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Frances Crowe, peace activist for the ages, dies at 100
By Bryan Marquard Globe Staff,September 1, 2019, 8:27 p.m.
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Frances Crowe once recalled that her activism began in the late 1920s, as a fifth-grader in Carthage, Mo., when she and her classmates in a peace friendship club sent letters to people around the world.
"We took ourselves very seriously," she told the Globe in 1984, "all these little kids going to make peace."
For nine more decades, Ms. Crowe never let up, notching more civil disobedience arrests at protests than she could count, and adding other causes to her original efforts.
She was 100 when she died Tuesday in her Northampton home, her family announced.
"Frances was a strong believer that one sets an example through the way one lives one's life," her family members said in an obituary they placed in the Daily Hampshire Gazette.
In an activism resume that could go on for pages, she participated in sit-ins at the construction site when the nuclear power plant was being built in Seabrook, N.H., and prayed for peace on the White House lawn.
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She threw a vial of her own blood at a nuclear sub launch ("for my grandson's future," she noted) and spent a month in prison after breaking into a Rhode Island base to spray paint "Thou shalt not kill" on submarine tubes that would hold missiles.
Testifying on behalf of a fellow Seabrook protester in 1977, she told a jury that she, too, had demonstrated at the site because "my conscience told me I must put my body where my words have been."
Two years ago, at 98, she was among several people who were arrested in Western Massachusetts while protesting the extension of a natural gas pipeline through a state forest. At the time, she parked her wheelchair in a restricted area.
"She has this very clear morality about what is right and wrong," Jeff Napolitano, executive director of the Resistance Center for Peace and Justice in Northampton, told the Daily Hampshire Gazette this past spring when the newspaper named her person of the year.
"When has she been on the wrong side of history? She has a record," Napolitano added. "If Frances is on your side, then you know that you probably are on the moral high ground."
Though Ms. Crowe started down the road to activism as a young girl, the events of 1945 brought her politics into sharp focus.
"I was a 26-year-old American married to an aspiring radiologist," she wrote in a recollection published in the Valley Advocate last month. "I listened to the radio as I ironed our clothes and learned that my country, the United States, had destroyed Hiroshima, Japan, by dropping an atomic bomb on it."
Mrs. Crowe lost count of the times she was arrested, this one in Seneca Falls, N.Y., in a rally against nuclear weapons.Courtesy of Frances Crowe
Ms. Crowe would go on to counsel young men to become conscientious objectors during the Vietnam War and protest often at nuclear power plants, including Vermont Yankee in Vernon.
In her early 60s, she was still scaling fences, including at the Seneca Army Depot in upstate New York, where she demonstrated against missile deployment. Her physical feat drew cheers.
"Someone said, 'Even the old lady is coming over,' " she recalled with a smile in the 1984 Globe interview. "One gets a lot of mileage out of white hair."
By 2011, in her early 90s, she was deciding whether or not to bring a cane to a protest at Vermont Yankee and opted to travel light.
"I just need to take my ID for when we're arrested," she said in a conversation recorded for Robbie Leppzer's documentary "Power Struggle."
Born in Carthage, Mo., on March 15, 1919, Frances Hyde was a daughter of William Chauncey Hyde, who ran a plumbing and heating business.
"My mother, Anna Heidlage Hyde, made our clothes," Ms. Crowe wrote in the Daily Hampshire Gazette, just before turning 100 in March.
Catholics in Carthage, such as her family, were targeted by the Ku Klux Klan, Ms. Crowe told the Globe in 1984, recalling that she had been struck with stones on the way to school in second grade.
In 1939, she graduated from Stephens College, a women's college in Missouri. She also graduated two years later from Syracuse University, where she met Thomas J. Crowe, who became a physician. They married in 1945.
She told the Globe that during World War II, she had worked on an assembly line as part of the effort to help defeat the Nazis in Europe.
In the years following the war, Ms. Crowe and her husband had three children. Because one son was born deaf, the Crowes moved to Massachusetts so he could attend what was then Clarke School for the Deaf, in Northampton.
Once there, Ms. Crowe became a mainstay of activist groups, helping found a chapter of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. In her basement she set up a peace center office that was filled with literature and posters. Along with her draft counseling work, she was active with the American Friends Service Committee.
She often said her proudest moment was when she installed a large antenna behind her home to broadcast the radio program "Democracy Now!" when she was initially unable to persuade local public radio stations and college stations to do so.
From the early 1970s onward, arrests at civil disobedience protests became a regular part of her life.
"There comes a time when to put your body there is more powerful than all the organizing you can do," she said in 1984.
In later years, she had a ready answer for reporters who always asked how many times she had been arrested: "Not enough."
Ms. Crowe, whose husband died in 1997, leaves a daughter, Caltha Crowe; two sons, Jarlath Crowe and Dr. Thomas H. Crowe; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Plans for a memorial service were not immediately available.
In Western Massachusetts, Ms. Crowe was such a well-known activist that the mere mention of her name drew applause, as was the case at Hampshire College's graduation in 1987, when a crowd cheered a speaker who praised her, Nelson Mandela, and Marian Wright Edelman.
Smith College, which houses Ms. Crowe's papers in the Sophia Smith Collection, awarded her an honorary degree.
Her wishes, however, were for something more lasting.
"I hope that the United States and its citizens find the moral insight and courage to stop war of all kinds, end the exploitation of other countries and our own citizens, begin to stop climate disruption by eating local and driving less, end the use of nuclear weapons and nuclear power and foster fair and equitable employment for all workers," she wrote for the Daily Hampshire Gazette just before turning 100. "What a happy birthday it would be if all my wishes came true."
To pursue such goals, she always encouraged everyone to join her and raise their voices in protest.
"People my age have been lulled into the idea that they shouldn't take risks, that they should stay comfortable and take the easy way," she told the Globe in 2010. "But we've lived our lives, and we have nothing to lose — no kids or jobs to worry about. I say to them, 'Have some fun. Get out there and join the community of people acting on their beliefs!' "
Bryan Marquard can be reached at bryan.marquard@globe.com.


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Le  est une montagne qui s'élève à  d'altitude dans les Alpes de Brandenberg, en Autriche.

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Le Maistaller Berg, le Zeller Berg, le Festungsberg, Lausbühel et le Thierberg sont des montagnes de hauteur mineure autour de Kufstein.

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Sommet des Alpes autrichiennes
Montagne au Tyrol

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Where was your favorite place growing up?
My favorite place growing up were the woods near my friend's house. I spent many hours pretending to have special powers, building tree forts, and writing stories about our activities.
How do you decide that a piece is finished? Have you ever gone back to a piece after you thought you were done with it?
Haha, a piece is finished when I'm sick of looking at it! Often, I will be mentally done with it long before I have gotten anywhere near actually finishing it. This is usually because the aspect that I was looking to portray in the image is already "done" or "has passed" in my head. Finishing pictures is just a lesson in patience for me. I have not gone back and edited a piece that was finished, unless it was for the purposes of color correction for print.
What is your favorite of your pieces and why?
Well, this is a tough question. I'd probably have to go with "The Opera Tree". Even though I don't think the technique in the image is particularly great, I do think that the soul of the picture is intriguing. If I were to redo any image, I'd pick that one.
Tell us about "The Walkers". Where did you get the idea?
"The Walkers" is self portrait of sorts. I was feeling particularly feeble and disgusted with myself at that point in my life — like a mundane King of the Damned. The image represents those aspects of me; the small inept hands trying to clean up vomit of good intended words that come out as flowers and blood, etc.
What media do you use? What media have you experimented with? How did you decide to settle on the media you currently employ?
I use pencil and paper for the initial sketch (Strathmore pads, Berol Mirado pencils) and then Photoshop for the "painting" process. When I was younger I was enthralled with oil paints, and as a personal pleasure I will do that from time to time. However, my "go-to" media is Photoshop; it's quick, clean, and super fast to iterate with.
How have you matured, personally and artistically, since you first decided you wanted to be an artist?
Of course! I knew I wanted to be an artist when I was 5 or 6. So inevitably my art has grown up with me. I'd say for anyone who really does art as a passion, it always will. Art is a representation of one's ideas, thoughts, beliefs, and personality – which evolve over time.
What is your favorite animal to paint and why?
Interestingly enough I haven't painted the same animal repeatedly in my images. I like wolves, sea animals, and birds, but I really like the aspects of them that tie them to this world at an ancient state. Like a primal memory – not necessarily the animal itself, or how we've changed what it means socially.
What myths, legends or stories have influenced your work?
My work is all about myths, legends, and dreams, so I've drawn inspiration from a variety of sources. Mainly, the books of the dead (Celtic, Tibetan, and Egyptian), books about demonology (African, Christian (Goetia), and Hindu), poetry/spirituality (Rumi, Osho), and also creation stories (Poetic Edda, The Veda).
What artists have influenced you? If you could only chose one to spend a month with who would it be and why?
Eiko Ishioka was my greatest influence. I saw Bram Stoker's Dracula when I was about 11 or so and I fell in love with her designs. My mom had the costume book by Eiko Ishioka and I used to look at it and draw. I was really sad to find out that she died recently. It was like having a great teacher or mentor pass away. I think though, if I were to choose to spend a month with someone I would pick Rumi or Osho. They had such an amazing view of the world that it would be awesome to just listen to them talk.
By the end of 2012 what do you hope to have finished?
I really want to more prolific with my personal art. For the last 5 years I've done very little art. Like, shamefully very little. My mental tone has been shifting recently and I am excited to show this new direction.
My alter ego? I don't know. To me, it is disguised as everything, and also nothing. Like a perpetual dream that has no beginning nor end, always just out of view, and easily forgotten.


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MotoGP: Please take your seats; Act 2 is about to begin.
Rossi fan. Dean Adams
The second half of the season is waiting in the wings as MotoGP™ gets ready to return to the stage
2017 is already making history. After nine races, the second half of the season beckons at Brno with the top five riders in the Championship – Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team), Maverick Viñales (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP), Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team), Valentino Rossi (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP) and Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda Team) split by only 26 points. The top four of those are within 10 points of each other, and it has never been closer.
That's a tantalising prospect as the second half of the season gets ready to fire up at the Automotodrom Brno for the Monster Energy České republiky, and there's no sign that the thrilling ups and downs of the first nine races are about to abate. 10 different podium finishers, four different Championship leaders, and five different winners is the count so far. MotoGP™ just keeps getting better, and there's no better place to get back in gear than the spectacular 5.4km amphitheatre of Brno: history, atmosphere and a incredible crowd.
Marquez is the title leader for the first time this season after the German GP, and the man seeking to defend it. He took victory at Brno as a MotoGP™ rookie in 2013, and has since had a number of podium finishes. It makes for good reading, but far from invincible – as teammate Dani Pedrosa can attest, after bringing Marquez' winning streak at the beginning of 2014 to an end at the venue. Pedrosa has further form, too, including an awesome duel to the finish against former nemesis Jorge Lorenzo in 2012. A track where Honda have the best recent record and have tested in the summer, Brno is a good place for the Repsol liveried machines to launch their assault on the second half of the season.
The man now second in the standings – and who has been first or second since Qatar – is Viñales. His record at the Czech GP glitters a little less than the key rivals he is facing down for the title, but then the rider from Roses has been rewriting his own formbook this year at Movistar Yamaha. He'll be wanting to stamp the authority he lost ahead of the summer break straight back onto proceedings as the second half gets underway – but the man on the other side of the garage will have a lot to say about that, too.
Valentino Rossi (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP) has a long record of winning and rostrum finishes at Brno, and the venue was the scene of the 'Doctor''s first ever GP win in 1996, in the 125 World Championship. Rossi also won the 125cc crown at the Czech GP in 1997, and has both memories and form on his side. Still very much in the title fight at the halfway stage, Rossi has found his way from a challenging preseason to a good number of points by Round 10 – not something he'll be ready to give up.
Then there are the red machines. Andrea Dovizioso has already won two races this season, and sits a very close third in the standings. 'DesmoDovi' knows Brno is another good chance to attack, and will be looking to do just that ahead of the Austrian GP, where the Ducati Team took a 1-2 last year. The momentum at stake is another bonus as well as the points, and that's something not to be underestimated. Teammate Jorge Lorenzo (Ducati Team) has had a tougher season so far, but the five-time World Champion has taken one podium so far, and has some great results at Brno including a stunning lights-to-flag victory from pole in 2015. A slew of podiums and victories mean the 'Spartan' is on good territory and will be looking to begin part two of the year as he means to go on – at the front.
Team Suzuki Ecstar's Andrea Iannone and Alex Rins are two more looking to refine the storyline of the season in the second half of it. Iannone has a strong record at the Czech GP stretching back to the lower classes and will want to kick off part two on a high – and Rins will be looking for a reset after a first half tempered by injury.
Then there's Red Bull KTM Factory Racing, as the Austrian factory hone in on regular points finishes. The big headline for the squad in the German GP was the gap, as a KTM finished the smallest margin yet to the winner. The progress is steady, with a new accomplishment every weekend, and both Pol Espargaro and Bradley Smith have scored some good points – and want more.
Cal Crutchlow (LCR Honda) was left wanting more after the German GP, but the calendar could not be better for the Brit to begin the second half of the season with a bang. The rider from Coventry took a stunning win last year to become the first Brit to take victory in the premier class for 35 years, and the first since Barry Sheene. The win wasn't a one-off, either, with the track also having hosted the number 35's first MotoGP™ podium in 2012. Good memories can make great foundations for more solid results, and Crutchlow will be aiming squarely at the podium – maybe even higher.
Other Independent Team riders could also hold some important cards in the Czech GP. Johann Zarco (Monster Yamaha Tech 3) is now within reach of teammate Jonas Folger in the standings as the two lead the charge to be Rookie of the Year, and it's not just each other the incredible Tech 3 duo have been racing. After Zarco's podium in France, Folger managed the same at home in Germany – and was incredibly close to winner Marquez, who has been undefeated at Sachsenring eight years in a row. There is still plenty to learn for the rookies, and plenty left to achieve – with the bar seemingly raised after every race. Folger also won the Moto2™ race at Brno last year.
Another man to have raised the bar of expectation consistently so far in 2017 is Danilo Petrucci (Octo Pramac Racing), and the Italian – as well as a key contributor to Press Conferences – is a key figure in the narrative of the year. Now it's part two, and Petrucci has already had two near misses as he's honed in on victories. 'Petrux' has nothing to lose and everything to gain.
Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia Racing Team Gresini) will also be wanting to get back in the fight at the front after some more difficult races, with Jack Miller (EG 0,0 Marc VDS) another of those with big potential. The Aussie has taken a good slew of top ten finishes this year and a best of sixth so far, and will be coming back to Brno bike-fresh after taking part in the Suzuka 8 Hours endurance race.
The home hero at Brno is Karel Abraham (Pull&Bear Aspar Team), who has had top ten results at the track in the past and has shown some top form in 2017. The huge local crowd that always line the spectacular venue will doubtless be a big force behind Abraham as he flies the flag.
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Cracking passwords, or why use password_hash()
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Do not use MD5 to hash user passwords! Do not use SHA-x! Yeah, but why? I'll show you, donut worry. We'll talk about password cracking, what are the speeds, how passwords are cracked on GPUs, and of course how to defend against cracking. As an example, I'll use a recent data leak where 750k plaintext passwords have surfaced from a site that supposedly used MD5. We'll also explain what a salt is and what it's not, and that it's not there to prevent cracking, and that's fine. Eventually, I'll explain what slow hashes like bcrypt or Argon2 are and how to use them in PHP. Let's get cracking!
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#1 A talk about modern password cracking. What techniques, tools and hardware is used to crack passwords blazingly fast. We'll also talk about what PHP developers can do to secure their users' passwords.
#2 If an application stores users' passwords, it should store them hashed. That means a secure password hashing function is used to calculate a hash which is then stored in a database. But you already know this, right? Right?
#3 Hashing functions are so called one-way functions. You can't "decrypt", or "unhash", a hash and get the original password back. Hashing is not encryption, a hash function is not a cipher. With encryption, if you know the encryption key, you can decrypt the original data. A hash could be viewed as a checksum, or even as a fingerprint. You can't reconstruct the "full human" from the fingerprints found at the crime scene, but you can search the fingerprint database and compare what's in there with what you've found at the scene.
#4 That's similar to password cracking. We'll somehow generate so called password candidates, calculate their hashes and see if we can find them in the database we have available. This is called offline password attack: the attacker has hashes and tries to crack them without sending anything over the wire. During an online attack, the attacker inputs passwords to login forms in an automated way. The total cracking time depends on the speed of generating those candidates and their "quality".
#5 The most primitive way of attacking password hashes is a brute-force attack. No, it's not "brutal force", don't call it that way.
#6 Brute-force attack will just try all possible combinations. To attack an eight-character long password we'd need to calculate hashes for:
aaaaaaab
aaaaaaac
aaaaaaad
aaaaaaae
… and so on, and compare them with one or more hashes we have obtained from the database. This technique is slow because most of the candidates won't ever be used as a password by anybody. Users are predictable and their passwords too, unless they use a password manager, of course. And even if they do, password managers usually generate passwords longer than 15 characters and such passwords cannot be cracked by brute-force either. It would just take ages to generate such candidates.
#7 Slightly better way of generating password candidates is a "dictionary attack". Let's try only those words from a dictionary or some other known list (sometimes called a wordlist), because users know them and use them as their passwords. Users try to be clever though, and will somehow modify the selected word, sometimes because they're forced to do so by a password policy set by their system administrator. You know, the infamous "Your password must contain at least one capital letter and a number!" error message. An old-school dictionary attack is not very successful anymore.
#8 A thing called "Rainbow Tables" is a specific implementation of precomputed tables. It was used quite often when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth but now there are more effective ways.
#9 Precomputed tables use generated databases of hashes and their corresponding values. Thus it's very fast to find the password if you know the hash, it's just a simple lookup. The disadvantage of precomputed tables is their huge size ("rainbow tables" are used to reduce the size), and the need to generate them for every password hashing algorithm which we want to attack. Often, they also contain candidates that are not used for passwords. Cracking passwords with precomputed tables is also prevented by using cryptographic salts. A salt is a unique and random value used for hashing a password, and we'd need to regenerate the tables for each password, as the salt is different for each of them. That would be highly ineffective. We'll get back to salts later on.
#10 You can test-drive cracking with precomputed tables in your browsers, thanks to CrackStation. For MD5 and SHA-1, they have 190 GB, 15-billion-entry lookup tables. Those also include all Wikipedia articles from 2010, and known breaches. You can also download a smaller 19 GB table.
#11 Nowadays, you use graphics cards, like this beauty here, to crack passwords. This is NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti, currently the most powerful off-the-shelf card for password cracking: it does 31 billion MD5 hashes per second. For cracking, you want the Founder's Edition line, reference cards designed by NVIDIA, with top-quality components. These cards can operate under heavy loads 24/7. The only problems is you can't buy GTX 1080 Ti Founder's Edition anymore so you'll need to wait for a some new cards, like the new RTX 2080 which is actually slower for password cracking than the GTX 1080 Ti. That might improve with some newer drivers, though.
#12 The gaming editions of these cards (with huge fans, often colorful) are not really designed for password cracking. Vendors are using lower-quality components, sometimes even the previous architecture with just a new chip. This NVIDIA dealer even had a note on their site saying this $1k card is not intended for use under heavy loads. If you can't see the note, first check you can read Czech, then check you're not on their mobile site – the note is not present there.
#13 Luckily, even the dealer's mascot had an opinion on that: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. So you definitely want a Founder's Edition for password cracking.
#14 31 billion MD5 hashes/sec is a huge number but unless you run on a state budget, you probably can't imagine that. So let's add a context to it. The number of all possible combinations for 8 characters-long password consisting of lower-, uppercase letters, digits is 218 billions (a billion is 109, sometimes called a milliard in Central Europe). The GTX 1080 Ti card can calculate MD5 hashes for all those combinations in 2 hours.
#15 For GTX 1080 Ti, it takes 5 days to calculate hashes of all possible combinations of a password consisting of 9 lower-, uppercase characters and digits; 62× more for 10 characters, 53 years if that would be 11 characters, and 3300 years for 12 characters. So even if an app is using fast and for password storage totally not recommended algorithm like MD5, it would take 3300 years for the attacker to generate all possible combinations of 12 characters long password using a-zA-Z0-9 character set. And if you're generating your passwords randomly in a password manager, then this would be the only way to crack them. In other words, if you have a password 12 or more characters long, then it's safely stored even when hashed with MD5. Add one more character and it would take 62× more. Add special characters and rather do the math yourself. Unfortunately, most users don't create random passwords.
#16 Of course, you can shorten the time by using more GPUs. Such machines with 8× GTX 1080 Ti (or other GPUs) are built by Sagitta HPC (where HPC stands for High Performance ComputingCracking), and if you want (and have enough kilowatts and money), they'll build you a cluster of ten or more.
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Mall.cz had a security incident some time ago, and this online shopping gallery had to reset passwords for 1.3 million users at the end of August 2017. I was there, and maybe you too.
#18 In July 2017, somebody posted a link to download 750k Mall.cz user accounts and passwords. Lupa.cz has discovered the dump actually contained 750k, 381 908 unique, plaintext passwords. But reportedly, Mall.cz has never stored plaintext passwords. They have used MD5 until 2012, then SHA-1 with a cryptographic salt, and since 2016 they use bcrypt, one of the recommended password hashing algorithms. The details are tracked in my project listing password storages and disclosures. Ok, that doesn't sound like plaintext. Unfortunately, Mall.cz didn't rehash existing passwords and have even stated that those dumped passwords are from the time when they used MD5.
#19 Almost immediately, you could read theories online, that Mall.cz stored plaintext passwords and that they're losers and so on. I think that passwords were indeed stored somehow hashed and somebody has cracked them and has dumped them on the Internet. This theory is supported by Mall.cz resetting roughly twice as many passwords (1.3 million) than what was in the dump (750k). To verify the theory (because I'm a fan of PoC||GTFO), I've rented a Tesla. Oh, sorry, wrong picture.
#20 This Tesla. Amazon Web Services don't offer servers with a GTX 1080 Ti, so I've rented a machine with NVIDIA Tesla K80 instead. These cards are used for computing only, you can't even connect them to monitors. K80 is much slower than a GTX 1080 Ti, it does "only" 4.5 billion MD5 hashes/sec.
#21 We can make up for the lower performance of Tesla K80 by renting a p2.16xlarge instance with 16 GPUs doing 73 billion MD5 hashes/sec in total. I wanted to try crack the passwords just like somebody who's dumped those 750k passwords. I took those plaintext passwords, hashed them again with MD5, followed a guideline to set up the instance, and with almost no preparation for the job (unlike a password cracking pro) I was able to crack almost all the password again in 12 hours (then I went to sleep and halted the machine).
I was left with 935 passwords uncracked. In the first 45 minutes I cracked 165k passwords, 43% of all unique passwords. I've used hashcat password cracker, other well known one is John the Ripper. For renting the instance I've paid just $14.40/hour, $170 total. With Spot instances you can even rent it for less than $5/hour sometimes but the instance might be interrupted with 2 minutes notification if they need the capacity back.
#22 These are some of the passwords that were cracked, all of them predictable in one way or another:
Renik2510!! – a name (probably short for Renata), a number (a birthday maybe), exclamation marks predictably at the end
andalusan89T@ – a word, numbers, a special character again at the end
čokoládamilka – two Czech words ("chocolatemilka"), including national characters
lindisfarne793 – Lindisfarne is an island in England, which was raided by the Vikings in 793
kobylamamalybok – 4 Czech words (the words with diacritics are "kobyla", "má", "malý", "bok"), a palindrome in fact, but that's not how it was cracked
asdfghjkl0123456789 – "a keyboard walk" asdfghjkl + a sequence of numbers
There are a few more passwords in my write-up on the same topic.
#23 Often, other password leaks are used as dictionaries or wordlists, rockyou.txt is a well-known one. It contains more than 14 million plaintext passwords, including to neuhodnes, Czech for "you won't guess it" (I think I did), which was also in the Mall.cz dump, or cokoladamilka, this time without those strange characters. You can use other wordlists or even build your own with Wordsmith, and you can just google lists of all Czech words.
#24 Let's see how you can generate some useful candidates, we'll start with the combinator attack. It combines words from two lists so you can generate candidates like firstnamelastname which can sometimes lead to quite a long passwords. First names and last names used in the Czech Republic can be downloaded from the site of the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic. You can of course combine other lists, and if you'd like to combine three lists, check combinator3 from hashcat-utils.
#25 The PRINCE generator can be thought of as an advanced combinator attack. It uses one wordlist and builds "chains" of combined words. If it's generating a candidate of length four, the PRINCE processor will try 4 letter words (like here) from the list, 2 words of 2 letters combined (me + ok), 1-letter word and 3-letter word (u + too), the other way round (you + i), then also 2 chars words and two single char words (we + u + i) and so on. This attack is responsible for cracking the palindrome kobylamamalybok – 6 + 2 + 4 + 3 characters-long words.
#26 All attacks can be extended with rules that replace characters with digits (a → 4, e → 3, o → 0 etc., so c4nd1d4t3 will be generated in addition to plain candidate), duplicate or reverse words, add digits or special characters, change letters to uppercase and so on.
#27 There was not a single password in the dump, that had been generated by a password manager (not even mine). How do I know that? Those passwords that I've managed to crack were not password manager-generated (it wouldn't be possible to crack such password in 12 hours), and I've checked the ones that I didn't have enough time to crack them. Some of them actually looked like random, generated passwords, like this one.
#28 But the password is known by Google, so it was obviously in one or more wordlists I've used. The password, fm9fytmf7qkckct, is the beginning of a Microsoft Office XP license key. If you'll use a password manager then your passwords will be unique and uncrackable in reasonable time.
#29 I didn't manage to crack these passwords in 12 hours. But they are all predictable anyways:
passwordusuniversalis – two words with -us, -is suffixes
3681913234731michal – a number (actually a Counter Strike CD key) + a name (no, that's not my password)
8araD0mca – two names with characters replaced to look-alike numbers (Bara + Domca)
●●●●●●●●●●● – no idea how it got there as a password but a 3 dots-longer variant, ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●, has been cracked
… and some more again in my article about password cracking.
#30 In October 2017, Amazon has introduced new instances with Tesla V100 GPUs, and boy, these are fast! One Tesla V100 generates 56 billion MD5 hashes per second, that's 12× more than Tesla K80, and almost 2× more than the GTX 1080 Ti. These cards are expensive, and you can't even play StarCraft on it, but you can still rent them for just a few dollars.
A machine with just one Tesla V100 will cost you $3.06/hour, if you want 8 of them you'll pay $24.48 per hour (Spot instances might get as low as $5/hour). That's not much but just don't leave this computing beast on for prolonged periods of time – a week of cracking passwords will cost you $4100, you've been warned. In that case it would be better and cheaper to just buy some fine cracking hardware from Sagitta.
#31 Tesla V100, despite being the most powerful password cracking GPU (and the most expensive too), can calculate only 1700 bcrypt hashes/sec with cost parameter set to 10 (210 = 1024 rounds), the default in PHP. It's almost impossible to crack any passwords besides the most simple ones, like password, with these speeds. If you raise cost to 11 (211 = 2048 rounds), the speed will be just 850 hashes/sec. Just don't raise it too much, otherwise users will wait forever for you to verify their password. With cost 10, the password will be hashed in roughly 80 ms on a regular CPU.
Don't forget that historically, benchmarks use cost 5 (25 = 32 rounds), so benchmark results will look more optimistic – 54k/sec. It's an impressive card nonetheless. For cost 10, one GTX 1080 Ti GPU does only 650/sec, Tesla K80 just 66/sec.
#32 What's bcrypt anyway? It's a Blowfish-based password hashing function first published in 1999. Sometimes a password hashing function is also called a KDF, a key derivation function. Blowfish is a symmetric-key block cipher and bcrypt is based on it, but it's not the same thing. There are two functions in PHP and they make using bcrypt really easy.
They are password_hash() and password_verify(), the former is used to hash a password on registration or password change, the latter to verify it during signing in for example. These functions are available since PHP 5.5, bcrypt itself even earlier (in crypt()) but you shouldn't be using versions that are not supported anymore. Your framework might also use these functions internally.
#33 password_hash() returns the hashed password or false on failure. The first parameter is a password you want to hash, $algo specifies the hashing algorithm. It's safe to use PASSWORD_DEFAULT which maps to PASSWORD_BCRYPT today but the default might change in the future. The hashes are backwards compatible so don't be afraid to use the default.
If you'd use PASSWORD_BCRYPT you can raise the cost parameter (which is specific to bcrypt) in the $options array to make cracking even slower, see above. The default is 10 and it's the minimum you should use nowadays. It's also important to note that using the PASSWORD_BCRYPT as the algorithm, will result in the $password parameter being truncated to a maximum length of 72 characters. In reality that doesn't really matter, such long passwords are uncrackable anyway and nobody would even dare, so don't try "fixing" it anyhow.
#34 Use password_verify() to verify a password when the user is signing in for example. It's fairly easy, just pass the password from the login form as the first argument, and the hash from the database as the second parameter. You don't need to, can't even, specify an algorithm that was used to create the hash, because…
#35 …because both the algorithm identifier and it's settings are encoded into the output from password_hash(). So password_verify() will read them, hash the password with the same settings, and compare the resulting hash with the passed one. password_verify() is safe against timing attacks but if for some reason you'd need to compare any hashes yourself, use hash_equals().
#36 Cryptographic salt is random data used as an additional input to the hashing function. A salt should be unique and different for each password, so a salt stored in a config file, used for all passwords, is not a salt. It defends against precomputed tables attack. The tables would need to be precomputed for each salt and each password so the "precomputed" part would loose it's meaning. Cryptographic salt also prevents a "birthday attack" which uses the fact that the more users you have, the more of them will have the same passwords. The password cracker would then crack a password and see who else has the same hash.
With salts the time needed to crack all the hashes gets longer with the more hashes you have. Password cracker needs to generate a candidate, add a salt, compare hashes, add another salt to the same candidate, compare hashes, and so on. But the speed of calculating the hash stays the same it's just that the cracker needs to calculate more hashes.
You can't specify a salt with password_hash() anymore, and that's a good thing. Salt should be generated by the hashing library and web developers shouldn't really care about that. Don't try to invent your own salts, you might break the hashing algorithm somehow. The $password parameter in password_hash() should really contain just the password entered by the user, unmodified.
#37 Several hashing algorithms are suitable for password hashing, not just bcrypt. The full list is Argon2, bcrypt, scrypt, PBKDF2. scrypt is available only in an extension, PBKDF2 can be used with hash_pbkdf2() but setting the params right might be a bit of a challenge. I'd really recommend using password_hash() unless you need to use something else.
password_hash() supports Argon2 since PHP 7.2. There are several variants of the Argon2 hashing function:
Argon2d is suitable for applications with no threats from side-channel timing attacks (eg. cryptocurrencies) and is not supported by PHP at all
Argon2i is preferred for password hashing and password-based key derivation, this variant is supported since PHP 7.2 if PHP has been compiled with Argon2 support
Argon2id is a hybrid of Argon2i and Argon2d, with some of Argon2i's resistance to side-channel cache timing attacks and much of Argon2d's resistance to GPU cracking attacks, is the recommended and primary variant in the specification draft, and will be available starting with PHP 7.3, if compiled with Argon2 support
If you haven't yet switched to Argon2, just wait for PHP 7.3 when Argon2id will be available with password_hash($password, PASSWORD_ARGON2ID). Argon2 might become the PASSWORD_DEFAULT algorithm in future versions of PHP.
#38 The output from password_hash() is similar if you use Argon2, it also contains encoded parameters:
A memory cost m that defines memory usage of the algorithm (in kilobytes, from 8p to 232 – 1)
A time cost t that defines the execution time of the algorithm and the number of iterations (from 1 to 232 – 1)
And a parallelism factor p, which defines the number of parallel threads (from 1 to 16777215)
The defaults in PHP are as displayed: memory cost 1024 kB, 2 iterations, 2 threads.
Version number v is 1.3 (the latest Argon2 version at the time of writing) represented as dec 19, hexdec 0x13.
#39 If IKEA made password hashing upgrade instructions, it would look like this. If you're not using Argon2 or bcrypt (or scrypt, PBKDF2), you really should upgrade your password hashing to protect users and their passwords.
#40 To upgrade hashing you can use password_needs_rehash(). The function will return true if the hash doesn't match given algorithm and/or options, in that case you can hash the password with current settings and then replace the old hash with the new one. Call password_needs_rehash() when password_verify() returns true. The problem with this technique is that you need to know the password, so you can only upgrade hashes when user logs in.
#41 To upgrade hashing for existing passwords, and to protect them against cracking, you can do this: first, rehash all existing hashes with a password hash, say bcrypt. Run a one-time job to do this. Once finished, your passwords will be hashed like bcrypt(sha1(password)), which from a cryptography point of view might not be perfect, but given the threat (password cracking on GPUs), it will protect passwords much better than just using MD5 for example.
You'll need to "prehash" the user password with the old hashing function (sha1() for example) before you try to verify it with password_verify(). If the password was correct, you can "clean up" the hashes to get rid of the sha1() "prehashing".
Such transparent upgrades are nice for your users because you don't need to reset passwords. Don't even think about cracking existing passwords, your job is to protect passwords, not attack them! Use this only when you're upgrading from non-password hashes (like MD5, or SHA-x) to password hashes, you don't need to use this when upgrading from bcrypt to Argon2 for example, both are already a password hashing function. In that case just use password_needs_rehash() as shown in the previous slide.
As this probably needs a bit more explaining and details, I'll point you to my article about upgrading existing password hashes. It has more code and generally should give you an idea what needs to be done and how.
#42 Remember, hobby cracking is not expensive anymore, The Cloud™ offers powerful machines (but if you're a cracking pro you should get your own GPU or two, or get Brutalis from Sagitta, it will be cheaper in the end of the day).
If a site limits the length of passwords to say 16 chars and you're using a password manager (unique random passwords) you can still create a secure password, even if you'll use just lowercase & uppercase characters and digits. But of course, that's not how most users create their passwords so you shouldn't limit the length. NIST says you should allow passwords "at least 64 characters in length". If you're wondering why for example Microsoft limits the length, then wonder no more, they might actually have a good reason.
Use password hashes (password_hash() in PHP) for hashing passwords. These are sometimes called "slow" hashes, while the other hashes that are used for message integrity (like MD5, SHA-1don't use these for integrity anymore, SHA-2) are called "fast".
If you're using those "fast" hashes, you should stop and upgrade hashing. Don't forget to also upgrading existing password hashes.
Still interested in passwords? Want more?
Check videos from Passwords conference series
See this Beyond the Basics of cracking talk by Royce Williams
Follow my Twitter list of people (etc.) that research, create, crack, talk about, or just know your next password
Get Hash Crack: Password Cracking Manual (v2.0) by NETMUX
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I don't recall that 29th January has ever brought me anything to reduce the day's unspeakableness.
I'm glad that some nice things have happened to ameliorate the anniversary's awful relentlessness.
I try and have things lined up to gift myself some self-care on the day in some attempt to make it less awful but I forget how hard the days leading up can be as well.
Great post. It's the appreciation of the little things. The world is unfair but how was your coffee? I did not sleep well last night but I will tonight. That spaghetti sauce was delicious, so much better than reading the gas bill.
I smiled at the cranky man in the park and he looked up and melted a bit.
I'm glad the universe smiled on you, particularly as you approach a difficult day.
Thanks, Trent. I can give the universe a hard time but I appreciated it having my back this time.
I feel the same way about having you in my universe, Mary.
I'm taking the day off work on the anniversary and I'm going to go sing and then float in the silent dark. I'm getting better at the self-care thing.
It's especially nice when a lot of little things combine to make a bad day a little better. I think it's a message to us when we think problems are too big to solve.
I almost didn't notice until the end of the day when I got the email to say I'd won the shoes. I looked back on my day and realised I'd been gifted little positives all day and it had been getting gradually better.
That's a great story. Thanks!
Heather, I hope the universe continues to offer you little gifts of kindness & joy as you approach this very difficult anniversary. Be well my friend, sending you hugs!
Thanks, Lynn. I have some self-care lined up for the day but I forget how hard the days leading up can also be. A bit like wading through treacle some days. I was so grateful for all the little gifts of yesterday.
When times get like this, I try to live one day at a time without looking forward too much. I hope you feel the virtual love we are all sending.
I do feel it and I'm so grateful for it.
Yes, I need to try and remember that. One day at a time. Even just one moment in the day at a time because some days feel endless.
❤ ❤ Be kind to yourself H. You are most definitely deserving of a place in the universe.
Thanks, Jude. I've put things in place to help on the day but I sometimes forget to cut myself some slack in the days leading up to it.
Sorry I missed this comment somehow. Thanks, Miriam. It really is the small things that can add up to enough to hold on.
Sorry for your loss and I read the linked article and sorry about your loss.
Cool that the worker spelled your son's name to be your sister's name! Spooky cool!
Thank you for such a lovely comment. And thank you for reading the piece about my sister. It's good to have others know how special she was.
But it is important to talk about it as a way to honor those who have gone too soon – and as you said – it can be comforting for others to know how special your sister was.
I like the paucity of details, which is odd, because I usually belabor excruciating details of my adventures as though I were passing down literary greatness with each drip of ink from my pen. But sometimes, the scattering of mysterious tidbits is more than enough to build a vivid picture and leave you room to fill in the blanks with your own embellishments.
I like your viewpoint. I hadn't really thought about it that way. I was probably thinking, "I won't bore you with the details." Or I was just too tired.
The universe is king. Sometimes it rewards us and sometimes it punishes us. Or at least it feels that way. Our moods might have to do with that. The way we perceive things, defines our positive or negative feelings. I'm glad that your day ended on a good note. Usually, when I have a string of events go wrong, I don't see the light at the end of the dark tunnel. Yet, the next day, I wake up with new, more positive intentions. Sending you strength through a tough period.
Thank you, Liesbet. Yes, some days it can seem impossible to find the good or the way forward but I guess the universe doesn't always want to stick the boot in even when it feels like it sometimes. Wishing you a friendly universe in 2019!


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Sergey Kovalev interview quotes – Kovalev vs Mohammedi
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Sergey "Krusher" Kovalev, WBO, WBA and IBF Light Heavyweight World Champion
On coming off big fights against Pascal and Hopkins but now facing a lesser known fighter:
"For me, any fight means a lot because it is the next step. Who I am and how I do my job means a lot. He is the #1 IBF contender. He deserves this fight. I very excited that I have three titles and I have the opportunity to defend it against Mohammedi. He deserves this fight. He is #1. He is very motivated. When a boxer is motivated or any man is motivated it makes him very dangerous."
On training in Oxnard:
"Oxnard is different place compared to my last training camp. I am very happy here and everything is comfortable. Everything is good. Big Bear training camp is conditioning and physical training camp. Now training camp in Oxnard is boxing camp with sparring and heavy bags. For the boxing, I feel very comfortable here. My sparring partners help me. I feel good."
On his last fight against Pascal:
"I had some problems in my training camp for Pascal. I made some mistakes. I started to make my weight very late. I was very happy after Hopkins fight. It was a lot of things. I celebrated New Year and Christmas in Russia. Christmas is biggest holiday in Russia. I got a lot of overfull. It made for me big trouble to make the weight for the fight. I didn't have a good sparring partner for the fight. It was a lot of things. Right now everything is clean and going very well."
On the possibility of a Pascal Rematch:
"I don't want to speak about Pascal because he does not deserve to get attention. He lost my respect for him even before the fight. I cannot respect even his team. He is piece of shit. Same as Stevenson. I think all fighters make terrible fighters in Canada. I don't respect and I want to kick his ass again and much, much bigger this time. If it will happen rematch, he will sleep in four rounds because he is a piece of shit."
On the added pressure of headlining a fight in Las Vegas:
"No for me it doesn't matter where I am fighting. I don't have any problems. I feel very comfortable and happy that my fight is in Las Vegas. I wait a long time for my fight. I wanted LA or Las Vegas and it will happen July 25. I am very happy and excited because I wanted to give to my fans who long time waited to watch my fight live and now it will happen. Las Vegas is biggest place for the fight and Las Vegas is terrific place a lot of people from everywhere come to Las Vegas to get more fun. July 25 they will be very happy and very fun day."
On Nadjib working with Abel Sanchez, Kovalev's former trainer:
"Who is this Abel? I don't know any Abel."
On Adonis Stevenson:
"He is a piece of shit."
On where he stands among all current boxers:
"I don't think about this at all. I don't care where I am. It is most important what I have, not where I am."
On his opponent, Nadjib Mohammedi:
"I can say that I will kick his ass."
On the added pressure to impress:
"I want to be better and want to be improved for every fight because a boxer can never to be perfect. 100% everything is good, no. Every boxer wants to be better, better, better. My goal in my preparations is to get better and remove all my mistakes from last fight. To show to people I can not only to punch, I can do boxing. I am disappointed people couldn't see in my first 14 or 15 fights. I can do boxing. I just started to get good opponents when I signed contract with Kathy Duva. Very big respect with Kathy Duva and her team that they got attention on my boxing. I am very happy that I signed contract Main Events and right now my career is going up. It will continue be going up because we are together right now. We are a team – Egis Klimas, Kathy Duva, Main Events and Krusher Promotions. We are going up. We give to boxing fans good boxing fight because right now it is very seldom in real fights. Because a lot of fighters are making business but not making boxing. I can count on my left hand who are the real fighters in boxing: Gennady Golovkin, Miguel Cotto and Keith Thurman and I don't remember more. And maybe me. I don't want to push me that I am the best, but if people are thinking it I am very happy. I wake every morning and get running and working hard. I happy that people are thinking that I am good boxer."
Kathy Duva, CEO of Main Events
"We are very pleased to be working with HBO and Mandalay Bay where we have had such a great history here at Main Events. Sergey Kovalev is a throwback fighter who wants to take on every challenge. He has fought the #2 and #3 guys in his division in Bernard Hopkins and Jean Pascal. Now he is fighting his mandatory against Nadjib Mohammedi. It will be a great fight. It always is when Sergey gets in the ring."
On why fans just want to see Sergey Kovalev fight no matter who he is fighting:
"It is the same thing that makes fans wants to watch Mike Tyson or Gennady Golovkin. Fans want to see knockouts. This is a blood sport. Sergey brings all of that. Sergey is a bad, bad man. He's got that edge and that danger to him. My barometer has always been when I get excited myself to watch a fighter after the thousands of fights I have seen. I still get excited when Sergey fights. Every fighter when he becomes accomplished enough will have to get themselves up for absolutely everybody. He needs to prove this too. He is still on the way up, but he is a lot further along the way. He has had two difficult and challenging fights and there is a natural tendency to taper off in that situation. He needs to stay focused on Nadjib."
On Mohammedi's hunger:
"He has nothing to lose and everything to gain. He has had a year to focus on nothing else but this fight. Sergey has had to face two huge challenges. He also had a child and moved across the country. Nadjib has had nothing to do except focus on this fight. He is working with Abel Sanchez, who used to work with Sergey, and they don't like each other very much."
On Sullivan Barrera and Isaac Chilemba fighting on the undercard:
"Jolene [Mizzone, Main Events' matchmaker] was still working to find opponents for them. I believe they are still on the card. Jolene is the best and she will figure it out. If Chilemba can't fight on this card, he will be ordered to fight as mandatory for the WBC title soon."
On the current status of ticket sales for this fight:
"There has been a tendency in boxing lately to give all the tickets away. Tickets are in no way sold out. It will take a lot of time before the damage to this market can be undone. We are hoping for a big walk up. I have no thoughts at all on the show down the street. Giving tickets away on the same night that people are charging for a fight down this street is another example of anti-competitive behavior. Our prices are reasonable, tickets start at $25. Sergey is well worth the price of admission and you get what you pay for."
On why Main Events signed Mohammedi:
"When we met Nadjib, he fought on one of our NBC cards against Anatoliy Dudchenko and became the #1 challenger. As Sergey's promoter I became interested in him. We struck a good relationship with him and his team. It made sense for us to work with him. When he came here for his fight on the Hopkins' undercard, his trainer couldn't make it so he ended up working with Abel [Sanchez]. He decided to wait very patiently for Sergey's other fights. He is exciting and aggressive and that is what we like to see."
On the odds for this fight:
"We don't set the odds. The odds don't reflect the competitiveness of the fight but certain people's willingness to bet on the fight."
On the possibility of a rematch with Pascal:
"I think Sergey just made it a lot more interesting with his comments about Pascal. From a business perspective, it is a great fight. We are keeping Pascal close. He is fighting in the co-feature but first Pascal has to defeat Gonzalez."
On the possibility of a fight against Andre Ward:
"We have been talking to Andrew Ward's people all week. We all agree the fight is going to happen; it is just a matter of when. Sergey's schedule for his next few fights is planned. That fight should happen by the end of next year. Sergey wants to fight the best. The best fighting the best is what people want to see. We want to complete that deal in the foreseeable future."
On the other potential opponents for Kovalev in the light heavyweight division:
"There are plenty of opponents. There are always new fighters coming along. The landscape of boxing changed six months ago and I am willing to bet that in another six months it will change again. I think between the fighters in the light heavyweight division and guys at 168 that are going to moving up there will be no shortage of opponents for Sergey. When you have that kind of star power in the division, they are going to draw together like magnets. Sergey has a contract with HBO and his career is mapped out for the next three years."
On Nadjib Mohammedi:
"He has had an education with Abel that he didn't have before. He came in as the opponent and he showed up on his own and did the job. You have to respect a guy that can do that. He has had a year to focus on this while Sergey has been focused on 1,000 other things over that same year."
On Mohammedi working with Abel Sanchez:
"He fought on the undercard of the Hopkins-Kovalev fight and worked with Abel on that fight as well. He has been in the gym with other tremendous other fighters. I give Nadjib a lot of credit."
On Sergey's improving English:
"I don't have to tell him that it is important. He came to me about it. Every time I talk to him it gets better. He finds ways to express himself. That is just part of the fun of Sergey Kovalev. He is working with a teacher. I had a similar situation with Tomasz Adamek and now he can express himself as well as anybody. The perfectionist part of Sergey will drive him to continually improve. What you don't see is when he is in a relaxed setting he is much better. You will see more of that as time goes on."
John David Jackson, Sergey Kovalev's Trainer
"He is unconventional. He has his own style. He's wild with some of his shots. Getting ready for him isn't an easy task. We have to prepare correctly. Now that Abel is working with him they may have a formidable fight plan to combat what Sergey is brings to the table. However, once he gets hit we will see what he is made of. We know they are going to prepare the best they can and so are we."
Egis Klimas, Sergey Kovalev's Manager
"Welcome to conference call and we are looking forward to the fight."
Vince Caruso, Nadjib Mohammedi's Co-Manager
On Nadjib's ethnicity:
"Nadjib is of Algerian descent but he was raised in France."
"HBO told me that they were up to 45-to-1 and that is about as high as Buster Douglas was. I think we are about 100-to-1 shot. We are in with a guy who doesn't make mistakes. Odds are against us but this will be the last time he will be overlooked."
On how Mohammedi started boxing:
"His older brother took him to a boxing gym and he fell in love with it. He was 14 years old and was working in the markets. He's been in love with it ever since."
On Nadjib's preparation for this fight:
"This is the first training camp where I know nothing. Nadjib is secluded with Abel. They are going to do it their way. He is up there doing their thing. I am down here dotting the I's and crossing the T's. I can tell you this, his weight is on target and he is in tip top shape."
About Kovalev vs. Mohammedi
WBO, WBA and IBF Light Heavyweight World Champion Sergey "Krusher" Kovalev (27-0-1, 24 KOs) will compete in his first mandatory title defense against Nadjib "Irondjib" Mohammedi (37-3, 23 KOs) on Saturday, July 25 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center, Las Vegas, Nevada. The co-feature will include a ten-round light heavyweight match-up between Jean Pascal (29-3-1, 17 KOs) and Yunieski Gonzalez (16-0, 12 KOs). Tickets are on sale now and start at $25. Tickets can be purchased through TicketMaster and all MGM Resorts Properties Ticket Offices. The HBO World Championship Boxing® telecast begins at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT.
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Sergey Kovalev and his team held a conference call this week in advance of his upcoming fight against Nadjib Mohammedi. Right here, find all the quotes from Krusher.
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By Sam Geraci
On February 13, Main Events hosted a teleconference for its March 29 light heavyweight showdown in Atlantic City between WBO champion Sergey "Krusher" Kovalev (23-0-1, 21 KOs) and top-rated but relatively unknown Cedric "L.O.W." Agnew (26-0, 13 KOs). The bout will be televised on HBO and is the first bout at the Boardwalk Hall for Main Events since Arturo Gatti took on Alfonso Gomez in 2007 in Gatti's final bout. Here are the highlights from the teleconference:
Sergey "Krusher" Kovalev
"I have only one big wish, and that is to win this next fight, and I have a main goal to win one more title this year.
"The public and the fans and everybody want this fight (Stevenson-Kovalev). Everybody pushes him, and this year will be this fight."
"This fight (with Agnew) is dangerous for me too, and who will win we will see. I'm going to the ring to win."
"All my focus is to win and then win my next title to get better and fight Stevenson."
"It's not my fault that my opponents all get knocked out."
"In my division the best boxer is Stevenson, and I need to beat Stevenson. After this, I will be in first place in my division. I'm ready for any fight in my division."
"I just want to fight Stevenson right now."
"I love to spend time with my family and friends."
Cedric "L.O.W." Agnew
"I prepare (for Kovalev) the way I've been preparing. Training hard, taking things one day at a time, hard sparring and hard work with my trainer, but I take no fight lightly, and I don't care who I'm fighting."
"A fight with Sergey Kovalev is a great fight for us, and we wouldn't have taken the fight if we didn't think we could win the fight. With that being said, I don't look at him as no terminator or nothing. He's a human just like I am. He can be hurt just like anybody else can be hurt. Come March 29 we'll see what's gonna happen."
"Well, to me it doesn't matter how many fighters I went the distance with or how many I stopped. Everybody knows that styles make fights, and I believe, I mean I know I have the style to defeat Sergey Kovalev or anybody else they put in front of me."
"Come March 29th, you'll see what style that is."
"Like I say, I'm gonna go out there and do what I've been doing for years. I don't look at it as there being pressure from back home because my hometown is gonna stand behind me regardless. On fight night, I'm ready to take care of business."
"I'm not focused on the fight they're trying to make or the fight they're thinking about. I'm focused on March 29th, and I'm not focused on people underestimating me. I'm training, staying positive and staying focused."
"I don't know how you guys are taking it. I'm not sounding overconfident. I'm just humble, and I know the roads I've had to take to get here and now that it's here, I have to show the world all of my talent. I have to show the world who is Cedric Agnew."
"In that fight with Yusaf Mack I just did what I needed to do to win the fight."
"I don't see nothing spectacular coming from this guy. My personal opinion I just think he's ordinary."
Kathy Duva, Promoter of Main Events
"The bigger names take time to make, and that fight (Stevenson) will get made, but our goal is for Sergey to stay active and Sergey's goal is to stay active. This is the fight we found. This young man is willing to step up and test his skills, and that's what this sport is all about. I remember people talking a long, long time ago when Mike Tyson was fighting Buster Douglass when we were trying to make the Tyson-Holyfield fight and you know what happened then, so I never ever discount anyone's chances of winning a fight and nobody ever should."
"From what we know, Cedric is a boxer and he is undefeated so he doesn't know what it feels like to lose."
"I think no matter what, we'll see a sensational performance from Sergey Kovalev. Like I said, nobody gave that guy against Mike Tyson much of a chance. There's no such thing as a sure thing. It's easy for someone to lose focus when there's talk of other big fights, and there's millions of examples of people who have lost focus and walked into something that they didn't expect. I think Sergey is a great fighter and think he can beat everybody in the world, but I've been at this long enough to know that you have to take everybody seriously."
"As a promoter, I can't come out and say that I think the outcome is preordained because I don't think any outcome is."
"The real challenge aside from Cedric Agnew is not to get distracted by fights that are out there of potentially happening. I mean there's been more questions on this phone call about Adonis Stevenson than there have been about Cedric Agnew."
"A fight between Sergey and Andre Ward is certainly something that is gonna happen someday, but it's not going to happen at 168."
"When you start out (looking for opponents), you have to look at the top fifteen. You have to see who's available and then discuss with HBO. Fonfara is someone that HBO would approve but he moved on. Cedric was also on that very short list of people that HBO asked us to approach first, and once we knew that Fonfara wasn't going to work out, we approached Malcom."
"He's American; he's undefeated; the fight's in the United States and Sergey's last two opponents have not been American so it made all the sense in the world."
Malcom Garrett, Promoter of Garrett Promotions
"Number one, we're glad that a lot of people are gonna underestimate Cedric Agnew. Cedric Agnew is a very skilled fighter. This is a fight that Agnew is chomping at the bit for. He thinks he's ready for this fight. We think he's ready for this fight. He was a good amateur, but had some hand problems in the amateurs, so he wasn't able to do what he wanted to do; however, he's been flying a bit under the radar, which may not always be the worst thing. He plans on upsetting, and I believe we got a fight here, gentlemen."
"Cedric would rather have fought Kovalev (than the IBF eliminator). Style-wise we like Kovalev's style for Cedric."
"I know everybody wants to see Kovalev and Stevenson. I'd like to see the fight my self. We'd all sit down and watch it, and I'm sure HBO will buy it later this year; however, they're just going to have to do it without the WBO title."
Jolene Mizzone, Main Events Matchmaker
"Sergey Kovalev is must see television, and someone you have to watch."
"The biggest point that everybody has to realize is that Cedric Agnew wants to fight Kovalev. This is a fight that they've been asking for. There's not many guys out there from doing the matchmaking that want to fight Kovalev. "
John David Jackson, Kovalev's Trainer
"Sergey's become an all-around fighter. He's going to the body a lot more. He's placing his punches a lot better, and he's not rushing his shots like he once did."
"He (Sergey) has boxing skills, but we haven't seen those because most guys don't go past four rounds, so maybe in the future we'll get a chance to see him display his boxing abilities."
"He's not just one-dimensional, and that's what a lot of fighters don't realize. They hear he's a "Krusher" or "Terminator" and they think he's just one-dimensional. Sergey has a lot of tools to work with. I'm hoping in this fight here that maybe Cedric will make Sergey show people what he can do and Sergey can showcase his talents."
"It's an intriguing fight, and we're not taking this kid lightly. Sergey takes no opponent lightly. When we're in the gym training, every fighter is the most important person on the planet at that moment."
"I'm in the same boat you're in, but we'll get films on him in the next week or so and then we'll dissect him and see what he is."
"Once he became champion, he became the hunted. He's no longer the hunter. This kid stepped up, so that means he's hungry."
"Our sole focus is Cedric Agnew."
Bobby Benton, Agnew's Trainer
Cedric's been fighting since he was eight, and he's got a bunch of amateur fights and knows how to fight. We've been begging for exposure and now we're getting it. He's gonna be ready; he always is."
"Since he's been down here in the last four years, he's maybe taken ten days out of the gym. He's a gym rat, and he's ready."
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Volume 99, Number 11, November 2002
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Innovation paradigms for the steel industry of the 21st Century. Future directions for steel industry and CC
J.-P. Birat
The History of Industry mirrors the History of Society, by which it is also reflected. Its purpose is to describe the emergence of technologies, which exhibit a personality of their own and not only bring out new possibilities, but also a stiffness to which all stakeholders, should to some extent yield, especially the decision makers in business circles. Technologies that succeed commercially are those which are able to provide sustainable answers to the demands put forward successively by each one of them. These robust technologies, which are not identical to the disruptive technologies of K. Brimacombe, meet criteria, which in effect are true innovation paradigms. A list of these is proposed here, stemming from a retrospective analysis of process development in the Steel Industry. It is probably adventurous to project these into a technological forecasting exercise, due to the non-deterministic nature of history. But this is an interesting way to focus on the challenges that should be met in the future and that no stakeholder would refuse to face.
© La Revue de Métallurgie, 2002
Scenarios for the technological evolution of the steel industry
Rev. Met. Paris, Vol. 92, N°10-11 (Octobre-Novembre 1995), pp. 1195–1206
Recent advances in near-net shape flat steel manufacturing
Rev. Met. Paris, Vol. 95, N°11 (Novembre 1998), pp. 1387–1406
Innovation in steel continuous casting : past, present and future
Alternative ways of making steel: retrospective and prospective
Rev. Met. Paris, Vol. 101, N°11 (November 2004), pp. 937-955
Résumé des articles techniques
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*When you see a harming Chemical throwing at work place immediately inform us.

*When you see a harming Chemical at work place throwing immediately inform us.

Which sentence is correct in term of placement of "at work place"?
"At work place" it should be after throwing as sentence no.1 or before of it.

A: Both sentences are pretty broken, in my opinion, and neither is correct. I'm assuming that by "throw" you mean "throw away".
The correct sentence is:

When you see a harmful chemical being thrown away in the work place, inform us immediately.

Furthermore, chemicals are hard to literally throw away (like you would a crisp packet). Even better is:

When you see a harmful chemical being disposed of in the work place, inform us immediately.

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I headed into the conference room with an air of positivity and prayer. We are going to flow. Exchange pleasantries. Lord please I don't want someone bullying me. I am young I know, but you know I tried to make it on time.
In my state of optimism and monologue, I almost ran into the head cleaner with her wet floor sign and a mop. The only thing that saved me from a good fall with cleaning water splashed all over me was that she was only carrying her apparatus to go return them. Water just has it for me this morning.
"E ma binu Aunty." I apologized in Yoruba. Don't be angry ma'am.
"Haba Aunty Zoya, gently o." She smiled as she adjusted her cleaning apparatus and walked away.
I know yeah, all the staffs love me. It's like I don't have a choice, I'm more like their baby. I don't know who let my age out or maybe because I was the first intern to be hired with a baby face.
I had to pause, to adjust my gown, then take a deep breathe so I can calm down before I made things worse than they were. My clothing was not as damp as it was and I felt more comfortable in them. My morning had better be good with all the good mornings I have received. After my breathing exercise, I gained enough composure and calmness to completed my walk to the conference room.
There was only one person in there waiting for me, so I summoned courage, knowing that the only reason why this representative is still around is because of respect for Dr. Wole. I pushed open the glass panel and walk into the conference room, feeling professional and in control. I have to play the perfect host.
Where did all my confidence go?
The partner smirked and motioned for me to sit on one of the about twenty similar chairs surrounding the long mahogany conference table. I felt like slapping the smirk off his face but he is actually cute and I am the person who is in the wrong. This is wrong, why should he be the one telling me to sit, I'm supposed to be my boss. Dr. Wole would be so embarrassed. He didn't even bother to return the greeting.
I smiled politely. Even though he had not responded to everything I had said, he sounded like someone with a good sense of humor. With all his cuteness, he looked familiar; I knew if I had met him before, I would likely not forget him. He was not beautiful; he was handsome, bold manly features and all.
"Yes, sir. Excuse me please, I need to set this up." I stood up and walked towards the screen big screen on the other end of the conference room to configure the setting with my laptop. I took my time and he kept quiet. The silence in the room was loud and but I decided to hold my ground. While configuring the machines which took less than three minutes, the longest minutes of my life because I could feel eyes roving me from across the room, I noticed some staffs passing through the hall. It was weird though as I noticed one be Feyi, one of the project's leaders who shouldn't be on this floor at all. It was none of my business; I just need to make sure this man understands what he came for. By the time I took my sat down opposite him again, he continued as if the silence had never happened.
"That's good. Considering the fact that some people don't actually like living their lives you could be in lots of money." I swear, if I understood what he just said, I would have responded. Therefore, I smirked and went straight to the point.
I raised up my head from the document I was flipping to face him and he didn't utter a word. That look was still pasted on his face and it was looking more like a smirk now. I wish to God this was not work related, I would have called him out for checking me out while setting up and as well making me feel like a fool after getting me to think he was cool with me.
"Check your phone." He moved his head slightly towards where I had placed my phone on the table. His smile still on.
Oh, snap! I had not thought about that and I immediately picked up my phone from underneath the office folder. It was when I pulled the notification bar down that my brain reminded me that Dr. Wole and I only communicate via emails and the ringtone that sounded, wasn't it? An instant message it was and as I was about to drop my phone, another message came in.
I stared at the messages for seconds that seemed like hours, raised up my head to stare briefly at Mr. Andrews. "Some seconds sir." And focused back on my phone. I am a very sharp girl, but sometimes, when the mind wants to play tricks on the sharpest minds, it does it so well.
"Take your sweet time." Was his response.
I quickly tapped on my menu icon, swiped, tapped on the gallery and scrolled down to the set of stingy pictures Manir had at one time sent to me. He wasn't much of a picture person and too busy to be changing display pictures.
I held my breath, grinned to myself, then after composing myself, faced Manir with a professional look.
"When I saw you entering, I supposed my thoughts conjured you up until I saw the door move." He placed one hand on his chin and looked me up with a flirty look, it looked natural on him albeit he was in a suit and should be looking professional.
I kept on soaking all of him in and next thing I know, we both burst out laughing.
The universe can be funny. After all our attempts at seeing face to face, we finally meet on my most awful day as an employee. I don't know who would love this gist more; Zena or Chiluba. "Cute aren't I?" he said as I was still staring at him and I broke off smiling.
We immediately went through both documents everything and even more than they were supposed to go through. He had left around a few minutes to 10 AM after calling the people he was to meet that he would be a little late.
"So we meet after work? I have to be out of the country for a five-day convention tomorrow morning." With a smile like that, how could I resist?


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He serves as Chief Belief Officer of the Future Group and is also story consultant to Star TV. Now a full-time author, speaker and illustrator Dr Patnaik draws attention to the relevance of myth and mythmaking in the realms of management, leadership and entrepreneurship. His talk was very illuminating and engaging. His extremely popular books were on sale at the venue and were quickly picked up by the members.
A very thought provoking topic was addressed by a very eminent group of participants including Shereen el Feki, is a British journalist and author; Syeda Hameed, Member, Planning Commission, Government of India; Mrinal Pande, Mrinal Pande television personality, journalist and author; and authors Anita Nair and Ruchir Joshi. The event was moderated by Urvashi Butalia, feminist, publisher, historian and the Director and co-founder of Kali for Women. The panel discussion was extremely engrossing and lively.
LSG members participated in an exhilarating and vibrant afternoon of learning, quizzing and singing on MV Sumangal, cruising along the banks of the river which has been a witness to so many colourful events of the times gone by. Mr. GM Kapur of INTACH introduced members to the remnants of our colonial history. The quiz that followed had a very enthusiastic response. Then the morning flowed into relaxed cruising accompanied by music and great food. A wonderfully chilly morning well spent!
This dance event was inaugurated by a Ganesh Vandana by Usha Uthup. The programme showcased ancient dance traditions Kathak – presented by Sharmila Biswas of Kalamandalam; Odissi – presented by Satabdi Mallick; Manipuri – presented by well known exponent Priti Patel and her troupe and Raas Garba other group dance presentations by LSG members. Narrator -- Mrs Gouri Basu, Vice Principal, Loreto House spoke about the history of dance in India through the ages and its relevance in our culture and tradition. A very colourful and joyous event full of spontaneity and energy.
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Acts of violence against women continue even in societies that have seen the spread of education, raised awareness about women's rights and improved lifestyle situations. What are the reasons for this? hat can be done to change the situation? How can we help? Where the main questions that came up and Smriti Irani showed her confident self in her answers as an individual as well as a political representative.
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Earlier this year, Ladies Study Group in association with Entrepreneurs' Organisation, Kolkata, also organized an event with well known, veteran film actor, Suresh Oberoi in conversation with Sister Shivani. Sister Shivani, the young, articulate face of the Brahma Kumaris and an immensely sought-after personality due to the clarity of the wisdom analyzed the deep rooted causes of the negative emotions experienced in life. She touched upon issues like - the ego, relationships, stress, anger, self esteem and meditation.
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Returning minutes lacking at Kentucky
By Mike MillerOct 21, 2010, 1:01 PM EDT
Kentucky may not go 35-3 this season. It may not reach the Elite Eight or tear through the SEC schedule.
But John Calipari's team is gonna be good. There's too much talent on the roster for a seasoned coach like Calipari not to turn in a winner.
And when he does, keep in mind this year's version feature far, far less experience than last season's freshman-filled squad. In fact, according to Kentucky Sports Radio, it'll be the least experienced Wildcats squad in … forever. The breakdown:
Just for comparisons sake, look at the returning experience from the previous UK teams that made the Elite 8 since 2000 and the '96 and '98 teams (along with one addition):
2010-11 (Miller, Liggins, Hood, Harrelson)
209 games, 3040 minutes, 856 points
2009-10 (Patterson, Miller, Liggins, Harris, Stevenson, Krebs, Harrelson)
349 games, 7093 minutes, 2328 points
2008-09 (Meeks, Patterson, Stevenson, Harris, Porter, Stewart, Carter, D. Perry)
2004-05 (Azubuike, Hayes, Moss, Perry, Alleyne, Thomas, Obrzut, Carrier, Lemaster)
2002-03 (Bogans, Fitch, Estill, Daniels, Hayes, Camara, Hawkins, Carrier)
1997-98 (Sheppard, Mohammed, Padgett, Turner, Edwards, Magloire, Mills, Masiello)
1995-96 (Delk, Walker, McCarty, Pope, Epps, Sheppard, Mills)
Here is an AMAZING stat coming into this year: Patrick Patterson entered last season with more career points (1,020) than this years entire team has (856). Let's not forget that 08-09 team, the one with the least amount of returning experience since 1992 was an NIT team.
(Great stuff there)
Even if Brandon Knight, Enes Kanter and the rest of Kentucky's talented 2010 freshman crop perform as well as John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins and the rest, they still don't have Patterson playing with them. That's a crucial and important distinction to make.
No wonder Calipari keeps trying to manage expectations for this year's group.
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In an effort to slow construction of three residential towers in the Two Bridges neighborhood, City Council Member Margaret Chin and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer will submit an application to the Department of City Planning that forces the plan to go through the city's land use review process. Developments at the waterfront site include a 1,000+ foot tower from JDS Development Group, a 1.1 million-square-foot development from L+M Development and CIM Group, and a 724-foot rental building from Starrett Development. According to Politico, the Manhattan pols hope the review process will encourage public scrutiny of the projects, including a demand for shorter structures.
Last year, City Planning said the proposed trio of buildings would create only a "minor modification" to the Two Bridges area, based on a broad zoning plan that expired 10 years ago. Current rules allow for soaring skyscrapers to be built without much public comment, a loophole Chin and Brewer hope to close.
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I Love Her, That's Why! An Autobiography by George Burns
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She puts salt in the pepper shaker and pepper in the salt shaker because then if she gets mixed up, she's right. She shortens the electric cords in the house to save electricity. That's the character Gracie Allen has played for years. And for all that time people have asked George Burns, "How do you stand it? Why do you put up with it?" And for twenty-eight years George has been answering, "I love her, that's why!" This story of the life George Burns has led, both B.G. and A.G. (before and after Gracie), is genuinely funny and genuinely moving. Nobody knows more jokes than he -- he's used only his best here; nobody knows so well how far down down can be, while very few have been at the top so long. He tells it all, and he tells it well (he admits unblushingly that he has the best collaborator in the business). And he has succeeded in making this love letter to Gracie, a letter that will delight anyone lucky enough to read it.
Originally published in 1955, I Love Her, That's Why! is the first of several autobiographies written by George Burns. It talks about his childhood, his early career, his early girlfriends and meeting Gracie. After that, the book is entirely about Gracie, but from his perspective -- one of the best love stories of the 20th century!
George Burns (1896 - 1996) "was an American comedian, actor and writer. He was one of the few entertainers whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, film, radio, and television. His arched eyebrow and cigar smoke punctuation became familiar trademarks for over three-quarters of a century. At the age of 79, Burns' career was resurrected as an amiable, beloved and unusually active old comedian in the 1975 film The Sunshine Boys, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He continued to work until shortly before his death, in 1996, at the age of 100." -- Excerpt from Wikipedia
Gracie Allen (1902 - 1964), "was an American comedienne who became internationally famous as the zany partner and comic foil of husband George Burns. For contributions to the television industry, Gracie Allen was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6672 Hollywood Boulevard. She and George Burns are also both members of the Television Hall of Fame, having earned joint induction in 1988." -- Excerpt from Wikipedia
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Full Strictly Come Dancing 2017 Line-Up Announced
After weeks of daily announcements; BBC One have confirmed the entire celebrity line-up for this autumn's series of Strictly Come Dancing.
The first celebrity announced for the show was Mollie King; who is best known for being one fifth of chart-topping girl group The Saturdays. Mollie isn't the only competitor from the pop world as former JLS member Aston Merrygold will also be hitting the ballroom as will fellow X-Factor alumni Alexandra Burke.
Soaps and continuing drama are also well-represented with Holby City castmates Joe McFadden and Chizzy Akudolu will be going head-to-head whilst Eastenders star Davood Ghadami and Emmerdale's Gemma Atkinson will also be appearing on the show.
ITV daytime presenters are also hitting the ballroom with This Morning and Loose Women's Ruth Langsford and Good Morning Britain's Charlotte Hawkins will both be donning their sequins. Meanwhile, Sunday Brunch's Simon Rimmer will be the latest in a long line of celebrity chefs to be strutting his stuff.
Some of the more interesting additions include former Communard and Radio 4 presenter Rev. Richard Coles as well as writer and comedian Susan Calman. Elsewhere, entertainment legends Brian Conley and Debbie McGee will both feature on the dancing show; the latter of whom will be following in the footsteps of her late husband Paul Daniels.
Finishing up the lineup is Jonnie Peacock; this years only sports star and the first ever disabled contestant on the show.
Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman will be hosting the show when it returns next month whilst Shirley Ballas becomes the new head judge replacing Len Goodman and joining Bruno Tonioli, Darcy Bussell and Craig Revel Horwood on the panel.
The BBC have announced that this year's launch show will contain a special tribute to former Strictly Come Dancing host Sir Bruce Forsyth who died last week at the age of 89.
Labels: BBC1, entertainment, Strictly Come Dancing, TV NEWS
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