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Feb. 12, 2010
As a freshman at UC Santa Barbara, Anne Marie May wasn't sure if she could successfully compete at the collegiate level. Maybe that's because she was playing the wrong sport.
May was originally recruited to play water polo at UCSB, but as a multi-sport athlete in high school with only limited experience in water polo, she was having a hard time jumping in at such a high level of competition. Then she decided to give swimming a try.
Four years of hard work later, May has become one of the best swimmers in the nation. In fact, she is currently ranked number one in the NCAA in the 50 meter freestyle.
She holds the UCSB and Big West records in the 50 freestyle and 100 freestyle, along with being part of the school and conference records in four out of the five relays.
In only a few years of training, May has realized her potential as a world class athlete. In 2008, she finished 14th in the 50 freestyle event at the Olympic Trials, racing alongside swimming legends like Dara Torres.
"It was probably the most fun I've ever had at a swim meet, and there were a ton of Gaucho representatives there to share the experience with me," May said.
May has worked closely with her teammates and coaches, especially sprinting coach Naya Higashijima. She credits the team atmosphere and mutual dedication as one of the strongest motivating factors.
"Everyone is working for everyone else," she said. "We have a saying, `Only Gauchos beat Gauchos.' Even though swimming is an individual sport, we really don't approach it that way in this program, which I think is one of the reasons we've been so successful."
May has not only led by example in the water, but she has shown extraordinary leadership outside the pool as well. On top of being co-captain of the team, the two-time NCAA All-American is also the Gauchos' Big West Female Scholar Athlete.
Head coach Gregg Wilson recognizes how lucky he has been to have such an incredible swimmer literally come out of the stands and develop into the dominant force that she is today.
"She's so sweet and so nice, until you have to swim next to her," Wilson said. "There are a lot of opposing coaches who will be glad to see her go."
2010 is May's last year as a Gaucho, and whether or not she continues to compete as a world class athlete, there is no shortage of supporters who know she will be successful in life.
Wilson added, "She's an excellent representative of our department, our campus, and our conference. Everyone who meets her realizes that."
Anne Marie May recently took the opportunity to answer some questions about herself.
1. What are you favorite things to do when you're not swimming?
"Hang out with my friends, spend time outside in the sun, cook, and watch food network."
2. If you were on a deserted island and could only bring three things what would they be?
"My mom, my iPhone, and water."
3. What is your favorite class you've taken at UCSB? Favorite Professor?
"My favorite classes have been anatomy of the musculoskeletal system, family communication, and care and prevention of athletic injuries. My favorite professor at UCSB is Jim Romeo, hands down! But I also really like Debra Lieberman, Michael Petracca, and Tammy Afifi."
4. If you were an animal what would you be?
"A mini-horse."
5. What is the best part about waking up in Santa Barbara every day?
"The fresh air and the sound of the ocean coming through my window."
6. Where is your favorite place to swim?
"Campus pool! But other than that, the pool that was set up for Olympic Trials at the Qwest center in Omaha was incredible."
7. What will you miss the most about life at UCSB after you graduate?
"Having all of my friends as neighbors and being able to see them every day."
8. If you could interview anyone, who would it be and what would you ask him/her?
"I would interview Dara Torres, and ask her how she has made so many comebacks and been so successful at every stage in her swimming career."
9. What is your favorite thing to do on an off day?
"Sleep in and relax."
10. What is your best memory at UCSB?
"Doing anything and everything with my best friends Betsy, Bobbie, and Mollie."
11. Who is your favorite musician/band?
"I love Rancid, Jay-Z, Incubus, Led Zeppelin, and Bob Marley, but I like pretty much all music."
12. Do you have any pre-race rituals?
"Not really, but I have to talk to Naya (my coach) no matter what... She has to talk me out of being too nervous or I can't survive!"
13. What is your favorite place to eat in Isla Vista?
"Trop brunch, if that counts..."
14. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
"Somewhere tropical and warm."
15. What are your plans after graduation?
"To work with people, maybe in hospitality, personal training and wellness, real estate, or marketing."
16. What is your favorite sport to watch other than swimming?
"Men's volleyball or basketball."
17. Who is your favorite author? Favorite books?
"Gabriel Garcia Marquez might be my favorite author... Love in the Time of Cholera is one of my top picks."
18. What is one thing about you that most people do not know?
"I took 7 years of Japanese from middle school through high school. I can still read and write it, and speak it a little bit."
19. Is there a motto that you live by?
"Pursue your ambition without inhibition."
20. In one word, how would you describe UCSB swimming?


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1991 Accounting Hall of Fame Induction
Daniel L. Jensen Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting Department of Accounting and Management
Information Systems College of Business, The Ohio State University
Among the most accomplished and respected accounting academicians in the world, he lists his recreations as "reading, writing and arithmetic". A voracious reader with a formidable vocabulary, he has even been known to study the dictionary. Possessed by a strong desire to see language used correctly, he studies the roots of words and their derivation. When he uses a word, you can be assured that it is the right word in the context. What other accounting professor uses the word "floccinaucini-hilipilification"1 ?
A very private person, he is devoted to his wife and their family — a son, two daughters, and seven grandchildren. He and his wife, Margaret, married for forty crowed years, share an interest in opera and usually have a season ticket for the Sydney opera season.
He is known as an effective administrator in part because he could not be bothered wasting time on it. He dealt only with things that mattered. He made the important decisions, left the running of programs to those most directly involved, and got back to his "real" work. Taking advantage of his open door policy, his colleagues could walk into his office at will to argue a point, seek clarification, or get help with a reference. He would be writing when they walked in, put down his pen immediately, and give them his full attention. When the discussion was over, and that was sometimes hours later, he would pick up his pen and just carry on writing as if he had not been interrupted. A mean debater, he never forced his ideas on his colleagues, al-though on occasion he would talk for hours in efforts to con-vince them of the correctness of his arguments.
In this intense and exciting atmosphere, he founded a jour-nal, Abacus, and forged with his colleagues a school of account-ing built on a belief in the primacy of market prices. Indeed, that school of thought usually bears his name. A critic in the
1The habit of treating things as trivial, as of no account.

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A tissue box that you can drive seems stupid at first, but it could be a hot product given our current state of hysteria over germs. I say quarantine the sick and deploy RC vehicles to handle it.
You can already deliver tissues, so all you need is an RC Cooler for drinks and a RC Ramen cart for soup. If this isn't enough to calm your fears about possible contamination, there are always more extreme methods you can employ. [Rakuten via Crunchgear]


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It actualy started before September 2005, way back in October 2000. Back then it was subpar and focused on inside jokes, not acceptable or entertaining, so I rebooted the series five years later into its modern version. If you haven't already go to http://redcity.comicgenesis.com/ to see my new comic, as I'm not quite done yet. In fact, I'm only begining.
Also, I'd like to hear your thoughts. Did you enjoy the run? Are you dissapointed that it ran its course? Have you muttered "good riddance"?


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With the ultimate goal to discover a drug that one day treats alcoholism, a University of Houston (UH) pharmacy professor is working on pinpointing the mechanisms in the brain that respond to alcohol.
Joydip Das, a medicinal chemist and pharmacologist in the UH College of Pharmacy, received a three-year, $450,000 grant this year from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In the end, his team hopes their research will help lead them to a way to prevent people from drinking in excess.
"Defining targets and elucidating the molecular mechanism of their actions is needed for effective intervention," Das said. "Once we understand the target, then we design drugs based on that target."
More specifically, Das explained that addictions are related to the brain, with protein kinase C (PKC) - particularly of the PKCε subtype - being mainly expressed in the brain and playing a key role in this process. Previous observations have indicated as much as a 75 percent reduction of alcohol drinking in mice using knockout technology, demonstrating that knocking out the PKCε protein cuts desire.
He says that it's difficult to pinpoint where alcohol acts and what its target is, so his team's objective is to find the target and then determine how it interacts with ion channels to affect the addiction.
"We're looking at the significance of the interaction between the alcohol molecule and PKCε protein. How the alcohol molecule binds with the target is the key," Das said. "This binding has implications in addiction, so our intent is to design drugs to curb the desire for more than a small amount of alcohol so that people stay away from excessive drinking."
Trained at MIT and having worked in the anesthesia department at Massachusetts General Hospital, Das has a particular interest in this area, saying that alcohol also is an anesthetic, with PKCε being one of its many targets.
"Our focus is brain chemistry. In our study, we have seen that PKCε and alcohol interacts and have pinpointed the binding side," he said. "Now, we must determine the molecular mechanism of the interaction. To do so, we are looking at how those two interact in the neuronal cells, which are the impulse-conducting cells in the brain."
The group's next steps will be to progress to animal trials with the mouse model and then ultimately to clinical trials with humans. Working with Das on this project are postdoctoral fellow Satyabrata Pany and undergraduate student Khoi Ly.
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It is pancake month, and there is nothing I enjoy more then a fluffy fried dough smothered in maple syrup!
This is a as simple as it gets for recipes, mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt together, pour in milk (with a splash of apple cider vinegar) and a little oil.
I like to add bananas, I am a Jack Johnson fan, so its always nice to listen to the banana pancake song while you make'm.
The little fork in the picture is my kido climbing on the chair, and making her way up to the table, ready for breakfast.
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It seems like these days I can't eat breakfast without reading about some new encryption app that will supposedly revolutionise our communications — while making tyrannical regimes fall like cheap confetti. This is exciting stuff, and I want to believe. After all, I've spent a lot of my professional life working on crypto, and it's nice to imagine that people are actually going to start usingit. At the same time, I worry that too much hype can be a bad thing — and could even get people killed.
Given what's at stake, it seems worthwhile to sit down and look carefully at some of these new tools. How solid are they? What makes them different/better than what came before? And most importantly: should you trust them with your life?
To take a crack at answering these questions, I'm going to look at four apps that seem to be getting a lot of press in this area. In no particular order, these areCryptocat, Silent Circle, RedPhone and Wickr.
A couple of notes...
Before we get to the details, a few stipulations. First, the apps we'll talk about here are hardly the only apps that use encryption. In fact, these days almost everyone advertises some form of 'end-to-end encryption' for your data. This has even gottenSkype and Blackberry into a bit of hot water with foreign governments.
However — and this is a critical point — 'end-to-end encryption' is rapidly becoming the most useless term in the security lexicon. That's because actually encrypting stuff is not the interesting part. The real challenge turns out to be distributing users'encryption keyssecurely, that is, without relying on a trusted, central service.
The problem here is simple: if I can compromise such a service, then I can convince you to use my encryption key instead of your intended recipient's. In this scenario — known as aMan in the Middle(MITM)attack — all the encryption in the world won't help you.
And this is where most 'end-to-end' commercial services (like Skype and iMessage) seem to fall down. Clients depend fundamentally on a central directly server to obtain their encryption keys. This works fine if the server really is trustworthy, but it's huge problem if the server is ever compromised — or forced to engage in Man-In-The-Middle attacks by a nosy government.
An even worse variant of this attack comes from services that actually store your secret keys for you. In this case you'retruly dependent on their good behaviour.*
One important feature of the 'new' encryption apps is that they recognise this concern. That is, they don't require you to trust the service. A few even point this out in their marketing material, and have included their own dishonesty into the threat model.
Cryptocat is an IM application developed by Nadim Kobeissi, who — when he's not busy beingharassed by government officials — manages to put out out a very useable app. What truly distinguishes Cryptocat is its platform: it's designed to run as a plugin inside of a web browser (Safari, Chrome and Firefox).
Living in a browser is Cryptocat's greatest strength and greatest weakness. It's a strength because (1) just about everyone has a browser, (2) the user interface is pretty and intuitive, and(3) the installation process is trivial. Cryptocat's impressive user base testifies to the demand for such an application.
The weakness is thatit runs in a goddamn web browser.
To put a finer point on it: web browsers are some of the most complex software packages you can run on a consumer device. They do eight million things, most of which require them to process arbitrary and untrusted data. Running security-critical code in a browser is like having surgery in a hospital that doubles as a sardine cannery and sewage-treatment plant — maybe it's fine, but you should be aware of the risk you're taking.
If that's not good enough for you: go check out this year's pwn2own results.
For non-group messaging, Cryptocat uses a protocol known as off-the-record (OTR) and ships the encrypted data over Jabber/XMPP — using either Cryptocat's own server, or the XMPP server of your choice. OTR is a well-studied protocol that does a form of dynamic key agreement, which means that two parties who have never previously spoken can quickly agree on a cryptographic key. To ensure that your key is valid (i.e., you're not being tricked by a MITM attacker), Cryptocat presents users with a key fingerprint they can manually verify through a separate (voice) connection.
So how does Cryptocat stack up?
Code quality: Nadim has taken an enormous amount of crap from people over the past year or two, and the result has been a consistent and notable improvement in Cryptocat's code quality. While Cryptocat is written in Javascript (aaggh!), the application is distributed as a plugin and not dumped out to you like typical script. This negates some of the most serious complaints people level at Javascript crypto, but not all of them! Cryptocat has also been subject to a couple of commercial code audits.
• Crypto: All of the protocols are well-studied and designed by experts. Jake Appelbaum reminds me that while this is true for one-on-one communications, it's not true forthe multi-party (group chat) OTR protocol — which is basically hand-rolled. Don't use that.
• Ease of use: My five year old can use Cryptocat.
• Other notes: If the silent auto-update functionality is activated (in Chrome) it is technically possible for someone to compromise Cryptocat's update keys and quietly push out a malicious version of the app. This concern probably applies to most applications, but it is something you should be aware of.
• Should I use it to fight an oppressive regime? Oh, God no.
Silent Circle
Silent Circle is the brainchild of PGP inventor Phil Zimmerman and a cadre of smart/paranoid folks. It actually consists of multiple apps, supporting VoIP/IM/PGP-based email and videoconferencing — with an optional Snapchat-like self-destructing messages feature. The apps can essentially replace the standard Phone and Messages apps in your iPhone or Android device.
Silent Circle is a paid subscription service, which means it's marketed to folks who (in theory, anyway) really care about their security, but also don't want to scrounge around with messy open-source software — for example, journalists working in dangerous locations or business executives running overseas operations. In exchange for $US240/year you get the ability to securely call other SilentCircle subscribers andto dial ordinary telephone (POTS) numbers.
The termination to POTS is SilentCircle's best feature, and also its biggest concern. When you directly call another SilentCircle user, your connection is encrypted from your phone to theirs. When you dial a normal phone line, your connection will only be encrypted until it reaches SilentCircle's servers. From there it will travel on normal, tappable phone lines.
Now mostusers will probably understand this, and SilentCircle certainly does its best to make sure people do. Still, most users aren't experts, and it's easy to imagine a typical user getting confused — and possibly assuming they're safer than they actually are.
SilentCircle uses ZRTP (and a variant called SCIMP) to generate the keys used in communications. It doesn't require you to trust a central directory server, or to send your keys outside of the device. Your protection against MITM comes from two features: (1) the app presents a 'short authentication string' that users can verbally compare before they communicate, and (2) after you've successfully communicated the first time, it caches a "secret" that can be used to protect future sessions.
• Overall code quality: It took a while for SilentCircle to publish their code, but they've finally put most of it online. It's much less fun to look at SilentCircle than it is to poke at Cryptocat — mostly because Nadim's reactions are more entertaining — but the code for SilentCircle looks OK.(I've seen a couple of minor comments, but nobody's found any security issues. Moreover, the app has been independently audited and given a clean bill of health.
• Crypto: SilentCircle usesZRTP, which I dislike because it's so complex — it's like a choose-your-own-adventure by sadists. But ZRTP is old and well-studied so it's unlikely that there are any serious issues lurking in it. The messaging app uses a simplified variant called SCIMP (Silent Circle Instant Messaging Protocol) which seems much better, since it ditches most of the crazy options I dislike about ZRTP. I'm pretty confident that both of these protocols work just fine.
• Ease of use: To quote SilentCircle's PR: so simple even an MBA can use it. No, I'm kidding, they don't say that. They justthink it.
• Other thoughts: rumour has it that the current market price for an iOS vulnerability is currently near $US500,000. That doesn't mean iOS (or Silent Circle's app) is bulletproof. But it should give you a little bit of confidence. If you're being targeted with an iOS software vulnerability, then someone really wants you.
• Should I use this to fight my oppressive regime? SilentCircle's founders have made it clear that they'll chew off their own legs before they allow themselves to be a party to eavesdropping on their clients. But even so — I would still have to think on this for a while.
RedPhone and TextSecure are developed by Moxie Marlinspike's Open Whisper Systems. Note that OWS is actually Moxie's second company — the original Whisper Systems was purchased by Twitter a couple of years back — not for the software, mind you; just to get hold of Moxie for a while.
RedPhone does a much of what SilentCircle does, though without the paid subscription and termination to POTS. In fact, I'm not quite sure if you canterminate it to POTS (I'll update if I find out).
Like Silent Circle, RedPhone uses ZRTP to establish keys, then encrypts voice data using AES. Consequently, most of what I said for SilentCircle also applies here, including the use of a short authentication string to prevent MITM attacks.
• Overall code quality: After reading Moxie's RedPhone code the first time, I literally discovered a line of drool running down my face. It's really nice. In fact, it was so nice that I decided to rough it up a little. I assigned it to the grad students in my Practical Crypto course — assuming that they'd find something, anything to take the shine off of it. Unfortunately they basically failed on this score (though see 'Other thoughts' below). In short: it's very well written.
• Crypto: Most of what I said about Silent Circle applies here, except that RedPhone uses only ZRTP, not SCIMP. However, RedPhone's implementation of ZRTP is somewhat simplified and avoids most of the options that make ZRTP a pain to deal with.
• Other thoughts:In fairness to my students, they did point out that Redphonedoes not retain a cache of secrets from connection to connection. Technically this is an optional feature of ZRTP, so it's not wrong to omit it. However, it means that you have to verify the authentication string on every single call. Moxie is working on this, so it may change in the future.
• Should I use this to fight my oppressive regime?Oh look, a pony!
Wickr is an encrypted Snapchat-like app for the iPhone. Like the above applications it provides for instant messaging, but it also focuses heavily on the message destruction feature. Chats/messages can be set to self-destruct after a pre-specified period of time.
I've included Wickr on this list because I've seen it mentioned in a handful of respectable media outlets over the past few months. This means that people are either using Wickr, or that Wickr has very good PR folks. I also included it because it was at least partially designed by Dan Kaminsky, who generally knows his stuff.
Unfortunately I can't say too much about Wickr because — to date — there's virtually no technical information available on it. Not even a white paper! However, based on Tweets with Dan and this short post on the LiberationTech mailing list, I believe that Wickr uses a centralised directory server to share keys. In theory this could be ok if it provided a mechanism to compare key fingerprints between users, and/or detect invalid keys. But currently this does not seem to be the case.
As for the destruction of secrets, well, this does seem like a nice idea, particularly if the destruction is enforced cryptographically. Unfortunately this is a fundamentally hard problem to solve correctly: if I can get a copy of your phone's memory while the message is there, I can keep the message forever.
• Overall code quality: Who knows.
• Crypto: Current versions use some kind of RSA-based key agreement. According to Dan, the next generation will use elliptic curve crypto with perfect forward secrecy. But the real horses head is the (apparent) reliance on a central directory server, which makes the service much more vulnerable to MITM.
• Ease of use: Very easy. Just set your message expiration date, key in the destruct time, and send away.
• Should I use this to fight my oppressive regime? Yes, as long your fight consists of sending naughty self-portraits to your comrades-at-arms. Otherwise, probably not.
If you've made it this far, I'm guessing you still have one burning question. Namely:What app should I use if I'm trying to overthrow my government?
The simple answer is that I just don't know. It's not an easy question.
Each of the above apps seem quite good, cryptographically speaking. But that's not the problem. The real issue is that they each run on a vulnerable, networked platform. If I really had to trust my life to a piece of software, I would probably use something much less flashy — GnuPG, maybe,running on an isolated computer locked in a basement.
Then I would probably stay locked in the basement with it.
But not everyone is a coward like me.
The widespread availability of smartphones has already changed the way people interact with their government. These encryption apps could well be the first wave in an entirely new revolution — one that makes truly private communication a reality.
* Some services actually know and store your private keys, while others operate as a Certificate Authority, allowing you to 'certify' new public keys under your name. Either of these models makes eavesdropping relatively easy for someone with access to the server.


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From GnomeKeyring:
- GNOME Keyring is a collection of components in GNOME that store secrets, passwords, keys, certificates and make them available to applications.
If you're using GNOME, gnome-keyring got installed automatically as a part of it. If you're using a different setup, install gnome-keyring from the official repositories.
Manage using GUI
# pacman -S seahorse
It is possible to leave the GNOME keyring password blank or change it. In seahorse, in the "View" dropdown, select "By Keyring". On the Passwords tab, right click on "Passwords: login" and pick "Change password." Enter the old password and leave empty the new password. You will be warned about using unencrypted storage; continue by pushing "Use Unsafe Storage."
Use Without GNOME
It is possible to use GNOME Keyring without the rest of the GNOME desktop. To do this, add the following to your
~/.xinitrc file:
# Start a D-Bus session source /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/30-dbus # Start GNOME Keyring eval $(/usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --start --components=gpg,pkcs11,secrets,ssh) # You probably need to do this too: export GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL GNOME_KEYRING_PID GPG_AGENT_INFO SSH_AUTH_SOCK
See FS#13986 for more info.
If you experience problems retrieving information from the keyring, make sure that the variables "DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" and "DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID" are exported in the target environment.
Instructions on how to use GNOME Keyring in Xfce are in the SSH Agents section on that page.
SSH Keys
To add your SSH key:
$ ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_dsa Enter passphrase for /home/mith/.ssh/id_dsa:
To list automatically loaded keys:
$ ssh-add -L
To disable all keys;
$ ssh-add -D
Now when you connect to a server, the key will be found and a dialog will popup asking you for the passphrase. It has an option to automatically unlock the key when you login. If you check this you will not need to enter your passphrase again!
Integration with applications
Gnome Keyring dialog and SSH
Run in a terminal, the following:
$ gnome-keyring-daemon -s
Output will get a few lines, but in reality we are interested,
SSH_AUTH_SOCK, example:
GNOME_KEYRING_C................. SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring-XXXXXX/ssh GPG_AGENT_INF...................
Now you should add to your
~/.bashrc, according to the output of the previous command, for example:
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=`ss -xl | grep -o '/run/user/1000/keyring-.*/ssh'` [ -z "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ] || export SSH_AUTH_SOCK
If you run on your terminal the following:
$ echo $SSH_AUTH_SOCK
will return something like the following:
Now when you connect with ssh, gnome-keyring dialog will launch the "entry of the passphrase"
Gnome Keyring and Git
The Gnome keyring is useful in use with Git when you are pushing over https. First compile the helper
$ cd /usr/share/git/credential/gnome-keyring # make
Set Git up to use the helper
$ git config --global credential.helper /usr/share/git/credential/gnome-keyring/git-credential-gnome-keyring
Next time you do a git push, you'll be asked to unlock your keyring
Unlock at Startup
GNOME's login manager (gdm) will automatically unlock the keyring once you log in; for others it is not so easy.
For SLiM, see SLiM#SLiM_and_Gnome_Keyring; For KDM see KDM#KDM_and_Gnome-keyring
If you are using automatic login, then you can disable the keyring manager by setting a blank password on the login keyring. Note: your passwords will be stored unencrypted if you do this.
If you use console based login, automatic unlocking of the keyring can be achieved by the following changes in
auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so at the end of the
auth section and
session optional pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start at the end of the
session section. The result should look similar to this:
#%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_securetty.so auth requisite pam_nologin.so auth include system-local-login auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so account include system-local-login session include system-local-login session optional pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start
Next, add
password optional pam_gnome_keyring.so to the end of
/etc/pam.d/passwd. The file should look somewhat like this:
#%PAM-1.0 #password required pam_cracklib.so difok=2 minlen=8 dcredit=2 ocredit=2 retry=3 #password required pam_unix.so sha512 shadow use_authtok password required pam_unix.so sha512 shadow nullok password optional pam_gnome_keyring.so
Useful Tools
gnome-keyring-queryAUR from the AUR provides a simple command-line tool for querying passwords from the password store of the GNOME Keyring.


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2011 Ends with a Whimper
2011 is coming to an end. Mercifully.
The Orioles are quiet. Maddeningly.
Of course the Orioles have made some decent depth-building moves. Wada, Endy Chavez, Antonelli; all of them soild moves. But there has been nothing done for Orioles fans to sink their teeth into. There has been nothing done to generate any sort of excitement. Of course, for some, anything short of signing Prince Fielder will mean this offseason will be a crushing failure.
I would love to have Prince Fielder on this team, love it. I don't think there is a fan who would noit want Fielder in orange and black in 2012 but I am not going to fool myself and say that anything less is a "bad" offseason. Far from it, the Orioles offense has the cahnce to be fairly competitive as it stands.
It's true! Believe it or not the Orioles were fourth in the American League in homers. The O's hit 191 homers last year just behind the power-happy Rangers (201) and Red Sox (210). In fact the Orioles had an offense that was rated at 100 OPS+ putting it right in the middle of the AL, what would have made it much more above average was a higher OBP. The O's had a well-below average OBP last year, and that short-circuited the run-scoring ability of a suprising strong, if not potent, power attack. The Orioles reached base at a .316 clip last year, league average was .326 and the Red Sox led the league with .349. All of this adds up to a team that was able to put together a competitive offense even with bad years from Markakis, Vlad, Lee; slow starts from Wieters and Reynolds and virtually no contribution from Brian Roberts.
What the Orioles need is pitching, and a lot of it. Though I have not given up on Brian Matusz, Jake Arrieta and Zack Britton. Matusz' year was the worst thing that could have possibly happened to him - but I think he bounces back. At this time last year everyone in Birdland was giddy with the thought of those three in the rotation. Matusz was the early pick to be the Rookie of the Year this time last year, the talent is still there. The question is can he harness it? Britton should get better, I expect Arrieta to at least maintain. Then you have Jeremy Guthrie and Tommy Hunter. There is no reason to think that these guys shouldn't be at least what they were last year.


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Response To Responses To All The Bad Things In Indie Film/
It's nice to get people talking and thinking. Even better when you get them acting. My post this morning has been doing a bit of it all. Thanks for spreading. And joining in. I like this thread that started by Lindy Boustedt on Facebook. I like their ideas and energy and want to help.
I like Ann Rutledge's response to it too, and look forward to taking her up on her offer to help solve the capital problem.
I got this email from Sheri Candler and am responding with the color text below. Sheri's numbering are hers, and don't apply directly to my points.
I am writing this to you when I really should be working on other things. Some of those other things I get paid to do, and some I do because I hope in the future it will lead to getting paid or getting paid more money. This is kind of the way I see "opportunity," it is something you make or something you grab, not something you are waiting to be given. We all have to work for our opportunities, but they don't exist equally for everyone. I have benefited greatly by being white, male, middle class, english-speaking, and having had a good education. I was also fortunate to arrive in New York when I did. True, we can't wait; we must act. But it will never improve unless we accept that we also have to work towards justice and equal access.
Whatever "success" I have had in the last 3 years since I started really forging into this space, it is only the result of work I have taken upon myself to do. No one gave me opportunity to start. I started with a blank sheet of paper and an internet connection. I suspect that is the case with anyone in this space who has real commitment to stick around. There is no "job" here, the job is what you make it. I almost agree with this. I know the story as very true -- but there also COULD be many jobs here, and I am confident there will be once we recognize the value of the add.
I read your post today on the Really Bad Things in the Indie Film Biz and it isn't the first time you have raised these concerns in some way. I was at the exclusive meeting during IFP Week where you complained about the lack of the investor class (I would not characterize it as "complaining" and actually the focus that day was the inability for filmmakers to earn a living and how that SHOULD be everyone's concern who wants both a thriving business and culture) and I was dismayed that those in attendance mainly seemed to represent the old guard of people who are interested in figuring out how they can keep doing what they are doing, even praise it, rather than constructively sit down and think way outside of their comfort zones that have sustained them over the last 15-20 years (for some). They are, as most people are, not concerned about leading a true change for other people. They are concerned mostly for what is happening only for themselves and their companies. It is understandable of course. This is why more of them do not exist in the non profit space. They don't really want to change, they certainly don't want to lead it! You are a different breed and I commend you for that, even when your posts are tinged with wanting to keep doing what you were doing (I love telling stories, getting them made, and impacting the world -- and I think it is my greatest talent, but also that I could improve things for everyone if I shifted my focus to infrastructure).. You can't anymore, you can only do something different. (I could, I think. I would need to lower my overhead substantially and not live in NYC or SF -- and still have access to a creative community and capital. It's what I am still planning for the next chapter.)
I will take on most of your points with my thoughts. You can throw this away if you want. Or not read it because it is rather lengthy. (I am choosing to print them!)
1)Earning a living simply by making movies is not reality now. More revenue streams will be needed. Teaching, blogging and selling advertising space on that blog, creating more products around your visual work, partnering with organizations to distribute that work and partnering as an affiliate for other businesses will be your way forward. It will be a hell of a lot more work. So? That is a path that is available to some. It is not for all. I think people can earn a living solely by creating media, whether they distribute it directly or license it to larger corporate powers, but it is still a shift from a single product produced again and again to one where we engage in a much wider conversation and via a wider variety of form.
2)People break ranks on accepting sub par (or not what they envisioned) distribution offers every day. You just don't hear about these projects because they aren't being feted at awards ceremonies (which incidentally costs tons more money to politic/curry favor) or pulled up as glamorous examples by the media who only want to show the illusion of massive success. Those who break ranks trade that in for modest success that grows from spending very conservatively and locking in on an audience that isn't mainstream, in fact so far from mainstream that if you aren't part of that audience, you wouldn't know the work. This isn't a bad thing, it just isn't glamorous. The time involved in building just that audience is so much that most in this space wouldn't touch it, but once built it can flourish far longer than these "massive success" stories. I am really excited by this model. It is essentially what I meant by Truly Free Film. We are not dependent on the mass market anymore. We can get hyper-specific. The missing piece however is community. Building a Facebook page or a Twitter feed is not community. We need to build community around specific themes and genres. HOWEVER: the point I was trying to make is that 10% of negative cost is not worth turning over your film to another for an extended term. You can use that film to build an audience/community that is yours and not surrender it to 3rd parties. At 10% what should be being offered is a partnership at the very least.
3)I am not sure art films are dead, they just aren't mainstream and they will take far more effort to actually connect with an audience personally than most artists/sales agents/distributors are willing to do. Very true. But we can all work together to build a community, can't we? My whole post is a plea to abandon the everyone for themselves mode that infects the indie world and culture in general. We can build it better TOGETHER.
4)Which is it? Reviews don't mean much or we should have reviewers covering releases other than theatrical? I can't understand your point. Mass media reviewers make it easier to reach the mass, but individual people reviews actually make people want to see the films. For myself, I must hear good things about a film from many different sources and it still needs to be on a platform that I can access immediately, usually that is online and not films in a theater. It's not one vs. the other. Both are true and more. The point here is that we all lack trusted sources for discoveries now. Going to an individual we are close to for a recommendation is a complicated process that doesn't promise the response one wants. Different platforms have different attributes and deliver different experiences, too. We have yet to design a recommendation engine that truly works for this connected world of media abundance; we are stuck in an old world model.
5)Women directors need to get up and do it for themselves. Women in general have had to do this for everything we've ever received and, while I find it admirable that you raise this issue, it needs to come from within our own ranks. I feel like most women directors do not champion other women. Indeed, look at how many other female producers/directs even both to write a blog as you do to examine this issue. They are too focused on trying to steer their own careers. We need to stop focusing on pleasing outside entities, do more to make our own opportunities and push ourselves to work with other women. Same for minorities. I respectfully disagree. It is all our issue. Rape is not a women's issue. Same Sex Marriage is not a gay issue. Racism is not an issue for non-whites. The price of education in America is not a youth or class issue. These are all issues for us all. They destroy society and we all suffer for it.
6)I can't speak from a position of authority on tax credits, but the articles I did recently read raise legitimate concerns on the usefulness of such programs on a state level. Filmmakers of course look myopically at how those incentives help their own productions, but should that come at the expense of spending state workers' pension funds? Those are people too you know and maybe they don't want their retirement money spent to help the film industry make bazillions while leaving their state with few of the promised jobs, and most of those just temporary work. It is not an understatement to say that the film industry is ego centric, arrogant enough to only see the benefit for themselves with little concern over where that money comes from. I found those articles insightful and worth investigating what tax incentives REALLY do for industry, every industry not just the film industry. I agree we all need better understanding of this. It is a complicated issue. Yet as a producer I know that particularly these days we need to make our decisions based on cost. I also know that the money I spend for my production is a small fraction of the money my productions cause to get spend. And I know that the film industry will always travel to where the best deal is. Granted, we don't want a race to the bottom and it is not easy to determine the best method, but I do know that attracting regular and consistent motion picture work to a region will bring in predictable revenue beyond what comes from the production.
7)If we are agreed that people are going to the cinema less and less, then why are filmmakers still being encouraged to keep making cinematic films? The organization you work for seems to insist on this by even holding a festival, every film school or lab program persists teaching filmmaking this way. The VPF will be moot when few cinemas even exist anymore. More work will be needed to break away from this mold. It will ultimately be done when the data more than overwhelmingly supports that the cinematic viewing of film is dead. I am not one to throw the baby out with the bathwater. I love the cinema experience. I don't think it will ever leave us. But it could lose it's pop status and fall into an elite pastime like other cultural strands. Further, festivals (most of them) are community events that the community supports. Not every festival is a market or industry event. I look forward bringing the SFFS to fully embrace the broadest definition of cinema regardless of form, delivery, subject, style, presentation or any other aspect.
8)I agree that harvesting data will be our best shot at survival and The Film Collaborative has been tracking as much data as we can legally get to look at the real winners (apart from the seemingly winning) films from last year's Sundance. Sundance is our barometer because it is still widely accepted as the premiere place to find indie talent. It has not been easy to gather this data and we have so much of it that it isn't even easy to figure out how to present it in a coherent way. Why do we do this? No one paid us to do it? We do it because we do want survival for as many as possible and that can't happen if we don't pull together and share. The effort will ultimately be worth it even if the data doesn't support long held beliefs. Here, here! More power to you and the Film Collaborative. How do we all work together????
9)I don't view the digital transition period as a disaster. It is only disasterous for those who can't change. Many will perish in this space (as they always do whenever evolution happens), but many more will rise up to take their place. It is simply change, not disaster. I think you are confusing my points here -- or did I make confusing points? My point #14 was about preservation of digital media.
10) I firmly believe the investor class will be in microfinancing, not investment funds. It will come from crowdfunding basically. I personally have trouble believing that the motivations that come from arts donors we have previously found to support crowdfunding will be compatible with the mindset of an investor intent on a financial return, but we'll see. Perhaps they will mix nicely just as people donate to the arts AND have personal stock investments. We should have more conferences for those who are interested in learning more about micro investment instead of only focusing on big money investment. The key though is emotional connection to those investors which we haven't seen before in the investment sector. I can't think of any investment company mindset that started from really knowing what their investors deeply care about and steering projects their way. It has always been the money and that's all. I think people in this space want to show their support and care with their money, not just make some more. I think it will be more diversified than just
crowd financing. I think there are always those with large capital that want to do both good and well. I hope that the threat that art film is under will mobilize some of that capital. Organizations like SFFS are supported heavily by folks with high net worth, yet they too want film culture to be accessible for all. We will have more diversified film culture when we all work to make sure that both creators and their supporters benefit directly from the work they create. We need more money to flow in both directions, instead of just into the buckets that established themselves decades ago.
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - Washington state, which is moving forward on allowing stores to sell pot for recreational use, will require child-resistant packaging on marijuana products and prohibit images that could appeal to minors, Governor Jay Inslee said on Tuesday.
The Democratic governor and other officials, speaking at a news conference in the state capital of Olympia two weeks ahead of the opening of the state's first marijuana stores, said their primary goal is to keep the drug away from those under age 21.
Voters in Washington state and Colorado in 2012 became the first in the nation to legalize recreational marijuana at the state level, and Colorado has allowed sales of the drug at retail stores for adult consumers age 21 and older since the beginning of the year.
The drug is still banned under federal law, but officials with the U.S. Department of Justice say they will not interfere with states' efforts to regulate and tax it, provided state officials are able to meet a minimum set of requirements that include keeping it away from children.
"If we fail to act, this effort to legalize recreational marijuana could be in some doubt," Inslee said.
"And I know those who have led the effort to legalize this product understand that we've got to make sure that parents' roles are respected and emphasized and that the health of our children is of our paramount concern," he said.
To protect children, the state will not allow cartoons on packaging or toys to be sold with the drug, Inslee said.
The state also will require businesses to clearly label their products, divide them into easily identifiable servings with details on how much high-inducing THC is contained and have their products tested by an accredited private lab to screen for such hazards as pesticides and mold, officials said.
The Washington state Liquor Control Board on July 7 will issue licenses to roughly 20 marijuana retail stores, said Sharon Foster, chairwoman of the state Liquor Control Board. They can open the next day if they have product on hand.
None of those stores will immediately sell edible products because no processor has obtained a license for a cannabis kitchen, said Liquor Control Board spokesman Brian Smith.
State regulators were prepared to license a total of 334 retail stores, but due to local moratoriums and bans the final number of pot shops is expected to be lower, Smith said.
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The CMS Stag and Athena swimmers hosted the University of Puget Sound November 16-17, in the two-day, 34-event, "West Coast Challenge." The Athenas chopped down the Loggers 184 to 124, while the Stags won 203 to 99.
The Stags lit up the Axelrood Pool scoreboard with five swims under pool-record time. Sophomore Alex Mendoza set the tone early, racing to a 9:50.20 split in the first 1000 of his 1650 yard freestyle on Friday. Mendoza's new 1000 mark bested the previous record of 9:54.90, set in 1997 by UC-San Diego's Tim McAter. Mendoza stayed strong through the final 650 to finish in 16:19.60 for a second record in one swim. The previous mile mark of 16:31.46 was set earlier this year by fellow Stag, Brett Berger. Berger, the 2012 SCIAC champion in the 1650, placed second in the event with a strong 16:35.03.
Mendoza gained another pool record on Saturday, this time in the 500 yard freestyle. Mendoza (4:43.80), narrowly out-touched teammate Marc Blumberg (4:43.97) nipping the previous record of 4:44.59. Another record was set by the 200 yard freestyle relay team of Devin Bowers, Patrick Shultz, Cameron Whiting and Joey Hinton, whose time of 1:26.17 beat the record (1:26.91) set by the Stag team in 1999. The final pool record was set by the Stag 200 yard medley relay team of Blake Weber, Brad Perfect, Shultz and Bowers. The quartet's time of 1:35.16 blew-out California Baptist's 1:37.78, set in 2004.
"The guys put together a string of quick mid-season times this weekend," said CMS Head Coach, Charlie Griffiths. "We've established great synergy in training. We're seeing swimmers pushing each other to step-up in workouts and now we're beginning to see that culture pay off in meets."
The Athenas were led by sophomore Mackenzie Leake, who was a double winner on Saturday, taking first in the 400 IM and then the 200 butterfly. Other individual winners over the weekend were LillyBelle Deer (1650 freestyle) and Kristie Howard (50 freestyle). Five first-year Athenas earned their first college-event-victories: Maya Kale (200 IM), Jazzi Cooper (100 butterfly), Bridget Moran (500 freestyle), Rachelle Holmgren (100 freestyle) and Maddy Gebhard (100 breaststroke). "The meet was an exciting opportunity for the freshman Athenas to establish their presence," Coach Griffiths said. "As each swimmer continues to adapt to college life and the CMS training program, we'll expect to see continued development throughout the season and their careers."
The Stags gained additional individual event wins from Patrick Shultz (200 freestyle and 100 freestyle), Marc Blumberg (100 butterfly and 200 butterfly), Tim Storer (200 IM), Blake Weber (200 backstroke), Augie Bress (200 breaststroke), Joey Hinton (50 freestyle), Matt Valentine (400 IM), Jordan Lieberman (100 backstroke) and Judge Lee (100 breaststroke).
CMS won each of the eight relays contested between the men and women.
Griffiths said, "I told the team after the meet that fast times and pool record in November are nice, but our goal this season is to Finish Strong. Good days or bad days right now don't mean much. We're committed to preparing for top tier performances when it matters most."
CMS swimming and diving will open SCIAC competition with a double-dual meet versus Cal Tech and Whittier at Whittier on Saturday, December 1. Diving will begin at 10:00 a.m., with swimming slated to start at 11:00 a.m.


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(Port Charlotte, FL) - Robbie Maguire (Brooklyn, NY) pitched five outstanding innings of relief out of the bullpen, but the Sacred Heart Baseball team lost 8-2 to the Miami (OH) Redhawks Thursday evening at North Charlotte Regional Park in the final day for the Pioneers at the Snowbird Baseball Classic.
Derick Horn (Valatie, NY) gave SHU an early 1-0 lead with a two-out RBI double to deep left-centerfield in the second. However, John Crummy gave the Redhawks a 2-1 lead with a two-run single to centerfield in the third. SHU tied it again in the third on an RBI single to right by Hunter Phillips (Monroe, CT).
Miami then took the lead for good with a four-run third on a two-run double by Jacob Wolf, and RBI groundout by Matt Honchel, and a sacrifice fly by Scott Slappey. Crummey and John Brennre added RBI singles in the eighth.
Maguire allowed just two runs on five innings out of the bullpen, cruising through his first four innings of relief in allowing just an infield single until the eighth. He struck out six batters.
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1945 Ford GPW - Ford "Jeep"
Not MB. GPW
Where and when the term "jeep" was coined is still up in the air to many. There are many solid theories that have been deemed correct by some while still others insist on a completely different version. One popular theory on the name was that is was bestowed by soldiers who dubbed it after Eugene the Jeep, a character in the Popeye cartoons created by E. C. Segar. Eugene the Jeep was Popeye's dog of sorts and was small, able to move between dimensions, and could solve seemingly impossible problems.
Another theory that holds plenty of water is that the term came from Ford's version of the popular Willys MB, called the GPW. The name GPW was easily shortened to G-P, or Gee-P, and may be the root of the word "Jeep" as we know it today. We won't make that definitive call, however, as we prefer to leave it as campfire fodder for generations to come.
With 44 years of off-road experience under his belt, Gary Miller of Rifle, Colorado, has owned his share of 4x4s, but one he always wanted was a Ford GPW flat fender. After a brief search he found the ideal candidate and began the buildup. Gary purchased the GPW with the engine and interior completed, but the remaining mods were carried out by local Rifle, Colorado, 4x4 shops, Code 4x4 and M.O.O.R.E.. RBW in Silt, Colorado, also assisted in the build, as well as "just about every 4x4 shop in Moab." Moab is Gary's favorite 'wheeling spot, which isn't surprising as it is less than a three-hour hour drive from his home.
Gary really enjoys the power of the Ford 289 V-8 and the low First gear of the T-18 four-speed trans. He claims it rips through sand and crawls slickrock trails without issue. Gary states, "It is a wolf in sheep's clothing. I love my Ford GPW! I wouldn't change a thing." We don't think he should either. We've seen his GPW in action and it is definitely capable of tackling a wide variety of trails while attracting plenty of attention. Gary also embraces the Eugene the Jeep theory and proudly displays the little guy throughout his GPW in wonderfully drawn graphics.
A Dana 30 axle leads the way up trails and is left open in order to keep 'wheeling as challenging as it should be. While a front locking differential may ease forward progress in many vehicles, Gary enjoys having to find just the right line over an obstacle even if it means backing up a few times before he gets it right.
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1.Debit card
For daily purchases and cash withdrawals, most people turn to their debit card. Debit cards are a quick easy, and convenient way to pay, especially when they incorporate a Moneo electronic wallet.
Anything in particular you should know about French debit cards? First, they use chip-and-pin security. Instead of signing a receipt, you simply enter your pin code to validate your payment. Remember, always keep your pin code safe!
Second, to help keep your account secure, the bank generates your pin code. This means you canít use your birth date as your pin code, or use the same code for several cards! If you have trouble remembering your pin, your bank adviser can help you to change it.
Third, you can choose between direct debit and deferred debit cards. If you have a direct debit card, the money is deducted immediately from your account. With a deferred debit card, all of the payments you make are grouped and deducted in a single payment at the end of the month.
A credit card can come in handy tooÖ
MasterCard credit cards from Crťdit Agricole offer a range of benefits, from great travel insurance to on-call personal assistance. Find out which of our cards best suits your lifestyle:
2.Fixed direct debit/standing order
Many companies, particularly utility companies like EDF and Gaz de France, welcome payments by direct debit.
How it works ?
Paying by direct debit is simple and efficient. Hereís what you need to do:
- 1. Contact the company by phone (you can also send a letter).
- 2. Decide how often you want to pay (usually you choose to pay every 6 months, every 2 months or monthly).
- 3. Provide your bank information. In France, this information is contained on your RIB (Relevť díIdentitť Bancaire). The RIB shows:
- your bank code (5 figures: for the Credit Agricole XXXX the bank code is XXXXX),
- your code de guichet (also 5 figures: for the Credit Agricole XXXX this is 000XX),
- your clť RIB (2 figures).
- 4. The company will send you a letter setting out the amounts that will be taken from your account by direct debit and the dates on which the direct debits will be made. Cut off the ďAutorisation de PrťlŤvementĒ (direct debit agreement) and send it to your local branch.
The company will withdraw the agreed amount on the dates stated.
Good to know :
You can obtain a RIB from your bank adviser, a cashier at your branch or from a cash machine that offers this facility.
3.Money transfer
You can use our online banking services to transfer money between different Crťdit Agricole accounts.
How it works ?
Making a bank-to-bank transfer in France
Fax or post: send us your request in writing: one of our advisers will contact you to confirm the transaction. Please note that transfer requests must be made in writing and cannot be made by telephone. You will be charged a fee for this service: please consult our rates for further information. Online: if you have signed up for Crťdit Agricole online banking, you can use this service to transfer funds to another French bank free of charge.
Making an international transfer
Fax or post: send us your request in writing: one of our advisers will contact you to confirm the transaction. Please note that international transfers must be made in writing and cannot be made by telephone. You will be charged a fee for this service: please consult our rates for further information. Online: if you have signed up for Crťdit Agricole online banking, you can send us your request by email. One of our advisers will contact you to confirm your request. You will be charged a fee for this service: please consult our rates for further information.
4.Check book
Cheques are still a popular means of payment in France. Be careful though: the rules in France are quite strict. See below for detailsÖ
How it works ?
You can use cheques to make payments anywhere in France. Cheque guarantee cards do not exist in France, but you might be asked to provide proof of identity.
You can use your cheque book to withdraw cash in any Crťdit Agricole branch in France. You can withdraw up to 400 euros in any 7-day period.
How to cancel a cheque ?
Under French law a cheque is equivalent to cash. As such, cheques cannot be cancelled except in exceptional circumstances. A cheque can only be cancelled if it is lost, stolen or deemed fraudulent by the bank. If your cheque book is lost or stolen:
- call us on +33 (0) 5 65 75 75 33 or
- send us a fax on +33 (0) 5 65 75 52 01.
Good to know :
French legislation with regard to unpaid cheques is particularly strict: be careful! You must have funds available on your account when you write a cheque. The bank is legally obliged to report unpaid cheques to the Bank of France and to forbid the client from writing any more cheques until funds are available. For the first incident, the customer has 60 days to rectify the situation. If the client takes more than 60 days to rectify the situation or if a further incident occurs, the customer has to pay a fine to the Bank of France. The customer also risks being placed on the Bank of France blacklist (this is known as being ďinterdit bancaireĒ) and forbidden from writing cheques for the next five years!
5.Standing order (TIP)
You can also use a standing order (known in France as a TIP: Titre Interbancaire de Paiement) to make frequent payments, such as your phone bill or gas bill. The TIP is a payment order attached to your bill.
How it works ?
Setting up payments by TIP
- 1. Remove the TIP from the bill and send it to the company with a copy of your RIB.
- 2. The company will deduct the payment from your bank account and retain your bank details to make it easier for you to authorise future payments.
- 3. In the future, your bank details will appear automatically on your bills from this company. Check that your bank details are correct, then remove the TIP from the bill, sign and date in the box provided and return the TIP to the company. If you wish to pay your bill from a different bank account, just send back a new RIB with your TIP.
Paying for services
Enjoy a helping hand, avoid the red tape
Gardening, childcare, French lessons, cleaningÖ a wide range of part-time services can be paid for with the ďCheque emploi service universelĒ.
What is the ďCheque emploi service universelĒ?
The ďCheque emploi service universelĒ (also known as ďCesuĒ) is a cheque book that helps employers avoid the red tape associated with Social Security contributions, monthly pay-slips and URSSAF registration numbers.
Cheques can be used to replace standard contracts for part-time work of less than 8 hours per week or fewer than four consecutive weeks per year. They are an easy way to pay if you need to employ a home-help or child-minder or pay for a few private French lessons.
Where can I get a cheque book?
You can order a free cheque book through Crťdit Agricole. Simply register for this service and fill in a direct debit authorisation form. Weíll send you a cheque book with 20 cheques and a set of pre-printed envelopes. The accompanying information pack includes a useful guide to drawing up contracts.
How it works ?
- 1. Fill in a cheque for the net amount. Remember to include 10% for paid holidays.
- 2. Complete the cheque tag with all the necessary administrative information (the number of hours, the hourly net salary, the total net amount paid, etc.)
- 3. Send this tag to your URSSAF agency within 15 days.
- 4. Any charges payable by you, the employer, will be calculated using this information and debited directly from your account.
- 5. The URSSAF will also send a pay slip to the employee.
Good to know :
The CESU website provides useful hints and tips about using cheques. You can use the online portal to send administrative information directly to the URSSAF, obtain instant updates on charges that will be deducted from your account, and print statements for your tax declaration.


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stroke. These problems may involve any or all aspects
of language use, such as speaking, reading, writing, and understanding the
spoken word. Speech and language problems (aphasia) usually occur when a stroke
affects the right side of the body. Trouble communicating can be very
frustrating. When you talk to someone who has had a stroke, be patient,
understanding, and supportive.
The following are tips for helping
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the down part of the day is that i had an appointment with the car dealership for my car friday morning. i had been arguing with them about the issue i was having. you see, i loathe my local dealership(LD). it is not my selling dealership(SD). their customer service is for shit. they always talk to me like i am stupid. they are horribly unaccommodating. rude. not sympathetic at all. just all around douchenuggets. i would much rather take my car to my selling dealership. they are so very nice. and everything else that the local is not. i wanted a loaner car while my car was in the shop. apparently no one does that anymore. and with my schedule heading to the selling dealership is not an option. they are an hour away. so i sucked it up after talking the both GM's of the dealerships and just made an appointment. it was at 9 in the morning. have i mentioned i am not a morning person? ok good. on the same page.
i made it to the dealership a little early. which was fine. i just surfed the internet on my phone and visited with the BFF. i walked into the service department at 10 minutes till and went ahead and had them start pulling up my information. this was the beginning of the end. i go sit in the waiting area (because without a loaner i cannot leave) and grab a magazine. after about three minutes the guy comes out and tells me that my car is not under warranty. and shows me a paper that says my powertrain warranty had expired at 60,000 miles. which only happens if you buy your car used. which i did not. buying it new would earn you a 100,000 mile warranty. i tell him i bought it new. it had 87 miles on it. most of which i put on it test driving it. well the paper says what it says so there is nothing he can do. so i follow him to his desk. well how are you pulling up the car? pull it up by the VIN# and see how it comes up. well we do not do it that way. we pull it up by vin + name + mileage. ok fine. but try just under the vin. nope. not gonna happen. so i go outside and get on the phone with the selling dealership. according to pedro at the local, only the selling dealership can contact the corporation right out to have something fixed. the SD of course has never heard that. and are apologizing profusely for my troubles. the LD has had tons of complaints on them apparently. and the SD is very familiar with them. people drive the hour to get better service all the time. i head outside to talk on the phone and get everything straightened out. now...this is where my idea of customer service is horribly out of whack. in my opinion the right thing to do is to apologize for the trouble and offer to go on ahead and diagnose the car while i am trying to get everything straightened out. but do they? nope. not only do they not, they refuse to even touch the car until the find out if the powertrain is still covered. the SD offers to go ahead and diagnose it if i would like to drive out there. an hour. umm no. not today bucky. so i leave. while getting everything figured out i went ahead and brought my car to a local transmission shop. i thought that my trans was having trouble. my engine sounded like it was revving. not going into overdrive out of fourth gear. i am a woman. i have not worked on cars in a very long time. i am out of practice with car noises. give me some credit. while at the shop i found out that it was not my transmission after all. i had a bearing going out. great. so now not only is my car making a noise. it is actually unsafe to drive. yay. at this point the warranty issue is figured out. when the corporation entered my info they spelled my last name wrong. to which the woman responds that had they just looked it up by the vin, they would have seen my name sounded the same but was just mispelled. then we could have entered it in the wrong way and boom. things fixed. so i call pedro back and inform him that it is a bearing. ooooh he says. yeah. i know. i ask him can i just bring it back in today, nope. he can make me an appointment. for next tuesday. well that doesn't work for me. so next friday it is. which i am not happy about. because helloooooo my car is now a rolling death trap. whatever. i head home. to the BFF's house. where we decide to head to town to grab a few things. mostly minutes without five children running around.
on our way to town we visited and she talked me down from all the car stress. we reveled in the fact that we were alone. no kids. and we giggled like only grown women who know how special having a best friend is can. while we were deciding where to head first i had slowed down coming up to a light that had turned from red to green. my foot was off the brake. but all of a sudden my car lurches. i look at her, did it just do that? well it did. but maybe i did have my foot on the brake. but i go ahead and turn right and head into a parking lot. that way if it was not me and my car really is missing up, i will not be on a road and get hit. after i get into the parking lot it does it again. great. so we go ahead and stop at the store we were heading for. go inside and get things handled. then head back out to the car. i decide we should try to make it one parking lot over to a local coffee shop. once inside i call my roadside assistance and get a tow truck coming. out of pocket on money. then i get a rental coming my way. out of pocket on money. normally this would not have been a problem as BFF and hubby have two cars. but one of theirs is down right now. so a rental is a must. then arrange everything to get the car to the dealership. i call pedro and let him know the car is coming. that my car was lurching and acting as if the wheel wanted to seize. he will work on it first thing monday a.m. well thanks pedro. how nice of you.
needless to say i am totally out of money. which is not cool. and my car note did not get paid because of having to pay for the rental and tow. but really what else should i expect? it is common knowledge i have a snafu'd world.
the day ended great though. the BFF and i had a great day together. even with the debacle. went for a wonderful sushi dinner and had tons of free time. Big'K even cooked for all the kidlets so by the time the bigs made it home the littles had eaten. awesome.
in the midst of all of this. it never occurred to me what day it was. i even had to say the date a few times. august 17th. yes august 17th. uh huh august 17th. why yes, yes it is august 17th. usually this is a day i count down to. for the last two decades i have counted down. starting usually in june. most definitely in july. and not really counting down as in 39, 38, 37...but more of an emotional countdown. an i know it is getting closer countdown. an i need to get prepared countdown. but this year not so much. last year, the 20 year mark hit me hard. harder than most of the ones before. and something clicked. or changed. or broke. or released. i am not sure. but it did happen. and for a while i have been wondering if it really made a difference. yes i have been able to let go of a lot of material things from my house. yes i have felt not as drug down. but this year it is almost as if i forgot. now do not get me wrong. i will never truly 'forget'. a motherless daughter does not forget that she has lost her mother. she never forgets that woman. her heart never forgets. her mind never forgets. but for lack of a better word, this year, i forgot. i forgot that TODAY was august 17th. emotionally i never felt it. so whatever happened last year, it really did make a difference. i took the time last night to remember. my Lil'Bro texted me. and we visited for a bit. he still remembers. with all of his emotions. maybe he needs to let something go. i feel like i let the rage and bitterness and anger go. and it changed me. inside at least. so i was able to remember. and not cry. just laugh. and reminisce. and it was nice. for the first time in more than half my life i was not sad on august 17th. i just was. and that is great.


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In the U.S., the typical student takes the big yellow bus to school. But children in Kenya run for miles and students in the Philippines will hop on motorcycles to ride in crowded traffic to get to school before the bell rings.
This interesting look into how children around the world get to school was compiled by the Christian Foundation for Children and Aging, a lay Catholic organization.


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the Labor Day Celebration.
First off, everyone, at least everyone in the South, knows you cannot wear white after Labor Day. I never did, especially white shoes. To this day, I do not wear white shoes--not even Keds or athletic shoes--after Labor Day. I believe the heavens will open, and an avenging angel will trumpet to the entire world--
"Nine-year-old Celia Ann Davis is wearing her white patent leather shoes to church after Labor Day!"
To prove this is a nation-wide rule, I asked my good Southern friend Maggie Toussaint about the shoe rule. Here is her answer:
"You can't wear white shoes after Labor Day, everybody knows that. And the people who flaunt the rule are – wait for it – tacky! Tacky is the ultimate insult around here. It means: poor home training and got no chance to ever make anything of yourself. If someone ever called you or anything you did "tacky," it was a physical slur on you and your family. God forbid we ever did anything tacky. Even today, I stress more about being put together than I should. Still holding myself to the standard of trying not to embarrass us all by my clueless wardrobe choices.
The funny thing is I don't even own a pair of white shoes now. And how inconvenient it must have been for our parents to buy white Mary Janes for us at Easter and then have to replace them with black patent leather shoes by Labor Day. But I must have subconsciously channeled that seasonal shoe buying as I love to get new sandals for summer, and then comfotrable flats for fall."
...Maggie Toussaint-Award Winning Author of romances and cozy mysteries-see her Amazon page for all releases.
|KIM NOVAK and WILLIAM HOLDEN
Please remember those who are out of work but are still searching. Bless them all.
Celia Yeary-Romance...and a little bit 'o Texas


text: The Two-Way CDC Confirms 'Extremely Rare' Death From Rabies Transmitted By Transplant March 15, 2013 A Maryland man who recently died had received a kidney transplant. Now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it has determined that the donor had rabies and that the disease was transmitted to the Maryland man. Three other organ recipients are now receiving anti-rabies shots.


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Hi All,
i am running o.s. ubuntu and have posted on 1 forum regarding this but i got partial response to my query.
i want to see the intermediate and the result in execution of a file in linux. i am doing this by making use of Swing's in java. i have following code to execute:-
String[] args = {"/bin/sh", "-c", "/home/nakul/Desktop/srilm/bin/i686/ngram-count -order 2 -text ", s,"-lm Englm.lm -write EngC.count -unk"}; p1=Runtime.getRuntime().exec(args); OutputStream st1=p1.getOutputStream(); System.out.println(st1);
i want to see the intermediate results generated by execution of the above mentioned file (ngram-count).
Kindly tell howto solve this problem.
Thanks & Regards,


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Ah, day games…
TORONTO — Quick turnaround after last night's game. Not on much sleep, still haven't unpacked my suitcases from the trip to New York (or Spring Training for that matter), but where would I rather be than at the ballyard?
I guess the Jays were a little too optimistic thinking that 50K showing last night was going to be a daily thing. The crowd is pretty thin here today. Not much going on pregame either. B.J. Ryan is scheduled to throw in a Minor League game in Florida today, weather permitting, and Toronto is going for a series win over the BoSox.
Jesse Litsch just struck out Julio Lugo to open the game, so I'm running a little behind this morning, obviously. With that in mind, here are…
Today's lineups:
TORONTO (2-2) at BOSTON (3-2)
at 1:07 p.m. ET at the Rogers Centre
Julio Lugo, SS
Dustin Pedroia, 2B
David Ortiz, DH
Manny Ramirez, LF
Mike Lowell, 3B
J.D. Drew, RF
Jason Varitek, C
Sean Casey, 1B
Coco Crisp, CF
PITCHING: RHP Clay Buchholz
David Eckstein, SS
Matt Stairs, LF
Alex Rios, RF
Vernon Wells, CF
Frank Thomas, DH
Lyle Overbay, 1B
Aaron Hill, 2B
Marco Scutaro, 3B
Gregg Zaun, C
PITCHING: RHP Jesse Litsch