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Challenging adventures ahead for county in 2014 Considering the No. 1 New Year’s resolution is to lose weight, and staying fit and healthy are in the top five, you may want to include challenging yourself at one of McHenry County’s sporting events. Tough Mudder is McHenry County’s newest obstacle course race. It will be held May 10 and 11 and its sister event, “Mudderella,” will be held May 31 at the Richmond Hunt Club in Richmond. Unlike marathons and triathlons run on roads and trails, obstacle races cover far shorter distances and ask participants to complete far crazier feats, such as wading through waistdeep mud, crawling under barbed wire, submerging in ice water and jumping through fire. Rally your staff to break out of their cubicles and bond with coworkers and get in on the challenge as a team. Register at toughmudder. com/events/chicago-2014.
Add the Lake in the Hills Parks and Recreation Department’s eighth annual triathlon to your list of challenges. Trudy Wakeman and her team work to bring you a “big city event with a small town atmosphere” Sunday, June 15. Whether it’s your first or 50th, the LITH Triathlon team will help you achieve your goal to finish. Registration is limited to 400 participants. Not sure you want to dip your toes in the water? Volunteers are always needed. Call 847-960-7460 to help. Register by Jan. 17 for a special offer at www.signmeup. com/97357. The Illinois Triathlon Championship is being held June 22 at Three
Continued from page E1 The government keeps Americans’ phone records for at least five years before destroying them. Obama’s review committee said phone companies could hold the same data for two years before destroying them. NSA officials have said they could compromise no lower than three years but want all the data to be standardized. “The data has to be provided or kept in a way that allows it to be integrated” by the NSA, said the agency’s general counsel, Rajesh De, during a November hearing of the semiindependent Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, another task force examining the surveillance program. Currently, phone companies differ in what they keep on file. For example, according to Justice Department records, Verizon maintains calling-detail records over a rolling year, disposing of them once a year passes. Sprint and Nextel keep them 18 to 24 months, while T-Mobile and AT&T divide the records into
miniature form of him, that is. The Illinois Office of Tourism rolled out a new tourism spot this past fall starring “Mini Abe,” a tiny plastic version of the 16th president who is an adventurer who loves to travel and share his experiences as he journeys through the Land of Lincoln. Look for him throughout McHenry County Jan. 19-25 and follow him on our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/visitmchenrycounty or on Twitter with the hashtag #MiniAbe. If your business serves the visitors industry, the 2014 Illinois Governor’s Conference on Tourism is a must-attend event. This year’s conference, “The Power of People and Travel,” will be held Feb. 3-5 at the Palmer House in Chicago. The tourism industry is a thriving source of the state’s economy and it is growing each year in McHenry County. Each year, tourism profes-
sionals come together to learn from industry experts and take advantage of the latest information, products and services which enhance travel in Illinois. Keynote speakers include Bridget Brennan, CEO of The Female Factor and author of “Why She Buys.” Conference information and registration is available at www.illinoisgovconference.com. The McHenry County Convention & Visitors Bureau wishes you a happy 2014. Remember to experience McHenry County first.
• Laura Witlox Middaugh is the manager of group sales at the McHenry County Convention & Visitors Bureau. Follow the McHenry County Convention & Visitors Bureau on Facebook at www. facebook.com/visitmchenrycounty and Twitter at www.twitter.com/ McHenry_County.
Dimon: Target breach is a wake-up call
Phone companies worry about cost of compliance • DATA SHIFT
Oaks Recreation Area in Crystal Lake. Participants can choose their distance based on personal experience and training. Options include an Olympic Triathlon with a 1,500-meter swim, 26.5-mile bike ride and 10-kilometer run; a Sprint Triathlon with a 500-meter swim, 13-mile bike ride and 5-kilometer run; an Olympic Aquabike with a 1,500-meter swim and 26.5-mile bike ride; and a Sprint Aquabike with a 500-meter swim and 20-kilometer bike ride. Registration is limited to 1,000 participants. Register at www.3disciplines.com/events/ illinios-triathlon-championship. Planning also is underway for additional sporting events in McHenry County. Call the McHenry County Convention and Visitors Bureau at 815-893-6280 for the most up-to-date information on events. McHenry County will soon welcome Abraham Lincoln. Well, a
TOURISM Laura Witlox Middaugh
By KEN SWEET The Associated Press
pre-paid and post-paid categories, with different durations. Standardizing such a variety of reporting and storage requirements and holding so much more data would cause phone companies to expand their collection infrastructure and hire more lawyers and technical staff to respond to the NSA’s needs. “It would be enormously costly and burdensome to set up and implement,” said Michael Sussmann, a Washington attorney who specializes in technology and national security issues. “However you change the system, they would have to handle a greater set of data than they collected before. And more people – of all sorts – will come looking for it.” The cost could be high. Last week, the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., said it would cost at least $60 million to shift the records for the NSA program to phone providers. Feinstein opposes such a shift. Keeping the records at phone companies so they could be readily searched by the government won’t satisfy privacy advocates, either.
NEW YORK – More Target-sized security breaches will happen if banks and retail stores don’t start working together to further protect customers’ data, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said Tuesday. JPMorgan has replaced 2 million credit and debit cards as a result of the breach, said Dimon in his first public comments about the event. The bank has replaced nearly all the affected cards. JPMorgan is the world’s largest issuer of credit cards. Dimon expects that cybercrimes such as the Target breach will become more common if retailers and banks do not work on security, he said. “This story is not over, unfortunately,” Dimon said in a conference call with investors following the bank’s fourth-quarter earnings announcement. In December, Target said 40 million credit and debit card accounts – including customers’ card numbers, expiration dates, debit-card PINs and the embedded code on the magnetic strip on the back of cards – were stolen
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More Target-sized security breaches will happen if banks and retail stores don’t start working together to further protect customers’ data, JPMorgan Chase’s CEO Jamie Dimon said Tuesday. in a data breach that happened between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15. Last week, the company disclosed that hackers stole an additional trove of data affecting 70 million people. That data included names and phone numbers as well as email and mailing addresses. The company said there is some overlap between the two data sets.
It is the second-largest theft of shoppers’ credit card data, following the theft of 90 million customers’ data from discount retailer TJX in 2007. Dimon said the bank hasn’t seen a reduction in consumer spending due to the breach, and there are no signs that consumers moved to other forms of payment,
like cash or checks. The breach is not expected to affect JPMorgan’s financial results, a company spokeswoman said. Dimon, who had not publicly commented on Target’s breach until Tuesday, said he expects that banks will issue cards with more security features on them in the future.
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By PHILLIP ALDER Newspaper Enterprise Association
When an average golfer gets a birdie (one under par), it is anticipated that he will make a mess of the next hole. But not a pro. However, what do you think is the worst score by a pro immediately after making a hole in one? In golf, you try to place your ball well for your next shot. This also applies in bridge. Are your cards meshing well or badly with partner’s hand? Look only at the North hand. South opens one heart, North raises to two hearts, and South rebids two spades. What should North do now? Before you answer that question, what does South’s two-spade rebid show? It indicates a hand too strong to pass out two hearts, but too weak to jump to four hearts. He is showing four spades and a hand with six losers (here, one spade, one heart, three diamonds and one club). South is asking North to look in particular at his holdings in the majors. North has a useful spade queen, four trumps
(a nine-card it is much better than an eight-carder) and an ace. Yes, he has only seven high-card points and 4-3-3-3 distribution, but since his hand has those three pluses, he should jump to four hearts. Agreed, on a bad day, declarer will lose three diamonds and one heart, but the odds make this game worth bidding, and it succeeds here. Late last year in Australia, at a European tour event (yes, in Australia), one golfer had a hole in one. On the next hole, a par four with no water, he had an 11.
Contact Phillip Alder at pdabridge@prodigy.net.