mail addresses and transaction histories of more than 200,000 Citi customers, security experts said, revealing for the first time details of one of the most brazen bank hacking attacks in recent years.
The case illustrates the threat posed by the rising demand for private financial information from the world of foreign hackers.
In the Citi breach, the data thieves were able to penetrate the bank's defenses by first logging on to the site reserved for its credit card customers.
Once inside, they leapfrogged between the accounts of different Citi customers by inserting vari-ous account numbers into a string of text located in the browser's address bar. The hackers' code systems automatically repeated this exercise tens of thousands of times — allowing them to capture the confidential private data.
The method is seemingly simple, but the fact that the thieves knew to focus on this particular vulnerability marks the Citigroup attack as especially ingenious, security experts said.
One security expert familiar with the investigation wondered how the hackers could have known to breach security by focusing on the vulnerability in the browser. "It would have been hard to prepare for this type of vulnerability," he said. The security expert insisted on anonymity because the inquiry was at an early stage.
The financial damage to Citigroup and its customers is not yet clear. Sean Kevelighan, a bank spokesman, declined to comment on the details of the breach, citing the ongoing criminal investigation. In a statement, he said that Citigroup discovered the breach in early May and the problem was "rectified immediately." He added that the bank had initiated internal fraud alerts and stepped up its account monitoring.
The expertise behind the attack, according to law enforcement officials and security experts, is a sign of what is likely to be a wave of more and more sophisticated breaches by high-tech thieves hungry for credit card numbers and other confidential information.
That is because demand for the data is on the rise. In 2008, the underground market for the data was flooded with more than 360 million stolen personal records, most of them credit and debit files. That compared with 3.8 million records stolen in 2010, according to a report by Verizon and the Secret Service, which investigates credit card fraud along with other law enforcement agencies like the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Now, as credit cards that were compromised in the vast 2008 thefts expire, thieves are stepping up efforts to find new accounts.
As a result, prices for basic credit card information could rise to several dollars from their current level of only pennies.
"If you think financially motivated breaches are huge now, just wait another year," said Bryan Sartin, who conducts forensic investigations for Verizon's consulting arm.
The kind of information the thieves are able to glean is shared in online forums that are a veritable marketplace for criminals. Networks that three years ago numbered several thousands users have expanded to include tens of thousands of hackers.
"These are online bazaars," said Pablo Martinez, deputy special agent in charge of the Secret Service's criminal investigation division. "They are growing exponentially and we have seen the entire process become more professional."
For example, some hackers specialize in prying out customer names, account numbers and other confidential information, Mr. Martinez said. Brokers then sell that information in the Internet bazaars. Criminals use it to impersonate customers and buy merchandise. Finally, "money mules" wire home the profits through outlets like Western Union or MoneyGram.
"It's like 'Mission Impossible' when they select the teams," said Mark Rasch, a former prosecutor who is now with CSC, an information technology services firm. "And they don't know each other, except by hacker handle and reputation."
In the Citi attack, the hackers did not obtain expiration dates or the three-digit security code on the back of the card, which will make it harder for thieves to use the information to commit fraud.
Not every breach results in a crime. But identity theft has ranked first among complaints to the Federal Trade Commission for 11 consecutive years, with 1.34 million in 2010, twice as many as the next category, which is debt collection.
Many of these attacks have their origins in Eastern Europe, including Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Romania. In fact, the security expert familiar with the Citi breach said it originated in the region, though he would not specify the country.
In Russia, Xakep.ru, is one of the larger forums for Eastern European hackers today, with nearly 13,300 registered members, according to Cyveillance. HackZone.ru is larger, and has more than 58,000 members. In addition, attacks by Romanian hackers have grown noticeably more advanced recently, according to security experts.
On HackZone, one seller who called himself "zoloto" promised "all cards valid 100%" and that they would be sold only one time.
Underscoring the multinational nature of these rings, American law-enforcement agencies have also been putting more investigators overseas.
"The only way to address a global issue is to address it globally with your partners," said Gordon M. Snow, assistant director of the F.B.I.'s Cyber Division.
The Secret Service established a presence in Tallinn, Estonia, last month, and has embedded agents with Ukrainian authorities since the beginning of the year. The F.B.I. has embedded agents in the Netherlands, Estonia, Ukraine and Romania, and works closely with its counterparts in Australia, Germany and Britain.
But even officials at these agencies acknowledge that as fast as they move, the hackers' strategies are evolving at Silicon Valley speed.
"With every takedown, they regroup," said J. Keith Mularski, a supervisory special agent with the F.B.I.


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Politically Uncorrected: The Rocky Road to Camelot
"Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot." These lyrical lines from the musical "Camelot" were among assassinated President Jack Kennedy's favorites.
This month, America commemorates the tragic events in Dallas a half century ago that robbed the country of a fabled president destined to be enshrined in national memory as the symbol of Camelot.
The Camelot story is well known. Less well known, however, is the early road to Camelot ran through Pennsylvania. The state's role in the story begins in the 1960 presidential campaign – now remembered as the beginning of the modern era of media dominated politics – and Pennsylvania played a major part in it.
At the Los Angeles convention that would nominate Kennedy, one key player was the former Pittsburgh mayor who had become Pennsylvania's governor, David Lawrence, already a veteran of national convention politics. Two years earlier, Kennedy had thought his main rival for the Democratic nomination in 1960 might be the popular mayor of Pennsylvania's other major city, Philadelphia's Richardson Dilworth. Dilworth was considered for a brief period a rising national star in the Democratic Party. But he had unwisely passed on a Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidacy in 1958 and that decision effectively ended his future presidential ambitions.
Gov. Lawrence had become chairman of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party in 1934. One of the few politicians that successfully made the transition from political boss to a respected office holder, Lawrence was elected mayor of Pittsburgh in 1945 and governor of Pennsylvania in 1958.
At the outset of the presidential campaign, Lawrence was a man in personal conflict. He was reluctant to move the state delegation to support Kennedy despite considerable pressure to do so. He still harbored hopes for twice-defeated Adlai Stevenson, but more significantly Lawrence had real doubts that a Catholic could win the presidency. Although a Catholic himself, he was convinced that Kennedy would confront the same prejudice that doomed the presidential campaign of Al Smith in 1928.
Recognizing Lawrence's importance, family patriarch Joe Kennedy earlier had asked Matt McCloskey, a wealthy Philadelphia contractor and fundraiser, to visit the governor personally and seek an endorsement for his son. McCloskey's entreaties were unsuccessful, even after Joe Kennedy himself went to Harrisburg hoping to move Lawrence away from his neutrality.
Meanwhile, Lawrence's efforts to keep the state's delegation uncommitted in Los Angeles ran into strong opposition from other powerful Pennsylvania politicians already endorsing Kennedy — including Sen. Joseph Clark, Philadelphia powerhouse Congressman William Green, a future governor, Milton Shapp, and a bevy of county leaders. When it became apparent the convention would not deadlock, Lawrence finally threw his support to Kennedy and even made one of the seconding speeches nominating the Massachusetts senator.
Kennedy's Catholicism did become a political problem for him. In a 1959 Gallup Poll, one in four voters told Gallup they would not support a Catholic candidate even if he was qualified. Many of these voters expressed concern that a Catholic president wouldn't exercise his own independent judgment if it differed from church teaching.
Anti-Catholicism was not just a southern problem. In Pennsylvania, accounts of increasing anti-Catholicism were widespread. No one documented this sentiment more clearly than famed Pennsylvania novelist James Michener, whose works, such as Tales of South Pacific, and Hawaii, made him one of the nation's most distinguished writers.
In 1960, Michener campaigned nationally for Kennedy, eventually running his campaign in Bucks County. He wrote a post-election account of his efforts on behalf of JFK that he chronicled in an instructive but little read book, Report of the County Chairman. Michener's Report detailed the increase in religious bigotry in Bucks County as the Kennedy campaigned progressed. The anti-Catholicism ranged from provocative pamphlets depicting Catholic prelates torturing Protestants to virulent hate literature mailed anonymously into homes. Michener believed these activities amounted to an organized campaign by anti-Catholic bigots, concluding that the religious issue permeated every aspect of the 1960 campaign in Pennsylvania.
Finally, in September, Kennedy confronted the issue addressing a group of hostile Protestant ministers meeting in Houston. There he pledged to keep church and state matters separate — a principle he called absolute. The speech defused the issue and today it is regarded as a defining moment of the campaign.
Kennedy ultimately profited from the emphasis on religion in the 1960 race. The Catholic population had been growing steadily and more Catholics paid more attention to the election than in previous years because of his candidacy.
Pennsylvania was typical of this trend. About 30 percent of the state's adult population was Catholic, a significant proportion of the total vote. Allegheny, Westmoreland, Beaver, Cambria, Erie, Philadelphia and Lackawanna counties had large Catholic populations, and they had large increases in voter turnout.
Ultimately, Kennedy won the state in a squeaker, 51 percent to 49 percent, a mere 116,000 out of five million votes cast. He won just 15 counties, but they were chiefly the larger counties, most with significant Catholic populations.
Lawrence had not been wrong to worry about Kennedy's Catholicism. But he was wrong to believe it would cost him the presidency.


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Suites the size of supermarkets, hostesses worthy of a Playboy centerfold, corporate jets, limos, show tickets, gourmet food and wine--for the highest of Las Vegas rollers, these are the typical perks. But of all the lavish "comps" heavy gamblers receive from grateful casinos, none may be more cherished than an invitation to Shadow Creek.
It's the greatest golf course in the world you'll (probably) never play.
You cannot pay a green's fee. You cannot bribe the starter. You cannot be pals with the head pro. There are only three ways to get on Shadow Creek: be a close, personal friend of Steve Wynn, CEO of the Mirage; be a close, personal friend of Bobby Baldwin, president of the Mirage; or have something like a $1 million line of credit--and a penchant for gambling with it--at the Mirage. Monster bettors who play in the neighborhood of $500 a hand for eight hours a day might make the cut.
When Alan Feldman, who manages the casino's public relations, was approached about the possibility of a story on Shadow Creek, he said absolutely, unequivocally, no. "We just turned down a four-page spread in Sports Illustrated. We don't need and we don't want the publicity," he said. "It just makes more people want to play the course. And if they're the kind of people who might be qualified, we probably already know about them."
Exclusivity is clearly one of the charms of fine country clubs. But never in the history of golf has there been a club as exclusive as this. Shadow Creek, set in a remote, underdeveloped stretch of north Las Vegas, is invisible from the road and virtually impossible to find without detailed directions. A tall, unmarked gate at the end of a cul de sac is the only physical sign of the desert's lushest oasis.
"Walking through that gate is like entering the Land of Oz," according to one lucky hacker who has actually played Shadow Creek. "Everything goes from black and white to Technicolor. It feels as though you've wandered into some sort of bird sanctuary. There are thousands of them: quail, pheasants, flamingos, chuckers and snow-white swans. They have a wallaby, too. The place really is like a mirage."
Because so few people have ever seen the course, let alone played it, rumors about Shadow Creek abound: around Las Vegas it is widely believed that Shadow Creek cost $30 million to $40 million to construct, that Steve Wynn bamboozled his shareholders into building what amounts to a private playground, that either Michael Jordan or Michael Jackson (depending upon whom you ask) is building a home on the course. Golf Digest certainly has bought into the mystique. In the magazine's listing of golf courses last year, Shadow Creek was ranked eighth in America. That only stepped up the noise level about the course, with torrents of criticism decrying the lofty ranking of a golf course that few can play.
After talking to two men who have played the course a total of six times, both of whom requested anonymity, I learned that the rumors are probably just that. "Shadow Creek isn't as mysterious as everyone thinks," the men agreed. "But it's even more spectacular than you could imagine."
An attendant greets guests at the gate in a Rolls-Royce of a golf cart, accented with crushed-velvet seats and equipped with a built-in cooler stocked with the beverage of your choice, including, if you are so inclined, Champagne and caviar. Driving slowly to avoid the wildlife, golfers are chauffeured to the practice tee, where, instead of unsightly, red-striped range balls, they may work out their slices on an unlimited supply of brand-new Titleists.
Guests do not have to fret over missing their tee time, says one source who has played Shadow Creek four times. He saw only one gambler-cum-golfer on the course. By his estimate a maximum of eight, maybe 10, people play the course in a day. (The premier municipal course in Los Angeles, Rancho Park, sees 300 duffers on an average day.) Indeed, by his recollection, there are about six or seven course-maintenance employees per golfer. "You never see another player; you never see another cart; you never see another divot. It's like playing golf in your own little world. You have complete privacy. The only ones watching you are all the birds."
In fact, Shadow Creek has a couple of peculiar guidelines known as the Steve Wynn Rules that help preserve the experience of playing virgin sod: nobody may hit off the first tee until the green, more than 400 yards in the distance, has been vacated. If your ball is anywhere near flowers, foliage, trees or other natural wonders--you may move it and take a generous drop. And for goodness' sake, no matter what the fawning employees do for you, there is absolutely no tipping allowed.
The emerald scorecard, which credits Shadow Creek's architecture to Tom Fazio and Steve Wynn, has neither photographs nor drawings of the 7,158-yard layout. (The Mirage will provide a stock picture to most news organizations upon request.) According to those who have enjoyed Vegas' ultimate comp, the fairways are wide and forgiving, the greens large and immaculate. Tee markers are constructed of blue, yellow and white violets. Water hazards, which run through nearly half of the holes, are dyed a brilliant blue. And sparkling white sand, clearly not indigenous to Nevada, fills the bunkers. A special telephone awaits golfers at the eighth green, from which they may order customized lunches to be picked up at the turn.
"You've never seen a place like this," one gambler says. "It's like being on a course that's never been played."
"They can't do enough for you," he recalls. If by chance you've left your $1,000-minimum blackjack table in a hurry and have forgotten something--sweater, shoes, golf clubs--by all means, please, have a complimentary set, no problem. You want a snack? Say, chilled lobster and a glass of Dom Perignon? No problem. You want to play the fourteenth hole twice, just for the hell of it? No problem. On the other hand, if you're a scratch golfer, a respected member of your country club and an occasional $25 bettor at the craps table, playing Shadow Creek could be a problem.
"You don't have to be good to get on the greatest golf course in America," says one gambling golfer, "only rich."
The 1994 World Champion of Poker is Russ Hamilton, 44, a professional player from Las Vegas, who defeated 267 other competitors at the twenty-fifth annual World Series of Poker at Binion's Horseshoe. Hamilton won $1 million and, to commemorate the tournament's silver anniversary, his weight (330 pounds) in silver ingots. His victory was a thoroughly professional effort, a demonstration of how intimidating power and surgical precision can obviate the variances of good and bad "luck."
The most compelling card playing of the tournament, however, came in the $5,000-buy-in Limit Hold 'Em Championship.
After 12 hours of play, the battle for the title--and $210,000 for first place--was down to two contestants, Erik Seidel, an options trader from New York, and Mike Davis, a professional poker player from Vegas who looks like Curly from the "Three Stooges" with a beard and goes by the sobriquet "Mad Dog." Though Seidel has won numerous poker tournaments, including two World Series Championships, and is generally considered one of the game's best players, Mad Dog loudly and persistently informed the standing-room-only crowd that Seidel was "pitiful," had "no shot whatsoever to win" and was "a joke." Some of the other things Mad Dog said cannot be printed here, although the comments were vitriolic enough that tournament officials asked Mad Dog to curb his outbursts and behave like a world-class gambler, not a drunken slob.
"They don't call me Mad Dog for nothin'," he announced.
Though most of the audience was horrified by Mad Dog's behavior, several well-known poker players applauded his every utterance, urging him on to bigger put-downs, bigger pots. Most of these people had a financial interest in Mad Dog's finish, a percentage of his winnings. This, in fact, was the cause of all the ugliness.
In poker tournaments, the final two or three (or sometimes more) contestants often split the remaining prize money, usually based on the percentage of chips they hold. Most players view these deals as insurance policies, a safe way to defray the game's short-term volatility. When the Limit Hold 'Em Championship was reduced to a one-on-one battle, Mad Dog, Seidel and their respective backers retreated to a private room to hammer out an agreement. They could not reach a mutually acceptable split--Mad Dog wanted more than Seidel was willing to give--so it was decided they would play to the finish. Moreover, one of Mad Dog's backers, believing his man had been insulted in the negotiations, challenged Seidel's backers to an additional side bet of close to $10,000. They accepted. The game--and battle--was on.
At one point Mad Dog had Seidel "all in"--all of Seidel's chips were in the pot. Mad Dog held three tens with an ace kicker. Seidel had only one "out," a nine to make a straight. Miraculously, it came, giving Seidel a huge pot and new life in the tournament. Mad Dog went berserk, deriding Seidel's lucky play, yelling to the crowd that his opponent was a chump, an utter chump. "Anyone who thinks this clown can win," Mad Dog proclaimed, "is stupider than I thought."
Seidel said nothing. He continued to raise most pots, pressuring Mad Dog into bad decisions, bluffing him out of a $100,000 hand. Mad Dog kept barking; but Seidel, the epitome of class, had bite. At approximately three in the morning, he got Mad Dog to put in his last chip on a loser. Despite the psychological abuse, the humiliating remarks, the derisive laughter--despite the pressure of playing for $210,000--Erik Seidel became this year's World Champion of Limit Hold 'Em.
His response upon beating a man who had mercilessly taunted him, trying vainly to crush his will? Seidel offered Mad Dog a silent, conciliatory handshake.
I have never attended a poker tournament where the applause was longer or louder.
One prominent, imaginative Hollywood screenwriter clearly has a more vivid sense of story than gambling sense. He claims that on the past 11 trips he has made to Las Vegas, he has won 10 times, averaging $6,000 in profits.
"How?" I ask.
"Blackjack," he responds.
"So you're a counter," I exclaim, eager to hear how he has managed to make 11 consecutive trips to Las Vegas casinos without being detected.
"No, I never went in for that counting stuff," he scoffs, regaling me with tales of complimentary rooms, meals and even airfare--the mark of a dearly prized customer. And on top of all the perquisites, he won thousands. Ten out of 11 times.
"You must be a very lucky guy," I say.
"Nah, I had a system. A betting system." He manages to blurt out a few sentences about starting with a $100 bet, doubling his wagers and eventually reaching the table maximum before I am able to change the subject to baseball.
Anyone with even a meager knowledge of probabilities and high-school math ought to understand what every wise gambler knows from sheer instinct: betting systems (varying the size of your wager in a predetermined pattern) cannot beat casino games.
Remember that fact the next time someone urges you to place a large wager on black because the roulette wheel has come up red seven spins in a row. "Odds are it's going to come up black!" Actually, the odds are the same as they were the previous spin, the spin before that and every upcoming spin for the rest of eternity: 10 to 9 against red, 10 to 9 against black and 18 to 1 against the green zeros.
Like stock-market mutual funds, past performance does not guarantee future gains. Each spin of the wheel, each toss of the dice, is an independent event, subject to the same unbending numerical laws. Doubling your bet does not mean you've increased your wager at an opportune moment, it simply means you're gambling double (or quadruple or eight times') your previous wager on the same losing proposition.
If you had an infinite amount of money and, more important, the casinos didn't impose a limit on how much you could bet, a "betting system" might theoretically work. So, too, would "pyramid" and "ponzi" schemes or any other endeavor that relies on a constantly replenished supply of funds and dull-witted participants.
"Foolproof" betting systems, alas, are primarily utilized by fools.
The last person you would think a fool is that suave fellow James Bond. But while watching a 007 marathon on television recently, I was not so sure.
When he's not bedding a panoply of exotic beauties and foiling the world's most pernicious criminals, Bond, as you might recall, enjoys the game of punto banco, otherwise known as baccarat. And he appears to be quite good at it, too, possessing a highly refined ability to draw "nine" when his opponent pulls an "eight." Watch enough James Bond movies and you'll see him win many hundreds of thousands of francs--always, of course, in a perfectly pressed tuxedo, with a crowd of approving onlookers witnessing his triumphs.
I don't begrudge Bond his terrific record. He is, after all, our gallant hero. But, James, baccarat?
Despite the high-society glamour of the game, baccarat is the one casino activity that most resembles picking "heads" or "tails" on the flip of a penny. The house deals two hands: "player" and "bank." The hand with a point total closest to nine (picture cards are worth zero) is best. Gamblers bet on the hand they think will win.
That's it. That's the extent of the decision making involved.Based on how the rules are set up, after commissions the house has a 2 to 3 percent edge over the bettor. The shoe cannot be counted effectively; the cards cannot be bluffed, and, as we know, there's not a "betting system" in the world that can beat it. In other words, a losing proposition completely immune to skill, style or good looks.
Wouldn't Bond be better off playing poker? For that matter, wouldn't anybody?
Michael Konik is the gambling columnist for Cigar Aficionado.


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"An 11-month-old baby is in critical condition at Riley Hospital for Children Friday night after police said the man watching her threw her into her crib last week. Lamar Phillips, 19, is charged with battery causing serious bodily injury and neglect of a dependent. According to the probable cause affidavit, Phillips was watching 11-month-old Ciarra Lewis while his girlfriend was out shopping. Phillips reportedly told police the baby was interrupting him while he was playing video games so he threw her into a playpen, causing Ciarra to hit her head on the wall. "The child was fussing and crying and irritated him because it was interrupting his game as he was playing a military game on the TV and couldn't concentrate on the video game," read the probable cause. "
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If you need a good cry this Sunday, look no further than Kristen Wiig holding back her own tears as she dances with each of her cast mates in turn to Mick Jagger singing "She's a Rainbow." Another era of SNL fades away, just in time for the desultory amble of summer. Don't mourn Wiig's departure too long, though — she's probably going to make some awesome movies now that she doesn't have to pantomime Michele Bachmann for the American masses. Plus, there's always Stefon, who made a hilarious appearance on the Weekend Update.
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I've never eaten or prepared Pad Thai, but I've always wanted to try it. I'd love to know the brand name of kosher rice noodles so I can look for them either locally or online. (I live out of town.)
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Remember Target URL with Spring Security and Jasig CAS
I recently ran into a unique issue when combining Spring Security, Jasig CAS, and the Ozone Widget Framework (OWF). Basically, the original target URL was not being remembered with all the redirects from the CAS client filters, to CAS server, and then back to Spring Security. For example, if a user browsed to https://localhost/myapp/widget.jsp, they would be redirected to https://localhost/cas. Upon successful login, the user would be incorrectly redirected back to https://localhost/myapp instead of the original target URL.
SavedRequestAwareAuthenticationSuccessHandler almost worked
I thought I had found a solution by using Spring Security's SavedRequestAwareAuthenticationSuccessHandler, and that did work for single requests, but it did not work in an environment like OWF where multiple widgets are loaded simultaneously. The reason is because SavedRequestAwareAuthenticationSuccessHandler extracts the original target URL from the session, which is originally set by the ExceptionTranslationFilter. Since it used the session there could only be one original target URL. So if I had a workspace in OWF that loaded two different widgets from the same WAR (/myapp/widget1.jsp and /myapp/widget2.jsp), then there will only be one target URL saved in the session and both widgets would load the last saved URL, which is obviously not good.
- User browses to: https://localhost/myapp/widget.jsp
- CAS Client filters redirect to: https://localhost/cas/login?service=https://localhost/myapp/j_spring_cas_security_check&spring-security-redirect=/widget.jsp
- After authentication user is redirected to the URL defined in the service paramter https://localhost/myapp/j_spring_cas_security_check&spring-security-redirect=/widget.jsp which is monitored by Spring Security.
- Once Spring Security does it's thing, it needs to redirect to the value in the spring-security-redirect parameter.
What Spring Security example wouldn't be complete without some XML? The following is the application context file (note, for simplicity I have hardcoded the CAS urls and other values, but these would typically be read in from a properties file):
<sec:http use-expressions="true" entry-point-ref="casEntryPoint"> <sec:intercept-url pattern="/css/**" access="permitAll" /> <sec:intercept-url pattern="/images/**" access="permitAll" /> <sec:intercept-url pattern="/scripts/**" access="permitAll" /> <sec:intercept-url pattern="/**" access="hasRole('ROLE_USER')" requires-channel="https"/> <sec:custom-filter ref="casFilter" after="CAS_FILTER"/> </sec:http> <sec:authentication-manager alias="authenticationManager"> <sec:authentication-provider ref="casAuthProvider" /> </sec:authentication-manager> <bean id="casEntryPoint" class="com.example.security.cas.web.RememberCasAuthenticationEntryPoint"> <property name="loginUrl" value="https://localhost/cas/login" /> <property name="serviceProperties" ref="serviceProperties" /> <property name="targetUrlParameter" value="spring-security-redirect" /> </bean> <bean id="casAuthProvider" class="com.example.security.cas.authentication.RememberCasAuthenticationProvider"> <property name="userDetailsService" ref="userService" /> <property name="serviceProperties" ref="serviceProperties" /> <property name="ticketValidator" ref="ticketValidator" /> <property name="key" value="an_id_for_this_auth_provider_only" /> <property name="targetUrlParameter" value="spring-security-redirect" /> </bean> <!-- - This is the filter that monitors all incoming requests for the url /myapp/j_spring_cas_security_check (sequence #7). - Sets the targetUrlParameter to redirect to the target URL after authentication. - Also sets the authenticationDetailsSource to our custom one in order to have access to the HttpServletRequest - in RememberCasAuthenticationProvider for ticket validation. - Tried setting the authenticationSuccessHandler to SavedRequestAwareAuthenticationSuccessHandler, and that works - for a single request, but in OWF if you have two widgets loading different URLs, it doesn't work because - it loads the saved url from the session object, so both widgets load the same url. --> <bean id="casFilter" class="org.springframework.security.cas.web.CasAuthenticationFilter"> <property name="authenticationManager" ref="authenticationManager" /> <property name="authenticationDetailsSource"> <bean class="com.example.security.web.authentication.RememberWebAuthenticationDetailsSource"/> </property> <property name="authenticationFailureHandler"> <bean class="org.springframework.security.web.authentication.SimpleUrlAuthenticationFailureHandler"> <property name="defaultFailureUrl" value="/cas_failed.jsp" /> </bean> </property> <property name="authenticationSuccessHandler"> <bean class="org.springframework.security.web.authentication.SimpleUrlAuthenticationSuccessHandler"> <property name="defaultTargetUrl" value="/" /> <property name="targetUrlParameter" value="spring-security-redirect" /> </bean> </property> <property name="proxyGrantingTicketStorage" ref="proxyGrantingTicketStorage" /> <property name="proxyReceptorUrl" value="/secure/receptor" /> </bean>
CAS Entry Point
When dealing with Spring Security it all starts with the http entry-point-ref attribute. Here is the code for RememberCasAuthenticationEntryPoint:
package com.example.security.cas.web; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse; import org.jasig.cas.client.util.CommonUtils; import org.springframework.security.cas.web.CasAuthenticationEntryPoint; /** * Class which is responsible for remembering the original target url specified by the client. * Takes the original target url and appends that to the service param used by CAS. * This will later be used to redirect to the target URL after authentication. */ public class RememberCasAuthenticationEntryPoint extends CasAuthenticationEntryPoint { String targetUrlParameter = "spring-security-redirect"; protected String createServiceUrl(final HttpServletRequest request, final HttpServletResponse response) { String service = this.serviceProperties.getService(); String servletPath = request.getServletPath(); if (servletPath) { service += String.format("?%s=%s", this.targetUrlParameter, servletPath); } return CommonUtils.constructServiceUrl(null, response, service, null, this.serviceProperties.getArtifactParameter(), this.encodeServiceUrlWithSessionId); } }
CAS Authentication Provider
Next up is the CAS authentication provider which we have defined as RememberCasAuthenticationProvider. This bean is given to the CAS Custom Filter under the alias authenticationManager. Here is the code for RememberCasAuthenticationProvider:
package com.example.security.cas.authentication; import com.example.security.web.authentication.RememberWebAuthenticationDetails; import org.jasig.cas.client.validation.Assertion; import org.jasig.cas.client.validation.TicketValidationException; import org.springframework.security.authentication.BadCredentialsException; import org.springframework.security.authentication.UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken; import org.springframework.security.authentication.AccountStatusUserDetailsChecker; import org.springframework.security.cas.authentication.CasAuthenticationProvider; import org.springframework.security.cas.authentication.CasAuthenticationToken; import org.springframework.security.cas.ServiceProperties; import org.springframework.security.cas.web.CasAuthenticationFilter; import org.springframework.security.core.Authentication; import org.springframework.security.core.AuthenticationException; import org.springframework.security.core.authority.mapping.GrantedAuthoritiesMapper; import org.springframework.security.core.authority.mapping.NullAuthoritiesMapper; import org.springframework.security.core.userdetails.*; /** * CasAuthenticationProvider that tries to remember the original target url requested by the client. * The trick is having access to the HttpServletRequest in the authenticateNow() method. * This is accomplished via the RememberWebAuthenticationDetails class. * Since authenticateNow() was marked as private in CasAuthenticationProvider I had to also override * the authenticate() method. Created spring security jira https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SEC-2188 * to address making authenticateNow protected so we don't have to duplicate authenticate(). */ public class RememberCasAuthenticationProvider extends CasAuthenticationProvider { UserDetailsChecker userDetailsChecker = new AccountStatusUserDetailsChecker(); ServiceProperties serviceProperties; GrantedAuthoritiesMapper authoritiesMapper = new NullAuthoritiesMapper(); String targetUrlParameter = "spring-security-redirect"; /** * Straight copy and paste from CasAuthenticationProvider * @see spring security jira https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SEC-2188 */ public Authentication authenticate(Authentication authentication) throws AuthenticationException { ... } /** * The service URL used in ticketValidator.validate() needs to match the service URL given to CAS when * the ticket was granted. */ protected CasAuthenticationToken authenticateNow(final Authentication authentication) throws AuthenticationException { try { String targetPath = this.getTargetPath(authentication.getDetails()); def service = String.format("%s?%s", serviceProperties.getService(), targetPath); final Assertion assertion = this.ticketValidator.validate(authentication.getCredentials().toString(), service); final UserDetails userDetails = loadUserByAssertion(assertion); userDetailsChecker.check(userDetails); return new CasAuthenticationToken(this.key, userDetails, authentication.getCredentials(), authoritiesMapper.mapAuthorities(userDetails.getAuthorities()), userDetails, assertion); } catch (final TicketValidationException e) { throw new BadCredentialsException(e.getMessage(), e); } } /** * Extracts the original target url form the query string. * Example query string: spring-security-redirect=/widget.jsp&ticket=ST-112-RiRTVZmzghHO7az5gpJF-cas */ protected String getTargetPath(Object authenticationDetails) { String targetPath = ""; if (authenticationDetails instanceof RememberWebAuthenticationDetails) { RememberWebAuthenticationDetails details = (RememberWebAuthenticationDetails) authenticationDetails; String queryString = details.getQueryString(); if (queryString) { int start = queryString.indexOf(this.targetUrlParameter); if (start >= 0) { int end = queryString.indexOf("&", start); if (end >= 0) { targetPath = queryString.substring(start, end); } else { targetPath = queryString.substring(start); } } } } return targetPath; } }
Authentication Details Source
Since I needed access to the requests query string in the RememberCasAuthenticationProvider.getTargetPath() method, I needed to provide a different WebAuthenticationDetails class. This was accomplished by setting the authenticationDetailsSource property on the CAS Filter. Here is the code for RememberWebAuthenticationDetailsSource:
package com.example.security.web.authentication; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest; import org.springframework.security.authentication.AuthenticationDetailsSource; import org.springframework.security.web.authentication.WebAuthenticationDetails public class RememberWebAuthenticationDetailsSource implements AuthenticationDetailsSource<HttpServletRequest, WebAuthenticationDetails> { public WebAuthenticationDetails buildDetails(HttpServletRequest request) { return new RememberWebAuthenticationDetails(request); } }
Here is the code for RememberWebAuthenticationDetails:
package com.example.security.web.authentication; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest; import org.springframework.security.web.authentication.WebAuthenticationDetails; public class RememberWebAuthenticationDetails extends WebAuthenticationDetails { private final String queryString; public RememberWebAuthenticationDetails(HttpServletRequest request) { super(request); this.queryString = request.getQueryString(); } public String getQueryString() { return this.queryString; } }
That pretty much does it. I know it's a lot of code, but once I got familiar with Spring Security it really wasn't that much. Once you get this all configured it should just work and the users original target URL can be seen when getting redirected to the CAS login page and then after authentication, the user should be redirected back to the original target URL. And in an OWF environment where multiple URLs from the same WAR are being loaded simultaneously this solution seems to work.
I do want to mention that we have since noticed that there are conditions where the entire URL is not remembered. Simple URLs like /myapp/widget.jsp work great, but REST URLs like /myapp/api/events/1 are not completely preserved. Nor are params remembered either like /myapp/widget.jsp?id=1. At this time we really don't need that capability but I don't think it would be hard to add it. Most of the work has already been done.
One other thing. I think this experiment begs the question: why doesn't Spring Security already support something like this out of the box? It would seem like a very common use case. While researching it seems there might be a reluntance to support this feature due to security concerns of a malicious user gaining access to a resource they are not authorized for. I didn't do super extensive testing, but in the testing I did do, I was not able to gain access to resources I was not authorized for. Perhaps when/if I come back to these classes and add support for the noted issues above I might submit a patch back to Spring Security so this can get incorporated into Spring Security.


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Mar 28, 2006 | ISBN 9780515140880
Praise for Christine Feehan and her Carpathian novels
"The queen of paranormal romance! The one who started it all! The erotic, gripping series that has defined an entire genre. I love everything she does."—J. R. Ward, #1 New York Times bestselling author
"After Bram Stoker, Anne Rice and Joss Whedon (who created the venerated Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Christine Feehan is the person most credited with popularizing the neck gripper."—Time
"Feehan has a knack for bringing vampiric Carpathians to vivid, virile life in her Dark Carpathian novels."—Publishers Weekly
"Red-hot romance and great storytelling…a treat you can't refuse…Thrill-a-minute fantasy with complex characters and a story that captivates from beginning to end."—Fresh Fiction


text: Earlier this month, Microsoft announced that its Xbox 360 dashboard would be getting an upgrade "in the coming days." Today, the company has clarified that statement, declaring that the revamped interface will launch on December 6th. As we've previously noted, the update promises to bring deeper Kinect integration (including sharper voice recognition capabilities), Facebook sharing mechanisms, and a cleaner interface. Redmond also says that the fall cleanup will introduce "a wealth of new content," including live TV, music and movies, available for streaming. For now, the dashboard is still in beta, though it certainly won't be long before the masses get their hands on it.


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The winner of the PPK swag and loot giveaway is Rachell37. Congratulations! And . . .
Rachell37 has graciously said in her comment that she'd like to share her coupons with someone in the USA, and . . . that person is PeanuttyPrincess! Congratulations! You will receive coupons and some loot from Amy's. And . . .
I'm still waiting to hear from Sarah C., who won a copy of the upcoming The Inspired Vegan, and Carolyn, who won a copy of the Sunny Days fundraising cook zine. If I don't hear from you, I will choose another winner. So . . .
Happy Vegan MoFo! Finis.


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Oreo, the chocolate cookie with white icing, is taking its classic taste to candy shelves.
The brand's first candy bar, a Milka Oreo Big Crunch Chocolate Bar, was released Monday and is available at some retailers nationwide, including Wal-Mart, Kroger, ShopRite and Albertsons, according to a company statement.
It features a layer of crunchy Oreo cookies between two layers of rich vanilla creme, coated in European Milka chocolate candy, according to Oreo's website.
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"Milka Oreo Chocolate Candy Bars are a natural progression for Oreo,especially with Mondelēz International's global leadership position in chocolate and Milka being the No. 1 chocolate candy in Europe," said spokesperson Samantha Greenwood.
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"The combination of these two global powerhouse brands – both of which are known for their delicious taste – has led to a product line that is unique and truly differentiated in the U.S. chocolate candy category."
Milka Oreo Chocolate Candy Bar will debut in January 2017. It boasts vanilla cream studded with bits of chocolate Oreo cookies, then coated in Milka milk chocolate. Also, an Oreo Choco-Mix Snack Mix Bag will also be available next year.


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All you need to know about Genesis Global Limited Casinos
An online casino hosts a selection of gambling games that can be played from a computer. They are accessed using the internet and use real money. Players deposit funds to gamble with, and can then withdraw any winnings. The games available include some of the most popular ones, already seen in real-world casinos.
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Gambling can be fun to do. However, players should undoubtedly be aware of the dangers of overspending, and gambling addiction. They should make sure that they always gamble responsibly. They can do this, by never gambling with more money than they can afford to lose. This will help prevent significant debt.


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Sites for Social News Hounds: Newsle and Nuzzel
Ever wish you could only see the relevant news in your Facebook and Twitter feeds and weed out all the other junk? Newlse and Nuzzel are social news websites that aim to do just that. AllThingsD's Lauren Goode reports.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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It is a well-known fact that the generalized von Mangoldt function, defined by
$$\displaystyle \Lambda_k(n) = \sum_{d | n} \mu(d) \left(\log \frac{n}{d}\right)^k$$
vanishes whenever $n$ has more than $k$ distinct prime factors. I was able to prove this fact through a relatively lengthy and cumbersome combinatorial argument by proving first for the squarefree case, say when $n = p_1 \cdots p_s$ with $s > k$, and showed that the vanishing of $\Lambda_k(n)$ can be deduced from the following polynomial identity:
$$\displaystyle (x_1 + \cdots + x_s)^k - \sum_{\substack{S \subset \{1, \cdots, s\} \\ |S| = s-1}} \left(\sum_{i \in S} x_i\right)^k + \sum_{\substack{S \subset \{1, \cdots, s\} \\ |S| = s-2}} \left(\sum_{i \in S} x_i \right)^k - \cdots $$ $$ + (-1)^{s-1}\sum_{i=1}^s x_i^k = 0.$$
The general case is then done through a similar argument (which depends on the above identity) and strong induction.
However, I find the above argument to be somewhat insipid and not very 'number theoretic', as it is deduced from a general polynomial identity rather than using any properties of numbers. Is there any conceptually simpler, more number theoretic proof? It would be an added bonus if the proof is shorter than the above.


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Manchin Named Chairman of Armed Services Subcommittee | The Wheeling Intelligencer
WHEELING - Sen. Joe Manchin is now chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Airland for the 113th Congress.
The subcommittee oversees the air and ground equipment of all four military service branches, including the National Guard and Reserves, said Manchin, D-W.Va. It previously was chaired by former Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn.
"The most important thing, Airland oversees the National Guard's and Reserves' equipment issues," Manchin said. "We have a lot of refitting and restoration of equipment that comes out of theater and war. There's so much going on there, and so much more efficiency the Guard can do to save the Department of Defense millions of dollars."
Manchin said he plans to go out and visit National Guard bases to see how guardsmen can be used more effectively to bring down the overall cost of military and defense. He said it "sure didn't hurt" that as governor he previously was commander-in-chief over the West Virginia National Guard, which he said is known for doing "an excellent job."
"There are people who say the Guard can't do this or can't do that, but I know what the guard can accomplish and achieve for our military and our Department of Defense," Manchin said. "I want to see that they get a fair shake. That's my main goal -- to see that the Guard is treated fairly."
Maj. Gen. James A. Hoyer, the adjutant general for West Virginia, said having Manchin as chairman of the Airland subcommittee will be beneficial to both the nation and West Virginia. He also pointed to the cost-effectiveness of the National Guard.
"The National Guard costs significantly less than the active component," he said. "But we have to have a balance between the two. Having someone as subcommittee chairman who has been a governor and commander-in- chief could be of significant value to the nation and National Guard."
Hoyer added there is little full-time military presence in West Virginia and that the state's National Guard must take on the role when needed in the state.
"West Virginia depends on the Guard to be the significant responder in an emergency," he said. "It has the capability to serve that role in a national mission.
"This makes it significant for our senator to be a part of that committee and to serve as chairman where he can set priorities and formulate an agenda," Hoyer added. "It's a pretty significant thing to have (Manchin) in that capacity."
As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Manchin will continue to serve on the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities and the Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support. He is a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. And last week, Manchin also was named chairman of the Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests and Mining.
His other committee assignments include a spot on the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs and the Senate Special Committee on Aging.
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Nebraska DHHS head welcomes legislative audit
The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services is inviting lawmakers to conduct their own review of a program that State Auditor Mike Foley says was mismanaged.
Department CEO Kerry Winterer said Thursday he welcomes a review by the Legislature's Performance Audit Committee, saying its work was "professional, thorough and fair."
His comments came after Foley criticized the department's handling of the federal Low Income Home Emergency Assistance Program.
Foley says the state will relinquish $5.8 million in federal funds that could have benefited Nebraskans because department officials didn't understand how the program works. Foley recommended that the Performance Audit Committee investigate.
Winterer says the issues noted in the audit involved internal communication and controls, not a lack of understanding. He says the problems have been reviewed and corrected.


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Placed next to the door tracks, this infra-red system reverses the door on the way down when the light beam becomes obstructed.
There are 2 types of sensors:
transmitter-receiverinfra-red beam, such as the CPS from LiftMaster.
transmitter-reflectormodulated beam, reflected by a mirror, such as the model 42 GRU‑9000 from Allen Bradley or CPSRL‑N4 from LiftMaster.
For both models, the best efficiency is achieved within 30 feet. These systems are sensitive and the beams must be well aligned. Unless protective posts have been installed on the interior side of the door, we suggest installing an "L" shaped track guard to prevent any disturbance of the beams in high traffic areas.


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Here's part 2 in an initial 3 part series of Final Cut Prose video tutorials working with footage from the new Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital SLR. I recommend clicking thru for the HD version to better see Color's GUI.
One considerable addendum to the tutorial. I loaded the h264 source files into Color and observed far different measurements in Color's waveform monitor. Check this out:
Broadcast safe on:
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So it would appear there were some luma and chroma changes taking place during the conversion from h264 to ProRes. Almost as if Compressor applied a broadcast safe filter during conversion. The h264 source video that Vincent Laforet provided for download does indeed appear to be sans color correction.
Bleh, the h264 to Apple ProRes 422 workflow will need improvement. Well, it's a working model. You are witness to my real world self-analysis, right here before your eyes, humble reader.
If there's an FCP, Color, and / or Motion topic you would like me to cover, then post a comment and let me know. Check back soon for FCProse Episode 3 – Compressing 5dmarkii Footage for Web.
In the meantime, here's some HDR timelapse footage (click here for a how-to) shot on a digital SLR in San Francisco by Chad Richard.
Know any $2600 video cameras that can produce these results?
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It was bound to happen sooner or later, but it appears AT&T is ready to start transitioning users off their 2G EDGE network and getting them onto their 3G HSPA network. Letters went out this past week encouraging people to upgrade because their voice and data quality might suffer degradation. But why now? GigaOM thinks it's a move to free up available network spectrum.
As Kevin Fitchard points out, part of the reason AT&T wanted to buy T-Mobile to increase the capacity of their network. Which is to say, they wanted to be able to better handle more voice and data activity at any given time. But that didn't happen. By shutting down their 2G networks, they would free up plenty of space to upgrade and improve performance for 3G customers.
If AT&T is shutting down a significant portion of 2G networks, it may have found an answer to its capacity problems – at least in part. If it can't buy new 4G airwaves, then it can cannibalize its older networks, harvesting their valuable frequencies for new HSPA and LTE capacity. That's exactly the approach T-Mobile plans to take to get to LTE. When all is said and done, T-Mobile will have a sliver of GSM network remaining, but it will have an even bigger HSPA+ than it runs today, as well as an LTE network on par with AT&T's and Sprint's'.
AT&T says that they've only sent out notices to New York customers for the time being, and will only send out more to a small group, but the message is clear: Now that 3G has fully matured and 4G is on its way in, it's time for 2G to go. [MarketWatch via GigaOM]


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Lately, I've been trying to slowly add on my miles. Keyword – Slowly. It's so easy to get hurt when trying to add on miles, because people, including myself jump right back in where you assume you can run the same miles you could a month ago. Wrong! I have to remind myself that often. When adding on miles too quickly, it always leads to me feeling pretty crappy to say the least. Achy, pains, shin splints, back problems… BLAH! Not to mention I hunch over like this at my computer all day every day, terrible but true.
So, with adding mileage slowly, and working a ton on the computer I've got some serious aches throughout my entire body. When I started working out in the gym a few months back I turned to this product as well. So when Thera-Gesic reached out to me, I emailed them right back and said I've been using this for YEARS now, and I'm completely serious when I say that. I use it so much that when living with Shea she would know when I was using it and used to call our house a peppermint factory. I'm so excited to be hosting this giveaway for some sweet Thera-Gesic cream and an awesome giftcard!
If you haven't already tried this stuff, get your hands on it now because it will change your life. I usually put just a little on my shoulders nightly before bed. It really helps me relax, fall asleep and releases some tension from the day and all the hunching I do over the computer. I may even have a small little bottle at my desk that helps relieve some of the tension between my shoulders and I don't feel completely awkward putting a little bit on at work. It's easy to apply to your body and the heat isn't too intense. If you've tried one that is too intense you know what I mean by not being overwhelming. It also doesn't have the super pungent smell of peppermint. It's perfect for all those aches and pains you get when starting to train for anything too. That's why I love it when I'm upping my mileage and training for a long run. Even when I've upped my weights at the gym and I get a little sore, I just put a little bit of this on where I'm feeling achy and it helps me feel better quickly.
It's like doing an ice bath, but much quicker and much more efficient, which is great when you are on the go or don't have time for a full ice bath. It's perfect for any body part that is a little sore, including shoulders, ankles, knees, neck, lower back and even hips. I love that it's not sticky and goes on just like a normal lotion.
So Thera-Gesic is pretty much hooking my readers up and this may be one of the best giveaways I've held… The Grand Prize Winner is going to win a $100 Visa Gift Card and a 6 month supply of Thera-Gesic and 2 runners up can each win 6-month supply of Thera-Gesic. I am pretty sure I want to enter my own giveaway! Anyways, all you have to do to enter is…
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Christina Aguilera has come a long way since her early days of bubblegum pop songs and starring with Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake on "Mickey Mouse Club." For her upcoming big screen role in "Burlesque," the singer asked for the writers to give her character more of an edge.
"[It was] kind of like my first day at school," she told Marie Claire in its February issue, referring to the film, which she's in the midst of shooting in LA with Cher. "I didn't want to do something that was easy for me. I've actually had my character rewritten to be tougher and a little more spunky."
The singer said making the movie with Cher has been a major career high – along with a chance to learn.
"It's been quite the journey, let me tell you!" she continued. "Almost like training camp."
In addition to her movie, Christina will also be releasing a new album, "Bionic," in the spring – which she hopes will continue to inspire her female fans.
"I try to motivate women and make them feel empowered by their sexuality," she said of her music. "Anything that a man likes to make a woman feel weak about."
But Christina said her most important role is being a mother to her and husband Jordan Bratman's 2-year-old son, Max.
"It's really important that I'm the first thing he sees when he wakes up in the morning and the last thing he sees before bed," she said.
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