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With the Apple v. Samsung patent trial underway, Samsung has angered both US District Court Judge Lucy Koh and Apple by providing the press evidence that had been ruled inadmissible in court. Koh demanded that Samsung lawyers explain the leak, and Apple today asked Koh to issue sanctions against Samsung for trying to influence the jury through the media.
"This deliberate attempt to influence the trial with inadmissible evidence is both improper and unethical," Apple lawyer William Lee wrote in a letter to Judge Koh today, noting that Apple will today file "an emergency motion for sanctions and other relief that may be appropriate."
Apple and Samsung have been arguing over whether the iPhone is a knockoff of Samsung products. But after Koh refused to let Samsung show evidence including phone designs that pre-dated the iPhone, Samsung leaked the evidence to the press (you can see it at AllthingsD) along with a statement. "Samsung was not allowed to tell the jury the full story and show the pre-iPhone design for that and other phones that were in development at Samsung in 2006, before the iPhone," the company said.
Koh was not happy, as she had previously ruled that the evidence was submitted too late in the legal process, the BBC wrote. Koh demanded a written explanation, which was provided today by Samsung attorney John Quinn. Quinn admitted authorizing the public release of the Samsung statement and exhibits that he wanted to show at trial. But he said this did not violate any court order, and that "all of the material in the excluded trial demonstrative exhibits at issue was previously in the public record."
The evidence would have shown "that the iPhone was inspired by 'Sony style' and that Samsung had independently created the design for the F700 phone," which Apple alleged was an iPhone copy, Quinn wrote. Releasing details to the press in response to media requests was not a violation of the legal process, he argued.
"Samsung's brief statement and transmission of public materials in response to media inquiries was lawful, ethical, and fully consistent with the relevant California Rules of Professional Responsibility… and legal authorities regarding attorneys' communications with the press," Quinn wrote.
That explanation did not appease Apple. Jurors have been repeatedly instructed not to read about the case in the press, but Lee argued that Samsung's leak was made with the intent to influence the jury. "Samsung's multiple references to the jury in its statement make plain its intent that the jurors in our case learn of arguments the Court has excluded through the press," Lee wrote.
Apple did not say exactly what types of sanctions it wants against Samsung, but will likely expound on its views in the emergency motion it plans to file.
The exhibits Samsung wanted to show at trial include slide decks with images of Samsung phone designs from 2006, as well as quotes from former Apple designer Shin Nishibori who referenced "Sony-like designs" influencing Apple's early iPhone mockups. Samsung repeatedly tried to change Koh's mind about the admissibility of evidence, but the judge held firm, saying in court yesterday "Mr. Quinn, don't make me sanction you, please."


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OBITUARY: Allen J. Reese
Allen J. Reese, 54, of Greencastle, formerly Rockwood, died Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012, in Washington, D.C., after a courageous battle with kidney cancer.
Born Aug. 22, 1958, in Somerset, he is the son of Donald and Sally (Tirko) Reese of Rockwood.
He was preceded in death by his first wife, Melody (Hawkins) Reese.
Besides his parents, he is survived by his wife, who cherished and loved him, DeAndra (Yates) Reese; son, Jacob Allen Reese, and girlfriend, Tracy Zimmermann of Boston, Mass.; father- and mother- in-law, James A. and Marilyn P. Yates of Killeen, Texas; sister-in-law, Donna Massengale and family; brother-in-law, Keith Yates and family; aunts, uncles, cousins and many friends, including special friends, Scotty Kline and family and Charity Miller and family.
He was a member of the Macedonia United Brethren Church in Greencastle.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Macedonia Inited Brethren Church, Greencastle.
Graveside services and interment will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Husband Cemetery, Somerset, with Rev. Will Osman officiating.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Kidney Cancer Warriors, payable to Leigh Reese, 5118 Bino Road, Greencastle, Pa. 17225.
Arrangements are under the direction of the Robert H. Halverson Funeral Home, Somerset.
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The Situation of Bullying
Posted by The Situationist Staff on March 27, 2008
From New York Times (by Dan Barry – March 24, 2008): "A Boy the Bullies Love to Beat Up, Repeatedly."
All lank and bone, the boy stands at the corner with his younger sister, waiting for the yellow bus that takes them to their respective schools. He is Billy Wolfe, high school sophomore, struggling.
Moments earlier he left the sanctuary that is his home, passing those framed photographs of himself as a carefree child, back when he was 5. And now he is at the bus stop, wearing a baseball cap, vulnerable at 15.
A car the color of a school bus pulls up with a boy who tells his brother beside him that he's going to beat up Billy Wolfe. While one records the assault with a cellphone camera, the other walks up to the oblivious Billy and punches him hard enough to leave a fist-size welt on his forehead.
The video shows Billy staggering, then dropping his book bag to fight back, lanky arms flailing. But the screams of his sister stop things cold.
The aggressor heads to school, to show friends the video of his Billy moment, while Billy heads home, again. It's not yet 8 in the morning.
Bullying is everywhere, including here in Fayetteville, a city of 60,000 with one of the country's better school systems. A decade ago a Fayetteville student was mercilessly harassed and beaten for being gay. After a complaint was filed with the Office of Civil Rights, the district adopted procedures to promote tolerance and respect — none of which seems to have been of much comfort to Billy Wolfe.
It remains unclear why Billy became a target at age 12; schoolyard anthropology can be so nuanced. Maybe because he was so tall, or wore glasses then, or has a learning disability that affects his reading comprehension. Or maybe some kids were just bored. Or angry.
Whatever the reason, addressing the bullying of Billy has become a second job for his parents: Curt, a senior data analyst, and Penney, the owner of an office-supply company. They have binders of school records and police reports, along with photos documenting the bruises and black eyes. They are well known to school officials, perhaps even too well known, but they make no apologies for being vigilant. They also reject any suggestion that they should move out of the district because of this.
The many incidents seem to blur together into one protracted assault. When Billy attaches a bully's name to one beating, his mother corrects him. "That was Benny, sweetie," she says. "That was in the eighth grade."
It began years ago when a boy called the house and asked Billy if he wanted to buy a certain sex toy, heh-heh. Billy told his mother, who informed the boy's mother. The next day the boy showed Billy a list with the names of 20 boys who wanted to beat Billy up.
Ms. Wolfe says she and her husband knew it was coming. She says they tried to warn school officials — and then bam: the prank caller beat up Billy in the bathroom of McNair Middle School.
Not long after, a boy on the school bus pummeled Billy, but somehow Billy was the one suspended, despite his pleas that the bus's security camera would prove his innocence. Days later, Ms. Wolfe recalls, the principal summoned her, presented a box of tissues, and played the bus video that clearly showed Billy was telling the truth.
Things got worse. At Woodland Junior High School, some boys in a wood shop class goaded a bigger boy into believing that Billy had been talking trash about his mother. Billy, busy building a miniature house, didn't see it coming: the boy hit him so hard in the left cheek that he briefly lost consciousness.
Ms. Wolfe remembers the family dentist sewing up the inside of Billy's cheek, and a school official refusing to call the police, saying it looked like Billy got what he deserved. Most of all, she remembers the sight of her son.
"He kept spitting blood out," she says, the memory strong enough still to break her voice.
By now Billy feared school. Sometimes he was doubled over with stress, asking his parents why. But it kept on coming.
In ninth grade, a couple of the same boys started a page called "Every One That Hates Billy Wolfe." It featured a photograph of Billy's face superimposed over a likeness of Peter Pan, and provided this description of its purpose: "There is no reason anyone should like billy he's a little bitch. And a homosexual that NO ONE LIKES."
. . .
According to Alan Wilbourn, a spokesman for the school district, the principal notified the parents of the students involved after Ms. Wolfe complained, and the parents — whom he described as "horrified" — took steps to have the page taken down.
Not long afterward, a student in Spanish class punched Billy so hard that when he came to, his braces were caught on the inside of his cheek.
. . .
Judging by school records, at least one official seems to think Billy contributes to the trouble that swirls around him. For example, Billy and the boy who punched him at the bus stop had exchanged words and shoves a few days earlier.
But Ms. Wolfe scoffs at the notion that her son causes or deserves the beatings he receives. She wonders why Billy is the only one getting beaten up, and why school officials are so reluctant to punish bullies and report assaults to the police.
. . .
To read the entire story, listen to an audio recording of Billy describing the first time he was bullied, watch a video of a bus-stop attack, or see a slide show of images related to the story, click here. For some related Situationist posts, see "Dueling Stereotypes and the Law," "Some (Interior) Situational Sources War – Part III," and "The Devil You Know . . . ."
6 Responses to "The Situation of Bullying"
April 10, 2009 at 1:53 am
October 22, 2009 at 3:37 pm
You did NOT get the correct story!!!! Billy constantly bullied people and was rude and malicious to everyone. He would instigate fights all the time. Billy Wolfe is the BULLY!!!!!!
October 22, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Billy Wolfe is the BULLY. He is rude to everyone and the reason he had no friends is because he bullied everyone. I cannot bleieve this BS story made national news. Everything Billy had said was a LIE. He would insitgate fights all the time and start the majority of them. He even ridculed someone for his deceased mother. That is bullying. Billy Wolfe's story is such BS! He is NOT the victim, he is the BULLY. He has bullied me many of times and there are specific incidents i could refer too. He has also bullied many of my friends. The record needs to be set straight and what has been said is a complete LIE.
February 11, 2010 at 4:36 pm
This is a horricle story. Even if he is the bully nothing should cause a person to hurt someone so badly. has it been proven he is a homosexual. The people who beat up thid kid are cowards,neandethtla, and the people who wathced or laughed are idiots.
November 9, 2010 at 9:43 am
I dunno what the truth of this story is, and I don't want to ask other victims to be forgiving if Billy was the one who was a perpetrator, but maybe there was more going on here. I was remorselessly bullied right through through the end of elementary school and into the first years of junior high. Emotionally, I was crushed and very very lonely. And I went out and bullied even weaker (usually younger) people as a result. I was never a bully till I became bullied. I didn't make a conscious choice to start passing my pain on, and after every time I bullied someone, I felt self-loathing for doing it. Because actually, all I wanted was to get closer to people. But I couldn't help myself. On a sub-conscious level, I was simply trying to regain a little bit of power in my life. I was in the grip of forces I couldn't control. And the worst thing is, I bullied the people I most liked. I still regret my behaviour now.
So even if you can't forgive Billy, if he was a bully, maybe you can understand that bullying behaviour, especially by a solitary bully, is often indicative of pain in his own life.
January 14, 2011 at 5:56 am
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Sales Of Existing Homes Rose In November; Previous Years Revised Down
While it says sales of existing homes rose 4 percent in November from October and were 12.2 percent above the level of November 2010, the National Association of Realtors also reported today that revisions to its data show there were about 2.9 million fewer homes sold from the start of 2007 through the end of 2010 than previously thought.
According to NAR, it now estimates there were 17.7 million existing homes sold over those four years — about 14.3 percent fewer than previously thought.
So the sharp decline of the housing market in recent years now looks even more precipitous.
Among the reasons why the number went down:
-- In the previous figures, homes that had been "flipped" (re-sold within 12 months) were counted twice. Now, they're counted once.
-- In some cases, a home had been listed in more than one metropolitan area's reporting service, so its sale got counted twice.
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ARLINGTON, Texas >> That high-flying act from "Dunk City" busted most everybody's NCAA tournament brackets and left an indelible mark on March.
Bet you know what FGCU is now.
Florida Gulf Coast, the No. 15 seed few people knew much about only a week ago, had its improbable run to the NCAA round of 16 ended by a 62-50 loss late Friday night — actually only a few minutes before midnight. SEC regular-season champion Florida is headed to its third consecutive regional final.
"We definitely defied a lot of odds," said Sherwood Brown, the dreadlocked guard who is Gulf Coast's only senior starter. "Pretty much no one in the nation expected us to make it this far."
Early against Florida, the Eagles (26-11) seemed even looser than they had in their victories over No. 2 seed Georgetown and No. 7 seed San Diego State. And they had a big run that came early this time.
Chase Fieler had 3-pointers to start and cap an 11-0 run, raising his hands in the air after the second that put Gulf Coast ahead 15-4 and led to a timeout by Florida coach Billy Donovan less than 7 minutes into the game.
In between the 3s, Gulf Coast had some of the schoolyard-like plays that earned them that "Dunk City" moniker.
After Brett Comer stole a pass, he ran down the court and threw up an alley-oop pass for the trailing Brown, who delivered an emphatic slam that sent the announced crowd of more than 40,000 into a frenzy — except for those in Gator orange.
Comer then flipped another backward pass to Bernard Thompson for a 3-pointer before Fieler's other 3.
"It was very exciting to get out to that big run, playing in the Sweet 16, playing the way we were playing early in the tournament against a great team in Florida," Fieler said.
That run was so similar to extended spurts they had in upsetting No. 2 seed Georgetown and No. 7 seed San Diego State.
But the Gators (29-7) still had plenty of time — and know how to go on big runs of their own.
"I thought we did a great job of putting pressure and making those guys feel uncomfortable," said Mike Rosario, who led Florida with 15 points.
The Eagles had 12 turnovers in the first half — one less than they had in each of their first two NCAA tourney games — and finished with 20.
Michael Frazier made a pair of 3-pointers from in front of the FGCU bench, the only baskets he made, to start a 16-0 run late in the first half.
That put the Gators in the lead to stay.
"As bad as we started off, I'm happy for my team that we fought back. They're a second-half team. We did a good job of attacking them in the first 4 minutes of the second half," said Kenny Boynton, whose three-point play sparked a quick 7-0 Gators run right after halftime.
The Gators will play Michigan in the South Regional final on that raised court at Cowboys Stadium on Sunday. They are trying to get to their first NCAA Final Four since consecutive national championships in 2006 and 2007.
Michigan overcame a 14-point deficit and knocked off No. 1 seed Kansas 87-85 in overtime earlier Friday night.
Brown led FGCU with 14 points, while Fieler had 12. Scottie Wilbekin had 13 points for Florida and Casey Prather 11.
This is the last chance for seniors Boynton and Erik Murphy to win a title of their own. And there was a business-like feel in the winning Florida locker room after the game.
On the other side, things weren't all that bleak despite the disappointment of being done and matching a season low for points.
"It's sad we lost tonight, but it was a great ride," said post player Eddie Murray, the only other senior on the Gulf Coast roster. "It hurts right now but when you step back and look at it, it's all been amazing."
FGCU heads back to Fort Myers (aka Dunk City), where it has man-made lakes and a beach on campus, having given the tournament a blast of fresh air while its players were just having a blast. The South Florida state school also got about the best free publicity its administrators could ever hope for.
"It was great to see the excitement across the country with the underdog and it's just a real feeling when you're the underdog and you're the talk of the nation," coach Andy Enfield said. "Our plan wasn't to become some great national story. Our plan was to go in and compete and win games. It was unbelievable to see the excitement and passion of not only our local community, the students, but also the national level.
"Our players believed, and they accomplished something special."


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All Eyes On 'Merkozy' As Leaders Try To Save Euro
While The New York Times says German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are working on a deal to save the euro that has "several moving parts," The Financial Times cautions that "officials on both sides have cautioned against expectations of an announcement of a detailed plan by the two."
The FT adds that Merkozy (headline writers' new favorite name for the two leaders) "may be the driving force in the 17-strong currency union, but the two are (more or less) sensitive to concerns among other members that they should not be dictated to by the big powers."
Still, the Times says the deal, "as European and American officials describe it, is being negotiated along four main lines":
-- "New promises of fiscal discipline."
-- A larger bailout fund.
-- More money from the International Monetary Fund "to augment the bailout fund."
-- "Quiet political cover for the European Central Bank to keep buying Italian and Spanish bonds aggressively in the interim."
On the NPR Newscast this morning, Planet Money's Zoe Chace said there's also talk about something akin to "a whole new European Union" with "more centralized control over individual country's budget" in order to prevent the kind of cascading crises that have plagued the union this year.
On Morning Edition, Eleanor Beardsley reported from Paris about how "Merkozy" have been preparing their nations for major changes in the EU.
Merkel and Sarkozy are meeting today in Paris. There's an EU emergency summit in Brussels on Friday.
Update at 1:45 p.m. ET. More Talks, Treaty By March?
The BBC reports that as he and Merkel called for "a new treaty to deal with the eurozone debt crisis," Sarkozy said talks on any such new treaty need to be completed by March.
According to the BBC, the two leaders also said "they wanted treaty changes to be implemented by all 27 EU member states, but if that was not possible, just the 17 states which have adopted the euro."
Bloomberg News says that "Merkel and Sarkozy presented a common platform for a Dec. 8-9 summit of EU leaders in Brussels. Merkel's government won't stand in the way of Bundesbank help to fight the debt crisis by means of loans channeled through the International Monetary Fund, a senior Merkel ally said."
Update at 11:45 a.m. ET. The AP's latest lede:
"The leaders of France and Germany called forcefully Monday for a new European Union treaty that would automatically punish countries that use the euro if they violate existing limits on overspending. Stocks and the euro rose while European government bond yields dropped sharply as investors viewed the proposal for a closer fiscal union among the 17 countries as an important step to save the euro."
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Airline passenger complaints surged in 2012
Report shows customers unhappy with smaller seats, fewer flights
WASHINGTON — Airline passengers are getting grumpier, and it's little wonder.
Airlines keep shrinking the size of seats to stuff more people onto planes, those empty middle seats that once provided a little more room are now occupied, and more people with tickets are being turned away because flights are overbooked.
Private researchers who analyzed federal data on airline performance also said in a report released today that consumer complaints to the Department of Transportation surged by one-fifth last year, even though more on-time arrivals and less mishandled baggage show airlines are doing a better job.
"The way airlines have taken 130-seat airplanes and expanded them to 150 seats to squeeze out more revenue I think is finally catching up with them," said Dean Headley, a business professor at Wichita State University who has co-written the annual report for 23 years.
"People are saying, 'Look, I don't fit here. Do something about this.' At some point airlines can't keep shrinking seats to put more people into the same tube," he said.
The industry is even looking at ways to make today's smaller-than-a-broom closet toilets more compact in the hope of squeezing a few more seats onto planes.
"I can't imagine the uproar that making toilets smaller might generate," Headley said, especially since passengers increasingly weigh more than they used to. Nevertheless, "Will it keep them from flying? I doubt it would."
In recent years, some airlines have shifted to larger planes that can carry more people, but that hasn't been enough to make up for an overall reduction in flights.
The rate at which passengers with tickets were denied seats because planes were full rose to 0.97 denials per 10,000 passengers last year, compared with 0.78 in 2011.
United Airlines had the highest consumer complaint rate of the 14 airlines included in the report, with 4.24 complaints per 100,000 passengers. That was nearly double the airline's complaint rate the previous year.
Southwest had the lowest rate, at 0.25.
It used to be in cases of overbookings that airlines usually could find a passenger who would volunteer to give up a seat in exchange for cash, a free ticket or some other compensation with the expectation of catching another flight later that day or the next morning. Not anymore.
"Since flights are so full, there are no seats on those next flights. So people say, 'No, not for $500, not for $1,000,"' said airline industry analyst Robert W. Mann Jr.
Regional carrier SkyWest had the highest involuntary denied boardings rate last year, 2.32 per 10,000 passengers.
But not every airline overbooks flights in an effort to keep seats full. JetBlue and Virgin America were the industry leaders in avoiding denied boardings, with rates of 0.01 and 0.07, respectively.
Consumer complaints were significantly higher in the peak summer travel months of June, July and August when planes are especially crowded.
"As airplanes get fuller, complaints get higher because people just don't like to be sardines," Mann said.
The complaints are regarded as indicators of a larger problem because many passengers may not realize they can file complaints with Transportation Department, which regulates airlines.
At the same time complaints were increasing, airlines were doing a better job of getting passengers to their destinations on time.
The industry average for on-time arrival rate was 81.8 percent of flights, compared with 80 percent in 2011. Hawaiian Airlines had the best on-time performance record, 93.4 percent in 2012. ExpressJet and American Airlines had the worst records with only 76.9 percent of their planes arriving on time last year.
The industry's on-time performance has improved in recent years, partly due to airlines' decision to cut back on the number of flights.
"We've shown over the 20 years of doing this that whenever the system isn't taxed as much — fewer flights, fewer people, less bags — it performs better. It's when it reaches a critical mass that it starts to fracture," Headley said.
The industry's shift to charging for fees for extra bags, or sometimes charging fees for any bags, has significantly reduced the rate of lost or mishandled bags. Passengers are checking fewer bags than before, and carrying more bags onto planes when permitted.
The industry's mishandled bag rate peaked in 2007 at 7.01 mishandled bags per 1,000 passengers. It was 3.07 in 2012, down from 3.35 bags the previous year.
The report's ratings are based on statistics kept by the department for airlines that carry at least 1 percent of the passengers who flew domestically last year.
The airlines covered in the report are Air Tran, Alaska, American, American Eagle, Delta, ExpressJet, Frontier, Hawaiian, JetBlue, SkyWest, Southwest, United, US Airways and Virgin America.
The research is sponsored by Purdue University in Indiana, and by Wichita State University in Kansas.
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A massive, highly sophisticated piece of malware has been newly found infecting systems in Iran and elsewhere and is believed to be part of a well-coordinated, ongoing, state-run cyberespionage operation.
The malware, discovered by Russia-based anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab, is an espionage toolkit that has been infecting targeted systems in Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Sudan, the Israeli Occupied Territories and other countries in the Middle East and North Africa for at least two years.
Dubbed "Flame" by Kaspersky, the malicious code dwarfs Stuxnet in size – the groundbreaking infrastructure-sabotaging malware that is believed to have wreaked havoc on Iran's nuclear program in 2009 and 2010. Although Flame has both a different purpose and composition than Stuxnet, and appears to have been written by different programmers, its complexity, the geographic scope of its infections and its behavior indicate strongly that a nation-state is behind Flame, rather than common cyber-criminals - marking it as yet another tool in the growing arsenal of cyberweaponry.
The researchers say that Flame may be part of a parallel project created by contractors who were hired by the same nation-state team that was behind Stuxnet and its sister malware, DuQu.
"Stuxnet and Duqu belonged to a single chain of attacks, which raised cyberwar-related concerns worldwide," said Eugene Kaspersky, CEO and co-founder of Kaspersky Lab, in a statement. "The Flame malware looks to be another phase in this war, and it's important to understand that such cyber weapons can easily be used against any country."
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The malware, which is 20 megabytes when all of its modules are installed, contains multiple libraries, SQLite3 databases, various levels of encryption - some strong, some weak - and 20 plug-ins that can be swapped in and out to provide various functionality for the attackers. It even contains some code that is written in the LUA programming language - an uncommon choice for malware.
Kaspersky Lab is calling it "one of the most complex threats ever discovered."
"It's pretty fantastic and incredible in complexity," said Alexander Gostev, chief security expert at Kaspersky Lab.
Flame appears to have been operating in the wild as early as March 2010, though it remained undetected by antivirus companies.
"It's a very big chunk of code. Because of that, it's quite interesting that it stayed undetected for at least two years," Gostev said. He noted that there are clues that the malware may actually date back to as early as 2007, around the same time-period when Stuxnet and DuQu are believed to have been created.
Gostev says that because of its size and complexity, complete analysis of the code may take years.
"It took us half-a-year to analyze Stuxnet," he said. "This is 20-times more complicated. It will take us 10 years to fully understand everything."
Kaspersky discovered the malware about two weeks ago after the United Nations' International Telecommunications Union asked the Lab to look into reports in April that computers belonging to the Iranian Oil Ministry and the Iranian National Oil Company had been hit with malware that was stealing and deleting information from the systems. The malware was named alternatively in news articles as "Wiper" and "Viper," a discrepancy that may be due to a translation mixup.
Kaspersky researchers searched through their reporting archive, which contains suspicious filenames sent automatically from customer machines so the names can be checked against whitelists of known malware, and found an MD5 hash and filename that appeared to have been deployed only on machines in Iran and other Middle East countries. As the researchers dug further, they found other components infecting machines in the region, which they pieced together as parts of Flame.
Kaspersky, however, is currently treating Flame as if it is not connected to Wiper/Viper, and believes it is a separate infection entirely. The researchers dubbed the toolkit "Flame" after the name of a module inside it.
Among Flame's many modules is one that turns on the internal microphone of an infected machine to secretly record conversations that occur either over Skype or in the computer's near vicinity; a module that turns Bluetooth-enabled computers into a Bluetooth beacon, which scans for other Bluetooth-enabled devices in the vicinity to siphon names and phone numbers from their contacts folder; and a module that grabs and stores frequent screenshots of activity on the machine, such as instant-messaging and email communications, and sends them via a covert SSL channel to the attackers' command-and-control servers.
The malware also has a sniffer component that can scan all of the traffic on an infected machine's local network and collect usernames and password hashes that are transmitted across the network. The attackers appear to use this component to hijack administrative accounts and gain high-level privileges to other machines and parts of the network.
Flame does contain a module named Viper, adding more confusion to the Wiper/Viper issue, but this component is used to transfer stolen data from infected machines to command-and-control servers. News reports out of Iran indicated the Wiper/Viper program that infected the oil ministry was designed to delete large swaths of data from infected systems.
Kaspersky's researchers examined a system that was destroyed by Wiper/Viper and found no traces of that malware on it, preventing them from comparing it to the Flame files. The disk destroyed by Wiper/Viper was filled primarily with random trash, and almost nothing could be recovered from it, Gostev said. "We did not see any sign of Flame on that disk."
Because Flame is so big, it gets loaded to a system in pieces. The machine first gets hit with a 6-megabyte component, which contains about half-a-dozen other compressed modules inside. The main component extracts, decompresses and decrypts these modules and writes them to various locations on disk. The number of modules in an infection depends on what the attackers want to do on a particular machine.
Once the modules are unpacked and loaded, the malware connects to one of about 80 command-and-control domains to deliver information about the infected machine to the attackers and await further instruction from them. The malware contains a hardcoded list of about five domains, but also has an updatable list, to which the attackers can add new domains if these others have been taken down or abandoned.
While the malware awaits further instruction, the various modules in it might take screenshots and sniff the network. The screenshot module grabs desktop images every 15 seconds when a high-value communication application is being used, such as instant messaging or Outlook, and once every 60 seconds when other applications are being used.
Although the Flame toolkit does not appear to have been written by the same programmers who wrote Stuxnet and DuQu, it does share a few interesting things with Stuxnet.
Stuxnet is believed to have been written through a partnership between Israel and the United States, and was first launched in June 2009. It is widely believed to have been designed to sabotage centrifuges used in Iran's uranium enrichment program. DuQu was an espionage tool discovered on machines in Iran, Sudan, and elsewhere in 2011 that was designed to steal documents and other data from machines. Stuxnet and DuQu appeared to have been built on the same framework, using identical parts and using similar techniques.
But Flame doesn't resemble either of these in framework, design or functionality.
Stuxnet and DuQu were made of compact and efficient code that was pared down to its essentials. Flame is 20 megabytes in size, compared to Stuxnet's 500 kilobytes, and contains a lot of components that are not used by the code by default, but appear to be there to provide the attackers with options to turn on post-installation.
"It was obvious DuQu was from the same source as Stuxnet. But no matter how much we looked for similarities [in Flame], there are zero similarities," Gostev said. "Everything is completely different, with the exception of two specific things."
One of these is an interesting export function in both Stuxnet and Flame, which may turn out to link the two pieces of malware upon further analysis, Gostev said. The export function allows the malware to be executed on the system.
Also, like Stuxnet, Flame has the ability to spread by infecting USB sticks using the autorun and .lnk vulnerabilities that Stuxnet used. It also uses the same print spooler vulnerability that Stuxnet used to spread to computers on a local network. This suggests that the authors of Flame may have had access to the same menu of exploits that the creators of Stuxnet used.
Unlike Stuxnet, however, Flame does not replicate automatically by itself. The spreading mechanisms are turned off by default and must be switched on by the attackers before the malware will spread. Once it infects a USB stick inserted into an infected machine, the USB exploit is disabled immediately.
This is likely intended to control the spread of the malware and lessen the likelihood that it will be detected. This may be the attackers' response to the out-of-control spreading that occurred with Stuxnet and accelerated the discovery of that malware.
It's possible the exploits were enabled in early versions of the malware to allow the malware to spread automatically, but were then disabled after Stuxnet went public in July 2010 and after the .lnk and print spooler vulnerabilities were patched. Flame was launched prior to Stuxnet's discovery, and Microsoft patched the .lnk and print spooler vulnerabilities in August and September 2010. Any malware attempting to use the vulnerabilities now would be detected if the infected machines were running updated versions of antivirus programs. Flame, in fact, checks for the presence of updated versions of these programs on a machine and, based on what it finds, determines if the environment is conducive for using the exploits to spread.
The researchers say they don't know yet how an initial infection of Flame occurs on a machine before it starts spreading. The malware has the ability to infect a fully patched Windows 7 computer, which suggests that there may be a zero-day exploit in the code that the researchers have not yet found.
The earliest sign of Flame that Kaspersky found on customer systems is a filename belonging to Flame that popped up on a customer's machine in Lebanon on Aug. 23, 2010. An internet search on the file's name showed that security firm Webroot had reported the same filename appearing on a computer in Iran on Mar. 1, 2010. But online searches for the names of other unique files found in Flame show that it may have been in the wild even earlier than this. At least one component of Flame appears to have popped up on machines in Europe on Dec. 5, 2007 and in Dubai on Apr. 28, 2008.
Kaspersky estimates that Flame has infected about 1,000 machines. The researchers arrived at this figure by calculating the number of its own customers who have been infected and extrapolating that to estimate the number of infected machines belonging to customers of other antivirus firms.
All of the infections of Kaspersky customers appear to have been targeted and show no indication that a specific industry, such as the energy industry, or specific systems, such as industrial control systems, were singled out. Instead, the researchers believe Flame was designed to be an all-purpose tool that so far has infected a wide variety of victims. Among those hit have been individuals, private companies, educational institutions and government-run organizations.
Symantec, which has also begun analyzing Flame (which it calls "Flamer"), says the majority of its customers who have been hit by the malware reside in the Palestinian West Bank, Hungary, Iran, and Lebanon. They have received additional reports from customer machines in Austria, Russia, Hong Kong, and the United Arab Emirates.
Researchers say the compilation date of modules in Flame appear to have been manipulated by the attackers, perhaps in an attempt to thwart researchers from determining when they were created.
"Whoever created it was careful to mess up the compilation dates in every single module," Gostev said. "The modules appear to have been compiled in 1994 and 1995, but they're using code that was only released in 2010."
The malware has no kill date, though the operators have the ability to send a kill module to it if needed. The kill module, named browse32, searches for every trace of the malware on the system, including stored files full of screenshots and data stolen by the malware, and eliminates them, picking up any breadcrumbs that might be left behind.
"When the kill module is activated, there's nothing left whatsoever," Gostev said.
UPDATE 9am PST: Iran's Computer Emergency Response Team announced on Monday that it had developed a detector to uncover what it calls the "Flamer" malware on infected machines and delivered it to select organizations at the beginning of May. It has also developed a removal tool for the malware. Kaspersky believes the "Flamer" malware is the same as the Flame malware its researchers analyzed.
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Once Upon a Time's Rebecca Mader on Evil vs. Wicked's Epic Showdown
It's finally time for Evil vs. Wicked!
Now that the beleaguered residents of Storybrooke have discovered the Wicked Witch's identity, Sunday's episode of Once Upon a Time (8/7c, ABC) will find Zelena (Rebecca Mader) bringing the fight straight into town. Very clearly making her motivations known, Zelena challenges her little sister Regina (Lana Parrilla) to a fight at dusk.
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"It's pretty epic," Mader tells TVGuide.com. "It's definitely the showdown of all showdowns. I couldn't believe it. They basically shot it like a cowboy western. The promo is so fitting. It was a really big night and a big shoot. It's all built to this moment of who's going to win: Wicked vs. Evil. It's a pretty exciting moment in Sunday night's episode."
With Zelena's identity out in the open, you would think she'd now have to change tactics. However, with the Dark One (Robert Carlyle) on her side, the Wicked Witch of the West fears nothing. "She's very set on her end game," Mader says. "She feels very in control of her mission. If you control the dagger, you have nothing to fear."
Well, there is one thing to fear. After a photo of Zelena kissing Rumplestiltskin was released, the fans went crazy online. "That was just in between takes, just hanging out," Mader jokes. "I didn't know that photo was coming out. I saw everyone screaming at me on Twitter. Any fans of Belle [Emilie de Ravin] and Rumple are like, 'What are you doing?!' I'm just not responding because there's nothing I can say other than you'll have to tune in to [the April 20 episode] for that one."
Fans may be even more upset when they soon discover why Zelena is so intrigued by Snow's (Ginnifer Goodwin) baby. The increasing interest has turned the Wicked Witch into something of an enigma. How is Snow's baby connected to Zelena's hate for her sister? A trip to Oz may provide answers. "You're going to get Zelena's backstory," Mader says of Sunday's episode, which features a trip to the Emerald City. "You're going to see when she wasn't wicked and when she wasn't green. It's more of a case of feeling wronged: Why she's so pissed off and why she's become so wicked and what she really wants and how she wants it to go down. There's going to be a lot of stuff revealed, including a lot of different aspects of her personality and her heart."
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This Oz, however, might not be what fans of L. Frank Baum's original novel imagined. "It's got nods to the original, but the writers have put their own wicked flavor to it," Mader says. "It's not a carbon copy. It's a new Once Upon a Time version, which is fun."
Regardless of who comes out on top on Sunday, Mader just feels extremely lucky to have been cast in the role - even if it means hours of makeup to get that shiny green look. "We've got it down now to about an hour, which isn't too painful," she says. "It's pretty intense to get off. We use an oil-based makeup remover, and usually have two people and me scrubbing off until like 4 or 5 o'clock in the morning when you wrap, and you're like, 'Get it off!' Then sometimes I'll get back and the next day I've got like green down the back of my neck. It gets everywhere. I've got it in my hands and my fingernails. Sometimes my fingers are still green when I'm lying in bed at night."
Well, as this Sunday's episode title fittingly puts it, "It's Not Easy Being Green."
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Missing high school ring discovered after 65 years
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MATTOON, Ill. (AP) — If finding a high school ring doesn't seem like a big deal consider this: Until a few days ago, the last time Dick Diedrich saw his ring he was living in suburban Chicago with his parents and Harry Truman was in the White House.
Diedrich, 82, now has his class of 1949 ring from J. Sterling Morton High School in Cicero thanks to a Waukesha, Wis., man who returned it to him after finding it with a metal detector in a lake near his home.
The ring's journey back to its proper owner in Illinois began with Mike Geiger's phone call earlier this month to the Mattoon home of Dick Diedrich and his wife of 60 years, Doris.
"He said, 'I think I have something that goes back to your high school years," Dick Diedrich said. "At that point the story with the ring popped into my head."
It seems that back in high school, Diedrich exchanged rings with his then-sweetheart, Doris. He said she only took his ring off "when they were dissecting frogs" in biology class.
In mid-1948, Doris put it on a shelf to wash her hands after biology class and when she turned around the ring was gone, as was another girl in the washroom.
"She was quite confident it got stolen," Diedrich told The Associated Press.
That's how things stood until Geiger called. He explained to Diedrich that he was using a metal detector at a lake near his home when he discovered the ring and pulled it from the water. "It really was in excellent shape for being so old," said Diedrich.
Gieger did a little detective work, Diedrich explained. He contacted the school's alumni association and was told that out of the 1949 class of about 1,500 students, there were two graduates with the initials R.D., including Richard "Dick" Deidrich.
Geiger called the other R.D., but he wasn't very friendly, so he called Diedrich, the newspaper reported. Believing he had the right R.D., he mailed Diedrich the ring.
Diedrich said he wanted to send Geiger a reward, "but he said he was just pleased to be able to return it." He sent him one anyway, along with a nice letter.
Deidrich has continued to do research to make sure that the ring is, in fact, his. But he said Geiger is convinced the ring is in the hands of the rightful owner.
"'It's your ring' he told me. 'Keep it and enjoy it,'" Diedrich said. "So the bottom line is, I'm now sitting here at 82 years old with my class ring 63 years later."


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The Miss USA pageant sashays onto the RidicuList, but not for the reasons you might think.
Post by: Anderson Cooper
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I think it is cruel to bring this up again and again. This girl was very nervous and inarticulate, probably because she had never thought about the issue. Remember this is the teen contest. She is still a kid, even though society likes to parade her around as an adult. You may say that it is her fault that she entered, but you can say that about some presidential candidates and we all know a vice-presidential one who gave almost as incoherrent a reply. Anderson, it might be a slow news day, but how is what you did any different from bullying. Isn't this like teasing a kid who made one mistake throught his/her school life? I can understand it if someone like Howard Stern brings this up. But since you claim to be a journalist, you should have better standards.
Well Anderson, Miss USA is not about beauty or intelligence. It's about making profits for Mr. Trump and people around him. I worked for the pageant behind the scenes on several occasions and saw first hand how those girls are treated, what goes on and why things are the way they are. It's a nice money making business that will not go away.
the problem with this country is very simple.most of this girls r always in pageant shows and no books,being latin or not wich latin is the wrong way to describe us we r spanish women with morals not everyone is the same .this is not about any country unfurtunaly is all type of women there on the streets blond black chinise. to much , but the men is the one who is responsible somehow they always looking for the weak one
This poor girl is the poster child for the state of education in this country. By third or fourth grade a child should be capable of giving a reasonable answer. Anyway: this is not her fault. People will remember her because of her beauty - but she's now embarrassed for life. Just please stop showing this. Or maybe donate some bucks and get her a tutor?
It's gotten very much out of control. Not just the so-called beauty pagents, they've always been a joke. It's these faux reporters and journalist that think their opinions actually matters. Far too many people in the world will watch any mind-numbing crap on TV, with no discernment as to quality. Smarter people know these pagents are trash, and AC whining about it isn't going to fix anything.
I watched this year for the first time in 25 years for one reason: To see some really good looking young women in bikinis. I have no idea what anyone actually said, because the sound was off, and I listened to music of my choice.
I don't even know what she said... Poor girl.
i have lived in 6 countries, speak fluently 6 languages and was born in switzerland. i have lived here on and off since 65. my comments is concerning the 2007 south carolina. the answer was politically correct but the real answer is that since birth all you ever hear in the us is "this is greatest country in the world". quite frankly, a large percentage of americans just do not give a hoot abuut any of the other countries and neither about any ohter language. no interest. that's all!
We agree with your Mr.Cooper 1000% All the Latinamerican Women from Up here!!!!!! 10)Reasons why this is SO TRUE! 10*-Many Women participate in many of this pageant a/or shows to better themselves financially, but Lo and behold end up being -so sort of "Lapp dog to Mr.Trump and his slymmy buddies...." 9*- All over Venezuela and Latinamerica we know so well that young, innocent(many physically virgins) go into this shows then by the time they go to the finals not only have desacrated their virginities, but end up working in the Dirty industries (lapp dancing, table stripping,etc) all because they need to pay for expensively outrageous surgeries from Head to toes -so much so that many of these farm a/or naive girls not even their own Parents will recognize them on the ramp ways, but most of all at the local Morges where they end up when they are not longer desirables, have too many venerial diseases or they demand Too Much! ..................... Sorry my time is up I will cont – next ..........Abby
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Fontenot gives Soriano a run for his money
Monday, Alfonso Soriano won National League Player of the Week honors, for his work against Texas and the White Sox. He earned a quality Swiss watch for his efforts.
It appears teammate Mike Fontenot wants to make it back-to-back Cubs who will sport fancy timepieces.
The Cubs infielder, who had five hits Monday and an RBI double Tuesday, extended his hitting streak to 10 games after he went 3-for-4 in Wednesday's 6-4 victory over Colorado. In the three-game series against the Rockies Fontenot batted .692 (9-for-13) to lift his season average to .408. During that three-game span he had four doubles, a homer, four RBI and five runs.
"Player of the Week? He should be Player of the Month," pitcher Scott Eyre said. "He's not only hitting, but he's catching everything hit to him."
Fontenot's first hit Wednesday might be considered a fluke. Colorado second baseman Kaz Matsui lost Fontenot's popup in the sun, the ball falling for a single.
The second hit was no fluke, as Fontenot tagged Jason Hirsh's to the right-field seats an estimated 415 feet for a solo home run. Fontenot added a double to left in the seventh.
"I've never been in a zone like this before," Fontenot said.
Winning pitcher Carlos Zambrano, who's listed at 6-foot-5, is impressed with the 5-8 Fontenot.
"I didn't know short men could hit the ball like that," Zambrano said. "He hits the ball like a man."
"He told me that," Fontenot said. "I just do my thing. Sometimes he raises his hands high to high-five me so I have to jump and I kind of like it. I slap him with my forearm."
Petrick hears it
Even before he played in his first major league game, pitcher Billy Petrick was tagged with an error. And he heard about it from his pals.
Petrick, who was promoted Tuesday from Double-A Tennessee, was in charge of guarding the pitchers and the catchers in the bullpen. Late in the game, he failed to come up with a grounder down the line in left. Although the ball didn't hit anyone, the miscue was shown on some highlights.
"I caught a lot of grief for that," Petrick, the former Morris High School standout, said. "I had some friends call me and said, 'You weren't even in the game and made an error.' "
Petrick made his big-league debut Wednesday. He threw a perfect seventh inning, striking out two, and earned a standing ovation. In the eighth, he was touched for a two-run homer by Garrett Atkins. Petrick was removed with two outs in the inning and earned another standing "O".
"I've never gotten an ovation like that after giving up a home run," he said. "That's a first."
Wood worked?
Despite reports that Kerry Wood's first throwing session off a mound was delayed Tuesday because he went home after his house was flooded, manager Lou Piniella said Wood actually threw off the hill at 1 p.m. at Wrigley Field.
On Wednesday, Wood initially said he didn't throw Tuesday, then said he did. He wouldn't say if it was off the mound.
"I threw. Let's leave it at that," Wood said.
Wood threw off flat ground Wednesday.
Prinz wins
Former Sox pitcher Bret Prinz, who recently signed a deal with Triple-A Iowa, threw two shutout innings to earn the victory Tuesday as Iowa beat Albuquerque 14-18.
Also in that game, shortstop Ronny Cedeno, who opened the season with the Cubs, went 5-for-6 with two doubles. Additionally, Iowa completed the fourth triple play in franchise history.
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Wedding Photography
What's this course all about? (1:26)
Why should you become a wedding photographer? (2:29)
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Who is the instructor (Will Carnahan)? (1:19)
5 Tips for Better Wedding Photos (3:02)
How to Pose and Interact with a Couple (Live Session) (13:18)
Wedding Pose Downloadable Guide - 7 Poses, 35 Shots, Endless Possibilities
How will you succeed in this course? (1:13)
Setting Up Your Wedding Photography Business
Section Introduction (1:13)
What type of wedding photographer are you? (2:42)
How to build your starter camera kit. What equipment do you need? (5:00)
What camera brand is the best? (1:47)
Where should you buy camera equipment? (0:39)
How to pick a name for your wedding photography company (2:49)
Top Tips for Launching a Website (4:33)
Action Item: Pick a Company Name & Build Your Website (1:03)
Action Item Demonstration - Buy a Domain Name (4:11)
How to build your wedding packages (5:05)
Pricing to make Sales & Success (9:16)
How to get your very first clients (4:16)
The importance of contracts (2:32)
The philosophy of a happy wedding photographer (2:28)
Section Recap - What did we learn in this section? (1:57)
Wedding Day Overview
Section Introduction (1:29)
Taking care of business on the wedding day (2:02)
What will you be photographing on the wedding day? (11:53)
Action Item: List Out the Key Moments of your Next Wedding
Section Recap - What did we learn in this section? (1:22)
How to Photograph a Wedding
Section Intro (2:51)
Wedding Day Equipment Check (4:31)
Wedding Day Considerations - Day vs. Night, Indoor vs. Outdoor (2:36)
Do you need an assistant or second shooter? (4:24)
How much should you pay a second shooter? (1:05)
Action Item: Find a 2nd Shooter
Scheduling the Wedding Day (First Looks, Family Photos, Couple Shots, etc) (1:31)
Achieving Your Look (1:17)
How to Shoot: Pre-Ceremony Details (4:54)
How to Shoot: Bride and Bridal Party Preparation (11:24)
How to Shoot: Groom and Groomsmen Preparation (8:47)
How to Shoot: Walking Down the Aisle (4:17)
How to Shoot: Ceremony Coverage (11:47)
How to Shoot: Ceremony Readers and Officiants (3:07)
How to Shoot: Vows, Ring Exchange, and the Kiss (3:18)
How to Shoot: Walking Out of the Ceremony and Post-Ceremony Activities (5:22)
How to Shoot: Family, Group, and Wedding Party Photos (8:21)
How to Shoot: Posed Couple Shots (13:21)
Action Item: Save your Favorite Poses
Action Item Demonstration: Finding Inspirational Photos on Pinterest (2:00)
How to Shoot: Reception Grand Entrance (1:17)
How to Shoot: Reception Details (5:37)
How to Shoot: Speeches and Toasts (6:07)
How to Shoot: Cake Cutting (3:04)
How to Shoot: The First Dances (6:24)
How to Shoot: Bouquet and Garter Toss (2:35)
How to Shoot: The Dance / Party Scene (6:17)
Recap - What did we learn in this section? (0:44)
Editing Wedding Photos - Post-Production Workflow
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Which Photo Editing Application Should You Use? (2:15)
Photo Editing Workflow in Lightroom (9:56)
Exporting Photos from Lightroom (2:58)
Photo Editing Workflow in Photoshop (10:48)
Creating an Online Gallery: Zenfolio Overview (6:07)
Using Lightroom Presets
Recap - What did we learn in this section? (1:04)
Succeeding with Wedding Photography - Taking it to the next level!
Section Intro (1:19)
Being Happy - Tips from a Wedding Photographer (0:52)
Making It a Business and Sticking with It (1:42)
Building Out Your Portfolio (0:53)
Getting Testimonials - Yelp, Wedding Wire, The Knot (2:00)
Using Social Media & Networks to Expand Your Business (1:55)
Dealing with Saturated Markets (1:41)
Competing with Family Photographers (Why is Wedding Photography so Expensive!) (0:44)
Working with Other Vendors for Success (1:18)
Section Recap - What did we learn in this section? (0:53)
Course Conclusion
Thank You and What's Next (0:39)
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What equipment do you need for an engagement shoot? (0:51)
How much to charge for engagement photos (1:03)
Picking the perfect location for engagement photos (1:58)
Tips for posing and interacting with the couple (1:13)
Review of Engagement Photos (6:49)
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NHL players feel safer with rule changes
Penguins' Sidney Crosby said 'the game is much tighter'
The fear is gone. The doubt too for that matter. Ditto the hesitation.
A year into his comeback from the concussion-like symptoms that nearly derailed Sidney Crosby's career, the Pittsburgh Penguins superstar is back atop the NHL scoring race thanks to his unparalleled mix of artistry, speed and grit.
It wasn't the avalanche of points — 50 and counting heading into Friday's game against the New York Islanders — that let Crosby's teammates know their captain was back at the top of his considerable powers. No, the proof lay in the tight places around the net where Crosby makes his living better than anyone else.
"To play down low in the defensive zone against him is a nightmare," Penguins forward Craig Adams said. "It's a long way back, but I can't imagine a guy playing better than he is right now. You can't get the puck from him."
Perhaps because Crosby doesn't have to worry about getting knocked around so much anymore. Don't get him wrong, the game has never been faster. The players have never been bigger and he's never drawn more attention.
Yet thanks to a series of rule changes made by the league and a shift in attitude by the guys wearing the sweaters, players say the NHL is as safe now as it's perhaps ever been.
"I can only speak to the games we played in, there's been a difference," Pittsburgh defenceman Brooks Orpik said. "I think guys are a little bit more conscious, a little more respectful."
In the 2-plus years since Crosby sustained a concussion following a blindside hit from Washington's David Steckel in the 2011 Winter Classic, the league has outlawed shots to the head entirely and given senior vice-president of player safety Brendan Shanahan great leeway in handing out punishment for dangerous plays.
Crosby likes the changes
Though Crosby says it's still too early to tell whether the steps taken by the league have made any impact on the number of concussions sustained by players, he does see evidence of guys playing more under control.
"I know it's changed from my first couple years, that's for sure," Crosby said. "The game is much tighter."
Crosby pointed to the average number of penalties as evidence that sticks, elbows, etc., aren't flying quite as much as they used to. Teams are averaging 3.6 power-play opportunities a game this season, down from 5.8 per game during Crosby's rookie year in 2005-06.
Part of the decline can be attributed to the decreasing amount of open ice. After offences flourished following the 2004-05 lockout, the pendulum has swung back to more conservative, defensive-minded schemes. The result is more clutching and grabbing, sure, but also a decision by players to avoid the kind of unnecessary penalties that can tilt games.
It doesn't always lead to thrilling hockey, but it can lead to smarter, safer play.
"Obviously everyone needs to protect their heads and do the right thing in that mindset," Nashville forward David Legwand said. "But we also want to win hockey games and play the right way."
The definition of what "right way" is, however, remains entirely up for interpretation. Where some players see progress, New York Rangers coach John Tortorella sees a problem. Tortorella believes the game has become almost too sanitized, particularly the closer to the goal the puck gets.
"Underneath the hashmarks, I think you need to let us play a little bit more," he said. "And I kind of miss that part of it. I know it's not going to come back to that. But I thought that was a big part of hockey back in those years, and we certainly can't do those type of things now."
Tortorella isn't embracing brutality as much as he is vocalizing what is, in some ways, an identity crisis for many contact sports. Hockey is trying to preserve the spirit of the game while also protecting the health of its players.
Getting hard data on concussions is difficult because many teams remain vague about the nature of an injury, often never getting more specific than "upper body" and "lower body." Even the Penguins — one of the few progressive franchises in the league when it comes to discussing such matters — grew reticent when reigning NHL MVP Evgeni Malkin left a game against Florida last month after sliding into the end boards.
Pittsburgh declined to label Malkin's injury as a concussion until two days had passed. The play in question, unlike the hit that sent Crosby's career into crisis, however, was clean. And the league understands that no amount of legislation will be able to eradicate head trauma from the game for good.
Detroit Red Wings general manager Ken Holland believes the number of players diagnosed with concussions this season are down compared to last year but even he is working mostly off anecdotal evidence.
"I think we're doing as good of a job as we ever have in protecting our players," he said. "But, when you have 6-foot-2, 200-plus pound players on skates going 25 miles per hour and they're hitting each other, you're going to have some injuries."
Don't mistake positive steps, however, for victory. Every week Shanahan is forced to review tape of questionable plays.
Buffalo forward Patrick Kaleta received a five-game suspension three weeks ago after sending New York Rangers forward Brad Richards into the boards. Philadelphia's Harry Zolnierczyk sat four games for launching his shoulder at the head of Ottawa's Mike Lundin.
Both penalties — like all others handed out by the league — were accompanied by a video from Shanahan breaking down the play and explaining what the guilty player did wrong. Coaches can then use the video as teaching moments during team meetings.
Adapting can take time. Yet there are success stories. Pittsburgh forward Matt Cooke was considered one of the league's dirtiest players two years ago but has cleaned up his act to the point where when he does something wrong, it is almost a shock. He earned a rare double-minor for boarding and unsportsmanlike conduct in a win over Washington on Tuesday.
Cooke said he knew he needed to change if he wanted to extend his career. And even players who lack Cooke's pedigree as an enforcer have taken a hard look at how they go about their business.
Adams, a grinder who has spent 12 years in the NHL as an aggressive forechecker, admits there are times he gets frustrated when he skates 200 feet only to have an opposing player intentionally turn his back to Adams to try and invite a penalty. Yet Adams — and most of his brethren — understand the need to hold up instead of following through.
Mistakes will happen. So will concussions. Yet Adams sees a league trying to maintain a portion of its soul while also getting rid of the kind of cheap shots that almost prematurely ended Crosby's career.
"We're avoiding those hits," he said. "I think it's starting to get into the culture that that's not OK."


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The brain controls how the body moves by sending out small electrical signals through the nerves to the muscles. Seizures, or convulsions, occur when abnormal signals from the brain change the way the body functions.
Seizures are different from person to person. Some people have only slight shaking of a hand and do not lose consciousness. Other people may become unconscious and have violent shaking of the entire body.
Shaking of the body, either mild or violent, does not always occur with seizures. Some people who have seizures have symptoms before the seizure (auras) or briefly lose touch with their surroundings and appear to stare into space. Although the person is awake, he or she does not respond normally. Afterwards, the person does not remember the episode.
Not all body shaking is caused by seizures. Many medical conditions can cause a type of body shaking that usually affects the hands and head (tremors).
A small number of people will have only one seizure during their lifetime. A single seizure usually lasts less than 3 minutes and is not followed by a second seizure. Any normally healthy person can have a single seizure under certain conditions. For instance, a sharp blow to the head may cause a seizure. Having one seizure does not always mean that a serious health problem exists. But if you have a first-time seizure, you should be checked by your doctor. It is important to rule out a serious illness that may have caused the seizure. Fever seizures (febrile convulsions) are the most common cause of a single seizure, especially in children. For more information, see the topic Fever Seizures.
Epilepsy is a nervous system problem that causes seizures. It can develop at any age. For more information, see the topic Epilepsy.
A seizure can be a symptom of another health problem, such as:
Eclampsia is pregnancy-related seizure activity that is related to high blood pressure. It is a life-threatening condition for both a mother and her baby (fetus) because during a seizure, the fetus's oxygen supply is drastically reduced. Eclampsia is more likely to occur after the 20th week of pregnancy. For more information, see the topic Preeclampsia and High Blood Pressure During Pregnancy.
Non-epileptic seizure (NES) is a condition that can cause seizure-like activity without having a central nervous system problem. NES can be related to a mental health problem. The physical symptoms may be caused by emotional conflicts or stress. The symptoms usually appear suddenly and at times of extreme emotional stress.
No matter what caused the seizure, you can help the person having a seizure.
A person who has had a seizure should not drive, swim, climb ladders, or operate machinery until he or she has seen a doctor about the seizure.
Treatment of a seizure depends on what has caused the seizure.
Check your symptoms to decide if and when you should see a doctor.
Health Tools help you make wise health decisions or take action to improve your health.
Many things can affect how your body responds to a symptom and what kind of care you may need. These include:
You have answered all the questions. Based on your answers, you may be able to take care of this problem at home.
Neurological symptoms—which may be signs of a problem with the nervous system—can affect many body functions. Symptoms may include:
Symptoms of serious illness may include:
Symptoms of serious illness in a baby may include the following:
Based on your answers, the problem may not improve without medical care.
Based on your answers, you need emergency care.
Call 911 or other emergency services now.
Sometimes people don't want to call 911. They may think that their symptoms aren't serious or that they can just get someone else to drive them. But based on your answers, the safest and quickest way for you to get the care you need is to call 911 for medical transport to the hospital.
Based on your answers, you may need care right away. The problem is likely to get worse without medical care.
Based on your answers, you may need care soon. The problem probably will not get better without medical care.
If you witness a seizure, your account of the seizure will help a doctor diagnose and treat the person. Try to stay calm. Pay close attention to what happens during and after the seizure.
A person who has had a seizure should not drive, swim, climb ladders, or operate machinery until he or she has seen a doctor about the seizure and the doctor has said that the person is allowed to drive or operate machinery.
Call your doctor if any of the following occur during home treatment:
Note: If you think you may have a seizure disorder or are being evaluated for one, do not drive, operate heavy machinery, swim, climb ladders, or participate in other potentially dangerous activities until you have been specifically cleared to do these things by your doctor.
Many causes of seizures, such as some forms of epilepsy, cannot be prevented. But head injury is a common cause of seizures and epilepsy that you may be able to prevent. To prevent a head injury:
If you are being treated for a seizure disorder:
To prepare for your appointment, see the topic Making the Most of Your Appointment.
You can help your doctor diagnose and treat your condition by being prepared to answer the following questions:
If possible, ask the person who witnessed your seizure to come to your doctor's appointment with you. Be sure to ask your doctor what you can do to prevent another seizure and what to do if you have another seizure.
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Author: Healthwise StaffMedical Review: William H. Blahd Jr. MD, FACEP - Emergency MedicineAdam Husney MD - Family MedicineKathleen Romito MD - Family MedicineH. Michael O'Connor MD - Emergency Medicine
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