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Setting Server Configuration Limits
Though you are not likely to fine-tune the server during installation, you must be aware of the existence of server limits and the way they are configured. Incorrectly configured limits make a web server an easy target for attacks (see Chapter 5). The following configuration directives all show default Apache configuration values and define how long the server will wait for a slow client:
# wait up to 300 seconds for slow clients
TimeOut 300
# allow connections to be reused between requests
KeepAlive On
# allow a maximum of 100 requests per connection
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
# wait up to 15 seconds for the next
# request on an open connection
KeepAliveTimeout 15
The default value for the connection timeout (300 seconds) is too high. You can safely reduce it below 60 seconds and increase your tolerance against denial of ser vice (DoS) attacks (see Chapter 5).
The following directives impose limits on various aspects of an HTTP request:
# impose no limits on the request bod y
LimitRequestBody 0
# allow up to 100 headers in a request
LimitRequestFields 100
# each header may be up to 8190 bytes long
LimitRequestFieldsize 8190
# the first line of the request can be
# up to 8190 bytes long
LimitRequestLine 8190
# limit the XML request body to 1 million bytes(Apache 2.x only)
LimitXMLRequestBody 1000000
LimitXMLRequestBody is an Apache 2 directive and is used by the mod_dav module to limit the size of its command requests (which are XML-based).
Seeing that the maximal size of the request body is unlimited by default (2 GB in practice), you may wish to specify a more sensible value for LimitRequestBody . You can go as low as 64 KB if you do not plan to support file uploads in the installation.
The following directives control how server instances are created and destroyed in Apache 1 and sometimes in Apache 2 (as described further in the following text):
# keep 5 servers ready to handle requests
MinSpareServers 5
# do not keep more than 10 servers idle
MaxSpareServers 10
# start with 5 servers
StartServers 5
# allow a max of 150 clients at any given time
MaxClients 150
# allow unlimited requests per server
MaxRequestsPerChild 0
You may want to lower the maximal number of clients ( MaxClients ) if your server does not have enough memory to handle 150 Apache instances at one time.
You should make a habit of putting a limit on the maximal number of requests served by one server instance, which is unlimited by default in Apache 1 (as indi cated by the 0 MaxRequestsPerChild value) but set to 10000 in Apache 2. When a server instance reaches the limit, it will be shut down and replaced with a fresh copy. A high value such as 1000 (or even more) will not affect web server operation but will help if an Apache module has a memory leak. Interestingly, when the Keep-Alive feature (which allows many requests to be performed over a single network connection) is used, all requests performed over a single Keep-Alive connection will be counted as one for the purposes of MaxRequestsPerChild handling.
Apache 2 introduces the concept of multiprocessing modules (MPMs), which are special-purpose modules that determine how request processing is organized. Only one MPM can be active at any one time. MPMs were introduced to allow processing to be optimized for each operating system individually. The Apache 1 processing model (multiple processes, no threads, each process handling one request at one time) is called prefork, and it is the default processing model in Apache 2 running on Unix platforms. On Windows, Apache always runs as a single process with multiple execution threads, and the MPM for that is known as winnt. On Unix systems running Apache 2, it is possible to use the worker MPM, which is a hybrid, as it supports many processes each with many threads. For the worker MPM, the configuration is similar to the following (refer to the documentation for the complete description):
# the maximum number of processe s
ServerLimit 16
# how many processes to start with
StartServers 2
# how many threads per process to create
ThreadsPerChild 25
# minimum spare threads across all processes
MinSpareThreads 25
# maximum spare threads across all processes
MaxSpareThreads 75
# maximum clients at any given time
MaxClients 150
Since the number of threads per process is fixed, the Apache worker MPM will change the number of active processes to obey the minimum and maximum spare threads configured. Unlike with the prefork MPM, the MaxClients directive now con trols the maximum number of active threads at any given time.
{mospagebreak title=Preventing Information Leaks}
By default, Apache provides several bits of information to anyone interested. Any information obtained by attackers helps them build a better view of the system and makes it easier for them to break into the system.
For example, the installation process automatically puts the email address of the user compiling Apache (or, rather, the email address it thinks is the correct email address) into the configuration file. This reveals the account to the public, which is undesirable. The following directive replaces the Apache-generated email address with a generic address:
ServerAdmin email@example.com
By default, the email address defined with this directive appears on server-generated pages. Since this is probably not what you want, you can turn off this feature completely via the following directive:
ServerSignature Off
The HTTP protocol defines a response header field Server , whose purpose is to identify the software responding to the request. By default, Apache populates this header with its name, version number, and names and version numbers of all its modules willing to identify themselves. You can see what this looks like by sending a test request to the newly installed server:
$ telnet localhost 80
Trying 127.0.0.1…
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 22:05:35 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.29 (Unix)
Content-Location: index.html.en
Vary: negotiate,accept-language,accept-charset
TCN: choice
Last-Modified: Fri, 04 May 2001 00:00:38 GMT
ETag: "4002c7-5b0-3af1f126;405a21d7"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 1456
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Language: en
Expires: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 22:05:35 GMT
This header field reveals specific and valuable information to the attacker. You can't hide it completely (this is not entirely true, as you will find in the next section), but you can tell Apache to disclose only the name of the server ("Apache").
ServerTokens ProductOnly
We turned off the directory indexing feature earlier when we set the Options direc tive to have the value None . Having the feature off by default is a good approach. You can enable it later on a per-directory basis:
<Directory /var/www/htdocs/download >
Options +Indexes
Automatic directory indexes are dangerous because programmers frequently create folders that have no default indexes. When that happens, Apache tries to be helpful and lists the contents of the folder, often showing the names of files that are publicly available (because of an error) but should not be seen by anyone, such as the following:
- Files (usually archives) stored on the web server but not properly protected (e.g., with a password) because users thought the files could not be seen and thus were secure
- Files that were uploaded "just for a second" but were never deleted
- Source code backup files automatically created by text editors and uploaded to the production server by mistake
- Backup files created as a result of direct modification of files on the production server
To fight the problem of unintentional file disclosure, you should turn off automatic indexing (as described in the "AllowOverride directive" section) and instruct Apache to reject all requests for files matching a series of regular expressions given below. Similar configuration code exists in the default httpd.conf file to deny access to . htaccess files (the per-directory configuration files I mentioned earlier). The follow ing extends the regular expression to look for various file extensions that should normally not be present on the web server:
<FilesMatch "(^.ht|~$|.bak$|.BAK$)" >
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from all
The FilesMatch directive only looks at the last part of the full filename (the basename), and thus, FilesMatch configuration specifications do not apply to directory names. To completely restrict access to a particular directory, for example to deny access to CVS administrative files (frequently found on web sites), use something like:
<DirectoryMatch /CVS/>
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from all
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One of the principles of web server hardening is hiding as much information from the public as possible. By extending the same logic, hiding the identity of the web server makes perfect sense. This subject has caused much controversy. Discussions usually start because Apache does not provide facilities to control all of the content provided in the Server header field, and some poor soul tries to influence Apache developers to add it. Because no clear technical reasons support either opinion, discussions continue.
I have mentioned the risks of providing server information in the Server response header field defined in the HTTP standard, so a first step in our effort to avoid this will be to fake its contents. As you will see later, this is often not straightforward, but it can be done. Suppose we try to be funny and replace our standard response "Apache/1.3.30 (Unix)" with "Microsoft-IIS/5.0" (it makes no difference to us that Internet Information Server has a worse security record than Apache; our goal is to hide who we are). An attacker sees this but sees no trace of Active Server Pages (ASP) on the server, and that makes him suspicious. He decides to employ operating system fingerprinting. This technique uses the variations in the implementations of the TCP/IP protocol to figure out which operating system is behind an IP address. This functionality comes with the popular network scanner NMAP. Running NMAP against a Linux server will sometimes reveal that the server is not running Windows. Microsoft IIS running on a Linux server—not likely!
There are also differences in the implementations of the HTTP protocol supplied by different web servers. HTTP fingerprinting exploits these differences to determine the make of the web server. The differences exist for the following reasons:
- Standards do not define every aspect of protocols. Some parts of the standard are merely recommendations, and some parts are often intentionally left vague because no one at the time knew how to solve a particular problem so it was left to resolve itself.
- Standards sometimes do not define trivial things.
- Developers often do not follow standards closely, and even when they do, they make mistakes.
The most frequently used example of web server behavior that may allow exploitation is certainly the way Apache treats URL encoded forward slash characters. Try this:
- Open a browser window, and type in the address http://www.apachesecurity.net// (two forward slashes at the end). You will get the home page of the site.
- Replace the forward slash at the end with %2f (the same character but URL-encoded): http://www.apachesecurity.net/%2f. The web server will now respond with a 404 (Not Found) response code!
This happens only if the site runs Apache. In two steps you have determined the make of the web server without looking at the Server header field. Automating this check is easy.
This behavior was so widely and frequently discussed that it led Apache developers to introduce a directive ( AllowEncodedSlashes ) to the 2.x branch to toggle how Apache behaves. This will not help us much in our continuing quest to fully control the content provided in the Server header field. There is no point in continuing to fight for this. In theory, the only way to hide the identity of the server is to put a reverse proxy (see Chapter 9) in front and instruct it to alter the order of header fields in the response, alter their content, and generally do everything possible to hide the server behind it. Even if someone succeeds at this, this piece of software will be so unique that the attacker will identify the reverse proxy successfully, which is as dangerous as what we have been trying to hide all along.
Not everything is lost, however. You may not be able to transform your installation's identity, but you can pretend to be, say, a different version of the same web server. Or you can pretend to be a web server with a list of modules different from reality. There is a great opportunity here to mislead the attacker and make him spend a lot of time on the wrong track and, hopefully, give up. To conclude:
- With a different server name in the Server header field, you can deflect some automated tools that use this information to find servers of certain make.
- It is possible to fool and confuse a range of attackers with not quite developed skills. Not everyone knows of TCP/IP and HTTP fingerprinting, for example.
- Small changes can be the most effective.
Now, let's see how we can hide server information in practice.
{mospagebreak title=Changing the Server Header Field}
The following sections discuss alternative approaches to changing the web server identity.
Changing the name in the source code
You can make modifications to change the web server identity in two places in the source code. One is in the include file httpd.h in Apache 1 (ap_release.h in Apache 2) where the version macros are defined:
#define SERVER_BASEVENDOR "Apache Group "
#define SERVER_BASEPRODUCT "Apache"
#define SERVER_BASEREVISION "1.3.29"
#define SERVER_BASEVERSION SERVER_BASEPRODUCT "/" SERVER_BASEREVISION
#define SERVER_PRODUCT SERVER_BASEPRODUCT
#define SERVER_REVISION SERVER_BASEREVISION
#define SERVER_VERSION SERVER_PRODUCT "/" SERVER_REVISION
Apache Benchmark recommends that only the value of the SERVER_BASEPRODUCT macro be changed, allowing the other information such as the version number to remain in the code so it can be used later, for example, for web server version identi fication (by way of code audit, not from the outside). If you decide to follow this recommendation, the ServerTokens directive must be set to ProductOnly , as discussed earlier in this chapter.
The reason Apache Benchmark recommends changing just one macro is because some modules (such as mod_ssl) are made to work only with a specific version of the Apache web server. To ensure correct operation, these modules check the Apache version number (contained in the SERVER_BASEVERSION macro) and refuse to run if the version number is different from what is expected.
A different approach for changing the name in a source file is to replace the ap_set_version() function, which is responsible for construction of the server name in the first place. For Apache 1, replace the existing function (in http_main.c) with one like the following, specifying whatever server name you wish:
static void ap_set_version(void)
/* set the server name */
/* do not allow other modules to add to it */
For Apache 2, replace the function (defined in core.c):
static void ap_set_version(apr_pool_t *pconf)
/* set the server name */
ap_add_version_component(pconf, "Microsoft-IIS/5.0");
/* do not allow other modules to add to it */
Changing the name using mod_security
Changing the source code can be tiresome, especially if it is done repeatedly. A different approach to changing the name of the server is to use a third-party module, mod_security (described in detail in Chapter 12). For this approach to work, we must allow Apache to reveal its full identity, and then instruct mod_security to change the identity to something else. The following directives can be added to Apache configuration:
# Reveal full identity (standard Apache directive )
ServerTokens Full
# Replace the server name (mod_security directive)
SecServerSignature "Microsoft-IIS/5.0"
Apache modules are not allowed to change the name of the server completely, but mod_security works by finding where the name is kept in memory and overwriting the text directly. The ServerTokens directive must be set to Full to ensure the web server allocates a large enough space for the name, giving mod_security enough space to make its changes later.
Changing the name using mod_headers with Apache 2
The mod_headers module is improved in Apache 2 and can change response headers. In spite of that, you cannot use it to change the two crucial response headers, Server and Date. But the approach does work when the web server is working in a reverse proxy mode. In that case, you can use the following configuration:
Header set Server "Microsoft-IIS/5.0"
However, there is one serious problem with this. Though the identity change works in normal conditions, mod_headers is not executed in exceptional circumstances. So, for example, if you make an invalid request to the reverse proxy and force it to respond with status code 400 ("Bad request"), the response will include the Server header containing the true identity of the reverse proxy server.
Please check back next week for the continuation of this article.


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If you've been a loyal Joost user since the company rolled out its private beta last year, version 1.0 isn't a whole lot different from the latest build, however the newer "plastic" menus are much better looking than the contrastacular ones of yore. There's also a ton of content, which Joost pits somewhere above 150,000 shows, spanned across 250 or so "channels," including one with entire episodes of the original Transformers series.
There are, however, a few caveats that might slow your step toward downloading Joost. The first is for Mac users, who need a newer Intel machine to enjoy any programming--so that dual core G5 you have for Photoshop won't be able handle this. You also need a broadband connection, since all content is streamed, meaning you won't have access to any content while offline.
On a side note, for those of you looking to ditch your cable provider's on demand service and enjoy Joost programming in your living room, help is on the way. In an interview with NewTeeVee, Joost's CEO Mike Volpi noted that the the service and technology could be ported over to a set top box within the next 18 months, the company is just looking for partners and wants to get things working a little better first. Stay tuned.
CNET Download.com links: Joost (for Windows), Joost (for Intel Macs)

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I have a client who would like to use their ISA 2004 server to monitor and occasionally restrict all outbound traffic. They recently had an internal issue where an employee might have transmitted confidential information using Microsoft Messenger.
Currently, they have their ISA server placed behind their PIX and proxy settings for Internet Explorer are pushed down via Active Directory GPO. The problem here is that the PIX is plugged directly into their switch to allow their users to connect to the internet effectively allowing them to uncheck the proxy settings and get where they need to (can't restrict them from doing so as most are allowed to use their laptops at home). Furthermore, restricting proxy settings does not change the way that IM clients connect as they usually have to be configured manually.
Someone suggested that they pull the plug connecting the PIX and switch to force traffic to be directed through the ISA server (which would be dual-homed on the internal network and DMZ), but this presents another problem. The use a multitude of internet applications that are frequently changing and it's very possible that forcing them to work through a proxy will break them. On top of that, their c-levels frequently communicate with family members via IM and I'm not about to start blocking them
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Matt Rogers is the host of Lifetime's Coming Home. On Memorial Day he performed Sesame Street's new resiliency anthem with Elmo, Rosita, Gordon and the Marine Corps band. We recently sat down with Matt to talk about his Memorial Day performance, his admiration for our servicemen and women, and how he became the host of Coming Home.
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Yahoo announced the decision by the Mexican appellate court on Thursday. Both Worldwide Directories S.A. de C.V. and Ideas Interactivas S.A. de C.V. will contest the ruling, said Carlos Bazan-Canabal, a director at the companies.
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Based on Eugene O'Neill's semi-biographical play about insidiously destructive family ties, Sidney Lumet's Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) is a mostly compelling – occasionally tedious – but remarkably faithful adaptation of the original stagecraft. Infrequently, the director's devotion to his source material results in some cumbersome camera set ups. Lumet, who began his career working on a shoestring budget in fast paced TV serials with even more limiting camera techniques, exploits the economy of that small screen medium for the movies. He staves off the temptation to 'open up' the play, relying on the briefest of exterior location work for his first act, but then isolating virtually all of subsequent scenes inside a single studio bound set.
This visualized claustrophobia doesn't particularly hamper the production, although Lumet's prevalent usage of extreme close ups to punctuate a line or elevate the dramatic mood of a particular moment arguably seems a much better fit for the television screen than the movies. It might have all turned to gumbo, except that Lumet is working with an exceptional cast teetering on the verge of some sublime brilliance in this ensemble piece; Katherine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards, Dean Stockwell and Jeanne Barr.
Katherine Hepburn had officially entered the 'crazy lady' phase of her career in 1959 with a riveting portrait of the mad matriarch in Suddenly Last Summer. Many a great female star from the 1930s and '40s wound up in similar fare throughout the 1960s. And yet, racing through the annals of great literature one is immediately struck by the regularity of this oft conjured middle-aged woman, unflatteringly drawn as a maniacal, injurious creature devoured by her own inconsolable whims. In Long Day's Journey Into Night Hepburn is Mary Tyrone; a careworn harpy who drowns contempt for her miserly husband and shiftless sons, and her more intimate sorrows with a reoccurring morphine addiction.
Mary was a promising young lass once. But that was a very long time ago; before she met James Tyrone (Ralph Richardson), the clever ham who turned a one hit wonder into his career. The perversity in Mary and James' relationship is that it ping-pongs between a mutual regard and devotion and a seething repugnance that frequently rears its ugly head. The couple's inability to keep this more unhealthy aspect of their relationship a secret has contaminated their sons; eldest Jamie (Jason Robards) and the baby of the family, Edmund (Dean Stockwell). Jamie is a boozehound who frequents bars and brothels with an unquenchable thirst to lose and/or destroy himself. Edmund, on the other hand, is a bittersweet realist, currently struggling with a diagnosis of consumption that has intruded on his limited aspirations to become a writer and poet.
Following Mary's release from a state sanctioned recovery program for drug addiction the family has retreated to their summer home on the Connecticut coast; a large but slightly dilapidated farm house with a spacious garage where it is hoped everyone can rest, recuperate and reconcile their differences while facing their greatest challenge yet; the very real prospect that Edmund will die. Although never seen, the Tyrones readily reference Doctor Hardy – a quack who James discovered in a tavern during his own drinking days and made his family's physician, moreover because he was cheap rather than skilled in his profession.
Indeed, as the narrative unravels, one of the irksome general complaints the family has is that James is a skinflint for just about everything except his own desire to acquire more land and real estate. Having grown up dirt poor James harbors a poor man's angst over the possibility of slipping into poverty once again and has repeatedly refused his wife and children creature comforts they believe they deserve. He has even cheated them out of an elegant summer home. The house is a decaying ramshackle of worn knickknacks, its wallpaper peeling; its' carpets threadbare: a very concrete manifestation for their individual illnesses of the heart and mind; hardly a home and barely homey, but a necessary evil: the one place they can hide from the world, though arguably never from themselves or each other.
As in the play, the movie is all about revealing truth behind the collusions of this devastatingly flawed family unit: a father's diseased and deliberate cruelty toward the woman he supposedly loves; sibling rivalry compounded by pity, disdain and fear of one's own mortality; marital indiscretions – and the jealousy, angst, hurt and emotional chaos and baggage it has brought upon the family – and, a lost woman's incapacity to accept her own failings as wife and mother without reverting to drugs as a crutch. Each dysfunction is explored through confrontation. What makes O'Neill's words particularly engrossing is that there is no resolution forthcoming from this conflict.
All of O'Neill's characters are iron-willed to the point of absurdity, ensconced in all their misguided ennui and regrets. Mary finds a scapegoat in her husband so she does not have to face the truth. But is her chiding truly heartfelt or merely a mask so that the rest of the family will ignore her renewed indulgences without having to feel ashamed? James remains an unrepentant cheapskate – less effective in his manipulations of the family now that the boys have grown up, yet maintaining his blamelessness, even as Mary relapses into her escapist nightmare of morphine abuse and the family unit continues to crumble beyond repair all around him.
Jamie is Edmund's rival. Despite his heartfelt and frankly bitter confession - that he has deliberately done everything in his power to corrupt his younger brother with his own vices of wine and women - Edmund cannot bring himself to truly hate his own brother. The fraternal tragedy herein is that Jamie loves Edmund. In fact, one can argue that Jamie has merely deflected his own self-loathing and resentment towards his parents, their inability to love each other or him in any sort of meaningful way, onto Edmund. But this only makes him hate himself more – the cyclical nature of his own abhorrence devouring his self-respect. The complexities of this fraternal bond create an undertow that threatens to ruin the one chance either brother has at remaining friends. Arguably, this bond will never entirely severe unless Edmund dies.
Long Day's Journey Into Night is destructively poetic. It finds artistic measure in its weighty subject matter and manages to draw out the audience's empathy for characters that are largely unsympathetic of their own accord. The film is slightly unbalanced by Lumet's faithfulness to the text. His use of the long take allows for the actors to explore their characters and find the spark of electricity through raw performance. But the lack of cuts also anchors the movie more concretely to performance, as in viewing a moving tableau of live theater rather than experiencing a cinematic interpretation of the stage show.
Katherine Hepburn is particularly grand in all her halcyon madness; inspired even, while mussing her disheveled locks or stumbling about the halls, dragging a crumpled wedding dress behind her. It's a showy part – one for which Ms. Hepburn is immensely suited. Regrettably, she is absent from almost the entire last act – a void not entirely filled by the confrontational dialogue between Ralph Richardson and Dean Stockwell. But Stockwell and Richard Robards have exceptional on screen chemistry during their bittersweet repartee; unexpected and electrifying – conveying the breadth of what must have been a severely flawed childhood that both their characters have tried so desperately since to forget. The one disappointment herein is Richardson – a gifted actor who fleetingly breathes life into his misguided patriarch, but on the whole reverts to the more epic gesturing of a stage actor that seems out of place amongst the rest of the performances.
I'll just go on record stating that Long Day's Journey Into Night won't be everyone's cup of tea. In an era when family dysfunctions were rarely discussed – and arguably never even suggested in public – O'Neill's probing deconstruction of this atypical middleclass family had exculpatory value. In today's social climate where everyone cannot wait to divulge their own family secrets – increasingly even to total strangers (as on reality TV shows) the play and the movie's impact have undeniably been blunted. And the film is very much a time capsule of its vintage: further trapped by Lumet's very obvious staging that owes more to serialized TV than a cinematic experience. Is it a good movie? Let's just say, it has its place. Will it entertain? Mostly – yes. Is it a classic? No. But Long Day's Journey Into Night is still a fairly fascinating way to spend a rainy afternoon.
Olive Film's Blu-ray is an improvement on previous DVD incarnations, chiefly its overall clarity that yields a remarkable amount of fine detail in Boris Kaufman's B&W cinematography. Close ups in particular reveal startling specifics and imperfections in hair, fabric and flesh. Location photography seems to suffer from slightly boosted contrast while interior shots look fairly accurate. A smattering of film grain is accurately represented throughout. Age related artifacts crop up now and then and are obvious, though arguably never distracting. Overall, the print elements used in this transfer are solid. The audio is DTS mono and adequately represented. Olive gives us zero extras and a very scant selection of chapter stops to choose from. Ten chapters for a 174 min. movie is unacceptable!
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A Proper Hero
By: Legacy Staff
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There aren't many 20-somethings who are praised by the President of the United States for their heroism, save perhaps members of the armed forces serving in combat. Christopher Michael Proper did serve in the military. But the heroic act that earned him thanks from the president and the head of the FBI didn't come on the battlefield. It happened at his local Winn-Dixie.
It was 1968 and 21-year-old Mike Proper had returned from service in the Marine Corps. He was grocery shopping with his wife when, according to a story in the Tampa Bay Times, Proper leapt onto a gunman robbing the store and pinned him down. Proper was hit twice by bullets but so was the gunman, who happened to be on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List for the murder of a bank customer four months earlier.
After commendations from then President Lyndon B. Johnson and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, the young insurance salesman set his compass in a different direction: law enforcement.
Proper, who died this month in St. Petersburg, Florida, served in the marine patrol, was deputy sheriff, police chief and corrections officer. He most recently worked as a park ranger at Egmont Key where he also spent much of his off-duty time fishing and boating.
In a feature story following his death, Tampa Bay Times "epilogue writer" Andrew Meacham said that Proper had assisted with a 3,000-pound marijuana bust and, while serving as sheriff's deputy, could be seen "chasing down drug dealers in a white Trans Am." He provided security for actor Burt Reynolds and was a fan of the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Soon after he began work at Egmont, his behavior became erratic and inappropriate. He was later diagnosed with Pick's disease, a rare neurodegenerative illness that causes dementia and loss of speech, among other symptoms. The disease eventually got the best of him. Proper died June 9 at the age of 66.
Susan Soper is the author of ObitKit®, A Guide to Celebrating Your Life. A lifelong journalist, she has written for Newsday and CNN, and was Features Editor at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where she launched a series called "Living with Grief."


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About Jane Rosen
Exploring the interconnectedness of all life forms, Jane Rosen closely observes animals as a key to understanding human nature. Consequently, deer, horses, hawks, and dogs often serve as subjects for her sculptures, paintings, and prints. Her drawings often proceed spontaneously, taking coffee or ink stains as their starting point. Meanwhile, her psychologically complex, multilayered wall sculptures comprise materials ranging from marble dust to gypsum, willow branches to horse hair. They often investigate the opposition between nature and culture, as exemplified by Boat/Beak (1992), in which tow halves of a boat protrude from the wall, in a formation resembling a bird's beak. As Rosen describes, her art addresses "questions about other possible states of awareness."
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Man Injured In Franklin County Accident
Pennsylvania State Police in Chambersburg reported 20-year-old McConnellsburg resident Daniel E. DeShong suffered minor injuries during a two-vehicle accident along Buchanan Trail Saturday afternoon.
According to reports, DeShong was injured when his vehicle was struck at the intersection of Grant Shook Road by a 2009 Hyundai Sonata driven by Charles J. Gentile, 82, of Greencastle. Police said Gentile's car struck a guiderail on the northern berm, spun into the eastbound lane and hit DeShong's vehicle.The impact caused DeShong's vehicle to spin 180 degrees and hit a southern guiderail with its rear bumper.
Both drivers suffered minor injuries but did not require medical transport following the 4:26 p.m. collision in Antrim Township.
Hopewell Man Arrested For DUI
Charges of driving under the influence have been filed by state police troopers against a 33- year- old Hopewell, Pa., man. Police alleged Jeremy Russell Neuder was observed committing several traffic violations along the westbound lanes of Interstate 70 on December 19, 2013. Trooper stopped Neuder's vehicle at 10:20 p.m., and the driver reportedly displayed "several indicators of stimulant use." A blood test was performed, and charges were filed as a result of confirmed lab testing results.
Juvenile Flees From Police
A 17-year-old boy from McConnellsburg reportedly ran from state police troopers after being observed speeding along Great Cove Road on December 21.
State police alleged the juvenile began his flight at 1:18 a.m. in the area of East Cherry Street and continued south onto Confederate Lane while under the influence of alcohol. He was eventually captured and arrested. Charges of driving under the influence as well as fleeing and eluding have been filed.
Woman Accused Of Harassment
State police have accused 26-year-old McConnellsburg resident Tara L. Mellott with harassment in connection with an alleged incident at 308 Oliver Drive. Police said on December 22, Mellott was involved in a verbal dispute with a 42-year-old male, also from McConnellsburg. The 5:50 a.m. incident alleged escalated when Mellott struck the man with a van.
Two Charged For Harassment
Two Warfordsburg area residents face charges of harassment following an alleged physical altercation at a location along Franklin Mills Road. State police reported Ty Lancer Bowman, 42, and Jennifer Marie Strait, 40, were charged through Magisterial District Judge Tamela Heming for the Tuesday, December 31, incident in Bethel Township.
Police said the argument turned physical when Strait reportedly misunderstood a comment made at 11:34 p.m. Bowman told police Strait hit and kicked him while he attempted to defend himself. Meanwhile, Strait reportedly told troopers nothing occurred aside from the verbal dispute.
Local Man Accused Of Harassment
Pennsylvania State Police in McConnellsburg have accused a 57-year- old man from McConnellsburg of harassment following a domestic dispute at 160 Shady Grove Drive in Todd Township. On January 1, Ronald E. Briggs is accused of striking a 35-year- old woman, also from McConnellsburg, in the throat with his forearm at 8:38 p.m., police said.
Harrisonville Man Accused Of Assault In Vehicle
Pennsylvania State Police in McConnellsburg have accused 25-year- old Harrisonville resident Mark Justin Knight with simple assault, reckless endangerment, endangering the welfare of a child and possession of drug charges.
The allegations against Knight stem from an argument that occurred inside a vehicle travelling Lincoln Highway between Mc- Connellsburg Borough and Tanglewood Lane on January 1. Police said Knight struck a 22-year- old Harrisonville woman while she was operating the vehicle between 2:30 a.m. and 4:32 a.m. A 3-year-old girl was a rear passenger at the time.
Police added that when Knight was placed under arrest he was found to possess an alleged smoking pipe.
Police Release Update On Nail Incident
Pennsylvania State Police in McConnellsburg released an updated press release last week in connection with criminal mischief that occurred during the 2012 general firearms deer season.
Police reported a felony arrest warrant was issued by Magisterial District Judge Wendy Mellott for 28-yearold Harrisonville resident Joshua Timothy Mellott. Mellott was arrested by troopers on December 4, 2013, and transported to the judge's office for preliminary arraignment. He was released on his own recognizance.
Police stated the mischief charges stem from allegations that Mellott scattered various types of nails along Cherry Lane in Licking Creek Township sometime November 25 or November 26, 2013. A total of 81 tires were damaged when unknowing hunters travelled across the nails. Damage totalled $7,400.
Police Investigate DUI Crash
Pennsylvania State Police troopers from the Mc- Connellsburg substation investigated a single-vehicle accident along Patterson Run Road that allegedly involved driving under the influence.
Troopers said that on December 28 Anthony S. DeShong, 44, of Harrisonville lost control of his southbound 2003 Chevrolet Impala. The car travelled onto the western berm where it struck a white plastic address marker post, a mail- box and then a utility pole.
Disabling damage to the car consisted of a depressed front bumper, a broken front axle and a busted radiator. The car came to a rest at 1:02 p.m. on a property owner's lawn located at 757 Patterson Run Road.
DeShong was not injured and was wearing a seat belt. State police were assisted on the scene by Scott's Towing and McConnellsburg Fire Police.
Vehicle Strikes Deer
A Todd, Pa., woman escaped injury when her westbound 2011 Chevrolet Equinox struck a white-tailed deer along Route 913 in Taylor Township on December 31. Sheri Sue Rowles, 56, was wearing a seat belt when the accident occurred at 6:12 a.m. near the intersection of Waterfall Road, state police said. Rowles' vehicle was removed from the scene by Tinman Towing.
Huntingdon County Woman Cited In DUI Crash
A southern Huntingdon County, Pa., woman faces charges of driving under the influence as a result of an accident along Aughwick Road on December 20.
Pennsylvania State Police in McConnellsburg said Kristin M. Robertson, 26, of Rockhill Furnace, lost control of her southbound 2003 Chevrolet Cavalier at 6:17 a.m. just north of Cowans Gap State Park. Robertson's car crashed into a ditch and then struck a makeshift culvert, police added.
Robertson was transported to Fulton County Medical Center with minor injuries. She was wearing a seat belt.
Pa. Police Seek Gunman In I-81 Slaying Near Md.
ANTRIM, Pa. (AP) – Police say a man killed in an apparent road-rage shooting in Pennsylvania had reported some sort of road dispute with the pickup chasing him.
State police say 28-yearold Timothy Davison called 911 as he crossed from Maryland into Pennsylvania on Interstate 81 early Saturday.
Trooper Rob Hicks, a spokesman, says he's not sure if Davison reported that someone had hit the brakes or cut the other person off.
But he says Davis mentioned some type of situation, and said someone was firing a gun at him.
Hicks says the first call reached Maryland authorities and was dropped, before a second call reached dispatchers in Pennsylvania.
Police believe the pickup driver rammed Davison's car, then shot him. No arrests have been made.
Police say Davison was driving home to Poland, Maine, from Florida.
Changes Announced For Fulton Co. PSP Barrack
Promotions within the Pennsylvania State Police have transferred personnel in and out of the Mc- Connellsburg barrack.
William D. Baker Jr. of Needmore enlisted in 1990 and is now a sergeant. His assignment changed from Troop G in McConnellsburg to the Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement, according to a news release.
Carlisle, Pa., resident William D. Hotham was promoted to corporal and will work in the McConnellsburg barrack, the news release said.
State Police Release Crime, Patrol Report
Pennsylvania State Police in McConnellsburg have released their crime and patrol activity month for the month of December 2013, during which a total of 51 criminal offenses were reported to investigators. Of those offenses, 29 were cleared and 28 arrests were made. In addition, troopers investigated 36 accidents, four hit-and-run accidents and six driving-under the-influence-related collisions. A total of 13 individuals were injured in those crashes. Troopers also issued 385 traffic citations, 232 written warnings, 15 drunk-driving citations, 29 seat-belt citations and one child safety seat citation.
Turnpike Tolls To Increase In 2014
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Tolls on the Pennsylvania Turnpike are scheduled to increase this weekend.
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission said Tuesday that its annual increase will be 12 percent for cashpaying customers and 2 percent for E-ZPass users. The new rates take effect Sunday.
The rates continue a three-year trend of favoring E-ZPass users over cash-paying customers. E-ZPass travelers saved up to 25 percent in 2013, and the turnpike commission says 2014' s changes will widen that to 35 percent.
They say using technology to deduct tolls as vehicles roll through the toll booths is safer, less expensive and more convenient.
The tolls help fund improvements not only to the 550-mile Pennsylvania Turnpike system, but to other state- owned roads and bridges and public transit systems.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Emmylou Harris loves Mumford & Sons for a special reason.
"They're making the banjo respectable, which is not an easy feat, and I'm so glad it's finally happening," Harris joked.
Harris, an iconic singer and member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, and Mumford & Sons, platinum-selling lads from London who have sparked a folk rock resurgence, are joining together to explore their shared love of high harmony, sad songs and, yes, the oft-belittled banjo on an episode of "CMT Crossroads" on Thursday night.
The Nashville-based Harris had only briefly met lead singer Marcus Mumford before agreeing to do the show based on the waves they created in the music world. They coordinated song choices by phone and got together to rehearse for a little more than a day before recording the show earlier this month.
It was a crash course in catalog consumption and the chance to get to know each other.
"They're great harmony (singers) and they've got this great driving groove with a minimalist instrumentation," Harris said. "But they just sound good and the songs have beautiful melodies and I love harmonizing on them."
She said it proves her theory that music is going to keep reinventing itself in good ways.
"You don't have to repeat the past. We learn from the past, but we have to come forward with something different and there are just so many different combinations to make good music that touches people," she said.
Harris, 65, was among the gateway artists who helped Mumford and bandmates Ben Lovett, Ted Dwane and Winston Marshall discover their love for American roots music. It started with the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack. Harris appeared with Gillian Welch and Alison Krauss on the memorable song "Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby." That eventually led them to the Old Crow Medicine Show and then deep immersion in old-timey sounds from America's long-neglected past.
They ran across Harris' imprint many times along the way, and with the help of dobro master Jerry Douglas, they help explore that legacy on the show.
"Pretty much every song that Emmylou has sung on is my favorite song of whichever artist she sang with," Mumford said. "I'm like an obsessive Emmylou Harris freak and I'm not ashamed."
In turn, the quartet has helped shine a light on the influence Harris and the extensive roots underground still exerts. The band, which releases their new album, "Babel," this week, were a growing success story in that community when they appeared on the 2011 Grammy Awards with Bob Dylan and the Avett Brothers, launching Mumford & Sons into the national popular consciousness. Their album "Sigh No More" is now double platinum and "Babel" is one of the year's most anticipated albums.
"For us, it's kind of a bit of a dream come true," Dwane said. "We'd never thought we'd get to travel so extensively, meet our heroes and collaborate with so many people. ... We're just having a really nice time."
Like the band, fans have discovered something new in those old sounds. Mumford & Sons routinely drew 10,000 and more fans on their Gentleman of the Road tour across the U.S. this summer, almost all of them dancing along to Marshall's banjo.
"Folk music has always been there, but it's wonderful to see the infusion of freshness and energy, but still having that passion," Harris said. "Not just mimicking what went before, but infusing it. I was joking about the banjo, but I'm serious."
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MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — Facebook is bringing your friends' photos, links and observations to your phone's home screen.
If you install the new Home software on certain Android phones from HTC and Samsung, Facebook will bring content right to you, rather than require you to check apps on the device. That way, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says, you're always knowing what is going on around you.
Zuckerberg compares the change to the way Facebook had introduced news feeds years ago to bring friends' updates to a central location, instead of making you check your friends' profile pages one by one.
Central to Home is the new Cover Feed. Facebook's director of products, Adam Mosseri, notes that when people look at their phones now, they typically see a clock and perhaps the snippet of an email. With Home, you'll see photos and other posts as soon as you turn on your phone. Those items will take up the entire display screen.
Mosseri offers an example of standing in line at a store and looking down at the phone to see photos of friends and family. You can swipe from one item to the next from the home screen. If there's something you like, just double tap on it to "like" it. You can also add comments from the home screen.
Home will also have chat heads, a way to communicate with friends from that home screen, without needing to open an app. You can chat with multiple people at once that way — and flick away the photo of anyone you don't want to chat with.
The new experience will also make notifications such as friend requests more prominent. There's also an app launcher that keeps Home running in the background while even as you check out other features on the phone.
Home will work with only a handful of Android phones at first: HTC Corp.'s One X and One X Plus and Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note 2. The upcoming HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S IV will also be able to run Home. In addition, HTC's First will have it already installed.
If you have one of those devices, you'll be able to get Home for free by visiting Play, the online store run by Google Inc., the maker of the Android operating system. If you already have a Facebook app, you'll get a prompt when Home is ready to download on April 12. The software will be updated with new features monthly.
Eventually, Facebook plans to make it available for all Android phones running version 4.0 or later. That is the Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean versions and covers phones made or updated over the past year or so. Facebook says it focused on about a half-dozen devices first to make sure Home worked right.
Facebook will make a version for Android tablet computers, too, but that's not coming for months.
There won't be a version for Apple's iPhone and iPad. Apple's iOS and Mac operating systems include features that integrate Facebook's services, but Zuckerberg says doing something like Home would require a closer partnership.
By contrast, Google makes Android available on an open-source basis, free for anyone to modify, so it's easier to make changes. But Facebook says it's not making a new version of Android, a practice known as forking. Home is being built on top of Android.
Zuckerberg says Facebook isn't building a Facebook phone, saying a Facebook-centered device might sell 10 million to 20 million units at best. Rather, it's building on the existing Android system to bring this experience to a wider group of Android users.
But it is partnering with HTC to build a phone with Home already installed. Called First, the phone will have a screen that measures 4.3 inches diagonally and will work on AT&T Inc.'s 4G LTE cellular network. The phone will cost $100 with a two-year service agreement. It will go on sale April 12, with advance orders beginning Thursday.
The event comes amid rapid growth in the number of people who access Facebook from smartphones and tablet computers. More Android integration could help Facebook Inc. attract more mobile advertisers.
Facebook says ads will eventually come to this new service. It will be interspersed among the items displayed on the home screen, the way Facebook now injects ads into the main news feed showing friends' photos, links and other posts. But in this case, the ads will take up the entire display.


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You are Brian Spencer, a programmer with unmatched technical prowess. Your expertise has yielded an all-powerful Artificial Intelligence, capable of performing the tasks of an entire army of human hackers. But when an evil corporation threatens to take complete control of the Internet with this technology, you will have to go against the powers of your very own creation.
Hacker Evolution Duality presents a variety of puzzles and challenges in an intense, ever-changing experience. Start with basic firewall cracks and move up to complex security systems, making upgrades to your hardware along the way. Framing and even murdering people with ingenious traps, nothing can stand in your way in the quest to right the wrongs.


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Why Our Gun Debate Is Off Target
America's gun owners have every right to object to sweeping controls, but until they take responsibility for their own role in accidents and violence, they're setting themselves up for more regulation.
Believe it or not, what's missing from the current shout-fest over guns and gun control is the voice of gun owners.
Yes, the National Rifle Association has been screaming its head off since the tragedy at Sandy Hook, but the NRA doesn't speak for the country's 100 million gun owners. If it did, it wouldn't have just four million members. Some "gun guys" (as I like to call them) probably support the NRA without joining, but if only 4% are signing up, it's safe to say a large majority of them want nothing to do with...


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BRONX, N.Y. — Lehman College Chemistry Professor Andrei Jitianu was honored on May 4 at the CUNY Graduate Center with the prestigious Feliks Gross Endowment Award. The annual award, which includes a plaque and honorarium, recognizes outstanding research conducted by junior faculty in the humanities or sciences at CUNY. It is the second year in a row that a faculty member from Lehman has won the coveted award.
"I felt honored and humbled by this award, and obliged to keep moving forward with my research," said Professor Jitianu, who joined the Lehman faculty in 2008. His research is focused on creating hermetic barrier materials using the Sol-Gel method. These could be used to encase electronic devices like plasma televisions, cell phones, and LCD screens.
While these new devices consume less energy than their predecessors, their components are more susceptible to damage from water and humidity. The "melting gels" coatings he is developing would increase the lifetime of such devices.
Professor Jitianu's research also has implications for medical diagnostic tools, like quantum dots, which are used for imaging cancer cells. The dots are usually poisonous to the body, but could be used more safely if coated with a hermetic barrier.
"This award is a well-deserved recognition of the high caliber of research that Professor Jitianu has spearheaded during his short time as a Lehman faculty member," said Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Mary A. Papazian. "His commitment to scholarship is not only an inspiration to his students, but is a reflection of the quality of work being carried out across the Lehman campus." Mathematics and Computer Science Professor Jason Behrstock received the Feliks Gross Award last year for his research in geometric group theory and low dimensional topology.
Professor Jitianu's research has been published widely in peer-reviewed journals that include Journal of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology, and Journal of Materials Research. Prior to joining Lehman, he was a research associate at Rutgers University and a senior researcher at the Institute of Physical Chemistry in Bucharest, Romania. He earned a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in inorganic chemistry and a Ph.D. in materials science, all at the University of Bucharest.
Feliks Gross, for whom the award is named, was a noted scholar and social activist who transformed American scholarship in the years following World War II. Born in Poland, he received his doctorate from Jagiellonian University of Cracow, where he also was an assistant professor in sociology. During the war, he fled to the United States, held a number of academic positions, including a professorship at Brooklyn College, and wrote more than twenty books and scores of articles. CUNY established this award in his memory.
Hunter Anthropology Professor Jessica Rothman also received a Feliks Gross Award at the ceremony.
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SETTING: A park.
Narrator:One beautiful day, a certain girl named Susan McCay, discovered her shoes were missing. Not all of them, but one from each pair.
Susan McKay:(Looking sad and whiny.)
Where oh where could my shoes be? Ohhh! Come out, come out, wherever you are! Can anyone help me?
(Detective Hablancy arrives.)
Detective Hablancy:Did I hear the word....HELP?
Susan McKay:Why, yes Detective!
Detective Hablancy:Are you missing one shoe from every pair?
Detective Hablancy:Left or right?
Susan McKay:Uh, right......but how did you know I was missing a shoe?
Detective Hablancy:Because something stinks around here and all of the people coming this way have the same problem!
(Doris Lafy and Professor Sam Rufus shuffle in with only one shoe on each. Professor Sam Rufus is caught up in reading her book.)
Susan McKay:Oh Dear, Mrs.Lafy! Don't slip and fall!
Doris Lafy:Can someone please tell me whose responsible for this nasty prank?
Detective Hablancy:I don't know yet Mrs. Lafy, but I promise to get to the bottom of this at once.
(Detective Hablancy inspects the scene with his magnifying glass. Professor Sam Rufus reads her book, oblivious of the situation.)
Susan McKay:Not Professor Rufus too!
Professor Sam Rufus:Huh?...Me?...Did someone mention my name?
Susan McKay:Yes, Professor Rufus. You are missing a shoe.
Professor Sam Rufus:Left or right? Oh, dear, I suppose I am missing a shoe. Now where could it have gone?
Detective Hablancy:Don't worry Professor! I'll get to the bottom of this!
(Professor Sam Rufus continues looking for his shoe.)
Narrator:Suddenly a suspicious character has tiptoed onto the scene. Could it be our villian Misty Meanor, that shoe snatching thief?
(Misty Meanor is tiptoeing upstage crossing behind the park tree and bench. She stops to respond to the narrator's accusation.)
Misty Meanor:(Holding bags that are bulging and her shirt is bulging too.)
Yeah I did it! So what? You don't know where I am hiding them! My secret is safe!
Detective Hablancy:Or is it?
(Detective Hablacny, Doris Lafy, Professor Sam Rufus, and Susan McKay dump the contents of the bags on the floor. Inside are all different kinds of shoes. Susan McKay pulls on Misty Meanor's shirt and out come more shoes! Professor Sam Rufus goes back to reading.)
Susan McKay:My other sneaker! Yeah!
Doris Lafy:My other bunny slipper! Well, it's about time.
Professor Sam Rufus:Huh, did someone mention shoes?
Narrator:So, another mystery is solved in this small town. Hey, where is my sock?
All:Left or right?
(Misty Meanor begins to tiptoe off set.)
Misty Meanor:(Misty Meanor opens up coat to reveal socks sewed to inside lining of the coat.)
I'll never tell! Ha, ha, ha!
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Brooklyn-based indie rock quintent The Hold Steady might just be the best bar band in America. With their riff-heavy mixture of classic, Bruce Springsteen-meets-the-Replacements-style rock and frontman Craig Finn's lyrically dense storytelling style, The Hold Steady craft intricately detailed musical universes that have already won them countless fans.
Formed in 2000 from the ashes of the Minneapolis-based Lifter Puller, the Hold Steady released their first album, "Almost Killed Me", in 2004 to nearly universal critical acclaim. Bolstered by ever-widening touring circles, 2005's Separation Sunday raised the band's profile even further: it managed to reach the top of many year-end best-of lists, including snagging the #10 spot in Spin Magazine. A loose concept album, Separation Sunday concerns itself mostly with a set of recurring characters (Holly, Charlemagne, and Gideon) who's lives and exploits are chronicled in Craig Finn's complex and allusion-filled lyrics.
After solidifying their reputation for solid, storied classic rock, the band then went on to release two more highly acclaimed albums, 2006's "Boys and Girls in America" and 2008's "Stay Positive". Their latest, "Heaven is Whenever", is set to hit the shelves in the beginning of May. Its first single was posted on Pitchfork in March, and guitarist Tad Kubler has stated that "musical scores" and "cinematic soundscapes" are a big part of its composition. Unfortunately, Franz Nicolay, the mustachioed former keyboardist, will not be featured on "Heaven is Whenever". He left the band in 2010.
Join other fans this coming Friday at World Cafe Live to rock out with this talented, entertaining bar band. What better way to spend a lunch break, or start the weekend early?
Website: http://www.theholdsteady.com/
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/theholdsteady
Recent Release: Heaven is Whenever
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Label: Vagrant
Origin: New York, New York
Free At Noon Setlist
1. The Sweet Part of the City
2. The Weekenders
3. Hurricane J
4. Barely Breathing
5. Rock Problems
6. Soft in the Center
7. Our Whole Lives
8. We Can Get Together
9. Southtown Girls
10. Your Little Hoodrat Friend
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Due to the construction in the area, free parking is no longer available for XPN Free At Noon shows. Metered parking on 31st street is no longer available, and metered parking on Walnut Street is extremely limited as a result of the closure and reconstruction of the South Street Bridge, and the rerouting of traffic onto Walnut Street.
Public transportation to XPN Free At Noon is recommended. For more information on parking in the area visit World Cafe Live.
Find more information on directions and public transportation here.
When you come to XPN's Free At Noon Concerts, bring a can of food to support Philabundance, Delaware Valley's hunger relief organization. We have drop-off boxes to collect canned goods for the needy. Current priority items include: canned pasta, chili, beef stew, tuna, mac & cheese, ready to eat cereal, pork & beans/ baked beans, green beans, corn, fruit cocktail, creamy peanut butter and/ or grape jelly (plastic containers only), and boxed sugar. Thanks!
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The Boston Bruins' 10-game winning streak overall and home 14-game winning streak both ended today against the Buffalo Sabres at TD Banknorth Garden.
You can read the game story on Yahoo!
In addition, center David Krejci (10 games) and defenseman Dennis Wideman (4 games) had their personal points streaks end.


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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindewald
Newt tries to move on, but Leta keeps turning up when he leasts expects it. After a while, he realises she is only there to tell him about Dumbledore, who needs to defeat Grindelwald.
Early Man
Set at the dawn of time, when dinosaurs and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, Early Man tells the story of how one plucky caveman unites his tribe against a mighty enemy and saves the day!
Last Days of Night
A rivalry forms between American entrepreneurs George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison.
Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them
The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.
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I have added some new images of Eddie that were taken on the set of his film Black Death.
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