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Citing concern over a lack of a "robust provider network," U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen on Wednesday urged the federal government to examine adequacy standards and take steps to provide more information to consumers about health network plans in New Hampshire.
Only Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield is currently providing health insurance in New Hampshire under the Affordable Care Act.
"That issuer has eliminated ten of the state's 26 hospitals from its provider network for all plans issued through the marketplace, including in the multi-state program plan," Shaheen, D-NH, wrote in a letter to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. "As a result, I have heard from consumers who have been left without access to the provider with whom they had built a long-standing relationship."
The Republican State Committee called Shaheen's letter a "stunt." State GOP Chairwoman Jennifer Horn said Shaheen shares the blame for the problems with the federal health care program.
"Once again, Senator Jeanne Shaheen is trying to distract from her blind support for the President's failed policies and her deciding vote for ObamaCare with another desperate election-year stunt," Horn said in a statement. "Senator Shaheen is directly responsible for imposing this terrible law on New Hampshire and forcing thousands of her constituents to give up their doctors and lose their health insurance."
Shaheen, in the letter, noted that the Affordable Care Act gives Sebelius authority to establish criteria for certification of health plans and for sufficient choice of providers.

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NEW YORK (AP) — A black camerawoman who works for CNN said Thursday that she was not surprised to have two people at the Republican National Convention throw peanuts at her and say "this is what we feed animals."
The two white people were immediately removed from the Tampa, Fla., convention arena by security officials on Tuesday, and their identities weren't revealed. The camerawoman, Patricia Carroll, wasn't able to tell definitively where they were from.
"This is Florida, and I'm from the deep South," Carroll, a 34-year-old Alabama native, told Maynard Institute blogger Richard Prince on Thursday. "You come to places like this, you can count the black people on your hand. They see us doing things they don't think I should do."
She said racism is a global issue and the incident could have happened on a street corner or at the Democratic convention, scheduled for next week in Charlotte, N.C.
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's campaign said Thursday that it has apologized to CNN for what happened.
"We find it absolutely deplorable. We condemn it in the highest possible way," said Russ Schriefer, strategist for the Romney campaign. "That behavior is just reprehensible."
CNN said Carroll was not interested in addressing the issue any further. She told Prince that she was hoping the story would go away.
"I can't change these people's hearts and minds," she said. "No, it doesn't feel good. But I know who I am. I'm a proud black woman. A lot of black people are upset. This should be a wake-up call to black people. ... People were living in euphoria for a while. People think we've gone further than we have."
Associated Press reporter Donna Cassata contributed to this story from Tampa, Fla.


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Among those delighted to see Hannibal's first snow fall of the season Thursday was Mary Lynne Richards, assistant supervisor for promotion and planning at the Hannibal Parks & Recreation Department.
Among those delighted to see Hannibal's first snow fall of the season Thursday was Mary Lynne Richards, assistant supervisor for promotion and planning at the Hannibal Parks & Recreation Department.
Richards' delight is based on the fact the Parks Department is sponsoring a snowman-building competition.
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Premiership tackles Ukranian football streaming site
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The Premier League has won control over the domain premiershiplive.net, which has been used to offer an unauthorised subscription football streaming service.
Premiershiplive.net sold membership via PayPal for £9.95. It promised streams of every game in the Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup and other European leagues, grabbed from legal satellite broadcasts abroad. Dozens of similar sites have sprung up to take advantage of the rise of broadband and the expense of satellite TV subscriptions in the UK.
The League sells rights for legal streaming of games online, so is naturally keen to guard their value by shutting down the legit sites' black market rivals. It employs an internet intellectual property (IP) protection firm called NetResult to search out and attack dodgy streams.
In February the High Court granted an injuction ordering the owner and operators of premiershiplive.net, and two other similar streaming services, to stop using the domain because it infringed the Premier League's "Barclays Premiership" trademark. Wresting control of a domain is often seen by rights holders as a quicker means of achieving results than a direct copyright infringement suit.
But by the time the judge ruled premiershiplive.net had already changed hands twice, according to law firm Clarke Willmott, which acts in domain disputes but was not directly involved in the premierleague.net case. It bounced from an individual in the UK to one in Ukraine, and then to the Isle of Man.
A spokesman for the Premier League said: "This was a simple case of copyright theft. There are increasing numbers of wesites that offer a whole range of football illegally. We have and will continue to take action against illegal services."
"This wasn't about the domain name [as such]," he added.
When the High Court ruled, the domain was registered to a business in the Isle of Man, a haven from commercial regulators, owned by "Mr Marko Oleksiy". Clarke Willmott says Oleksiy was apparently "falsely using an Isle of Man postal address while presumed to be based in the Ukraine".
The League was forced to pursue the domain again, this time through the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), which oversees international domain disputes. In May, it found in the League's favour and said the domain was being used in bad faith.
Oleksiy unsuccessfully argued that the Premier League had no trademark for either "premiership" on its own or "premiershiplive". He also claimed that because Premier League sponsors Barclays were part of the site's payment system, the Premier League must have endorsed use of its logo. The admistrative panel decision is here.
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September 16. 2013 9:37PM
PORTSMOUTH — Fifteen-year-old Alejandro Sanchez is in fair condition at Boston Children's Hospital after being struck by a vehicle on Route 1 on Friday night.
Sanchez's baseball coach and spokesman for the family, Mike Young, said the boy's condition had been upgraded on Monday afternoon, but he remained in the intensive care unit.
Young said Sanchez was hit while walking home from a Portsmouth High School football game to McKinley Road.
His father had come to the high school to pick him up, but Sanchez said he preferred to walk, Young said.
"His dad went home, said he pulled in the driveway and could hear sirens going off," Young said.
Raul Sanchez began texting his son, and getting no response, headed down to the accident scene.
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Sanchez hit the windshield of the oncoming car and then hit the ground with the other side of his head, suffering two concussions, Young said.
Young said he talks to Raul Sanchez regularly, and he says his son is still in and out of consciousness.
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The boy also suffered a fractured eye socket.
Young said although there is swelling in Sanchez's brain, doctors do not think there is any damage to the brain itself.
Young is the president of the Babe Ruth League in Portsmouth in which Sanchez has played for the last three years; his dad coaches and serves on the board of directors.
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They filed divorce papers back in January and as of Friday (June 13) Josh Lucas and Jessica Ciencin are no longer husband and wife.
Both the "Blue Crush" actress and her handsome director beau looked fabulous as they arrived at the Eccles Center Theatre as part of the Sundance Film Festival happenings.
There's been plenty of industry buzz about the forthcoming flick "Big Sur," and now there's a teaser trailer on which to feast our eyes!
Starring Kate Bosworth, the film was written and directed by her boyfriend Michael Polish and based on the Jack Kerouac novel of the same name.
Millennium Films released the trailer for "Stolen," which stars Nicolas Cage as a master thief who needs to steal $10 million.
In the Simon West directed flick, upon the 48-year-old character's release from prison, he needs to come up with the cash to pay ransom for his teenage daughter.
With their bundle of joy having made his way into the world safe and sound, it has been confirmed that Josh Lucas' wife, Jessica Ciencin Henriquez, has given birth to a healthy baby boy.
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Deciding to call it quits after two years of marriage, Josh Lucas and Jessica Ciencin Henriquez have recently filed for divorce.
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We have 5 windows 2000 workstations and an NT server (2000 I think) all with web and email access.
How can I do this? I dont have permission to use the administrator login although I do have it.
Can this be done? What should I do? Host it from my machine? If so how do I share it to other users?
Also we have a shared network drive that we can all dump and remove files from.
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Agencies are rushing into an unfinished technology
Michael Daconta (firstname.lastname@example.com) is the chief technology officer of Accelerated Information Management and the former metadata program manager for the Homeland Security Department. His latest book is, "Information as Product: How to Deliver the Right Information to the Right Person at the Right Time."
As cloud computing has become the silver bullet du jour, we suddenly are faced with two simultaneous and equally dangerous phenomena: "Everything is Cloud" and its evil twin, "Cloud is Everything."
The solution to both of these phenomena is to take a lesson from the old Rolling Stones song and kick some initiatives and concepts off of the cloud.
First, let's address the notion that Everything is Cloud, or, as a recent GCN article put it, "agencies are becoming more cloudlike." I recently read an article on the "Cancer Knowledge Cloud" sponsored by the National Cancer Institute. It is a grid computing initiative called caBIG, rebranded as a cloud offering.
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I first heard of caBIG in 2005 when I was at the Homeland Security Department. The problem is that the standards, interfaces and specifications for grid computing, developed during the past five-plus years, are different from the set of standards, interfaces and specifications for cloud computing. So in reality, grid computing is not cloud computing unless you squint really hard.
Try comparing the caBig and caGrid application programming interfaces to Amazon Web Services offerings, and you will find it difficult to know where to begin. Repeat the exercise with Windows Azure or Google AppEngine, and you will likely have the same results. I see this Everything is Cloud or cloudlike response from agencies as a natural reaction to misguided pressure to prematurely leap to unfinished technology. After all, if you ask a stupid question…
Now, let's examine the other side of the coin. I recently viewed, with slack-jawed amazement, an Army Leader Training video in which the cloud saved the day with instantaneous sharing, app store simplicity and precisely relevant data raining down from the cloud like manna from heaven.
Such naiveté is just downright dangerous. It is high time to burst this hype bubble with a cold splash of reality, which will reside in those devilish details.
For the federal government, much of this difficult, painstaking work has been handed off to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which recently announced the Standards Acceleration to Jumpstart Adoption of Cloud Computing initiative. In a nutshell, NIST will set up a Web portal, post existing specifications, create or encourage reference implementations, and post gaps in specifications that the community needs to fill with new specifications. All those specifications are then thrown over the wall to standards organizations.
Although many parts of this sketchy plan sound good, it smells like a Web 2.0, market-driven approach to standardization that is too Pollyanna-like to actually work. It's missing a governance process that can winnow the proliferation of cloud requirements and specifications down to only the best and most fitting for government use.
First, winnowing down the requirements will tamp down the ability to state that the Cloud is Everything. No, it is not — there is a properly scoped subset of computing functionality that is well suited for the elasticity of a cloud environment. Additionally, the privacy and security constraints for government cloud computing are much different than those for commercial cloud computing, and those differing requirements must result in different technical specifications.
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The Cloud is the Internet. So are you trying to burst the hype of it?
Now there are Enterprise IT services available from the Cloud, which are accessed via the web that provide virtual private clouds hosted securely, that scale massively, have higher faster innovation curves, and drive costs exponentially lower.
Then there is internal data center consolidation which should not be confused with true cloud computing.
Not all applications will move to the cloud. It depends on mission, business, operational, financial, etc, considerations. Security is one of the primary reasons to move to cloud providers who have demonstrated expertise, in depth processes, cutting-edge technology and have met government C&A compliance requirements.
We have, and will continue to have, mainframes, client/server, and now internet-based capabilities as a choice to drastically reduce delivery of IT enterprise commodity services when and where it makes sense to do.
Regarding "relevant data raining down", yep this happens everyday on the Internet. It delivers more of the the right information to the right people at the right time more than any other system of systems in the world that has interoperability across networks, platforms, operating systems, and browsers. Where does this happen at this scale, level, and speed in current Enterprise legacy IT systems today?
The largest SOA in the world, if you think about what it is suppose to accomplish, is the Internet. You can do mashups on the fly, reuse data and applications, and rapidly develop new ones in a fraction of the time.
In actuality, it is time to burst the current Enterprise IT bubble that costs the government billions annually and is not delivering what users need and
citizens expect to keep pace with today's operations. It will also impact the government's ability to attract, recruit, and most importantly, retain today's Web workers. They will not put up with it and voice their frustration by walking out the door.
Government employees should be able to tell their IT services department what they need. The IT department should then choose the right technology service working with their users, not against them, to include clouds services when
appropriate which have met government FISMA C&A compliance and other requirements, that best meet the needs of their employees to improve citizen services and daily operational efficiencies using modern web technology.
After all, the US government helped create the Internet the enabled true cloud computing. Shouldn't we get back even more ROI by using it for government Enterprise IT service delivery?
Just catching up with this article, from the paper version, that is. Thank you for the candor. We in DOD are quickly jumping on too many hype-based bandwagons that have yet to prove themselves in our IT world. It was "All About SOA" a few years ago, and now, long before we ever saw that come to any sense of critical mass in Mainstream DOD, we are already jumping ship for "The Cloud" and have no real idea whether characteristics like – as you point out – security and privacy, and as I maintain, availability, reliability, cost, and latency issues can be worked out as an executable model for the many different echelons of usage across the range of military operations. Don't get me wrong, a Luddite I am not; but we have a LONG, LONG way to go to ascertain the Cloud's ultimate utility. I would like to see several major, visible pieces of the Mainstream DoD be prototyped in depth across several mission threads to see if this "next wave" is a miracle or a mirage!! Thanx, MJ Winslow, DepDivChief, USJFCOM J88
One has to balance the objectives of having standard APIs to control the elasticity with pushing that management intelligence into the cloud itself. I would much rather continue to program my LAMP stack and be able to move into the cloud and within clouds at will! There are cloud vendors that are working on smart caching, resource bursting, and other capabilities and while it will be great to standardize those APIs at some point, just HAVING those capabilities is a great discriminator right now!
He's right. Industry has been burned before when the feds whispered into vendors' ears "built it and we will come", only to find themselves holding the bag (ang their big R&D bills) when after building, the feds said "oh, never mind...."
Daconta is right to sound the alarm on this. I'll add one more concern, from a vendor's standpoint. Cloud is government's attempt to put all the financial risk on vendors without any real financial upside. In other words, force vendors to put major capital investments in place up-front without any reasonable assurances to recoup those investments in a reasonable time frame. Why would any responsible private sector company agree to this?
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I spoke to Bishop James Conley, the auxiliary bishop of Denver, on Sunday, Sept. 16, two days after the announcement from Rome of his appointment to be Bishop of the Diocese of Lincoln, Neb. We spoke by phone while he was in Boston, where he was scheduled to deliver a talk at Harvard University later that day. The interview below is edited and condensed for space and clarity.
1. Tell me about how you learned the news of your appointment, and was it something you expected?
I got the call from the Apostolic Nuncio in Washington — Archbishop Carlo Viganno — on Friday, Sept. 7. Generally speaking, I thought that I would be called to a diocese of my own. Once Bishop Aquila was installed on July 18, I thought that could be a possibility, but I thought they would leave me here a little while to help with the transition. You just never know.
2. How do you feel Archbishop Chaput prepared you for this role?
I really learned so much from Archbishop Chaput. He really mentored me as a bishop. I always held him in high esteem, even way before I came to Denver. He was one of my heroes even as a young priest (in Wichita, Kan.). When I was named auxiliary in Denver, his pastoral leadership, his wisdom, his holiness were things I drew from. So really everything I am as a bishop has been to a great degree influenced by him. And Archbishop Aquila, he and I were in graduate school together. We lived in Rome for years.
3. Did you ever expect to be named Archbishop of Denver?
No, I didn't expect that. It's very rare to make the jump from auxiliary bishop to Archbishop.
4. Do you expect to continue leading the Diocese of Lincoln in the same general direction as Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz, who is retiring at age 77? Or do you have other plans?


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MILAN (AP) — Italy remained in political gridlock Thursday after the center-left leader announced he had failed to form a government.
Pier Luigi Bersani, who has been talking with parties since Friday, expressed some bitterness when he told reporters at the president's office in Rome that he found "unacceptable" attempts by some parties to set "preclusions and conditions."
Bersani's attempt at forming a stable government able to help Italy out of recession and get Italians back to work was always a long shot. Bersani's coalition controls the lower house, but not the Senate, and inconclusive February elections gave strong voice to a protest party.
The next move belongs to President Giorgio Napolitano, who will hold a day of consultations Friday to "personally ascertain the developments possible," the president's secretary general, Donato Marra, said.
The failure makes more likely a possible technical government with a well-defined mission to take on urgent tasks, which include rewriting the election law, and push through some measures that have broader acceptance, like cutting political costs.
"I do believe now that the president will try to find a personality who is not so political as Bersani, possibly coming out of the left, and see if that person can find some sort of agreement to get the backing" from both the center-left and the center-right, said Giovanni Orsina, a professor of political science at Rome's LUISS University. "That is the only solution at the moment."
The Feb. 24-25 elections ended in a three-way gridlock with Bersani's center-left forces, former Premier Silvio Berlusconi's center-right forces and the anti-establishment protest movement founded by comic-turned-political leader Beppe Grillo.
Old animosities and a hardline left wing of his party forced Bersani to rule out an alliance with Berlusconi's center-right forces — a sort of grand coalition that Napolitano clearly favored. And Grillo's 5 Star Movement made clear that it wouldn't back Bersani or any established party — despite Bersani's appeal to responsibility during a meeting Wednesday.
The 5 Star Movement's apparent intransigence makes a way forward difficult. It refuses steadfastly to vote confidence in any government that it does not run, and the Italian constitution requires a vote of confidence for a government to officially take office.
The movement on Thursday proposed that Italy could continue under the caretaker government of Mario Monti, allowing the newly elected parliament to take on some urgent tasks. It was unclear if Napolitano would find that acceptable, if Monti would want to stay on, or if such a possibility were even constitutional.
Orsina said there is a limit to how long a government can continue without a vote of confidence, and this caretaker government was formed provisionally until a new government could be formed. "If we say it is not a provisional solution, that it is more permanent, I think Monti should go back to the chambers and ask for confidence," Orsina said.
Monti, whose technical government enacted emergency measures to help protect Italy from the sovereign debt crisis after Berlusconi stepped down in 2011, dissolved parliament last December after Berlusconi pulled support, paving the way to elections. More recently, he has been under pressure over his government's flip-flop over the fate of two Italian marines charged with murder in India. It first announced earlier this month the pair would not go back to face trial after being allowed home temporarily, but then sent them back anyway fearing international isolation over the move.
His decision to run in the elections, finishing fourth with a dismal 10 percent of the vote, also has sapped his authority as a technical figure.


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From what I've heard, the talk is of a 2022 start date and a 2030 completion date (ugh...I'm going to blame the same planning rules that require the state to decide on new stoplights several years out for this timetable), but I have no idea what the "real" plan is (i.e. is the plan for 90 MPH? 110? 125? 150? What about the alignment...existing RF&P? Something slightly straightened? Something brand new a bit to the east?)...and apparently the project is holding the support of one of the more libertarian members of the House of Delegates here. So, like I said, anybody know more (such as what VA's HSR application listed)?
As an addendum, it sounds like the SEHSR stuff is still on course for the most part.
(And yes, this is in the Amtrak forum on purpose...the only talk of anything 150 MPH or faster in VA that I've ever seen was that wacky Richmond-Newport News project, so I'm skeptical that there's suddenly a major plan to run a 150 MPH train from DC to Richmond or something like that. Mind you, I think it's one of the better markets for it...the line is basically in the black from what I can tell...but I'm still skeptical of it.)
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ARS393 Art Studio Selected Topic
Selected topic course descriptions may change from semester to semester. Please consult the Schedule of Classes for more information regarding this course.
- Must be enrolled in the following level: Undergraduate
- Must be enrolled in one of the following majors: Visual Arts Education (189), Ceramics (271), Metal (272), Graphic Design (279), Printmaking (274), Sculpture (275), Photography (276), Visual Arts (277), Undeclared:Pre-Art Education (00AE), Painting (273)
- May not be enrolled in the following class: Freshman


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you can get JTR here
this tutorial was made by a good friend of mine
was too lazy to write it
Ok, this tutorial is about John the Ripper, often shortened to JTR. JTR is a password cracker for UNIX style passwords. You will need JTR to crack accounts extracted from CCBILL.LOG's or passwd files. This tutor can be used by the novice user, but maybe the more experienced users can discover some new dimensions too.
The accounts which JTR can crack must have the following format:
The "weird" characters after the ':' is called the hash. A hash is nothing more than a code/number generated from a string of text. These hashes can be cracked with JTR. The DES hashes which are used in CCBILL.logs are always 13 chars long.
JTR has different cracking modes. One of the fastest way is to use a wordlist. The wordlist has to be a single wordlist and NOT a combolist. To make your own single wordlist (text file containing one word per line), you could think of using dictionaries of different languages, familynames, petnames, movie names, etc.
To let JTR work with a wordlist you run JTR like this (in a command window):
in DOS mode. go to the directory where you placed john then run john by:
john -w:PASSES.TXT PORN_ACCOUNTS.TXT
where PASSES.TXT is your single wordlist file, and PORN_ACCOUNTS.TXT is the file containing the usernames and hashes like shown above.
You can do a more advanced way of wordlist cracking by supplying a
-rules parameter like this ( but make sure you know how to play with rules):
john -w:PASSES.TXT -rules PORN_ACCOUNTS.TXT
This mode will take some more time, but the chance to crack more accounts increases quite a lot.In this mode JTR will test each word in the wordlist including variations of that word, like adding a number before or after the word, removing vowels and other nifty tricks.
Here you have a screenshot if you start john cracking with a wordlist:
Loaded 945 passwords with 97 different salts (Traditional DES [64/64 BS MMX])
forest5 (temptor)
tomato (marley)
guesses:2 time: 0:00:00:08 0% c/s:109080040 trying: aljarfa - alkamin
anubis (jbwein)
guesses:3 time: 0:00:00:23 1% c/s:109082277 trying: berozo - berryton
Session aborted
If JTR is busy, you can hit [space] to display the current status. As seen in the above screenshot, you will get a status line with the number of guesses so far, how long JTR has been running (days:hours:minutes:seconds), the progress indicator, the speed in combinations of login and password per second and the current password tries. If JTR cracks an account it will show you the password first and between the ( ) the loginname.
If you have enough passes and you want to quit JTR, use ctrl-break (do NOT press ctrl-c twice, because that will not save your results to JTR's history (.POT file) and the restore file). In windows I have the experience that CTRL-C will not save the session either. You have explicitly use the Ctrl-Break combination!
If you have aborted JTR and want to let JTR resume the cracking, you can restore the interrupted session with this: john -restore
If you want to see which accounts JTR has been cracked, you use the option -
john -show PORN_ACCOUNTS.TXT
To save the cracked accounts to a file, you can use the standard redirection:
john -show PORN_ACCOUNTS.TXT > cracked_accounts.txt
This is the most easiest and probably fastest mode you should try first on your password files. It uses the logins to construct passwords with many different rules.
john -single PORN_ACCOUNTS.TXT
This is the most advanced and powerful cracking mode of JTR. In this mode JTR will try every possible character combination. With the maximum length of passwords around 8, it will seem that JTR will never terminate his session. It will end eventually but it can take months, even years to complete it. JTR has some advanced methods when it comes to trying every possible character combination. It uses character frequency tables and stuff, to improve the chance of success.
There are different character sets which you can use. The charsets which are delivered with JTR are the following:
All : this character sets contains 95 different chars (all letters, numbers, chars like !@#$%^&*()_+)
Alpha : this character sets contains 26 different chars (a to z)
Digits : this character sets contains 10 different chars (0 to 9)
LanMan : this character sets contains 65 different chars, and is primarly used for cracking LanMan passwords which are used by WindowsNT.
If you don't specify a <mode>, JTR will choose the default incremental mode which is 'All'.
john -i PORN_ACCOUNTS.TXT
john -i:digits PORN_ACCOUNTS.TXT
john -i:alpha PORN_ACCOUNTS.TXT
Some tips - some are advanced
1. If you alphabeticly sort your wordlist, JTR will be running a little faster. Another advantage of sorting is that JTR can detect dupes by himself.
2. Although the maximum length of the password is normally 8 chars, don't remove or truncate the words in the wordlist which are larger than 8 chars. The rest maybe needed by the -rules option (think of the vowel-removing rule). John is btw smart enough not to test two passwords again if the list is sorted.
3. JTR can make use of wildcards, such as:
john -w:WORDLIST.TXT -rules accounts*.txt
It will load all accounts*.txt file and starts cracking all the accounts in them.
4. The amount of different salts has effect on the speed of JTR. How more salts must be calculated, the slower JTR is. To speed up the whole process you can chose to let JTR try salts with <n> passwords. To test salts with more than 5 passwords, you use the following options:
john -wordfile:WORDLIST.TXT -rules -salts:5 PORN_ACCOUNTS.TXT
To test the rest of the salts (those with less than 5 passwords), use -<n>:
john -wordfile:WORDLIST.TXT -rules -salts:-5 PORN_ACCOUNTS.TXT
5. To have more than one session which you can restore, you can let the session be saved as <name> by using the option -session:<name>. To restore a specific session use the option -restore:<name>. The status of a cancelled session can be watched by the option -status:<name>
john -wordfile:WORDLIST.TXT -rules -session:firsttry PORN_ACCOUNTS.TXT
john -restore:firsttry
john -status:firsttry
6. If you have cracked a lot of accounts, it can be more effective to make your own charset. Your custom made charset will not only contain the chars used in the cracked passwords, but will determine the character frequencies too to make JTR more efficient and faster in cracking passwords. To make your own charset the following steps have to be made:
a) Make your own charset
john -makechars:THEBEST.CHR PORN_ACCOUNTS.TXT
Loaded 73618 plaintexts
Generating charsets... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 DONE
Generating cracking order... DONE
Successfully written charset file: thebest.chr (65 characters)
Edit the config file JOHN.CONF
- search for "[Incremental:All]" and you will see a section like this:
# Incremental modes
File = $JOHN/all.chr
MinLen = 0
MaxLen = 8
CharCount = 95
- here you can add your own section (the CharCount will be given by JTR if you created a custom charset) to the config file
File = $JOHN/THEBEST.CHR
MinLen = 3
MaxLen = 8
CharCount = 65


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April 6, 2012
Coffee Shop Instagram Idea
As I entered one of my favorite independent coffee shops in Nashville, Crema, I noticed several photos hanging on the wall. It got me thinking of a unique opportunity for cafe and restaurant owners.
I have written before about my keen interest in the tangible web. This is where things that are created virtually online, become available in real life.
My friend C.C. Chapman, recently had several of his Instagram photos printed to canvas by a company called CanvasPop (affiliate link). This is exactly what I mean by tangible web.
My big coffee shop idea
Since becoming an entrepreneur, I have spent many hours in Nashville's finest coffee shops. A check-in on Foursquare reveals plenty of people who are using their smart phones to snap and share photos. Most of them are using Instagram for this.
Business owners need to contact the photographers, and ask for permission to print their photos to canvas to exhibit in their cafes. Offer them a free coffee while you're at it. It's the perfect way to connect personally with your customers, show them some love, and help to spread the word about your business.
Begin with a search on Foursquare for these photos. Then check your Facebook page, shouts outs on Twitter, and geo-tagged photos on Flickr.
As a customer, you would be much more likely to invite friends and clients for a coffee at a shop featuring one of your beautiful photos, right?


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Hassebrook to jump into Nebraska governor's race
Hassebrook to jump into Nebraska governor's race
LINCOLN, Neb. —
Former University of Nebraska Regent Chuck Hassebrook will announce this week that he's jumping into the 2014 race for governor.
The Democratic hopeful told The Associated Press he will officially kick off his campaign Tuesday in his hometown of Lyons, where he serves as director of the Center for Rural Affairs. He's seeking to replace Republican Gov. Dave Heineman, who is ineligible to seek re-election because of term limits.
Hassebrook is the first Democrat to declare his candidacy for governor in the Republican-leaning state. The 58-year-old faces a tough race but says he plans to appeal to rural residents with a focus on early childhood education, job training programs and renewable energy.


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Saban reaches long-term agreement with school
Saban reaches long-term agreement with school
Nick Saban has finally reached a long-term agreement with a school.
Saban is staying put at Alabama the school announced on its Twitter account Friday night that the football coach has reached "a long-term agreement" to remain with the Crimson Tide.
Alabama didn't release terms of the new deal, which must be approved by the board of trustees.
The agreement quells speculation that Saban would take over at Texas if Mack Brown steps down. Saban, who turned 62 on Oct. 31, has led the Tide to three national championships in the past four years. No. 3 Alabama will play Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl.
Saban received an eight-year deal in March 2012 worth about $5.6 million annually.