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Two Souls: Spacious 2 room old building apartment - FREE OF PROVISION
Key data
|Meißnergasse 2 - 1220 Vienna
|Apartment #
|1. floor
|Type of use
|For sale
|Year of construction
|First-time use
|Property number
Energy certificate
|92.00 kWh/m² per year
|Energy performance
|Valid until
|Purchase price
|€ 393,000.00
|Land register entry
|1.10 %
|Property transfer tax
|3.50 %
|3% of the purchase price plus 20% VAT.
|Living space
|65.18 m²
- shower
- open kitchen
- tiles
- parquet
- underfloor heating
- district heating
- passenger elevator
- cable/satellite TV
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Description of property
Tradition and modernity
The magnificent corner building at Meißnergasse 2 combines the Gründerzeit with the present. The lovingly renovated facade conceals 26 modern 1- to 4-room apartments that leave nothing to be desired in terms of size and modern furnishings. The gardens, balconies and terraces facing the quiet inner courtyard complete the exclusive offer.
- 26 condominiums in total
- 19 apartments on the main floor
- 3 maisonettes with spacious roof terraces
- 3 penthouses with terraces on one level
- 1 courtyard house with private garden
- 1 to 4 rooms with approx. 29 to 126 m²
- Open spaces on the courtyard side
- High quality equipment
- Revitalized old building with modern technology
We offer all TWO SOULS properties commission-free until 31.12.2023!
Light and space
Bright, light-flooded rooms with large windows are among the first impressions you experience when entering the apartments. Here, modern furnishings combine with the style and flair of the Gründerzeit. Well thought-out floor plans with generous layouts as well as selected materials and details are waiting to be discovered. Characteristic for all apartments in the regular floors are room heights of up to 3 meters, elegant period doors, large windows with paneling, high-quality oak parquet flooring and modern bathrooms. The spacious open spaces and gardens facing the inner courtyard offer a welcome extra in living comfort. Each condominium at Meißnergasse 2 has its very own charm and convinces with an intelligent room layout.
Shape and color
To ensure the highest quality, only the finest materials and brand-name manufacturers were selected. Starting with the parquet flooring and extending to the fittings and tiles, all apartments not only offer high-quality basic fittings, but also technology that rounds off the exclusive range.
- Room heights of up to 3 meters
- Fine oak parquet flooring
- Smart home control with Apple iPad, air conditioning and underfloor heating in the attics
- Energy-saving windows with double glazing
- Low-temperature underfloor heating for particularly low energy consumption
- Brand-name sanitary products
Here and now
All penthouse apartments have a wide range of exclusive features, including large window fronts, air conditioning, low-temperature underfloor heating and smart home control. Modern and stylish apartments that offer a high level of comfort and are ideal for those who want a special living atmosphere in the here and now.
A highlight, of course, are the terraces that extend the living space and invite you to relax in the sun or celebrate with friends. The beautiful view of the surrounding city is another plus that is hard to resist.
Sky and distance
Under the sky of Vienna, magnificent views of the city's beautiful skyline open up from here. Thus, the maisonettes not only impress with their generous room layout, but also inspire with their roof terraces. Here, living becomes an experience of a special kind.
Courtyard and house
The former horse stable is now a small but beautiful architectural masterpiece, offering all the amenities of a one-story building with large windows and its own garden. A small residential paradise in the middle of Kagran, with an idyllic garden that invites you to relax and feel good.
Living and living
Those who equate beautiful living with a pleasant life will find fulfillment in TWO SOULS. This is because its proximity to the beautiful Old Danube, the magnificent Danube Park and the magnificent Hirschstetten flower gardens is particularly attractive, as they are all among the city's most popular recreational areas.
The Donaupark offers numerous opportunities for sports and leisure activities, while the Alte Donau with its picturesque riverside promenades and eventful hiking trails is a paradise for nature lovers. The Hirschstetten flower gardens enchant every walker with their colorful diversity. Refreshing outdoor swimming pools nearby round off the offer and invite you to a short vacation on your doorstep. In short, this is a pleasant place to live and a wonderful place to live.
Desire and reality
Enjoy all the benefits of an extremely lively infrastructure with restaurants, schools, kindergartens, pharmacies, drugstores and markets. In addition, there is the Donau Zentrum with its wide range of leisure and shopping facilities. And if that's not enough, the ideal public transport connections give you all the options. A full 20 minutes by subway from the city center, every spontaneous venture becomes a pleasure.
With TWO SOULS, almost every wish becomes reality. Here you will find the perfect interplay of nature and urban life.
Top 13
This apartment can be purchased commission-free until 31.12.2023.
This stylishly renovated 2-room apartment has about 65.28 m² of living space and is street facing south / west. It impresses with its spacious, well thought-out floor plan. The elevator takes you comfortably to the 1st floor, where this charming apartment is located. From the spacious anteroom, which offers enough space for storage, you can reach the bathroom with shower, the separate toilet, as well as a practical storage room with washing machine connection. Adjacent is the spacious, inviting eat-in kitchen, which, in addition to a kitchenette, which you can plan according to your own ideas, offers enough space for a dining area and a lounge area. In the light-flooded, quiet bedroom you can accommodate a double bed and closet, a small work area or other dreams come true.
and is divided as follows:
- Anteroom
- storage room with washing machine connection
- separate WC
- bathroom with shower
- open kitchen/living room
- bedroom
Additional costs
For the sake of good order, we would like to point out that, unless otherwise stated in the offer, a commission is due in the event of a successful conclusion of the contract, which corresponds to the rates stipulated in the Real Estate Agent Ordinance BGBI. 262 and 297/1996 - this is 3% of the purchase price plus 20% VAT. This commission obligation also exists if you pass on the information provided to you to third parties. Finally, we would like to point out that we act as a dual broker and that there is a close family/economic relationship between 3SI Makler GmbH and the seller.
The execution of the contract and the handling of the escrow is bound to the law firm Drachsler Linzer (1060 Vienna, Mariahilfer Straße 103).
We point out that there is a family or economic close relationship between the intermediary and the client.
The intermediary is acting as a dual broker.
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Information on commission fees: For the sake of good order, we note that a commission must be paid to 3SI Makler GmbH in the case of a successful transaction in the amount previously specified. The amount of commission is consistent with the provisions of the current Ordinance of the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs on the Professional Ethics and Rules of Practice for Real Estate Agents. The obligation to pay the commission shall also exist if you pass on the information provided to you to third parties. Finally, we would like to point out that we are acting as dual brokers and that there is a close familial or economic relationship between 3SI Makler GmbH and the seller.


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Saints Beat Eagles In Wild Card Playoff, Advance To Seattle
The New Orleans Saints were a Wild Card playoff underdog on Saturday night in Philadelphia, but they showed some bite, defeathering the Eagles for a pulse-pounding walk-off 26-24 victory.
In a game with five lead changes, it was kicker Shayne Graham, who signed with the Saints 16 days ago, kicking a game-winning 32 yard field goal. It marked the end of an exciting game, one in which the Saints showed grit and toughness.
Saints quarterback Drew Brees did not have his best performance. In fact, his two interceptions in the first half cost the Saints momentum, allowing the Eagles to take advantage for a 7-6 halftime lead.
"Honestly, I think I tried to force two that I really didn't need to in the first half," Brees told NBC's Michele Tofoya in postgame.
One thing the Saints did well in all 4 quarters was run the football. New Orleans offensive line was simply outstanding, winning the battle in the trenches from start to finish. As a team, the Saints ran for 185 yards, outrushing the Eagles by 105. With an injured Pierre Thomas unavailable, the Saints leaned on Mark Ingram and rookie Khiry Robinson.
Ingram was a workhorse, rushing for 97 yards and a touchdown on 18 carries. His 5.4 yard average did wonders for the Saints offense, as did the 5.6 yard average of Robinson, who ended the night with 45 yards on 8 carries. His ability to grind out tough yards after contact late in the 4th quarter put the Saints in position to attempt the game-winning field goal with 3 seconds remaining, rather than have to kick the ball back to the Eagles.
"Offensively we rushed the ball terrific tonight, came up with some big plays, and won the game," said a smiling Brees.
Brees was much sharper in the second half, leading the Saints on their best drive of the night early in the third quarter. He capped it off with a 27 yard touchdown strike to Lance Moore. His final stat line of 250 yards on 20/30 passing, 1 touchdown, and 2 interceptions certainly isn't his best work, but it was enough to get the win.
"It was just about being patient, and taking what they gave us, we were running the ball effectively, and just mix and match the short passing game," said Brees of the 2nd half offense. "Everybody played great. This was a total team victory today."
A total team victory indeed. New Orleans defense overcame setbacks, and kept the NFL #1 ranked rushing attack in check.
Eagles RB LeSean McCoy could only gain 77 yards on 21 carriers. Philadelphia only averaged 3.6 yards a carry.
Philadelphia's passing game was flustered in the first half, dealing with pressure up front from the Saints defensive line.
New Orleans Pro-Bowl defensive end Cam Jordan finished with 1.5 sacks on the night, and the Saints secondary had a lot to do with it. Cornerback Keenan Lewis played DeSean Jackson in man coverage for most of the first three quarters, holding Jackson without a catch.However, Lewis left the game late in the 3rd quarter with a concussion, leaving the already thin Saints secondary in trouble.
Eagles quarterback Nick Foles took advantage. going after backup Saints cornerbacks Corey White and Rod Sweeting. Jackson eventually finished with 3 receptions for 53 yards.
With the defense struggling to slow down Philadelphia late after Lewis' injury, the Saints offense took the field with 4:47 left in regulation, trailing 23-24. What did they do? Pound the rock, running on all but one play (an 8 yard reception by Marques Colston), converting on several third and shorts. (New Orleans finished the night 7-13 on third down, Eagles were 3-12) As the clock ticked down to 0:03, coach Sean Payton called a timeout, setting up Graham for the finish. Graham was 4-4 on the night, but none bigger than his last FG.
As Graham's 32 yard field goal sailed through the uprights, the New Orleans Saints knocked a giant monkey off their back. Heading into Saturday night, the Saints were 0-5 all-time in road playoff games. Many doubted the team that was 3-5 on the road this season could battle the cold temperatures and win in Philadelphia. The Saints proved to the doubters that they can no only win on the road with the season on the line, but can also do so when finishing -2 in the turnover department. The two point win is the smallest margin of victory in franchise playoff history.
"I thought our guys played hard tonight," said Payton. "I thought we eliminated the big plays (of the Eagles). They hit a few...but I thought our guys responded real well."
With the victory, the Saints now have a date with the #1 seeded Seattle Seahawks (13-3). Seattle hosted the Saints back on December 2nd, whipping New Orleans 34-7. Despite the defense, the Saints are feeling confidant about next Saturday's playoff matchup.
"It's loud. They've got a good thing going there. They've only lost 1 game there in the last two years," said Brees of the Seahawks. "Having been there less than a month ago, I think serves us well, just knowing what to expect and how to prepare for it. We're going to need our best game, that's for sure."
Beating the Eagles outdoors in the cold may erase any self-doubt the Saints had, though they probably never had any in the first place.
"I think it just adds to our confidence…getting this (win) outside in the cold, on the road, and everybody said we couldn't do it," said defensive captain Curtis Lofton to Tafoya. "It just makes it that much more special. (Now) we got to get ready for Seattle."
New Orleans battles the Seahawks next Saturday. Kickoff is set for 3:35pm. We'll have the pregame here on 97.3 The Dawg starting at 1:30pm.

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Alchemists put various base metals, such as lead, through a series of processes that refine them until they become gold. Sound impossible? It's been done. My friend Dennis William Hauck, author of The Emerald Tablet, is a practicing alchemist and has actually made gold from lead, as have other alchemists through the ages. But the secret is that alchemical processes in a laboratory are symbolic for the transformation of our inner "lead" into our "Gold," or True Self, our Soul.
This article briefly describes each stage and how it applies to our personal transformative processes. For an in-depth study of more about these stages as well as how to apply them to your life, I recommend Dennis's book as well as my own: Your Inner Gold: Transform Your Life and Discover Your Soul's Purpose.
Stage 1: Calcination
Calcination brings us to new awareness of the influence of the ego within us, and the process deflates the ego so we can discover more of our true reality, previously hidden by the ego's protections and defenses. In this stage we face a crisis of identity as our ego-based beliefs and false sense of self are transformed as if burned in an alchemist's fiery furnace.
Suffice it to say, most people avoid this process.
Calcination incinerates the ego's defenses against the unknown. As our cherished beliefs and habits turn to ash and smoke, we may feel as if we're dying. And though this is not a physical death, it feels just as ominous and frightening. As we die to patterns we have outgrown, space is created for us to begin to realize more of our true reality.
We can't consciously make Calcination happen. It is merely what we go through at those times in which we feel powerless, confused, disheartened, and afraid. Every individual's reaction to a Calcination event differs—one person may sink into a depression and want to be left alone, while another may reject what's happening and fight fiercely to prevent change. There are others who might recognize that this event is actually an opportunity to let go of past conditioning, beliefs, and traumas, so they decide to surrender, without judgment or denial, to whatever they are experiencing.
As our conscious awareness of our true feelings intensifies, we are led into the next stage of inner alchemy: Dissolution.
Stage 2: Dissolution
The immersion into Dissolution doesn't eliminate any of the discomfort of Calcination, but rather adds an element of authenticity to the emotions that emerge. Even so, we may feel more frightened, lost, fearful of the unknown, and even panicked that without the ego's protective control, we will be harmed, criticized, or annihilated.
In laboratory alchemy, the ashes of Calcination are dissolved in water in the Dissolution process. Transformational Dissolution connects us to our original, Divine emotions before the ego's protections taught us to reject our feelings as somehow wrong. Since our emotions are essential to the Soul's well-being, they must be reintegrated if we are to mature spiritually and become whole again. Whenever we feel any emotion, the worst thing we can do is to deny what we're feeling. Denial prevents access to the guidance and wisdom of our Sou,l and we continue feeling alone and we despair that we'll never be who we've always wanted to be. In consciously working with Dissolution, we accept our feelings, and express them as long as they don't harm others. We can do this by writing, dancing, making sounds, doing ritual, or just sitting and crying (which the alchemists call "cibation," a process of inner cleansing by the salt in our tears) with no judgment.
Stage 3: Separation
Some may think this stage is a break from the pain and suffering during Calcination and Dissolution because they assume the stage of Separation as merely an intellectual exercise. It is true that in this stage, we explore beliefs and learn to understand our emotions. But we must do it in an unconditional, non-judgmental way, else we create more blocks to consciousness development. For instance, if we use our intellect to reject emotion as bad or wrong, or to rationalize our cherished beliefs, we disconnect from our Soul, and don't move ahead in our growth. (And, we'll very likely end up back in Calcination!)
Separation offers us the opportunity to consider our experiences with an open mind, so intuition, rather than fear or ego, can guide us to new ways of perceiving our lives. When we allow the ego to make our decisions, we usually discover they were the wrong ones that cause us more pain. For instance, it is often easier to stay in an abusive relationship or bad job than it is to listen to that still, small voice within and leave the unhealthy situation. The fear that holds us back is based upon immature perceptions of ourselves, and Separation helps us to discover that we have more power than we thought we had. It helps build a strong foundation upon which we can make wise, intuitive decisions that support our evolution.
Stage 4: Conjunction
Conjunction is the stage that opens the heart by embodying self-acceptance. It integrates all aspects of ourselves, and our perceptions change as do our attitudes and beliefs about ourselves and our lives. In conjuncted consciousness, our fears are transformed into faith in and love for ourselves and a higher power.
Conjunction teaches us how to love ourselves and others unconditionally, meaning without judgment or comparison. We can view our "mistakes" or difficulties of the past as having been necessary for our growth. Our past experiences are stepping stones toward the realization of who we were created to be. Instead of continuing to blame others for our problems, our open heart shows us our contribution to our difficulties, and we can see the others we'd blamed as having actually been catalysts—even teachers—for our growth. With unconditional love, we can honor and thank everyone who has ever challenged us, for they helped us become stronger and closer to who Spirit created us to be.
Stage 5-a: Putrefaction
In the Putrefaction stage, we face the ego again but the quality, intensity, and source of the experience is quite different from that in Calcination. By this stage, we have developed more conscious awareness, so even though the process of Putrefaction can be very disturbing, our inner forces, which are now awake, help us to respond to life with courage instead of fear.
My students have often remarked that things seemed so much easier when they were unconscious of the deeper aspects of themselves. They realize that when they face difficulties with awareness, they come face to face with the challenge to make better choices than in their past experiences. They have told me that the difference is accountability. They are now responsible—meaning able to respond—for how their lives evolve. They are no longer like powerless little children, vulnerable to all of life's twists and turns without having to make mature choices.
The stage of Putrefaction can be a purging of the remaining influences of the ego; this can be excruciating because we are letting go of the excuses and rationalizations we've used to justify our behavior. Just as so many of life's important moments, such as leaving home, having children, moving to a new city, or getting a divorce, can shake us to our core, the boiling cauldron of Putrefaction presents the biggest challenge of all: taking full responsibility for all aspects of our lives, body, mind, emotions, and Soul.
Putrefaction "cooks" us so we can enter Fermentation, whose process is similar to how crushed grapes become fine wine.
Stage 5-b: Fermentation
In Fermentation, a new sense of wisdom arises within us, founded upon the breaking down of old barriers of belief. In the alchemical laboratory, the Putrefied brew must be transferred to another container (symbolizing the newly developing Self), where a catalyst is added to produce a highly refined element that began in Calcination as lead. In personal alchemy, the catalyst helps to "ferment" that within us that is Divine, but which we couldn't accept and experience earlier on during our more unconscious stages because our perceptions were based upon illusion. What results from the Fermentation stage is a higher perception of Self and a new, strong, and authentic identity.
Stage 6: Distillation
When we have embodied the gifts of all previous stages, we are ready to refine ourselves to an even greater degree in the stage of Distillation.
In Distillation, we have reached the point of spiritual and emotional maturity. We can now merge with collective thought without being taken in or overwhelmed by it—in other words, what society says is true may no longer be true for us. We now think for ourselves, but without judging others' opinions or behaviors. In fact, we find them interesting and learn from them. Distillation melts away the final dregs of the ego's control so we are free and independent in thought and Spirit.
In Distillation, we may have sudden rushes of ecstasy and joy—and for no particular reason. We may see our own face—or even the face of the universe—in those of others. We may be drawn to some type of service to humanity with feelings of love and excitement.
A distilled person no longer responds to egoistic expectations, isn't devastated by challenge and crisis, is integrated with Soul, and responds to new, higher guidance while honoring Earthly existence.
Stage 7: Coagulation
An alchemically transformed person is one who has experienced, not necessarily in order or just once, all the seven stages. Coagulation is the final stage of having integrated all six previous stages, but it is not the end of our transformation. It is another beginning. This is no resting place, for now we can deepen even further what we've learned. We may experience more discomfort than when we were at varying degrees of unconsciousness, but now we act upon higher wisdom for we know how our beliefs and responses can affect entire universes.
Few people reach a point of complete Coagulation. Just as it takes miners effort, toil, and time to uncover riches within the earth, our struggles to find our inner Gold are ultimately worth it all.


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The Supreme Church Council of the Russian Orthodox Church met for a regular session on February 6, 2012. It is chaired by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.
In his introductory remarks, His Holiness presented the agenda of the meeting.
The Council, which is meeting at the Supreme Church Council Hall at the cathedral Church of Christ the Saviour, will consider the progress made in implementation of the Council's earlier decisions. The leaders of the synodal departments will report on the work plans of their structures for 2012. As Patriarch Kirill has reported, the plans and reports of synodal departments, which used to be considered by the Holy Synod, will now be put on the agenda of the Supreme Church Council.
Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, head of the Synodal Department for Church-State Relations, will make a report on 'Celebrations to mark historical dates in 2012'. Mr. Demidov, head of the office for Basic Orthodox Culture of the department for religious education and catechism, will report on the results of the 20th International Christmas Readings.
The meeting is attended by the following members of the Council:
Metropolitan Varsonofy of Saransk and Mordovia, chancellor of the Moscow Patriarchate
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the department for external church relations
Metropolitan Clement of Kaluga and Borovsk, chairman of the ROC Publishing Board
Archbishop Ioann of Belgorod and Stary Oskol, head of the synodal mission department
Archbishop Yevgeny of Vereya, head of the Holy Synod's education committee
Archbishop Feognost of Sergiev Posad, head of the synodal commission for monasteries
Bishop Irinarch of Krasnogorsk, head of the synodal department for prison service
Bishop Sergiy of Solnechnogorsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate's administrative secretariat
Bishop Tikhon of Podolsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate's financial and economic administration
Bishop Kirill of Stavropol and Nevinnomysk, head of the synodal committee for cooperation with the Cossacks
Bishop Panteleimon of Smolensk and Vyazma, head of the synodal department for charity and social service
Archimandrite Tikhon Shevkunov, executive secretary of the Patriarchal Council for Culture
Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, head of the synodal department for church-society relations
Mr. V. Legoida, head of the synodal information department


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Have I got a virus or is something going on at HF? In the last hour or so, I have clicked on an HF link to view a thread ( last one was about "HH Safari" only to be taken to this web site:
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It has happened a couple of times now. The legit thread opens, but first it takes me to the girly pic thread.
The girls are very nice looking, but something is messed up and this should not be happening. What do Y'all think: problem on my end or problem at HF?


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Mozilla's Firefox 4 is now officially expected to debut on Tuesday March 22, following hard on the heels of Google's Chrome 10 and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9.
With so many new browser releases coming out in such rapid succession, it stands to reason that at least some users are going to need some help figuring out which now works best for them.
Toward that end, I had a chat earlier today with Johnathan Nightingale, Mozilla's director of Firefox development, to get a sense of what the final release of Firefox 4 will bring. Here are some of the highlights of what we can expect.
1. More Speed
Firefox 4 also outdid Chrome 10, Opera 11.1 and Internet Explorer 9 in the Kraken benchmark, as GigaOM recently noted. Bottom line: It's blazingly fast.
2. Less Clutter
Tabs are now given top visual priority in Firefox 4 so as to enable more efficient and intuitive browsing. In addition to its new "tabs on top" layout, however, the software now also offers a number of other features to make it simpler and more streamlined.
A Switch to Tab feature, for instance, helps reduce tab clutter by automatically calling up an already-tabbed URL rather than duplicating it all over again. "It took my tab list from 80 to 90 down to 50 or 60," Nightingale said.
"The slowest part of browsing is often the user," he explained. "If you have 200 tabs open and you can't find the right one, that's the slow part."
Then, too, there are App Tabs, which allow the user to take sites they always have open–such as Gmail or Twitter–off the tab bar and give them a permanent home in the browser. Then, no matter where the user visits, those tabs are always visible on the browser's left-hand edge. Not only that, but each App Tab's icon glows to indicate when there's been activity on that site, such as new mail coming in.
When Firefox gets reloaded, it boosts loading speed by focusing first on the active page and App Tabs, and then loading other tabs in gradual succession after that, Nightingale explained.
Further reducing clutter is Firefox 4's Firefox Button, meanwhile, which displays all menu items in a single button for easy access.
3. Panorama
Though it began as an add-on, Firefox 4's new Panorama feature is another one designed to battle tab clutter. Using it, Web surfers can drag and drop their tabs into manageable groups that can be organized, named and arranged intuitively and visually.
In previous versions of the browser, users with 20 tabs, for example, didn't have an easy way to separate out the ones that were related. "Some people would put tabs in different windows, but that just moves the clutter," Nightingale explained.
Panorama, on the other hand, now provides a visual canvas on which tabs can be logically organized into groups representing work, home, hobbies or research, for example.
4. Sync
Another new feature that started life as an add-on is Sync, which synchronizes an individual's multiple copies of Firefox across various platforms. So, a user might look up directions to a restaurant from their work computer, for example, and then be able to easily find and pull down those same directions from their Android phone on the road, Nightingale explained.
"Wherever you are, Firefox knows you," he added. "It gives you so much freedom."
For privacy, all such information is bundled on the user's local machine and encrypted before it goes onto the network, he added.
5. Do Not Track
With a single check box, Firefox 4 users can ensure that any time the browser requests a Web page, it will send along a header specifying that the user does not want their browsing behavior to be tracked.
In theory, advertisers and Web sites could disregard such requests, Nightingale noted–as they could equivalent mechanisms in other browsers as well. On the other hand, enforcing them is not a technical problem, he noted. "It's a matter of trust–enforcing on the technical side doesn't help."
What Nightingale hopes is that advertisers and Web sites will use the new capability as an opportunity to show respect for consumers' wishes and to demonstrate leadership when it comes to privacy. In beta versions of the software, he noted, most wanted to learn more about how to comply and get involved.
"I'm keen to see how ad networks and content sites respond," Nightingale concluded. With the new technology enabled, "everyone you're interacting with knows your intent."
6. Under the Hood
A number of other features–some visible to users, others not–will also appear in Firefox 4, including support for the WebM format for HD-quality video; 3D graphics via WebGL; elegant animations through the use of CSS3; and multitouch support.
Then, too, there's super-fast graphics acceleration with Direct2D and Direct3D on Windows, XRender on Linux, and OpenGL on Mac enabled by default on supported hardware.
7. Improved Security
With HTTP Strict Transport Security, or HSTS, sites can now make sure information is always encrypted, thereby preventing attackers from intercepting sensitive data. Previously, a hacker sitting in a Starbucks store, for example, could potentially watch Web surfers enter a bank's home page, which is not encrypted, and hijack them from there, Nightingale noted.
With Content Security Policy, or CSP, meanwhile, Firefox 4 ensures that cross-site scripting attacks can't infect a site such as through its comments section, he added.
I should also note that because Firefox's code is open, it's not subject to any vendor's preset patch schedule. Rather, its security is constantly being reviewed and improved.
Firefox 4's new HTML5 parser and full support for Web video, audio, drag & drop, and file handling mean that it's capable of supporting the latest Web environments.
9. Multiplatform Support
Whereas Microsoft's IE9 can be used only on Windows–and only Vista and Windows 7 at that–Firefox, as always, is multiplatform. So, whether you're on Windows, Linux or a Mac, you can enjoy its powerful new features.
10. The Community Touch
Last but not least, whereas proprietary browsers such as IE9 are developed by Microsoft's team of paid developers to reflect their own vision of what users want, Firefox has been shaped significantly by the people who use it. In fact, between 30 percent and 40 percent of its code was developed by the community, Nightingale told me. It's hard to imagine a better way to make sure a product delivers what users want.
With so many exciting new capabilities, Firefox users have a lot to look forward to in this new release. So, for that matter, do the legions of Internet Explorer users who will sooner or later make the switch.
Follow Katherine Noyes on Twitter: @Noyesk.


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Culture Blogs
North is South, Winter is Summer and widdershins is deosil. The South African experience of Paganism is topsy-turvy compared to our Northern brothers and sisters; but much like the Afrikaans saying, "'n boer maak 'n plan," Pagan South Africans make do with what they have and make it their own.
Policing Belief
South Africa has come a long way in the last twenty years. In 1994 we had our first free elections, and from it we left Apartheid where it belonged- in the past. Then in 1996 we adopted a new Constitution; one which is heralded by many first world countries as being progressive. However, as liberal as our Constitution may be, South Africa is still a very conservative nation; especially when it comes to the topic of religion.
Our Constitution under Chapter 2, section 15, guarantees each citizen the right to freedom of religion:
"15. Freedom of religion, belief and opinion
Everyone has the right to freedom of conscience, religion, thought, belief and opinion. Religious observances may be conducted at state or state-aided institutions, provided that those observances follow rules made by the appropriate public authorities; they are conducted on an equitable basis; and attendance at them is free and voluntary."
Our nation's Constitution means that our government, and by virtue all government-aided institutions, are secular- they are not permitted to endorse one religion to the exclusion of others. However while this is great for Paganism and adherents of other occult-orientated belief systems in theory, the reality is far removed from current legislature.
South Africa is the only country in the world that has a dedicated task force within their police service to the investigation of the occult. Born of SA's own 'Satanic Panic' in 1992, the Occult-related Crime Unit (ORCU) within the South African Police Service (SAPS) was tasked with sniffing and stamping out 'Satanism'. The truth is that the unit was exclusively Christian and its members abused their power to promote their own personal religious crusade.
If you listened to heavy metal, wore black clothing or nail polish, or even suffered from depression, you could have been singled out by members of the ORCU and interrogated. While SAPS denies that any wrongdoing was done on their part; testimony from victims of the ORCU prove otherwise. In its 'war' on anything remotely linked to what the ORCU claimed to be 'occult', its members spread misinformation to schools, churches, parents and other units within SAPS on occult practices, beliefs, and symbolism; along with supposed 'warning signs' of those involved in the occult.
Thankfully by the start of the new millennium, the ORCU seemed to have faded into obscurity. It was only when the odd mutilated cat or pentagram graffiti was discovered that former ORCU star, Kobus Jonker, was called up by the media for his supposed 'expert' commentary. Other than the odd insufferable comment, usually containing the words 'demons, blood, Satanism, and witches', there has been a lull in the crusade to smear anything outside the realms of Abrahamic religions. It could even be argued that this sense of peace helped to create a feeling of safety for Pagans and adherents of other occult-orientated religions, allowing us to grow as a community and establish ourselves.
However last year there was a change to this; a disturbance to our peace. A leaked SAPS memorandum showed that the ORCU was being resurrected. But now with Pagans having organisational bodies in place, it was a potential threat that was not going to be taken lying down. The South African Pagan Rights Alliance challenged the memorandum and has been keeping a close watch on further developments in the situation; but now a new situation reared its ugly head yesterday.
While SA's 'Satanic Panic' has somewhat subsided in its white population, it seems that it is only just beginning to sprout in the townships of South Africa. A recent media report claimed that a teenage girl was attacked and killed by Satanists in Mohlakeng, Randfontein; all for the purpose of 'drinking her blood'. While the facts are somewhat unclear, what is crystal clear is that this tragic event was less to do with actual Satanists and more to do with teenagers fulfilling Satanic Panic myth.
However this fact is not been seen by 'religious leaders' and it came out in media reports yesterday that this horrible event is being used by the Gauteng MEC for Education, Barbara Creecy, to implement a program with the help of "faith-based organisations" (read exclusively Christian and Muslim) on curbing "Satanism and the occult" in schools.
What is most damaging to Paganism and occult-orientated religions is that government is essentially endorsing and sponsoring the slandering of minority faiths, which are being termed as "harmful religious practices". Children will not only be taught that anything remotely 'occult' is wrong and dangerous, but these same children will be judged by similar guidelines as the SAPS' 'symptoms of occult involvement' by teachers. What is important to note is that not only does this move go against the South African Constitution, but it also goes against legislature governing the role of religion in government-funded schools. And while this story is just only breaking, the South African Pagan Rights Alliance is already making moves to combat government's slight against Pagan and Occult minorities.
This may seem like a difficult battle for Pagans and adherent of occult-orientated religions in South Africa, and in all likelihood it is going to be; but it is also a powerful reminder of the role of citizens in a democracy. Not just as Pagans facing threats to our religious freedoms, but as citizens of a country, it is up to us to ensure that government works for us, and not the other way around. It is up to us, the people, to ensure that our Constitution and legislature is upheld by those in power and that it is not forgotten and abused by them either. If we want to enjoy our rights, we have to be prepared to protect them too.
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Happy Birthday!! Fun challenge and let me just say the design team rocked this one. Awesome job!!
wonderful projects ladies! Happy Birthday Robin! I hope that you have a wonderful day!
Happy birthday Robin! Have a great one!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Robin and to the Fantabulous Cricut BLOG!!! Yeahhh for both of you! :o) Looking forward to this challenge! And the Design Team did an Outstanding Job yet Again! :o)
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Woo Hoo! Happy Birthday, Robin! We love ya!
Great job, Ladies!
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I made this the day before you announced your challenge but I love ti so much and it is my first banner!!! Great challenge and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!ReplyDelete
The link has been added now, sorry for the delay :)ReplyDelete
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Well, happy birthday to you and your fantbulous blog! I love all the cards from the DT. :) JanisReplyDelete
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Have a wonderful birthday, Robin. We love you and this fantabulous blog. The cards this week are amazing.
Robin~ Happy happy birthday!!!! I sure hope you have a very special day....just as special as you are to all of us.
Too many more happy days...
Happy Birthday Robin! Also Happy Birthday to Fantabulous Cricut blog! Thanks for all the inspiration you have provided! Great work Design Team!
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A very Happy Birthday, Robin and the Fantabulous Cricut blog! Great challenge...thanks for letting me play!ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday Robin and to Fantabulous Cricut! Thank you for a great year and to many more!ReplyDelete
Happy Happy Birthday Robin! Have a wonderful day. Happy Birthday to Fantabulous Cricut too.
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Happy Birthday Robin!! Hope you have an amazing day! And of course, Happy Birthday to Fantabulous Cricut! The projects by the DT are wonderful! I just entered mine :)
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Happy blog birthday!! :) Thanks for yet another wonderful challenge!
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Happy Birthday Robin! Thanks for the challenge!
Happy Birthday Robin! Thanks for letting us celebrate your birthday with you!
Thanks for the challenge and for the inspiration.ReplyDelete
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Happy belated birthday! BEAUTIFUL cards! Thanks for a fun challenge!!
This is the perfect challenge for me this month! hehe....thanks so much!
Happy belated birthday! Hope you had a great one!!!
Thanx for this challenge! :-)
Happy belated birthday Robin and FCCB!
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Wow, what a variety of DT projects, all just wonderful...TFS! I just linked up my card...thanks for the challenge!
Happy birthday Robin and FCCB!
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Super cute DT work. This was such a great and fun challenge. It kicked my butt into gear to start making those bday cards.
Happy Birthday Robin!! I hope you had a good one.
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No deal reached at nuclear talks with Iran
By George Jahn, Associated Press —
ALMATY, Kazakhstan — Iran and six world powers failed to reach agreement Saturday on how to reduce fears that Tehran might use its nuclear technology to make weapons, extending years of inconclusive talks and adding to concerns the diplomatic window on reaching a deal with Tehran may soon close.
"What matters in the end is substance, and … we are still a considerable distance apart," Catherine Ashton, the European Union's head of foreign policy, told reporters at the end of the two-day talks.
Ashton, the convener of the meeting, said negotiators would now consult with their capitals. She made no mention of plans for new talks — another sign that the gap dividing the two sides remains substantial. She said she would talk with chief Iranian negotiator Saeed Jalili by telephone over further steps.
Jalili spoke of "some distance between the positions of the two sides." He suggested Iran was ready to discuss meeting a key demand of the other side — cutting back its highest-grade uranium enrichment production and stockpile — but only if the six reciprocated with rewards far greater than they are now willing to give.
Western negotiators noted an improved atmosphere from previous sessions, with Ashton speaking of "a real back and forth between us when were able to discuss details, to pose questions, and to get answers directly."
She described the better negotiating climate as a "very important element."
Still, the lack of forward movement in international negotiations that started a decade ago was certain to increase concerns that diplomacy was ineffective as a tool to stop Iran from moving toward nuclear-weapon making capacity.
Israel is most worried. The Jewish state says Iran is only a few months away from the threshold of having material to turn into a bomb and has vowed to use all means to prevent it from reaching that point. The U.S. has not said what its "red line" is, but has said it will not tolerate an Iran armed with nuclear weapons.
"The Iranians are using the round of talks to pave the way toward a nuclear bomb," said Yuval Steinitz, the Israeli minister for intelligence and strategic affairs, in a text message to reporters. "Israel has already warned that the Iranians are taking advantage of the rounds of talks in order to buy time to advance in uranium enrichment, step by step, toward a nuclear weapon."
Urging the international community to set a "short, clear and final timetable" for further talks, he said "the time has come for the world to show a more aggressive position and make it abundantly clear to the Iranians that their game of negotiations is coming to an end."
Any strike on Iran could provoke fierce retaliation directly from Iran and through its Middle East proxies in Syria, Lebanon and Palestine, raising the specter of a larger Middle East conflict and adding to the urgency of keeping both sides at the negotiating table.
At the talks in the Kazakh city of Almaty, the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany were asking Tehran to greatly limit its production and stockpiling of uranium enriched to 20 percent, which is just a technical step away from weapons-grade uranium. That would keep Iran's supply below the amount needed for further processing into a weapon.
But the group views that only as a first step in a process. Iran is operating more than 10,000 centrifuges. While most are enriching below 20 percent, this material, too could be turned into weapons-grade uranium, although with greater effort than is the case for the 20-percent stockpile.
Tehran also is only a few years away from completing a reactor that will produce plutonium, another pathway to nuclear arms.
The U.N. Security Council has demanded a stop to both that effort and all enrichment in a series of resolutions since 2006. Iran denies any interest in atomic arms, insists its enrichment program serves only peaceful needs, says it has a right to enrich under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and describes U.N. Security Council demands as illegal.
The lack of progress at Almaty was a clear indication that Tehran wants greater rewards for any concessions that the six are ready to give. Among other incentives, they have offered to lift sanctions on Iran's gold transactions and petrochemical trade. But Iran demands much more substantial sanctions relief, including an end to international penalties crippling its oil trade and financial transactions
A senior U.S. official cited Iranian officials who described the six-power offer of limited sanctions relief in exchange for meeting their demands on 20-percent uranium as a "turning point" when the two sides met last month. The official said the U.S. administration was "disappointed that this rhetoric did not carry over into our negotiations."
The official demanded anonymity as a condition for participation in a post-meeting briefing for reporters.
Jalili in turn urged the six powers to demonstrate their "willingness and sincerity" by taking appropriate confidence-building steps in the future" — shorthand for Iran's demand to lift major sanctions and offer other concessions.
At the same time, he suggested some potential give on the Iranian side, suggesting discussion on some curbs of 20-percent enrichment "can be continued in the talks" if the six "move away from hostile treatment … of the Iranian people."
With Iran previously describing the crushing sanctions on its oil exports and financial transactions as hostile acts, his comments suggested that Iran would consider compromise only if those penalties were lifted. That is far more than the relief being offered, with the six prepared to remove sanctions only on Tehran's gold transactions and petrochemical exports.
In demanding recognition of its right to enrich, Iran may hope to exploit some differences among the six, with Russia in recent months pushing for concessions on that point as a way to break negotiating deadlock.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, who led his country's delegation at Almaty, said after the talks that Moscow "considers that it's necessary to recognize all rights of Iran, including enrichment." In exchange, he said Iran must accept more international monitoring of its nuclear program.
A British Foreign Office statement said, "a wide gap remains between the parties. Iran's current position falls far short of what is needed to achieve a diplomatic breakthrough."
Indirectly warning of further sanctions, the statement urged Tehran to "consider carefully whether it wants to continue on its current course, and face increasing pressure and isolation from the international community, or to enter into meaningful negotiations."
But Ryabkov described the meeting as "undoubtedly a step forward." Those remarks, and his comments on enrichment, both to Russian news agencies, suggested differences exist among the six, despite assertions by negotiators from Western nations of total unity at the negotiations.


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Shifting winds at Bureau Valley
Credit: By Barb Kromphardt | Bureau County Republican | December 12, 2012 | www.bcrnews.com ~~
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MANLIUS – When the Bureau Valley School District built its wind turbine back in 2005, the administration and board members were optimistic about how much money it could save the district.
When the board approved the turbine in June 2004, board member Keith Bolin said that even with making loan payments on the turbine, the district could save $30,000 to $50,000 per year.
But after the first full year of operation, those profits hadn't been seen.
"It's just a wash this year," said then-Superintendent Terry Gutshall after the first full year of operation. "Gross: $70,000. Net: It's a wash."
Today, after almost eight full years of operation, the situation hasn't changed much.
"The turbine has the potential to be helpful," said interim Superintendent Dennis Thompson Tuesday. "But right now, it's closer to breaking even."
Thompson recently created a report showing a summary of energy costs and the impact of the wind turbine dating back to 2001. He said he created the report following a recent Freedom of Information request from a group regarding financial information about the turbine.
"The question has been raised," Thompson said. "But it's kind of hard to figure out."
For the 2001-02 school year, before the turbine, the district paid more than $142,000 for energy at the high school. That figure peaked at $148,000 for the 2002-03 school year, and then dropped slightly in 2003-04.
The first savings became apparent in 2004-05. The wind turbine was operational for part of the year, and the district only paid $97,000 in energy costs. That figure was the difference between the total bill and any credit the district received for the production of energy. In 2005-06 the district paid $61,000 for its energy, and that figure has ranged between a high of $75,000 in 2011-12 to a low of $44,000 to 2007-08.
Part of the problem is the district is paid at a lower rate for the electricity than it is charged for using it.
"We produce about as much as we use," Thompson said.
Last year the high school used 946,000 kilowatt hours and the turbine produced 930,000 kilowatt hours. But the electricity can't be saved, so any excess produced during vacations or at night is sold for one price, and then must be purchased when needed for a penny or two more.
There are other expenses involved with the wind turbine.
The cost of the project was about $1 million. Grants financed part of the effort, and the entire district paid $122,000 toward the wind turbine.
The remaining $450,000 was put on a bank note. Payments on the note began in 2004 with an annual payment of $53,000. That annual payment increased to $55,000 in 2008. The last payment on the bank note will be made in the 2014-15 school year.
Also, beginning in 2004 the district began making annual insurance payments, starting just less than $8,000 annually and reaching $8,900 in 2011-12. Maintenance payments also began in 2004 and have ranged from $11,000 in 2011-12 to $4,900 in 2009-10.
Thompson said there are several factors that have chewed away at the projected profits.
One factor was the discovery of oil and natural gas in North Dakota several years ago. The board had projected electricity rates to increase, but the opposite happened. Thompson said electricity had cost about 7 cents per kilowatt hour, but that price has dropped to 5 cents, an almost 30 percent drop.
That's both good and bad news for the district.
"It makes our purchase cost less, but the value of what we do produce is also less," he said.
Thompson said there was also an anticipation the turbine would be producing more electricity than it has so far. Part of that problem is mechanical. Thompson said if the turbine stops, someone must manually press the button to restart it, and there's not always someone available at the high school to do so.
"In this situation of trying to produce as much as we can, it has to be working as much as possible," he said.
A final cause of the reduction in profits is tied to net metering. Net metering allows energy producers to "net" out the energy drawn from the grid with energy sent to the grid, and pay only the difference.
Thompson said the board hoped to take advantage of such a law if it were passed. Unfortunately, the law was passed, but it didn't apply to Bureau Valley.
While the hoped-for profits haven't materialized, Thompson is optimistically looking to 2015, when the district is no longer making the $55,000 payment on the loan, and that money will be added to the profit side of the ledger.
"There are some potential savings in the future when the bank note is paid off," he said.
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It's fairly easy, quick, and free.To create a more complete protection scheme, I am going to walk you through three steps to build this layered security approach:install FDE (or turn it on) and encrypt your files, create an encrypted hidden volume to prevent any government or person from forcing you to turn over your personal data,and create a tracking capability in the event your computer is stolen or lost.Step one: Install full-disk encryptionThe key to proper encryption is not just the encryption itself, but also protecting the right data. This is why full-disk encryption (FDE) is a popular starting place for many users. You can purchase hard drives with built-in FDE or use software tools like Windows Bitlocker. In either case, your computer can be locked down as soon as it shuts off. If your laptop is stolen, or sold on eBay years later without a proper disk wipe, or even if it finds its way in the government's hands, it will be useless without a password. If you have Windows 7 Ultimate or Enterprise, a tool called Bitlocker comes preinstalled and can turn your drive into an FDE. For all other systems, I recommend TrueCrypt, available for free at https:\/\/www.truecrypt.org\/. After downloading and installing, select the Create Volume command and Encrypt the system partition or the entire system drive. Now follow the instructions and create a strong password. I recommend using a sentence as your password, i.e: This is my password, it rocks!. You won't forget it and it won't crack easily. After your FDE is set up, you will need your password to boot-up the computer. Without the correct password, the drive is left encrypted and worthless even if viewed by forensic tools. Now your computer will be automatically locked down if it is lost or stolen.However, you aren't finished.Step two: Create a hidden volumeFDE drives still leave your data and personal information vulnerable in at least two scenarios: 1) You are forced to turn over your password (as in Judge Blackburn's District Court ruling), or 2) Someone has hacked into your live machine and remotely recording your keystrokes\/data while you work.To address these issues, we are also going to put our personal\/business files in an encrypted directory\u2014but not using just any encryption scheme. Encryption with hidden volumes is the key to really protecting your information and rights.Here's a useful analogy for understanding hidden volumes: Imagine a magic door. If you unlock the door with one key, it opens to a closet full of junk and old boxes. However, if you use a different key, and the door opens to the inside of a bank vault. If you look at the walls surrounding what's behind the door, they look the same size regardless of whether you are opening the closet or the vault . Anyone opening the tiny closet or looking at the structure of the door won't be able to see the giant bank hidden within. [Also see End-to-end encryption: The PCI holy grail]With a correctly implemented hidden volume on your encrypted hard drive, you don't have to worry when someone cracks (or coerces you into giving up) the password. When they use it to open the door, they will only see the closet. I prefer to use the word "password" for the closet. It's easy to remember and sadly common, and any password-cracking tool will guess it in milliseconds with a simple dictionary attack. Once the closet is open, non-sensitive business files and perhaps a few love letters or copied movies\u2014something that might cause minimum embarrassment\u2014will be revealed. Even to a skilled thief with good forensic tools, the real data, the bank vault, cannot be seen. They have no indication or proof it even exists. For all that person knows, they got your password and opened your encrypted files. In a courtroom setting this is known as "plausible deniability". (Yes, you complied with the court order to give up your password.)To get started, once again we turn to TrueCrypt to set up a hidden volume file. Open TrueCrypt, select create a volume, create encrypted file container, normal hidden volume. Make sure you create a very large outer layer as this will eventually contain both your closet and bank vault. For a normal "My Documents" folder, I create a 20GB file. Don't forget an easy password for the outer layer\u2014this easy password will be the one that opens the closet. After it formats, create the hidden volume inside this wrapper with 19 GB and a strong password, leaving 1 GB for your closet. After this hidden volume formats, open the outer layer by mounting and using the simple password. Import some non-sensitive files, photos and random documents. Test your work when you reboot: Use the easy password, and you should see only these non-sensitive files.Going forward put all your important files in the hidden volume. Unless you leave your FDE and new encrypted My Documents folder open 24\/7, your data will remain protected. Step three: Set up tracking for your computerOne of the downfalls of FDE drives is not being able to hunt down someone who has stolen your computer. Your data is protected, but your actual computer is gone. To be able track someone who steals a locked down computer, install a hidden volume operating system. This is a lot more advanced than the steps above, but if you follow the TrueCrypt instructions you can create two operating systems that open with two different passwords, just like the closet\/bank scenario. This alone can be useful for protecting your data for advanced needs or baiting a thief. Create a strong password for your normal operating system and "password" for a second, dummy version of the operating system. Now, on the dummy system install Prey Project's open-source laptop tracking tool. This tool uses Wi-Fi and IP addresses to find your stolen laptop for free. Now if you computer is stolen A) the thief swaps out the drive and you never see it again, all while your data is protected or B) the thief guesses the password (who wouldn't try the most-commonly used password, "password"), logging into a clean OS with Prey installed allowing you track him down, all while your actual data is still fully protected in the other encrypted OS installation. The three steps in this layered security approach really are very straightforward. If you have any troubles, more information can be easily found on TrueCrypt's website or Youtube. Just remember if you don't encrypt\u2014and encrypt properly\u2014then your data is not really protected. Brandon Gregg is a corporate investigations manager. His personal website is www.brandongregg.com. See more of his Investigator's Toolkit articles on CSOonline.


text: I have a site called troop4051.org and it is at 188.8.131.52. I ran through the perfect Debian setup, and i believe i screwed up with the email again (yes, i've been down this road before, and didn't fix it) So, here's what i get when i try to login with outlook express using the ip address as the server. Code: There was a problem logging onto your mail server. Your User Name was rejected. Account: 'mail.troop4051.org', Server: '22.214.171.124', Protocol: POP3, Server Response: '-ERR Unknown AUTHORIZATION state command', Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC91 When i change the server name to "mail.troop4051.org" i get this message... Code: The host 'mail.troop4051.org' could not be found. Please verify that you have entered the server name correctly. Account: 'mail.troop4051.org', Server: 'mail.troop4051.org', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 11004, Error Number: 0x800CCC0D I assume that the second one means that my server does not know that it is mail.troop4051.org, and I really don't know how would i change that. I'll have to check with zoneedit to see if i have that all pointing the right places. i have "deselected" the maildir check in ispconfig, but i'm still stuck. There must be something i'm overlooking. Any idea where i should start looking. Here's what's in netstat -tap gives me. Code: Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp 0 0 *:imaps *:* LISTEN 1868/inetd tcp 0 0 *:pop3s *:* LISTEN 1868/inetd tcp 0 0 localhost.localdo:mysql *:* LISTEN 1921/mysqld tcp 0 0 *:pop3 *:* LISTEN 1868/inetd tcp 0 0 *:imap2 *:* LISTEN 1868/inetd tcp 0 0 *:81 *:* LISTEN 2109/ispconfig_http tcp 0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN 2279/proftpd: (acce tcp 0 0 www.troop4051.or:domain *:* LISTEN 2266/named tcp 0 0 www.spiritedcomp:domain *:* LISTEN 2266/named tcp 0 0 serv1.arwenspets:domain *:* LISTEN 2266/named tcp 0 0 localhost.locald:domain *:* LISTEN 2266/named tcp 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN 25011/master tcp 0 0 localhost.localdoma:953 *:* LISTEN 2266/named tcp6 0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN 2140/apache2 tcp6 0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN 2074/sshd tcp6 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN 25011/master tcp6 0 0 ip6-localhost:953 *:* LISTEN 2266/named tcp6 0 0 *:https *:* LISTEN 2140/apache2 tcp6 0 0 24-182-139-77.stati:ssh 24-182-139-74.sta:33132 ESTABLISHED25745/0 I downloaded the webmail program, but i have done nothing to configure it. Should i do something to configure that before it's usable? Right now it won't let me log in at all. sorry, now i'm confusing myself OK, so to clarify, I don't know if mail works at all, because i can't log in using outlook express or the webmail program. The webmail program just says i can't log in using the names and passwords provided. I have tried variations on the names (boo, [email protected], web3_boo, web3_boo@troop4051) and none seem to work. Does anyone know a thread or something i could read like "the elementary guide to setting up email in ispconfig". Any help would be appreciated, and sorry about all the questions at once.


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Scientists May Have Uncovered a Key to Understanding Why Many Women Get Breast Cancer
Editor's Note: This is the first in a two-part series. Read Part 2.
Deep in a laboratory freezer, 100,000 vials of blood have been frozen for the better part of five decades.
For scientist Barbara Cohn, it's a treasure trove. Collected from more than 15,000 San Francisco Bay Area women after they gave birth in the 1960s, each vial of blood holds a woman's lifetime of secrets.
The blood bears the chemical signature of environmental pollutants, some long banned, that the women were exposed to decades ago. Cohn, who directs the research in Berkeley, Calif., believes these early-life exposures may hold the key to understanding a woman's risk of breast cancer today.Scientists say these vials could help them unravel one of the most enduring medical mysteries: Why do some women, with no family history, develop breast cancer?
The women's blood is being tested for traces of dozens of pollutants – used by industry and found in many consumer products – that can impersonate estrogen and other hormones. The theory is that early exposure to these chemicals, even before birth, inside the mother's womb, may fundamentally alter the way that breast tissues grow, triggering cancer decades later.
Cancer patients and their doctors have long puzzled over what factors in a woman's environment may raise her risk of breast cancer. One of every eight women in the United States is diagnosed with breast cancer during her lifetime, with more than 232,000 new cases diagnosed yearly, according to the American Cancer Society. Only 5 to 10 percent can be accounted for by genetics; other known risk factors include age, obesity and low physical activity.
Earlier this month, a science advisory panel urged the federal government to fund more projects aimed at uncovering the environmental causes of breast cancer because eliminating these factors may provide the greatest opportunity to prevent it.
It's particularly vexing for scientists because it's difficult to unlock a woman's exposures during her most critical times for breast development: in the womb and during puberty and pregnancy.
"As researchers looking at adult outcomes of disease processes such as breast cancer, one of the biggest challenges we face is trying to get a handle on prenatal exposures and what is going on in the prenatal environment," said Shanna Swan, an environmental health scientist at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.
Many scientists have been looking for connections between various environmental exposures and the disease – with mixed results. Some findings suggest links to a few chemicals, including the banned pesticide DDT. But others have found no link.
And in 2011, an institute of the National Academies of Sciences reported "a possible link" between breast cancer and some common ingredients of vehicle exhaust, benzene and 1,3-butadiene. But the report said the jury is still out for most other widespread chemicals, such as pesticides, ingredients of cosmetics and bisphenol A (BPA).For example, experts from the American Cancer Society, reviewing previous studies, in 2002 found no association between breast cancer and chlorinated chemicals including DDT.
Nevertheless, absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence, said Elizabeth Ward, National Vice President of Intramural Research at the American Cancer Society. Many of the biggest risk factors remain unknown, she said.
The problem with most studies is that they measured levels of chemicals in women later in life, after they were diagnosed with cancer, not during periods when the breast is most susceptible, said Suzanne Fenton, a reproductive toxicologist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in North Carolina.
"The research doesn't prove that the link doesn't exist or that these chemicals are safe for the breast," Fenton said. "It shows that we may not have been asking the right question."
The strongest evidence for this link emerged decades ago. Researchers first suspected that hormone-mimicking chemicals may play a role in breast cancer when they discovered that women who took the anti-miscarriage drug diethylstilbestrol (DES) – a potent form of estrogen prescribed for pregnant women from 1938 until 1971 – had about a one-in-six lifetime risk of developing breast cancer. The risk is 1 in 8 for all women. In addition, their daughters, who were exposed to DES in the womb, developed breast cancer at about two times the rate of unexposed women.
Some scientists say timing of exposure may be the single most important factor when evaluating how chemicals may contribute to breast cancer risk.
The breast is a complex tissue that undergoes several important periods of development and remodeling over the course of a woman's life. During these periods – before birth when the bud of the mammary gland forms, at puberty when breast cells are rapidly growing and dividing and during pregnancy as the mammary gland transitions to lactation – the breast may be especially susceptible to outside chemicals.
When breasts are exposed to hormone-like substances during those sensitive times, it could "influence susceptibility of the tissue to carcinogens or other hormonal stimuli that could increase cancer risk later on," said Ruthann Rudel, a researcher at the Silent Spring Institute, a nonprofit research group in Massachusetts, and lead author of a 2011 review.
Cohn and colleagues at the Public Health Institute are using the blood samples of more than 2,000 women who enrolled in the Child Health and Development Studies in the 1960s to investigate exposures during two of these critical periods, pregnancy and postpartum. The women were members of the Kaiser Permanente Health Plan in the Oakland, Calif., area who gave birth between 1959 and 1967.
The scientists recently reported that women who had high levels of a certain PCBs in their blood shortly after giving birth were three times more likely to develop breast cancer later in life than women with lower levels. Because PCBs break down very slowly in the body, a woman's blood levels postpartum may also predict the PCB levels in her blood during earlier periods of her life, such as puberty, Cohn said.
Banned in the United States 35 years ago, the industrial chemicals persist in the environment and accumulate in food webs. Nearly every U.S. resident still has detectable levels in his or her blood.
In a previous study, Cohn and her colleagues demonstrated that age at time of exposure matters for other chemicals, too. In the same group of women, they found that those with high blood levels of the banned pesticide DDT shortly after giving birth were five times more likely to develop breast cancer before age 50 than the women with the lowest blood levels. Other studies measuring DDT exposure later in life found no link.
|By Lindsey Konkel. Data from the Silent Spring Institute
|A variety of substances have been linked to breast tumors in lab animal studies. This chart shows categories for 216 chemicals and other substances identified in a Silent Spring Institute report published in the journal Cancer.
Cohn can't say for sure that the associations they observed between breast cancer and PCBs or DDT were not due to some other factor. "No human study can be definitive," said Cohn, an epidemiologist who has been involved with the study group for 17 years. "It's impossible to measure every single exposure pertinent to breast cancer."
Laboratory research may bear out a definitive link. In lab animals, scientists can test the effects of various levels and mixtures of chemicals, which would be unethical in humans. "The work we do in humans helps frame the type of questions to be answered by animal studies," Cohn said. Such collaboration, she said, "is critical to advancing our knowledge."
These questions involve knowing more about how hormonally active chemicals interact with developing breast tissue.
"A chemical that has weak effects later in life may have very different effects during earlier periods of development when the mammary gland is most sensitive," said Dr. Hugh Taylor, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Yale School of Medicine.
Taylor and his colleagues found that in mice, BPA, an estrogen-like chemical, can have the same effect in a developing fetus as the drug DES, a more potent estrogen. Both "turned up" the expression of genes in the developing mammary gland that are known to play a role in tumor formation. "You are essentially changing the software so that things are programmed to read differently," Taylor said.
Most cancers aren't one single piece of damage, but a collection of injuries to a cell or a tissue over a lifetime, making it hard to pin a cause on any one agent, Taylor said. Yet, if endocrine disruptors give you a predisposition for tumor growth, "you're starting life with one strike against you," he said.
BPA, used to make hard plastics, liners of food cans and some paper receipts, is found in most human bodies.
Studies in mice and rats suggest that exposure to BPA and other endocrine disruptors in the womb not only alters the structure of the breast, but the way that the tissues communicate with one another and receive hormonal signals from other parts of the body.
|Silent Spring Institute
|A report in the journal Cancer identified 216 substances that cause breast cancer in lab animal studies. This list includes some of the more common ones.
"BPA sets the thermostat in a more sensitive way so the mammary gland has more sensitivity to estrogen, and the breast tissue now exhibits an exaggerated response to the hormone. It sees a little bit of estrogen and now thinks it is a lot," said Dr. Ana Soto, a cancer researcher at Tufts University School of Medicine in Massachusetts. And the body can't tell the difference between synthetic estrogen mimics and natural estrogens.
BPA and other chemicals also may play a role in breast density – a known risk factor for breast cancer. A preliminary study by University of Wisconsin researchers found that women with higher blood levels of BPA had denser breast tissue than women with low levels.
With so much uncertainty about environmental risk factors, these issues remain largely absent from major breast cancer awareness campaigns.
"Despite billions spent in the name of breast cancer, we still don't know enough about the causes," said Karuna Jaggar, executive director of Breast Cancer Action, a San Francisco-based advocacy organization that considers itself the watchdog of the breast cancer movement.
While decades of research have failed to turn up strong, environmental risk factors, Cohn is optimistic that scientists are now on the right track. "The science is playing catch up. We have learned from what we didn't learn," she said.
Nevertheless, federal funding is in short supply, and there is always the risk it will run out for the Oakland group. Research now is turning to the second and third generations – the daughters and granddaughters of the original study members. Just like she did with their mothers and grandmothers, Cohn will look for patterns of exposure and disease as they age.
Like a treasure trove about to be unlocked, Cohn said these generations of women "hold the key to understanding" breast cancer.
This is the first in a two-part series. Read Part 2


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As you play through the game, various characters will send Desmond Miles E-mails through the computer sitting next to the Animus. In order to access these emails, the player must exit the Animus and interact with the computer. The following characters send Desmond various emails:
- Rebecca Crane- The first emailer, Rebecca sends Desmond "Patch Notes" about the new Animus update, complains about the cold and vents about everyone to Desmond.
- Shaun Hastings- Shaun emails Desmond to provide additional information on subjects, attempt to provoke petty conflicts between their national origins and crack jokes to keep himself at ease.
- William Miles- William sends Desmond and the others scolding messages telling them to keep focused when he thinks they are getting too casual.
- Juno- Juno sends Desmond messages with her name written in Binary. Her sentences are broken, fractured and often impossible to read due to the strain of trying to translate her thoughts into foreign languages and primitive electronics. She does not like Shaun.