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Tuesday, October 13, 2009


By William Hageman
Chicago Tribune (MCT)

As the number of Wi-Fi hot spots grows, travelers might want to heed a word of caution from the Wi-Fi Alliance, a nonprofit industry group that promotes Wi-Fi technology: Think security.

"There's always a trade-off between ease of connecting and Wi-Fi security," said Kelly Davis-Felner, spokeswoman for the group, "so when folks are using ... a hot spot, they typically should assume that security is not enabled. We advise people that they should use caution when doing things like banking or online shopping in a public Wi-Fi hot spot."

Friday, October 02, 2009


Teacher Richard Lawrence's cannons.
Walter J. Carrasco/ Courier Photo


By Laurel Brodzinky, Courier Staff Writer

Thursday during fourth and fifth periods, several PE classes were startled by the booming roar of a cannon. Not many high schools generally have Civil War era cannons lying around their parking lots, but Logan teacher Richard Lawrence, who teaches drafting, has been bringing his cannons to Logan for years to show off to students.