Computer scientists from Saarbr?cken prevent data theft on smartphones and tablet computers

Public release date: 27-Feb-2013
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Contact: Gordon Bolduan
gbolduan@mmci.uni-saarland.de
49-681-302-70741
Saarland University

"Malicious Android apps are becoming a mass plague" is the headline of a study published by a German software company for anti-virus programs in recent days. That this is not just a sales pitch is confirmed by the analysis of the governmental supported "Stiftung Warentest" consumer survey. In May last year, it categorized 37 popular apps as "critical" for the user's privacy.

"I am not surprised. My smartphone knows everything about me, starting with my name, my phone number, my e-mail address, my interests, up to my current location," explains computer science professor Michael Backes, who manages the Center for IT-Security, Privacy and Accountability at Saarland University.

To prevent smartphones and tablets turning into digital spies the researchers have developed a new method which works for the Android operating system. "Similar to a screening line, the method scans every selected app installed on the smartphone and indicates its real behavior: Accessing your private contacts, establishing a connection to the internet and checking your position", Backes explains. The user can now revoke or grant privileges to the respective app at any time. A company founded by Backes used the published method to develop an app named "SRT Appguard". It runs problem-free on Android 2.0 and higher. It is also now guaranteed that the guarded apps receive updates from the Google Play Store.

Technical background

For their approach, the Saarbrcken researchers use the fact that the Android apps, written in the programming language Java, run in a so-called virtual machine. Compared to other smartphone operating systems, a running app can access the storage of Android's virtual machine. That's when SRT Appguard comes into play. Before the suspicious app starts, Appguard scans the storage of the virtual machine to detect security-critical functions identified by the IT-security experts from Saarbrcken. It does not manipulate the bytecode anymore. Instead, it directs the function call within the virtual machine to the security monitor, which observes the suspicious method calls and can even block them.

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The Center for IT-Security, Privacy and Accountability

CISPA is one of the three Competence Centers for IT security financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. It develops methods and expertise which provide reliable, secure computer systems and promote their robustness against novel attacks. Moreover, it works out concepts to secure private data, protecting privacy as well as guaranteeing a free, responsible interaction between user and system. To develop solutions for the main problems of IT Security within the digital community, CISPA implements a holistic approach. It cooperates with international well-respected research institutes, which are only a few yards way in Saarbrcken: the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, the Cluster of Excellence "Mulitmodal Computing and Interaction" and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).

See also:

Michael Backes, Sebastian Gerling, Christian Hammer, Matteo Maffei and Philipp von Styp-Rekowsky: The Android Monitor Real-time policy enforcement for third-party applications
http://www.infsec.cs.uni-saarland.de/projects/android-monitor/android-monitor.pdf

Download of SRT Appguard from the software register Heise.de
http://www.heise.de/download/srt-appguard-1187469.html

Center for IT-Security, Privacy and Accountability (CISPA)
www.cispa-security.de

For further information please contact:

Professor Dr. Michael Backes
Chair, CISPA
Phone: +49 681 302-3259
E-Mail: backes@cispa.uni-saarland.de

Sebastian Gerling
Administrative manager, CISPA
Phone: +49 681 302-57373
E-Mail: sgerling@cispa.uni-saarland.de

Editing:
Gordon Bolduan
Science Communication
Cluster of Excellence "Multimodal Computing and Interaction"
Phone: +49 681 302-70741
During Cebit: +49 0511/ 89497024
E-Mail: gbolduan@mmci.uni-saarland.de

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Public release date: 27-Feb-2013
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Contact: Gordon Bolduan
gbolduan@mmci.uni-saarland.de
49-681-302-70741
Saarland University

"Malicious Android apps are becoming a mass plague" is the headline of a study published by a German software company for anti-virus programs in recent days. That this is not just a sales pitch is confirmed by the analysis of the governmental supported "Stiftung Warentest" consumer survey. In May last year, it categorized 37 popular apps as "critical" for the user's privacy.

"I am not surprised. My smartphone knows everything about me, starting with my name, my phone number, my e-mail address, my interests, up to my current location," explains computer science professor Michael Backes, who manages the Center for IT-Security, Privacy and Accountability at Saarland University.

To prevent smartphones and tablets turning into digital spies the researchers have developed a new method which works for the Android operating system. "Similar to a screening line, the method scans every selected app installed on the smartphone and indicates its real behavior: Accessing your private contacts, establishing a connection to the internet and checking your position", Backes explains. The user can now revoke or grant privileges to the respective app at any time. A company founded by Backes used the published method to develop an app named "SRT Appguard". It runs problem-free on Android 2.0 and higher. It is also now guaranteed that the guarded apps receive updates from the Google Play Store.

Technical background

For their approach, the Saarbrcken researchers use the fact that the Android apps, written in the programming language Java, run in a so-called virtual machine. Compared to other smartphone operating systems, a running app can access the storage of Android's virtual machine. That's when SRT Appguard comes into play. Before the suspicious app starts, Appguard scans the storage of the virtual machine to detect security-critical functions identified by the IT-security experts from Saarbrcken. It does not manipulate the bytecode anymore. Instead, it directs the function call within the virtual machine to the security monitor, which observes the suspicious method calls and can even block them.

###

The Center for IT-Security, Privacy and Accountability

CISPA is one of the three Competence Centers for IT security financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. It develops methods and expertise which provide reliable, secure computer systems and promote their robustness against novel attacks. Moreover, it works out concepts to secure private data, protecting privacy as well as guaranteeing a free, responsible interaction between user and system. To develop solutions for the main problems of IT Security within the digital community, CISPA implements a holistic approach. It cooperates with international well-respected research institutes, which are only a few yards way in Saarbrcken: the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, the Cluster of Excellence "Mulitmodal Computing and Interaction" and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).

See also:

Michael Backes, Sebastian Gerling, Christian Hammer, Matteo Maffei and Philipp von Styp-Rekowsky: The Android Monitor Real-time policy enforcement for third-party applications
http://www.infsec.cs.uni-saarland.de/projects/android-monitor/android-monitor.pdf

Download of SRT Appguard from the software register Heise.de
http://www.heise.de/download/srt-appguard-1187469.html

Center for IT-Security, Privacy and Accountability (CISPA)
www.cispa-security.de

For further information please contact:

Professor Dr. Michael Backes
Chair, CISPA
Phone: +49 681 302-3259
E-Mail: backes@cispa.uni-saarland.de

Sebastian Gerling
Administrative manager, CISPA
Phone: +49 681 302-57373
E-Mail: sgerling@cispa.uni-saarland.de

Editing:
Gordon Bolduan
Science Communication
Cluster of Excellence "Multimodal Computing and Interaction"
Phone: +49 681 302-70741
During Cebit: +49 0511/ 89497024
E-Mail: gbolduan@mmci.uni-saarland.de

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Gun Control Proposals Separated Into Four Bills, Suggesting Democratic Strategy

* Proposals broken into four bills to improve odds for some
* Strategy suggests ban on assault weapons unlikely to pass
* Senate committee to vote as early as Thursday
By Thomas Ferraro
WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's fellow Democrats in the U.S. Senate have spread his gun-control proposals across four bills in an effort to get at least some of the less controversial measures - such as expanded background checks for gun buyers - passed into law.
The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote as early as Thursday on the bills, which together amount to an acknowledgement by Democrats that a ban on military-style "assault" weapons is unlikely to clear Congress.
The proposed ban on assault weapons makes up one of the four gun-control bills, all of which are likely to be approved by the Democrat-led Judiciary Committee and be considered by the full Senate, congressional aides said Tuesday.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, will decide how to package the measures for a vote on the Senate floor.
By breaking Obama's gun-control agenda into pieces, supporters hope to avoid having a less popular proposal such as the assault weapons ban contribute to the rejection of other proposals, aides said.
The proposed ban, introduced by Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, has drawn opposition from Republicans and some Democrats. It will be the focus of a Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday.
"We are taking a pragmatic approach that is designed to maximize our options," a senior Democratic aide said.
The four bills now before the Judiciary Committee include one introduced by Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the panel's chairman, that would crack down on illegal gun trafficking.
Another bill, by California Senator Barbara Boxer, is designed to increase school safety.
A bill, still being finalized, would call for "universal" background checks for all prospective gun buyers. Currently, only about 40 percent of buyers are screened for previous crimes or mental illness.
Feinstein's proposal, targets assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition clips like those used in the Dec. 14 massacre at a school in Newtown, Connecticut, that left 20 children and six adults dead - and inspired the current action on gun control.

'NO WAY' ON ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN
Wednesday's hearing is likely be the latest in a series of dramatic Capitol Hill hearings to reflect the passion surrounding the debate over gun control.
Those scheduled to testify include the father of one of the students killed in Newtown, and a doctor who was in a local emergency room when victims of the shootings were brought in.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said Democrats "are trying to create political theater" with the hearing, and that there is no way an assault weapons ban will become law.
"It faces bipartisan opposition," he said.
Even so, all four of the gun-control bills are widely expected to sent to the full Senate on party-line votes of 10-8, Senate aides said.
But to clear procedural roadblocks from Republicans on the Senate floor, the measures will need 60 votes in the 100-member Senate, where Democrats and independents who support them account for 55 seats and Republicans hold 45.
There have been calls from those in both parties for expanded background checks in an effort to keep firearms out of the hands of convicted criminals and the mentally ill.
But a bipartisan deal has not yet been struck despite weeks of talks among four senators - Democrats Charles Schumer of New York and Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Republicans Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Mark Kirk of Illinois.
"It is the one thing we think can really pass, and we don't yet have an agreement on it," a Senate aide said.
On Tuesday, Coburn said, "We're still talking." (Editing by David Lindsey and Cynthia Osterman)

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Tebow cancels speech at controversial church

By Evan Hilbert | CBSSports.com

10:23 AM ET February 21, 2013

Tim Tebow is doing some back-tracking, it appears.

After it was announced last week that he would speak at a Dallas Baptist megachurch April 28, the outspoken Christian tweeted Thursday that, due to "new information", he would not be making the trip.

"While I was looking forward to sharing a message of hope and Christ's unconditional love with the faithful members of the historic First Baptist Church of Dallas in April," Tebow said in a series of tweets. "Due to new information that has been brought to my attention, I have decided to cancel my upcoming appearance. I will continue to use the platform God has blessed me with to bring Faith, Hope and Love to all those needing a brighter day. Thank you for all of your love and support. God Bless!"

Whether the "new information" had anything to do with CBSSports.com's Gregg Doyel's scathing column on the church and its pastor, Robert Jeffress, remains to be seen. Jeffress has spoken out in the past against Muslims, Jews, Mormons and homosexuals.

Though Tebow hasn't shied away from controversy with regards to his beliefs -- recall the pro-life commercial from the Super Bowl a few seasons ago -- it appears that Jeffress' reputation and, perhaps more specifically his much-publicized hate speech, scared the image-conscious Tebow away.

For more NFL news, rumors and analysis, follow @EyeOnNFL on Twitter, subscribe to our RSS Feed, watch Pro Football 360 daily at 3 p.m. ET and NFL newsletter. You can also follow Evan Hilbert @evanhilbert.

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US senator hopeful Vietnam adoptions to restart

FILE - In this April 23, 2008 file photo, five-month-old baby girls are held by workers at an orphanage in Bac Ninh province, near Hanoi, Vietnam. Vietnam and the United States are close to an agreement allowing Americans to adopt Vietnamese children again, five years after a ban was imposed amid allegations of baby-selling and babies offered without parents' consent, a visiting U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La, said Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2013. Vietnam was a popular destination for prospective adoptive parents before Washington imposed the ban in 2008 following a U.S. investigation. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki, File)

FILE - In this April 23, 2008 file photo, five-month-old baby girls are held by workers at an orphanage in Bac Ninh province, near Hanoi, Vietnam. Vietnam and the United States are close to an agreement allowing Americans to adopt Vietnamese children again, five years after a ban was imposed amid allegations of baby-selling and babies offered without parents' consent, a visiting U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La, said Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2013. Vietnam was a popular destination for prospective adoptive parents before Washington imposed the ban in 2008 following a U.S. investigation. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki, File)

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) ? Vietnam and the United States are close to an agreement allowing Americans to adopt Vietnamese children again, five years after a ban was imposed amid allegations of baby-selling and babies offered without parents' consent, a visiting U.S. senator said.

Vietnam was a popular destination for prospective adoptive parents before Washington imposed the ban in 2008 following a U.S. investigation.

Senators and adoption lobby groups have been urging Vietnam to pass stronger laws and better monitor the process so that adoptions can resume. A leading advocate, Sen. Mary Landrieu, said Vietnam now has safeguards in place to resume adoptions, including a central authority overseeing the process.

"The government of Vietnam seems to be willing to restart, and there are just some final details to be worked out with the government of the United States," the Democrat from Louisiana told reporters late Wednesday in Hanoi, Vietnam's capital. "We hope that it will be in the near future."

Demand for inter-country adoptions has risen in recent years, especially by prospective parents in the United States. For singles wanting a child, or couples unable or unwilling to conceive, the idea of adopting a foreign baby from an orphanage in a poor country is attractive. But programs in several developing countries like Haiti and Guatemala have been beset by scandals and allegations of baby-selling.

A U.N.-commissioned report into adoptions in Vietnam in 2009 said the demand from prospective parents, most of them in the United States, had essentially created a supply of young babies. Cash payments by adoption agencies to orphanages led them to seek out children for adoption abroad, often without proper checks into their background or their family circumstances.

"The availability of children who are adoptable abroad corresponds more to the existence of foreign prospective adopters than to the actual needs of abandoned and orphaned children," the report said.

Landrieu, the mother of two adopted children and the wife of a man adopted from overseas, said "there was no perfect system," but that the urgent need of children living in institutions needed to be considered.

"There is always going to be a possibility of something going wrong, but just because one or two or three or a handful of cases is not handled right, it doesn't mean that you shouldn't have an opportunity for kids to have families," said Landrieu, who was among a group of four U.S. senators visiting Vietnam.

Vietnamese government spokesman Luong Thanh Nghi said that "Vietnamese law has had clear regulations on the process and procedures on Vietnamese children adopted by foreign families."

Asked whether an agreement with the United States was close, he said that "the two sides were continuing to consider."

In September last year, officials from Ireland and Vietnam signed an agreement to restart adoptions, which were halted in 2009.

Partly as a result of fears over baby-selling scandals, the number of international adoptions has fallen to its lowest point in 15 years. Globally, the number of orphans being adopted by foreign parents dropped from a high of 45,000 in 2004 to an estimated 25,000 last year, according to annual statistics compiled by Peter Selman, an expert on international adoptions at Britain's Newcastle University.

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Mexico security forces abducted dozens in drug war: rights group

IGUALA, Mexico (Reuters) - Dozens of people were abducted and murdered by Mexican security forces over the past six years during a gruesome war with drug cartels, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday, urging President Enrique Pena Nieto to overhaul the military justice system.

The rights group said that since 2007 it has documented 149 cases of people who were never seen again after falling into the hands of security forces, and that the government failed to properly investigate the "disappearances."

"The result was the most severe crisis of enforced disappearances in Latin America in decades," the U.S.-based group said. (Human Rights Watch report: http://r.reuters.com/fyk26t)

It recommended reforming Mexico's military justice system and creating a national database to link the missing with the thousands of unidentified bodies that piled up during the military-led crackdown on drug cartels.

The report was a grim reminder of the dark side of the war on drug cartels that killed an estimated 70,000 people during former President Felipe Calderon's six-year presidency.

The report also illustrates the obstacles that President Pena Nieto, who took office in December, faces in trying to stem the violence, restore order over areas of the country controlled by the drug cartels and end abuses by security forces.

For nearly three years, 56-year-old shopkeeper Maria Orozco has sought to discover the fate of her son. She says he was abducted along with five colleagues by soldiers from the nightclub where they worked in Iguala, a parched town south of the Mexican capital.

She says a grainy security video, submitted anonymously, shows the moment in 2010 when local soldiers rounded up the men.

"We used to see the military like Superman or Batman or Robin. Super heroes," said Orozco. "Now the spirit of the whole country has turned against them."

Hers was one of the cases illustrated in the Human Rights Watch report.

Pena Nieto has vowed to take a different tack to his predecessor Calderon and focus on reducing violent crime and extortion rather than on going head to head with drug cartels.

The government last month introduced a long-delayed law to trace victims of the drug war and compensate the families. It says it is moving ahead with plans to roll out a genetic database to track victims and help families locate the disappeared.

"There exists, in theory, a database with more than 27,000 people on it," said Lia Limon, deputy secretary of human rights at Mexico's interior ministry. "It's a job that's beginning."

Still, impunity remains rife. The armed forces opened nearly 5,000 investigations into criminal wrongdoing between 2007 and 2012, but only 38 ended in sentencing, according to Human Rights Watch.

In its report it describes the impact of the disappearances on victims' families, a daily reality for Ixchel Mireles, a 50-year-old librarian from the northern city of Torreon, whose husband Hector Tapia was abducted by men in federal police uniforms.

Neither Mireles nor her daughter has heard from Tapia since that night in June 2010.

"I want him to be alive, but the reality just destroys me," said Mireles. "I just want them to give him back, even if he is dead."

Since her husband's disappearance, Mireles has struggled financially, having lost his 40,000 pesos ($3,143) a month salary. She has moved her daughter to a cheaper university and can barely keep up payments on her house.

"I now travel by foot," she said, noting that Mexico's social security system does not recognize the disappeared.

Some family members of the disappeared have asked for soldiers guilty of rights abuses to be judged like civilians, a move Mexico's Supreme Court has approved.

"To us it just seems that the military is untouchable," said Laura Orozco, 36, who says she witnessed her brother's military-led abduction. "They're bulletproof."

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(Additional reporting by Michael O'Boyle,; Editing by Simon Gardner, Kieran Murray and Lisa Shumaker)

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Snow in Arizona delays resumption of Match Play

The pin flag on the 18th green blows in the falling snow during the Match Play Championship golf tournament, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, in Marana, Ariz. Play was suspended for the rest of the day. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

The pin flag on the 18th green blows in the falling snow during the Match Play Championship golf tournament, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, in Marana, Ariz. Play was suspended for the rest of the day. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Rickie Fowler throws snowballs at fellow players in the parking lot after a snow storm suspended the Match Play Championship golf tournament, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, in Marana, Ariz. Play was suspended for the day. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

A volunteer walks along the practice green as snow falls during the Match Play Championship golf tournament, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, in Marana, Ariz. Play was suspended. (AP Photo/Ross Franklin)

Tournament volunteers walk along the golf course after a snow storm suspended play for the day during the Match Play Championship golf tournament, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, in Marana, Ariz. Play was suspended for the day. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Golf fans make their way off the course as snow falls during the Match Play Championship golf tournament, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, in Marana, Ariz. Play was suspended for the day. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

MARANA, Ariz. (AP) ? Bundled in a winter jacket in a chilly tent near the snow-covered driving range, Mark Russell was asked where the opening day of the Match Play Championship ranked among his bizarre weather experiences.

"It's right there," said Russell, the PGA Tour's vice president of competition.

And Russell has been on the job for more than 30 years.

First-round play in the World Golf Championships event was suspended Wednesday when rain that came down sideways quickly gave way to snow from a winter storm that dumped close to 2 inches on Dove Mountain in about an hour. The temperature plunged to 33 degrees at the cactus-lined layout 2,800 feet above sea level.

"I've seen snow on the course when I was a kid, but nothing like that on any of the tours. It was crazy," said top-ranked Rory McIlroy, one of 20 players in the 64-man field who never even made it to the first tee at the Ritz-Carlton Club.

Tiger Woods also was in one of the 10 matches that didn't start. He will open against Charles Howell III, while McIlroy will face Shane Lowry.

After more snow during the night and morning temperatures around freezing, the course remained coated Thursday morning, further delaying play. The field is cut in half after each round and, with sunshine in the forecast the rest of the week, so it shouldn't be difficult to get caught up.

"We've got a lot of possibilities with this small field," Russell said.

Sergio Garcia, in the leadoff match, had just holed a 10-foot par putt to win the 15th hole and go 2 up over Thongchai Jaidee when play was suspended.

Ian Poulter's only other tournament this year was on Maui for the Tournament of Champions, where it took four days just to get started because of high wind.

"I can't believe it. When have we ever seen that?" he said, taking off his rain gear in front of his locker. "The two events I've attempted to play this year have been three days of 50 mph wind and 2 inches of snow in an hour. It's absolutely, flippin' unbelievable."

What does that say for the rest of the year?

"Can't get worse," he said. "Just incredible. Bizarre. Have you ever seen it? Especially where we are."

Maybe he should consider himself lucky. At least he didn't play Torrey Pines, where fog wiped out an entire round Saturday and Woods had to wait until Monday to polish off his 75th career victory. There were frost delays in the opening rounds at Phoenix.

But snow?

"I remember one year in Vegas in a collegiate tournament it was sleeting," said Webb Simpson, who played one shot. "We all charged toboggans to our coach in the pro shop and he wasn't too happy about it. This is crazy weather. But we've got a great forecast for the weekend, so hopefully, it will melt tonight."

Poulter was cold from the start, rubbing his hands together and jumping in place to keep warm in the morning chill.

The Englishman had a 3-up lead over Stephen Gallacher through 12 holes, then left the course plotting revenge after European Ryder Cup teammate Peter Hanson hit him with a snowball.

"I'm like an elephant," Poulter said. "I will not forget."

In only 3? hours of golf, there was some impressive play.

Bo Van Pelt, who took three shots to get out of a bunker early against John Senden, won six straight holes ? only two of them with birdies ? to build a 5-up lead through 12. Jason Day was 6 up through 10 holes against Zach Johnson, Matt Kuchar was 3 up over Hiroyuki Fujita through 14, and defending champion Hunter Mahan was 4 up at the turn against Matteo Manassero.

"It's hard to keep your hands warm," Mahan said. "You're feeling of everything just isn't quite there. By the last three shots we hit, it was unbelievable, crazy."

The best competition might have come after play ended.

Rickie Fowler wound up and fired snowballs from the parking lots. The caddies spent an hour having a snowball fight, though most of the players stayed inside.

That included Carl Pettersson, a guy who tries to see the glass half-full.

"This is one time I have the advantage of being fat," Pettersson said.

With delays like this, he might have company.

"It seems like every rain delay ? or snow delay ? that we have, you just seem to sit there and eat dessert," Day said. "And there's a bunch of yummy chocolates in there."

This was the second time in three years that wintry weather interrupted the Match Play Championship. Light snow covered everything but tee boxes and greens the morning of Luke Donald's victory over Martin Kaymer in the 2011 championship match. It cleared before the match, but there was a brief delay because of sleet that turned greens white.

DIVOTS: The last time the opening round wasn't finished was in 2005, when it never got started because of rain that put just about every hole at La Costa under water. ... The first-round losers will receive $46,000.

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News in Brief: Smoking damages mouse brains

Signs of Alzheimer?s disease appear after rodents breathe cigarette smoke

By Laura Sanders

Web edition: February 19, 2013

Cigarette smoke damages the lungs, but it also wreaks havoc in the brain, a study in mice suggests. Signs of Alzheimer?s disease increased in the brains of animals that breathed cigarette smoke for four months, scientists report February 19 in Nature Communications.

The relationship between smoking and Alzheimer?s in people is murky. Some evidence from the 1990s suggested that smoking actually protected people against Alzheimer?s, presumably by stimulating nicotine-detecting brain cells. More recent studies have found that smoking ups the odds of the disease.

To see what cigarettes do to the brain, scientists led by Claudio Soto of the University of Texas Medical School at Houston turned to mice. In animals bred to show signs of Alzheimer?s, cigarette smoke (one cigarette?s worth in air the mouse breathed for an hour, five days a week) worsened aspects of the disease. Compared with mice that weren?t exposed, mice exposed to smoke had several signs of Alzheimer?s: they had more amyloid beta plaques, a higher load of abnormal tau protein and more severe inflammation in their brains.

The scientists don?t know yet how cigarette smoke causes these changes, or whether a similar process happens in people.

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Career outlook is bleak for kid Oscar nominees

By Rick Warner, TODAY contributor

If 9-year-old Quvenzhane Wallis wins an Oscar for "Beasts of the Southern Wild," she?ll be the youngest performer ever to capture an adult version of Hollywood?s most coveted prize. Unfortunately for Wallis, her chances of taking home the gold-plated statuette for best actress are slim, and if history is a predictor, being bestowed with an Oscar at such a young age won't do much for her career anyway.

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If Wallis, left, wins, she'd be the youngest winner ever. Anna Paquin, right, was 11 when she won for "The Piano" in 1993, but Tatum O'Neal was just 10 when she won for "Paper Moon" in 1973.

Wallis, who was only 6 when she made "Beasts of the Southern Wild,"? is the 22nd actor or actress to get an Oscar nomination before turning 18. Only three have won, however, and all for supporting roles: Tatum O?Neal, Anna Paquin and Patty Duke.? That?s not counting the honorary juvenile award first given to 6-year-old Shirley Temple in 1935 and last handed out to 14-year-old Hayley Mills in 1961.

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The youngest winner was O?Neal, just 10 when she was honored for her precocious performance as the sidekick of a Depression-era con man (played by her father Ryan) in 1973?s "Paper Moon." She went on to star in "The Bad News Bears" and "International Velvet," but drug problems -- the result, according to her autobiography "A Paper Life," of growing up with an alcoholic mother and abusive father living in Hollywood?s fast lane -- derailed her career and marriage to tennis great John McEnroe.

Paquin, who was 11 when she won for 1993?s "The Piano," is the anomaly. She stars in HBO's "True Blood," had a recurring role in the "X-Men" series and has scored great film roles in "Almost Famous" and "The Squid and the Whale."

Duke's career trajectory was much different. Winning the the supporting-actress award for playing Helen Keller in "The Miracle Worker" (1962) when she was 16 did not "open any doors for me," she told TODAY.com.

Sure, she parlayed her Oscar into a TV series, "The Patty Duke Show," but her feature-film career fizzled as an adult and she mostly appeared in made-for-TV movies."It's a kick when people refer to me as an Oscar winner," she said. "But part of me says, 'Hey, I?m 66 years old. When are you going to give me another part for which I could be nominated?' "

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While Wallis is the youngest best actress nominee, she's not the youngest nominee ever -- that goes to Justin Henry, only 8 when he played the child of divorcing parents in "Kramer vs. Kramer?? (1979).? He?s never given up acting, but he hasn?t achieved the same kind of recognition again, and now works as a sales director for an Internet ad company.

" 'Kramer vs. Kramer' spoiled me," he told TODAY.com. "When you have such a magical experience with your first movie, it?s hard to match after that."

Haley Joel Osment, who was 11 when he was nominated as the boy who sees dead people in "The Sixth Sense" (1999), later starred in Steven Spielberg?s "A.I." and recently finished filming the sci-fi thriller "I?ll Follow You Down.?? But like many young Oscar nominees, he?s had a hard time duplicating his early success.

"When you?re young, it seems like a blur," Osment said. "You don?t realize what a unique situation you?re in."

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Northeast Ohio high school sports scoreboard for Monday, Feb. 18, 2013

Plain Dealer staff, February 18, 2013 11:46 p.m.

Boys basketball

NORTH COAST LEAGUE

White Division

Chanel18 12 15 20--65

#9 Cle. Cent. Cath.16 21 21 22--80

St. Peter Chanel (10-9, 5-2): Duke 3-8, Greene 4-5-17, Hargrove 9-5-23, Hill 1-2, Hines 3-6, Ivory 1-1, Mathis 1-2, Robinson 2-6

Cleveland Central Catholic (15-6, 7-2): Cooper 4-2-10, Lillard 6-2-14, Montgomery 8-4-20, Peters 2-2-6, Snyder 4-4-12, Stone 3-1-7, Washington 4-1-10, White 1-1

PREMIER ATHLETIC CONF.

Ash. Lakeside19 25 25 19--88

Eastlake17 20 18 12--67

Ashtabula Lakeside: Ajana 3-1-7, Anderson 2-0-5, Bradley 4-1-11, Downs 3-1-9, Jones 4-0-8, Meola 1-0-2, Morgami 3-1-7, Parks 7-0-18

Eastlake North (11-7): Caspio 7-3-17, Eldosov 3-0-6, Josipovic 6-3-18, Lang 9-7-29, Vrebec 10-1-21

NONLEAGUE

Gilmour14 29 14 16--73

#19 Walsh Jesuit14 17 14 16--61

Gilmour Academy (18-3): Cooper 1-0-3, Linane 6-2-15, Sullivan 5-6-19, Sullivan 4-0-11, Urban 0-2-2, Vala 1-0-2, Wallette 1-0-2, Wright 3-0-6, Zucker 4-4-13

Walsh Jesuit (16-6): Cona 2-1-6, Croft 5-5-15, DiCillo 3-0-6, Kay 1-0-3, Mittiga 9-0-18, Mittiga 1-2-4, Siwik 3-0-7, Stuffel 1-0-2

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Girls basketball

Sectional Tournament

SEMIFINALS

DIVISION I

MEDINA DISTRICT

#4 Highland21 25 11 13--70

#9 Ellet8 9 8 10--35

Highland (15-8): Adams 3-0-6, Catron 3-1-7, Kirchner 3-2-9, Kirchner 1-1-3, Peterlin 2-0-5, Peterlin 0-2-2, Profitt 3-0-6, Roddy 5-1-12, Unaitis 2-0-4, Wiencek 7-2-16

Ellet (9-11): Bailey 2-1-5, Love 1-4-6, Sharpey 0-1-1, Smith-Malone 3-1-7, Soujourner 6-0-14

NORTH CANTON DISTRICT

#3 Uniontown Lake 48, #11 New Philadelphia 39

#2 Canton McKinley 70, #12 Massillon Perry 35

PERRY DISTRICT

Will. South15 10 6 15--46

Shaw6 6 15 7--34

Willoughby South (6-17): Blasinsky 1-1-4, Fiorello 2-2-6, Menn 3-0-6, Stohlman 6-0-15, Zarbock 5-5-15

Shaw (14-7): Bush 0-1-1, Hunter 1-0-2, Jackson 1-0-2, Johnson 4-1-9, Marion 1-0-2, McLin 1-1-3, Walker 5-3-13, Wynn 1-0-2

Other score

#1 Mentor 74, #12 Lakeside 31

DIVISION II

AUSTINTOWN DISTRICT

#3 Struthers 55, #9 Cardinal Mooney 27

#1 Canfield 60, #10 Salem 33

ANDOVER DISTRICT

#11 Ash. Edgewood8 6 10 8--32

#6 West Geauga27 25 17 12--81

Ashtabula Edgewood (0-4): Adams 0-1-1, Brody 2-0-5, Dickey 4-2-6, Holden 2-2-6, Johnson 2-1-5, McTousty 1-0-2, Posequirla 1-0-2, Saturday 1-2-4

West Geauga (10-13): Baliker 6-2-8, Curtis 3-2-9, Goodrich 9-2-20, Heath 3-1-7, Kijauskas 3-0-6, Leonette 3-4-11, Poe 2-0-4, Praprost 5-1-11, Zuzek 2-1-5

#3 Lake Catholic21 24 22 15--82

#12 Orange3 0 4 6--13

Lake Catholic (12-10): Denk 1-0-2, Gibson 3-0-6, Goosby 3-2-8, Joseph 6-2-15, Karako 3-0-6, Kent 1-0-2, Lorek 1-1-3, McCoy 3-0-7, Spahar 8-0-16, Uveges 1-0-2, Waller 1-0-2, Whalen 5-1-11

Orange (1-15): Bitzer 1-0-3, Corlew 1-0-2, Erb 1-0-2, Sensibello 1-1-3, Shanklin 1-1-3

ELYRIA DISTRICT

#1 Fairview12 8 10 12--42

#8 Bay4 5 9 12--30

Fairview (19-4): Bilak 1-2-5, Coyne 3-4-10, Gullette 1-0-2, Hawkinson 1-2-4, Kovacevich 1-0-2, Morrison 2-2-6, Smith 3-6-13

Bay Village (9-13): Grubaugh 1-0-2, Hanna 1-0-2, Jerome 2-1-6, Passalacqua 1-0-3, Webblak 2-4-9, Ziebarth 1-6-8

#9 Cleveland MLK2 7 2 2--13

#7 Rocky River19 9 8 12--48

Martin Luther King Jr. (9-10): Duncan 0-1-1, Ford 1-1-3, Mason 1-0-2, Sanford 2-0-4, Simmons 1-0-3

Rocky River (8-15): Bednarski 3-0-6, Chiviles 6-0-12, Farling 2-0-4, Grierson 2-0-4, Ihu 3-0-8, Johanson 1-0-2, Klodnick 1-0-2, Popovich 2-2-6, Swartz 1-0-2, Williams 1-0-2

#6 Padua17 18 16 7--58

#12 Keystone7 2 14 10--33

Padua (10-12): Hartman 1-0-2, Heckelmoser 8-0-22, Mason 1-1-3, Pavicic 2-2-6, Vopat 3-0-7, Walsh 4-0-9, Weisenseel 4-0-9

Keystone (6-16): Irish 2-4-8, Knepper 4-0-8, Myers 0-2-2, Peters 6-1-13, Schaffer 1-0-2

UNIONTOWN DISTRICT

#12 Akron East0 2 6 6--14

#4 Triway17 16 19 11--63

Akron East (3-15): Felder 1-2-4, Lampley 1-0-2, Minter 4-0-8

Triway (14-5): Brooks 2-2-6, Cruise 2-3-7, Findley 3-0-6, Harold 4-1-11, Higgins 0-2-2, Jeffers 1-0-2, Marcum 0-2-2, Skeens 4-0-8, Wengerd 3-1-9

DIVISION III

BARBERTON DISTRICT

#7 St. Thomas Aquinas 32, #10 Black River 22

#6 Mogadore 46, #3 Berkshire 24

Hockey

SECTIONAL TOURNAMENT

SEMIFINALS

BROOKLYN DISTRICT

St. Ignatius 13, Avon Lake 0

SI (28-5-3): Geither 2, McQuinn 2, Whitney, Sellars, Smith, Malone, Stepka, Weigandt, Ellis, Schultz, Yarcusko. AL (3-26): None.

Goalies: SI, Williams (1 save); AL, Sullivan (50).

Bowling

BOYS

SECTIONAL TOURNAMENT

LORAIN

Note: Top 6 teams advance to the District tournament at Crest Lanes in Warren.

How they finished: 1. St. Edward 4416; 2. Brunswick 4347; 3. Olmsted Falls 4257; 4. Amherst 4211; 5. Holy Name 4061; 6. Vermilion 4017; 7. Buckeye 4017; 8. St. Ignatius 3986; 9. Keystone 3968; 10. Wellington 3966; 11. North Olmsted 3941; 12. Elyria Catholic 3876; 13. North Ridgeville 3865; 14. Lutheran West 3754; 15. Elyria 3730; 16. Lorain 3677; 17. Midpark 3611; 18. Clearview 3550; 19. Firelands 3472; 20. Westlake 3306; 21. Black River 3248; 22. Max Hayes 2087; 23. Brookside 1133.

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Source: http://highschoolsports.cleveland.com/news/article/539884368599861410/northeast-ohio-high-school-sports-scoreboard-for-monday-feb-18-2013/

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Talk of more corporate deals sends stocks higher

NEW YORK (AP) ? Talk of more deal-making sent the stock market higher Tuesday, putting the Dow Jones industrial average within close reach of its all-time high.

Reports that retailers Office Depot and OfficeMax are discussing a merger came after big corporate deals for Heinz and Dell were announced in recent weeks. Some investors are betting that more deals could be on the way as buyers pay premium prices for publicly traded companies.

The Dow rose 53.91 points to close at 14,035.67. All it would take now is one good day to push the average above 14,164, the record high reached in October 2007.

"It seems that investors are more comfortable with taking risk right now," said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at BMO Private Bank in Chicago. That's despite the $1.2 trillion in automatic federal spending cuts that are scheduled to start March 1 unless Congress and the White House find a way to avoid them. Congress returns from vacation next week.

Previous budget battles in Washington have rattled financial markets. But this time out, many investors seem unfazed by the prospect that Congress won't stop the "sequester" from kicking in. One reason is that the cuts are spread across the board for a decade, instead of all at once.

"I think investors are actually comforted by it," Ablin said. "It's not ideal. But if Congress can't do it when left to their own devices, this is the next best thing."

In other trading Tuesday, the Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 11.15 points to 1,530.94. The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index gained 21.56 points to 3,213.59. Google crossed $800 for the first time.

The gains were widely shared, if slight. Nine of the 10 industry groups tracked by the Standard & Poor's 500 index inched higher, led by energy companies. More than two stocks rose for every one that fell on the New York Stock Exchange.

Markets were also higher in Europe following news that the German economy is picking up steam. Indexes rose more than 1 percent in Germany and France.

Stocks of office supplies stores jumped following a report in The Wall Street Journal that OfficeMax and Office Depot were considering a deal to merge. The paper said an announcement could come as early as this week.

OfficeMax soared $2.25 to an even $13, a gain of 21 percent, and Office Depot shot up 43 cents to $5.02, a gain of 9 percent. Staples also rose as investors anticipated that more mergers could be on the way.

Analysts cautioned that antitrust regulators could block mergers in the office-supply business. Staples, for instance, tried to buy Office Depot in 1997, but was stopped by the Federal Trade Commission.

Health insurers fell after the release of preliminary government data that suggests rate cuts to Medicare Advantage plans for next year will be steeper than anticipated.

The two largest Medicare Advantage providers, Humana and UnitedHealth, sank. Humana had the biggest loss in the S&P 500, dropping 6 percent, or $4.98, to $73.01. UnitedHealth fell 66 cents to $56.66.

The government says it expects costs per person for Medicare Advantage plans to fall more than 2 percent in 2014. The government uses this figure as a benchmark to determine payments for these privately run versions of the government's health care program for the elderly and disabled.

In the market for U.S. government bonds, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 2.03 percent from 2 percent late Friday.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/talk-more-corporate-deals-sends-stocks-higher-144623643--finance.html

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NFL's Da'Quan Bowers Arrested on Gun Charge: Officials

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In this handout image provided by the NFL, DaQuan Bowers of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers poses for his NFL headshot circa 2011 in Tampa, Florida.

A Tampa Bay Buccaneers player was arrested at New York's LaGuardia Airport Monday morning after police discovered he was illegally carrying a handgun, authorities said.?

Da'Quan Bowers, a defensive end for the Buccaneers, was arrested at a check-in counter after he was found with a loaded .40 caliber firearm in his carry-on bag, spokesmen for the Port Authority and the Queens District Attorney's office said. He was about to board a US Airways flight to Raleigh, North Carolina.?

The former All-American player was charged with second-degree criminal possession of a weapon. A spokesman for the Buccaneers said Bowers is currently declining to comment as the organization investigates.?

He's scheduled to appear in court Monday evening.?

Bowers has played defensive end for the Buccaneers for two years. He played college football for Clemson University and graduated from high school in Bamberg, South Carolina.

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Live from HTC in London and New York! 3 p.m. GMT/10 a.m. EST

We're coming at you live Tuesday morning not just from two cities, but from two continents. HTC has beckoned us to London and New York for what what should be a pretty major event for the struggling smartphone manufacturer. We've seen weeks of leaks and leaks for weeks. But today it all becomes official.

We're liveblogging after the break. Alex Dobie in London, and Phil Nickinson and Anndrew Vacca from New York. It all kicks off at 10 a.m. EST, or 3 p.m. GMT.

Keep this site open, folks. It's on. 

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Food & Drink Food and wine and drinking at dinner

Posted by Matthew Schniper on Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 12:54 PM

In last week's Side Dish, I told you about a new oomph on display with the Colorado Springs Independent Restaurant Cooperative.

See it yourself at the next IRC dinner at 6 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 27, at TAPAteria. Drag your mouse over the mini menu below and enlarge it to see chef Jay Gust's planned presentation.

Only 30 seats will be available for this meal, so book soon if you're interested at 471-8272.

Next, consider this an early heads-up for the Colorado Restaurant Association's 18th annual Pikes Peak Food and Wine Expo 2013, set for Sunday, March 24 at The Broadmoor.

Tickets are $25 in advance (at spots like Jake and Telly's and The Famous Steak House) and $30 at the door to sample from more than 65 area food and drink vendors.

Then there's the Iron Chef battle between area restaurants, a silent auction, prize wheel and newly created bartender competition.

Lastly, it wasn't long ago that I advised you to sign up for Coaltrain Wine and Spirits' newsletter to get the early jump on cool stuff like a free scotch tasting with a master distiller.

I'll reiterate that recommendation now, because the latest newsletter edition features listings of wine and beer dinners extending out into April. Here's a look:

Odell Beer Dinner
Save the date: Wednesday, February 27th, join us at Springs Orleans for a paired tasting featuring some of our favorite Odell beers. Brewery representative, Matt Pomeroy, will be on hand to tell us all about them an answer all your questions.

Antler?s Hotel Old World/New World Wine Dinner
We have a neat treat for everyone who?s wondered about the friendly rivalry between aficionados of wines from the Old-World and those who insist on wines from the New-World. Come to the Antler?s Hotel Restaurant at 7pm on Friday, March 1st and decide for yourself!

Martin Arndorfer Wine Dinner At Black Bear
What a special treat! We are honored to announce that Austrian winemaker, Martin Arndorfer, will be with us on Sunday, March 10th . He will be in Colorado for just two days, hosting one wine dinner at Boulder?s illustrious Frasca, and one with us at the Black Bear in Green Mountain Falls. For wine connoisseurs with a penchant for Old World style in their wines, this is an event not to be missed.

Wine Dinner Featuring Chile & Argentina
We?ve had many successful events at The Warehouse and are excited to invite you to our first wine dinner there, featuring the wines of Chile and Argentina at 7pm on Thursday, March 21st.

Barolo Busters: April 3rd
We are pleased to see that this tasting has become an annual event. We taste the best Barolos in the store and Pete Moreno, MacKenzie?s Chophouse godlike chef, prepares a few goodies to elevate the event to unforgettable status.

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}); } $("#BlogComments").on('click', ".bottomOptionBar a#doSubscribe", activateSubscribe); $("#BlogComments").on('click', ".bottomOptionBar a.togglePanelClose", function(){$(this).parent().fadeOut("fast"); return false;}); $("#BlogComments").on('click', ".brandNewComment a.commentDeleteLink", deleteComment); $("#BlogComments").on('click', ".brandNewComment a.commentEditLink", editComment); $("#BlogComments").on('click', ".brandNewComment a.doneEditLink", editCommentSave); $("#BlogComments").on('click', ".brandNewComment a.cancelEditLink", editCommentCancel); })(jQuery); jQuery(document).ready(function($){ $("#BlogComments").on('click', '#showMoreComments,#showAllComments', getMoreComments); $("#BlogComments #sortSelect").change(getMoreComments); getMoreComments(); new Foundation.PostCommentComponent(componentId); var nc = Foundation.NotificationCenter.sharedNotificationCenter(); nc.observe("comment:added", function (e) { var comment = e.data; getComment(comment.get("oid")); // clear rating if (jQuery(".commentFormRating").length!=0){ jQuery(".commentFormRating input[name='reviewRating']").val(""); jQuery(".commentFormRating .goldStarContainer").css("left", zeroPos+"px"); } }); var subscribeCheckBox = $("#BlogComments_commentSubscribe"); subscribeCheckBox.prop("checked", getCookie("subscribeToThread") === "true" ? true : false); subscribeCheckBox.change(function (e) { var subscribeToThread = $(this).prop("checked"); setCookie("subscribeToThread", subscribeToThread ? "true" : "false", 30); }); var shareFacebookBox = $("#BlogComments_postCommentToFacebook"); shareFacebookBox.prop("checked", getCookie("shareOnFacebook") === "true" ? true : false); shareFacebookBox.change(function (e) { var shareOnFacebook = $(this).prop("checked"); setCookie("shareOnFacebook", shareOnFacebook ? "true" : "false", 30); }); $("#BlogComments").on('click', 'a.likeLink', doLikeComment); $("#BlogComments").on('click', 'a.reportCommentLink', reportComment); });

Source: http://www.csindy.com/IndyBlog/archives/2013/02/18/food-and-wine-and-drinking-at-dinner

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