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For the most part, the air was cleared at the 2006 Games. Ohno's fellow competitors made sure to praise his character, making him a competitive rival, but not a political one. In 2007, Ohno spent time training in South Korea, helping him stablize his relationship overseas. He is still sometimes referred to as "The King of Fouls," and as recently as 2010, a Korean company was selling Ohno toilet paper. But Ohno has mostly subdued the 2002 turmoil.
"I've had Korean coaches and Chinese coaches," Ohno says. "I went and lived in Korea, trained, ate, slept and studied exactly like the Korean athletes did. I have a lot of business partners in Korea. I love Korean people and food.
"But I can definitely tell you that there was a time where it was very different for me."
South Koreans will be paying top dollar to see their heroes compete at home on the grandest stage for the first time. And it won't just be the South Koreans who get celebrity treatments. While Americans may only focus on short-track speedskaters every four years, the South Koreans know the sport's stars. Ohno can attest to his treatment in 2007.
"It was like I literally was Brad Pitt walking down the street," Ohno says of appearing in South Korea during his peak. "It was insane -- people waiting in the airport, people waiting in the hotel for hours, waiting overnight."
Unlike any South Korean skater, Ohno has already experienced competing in front of his own flag, doing so in Salt Lake City in 2002.
"I had all of the hometown crowd and Americans cheering for me and chanting my name and an energy, I just can't describe it," he says. "I've been to World Cups before for soccer, I've been to Super Bowls and there is nothing like the Olympic Games, and I can wholeheartedly say that. There's something inherently special and different about it that you just have to go and experience. These Games are really going to showcase the love and the passion of the Korean people and the love they have for the sport. I think it's a long time coming.
"There's like a collective nationalism, pride and respect that Koreans have for one another, especially when it comes to sport. It's actually interesting to watch. It's very unique to South Korea."
For Ohno, it will be fun to be at a South Korea Olympics in 2018.
Would it have been a touch more hostile in 2006? Perhaps.
For the second straight Olympics, Ohno will serve as an analyst for short-track competition on NBC. (He also reported for NBC during the 2012 Summer Olympics).
"To explain what it's like to be gliding around the ice 30 miles per hour or at the Opening Ceremonies, where tens of thousands of people are screaming for their countrymen, and the energy, it's a very difficult experience to put into words," Ohno says.
Ohno admits that in 2014 he rode a confusing swing of emotions he was not used to at the Olympics.
"It was weird in the fact that during the races, my adrenaline and heart rate still shoots up, my pupils probably dilate as if I'm on the ice," he says. "The thing is, I'm not, so instead of concentrating on my goal, I now have to explain other athletes' mindsets, what are they going through. It's slightly weird."
Ohno is still the only U.S. male to win gold in short track. He has eight of the 11 total men's short-track medals for his country (including relay medals). Without Ohno in 2014, Team USA only claimed one short-track medal -- men's or women's -- a silver in the 5,000-meter men's relay.
"It's a blend of senior and junior athletes," Ohno says of the 2018 roster. "It's essentially an entirely new team on the men's side. On the women's side, Lana Gehring and Maame Biney. ... Biney is perhaps the most exciting story that we've seen on the short-track speedskating women's side in 20 years. And you'll see a lot about her, her story, her father and their journey. And just her energy and smile is so infectious. I'm excited to watch her. I think she’s a wild card. On the men's side, J.R. [Celski] is a veteran. This will be his third Olympic Games. He's really experienced. He's had a tough couple years of performances, but you never know, he may be able to pull it together, and if he does, he'll be a real threat to medal."
Biney, 17, who was born in Ghana, will become the second African-born U.S. Winter Olympian. Biathlete Dan Westover competed in 1998.
Ohno will also be going to PyeongChang as a spokesperson for Hershey's Gold and is starring in an ongoing video series for the special candy bar. Hershey's is an official sponsor of the USOC.
"It's really tough. Those gymnastics girls are so strong and it broke my heart. It happened for so long and it's outrageous. I really commend a lot of those young ladies for coming forward. I can only imagine how difficult and painful that might be. But as a fellow Olympic brother, I support them and I may never understand the pain and the hurt that they have gone through, but everyone believes in the future, the strength, and the psychology of someone's mental health, and when someone damages that, at such a vulnerable age, it's really damning. I hope that the sport can now begin to heal and those girls can truly begin to heal. It's tough. When I heard that it broke my heart, like, 'What the hell? Why is this still happening?'"
There were on average 84 flights daily making the short hop which takes about an hour, according to the study by air travel intelligence firm OAG.
A large number of airlines serve the route, from full-service carriers such as Singapore Airlines and Malaysia Airlines to budget ones like AirAsia.
A high-speed railway line is being built to link the cities and is expected to be completed in 2026, cutting travel time overland to 90 minutes from around five hours.
Asia dominated the list of the world's 20 busiest international air routes, with 14 operating to and from destinations in the region, Britain-based OAG said.
Two operate within Europe, two in North America, one between North America and Europe, while another is in the Middle East, it added.
The world's second busiest air route is between Hong Kong and the Taiwanese capital Taipei, with 28,887 flights in the year to February, followed by the Jakarta to Singapore route with 27,304 flights.
They leave as empty-handed as they came, their heads shaved like those of prisoners, bowing and smiling deferentially as police officers in cherry-red helmets herd them into the holds of cargo ships.
Victims of Malaysia's ''Operation Get Out,'' they are illegal workers from Indonesia who were welcomed here when the economy was booming but are now being rounded up, locked in detention camps, and sent back home on daily shiploads.
''If we must grow calluses on our hearts, so be it,'' said an editorial in The Straits Times of Singapore, where the Government is using floggings and jail terms to deter migrants.
But even as they are sent back across the Strait of Malacca, many more migrants are coming, driven by the growing poverty and joblessness of neighboring Indonesia. Officials say as many as 300 or more people are landing every day in Malaysia alone.
This is Asia's new fear: a tide of desperate economic refugees who could begin to swamp the shores of their neighbors in what some are already calling a new wave of boat people.
As much as the empty office buildings and shuttered factories of Southeast Asia's shrinking ''tiger'' economies, these crisscrossing streams of jobless workers are a new emblem of the region's hardships.
It was only in 1996 that Malaysia and other Southeast Asian countries finally sent home the last stragglers from among the Vietnamese boat people, more than 20 years after the end of the Vietnam War.
Now the worry is Indonesia, just a few miles across the water, where experts predict that 8 million to 10 million people could be unemployed this year, out of a population of 200 million and a work force of 90 million.
Hundreds of thousands -- or even millions -- of returnees from other countries will only add to Indonesia's hardships.
The potential for violent disorders in Malaysia was clear two weeks ago when some illegal migrants rioted at a detention camp near Kuala Lumpur, the capital. Eight detainees and a police officer were killed, and scores were wounded.
The first fears of an influx were expressed in Australia early this year. Indonesians angered by rising prices were turning against the ethnic Chinese minority that controls much of Indonesia's commerce. An outbreak of anti-Chinese riots raised memories of mass killings in 1965, when the Chinese were one of the targets. Many wealthy Chinese in Indonesia have already moved their families to Australia, Singapore or elsewhere.
But for the present, officials here say, ethnic Chinese make up few of the new migrants. Instead, they come from the same poor class of Indonesians who for years have been welcomed as cheap labor.
For more than a decade, migrant labor formed one of the engines of Asia's economic boom. Malaysia in particular, with a population of just 21 million, has relied on foreign workers in the last decade as it binged on huge construction projects.
Foreign laborers now make up as much as a fifth of Malaysia's work force, including an estimated 1.2 million Indonesians, 800,000 of whom are here illegally. Some 25,000 Indonesians did most of the work in building a just-completed international airport. They are now being sent home.
Ubiquitous in Kuala Lumpur but little noticed, small Indonesian ''villages'' are evidence of this large population of workers, with their lively Indonesian music, their rows of bird cages and the sweet smell of clove cigarettes.
The situation is similar in Thailand, which is home to about a million illegal workers, most of them from neighboring Myanmar, the former Burma. With unemployment in Thailand forecast nearly to double, to more than two million, the Thais say they will expel some 300,000 foreign workers this year.
Singapore is a smaller country with equally large fears of inundation by migrants. Its population is only three million, and its shores are only a two-hour boat ride from Indonesia.
''We are literally a nation besieged,'' said the prosecutor in a trial last month at which 117 illegal migrants were sentenced to up to six weeks in jail and four to six strokes of the cane.
In addition to chasing down illegal migrants, Malaysia has announced that it will not renew the work permits of as many as 850,000 legal foreign workers when they expire in August.
This raises the prospect of expulsions on a daunting scale. ''If we want to send back even half the illegal workers, how are we going to transport 400,000 people?'' said Mr. Baginda, the political scientist.
At the same time, Malaysia has mounted an aggressive defense against new arrivals, including a small flotilla of naval vessels, a new radar system and posses of villagers who patrol their shores like wartime vigilantes.
In the last three weeks of February alone, the police reported that 332 boats had brought 3,971 illegal migrants -- three-fourths of the total number of landings in all of 1997, when 444 boats brought 5,432 people.
A hub might get patches, but the doodads? Your light bulbs, door switches, door locks! will all be... patch? It's 6 months old! buy a new one. The fancy fridge that cost $2000? Maybe if you can get it on the NEWS so it's hard to ignore.
The burglar would first have to break in and disconnect my cable modem for 15mins to force a network reset, then turn it off and on again to get a new IP, before they were able to hack my smart home.
Can you explain your reasoning for those who aren't familiar with Rogers? Is there some reason why your wifi is completely unhackable when everyone else's is vulnerable to known exploits that aren't addressed until WPA3 is out, for instance?
Rogers follows the Canadian telecom model of providing billing with a minimum of actual telecoms.
With all the switched-on generation falling for this crap the burglars won't bother to go to the effort of picking locks and smashing windows, so the rest of us should be safe.
Obviously IOT introduces vulnerability, but it's hardly groundbreaking. A smart burglar can hack a camera, work out when you are in your garage and 'just walk in'? Of course. A smarter burglar might just sit on a park bench over the street and notice when you walk out to the garage, which would have the advantage of them being nearby*. If I want to identify people with a regular 'habit' I could sit at the train station and watch who it is who gets on the 7:38 each day. Clearly setting up an impersonal-able way of unlocking a door is a bad idea. So just don't do that.
Yes, it's changed quite a lot! First, the so-called "stereotypical hacker" you describe has not been a notable player or serious threat for years. The Good Stuff is written by well-funded professionals, for whom it is a BUSINESS. It's not about individuals on pathetic ego trips, but well-run outfits making sophisticated malware to steal millions. And hoodies? Seriously?
Second, nobody will sit outside a house on the off chance the residents will leave, that's NOT convenient and is a good way to get questioned by cops. Instead, they can sit comfortably at home, in their van, etc. and monitor dozens of potential burglary sites.
The world has changed indeed. Never could so much info be easily gathered from so many sources, stored in searchable form and shared around with a click. Dystopia doesn't begin to cover it.
Well - locally the preferred modus operandi is to walk up to the door and ring the bell. If no answer try the side gate and if that's open stroll round the back. If challenged choose from 'I saw the gate open and thought there might be a problem' or 'isn't this Fred's house - he said I could pick up his wheel barrow'.
Hoodies are pretty much obligatory.
Cops? I saw one once when I went to the big city.
Has anyone EVER actually been burgled by an IOT literate burglar? (FoF , man in pub's FOF or Facebook memes don't count).
And good luck hacking your way in via Alexa - 'Alexa unlock the back door' - 'Back Door Man by the Doors isn't avialble on Amazon Prime - subscribe to Amazon Music to receive unlimited downloads' ....repeat ad infinitum.
I'm safe then because I don't have a doorbell. And having worked for a company that makes smart locks, there's no way I'm having anything other than the finest Swedish mechanical locks on my doors.
I have ZERO smart\IoT gadgets on the home network. PNP on the modem is disabled.
Nope - you have a modem and a home network.
Old school is 'I live in a cave and have none of that new fangled electricerry'.
Cave? What cave? I'm still roaming the Kalahari.
I'm still roaming the Kalahari.
Roaming the Kalahari? How terribly modern! I'm still considering whether to evolve from primordial slime..
It's easier to not have anything worth stealing.
Whats a kidney worth these days?
The real challenge here is that technical capability of devices is increasing at an incredible pace, while for all but the most savvy users default settings and blind trust seem to prevail.
In some cases the technology implementation may be completely wrong and insecure, regardless of the implementation.
In other cases it will be configuration.
Most ordinary users will not be able to recognise the first and properly mitigate the second.
This is just like the early versions of multi-user Windows - allow everyone to do anything, then try to restrict then from doing something they shouldn't be doing.
Should really be the same as any properly designed OS where no-one apart from the administrator can do anything at all, and they then you allow you to do specific things as necessary.
For most people, if they are the subject of crime it is likely to be opportunistic. Complex attacks against chains of IoT devices designed to allow access to a property are unlikely. Blackmail or attempting to obtain your banking credentials are more likely, but until its easier to find insecure IoT devices to attack than it is to just phone up members of the public and tell them you are from their bank and please give your pin, it's not going to be a big thing.
If someone is targeting you specifically, and they are prepared to go to the effort of compromising IoT devices they probably are going to find a way to get to you anyway.
That being said, IoT security is very important, and as the number of devices increases, it will become more popular. It is just that these current first and second generation devices aren't going to be when IoT crime really takes off, and so the manufacturers have a few years to get things right still.
Re: It isn't about burglary.
The point of all this.. is to encourage people to spend money on Trend.. but potentially, someone finds a gaping hole in IoT configurations, sets up a script and sells it, and every hoodie wearing illegal immigrant can use their mobile phones to select opportunistic attacks by simply checking an app.
Att the moment I woud rank the probability of professional break in merchants having the IT skills ncessary to exploit the IoT gizmo flaws as very low.
Howver, when most of these IoT security gizmo merchants go bust, there may well be a surfeit of out of work IoT people whoi have the knowledge needed to turn to a life of crime. And due to the devices all needing personal info to be given to the supplier, they will possibly have useful lists of the installed user base to hand too.
"or a barking dog sound if the owner's phone is not within range of the home network"
Personally, I prefer to have an actual dog make barking noises if I'm not at home..
Women have been represented in the fire service for almost 200 years. The first female firefighter we know of was Molly Williams, who was a slave in New York City and became a member of Oceanus Engine Company No. 11 in about 1815. However, firefighting remains a male-dominated field. The United States currently has over 6,500 female career firefighters and about 35,000 female volunteer firefighters, but this still only represents about 6 percent of the national firefighting community.
Able to function well as a team member.
Rescue people from car wrecks.
Respond to hazardous materials spills.
Provide fire safety education to the community.
Provide maintenance on fire equipment.
Firefighters often work 24-hour shifts away from their loved ones.
Female firefighters face unique challenges in serving one of the oldest and most honorable professions. For one thing, their physical strength and abilities are constantly being called into question. As a female firefighter for more than 25 years, I cannot tell you how many times a man has asked me, “Would you be able to carry me out of a burning building?” This is a question I bet every female firefighter has been asked at some point in her career, if not repeatedly. There’s no doubt that firefighting requires extraordinary physical and mental strength, but firefighting is not just about brute strength. It also requires a very special mindset that includes a passion to save lives, compassion for people and an ultimate love for the job.
From a physical standpoint, of course men and women are anatomically different. Men typically have stronger upper body strength, but women are able to adapt and use their lower bodies to compensate for this difference. Women do have to work harder to stay strong. They must continuously work on cardio, strength training and flexibility both on and off duty to be the best they can be for the citizens of their communities. Whether it’s dragging a 180-pound victim from a house or carrying a chainsaw up onto a roof, female firefighters find the passion and grit to get the job done.
All firefighters have to complete and pass a yearly Physical Ability Test to remain on the trucks. The test typically consists of several stations that measure the candidate’s ability to perform tasks in a given amount of time. The Cobb County (Ga.) Fire and Emergency Services conducts the PAT with 11 stations, such as the dry hose advance and victim rescue. It is a very physically demanding test, no matter if the candidate is male or female. All firefighters are held to the same standards. The PAT is the same test that all new hires have to pass. So, regardless of whether you have been a firefighter for two years or 25 years, all firefighters are routinely assessed to ensure they can meet the physical demands of the job.
Even beyond the PAT, female firefighters continue proving their strength and dedication. Recently, two female firefighters from Cherokee County Fire completed the F.L.A.M.E.S. program in Chatsworth, Ga. This rigorous 48-hour course is designed to test a firefighter’s personal limitations when working in high-stress situations with limited recuperation period. More than 500 firefighters in Georgia have successfully completed this course with only six women passing. It’s a huge milestone for these female firefighters and proves that women can endure and succeed in even the most rigorous and grueling of physical tests.
Female firefighters, like male, must continually train and work hard to be physically and mentally strong. However, firefighting is a team effort; rescue cannot be done alone. For example, firefighters from Dekalb County (Ga.) Fire Department recently rescued eight children from a third-story apartment fire. One of the first firefighters to climb up the ladder was a female fire captain. She helped rescue those children with the help of her fellow firefighters – it was truly a team effort.
The parents of those children didn’t care if the firefighter was male or female, they were just glad they were there to help save their babies. And that’s true across the board. When people call 911 with an emergency, they don’t care who the firefighter is – they just want highly trained firefighters and EMTs to respond.
To fill hiring gaps in the fire service, departments need to make a concerted effort to include women. Some departments have made important strides to accommodate female firefighters. For example, within the last 25 years, some fire stations have finally started building separate sleeping quarters and separate bathrooms for women. Departments have also started providing uniforms and firefighter gear designed to fit females. Making these basic but impactful changes allows women to perform at their best.
There also needs to be changes in the culture of the fire service to make women feel more welcome. Sometimes, when female firefighters are moved to a new station or get a new station officer, they feel they have to start over and prove to their male colleagues that they can do the job.