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Sirotkin assumes Senate seat of late wife, Sally FoxBy Neal P. Goswami
VERMONT PRESS BUREAU | February 12,2014MONTPELIER Michael Sirotkin was sworn in Tuesday morning as the newest member of the Vermont Senate, claiming the seat held by his late wife, Sen. Sally Fox.
Sirotkin, a former lobbyist with Sirotkin & Necrason, spent the past few weeks divesting his interest in his former firm after being appointed by Gov. Peter Shumlin. Senate President Pro Tem John Campbell administered the oath of office inside the Senate chamber.
Fox, 62, a Democrat from South Burlington, was in her second term in the Senate when she died Jan. 10 after a battle with lung cancer. She was serving on the Senate Health and Welfare and Appropriations committees at the time of her death. Fox previously served 14 years in the House.
There is no seat in this chamber or in this state that I would rather sit in than the seat of my lovely and beautiful wife, Sally, Sirotkin said in his first remarks as a senator.
Several candidates had stepped forward and announced their interest in being appointed to Foxs seat. Most backed out, however, when Sirotkin made it known he would seek the seat to honor his late wifes wishes that he fulfill her term.
Sirotkin will serve out the current term through the end of the year and will need to win election in November if he wishes to continue holding one of the six Chittenden County Senate seats.
Sirotkin thanked his colleagues and the Senate staff for the very warm and supportive welcome Ive gotten since my appointment was announced two weeks ago.
He also noted the support extended to him since Foxs death.
I want to thank the people in this chamber for all the love and support extended to Sally over the last month. I want you all to know its made a difference to me and my family, he said.
Sirotkin cast his first vote just minutes later when the Senate passed a bill allowing bars and restaurants to serve beer tasting flights.
The appointment led to changes in committee assignments that were announced Tuesday. Sirotkin was assigned to the Agriculture and Institutions committees.
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I think TRD needs to look in the mirror.
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Could Kyle suffer the same fate as Kurt after Dover tirade?
By admin | October 5, 2012
By Richard Allen
One year ago at this time the Busch brothers were among the most controversial figures in NASCAR. Little did we know back then, but that level of controversy was about to reach new heights.
Just a few short weeks later, Kyle Busch would be "benched†for a weekend by NASCAR after he intentionally went after and crashed Ron Hornaday under caution during a Camping World Truck Series event at the Texas Motor Speedway. That incident led to the talented but often volatile driver being made to watch the Nationwide and Sprint Cup races from atop the Joe Gibbs Racing pit box rather than from the inside of a car.
Ultimately, the real damage came when the #18 car's primary sponsor, Mars Candy, became so aggravated that they opted to remove their name from the JGR Toyota during the remaining late season races. Longtime Gibbs backer Interstate Batteries stepped up to claim those races dropped by M&M's.
If reports are to be believed, there was at least the thought by the offended company of completely pulling their sponsorship of the younger Busch's team at the end of the year.
And at the 2011 season finale, Kurt Busch was caught on video delivering a harsh tongue lashing to an ESPN pit reporter and cameraman in the garage area at the Homestead-Miami Speedway. Ultimately, the elder of the two brothers had to vacate his seat at Penske Racing and assume the driving chores with the much smaller and less well funded Phoenix Racing organization.
Kurt has since landed a ride with Furniture Row Racing which he will commence after this weekend in Talladega. Even though that team is supported by Richard Childress Racing, it is hardly at the level of Penske Racing.
This past Sunday in Dover, Kyle Busch led much of that Sprint Cup Series race only to lose out in the end when his Toyota was unable to make it to the end on fuel. Brad Keselowski, driving a Dodge, did complete the distance without having to make an extra pit stop which eventually allowed the Penske driver to claim the winner's trophy. Needless to say, that did not sit well with Busch.
As he crossed the finish line to record a 7th place result in Dover, Busch screamed into his radio "Piece of sh*t motherf***ers! Thanks a lot TRD for f***ing up another one!â€
TRD(Toyota Racing Development) is the racing arm of Toyota and the builders of engines used by Joe Gibbs Racing. Obviously, Busch felt as though his lacking fuel mileage was the result of their engineering deficiencies.
Kyle Busch has since apologized for those comments. However, earlier in the week, those at the top of TRD made it known that they were not happy about the situation and they considered the outburst to be a "slap in the faceâ€.
I, for one, appreciate the fact that the Busch brothers are not so stale and predictable like many others in the sport. I also appreciate the numbers of web hits they provide. However, this is modern day NASCAR and one has to wonder how many times key sponsors and financial backers can be offended before the curtain drops on Kyle Busch's time at JGR. Teams can't operate without money so the ability to keep land and/or keep sponsors often trumps driving ability.
If you don't think Kyle Busch can be removed from his team because he is so talented, ask yourself this- last year at this time did you foresee Kurt Busch being dumped by Penske and having to drive for what amounts to a single-car independent team?
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15 Responses to "Could Kyle suffer the same fate as Kurt after Dover tirade?"
Benjamin P. Glaser Says:
October 5th, 2012 at 3:44 pm
Tony Geinzer Says:
October 5th, 2012 at 6:15 pm
Can't folks realize Rowdy is not totally an adult?
midasmicah Says:
October 5th, 2012 at 8:54 pm
This just in!! Kyle Busch could be replaced by another enemic, sterile driver. Wow!! You may not like Busch, but at least he show emotion which is more than I can say for the rest of the drivers. nas$car and it's sponsors (mostly the sponsors) want wholesome, squeaky clean little soldiers they can control down to their every movement. And they wonder why more fans leave the sport everyday. nas$car races nowadays should come with a warning. THIS PRODUCT CAN BE SLEEP INDUCING.
Offkilter Says:
October 5th, 2012 at 9:19 pm
I've kept up with cup since the late 80's and i've heard drivers whine about aero or power disadvantages before. But busch's poisonous spew over the radio at dover broke new ground. He's proven over and over that he has no class and now we know that loyalty has no meaning to him either. What a perfect world it would be if he got what he wished for… If toyota backdoor channeled the demand that the remainder of the year the 18 car engines be tuned for fuel milage stradegy r&d for the 11 car the remainder of the year.
Pose Says:
October 6th, 2012 at 2:55 am
M&M's had a very good relationship with Elliott Sadler before leaving Robert Yates. One can't help but wonder with the rumors of Sadler to Gibbs…….
Josie Says:
October 6th, 2012 at 7:27 am
Come on folks…we don't know what the drivers were saying "in car" before, during, or at the end of races in the past..they weren't all wired up for tge world to hear! Do I think the drivers were that much nicer, sweeter, less emotional, and more politically correct in the past?? Nit on your life…we just couldn't hear them! Years past there weren't 25 reporters wired up asking crashed or losing drivers stupid, leading, or insensitive questions immediately after the races. Times have changed! I don't understand why or how a fan or a sponsor could be insulted by a drivers emotions…good or bad… If we don't want "real", if the sponsors can't take it…then get rid of the microphones, get rid of reporters chasing drivers, and just march the top 20 and anyone wrecked or out of race early through the media center after each race and give them each 2 minutes to recite the " had great car love my sponsor" and be done with it!
mrclause Says:
October 6th, 2012 at 8:24 am
You can only bite the hand that feeds you for just so long. Especially the hand that paid for that 7.5 million dollar house you live in. Evidently neither brother has been able to file that away in their "how to get along with others" memory bank.
holdin5aces Says:
October 6th, 2012 at 8:37 am
With foresight and an abundance of care, Busch The Younger could live happily ever after if he never cashed another paycheck. If I were he, I'd find a solid, conservative financial adviser and listen to him. He may need him.
Offkilter Says:
October 6th, 2012 at 9:38 am
Josie, they've been wired for decades now. And for decades there have heen scanners. And before the internet took off with up to the minute news, we had the winston cup scene that was a wonderful weekly paper that did a great job transporting behind the scenes stuff to the fans. Busch, i'm sure is an inteligent guy, but he just cannot control his inner demon of being an a-hole. The sprinkling of folks that defend him in the name of avoiding staleness should assemble in the nearest phone booth and devise a plan to start the kyle and kurt busch a-hole racing series so that those drivers and their fans can live a life unincumbered by the sane.
Bob-a-Lou Says:
October 6th, 2012 at 9:52 am
Like so many others have said…he WANTED his tirade to be heard by anyone on or monitoring his radio because it required action on his part to put his words out over the air. He could have screamed his tirade into his helmet and not offended anyone but he chose to push the radio button so as to let everyone else in on it. I say to KB, if you're frustrated or angry to let it all out; just don't push the radio button when you do.
Josie Says:
October 6th, 2012 at 9:54 am
Mrclause…it's odd to me how earning high $$$ is supposed to equate with being well mannered or politically correct! I guess I just don't get the connection… If we go with that scenario my house is only worth about $750,000…guess that means I can be 10 X's the pain in the butt Kyle is! Hmmmm!!
Jesse Says:
October 6th, 2012 at 10:38 am
Come on Pose,what a comment, I can't stand Kyle but putting Elliott in that car what a joke. He stunk up cup when he was in it and Gibb's is trying to buy with Toyota's money a championship and Sadler is the wrong guy even in the Nationwide series.
Terry Says:
October 6th, 2012 at 11:05 am
Oh please oh please. I say let him build his own engines. Better yet let him push the car around the track or use the JGR engines. If he does get the boot, and it is well deserved, I hope he does not wind up somewhere else. Sounds like others including GM teams may be interested in him. While good behind the wheel, he is an absolutely disparaging representation for Mars, TRD Toyota, and Gibbs. Don't forget the 125 mph in the Lexus LFA in 45 mph zone. If I was him, I would be worried. Not only for getting canned by his sponsors; I would not give one red cent ot Gibbs to keep him around any longer. With his attitude, if I was responsible for his car, set ups, front end work say tie rods, or other things, how hard do I want to do it right for him any longer?
Jeff Says:
October 6th, 2012 at 12:51 pm
Around last year at this time Joe Gibbs told NASCAR he was totally responsible for Kyle Busch and his behavior. What NASCAR should have done after that is send both the 18 Nationwide and Cup teams home, but they didn't.
Now Kyle has mouthed off about the engine provider so if Joe Gibbs is responsible enough then he should cut the teams losses, release Kyle and stop apologizing for Kyle Busch.
If one of Coach Joe Gibbs football players had taken out (injured) an opposing teams player, mouthed off about the coaching staff and acted like a child the Joe would have benched or traded the player. So I ask what is the difference? The answer is that the Coach has lost control of the player meaning Kyle Busch.
Maybe TRD should inform JGR that they will not provide engines for the 18 car just like M&M's told them they wanted off the car after Kyle's last melt down.
There are many hungry and talented drivers coming up and are ready for a good ride in the 18 and for Kyle, I hear the 51 has an open seat.
Slugwriter Says:
October 6th, 2012 at 2:40 pm
This just in from the Nascar news desk: The OLD DAYS are DEAD. So is Dale Earnhardt Sr. The times have changed, that's the way it is. Sponsors don't care about racing, it's just another way to advertise their product and move units. Screw with their market share by giving their product a bad image or leave their board of directors with the perception of negativity and their tolerance of bad behavior will disappear faster than Casey Atwood's Cup career…
Kyle Busch almost got dumped from JGR last season, it could become a reality for him if he can't curb his temper. As Nascar is fond of reminding drivers, "You need us more than we need you."
Nascar will humble a race driver will quick. So will the threat of losing a sponsor.


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Jennifer Harman
|Jennifer Harman
Jennifer Harman at the 2006 World Series of Poker.
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|November 29, 1964
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Jennifer C. Harman-Traniello[1][2] (born November 29, 1964, in Reno, Nevada) is an American professional poker player. She is considered to be one of the greatest poker players in the history of the game. She has won two World Series of Poker bracelets in open events - one of only two women to have done so. As of July 2012, her total live tournament winnings exceed $2,433,000. In 2006, she was considered the greatest female poker player in the history of the game.[3]
Harman won her first World Series of Poker bracelet in 2000 at the prestigious No Limit Deuce to Seven Lowball Event (at a final table that also included Lyle Berman and Steve Zolotow). She had never played that game prior to the event, but received a five-minute tutoring session from Howard Lederer before playing.[4] She won her second WSOP bracelet in 2002 at the $5K Limit Hold 'em event (the field also included Mimi Tran, Humberto Brenes, and Allen Cunningham). She was the first woman to hold two bracelets in WSOP open events, joined by Vanessa Selbst in 2012.[5]
Harman's initial decision to play poker professionally estranged her from her father. After years of little to no contact, they reconciled their differences.[citation needed] In 2004, Harman took a year away from poker to have her second kidney transplant. Problems with her kidneys – shared by her sister and mother, who died from the same illness when Harman was 17 - had plagued her since her childhood. Since her return to the poker tournament circuit, Harman has finished 4th at the World Poker Tour Five-Diamond World Poker Classic, 5th in the inaugural Professional Poker Tour event, and 2nd in the WSOP Circuit Championship Event at the Rio.
Harman authored the limit hold'em chapter for Super System II. Harman is the only woman who is a regular player in the "Big Game", the high-stakes cash game at the Bellagio. She was also an active participant in "The Corporation", a group of high stakes poker players who played Andy Beal for limits of up to $100,000/$200,000.[6]
Harman has appeared on the GSN series High Stakes Poker and on the NBC series Poker After Dark, where she won Week 8's tournament. In 2007, Harman finished as runner-up in the inaugural World Series of Poker Europe, where she lost in the HORSE event to Thomas Bihl. Harman was also a member of "Team Full Tilt" at Full Tilt Poker.
Although Harman says gender is irrelevant in poker, she is widely considered a feminist icon. This follows from her record as one of the few women who play in the big game, as well as having won two World Series of Poker bracelets in open events--one of only two women to have done so. She is also considered one of the greatest poker players in the history of the sport, as well as the greatest female poker player in the sport's history[citation needed].
As of July 2012, her total live tournament winnings exceed $2,433,000.[7] $982,358 of her total winnings have come from cashes at the WSOP.[8] Although Harman has had success in tournament poker, most of her wealth and prestige has come from playing in high stake cash games[citation needed].
In 2006, she was considered the greatest female poker player in the history of the game,[9] but has since been surpassed by Vanessa Selbst, who, still in her 20's, has career tournament earnings of over $7 million.[10]
Harman starred in the American reality television series Sin City Rules on TLC.
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Charity Poker[edit]
In 2004, Harman took a year off from poker to have her second kidney transplant. She then founded Creating Organ Donation Awareness (CODA), a non-profit organization to raise money for the cause.[11]
Harman is a frequent charity poker tournament host. In March 2009, she organized a number of poker celebrities including ESPN analyst Lon McEachern and Howard Lederer in a two-day event that raised $111,000 for the National Kidney Foundation with the help of Curtis and Co Watches and Dream Team Poker.[12]
Harman is also an active fundraiser for the Nevada Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA), for which she has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars through live tournaments and online tournaments at Full Tilt.[13] In April 2009, she hosted the 3rd annual Jennifer Harman Charity Poker Tournament at the Venetian poker room in Las Vegas. The tournament has raised over half a million dollars and, in the past, has featured prizes such as a seat at the World Series of Poker Main Event, and dinner with Jennifer and Pete Rose.[13]
Personal life[edit]
Harman was married to stylist Marco Traniello, who since became a professional poker player as well. They have twin boys. She is also very close friends with fellow player Daniel Negreanu.[14]
- ^ "Jennifer Harman-Traniello". worldseriesofpoker.com. Harrah's License Company, LLC. Retrieved 2008-03-23.
- ^ "F.E.C. Image". Federal Election Commission. 2007-12-31. Retrieved 2008-11-28.
- ^ "Jennifer Harman - The World's Greatest Female Poker Player". CasinoGameGambling. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
- ^ Craig, Michael (2006). The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time. New York: Warner Books. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-446-69497-1.
- ^ "Jennifer Harman profile". fulltiltpoker.com. Retrieved 2009-01-31.
- ^ Craig, Michael (2006). The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time. New York: Warner Books. ISBN 978-0-446-69497-1.
- ^ http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-players/2895-jennifer-harman
- ^ http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-players/2895-jennifer-harman/stats
- ^ "Jennifer Harman - The World's Greatest Female Poker Player". CasinoGameGambling. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
- ^ "Is Vanessa Selbst the Greatest Female Poker Player of All Time". PokerEagles.com. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
- ^ http://www.looktothestars.org/news/2217-jennifer-harman-raises-111000-in-charity-poker-tournament
- ^ http://www.pokernewsdaily.com/jennifer-harman-charity-event-raises-111000-for-national-kidney-foundation-1535/
- ^ a b http://pokerworks.com/poker-news/2008/04/03/harman-to-support-nspca-again-with-april-tourney.html
- ^ "Episode 4". High Stakes Poker. Season 2. Episode 4.
External links[edit]
- Official site
- Full Tilt Poker profile
- PokerListings.com Player Profile
- Inside The Poker Mind interview with Jennifer Harman


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Writes Herman Bavinck in Our Reasonable Faith, page 44:
"In determining the value of general revelation, one runs the great danger either of over-estimating or of under-estimating it. When we have our attention fixed upon the richness of the grace which God has given in His special revelation, we sometimes become so enamored of it that the general revelation loses its whole significance and worth for us. And when, at another time, we reflect on the good, and true, and beautiful that is to be found by virtue of God's general revelation in nature and in the human world, then it can happen that the special grace, manifested to us in the person and work of Christ, loses its glory and appeal for the eye of our soul. This danger, to stray off either to the right or to the left, has always existed in the Christian church."
On General Revelation
IMHO: The most careful and thoughtful statements on the value of general revelation have come from the pen of Dutch reformed scholar Herman Bavinck. Here, for example, are few of his thoughts taken from the first volume of his magnum opus, Reformed Dogmatics:
"… To deny that natural religion and natural theology are sufficient and have an autonomous existence of their own is not in any way to do an injustice to the fact that from the creation, from nature and history, from the human heart and conscience, there comes divine speech to every human.
No one escapes the power of general revelation. Religion belongs to the essence of a human. The idea and existence of God, the spiritual independence and eternal destiny of the world, the moral world order and its ultimate triumph—all these are problems that never cease to engage the human mind. Metaphysical need cannot be suppressed. Philosophy perennially seeks to satisfy that need. It is general revelation that keeps that need alive. It keeps human beings from degrading themselves into animals. It binds them to a supersensible world. It maintains in them the awareness that they have been created in God's image and can only find rest in God. General revelation preserves humankind in order that it can be found and healed by Christ and until it is. To that extent natural theology used to be correctly denominated a "preamble of faith," a divine preparation and education for Christianity. General revelation is the foundation on which special revelation builds itself up.
Finally, the rich significance of general revelation comes out in the fact that it keeps nature and grace, creation and re-creation, the world of reality and the world of values, inseparably connected. Without general revelation, special revelation loses its connectedness with the whole cosmic existence and life. The link that unites the kingdom of nature and the kingdom of heaven then disappears. Those who, along with critical philosophy, deny general revelation exert themselves in vain when via the way of practical reason or of the imagination they try to recover what they have lost. They have then lost a support for their faith. In that case the religious life exists in detachment from and alongside of ordinary human existence. The image of God then becomes a "superadded gift" (donum superadditum). As in the case of the Socinians, religion becomes alien to human nature. Christianity becomes a sectarian phenomenon and is robbed of its catholicity. In a word, grace is then opposed to nature. In that case it is consistent, along with the ethical modems, to assume a radical break between the power of the good and the power of nature. Ethos [morality] and φύσις [nature], are then totally separated. The world of reality and the world of values have nothing to do with each other. In that scenario we at bottom face a revival of Parsism or Manichaeism. By contrast, general revelation maintains the unity of nature and grace, of the world and the kingdom of God, of the natural order and the moral order, of creation and re-creation, of φύσις and ethos, of virtue and happiness, of holiness and blessedness, and in all these things the unity of the divine being. It is one and the same God who in general revelation does not leave himself without a witness to anyone and who in special revelation makes himself known as a God of grace. Hence general and special revelation interact with each other. "God first sent forth nature as a teacher, intending also to send prophecy next, so that you, a disciple of nature, might more easily believe prophecy" (Tertullian). Nature precedes grace; grace perfects nature. Reason is perfected by faith, faith presupposes nature."
—Herman Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics: Prolegomena (Baker Academic, 2003), 1:321—322.
Pillaging Pagans
Speaking of what to do with ancient Pagan literature, here was Augustine's take:
Moreover, if those who are called philosophers, and especially the Platonists, have said aught that is true and in harmony with our faith, we are not only not to shrink from it, but to claim it for our own use from those who have unlawful possession of it.
For, as the Egyptians had not only the idols and heavy burdens which the people of Israel hated and fled from, but also vessels and ornaments of gold and silver, and garments, which the same people when going out of Egypt appropriated to themselves, designing them for a better use, not doing this on their own authority, but by the command of God, the Egyptians themselves, in their ignorance, providing them with things which they themselves were not making a good use of; in the same way all branches of heathen learning have not only false and superstitious fancies and heavy burdens of unnecessary toil, which every one of us, when going out under the leadership of Christ from the fellowship of the heathen, ought to abhor and avoid; but they contain also liberal instruction which is better adapted to the use of the truth, and some most excellent precepts of morality; and some truths in regard even to the worship of the One God are found among them.
Now these are, so to speak, their gold and silver, which they did not create themselves, but dug out of the mines of God's providence which are everywhere scattered abroad, and are perversely and unlawfully prostituting to the worship of devils.
These, therefore, the Christian, when he separates himself in spirit from the miserable fellowship of these men, ought to take away from them, and to devote to their proper use in preaching the gospel. Their garments, also—that is, human institutions such as are adapted to that intercourse with men which is indispensable in this life—we must take and turn to a Christian use.
—Augustine, On Christian Doctrine, II, 60.
The Plowman's Education
"In Isaiah 28:26 we read that God instructs the plowman, teaching him how he is to do his work. But this instruction does not come to the plowman in writing, in so many words, nor in the form of lessons at school; it is a teaching, rather, which is contained and expressed in all the laws of nature, in the character of air and of soil, of time and place, of grain and corn. What the plowman must do is conscientiously to get to know all those laws of nature, and in this way to learn the lesson which God teaches in them."
—Herman Bavinck, Our Reasonable Faith (Eerdmans 1956), p. 65.


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Backdoor (computing)
|This article's tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia. (December 2010)
A backdoor in a computer system (or cryptosystem or algorithm) is a method of bypassing normal authentication, securing unauthorized remote access to a computer, obtaining access to plaintext, and so on, while attempting to remain undetected. Industry experts have intimated that zero-day attacks may fetch prodigious sums from governmental agencies.[1][2][3][4] The backdoor may take the form of an installed program (e.g., Back Orifice) or may subvert the system through a rootkit[5]
Default passwords can function as backdoors if they are not changed by the user. Some debugging features can also act as backdoors if they are not removed in the release version.[6]
The threat of backdoors surfaced when multiuser and networked operating systems became widely adopted. Petersen and Turn discussed computer subversion in a paper published in the proceedings of the 1967 AFIPS Conference.[7] They noted a class of active infiltration attacks that use "trapdoor" entry points into the system to bypass security facilities and permit direct access to data. The use of the word trapdoor here clearly coincides with more recent definitions of a backdoor. However, since the advent of public key cryptography the term trapdoor has acquired a different meaning. More generally, such security breaches were discussed at length in a RAND Corporation task force report published under ARPA sponsorship by J.P. Anderson and D.J. Edwards in 1970.[8]
A backdoor in a login system might take the form of a hard coded user and password combination which gives access to the system. A famous example of this sort of backdoor was used as a plot device in the 1983 film WarGames, in which the architect of the "WOPR" computer system had inserted a hardcoded password (his dead son's name) which gave the user access to the system, and to undocumented parts of the system (in particular, a video game-like simulation mode and direct interaction with the artificial intelligence).
An attempt to plant a backdoor in the Linux kernel, exposed in November 2003, showed how subtle such a code change can be.[9] In this case, a two-line change appeared to be a typographical error, but actually gave the caller to the sys_wait4 function root access to the system.[10]
Although the number of backdoors in systems using proprietary software (software whose source code is not publicly available) is not widely credited, they are nevertheless frequently exposed. Programmers have even succeeded in secretly installing large amounts of benign code as Easter eggs in programs, although such cases may involve official forbearance, if not actual permission.
It is also possible to create a backdoor without modifying the source code of a program, or even modifying it after compilation. This can be done by rewriting the compiler so that it recognizes code during compilation that triggers inclusion of a backdoor in the compiled output. When the compromised compiler finds such code, it compiles it as normal, but also inserts a backdoor (perhaps a password recognition routine). So, when the user provides that input, he gains access to some (likely undocumented) aspect of program operation. This attack was first outlined by Ken Thompson in his famous paper Reflections on Trusting Trust (see below).
Many computer worms, such as Sobig and Mydoom, install a backdoor on the affected computer (generally a PC on broadband running Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Outlook). Such backdoors appear to be installed so that spammers can send junk e-mail from the infected machines. Others, such as the Sony/BMG rootkit distributed silently on millions of music CDs through late 2005, are intended as DRM measures—and, in that case, as data gathering agents, since both surreptitious programs they installed routinely contacted central servers.
A traditional backdoor is a symmetric backdoor: anyone that finds the backdoor can in turn use it. The notion of an asymmetric backdoor was introduced by Adam Young and Moti Yung in the Proceedings of Advances in Cryptology: Crypto '96. An asymmetric backdoor can only be used by the attacker who plants it, even if the full implementation of the backdoor becomes public (e.g., via publishing, being discovered and disclosed by reverse engineering, etc.). Also, it is computationally intractable to detect the presence of an asymmetric backdoor under black-box queries. This class of attacks have been termed kleptography; they can be carried out in software, hardware (for example, smartcards), or a combination of the two. The theory of asymmetric backdoors is part of a larger field now called cryptovirology. Notably, NSA inserted a kleptographic backdoor into the Dual_EC_DRBG standard.[11]
There exists an experimental asymmetric backdoor in RSA key generation. This OpenSSL RSA backdoor was designed by Young and Yung, utilizes a twisted pair of elliptic curves, and has been made available.[12]
In January 2014, a backdoor was discovered in certain Samsung Android products, like the Galaxy devices. The Samsung proprietary Android versions are fitted with a backdoor that provides remote access to the data stored on the device. In particular, the Samsung Android software that is in charge of handling the communications with the modem, using the Samsung IPC protocol, implements a class of requests known as remote file server (RFS) commands, that allows the backdoor operator to perform via modem remote I/O operations on the device hard disk or other storage. As the modem is running Samsung proprietary Android software, it is likely that it offers over-the-air remote control that could then be used to issue the RFS commands and thus to access the file system on the device.[13]
In late February 2014, Apple elliptically notified users of their OS of the "goto fail" backdoor that was caused by an error. This error voids the SSL authentication process, and exposes the user to a Man-in-the-middle attack.[14][15][16] The "goto fail" bug is diff-listed by Arthur in the Guardian expose.[16]
A vulnerability in the Apple iOS product prompted the police detectives in the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius to enlist the aid of the manufacturer in decrypting the contents of communications sent by him on his iPhone around the time of the death on Valentine's Day 2013 of Reeva Steenkamp.[17]
A vulnerability in the Apple iOS product was exploited when the Rob Ford investigators produced an order mandating that the company crack open Sandro Lisi's iPhone.[18]
In early March 2014, Red Hat notified users of the GnuTLS library of the "goto cleanup" backdoor,[19] which is diff-listed by its discoverer Mavrogiannopoulos.[20] This bug voids the SSL authentication process, and has exposed users since 2005 of the Red Hat, Ubuntu and Debian (among 200 plus others) Linux OS to a Man-in-the-middle attack.[21] The similarity between the Apple "goto fail" bug and the Linux "goto cleanup" bug has not gone unnoticed,[21] as is plain to readers of the Arthur[16] and Mavrogiannopoulos[20] bug reports. The security notice for this bug in the Debian flavour of the Linux OS is available.[22]
List of known backdoors in standards[edit]
- The MD5 hash was shown to have several weaknesses in 1996 by Hans Dobbertin. These weaknesses allow an attacker to substitute his own item for an MD5-signed original.[23] Malicious code is thus introduceable onto a system.
- Turner and Chen in RFC6149 wrote that "MD2 must not be used for digital signatures" because it could be falsified.[24][25] Malicious code is thus introduceable onto a system
- Turner and Chen in RFC 6150 wrote that MD4 "must not be used to hash a cryptographic key of 80 bits or longer." and MD4 attacks are practicable.[26] Malicious code is thus introduceable onto a system.
- SHA-0 (aka FIPS-180) was withdrawn after CRYPTO '98[27]
- SHA-1 (aka FIPS-180-1) was shown to be attackable in 2005 by Eli Biham and co-authors, as well as Vincent Rijmen and Elisabeth Oswald[27]
- The Dual_EC_DRBG cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator was revealed in 2013 to possibly have a kleptographic (asymmetric) backdoor deliberately inserted by NSA (see Kleptography), who also had the private key to the backdoor.[5][28]
Reflections on Trusting Trust[edit]
Ken Thompson's Reflections on Trusting Trust, his Turing Award acceptance speech in 1984, was the first major paper to describe black box backdoor issues, and points out that trust is relative.[29] It describes a backdoor mechanism based on the fact that people only review source (human-written) code, and not compiled machine code. A program called a compiler is used to create the second from the first, and the compiler is usually trusted to do an honest job.
Thompson's paper describes a modified version of the Unix C compiler that would:
- Put an invisible backdoor in the Unix login command when it noticed that the login program was being compiled, and as a twist
- Also add this feature undetectably to future compiler versions upon their compilation as well.
Because the compiler itself was a compiled program, users would be extremely unlikely to notice the machine code instructions that performed these tasks. (Because of the second task, the compiler's source code would appear "clean".) What's worse, in Thompson's proof of concept implementation, the subverted compiler also subverted the analysis program (the disassembler), so that anyone who examined the binaries in the usual way would not actually see the real code that was running, but something else instead. This version was, officially, never released into the wild. It is believed, however, that a version was distributed to BBN and at least one use of the backdoor was recorded.[30]
This attack was recently (August 2009) discovered by Sophos labs: The W32/Induc-A virus infected the program compiler for Delphi, a Windows programming language. The virus introduced its own code to the compilation of new Delphi programs, allowing it to infect and propagate to many systems, without the knowledge of the software programmer. An attack that propagates by building its own Trojan horse can be especially hard to discover. It is believed that the Induc-A virus had been propagating for at least a year before it was discovered.[31]
Once a system has been compromised with a backdoor or Trojan horse, such as the Trusting Trust compiler, it is very hard for the "rightful" user to regain control of the system. However, several practical weaknesses in the Trusting Trust scheme have been suggested. For example, a sufficiently motivated user could painstakingly review the machine code of the untrusted compiler before using it. As mentioned above, there are ways to hide the Trojan horse, such as subverting the disassembler; but there are ways to counter that defense, too, such as writing your own disassembler from scratch. A generic method to counter trusting trust attacks is called Diverse Double-Compiling (DDC). The method requires a different compiler and the source code of the compiler-under-test. That source, compiled with both compilers, results in two different stage-1 compilers; the same source compiled with both stage-1 compilers must then result in two identical stage-2 compilers. A formal proof is given that the latter comparison guarantees that the purported source code and executable of the compiler-under-test correspond, under some assumptions. This method was applied by its author to verify that the C compiler of the GCC suite (v. 3.0.4) contained no trojan, using icc (v. 11.0) as the different compiler.[32] Such verifications are generally difficult and impractical. If a user had a serious concern that the compiler was compromised, they would be better off avoiding using it altogether, along with all the executables compiled with it, rather than carrying out a thorough verification of the binary. A user that did not have serious concerns that the compiler was compromised could not be practically expected to undertake the vast amount of work required.
- ^ grahamcluely.com: "Zero-day exploit in Apple's iOS operating system "sold for $500,000″" 15 Jul 2013
- ^ nytimes.com: "Nations Buying as Hackers Sell Flaws in Computer Code" (Perlroth et al) 13 Jul 2013
- ^ fastcompany.com: "How Spies, Hackers, And the Government Bolster A Booming Software Exploit Market" 1 May 2013
- ^ "Cyberwar's Gray Market" (Gallagher) 16 Jan 2013
- ^ a b .wired.com: "How a Crypto 'Backdoor' Pitted the Tech World Against the NSA" (Zetter) 24 Sep 2013
- ^ http://blog.erratasec.com/2012/05/bogus-story-no-chinese-backdoor-in.html
- ^ H.E. Petersen, R. Turn. "System Implications of Information Privacy". Proceedings of the AFIPS Spring Joint Computer Conference, vol. 30, pages 291–300. AFIPS Press: 1967.
- ^ Security Controls for Computer Systems, Technical Report R-609, WH Ware, ed, Feb 1970, RAND Corp.
- ^ Larry McVoy (November 5, 2003) Linux-Kernel Archive: Re: BK2CVS problem. ussg.iu.edu
- ^ Thwarted Linux backdoor hints at smarter hacks; Kevin Poulsen; SecurityFocus, 6 November 2003.
- ^ G+M: "The strange connection between the NSA and an Ontario tech firm" 20 Jan 2014
- ^ cryptovirology.com page on OpenSSL RSA backdoor
- ^ replicant.us: "Samsung Galaxy Back-door" 28 Jan 2014
- ^ macworld.com: "What you need to know about Apple's SSL bug" 24 Feb 2014
- ^ theregister.co.uk: "Update your Mac NOW: Apple fixes OS X 'goto fail' SSL spying vuln" 25 Feb 2014
- ^ a b c theguardian.co.uk: "Apple's SSL iPhone vulnerability: how did it happen, and what next?" (Arthur) 25 Feb 2014
- ^ telegraph.co.uk: "Oscar Pistorius: police fly to Apple HQ in California to access deleted phone messages" 27 Feb 2014
- ^ globeandmail.com: "Toronto police obtain new warrant in Ford investigation " 7 Mar 2014
- ^ Red Hat Customer Portal: "Important: gnutls security update" 3 Mar 2014
- ^ a b gitorious.org: "corrected return codes" (Mavrogiannopoulos) 3 Mar 2014
- ^ a b Ars Technica: "Critical crypto bug leaves Linux, hundreds of apps open to eavesdropping" 4 Mar 2014
- ^ debian.org: "Debian Security Advisory: DSA-2869-1 gnutls26 -- incorrect certificate verification" 3 Mar 2014
- ^ German Security Information Agency: "Cryptanalysis of MD5 Compress" (Dobbertin) 2 May 1996
- ^ Turner & Chen: "RFC 6149 - MD2 to Historic Status" March 2011
- ^ Gary Kessler, "An Overview of Cryptography", sec 3.3
- ^ Turner & Chen: "RFC 6150 - MD4 to Historic Status" March 2011
- ^ a b [Biham et al, LNCS3494 pp.36-57: "Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT 2005: 24th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Aarhus, Denmark, May 22-26, 2005"]
- ^ nytimes.com: "N.S.A. Able to Foil Basic Safeguards of Privacy on Web" (Perlroth et al) 5 Sep 2013
- ^ Thompson, Ken (August 1984), "Reflections on Trusting Trust", Communications of the ACM 27 (8): 761–763, doi:10.1145/358198.358210
- ^ Jargon File entry for "backdoor" at catb.org, describes Thompson compiler hack
- ^ Compile-a-virus — W32/Induc-A Sophos labs on the discovery of the Induc-A virus
- ^ David A. Wheeler (7 December 2009). "Fully Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling". Retrieved 19 December 2013.
External links[edit]
- Three Archaic Backdoor Trojan Programs That Still Serve Great Pranks
- Backdoors removal — List of backdoors and their removal instructions.
- FAQ Farm's Backdoors FAQ: wiki question and answer forum
- List of backdoors and Removal
- David A. Wheeler's Page on "Fully Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling"—Author's 2009 Ph.D. thesis at George Mason University


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Capital Punishment
Hey Doug, you got a minute?
OOOOOooooooooaaaaaaaah. [coughcough] Yeah man, what's up?
I have to have a political debate with someone for a class.
Yeah man, I'm like politically aware and stuff.
Right Well, what's your opinion on capital punishment?
[bong rip]
Doug, capital punishment?
[bong continues to rip]
Alright, just let me know when you're done or something.
[coughcoughcough] No dude I got you. Capital punishment, that's like the gas chamber and stuff, right?
Well, that's one method of state execution; there's also the electric chair and lethal injection.
You know how I'd want to go?
Doug, why would the state ever execute you?
Cause of pot man, they hate it and they''re trying to get all the potheads. High Times actually did an undercover story, there's a movement in Congress right now to-
No, Doug, we're talking about capital punishment.
I know! And they're going to start punishing capitally. The pot smokers. Who are smoking pot.
Alright Doug, do you think it's wrong, then, to give people the death penalty?
Totally dude! What's so bad about smoking pot?
No Doug, for any crime, not just smoking pot.
If I went, you know how I'd want to go?
No, but I think I can guess.
Gas chamber, man! Except, not like that carbon dioxide stuff, but like heh heh heh. DIE-oxide.
That's very funny Doug, back to the topic at-
No, but I'd have them fill the room up with pot smoke, dude! Death by cannabis!
So.. you're for the death penalty?
Then I would go to pot heaven! High heaven!
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Pyatt: Fuck. That man is a large man. That man is a beautiful man. That man needs to get in my bed. And that's all I have to say about that, omg he's so fucking dilishis!
Geno: Marry. Tall and amazing and fucking adorable, with that deep voice and Russian accent and sexy hockey. Our children would be fabulous! I want them!!!
Kill: Kaner, cuz he's such a little shit, lol. I love him to death. And that's how I'd do it, too. HA!
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Hey, let's give the guy some credit for trying.
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau, American poet, abolistionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and transcendentalist, (1817-1862)
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How the Universe Operates: Why we can never live in a perfect world
It has been widely believed by many philosophers and scientists, that the universe lives in a balance of good and bad, to be put simply, and I too am a believer in this universal balance; however I push it a little farther. I have come to the conclusion that everyone on this planet has their own personal universes, by this I mean that throughout our lives we have a continual balance of the good and the bad. As we live our lives, our personal universes struggle to try to keep the balance of the events that occur within our lives.
The reason our personal universes struggle to keep the balance within our lives is because of the interference of other peoples personal universes and the choices that we make. Look at yourself right now, now imagine that there is a massive bubble around you and in this bubble is everything that affects you in some way or another. This can be people you know, the environment around you, objects, businesses, anything you can touch or feel. This bubble is your personal universe. Now look at someone you know, they also have a massive bubble around them with everything that affects them, and in their bubble is you. You are in their bubble because you know them and have affected them in some way, since you are in their bubble coincidentally they are also in your bubble. As your bubble or personal universe tries to maintain a balance within your life, it is intertwined with that other person's personal universe therefore as it tries to balance out your life it is throwing the other person's universe out of balance.
Now can you think of every person you have ever talked to and everyone you have ever seen, all of these people have massive personal universes that surround them that struggle to keep the balance within their lives and your universes have collided in some way, throwing each others bubble out of balance.
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Jul 25 2011: Nice way to put converging realities of conscious "moral" agents. We can view our moral spheres always converging like bubbles in an infinite sea.
As for perfection, it doesn't exist. The idea of perfection is relative not absolute thus it cannot exist as there will be an infinite number of ideas of perfection.
Now assuming that our Universe is just one of an infinite array of Universe in an infinite array of Multiverses, we can say that this world and our reality is as perfect as it could have been for us with our biological configurations and the Physics of our given Universe. So walllah! This world is as "perfect" as it gets for humans like us and all the living things in the universe that are configured the way they are.
As for your morality allegory, we are always going to be in conflict with the moral views of others, however, there does seem to be overlapping moral "laws" that seem to be innate. Good and Bad are just deviations of actions that are perceived as being either beneficial or detrimental to our society at the given time. There is not absolute state of goodness or badness---it's all a construction of human interaction. In the animal world, good is to kill prey and bad is to not kill (bad analogy but you kidna get the point). Kinda like hot and cold, they are just mere deviations of energy that we use to comprehend our reality.
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I love how my truck starting leaking oil on a friday afternoon. Guess that means overtime
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"16 and Pregnant" Season 1 Star Whitney Purvis Announces Second Pregnancy
Whitney Purvis and her boyfriend, Weston Gosa are back together–and procreating again! Whitney, who starred on the very first season of 16 and Pregnant back in 2009, announced today that she is pregnant with her second child. Whitney and Weston are already the parents of Weston Jr., who turns five in April.
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Too many organizations are handing over pedagogical decisions to the IT departments and to some lower level teams of instructional designer whose only experience is in designing training. Pedagogy involves an interaction between persons that is content-rich, flexible in presentation and demonstration of learnin, and engaging.
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I'm agreeing here with the concept, although not the specific categorization that "too many organizations" are exhibiting the negative behavior you've described.
I mostly agree that pedagogy should come first. Mostly only because I think sometimes good faculty or instructional designers can see a new technology and figure out a new way to teach something. So the design part still follows the pedagogy, but sometimes the technology can spark the pedagogical conversation.
I would argue if the "instructional designers" only understanding and experience is in designing training, then they aren't instructional designers at all, they are training designers. Educational experiences are most definitely different than training experiences and require a different kind of expertise.
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I'm new here and my husband and I are currently repairing, restoring and renovating a 3 bedroom Arts & Crafts home built in 1925. I'l eventually have pictures of it up but i need help finding expamles of interiro design and woodowork. The people that we bought it from let some of it rot and took alot of the original work out when they put down carpet so we don't have much to go by.
I was also wondering if anyone had any tips on wood floors or knew anything about what colors/woods they used in the 1920s.
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I have been looking at the pictures you posted and the floor, from the pictures, the period, and what was used in our area; I would call the floor material tounge and groove pine. The porch picture has the same material showing. The pine floors were often used without any subfloor and simply toe nailed to the floor joists. If there is a subfloor under there, I would come nearer calling it tounge and groove oak. It is a little difficult to discern the wood grain from the pictures.
Wow! You've got an impressive gallery there Hannah!
This is oak;
This is pine;
The shoe moulding that matches this can still be bought. The base board in the picture looks like it's finished with orange shellac. You would be better off to try to match the color with a more modern finish.
Time to put some outriggers in the yard and prop the ceiling/roof up so you can replace that floor. You can use treated wood for the frame and then use T&G pine for the floor;
This floor looks like pine. I'd have to see a closer shot to really know;
You've got a JOB there. You better stick around and stay in touch!
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And to your money pit.
Poor Rodney!
The pine t and g toe nailed direct to the joists is sub floor. They did it that way back then as plywood was scarce and expensive. Your roof and exterior walls will likely be the same t and g material. It made for a very strong well built house.
Thanks for all the replies. There is what looks like another layer of T and G under the floor, I will try and get pics of it where i can. Otherwise, what do you all think of Concrete siding and what is it??
The baseboard in teh picture was done with cheap something... it's on all the woodwork around the windows and the doors too... it's flaking and peeling and all that crap. I've added some closeups to the flooring and gotten some more pics of teh basboards and stuff below in the basement.
A great reference is old issues of Fine Homebuilding. I can remember many issues with pictures of details in Arts & Crafts type homes.
Go to "Magazine Index" and search for "Arts"
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Hale came out of retirement to serve on the state legislature in 2000 at age 82, before suffering a minor stroke that same year. She died Friday of natural causes at 94.
The first woman to become mayor of the island of Hawaii died Friday.
Helene Hale was 94 when she died of natural causes at her home in Hilo, Hawaii, West Hawaii Today reported.
Hale was born in Minneapolis and graduated from the University of Minnesota before she and her then-husband moved to Hawaii in 1947, according to the report. She started out as a teacher before being elected to the Board of Supervisors in 1954.
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There are now 49 disabled spaces in front of the Park End Stand. 43 of those spaces belong to season ticket holders and the remaining 7 spaces are given to EDSA for their rota system.
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The Jets will receive their opportunity to elevate their status in the month of November as road games loom against the rival New England Patriots (5-3) and undefeated Tennessee Titants (8-0), but first and foremost, the Jets have this Sunday to focus on. The 2-6 Rams will travel to the Meadowlands, seemingly presenting the Jets with an opportunity to notch another win on their slate. But while the Rams' record suggests a victory for the Jets, Mangini knows the game tape emits an entirely different story.
"In terms of the Rams, they have won two of the last four. What happens when we're in this situation is we look at the statistics and it says one thing and you turn on the film and it says something totally different. To me, what's important is what's on tape," Mangini said."
While the film may present the Rams as a legitimate threat, the statistics show that the glory years of quarterback Kurt Warner, running back Marshall Faulk and wide receiver Isaac Bruce providing the "Greatest Show on Turf" remain simply a pipe dream. Behind quarterback Marc Bulger, the Rams' offense has been invisible in 2008, ranking 30th in the NFL with 263 total yards per game. To add salt to the Rams' wounds, Pro Bowl running back Steven Jackson has not practiced this week because of a thigh injury and may miss Sunday's game. But statistics aside, Mangini has already pinned the Rams' receiving core as "explosive." The Rams currently rank eight in the NFL in passes over 40 yards.
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This Rams' offense is only a distant memory of the "Greatest Show on Turf" unit that powered the Rams to Super Bowl births in 2000 and 2002 (XXXIV, XXXVI), but Jackson has the rare ability to single-handedly control a game. Jackson has rushed for at least 1,000 yards in the last three seasons and he was currently ranked 15th in the league in rushing (128 carries, 525 yards) before a thigh injury derailed him in practice this week. To complicate matters, Jackson's two backups, Antonio Pittman (hamstring) and Travis Minor (concussion), have not practiced this week and may not play. But nonetheless, the Jets' run defense currently ranks fourth in the NFL. The Rams may be reliant on Bulger to take control of the game. Forcing an offense to be one-dimensional can be costly in the NFL.
Advantage: Jets
Rams 'D' vs. Jets 'O'
The 2008 season has not been friendly to the Rams' defense, which has allowed under 20 points just twice in eight games. In last week's win against Buffalo the Jets' offense continued to struggle, gaining only 297 yards, but Favre seem content not to suffer a letdown this week. Running back Thomas Jones has quietly climbed up to second in the AFC in rushing with 601 yards on 134 carries and Sunday could be a prime opportunity for Jones to post another big day on the ground. The Rams are allowing 4.9 yards per rush this season (T-30th in NFL).
Advantage: Jets
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If there is one area of strength for the Rams, it is special teams. Kicker Josh Brown is 14-for-16 on field goal attempts this season and punter Donnie Jones currently leads the NFL with an average of 50 yards per punt. On kickoff and punt returns, Dante Hall does not possess the breakaway speed he once add, but he's still averaging a respectable 20.2 yards per kick return. As for the Jets, Leon Washington remains one of the league's most explosive players, as he is averaging 27 yards per kick return. Kicker Jay Feely (12-for-16 FG) and punter Reggie Hodges (41.6 avg) are respectable.
Advantage: Rams
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While the Jets' defense helped carry the team to victory last week in Buffalo, this game could be decided on Favre's legendary cannon. If Favre can hit wide recievers Laveranues Coles and Jerricho Cotchery early and often, it will open up the Rams' defense for Jones in the second half. As always, the Jets must avoid "self-inflicted wounds" if they want to improve to 6-3 on the year.
The Rams may be playing better under Haslett, but they still remain a flawed unit. If Jackson, the Rams' best playmaker, is ruled out for Sunday, Bulger will not have enough talent on offense to win. Expect the Jets' offense to have another breakthrough performance against one of the league's worst defenses.
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