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I'm pretty okay with issuer logos. I withdraw the phrase "and certificate issuers" from recommendation 2. My concern is more with relying party logos since users will view them as site identifiers (much like favicons). A legal process to prevent ambiguity, resolve infringement, etc, would help but issuers can't/won't be the enforcement point. Cheers, Mike _____ From: Hallam-Baker, Phillip [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 1:03 PM To: McCormick, Mike; firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: RE: ACTION 181: Summary of EV certificate discussion, prototype recommendation I think that first we have to separate the issue of subject and issuer icons As far as I am concerned any issuer that is not prepared to put their own brand on their EV certs shouldn't be issuing them. Issues such as ambiguity and possible confusion are of course vital here. It does not follow that the EV process needs to be the sole means of addressing these issues however. There is an existing legal infrastructure to deal with those issues. What is critical here is whether or not a certificate holder is or is not within the reach of that legal infrastructure, whether there is accountability. To paraphrase Judge Hands here: A criminal is unlikely to attack an infrastructure if the expected reward is less than the cost of making the attack plus the cost of getting caught times the probability of being caught. We limit the expected reward using efficient revocation. I would be more than happy to accept a tight constraint on freshness of recocation data (OCSP with TTL of 30 minutes or so). We engineer a situation where the cost of reducing the chance of being caught to an acceptable level renders the attack uneconomic. Ambiguity is in many ways less of an issue where brands are concerned than in the context of a subject name. There are multiple companies that trade under the name 'Prince' but their logos are rather less likely to be ambiguous than their domain name. _____ From: email@example.com [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 1:47 PM To: Hallam-Baker, Phillip; email@example.com Subject: RE: ACTION 181: Summary of EV certificate discussion, prototype recommendation Hi Phil, I'm glad we agree about favicons. I readily concede X.509 logos are more secure than favicons. However, unless there is a central authority and process in place to ensure no two sites use visually similar or indistinguishable images in their EV certificates, these logos should not be relied upon as identity cues. My reason for bringing this up is I've become aware many EV issuers and RPs are planning to use these logos for branding and identity assurance purposes. Mike _____ From: Hallam-Baker, Phillip [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 12:35 PM To: McCormick, Mike; firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: RE: ACTION 181: Summary of EV certificate discussion, prototype recommendation Well naturally I totaly disagree with the second recommendation. If the issuer has taken appropriate steps to authenticate certificate subject information and there are approriate accountability controls it is appropriate to display it. And the certificate issuer can surely be trusted to authenticate their own brand information. A favicon is objectionable because it is not authenticated and the use is not accountable. Favicons are not intended to be an authentication cue, are not secured as such but are easily confused as being so. An authenticated logotype is explicitly intended for that purpose and the issuing controls governing their use are designed to ensure that the level of security is appropriate. But since the recommendation does not mention logotype information at all and it did not come up in the conversation I don't see where the justification for a prohibition would be. _____ From: firstname.lastname@example.com [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 1:20 PM To: email@example.com Cc: Hallam-Baker, Phillip Subject: RE: ACTION 181: Summary of EV certificate discussion, prototype recommendation This is excellent. I'd like to propose a couple minor additions to Phil's recommendation: 1. Web clients MUST verify revocation status of the EV certificate and associated CA certificates as a precondition for displaying a positive security signal. Web clients SHOULD use OCSP protocol to perform this check if it is available from the certificate issuer. 2. Web sites and certificate issuers SHOULD NOT use X.509 logographic extensions to visually brand EV certificates. Web clients SHOULD NOT display logos attached to EV certificates. Rationale: 1. It is critical to the credibility & trustworthiness of EV SSL that compromised certificates can be revoked, and that revocation prevents web clients from signaling positively. 2. See my earlier email about favicons. My reasons for mistrusting certificate logos are essentially the same: They are mistakenly viewed as identity cues or security context signals by most users, which makes them easily exploitable. Also they blur the distinction between chrome and content. Thanks, Mike P.S. In interest of full disclosure, Wells Fargo is a member of the CAB Forum and will likely be a commercial issuer of EV SSL certificates. _____ From: firstname.lastname@example.com [mailto:email@example.com] On Behalf Of Hallam-Baker, Phillip Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 9:52 AM To: firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: ACTION 181: Summary of EV certificate discussion, prototype recommendation Extended Validation (EV) Certificates are X.509v3 certificates that are issued in accordance with minimum authentication criteria defined by the CA-Browser Forum, as demonstrated by a Web Trust audit of the issuer. When certain browsers (currently IE7 with the anti-phishing filter enabled or Firefox with a plug-in) visit a site secured with SSL and an EV certificate an enhanced user experience is presented. Currently in IE7 this user experience consists of the address bar turning green and the certificate subject and issuer being displayed alternately next to the address bar. Advertising and User education programs for EV certificates frequently use phrases such as 'Green for Go'. The current CAB-Forum criteria are specified at: http://www.cabforum.org/EV_Certificate_Guidelines.pdf The core principle of EV certificates is to assure the relying party that there is accountability. The EV issuing criteria require a certificate issuer to verify that the organization specified in the certificate subject exists as a legal entity, that the physical contact address is valid, that the party making the application is authorized to do so by the specified subject, that the applicant has control of the domain name specified in the certificate and that the applicant has possession of the private key corresponding to the specified public key. If the issuance process should fail the certificate issuer is to be held accountable, hence the display of the issuer name in the EV security experience. An EV certificate does not guarantee that a vendor selling a $3000 plasma TV will deliver a product that works or even that the TV will be delivered at all. But an EV certificate does guarantee that either the vendor can be held accountable for the default or the certificate issuer held accountable for the failure of their authentication program. In addition to requiring minimum authentication standards and a WebTrust audit, the CABForum guidelines require CAs to implement certain technical measures. Certificates must conform to a specific profile of the X.509v3 and PKIX standards. Wildcard certificates are not permitted, the maximum validity interval is one year, a means of efficient revocation must be supported and certain minimum key sizes must be employed. These measures are generally consistent with community consensus amongst network security specialists. Although the EV guidelines do not mandate support for publication of status information by OCSP, accountability of the certificate issuer creates a significant incentive to do so. While EV certificates are designed to be compatible with the existing deployed base of browsers the use of EV makes use of certain protocol extensions which are already highly desirable to be even more desirable. In particular support for the certificate host identification extension and OCSP token stapling. Although the EV security experience in IE7 is designed to resist certain types of attack it is impossible to provide absolute guarantees of security on a platform that is not considered trustworthy. For example the IE7 does not allow users to add EV signing certificates to the root store. IE7 only presents the EV security experience if a root certificate that is countersigned by a Certificate Trust List signed by an offline root. An attacker can only circumvent this requirement by compromising the IE7 executable. Prototype recommendation: Web clients SHOULD present a distinctive user experience in response to presentation of an EV certificate. Such a user experience SHOULD be guarded against emulation by browser content. The certificate subject and issuer SHOULD be displayed in the primary user experience. In order to facilitate accessibility such a user experience SHOULD NOT use color alone, although if color is used the color green SHOULD NOT be used EXCEPT to indicate a positive condition and the color red SHOULD NOT be used except to indicate a negative condition. In order to reduce the consuption of IPv4 addresses Web Clients SHOULD support the TLS host name identification extension on all SSL/TLS transactions regardless of whether an EV certificate is presented or not. For efficiency, Web Clients SHOULD support the OCSP token stapling extension of TLS on all SSL/TLS transactions regardless of whether an EV certificate is presented or not.Received on Wednesday, 25 April 2007 19:20:59 UTC
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OSAKA, Japan — Two-time world champion Mao Asada won figure skating's Four Continents on Sunday, leading a Japanese sweep.
After reintroducing her trademark triple axel in Saturday's short program, Asada was downgraded on the jump in Sunday's free skate but was solid in her other elements to finish with 205.45 points. Akiko Suzuki was second with 190.08 points while Kanako Murakami finished third with 181.03.
Christina Gao of the United States finished fourth while Li Zijun of China was fifth.
"The short program exceeded expectations and the free met my expectations," said Asada, who skated to Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake." "I am happy I was able to challenge the triple axel and that has given me confidence."
Canadians Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford won the pairs event, with U.S. champions Marissa Castelli and Simon Shnapir third.
In the ice dance final, world silver medalists Meryl Davis and Charlie White of the U.S. won the gold medal. Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates were third.
Asada had been struggling with the triple axel since the Vancouver Olympics but was able to win four events this season without it. She pulled it off to perfection Saturday when she finished first in the short program. Despite being downgraded on the jump Sunday, Asada plans to attempt it at the world championships in London, Ontario, next month, hoping to "build on the success I've had here."
The Four Continents is the last major event before the March 11-17 worlds, where Asada will renew her rivalry with South Korean skater Kim Yu- na.
Suzuki, who was second after the short program, turned in a strong performance to music from Cirque du Soleil. She under-rotated a double axel on her second element and was deducted points on a triple lutz but was solid otherwise to hold on to second place ahead of Murakami, who won her first medal at a senior International Skating Union event.
Murakami was downgraded on a triple flip earlier in her routine but had no major mistakes in the free skate.
"I missed out on a podium at last year's Four Continents because of a poor free skate so I was thinking about that today," Murakami said. "It's great to see a Japanese sweep of the podium.
In pairs, Duhamel and Radford won with 199.18 points, edging compatriots Kirsten Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch, who finished with 196.78. Moore-Towers and Moscovitch won Sunday's free skate but couldn't overtake Duhamel and Radford, who built a lead in winning the short program. Castelli and Shnapir were third with 170.10 points.
In the ice dance final, Davis and White finished with 187.36 points, beating world champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada, who had 184.32. Chock and Bates were third with 160.42.
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OSAKA, Japan — Two-time world champion Mao Asada won figure skating's Four Continents on Sunday, leading a Japanese sweep.

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Script writers created 16 fictional characters for the GlobaLink-Africa Online Curriculum.
16 short tales, and warring commentaries on them, form the core of GlobaLink-Africa, a free, year-long, multimedia curriculum designed for grades 9-12. The polished, feature-rich web site is not only for high schoolers. Others can raid it for music, country data, or a crash course on Africa and the contemporary world.
Students would send e-mails to the GRCA asking for 'information on globalization and Africa.' Where to start?
In Kenya, Irene Chege makes a good living exporting cut flowers—a winter trade in Europe and one that has been easier to compete in under EC common market rules. To maximize state revenues in another global commodity market, the Ghanaian Cocoa Board sets farmers' prices so low that many competitors of 70-year-old Kofi Amoakohene smuggle their harvests across the border to the Ivory Coast; with agriculture in decline, young Ghanaians leave the region behind, and extended families adopt new living arrangements. Maria de Sousa Sitoe, Mozambique's travel minister, turns underdevelopment in her nation to advantage by attracting so-called eco-tourists to lands described as "untouched," even as she pushes for infrastructure projects to support the tourism.
These and other complex, fact-based fictional stories—about "blood diamonds" from Sierra Leone and the expense of antiretroviral drugs for Ethiopian HIV/AIDS patients, about the long arms of capitalism, international organizations, global markets and migrations, the Internet, and Africa's colonial past—are told at length in the GlobaLink-Africa Online Curriculum created at the UCLA Globalization Research Center–Africa (GRCA) with grant money from the U.S. Department of Education.
For high school teachers, GlobaLink-Africa is a free, year-long curriculum that aligns with California standards in history, social studies, and English language arts. It's been focus-grouped and fact-checked and looks finished like boxed software. For anyone with Web access and a will to learn, it's also a collection of 16 multimedia short stories about how Africa and the wider world transform each other. Photos, music, country data, activities, and the arguments of two guide characters provide contexts for the narratives.
It wasn't built in one day. By the time of GlobaLink-Africa's official launch in May 2006, more than two dozen people had made substantial contributions to the curriculum and supporting materials over roughly four years. In addition to these programmers, graphic designers, script writers, editors, and consultants on pedagogy and Africa, there were undergraduates charged only with seeking permissions for music and photography. GRCA Director Edmond Keller, a UCLA political scientist, says that his center set out in 2002 to create a quality multimedia product "on the cheap" and finally succeeded.
Now the challenge is to convince schools and perhaps donors to join the effort. GRCA staffers report strong interest from teachers, some of whom lament in the same breath that their students don't each have access to a computer. That's where a donor could help out, Keller says. Another task is showing educators that GlobaLink-Africa facilitates, rather than detracts from, compliance with state and federal mandates. "Some of them can't wrap their minds around how they can make this fit the standards."
Keller began championing GlobaLink-Africa in 2001, the year that the GRCA was founded as one of four members, each with a regional focus, of a Globalization Research Network newly authorized by Congress. The network grew out of the federally funded Globalization Research Center at the University of Hawaii–Manoa, which was already working on an online high school curriculum organized around first-person case studies. GlobaLink-Africa is in many ways Version 2.0 of this initial effort, completed in 2002. Editors at the GRCA also embraced approaches from Rethinking Globalization (2003), a printed curriculum that has been used in grades 5-12.
All of these products were designed to fill a gap that had become apparent by the time of protests at the 1999 Seattle meeting of the World Trade Organization. The gap would announce itself, for example, when high school students sent e-mails to the GRCA asking for "information on globalization and Africa." Where to start? Although popular books and college-level teaching materials on changing global relationships were available, high school teachers had little to use in the classroom, explains Epifania Amoo-Adare, project coordinator of GlobaLink-Africa.
Hired in 2002, Amoo-Adare saw the curriculum essentially from start to finish in four years while working towards a UCLA doctorate in education. The hours of the part-time job were hard to contain, she says. She worked closely first with Judith Stevenson, a GRCA content specialist and UCLA doctoral student in anthropology who contributed case studies on South Africa and Egypt, and then, beginning in Fall 2004, with Nickie Johnson, a fellow doctoral student in education whose academic work now focuses on the United States. Amoo-Adare wrote the Ghana case study about cocoa farming and—with Johnson, Stevenson, and Keller—had a hand in the editing of all 16 narratives.
One of the main innovations by GRCA staffers came in the form of animated guide characters who argue about the significance of the 16 narratives in GlobaLink-Africa. Graphic designers used still photographs of Johnson and Chielozona Eze, a 2004–05 Global Fellow at the UCLA International Institute, to create anti-globalization activist Naomi Stiner and globalization optimist Jalalu Bello. They bounce, smile, and cock their oversized heads. Others lent the characters their voices.
For the case studies, it was Keller who in 2001 began the process of drawing up a cast of characters who could not only talk about their own countries and occupations but stand in for African peoples and places not directly represented in the curriculum. He based what would become GlobaLink-Africa's first case study, narrated by Irene Chege, on detailed conversations with a Kenyan chemical engineer about his wife's entry into the cut-flower business. The 16-character list evolved, according to Amoo-Adare, becoming more diverse in its representation of regions, languages, and educational levels.
Amoo-Adare and Stevenson ("a gifted writer," Keller says) spent a good six months working out a rationale and key concepts for the curriculum. They found script-writers, many of them UCLA faculty and students, and developed a largely text-driven website.
Houman Mortazavi, the first graphic designer on the project, cautioned that "you're competing with MTV," according to Amoo-Adare. "You need to make it bite-sized," he said. "You need to make it interactive." Later, a group of three schoolteachers, UCLA alums, looked over the accumulated materials and deemed them too long and academic. They counseled more description with less exposition and suggested breaking whittled-down texts into segments.
Over and over late in the project's development, Amoo-Adare and Johnson asked themselves the same questions. Do pre-activities and assignments work with the theme of the case study? Is the language accessible to high school students? Are the facts right? Are we really making use of the Web? Are the multimedia elements relevant to the country and issues at hand? (The final version, by graphic designer Sheila Ramezani, uses about one-fifth of the photos gathered.)
Finally, are the debates between Naomi and Jalalu balanced? Privately, Amoo-Adare and Johnson both find themselves skeptical of many arguments advanced by globalization's boosters, Jalalu included. "We worked very hard for that not to show through," Amoo-Adare says. Johnson smiles and nods.
Published: Monday, August 14, 2006
UCLA Scholars Stress Impact of Heritage Languages at LAUSD Achievement ConferenceInstitute-affiliated faculty and educators discuss culturally relevant approaches to closing the achievement gap in Los Angeles schools.
Center Focusing on Africa, Globalization Launches Multimedia High School CurriculumGlobaLink-Africa, a free resource for students and teachers, was four years in the making. GRCA celebrated its launch with African and Afro-Brazilian musical and dance performances.
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Winner of 90 international awards, Wicked has cast its magical spell over audiences of all ages across the world for a decade and now provides its inimitable enchantments to audiences in Milton Keynes.
Based on the acclaimed novel by Gregory Maguire that re-imagined the stories and characters created by L. Frank Baum in 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz', Wicked tells the incredible untold story of an unlikely but profound friendship between two girls who first meet as sorcery students. Their extraordinary adventures in Oz will ultimately lead to the fulfillment of their destinies as Glinda The Good, and Elphaba the Wicked Witch of the West.
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Sandy panel suggests floodgates, shelters for N.Y.
ALBANY, N.Y. Floodgates for tunnels, subways and airports, as well as a network of safe havens like old civil defense shelters, should be among quick, simple preventive measures that New York installs ahead of future storms, according to a report by an expert panel examining superstorm Sandy's effects.
The 205-page report obtained by The Associated Press also calls for two more tunnels out of Manhattan, a rapid bus system and another Long Island Rail Road track and details how to better pay for it all by forging new partnerships with companies and several ways to improve insurance coverage for the state and residents.
Some elements of the report were presented last week, but the full report wasn't released publicly. It was delivered to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is expected to include some recommendations in his State of the State speech Wednesday.
The report includes other recommendations that are already used in other states and countries, many at little or no cost. It recommends partnerships with private businesses for several projects and combining already-budgeted or planned routine maintenance or capital projects with measures to protect against disaster.
"We tried to think about what was going to be most effective for emergencies, but what do you also want to have in just a normal, high-functioning 21st-century system?" said Judith Rodin, co-chairwoman of the NYS 2100 Commission, in an interview.
Previous drafts of the report focused on barrier islands and man-made barriers as well as inflatable "plugs" to close off subways and closures for air vents. Though they are elements of the report, they are among many recommendations.
"There is no single fix," Rodin said.
Sandy is the most costly natural disaster since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The storm damaged or destroyed 305,000 housing units in New York and more than 265,000 businesses were disrupted there, officials have said. More than 72,000 homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed in New Jersey.
Four Hudson and East rivers tunnels in New York City were flooded for the first time in 100 years by Sandy and nearly half of subway riders equivalent to the population of Miami, Atlanta or Pittsburgh had no or reduced service on the nation's busiest subway system, the report notes.
"Building resilience is not a luxury," said Rodin, who is also president of the Rockfeller Foundation, an organization that has been working in New Orleans and a collection of Asian cities for over a decade to build resilience in response to super storms.
"Every state has an economic development strategy, but we can no longer think project by project," she said.
The report further identifies measures to protect against earthquakes and the danger of tsunami-like disasters that could hit New York City after an earthquake, as well as specific protections needed for upstate areas hit hard in 2011 by tropical storms Irene and Lee.
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- Raising some rail lines and signals above projected flood levels.
- Waterproofing subways and electronics sensitive to salt water.
- Greater attention to the drinking water supply. The state's 30- and 40-year-old wastewater systems statewide were overwhelmed by storms the last two years, the report stated.
- Burying key energy lines underground to reduce damage from downed wires.
- A rapid bus transit network in dedicated lanes to reduce dependence on subways in lower Manhattan and allow exits to outer boroughs.
- Well-stocked and disaster-protected safe havens with generators in schools, hospitals and government buildings as well as big-box stores and shopping malls willing to be sanctuaries in exchange for incentives and support.
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Winter woes... to ocean breeze and palm trees!
Now that Christmas is over, I'm ready for winter to be over, too. I know, you must think I'm crazy, because it is only January and this, folks, is just the beginning. I have many more mornings left of waking up to de-ice my car, cursing under my breath the entire time. And of course, there will be many more snowstorms to get through before April arrives, when we can finally rejoice in spring!
For now, I'm trying to make the most of it. By going to Florida! I just have to see something other than snow! Despite that fact that Florida is going through some really cold temperatures, it is still going to be far, far better than the weather we have here. I just want to walk on the beach, build sand castles with my boys, enjoy one of my favourite resorts, SHOP, eat at some great restaurants, SHOP, and sit by the pool drinking something tropical. Oh, and did I mention SHOP?
I wrote a post about traveling with children and how to keep sane while doing it a few months ago - I just read it again, to refresh my mind on how I'm going to stay sane when we travel. And with the new 'carry-on' rules at airports, it's going to be a bit more of a challenge, in terms of keeping my boys entertained on the plane.
The other day, we ventured out to shovel the driveway. One of the worst things about winter is the fact that it takes 30 minutes just to get dressed to go outside - from snowpants, to boots, to gloves and neck warmers and hats and then jackets - it's no fun at all. However, my 4 year old actually likes being outside, and I think that's great. I'm all for encouraging a love of the great outdoors. (Especially if I can wave at him from inside my warm house!)
On the other hand, my almost 2 year old does not like the cold. Every time we step outside, he almost gasps, and he says, repeatedly: "Cold! Cold! Cold!" He hates wearing his gloves, so he takes them off, then he cries because he hates how cold the snow is. Yet, he keeps putting his hands in the snow. He just can't win, my little guy. He's like me. He likes to compain about the weather. And rightly so.
Yesterday, we took a walk to the park, and we nearly froze to death. I pushed my baby on the swings for a while, and he was laughing... until he started to cry, because his fingers were so cold. I ran home the entire way, pushing the jogging stroller, and, of course, almost crying myself, because my lungs were frozen.
Yes... I'm quite happy I'll be in the Sunshine State as of tomorrow. Florida, stay sunny for me, please! Here we come!
21 comments:
- Lady Mama said...
Ahhh! Lucky you! Have a wonderful time. I'm really not a fan of winter either. My toddler hates his gloves and hat and refuses to wear them... which makes me not want to be out at all. Look forward to hearing all about it when you get back!
- January 10, 2010 at 11:13 PM
- Alecia @ Hoobing Family Adventures said...
I hear ya sista! I was just commenting to my husband as we walked back from the restaurant tonight that I am so done with winter. It is hard getting out with a little baby when it is so cold outside...but I am starting to get a bit of cabin fever.
- January 11, 2010 at 12:25 AM
- Elisa @ Globetrotting in Heels said...
oh, I am so jealous! I am really ready for winter to be over, too. Even if the girls are having a great time in the snow - but it's too damn cold.
have lots of fun!!
- January 11, 2010 at 3:56 AM
- Liz Mays said...
It sounds like it's absolutely the right time to head to Florida! Have fun!
- January 11, 2010 at 7:23 AM
- CaraBee said...
I don't love the cold, but I don't hate it either. I'd prefer not to spend a lot of time out in it, though. My daughter, on the other hand, seems to have no sense of hot or cold. She would run around outside, naked, in sub-freezing weather. Like you, I want to encourage her love of the outdoors, but MAN is it cold.
Have a great trip!!
- January 11, 2010 at 8:15 AM
Have fun in Florida - cold or not, you're in FLORIDA! The boys are GORGEOUS in the pics! xo
- January 11, 2010 at 1:02 PM
- Pres. Kathy said...
I hope you have a blast in Florida! Have a safe trip; as they say in Greek: "kalo taxidi and h Panagia mazi sas"
- January 11, 2010 at 1:11 PM
- Burgh Baby said...
Have a great time! I hope the snow and cold are nice enough to leave Florida for you.
- January 11, 2010 at 5:10 PM
- Shana said...
Have a wonderful trip!
- January 11, 2010 at 8:24 PM
- SC said...
Enjoy your trip Loukia!!! That's too funny about Dimitry not liking the cold - it sounds like he comes by that attitude honestly!!!
Despite the cold, the boys are pretty cute in their winter attire. E has the same hat as D - I love the pompom on top!!
Hope the weather in Florida warms up for you - don't be afraid to bring back some sunshine for the rest of us CDNS!!!
- January 11, 2010 at 10:38 PM
- Paging Doctor Mommy said...
Can I climb into your suitcase? I need some sunshine! My parents are vacationing in Florida for the next three months and I'm SO jealous!
- January 11, 2010 at 10:46 PM
- Shannon @ AnchorMommy said...
You are so right. It takes forever to get a kid bundled up in winter! The only thing worse is what I did last weekend -- bundle a kid up to go snowskiing! Because then you have to get them extra bundled, plus cram their little feet into ski boots, haul them through the parking lot and to the ski area, and then contend with managing their warmth and possible poo/pee needs, all while getting them down the hill and on/off the chairlift repeatedly. Not to mention having to bundle yourself up AND manage your own skis and whatnot. I'm tired just thinking about it.
Anyway, have a wonderful time in Florida!!!! Can't wait to hear about the trip, you lucky girl!
- January 12, 2010 at 1:20 AM
- Maria @BOREDmommy said...
I HATE WINTER TOO. ENJOY THE TRIP!! Hopefully it will help get you through the rest of the winter!
- January 12, 2010 at 2:17 PM
- Sandy said...
Those pictures of them bundled up are SOOOO cute! Glad to hear you get a chance to get away, even though traveling with kids is stressful. Hope you have a great time!
- January 12, 2010 at 2:28 PM
- Kate Coveny Hood said...
I know what you mean. We really only have a couple of brutal Winter months - but we've just entered them and it's MISERABLE! I wear my robe to bed at night. Soooo looking forward to Spring now.
- January 12, 2010 at 4:16 PM
- Tiffany Lockette said...
They look bundled up and so cute. Stay warm.
- January 12, 2010 at 4:40 PM
- Theta Mom said...
I could use a vacay, too! Sounds awesome!
- January 13, 2010 at 11:03 AM
- mj said...
Have fun on your trip....just beware of the after vacation lunch bag letdown when you return to the land of ice and snow. Make sure that you have a spa appointment or something lovely for yourself planned for when you return to reality! Before going to Cuba with the kids my man planned a weekend away for the two of us at a local spa resort I am really looking forward to that! Enjoy your time in Florida and I hope the weather gets warmer for you!
- January 13, 2010 at 1:46 PM
- Marilyn (A Lot of Loves) said...
I live in Vancouver so we don't have any snow here. (Yay for me. Boohoo for the Olympics) But it still takes forever to get the kids dressed in all their warm clothes to go outside. I'm looking forward to the nicer weather too.
I wish I was hopping a plane to Florida!
- January 14, 2010 at 12:55 AM
- My Trendy Tykes said...
I agree. Christmas has come and gone....It's time to hit the road winter. BUH-BYE and don't slip on the ice while you're leaving.
- January 14, 2010 at 2:41 PM
- Parent Club said...
Have a great time! I'm headed to the dominican in a few weeks - so looking forward to a post from you on this trip!
- January 14, 2010 at 3:34 PM


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The first lady's longtime trainer Cornell McClellan revealed to Women's Health the secret behind her arms are tricep pushdowns and hammer curls. Obama uses a machine for the "arm-shaping superset" -- which includes doing as many tricep pushdowns as she can. She follows it up with a set of dumbbell hammer curls. She does three sets apiece per workout, the trainer said.
"She's truly committed herself to the importance of health and fitness," her trainer McClellan said
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Introducing: The Google Chrome Password Recovery Tool
Today, I wanted to backup all my passwords stored in Google Chrome. I thought that would be an easy task, but it turns out, that this is not supported, at least as far as I can tell. There is an option to view the shared passwords one-by-one, but that was not really an option for me.
So, I decided to write a small program to extract the passwords from Chrome. Since Chrome (or Chromium, to be exact), is open source, I pulled the source from http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved, compiled it, and starting looking around trying to figure out how passwords are stored. The setup and build experience was much nicer than what I have tried with other open source projects I have looked at; there are detailed build instructions with only a few steps available, and after setting up, it just works, in a Visual Studio 2008 solution. A full recompile does take some time however (45 minutes on my machine).
I quickly found out that Chrome stores most of its user and configuration data in small SQLite databases stored on disk in the AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data directory. So, reading the data was no problem after grabbing a copy of the ADO .NET Provider for SQLite, as well as the sqlite3.dll binary from http://www.sqlite.org/. The data I was after (user names and passwords) is stored in the file named Web Data. This contains a table named logins, which contains the URL for which the login is valid, some details about the html form where the password has been used (in order to allow Chrome to auto-fill password boxes for you), and the username and password. It also contains a "preferred" and "blacklisted_by_user" column.
Decrypting the passwords
The passwords is, obviously for security reasons, not stored in plain text. Rather, they are encrypted, so I needed to figure out how they are encrypted and how to decrypt them. The answer lies in the Chromium source, where the Encryptor class contains the following method:
bool Encryptor::EncryptString(const std::string& plaintext, std::string* ciphertext) { DATA_BLOB input; input.pbData = const_cast<BYTE*>( reinterpret_cast<const BYTE*>(plaintext.data())); input.cbData = static_cast<DWORD>(plaintext.length()); DATA_BLOB output; BOOL result = CryptProtectData(&input, L"", NULL, NULL, NULL, 0, &output); if (!result) return false; // this does a copy ciphertext->assign(reinterpret_cast<std::string::value_type*>(output.pbData), output.cbData); LocalFree(output.pbData); return true; }
As it turns out, the Windows Data Protection (DPAPI) is used to encrypt the data, namely the CryptProtectData function as shown above. Therefore, I can relatively easy decrypt the data, using the CryptUnprotectData function, as long as I do not try to decrypt the password of other users - the DPAPI encrypts with a key based on the current user's login credentials. I first tried to do the decrypting in C# using P/Invoke the the CryptUnprotect function, but for some reason, I could not get that to work. I kept getting a credentials dialog from Windows when trying it, which is not what i want. Luckily, after googling a bit, I found out that there already exist a managed wrapper for doing this, namely the ProtectedData class. After switching to using this, there were no problems decrypting the passwords.
The password recovery tool
I wrote a tiny C# console program to dump the passwords. They can be dumped to the console (default) or to an XML file. Running the program without parameters will try to dump all the passwords to the console. You might need to have Chrome closed while doing this. Run the program with the -help switch to display a short usage information message.
I am including the program for download here - both in a precompiled form and the C# source. It requires .NET Framework 3.5. The program as well as it's source is free for use non-commercially and is provided without any warranty or obligations for me, neither explicit or implied. It probably won't kill your cat, but don't come to me crying about it if it does ;-). If you wish to use the source or derivate thereof in a commercial product, contact me for permission first.
- ChromePasswordRecover (binary package - unzip and run cprecover.exe in a console window)
- ChromePasswordRecover - C# source.
What is missing ?
It would be nice to have an option to import the exported passwords into a new Chrome installation on another computer. I am considering adding it, but don't really need it at this time. It should be relatively easy - if you happen to develop the feature based on my work, please email me the source.


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I want to be a parish lady
A young woman's admiration for those who care for the church set her ambitions as a Catholic.
I want to grow up to be a parish lady, but I have to be at least 60 for that job or my hair has to have turned white or I have to have at least four children. I'm pretty sure that's what the job application specifies. Should I apply to be one today, they will likely turn me away, tell me I am not dressing the right way just yet, tell me to come back when I have more children, or tell me to maybe find a small group of young contemporaries to do a Bible Study.
What they don't know is that I've been training long and hard for the job of parish lady, shadowing my mom for as many years as I can remember. It began on Saturday afternoons when my sister and I slowly slid down each pew, carefully rearranging the books for the Masses that weekend, with the Bible on the left and the People's Mass Book and Glory and Praise on the right. Then on Sunday mornings, we'd leave early for the 9:00 a.m. Mass to give a few elderly women a ride. Later that day, we'd return to an area just outside of the church called the Grotto where my mom led the rosary.
The following weekday mornings were spent either in the vestibule of church where my mom organized "God's Pantry," ultimately delivering brown bags of food to the needy of our parish, or assisting the local nursing home patients in their weekly game of Bingo. In addition to these things, my mom led Bible Study on Monday evenings, cleaned the church, frequently laundered the priest's garments, visited the parish school to teach my classmates and me how to pray the rosary, and in her free time, engaged the priests in deep theological discussions to keep them sharp and on track.
It's that last one that's really important. As a little girl, I knew I couldn't do that part of the parish lady job, and even today I know I wouldn't be very good at it. Like all parish ladies, my mom is smart, well read, and very protective of the church, both with a little "c" and with a big "C."
In between opening up the church on cold winter mornings and bringing the Eucharist to the sick of our parish, my mom stays on top of the church's goings on to make sure that the parish remains doctrinally sound. Young parishioners may come in with new ideas or a priest may suggest something that veers off from what my mom recognizes as the right path, but she and the other parish ladies are there to remind them of the traditions and roots of the church.
Is it too much to call them gatekeepers? Is that word too negative? Peter is a gatekeeper. Let's say they're like Peter.
As a little girl, when someone asked me what my Mom did, I told them that she didn't work. I might have even said she was just a housewife. Maybe I didn't say just a housewife, but what I know for sure I did not say were the words parish lady. I didn't have that language yet.
I didn't know how important those women were, and I was still too young to know anything about the controversy of the women's role in the church. All I knew was these were the things my mom did. And I knew even then that the church, the priests, and her fellow parishioners could not have gotten on without her.


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This adaptive reuse of a auto repair shop on an active urban transit corridor features new ground floor retail and 9 new residential townhouses.
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Maria recently relocated to the Bay Area from the East Coast. She holds a Master in Architecture from Harvard's Graduate School of Design and a B.A. in Architecture and Art History from the University of Pennsylvania. Maria is passionate about architecture that communicates with context. Her understanding of the power of local design has been shaped by the places she has lived and worked, including New Haven, Philadelphia, Boston, Mexico City, New York, and Samothrace, Greece. Maria loves exploring new places, listening to podcasts, and rereading books over again.
Alyssa is originally from Toronto and holds a Master of Architecture degree from Syracuse University. Before studying architecture, Alyssa earned a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Science from Queen's University in Kingston, Canada, where her passion for sustainability and community development emerged. While at Syracuse, she won an award for her thesis that studied the potential of architecture in the preservation of wilderness. Outside of the office, Alyssa seeks to find pieces of nature within the city and can often be found seeking sunshine in one of San Francisco's parks.
Cameron was born in New York and raised in the Bay Area. He is a current student at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York and is working towards his Bachelor of Architecture. He is involved in the San Francisco branch of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) and is the assistant director of Project Pipeline, a program designed to introduce junior high to high school age kids to architecture and urban planning. Outside of work and school Cameron enjoys hiking/backpacking and travelling.
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We always have a reason to celebrate our staff here in the studio. Be it a birthday or a promotion, we are sure to find the time to celebrate major milestones together.
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Jennifer moved to San Francisco from Washington, DC and has worked in SF as a full charge bookkeeper for over 20 years. She has served a diverse range of clients from restaurants and nonprofits to architectural firms and graphic designers. When she is not working for her clients, she is volunteering at her children's school as the treasurer of the parent teacher organization.
Originally from Thailand, Kit moved to Hawaii for education and beaches. With the persisting tropical temptations, being a student in Hawaii wasn't always easy but he managed to graduate in business administration and accounting. After Hawaii, Kit settled down in the beautiful central coast town of San Luis Obispo for several years before moving to San Francisco. After many years working in accounting/CPA firms along with some other industries in finance, Kit become an independent bookkeeper. In February 2015, Kit joined the YA Studio team assisting in the growth and business development of the studio. By embracing and understanding that his left brain is numeric and his right artsy, Kit keeps his life well-balanced just like his client's books.
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Uzoma (Uzi) was born in Delta State, Nigeria and holds a Master of Architecture degree from Syracuse University. He earned his Bachelor in Art History/Studio Art from Colgate University while playing on a football scholarship. At Syracuse, he received the Creative Works Grant for research on the work of Demas Nwoko & The Zaria Rebels in post-colonial Nigeria. Outside the studio, Uzi spends his free time reading, collecting comics, and playing his guitar.
Katherine holds a B.Arch. from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, where her passion for fabrication and material innovation emerged. While studying, Katherine worked at the College of Architecture and Environmental Design Support Shop and collaborated with various experimental studios across California. Her passion for architecture stems from her love of art coupled with phenomenology to encourage innovative solutions. Prior to studying architecture, Katherine experimented with various art media and is a ceramics enthusiast.
Sherry was born and raised in Shanghai, China. She has a Masters of Architecture from University of Houston and a Bachelors of Architecture degree from Shanghai University in China. Sherry has lived and worked in Shanghai, Houston, Seattle, and recently moved to Bay Area. Her experience on projects range from health care, education and commercial to mix-use projects. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, reading and cooking.
Manon graduated from the UCL, Brussels where she completed a master's degree in historic preservation and sustainable design. She worked then in India and Belgium. Beyond her professional experience, she likes to discover new lifestyles and thrilling environments. She seeks to create spaces that respond to the environment and people's needs while reaching the perfect balance between functionality, sustainability, and aesthetics. Manon is fluent in French and spends her weekends discovering San Francisco and its surroundings.
Natalie is a Bay Area native with a Bachelors of Architecture degree from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. While in school, she won second place in a national competition with a group designing a zero-net energy apartment building. During her time at YA studio, she has helped design the first phase of Hope SF's Rebuild Potrero project. Outside of work she likes to rock climb, do crosswords, and stare at the Rothko in MOMA for too long.
Karin is a native of the Chicago area who has also worked in New York and Paris. Her experience on projects range from towers and expo centers to attached housing and retail spaces. She has as diverse background in design, and in addition to architecture, has worked as a product designer and a researcher in emerging materials. Karin holds an M.Arch from Columbia University and a B.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Born and raised in the East Bay and 20 + years in the industry, Matt is not just a California licensed architect, he has lived and breathed the urban landscape changes in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Matt received his Bachelor of Architecture from the California College of Art and Crafts and went on to work for a series of studios in the bay area that have led him to specialize in affordable and market rate multifamily, senior and special needs housing.
Matt continues to grow in the architecture community through his various roles and memberships over the years in volunteer run organizations. Outside of the studio, Matt expresses creativity and energy by being an avid walker, zine enthusiast, and photographer.
David has over 20 years experience, primarily with technically challenging projects such as aquariums, hospitals, and laboratories, as well as multi-family and custom residential housing. David has been fortunate to have been involved in a number of projects from visualization and programming through construction administration. He brings a holistic approach to architecture, ensuring projects are thoughtfully designed, while also meeting schedule and budget. In his free time, David enjoys traveling and is also an active potter whose work has been exhibited nationally.
Paul brings a wide breadth of experience and knowledge to Y.A studio with a familiarity of various project types including corporate interiors, wineries, restaurants, and both custom residential and multifamily housing. He has an understanding of all phases of a project from Programming and Master Planning through Construction Administration and his strength as a project manager ensures that projects come in on time and on budget. Paul speaks Mandarin Chinese and has a deep interest in Sino-American relations. He enjoys exploring cultures through their cities, food, and music.
Since establishing Y.A. studio in 2004, Yakuh Askew, AIA, NOMA, LEED AP, has fostered a collaborative and creative studio that is versatile, efficient and effective. A native of San Francisco, Yakuh is passionate about socially responsible growth and has fought to balance the needs of the community, the environment and individual clients.
Yakuh is a graduate of Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA and has traveled extensively. Prior to Y.A. studio Yakuh's portfolio included large corporate offices, restaurant design, and single-family residential work.
Yakuh is a member of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA), SPUR, AIA, and sits on the Citizen's Bond Oversight Committee (CBOC) for the San Francisco School District. He is also an advisory member to the Lick-Wilmerding High School Campus Stewardship Committee. In 2015, Yakuh sat on the Jury for the Alburquerque AIA Awards, and in 2018 sat on the jury for the San Francisco Department of Public Works (SFDPW) Design Competition for public toilets and kiosks in San Francisco. He is also an avid ice hockey player.
An avid traveler and art lover, Martine finds comfort in nature, family time and good design. Born and raised in Montreal, she earned her a bachelors in Environmental Design at Université du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM) and a Masters in Architecture at the Technical University of Nova Scotia (TUNS). As a student, she focused on contemporary design, ergonomics, temporary structures and sustainability. After relocating to San Francisco in 1999, she joined Y.A. studio in 2008 and opened Martine Paquin Design, her interior design focused practice. She is a LEED AP and a CGBP believing that environmentally responsible design is a necessary component to healthy living.


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Touring Ghana Pt 2 (Cape Coast)
I alway love it when it come to adventure, exploration, learning in a natural way, it is fun though but it is a must for everyone to know much more about where he or she lives.
Moreover i don't know if people know there is a crocodile santuary in Cape Coast and all along many people have attribute it to Paga. Maybe is lack of advertisement also.
My friends and i travel to kakum and on our way to the castle the driver showed us around and we had to go to a hotel which is learnt to harbor crocodile (40 in that area)
had the opportunity to see one just after it had taken some lunch and was resting in the sun.It was a great experience and i loved it.
There is a lot in here (Ghana). We did not have the opportunity to boat tour in the pond where the crocodiles are it could have been fun.
All should have fun and visit that place unfortunately it is on the way to kakum but i cannot recollect the name of the hotel.
Whenever u go to kakum ask your tour guide or the driver to take u to the crocodile dungeon.


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Royals call up Paredes to fill in for Dyson
KANSAS CITY -- Outfielder-infielder Jimmy Paredes was called up from Triple-A Omaha by the Royals on Friday.
He fills the vacancy left when outfielder Jarrod Dyson was placed on the bereavement list because of a death in the family. Dyson is scheduled to rejoin the club on Monday at Cleveland.
Paredes, 25, is a switch-hitter with a .319 average (15-for-47), one home run and four RBIs for Omaha. In 11 games, he's already played five positions for the Storm Chasers -- second base, third base, shortstop, left field and right field.
"I moved around. It's a good thing for me because it'll help me in the future," Paredes said.
Paredes played parts of the previous three seasons for Houston, batting .234 in a total of 118 games with three homers and 31 RBIs. He played second, third, left and right for the Astros. Paredes was originally signed by the Yankees in 2006 and dealt to the Astros in the 2010 trade that sent Lance Berkman to New York.
"I signed the first time as a shortstop and then got moved to third, then second and then the outfield. I've played all the positions," Paredes said. "When I started to play the outfield, I was a little confused, but now I've got it."
You could pardon Paredes if he got a bit confused about where he belonged over the past winter. In November, he was claimed off waivers from the Astros by the Marlins. On Feb. 15, the Orioles claimed Paredes off waivers and just two days later, the Royals claimed him from the Orioles.
"I said, 'Wow, where am I going?' They said, 'Kansas City, fly to Arizona,' so I took my flight there," he said.
Paredes trained with the Major League club in Arizona, was assigned to Omaha and now has found his way to KC.


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Today was a day of fun for the kids and I. This was officially the last day of summer. I had planned out a fun day for us all. This morning we had pedicure time for the divas:
Then we headed out to Chipotle for a super yummy lunch! This was the first time that we have eaten there gluten-free and I was very impressed. You can read more on The Examiner in my new article. I will tease you with a picture of my yumminess…..
The gluten-free boy is in heaven (see our bottle of Ortega Taco Sauce that we brought?):
Hannah not liking her cheese quesadilla (not gluten-free) so much without ketchup. Note to self: bring ketchup next time, too!
After our awesome lunch, we headed over to Cold Stone Creamery for dessert. The kids each got love it sizes (way too much, but I had a buy 1 get 1 coupon from the entertainment book) with 4 mix-ins. Hey, it was a special day. LOL! I myself stuck with the smaller like it size and should have chose the kids size instead….that was still too much. I had to have the dark chocolate with Heath bar mixed in. So rich & satisfying!
I had a great time today with the kids and I hope they had as much fun as I did. 🙂 I think we just started a new tradition.
Heidi over at Adventures of a Gluten-Free Mom had a wonderful post that I have to talk about today. She made her own GF Happy Meals! What a brilliant idea! Jon is a little old for this idea, but I know a lot of others have young kids that are gluten-free and can't have the Happy Meals. I wanted you all to see what Heidi came up with. Please head over to her blog & read her amazing idea! WTG Heidi!
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Police and protesters clashed in Pittsburgh, where the world's richest nations gathered as environmental and anarchist groups massed on the streets.
Witnesses said cops fired tear gas at members of a group calling itself the Pittsburgh G-20 Resistance Project. The group had announced its intention to mount an unauthorized march, and some observers feared it could boil over as has happened at past meetings of powerful world leaders. A 40,000-strong crowd of anarchists at the 1999 World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle fought running battles with police and vandalized buildings.
"What I fear at the march is over-reaction by the authorities and over-reaction by some of the younger protesters," said Michael Healey, a civil rights lawyer representing 14 Greenpeace activists who were arrested in Pittsburgh on Wednesday after scaling a bridge to hang a sign warning of environmental doom. "It's a toxic mix."
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Several small businesses planned to shut during the two-day meeting, and workmen were boarding over shop windows in the downtown business district. Some protesters felt threatened by the very steps the city was taking to deal with them.
"The city has bought a thousand cannisters of tear gas. That's something people are concerned about, like what to do if they're gassed," said Noah Williams, a spokesman for the Pittsburgh G-20 Resistance Project.
Get more: MSNBC, AFP