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A Hawaiian Electric support pole may be doing more harm than good in one Kaneohe neighborhood. Some residents want it removed but can anything be done?
"You can see it's dangerous," says Ben Baniaga, a Kaneohe resident referring to the sidewalk fronting The Salvation Army on Waikalua road.
The walkway is often the road less traveled, but there's nothing poetic about it.
"We got these telephone poles in the middle of the walk(way) and we cannot go in the middle of the walk(way)," says Roland Ahuna, a Kaneohe resident.
"There's less than 2 feet width here and no wheelchair will be able to go through," says Baniaga.
Roland Ahuna says he has to skip the sidewalk and use Waikalua road because he's already crashed his scooter twice on the walkway. There's a HECO support pole in his way.
"A lot of places around here, the handicapped have no chance, we got to use the road," says Ahuna.
The sidewalk has 28 inches of clearance, which is 8 inches short of federal guidelines. Baniaga says he's been bringing this to the city's attention for years.
In that time, he says he's witnessed other people in wheelchairs suffer through some close calls.
"All of these cars will be coming by blaring their horns and cussing under their breath. Why is this guy on the road?" says Baniaga.
HECO says removing the support pole would create a safety risk for drivers and pedestrians.
"We've (HECO) determined the current placement of poles allows for the safest, most practical option," says Darren Pai, HECO spokesperson.
Baniaga says that's ridiculous and even if this pole stays, he says the city needs to focus on the bigger issue, creating a sidewalk that meets ADA standards. That translates to a fully cement path 36 inches wide.
"There's just hundreds of miles of sidewalks currently not compliant with ADA," says Chris Takashige, Director of the Department of Design and Construction.
City officials say a program to rework the sidewalks sounds good but money's the issue. Kaneohe residents are tired of excuses.
"What needed to be done 10 years ago will always be put off 20 years from now, says Baniaga.
City officials tells us there are ways for new sidewalks to be put into neighborhoods.
There's a rule called "touch it fix it," meaning if the city makes any sidewalk repairs, it has to bring the whole sidewalk up to ADA standards.
Otherwise, residents can go through an improvement district process, where community members would split the cost of repairs with the city.

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The Study Travel and Excavation Program (STEP) combines intensive, student-oriented study travel in Biblical Lands with participation in the archaeological excavation of a Biblical site. A typical program includes an extensive travel program in Israel, preceded by a brief visit to another country with biblical associations, and followed by three to four weeks at an archaeological dig in Israel. Because of the political situation, STEP has not included travel to Israel or an excavation experience in recent years.
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but this isn't exactly a post about that.
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It's about the Christian marriages that are falling apart around me. Three that I can think of at this very moment are either over or crumbling quickly. These aren't the first couples to throw in the towels from our circle of friends, but they're falling faster and faster the longer we're in the game. Another one bit the dust today.
I don't take divorce well. I'm not sure if it's attached to leftover fallout from being raised in a single parent home, or because I know it grieves the heart of God, or if it's just one of my little quirks... likely a combination of all three. I am sure of this: I hate it. Today I have a horrible knot in my stomach and a lump in my throat and a dull ache in my heart. I hate that satan gets even small victories.
Whenever this happens, I obsessively look at the state of MY union. Are we okay? I'll ask my husband. Are you happy? I'll check in with God... Am I doing all that I should? I run myself through a set of proofs and tests to make sure I'm not in danger. I fear that I could be falling off the cliff without even realize I'd wandered so closely to the edge... You'll tell me, right? I beg my close friends- You have my permission to call me out if you see me being stupid. I am not a complete idiot- I know that 'there but for the Grace of God go I.' I know I could fall easily and quickly if it weren't for all the safeguards I've been graciously given.
Honestly? I saw each one of the three trainwrecks happening waaaay before they got here. I watched as one spouse from each pair toed the "All things are lawful" line. I watched each one hone an attitude of 'I don't need to be a stereotypical goody goody legalistic Christian to prove I'm saved.' And as I warned (sometimes too loudly, sometimes not loudly enough) and as I watched (often too silently, too often through a naive veil of optimism) they climbed up on the fence- teetering precariously between a godly lifestyle and the ways of the world ... not all at once but bit by bit by bit. The path to 'the fence' is paved by compromise after compromise after compromise. And then as they reached the top of the fence they had a perfect view of....
the other side of the fence.
you know, that place where the grass is greener? The land populated by people who are cuter, stronger, hotter, more understanding, more available, better at listening, neater, smarter, funnier, even more godly than the ones who live on your side of the fence? The place where all the promises you made to your spouse, your children, your God are suddenly not half as important as your own happiness?
And then, suddenly contentment... the thing that each of us struggles with all the time... becomes impossible to find. It's like it can't survive in the land of 'I deserve better than this' so it goes completely out like a candle in a deep coal mine. Once it's out, there is no reasoning that can shine through. Once contentment is gone, it's just a matter of time before they jump off into this fictional land of perfection, leaving behind the wake of hurting people.
I suppose shouldn't be shocked. Statistics show that Christian marriages crash and burn just as often as nonchristian ones. I know that. I can totally see why someone who isn't a believer would bail out of marriage. It's hard.
But for those of us who profess to follow Christ this is absolutely heartbreaking. We have all the tools we need to keep us from that dangerous place. In fact, God clearly drew a line between good behaviors and bad behaviors for a reason... not to keep us 'fenced in' but to keep us safe... to keep us out of the land of do-as-we-please so we don't wander off there and get ourselves hurt. Our enemy satan tries to whisper lies of compromise and rebellion into our hearts and we end up in the same old trap- not just with devastated families and friends but with a heart that thinks they no longer can/want to face God.
and then stupid satan wins.
and that's dumb.
My friends... my Christian married friends... back away from the fence. Know what you believe. Stay away from the grey areas. Don't get even a 'little' drunk. Don't flirt even 'harmlessly.' Don't read trashy romances/look at racy magazines. Don't hang out with your friends who trash their spouses. Don't keep relationships up with someone of the opposite sex separate from your spouses, don't linger where you know you don't belong. Instead, spend time with your family. Invest in the people you promised 'til death do us part.' Hang out with friends who encourage you to draw closer to God. Purpose to love your people. Read your Bible. Pray for your husband or wife- even if they're not perfect or behaving perfectly or all that you dreamed- pray every.single.day.
It's not about what we're 'allowed' or 'not allowed' to do as a Christian. It's about what will contribute to taking care of the greenery on the side of the fence where we get to live under the shelter of the wing of the Almighty. Ya'll, we get to live in a land that God sent His only Son to die so we can be a citizen here... why do we keep gravitating toward the edge of darkness?
let it not be so.
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And even though "I am allowed to do anything,"
I must not become a slave to anything.


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Worst cruise ship disasters in recent history
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Created in 1983 as one of the State of New York's 4 original Centers for Advanced Technology, CATT continues to fulfill its mission to stimulate economic development in information technology through research and education.
Companies that partner with CATT in joint research gain access to state-of-the-art facilities and a team of experts who understand how to turn technological breakthroughs into commercially-viable products and services. CATT's research program focuses on 3 key areas that are crucial to the needs of businesses today:
The NYU Center for Cybersecurity (CCS) is an interdisciplinary research institute dedicated to training the next generation of cyber security professionals and to shaping the public discourse and policy landscape on issues of technology and security. The Center is a collaboration among NYU School of Law, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, and other NYU schools and departments. The Center has physical locations in New York City and at NYU's campus in Abu Dhabi, as well as a network of scholars and practitioners in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and North America.
Across New York State, climate change has increased the frequency of extreme weather events such as hurricanes, nor'easters and flash floods. New York State has engaged the expertise of local academic institutions to prioritize and rebuild New York with greater resiliency. The New York State Resiliency Institute for Storms and Emergencies (NYS RISE) was launched in November of 2013 as a consortium that addresses the vulnerabilities of the built and natural environments to extreme weather. Led by New York University and Stony Brook University, NYS RISE acts as a hub for in-depth research, analysis and education on disaster preparedness. Research conducted by NYS RISE members is supervised by co-directors Dr. Fletcher (Bud) Griffis of New York University and Dr. Minghua Zhang of Stony Brook University.
NYU and the School of Engineering have created several new faculty positions, have invested $3.5 Million in funding, and are providing an additional $4 Million in world-class research space upgrades to form a new center of excellence, NYU WIRELESS, the first academic center of its kind in the world. NYU WIRELESS is an interdisciplinary research center that is equipped to develop revolutionary circuits and systems for several business sectors, including the wireless industry, the distributed computing and data center industry, and the medical profession. NYU WIRELESS brings together faculty and students with expertise in millimeter wave wireless communications and circuits, distributed networking and computing, and many branches of medicine. Just launched this year, already there are 24 faculty and 100 graduate and undergraduate students participating in this new interdisciplinary center.
NYU WIRELESS conducts about $10 million/year in funded research, and allows its industrial affiliates to maximize the value of their investment by leveraging industrial affiliates funds with large NSF, NIH, and other competitive research programs. NYU WIRELESS affiliates enjoy close and frequent interaction with the center's faculty and students, who come from the School of Engineering's Electrical and Computer engineering department, NYU's Courant Computer Science department, and many different branches of NYU's Langone School of Medicine.


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Once you have completed the first steps and considered your interests, skills, personality, and career-related values, you will be ready to explore career fields.
To determine the best fit for you, it is important to understand the specifics of the industries you are considering. There are multiple ways to conduct this type of research, including:
There are several websites devoted to industry and organizational research. Start by visiting the Vault Campus online library, which has comprehensive information on numerous occupations, industries, and specific companies. You can download the numerous Vault guides free of charge when you access it through YUCareerLink. NOTE: If you are currently using a computer off campus, you MUST log in to YU CareerLink in order to access Vault. Other useful sites include:
Speaking with alumni and other contacts is one of the best ways to learn about an industry and organization. Be sure to do preliminary research before speaking with industry professionals. Use informational interviews to learn the culture of an industry or organization, what a typical day is like, and general career paths within the field. Remember to be professional and courteous and do NOT ask for a job directly. See the Career Center fact sheet on networking and informational interviewing for more information. In addition, the Career Center also subscribes to www.candidcareer.com/YeshivaUniv", where you can watch videos of informational interviews with professionals.
Gaining direct experience, through an internship, volunteer work, or a part-time position, provides multiple benefits. First, it will help you determine if you enjoy working in that field. Reading about an industry is never the same as gaining hands-on experience. Second, it will help you build your resume, so you can impress employers. Finally, it will help you gain valuable skills which will be useful regardless of what career you ultimately choose to pursue. To learn more about internships, click here, and to view resources on finding an internship, click here. To find volunteer opportunities, check out www.smartvolunteer.org.
Below are fact sheets which provide brief overviews of career tracks within select industries. They also include websites for additional information. As you conduct this research, some aspects to consider about a career field include:
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Re: Earnhardt Jr. has concussion and will miss next two race
Well, Jr will be back for Martinsville. Lets hope he is incident free this weekend.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. will return to the Sprint Cup Series this weekend at Martinsville Speedway.
NASCAR's most popular driver was cleared medically to return on Tuesday after missing the past two races at Charlotte and Kansas with symptoms of a concussion.
Earnhardt received clearance by neurosurgeon Dr. Jerry Petty after an evaluation at Petty's Charlotte office, which followed a 123-lap test on Monday at Gresham Motorsports Park in Georgia with Dr. Petty present.


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October 16, 2002
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State Board calls for stronger requirements for middle-grade teachers
Responding to local educator concerns about creating a separate middle-grade teaching certificate, the State Board today voted instead to redesign the current middle-grade endorsement to ensure that middle-grades teachers have the content knowledge and the range of skills needed to meet the unique needs of their students.
The current system of K-9 elementary and 6-12 high school certificates allows a teacher with either of these certificates to teach in the middle grades.
"As a group, middle-grade students have been the most overlooked in our educational system," said State Superintendent Robert Schiller. "Despite the fact that these students have academic and developmental needs unique to their age group, we focus most of our attention on academic and support services for primary and high school students. This is particularly true in teacher preparation. Today's action is another step toward giving middle-grade students the high quality education opportunities they need and deserve."
Instilling more focus and rigor into middle-grade teacher preparation so the teachers can better meet the needs of their students has been on the State Board's policy agenda for almost two years. Initially, a study group recommended that a new middle school certificate for grades 5 to 9 be created; however, the group's recommendations met with mixed reaction from the educational community.
Many teachers and administrators agreed that a new middle grade certificate would be desirable, yet they also expressed concern about the possible consequences of this change, including loss of flexibility in assigning teachers. They also expressed concern that the new certificate could decrease the supply of middle-grade teachers, because prospective teachers might not wish to limit their credentials to just the middle grades.
Based on survey information from local educators and the higher education community, Schiller decided that improving the endorsement would be the most appropriate action at this time and that like the proposed certificate, it would not apply to teachers who already hold elementary or secondary certificates. He recommended, and the State Board agreed, that the study group should redesign the middle-grade endorsement based on standards the group had developed for the proposed middle-level certificate. Each teacher preparation program would design coursework aligned to the standards selected for the endorsement.
The State Board implemented the current middle-grades endorsement in 1997. It was designed to supplement the elementary and secondary certificates to give teachers the specialized knowledge and skills appropriate for the middle grades. It compresses middle-grade philosophy, curriculum, instructional methods, assessment, diagnosis and other knowledge and skills into two courses.


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Free workshop planned in Lewis
The Wellness Council of West Virginia, Stonewall Resort, Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital and the Lewis County Chamber of Commerce are teaming up to provide a free tobacco-cessation class for employees of businesses in Lewis County.
The class is scheduled for 2 to 5 p.m. May 1 at Stonewall Resort, organizers announced.
This special three-hour "Quit Workshop" will cover tobacco issues such as why people want to quit, identifying triggers of tobacco use and emphasizing the benefits of quitting tobacco. The class also will inform attendees about pharmaceutical aides to replace tobacco and supportive techniques to kicking the habit.
Attendees will leave the workshop with an individualized quit plan, and additional services and assistance may be obtained through the West Virginia Quitline or a Quitting to Win support group.
"The chamber is committed to providing opportunities to Lewis County businesses to help them succeed both financially and as a thriving part of our community," said Sherry Lambert, executive director of the Lewis County Chamber of Commerce.
The program is funded through a grant from the West Virginia Division of Tobacco Prevention to the Wellness Council of West Virginia.
Mike Hager, general manager at Stonewall Resort, said, "Stonewall Resort is excited to participate in this opportunity for the work force of Lewis County. As a large employer in the region, we see this as a great resource for our team and our community."
Julia Spelsberg, mayor of the city of Weston and marketing director at Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital, said the workshop can help a lot of people.
"We know all too well the difficulties of quitting tobacco. Some professionals say that it is as addictive as heroin," Spelsberg said. "Any resource that can help people quit is important for the community. Though it might take some time to participate in the program, a lifetime of being tobacco-free is invaluable."
This course will be taught by a certified tobacco treatment specialist. Participants must register by April 30 by calling Linda Holmstrand at 304-242-5548.
Additional information is available by calling Samantha Norris at 304-269-7400.


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By Darrell Todd Maurina: CNJ Staff Writer
The Ute Water project wasn't the only local water issue to come before last week's meeting of a legislative interim committee.
On Thursday morning, two state representatives spoke to the Water and Natural Resources Committee at Clovis Community College to explain the concerns of local residents over the consequences of unregulated water usage by local farmers. They also addressed farmers' concerns about the consequences if the state starts to regulate their water use.
The committee voted to ask the state engineer to attend the committee's next meeting on Aug. 10-11 in Albuquerque to answer questions about water use in Curry and Roosevelt counties.
Rep. Anna Crook, R-Clovis, and Rep. Earlene Roberts, R-Lovington, said they hear from their constituents regularly, both those who support and those who oppose the lack of regulations on water use, and some of those citizens came to the meeting to express their own concerns.
"One of the problems we have is with all the dairies coming in, there is an increasing need for crops to feed the cattle," said Clovis resident Don Clifton.
Crook said eastern New Mexico property once used as grassland is now being purchased and converted to crops, which are irrigated from an unregulated basin.
Rep. Brian Moore, R-Clayton, cautioned that the state needs to move carefully before imposing water use regulations.
"I live in an unregulated basin in Union County, there aren't many of them in the state, but there was nearly an armed revolt when we started talking about declaring it to be a regulated basin," Moore said.
Roberts said she understands the concerns.
"My husband told me, 'I don't want anyone telling me how much water I can pump for my cows,' and I started laughing hysterically because we've argued about that before," Roberts said.
Others said the main problem in eastern New Mexico is that nobody knows how much water exists underground and therefore water planners have no data on which to base their opinions.
"There is a massive amount of ignorance about this subject," said Roosevelt County resident Mills Bickley. "We don't know how this water gets here, we believe it is a mined resource and not a renewable resource, but we need to find some answers before we start making decisions."


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The Games on Demand version supports English, French, Italian, German, Spanish. Download the manual for this game by locating the game on http://marketplace.xbox.com and selecting "See Game Manual". Harness Spider-Man's powers with Manhattan as your playground! Set shortly after the events of Columbia Pictures' new film, The Amazing Spider-Man throws New York City's brand new hero back into free-roaming, web-slinging action, as he protects the Big Apple from a deluge of unimaginable threats. • Spider-Man's Triumphant Return to New York –Everybody's favorite web-head is back in Manhattan with the return of the fan-favorite, free-roaming, web-slinging gameplay. • Web Rush: Player Choice Evolved – Players use real-time navigational and combat choices to fight crime and pull off Spidey's signature acrobatic moves like never before. • Find Out What Happens Next – Uncover the rest of Peter Parker's untold story in the all-new epilogue story to the Columbia Pictures' 2012 blockbuster theatrical release. • Push Spider-Man's Abilities to the Limit – Battle all-new versions of classic Super Villains as well as original, larger than life enemies while racing to save Manhattan.
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The park hopes to provide a place for new hotels, restaurants, convenience stores, apartment complexes, condos, oil & gas yards, RV parks, laundromats, and man camps.
Developers say the property is located south of Kenedy along U.S. Highway 181 featuring over 120 acres of land, and prime frontage along South highway 181. Hachar says 29 lots are available for sale and all lots are sized accordingly for future suppliers. Two entrances to the park will be provided along southbound U.S. Highway 181.
Utilities are also available at Kenedy Business Park. This facility is exclusively offering El Oso water lines and a water tower for the surrounding area.
"This development is an opportunity to join what is being called "ground-zero for the Eagle Ford Shale play," said developer spokesperson A. B. Barrerra. "Those unsure of the longevity of this 'boom' should consider that roughly 2,000 miles of pipeline have been laid since 2008 and Karnes County is now one of the top crude producers in the state of Texas, drawing employment seekers and travelers alike."
Barrerra said county officials the company has met with are optimistic that the growth and prosperity for Karnes County will continue for many years.


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Time and Tide Wait for No Protocol: The SSH Keystroke Timing Attack of Song, Wagner, and Tianby Richard E. Silverman, author of SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide
At the 10th Usenix Security Symposium (Washington D.C., August 2001), U.C. Berkeley researchers Dawn Song, David Wagner, and Xuqing Tian presented a paper titled, Timing Analysis of Keystrokes and Timing Attacks on SSH. The paper describes their research into applying traffic-analysis techniques to interactive SSH connections in order to infer information about the encrypted connection contents. The paper concludes that the keystroke timing data observable from today's SSH implementations reveals a dangerously significant amount of information about user terminal sessions--enough to locate typed passwords in the session data stream and reduce the computational work involved in guessing those passwords by a factor of 50.
Not surprisingly, this paper initiated a great deal of discussion among SSH users, developers, and the security community in general, especially in public forums such as Slashdot. In this article, I will summarize the issues involved, discuss the paper's methods and conclusions, and dispel some of the often-repeated misconceptions in the public's reaction to this research.
The paper revolves around the notion of traffic analysis, and while it uses SSH as a concrete example, the techniques involved are not specific to SSH, but rather apply to most interactive remote-terminal protocols as they are implemented today. The principle of traffic analysis is that there is a lot of useful information to be gleaned from the amount, timing, and direction of network traffic, even if you can't actually read the traffic content itself. Suppose I'm monitoring the network port leading to a system administrator's office. Perhaps I can't read or alter her SSH connections, but I can see:
when those connections are made and torn down, telling me when she arrives at work and leaves for the evening.
the addresses of the connected machines, telling me which hosts she's responsible for (and which ones she's not looking at).
the amount, rate, and timing of traffic going over the SSH sessions (separately in each direction), giving me some information about what she's doing. (For example, I can distinguish between terminal and file-transfer sessions.)
when all the terminal sessions go quiet, suggesting she may be out to lunch and now's a good time to hack her workstation (or break into her office).
These sorts of information leaks are very difficult to prevent. If you control all the physical components in your network and you can ensure that they all use link-level encryption and appropriately random idle-traffic generation, then that would be a start towards preventing traffic analysis--but except for very specific high-security installations, most of us have neither the opportunity nor the benefit of such designs. Considering the expense (or practical impossibility) of such countermeasures, traffic analysis is usually considered an unavoidable risk.
For more on SSH see Richard's Top Ten Secure Shell FAQs.
When accepting this risk, however, we generally assume that the danger is wholly indirect: an observer may be able to guess some useful ancillary information from traffic patterns, but the actual data is safe as long as we're using a good protocol, such as SSH. The disturbing conclusion of the recent Usenix paper is that this is not so; using sophisticated mathematical techniques it is possible to gather significant amounts of information about the contents of an SSH terminal session, by taking advantage of its interactive nature.
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The delivery requirements for interactive traffic are different than those for bulk data transfer. When transmitting a file, TCP data can be batched up and sent in large IP datagrams for efficiency. But when you type a character in a terminal session, you expect to see it echoed immediately--not after you type the next thousand or so! Local echo and line editing can address that, but that won't work with curses-style software like Pine, or with the fancy line editing, command matching, recall, and other features of your favorite shell. So programs like Telnet and SSH send terminal data as soon as it becomes available, which means that the TCP connections for these programs transmit many short IP packets containing individual keystrokes and their echoes.
This real-time reflection of the user's typing behavior in the network stream is the basis of the paper's attack. Song, et al., observe that typical transmission latency in LANs, or indeed over the Internet, are negligible when compared with the inter-keystroke delays revealed by timing the arrival of single-keystroke TCP packets. Therefore, measuring packet-arrival times gives an accurate picture of the user's actual gestures at the keyboard.
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The bulk of the paper then goes on to treat a topic that is entirely separate from SSH or network protocols in general, but which has important implications for them. The question is: does human keystroke timing leak significant information about the keys pressed? If so, can that information be used to guess at keystroke sequences? The answer to both questions is unfortunately "yes."
To summarize very broadly, the authors use a statistical technique called a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) to capture a user's keyboard habits, given data gathered from observing typing patterns and used to "train" the model. Then they use a prediction algorithm (a variation of the Viterbi algorithm) to guess at key sequences, given only the inter-keystroke timings together with the previously constructed model. The researchers tested their technique experimentally, using training data from real human subjects. The results suggest that timing data can leak as much as 0.71 bits per character on a typed password, corresponding to a 50-fold reduction in the work required for an offline dictionary attack. To estimate the practical effect of this, they write:
"For example, for a password containing randomly selected, lowercase letter keys and number keys, without timing information, the attacker would need to try 368/2 candidate passwords on average before he finds the right one. Benchmarks indicate that a 840MHz Pentium III can check about 250,000 candidate passwords per second in an offline dictionary attack. Thus, exhaustive search would take about 65 PC-days to crack a password composed of randomly selected, lowercase letter keys and number keys. If the attacker uses the timing information, the computation can be done in 1.3 days...."
On the face of it, this is pretty serious leak. But remember that so far, this is all still a fairly abstract investigation in an ideal, laboratory setting. There is still the question of whether this translates into a real threat when applied to actual network traffic. The paper goes on to address this as well.
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Remember that the investigators' tests involved predictions based on typing isolated passwords. In real life, an attacker would first have to isolate the packets corresponding to a password in the stream of TCP segments in an SSH connection. But there are multiple ways this might happen. First, observation may show repeated habits that leak this information. For example, Eve, the attacker, may observe from network traffic that her victim, Paul, often connects first to host A, then immediately connects from A to a second host B, again using SSH. If Eve suspects that Paul is using password authentication for the second connection, then by experimentation on her own she can know at least approximately where in the second SSH stream to look for the typed password. Furthermore, there may be clues again in the traffic timing that reveal the positions of sensitive data. The observed pattern of using the "su" command, for example, is peculiar: three echoed characters, followed by a single larger packet containing the "Password:" prompt, followed by several characters from the client that are not echoed: the password. Identifying such timing signatures in a recorded SSH stream could identify likely keystroke sequences for attack.
Of course, in order to conduct a dictionary attack, Eve needs a password verifier: some way to test whether a guessed candidate password is correct. This might be, for example, a hash of the password lifted from the account database of a compromised system on which Paul has an account. The figure of checking 250,000 passwords per second is predicated on being able to verify guesses efficiently. Without a verifier, Eve would need to attempt a login to test guess--and hopefully thousands of failed logins would raise a red flag long before Eve could discover Paul's password. Remember, though, that attempting a login via SSH may not be the only way to verify the password. The same password will likely be used for authentication for a number of protocols: Telnet, SMB, RADIUS, and so on.
Richard Silverman has also written dsniff and SSH: Reports of My Demise are Greatly Exaggerated on oreilly.com.
It's important that all services that perform authentication detect unusual authentication failure rates and take some action: notify the system administrator, and perhaps automatically lock out the account until someone can determine what's going on. This is also a good argument for using a centralized authentication system, such as PAM, so that such security monitoring can be configured once for all services, rather than requiring that separate support be written into and enabled for every service.
Another obvious difference between the laboratory and a real attack is that the researchers had the advantage of cooperative subjects, who thoughtfully sat down and provided training data for the HMM's. Unless she's also a hypnotist, Eve will presumably not be able to first get Paul to sit down and type random passwords for her--and if she has infiltrated his workstation sufficiently to capture his keystrokes for this purpose, she won't need to go to the trouble of this sophisticated attack to capture his password! So, this begs the question of whether a personalized model is necessary for a successful attack.
The paper examines this question as well, both abstractly and experimentally. The authors write that comparing characteristics of timing data from different users "suggests that typing statistics have a large component that is common across a broad user population and which thus can be exploited by attackers, even in the absence of any training data from the victim."
They also experimented with this, using models from one subject to analyze the password keystrokes of another. They conclude that while using a model from the same person is (unsurprisingly) more effective, nonetheless "training data from one user can successfully be applied to infer passwords typed by another user. Hence the attack can be effective even when the attacker does not have typing statistics from the victim." Of course, the number of subjects in these experiments was quite small (four), and it seems that further research is needed to discover how broadly these relationships hold in the population, and thus confirm these findings and their significance.
Quite aside from the ability to infer keystrokes, there also is the possibility of using timing data simply to identify the user. Keystroke timing patterns have been used in commercial products as a biometric identification device; the same principle might be applied here. This would require the attacker to have specific typing profiles on hand for his victims--but if a company were using timing biometrics that database would be stored somewhere and might be stolen for this very purpose. Of course, with personal workstations so common today, the source IP address is often a pretty conclusive indication, but this is still an issue to be noted.
Here are a few often-seen misconceptions regarding the paper's methods and conclusions.
This attack applies to SSH "password authentication:" It's unsafe and we should stop using it immediately.
Confusingly, this is both true and false, depending on how you interpret the sentence. The technique in question does not apply to SSH password authentication, when the attacker is observing an SSH protocol session using that method for its own authentication phase. This is because the password is transmitted all at once in a single SSH protocol message, not a character at a time as the user types it (recall that this happens before the SSH terminal session has even started).
However, if Paul happens to use the first SSH session to start another one--that is,
ssh to one host and then run
ssh there again, to connect elsewhere--and if that second SSH connection uses password authentication, then he is vulnerable. The password will be safe while traveling inside the second SSH connection, but it will be exposed for a timing attack as he types in it over the first connection. Still, even interpreted this way, the statement is not quite fair, as this is not a vulnerability of SSH specifically; any passwords typed in the first session, for any reason, are similarly vulnerable.
Another point confuses this issue, which is that the paper mentions a separate potential vulnerability: one which is specific to SSH password authentication but unrelated to the timing attack. If a client sends the SSH protocol message containing the password in a single TCP segment, then this can reveal information about the length of the password, to within the block length of the cipher being used (commonly 8 bytes). This can give an observer close upper and lower bounds on the password's length, again reducing the amount of work needed for a brute-force attack.
However, it turns out that this is not as serious a problem as the timing attack, as there is an easy way to address this issue: simply pad the password message out to a fixed length. The SSH transport protocol allows for arbitrary padding, so this is a simple thing to do. OpenSSH already implements this defensive move, but in a slightly different way: it appends an SSH "no-op" message immediately after the password message, whose length is calculated to extend the sum of the two message lengths to a fixed value. The two messages are then transmitted in a single TCP segment. In the SSH-2 protocol the message lengths are encrypted along with the rest of the message, so Eve cannot break the segment up into its component messages, and she thus gets no information about the password length (assuming there's no other structural subtlety that reveals the message boundaries; there shouldn't be).
Just use SSH public-key authentication instead; it avoids the problem.
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Again, this can be right or wrong, depending on what's meant. Certainly, it avoids the password-length vulnerability just mentioned, if you're using a client that does not already address this by the padding technique. If you're doing consecutive SSH sessions, then using public-key authentication for the second connection can avoid the timing attack--if you use an SSH key agent on the first host, with agent forwarding to the second. Otherwise, you will end up typing in your passphrase on the second host to decrypt your SSH private key, and your passphrase will be exposed to timing analysis in the first SSH connection. Of course, your passphrase by itself is useless without also stealing your private key file, so the compromise is not immediate if your passphrase is cracked, but you still don't want that to happen.
Learn Dvorak.
It's not clear how much this would really help. Presumably, the same attack will work with model data derived from Dvorak typists instead. For all we know, it may be simple to guess whether someone is using QWERTY or Dvorak based on timing patterns as well. Even if not, running both models at once would yield a work reduction factor of 25 instead of 50 (assuming a Dvorak model is as equally effective as the QWERTY ones studied), which is still a serious problem. Besides, this is not terribly practical advice, since millions of people are simply not going to switch keyboard systems overnight (or at all).
Use better password technology, such as SRP, or one-time passwords (OTP).
While SRP is a cool protocol with much to recommend it, this idea misses the point just as does the previous exhortation to use public-key authentication: The problem is when you type in a password over an SSH terminal session, regardless of what spiffy thing is being done with the password once it's entered.
One-time passwords would be an improvement because they're typically much longer and useless by the time the attacker cracks them anyway (if the OTP system is well designed and administered).
So, if timing analysis is such a problem, what do we do?
In the long term, if this sort of attack proves to be a serious problem, we will have to develop better protocols and deploy different networking technologies to address these attacks. Traffic analysis is a hard problem with no immediate, easy answers. The paper suggests some approaches, all of which need further research and testing:
Introduce random jitter into keystroke packets as they are sent. This obvious approach has problems, though, because if the jitter is in fact random, an observer may be able to filter it out over repeated timings of the same password.
Send a constant stream of packets even when idle, thus masking the real traffic among the fake. The dummy packet timings would have to be carefully crafted to be indistinguishable from the real ones, and the rate chosen is a tradeoff between security and both user-visible latency and network overhead.
In the short term, here are a few countermeasures that may help to varying degrees:
Defeat echoing signatures. Make it harder to guess the positions of passwords in a session by having the server simulate echoes using dummy messages when the client disables terminal echo. Of course, there are other ways to guess when passwords are being typed, but anything that makes it harder is good.
Don't use passwords on remote machines. To whatever extent possible, implement single sign-on: you should only have to enter passwords on your local machine. The ssh-agent available in many SSH implementations, together with agent forwarding and public-key authentication, provides this capability for SSH specifically. Combining SSH with a broader technology such as Kerberos, which also has a credential-forwarding feature, can give you the best of both worlds. The author uses a system whereby he can authenticate once, using Kerberos (kinit) on his local machine, then SSH elsewhere and he'll have access to not only other SSH servers, but also to Kerberized versions of su, secure Telnet authentication to Cisco routers, and so on. SSH1 has Kerberos-5 support, including ticket forwarding, and there is a patch for GSSAPI/Kerberos support in OpenSSH for protocol 2. Of course, it's almost impossible to get pervasive single sign-on in a heterogeneous system, but anything you do is an improvement.
Protect hashed passwords. As mentioned above, the attacker will want a verifier for performing an offline dictionary attack. Make her work for it! Make sure you're using shadow password files that are readable only by root, and do not store your password hashes in the world-readable /etc/passwd file. If you use NIS, use it with secure RPC to avoid revealing hashes over the network. If you use Kerberos or a similar third-party system, you can avoid having distributed password verifiers, instead keeping them on the single-purpose KDC's (key distribution centers), which are easier for you to secure than a bunch of general-purpose login hosts.
The issues raised in the paper by Song, Wagner, and Tian are not a reason for panic (as with, say, the announcement of a practical root exploit in deployed software). The attack presented is sophisticated and it has not yet demonstrated how well this research will translate into general real-world attacks. However, the issues are serious and real, and hopefully the paper will heighten awareness of traffic analysis as a threat and spur more research into practical countermeasures. In the meantime, users and system administrators should address what they can by considering the suggestions made in this article, which are, for the most part, already accepted security "best practices."
There is an optional TCP feature called the Nagle algorithm, which batches up sequential small TCP segments for better transmission efficiency. This would interfere with timing measurements; however, interactive applications often specifically turn off this feature by setting the TCP "NODELAY" option, in order to get better interactive response. OpenSSH, for example, does this.
O'Reilly & Associates published (January 2001) SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide.
Sample Chapter 8, Per-Account Server Configuration, is available free online.
You can also look at the Table of Contents, the Index, and the Full Description of the book.
For more information, or to order the book, click here.
Richard E. Silverman first touched a computer as a college junior in 1986, when he logged into a DEC-20, typed "MM" to send some mail, and was promptly lost to the world.
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Undaunted, we've spent the past few days window shopping. With so many opportunities to buy and shop local, it doesn't even occur to me to step outside the boundaries of the region and truth be told, the desire to spend time in a mall never strikes. With less than no desire to be featured on television's "Hoarders: Buried Alive," I'm still in divesting mode and want for very little, so looking (rather than spending), works quite well for me. At this stage in life, I'd rather make a few contributions where I can, and if I want to be surprised on Christmas Day, I'll just open a box of assorted stuff I've been avoiding in the closet for the last few years. Not "needing" anything does not preclude the desire to see what's out there, however, so I bundled up the pooch and headed out to the annual Holiday Market in Bethel (www.bethelwoods.org [2]) over the weekend, which was bustling with activity. A roaring fire in the market shed provided ambiance galore and the scores of vendors were busy, which is always gratifying to see. Local delicacies were offered, along with fanciful, practical and downright decorative gifts as far as the eye could see. The frigid air was momentarily forgotten as I strolled the aisles admiring the talents of so many artists, jewelers and designers, so I was satiated without depleting my bank account.
Before heading home, I stopped to chat with entrepreneur/designer Daryl Kroken, whose re*Bear (www.RiverHouseStyle.com [3]) collection caught my eye. "The bears are made from 100% recycled wool, cashmere and alpaca sweaters," Kroken told me, as I cuddled one from the shelf. He went on to explain that "all bears are constructed from at least four different sweaters" and that each is "handmade and unique." Sighing, I put the little guy back on the shelf, but not before ascertaining that Daryl can make a custom bear with my own sweater collection, which reminded me that I had a few cast-offs that were not wearable, but difficult to part with for sentimental reasons. The notion that my own bear could be made with one of Mom's sweaters, or my favorite cashmere that had succumbed to moths captured my imagination, and although I left empty-handed, the idea lingers. "Dharma would love this," I reason, while checking my pockets for surplus funds. Uh oh.
No holiday season is complete without a visit to "Trains on Main" in Livingston Manor, NY (www.catskillartsociety.org [4]), which debuted over the weekend, and is on display through the New Year. Conductor Charlie Irace has once again created a masterpiece in the gallery with his miniature recreation of the town, replete with local shops and architecture. A new collection of O&W lanterns is also showcased and an impressive collection of structures, boxcars and train memorabilia adds to the annual installation that resides at Catskill Art Society during the next few weeks. Irace works tirelessly to present "Trains on Main" every year and his efforts should (IMHO) be applauded. Observing the faces pressed against the frosty window brought a smile to my face, before Santa showed up to check his list, as members of The Mountain Tones Community Band entertained. Shop local, spend local, play local. Who needs a mall?


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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), in cooperation with Graco Children's Products Inc., of Atlanta, Ga., is announcing the recall of about 2 million Graco strollers due to risk of entrapment and strangulation. CPSC and Graco have received four reports of infant strangulations that occurred in these strollers between 2003 and 2005. In addition, CPSC is aware of five reports of infants becoming entrapped, resulting in cuts and bruises, and one report of an infant having difficulty breathing.
Entrapment and strangulation can occur, especially to infants younger than 12 months of age, when a child is not harnessed. An infant can pass through the opening between the stroller tray and seat bottom, but his/her head and neck can become entrapped by the tray. Infants who become entrapped at the neck are at risk of strangulation.
The recall involves older versions of the Graco Quattro Tour™ and MetroLite™ strollers and travel systems manufactured prior to the existence of the January 2008 voluntary industry standard which addresses the height of the opening between the stroller's tray and the seat bottom. This voluntary standard requires larger stroller openings that prevent infant entrapment and strangulation hazards.
This recall involves Graco Quattro Tour™ strollers and travel systems manufactured prior to November 2006 and MetroLite™ strollers and travel systems manufactured prior to July 2007. The strollers and travel systems were distributed between November 2000 and December 2007. The model numbers are printed on a label at the lower portion of the rear frame, just above the rear wheels or underneath the stroller. The name "Graco" appears on a label on the stroller tray and the headrest. Models included in the recall are:
The strollers were sold at AAFES, Babies R Us, Burlington Coat Factory, Fred Meyer, Meijers, Navy Exchange, Sears, Target, Walmart and other stores nationwide between November 2000 and December 2007 for between $90 and $190 for the strollers, and between $190 and $250 for travel systems.
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The 2013 Virginia Software Summit will take place on August 5, 2013 at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The program is tentatively scheduled to run from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. More information, including registration, will be available soon. In the meantime, please save the date.
About the Summit: The Virginia Software Summit brings together higher ed and our software vendor partners to discuss innovative, improved and more cost effective ways to provision software for faculty, researchers, staff and students. From licensing negotiation to tracking and reporting software use, managing software is complex. The emergence of cloud computing and continued economic pressure adds complexity to an already challenging software management environment for platform vendors, application vendors and higher education software consumers.
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Yield: 12 servings. Salad: 4 cups quinoa, uncooked 2 qt. Dole(r) Frozen Mango Chunks, partially defrosted and drained 3 cups golden raisins 2 cups celery, thinly sliced 1-1/2 cups red onion, minced 3 cups sliced almonds, toasted Dressing: 1 quart Dole(r) Frozen Mango Chunks, pureed 1 cup low fat sour cream 1/4 cup white balsamic vinegar 4 tsp. curry powder 4 tsp. garlic salt 2 tsp. ground black pepper Heat 2 quarts of water to a boil. Stir in quinoa and bring to a boil again. Cover and ...
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With the exception of the Justin Biebers and Michael Jacksons of the world, nobody can boast that "famous musician" was their first job. All of the artists you know worked fast food or mopped floors on the side while their garage band was turning into a real band. But then you have the rock stars who actually had serious careers going before the whole music thing panned out, and some of them are rather mind-blowing. For instance, try to wrap your head around the fact that ...
6Gene Simmons Was an Elementary School Teacher
Quick, name the absolute last thing you'd ever want to see Gene Simmons doing.
Statistically, about 10 percent of you have parents who slept with this man.
OK, the second last thing you'd want to see him doing. If you said "teach small children," step forward and claim your prize of one slap to the face for thinking way too hard about potential professions for Gene Simmons. Also, that's exactly what Mr. Simmons used to do, before he turned an unnaturally long tongue into rock stardom.
After he'd finished high school, this living cartoon of a man enrolled in college and got himself a degree in education. And unlike his later smarmy persona would imply, he wasn't some comfy-ass private school teacher: Simmons went the whole nine yards and taught sixth grade in a public school in New York's Spanish Harlem. In later interviews, he claimed he was fired for "replacing the works of Shakespeare with Spider-Man comics, which he thought the students were more likely to actually read." Or maybe he was just a crappy teacher.
To be honest, this really could have used more goblin gliders.
Also, on a completely unrelated note, Simmons wrote the lyrics to a Kiss song called "Christine Sixteen," about a middle-aged man who has the hots for a 16-year-old schoolgirl:
I don't usually say things like this to girls your age
But when I saw you coming out of the school that day
That day I knew, I knew
I've got to have you, I've got to have you
She's been around, but she's young and clean
I've got to have her, can't live without her, whoo no
Christine sixteen, Christine sixteen.
So there's that.
Definitely who you want near female students about to discover hormones.
Anyway, after teaching, Simmons wasn't done not being a rock star yet. Next he kicked around at a few lady fashion magazines, at one point even landing the job of personal assistant to the editor of Vogue. Wait, Vogue? As in, that Vogue?
He had to get his inspiration from somewhere.
5System of a Down's Frontman Owned an Accounting Software Company
For those of you out of the System of a Down loop, System of a Down is this Grammy winning metalish band that's been around since System of a Down began, which was 1994. And Serj Tankian is their lead singer. This is him:
Photographed right after an audience member said that show's secret word.
The fun thing about System of a Down is that one, the members are Armenian-American political activists who use their songs to talk about genocide, and two, they sing really fast, kind of like Rage Against the Machine, but more so. Now, knowing how intensely serious and metal this band is, what would be the least metal thing a member of it could do? Ride a unicycle while making armpit farts? Maybe. If that were a career, which it's not, so let's drop it. How about create a company that sold accounting software?
OK, yeah. Now we're seeing it.
Despite his liberal ideology, devilish pointy beard and rock god status, Tankian is actually a marketing and business graduate from California State University. His business line of choice was software, and before he was strutting around the stage doing this ...
... he was running his very own code monkey company. Their product was something called "proprietary vertical industry modular accounting software," which we're almost sure is a made-up term. But to be fair, Tankian didn't start speaking English until he was 8, so maybe he thought it made sense at the time.
Tankian was happily running his business and probably two steps away from taking up golf, switching to khakis and having talks with Bill Gates when his band suddenly took off. After what had to have been an extremely difficult decision preceded by some truly bizarre "pro or con" conversations with family and friends ("But will the band offer you the same 401(k)?"), it was goodbye accounting software, hello Ozzfest.
"Mom, stop worrying. Our bass player's going to introduce me to his retirement guy at Wu-Tang Financial."


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Obviously, Halloween is a different holiday for different people, their experiences varying based on their age. The young trick-or-treater in their store-bought Hannah Montana costume has a vastly different experience than the 20-something hipster going to a party in their store-bought Hannah Montana costume. It should come as no surprise then that the biggest post-Halloween regrets also vary significantly by age. I've listed these regrets below, because that's kind of what we do around here, and also because list-based material is easily digestible for the hungover comedy patron. Note that this list of regrets is sorted by age group, so depending on when you were born or your personal mental development, you'll likely find one of these items ringing particularly true to you on this remorseful November morning.
Ages 3+: Ate Too Much Candy
For people of trick-or-treating age, Halloween is one of the first real experiences they'll have with with the fallout of their own excesses, in this case, from eating too much candy. It's a hangover for children, but less morally troubling; something wholesome and ready for prime time audiences.
Recall the controversial episode of Diff'rent Strokes when Arnold drank a wine cooler and held a knife to Mr. Drummond's throat -- aired only once and now no longer spoken of.
For young children, the very notion of "regret" might be a little fuzzy. A child sick on low-grade milk chocolate can sense that something's wrong, and may even be told by his parents that his tummy ache is related to him eating two thousand sawdust-based Milk Duds the night before. But given the all-around deliciousness of candy, it's impossible for a child to grasp the very concept of "too much candy."
"Too much what? Bullshit mom. Yeah, I said it."
Ages 12+: Low On Digits
As children get older, they develop a curious aversion to the activities which only a few months earlier would have caused them great joy. Whether due to peer pressure, hormones or the urging of the liberal media, these children choose to leave behind wholesome trick-or-treating and take up more sinister Halloween pastimes, like wearing dark clothes and doing domestic terrorism. Why teenagers seem to take such delight in busting up other people's shit is still a mystery, although when queried, many behavioral scientists will cough and point at the phrase "Because They're Dicks" on their whiteboard full of brainstorming ideas.
Here, two scientists expose a teenage male to high levels of radiation because they hate him.
Industrialized teenagers, like those found in the typical North American suburbs, will often make use of fireworks during their Halloween night dick-being. How they use these fireworks varies, although it's usually a safe bet it won't be per the manufacturers sarcastically offered safety instructions. Throwing explosives at their friends seems to be a popular choice, perhaps out of a primitive instinct to thin out weak members of the herd. And because the weakest members of the teenage herd are the ones least aware of the quality-control issues in Chinese firework factories, the morning after every Halloween usually reveals a few teenagers who have traded fingers for cautionary stories they can relate during public speaking engagements.


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BETHEL, NY — Sullivan County's largest corn maze premiers this fall at Bethel's Cunningham Family Farms, which is holding its grand opening Saturday, September 29 beginning at 11 a.m. Activities include a ride on the hay wagon, shooting a corn cannon or pumpkin sling, or you can wind your way through the hay bale maze and play games in the barn yard. Ornamental corn and fall decorations will be offered for sale in the farm's market.
Cunningham Family Farms is operated by siblings Chris, Colleen and Patrick Cunningham. It is located at 233 Hurd Parks Road, just off Route 55 in Swan Lake in the Town of Bethel. The corn maze and market will be open each weekend from now through November 4, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and will reopen just before Thanksgiving on November 24 for the holiday season.


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A Treasury Department inspector general says he has no evidence to support claims that progressive groups received the same unfair treatment as tea party groups in the run up to the 2012 elections. This comes as the acting IRS chief faces tough questions on Capitol Hill. Sally Kidd reports from Washington.
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The award was named after Rogers, Lauriers associate vice-president: teaching and learning, by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) in 2008 to commemorate her considerable contributions to learning and teaching in higher education. The poster prize recognizes the best poster at the STLHE annual conference, which this year went to Rogers Centre for Teaching Innovation and Excellence (CTIE) team for their poster outlining best practices and lessons learned in supporting faculty in active learning classrooms.
Rogers is not involved in selecting the recipients of the prize, and sees the humour in her own team winning an award named after her. Yet despite the lighthearted twist, she is quick to point out that the project is deserving of the recognition.
Deb MacLatchy, vice-president: academic and provost, agrees.
"It is terrific to have the recognition by STLHE of our collaborative approach to active learning at Laurier, she says. It speaks to the enthusiasm for communication and engagement of our CTIE colleagues. That the award is named after our own Pat Rogers for her career-long contributions to the national teaching and learning organization is icing on the cake."
The poster details Lauriers first active learning classroom (ALC) project. The classroom departs from the standard lecture-hall layout and contains round tables, interactive projectors, mobile writing surfaces, video conferencing, and open spaces to encourage student movement. The model reflects the built pedagogy philosophy, which suggests that the physical environment of a classroom can either enable or prevent flexibility, autonomy and freedom.
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The CTIE will continue to collaborate with faculty to contribute to ongoing scholarly research on the connection between flexible learning spaces, instructional practices and student learning and success.
The winning CTIE team included Sally Heath, manager: academic program development and review; Jeanette McDonald, manager: educational development and Michael Daly, quality assurance coordinator. Rogers served as the president of STLHE from 1995 to 2000.
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Close to 2,000 people submitted testimony saying they wanted to appear in person at a state Senate hearing on same-sex marriage on Monday.
That meant limiting the time to one minute for each person and giving numbers to people as a way to control crowds and tempers.
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For those who think it's a slam dunk for supporters eager to see Hawaii become the 15th state to approve gay marriage, the first half hour of the Senate hearing certainly shook things up.
Lawmakers pressed the state's top lawyer for answers about tax implications and federal benefits, but the issues seemed more confused than clarified.
The attorney general said if a law isn't passed, same-sex couples would continue to lose out on health benefits under Medicaid and the Family Leave Act.
"The reason we would enact this bill here in Hawaii is that the people of the same gender who wish to get married do no have to go to another state," said Hawaii Attorney General David Louie. "They would get married here and then receive those benefits."
"If it is as simple as a ticket to California, and I don't mean to be flippant, don't misunderstand me. If it is just a ticket then the burden that has been placed on this legislature to me has been ameliorated, if it's as simple as your response," said Sen. Clayton Hee.
"In my view, senator, it is something that is significant and that would be a reason to pass this bill," said Louis.
"The only thing you are arguing is that people would have to go to California and people go to California frequently," said Sen. Sam Slom. "So, if that is the law and that is the answer, Mr. Chairman, I think we should adjourn the meeting and adjourn the session."
The testimony that followed on both sides of the issue drew impassioned pleas for equality and fairness in the legislative process.
"I suggest it's time for Hawaii to join South Africa and time to join Iowa in this recognition. This is the land of aloha and this is our opportunity to live it," said retired chief justice Steven Levinson.
"I found love has no boundaries and it's time to embrace marriage equality in love and equality for all," said Jackie Young of the American Civil Liberties Union.
"Our ministers would welcome the opportunity to perform weddings for same gender couples, as it also affirms our spiritual values," said Bishop Eric Matsumoto of the Hongwanji Mission.
"The reservation of marriage of one man and one woman is a fact of nature, not a social prejudice," said Rev. Gary Secor of the Hawaii Catholic Conference.
"I feel we need to give the voice to our people. Take it to the community. A special session is inadequate," said Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees Chairperson Collette Machado.
One church worried about being forced to open their facilities up to gay weddings.
"The language of the bill endangers the rights of others in the community, especially churches and endangers the language of the bill opens us up to public accommodations. We never thought of it that way," said Rev. Francis Oda of New Life Church.
The Senate will take a floor vote on the bill on Wednesday. The House hearing begins at 10 a.m. Thursday.
The lawmakers took one brief break at around 2:30 p.m. Monday. The hearing could go to midnight if all 1,800 people testify.