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PAJANIMALS CELEBRATE FAMILIES IN MAY, Sprout will also air a special on-air spot for its Kindness Counts campaign featuring the Pajanimals. New Pajanimals Episodes Airing On Sprout, Online Activities In Support Of Universal Family Week And National Family Month.
KidsPeace, a private charity founded in 1882, created National Family Month. This month-long celebration helps raise awareness and highlights the importance of family – kids, mothers, fathers, relatives and caregivers – and encourages supporting one another. National Family Month also provides an opportunity for families to share special time together, to develop or renew relationships, and to remind everyone about the importance of family involvement in raising healthy, confident kids.
Sprout's Kindness Counts campaign helps parents teach young children the importance of kindness and encourages children to perform random acts of kindness such as helping, sharing, making a new friend, etc. The Kindness Counts website features a Kindness Counter where families can document these kind acts with the goal of reaching 1 million acts of kindness.
Underscoring the importance of family, the International Society of Friendship and Good Will proclaimed the second full week in May as Universal Family Week (May 12-18, 2013). And of course we celebrate and honor mothers, motherhood, maternal bonds and the influence of mothers on families and society on Mother's Day, which falls on Sunday, May 12, this year.
In celebration of Mother's Day on May 12, Sprout will air two family-centric Pajanimals episodes on Saturday, May 11, and Sunday, May 12. "Missing Mom and Dad:" At bedtime, Sweet Pea Sue misses Mom and Dad and wishes she could sneak into their bed where it feels so "warm and safe." The Pajanimals travel to The Night Sky where The Moon comforts her and tells Sweet Pea Sue that her parents are very close by and will always be there (if she needs them). And the episode,"Mom is Amazing!:" Tomorrow is Mother's Day and the Pajanimals have decided to help Mom with her chores, but they quickly realize that Mom does A LOT of chores for the family. Not sure what to do, the Pajanimals travel to the Night Sky, where The Moon tells them that just recognizing all that Mom does and offering to help her is a great gift not just for Mother's Day, but any day.
Pajanimals are also offering a free Mother's Day Coloring Card, which can be downloaded and printed, allowing kids to add their own personal artistic vision to the card (and a photo, too).
- Printable Pajanimals Bedtime Activity Cards which parents and kids can use to learn about and reinforce healthy bedtime routines!
- The site also features fun family games like Sweet Pea Sue's Heart Catcher -- this fun, online game keeps kids and parents on their toes as they try to catch all of the falling hearts by moving the basket left or right; and Pajanimals Adventure Game, which takes the whole family on an adventure with The Pajanimals, including a visit to Jerry the Bear's house in the Friendly Forest!
- There are also fun family craft projects like Big Blue Sea Felt Aquarium, which instructs families on how they can create an indoor aquarium out of felt; and Apollo's Night Time Memory Game, which helps families to create their own special memory game to play again and again.
- Nothing brings a family together like meal times, and the Pajanimals have a number of easy recipes the whole family can make and enjoy, including CowBella's
- S-moo-thie, Apollo's Moon and Stars snacks and Sweetpea Sue's Horseshoe Bread, a sweet snack that'll be fun to make for mom on Mother's Day.
Parents can also share the fun of the Pajanimals Light in the Sky App with their toddlers. This interactive adaptation of the Light in the Sky episode," developed by N Fusion Interactive, recently earned a coveted Parents' Choice Award in the mobile app category. Staying true to the Pajanimals origins in look, character, pacing and sound, the app includes options to read along, choose a page, or play some games along the way, providing kids with the opportunity to play along with their favorite Pajanimals characters. Filled with engaging activities, charming music and colorful animation, the fully 3D app extends the reach of the Pajanimals TV series onto iPhone, iPad and iPod touch and sells for $3.99. Also check out the new Pajanimals Play Time app! Turn bedtime into fun time with the Pajanimals! Preschoolers will love playing games with all their friends from the Pajanimals series on Sprout! Available on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/Pajanimals-play-time/id628503554?mt=8
Thanks to our sponsor one lucky US winner will win one 15" large plush of one of the adorable, huggable and cuddly Pajanimals characters (from TOMY)--Cowbella, Apollo, Sweetpea Sue and Squacky—who have quickly become popular with children and parents alike! End 5/26 11:59pm


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text: The Drinkwell Cleaning Kit is a 3-brush kit that provides a convenient and easy way to keep your Drinkwell fountain clean. The big brush has a soft sponge on top to easily clean the bowl and large parts of the fountain, plus it features bristles on the side to scrape away accumulated debris. The medium-sized brush is good for cleaning just about any part of the fountain. The tiny brush fits small nooks and crannies such as the filter housing and pump. The bristles on these brushes are tough enough to clear away the gunk from everyday use yet won't scratch the fountain material.


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Clean & Clear Filters feature a chemical resistant tank with no-tool servicing and a coreless cartridge for easier cleaning. All models are equipped with easy spin-on unions for plumbing hook-ups. These filters are NSF listed for commercial applications and are available in 50, 75, 100, 150, and 200 square foot sizes.
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We've maximized cartridge surface consistency to block and trap the maximum amount of solids. Plus, we use the most durable materials to extend cartridge life. Clean & Clear will keep your pool sparkling day in and day out.
Like all Pentair cartridge filters, Clean & Clear features an easily cleaned cartridge for the ultimate in carefree pool filtration. The fiberglass reinforced tank halves are secured with an innovative clamp ring – just loosen the ring and remove the top half for easy cartridge access and rinsing. Filter maintenance doesn't get any easier.


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Future employees might not need office space and scheduled hours, but instead work from home on their own time.
This article explains why a third of the workforce will be working from home in the future, and the importance of putting a policy together for these employees.
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Ouch, that hurt a bit, since I'm a developer of a Warcraft 3 Custom Map called "Final Fantasy Epic RPG". Granted I didn't name it, but I joined the team since I very much liked the map. In short, I disagree with your rule of thumb :P
He made it happen for himself.
Actually genuinely reported that as abuse.
Making your notification thing show up as numbers!!!! Bwuahaha!
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QNAP Introduces XBMC App for TS-x69 Pro / L Series NAS Units
by Ganesh T S on February 7, 2013 7:11 PM EST- Posted in
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The Atom D2700 series CPUs have proved quite popular in the SMB / SOHO NAS market. We saw vendors introduce models with HDMI outputs as early as December 2011. In fact, we covered QNAP's HDMI-equipped NAS models at CES 2012. Intel's GPU libraries for video playback and acceleration were not stable at that time and so, vendors were unable to show the true multimedia capabilities then.
Since CES 2012, we have seen a number of vendors trying to pitch a media center running on the NAS as a value add. I have personally tested XBMC on the Thecus N4800 and came away distinctly unimpressed (a though SmallNetBuilder also seems to echo). At CES 2013, I saw an implementation of the Boxee UI on the Asustor 6-series.
QNAP is the latest to join this trend with the TS-x69 Pro and L series, both of which are based on the Atom D2700 2.13 GHz CPU and come with HDMI ports. With the XBMC app, users to directly connect the NAS unit to a TV for media playback through HDMI. As most HTPC enthusiasts already know, XBMC also allows users to also manage their video library, music playlists and create photo slideshows. We will be evaluating one of the supported units in a couple of months, and hopefully, my experience will be better than what I had with the Thecus N4800.
Pricing and Availability
The TS-x69 Pro and L series come in 2, 4, 5, 6 and 8 bay models with prices ranging from $479 for the 2-bay models to $1,099 for the 8 bay models. The XBMC Media Center feature can be downloaded in the QNAP QPKG Center.
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StealthX32 - Thursday, February 7, 2013 - link
Is the home NAS market really willing to fork up that kind of money?
ZyXEL's 2-bay NSA325 NAS + a Raspberry Pi is $200 (plus HD costs obviously). That's a pretty far cry from $479. The NSA325 is driven by a Marvel 1.6GHz with enough oomph to drive torrent/Usenet clients, stream media, etc.
Is there anything I'd be missing?
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ganeshts - Friday, February 8, 2013 - link
Depends on the number of clients you have for the NAS. For a single user, a ZyXEL NAS should be good enough. But, if you have 4 - 5 people in the home accessing the NAS simultaneously, then, things become dicey and you need an Atom based solutions like the ones being discussed in this piece.. -
jramskov - Friday, February 8, 2013 - link
It all depends on your usage, but I don't want my NAS near my TV, I prefer a dedicated solution for streaming video from my NAS and such.
I personally have a Synology NAS and I would certainly recommend taking a look at their offerings if you're looking at getting a NAS. -
RoboJ1M - Friday, February 8, 2013 - link
I'm getting a Synology DS next month
A NAS's impressibilities should be protecting and serving your data.
I'm going to run Plex on a seperate box, whose job will be doing the transcoding for my DLNA devices and when I'm out on 3G. -
themelon - Saturday, February 9, 2013 - link
You'll understand when you try to run XBMC on the Pi. It works but not with 1080p and bit streaming audio. Although to be fair it was with a V1 I tried. I have a V2, the Model B with 512MB ram I plan to try this next week. Hopefully it works better but I still doubt it will be good enough for theater use.
Still won't bit stream HD audio though. For some applications that is just fine. I'm sure I will have a few in certain areas of the house. But for Theater use the hardware is just not capable enough.
If you only want one machine running and you can run a few cat5e cables to your Receiver or Display from where your NAS sits you can use the Monoprice HDMI extender, PID 6532 ~$40, and USB 1.1, pid 6042 ~$10, extenders. The HDMI extender works great as long as your not connecting to an HDMI port with a signal frequency over 165MHz. I use 2 of them for my desktop PC pushing 2 Samsung 1920x1200 displays over 50ft of cat5e UTP.
Although if your only going to have 2-4 disks in your NAS I'd go with something like the HP MicroServer with a GeForce 610 PCI card instead of the ZyXEL. Overall performance will be much better and the HP is pretty good on power consumption. -
chaos215bar2 - Thursday, February 7, 2013 - link
I know Synology uses the D2700 in their higher end units. It would certainly be interesting to see them use it in one of their home units and add HDMI out, even if they left it up to third parties to release a media center package. -
chizow - Friday, February 8, 2013 - link
As title states, I'd be interested if the XBMC allowed an attached TV to directly play and record content-protected Live TV streamed over a network. That would allow me to forego a thin client with Windows Media Center attached to the TV with the NAS. I currently have an older C2D laptop connected to my TV for this functionality but the CPU/GPU isn't quite up to the task for hiccup-free streamed 1080p playback.
If this NAS with XBMC performed similar to an XBox 360 it'd be perfect.


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Watch This Bride + Groom Dance to Metallica at Their Wedding
Metallica for wedding music? Indeed.
That's what this particularly rocking bride and groom went for in an elaborately choreographed dance during their wedding reception. Metallica's Black Album single "Nothing Else Matters" was the couple's song of choice. After all, life is theirs, and they live it their way.
Besides, nothing else matters as much as the music one chooses for their wedding's first dance with their new spouse. And what better way to celebrate your successful nuptials than with an awesomely classic Metallica tune? Watch the resulting video down toward the bottom of this post.
Located on the Facebook page Music Busted, the video is entitled "If the bride wishes Metallica for the wedding dance!" As indicated, the clip begins as a gorgeous bride descends a flight of steps to the unmistakable opening guitar cadence of "Nothing Else Matters."
From there, the newly-married twosome bust out some wicked dance moves as the song hits its marks. It all ends with a blast of confetti as the final notes ring out. Talk about a totally 'Tallica wedding dance!
"Nothing Else Matters" was the third single from Metallica's self-titled fifth studio album, colloquially known as The Black Album. It was released in 1992 following "Enter Sandman" and "The Unforgiven." See the original "Nothing Else Matters" music video after the clip of the wedding dance.
Currently on deck for Metallica is an All Within My Hands "Helping Hands" concert and auction on March 28, followed by a string of world tour dates and U.S. festival appearances this spring and fall. For tickets, head here.
Metallica, "Nothing Else Matters" (Official Music Video)
All Metallica Songs Ranked


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Northside School District's After School Program(s) offer opportunities for children to access academic enrichment, social, and recreational experiences in an environment that is safe and supervised. It is run by the Northside's Community Education Department. This department aligns itself with The Texas Education Agency's expectations, as well as NISD's high standards of all staff, and maintains the rigor and expectations of our students throughout their day.
Enrichment activities are guided by Problem Based Learning principles. Lessons adhere to the same standards teachers use, The Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). Students experience these skills through hands-on, interactive, and multi-sensory activities. Thus, activities facilitate: problem-solving, creativity, intellectual curiosity, and flexibility. Curriculum topics include: Science, Math, Language Arts, Social Studies, College/ Workforce, and a special emphasis is placed on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). STEM activities also include statistics and data-driven decision making, differentiated for each grade level.
There are also monthly events to provide engaging learning experiences as a family unit, and offer information for parents in a variety of topics such as communication, parenting, and nutrition.
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The federal government's $4.5 billion decision to buy the Trans Mountain pipeline has set off a new debate about the controversial project.
Canada has a long history of building energy pipelines, but Canadian attitudes toward major energy pipeline projects have changed over time.
Unease over the environmental effects of pipeline construction and operation have grown from primarily local concerns, led by communities of settlers and Indigenous peoples along pipeline routes, to global concerns about climate change and international environmental policy.
Oil companies have built pipelines in Canada to move petroleum since 1862. But the construction and operation of major long-distance oil and gas pipelines that cross interprovincial and international borders did not commence until the mid-20th century, following the discovery of enormous volumes of crude oil and natural gas near Leduc, Alta., just south of Edmonton.
Within six years of Imperial Oil's discoveries at Leduc, two major trunk oil pipelines were built, spanning the country.
The first was the Interprovincial pipeline, opened in 1950, that connected Edmonton to refineries in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and parts of the northern U.S. The second was the Trans Mountain pipeline, a western line that travelled from Edmonton to Burnaby, B.C., and began shipping oil in 1953.
These two pipelines carried the overwhelming majority of Alberta's crude oil to markets across Canada and parts of the United States. They fuelled Canada's rapid transition to a high-energy, fossil-fuel economy and extraordinary economic growth and prosperity.
But pipeline construction in the past was not without controversy.
Approved in days
The construction of these first two long-distance oil pipelines occurred under the regulatory authority of the federal Board of Transport Commissioners. The board approved both pipelines following a few days of hearings with no public consultation or environmental assessments.
Some who lived along the paths of these pipelines worried about the potential for oil spills and other adverse environmental consequences.
For instance, in 1953, the chief and council for the Aamjiwnaang First Nation from the Sarnia Indian Reserve wrote to the Minister of Transport Lionel Chevrier. In the letter, he objected to the government's granting of a right-of-way through the reserve to Interprovincial Pipe Line Company. The cabinet approved the right-of-way and ordered the company to compensate the First Nation.
Settler farmers also began raising concerns about the environmental effects of pipeline construction and oil spills on their land in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Norman Richmond, a southern Ontario landowner from Pelham Township, was one such concerned citizen. He spoke before the National Energy Board in November 1961, warning of the need for careful environmental planning in pipeline construction. He argued that "future planning is so important that to be ruthless about it and not consider what our children and our children's children are going to find would be a detriment to all concerned."
Occasionally, pipeline politics rose to national prominence.
The Great Pipeline Debate
This first occurred in the mid-1950s during what was known as "The Great Pipeline Debate," an acrimonious political debacle over the construction of the TransCanada pipeline, the country's first long-distance interprovincial natural gas pipeline.
A mixture of nationalist economic and energy policies influenced the decision to prioritize an "all-Canadian" route for the original line from Alberta to Ontario.
Shaky financing ultimately led to what amounted to a government bailout of the U.S. consortium that led the project. The Canadian and Ontario governments formed a joint Crown corporation to build the more difficult (and less profitable) segment of the pipeline through northern Ontario.
The federal opposition parties objected to the Liberal party's approach to the TransCanada pipeline and the high-handed measures of the unusually powerful cabinet minister, C.D. Howe.
The result was the end of more than two decades of continuous Liberal rule in Canada and the election of John Diefenbaker and the first Progressive Conservative government in Canadian history.
Ordinary Canadians involved
More and more ordinary Canadians started to raise concerns about oil and gas pipeline development in the 1970s.
Numerous, repeated oil spills along the Interprovincial pipeline in Western Canada led to calls for more environmental regulation of the industry and research into the effects of oil spills on soil quality.
Oil spills along the Trans Mountain pipeline in Jasper National Park and Merritt, B.C. in the early 1970s raised anxieties within affected communities about the environmental implications of oil pipelines and their further expansion.
When the federal government approved the extension of the Interprovincial pipeline system from Sarnia to Montreal in the mid-1970s, southern Ontario farmers organized to resist its construction, and called for better construction practices and environmental protections.
In the North, three competing gas pipeline proposals for the Mackenzie Valley alarmed the region's Indigenous residents who feared the potential environmental harms that might come from pipeline construction and operation in delicate northern environments.
They were joined by environmental and conservation groups who saw the gas pipeline proposals as threats to wildlife. Indigenous peoples in the North were also concerned about the implications of pipeline development for unresolved land and resource claims.
The federal government appointed Justice Thomas Berger to lead an inquiry into the gas pipeline proposals for the Mackenzie Valley. In 1977, after listening to numerous groups of northern peoples — including First Nations, Métis, and settler communities — Berger recommended the federal cabinet impose a 10-year moratorium on pipeline development in the Mackenzie Valley.
Northern pipeline development quickly re-emerged in the early 1980s with a proposal from Interprovincial Pipe Line Co. (the company that today is Enbridge) to build an oil pipeline in the Mackenzie Valley from Norman Wells, N.W.T., to Zama, Alta., to deliver northern oil to southern markets.
First Nation objections
In spite of the recommendations of the Berger inquiry and the continued objections of First Nations, the National Energy Board and the federal cabinet approved the construction of the Norman Wells Pipeline.
The local Dene were eventually persuaded to accede to the construction of the pipeline in exchange for additional environmental mitigation efforts, employment opportunities and protections against potential socio-economic effects of pipeline development. The company completed construction of the pipeline in 1985, but Dene objections to the pipeline and concerns over oil spills, disruptions to wildlife habitat and other adverse environmental effects persisted.
The pipeline debates today reflect some continuities with the past 70 years of oil and gas pipeline development, but there are some significant differences in contemporary pipeline politics.
The most significant difference is that opposition to new pipeline development is deeply implicated in global environmental politics concerning climate change. The issue of climate change has elevated the question of pipeline development in Canada from a local or even national concern to a global one. As a result, the political stakes have been raised to a degree not previously experienced in this country.
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.
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I always want to know more about those spills in Jasper NP and near Merritt…


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Microsoft has announced its 'Windows 10′ operating system to replace the largely unpopular Windows 8, skipping a number to mark a leap toward unifying the way people work on tablets, phones and traditional computers.
The next version of Microsoft's flagship product, which still runs the vast majority of personal computers and is used by 1.5 billion customers worldwide, is aimed at recapturing the lucrative business market, which generally ignored the new-look Windows 8.
Windows 10 will be "our greatest enterprise platform ever," said Terry Myerson, Microsoft's head of operating systems, at an event in San Francisco. Only 20 percent of organizations migrated to Windows 8, which was released two years ago, according to tech research firm Forrester. Many PC users disliked the touch-optimized interface and bemoaned the loss of the traditional start-button pop-up menu.
He said Windows 10, long known by the project name 'Threshold' internally, represented a new type of system for the company, as it seeks to unify computing as mobile devices proliferate. The name represented that leap, he said.
"Windows 10 adapts to the devices customers are using, from Xbox to PCs and phones to tablets and tiny gadgets," said Myerson.
Microsoft faces an uphill struggle in reigniting excitement about Windows. With the rise of Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) iPhone and iPad, and Google's Android devices, Windows no longer plays a central role in many people's on-screen lives.
From a virtual monopoly on personal computing 10 years ago, Windows now runs only about 14 percent of devices, according to research firm Gartner.
Reaction to the news was cautious. Microsoft shares fell 8 cents to $46.36 on Nasdaq.
"It's a bold statement for Microsoft to make," said Daniel Ives, an analyst at FBR Capital Markets. "So far there's not as much meat on the bone as we would have wanted, although it's still very early days."
An early version of the software, demonstrated on stage by Microsoft executive Joe Belfiore, showed two modes, one optimized for touch-controlled tablets, and one for PCs using a mouse and keyboard. Users can switch between the two depending on the device.
Myerson did not say exactly how or when the new Windows would be rolled out, but other executives said Microsoft was aiming for a full release in spring 2015. A technical preview can be downloaded from Microsoft's website, starting on Wednesday, for users to try out and give the company feedback.
"They were trying to start the messaging for a product that won't actually ship until sometime around the middle of next year," said Gartner analyst Steve Kleynhans at the event. "This was to tell the PC installed base that there is a future and it doesn't have to be covered over in brightly colored tiles, or force them to abandon everything they've learned over the past 15 years."
Myerson said his team toyed with calling the new product Windows One to emphasize the unity of all the companies' products, but noted that name had already been used.


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This post from the archives describes a strange statement from a client, and some of the thoughts it raised for me at the time.
"Today we get married to Knowledge Management"
That was the, shall we say, "unusual" statement made by the convener of a KM seminar that I was speaking at last week. (I was either one of the ministers at the ceremony, or one of the bridesmaids - I am not sure. Probably the former. Also he said it in Swedish.)
By "getting married" he meant that the company in question was now formally intending to make Knowledge Management "part of the household", or an embedded component of how they do business.
The marriage idea struck me as an excellent analogy, largely by the way that it represented a definite and positive ceremony of commitment. Then I started taking the analogy further, and wondered whether you could take the phases of a love affair and map them onto the Knowledge management journey. Maybe it would go something like this.
You are not sure whether Knowledge Management would suit your company but you are definitely interested. You get the idea that there might be something there - that you might find something of value if you explored a little further. You are reading about the topic, you are following some of the blogs, attending the conferences, maybe holding some internal conferences or seminars. Maybe you set up your first KM task force, and run a KM assessment.
First Date
You have explored the topic sufficiently to realise that this is time for a serious trial, and for an investment of some time and money to find out if it is worth proceeding further. You set up your first Knowledge Management pilot program, to see if it works in your company, to see how it works in your company, and to see if it adds value, and if so, how much. To see if it "feels right". If the first date (pilot) works out, then it will be followed by the second, and the third, and so on.
Meeting the parents and getting their blessing
In older more sexist days, this would be "asking her father for his daughter's hand in marriage". Nowadays it is less of a hurdle, but there is a point where you need to declare your relationship with others in your circle of family and friends, and discuss the next stage. In Knowledge Management terms, this is when you involve senior management. You discuss the pilots, you discuss the value, and you negotiate whether, and how, and when, you can make the relationship with Knowledge Management official. Senior management may need more evidence, or more pilots, but if you have a good enough business case and enough value stories from the pilots, they will be on your side.
Getting Engaged
This is the commitment to KM (and to be honest, last weeks ceremony was more the engagement party than the marriage ceremony. It was the point at which all the interested parties came together to get to know the new bride/groom). You start the transition, begin the roll-out, ramp up the change management, and get everything ready (the roles, the technologies, the processes, the governance) for the big day.
Getting Married.
From this step on, the company and knowledge management are joined at the hip. There is a KM Policy in place (the equivalent of the marriage contract) and KM is now expected to be an integral part of the day-to-day activity of the organisation.
That's as far as I want to take the analogy at the moment, and we can leave the happy couple setting off on the honeymoon together.
It would be worth considering where you and your company are on this journey.


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An Internet Service Provider (ISP) provides access to the Internet. An ISP can be small, like a local business that connects its users to a larger upstream provider; or it can be a big, corporate operation like AT&T or Comcast.
Even when a country has laws that shield third-party services from liability based on some of their users' activity, such as the United States' Communications Decency Act § 230, and the notice and takedown provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, some ISPs would rather get rid of a user (or their allegedly offending content) than be drawn into a legal dispute, even where there is no liability risk to the third-party provider.
In addition, governments and rightsholders can threaten free speech by pressuring ISPs to cut off a user's Internet access. This is showcased by "three strikes" proposals. Three strikes laws (and voluntary agreements by ISPs) would require ISPs to terminate a user's Internet connection once that user had received a number of notifications of alleged copyright infringement. Several countries have already enacted such laws, including France and South Korea, and others are pushing for similar laws.
Even where a user's activity could be a protected use, copyright holders have the advantage of being able to pressure an ISP to cut off that user's Internet access, while ISPs have little incentive to fight back for their users. Laws like three strikes jeopardize users' ability to access the Internet — and thereby to speak and get information online. Other proposals would require intermediaries like ISPs to act as IP police, including blocking access to websites that allegedly facilitate infringement.
Examples of Targeting ISPs
In one of the biggest acts of government censorship ever to focus on ISPs, the Egyptian government forced the country's six ISPs to go offline, thereby knocking out the Egyptian Internet and suffocating all online speech in the country.
The Copyright Alert System or "six strikes" program between U.S. Internet providers and the content industry provided for monitoring of your Internet usage and the delivery of warning notices about copyright infringement. Status: discontinued in 2017.


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Tonight I'm going to party at a friend's house. We didn't feel like going out, because of the bad weather and because it's all too expensive! I didn't want to pay 30 euros to go to a club where there are way too many people and where I'm not able to move. So we decided to get some food, some drinks and just hang out together and maybe play some Singstar. I hope everyone will survive my singing. ;)
Even though we're not going out, it doesn't mean I can't dress up. I decided to wear a Greek-like dress with golden details my aunt got me for my 20th birthday. I really love it - my only fear is that I will loose the golden studs after wearing the dress too often. So I'll only wear it on special occasions. =)
It's not one of my best pictures, but my sister and I had to hurry. I wish I would fit in her dress, I think it looks absolutely beautiful on her! I hope everyone will enjoy the last evening of 2009 and that 2010 will bring you nothing but good things!
Dress: MANGO // Bag: MANGO // Shoes: NEW LOOK


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Hebrews 10
10:1 For 1 the law having a shadow of good things to a come, [and] not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. (1) He prevents a private objection. Why then were those sacrifices offered? The apostle answers, first concerning the yearly sacrifice which was the solemnest of all, in which (he says) there was made every year a remembrance again of all former sins. Therefore that sacrifice had no power to sanctify: for to what purpose should those sins which are purged be repeated again, and why should new sins come to be repeated every year, if those sacrifices abolished sin?
10:5 2 Wherefore when he b cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a c body hast thou prepared me:
(a) Of things which are everlasting, which were promised to the fathers, and exhibited in Christ. (2) A conclusion following those things that went before, and encompassing also the other sacrifices. Seeing that the sacrifices of the law could not do it, therefore Christ speaking of himself as of our High Priest manifested in the flesh, witnesses plainly that God rests not in the sacrifices, but in the obedience of his Son our High Priest, in whose obedience he offered up himself once to his Father for us.
10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the d first, that he may establish the second.
(b) The Son of God is said to come into the world, when he was made man.
(c) It is word for word in the Hebrew text, "You have pierced my ears through" that is, "you have made me obedient and willing to hear". (d) That is, the sacrifices, to establish the second, that is, the will of God.
10:11 3 And every priest standeth e daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: (3) A conclusion, with the other part of the comparison: The Levitical high priest repeats the same sacrifices daily in his sanctuary: upon which it follows that neither those sacrifices, nor those offerings, nor those high priests could take away sins. But Christ having offered one sacrifice once for the sins of all men, and having sanctified his own for ever, sits at the right hand of the Father, having all power in his hands.
10:13 4 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
(e) At the altar. (4) He prevents a private objection, that is, that yet nonetheless we are subject to sin and death, to which the apostle answers, that the full effect of Christs power has not yet shown itself, but shall eventually appear when he will at once put to flight all his enemies, with whom we still struggle.
10:15 5 [Whereof] the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, (5) Although there remains in us relics of sin, yet the work of our sanctification which is to be perfected, hangs on the same sacrifice which never shall be repeated: and that the apostle proves by referring again to the testimony of Jeremiah, thus: Sin is taken away by the new testament, seeing the Lord says that it shall come to pass, that according to the form of it, he will no more remember our sins: Therefore we need now no purging sacrifice to take away that which is already taken away, but we must rather take pains, that we may now through faith be partakers of that sacrifice.
10:17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember f no more. (f) Why then, where is the fire of purgatory, and that popish distinction of the fault, and the punishment?
10:18 Now where remission of these [is, there is] no more offering for g sin. (g) He said well, for sin: for there remains another offering, that is, of thanksgiving.
10:19 6 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, (6) The sum of the former treatise: We are not shut out from the holy place, as the fathers were, but we have an entrance into the true holy place (that is, into heaven) seeing that we are purged with the blood, not of beasts, but of Jesus. Neither as in times past, does the High Priest shut us out by setting the veil against us, but through the veil, which is his flesh, he has brought us into heaven itself, so that we have now truly an High Priest who is over the house of God.
10:20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his h flesh; (h) So Christs flesh shows us the Godhead as if it were under a veil, For otherwise we could not stand the brightness of it.
10:22 7 Let us draw near with a i true heart in full assurance of faith, having our k hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with l pure water. (7) A most grave exhortation, in which he shows how the sacrifice of Christ may be applied to us: that is, by faith which also he describes by the consequence, that is, by sanctification of the Spirit, which causes us to hope in God, and to procure by all means possible one anothers salvation, through the love that is in us one towards another.
10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some [is]; but exhorting [one another]: 8 and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
(i) With no double and counterfeit heart, but with such a heart as is truly and indeed given to God.
(k) This is it which the Lord says, Be ye holy, for I am holy.
(l) With the grace of the Holy Spirit. (8) Having mentioned the last coming of Christ, he stirs up the godly to the meditation of a holy life, and cites the faithless fallers from God to the fearful judgment seat of the Judge, because they wickedly rejected him in whom only salvation consists.
10:26 For if we sin m wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, (m) Without any cause or occasion, or show of occasion.
10:27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the n adversaries. (n) For it is another matter to sin through the frailty of mans nature, and another thing to proclaim war on God as on an enemy.
10:28 9 He that despised Moses law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: (9) If the breach of the law of Moses was punished by death, how much more worthy of death is it to fall away from Christ?
10:30 10 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance [belongeth] unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall o judge his people.
10:32 11 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
(10) The reason of all these things is, because God is a revenger of those who despise him: otherwise he could not rightly govern his Church. Now there is nothing more horrible then the wrath of the living God.
(o) Rule or govern.
10:33 Partly, whilst ye were made a p gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became q companions of them that were so used.
(11) As he terrified the fallers away from God, so does he now comfort them that are constant and stand firm, setting before them the success of their former fights, so stirring them up to a sure hope of a full and ready victory. (p) You were brought forth to be shamed.
10:34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring r substance.
(q) In taking their miseries, to be your miseries. (r) Goods and riches.
10:37 For yet a s little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. (s) He will come within this very little while.
10:38 12 Now the just shall live by faith: but if [any man] draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
(12) He commends the excellency of a sure faith by the effect, because it is the only way to life, which sentence he sets forth and amplifies by contrast.


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Ivanka Trump last year often used a personal email account to discuss or relay official White House business, according to emails released Monday by nonpartisan watchdog group.
According to emails released by American Oversight, Trump used her personal account through much of 2017 to email Cabinet officials, White House aides and her assistants. The Presidential Records Act requires all official White House communications and records be preserved.
The Washington Post was first to report on the emails. The White House had no comment on Ivanka Trump's email practices.
Trump's usage of a private email account will bring comparisons to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose usage of a private email server instead of a government email account during her time in office was a central part of President Donald Trump's campaign against her in 2016. Trump's supporters often chanted -- and still do, on occasion -- "Lock her up!" at the mention of Clinton, and President Trump has frequently accused Clinton of receiving special treatment because she was not charged for skirting the Presidential Records Act with her email practices.
Peter Mirijanian, the spokesperson for Ivanka Trump's attorney and ethics counsel, said in a statement, "Like most people, before entering into government service, Ms. Trump used a private email. When she entered the government, she was given a government email account for official use. While transitioning into government, until the White House provided her the same guidance they had to others who started before she did, Ms. Trump sometimes used her private account, almost always for logistics and scheduling concerning her family."
Some advisers to President Donald Trump were alarmed when they heard this news, the Post reports, because of the similarities to Clinton's email use. Trump has called Clinton "Crooked Hillary" for using a personal email account when she was secretary of state.
Mirijanian sought to draw a specific contrast between Ivanka Trump's personal email usage and Clinton's, by noting that she did not have the server set up in her home or office.
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Die Entdeckung der Currywurst
OK, Eli is indulging Eli. The Discovery of Currywurst is a shaggy dog novel which describes how Currywurst was first made in a small stand in Hamburg along its meandering ways. A basic principle, perhaps due to Bismark, Eli is too unconcerned to google the provenance, is that one should never peer too closely into how sausage (wurst) and laws are made.
Well, Eli, and Tamino and Robert Way, made that mistake, and Judith Curry is indeed making sausage in her risible replies to Tamino and Eli. The reply to Eli was quite short, so Eli replied in turn, here and below. Tamino took more space
Dear Prof. Curry,
Here you say
The theme of my recent Senate testimony was to compare the AR4 and AR5, and to demonstrate a lowering of confidence in elements of the AR5, and the growing issue of natural variability. So I stuck to citing the IPCC reports, not any recent papers or selling my own opinion (for example, in this context I cited the IPCC on the Antarctic sea ice, not the Liu/Curry paper).But Eli recalls you also writing in your testimony
A recent paper seeks to interpret the multi-decadal natural variability component of the Arctic sea ice in context of a 'stadium wave'. (7) This paper suggests that a transition to recovery of the natural variability component of the sea ice extent has begun in theEurasian Arctic sector, and that the recovery will reach its maximum extent circa 2040.and later in the testimony your summary states
The stadium wave hypothesis (8) predicts that the warming hiatus could extend to the 2030's. Based upon climate model projections, the probability of the hiatus extending beyond 20 years is vanishing small. If the hiatus does extend beyond 20 years, then a very substantial reconsideration will be needed of the 20th century attribution and the 21st century projections of climate change.and, of course, there is a great deal of much earlier work that reaches the same conclusion as Liu and Curry. Some of which was noted in Liu and Curry and some not so much. Now Liu and Curry
Oh yes, Steve Mosher is pouring sauce over his head at Judy's Currywurst. It is cold outside. Give the lad some warmth.


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May also be called: Jock Itch
Tinea cruris, commonly called jock itch, is a skin infection of the groin area caused by several types of fungi often found on the skin.
More to Know
The fungus tends to grow and spread in warm, damp areas of the body. It may be triggered by sweating in the groin area or friction caused by tight clothing.
Symptoms include a red rash with raised edges, and itching, redness, or flaking on the groin, upper inner thighs, or anus. Sometimes jock itch occurs at the same time as ringworm or athlete's foot, which are caused by the same fungus.
Jock itch can be spread from one person to another if they share clothing or towels. Jock itch occurs most often in teenage boys and adult men. It is more common in hot, humid weather and in people who play sports or sweat heavily. It's also more likely to affect people who are overweight or have diabetes mellitus.
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The variety of edible olives produced only in our country and is traditionally export product and is firmly at the top-quality, Class "olives" in world rankings. The physical characteristics of the olive stems are large shape, beautiful black color obtained in the tree, and the rich taste of the hard texture. They are processed by natural fermentation and packed with brine, vinegar and olive oil. The Kalamata olive is also pitted and sliced, products quite widespread in the food market. The Kalamata olives available Vayia Food SA is collected by the famous grove incense and olive trees in the surrounding area.
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Olives type | Black kalamon |
Packing olives | 250gr |
Per 100gr. | |
Salt (g) | 2,0 |
Energy (kj / kcal) | 1078 / 262 |
Fat (g) | 23,4 |
Protein (g) | 1,1 |
Carbohydrate (g) | 11,6 |
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Haunted - Hand Dyed Aida - 18 count
* This is a special-order item, it is dyed to order for each shop as we order it, processing time is 20+ weeks. Email if you would like to see if it is on order.
Colour: Medium blue/gray with dusty purple smudges.
FAQ's from the website:
Why do the different fabric types dye differently?
Basic Dyeing 101 - different fabric contents will take the dye differently - sometimes very differently. Aidas are woven from cotton threads, Linens are made from linen thread, and the Evenweaves that we use are a combination of rayon and cotton.
Are your fabrics washable?
Yes! We use our washing machine and hot water to wash the fabrics before they're dyed and then again after the dyeing process. They are as washable as they can be!
Are your dyed fabrics colorfast?
Yes. We use chemicals to bind the dye to the fibers and to stop the dyeing reaction. Then we wash the fabrics with a special detergent that removes loose dye. The brightest and darkest colors (such as Phoenix and Mystic) are rinsed many times to try and get out all the unbound dye. That being said if you are someone who always washes your project when you are finished stitching - remember the threads are not colorfast and there could be loose dye in the fabric. It's recommended to rinse your piece in cold water and not let it soak.


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[ t a b l e o f c o n t e n t s ]
01 - table of contents
02 - introduction
03 - first tips
04 - about proxies
05 - cookies
06 - ftp transfers
07 - secure transactions
08 - SSL tunelling
09 - anonymity on irc
10 - mail crypto (and pgp usage)
11 - icq privacy
12 - spyware
13 - cleaning tracks
14 - ending words
[ introduction ]
Nowadays, everyone wants privacy on the web, because no matter where you go, someone could be watching you. Someone like your employer, someone trying to hack your system, companies gathering all your info to sell to yet other companies, or even the government, may be on your track while you peacefully surf the web. Thus, anonymity on the web means being able tu use all of its services with no concern about someone snooping on your data.
Your computer being connected to the net has an IP [Internet Protocol] address. If you have a dial-up connection, then your IP changes every time you connect to the internet (this is not always true, though. There are dialup isps, specially for university students, that do have static ips). Cable modems and DSL connections have a static IP, which means that the IP address does not change. One of the goals of getting anonymous is to make sure your ip, either static or dynamic) isn't revealed to other users of the internet, or to server administrators of the servers you roam around when using internet services.
This text tries to give you some hints on how to maintain your anonimity on the web. Some of the hints may sound banal, but think of, if you really abide them in every situation.
[ first tips ]
When chatting on IRC, ICQ, AIM (etc..), do not give out personal information about yourself, where you live, work, etc.
Do not use your primary email address (the one your ISP gave you) anywhere except to family members, close friends or trusted people. Instead create for yourself a web-based email account such as yahoo, hotmail, dynamitemail, mail.com, etc. and use this e-mail address to signing up for services, when in the need to give your mail to download something, or to publish on your homepage.
When signing up for services on the web, don't give your real information like address, phone number and such unless you really need to do so. This is the kind of information that information gathering companies like to get, so that they can sell out and fill your mailbox with spam.
Use an anonymous proxy to surf the web. This makes sure your ip doesn't get stored on the webserver logs. (Webservers log every GET request made, together with date, hour, and IP. This is where the proxy comes in. They get the ip from the proxy, not yours)
Use a bouncer to connect to IRC networks, in case you don't trust the administrators, or the other users. A bouncer is a program that sits on a permanently connected machine that allows you to connect there, and from there to the irc server, just like a proxy works for webservers.
Use anonymous remailers to send out your e-mails.
Cryptography can also help you by making sure the material you send out the web, like by email, etc, is cyphered, not allowing anyone that doesn't have your key to read it (in key-based cryptography). Programs like PGP (pretty good privacy) are toolkits with all you need to cypher and uncypher your stuff.
Delete traces of your work with the computer including history files, cache or backup files.
[ about proxies ]
Proxies are caches that relay data. When you configure your web browser to use a proxy, it never connects to the URL. Instead it always connects to the proxy server, and asks it to get the URL for you. It works similarly with other type of services such as IRC, ICQ etc. There'll won't be direct connection between you and the server, so your real IP address won't be revealed to the server. When you view a website on the server, the server won't see your IP. Some of web proxies do not support forwarding of the cookies whose support is required by some of the websites (for ex. Hotmail).
Here are some anonymous proxies that you can use to surf anonymously (notice that some of these may be a payed service):
Aixs - http://aixs.net/
Rewebber - http://www.anon.de/
Anonymizer - http://www.anonymizer.com/
The Cloak - http://www.the-cloak.com/
You'll highly probably find many websites that provide the lists of unauthorised proxies and remailers . Such lists are being compiled usually with the help of port scanners or exploit scanners, scanning for computers with wingate or other proxies' backdoors. Using these proxies is illegal, and is being considered as unauthorized access of computer. If you get such list to your hands, check if the info is legal or compiled by script kiddie, and act acordingly.
[ cookies ]
Maybe you're not aware of the fact that if you have the "allow cookies" feature in your browser on, websites can store all sorts of information on your harddrive. Cookies are small files that contain various kind of information that can be read bt websites when you visit them. The usual usage is to track demographics for advertising agencies that want to see just what kinds of consumers a certain site is attracting. Web sites also use cookies to keep your account information up-to-date. Then for instance when you visit your e-mail webbased account without being unlogged some hours later, you find yourself being logged on, even if you turn off your computer. Your login and password was simply stored on your harddrive in cookie file. This is security threat, in case that there is more persons who have the access to your computer.
Most of the browsers offer the possiblity to turn off the cookies, but some of sites like Hotmail.com require them to be turned on. In case you decided to allow cookies, at least never forget to log off from the websites when you're finishing visiting them.
[ ftp transfers ]
When using an FTP client program to download files, assure yourself, that it's giving a bogus password, like email@example.com, not your real one. If your browser lets you, turn off the feature that sends your e-mail address as a password for anonymous FTP sessions.
[ secure transaction ]
Everything being sent from the web server to your browser is usually in plain text format. That means, all transferred information can be easily sniffed on the route. Some of the web servers support SSL (which stands for Secure Socket Layer). To view and use these websites you'll need SSL support in your browser as well. You recognize, that the connection is encrypted, if URL starts with https:// instead of usual http://. Never use web server without SSL for sending or receiving sensitive private or business information (credit card numbers, passwords etc.)
[ SSL tunelling ]
What is SSL?
SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer. The ?Secure? implies an encryption, while Socket Layer denotes an addition to the Window Socket system, Winsock. For those that don?t know, a Socket is an attachment to a port on a system. You can have many sockets on one port, providing they are non-blocking (allowing control to pass through to another socket aware application which wishes to connect to that port).
A Secure Socket Layer means that any sockets under it, are both secure and safe. The idea behind SSL was to provide an encrypted, and thus, secure route for traffic along a socket based system, such as TCP/IP (the internet protocol). Doing this allows security in credit card transactions on the Internet, encrypted and protected communiqué along a data line, and overall peace of mind.
The SSL uses an encryption standard developed by RSA. RSA are a world respected American organisation that specializes in encryption and data security. Initially, they developed a cipher length of only 40 bits, for use with the Secure Socket Layer, this was considered weak and therefore a longer much more complicated encryption cipher was created, 128 bits. The reasoning behind it was simple: it needs to be secure.
The RSA site puts the advantage of a longer encryption length pretty clearly: because 40-bit encryption is considered to be relatively weak. 128-bits is about 309 septillion times ( 309,485,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ) larger than 40-bits. This would mean it would take that many times longer to crack or break 128-bit encryption than it would 40-bit.
If you want more information on the technicalities or RSA?s SSL encryption engine, visit their site: http://www.rsasecurity.com/standards/ssl.
But what does all this encryption and security have to do with you?
Well, that?s a simple question. No matter how hard you try, at times your privacy will need to be knowingly invaded so you can make use of the product offered for doing so. If you think about food, for example, one cannot eat without swallowing. When we wish to make a transaction or view a site on the internet, where we have to give enough information away so that it happens, we also want to be assured no one else along the line gathers that data. An encrypted session would mean our data is not at the hands of any privacy perpetrators unless they knew how to decode it ? and the only ones in the know, are those you specifically wish. SSL uses public key encryption as explained in the PGP section.
To put this at a head: if you use an encrypted connection or session, you can be relatively assured that there are no prying eyes along the way.
And how do I implement SSL with SSL Tunnelling?
We know that a Secure Socket Layer is safe, but what we don?t know is what a Tunnel is. In the most simplistic form, a tunnel is a proxy. Like proxy voting in general elections, a tunnel will relay your data back and forth for you. You may be aware though, that there are already ?proxies? out there, and yes, that is true. Tunnelling is done via proxies, but it is not considered to be the same as a standard proxy relaying simply because it isn?t.
Tunnelling is very special kind of proxy relay, in that it can, and does relay data without interfering. It does this transparently and without grievance or any care for what is passing its way.
Now, if we add this ability to ?tunnel? data, any data, in a pipe, to the Secure Sockets Layer, we have a closed connection that is independent of the software carrying it; and something that is also encrypted. For those of you wanting to know a little more about the technicalities, the SSL layer is also classless in the sense it does not interferer with the data passed back and forth ? after all, it is encrypted and impossible to tamper with. That attribute means an SSL capable proxy is able to transfer data out of its ?proxied? connection to the destination required.
So to sum up, we have both a secure connection that does the job and relays things in the right direction; and we have direct tunnel that doesn?t care what we pass through it. Two very useful, and almost blind entities. All we need now is a secure proxy that we can use as the tunnel.
Secure proxies are alike standard proxies. We can either use an HTTP base SSL equipped proxy - one specifically designed for security HTTP traffic, but because of the ignorant nature of SSL communication, it can be bent to any needs ? or we can use a proper SSL service designed for our connection ? like you would use a secure NNTP (news) program with a secure proxy on port 563 instead of taking our long way - which would probably work as well.
A secure HTTP proxy operates on port 443. Host proxies are not public, that means they operate for, and allow only traffic from their subnet or the ISP that operates them ? but, there are many badly configured HTTP proxies and some public ones out there. The use of a program called HTTrack (available on Neworder) will aid you in scanning and searching for proxies on your network or anywhere on the Internet if your ISP does not provide you with one.
Neworder also features a number of sites dedicated to listing public proxies in the Anonymity section. While it?s often hard to find a suitable fast proxy, it?s worth the effort when you get one.
So how can I secure my connections with SSL Tunnelling?
That?s a big question, and beyond the scope out this tuition as it must come to and end. I can however, point you in the right direction of two resources that will aid you in tunnelling both IRC, and most other connections via a HTTP proxy.
For Windows, the first stop would be http://www.totalrc.net?s Socks2HTTP. This is an SSL tunnelling program that turns a normal socks proxy connection into a tunnelled SSL connection.
The second stop, for both Windows and Unix is stunnel. Stunnel is a GNU kit developed for SSL tunnelling any connection. It is available for compile and download as binary here: Stunnel homepage - http://mike.daewoo.com.pl/computer/stunnel
[ anonymity on irc ]
A BNC, or a Bouncer - is used in conjunction with IRC as a way of hiding your host when people /whois you. On most IRC networks, your host isnt masked when you whois, meaning the entire IP appears, like 188.8.131.52, which can be resolved. On other networks, your host might be masked, like IRCnetwork-0.1 but it can still give valuable information, like nationality if your host is not a IP, but a DNS resolved host, like my.host.cn would be masked to IRCnetwork-host.cn but this would still tell the person who whoised you, that you are from China.
To keep information such as this hidden from the other users on an IRC network, many people use a Bouncer, which is actually just a Proxy. Let us first draw a schematic of how a normal connection would look, with and without a BNC installed.
Without a BNC:
your.host.cn <<-->> irc.box.sk
With a BNC:
your.host.cn <<-->> my.shell.com <<-->> irc.box.sk
You will notice the difference between the two. When you have a BNC installed, a shell functions as a link between you and the IRC server (irc.box.sk as an example). You install a BNC on a shell, and set a port for it to listen for connections on. You then login to the shell with your IRC client, BitchX/Xchat/mIRC, and then it will login to the IRC server you specify - irc.box.sk in this case. In affect, this changes your host, in that it is my.shell.com that makes all the requests to irc.box.sk, and irc.box.sk doesn't know of your.host.cn, it has never even made contact with it.
In that way, depending on what host your shell has, you can login to IRC with a host like i.rule.com, these vhosts are then actually just an alias for your own machine, your.host.cn, and it is all completely transparent to the IRC server.
Many servers have sock bots that check for socket connections. These aren't BNC connections, and BNC cannot be tested using a simple bot, unless your shell has a socket port open (normally 1080) it will let you in with no problem at all, the shell is not acting as a proxy like you would expect, but more as a simple IRC proxy, or an IRC router. In one way, the BNC just changes the packet and sends it on, like:
to: my.shell.com -> to: irc.box.sk -> to: my.shell.com from: your.host.cn <- from: my.shell.com <- from: irc.box.sk
The BNC simply swaps the host of your packet, saying it comes from my.shell.com. But also be aware, that your own machine is perfectly aware that it has a connection established with my.shell.com, and that YOU know that you are connected to irc.box.sk. Some BNCs are used in IRC networks, to simulate one host. If you had a global IRC network, all linked together, you could have a local server called: cn.myircnetwork.com which Chinese users would log into. It would then Bounce them to the actual network server, in effect making all users from china have the same host - cn.myircnetwork.com, masking their hosts. Of course, you could change the host too - so it didn't reveal the nationality, but it is a nice gesture of some networks, that they mask all hosts from everyone, but it makes life hard for IRCops on the network - but its a small price to pay for privacy.
Note: Even if you do use IRC bouncer, within DCC transfers or chat, your IP will be revealed, because DCC requires direct IP to IP connection. Usual mistake of IRC user is to have DCC auto-reply turned on. For an attacker is then easy to DCC chat you or offer you a file, and when IRC clients are connected, he can find out your IP address in the list of his TCP/IP connections (netstat).
How do I get IRC bouncer?
you download and install bouncer software, or get someone to install it for you (probably the most known and best bouncer available is BNC, homepage : http://gotbnc.com/)
you configure and start the software - in case it's bouncer at Unix machine, you start it on your shell account (let's say shell.somewhere.com)
you open IRC and connect to the bouncer at shell.somewhere.com on the port you told it to start on.
all depending on the setup, you may have to tell it your password and tell it where to connect, and you're now on irc as shell.somewhere.com instead of your regular hostname
[ mail crypto ]
Usually the safest way to ensure that your e-mail won't be read by unauthorised persons is to encrypt them. To be compatible with the rest of the world I'd suggest to use free PGP software.
PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is a piece of software, used to ensure that a message/file has not been changed, has not been read, and comes from the person you think it comes from. Download location: http://www.pgpi.org/
How does pgp Work?
The whole idea behind PGP is that of Public and Private keys. To explain the algorithm PGP uses in order to encrypt the message would take too much time, and is beyond the scope of this, we will however look at how it ensures the integrity of the document. A user has a password, this password has to be chosen correctly, so don't choose passwords like "pop" or "iloveyou", this will make an attack more likely to succeed. The password is used to create a private key, and a public key - the algorithm ensures that you can not use the public key to make the private key. The public key is sent to a server, or to the people you send e-mails/files, and you keep the private key secret.
We will use a few terms and people in this introduction, they are: Pk - Public Key, Sk - Secret Key (private key). Adam will send an e-mail to Eve, and Rita will be a person in between, who we are trying to hide the content of the mail from. Rita will intercept the email (PGP doesn't ensure that Rita cant get her hands on the package, she can - its not a secure line like other technologies) and try to read it/modify it. Adam has a Sk1 and a Pk1, and Eve has a Sk2 and a Pk2. Both Adam, Eve, and Rita have Pk1 and Pk2, but Sk1 and Sk2 are presumed to be totally secret. First, here is a schematic of how it all looks:
Pk1, Pk2
Adam <------------------------------------------> Eve Sk1 ^ Sk2
So Adam wants to send a packet to Eve, without Rite reading it, or editing it. There are three things that we need to make sure:
That Rita cant read the text without permission
That Rita cant edit it in any way, without Eve and Adam knowing
That Even knows that Adam sent it
First thing is making sure Rita cant read the text. Adam does this by encrypting the message with Eves Pk2 which he has found on the server. You can only Encrypt with the Pk, not decrypt, so Rita wont be able to read the data unless Eve has revealed her Sk2.
The second thing to make sure, is that Rite cant edit the message. Adam creates a hash from the message he has created. The hash can be encrypted using Pk2, or sent as it is. When Eve gets the message, she decrypts it, and creates a hash herself, then checks if the hashes are the same - if they are, the message is the same, if its different, something has changed in the message. The Hash is very secure, and it is in theory impossible to make a change, and get the hash to remain the same.
The third, and probably one of the most important things to ensure, is that Rita hasn't grabbed the mail, made a new one, and sent it in Adams name. We can ensure this by using Public key and Private key too. The Sk can be used both to encrypt and to decrypt, but Pk can only encrypt. When Adam normally sends a message M to Eve, he creates the encrypted message C by doing: C=Pk2(M). This means, Adam uses Pk2 (Eves Pk) on message M to create message C. Image this: Adam can encrypt the message with his Sk1, because it is impossible to derive Sk1 from the message, this is secure and without any danger, as long as no one knows the password used to make Sk1 with. If the message M is encrypted with Sk1, he gets a message called X, Eve can decrypt the message using Pk1 which is public. If the message decrypts to something that makes sence, then it must be from Adam, because Sk1 is considered as secret, and only Adam knows it.
The entire process looks like this, when sending message C: Adam signs his digital signature on C, and hashes C: X=Sk1(C). Then Adam encrypts the message for Eve: M=Pk2(X). The message is sent, and looks all in all like this: M=Pk2(Sk1(C)). Rita can intercept M, but not decrypt, edit, or resend it. Eve receives M, and decrypts it: X=Sk2(M). Then she checks the digital signature: C=Pk1(X) and checks the Hash on the way.
This way, the PGP Public/Private key system ensures integrity and security of the document e-mail, but PGP is not the only algorithm that uses the Public/Private key theory, Blowfish, and RSA are among the many other technologies that use it, PGP is just the most popular for e-mail encryption, but many don't trust it because of rumors of backdoors by the NSA (I don't know if its true though). PGP comes in a commercial, and a freeware version for Windows, and is available for Linux as well. What ever encryption you use, it will be better than none.
[ anonymous remailers ]
Remailers are programs accessible on the Internet that route email and USENET postings anonymously (i.e., the recipient cannot determine who sent the email or posted the article). This way the sender can't be traced back by routing headers included in the e-mail. There are different classes of remailers, which allow anonymous exchange of email and anonymous posting to USENET and often many other useful features.
Chain is a menu-driven remailer-chaining script:
Raph Levien's remailer availability page offers comprehensive information about the subject
The Cypherpunks Remailers are being developed to provide a secure means of providing anonymity on the nets. Here you can find out about the available remailers, those which have been standard in existance for a long time as well as the new experimental remailers and anonymous servers.
[ icq privacy ]
How can I keep my privacy at ICQ?
Send and receive messages via ICQ server, not directly. Every direct connection enables attacker to learn your IP. Encrypt your messages by dedicated software, encryption addons.
How to encrypt ICQ messages?
There are addons which enhance your ICQ with possibility to encrypt outcoming messages. The user on the other side needs to have the addon as well in order to decrypt your message.
Top Secret Messenger (TSM) - trial version has only weak 8-bit encryption
Chat Buddy - a freeware Windows application for encrypting chat sessions
how encryption works in ICQ protocol v5
[ spyware ]
As we all work hard to become more savvy about protecting our personal information and keeping as anonymous as possible on the web, advertising companies are working just as hard to come up with new ways of getting our personal information. One of the ways they accomplish this is through spyware.
Spyware are applications that are bundled along with many programs that you download for free. Their function is to gather personal information about you and relay it back to advertising firms. The information is then used either to offer you products or sold to other advertisers, so they can promote THEIR products. They claim this is all they do with this information, but the problem is nobody really knows for sure.
Spyware fits the classic definition of a trojan, as it is something that you did not bargain for+when you agreed to download the product. Not only is spyware an invasion of your privacy, but (especially if you have a few different kinds on your machine) it can also chew up bandwidth, making your internet connection slower.
Sometimes, these spies really are harmless, merely connecting back to the home server to deliver+you more advertising. Some, like Gator for instance, send out detailed information about your surfing habits, operating system, income, age demographic et cetera.
Avoiding spyware
Avoiding spyware is getting harder and harder, as more software distributors are choosing it as a method of profiting from freeware and shareware distributions. Be leery of programs with cute+little icons like Gator. Also, watch those Napster wannabes like AudioGalaxy, Limewire, and Kazaa. I've yet to find one that didn't include spyware. Before you download, check to see if the program is known to contain spyware.
For a list of most known spyware, the best I've found is here:
Getting rid of spyware
In most cases, you can remove the spyware from your system and still use the application you downloaded. In the case of Gator and Comet Cursor, the the whole program is spyware an it must be completely removed to stop the spying.
There are several ways to get rid of spyware on your system. You can use a firewall to monitor outgoing connections. The programmers that put these things together, however, are getting sneakier and sneakier about getting them to circumvent firewalls. Comet Cursor, for instance uses an HTTP post command to connect without the intervention of a firewall. You can also install a registry monitor such as Regmon to monitor your registry for unwanted registry registry changes, but this is not foolproof either.
Probably the best method of removal is to download a spyware removal program and run it like it was a virus scanner. The best examples of these programs are:
Lavasoft's Adaware. Available at http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ Or professional cybernut Steve Gibson's OptOut. Available at: http://grc.com/optout.htm Both of these programs are free and are updated regularly.
Here are some links, if you wish to learn more about spyware:
[ cleaning tracks ]
Burnt Cookies - allows automatic detection and optional deletion of Cookies deposited by Banner Ad web-sites
Surfsecret - automatically kills files like your Internet cache files, cookies, history, temporary files, recent documents, and the contents of the Recycle Bin.
Note: One sidenote on cleaning tracks. When you delete some files on your machine, these aren't actually deleted. Only the reference to their location in the hard drive is deleted, which makes the OS think that that location on the HD is free and ready to take things. Thus, there are ways to recover data even after you delete them.
There are however, several ways to _wipe_ this information. Programs that fill hard disk locations with zeros, then with 1s, on several passes are your best bet to make sure no document goes to the wrong hands. One of such programs is PGP. PHPi now comes with a utility that does this work, and you can even select the number of passes to wipe files. For *nix, there is also the "wipe" program. Use these when you feel you have data that needs secure cleaning.
[ ending words ]
If you would like to find out more about this topic, you may email me at email@example.com.
By Theraider
Anonymity on the web
(source NEWORDER)
cube - firstname.lastname@example.com
Caboom - email@example.com
Zwanderer - firstname.lastname@example.com
kript0n - email@example.com
Drew - firstname.lastname@example.com (Spyware section)
QX-Mat - firstname.lastname@example.com (SSL tunelling section)
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The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra will continue its unprecedented artistic leadership arrangement in its 2012-13 season, in which a trio of musical giants will oversee its programs. Former Tonight Show bandleader Branford Marsalis and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jennifer Higdon will join conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos as creative directors, each leading their own series.
And making her overdue Cincinnati debut, opera diva Renée Fleming will perform a gala opening concert to launch the season on Sept. 18.
Next season will be the orchestra's last in Music Hall before the 138-year-old building undergoes a 16-month revitalization. In addition, the orchestra continues its search for a new music director. The 117th season will bring back music director laureate Paavo Järvi, who conducts in January for the first time since his tenure ended with a sold-out concert last May 2013.
Concertgoers can expect a starry lineup of guest artists, including renowned violinists Joshua Bell, Gil Shaham and Sarah Chang; pianists André Watts, Yefim Bronfman and Garrick Ohlsson and the virtuoso Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie. Profoundly deaf since age 12, she "hears" music with her whole body.
Legendary violinist Pinchas Zukerman will perform double duty, conducting and performing music by Beethoven, Schoenberg and Mendelssohn, when he returns in February 2013.
Among the premieres, the season has Higdon's "All Things Majestic," a multimedia performance accompanied by historic images of Music Hall and Cincinnati in celebration of the city's 225th anniversary. Other premieres are a newly commissioned work by Chinese-American composer Zhou Tian, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer George Walker's Sinfonia No. 4, Strands, a CSO co-commission.
Spanish maestro Frühbeck will also conduct Mahler's Symphony No. 3 with mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe, the Cincinnati Boychoir and the Women of the May Festival Chorus (Oct. 4 and 6).
Several maestros – and a maestra – who have made an impression have been invited back next season.
In the Masterworks Series, French conductor Louis Langrée will return for a pair of weekends in November. The first will include Saint-Saens' Piano Concerto No. 2, featuring rising talent Cédric Tiberghien, and Franck's Symphony in D Minor. A second program will pair Schoenberg's "A Survivor from Warsaw" with Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, "Choral."
Italian maestro Roberto Abbado will return in April to lead Strauss' "Alpine" Symphony and Mozart's glorious Piano Concerto No. 24 with pianist Lars Vogt (April 12-13 2013).
Marsalis, saxophonist, bandleader and member of the famed New Orleans family of jazz, will direct the five-concert Ascent Series. He will also appear as alto saxophone soloist in the "Tallahatchie Concerto" by Jacob Ter Veldhuis, a high-intensity piece to be conducted by Andrey Boreyko (Nov. 30-Dec. 1). Read more »


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