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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's National Defence Council, headed by President Mohamed Mursi, on Saturday condemned street violence and called for national dialogue to resolve political differences, the information minister said after the council met.
The council, which includes the defense minister, who is a general in charge of the army, could also consider declaring a state of emergency or a curfew in areas of violence if needed, Information Minister Salah Abdel Maqsoud said.
At least 39 people were killed in violence in Port Said on Saturday over a court ruling and across the nation during Friday's anti-Mursi protests.
The council called for "a broad national dialogue that would be attended by independent national characters" to discuss political differences and ensure a "fair and transparent" parliamentary election, the minister said in a televised statement.
Calls by the president and his government for national dialogue have been spurned in the past by the main liberal-minded opposition, who accuse Mursi and his allies of ignoring any opposing views.
The violence that first erupted on Thursday, the eve of the anniversary of a revolt that started on January 25, 2011, has highlighted the deep divisions in Egypt and cast a shadow over a parliamentary poll which could start in April.
(Reporting by Yasmine Saleh and Ahmed Tolba; Writing by Edmund Blair; Editing by Jon Hemming and Jason Webb)


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FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) – Alabama's double-digit lead dwindled on the back nine, and the Crimson Tide finished with a two-stroke lead over Southern California on Thursday after the third round of the NCAA Division I women's championship.
Oklahoma's Chirapat Jao-Javanil shot a 2-under 70 for a share of the individual lead with Arizona State's Giulia Molinaro at 4-under 212. Molinaro had a 72 on a day where only three players shot under par.
The Crimson Tide entered the third round with an 11-stroke lead, and that grew to 15 strokes with Alabama's No. 5 seeded player, Courtney McKim, in the fairway on No. 17. With hard greens, stiff wind and tough pin placements at Vanderbilt Legends Club's North Course, Alabama's top four players combined for three double bogeys and nine bogeys on the back nine.
Alabama coach Mic Potter, a sentimental favorite to win his first national title, said wind was a major factor drying out the greens. It didn't help Brooke Pancake, the individual leader after the second round, when she hit into the water on No. 16. Teammates Jennifer Kirby and Hannah Collier also hit into the water on the hole.
"We had three really good players knock the ball in the water, and I have no answer,'' Potter said. "You can't hit it here, and we hit it.''
Alabama finished the round at 18-over 306 and had a 13-over 877 total. Southern California shot a 6-over 294. Purdue (295), South Carolina (300) and Virginia (301) were tied at 883.
Potter said the best part is Alabama still has a lead going into the final round, something he would've taken coming into the tournament.
"I still would like to have an 11-shot lead, or a 20,'' he said. "But yeah, I mean nothing to do but go play well now. If you don't, teams right behind us are really good, and they're not going to lay down or let us play mediocre. We've got to take control and worry about ourselves and do what we can to control our destiny.''
Southern Cal started the round at 9 over and 14 strokes behind Alabama. The Trojans, who won national titles in 2003 and 2008, got the benefit of teeing off on No. 10 and finished on the front nine, which has played the easiest this week. They capped their round with four birdies on the par-5 ninth, finishing as Alabama managed only one birdie on the par-5 18th a few yards away.
Trojans coach Andrea Gaston didn't know how much ground her team had made up until she talked with reporters. She said her team tried to stay patient and didn't look at scores through the round.
"Having such a big lead that Alabama had we knew we had to make up some ground,'' Gaston said. "I didn't think we'd make up as much. Thankfully, we hung in there. One of the things in a national championship you're going to have one kind of bad day. You just have to minimize the mistakes and hope it doesn't go too bad. … Given the conditions today, I feel like we played a great round as difficult as it played.''
Similar conditions are expected Friday, and Gaston said that means any team getting to finish on the front nine could have a chance to make a run similar to Southern Cal's.
"It's kind of up for grabs really,'' Gaston said.
The Crimson Tide's round turned worse when Pancake, a senior and a member of the U.S. Curtis Cup team, lost her lead with consecutive double bogeys. She was 7 under with a three-stroke lead after a birdie on No. 11. But she four-putted from 25 feet on the par-4 15th, then hit into the water left of the green on the par-3 16th.
She finished with a 75 to drop into a tie for third at 3 under.
"I made two pretty careless mistakes,'' Pancake said. "Definitely killed me. I guess I can't ponder on those and let it change my mind set for tomorrow. I have two good rounds that have put me in the position I'm in. Hopefully, I can get another one tomorrow and finish off well.''
Pancake's finish left Jao-Javanil tied with Molinaro atop the leaderboard with both thinking they simply put themselves in good position for the final round. Jao-Javanil took advantage of smoother greens and less wind teeing off in the morning.
"I think I hit it pretty close today and I made a few puts and a lot of pars, so I think that really helped,'' said Jao-Javanil, who had four birdies and two bogeys.
Molinaro had two birdies and a double bogey, and the Arizona State senior born in Italy said she didn't think she could have scored any better than she did in the conditions. She spoke to reporters when she thought she was just behind Pancake in the standings.
"I don't have the pressure of being the leader,'' Molinaro said. "Still do have pressure, but not as much.''
Just ask Alabama how quickly that can change.


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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A senior American official said Friday that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will take Turkey's prime minister to task for "particularly offensive" comments he made this week equating Zionism with a crime against humanity.
Speaking aboard Kerry's plane as he flew from Rome to Ankara, the official said the Obama administration was profoundly concerned by and disappointed in Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's remark at a U.N. conference in Vienna.
The White House on Thursday issued a statement condemning them.
Outrage over the remarks threatens to overshadow Kerry's visit to NATO ally Turkey on his first official overseas trip as secretary of state. He has spent much of his time at the first three stops focusing on the conflict in Syria.
The official said comments like Erdogan's have a "corrosive" effect on US-Turkey relations.
Kerry opened his visit to Turkey's capital with a stop at the U.S. embassy where he paid tribute to a Turkish security guard killed in a Feb. 1 suicide attack against the compound.


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RIMT University Professor Claudia Diaz encourages her students to have a very hands on approach to learning. After all, what better way to teach human anatomy than to have her students paint accurate anatomical parts on the body of a real (hot) man??
Chiropractic student Zac O'Brien sat for around 18 hours while fellow students painted him.
"We walked him in and I still remember the looks on the kids' faces. They were just in awe," Diaz says. "I realised it shocked them, it inspired them and it motivated them."
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According to Beautiful Decay:
Previously shy about taking off their clothes so classmates could study their bodies, the students began to shed their inhibitions through this painting exercise. "I couldn't get the kids to keep their clothes on. They were all throwing them off," Dr Diaz said.
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.... to treat the real (not adjusted) numbers as more "real," since it measures actual suffering.
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The short form: Yearly revisions increased the number of jobs created in 2012 by 647,000. These revisions make some comparisons difficult between December 2012 and January 2013 and obscure that January is an absolutely dreadful month for jobs and employment in real terms. After Christmas, the economy sheds large numbers of jobs that are not picked back up until later in the spring. The result is that while the adjusted numbers show gains, these numbers mark a trend basically bridging a chasm. The bottom of that chasm is where the economy now is. The number of employed dropped by nearly 1.5 million in the Household survey. The larger business survey documented just over 2.8 million jobs lost in January. These losses resulted in a real unemployment rate of 13.6% (versus a real trend rate of 12.6%) whereas real un- and under employment hit 18.9% (versus 17.4% trend) affecting nearly 31 million Americans. Blue collar workers lost ground in January in wages and hours, and in 2012 they also lost ground to inflation, low as it was. Average earnings for all private employees in 2012 increased about 2%, but this was probably all or nearly all wiped out by inflation. The CPI will come out later in the month. With that to the report.
The January jobs report is perhaps the most complicated of the year. There are year end revisions to both of the report's two surveys: the business or Establishment survey covering jobs and the Household survey covering employment (people). The business or jobs survey updates its numbers based on a much more complete tally for the month of March using unemployment insurance records. Tables for both seasonally adjusted and unadjusted data are revised. Revisions for unadjusted data go back to April 2011 and adjusted to January 2008. Based on changes in the March benchmark data, seasonally adjusted total nonfarm jobs in 2012 (the official jobs number) increased by 647,000 more than was previously reported: 134.021 million > 134.668 million
In the Household or people survey, revisions come from updates in Census data. However, unlike the business survey, these revisions are not applied retroactively. In other words, data for each year is treated as a done deal and all revisions between years are loaded into the January numbers. As a result, direct comparisons from the tables between Decembers and Januarys are not possible. However, the BLS does provide a supplemental table showing some changes taking these revisions into account for seasonally adjusted data only, and I will make use of those.
Turning to this month's headline numbers, the official U-3 unemployment rate was reported as "essentially unchanged" at 7.9% although it edged up a tenth of a percent in January. The seasonally adjusted official number of jobs increased by 157,000. In the regular two month revisions (yes, we still have those),
December increased 41,000: 155,000 > 196,000
November increased a further 86,000: 146,000 > 161,000 > 247,000 or a 69% increase over the initial estimate.
Month to month the potential labor force as represented by the Civilian Noninstitutional Population over 16 (NIP) increased 175,000 to 244.663 million. This NIP has built into it a yearly revision increase of 138,000. The employment-population remained unchanged at 58.6% with and without revision. So a rough estimate of the increase in jobs .586(175,000) would be 103,000 jobs. Per the official seasonally adjusted number 157,000, the economy did better than this. However, as I have pointed out many times, the official number is not a real number, it is a point on a trend line. In January especially, as we shall shortly see, the difference between the trend and what actually happened in the economy can be enormous. The trend smooths over what is basically a chasm existing between large after Christmas job and employment losses and the spring seasonal rebound.
The current labor force seasonally adjusted increased month to month just 7,000 to 155.654 million. The unadjusted number was 154.794 million with no direct comparison to December possible with the data in the tables.
Seasonally adjusted those employed dropped month to month 110,000 to 143.322 million. Unadjusted, the number was 141.614 million. While no direct comparison can be made with December, it is important to realize that this is 1.446 million less than December's 143.060 million. What is being masked here by the year end revisions is a huge seasonal drop in employment after the end of the Christmas shopping season. In real (seasonally unadjusted) terms, January is a terrible month, always.
So while the employment-population ratio seasonally adjusted remained unchanged. Unadjusted it dropped a staggering 0.6%. Remember each tenth of a percent is equivalent to around 245,000 people.
We see a similar effect in the unemployment numbers. Seasonally adjusted unemployment rose month to month by 117,000 to 12.332 million. Unadjusted, it increased 1.337 million to 13.181 million.
The unemployment rate seasonally adjusted, that is in official terms, increased a tenth of a percent to 7.9%. Unadjusted, it spiked from 7.6% to 8.5%.
The BLS broader measure of un- and under employment, the U-6, shows a similar discrepancy between the adjusted and unadjusted numbers. Adjusted, it remained unchanged at 14.4%. Unadjusted, it increased a whole percent to 15.4%
The seasonally adjusted U-6 un- and under employed represent the 12.332 million in the U-3 official unemployment rate, 7.973 million involuntary part timers, and 2.443 million marginally attached (those who have looked for work in the last year but not in the last 4 weeks before the survey) or 22.748 million total.
The BLS has a restrictive, though internationally recognized, definition of unemployment: without a job but have looked for one in the last 4 weeks. The marginally attached are not counted as part of the labor force and their use in the U-6 is an indication that this is what the BLS considers its functional undercount to be.
The BLS also has a more extended category: Not in Labor Force, Want a Job Now (seasonally unadjusted). This was up 249,000 in January to 6.781 million and could also be taken as a measure of its undercount. The problem which I state each month at this point in my analysis is that this number does not reflect very well actual changes in the economy. So I have developed an alternative to it. In my alternate calculation, I compare the current labor force to where we would expect it to be in a solid economic expansion: labor participation rate of 67% (boomers retiring so far has had little effect upon this figure). The difference between these two is my measure of the undercount. In addition, beginning with this post, I will calculate both trend (seasonally adjusted) and current (seasonally unadjusted) figures for the undercount and numbers derived from it.
.67(244.663 million) = 163.924 million (where the labor force should be)
Trend Undercount:
163.924 million — 155.654 million = 8.270 million
Current Undercount:
163.924 million — 154.794 million = 9.130 million
These are my estimates for the capture of the undercount, those who do not have jobs but would work if jobs were available to them.
With these numbers we can now calculate where the U-3 unemployment and U-6 un- and under employment (disemployment) really are, that is real unemployment and real disemployment and their associated rates both in terms of their trend and where they are now.
Real Trend Unemployment (that is seasonally adjusted):
12.332 million (U-3 unemployment) + 8.270 million (undercount) = 20.602 million
20.602 million / 163.924 million = 12.6%
Real Unemployment Now (i.e. seasonally unadjusted):
13.181 million (U-3 unemployment) + 9.130 million (undercount) = 22.311 million
22.311 million / 163.924 million = 13.6%
Real Trend Disemployment:
Real Trend Unemployment + involuntary part time workers seasonally adjusted = 20.602 million + 7.973 million = 28.575 million
28.575 million / 163.924 = 17.4%
Real Disemployment Now:
Real Trend Unemployment + involuntary part time workers seasonally unadjusted = 22.311 million + 8.628 million = 30.939 million
28.575 million / 163.924 = 18.9%
Looked at this way real unemployment (SA, seasonally adjusted) is 4.7% higher than the official (trend) rate while the real (NSA, unadjusted) rate for where we actually were in January 2013 is 5.1% higher. As I have often said, one of the easiest ways for officialdom to deal with unemployment is to define away as much of it as possible. Out of sight, out of mind, therefore not their responsibility.
The long term unemployed, those unemployed by the BLS definition, for 6 months or more was 4.708 million in January. They numbered 5.522 million a year ago. This is a decline of 514,000 but it is unclear where they went: into employment or out of the labor force altogether.
By race, unemployment among whites was little changed at 7.0%. Unemployment among African Americans declined slightly to 13.8%. The rough rule that unemployment among African Americans is twice that among whites continues to hold.
In the business survey, jobs (SA) increased 157,000 to 134.825 million. This represented 166,000 jobs created in the private sector and 9,000 job losses in government. Not seasonally adjusted (NSA), that is in the here and now, the economy lost 2.840 million jobs, dropping to 132.705 million, with 2.345 million lost in the private sector and 495,000 in government (almost entirely at the state and local levels). Among the big losers in the private sector was 90,000 in manufacturing, 272,000 in construction, and 1.974 million in the private services sector, including 592,000 in retail trade, 410,000 in professional and business services and 334,000 in leisure and hospitality.
Contrast this with the seasonally adjusted (SA) figures of gains of 33,000 in retail trade, 28,000 in construction, and little to no changes in manufacturing, professional and business services, and leisure and hospitality.
The total jobs numbers, the category called total nonfarm jobs, illustrates most clearly the difference between the trendline of seasonal adjustment and the actual swings of the unadjusted numbers which show where the economy actually is in any given month. In the following graph, the blue line is the seasonally adjusted trendline, and the red line is the seasonally unadjusted reality.
Average weekly hours for all private non-farm employees remained unchanged at 34.4 hours. Their average hourly earnings were $23.78, an increase of 4 cents, and their average weekly earnings were $818.03, an increase of $1.37 month over month, and 1.9% increase from last January.
Average weekly hours for production and nonsupervisory (blue collar) employees decreased a tenth of an hour to 33.6 hours. Their average hourly earnings were $19.97, an increase of 5 cents, and their average weekly earnings were $670.99, a decrease of 31 cents month over month, and a 1.2% increase over January 2012.
Household data (Employment/unemployment)
Statistical significance: +/ - 400,000
The A tables: http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsatabs.htm
A 1 for most information and categories
A 2 Unemployment by race
A 8 Part time workers
A 12 Duration of unemployment
A 15 U 6 un- and under employment
A 16 Persons not in labor force
Establishment date (jobs)
Statistical significance: +/ - 100,000
The B tables: http://www.bls.gov/ces/cesbtabs.htm
B 1 Total jobs and jobs by industry/type
B 2 Weekly hours, all employees
B 3 Hourly and weekly earnings, all employees
B 6 Weekly hours, blue collar
B 7 Hourly and weekly earnings, blue collar
.... to treat the real (not adjusted) numbers as more "real," since it measures actual suffering.
The one thing I have learned looking at economic data is that none of the major official indicators, like the job stats, GDP, or stock and commodity market levels says anything very useful about the actual state of the economy, the country, or us. At best, they are jumping off points for questions and analysis. At worst, they are obfuscatory.
I suppose the MSM is just a propaganda apparatus. They look at the numbers and parrot them back to us. It amazes me that they never bother to look further or dig deeper into them. The media seem filled with the most incurious people on the face of the earth. If I had their resources, and I wouldn't mind their pay either, I would be looking at this stuff simply to satisfy my own desire to understand. I would want to know why the official stats and the reality all around me didn't seem to be on even speaking terms.
Re the seasonally unadjusted data, people also seem to like nice lines and the seasonally adjusted jobs data (total nonfarm) has the nicest line around. Most of the rest of the adjusted data is less smooth and sometimes not all that much better than the unadjusted data. But isn't it interesting that the media and the government favor the smoother line, even if it is only marginally smoother and mistake it, deliberately or no, for the reality? And at the same time, they ignore the messier unadjusted data which is messier precisely because it reflects the messiness of real life.
I could easily make or probably I already have graphs at my FRED file that superimpose adjusted and unadjusted numbers for jobs and employment. But because of my slow connection I can't load them into the post. Oh well.
I've been using that Insert Graphic thing -- it works fine. Sometiimes it takes two clicks, but you can always see a color change on the button after it "takes."
It took me two hours to add that graph and it's still not quite the right size. Every time I go into an edit or preview page, it activates a slow running script. Anytime the screen changes or refreshes, that slow running script is activated. And each time it takes 10 minutes with my slow connection for the message to come up and almost that long for it to clear. I would use the edit buttons but they don't show up or at least not until I load a url into the transfer space, then they do, and then I hit the insert picture button, and got the url embedded in the text. But then it took me 3 tries and about 40 minutes for the preview page to load sufficiently for the save button to show up. Once I hit that the post loaded and displayed quickly and with no problems. I have the same problems with just text, but text is one time and its done so it only takes about 20 minutes to come up and 20 minutes to load and it's done. Adding one picture multiplies that time several fold.


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This is an introduction to security in Free BSD and is most likely going to be multi-part. It's only the intro as of right now, I just finished this and have more planned but when I get time is when I will do it. Enjoy:
Intro to Network security in Free BSD
Written by : gore
This is a small intro to security in Free BSD. It's no where near everything, as entire books have been written on the security of an OS. This won't teach you everything, but you can get a good idea of things to look for and how to get a better understanding of it for your own boxes.
Making an OS secure is one of the most important jobs any Admin has to do for his job. It doesn't matter if you're using Windows, A commercial big iron Unix, or Free BSD.
Before I start, I think some information should be presented in the area of Operating systems. Free BSD is considered a true Unix, but to me this is a pointless arguement in picking an OS.
Unix stopped being an OS in the early 1980s and to me, Unix is no longer an OS, but a type of OS, or standard. There are more than 100 types of Unix, and some are free, some are very expensive.
Linux and BSD are the two best known OSs when it comes to getting free quality software. Not all BSD OSs are free though.
BSD/OS is based on the original code base for BSD, and is not freely available, but you can get Free BSD, Net BSD, Open BSD, and Dragonfly BSD all for free. Free BSD is the one closest to BSD/OS but this is all one or another form of Unix. Linux was written from scratch by Linus Tovalds. Contrary to popular belief, Minix was NOT the inspiration for it.
Linus made Linux because he wanted something like he was using at the university, which was SunOS. The early inspirations for Linux were to be more like SunOS. Linus says this in the movie Revolution OS, from his own mouth.
Back on topic:
There are more books about security for OSs than probably any other subject in computing, and for a good reason. The security of an OS is very complex, and has a lot to it.
Choose a Security Model based on your security risks:
Remember than Network security has to comply with the network you're using it on. A security model / policy for a small business environment is probably not going to work well in a huge corporate environment.
A huge corporate security policy may not work well on a home LAN.
The internet as it is now, is not a friendly place. Worms come out all the time and now we are dealing with Spyware and Malware which wasn't even a thought in the heads of the BSD team who created TCP/IP.
New security updates and holes are found at an astonishingly high rate, and it can be hard to keep up. How do you know the new security patch isn't going to break something else on there?
You don't, and that is why you should ALWAYS have a test bed of machines that are a mirrir image of the production machines. That way when a new security patch is released, you can first install it on the test bed and make sure it's going to work in the set up you use and not break something.
If all is well, and it works good and hasn't broek anything, then you know installing it on your production machines won't be a problem.
Another thing to add to this, you should NEVER rely on an OS's firewall to defend your network. You should buy either a firewall appliance, or get something where you have a router with a built in firewall. This way you add another layer the process known as security.
This also can really become helpfull when you see a new security update for the OS, but haven't had time to test it, the hardware firewall can stand gaurd while you test out the security fix.
That is why most corporations have Firewalls that cost thousands of dollars and don't run on the servers.
A good admin should be ready, and prepare for the worst even if it hasn't happened yet. This can include off site back ups and storage places, and having another server ready in case you have a problem with the ones in use.
This helps decrease downtime.
Always assume your systems are being probed by attackers looking for weakness in your system. More than likely they have been already. Your defense is to keep up to date on patches, security fixes, and act on new security advisories when they are published.
Educate yourself and your users.
A look at common security models you may use:
I trust everybody on the Internet:
This isn't recommended for anything. I don't think I need to explain why, this is one of the least secure of them all, and shockingly is actually used a lot.
I trust anybody in my system's network:
This model is common in small enterprise networks where the server is protected from the general internet by a firewall, and the internal network is made up of employees of a single company or department at a university.
In this model, malicious users on the internal network are rare, especially if the organization is small, so the system ca afford to provide unencrypted services, give accounts to anybody who asks for them, and even have disabled login security and passwords.
Unfortunately, in large organizations, it has become the case that attacks on servers maintained under this mnodel- attacks from within the network, by people who aresupposed to be trustworthy- Are more frequent than attacks from the outside.
If your organization is large, you must assume that you cannot trust everybody on your system's network, and instead choose a different security model.
I trust my local users:
Admins who use this tend to be a bit more secure than the one before, but it's still quite stupid. I wouldn't trust my users any farther than they would fall from the top story of the building when they accidently fell form the roof after rooting one of my systems... OK so the BOFH part is only for fun...
This model generally has a characterization for tight security policy :
Screening of users before new accounts are granted
Encrypted Network services (Either encouraged or required)
Unused services turned off
And hard to crack passwords
This is great but users generally are allowed to access internet services, see sensitive information (such as encrypted password strings)... The list goes on.
The idea behind this one is that once users are approved for accounts, they are allowed to do as they please. Even though a common threat is account removal, I don't like this model either.
Not many times in your life are you going to have a system where this policy works well. Only very low risk web sites should be using this policy like a fan web site, or community email service.
Although some high profile commercial Internet servers where only a few trusted people actually even have accounts. But as I said before, this is not good enough.
I trust only myself and other admins:
This model is favored by security consious people, as it has not only tight network security as the preceding model, but tight local security as well.
Regular users are denied access to system, configuration files, and server side program code through carefully crafted permissions.
Admin has to watch each user carefully to make sure nothing unauthorized is going on, and special measures (Such as custom shells, chroot jails, and disabling of certain commands (An example would be top, which can display what the admin is doing and if he is idle) are often taken to restrict each user's access to the system's resources.
This is a good model and is used in things like web hosting, or email services like Yahoo! and Hotmail.
After you have decided which model is best for you, you need to look at what rissk you're going to face:
The security risks you face:
Perfect security is a myth that vendors came up with to make you buy the crap they put out. Since you can't get perfect security, you can at least try and decide where the risks in your system are and how to combat them.
Security risks for a network server can be grouped into three major areas:
Root compromise -
An attacker takes advantage of unencrypted transmissions or known programming weaknesses in server software and in the input boundary checking in server software and then gains super-user / admin / root access at the machine.
Generally they then try and install something to help conceal the fact that they are even around and may even install cracked back doored versions of tools such as ps, last, and top, and then can use your system for larger or government targets.
Privacy compromise -
If traffic in and out of your network isn't encrypted ( example: Telnet), an attacker can easily view any of it, watching passwords, credit card numbers, and other sensitive information.
Denial of service -
An attacker can use brute force methods such as sending your server large amounts of traffic bringing your server to it's knees trying to answer all the requests, and stopping it from being able to answer legitimate requests from valid users.
Most of these problems can be stopped with a proper knowledgeable admin, and most of these start because of one or more of the following:
Insecure and weak passwords - passwords that can be guessed or found in a dictionary or password cracker app. You should always check passwords against a password cracker.
Clear text services -Services which don't encrypt traffic like Telnet. Use SSH instead.
Un-needed services that are exploit prone - If you don't need to provide a service, then don't.
Open SMTP relaying - Allowing spammers to use your server for sending spam mail.
No firewall on Network access - Run a firewall to prevent unauthorized traffic from getting into your machine.
Outdated and vulnerable software - The older a software program gets the better chance there is that it has had a security flaw you don't have the patch for. Stay updated.


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Scott Lauer, 25 - April 13, 2013Scott Wesley Lauer, 25, of Big Springs died Saturday, April 13, 2013, as a result of a motorcycle accident in North Carolina.
The family chose cremation. A memorial service was conduced on Monday, April 22, at the Brule Activity Center with the Rev. Monte Reichenberg officiating. A second service took place on Monday at the Ogallala Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses with Tony Raffaeli officiating.
Lauer was born Jan. 11, 1988, at Ogallala the son of Stephen and Donna (Reichenberg) Lauer. He attended School District No. 14, west of Ogallala, and graduated from Ogallala High School in 2006.
He then attended Wyoming Tech in Laramie, graduating in 2007. He began employment as a mechanic with Kinder Morgan at the compressor station northwest of Big Springs.
Lauer was a member of Jehovah's Witnesses. His hobbies included biking, riding motorcycles, hiking and camping, disassembling things, photography, roping and riding horses. He was especially known for giving big hugs, said family members.
He was preceded in death by: his grandfather, Richard Hansen; great-grandparents—Bill and Minnie Lauer, Lloyd and Florence Griffith, George and Iva Reichenberg and Ethel Browning.
Survivors include: his father, Steve Lauer of Brule; his mother, Donna Reichenberg Clouse and her husband Randy of Ogallala; a sister, Jessica Lauer of Omaha; step-sister, Stephanie Mosel of North Platte; a brother, Justin (Natalie) Henson of Leslie, MI; three step-brothers—Ryan (Holly) Vinyard and Nolan (Tamara) Clouse, all of North Platte, and Justin Clouse of Stapleton; grandparents—Robert and Jeanette Lauer of Gothenburg and Lorna Hansen of North Platte; aunts and uncles—Dan and Theresa Lauer of Norton, KS, Garon and Sherri Stewart and Brian and Terri Commins, all of Ogallala, Steve and Angie Mueting of Aurora, CO, Monte and Susan Reichenberg of Paris, Ill, Cliff and Ali Reichenberg of North Platte and Wes and Carol Reichenberg of Broken Bow; numerous great-aunts, great-uncles and cousins.
In lieu of flowers, a memorial has been established.
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- Ted and his sister Kat are not exactly friends. Ted has a "disorder" which causes his brain to operate on a different system than everyone else's. Their cousin Salim comes to visit them in London and wants to see the city, especially the giant wheel called the London Eye. A stranger offers the three kids a free ticket on the Eye. Since Salim is the guest, he gets the ticket. Ted and Kat watch as Salim goes up in the wheel, but when his capsule comes back down, Salim is gone. How is it possible for someone to vanish from a sealed capsule? Using his unusual brain and memory for details, Ted looks for clues others don't see. As Ted finds clues, Kat moves to action. Their only chance to find Salim is to work together as a team.
- On the eve of his eleventh birthday, Sam searches for hidden presents. In the attic of the building where he lives with his grandfather Mack, Sam finds a newspaper clipping instead. Sam doesn't read well, but he can read the word "missing," under a photo of a small boy. Sam is reminded of something. Was it a dream, or something that happened to him long ago? Suddenly Sam questions his whole life with Mack. Meanwhile, at school, Sam is paired with a girl named Caroline to build a model castle. She agrees to help Sam with his reading. As they put together the castle, they also put together the information they find about the missing boy, and more of Sam's own memories.
- The Wanderer is a small ship making its way across the ocean from Connecticut to England. Thirteen year old Sophie documents her journey in her diary. Her three uncles and two cousins complete the crew of The Wanderer. Sophie is excited about crossing the ocean and reuniting with her grandfather Bompie in England, whom she remembers fondly. Sophie's cousin Cody's diary tells a different story. He doesn't understand why Sophie remembers things that never happened. Or did they? Tension grows within the close quarters on rough seas. Each person on board has a story and a past. This family discovers they don't know each other so well after all. Whose stories are true? Read on to find out.


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Liam Hemsworth: Sunday Lunch in Studio City
Liam Hemsworth keeps his head down while heading to lunch with some friends on Sunday afternoon (February 17) in Studio City, Calif.
The 23-year-old Aussie actor kept it cool in a ballcap and comfy shoes for a bite to eat.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Liam Hemsworth
In case you missed it, check out a new, exclusive clip from Liam's upcoming film, Love and Honor.
Also starring Austin Stowell, Teresa Palmer and Aimee Teegarden, the film is out on iTunes and VOD now!
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Reader Gregg B. passed along a link to an SI.com article about a simple formula for predicting success for quarterback prospects.
It's called The Rule of 26-27-60, and it focuses on the following three things: Wonderlic score (26), number of games started (27) and college completion percentage (60).
John P. Lopez of SI.com argues that if a college quarterback prospect reaches those three markers, chances are he will be successful.
QBs like Peyton Manning, Drew Brees and Philip Rivers all passed the test.
QBs like Ryan Leaf, Joey Harrington and Akili Smith did not.
So the obvious question is: What about Kevin Kolb?
Kolb scored a 28 on his Wonderlic, started 50 games in college (including Bowl games) and completed 62 percent of his passes. So yes, according to the formula, he is on the right path to NFL success.
However, as Lopez admits, there are exceptions, including (you guessed it) Donovan McNabb.
You know the story well. Five quarterbacks were selected in the first round of the 1999 draft. Had the Eagles taken any of the other four (Tim Couch, who went first; Akili Smith; Daunte Culpepper; or Cade McNown), who knows where the franchise would have been the past decade. But they ended up with the right guy - McNabb.
So it's good that they didn't follow this rule. McNabb only passed one of the three criteria. He started 49 games in college. But he scored a reported 14 on his Wonderlic and completed 58.4 percent of his pass attempts.
Other quarterbacks like Brett Favre, Ben Roethlisberger and Joe Flacco did not meet the three marks either.
As was pointed out by Bill Barnwell on Twitter, David Lewin of Football Outsiders wrote about this phenomenon a couple years ago, but he did not include the Wonderlic in his criteria - just college completion percentage and number of starts.
Other links:
* ESPN.com's Matt Mosley discusses McNabb's Hall of Fame credentials:
I think McNabb will always be appreciated more by the national media more than the folks in Philly. Every game has been dissected, so Eagles fans simply got to know him a little too well. His career has honestly been more consistent than Kurt Warner's. But Warner has the ring and he finished strong with the Cardinals. Another trip to the Super Bowl would help his cause immensely, but he's already in the Canton conversation.
* I posted on our staff blog, Pattison Ave., about the Phillies. It's a simple question about Jayson Werth cursing at a fan last night when he couldn't make a catch in foul territory.
* In case you missed it from last night, I wrote about ESPN somehow finding room to rip Eagles fans in its LeBron James coverage.
* And yesterday, we did another Camp Countdown video, taking a look at the Eagles' offensive line.
* I'm on vacation and headed to Denver, Grand Junction (Colorado) and Portland, Oregon over the next week. Who has recommendations on what I must see/do in those destinations?
* I asked for book suggestions on Twitter and will ask here also. Sports-focused is preferable, but I'm willing to branch out a bit.
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Morningstar announced its 2012 U.S. Fund Manager of the Year award winners in early January, after releasing the names of nominees by category in late December. According to the Chicago-based research firm, the awards acknowledge managers who "not only delivered impressive performance in 2012, but also excellent long-term risk-adjusted returns, and who have been good stewards of fund shareholders' capital."
This year, the mutual fund research firm introduced new awards for two types of strategies—allocation and alternatives—in addition to domestic stock, international stock and fixed income. The 2012 Fund Manager of the Year award winners are as follows:
Domestic-Stock Fund Manager of the Year: Bill Frels and Mark Henneman, Mairs & Power Growth (MPGFX).
In its award-winner announcement, Morningstar says that Mairs & Power Growth's, Bill Frels and Mark Henneman have produced one of the best long-term records of any large-blend fund. Since Frels became co-manager in 1999, the firm notes, the fund has beaten all but one of its large-blend category peers and trounced the S&P 500 with an 8.2% annualized gain through 2012.
Other nominees for this award were American Funds New Economy team (ANEFX) and Timothy Hartch and Michael Keller of BBH Core Select (BBTEX). "Managers Timothy Hartch and Michael Keller set this fund apart in several ways," writes Morningstar senior fund analyst George Carlson. "They run a concentrated portfolio of roughly 30 stocks, ignore the sector and individual stock weightings of the fund's S&P 500 benchmark, and focus heavily on downside protection."
Steve Wymer of the Fidelity Growth Company (FDGRX) is "a rarity," says Carlson, who adds that he is an aggressive-growth manager who has "survived and thrived through multiple bubbles and bear markets."
"Although he willingly pays up for rapid growers and will invest heavily at times in risky biotech firms, Wymer has lasted 16 years at this fund by exhibiting patience and conviction," Carslon adds.
A long-term perspective was a distinction of category winner Mairs & Power Growth (MPGFX). "Of the fund's top 25 holdings (which comprise most of its assets), 18 were bought in the 1990s and only one hasn't been held for at least 10 years," according to Morningstar.
Bill Nygren of Oakmark (OAKMX) and Oakmark Select (OAKLX) rounded out the list of nominations in this category.
International-Stock Fund Manager of the Year: Rajiv Jain, Virtus Foreign Opportunities (JVIAX) and Virtus Emerging Markets Opportunities (HEMZX).
Rajiv Jain has managed Virtus Foreign Opportunities since 2002, and Virtus Emerging Markets Opportunities since 2006. He follows "a high-conviction approach regardless of market trends and is willing to hold portfolios that look very different than the benchmark," according to Morningstar. The strategy has served him well, according to Morningstar. His funds have landed in the top decile of performance for most periods under his management.
Other nominations in this category were George Evans of Oppenheimer International Growth (OIGAX), David Samra and Daniel O'Keefe of Artisan International Value (ARTKX), as well as Mark Yockey of Artisan International (ARTIX) and Artisan International Small Cap (ARTJX).
Fixed-Income Fund Manager of the Year: Mark Kiesel, PIMCO Investment-Grade Corporate Bond (PIGIX)
Industry observers were not surprised that PIMCO won in the fixed-income category. Mark Kiesel is the 10-year manager of "one of the best-performing corporate bond funds over both long- and short-term periods," according to Morningstar. The firm notes the fund has an 11.1% three-year annualized return and a 10.7% five-year annualized return.
Additional fund managers nominated in this category were Steve Smith, David Hoffman, Brian Hess, and Jack McIntyre of Legg Mason Brandywine Global Opportunities Bond (GOBIX), Peter Palfrey and Rick Raczkowski of Loomis Sayles Core Plus Bond (NEFRX), Tad Rivelle, Stephen Kane and Laird Landmann, Metropolitan West Total Return Bond (MWTRX), Mark Kiesel of PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond (PIGIX), and Mark Egan, Tom Fink, Todd Thompson and Steve Vincent of Scout Core Plus Bond (SCPZX).
Alternatives Fund Manager of the Year: The team of Eric Newman, Kevin Gates, Larry Eiben, Richard Gates, Chao Chen and Yan Liu, TFS Market Neutral (TFSMX).
FS Market Neutral is one of the oldest funds in the market-neutral category, according to Morningstar, with an eight-year track record and $1.8 billion in assets. In 2012, the fund achieved the highest absolute return of 7.8% in its category, and its risk-adjusted return ranked fourth.
Michael Aronstein of MainStay Marketfield (MFLDX) also was nominated, along with the teams that lead the Calamos Market Neutral Income (CVSIX) and the TFS Market Neutral (TFSMX).
Allocation Fund Manager of the Year: David Giroux, T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation (PRWCX).
David Giroux joined the fund in 2006, and since then has beaten 97% of moderate-allocation category peers, "delivering top-decile returns on a risk-adjusted basis. Giroux follows a straightforward asset allocation approach, generally investing 55-65% of assets in equities and the rest in a mix of fixed income and cash." For most of his tenure, Morningstar concludes, Giroux has favored convertible bonds, and more recently, leveraged loans, in the fixed-income segment of the fund.
Additional nominees for this award included the portfolio teams of Dodge & Cox Balanced (DODBX) and JPMorgan SmartRetirement Target-Date Series, along with Rob Arnott of PIMCO All Asset (PAAIX) and PIMCO All Asset All Authority (PAUIX), David Giroux of T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation (PRWCX), and Jerome Clark of the T. Rowe Price Retirement Target-Date Series.
Also in early January, Morningstar named Merrill A. (Pete) Miller Jr., CEO of Houston-based National Oilwell Varco, as its 2012 CEO of the Year. The research firm says this award is meant to recognize a chief executive who "exhibits exemplary corporate stewardship, demonstrates independent thinking, creates lasting value for shareholders, and has put his or her stamp on an industry."
The two other nominees for the group's 2012 CEO of the Year award were George Paz of Express Scripts and J. Michael Pearson of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International.
"This year's nominees have been instrumental in transforming their companies from small players or those with few competitive advantages to leaders in their industries," said Paul Larson, chief equities strategist and editor of Morningstar StockInvestor. "We selected Miller, who has served as CEO of National Oilwell Varco since 2001, as our winner this year for the rare combination of excellence he's demonstrated across all three facets of a chief executive's job—strategic insights, capital allocation, and execution."
Johm Sullivan contributed to this report.


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The Brookside Christian boys basketball team found itself in a rare position Thursday, but battled back with a strong second half to remain unbeaten.
The Brookside Christian boys basketball team found itself in a rare position Thursday, but battled back with a strong second half to remain unbeaten.
The Knights trailed Ceres 31-30 at halftime, but a 21-7 burst in the third quarter paved the way for them in a win over the Bulldogs in the first round of the Central Valley Tournament in Ceres.
Kameron Vales made five 3-pointers and scored a game-high 20 points to lead Brookside Christian (11-0). Eric DeAnda scored 15 points for the Knights.
Harmon Chung scored a game-high 21 points for Ceres (6-6). Brookside Christian plays the winner of Thursday's late game between Cosumnes Oaks and Yuba City at 6 p.m. today.
At Sonora, the Timberwolves (7-3) led 32-13 at halftime and play Escalon at 3 p.m. today in the semifinals of the Columbia Holiday Tournament. Eric Melgar had 11 points for Sierra and Guillermo Nunez had 10. Ben Peterson had 16 points for the Falcons (9-6).
At Vacaville, Jagraj Shergil scored nine points for the Bobcats (4-3) in their first-round loss to Vacaville-Buckingham (7-3) at the Vacaville Christian Tournament. Ben Holt plays Forest Lake Christian at 3 p.m. today.
At San Diego, Gabe Vincent scored 22 points for the Rams (8-4) at the Under Armour Holiday Classic, a tournament hosted by five San Diego-area high schools. Pat Lugo scored 14 points for St. Mary's. Michael Searson had 14 points for San Diego-Rancho Bernardo (4-8).
At Yuba City, Adam Gotelli made five 3-point shots and scored a game-high 22 points to lead the Eagles (9-3) in the first round of the Faith Christian Tournament. John Lerma scored 16 points and David Lerma had 15 for Elliot Christian, which plays Stockton Christian at 4:30 p.m. today.
At Placerville, Morgan Walding scored 13 points for the Flames (2-8) in a first-round loss at the El Dorado Tournament. Lodi plays the host Cougars at 3:30 p.m. today. Melissa Doherty scored 18 points, and Carly Faustino and Alexis Mauck each scored 10 for the Buffaloes (2-4).
At Brentwood, the Vikings (6-7) lost in the first round of the West Coast Jamboree. Krista Buligon scored 12 points for Edison, which plays Modesto-Grace Davis at 2 p.m. today.
At Dublin, the Eagles (12-0) breezed in the first round of the West Coast Jamboree. Brittany Butler scored a game-high 22 points and had eight assists, and Mandy Coleman had 19 points, 15 rebounds and eight assists for McNair, which plays at 8 p.m. today.


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The Liebert CW precision cooling system by Emerson Network Power is a chilled water-based computer room air-handling unit available in upflow and downflow configurations with cooling capacities up to 400 kw. The system, which uses the building's chilled water supply as the cooling source, offers precision cooling and humidity control matched to the needs of data center equipment. The cooling system is in accordance with the International Building Code, California Building Code, and California's Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development for operation after the event with an importance factor of 1.5. The Liebert CW uses the Liebert iCOM control system that enables multiple control algorithms depending upon the type of sensors connected. Intelligent control capabilities give data center managers the ability to tune their cooling systems to dynamically adjust airflow patterns by controlling the speed of the electrically commutated plug fans to allow cooling unit capacities to adapt quickly to changing room conditions.
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This may date me and a bunch of others around TheO (mostly the MyO survivors I'd wager) But with seeing a few under-appreciated challenges out there, I reminisced about some wonderful series that were somewhat appreciated in their day, but not nearly enough. The old Toonami program that use to run on Cartoon Network was a big part of getting me into anime. So I present a challenge to commemorate said program.
I wasn't sure if Fan Art, Wallpaper, etc would be the best place for this challenge, but if there is a demand for it, I'll later redo this challenge in those categories (as I personally favor making a wallpaper over drawing a fan art XD)
The Challenge:
Since this is a fan art challenge, the challenge is to draw *nearly* anything from Toonami and in the description share a fond memory you have from Toonami.
Unlimited Entries!
Any medium!
It can be fan art from a series you watched on Toonami to your favorite Toonami host.
Non-anime like Thundercats or Teen Titans totally count!
You don't have to be 100% canon, if it's something Toonami inspired, like you wrote a fanfiction back then and decided to draw a scene from it for this challenge, that would count too!
Remember that Y7-FV/PG was the highest rating they went; let's keep it that way in the challenge.
A warning: Since animes like Naruto, Sailor Moon, and Pokemon are still popular (as in you're sure to find cosplayers and merchandise at even the smallest anime convention) and they have plenty of fan art on their own, any submissions for them will not be considered for prizes. You may still enter them however if they are a fond part of your memory of Toonami.
Up to Three Gold Medals will be awarded to the top submissions
Qualifying Fan Arts + Fond Memory in the description will get a Gift (you may specify if you'd like a specific one in your description, otherwise, I'll probably send the pencil, easel or brush)
Normally, I believe any effort is worth it and everyone who tries should get an A for effort, but that's not always possible. So this time around, I think I'll be a bit more biased than usual. But please don't let that discourage you from entering!
First and foremost, I'll be looking for shared memories. Older Toonami programs that I'm familiar with will be more likely for the top three. (I use to watch YuYu Hakusho, Kenshin, DragonBalls, Tenchi Muyo!, (original)Yu-Gi-Oh!, Teen Titans, Justice League, ThunderCats, Voltron, etc.)
Content that makes me go 'awwww' or 'oooh!' or laugh in a good way will be more likely for the top three as well.
Quality will come after content...so this challenge will give a chance those like me who aren't as good at drawing XD


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I was shocked with the Supreme Court's Decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act. My life has been a little bleak lately. This was very good news for someone like me today. I was diagnosed with a hard to treat, rarer form, of Multiple Sclerosis in April of 2009. In May 2012 I found out I had stage IIIc clear cell ovarian cancer. I am now eligible for Social Security because my illness is terminal but I can not get Medicare for two years which is longer than my projected life expectancy. Our insurance is very expensive but I could not afford the care I am getting without it.
I believe in the individual mandate. We often have to make tough decisions between gas, food, insurance premiums, and medical. We balance it some how. I recently had an extensive surgery to remove as much cancer as possible, had to have a port surgically installed the next day, had a six day hospital stay, and I go in for chemotherapy every three weeks. My out of pocket, even with the State Health Plan, is higher than we can afford. President Obama said it well when he said this is just the beginning we have a lot more to do to make the health care system more affordable. My friends are shocked to think hard working folks like my husband and I can lose everything over my medical bills but in America we still can. It is hard enough to face life or death with out having to worry about the cost of the care. I do not want free care I just want to be able to pay it off as I can with out losing everything we own.


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By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent
LONDON (Reuters) - Even those who survived the suspected chemical weapons attack in Damascus - and many hundreds didn't - may have life-long disabilities and health problems for which there are few effective treatments.
The death toll from the incident, the latest grisly episode in Syria's two-and-a-half-year civil war, could well rise in coming days as doctors and other health workers who suffered secondary exposure via the direct victims start to succumb to the agent's poison.
Antidotes and emergency treatments do exist for patients suffering the immediate effects of poisoning by a nerve agent - something many experts fear happened to the thousands killed in rebel-held areas of the Syrian capital on Wednesday.
But if no help comes within the first hour or so, the chances become slim that an antidote drug like atropine or oxime, or the sedative diazepam, will do much good.
"(Treatment) needs to be immediate. The damage is done very quickly," said Ray Zilinskas, a chemical and biological weapons expert at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in the United States.
"Longer term, the major risk is the result of significant restricted breathing," which could also lead to brain damage, said Alastair Hay, a professor of environmental toxicology and chemical weapons expert at Britain's Leeds University.
Nerve gases are the most potent and deadly of the known chemical agents. "They are rapidly lethal and are hazardous by any route of exposure," says Sharon Ruetter of the U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center in Maryland.
In a review of chemical weapons hazards in the Environmental Health Perspectives journal, Ruetter said it was theoretically possible to release nerve gases in high enough concentrations that "one breath would be incapacitating or deadly".
Nerve gases include tabun, soman and sarin - the agent experts think is most likely to have been used in Syria.
They interfere with transmissions between nerves, or between nerves and muscle cells, causing muscle weakness or paralysis, including paralysis of the diaphragm and heart. They also cause seizures, loss of body control, restricted breathing, sweating, profuse nasal and lung secretions and constricted pupils.
"With the number of casualties we've seen - the figures I'm seeing at the moment are up to 2,000 dead - and the sorts of symptoms, the rapidity of death ... the only plausible explanation is a chemical weapon," said Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, the former commander of the chemical, biological and nuclear counter-terrorism unit at Britain's defense ministry.
"If it is a chemical weapon, it's most likely to be a nerve agent - and we know that sarin has been used in the past in Syria. We know that Assad has very large stockpiles of sarin, and a delivery of sarin would create these kinds of casualties."
Hay said that from pictures and videos he'd seen, nasal and lung secretions - signs consistent with nerve gas poisoning - were "very evident in many of the victims".
Then there's the question of whether the antidote is available - and if so, in what quantities.
If the victims - whose writhing bodies and agonized faces shocked the world when Syrian activists published pictures and videos - did suffer a nerve agent attack, then atropine would be the treatment of choice.
A generic medicine, it is used in anesthesia as a premedication, in emergency situations or during surgery to make the heart beat faster, and to reverse the effects of poisons that make people hyper-salivate, or foam at the mouth.
Troops at risk of chemical weapons attacks often carry atropine auto-injectors to administer into thigh muscles.
Since it is a core medicine on the World Health Organization's "Essential Drugs List" - a list of minimum medical needs for any basic healthcare system - hospitals in Syria should have it, but may not have enough to treat a large number of people quickly.
"We have emergency (atropine) stockpiles here in the United States that could be accessed in a short time - and most industrialized countries would be the same," said Zilinskas.
In Syria, while most hospitals should have small amounts when they are functioning properly, the fear now is that supplies will be severely limited, and that any stockpiles are most likely to be held by the military.
"The question is how quickly would the military share? How quickly would they get it to victims?" said Zilinskas. "It doesn't do much good if it arrives two or three hours later."
(Reporting by Kate Kelland; Editing by Will Waterman)


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"In Vino Veritas" — When CSI Mac Taylor decides to surprise his girlfriend in Vegas, he discovers she's missing, and asks his friend D.B. Russell for help. Meanwhile, the CSIs investigate the loss of a local wine collector on part one of a two-part crossover with "CSI: NY," on "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," Wednesday, Feb. 6 (10 p.m.) on the CBS Television Network. Gary Sinise ("CSI: NY") guest stars as Mac Taylor.
"Seth and Apep" - Mac and the team partner with D.B. Russell to outsmart Christine's kidnappers before they run out of time to save her life, in the second part of a two-part crossover, on "CSI: NY," Friday, Feb. 8 (9 p.m.), on CBS. Ted Danson ("CSI:") guest stars as CSI D.B. Russell. Navid Negahban ("Homeland") guest stars as Zane Kalim, a criminal with information about Christine's whereabouts.


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Game of Thrones Mnemonics for Those Who Can't Remember the Character Names
Distinguish Bran from Bronn from Brienne.
Forget the giants and smoke demons and dragons (actually, never forget the dragons) — the main way you know Game of Thrones isn't set in our world is by the characters' names: There are no Daeneryses, Cerseis, and Theons in your kids' schools! (Well, not yet, anyway.) After two full seasons (and five books), these exotic names might seem like Danielle, Sally, and Phil to seasoned fans, but what of the struggling newbie? Sure, there are some normalish names like Robb and Catelyn that are easy to wrap your head around, but for every Jaime there are what seem to be 50 Melisandres. And then there are the similar names: Which one is Bran, and which is Brienne, and which is Bronn? So in our usual desire to help the world, we created mnemonics to help those still struggling to keep track of the show's more uniquely named characters (we felt you can remember ones like Jon Snow on your own — his name is Jon, he's in a snowy place). No more looking like an idiot when you confuse Talisa with Khaleesi.
Joffrey Lannister: For Joffrey think boff-free, as in Joffrey is such a terrible, asshole-ish, bratty young king that no one wants to boff him for free.
Cersei Lannister: Cersei like sirs-say. As the queen and most powerful female in Westeros, she commands many sirs to "Do as I say."
Tywin Lannister: The Lannisters' patriarch Tywin wins wars and totally would wear a tie if GoT were set in the present day.
Tyrion Lannister: Tyrion is played by Peter Dinklage. Never forget this.
Shae: Call her the "Shae Hey Kid" like the "Say Hey Kid" Willie Mays. Shae loving Tryion is like Mays in the outfield — she knows a catch when she sees one.
Bronn: A great warrior for hire, Bronn is paid not for his brains but his brawn.
Brienne: Brienne rhymes with mean men, as in Brienne is a female knight but she can kick the ass of all mean men.
Bran Stark: Bran wishes he had brand-new legs, because his don't work.
Arya Stark: Arya, sorry ya had to see your dad get beheaded and that you're on the run.
Sansa Stark: The red-haired, fair-skinned Sansa can't get a tan-sa even though she lives in sunny King's Landing.
Talisa Stark: Talisa kiss-a Robb Stark because they're married.
Theon Greyjoy: Theon was a peon in Winterfell, so his dad guilts him into trying to take it over instead of joining their army.
Lord Varys: Varys has no berries — like testicles, because he's a eunuch.
Lord Baelish: Baelish is like delish, which is short for delicious. Baelish finds whore-money delish but status even more Baelish-ous.
Melisandre: Melisandre rhymes with hellish ganja, which make sense since she's always preaching cryptic evil things and puffing smoke demons out of her vagina.
Stannis Baratheon: Stannis defeats man-kiss (his gay brother) by having him killed by Melisandre's smoke demon.
Gendry: Think send he, because as Gendry's father, King Robert Baratheon, had to send he away for being a bastard.
Daenerys Targaryen: Daenerys rhymes with duh-bear-is. Like duh-bear-is no match for Daenerys's dragons. (She's often referred to as Khaleesi, so just think call-me-see, as in call me when you see a dragon.)
Jorah Mormont: Daenerys's adviser/guard Jorah is kind of a bore-a compared to her dragons.
Mance Rayder: As king, Mance Rayder is the Darth Vader of Beyond the Wall.


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Thanks to creepy algorithmic autocomplete search capabilities, I was just allowed an enlightening glimpse into the top ten burning questions fellow pilgrims in the area have been posing to the All-Knowing, All-Seeing Oracle, Google.
How do I tell if...
my dog has a fever?
I have bed bugs?
my Mac is 64 bit?
I'm pregnant?
my phone is unlocked?
I'm ovulating?
a girl likes me?
a mango is ripe?
eggs are still good?
my Coach purse is real?


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Skip to comments.Jack Black, Jesus, and Prop 8
Posted on 12/05/2008 7:33:52 AM PST by dbz77
This week, the creative minds behind Hairspray, composer Marc Shaiman and director Adam Shankman, opened their Prop 8: The Musical with an all-star studded cast that includes Jack Black, Neil Patrick Harris and John C. Reilly at Sacramento Community College.
You can watch it here.
The point of the production is to shame the voting public for passing Proposition 8 a month ago, which simply defined marriage in California as between a man and a woman. The musical is clearly intended to spark more public outrage. No doubt, more protests, more storming of Mormon temples and Catholic churches and more vandalism against churches will follow. Beyond that, it is likely that more church services will be crashed by same-sex activistsall in the name of tolerance, love, and mutual understanding.
The strategy behind this shaming-of-the-public production is simple: lampoon the supporters of the constitutional amendment into embarrassment so that the next time same-sex marriage shows up on the ballot, theyll do the loving thing, and support it rather than reject it, which is the only one true path to social penance, cultural redemption and liberal forgivenessat least in the mind of the same-sex marriage crowd.
Whats new about all this is their overt play, albeit erroneously, of the Jesus card. Yes, even the No on 8 crowd can get religion.
At the pivotal moment of the musical, Jesus (played by Jack Black) confronts the Yes on 8 supporters for their belief that homosexuality is an abomination, and lifts a shrimp cocktail to them and says that Leviticus also says eating shellfish likewise is an abomination.
He then goes on to say the Bible also teaches that you can stone your wife, or sell your daughter into slavery, as evidence that you really cant trust everything the Bible teaches. Or, as in the language of that oft-repeated favorite locution from our skeptical friends, you cant take the Bible literally.
So much for the doctrine of inerrancy. I guess the Word made flesh really didnt mean everything He said in the Word. Maybe we should put our trust in a non-believer to divine the good words from the bad words, huh?
Before leaving, Jesus even goes on to affirm, of all things, the separation of church and state.
Now these are delightful challenges! As a teacher, I wish more students had the courage to ask them.
Here are a few answers:
The whole point of Leviticus and Deuteronomy was to teach Israel how to separate and become distinct from all they had learned while in Egyptian captivity. They are books of contrast and separation, distinctions and differences. For example, Egypt worshipped death, Israel was called to worship life. The Ten Commandments of Exodus 20 are instructions of how to become different. Holy items shall be sanctifiedliterally, set apartthat is, distinct from non-holy items. Jews themselves, and later Christians, are likewise to be set apart for God.
Men and women were created different and distinct, therefore their roles, behavior and even dress should not be confused as the Egyptians did (and many pagan cultures still do).
For example, Deuteronomy 22:11 says, You shall not wear a material mixed of wool and linen together. The whole reason being dont confuse plant and animal products, theyre different categories, remember that. Theres painful detail throughout the Bible pounding this meta-theme home.
God created different kinds of things, and we must honor His distinctions and not confuse them, for it is an abomination, exactly the very thing advocates for same-sex marriage are guilty of.
What about the shellfish? If you read the context of Leviticus 11:9-12, it too is talking about honoring distinctions. God is simply saying, in my paraphrase, Eat fish, dont eat bugs. Fish have fins and swim, bugs have legs and crawl. Even if you find things in the water that arent crawling, if they have legs, they can crawlso theyre bugs, dont eat them. Fish, good; sea-bugs, bad. Honor the distinction.
The Bibles statements prohibiting homosexual behavior are rooted in this need to recognize and honor the distinctionshere between men and women.
As far as the eating of shrimp, Jesus permits the eating of shellfish under what he says in Matthew 15:11: It is not what enters into the mouth that defiles the man, but what proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man. And Paul emphasized in Romans 14:14 that its all about personal conscience anyway.
As far as the stoning your wife and selling your daughter into slavery claims go, they too have a simple answer. In 1400 B.C., before the law was given to Moses by the hand of God at Mt. Sinai, no nation had any moral code that prohibited a man from killing his wife, wives, or children for any reason. Pagans sacrificed their children to Baal and Moloch, Israel would not. Pagans could kill their families, Israel would not. So, the Old Testament improved the extant moral order by requiring men to go before the elders before any child was to be stoned (Deuteronomy 21:19). And, in all of the rabbinic writings to my knowledge theres not one instance of the elders ever approving of a single stoning of a child.
Lastly, when you read the full context of Exodus 21:7-11, the selling your daughter into slavery slur, it too was an improvement over the ancient moral order. My paraphrase again, If you sell your daughter off to a man and he becomes unhappy with her, he must give you a chance to redeem her and buy her back, he may not sell her off to foreigners. And if the man bought her for his son, she must not be treated as a slave, but as a daughter. Like all the other teachings in the Old Testament, this was a big improvement over what was going on among the peoples around Israel.
Come to think of it, it still iswe still have honor killings of wayward daughters and wives today throughout the Muslim world.
Like Michelle Malkin, I too am waiting for the other Prop 8 musical to come out, as she says, the one with angry activists storming restaurants and Mormon temples, hectoring elderly people over their signs, and hounding donors large and small until they pay off their tormentors in the name of tolerance. Anyone?
Ill bet the Hairspray boys wont be doing that one any time soon.
I hope there are Sacramentoans who will get out and picket, yes picket in front of this play. Its time we stood up and fought back for what is RIGHT!
My wife swears that he's queer even though he appears with women. Maybe he's bi.
He sure acts gay.
I think he is married with a couple of kids.
Will someone ask the homosexual activists about Islam's treatment of homosexuals?
As much as I like Jack, I can't support him after this.
No, he is just friends with gays apparently.
What's their point wrt The Bible?
And since they are targeting Christians, did they read the New Testament which clarifies many of the gastronomical edicts in the Old Testament?
Perhaps we shouldn't be so strict on that "Thou Shalt Not Murder Part" either?
"Remove Jesus or I'll shoot!"
Whats their point wrt The Bible? And since they are targeting Christians, did they read the New Testament which clarifies many of the gastronomical edicts in the Old Testament? Perhaps we shouldnt be so strict on that Thou Shalt Not Murder Part either?I wonder why they have no criticism of the Holy Quran or Islam. I suspect that a higher proportion of Muslims voted for Prop. 8 than Christians.
I would like to know what the gay activists think about Islam's treatment of homosexuals too.
Everyday life for homosexuals has never been better than it is now, in the year 2008, in the western world. Yet their anger has boiled over because they can't call themselves married. And their anger is esp. great at a liberal state of California, which has given them virtually all marriage rights under its domestic partnership law. 40 states don't even have any legal recognition of homosexual couples at all. Yet their anger is directed at the state which has been a leader in their issues.
So the issue du jour is that gays are pissed off that they can't use the title marriage. They talk so much about hospital visits and property ownership, and they have all those rights in Calif. and a few other states now. Is their goal to have those rights, or is their goal that they have to be able to use the word "marriage"? I saw a lesbian female activist on TV complain that they spent $40 million opposing Prop. 8, and that there are so many other things they could have spent $40 million on. It was a waste for the gay community, in that, they already have those rights in Calif, just not the title.
Oh well. The Calif. Supreme Court might reinstate homosexual marriage. Then the 15% of the homosexual couples who actually want the title marriage will get married. The other 85% will just go about their lives, and their lives will be unchanged whether society calls homosexual couples married or not.
The more people complain about this video, the more people will seek it out & watch it. Don't give them any more undeserved publicity.
I remember when Doogie got you-know-what from Wanda. Who knew he was "gay" back then.
Jack Black and his wife just had child number 2, you don't have to be gay, to be a big, gay supporting, christian bashing a-hole.
Jack Black
Gee! I am really sorry about his participation. I have enjoyed Jack Black movies. Now, whenever I see his name I will associate him with virulent anti-Christianity.
I'm surprised Jack got involved in this.
On the other hand, the message about the Bible was exactly the same message Sorkin sent through his West Wing show.
They had religious conservatives pushing for the government to show consideration for their views (of course, they made the religious conservative far-right wackos who were requesting over-the-top stuff).
In the middle of it all, the President walks in, and asks the one woman religious nut about several parts of the old testament, shellfish and stuff.
It seems the shellfish canard is taught to all liberals.
There are mysteries in the Bible, but the food code isn't. I don't think it's as esoteric as this article makes it out to be. The things that were prohibited were foods that could often be poisonous or infected with bacteria. It made sense in a time before modern methods of preserving and cleansing that you avoid them.
It also did allow the Jewish nation to be set apart — they had some rules that made it clear they were different, like some of the Catholic dietary rules set aside days and time periods.
UNfortunatately for the homosexual community, the prohibition of gay sex acts was not just a law for the jewish state, nor did Jesus ever mitigate the prohibition — in fact he clearly spoke of marriage as being between a man and a woman.
Whenever a liberal or gay decides to argue on RELIGIOUS grounds, I ask them this simple question — if God really intended for gays to be a part of his church and to be accepted, why did God not put a single word about gay marriage being OK anywhere in the bible? Why did he not have ANYthing good to say about gay sex acts?
That usually gets them back to saying the bible isn't the word of God, so at least they stop pretending their religion is on their side.
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Drupal is used throughout the federal government, said Jessica Richmond, Acquia's senior director of government professional services. According to Acquia, 24 percent of all .gov websites use Drupal. The software is an important part of the Digital Government strategy, which is using it to help consolidate multiple platforms and websites, she said.
Another example is the Energy Department, which used Drupal to help consolidate a number of sites in 2011, saving some $10 million in the process, she said.
The New York State Senate is using Drupal in a number of areas, such as building its own mobile application. The application lets state residents access the senate's Web page and contact their representatives from their mobile devices, said Brian House, Acquia's vice president of marketing.
The New York state government then put the Drupal code out on the GitHub site, which allowed other state organizations to access and work with the data, he said.
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The Legatum Institute recently released the 2012 edition of its Prosperity Index for 142 of the world's nations. By ranking the nations on factors such as economy, education, health and personal freedoms, the Legatum Institute is able to assign a numberical ranking to each nation.
So, how does the United States rank? Although we did not rank number one in any category, there is some good news to be garnered from the report. The U.S. stayed near the top of the ranks in health, ranking number two (this was down from number one in 2011 and 2010, though). The best news, though, is the improvement seen in the rank the U.S. received in education. In 2010 we ranked nine; in 2011 we were 13. In 2012, the U.S. managed a rank of five.
Ready for the bad news? In almost every other indicator of prosperity that the Legatum Institute measures, the United States fell in its ranking. In economy, we fell to 20 (18 in 2011 and 14 in 2010). In entrepenuership & opportunity, we fell to 12 (5 in 2011 and 3 in 2010). In safety & security, the U.S. ranked 27 — our lowest score (26 in 2011 and 25 in 2010).
Overall, the United States walked away with a rank of 12. Some nations that scored higher than us include Norway (1), Australia (4), Canada (6) and Ireland (10). This is the first time the United States did not make the top 10 in the index.
Looking at the numbers, it is obvious that the economic downturn around the world has not had a proportional affect on all countries. Ireland is a great example of this. Although just a couple of years ago it was affectionally lumped among the PIIGS (Portugal (26), Ireland, Italy (33), Greece (49) and Spain (23)), it bit the austerity bullet and is beginning to see signiticant improvements.
Obviously there are a lot of factors that go into measuring prosperity. Equally obvious, the U.S. faces some tough decisions if we want to make it back into the top 10 next year.


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Thomas Gainsborough was considered by his peers to be one of the great masters of portraiture, and by historians to have shaped the English painting tradition. Gainsborough was taught originally by engraver Hubert Gravelot, and developed a mature style characterized by feathery brushwork and distinctly contemporary poses and dress. He was also a court favorite with King George III and a foundational member of the Royal Academy of Arts. In spite of high demand for his portraiture, Gainsborough dreamed of giving them up for landscapes—his true passion. Sir Joshua Reynolds, his reconciled lifelong rival, said in his eulogy of Gainsborough that, "If ever a nation should produce genius sufficient to acquire to us the honorable distinction of an English school, the name of Gainsborough will be transmitted to posterity."
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