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on your front page. A few hackers experiment the XSS injection technique, but since this is mostly about patching the holes in your PHP scripts, I'm not going to cover this part. By the way, this tutorial was made and tested using a CentOS 6.2 box, but it can be adapted to whatever distribution you have. All right, let's get started.
Tip #1: Open only the ports you need and do NOT forget Ipv6
Most of the hackers will try attacking your box through Ipv6 connections. People tend to configure their Ipv4 firewall (often, iptables) very well, but they forget about the Ipv6 one.
The ports you might need are 21 for FTP, 22 for SSH, 80 for HTTP, 443 for secure HTTP, and a few high ports for passive FTP connections. All the firewall configuration is located in the text file /etc/sysconfig/iptables. Here is an exemple of a basic configuration of iptables:
# Manual customization of this file is not recommended. *filter :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] -A INPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -p tcp --dport 21 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -p tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -p tcp --dport 56000:57000 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -j DROP COMMIT
The above code opens the ports 21, 22, 80 and 443. Also, the ports 50000 to 51000 will be open to let passive FTP through. If no rule is matched, the packet is simply DROPPED. Why not rejected with an error message? Because you don't want your server to reply to a hacker scanning a serie of servers for port 21 with the message I'm here but you won't get in, you just want your server to be stealth.
Unlike many people may think, changing the FTP and SSH ports does not really increase your security level. Any serious hacker will use a tool such as nmap to scan your system and find an open port where a SSH daemon is listening. Do not forget to configure your FTP server to use the passive ports you desire.
Do NOT forget the /etc/sysconfig/ip6tables file, this is where the Ipv6 rules are.
Tip #2: Always use secure FTP and disable anonymous login
First of all, you should not allow anonymous users to login. For this tip, I'll be using pure-ftpd as an example because I really recommend this FTP server. All the configuration lies in /etc/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd.conf. You should, at least, modify the lines as follow:
AnonymousOnly no NoAnonymous yes PassivePortRange 50000 51000 TLS 2
What does that do? Basically, you disallow anonymous login, you set the passive port range to whatever you specified in your firewall configuration, and you FORCE the user to use TLS. You want a secure server, not a machine hacked beacause some individual in the middle sniffed your FTP password.
The next step is to create your SSL certificate for FTP connections. No need to purchase anything from an issuer. A self-signed certificate will do the trick, since your FTP server will only be used by you. You trust your own server, right? Anyway, let's install the openssl package (whether it's apt-get or yum, and create a self-signed certificate:
# yum install openssl # mkdir /etc/ssl/private # openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 7300 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout /etc/ssl/private/pure-ftpd.pem -out /etc/ssl/private/pure-ftpd.pem
You will be prompted to enter some info, then the certificate will be created. Restart pure-ftpd to commit changes. Now, you HAVE to use TLS to login. Il Filezilla, it is FTP with explicit SSL (ftpes).
For more secutiry you could go with virtual users, but this is beyond the scope of this tutorial.
Tip #3 : Disable dangerous PHP functions
While we're at it, why not make a few tweaks in your php.ini file? Do you really need functions such as exec, eval, and any other thing a hacker will more than happy to play with? Let's do a few tweaks:
safe_mode = On expose_php = Off open_basedir = /var/www disable_functions = "apache_child_terminate, apache_setenv, define_syslog_variables, escapeshellarg, escapeshellcmd, eval, exec, fp, fput, ftp_connect, ftp_exec, ftp_get, ftp_login, ftp_nb_fput, ftp_put, ftp_raw, ftp_rawlist, highlight_file, ini_alter, ini_get_all, ini_restore, inject_code, mysql_pconnect, openlog, passthru, php_uname, phpAds_remoteInfo, phpAds_XmlRpc, phpAds_xmlrpcDecode, phpAds_xmlrpcEncode, popen, posix_getpwuid, posix_kill, posix_mkfifo, posix_setpgid, posix_setsid, posix_setuid, posix_setuid, posix_uname, proc_close, proc_get_status, proc_nice, proc_open, proc_terminate, shell_exec, syslog, system, xmlrpc_entity_decode"
This turns on the safe mode, and sets open_basedir. What's that? Well, if you no want malicious code to use include(../../../../somefile) elsewhere in your system, set the basedir to your website's root.
And most importantly, disable all the dangerous functions listed above. Changes are slim that you will need those functions. PHP is a powerful language. If you REALLY need those functions for a serious reason, allow them, but otherwise keep them blocked.
Tip #4: Disable unused services
Do you really need Telnet on your web server, RSH and all those things? Don't just disable them, remove their packages. Keep the strict minimum such as SSH and FTP.
Also, please remove that VNC server thing. This is a server, not a gaming machine or a desktop. The desktops, window systems such as Gnome and KDE should not be here.
# yum groupremove X Window System # yum groupremove GNOME Desktop Environment
There you go. The less services running you have, the least are your chances of getting rooted. Basically, any communication between you and your server should be encrypted, except standard HTTP.
Also check your config in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, you should use ONLY protocol 2 connections. The protocol 1 has some known security issues.
Tip #5: Set a maximum number of connections per timespan for SSH
If you have a SSH daemon running on port 22 and no firewall rule to prevent attacks, chances are that somebody will brute-force that port to find your root password. Moreover, the SSH server on some Linux distributions do not log the attemps by default, leaving you with no way of knowing you are under attack. A simple firewall rule can go as follow:
-A INPUT -m state state NEW -p tcp dport 22 -m limit limit 3/min limit-burst 3 -j ACCEPT
You can do the same for FTP. This works as follow:
A limit of 3 connection attempts (SYNs) per minute are allowed on port 22.
The rule will be enforced after 3 connections.
This will considerably slow the rate of possible connections on port 22, making it harder to brute-force. As stated earlier, you should do the same for your FTP port. These two are vulnerable to brute-forcing.
Tip #6: Choose a strong password for everything
If you are the kind of person that often uses qwerty as a password (or azerty in France), that section is for you. How long does it take to brute-force? Not very long since this is very likely to appear in a dictionnary-based attack. A tool I can recommend you is the password generator located at www.strongpasswordgenerator.com.
Use uppercases, lowercases, digits and symbols. A password like 47qj229f2 is NOT appropriate. A good example of a password can be:
Do not go less than 16 characters. Do not use the same password for FTP and SSH. I hope you get the point here. And if you can, change them often.
Tip #7: Allow MySQL connections from your internal network only
You should keep your MySQL server locked to the exterior world. This way, only connections from inside your server farm will be accepted. If somebody can access your SQL machine from the outside, chances are that your data will be compromised. The firewall rule is:
-A INPUT -m state state NEW -p tcp dport 3306 -s 192.168.0.1/24 -j ACCEPT
This way, port 3306 connections have to come from the inside. Of course, change 192.168.0.1/24 to whatever you network (and subnet mask) is. You will thank yourself.
This is it for now. As servers appear and hackers find new techniques to infiltrate your data, the need for additional protection is here. Of course, this is not an exhaustive list of possible security flaws but a guide to help you get started. Many other technologies such as port knocking and load balancing play a role in security, but this is out of the scope of this article.
Any comments regarding this article? Feel free to post, however please do not PM me with programming questions, ask them in the forums instead.


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~ small bag of potting soil
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She keeps you watching long after you've given up on the film's central conceit in which Wanderer takes over the body of an alien resistance fighter named Melanie, whose voice – and conscience – remain lodged inside her head. So what we have is a young girl at war with herself. Interesting idea, but instead of exploring it, Niccol jejunely settles for asking Wanderer and what's left of Melanie to fall for two hunks, heretofore known as Team Ian (Jake Abel) and Team Jared (Jeremy Irons' son, Max).
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So, as a personal project.. I'm making a Program to solve for Derivatives of any 1-variable equation.. Which includes (for those of you who remember Calculus) the power rule, product rule, quotient rule, chain rule... etc..
So here is my code for the getExponent Method!
public int getExponent(String userInput){ String string = ""; for(int a = getVariable(userInput).length(); a < userInput.length(); a++){ int digit = userInput.charAt(a)-48; if(digit <= 9 && digit >= 0) string += digit + ""; else break; } int newExponent = Integer.parseInt(string); return newExponent; }
Now, I have two other methods.. getCoefficient and getVariable... The getCoefficient method does the exact same as this method, however, it starts checking the characters after the variable (or the exponential portion)... Let me show you my predicament
Sample Input:
5 - Coefficient
x^ - Variable
2 - Exponent
Now that's all nice and dandy, but when it comes to this...
5x^2 + 5x^3
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: ""
at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(Num berFormatException.java:48)
at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:470)
at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Integer.java:499)
at Input.getExponent(Input.java:51)
at Main.main(Main.java:16)
It says that I'm accepting a non integer value, and trying to parse that into an Integer.. However in my code, I clearly state that if the 'int digit' is not within the range of 0-9, to break from the loop... The getCoefficient method works just fine using extremely similar code (they start at different positions). Any tips please?
EDIT: I just checked out something, and if I change the "int a = getVariable(userInput).length()" to int a = 0... It works just fine and establishes the break whenever a non digit comes by... However, I want the variable a to start where the getVariable method ends.. How can I do this?


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News of the death of Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman from an apparent heroin overdose seemed like an echo from the past, a blurry memory of a dangerous drug that dwelled in some dark recess of American culture.
But heroin never really disappeared. It surfaces in waves, with the latest one driving up overdose deaths and worrying government officials. Fueled by a crackdown on prescription pain killers and an abundant supply of cheap heroin that's more potent than ever, the drug that has killed famous rock stars and everyday Americans alike is making headlines again.
"I have seen people die. I've gone to far too many funerals," said Brian Gillam, managing director at Phoenix House, which embraces research-tested addiction treatment methods and has locations across the country and in New York.
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Gillam says heroin doesn't discriminate when it comes to imprisoning people to addiction.
"I've seen doctors, lawyers, police officers," he said. "They have great jobs, They're working on Wall Street, they're working computer jobs, they're sitting on the train next to you. You just don't know."
Medical examiners have not made an official determination of the cause of the 46-year-old Hoffman's death, but police have been investigating it as an overdose. Hoffman was found in a bathroom with a syringe in his arm.
Authorities say a number of factors are fueling the drug's use, including relatively low prices and a less demonized image. Rather than seeing heroin as the drug of strung-out junkies, some users now see it as an inexpensive alternative to oxycodone and other prescription opiate drugs.
Gillam, who's from Long Island, understands how real the addiction is. He's helped countless people get clean and stay sober at Phoenix House, but he's been sober himself for 17 years.
"I didn't, when I was in seventh grade, say, 'I'm going to grow up to be an addict,'" he said. "It wasn't my goal but it happened."
The number of recorded heroin overdose deaths nearly doubled from 1,842 in 2000 to 3,036 in 2010, according to the most recent statistics available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Heroin deaths still account for a relatively small percentage of total drug overdose deaths: less than 10 percent in 2010, for example.
A drug that was once largely confined to major cities is spreading into suburban and rural towns across America, where it is used predominantly by young adults between the ages of 18 and 29, said Jim Hall, an epidemiologist who studies substance abuse at Nova Southeastern University in Florida.
"We haven't really seen something this rapid since probably the spread of cocaine and crack in the mid-1980s," Hall said.
In the least year alone, the Drug Enforcement Agency's Long Island division made a 163 percent increase in heroin arrests.
Heroin is processed from morphine, which itself is derived from the opium poppy. It originated in inner-city Chinese opium dens in the late 1800s, when people switched from opium smoking to heroin because it was easier to smuggle. The drug was even marketed by the Bayer Co. in 1898 as the "wonder drug" of the arriving 20th century, sold as a cure for the wracking cough caused by tuberculosis.
Schneider said after World War II, heroin became a drug primarily used by blacks and Puerto Ricans in the Northeast and by Mexican Americans in the West. In the late 1960s, at the height of the hippie drug experimentation era, there was a surge of heroin use among young white people in New York's East Village and in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. Crime spiked among heroin users who were desperate to keep up the habit.
Heroin's reputation in the 1970s was "a really hard-core, dangerous street drug, a killer drug, but there's a whole generation who didn't grow up with that kind of experience with heroin," said New York City Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan, whose office was created in 1971 in response to heroin use and related crime. "It's been glamorized, certainly much more than it was during the '70s."
In the 1990s, there was another wave of attention when the term "heroin chic" became ubiquitous as a description for pale, thin supermodels like Kate Moss.
In the past, the people who were most susceptible to heroin use were the ones who didn't have to go to work every day, from the very poor to the very wealthy, Schneider said.
That's not the case anymore. Most heroin addicts at Maryhaven, a substance abuse treatment center in Ohio, got hooked on prescription painkillers like oxycodone after sustaining some type of injury, said Paul H. Coleman, the center's president and CEO. When the cost of buying prescription opiates became prohibitive, and those drugs were reformulated in ways that made them harder to abuse, they turned to heroin.
About half of the center's patients — it treated 7,000 people last year — are heroin addicts.
"I've had several patients tell me, 'I never thought I would end up putting a needle in my arm,'" Coleman said.
Gillam had worked hard to stay clean with support from family and friends since going to rehab. But he's seen others relapse and understands it's a real problem, one he's personally conscious of every day.
"It takes only poor decision, one time for me to say, 'I can handle this, I can handle it, I've got 17 years clean, I can control it,'" he said. "Once the thought is in your mind, romancing the thought, then the next step is not telling anybody about the thought, and then the cycle starts."
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Michael Vick, speaking from personal image-building experience, offered words of advice to Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice.
Rice recently spoke for the first time since entering a diversion program as part of a high-profile domestic violence case.
Vick, now with the New York Jets, has been battling to mend public perception after his conviction on dogfighting charges in 2007.
"I think the most important thing that you can do is to try to make amends for what you've done," Vick told NJ.com. "I think you have to show people that you're trying to help yourself and bring awareness to that situation to help others, to prevent it. You've got to become an advocate."
Rice was arrested Feb. 15, after he allegedly struck his then-fiancee, and now wife, Janay Palmer unconscious during an altercation at an Atlantic City hotel. Video surfaced online showing Rice dragging an unconscious Palmer out of an elevator.
Rice pleaded not guilty to a third-degree charge of aggravated assault and avoided trial by being accepted into a pretrial intervention program in May. The seventh-year running back received a two-game suspension from the NFL.
Vick spent 18 months in federal prison as a result of charges associated with dogfighting. When he came back, there was an outcry from animal rights groups after the Philadelphia Eagles signed the quarterback in August 2009.
Vick worked hard to resurrect his career and win over fans in Philadelphia and around the league. He took other steps to repair his image, speaking out against animal abuse.
"You've got to continue to make amends. Once you start something, you can never go back. I feel like I've become an advocate of animal welfare, and I think I have to continue that.
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The latest class revealed for ArenaNet's Guild Wars 2 is the Ranger, a bow-using, pet-charming, trap-setting class that might just out-hunt World of Warcraft's Hunter class.
The Ranger class answers a question many players have been bugging ArenaNet with since the first reveal of Guild Wars 2: Will the game feature pets? The answer is a resounding yes, with a Ranger pet charming skill that expands upon the system used for the Hunter class in World of Warcraft.
Rangers can charm any of 12 different types of pets in Guild Wars 2, from bears and spiders to more specialised species, such as sharks. Each species has sub-species with different abilities. A brown bear has different skills than a polar bear, for instance.
Pets in Guild Wars 2 will share the same level as the Ranger, but they also climb a 20-rung evolutionary ladder, eventually developing skills slots the Ranger can use to add special abilities to their pet, tailoring them to fit the player's tactics. The Ranger can keep three pets at a time, switching them out during downtime or using special skills.
Rangers can also lay traps, triggered when an enemy passes over them. ArenaNet gives the example of a spike trap, which slows an enemy's approach while causing damage.
The system sounds very similar to World of Warcraft's Hunter. Heck, even some of the skill names are the same, though the effects are much more impressive. Check them out:
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The main difference, other than style and flair, is the Ranger's ability to summon spirits to aid the party. Summoning a Sun Spirit, for instance, adds fire damage to party members' attacks as long as they stay within the spirit's range of influence. Sounds like Shamanic totems to me.
Spirits will allow Rangers to fulfil a support role in groups, while leaving them free to cause havoc with bows, axes and, of course, their animal friends.
Addendum: As many of you politely point out, the Guild Wars 2 ranger is very similar to the Ranger from the original Guild Wars. Not coming from an original Guild Wars background, I compared it to World of Warcraft's Hunter, a class I am familiar with.
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About three decades ago at a scientific conference on aging, just about every presenter was taking vitamin E, a nutrient with antioxidant properties that, it was thought, would slow the cellular ravages of age.
In subsequent years, many reports from observational and case studies suggested that vitamin E in daily doses far greater than recommended could help to stave off heart disease and stroke, various common cancers, dementia and Alzheimer's disease, cataracts and macular degeneration, respiratory tract infections and a host of other serious and sometimes fatal health problems.
The logic was that an antioxidant like vitamin E protects cells from the damaging effects of free radicals, which are byproducts of metabolism and exposure to cell-damaging agents like sunlight, radiation and chemotherapy.
Ever hopeful for a magic elixir, millions of health-conscious Americans began self-dosing with amounts of vitamin E dozens of times greater than the recommended daily intake for this fat-soluble nutrient.
If only all those hopeful forecasts had turned out to be true. Just as a well-designed clinical trial disproved the notion that postmenopausal hormones could keep women heart-healthy, controlled clinical trials of vitamin E have found this supplement wanting, as well. The same is true of another antioxidant, vitamin C.
Too Much of a Good Thing
Recent studies have even suggested that at the high doses many people consume, vitamin E could be hazardous. In November 2004, the American Heart Association warned that while the small amounts of vitamin E found in multivitamins and foods were not harmful, taking 400 International Units a day or more could increase the risk of death. The highest recommended dietary allowance for vitamin E is 28.5 IU, for women who are breast-feeding.
No one knows whether other antioxidants, taken as supplements or as concentrates in gourmet beverages, will meet a similar fate, because they have not been rigorously studied. And given the length, cost and difficulty of conducting the needed studies, chances are that these other antioxidants will never be properly investigated. So you may never know whether spending a fortune on pomegranate juice or the like is worth it.
Some vitamin E enthusiasts object that the clinical studies used what they consider the wrong form of the vitamin, saying that each of the vitamin's eight forms has its own biological activity. But the kind of vitamin E used in most studies, alpha-tocopherol, is the most active form in humans, according to the National Institutes of Health's Office of Dietary Supplements.
Here, then, is what we now know about vitamin E from recent randomized, controlled clinical trials, the gold standard of research if the right questions were investigated.
Cardiovascular disease. An early hint of no benefit to the heart came from a 2001 University of Pennsylvania study of 30 healthy men, which found that at doses of 200 to 2,000 I.U.'s, vitamin E did not prevent oxidation of blood fats that can damage arteries. Four years later, the Heart Outcomes Prevention Evaluation trials, which looked at nearly 10,000 patients 55 and older with vascular disease or diabetes, found no heart benefit from taking 400 I.U.'s of vitamin E daily for an average of seven years. In fact, those taking the vitamin were more likely to develop heart failure, which prompted the heart association warning.
A few months later came a report on healthy women. The Women's Health Study, of nearly 40,000 women 45 and older who were followed for an average of 10 years, found no overall benefit in taking 600 I.U.'s of vitamin E every other day for major cardiovascular events (heart attacks and stroke) or total mortality. There was, however, a 24 percent reduction in cardiovascular deaths.
A fresh report on men was released last November. In it, the Physicians' Health Study, 14,641 men 50 and older were followed for up to eight years, it was found that 400 I.U.'s of vitamin E every other day had no effect on the incidence of major cardiovascular events, including cardiovascular deaths.
The bottom line of all these reports was that supplements of vitamin E could not be relied upon to protect against heart disease and stroke.
Cancer. The Heart Outcomes trials also looked at cancer and found no differences in cancer incidence or deaths during the seven-year follow-up that could be attributed to vitamin E.
Likewise, the Women's Health Study found no significant effect of the vitamin on total cancer incidence or cancers of the breast, lung or colon, nor any effect on cancer deaths.
Still, hope lingered that vitamin E alone or in combination with the mineral selenium or vitamin C would protect men against prostate cancer. No such luck. In the Jan. 7 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association, two major reports seemed to have offered the final word on this question.
The Select trial (an acronym for the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial) followed 35,533 men from 427 locations in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico for more than five years. It found no benefit, but did find a "statistically nonsignificant increased risk of prostate cancer" in the group taking 400 I.U.'s a day of vitamin E. Selenium alone offered no benefit, and neither did selenium combined with vitamin E.
The second study, a continuation of the Physicians' Health Study, found that among male doctors who took 400 I.U.'s of vitamin E every other day and 500 milligrams of vitamin C every day, there was no decreased risk of developing prostate cancer or cancer in general.
For lung cancer, a 2007 study financed by the National Cancer Institute found that smokers who took vitamin E supplements had a somewhat higher risk of developing the disease.
Other diseases. An independent review of studies by the Cochrane Collaboration published last year found no reliable evidence for the ability of vitamin E to prevent or treat Alzheimer's disease or mild cognitive impairment, not even at doses of 2,000 I.U.'s a day.
And while vitamin E is part of complex formulations that have been found to slow the progression of macular degeneration, no one can say if the vitamin has played any role in the benefits seen with these products.
There are possible risks as well, since vitamin E diminishes the clotting tendency of blood and may result in ugly bruises from small bumps.
Simply put, there is no quick fix. The best chance for leading a long and healthy life comes not from any pill or potion but from pursuing a wholesome lifestyle. That means following a nutrient-filled but calorically moderate diet rich in vegetables, fruits and whole grains (many are good sources of vitamin E); not smoking; exercising regularly; maintaining a normal body weight; and driving and riding safely.
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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Susan Lyne, Vice Chairman of Gilt and AOL board member, has been appointed to run AOL's portfolio of brands that serve over 100 million consumers globally.
Lyne will oversee all aspects of the Brand Group's growth strategy, including increasing traffic across properties, maximizing partnerships with advertisers and publishers, and attracting top talent, with a particular focus on content, design, programming, and product.
"In her roles as CEO then Chairman of Gilt, and previously as President and CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Susan has a proven track record of brand building and aggressive growth," said Tim Armstrong, Chairman and CEO. "I know she'll bring that same drive and growth-oriented mentality to our Brand Group. AOL ended 2012 growing revenue for the first time in eight years, and we expect Susan to help build on this momentum and take our brands to the next level."
"In my three years as an AOL board member, I have partnered with Tim Armstrong and my fellow directors to help drive the company's transformation, and have seen AOL make great strides as it continues to innovate, grow and evolve," Lyne said. "I'm looking forward to contributing to the company's continued evolution in my new role, and will focus on creating additional value with all of AOL's premium brands. Our efforts center on making all of our brands true destinations for audiences worldwide, and to provide marketers with innovative opportunities to connect with these audiences."
Lyne recently transitioned from her role as Chairman of Gilt to become Vice Chairman. She will continue in that role.
In addition to her roles at Gilt and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Lyne brings a decade of experience in the television industry, including serving as President of ABC Entertainment, where she oversaw the development of shows such as Desperate Housewives, Lost, and Grey's Anatomy. Lyne's convergence of experience, encompassing media, television and the digital industry, will be particularly valuable to AOL.
Lyne's appointment is part of AOL's continued efforts to streamline its operations and give its business unit leaders more autonomy and accountability. AOL has three business units –The Membership Group, which consists of offerings that serve AOL account holders, AOL Networks, which consists of AOL's offerings to publishers and advertisers utilizing AOL's third-party advertising network, and the Brand Group, which consists of AOL's portfolio of distinct and unique content brands. All three business units were overseen by AOL's Chief Operating Officer, Arthur "Artie" Minson, who will stay with the company for a transition period.
"In his role first as CFO and most recently as COO, Artie has done an extraordinary job of optimizing AOL's assets and has created a tremendous amount of value for shareholders," Armstrong said. "Artie has played a key role in the turnaround of AOL and that will continue in 2013 during the transition period."
"I came back to AOL three and a half years ago with the goal of returning AOL to being a growth company," said Minson. "With that accomplished, I have decided to stay and continue to work closely with Tim during this transition period. I look forward to AOL's continued success."
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OpenVZ virtualization runs on Ubuntu 7.10
OpenVZ now offers an Ubuntu 7.10 template and is working to integrate its container virtualization technology into future versions of the Linux kernel.
The OpenVZ Project has released a version of Ubuntu 7.10 preconfigured with its open source operating system virtualization software. Now users can download an Ubuntu software template from OpenVZ and set up Ubuntu OpenVZ virtual machines (VMs) on top of an existing Linux system.
The new Ubuntu offering brings free and easy-to-deploy open source virtualization to Ubuntu users. "We think it is a really easy way for people to deploy Ubuntu," said Gerry Carr, the marketing manager of Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu.
A principal goal of the OpenVZ initiative is to further integrate into Ubuntu and eventually become part of Linux mainstream kernel, said Kir Kolyshkin, the manager of the Moscow-based OpenVZ project. "We hope that the next version of Ubuntu will have OpenVZ built in [to the mainstream Linux kernel]" said Kolyshkin.
Ideally, a new Ubuntu server can be set up in about a minute, OpenVZ claims. If the process doesn't go as smoothly, free support comes from other users on OpenVZ. "We have a good community of users, and they can ask questions via the forum, there is the wiki and the mailing list," said Kolyshkin. And while "most people are happy enough with that support in a free system, there are fee-based support options as well," he said. While estimates on the number of users in the OpenVZ project are difficult, because it is free and open source, but there are about 10,000 downloads every month, according to Kolyshkin.OpenVZ in a nutshell
OpenVZ is the containerized, or operating system (OS)-level server virtualization offering sponsored by SWsoft, the company behind Parallels and Virtuozzo. The Linux-based technology consists of a kernel, user-level tools and virtual private server (VPS) templates. The kernel and tools are needed to install OpenVZ, and templates are needed to create virtual environments. The same kernel is shared across all VPSs, all running the same Linux OS.
This is in contrast to hypervisor-based forms of virtualization from companies like VMware, Inc. and Citrix Systems Inc. (formerly XenSource) that allow multiple kernels and operating systems to run on the same physical server.
"Some operations cannot be done in VPSs that are possible on physical hardware and Xen, VMware," wrote blogger Ehab Heikal, a junior member of OpenVZ project. "If you are running only Linux as a server and want multiple virtual machines on a dedicated server, OpenVZ is the way to go. If you just want to dabble and play around or want both [Microsoft] Windows and Linux, then go for Xen or VMware."The next frontier: Mainstream Linux
At LinuxWorld Expo 2007, Andrew Morton, one of the lead developers of the Linux kernel project, discussed supporting OpenVZ, saying he hopes to move the OpenVZ project into the Linux kernel over the next year or two.
"I hope slowly we'll start moving significant parts of the OpenVZ product into the Linux kernel in a way in which it's acceptable to all the other stakeholders, so that those guys don't end up carrying such a patch burden," Morton said.
The major advantages of building OpenVZ into mainstream Linux are pervasiveness and ease of use.
OpenVZ has also collaborated with companies like IBM, which has its own container technology, to push the integration of OpenVZ into the mainstream Linux kernel.
"IBM is involved in container progress in Linux, as is Google, so it isn't just OpenVZ, and we are working with whoever is interested in getting this done," said Kolyshkin.
Additionally, Red Hat has said it may integrate container technology into the forthcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6. .
"We see a strong use case for lightweight, container-based virtualization. The hard part is getting that capability inside of Linux itself," said Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens at a 2006 news conference. "Container-based virtualization is going to be post-RHEL 5. It provides a whole other set of use cases. You'll see us get behind that, absolutely."
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We love the audacity of the Bristols. "No, you can't test our cars. Yes, they're very expensive, allegedly shoddily built, and feature Chrysler powertrains. We will brag about the smoothness of our four-speed autobox, even though Chrysler forgot how to build a decent transmission after they developed the 727 Torqueflite. And despite the fact that the Bugatti Veyron is demonstrably faster than the its claimed top velocity, we're still going to go ahead and claim that our Fighter is possibly the fastest car in the world. Yes, we're 60 years old, and dementia's setting in fast."
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Enlightened Space in Princeton for $3.6 Million
Inspired by the Buddhist idea of 'three worlds,' this contemporary home in Princeton is filled with contemplative spaces. Stefanos Chen has a look at WSJ's House of the Day. Photo: Robert Manella/Callaway Henderson Sotheby's International Realty.
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Q&A: Lead Content Compliance
What's the difference between NSF/ANSI Standards 372 and 61?
NSF/ANSI 372: Drinking Water System Components — Lead Content contains the procedures to verify the lead content of drinking water products. This standard is referenced in Annex G of NSF/ANSI 61 as the methodology to determine lead content compliance. Products certified to NSF/ANSI 372 demonstrate compliance with lead content requirements only, while certifications to NSF/ANSI 61 Annex G demonstrate compliance with both lead content and lead leaching requirements.
Does NSF/ANSI Standard 61 only test for lead?
No, NSF tests for other metallic contaminants as well as nonmetallic contaminants. In fact, the standard requires a full formulation disclosure of all chemical ingredients in each water contact material. The standard then requires testing for any chemical contaminant that might possibly leach from each material into drinking water.
Can a pure lead device pass NSF/ANSI Standard 61?
No. This misconception started when an article reported that a small lead device was tested to the NSF/ANSI Standard 61 test protocol and it passed for lead. A close reading of the article shows that the lead device was only tested with pH 5 test water. It was not tested with pH 10 test water, which is required by the standard. The same article claims that other devices were tested with both pH 5 and pH 10 test waters and showed that the pH 10 test water was 71 times more aggressive for lead leaching than the pH 5 test water. If the factor of 71 was applied to the pH 5 test results for the small lead device, it would have clearly failed to meet the standard. In fact, many brass products containing only small amounts of lead have difficulty meeting the testing requirements of NSF/ANSI Standard 61.
How can I be sure that a faucet or plumbing device meets the NSF standard?
Products certified to the NSF standard carry an NSF certification mark or a certification mark of the certifying organization. NSF International also maintains online listings of certified products and systems.
Which parties helped develop the NSF standard?
The standard was developed using a voluntary consensus process. All interested parties were represented, including regulatory agencies, industry, water suppliers, consultants and other users of products covered by the standard.
Is NSF the only organization that can test against the standard?
Any organization that is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to certify products to NSF/ANSI Standard 61 can test products against the NSF standard. Most states have regulations requiring products to meet NSF/ANSI 61 and all of these states require products to be certified by an ANSI-accredited certifier.
What are the requirements for NSF/ANSI 61 and lead?
NSF/ANSI 61 contains requirements that restrict both the level of lead that can be contained in the water contact materials of drinking water products and the level of lead that can leach out. For more details about the requirements please download the NSF 61, NSF 372 and Lead Content brochure.


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I was so excited to fine these Organic Gluten-Free Buckwheat Wildberry waffles at the store the other day, I almost danced in the aisle. Okay, I did dance in the aisle. I typically eat Van's Blueberry Waffles (the plain seem to crumble too much on me), but haven't found these Nature's Path waffles before. Guess I had to come to North Carolina, all the way from Ohio, to get them! Not only did I find them, they were on sale for $2.50 down from $3.69! Score! I had first heard about these from Erin at Gluten-Free with a Purpose. I was thrilled to have these for breakfast this morning after 60 minutes on the elliptical machine! I was starving!
These toasted up quick & easily. They didn't fall apart, even when spreading my beloved Barney Butter on them. The taste & texture were amazing…so much closer to the real thing than the Van's Waffles. Not that I don't like the Van's, I do, but when you are missing old favorites, it is nice to get as close as you can to the original.
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I hope that I can find these when I get back to Ohio! 5 stars from me!!!
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Using data analytics to proactively treat or even prevent infections in premature babies
Data analytics can support the doctor and nurse to make the best possible decisions. Daniel Vijlbrief Neonatologist UMC Utrecht
Better patient outcomes
UMC Utrecht achieved this using • SAS® Visual Analytics • SAS® Enterprise Miner™ • SAS® AI solutions
UMC Utrecht champions data-driven clinical decision support to provide patients with the optimal care
Around 10% of all infants are born premature (less than 37 weeks of gestational age). Although the survival of premature infants continues to improve, their neurodevelopmental outcome remains a major concern. When a baby is born premature, it is admitted to the Neonatology Department (NICU) of a hospital. During this period, the baby is very vulnerable and prone to infections. To keep track of the health of the baby, it is connected to many devices. No other department in the hospital collects more data than the department of neonatology.
Having collected 10 years of patient data, Universitair Medisch Centrum (UMC) Utrecht, a leading international university medical center, felt the need to put the collected data to good use. Nowadays, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) are becoming more and more important for the healthcare sector. That is why UMC Utrecht started the Applied Data Science in Medicine (ADAM) project. With ADAM, the UMC Utrecht uses the well-known approach of large-scale data analysis to ensure that it chooses the treatment that is most beneficial to a specific patient.
The aim is to develop multiple models in SAS in order to better inform parents, provide the best possible healthcare for babies for a better long-term neurodevelopmental outcome and to eventually apply it to other intensive care departments. Manon Benders Professor and Head of Neonatology UMC Utrecht
Preparing the big data for analysis
Big Data for Small Babies was one of four projects within the ADAM program, initiated by the Board of Directors of UMC Utrecht. This particular project proposed the following question: Is it possible to proactively treat or even prevent an infection in premature babies using data analytics? This question needed to be answered within three months.
To ensure that the technical side of the project ran smoothly and timely, UMC Utrecht called in various data and IT specialists. The multidisciplinary Big Data for Small Babies team consisted of two engineers from IT consultant Finaps, SAS consultants and Daniel Vijlbrief, neonatologist and pediatrician at UMC Utrecht. They used SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Enterprise Miner to make the data accessible (and anonymous). With SAS Visual Analytics they could analyze and visualize the data.
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of babies had been treated unnecessarily with antibiotics, a study revealed
accuracy in forecasting the presence of the bacteria that causes sepsis, using SAS
An algorithm that prevents unnecessary use of antibiotics
There were many different sources where data was stored. For this purpose, data analysts helped transfer and provide the data to Finaps. This was the first time data was extracted from NICU devices in a retrospective way. As a result, the team developed a smart algorithm, a statistical model with SAS that can support or deny the suspicion of an infection in premature babies, such as sepsis (blood poisoning).
This algorithm can prevent unnecessary use of antibiotics in premature babies. After all, sepsis is an important clinical problem, and UMC Utrecht had limited knowledge of the course of the infection, including the peak moment of the infection. In retrospect, 60% of the babies were treated unnecessarily with antibiotics, with all consequences that treatment entails, such as dependence to the medicine and financial implications. Moreover, every baby with sepsis has to be hospitalised one week longer.
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These outcomes required further investigation. If the algorithm-driven model indicated a 75% certainty that the result of the test will be negative (or positive), doctors were prepared to consider it. Depending on the error margin, the model that was developed has an accuracy of 90% in forecasting the presence of the bacteria that causes sepsis. This is significantly higher than when doctors make predictions based on examination of the patient and present symptoms. In that case, the accuracy is 40%.
The new insights give UMC Utrecht the underpinnings it needs to base its decisions on. Prior to the SAS model, it was mainly based on the patient's examination combined with gut feeling.
"This project shows that analytically driven solutions are capable of solving complex problems in the health sector," says Nathan van der Lei, Business Engineer at Finaps. "In our opinion, the next step in healthcare is data-driven clinical decision support."
What is a nice fun fact for data scientists can have huge implications for the sector. Tim Pijl Data Engineer Finaps


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With ponds of koi fish, a newly installed ceremonial teahouse and sloping bridge, the reopened Japanese Garden at the Huntington Library in San Marino is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year after an extensive, yearlong renovation.
The nine-acre garden, closed for a full year, cost $6.8 million to restore and improve. Not only beautifully landscaped, it's also dazzlingly multi-layered, set off to the edge of the sprawling 207-acre Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, with Southern California's San Gabriel Mountains looming in the distance.
"The Japanese Garden has been one of our most popular attractions for a century, so our intention wasn't to change the things that made it so well loved but to restore it to its original beauty," said Huntington Library spokeswoman Lisa Blackburn.
Paths curve up and down through a bamboo forest, past a raked-gravel dry garden, a bonsai court lined with pruned, delicate miniature trees and a display of large, smooth black viewing stones.
Railroad tycoon and art collector Henry Edwards Huntington, spurred on by a popularly held Western fascination with Asian culture at the time, created the garden between 1911 and 1912 soon after completing his house on the property, according to the Huntington Library's website. Huntington bought a tea house in Pasadena owned by George Turner Marsh, an antiques dealer who also created the popular tea garden in Golden Gate Park, and rebuilt it in San Marino. The acquisitions from Marsh included the streamlined, square, upper-class Japanese House, parts of which were actually created in Japan, and then shipped to California.
Post-World War II, amid staffing shortages and political discontent, the Japanese Garden became sorely neglected, with areas shut off to the public, according to the Huntington. Damage included rotted wood, termite infestation and shifting soil. Various partial renovations over the years led to the yearlong mass restoration and improvement effort starting in April 2011. Landscape architects Takeo Uesugi and his son, Keiji Uesugi, oversaw the Japanese Garden project's design.
Now the grounds feel lush, densely green and joyous.
The centrally located, perfectly arched moon bridge, for years painted red, until 1992, when it was stripped to its natural wood, sits below the Japanese House. The new ceremonial teahouse, named Seifu-an ("Arbor of Pure Breeze"), flanks a new ceremonial tea garden. The Pasadena Buddhist Temple donated the small teahouse to the Huntington in 2010. It was built in Kyoto in 1964, disassembled at the Pasadena temple, shipped back to Kyoto, renovated there, and shipped back to the Huntington in May 2011.
"New features like the ceremonial teahouse and tea garden serve as added enhancements that allow visitors to explore the unique landscape and cultural traditions of Japan even more deeply," said Blackburn.


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Legendary British special effects wizard Stuart Freeborn, who is responsible for some of science fiction's most memorable on-screen characters, has passed away at the age of 98.
Freeborn, who made the ape-men from Stanley Kubrick's 2001, will be remembered most for his contributions in the Star Wars franchise, where his puppet-building and make-up skills led development on the characters of Chewbacca, Yoda and Jabba the Hutt.
Freeborn was also responsible for many of the aliens in the Mos Eisley Cantina sequence, the ewoks and the native creatures of Hoth, the wampa and tauntaun.
It was almost a year ago that the man credited with designing many of these characters, artist Ralph Macquarrie, passed away at the age of 82.
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Best of 2011: Your Voice In My Head by Emma Forrest
My favourite book of the year. Forrest is an awesomely gifted writer. It's not just the story, but the way she tells it, the words that describe it, so that you can feel so acutely her joy and her sadness and her gratefulness for the person who helped her go forward. I've probably read this book 3 or 4 times this year just to review some of Forrest's most beautiful passages. Full Review


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