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Dr. Whitehurst's Biography — I would like to take this opportunity to tell you more about myself and my experience in healthcare. I am originally from Evanston, Illinois and I earned my B.S. degree in chemical engineering with a biomedical emphasis from Northwestern University in 1985. Following graduation from college, I was commissioned as an officer in the United States Navy, serving as a Naval Flight Officer from 1985 to 1992. After graduating first in my flight school class, I was assigned to an aircraft carrier-based F-14 TOMCAT Squadron. Continuing with high achievements, I was selected to attend TOPGUN, the Navy Fighting Weapons School and served during Operation Desert Shield. I resumed my studies at the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine following Honorable Discharge from active duty in 1992. I obtained my medical degree in 1996 and subsequently completed advanced orthopedic training as part of my residency at the University of Chicago Hospitals in 2001. In 2002 I completed a fellowship in arthroscopic surgery and sports medicine at the Southern California Orthopaedic Institute (SCOI). My subspecialty training focuses specifically on minimally invasive arthroscopic treatment of the shoulder, knee, ankle, elbow, wrist and sports medicine. While at SCOI, I produced award-winning research in shoulder instability and worked with research projects in knee ligament reconstruction. As an advocate for continuing medical education, I have authored numerous journal articles and presentations on arthroscopic surgery, and I am a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Rockford, lecturing on orthopedic subjects in conjunction with the University of Chicago. I also serve as an instructor to other orthopedic surgeons for advanced arthroscopic techniques. My practice is focused on general orthopedics with special interest in arthroscopic surgery and sports medicine. I am a team physician for the Rockford IceHogs and I am also active in several local high school and college sports programs. I enjoy the opportunity to work with athletes on a regular basis. In addition to my extensive medical commitments, I enjoy time with my family, biking, golfing, hiking, and boating. It is my mission to provide you excellent service as well as compassionate care. I always strive to provide you the same quality of orthopedic care I would offer to a member of my family. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to further improve your experience at OrthoIllinois.Learn more about Dr. Whitehurst
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Dr. Marcus Rutner
Habilitation, Technical University Munich, 2012
Habilitation Thesis: Load-Carrying Columns Subjected to Impulsive Loading-Protection Technology in High-Speed-Dynamics
Doctorate (Dr.-Ing.) in Civil Engineering, Technical University Munich, 2003
Doctoral thesis: Long-term Tension Stiffening in Composite Bridge Construction
Diploma Engineer (Dipl.-Ing.) in Civil Engineering, Technical University Munich, 1999
- Innovative metal and composite structures
- Lifecycle-oriented technology and design
- Embedded multifunctionality in metal and composite material
- Multiscale material mechanics and damage characterization of metals and composites through computational and experimental mechanics
- Associate Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2013-present
- Senior Research Engineer, Applied Science Department, Weidlinger Associates Inc., New York, 2007-2013
- Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Berkeley, Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, 2005-2006
- Doctoral Researcher, Technical University Munich, Germany, Department of Civil Engineering, 2002-2003
- Doctoral Researcher, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan, Department of Civil Engineering and Urban Design, 2000-2002
Honors & Awards
- German Research Foundation Scholarship (DFG), Postdoc at University of California at Berkeley, 2005-2007
- Excellent Paper Award,7th JGBS (Japanese-German-Bridge Symposium), 2007
- Outstanding Young Engineer Contribution Award, IABSE (International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering), 2006
- Monbusho Scholarship from the Japanese Government, Experimental Research on Long-term Tension Stiffening Effects at Osaka Institute of Technology/Japan, 2000-2002
Grants, Contracts & Funds
Selected grants:
- Principal Investigator (PI) of the Phase I STTR Proposal awarded by the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) to investigate Interlaminar Mode I and II Fracture Toughnesses in Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMCs), N13A-T008, 2013
- Co-PI of the Phase I SBIR Proposal awarded by the US AIR FORCE to investigate Modeling and Simulation of Hybrid Materials/Structures for Sustainment Applications, SBIR AF103-005, 2010
Selected Publications
- Rutner, M. (Jun 14, 2012). Load-carrying Columns Subjected to Impulsive Loading - Protection Technology in High-Speed Dynamics, Fischer, O., Habilitation Thesis, Technical University Munich.
- Rutner, M.,Sandler,I., Wright,J. "Structural and Transient Dynamic Response of Fluid Filled Foam", (submitted).
- Woelke, P., Rutner, M., Rans, C., Alderliesten, R. "Fatigue Fracture of Fiber Metal Laminates", (submitted).
Conference Proceedings
- Rutner, M., Paulino, G., Cipolla, J. (Jul 2, 2013). "Innovative Fatigue Life Assessment of Complicated Composite Structures", 12th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Raleigh.
- Woelke, P., Rutner, M., Abboud, N., Rans, C., Alderliesten, R. (Apr 2, 2012). "Finite Element Simulation of Fatigue Fracture in Fiber Metal Laminates", Airworthiness 2012, Baltimore.
- Rutner, M., Sandler, I., Wright, J. (Oct 30, 2011). "A Constitutive Model of Fluid Filled Foam Subjected to Transient Dynamic Loading", 82nd Shock and Vibration Symposium (SAVIAC), Baltimore.
- CE 486 Structural Steel Design
- CE 484 Reinforced Concrete Design
- CE 660 Advanced Steel Structures
- CE 518 Advanced Mechanics of Materials
- CE 510 Structural Health Monitoring

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LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - New England fishing quotas for cod, haddock and yellowtail flounder may be cut by 70 percent next year due to their depleted populations, a U.S. government official said on Thursday.
Fishermen scrambled to come up with an economic plan to protect themselves from any drastic quota reduction, which could make the fish harder to find on restaurant menus and in supermarkets.
Allison McHale, a spokeswoman for the regional fisheries office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said recent studies of fish populations could justify cuts of as much as 70 percent for cod and haddock and 50 percent for yellowtail flounder.
Overfishing is not thought to be the sole culprit.
"It's beyond just fishing," McHale told Reuters. "There are various factors we're investigating."
Fishermen suspect such factors as climate change and the rapid growth of predators including seals and dogfish, a small shark that feeds on juvenile cod and other bottom feeders.
A recommendation on next year's quotas from an advisory council that includes state environmental officials and fishermen may be released next month, and NOAA will announce the final quotas in the spring, McHale said.
"It's really scary for the fishermen," said Ben Martens, director of the Maine Coast Fishermen's Association, which represents small commercial fishermen. "While these cuts are very detrimental, some of them are needed. We're not seeing a lot of fish in the water and our fishermen don't want to be fishing down to the last codfish."
In response, fishermen in Maine and Massachusetts are asking the federal government to declare their North Atlantic fishery a federal disaster area, a move that could lead to millions of dollars in aid, including government purchases of excess fishing boats and permits.
Two recent assessments of cod found there were only enough spawning fish to meet 8 percent of a target level of 140,424 tons at Georges Bank, off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and 20 percent of targeted levels in the Gulf of Maine.
New England's bottom-fishing industry once fed millions of people but has dwindled as species such as Atlantic halibut and ocean perch have become commercially extinct.
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Oak Harbor native Marti Malloy on Monday became just the second American woman ever to win an Olympic medal in judo, taking home the bronze in the 57-kilogram division.
"I peaked for this tournament," Malloy told USA Today. "It's my first Olympics, and I feel fantastic to be leaving with the bronze."
The 26-year-old was accompanied to her first Olympics by her father, Marty, who wore a shirt with the name "Malloy" printed across its front as he watched his daughter from the stands.
The elder Malloy told the Associated Press that his daughter has been attending judo competitions since she was six year old. So how does the proud papa plan on celebrating the culmination of 20 years of his daughter's dedication?
"First, I'm going to have a beer in her honor," he told the AP.
Malloy guaranteed herself a medal by advancing to the event's semifinals, where she was defeated by Romania's Corina Caprioriu. Kaori Matsumoto of Japan took home first place after Caprioriu was disqualified for an illegal attack on Matsumoto during the gold-medal match.
Judo is a martial art of Japanese origin, in which the goal is to take one's opponent to the ground and immobilize her. The lone American to medal in the event prior to Malloy was Ronda Rousey, who won the bronze medal in Beijing in the 70-kilogram weight class.
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The terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 and destroyed the World Trade Center thought they could knock us out, but we're back on top with the final piece on top of One World Trade center and Old Glory flying high.
The spire will make the skyscraper 1776 feet high , truly a most noble achievement and one that should make every American proud.
But as I think back to 9/11, I remember that nefarious and egregious act of hate that caused our spirit to swell with renewed sense of patriotism. Flags were flying all over our country. Churches and Temples were full. America was hard at work raising money to help the victims.
When things were at there very worst, we found ourselves to be at our very best. As this tower rises, I feel it is a true testament about who we are as a people. You can knock us down but not our spirit, for we will rise again to fight another day for what is right.
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Gov. Deval Patrick and Education Secretary Matthew Malone met with students, teachers, school officials and local elected leaders in a visit to Matthew J. Kuss Middle School this morning.
If there's a way to make a lesson on congruent, complementary and supplementary angles more engaging for students, a "Jeopardy!" challenge is probably one.
It's exactly how teachers Hannah Camilleri and Henry Oliveira followed up that particular math lesson Monday morning, when Gov. Deval Patrick walked into the room.
Patrick and Secretary of Education Matthew Malone -- along with several school officials and local elected leaders -- encountered students grouped into teams, as they tried to rack up the most points and answer questions based on what they had just learned about angles.
Patrick and Malone were there to observe and congratulate the school's teachers, students and principals on Kuss's recent promotion from Level 4 to Level 1 status.
Patrick dove right in, conferring with students on a question about what kind of angle is a 91-degree angle. They had 90 seconds to determine an answer.
Students gave their answers and explained their reasoning. The answer was obtuse.
When asked whether he knew it, Patrick responded, "Of course. I've got a great team."
"I think it's B. Angles two and four are not congruent," another student argued in a following question.
Before leaving the classroom, Patrick told the students, "I just want to applaud you. You guys are doing fabulous work."
They visited a sixth-grade English language arts class. Students were seated in a circle, discussing a short story, "Charles" by Shirley Jackson.
Patrick sat in the circle with them. They were talking about the main character's possible motivation for making up a story to his parents about a classmate who did not actually exist, but whose bad behavior was actually his own.
"I think we have to put ourselves in Laurie's shoes," said one student to his classmates, "and think about what we would do."
Their teacher, Jared Bellot, facilitated the discussion with a few questions:
"Do you guys think that Laurie's parents were upset?"
Students gave their takes. They didn't raise hands, but took turns. The discussion thereafter was led by them.
According to Kuss principal Michael Procaccini, that's the culture in the building -- encouraging students to teach their peers.
Malone, standing behind students near the front of the classroom called the lesson "groundbreaking."
"You're sitting in the middle of a literature circle. It's the middle of September, and the first month of school for sixth graders who are new to this building. This is the norm of the kind of work that is happening across this system," Malone said.
"If you think about why you guys are getting the results that you're getting. We have high schools that can't have this level of conversation right now. And you guys as sixth graders in Fall River are truly breaking new ground. Thank you for your effort."
In a press conference following the classroom tour, Patrick said that several Level 4 schools statewide emerged from that status, including in Fall River.
"Many schools that were in turnaround status have emerged from that to greater levels of achievement and that's certainly happening in Fall River," Patrick said.
"Kuss in particular went out of Level 4 and right into Level 1."
He appeared impressed with what he saw in the classrooms he visited, saying he admired the skill of the teachers and the culture of the classrooms. The students' "engagement and intellect were on great display in the math class we saw and the English class as well.
"It underscores the point that the secretary and I believe which is that every child can learn and it's the responsibility of adults to create the type of environment that works for those children."
Patrick acknowledged that there is no one solution to improving public education.
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As Cassini prepares to plunge to its death, we celebrate the spacecraft's discoveries and breathtaking images of Saturn, its rings and moons.
After decades of research, reproductive biologists are on the verge of developing new birth control options that stop sperm from maturing or save a woman's eggs for later.
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Acting Editor in Chief Elizabeth Quill discusses how being patient isn't always easy in scientific work.
After decades of research, reproductive biologists are on the verge of developing new birth control options that stop sperm from maturing or save a woman's eggs for later.
As Cassini prepares to plunge to its death, we celebrate the spacecraft's discoveries and breathtaking images of Saturn, its rings and moons.
T2K experiment hints at an explanation for what happened to antimatter.
Data spanning 50 years shows that today, floods come days, weeks, even months earlier in some areas and later in others.
Archaea microbes spool their DNA much like plants and animals do.
Fossil comes from a lineage that had ties to the ancestor of modern apes and humans, researchers argue.
Scientists squeezed graphene sheets into diamondene.
New type of interaction confirms that neutrinos play by the rules.
Experiments in mice raise the question of whether type 2 diabetes might be transmissible.
If climate change is left unchecked, simulations show extreme heat waves in densely populated agricultural regions of India and Pakistan.
Gene editing of human embryos can efficiently repair a gene defect without making new mistakes.
The atmosphere and oceans of Saturn's moon Titan contain vinyl cyanide, a compound predicted to form cell-like bubbles.
DNA is painting a more detailed portrait of the ancient Canaanites, who have largely been studied through the secondhand accounts of their contemporaries.
Pigs engineered to lack infectious viruses may one day produce transplant organs.
A team of astronomers says the original asteroids all came in one size: extra large.
Upsetting nocturnal pollinators has daylight after-effects for Swiss meadow flowers.
Ice has taken on a strange structure, with its water molecules arranged in nearly perfect cubes.
A newly discovered species of arrow worm that lived over half a billion years ago had about twice as many head spines as its modern kin.
In 1967, scientists found a way to turn human waste into rocket fuel.
Space initiative dubbed Breakthrough Starshot sent the smallest spacecraft yet into orbit around Earth.
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A new documentary, "Death Dive to Saturn," takes a look back at the Cassini spacecraft's 13 years at Saturn and what to expect from its final days.
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Chocolate Prices Soar in Dark Turn
Consumer Shift to Dark Chocolate Further Squeezing Cocoa Supplies
Consumers from California to Switzerland are developing a taste for dark chocolate, taking a bite out of global cocoa supplies and driving up candy prices in both high-end boutiques and mass-market drugstores.
The cost of one kilogram of chocolate in the U.S. is expected to hit a record $12.25 this year, a 45% increase from 2007, according to market-research firm Euromonitor International.
Prices are on the rise due to a shortage of cocoa beans, which are roasted and ground to make chocolate. Market experts estimate that supplies will fall short of demand this year for the first time since 2010 and dry weather is expected to hurt the next harvest in West Africa, where 70% of cocoa beans are produced.
The supply shortfall is emerging just as Americans and Europeans are buying more chocolate, particularly the darker varieties, for both health and economic reasons. Dark chocolate often requires more cocoa beans per ounce than milk chocolate, which means that even small shifts in buying trends can have a big impact on the $5.4 billion cocoa-futures market, traders and investors say.
Cocoa prices are up 21% so far in the third quarter, outperforming broad commodity indexes. Hedge funds and other money managers are making bullish bets on cocoa futures in unprecedented numbers, wagering that steady economic growth in the world's developed economies will continue to fuel the rally. Big consumption gains in emerging markets such as Brazil also are lending support to prices.
Recent chocolate-sales figures reveal "a better-than-expected recovery in core markets such as North America and Northern Europe," said Jonathan Parkman, head of agriculture at Marex Spectron, a commodities brokerage based in London. "The return of confidence has allowed the consumer to buy a bit more of the premium-brand chocolates."
This year, total U.S. chocolate consumption is expected to rise for the first time since 2008, according to Euromonitor. Demand is seen rising in Western Europe for the fourth straight year.
"People are going back to an impulse buy," said Kip Walk, head of sustainability at Blommer Chocolate Co., which manufactures chocolate for food companies. Mr. Walk said the rebound in demand for premium chocolate reflects the pent-up demand that continues to recover from the global financial crisis.
"Chocolate was resilient but not recession-proof," he said. "The very high-end products got the brunt of" consumption declines during the recession.
Dark chocolate is behind most of that new demand, according to NPD Group, a market-research firm based in Port Washington, N.Y.
Dark chocolate's share of the U.S. market for chocolate bars will approach 20% this year, from just over 18% in 2008, according to Euromonitor. In Switzerland, where per-capita chocolate consumption is among the world's highest, the share of dark chocolate jumped to 30% from 22% over the same period.
"There's a general trend toward the dark chocolate," said Nicholas Fereday, a food-industry analyst at Rabobank. "The benefit of having the high cocoa content is having a lower sugar content and that's what would appeal to calorie-counters."
Earlier this month, the European Commission said Swiss chocolate maker Barry Callebaut AG could legally advertise that consumption of one of its chocolate products, Acticoa, could help maintain healthy blood circulation.
Recent converts to dark chocolate say they have been won over by heavily publicized health benefits and its lower sugar content compared with milk chocolate.
"As I got older I liked dark chocolate better, knowing that there's more nutritional value than milk [chocolate]," said Charlotte Vance, a 22-year-old from Los Angeles, who is studying to be a nutritionist.
Candy makers have noticed the shift. Hershey Co., the biggest U.S. candy maker by sales, has been broadening its product lineup to include gourmet brands such as Dagoba and Scharffen Berger and dark-chocolate versions of brands like Kit-Kat and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
In 2012, Hershey acquired the Canadian company that manufactures Brookside-branded candy, dark chocolate with juices made from fruits such as açai and pomegranate.
Hershey and other companies are seeking to capitalize on tastes of consumers such as Dwayne Seegar, 38, who works in administration in New York. Mr. Seegar has preferred dark chocolate since he was a kid.
"Lately I find the higher the percent [cocoa content] the more I like it," he said.
The taste isn't for everyone.
"Milk [chocolate] has that creamy aspect that's more appealing to my palate," says Jake Poteat, 23, a graduate student at New York University.
And some investors believe the rally in cocoa futures is overblown. The outlook for West African supplies is too pessimistic, and cocoa prices are likely to fall back once the harvest there begins around mid-October and traders get more precise indications of actual output, said Shawn Hackett, president of brokerage and consulting firm Hackett Financial Advisors in Boynton Beach, Fla.
The cocoa-futures market is experiencing a "feeding frenzy," Mr. Hackett said. "This has all the elements of [speculators] getting carried away."
Still, the focus remains on rising demand, especially ahead of the confectioners' quartet of Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day and Easter in the U.S. Cocoa prices soared to a one-year high last week, though on Friday they slipped 0.8% to $2,608 a metric ton as investors booked profits.
On Friday, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission reported that, as a group, money managers had placed $1.72 billion of bullish bets on cocoa as of Sept. 17. The number of these so-called net long positions, 65,609, is the biggest since at least 2006, when the U.S. commodities regulator began reporting this data in its current form.
Industry executives say it is likely that, if sustained, the move in cocoa futures will result in even-higher chocolate prices.
But if history is any guide, chocolate lovers won't let higher prices keep them from their craving, said Hershey's Chief Executive John P. Bilbrey. "Pricing has grown but [sales] volume has always followed," he said.
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by Mark Garcia, June 26, 2013
Inground Pool Alarm Comparison
Pool Alarms sense sub-surface waves, when an object of more than 15 lbs. enters the pool. They do this by measuring displacement of the water with underwater sensors.
When enough displacement is sensed, the alarm is triggered, and a high decibel alarm will sound both at the pool side unit, and at a remote receiver, placed inside the house.
Poolcenter has always offered a big variety of pool alarms, in fact we have 5 different brands listed on the website. That's a lot of clicking back and forth, trying to compare different alarms.
In this post, I'll review the pool alarms that use sub-surface detection. These are the most reliable types of inground alarms and include the AquaGuard, the PoolEye and the PoolGuard pool alarms.
Pool Alarm Installation Comparison:
PoolGuard is the easiest to install, it comes completely assembled. It comes with a pin on the horizontal axis, and instructions will have you drill a 1/4" hole into the pool deck to prevent the alarm from being pushed or pulled into the pool. This can be optional, if you'd rather remove the pin. Add the battery to the poolside unit, plug in the in-house remote and you are ready to test the PoolGuard alarm.
PoolEye comes mostly assembled in the box, and is the only pool alarm to have the option of mounting to the pool deck, or mounting to a vertical pool ladder rail. The deck mount kit can be screwed into the deck, or if your deck overhangs enough, can be clamped onto bullnose coping. Add batteries to the poolside unit, and plug in the remote unit and you can test your PoolEye alarm.
AquaGuard needs only light assembly and battery placement. A plate is secured to the pool coping or deck with 3 supplied screws and anchors. Once secure, attach the poolside unit to the plate. Establish the radio connection with the in-house wireless reciever and you're ready to test out the AquaGuard alarm.
Pool Alarm ASTM certification:
Both the PoolGuard and AquaGuard list ASTM approval F-2208 on their alarms. Not listed by PoolEye. The American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM), certifies that products are safe to use, as their intended purpose.
Pool Alarm Convenience:
The PoolGuard alarm owner's manual tells you to remove the alarm when using the pool. Bummer - because you have to remember to put the alarm back in place after swimming - and turn it on.
PoolEye and AquaGuard allow you to keep the alarm in the pool while using the pool, although you will need to turn the alarm off before swimming. AquaGuard has a unique 'Swim Mode' feature which will automatically reset the alarm once the water has been still for 10 minutes.
AquaGuard is the only pool alarm with a wireless remote alarm. This means you can position the in-house remote at multiple locations around the house, or carry it with you to some areas outside the house (within 100 ft. of the pool). However, this may lead to the remote becoming misplaced or more easily broken.
Our Pool Alarm Comparison Chart shows some big differences in price and warranty for the 3 pool alarms. Another consideration may be the maximum 'Coverage' - larger pools may need more than one alarm.
100' of range for the remote alarm (inside the house) may be enough for most, but one pool alarm remote will transmit up to 200 ft away from the pool.
If the longevity of the company making your pool alarm is a consideration for you - the PoolGuard has been around the longest, since 1982. The PoolEye was introduced in the mid-90's and the AquaGuard is the newest alarm in the game, having been around for about 5 years.
I hope that this helps to narrow down the options and choices in swimming pool alarms. Pool Alarms are an important Layer of Protection for any swimming pool, to improve the level of safety and peace of mind.
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IHP has an open membership call and at last count there are 280 members. The members are a unique mix of people who are students, academics, professionals and researchers. We add a few interested members every month through submissions via our website and the chapter is well known in security circles in the country.
Over the past year a number of members have set up honeypots in their office or home, voluntarily and we realized that this would happen when there was a high level of interest (for whatever reason) and then the HP would go offline without reports coming in. Usually this would happen as members moved location due to change in their jobs.
In view of this high turnover which leads to a picture of inactivity, IHP kicked off the India Honeynetwork with a goal of (at least) 20 sensors across the country by the end of the year.
Presently the following deployments are in place or coming up (number of sensors indicated in brackets alongside):
City: Pune (Mah)
Kippo (1); Glastopf (1); Email trap(1); Honeysense (in testing) (1)
City: Mumbai (Mah)
Glastopf / Honeysense (1)
City: Delhi (ND)
Glastopf (1); Honeebox (1)
City: Ranchi (JH)
Kippo (1)
1. Project India Honeynetwork
As explained above this all India network of honeypots will be set up in volunteer locations in offices, homes, police data centers and universities. The goal is to have (at least) 20 sensors up by the end of the year.
Activity monitoring / report collections, analysis and distribution will be carried out from a C & C being established at Cyber Defence Research Center in Ranchi (Jharkhand) India with a secondary C & C at iSight facility in Pune (Mah) India.
The network will provide opportunity to study a countrywide pattern and projects relating to spam, botnet activity are being planned.
2. Honeysense
In order to facilitate the honeypot deployment across the country, a pre-configured distro has been prepared and is in beta testing at the time of submission of this report. This has been christened Honeysense and IHP will make a public announcement inviting testing and comment later in the month of November.
The distribution, comprising of few open source honeypots, aims at gathering information about the motives and tactics of attacks launched either automatically by botnets or manually by malicious individuals against various well known services. Capabilities of honeypots included allow researcher to analyze the attack vectors and capture malicious binaries used during attacks. In this current distribution, following honeypots have been installed and preconfigured.
1. Dionaea – a low interaction honeypot used to capture network based attacks on various protocols like ftp, http, tftp, smb, mssql, mysql etc. Its intention is to trap malware exploiting vulnerabilities exposed by services offered to a network with ultimate goal of gaining a copy of the malware.
2. Glaspot v3 – a low interaction honeypot used to capture web based attacks such as SQLi, LFI, RFI, XSS etc. It emulates thousands of vulnerabilities to gather data from attacks targeting web applications.
3. Kippo – a medium interaction honeypot used to capture SSH based attacks. It is designed to log brute force attacks and, most importantly, the entire shell interaction performed by the attacker.
3. Honeysense Reporting and Management
Efforts are underway to build the reporting and management interface and process to be implemented at the C & C. It is proposed to have one full time administrator who will be responsible for the maintenance of the network and for reporting.
4. SCADA Honeypot
Presently being studied by the IHP members and discussion is being initiated with power distribution organizations in the state of Jharkhand and a major distribution company in Mumbai to place the HP in their network ! This seems to be a tall order but then if we do not ask we will not get the opportunity to setup in a real utility network.
Collaboration / help we are interested in:
Primarily in the development / deployment of SCADA honeypot and building capability for the same. There is an urgent need for creating capability and knowledge for protection of critical infrastructure and this can be a first step / contribution from IHP to the national effort. In addition, we need help for data analysis and configuring reporting systems. We also want to create a high level of interest within the student / academic community and want to collaborate with chapters or individuals who have done some work in this direction.
List published papers and presentations.
List interactions with the security community.
IHP is closely associated with most security community organizations in the country like OWASP India, ClubHack, nullcon, Malcon, c0c0n, IS-RA, National Anti Hacking Group, National Security Database, ISAC India, Cloud Security Alliance, PCI-DSS Conference and others.
List possibilities to interact with your chapter (e.g. chapter web page).
The chapter website is on www.honeynet.in and chapter members communicate via a mailing list set up on Google groups. The website is being redesigned and will provide a higher level of interactivity and information resources once complete. Monthly community meetings in Mumbai include updates about the Honeynet Project in the country.
Chapter goals for the past year and for the next year.
Goal for the current year is to set up 20 sensors and have the India Honeynetwork up and running and to harvest and share the activity and information from this network. The network will use Honeysense and we will have two C & C operations in place.
Rahul Sasi is a regular presenter at conferences and can be seen / heard at HITB Amsterdam, BlackHat Europe and US, Ekoparty plus a host of engagements in India and overseas. He is also a key member of the team that has developed Honeysense.
A couple of links to his talks are given below:
We are working with students in various universities and have been mentoring interested people in their career goals. One of our members is Prakhar Prasad based in Ranchi who has been quite active in researching vulnerabilities and has been recognized by Google and Twitter.


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Getting Started with the Stellaris EK-LM4F120XL LaunchPad Workshop
This workshop has been upgraded to the new Tiva TM4C123G LaunchPad Workshop located here. No further changes will be made to this page as of 14May2013.
Version 1.10 March 2013 Labs are based on CCS 5.3
The Getting Started with the Stellaris EK-LM4F120XL LaunchPad Workshop is a free, in-depth, hands-on introduction into Stellaris LM4F basics including:
- Introduction to the ARM® Cortex™-M4F and Peripherals
- Introduction to Code Composer Studio
- StellarisWare, Initialization and GPIO
- Interrupts and the Timers
- The Hibernation Module
- Memory
- The Floating-Point Unit
- BoosterPacks and the Graphics Library
- Synchronous Serial Interface (no video)
- UART (no video)
- uDMA (no video)
Each of these sections includes an in-depth lab that will step you through the usage, programming and testing of the peripheral(s) or tool(s) covered.
The workshop is based on the low cost, expandable Stellaris LaunchPad Evaluation Kit[1]. The LaunchPad board features an 80MHz LM4F120H5QR microcontroller, on-board emulation and BoosterPack XL format expansion pins. The LM4F120H5QR microcontroller has 256KB of flash memory, 32KB of RAM, 2KB of EEPROM, two 12-bit analog to digital converters, a USB 2.0 device port, a hibernation module, other serial connectivity and flexible GPIO.
Stellaris devices[2] are supported by several Integrated Development Environments: Mentor Graphics® Mentor Embedded IDE[3], IAR Systems Embedded Workbench[4], ARM®'s Keil™ microVision IDE[5] and Texas Instrument®'s Eclipse-based Code Composer Studio™[6]. The workshop labs are based on Code Composer Studio, which is free and fully functional when connected to the LaunchPad board.
The workshop labs are constructed using StellarisWare™[7]. StellarisWare is an extensive suite of license and royalty-free software designed to simplify and speed development of Stellaris-based microcontroller applications. StellarisWare includes the Peripheral Driver Library and the Graphics Library. The Peripheral Driver library is a set of functions for controlling the peripherals found on the Stellaris family of ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers. All LM4F devices provide this code in on-board ROM. The Stellaris Graphics Library is a set of graphics primitives and widgets for creating graphical user interfaces on Stellaris microcontroller-based boards that have a graphical display.
Expandability of the LaunchPad board is accomplished through its BoosterPack XL connectors. These connectors are backwards compatible with the original BoosterPack connectors. There are many BoosterPacks available through TI and third parties. In order to highlight the expansion capabilities of the Stellaris LaunchPad board and the use of the graphics library, the workshop includes the Kentec Display 3.5" LCD TouchScreen BoosterPack (8bit) [8]. You can purchase the BoosterPack directly from the manufacturer or through Newark Electronics.
Alternatively, you can buy SSD1289 3,2" LCD 16 bit color + Touch Boosterpack danirebollo version: (kentec:8bit, danirebollo:16bit. both works with TI Graphics library).
Newly added to the workshop is Chapter 11: Synchronous Serial Interface. In order to run the lab you will need to purchase and modify an Olimex 8x8 LED BoosterPack . These boards are available through Mouser Electronics . Complete instructions on the needed modifications are in the chapter 11 lab.
3,2" Touch LCD boosterpack SSD1289 (danirebollo)
Here is the Touch LCD Boosterpack for Tiva, Stellaris and Hercules Launchpad. It works with Texas Instruments Graphics Library and uses SSD1289 LCD Driver for 3,2" 320x240 Screen and analog signals for Touch (TI Graphics Library uses analog signals). The interface are hi speed 16bit color parallel Also, you can use EHA protocol to control it only through 4 wire bus.
You can found example codes and buy it on danirebollo.es website
Info: Texas Instruments Graphics Library: http://www.ti.com/tool/sw-tm4c-grl?sectionId=625&tabId=2495&familyId=1755 SSD1289 LCD Driver: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzJpWEe1yMQvMVpEZm1DNVpLR2s/edit?usp=sharing and https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzJpWEe1yMQvR2c5ZEJlU1NhX1E/edit
Attend a Live Workshop
You can attend a live version of this workshop taught by an experienced Texas Instruments instructor. Sign up here.
Hardware Requirements
To run the labs, you will need the following:
- A 32 or 64-bit Windows XP, Windows 7 or Windows 8 laptop with 2G or more of free hard drive space. 1G of RAM should be considered a minimum … more is better.
- A laptop with Wi-Fi is highly desirable
- If you are working the labs from home, a second monitor will make the process much easier. If you are attending a live workshop, you are welcome to bring one.
- If you are attending a live workshop, please bring a set of earphones or ear-buds.
- If you are attending a live workshop, you will receive an evaluation board; otherwise you need to purchase one.[9]
- If you are attending a live workshop, a digital multi-meter will be provided; otherwise you need to purchase one like the inexpensive version here [10]
- If you are attending a live workshop, you will receive a second A-male to micro-B-male USB cable. Otherwise, you will need to provide your own to complete Lab 7.
- If you are attending a live workshop, you will receive a Kentec 3.5" TFT LCD Touch Screen BoosterPack (Part# EB-LM4F120-L35). Otherwise, you will need to provide your own to complete Lab 10. You can purchase the BoosterPack directly from the manufacturer or through Newark Electronics.
- If you are attending a live workshop, Olimex 8x8 LED BoosterPacks will be available with both modifications. If you want to run this lab from home you will need to obtain and modify the board as detailed in the chapter 11 lab.
Software Requirements
To run the labs, you will need the following:
- Code Composer Studio 5.3 or later[11]
- StellarisWare[12]
- The LM Flash Programmer[13]
- The latest ICDI drivers[14]
- The lab installation file[15]
- The workshop workbook[16]
- A terminal program like HyperTerminal (WinXP) or PuTTY[17]
- The Windows side USB examples[18]
- GIMP image manipulation tool[19]
Complete instructions for downloading and installing this software is in Chapter 1 of the workbook or in the installation guide.
Workshop Material
- The workbook pdf file
- The labs installation file
- The zipped PowerPoint presentation
- The Word doc files used to create the workbook
- The installation guide for workshop attendees
Workshop Videos
Chapter Two - Code Composer Studio
Chapter Three - StellarisWare, Initialization and GPIO
Chapter Four - Interrupts and Timers
Chapter Six - Hibernation Module
Chapter Ten - BoosterPacks and grLib
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"Everybody remembers where they were when O.J. Simpson, riding in a white Bronco, led the police on a low-speed chase all over Los Angeles," Fox noted in its announcement, adding that the incident turned out setting the bases for what we now call reality television."
According to Fox, the movie will "take viewers behind the scenes of 'The Trial of the Century,' driven by the nonstop plot of a courtroom thriller and presenting the story of the trial as it has never been told."
As the Washington Post notes, this isn't the first time the network tries to bring Simpson's story to the silver screen. Back in 2006, Fox announced a two hour special titled "O.J. Simpson: If I Did It, Here's How It Happened," an interview based on a book of the same name, which provided a hypothetical confession by the football player written by Simpson himself.
That project was canceled by News Corp. a few days after it was promoted, calling the project "ill-considered."
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More than 700,000 of the boards are estimated to have sold since their launch in February this year.
Launched to inspire a new generation of children to start programming, the Pi has also won over legions of adult hackers to start Pi-powered projects ranging from home automation to robotics.
This is where life begins for many Raspberry Pi boards, at a Sony factory in Pencoed in South Wales.
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We knew it was coming, we just didn't know it would be this soon.
Pete Gallego, the Alpine-based Democrat whose sprawling congressional district extends from San Antonio to El Paso, didn't make it out of the supposed honeymoon phase of his freshman congressional term before drawing a 2014 challenger.
Dr. Robert Lowry, a Fair Oaks Ranch physician, filed a "statement of candidacy" with the Federal Election Commission on March 7 for Gallego's District 23 seat.
A gangly, slow-talking acolyte of Ron and Rand Paul, Lowry, 52, has fancied the District 23 seat for several years. In 2010, he ran a surprisingly strong race in the District 23 Republican primary, drawing more than 22 percent of the vote and finishing a solid third in a five-candidate field.
When the two top finishers — former CIA agent Will Hurd and local attorney Francisco "Quico" Canseco (the eventual winner) — made it to a runoff, Lowry's endorsement was much-coveted, and he threw his support behind Hurd.
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Simply put, San Antonio has two types of congressional representatives. Joaquín Castro and Lamar Smith have their seats for as long as they want them; Gallego, on the other hand, lives on the hot seat.
Representing District 23 means an acceptance that the fickle finger of political fate can turn on you at any moment. It means that you best avoid signing a long-term lease in the Beltway.
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Lowry is a strict constitutional conservative who showed in 2010 that he appeals to tea party activists and the libertarian wing of the GOP, although he's probably too innately independent to attach himself completely to any movement.
In 2010, then-U.S. Rep. (and libertarian darling) Ron Paul embraced Lowry's candidacy, with a from-one-doctor-to-another endorsement. Paul vouched for Lowry's small-government bona fides by calling him a "Ron Paul guy all the way" and dismissed Canseco (who served one congressional term before Gallego ousted him last November) as a "party parrot" and a "useful idiot."
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That ended recently, however, when Cibrian decided to back Ron Nirenberg's candidacy in her old district.
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In the recent past HTC and Microsoft had close partnership relationships and as a result Windows mobile phones really made good progress and captured the market but the business world is not static it is always dynamic and moving. HTC gave a second thought to this relationship and preferred to shift to Android based smartphones.
When Microsoft developed windows based phone platform, HTC gave a support to it by employing this software in their mobile phone. At that time the other rival companies were doing the same. This continued last year by all manufacturers. Gradually HTC shifted its focus from windows and finally gave up this platform in favor of Android operating system and completely discontinued with windows.
Once again we find HTC using the windows phone platform in its new HTC ONE M8, wherein windows operating system with all its features has been installed. Nokia's Lumia series has lately used windows platform. HTC using windows has come in focus once again. Let us see what all it contains.
In design feature HTC One M8 is just similar in appearance as its Android powered versions. Finding a change from Android to windows is quite a change from the usual looking features of Android in Nokia Lumia series.
It is quite pleasing to see a new device from HTC that is windows based and is the latest product by the name HTC ONE M8. Previously only Nokia series were utilizing the windows operating system. However otherwise there is no major change from the previous Android powered HTC ONE M8 that we have been seeing for quite some time.
Considering it a new product the users expected a premium design that would be made from quality brushed aluminum. Users expected something more and new. They had a picture of HTC Window Mobile smartphone of superior design in their mind. Despite this the look of HTC ONE M8 is quite impressive and there is seriously no complaint about it. We find nothing lacking in a Windows based smartphone which is there in Android powered version and Windows version does not have.
It is difficult to talk about screen because we find no difference in the display of this device and the already existing one. However to be very specific there are some minor changes. Very wisely HTC has not disturbed the pattern and the style of Android powered HTC One M8 while designing the same device and making it windows based. All design features are the same. HTC ONE M8 with windows operating system has 5-inch 1080 x 1920 Super LCD-3 display with Gorilla Glass 3.
Having the same display quality it has the same outlook with all it brightness and vivid colors and same viewing angles. However it is better than before that it is stronger in brightness 510 nits and color temperature of ~7100 K. Beyond that, they match each other in pretty much all aspects!
User Interface and Functionality
Although HTC has used windows 8.1 in HTC One M8 Windows Phone and given a windows experience to the users but has also added its own developed apps to make a little change. The change is really not much because it cannot over through windows. Many users may not have noticed but this is the first smartphone from HTC using windows phone 8.1 operating system with many improvements by HTC's indigenous apps. In case of Microsoft digital voice assistant service Cortana has been replaced with the new notification panel to place all notifications at one place and we have more flexibility of customization of start screen. HTC manages to throw in a few exclusives.
In the previous window phones HTC had included its own Sense UI 6 as we had seen in Android based M8. In the present case they include HTC BlinkFeed, HTC Camera, HTC Photo Edit, and HTC Sense TV.
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HTC ONE M8 Windows has not much difference from the Android version. The new handset is featured with 2.3GHz Quad Core processor and pair with Snapdragon 801 system on chip. This is the finest combination of processor and chipset. HTC placed 2 GB RAM along with 32GB on board memory. If anyone want more capacity then they will have option to increase the on board memory after insertion of microSD card. Users can easily download and run large number of files as well as heavy game file without facing the low memory problem and they can safe there data in one place on their handset. This handy data bank will always keep them and the users can access their data anywhere.
The new HTC One M8 Windows is equipped with the same duo camera system that gives the same feel and cool post focusing effects. However the overall image quality and the photographic results are not very different.
It has the same 4 mega pixel 1/3" sensor dubbed the "UltraPixel camera," which is equipped with dual-LED flash, 1080p video recording, BSI, and f/2.0 aperture lens. The front facing camera is a wide angle 5 mega pixel piece of equipment and includes. The camera of the handset is also featured with same HTC sense camera interface as the Android based handset has.
We already told the users that the handset has no difference beside the operating system. This new version is powered with same 2600mAh battery. The battery is quite powerful and gives the sufficient backup to the handset and users may not worry about the power because this is sufficient for the whole 1 day, 24 hours for all purposes. Moreover it has a battery saver mode as well. But probably it is not as efficient as in Android power M8"extreme power saving mode." If the battery runs the device efficiently for 24 hours and gives uninterrupted performance the users should be satisfied with this capacity of the power source placed in the handset.
HTC has probably taken a good decision to adopt windows phone operating system to its new device HTC ONE M8 Windows which has provided diversity in performance for the users. They have now windows experience as well as a mixed apps experience that is HTC's own development. With this change we have a premium quality and high profile smartphone available through us.
With all these changes and diversity yet the handset has a moderate price of $99.99. On the contrary the competitors are also not sitting idle and are active. Nokia Lumia icon gives incentive to the users by offering free through Verizon.


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Hugh Hefner has reached out to ex-girlfriend Holly Madison to congratulate her on the birth of her daughter.
The Playboy boss' former partner gave birth to Rainbow Aurora, her first child with fiancé Pasquale Rotella, earlier this month, and Hefner sent his blessings to the former Playboy Playmate.
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Spartans Receive Academic HonorsMarch 17, 2013The York College wrestling team is proud to announce that they have received Scholar All-American status from the Division III Wrestling Coaches Association. The Spartans finished the 2012-13 season with a team GPA of 3.26, which ranks 18th in the nation.
All-American Pisani Finishes Fourth at NCAA ChampionshipsMarch 16, 2013York College wrestling senior Vinny Pisani closed out his career as an All-American with a fourth-place finish at the NCAA DIII National Championships in Cedar Rapids, Ia. on Saturday.
Pisani Punches Ticket to the National Semifinals with Two Friday WinsMarch 15, 2013York College senior 149-pounder Vinny Pisani won both of his matches during the first two sessions of the 2013 NCAA Division III National Championship Tournament in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Watch Kessler and Bastress Enter NWCA Hall of FameMarch 14, 2013York College head coach Tom Kessler and assistant coach Duane Bastress will be inducted into the National Wrestling Coaches Association Hall of Fame on Thursday night in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Spartans Send Three To NationalsMarch 13, 2013Wrestlers from all over the country will be converging on the Cedar Rapids Ice Arena in Cedar Rapid, Iowa for the 2013 NCAA Division III Wrestling Championship this Friday, March 15. The York College wrestling team will be well represented this weekend at the championships, sending senior Vinny Pisani, junior Chuck Glatz and sophomore Joey Giaccio to compete.
Three Spartans Earn Spot in 2013 NCAA National ChampionshipsMarch 02, 2013York College senior Vinny Pisani and sophomore Joey Giaccio both earned a berth in the 2013 NCAA Division III National Wrestling Championship tournament after winning their respective weight classes at Saturday's NCAA Division III Mideast Regional in Ada, Ohio.
Blue Jays Upend #15 Spartans in Regular Season FinaleFebruary 15, 2013The 15th ranked York College wrestling squad closed out their regular season with a 25-19 loss at Elizabethtown College on Friday night in Elizabethtown, Pa.
Duane Bastress Named Head Wrestling CoachFebruary 07, 2013York College Assistant Dean for Athletics and Recreation, Paul Saikia, has announced that current assistant wrestling coach Duane Bastress has been named the Spartans' new head wrestling coach effective the end of the 2012-13 season. He replaces long-time head coach Tom Kessler who has announced he is stepping away from the program at the end of the campaign.
Spartans Finish 2-1 on Senior DayFebruary 02, 2013The York College wrestling squad finished 2-1 on senior day on Saturday afternoon at York College. The Spartans beat both PSU-Mont Alto and Thaddeus Stevens 58-0, but fell 6-31 to extremely talented #3 Cortland.
Spartans Go Back-To-Back at Mid Penn DualsJanuary 19, 2013MILLERSVILLE, Pa. - The York College wrestling squad won the Mid Penn Duals for the second year in a row on Saturday afternoon at Millersville University.
Spartans Take 3rd at Budd Whitehall DualsJanuary 12, 2013WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - The York College wrestling squad went 1-1 on Saturday and took home a third place finish at the Budd Whitehall Duals in Williamsport, Pa. The Spartans fell to a strong Wisconsin-Stevens Point team 25-11, but rebounded with a 24-13 win over Wabash.
Spartans Go 3-0 and Advance to Whitehill SemifinalsJanuary 11, 2013WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – The York College wrestling squad won all three of its matches on the first day of the Budd Whitehill Duals Friday at Lycoming College. The Spartans defeated Thiel 25-15, then clobbered Case Western Reserve 49-0. In the Green and White's final match of the day, York beat TCNJ 17-16 in an extremely close battle.
3-1 Finish For The Spartans At The North/South DualsJanuary 05, 2013The York College wrestling squad earned themselves three victories at the North/South Duals hosted by Ursinus College on Saturday in Collegeville, Pa.
Minogue and Spencer Power Spartans' Come-from-Behind Win over MessiahDecember 07, 2012The York College wrestling squad notched a thrilling come-from-behind 22-19 win over Messiah College in a battle of nationally ranked squads on Friday night at Charles Wolf Gymnasium in York.
Spartans Takedown GettysburgDecember 05, 2012The York College wrestling squad earned a 25-14 win over the Bullets on Wednesday evening in Gettysburg, Pa.
Spartan Wrestling Finishes Third at Loaded New Standard Corporation InvitationalDecember 01, 2012The York College Spartans finished third of 13 teams at the 2012 New Standard Corporation Invitational held at York College on Saturday. The Spartans picked up 66.5 points, edging Elizabethtown for third place as the Blue Jays recorded 66 points.
Spartan Wrestling Set to Host Loaded New Standard Corporation InvitationalNovember 28, 2012The York College wrestling team welcomes 13 squads to the M&T Bank Field House on Saturday, December 1 for the annual New Standard Corporation Invitational in York. This year's edition of the tournament features four ranked squads and 13 nationally ranked wrestlers.
Wrestlers Go 1-2 at Challenging Lake Erie QuadNovember 17, 2012The York College wrestling squad went 1-2 at the challenging Lake Erie College Quad on Saturday afternoon in Painesville, Ohio. The Spartans defeated Waynesburg before falling to Division II Tiffin University and to Lake Erie.
Spartans Clobber Warriors 35-9 in Home OpenerNovember 15, 2012The York College wrestling squad cruised to a 35-9 win over the visiting Lycoming Warriors on Thursday evening in the Spartans' 2012-13 home opener. The Spartans improve to 4-1 overall while the Warriors fall to 1-1.
Tom Kessler to Step Away from Wrestling Program at the End of 2012-13November 13, 2012Longtime York College head wrestling Coach Tom Kessler has announced 2012-13 will be his last season at the helm of the Spartans. Coach Kessler is entering his 21st season as a highly successful coach as he owns a career record of 304-133-3.
Spartans Wrestlers Go 3-1 at John Reese DualsNovember 10, 2012The York College wrestling squad rolled to a trio of victories at the John Reese Duals hosted by Wilkes University on Saturday in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. The Spartans defeated Kings 34-7 before suffering their lone loss of the day, a 23-12 setback to eighth ranked Centenary. The Spartans bounced back by drilling New York University 37-3 and Oneonta 33-9.
Signorelli and Spencer Earn Titles; Spartans Finish Third at KingsNovember 03, 2012The York College wrestling squad took home a third place finish at the season-opening King's College Monarch Invitational on Saturday in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. The Spartans accumulated 134.5 points to finish 2.5 points back of second-place Wilkes. SUNY Cortland won the tournament with a total score of 147.
2012-13 York College Wrestling PreviewNovember 02, 2012The York College wrestling squad opens their 2012-13 season on Saturday. Head coach Tom Kessler must replace four national qualifiers and three All-Americans as the Spartans posted a school record 25 wins last year.
Wrestling Assistant Cory King Earns NWCA AccoladeJune 12, 2012York College assistant wrestling coach Cory King has earned a scholarship for this year's National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) Convention in Ft. Lauderdale, FL on August 2-5.


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by B. Michael Dann, Valerie P. Hans, and David H. Kaye
About the AuthorsThe Honorable B. Michael Dann (Ret.) was a Visiting Fellow at the National Institute of Justice in 2004; Valerie P. Hans is a Professor at Cornell Law School; and David H. Kaye is a Regents' Professor at Arizona State University College of Law. University of Delaware doctoral candidates Stephanie Albertson and Erin Farley assisted with the research project.
A single spot of blood on a pink windowsill will tell investigators who broke a windowpane, turned a lock, and kidnapped 2-year-old Molly Evans from her bedroom in the middle of the night. An expert witness will testify that the DNA profile of the blood evidence recovered from the windowsill was entered into CODIS, an electronic database of DNA profiles.[1] That process yielded a "hit," identifying the defendant as the most likely source of the blood inside Molly's room.
But will jurors be able to understand the expert's intricate analysis and use it to reach a verdict? And what—if any—steps can be taken to increase jurors' comprehension of complex DNA evidence?
Questions such as these prompted an NIJ-funded study on the impact of jury trial innovations upon mock jurors' understanding of contested mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) evidence. (See
"How Mitochondrial DNA Compares to Nuclear DNA.") By examining how jurors in different experimental conditions performed on a Juror Comprehension Scale both before and after deliberations, researchers were able to assess whether four specific innovations improved jurors' understanding of this complex evidence and identify which innovations worked best.
The four innovations used in the experiment were:
Jurors were selected from jury-eligible adults called to jury duty in the Superior Court of New Castle County, Delaware. Jurors were randomly assigned to 60 eight-person juries. Each juror filled out an initial questionnaire that queried his or her views on the reliability of certain types of scientific testimony and about science in general. (See
"Mock Jurors' Attitudes About Science and DNA.")
Researchers then divided the juries into groups of 10 and subjected each group to one of the following conditions:[2]
The jurors then watched a videotape of an armed robbery trial. Prosecutors presented the testimony of bank employees who could not make a positive identification because the robber wore a blue hooded sweatshirt and a partial mask. However, one teller testified that she saw an unmistakable inch-long, horizontal scar on the suspect's cheek when he wiped his face with his gloved hand.
Police searched the crime scene immediately after the robbery and recovered a blue sweatshirt, a glove, and a small amount of cash, including some of the "bait money."[3] Two human hairs recovered from the sweatshirt hood were analyzed and found to match the defendant's mtDNA. No other physical evidence was recovered.
Jurors learned that an anonymous caller told police the defendant had robbed the bank. Testimony established that the defendant owned a blue hooded sweatshirt, had a scar on his cheek, and had recently been seen flashing a large roll of cash.
The defendant testified in his own defense and denied committing the robbery. He told a detective that he had never been in that bank and that he was at work when the robbery occurred. He claimed that the excess cash was from a friend's recent repayment of a loan.
In an attempt to dispute the prosecution's mtDNA evidence, the defense introduced evidence that the defendant's wayward half-brother on his father's side lived in town at the time of the robbery. This fact, however, would have been irrelevant to any juror who understood that mtDNA is inherited only through the mother's lineage. Researchers made the rest of the circumstantial evidence purposefully ambiguous so that jurors would feel compelled to consider the mtDNA identification evidence and resolve the issues raised by the prosecution and defense experts.
The prosecution's expert testified that the mtDNA profiles of hair from the sweatshirt and the samples combed from the defendant's head at the time of his police interview were an exact match. He commented that the profile was rare and had not been observed in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI's) mtDNA database of more than 5,000 samples. He added that 99.98 percent of all Caucasian males would be excluded as potential contributors of the two mtDNA samples. That meant that in addition to other men in the same maternal line as the defendant, only 6 males in a population of 29,000 would have the same mtDNA profile.
The defense expert agreed that the mtDNA samples matched, but said that the FBI's percentage of the population excluded by the mtDNA evidence was too large because the FBI failed to properly account for the possibility of "heteroplasmy" in human hair. Heteroplasmy is a condition where some of a person's mtDNA exhibits a mutation and thus differs (in at least one base pair) from the remainder of the person's mtDNA. By including heteroplasmic individuals as possible sources of the hairs, the defense expert reduced the FBI's percentage of excluded males to 99.80 percent. She projected that 57 males in the locality—as opposed to the prosecution's estimate of 6—could have been the source of the hairs.
After the videotape, jurors completed a second questionnaire about their uses of and attitudes toward trial innovations. They were then allowed to deliberate. Following the return of a unanimous verdict or the declaration of a mistrial (hung jury) in each case, jurors filled out a third and final questionnaire.
Researchers then coded and analyzed jurors' responses to the questionnaires and reviewed the jurors' written notes, copies of the checklist, and notebook materials. Questions posed by jurors during the trial were also analyzed. All of the jury deliberations were videotaped, reviewed, and coded to assess the use of jury innovations in group deliberations.
The research showed that jurors used three of the innovations the most—the multipurpose notebook, note taking, and the mtDNA checklist.
The multipurpose notebook was the most popular innovation: 92 percent of the jurors said that the notebooks—in particular, the expert's slides—helped them to remember and understand the case. The second most used innovation was juror note taking: 88 percent of jurors took notes. Two-thirds said their notes helped them remember the evidence. The third most used innovation was the mtDNA checklist: 85 percent of jurors allowed to use the checklist said they reviewed it during deliberations. Most found that the checklist increased their understanding and recall of the evidence. The least used innovation was jury questioning: only 22 percent of the jurors allowed to ask questions actually did.
To see whether innovations improved juror understanding of mtDNA evidence, researchers explored how jurors in the different experimental conditions performed on Jury Comprehension Scales[4] before and after their deliberations, controlling for jurors' educational levels.[5] In general, researchers found that jury deliberations improved jurors' comprehension of mtDNA.
Prior to deliberations, there were no significant differences in how jurors who were assigned to the various conditions—those who used innovations and those who did not—performed on the Juror Comprehension Scale. Even after deliberations, comparisons of the responses of jurors given no innovations (control group) with those who had them still showed no significant differences in their understanding of mtDNA evidence.
However, when the postdeliberation responses of jurors allowed to use each particular innovation were compared with the responses of jurors not allowed to use that innovation (both those in the control group and those assigned another innovation), differences emerged. Under this analysis, researchers found that jurors allowed to use juror notebooks performed significantly better on two aspects of the comprehension testing (basic and expanded factual true-false tests) than those not provided notebooks. Jurors provided with an mtDNA checklist also performed better (on an expanded Jury Comprehension Scale) than those without access to the checklist.
Researchers also examined whether actual usage of an innovation improved juror understanding. The results were mixed. Data showed that jurors who took advantage of two innovations—note taking and question asking—did not have higher levels of comprehension; however, jurors who actually used the mtDNA checklist and the juror notebook significantly outperformed jurors who were afforded use of those innovations but declined to use them.
There was also evidence that use of multiple innovations improved juror comprehension. Using the note taking condition as a control, researchers found that jurors allowed to take notes and use a juror notebook did better on the Jury Comprehension Scales postdeliberation than did those allowed only to take notes. The same was true for jurors exposed to all four innovations—they also outperformed those jurors who were only allowed to take notes. Thus, it appears that additional innovations on top of jury note taking improves mock jurors' comprehension of scientific mtDNA evidence.
Based on the study, researchers believe that the use of certain jury innovations has the potential to improve jurors' comprehension of mtDNA and other scientific evidence. Methods that provided direct guidance or additional expert information—such as the mtDNA checklist and the juror notebook—best improved juror understanding. This suggests that other jury innovations that provide a better understanding of expert evidence, such as juror tutorials in complex subjects and court-appointed experts to discuss the parties' often conflicting scientific evidence are ripe for evaluation.
The results of the study showed that most juries are capable of comprehending and using different forms of DNA evidence at trial. Nonetheless, researchers acknowledged that some jurors are likely to have trouble with complex DNA evidence.
Researchers offered five ways to facilitate juror understanding of DNA evidence:
Nuclear DNA, or nDNA, is the genetic material inherited from both parents (one-half from the mother and one-half from the father). It is found in the nucleus of each cell and is unique to each individual (except in cases of identical twins). Nuclear DNA is a powerful identifier and has been used for forensic purposes for decades. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) — which is found in the mitochondria of a cell, outside of the nucleus and separate from nDNA — is inherited solely from the mother and is not unique. Everyone in the same maternal line, for generations, will have the same mtDNA. Its use as a forensic tool, in narrowing the pool of possible donors of a sample, is a more recent development.
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Researchers found that the demographic profile (sex, race, and age) of the 480 mock jurors bore striking similarities to those of the entire pool of jury-eligible adults. Most mock jurors had some science or mathematics courses: on average, most had more than nine such courses in high school or college. About half had some job experience involving science or math.
Almost all (89 percent) of the mock jurors held positive attitudes about science. However, a significant minority expressed reservations about science. Negative attitudes about the role of science in their lives were strongly correlated with the level of formal education; jurors with less education tended to express more negative views.
Before the videotape was presented, researchers solicited jurors' views about DNA. Two-thirds of mock jurors agreed that DNA evidence was "extremely reliable." Although half of the participants had heard about mtDNA before this trial, most said they had heard only a "small amount" about it.
After the trial, however, almost all of the jurors had a basic understanding of the mtDNA evidence. Solid majorities of jurors (ranging from 66 to 90 percent) exhibited correct understandings of most of the core knowledge items about mtDNA — e.g., where the mitochondria are found in the cell, how samples are compared and matches declared, and how mtDNA compares to nuclear DNA.
Ninety percent of jurors correctly understood that unlike nuclear DNA, mtDNA is inherited solely from one's mother. Those jurors rejected the defense suggestion that the crime could have been committed by the defendant's wayward half-brother on his fathers' side, noting that the relationship would not account for the presence of the defendant's mtDNA in the hair strands recovered from the hooded sweatshirt.
On the other hand, some of the participants showed a susceptibility to adversarial exaggerations and misstatements about the scientific evidence:
As anticipated, the amount of formal education, the number of courses in science and mathematics, and some job experience involving science and mathematics positively correlated with jurors' correct understanding of mtDNA.
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Testing the Effects of Selected Jury Trial Innovations on Juror Comprehension of Contested mtDNA Evidence, final report submitted to the National Institute of Justice, Washington, DC: August 2005 (NCJ 211000), available at
[note 1] The Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) is an electronic database of DNA profiles administered through the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The system lets Federal, State, and local crime labs share and compare DNA profiles. Through CODIS, investigators match DNA from crime scenes with convicted offenders and with other crime scenes using computer software, just as fingerprints are matched through automated fingerprint identification systems. CODIS primarily uses two indexes: (1) the Convicted Offender Index, which contains profiles of convicted offenders, and (2) the Forensic Index, which contains profiles from crime scene evidence. The strength of CODIS lies in solving cases that have no suspects. If DNA evidence entered into CODIS matches someone in the offender index, a warrant can be obtained authorizing the collection of a sample from that offender to confirm the match. If the offender's DNA is in the Forensic Index, the system allows investigators—even in different jurisdictions—to exchange information about their respective cases.
[note 2] Juror note taking was permitted in all but the control condition because the more advanced techniques (such as question asking and juror notebooks) are unlikely to be offered by a court without the basic reform of note taking.
[note 3] Bait money is cash that tellers are instructed to turn over in the event of a robbery. It contains prerecorded serial numbers, enabling investigators to identify the funds if recovered.
[note 4] Researchers combined eight facts about mtDNA to develop a Juror Comprehension Scale that measured jurors' understanding of mtDNA.
[note 5] Researchers also controlled for juror membership on a particular jury by using a "nested" analysis. Because mock jurors in the study deliberated with one another, jurors potentially influenced one another. A nested analysis was used because juror's responses post-deliberation were no longer strictly independent observations.
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