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by Frag » Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:56 pmI had forgotten that they went to find Morgan in the comic as well. They were gone for days, but it was after Woodbury. I wonder why they moved it up.
by Wally Brando » Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:57 pm
He got over it.
It wasn't really as in-depth as it is in the show.
He just carried a phone around with him, and she spoke to him through it when he picked it up. He knew it was all in his head, and that it was just his mind telling him what he needed to hear to rationalize everything that's happened to him.. but he carried it around anyway, because that's all he had of Lori, and couldn't bear the thought of not being able to talk to her.
I don't remember how it was resolved, but I think he just kind of stopped.
by Wally Brando » Mon Mar 04, 2013 3:58 pm
And the Rick/Michonne thing is from the comic too.
by Frag » Mon Mar 04, 2013 4:00 pm
By the way, I never said he can't get over it. At some point he has to. You made that leap that he can't get over it.
I'm just saying that the way he gets over it after making it a central plot point is stupid. There is no payoff or no consequences. Maybe he's not even over it. I would actually prefer that.
Just seeing Morgan and being all like "Whoa, I better stop being crazy now" is dumb, IMO.
by Frag » Mon Mar 04, 2013 4:01 pm
Yeah I saw that too. I had completely forgotten about that. Must've been one of the boring TPBs.
by S.F. Jude Terror » Mon Mar 04, 2013 4:08 pm
I think he was falling apart, it's already cost them in some ways (like Tyrese's group joining up with the Governor), it's cost rick some confidence from his group probably, and it nearly got him killed when he was wandering in the woods and the governor attacked. I think that seeing Morgan made him realize where he was headed and started him on the path back to sanity. It seems pretty reasonable to me. Im glad the plotline is (hopefully) over.
by Wally Brando » Mon Mar 04, 2013 4:08 pm
But you're the only one jumping to that conclusion in order to make some criticism. Who knows if he's still crazy or not... but he showed a couple episodes ago, talking to Herschel, that he's aware he's crazy and she's not real. He's dealing with it.
by habitual » Mon Mar 04, 2013 4:13 pm
I thought it was obvious that Rick was starting to deal with his crazy shit at the end of the last episode. I don't understand why people are basing their conclusions on events in this episode
by Frag » Mon Mar 04, 2013 4:26 pm
I didnt jump to that conclusion. I was responding to someone.
My issues with this episode mostly have to do with it not advancing the Woodbury plot. And some shoddy writing.
Now if Morgan shows up to save the day or there was something important in the hitchiker bag, then sure, but all the events in this episode could have happened in a brief dialogue. It was just filler IMO.
by S.F. Jude Terror » Mon Mar 04, 2013 4:28 pmThe Woodbury plot has been sucking though, mostly due to Andrea's involvement. I was happy to get away from it for an episode.
by dairydead » Mon Mar 04, 2013 4:40 pm
But there were consequences. He drove away Tyreese and his people, and also put him at odds with the others, putting Glenn in his current character arc.
You keep saying "wasting time", but you're not presenting your case for it.
by dairydead » Mon Mar 04, 2013 4:44 pm
I guess I've never understood why people equate huge physical changes to progression exclusively. Or even when people assert that "progression" is a form of good storytelling, implying that focusing on character moments means that its a poor episode.
I dunno, I see people (mostly on sites like this) that NEED some giant payoff, they NEED some sort of twist for something to be "worthwhile". To me, i enjoyed the character moments and appreciated the insight into the characters, which is something i couldn't say about most of this series' episodes.
by Wally Brando » Mon Mar 04, 2013 4:54 pmWe learned more about Michonne in this one episode than we had all season thus far.
by Frag » Mon Mar 04, 2013 4:54 pmI don't need some twist. I was one of Lost's biggest advocates when it came to character moments. I just need more than these character moments for a show that only has like 8 episodes per half season. Maybe I will change my tune after the next couple of episodes, but I didnt feel like there was any progression. We knew Carl could shoot someone. Rick and Carl bonding with Michonne isn't enough.
If anything, things went backwards. Rick might be ok now. Carl is still a kid. How does that advance anything?
by Frag » Mon Mar 04, 2013 4:56 pm
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Love it or loathe it, Twitter is here to stay. The social media platform passed 500 million user accounts this summer, and even if you're not one of them, you can't escape its reach. Newspapers, TV, and websites all report incidents and stories that originated on Twitter now. Its reach is far and wide.
Celebrities, in particular, have taken to the platform in droves to promote their wares and share their opinions on the world. For most of them, Twitter acts as a kind of echo chamber where they can bask in the adulation of fans. But the comments aren't always so peaceful.
Twitter users can and do send messages to insult or challenge anyone they disagree with. Discussion runs the gamut from genuine debate, to trolling, to outright abuse. When an ordinary Joe gets in a scuffle, it's quickly lost in the noise of constant chatter. When a celebrity encounters the same, there is loyal army lying in wait. And these minions are happy to take action on a famous favorite's behalf.
Sometimes the action they take is seriously out of proportion. Justin Bieber fans attacked a charity that helps provide access to water for people in third-world countries. How did the Thirst Project draw the ire of these "Beliebers"? The face of the Thirst Project, Drake Bell, mentioned that he thought Bieber was too young at 18 to be touting a biopic. The pick of the bunch from their hateful tweets was "@DrakeBell @ThirstProject Who wants to help those jungle bunnies anyway?"
It remains a mystery to most of us how Bieber inspires such a rabidly fanatical fan base, but we can keep looking forward to the day Satan calls his contract in. Bieber's fans even an undercover policeman on Twitter after he dived on the pre-pubescent star, mistakenly thinking there was a threat in the crowd.
Fans of Lady Gaga unleashed a similar attack on Kelly Osbourne after she criticized the pop diva for skipping the red carpet at the Grammy awards. She was told she was fat, she should kill herself, and some fans even wished rape and aids on her.
If that's the kind of action fans will take unprompted, can you imagine the potential storm celebs could unleash by asking their fans to attack someone? Well, you don't have to.
British comedian Noel Fielding got angry when Waldemar Januszczak, art critic for The Sunday Times, criticized his interview with artist Damien Hirst. Fielding tweeted to his followers "yesterday Times art critic Waldemar Januszczak layed into me on Twitter because channel four asked me to interview Damien Hirst" and went on, "I thought it would be fun if me and all my followers went onto his Twitter and insulted him. Just to be childish."
Januszczak received a wave of insulting tweets calling him everything from "a pedophile rapist" to "a stuck up piece of shit."
Well-known comedian Ricky Gervais (creator of The Office amongst other things), is also notorious for inciting his fans to attack people on Twitter. Some of the people who have sent insulting tweets to Gervais, or even just tweets that he doesn't agree with, have been hounded by his fans. Gervais reposts tweets he has received with the user's name so his fans can have a go.
One post started with "I've caught a Troll. Block or expose? You decide. Vote now. Haha" and after some encouragement from fans he posted "Unanimous. I give you a sad troll…."@DanielHolland31" Read all his tweets. Enjoy."
Tackling trolls is one thing. Sending your fans into battle for you is something else. If they do something beyond the pale, is the celeb culpable?
You might think it's all a big fuss over nothing stateside, but the police in the UK are arresting more and more people over Twitter abuse. How long before the courtroom defense is "I was only following orders"? And what happens if a victim of fan abuse commits suicide? Of course it swings both ways; celebs get a huge amount of abuse as well. Australia's Next Top Model judge Charlotte Dawson claimed Twitter abuse was behind her suicide attempt last summer.
How about celebs posting links to bad reviews and nudging their fans, or even trying to start boycott campaigns? Lupe Fiasco got a bad review from Spin magazine recently and called for a boycott. He tweeted "And now that you have my attention @notrivia I intend to do my best to expose you and your publication 4 ur actions #BoycottSpinMagazine." Shouldn't performers be thick-skinned enough to take a bad review?
Then there were Trump's post-election tweets. Trump tweeted, "We can't let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided!" and went on, "This election is a total sham and a travesty. We are not a democracy!"
An unexpected attack on Trump came from an unlikely source on Sunday. Cher tweeted, ""I'll NEVER GO TO MACY'S AGAIN ! I didnt know they sold Donald Trump's Line! If they don't care that they sell products from a LOUDMOUTH RACIST CRETIN,WHO'D LIE LIKE "HIS RUG" TO GET SOME CHEAP PRESS ! I CANT BELIEVE MACY'S THINKS HE'S THE RIGHT "MAN" 2 REPRESENT THEIR NAME!"
Trump replied that she should concentrate on her "dying career" and mentioned "massive plastic surgeries that didn't work" but then he said "It's amazing how people can talk about me but I'm not allowed to talk about them."
That final tweet says a lot about Twitter. Everyone seems to cast themselves as the victim.
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Carnegie Mellon Kills Black Hat Talk About Identifying Tor Users -- Perhaps Because It Broke Wiretapping Laws
from the questionable-legality dept
A Black Hat spokeswoman told Reuters that the talk had been canceled at the request of lawyers for Carnegie-Mellon University, where the speakers work as researchers. A CMU spokesman had no immediate comment.There's been plenty of speculation about what's going on, but Chris Soghoian has a pretty good thesis that the researchers likely didn't have institutional approval or consent of the users they were identifying, meaning that they were potentially violating wiretapping statutes. As he notes, running a Tor server to try to spy on Tor traffic without talking to lawyers is a very bad idea. While it hasn't yet been confirmed that this is what happened, it certainly is a pretty sensible theory.
Of course, none of that changes the fact that it's possible to identify some Tor users. But... that's also not particularly new. In fact, we've discussed in the past how the feds can identify Tor users. Tor adds an important layer of protection, but there are plenty of ways that you can still be identified while using Tor. Just ask Russ Ulbricht. The problem isn't so much Tor itself but how people use it -- and the simple fact is that most people use it in a way that will eventually reveal who they are. While it's not definite, it seems likely that this is what the talk would have revealed. Shutting it down wasn't any sort of big attempt to cover up this fact, but perhaps it was to protect the researchers and CMU (potentially) from a lawsuit for violating wiretapping laws.


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Presenting Bluetooth in 2006 is hard. By all accounts, it should have emerged much sooner to be omnipresent by now. Yet it did not succeed as planned and therefore carries a bad reputation. Bluetooth is popular, but not as popular as WiFi. However, you can do a lot more with Bluetooth, especially with casual hacking.
Do you know Bluetooth? You may already be familiar with it, and even use it, perhaps with your cellphone and wireless headset. If so, you may wonder what more Bluetooth can do for you, especially if you have read only technical literature about its theoretical aspects--full of overused buzzwords such as "piconets" or "scatternets," but devoid of any real-world application or implementation.
Do not worry. This article shows you how to play with Bluetooth, not buzzwords. If you are not familiar with Bluetooth, I hope to introduce you to such a nifty technology, and guide you through my wonderful world of Bluetooth, with wireless gizmos everywhere!
This article demonstrates how to make your Bluetooth module work, scan for other Bluetooth devices and see which services they can offer, and connect to them. I provide a service named PAN, which can perform wireless IP networking with Bluetooth.
A future article will cover other services: file transfer, serial port export, wireless HID peripherals such as keyboards and mice, audio streaming, and music streaming. Then you can perform and understand fun hacks, such as adding Bluetooth to non-Bluetooth devices, using Bluetooth to automatically start/stop a screensaver, and using existing Bluetooth attacks.
What's the goal? You should be able to synchronize your devices wirelessly, export a serial port for faxing or dialup networking, exchange files with other Bluetooth-enabled hardware, replace your wired HID peripherals with Bluetooth peripherals, and more.
What exactly is Bluetooth? There are many definitions, but my favorite is that it is a generalization of WiFi with lesser power requirements.
With Bluetooth, you do not only have computers talking to other computers. You have wireless headsets streaming audio to cellphones, which you can synchronize with handhelds or computers, which can use peripherals such as mice or keyboards.
Because Bluetooth requires far less power than WiFi, and because it hides the networking complexity from the interface layer, Bluetooth has a lot of creative and interesting uses--more than WiFi.
Speaking of interfaces, you need Bluetooth hardware and software to use Bluetooth features. Some hardware hacks embed the software part directly into the hardware (for example, serial- or printer-cable replacement dongles). However, this removes some flexibility that a software stack provides. It also costs much more, yet introduces even greater complexity.
For the scope of this article, I prefer a light Bluetooth hardware and a large separate software stack.
The Linux kernel can use various software stacks. The best known are bluez and affix. My preference here is bluez, because it is now part of the Linux kernel.
Installation Time!
To deploy a working Bluetooth software stack on your Linux computer, you need Bluetooth hardware!
There are three basic interfaces to Bluetooth hardware: USB, serial, and PCMCIA. Maybe your PC already has integrated Bluetooth? You may then find instructions online to enable that feature under Linux. There are far too many PCs with integrated Bluetooth to present them all within this article.
PCMCIA cards are usually only a PCMCIA-to-serial interface hooked to a Bluetooth chip, while being more expensive. Therefore, if you have a PC without integrated Bluetooth, you need a Bluetooth dongle, either serial or USB.
I recommend you purchase a D-Link DBT-120, as it includes handy special features which I will explain later, especially if you are considering a Bluetooth keyboard. If you cannot find that specific dongle, any cheap USB dongle will be fine. Serial RS-232 dongles are usually much more expensive and slower.
If you have something that's not really a general-purpose PC, and lacks any solution to easily plug in a Bluetooth solution, that's where it gets interesting. However, if you are using a standard USB module, you do not have to worry about all this and may go directly to the software section.
Unusual Hardware
Remember--you need only a serial port to add Bluetooth to your device. Because most devices (such as handhelds) have unused serial ports on their motherboards, adding Bluetooth is very easy. It can be as "easy" as soldering four pins total to the motherboard. This is the bare minimum, requiring two for the serial port (Receive, Send) and two to bring power (Ground, Power) to the Bluetooth chip. Six pins are better (with four pins for the serial port), as this enables flow control.
Many websites present solutions to add Bluetooth to various handhelds, such as the Siemens Simpad, the Sharp Zaurus, or the Psion MX. You can also do that on PCs or laptops with an unused serial port on the motherboard, if you feel like experimenting with Bluetooth. Here are some references:
* Simpad Bluetooth Surgery
* Newton Bluetooth Surgery
* Zaurus C700 Bluetooth Surgery
* Titanium iBook Bluetooth Surgery
* NSLU2 Serial Port Surgery
Of course, you also need to connect these four or six wires to the Bluetooth chip some way or another. The easiest way is to pick up an "all-in-one" module: it features the Bluetooth chip and the antenna on a tiny board, along with the voltage converter you need (TTL 5V/CMOS 3.3V).
If you feel like saving some money, you can purchase cheap USB dongles and convert them into serial port dongles. If you prefer saving some time, you can purchase serial dongles online. Here are some references:
* Turning a USB into a serial Bluetooth dongle
* Serial Bluetooth Dongle WML AHR C09
If you are purchasing serial dongles, and have a serial port with four pins (two additional pins for flow control), you do not have anything special to do.
Serial Protocols for Unusual Hardware
If you only have a serial port with two pins (receive/send), you must configure your dongle to use the BCSP protocol instead of H4. Basically, H4 is an industry standard that requires flow control, while BCSP is a CSR proprietary protocol that works just as well without flow control. Because the bluez stack supports both, you can use either.
However, odds are that your chip will be preset to some protocol. To use the other one, you must change its configuration. For this, use the pskey utility as documented in the pskey README or the Opensimpad introduction to Pskey.
Please proceed carefully. It is quite easy to kill a module with a single pskey mistake.
Software Installation
Depending on the Linux kernel configuration and your distribution's installed software, your system may work out of the box.
If you are using a distribution with automated package installation, such as Debian or Red Hat, you can get a precompiled version of bluez without any dependency problem. Go directly to the "Starting bluez" section.
However, I recommend that at least you recompile your kernel to patch it with the latest bluez patch (see also www.holtmann.org/linux/kernel).
Recompiling a kernel is clearly outside the scope of this article, but may be necessary for some special features that the bluez project has added after the release of the kernel version you use. This is especially true for my next article, which will introduce advanced features such as Bluetooth keyboard support.
I now assume that you either have a working kernel with bluez statically compiled or modules with auto-load support.
Software Compilation
If you wish to install everything yourself, you must use a specific version of bluez to avoid any dependency on DBus. Many parts of the Gnome desktop depend on DBus. It may not be a good idea to break it.
I recommend downloading bluez-libs-2.10, bluez-utils-2.10, bluez-hcidump-1.12, and bluez-hciemu-1.0, with the commands:
$ wget http://bluez.sf.net/download/bluez-libs-2.10.tar.gz
$ wget http://bluez.sf.net/download/bluez-utils-2.10.tar.gz
$ wget http://bluez.sf.net/download/bluez-hcidump-1.12.tar.gz
$ wget http://bluez.sf.net/download/bluez-hciemu-1.0.tar.gz
If you are not using i386-compatible hardware (for example, on handhelds with ARM or MIPS CPUs), please do a cross-compilation with the toolchain your architecture requires. Instructions to do that, along with this specific toolchain, may be available online on websites explaining how to hack your hardware (for example, Zaurus toolchain).
Compilation works the standard GNU way. I like to put everything into /opt/bluetooth so as not to conflict with your default install.
First, install the libraries, which everything else will use:
$ tar zxvf bluez-libs-2.10.tar.gz
$ cd bluez-libs-2.10
$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/bluetooth
$ make ; make install
$ echo "/opt/bluetooth/lib" >> /etc/ld.so.conf
$ ldconfig
Then, install the utilities:
$ tar zxvf bluez-utils-2.10.tar.gz
$ cd bluez-utils-2.10
$ ./configure --disable-debug --disable-dbus --disable-cups --disable-pcmcia \
--disable-initscripts --disable-bluepin --enable-hid2hci --enable-bcm203x \
$ make ; make install
Finally, install the debug application:
$ tar zxvf bluez-hcidump-1.12.tar.gz
$ cd bluez-hcidump-1.12
$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/bluetooth
$ make ; make install
To use the newly installed binaries, type:
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/bluetooth/bin:/opt/bluetooth/sbin
or add it to your .bashrc or similar file. You are now ready to go!
Attaching a Serial Dongle
The first thing to do with a serial dongle is to attach it. The syntax is simple: specify the serial port name, the protocol, the initial speed, flow control, and a sustainable speed for normal use.
For example, if you have a serial dongle on the first serial port using BCSP, with a firmware configuration of 115200 baud, but you want to set it to work at 230400 baud, use:
$ hciattach /dev/ttyS0 bcsp 115200 noflow 230400
If you have a serial dongle, odds are you either have added it yourself, and therefore know the parameters because you set them manually with pskey, or that you have internal Bluetooth in your laptop, in which case you will find all the parameters on the same website where you found explanations to enable Bluetooth.
I strongly advise you against changing the initial speed with pskey. Keep that value to a safe default and let hciattach do the magic of switching to higher speeds. You can then try to go as high as 921600 if you want to, without taking any risks: a simple reset of the chip will take you back to 115200. On the other hand, setting the Bluetooth module to a default speed you can't reach will render it useless.
Starting Bluetooth and Talking to Another Device
Whether your device is serial or USB, you can start it with:
$ hciconfig hci0 up
hci0: Type: USB
BD Address: 00:80:C8:45:31:F8 ACL MTU: 192:8 SCO MTU: 64:8
RX bytes:2882377 acl:151624 sco:0 events:212 errors:0
TX bytes:2591 acl:184 sco:0 commands:20 errors:0
This means you have a USB device with an address of 00:80:C8:45:31:F8, running with the various options.
The address is unique and similar to a MAC address for an Ethernet card. It is unspoofable, unless you manage to get a development Bluetooth module that still has the "change address" feature enabled. In that case, you are one pskey command away from changing it. Therefore, I strongly advise you against using any Bluetooth address as a security token.
Now try to find neighboring Bluetooth devices:
$ hcitool scan
Scanning ...
00:A0:96:0A:D1:80 zaurus.guylhem.net
It found something!
The scan shows the other device's address and the device name. The owner has set the latter; it can be anything at all. However, I recommend you use a fully qualified domain name if you have your own domain--it makes it easier to find identify the device's owner with a simple whois.
Before you can go any further, start the hcid daemon and set up a PIN to protect the connection. Edit the hcid.conf file in /opt/bluetooth/etc/bluetooth to look like this:
options {
# automatically put new hciN devices up
autoinit yes;
# security mode
# none : security disabled
# auto : use local pin for incoming connections
# user : always ask a pin to the user
security auto;
pairing multi;
pin_helper /opt/bluetooth/bin/bluepin;
device {
# whatever you want
name "MyDevice.MyDomain.us";
# 0x100 is fine for a PC, 0x120112 is better for a PDA
class 0x100;
# enable inquiry scan
iscan enable;
# enable page scan
pscan enable;
# default link mode
# none : no policy
# accept : always accept incoming connections
# master : becomes the master on incoming connections
# and deny role switch on outgoing connections
lm accept;
# default link policy
# none : no policy
# rswitch : allow role switch
# hold : allow hold mode
# sniff : allow sniff mode
# park : allow park mode
lp rswitch,hold,sniff,park;
# enable authentication
auth enable;
# enable encryption
encrypt enable;
What Is All of This?
Bluetooth devices automatically organize themselves into piconets, with a master and slaves. There can only be one master per piconet. However, the master can be a slave in another piconet. The two piconets are, collectively, a scatternet.
What does it all mean? To avoid problems, enable role switch and let the devices manage themselves instead of forcing a master policy.
Another important option is page and inquiry scan. By default, Bluetooth devices are in standby mode and periodically try to listen for messages. With page scan, the device expects other devices to contact it by way of its code name. The remote device must know that name. Inquiry scan is the opposite; any device can call even if it does not know the proper code name. The class allows you to search for any type of device, when there are too many Bluetooth devices around you. If you want to hide your devices from other people, disable scans--either in hcid.conf, or manually after you have connected your devices:
$ hciconfig hci0 iscan disable
The most important option is certainly the security option.
To create a connection between two Bluetooth devices, they must both know the same PIN code. It can be as small as eight bits and as large as 128 bits, but ask you may have to type it on a cellphone keyboard, it usually is only four digits--"1234" by default in many embedded Bluetooth devices such as wireless headsets.
It works as a challenge, where one device creates a challenge by deriving a key from the PIN and sending it along with a random number. If the challenge is successful, a link key is created to secure this connection. This is why you should enable authentication and encryption as well: to prevent radio eavesdropping.
Regarding security, use auto and create an application that will give a PIN. Here's a simple one:
$ echo "
echo -n PIN:
cat /opt/bluetooth/etc/pin
$ echo "9874" > /opt/bluetooth/etc/pin
$ chmod +x /opt/bluetooth/bin/bluepin
This will display "PIN:9874" when it runs.
$ /opt/bluetooth/bin/bluepin PIN:9874
You can make it more complex, for example, by requesting the user to enter a specific password each time a new device attempts to connect. This is out of the scope of this article. Gnome and KDE already provide graphical bluepin applications. Feel free to improve them if you want.
Regarding modes, hold is when a master becomes silent, to save power or to do something else (perhaps to listen on another piconet, or to perform a scan). sniff is when a slave becomes deaf from time to time, to save power. park is when a slave leaves a piconet. You can still wake it up later by asking the master to unpark it.
Basically, you should enable all these modes if your hardware supports them all--and they now mostly do. You will save power and have more features. Ancient Bluetooth hardware like my old Socket CF+ Rev E (with a Nokia chipset, hci v 1.0b) may only support a subset of these options, and will fail to work if you still enable the unsupported options. (See a short introduction to the theoretical aspects behind a Bluetooth connection and hardware features.)
Now that you have set up a password and all the options, try a connection.
Start the hcid and sdpd daemons to allow communications (for example, giving a PIN or querying capabilities):
$ /opt/bluetooth/sbin/hcid -f /opt/bluetooth/etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf
$ /opt/bluetooth/sbin/sdpd
At the moment, there is no equivalent of /etc/hosts to map names to addresses, let alone a full-fledged DNS system. You must use the hardware address.
To test the connection:
$ l2ping 00:A0:96:0A:D1:80
You will know the device requires a password if you get:
Can't connect.: Connection timed out
Alternatively, if the device is off, you will get:
Can't connect.: Host is down
With some luck, everything will work fine:
# l2ping 00:A0:96:0A:D1:80
Ping: 00:A0:96:0A:D1:80 from 00:80:C8:45:31:F8 (data size 20) ...
20 bytes from 00:A0:96:0A:D1:80 id 200 time 64.76ms
20 bytes from 00:A0:96:0A:D1:80 id 201 time 45.80ms
20 bytes from 00:A0:96:0A:D1:80 id 202 time 38.89ms
20 bytes from 00:A0:96:0A:D1:80 id 203 time 95.60ms
20 bytes from 00:A0:96:0A:D1:80 id 204 time 43.26ms
20 bytes from 00:A0:96:0A:D1:80 id 205 time 53.72ms
20 bytes from 00:A0:96:0A:D1:80 id 206 time 39.92ms
20 bytes from 00:A0:96:0A:D1:80 id 207 time 28.68ms
8 sent, 8 received, 0% loss
Use Ctrl-C to stop this.
Now look at the syslog:
# tail /var/log/syslog
Aug 2 22:20:44 [hcid] link_key_request (sba=00:80:C8:45:31:F8,
Aug 2 22:20:44 [hcid] pin_code_request (sba=00:80:C8:45:31:F8,
Aug 2 22:20:44 [hcid] link_key_notify (sba=00:80:C8:45:31:F8)_
Aug 2 22:20:44 [hcid] Replacing link key 00:80:C8:45:31:F8 00:A0:96:0A:D1:80
Both devices shared the PIN to establish the connection.
Offering and Requesting Services
You have found a device. What can you do with it? Can you use it to go online, send or receive files, or stream audio? This is a job for SDP--a protocol to offer and request services. What does my Zaurus offer?
# sdptool browse 00:A0:96:0A:D1:80
Browsing 00:A0:96:0A:D1:80 ...
It looks like there is no service. I need to add some. How about NAP to offer networking, DUN to offer PPP networking, OPUSH to receive files, and SP to let another computer use the Zaurus serial port?
# sdptool add NAP
# sdptool add DUN
# sdptool add OPUSH
# sdptool add SP
Attention: I don't have space in this article to configure DUN, OPUSH, and SP. I'll just show how to fake support for this profile. Why not play pretend for once? An addition benefit is that this approach is useful as a honeypot to find in the syslog devices attempting to take advantage of DUN, OPUSH, and SP for Bluesnarfing or Bluejacking attacks.
Now what does the Zaurus offer?
# sdptool browse 00:A0:96:0A:D1:80
Browsing 00:A0:96:0A:D1:80 ...
Service Name: Network Access Point Service
Service RecHandle: 0x10000
Service Class ID List:
"Network access point" (0x1116)
Protocol Descriptor List:
"L2CAP" (0x0100)
"BNEP" (0x000f)
Version: 0x0100
Profile Descriptor List:
"PAN access point" (0x1116)
Version: 0x0100
Service Name: Dial-Up Networking
Service RecHandle: 0x10001
Service Class ID List:
"Dialup Networking" (0x1103)
"Generic Networking" (0x1201)
Protocol Descriptor List:
"L2CAP" (0x0100)
"RFCOMM" (0x0003)
Channel: 1
Profile Descriptor List:
"Dialup Networking" (0x1103)
Version: 0x0100
Service Name: OBEX Object Push
Service RecHandle: 0x10002
Service Class ID List:
"OBEX Object Push" (0x1105)
Protocol Descriptor List:
"L2CAP" (0x0100)
"RFCOMM" (0x0003)
Channel: 4
"OBEX" (0x0008)
Profile Descriptor List:
"OBEX Object Push" (0x1105)
Version: 0x0100
Service Name: Serial Port
Service Description: COM Port
Service RecHandle: 0x10003
Service Class ID List:
"Serial Port" (0x1101)
Protocol Descriptor List:
"L2CAP" (0x0100)
"RFCOMM" (0x0003)
Channel: 1
Language Base Attr List:
code_ISO639: 0x656e
encoding: 0x6a
base_offset: 0x100
Profile Descriptor List:
"Serial Port" (0x1101)
Version: 0x0100
Much better.
Now I want to try some networking. Imagine the Zaurus has a network connection to the internet, and you would like to share that connection with other devices. It's IP over Bluetooth!
On the Zaurus, start the network daemon in server mode:
# pand --listen --master --role NAP
On your PC, look for a NAP:
# sdptool search NAP
Inquiring ...
Searching for NAP on 00:A0:96:0A:D1:80 ...
Service Name: Network Access Point Service
Service RecHandle: 0x10000
Service Class ID List:
"Network access point" (0x1116)
Protocol Descriptor List:
"L2CAP" (0x0100)
"BNEP" (0x000f)
Version: 0x0100
Profile Descriptor List:
"PAN access point" (0x1116)
Version: 0x0100
It looks like the Zaurus correctly advertises its support for PAN. Now connect with pand in client mode:
# /usr/bin/pand --role PANU --service NAP --connect 00:A0:96:0A:D1:80
You can also let pand search in client mode to find a NAP to connect to and then do the connection:
# /usr/bin/pand --role PANU --service NAP --search
Each device will then have a bnep0 device that supports automatic configuration--perhaps with DHCP or with a static IP address.
pand calls a script named dev-up in /etc/bluetooth/pan/ whenever it creates a bnepx interface; this is the easiest way to configure bnep0. You can alternatively try to use hotplug.
On the Zaurus, type (and store in /etc/bluetooth/pan/dev-up for the next time):
ifconfig bnep0 192.168.1.1
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
On the PC, type (and store in /etc/bluetooth/pan/dev-up for the next time):
ifconfig bnep0 192.168.1.2
route add default gw 192.168.1.1
You can now ping the Zaurus and use it to connect to the internet.
pand is a network daemon--you can use it to do different things, including peer-to-peer networking, if you use GN instead of NAP. On the client run:
# pand --listen --role GN
This will look for peer-to-peer servers to connect to as you pass by. Along with a DHCP request to get an IP address on bnep0, it offers unique possibilities to share files with passersby who have configured their Bluetooth devices likewise. See The PAN HOWTO for more information.
So far, your Bluetooth device has only reached the feature set provided by WiFi--maybe with more nice options and possibilities for automation.
Even with just networking, there is much more than PAN in Bluetooth.
My next article will play with DUND and SP--respectively, PPP over Bluetooth and serial port export to handle traditional serial port issues. You can take advantage of these profiles to offer dial-on-demand services and wireless synchronization of a Palm pilot featuring Bluetooth.
I will also show how to exchange files with OBEX, and use that to back up a cellphone. I will explain Bluesnarfing and Bluejacking attacks to transform the cellphone backup into a "cellphone slurper," which will attempt to download the content of the phonebook, calendar, pictures, etc. of any passing Bluetooth phone that accepts the transfer.


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Yo. I think I was the last pro to actually learn this trick, so I was a little surprised when TWS asked me to write a Moves for it. If you aren't sick of it yet and would like to learn it, I'll try to teach it to you. Peter Line invented it.
The sequence shown was actually the first backside rodeo I ever tried. I was super scared to attempt the trick the first few times (there's just something wrong with going off a jump and intentionally throwing my body as if I've caught my heel edge), so originally I got the feel for this trick on the trampoline.
1. Don't do any warm-up tricks, just go for it right off the bat.
2. On your way to the jump, do a couple small ollies to load the feel of your board into active memory.
3. Remember the feeling you had on the trampoline and use it to calm your fears. Now is not the time to hesitate-if you do, you may be riding home in a helicopter.
4. Just before the lip, begin to relinquish your view of what's in front of you and focus on pivoting off the back of your heel edge, turning your head and shoulders baskside, and leaning backward toward a backflip. DO NOT INTENTINALLY CATCH YOUR EDGE!
5. This is where it all happens. You've got to throw the trick here as you enter the air, grabbing backside softly, and holding on for the ride.
6. If you've done it correctly, you'll see your landing right away,
probably sooner than you expected. This trick is the best "coming in for a landing" trick I've ever done.
7. Wait … wait … land. I swear this trick is easy, it just takes a little
getting used to.
Now that I'm over the initial fear I can tell you it feels very natural. You've just got to realize the paradox, like Jean Luc Picard in the final episode of Star Trek TNG, "All Good Things." He realized that the Enterprises from the past, present, and future, were simultaneously causing the anomaly that prevented the beginning of life on Earth. Once he did, Q decided that we, as a species, may have some potential after all and let the human race go on existing. Just like our hero, you've got to look beyond your conditioning and realize the paradox. This trick isn't a backfilp. It isn't a 540. It's both. Understand this and you will land on your feet.
I hope I was able to help you learn the most played-out trick in the history of snowboarding. Now go watch Star Wars Episode 1 again and love it.-Jason 'face it before it destroys you, www.jasonbrown.com" Brown


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The iPad may be a luxury item, but One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is working on an affordable device for the developing world that combines the features of a laptop, the Kindle, and the iPad — and it might be ready as soon as January 2011. OLPC recently announced that they expect to have a working prototype of their XO-3 tablet by the end of this year, and they expect it to cost just $75.
Designed by Inhabitat favorite Fuse Project, OLPC's hybrid prototype tablet will utilize Marvell Moby technology, combining a 9-inch LCD (for use outdoors) with a glass screen. The final version will hopefully feature an unbreakable plastic screen and will be just half as thick as an iPhone.
We love the sleek look of the XO-3, but have to wonder if it will actually be ready by next year, and all with a price tag under $100. If it is, though, we might want one for ourselves!


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U.S. crop producers use a variety of practices to reduce yield losses to pests, such as scouting fields to determine whether and when pesticide applications might be required (see the topic on Crop & Livestock Practices). Genetically engineered (GE) insect-resistant and herbicide-tolerant crops are also available for conventional producers (see the topic on Biotechnology) for more information on the adoption of GE seeds). Producers of certified organic crops are much more reliant on production practices that bypass synthetic chemicals, such as crop rotation, adjustments to planting and harvesting dates, and the use of beneficial organisms. Many such methods are also widely practiced by conventional producers. Factors influencing cropping practice decisions, such as the availability of GE varieties, the profitability of adopting organic practices, and the cost effectiveness of precision agriculture technologies all influence the sector-wide use of herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, and other pesticides.
In 2007, roughly 877 million pounds of active ingredients were applied to U.S. cropland at a cost of roughly $7.9 billion. In comparison, in 1980, roughly 1.1 billion pounds of active ingredients were applied at a cost of roughly $7.1 billion (in inflation-adjusted dollars). During 1980-2007 the aggregate quantity of pesticides applied in the U.S. declined at an average rate of 0.6 percent per year, while inflation-adjusted expenditures increased 0.6 percent per year. The prices paid by agricultural producers for fuel, seed, fertilizer, and labor increased roughly twice as fast as the prices paid for pesticides during this period.
Herbicides and plant growth regulators accounted for an average 49 and 65 percent, respectively, of the total amount of pesticides applied and inflation-adjusted pesticide expenditures. During 1980-2007, real expenditures on these two inputs increased by only about 0.1 percent per year. Insecticides and miticides together accounted for an average 10 and 21 percent of the total amount of pesticides applied and inflation-adjusted pesticide expenditures, respectively. Real expenditures on insecticides and miticides increased by 1.1 percent per year over the nearly 3-decades examined. Fungicides, other conventional pesticides (e.g. nematicides, fumigants, rodenticides), and other chemicals (e.g. sulfur, petroleum oil, sulfuric acid), as a group, accounted for an average 40 and 14 percent of the total amount of pesticides applied and inflation-adjusted pesticide expenditures, respectively. Their inflation-adjusted expenditures increased the fastest among these three categories of pesticides (at 6.4 percent annually), but annual expenditures for this group were also most volatile.
Corn, cotton, fall potatoes, soybeans, and wheat accounted for nearly two-thirds of pesticide quantities applied (see The Changing Organization of U.S. Farming, EIB-88, December 2011). ERS research uses detailed ARMS data to examine pesticide use for these five crops more closely. Total pesticide use on corn, cotton, fall potatoes, soybeans and wheat was generally stable during 1982-2007, increasing in some years and declining in others, with an average annual decline of 0.2 percent. Herbicide and insecticide quantities applied declined 0.8 percent and 3.5 percent per year, while fungicide and other-chemical (e.g. desiccants, growth regulators, and vine killers) quantities increased 3.7 and 7.5 percent.
Several factors drove changes in the use of pesticides during this period, including the widespread adoption of GE crops, the expiration of the glyphosate patent in 2000, the availability of new compounds with lower application rates, boll-weevil eradication, and changes in pesticide prices, which increased slowly compared to the prices of other inputs like fertilizer.
Of the five crops examined, 53 percent of the pesticide total was applied to corn in 1982, followed by soybeans (28 percent), cotton (9.6 percent), fall potatoes (4.8 percent), and wheat (4.5 percent). Corn's share declined to 40 percent by 2007 while fall potatoes' share increased to 23 percent (because of large increases in the application of other chemicals, particularly vine killers such as sulfuric acid). Herbicides accounted for the largest share of pesticides applied throughout 1982-2007, while the other-chemicals category increased most in share. Corn accounted for the majority of herbicide and insecticide use until the early 1990s, after which cotton accounted for the majority of insecticide use due to boll-weevil eradication efforts. The majority of fungicides and other chemicals were applied to fall potatoes. - USDA ERS


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by Tom Utescher
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy didn't even have all the members of its 16-girl roster in attendance at the Wissahickon Relays last Saturday, but that didn't stop the quick little Lions team from making a big impression. In the half-dozen events that it entered, the SCH squad finished either first or second out of a field of athletes from large suburban public schools.
The Lions won the 4 x 100, 4 x 200, 4 x 400 and 4 x 1600 meter relay races, and were runner-up in the 4 x 800 and the shot put.
For the Lions, the outing began with the longest and shortest races of the day. Freshman Jamie Costarino, who finished second at the Girls Inter-Ac League cross country championships last fall, led off the 4 x 1600 with a five-minute, 21-second split, and sophomore Sarah-Chen Ogorek and juniors Alyssa Issackman and Kelsea Brewer finished out the event for a winning time of 24:08.7. Meet host Wissahickon High School was second in 24:29.7.
Four new Springside Chestnut Hill students combined to capture the laurels in the 4 x 100. On the first two legs were incoming freshmen Bridget Lipp and Kyra Jackson, who are also members of the Lions' soccer and basketball teams, respectively. Next came two transfers, junior Drew Davis from Springfield High, and sophomore Katelyn Jackson (Kyra's sister) from Cheltenham. Winning in 50.3 seconds, they topped the second-place Spartans (53.7) from Davis' old school, Springfield.
One of the big draws for the numerically small SCH program is veteran coach Bob Shoudt, an Athletic Hall-of-Fame inductee in both Montgomery and Delaware counties. Among his many past protégés are former NFL player Billy "White Shoes" Johnson and All-American and Arizona State track star Tony Darden.
The team captain for the SCH Lions this spring is sprinter and shotputter Jamie McGinn, who is the only senior on the roster.
"It's a different situation for me this year, because we have a lot of young girls, including some who just came into the school," she said. "They're learning the ropes as far as what we do as a team. At the beginning of indoor track it was a little rough, but by the time we got outdoors they had more confidence, and we've been coming together well."
McGinn, who has signed to play soccer for Dominican University (a member of the same Division II conference as Chestnut Hill College), performed in the only field event the Lions entered at Wissahickon, the shot put. She and Kyra Jackson put up a combined tossing total of 54'0.5", good for second place behind victorious Wissahickon (65'0").
McGinn's first race on the track had her in the second leg of the 4 x 200. Lipp led off and number three Davis set up a rousing anchor leg by Katelyn Jackson as SCH won in 1:46.6, ahead of Wissahickon (1:48.7). Wissy's Trojans ran very well in the 4 x 800, landing first in 10:19.6 while SCH was second in 10:47.6 with the foursome of Costarino (2:26.8 split), Ogorek, Issackman, and Brewer.
At the big spring invitationals and even in their own Girls Inter-Ac League, the Lions almost always are going up against much larger teams, with much larger cheering sections.
"I tell them, don't let it get to you; learn to block everyone out and run your own race," McGinn said.
Saturday's competition concluded for the SCH girls with the 4 x 400 relay, and McGinn said that before the race she told her young teammates "This is my last season ever for track, and I've been doing it since fourth grade. I told them I want to go out with a bang, and they came through and ran great."
As in the 4 x 200, Lipp and McGinn ran the first two legs of this four-lap race. Davis put the Lions in the lead during the third leg, fighting off a rival approaching the final exchange to send Katelyn Jackson out with an edge for the anchor leg. The sophomore shut the door on the opposition, helping SCH win in 4:08.20.
Wissahickon High, a close runner-up in 4:08.60, had been a gracious host, particularly for inviting the Lions to the meet in the first place. The event has traditionally been held for members of the Suburban One League's American Conference, but the field was expanded to include SCH and Boys' Latin, a five-year old Philadelphia charter school.
Although she'll be moving on, McGinn is excited about the future prospects for Springside Chestnut Hill track.
"We're really going to be coming on over the next couple of years," she pointed out. "Everybody but me will be back, and there are also some good new girls coming in. I kind of sad I'm not going to be here to see it."


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It is by no means a given, but Jon Niese has emerged as the frontrunner to be the team's fifth starter. Jerry Manuel said yesterday Niese has the inside track over Fernando Nieve, Nelson Figueroa and Hisanori Takahashi.
At one point this spring, I thought Takahashi was the favorite, but moved off that because he didn't have enough innings to be sufficiently stretched out. The path of least resistance would have been to option Niese because he has options remaining, but he has pitched well enough to warrant a chance and there are other variables.
Most specifically, the sad state of the Mets' bullpen. Niese couldn't help out in the pen, but both Nieve as a long man and Takahashi as a left-hander fill two roles. Odd man out, as expected, is Figueroa.
Figueroa will pass through waivers then re-sign with the Mets and be pitching around June. Personally, I hope somebody claims him and he gets a chance to pitch.


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Do you have dreams of being a clothing designer or working in fashion? Does thrift shopping strike your fancy? If so, apply to be a designer or stylist for the second annual Eco Fashion Show!
Green is the New Black, the Eco Fashion Show sponsored by Housing and Residence Life, will once again kick off NAU's Earth Week events. One of the things that make this event so special is that the designers and stylists create their runway looks completely out of reused materials. These materials can be anything from repurposed plastic bags to creating head to toe outfits via thrift store shopping. The purpose of the Eco Fashion Show is to help provide people with inspiration to think outside the box for what their wardrobe could look like and to show new and fun ways to keep unnecessary objects out of landfills. It is sure to make you look at clothing in a new way!
Learn more about the guidelines and award categories and submit an application to www.nau.edu/ecofashion by February 13th at 5pm to participate as a designer or stylist. We are looking for both men's and women's wear looks. Any member of the NAU community may participate. Prizes will include having the winning designs on display at the Communication School.
More of an armchair fashionista? The fashion show will be on April 21st 2014 at 7pm in the Dubois Center Ballroom. All are welcome and encouraged to attend to help celebrate Earth Week and enjoy the beautiful and creative designs.
April seems far away, go to our Facebook page to see pictures and videos from last year's show.
Here are a couple of teasers to enjoy!
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Airports in Tallinn
Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)
Lennart Meri Tallinn International Airport is the largest airport in Estonia, it is generally known as Tallinn Airport. Even though it was upgraded in 2008, Tallin Airport is relatively small by international standards. It's efficient and modern and even has a free Skype video terminal for passengers wishing to quickly say hi to friends and family back home.
The airport is two miles (4km) southeast of Tallinn city centre.
Getting to the city
Bus Route 2 connects the airport to the city centre from Bus Stop 1, located in front of the departure hall; tickets can be bought from the bus driver for EUR 2. Bus Stop 2 is a stopping point for intercity buses to other destinations in Estonia. There is a tram line that connects the airport to the city centre as well.
GMT +2 (GMT +3 from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October).
Tel: +372 605 8888.
Tallinn Airport Taxis: the taxi fares above are intended as a guideline only.
Become our Tallinn Travel Expert
We are looking for contributors for our Tallinn travel guide. If you are a local, a regular traveller to Tallinn or a travel professional with time to contribute and answer occasional forum questions, please contact us.


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A screencast (also known as video screen capture) is a digital recording of computer screen output that usually contains audio narrations. So basically, an application that records a user's screen activities and then saved them in video format is called screencasting software. The program is often used for training, demoing, documentation, and for assessing technical skills.
If you are using Linux and are looking for a screencasting tool that would suit you needs, then you are in luck because there are plenty to choose from. Here are some of most widely used free and open source screencasting software applications that you should check out:
If you are using Linux and are looking for a screencasting tool that would suit you needs, then you are in luck because there are plenty to choose from. Here are some of most widely used free and open source screencasting software applications that you should check out:
XVidCap is aimed to be a standards-based, free and open source alternative to commercial applications such as Lotus ScreenCam and Camtasia. XVidCap works utilizing an on-line encoding facility with the FFmpeg libavcodec / libavformat. It can capture any movement on an X11 display either as single frames (like a number of JPEG images) or it can encode the captured frames to a video on-line. It can also grab and embed an audio recording provided users have an OSS compatible system and FFMPEG libraries with compiled audio capture support.
Other features of XVidCap:
* Save videos in MPEG or AVI format
* Support for direct VOB creation, Flash Screen Video
* Capture the mouse pointer
* Capture OpenGL accelerated graphics
* Capture a running video (hardware acceleration on the graphics adapter needs to be disabled)
* On-the-fly frame size reduction
* Choose the number of frames to be captured per second
* Dbus remote control application
recordMyDesktop is a software application that is especially made for Linux. It strives to be user-friendly and at the same time effective at its main task. It captures audio/video data of a desktop session, producing an ogg-encapsulated theora-vorbis file. recordMyDesktop tries to be as unobtrusive as possible by processing only regions of the screen that have changed. It has a simple command line tool that performs the basic tasks of capturing and encoding. It also has an interface that exposes the program functionality in a usable way. The GUI frontend comes in two versions: gtk and Qt.
Some of the features of recordMyDesktop:
* On the fly encoding
* Disable compression
* Quick subsampling
* Configurable capture rate
* Directly interface with the ALSA or OSS sound system, or the software can connect to the recording port via the Jack audio server
* Configurable, global shortcuts
Istanbul (named as a tribute to Liverpool's 5th European Cup triumph in Istanbul on May 25th 2005) is a popular desktop session recorder that works on on GNOME, KDE, XFCE and others. It records session into an Ogg Theora video file. You can start and stop the recording by simply clicking on its icon in the notification area. The screencast can be in full screen or just the specific part of the screen. It sits in the task bar and lets the user select an area or a particular window to record. Istanbul inherits its screen capturing ability from the GStreamer plugins.
Here are some of its main features:
* Ability to select a window to record
* Ability to start a screencast from the command line
* Live recording of audio synchronised with the screencast video
* Uses gconf to store settings
* Stream to Icecast2 servers
* Encode at a later date
* Disable recording the mouse pointer
* Enable 3D captures
Those were the three excellent free and open source screencasting software programs that I've tried so far, but I've heard that Cankiri and vnc2swf are also good so I may have to check them out soon.


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The 9-session NASA Family Science Night program emables middle school children and their families to discover the wide variety of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics being performed at NASA and in everyday life. Family Science Night... (View More) programs explore various themes on the Sun, the Moon, the Stars, and the Universe through fun, hands-on activities, including at-home experiments. Instructions for obtaining the facilitator's guide are available on the Family Science Night site. (View Less)
This is an activity about the relation between day length and temperature. In one team, learners will create and analyze a graph of hours of sunlight versus month of the year for a number of latitudes. In another team, learners will graph... (View More) temperature versus month for the same latitudes. The teams then compare data and draw conclusions from their analyses. (View Less)
This is an activity about seasonal variations in day length. Learners will graph the number of daylight hours in each month in cities around the world and compare results. They will also gain an understanding of the meaning of the term equinox... (View More) through review of the graphed data. This is Activity 6 in the Great Explorations in Math and Science (GEMS) guide titled Real Reasons for Seasons: Sun-Earth Connections. The resource guide is available for purchase from the Lawrence Hall of Science. This activity requires use of an overhead projector and colored transparency pens. (View Less)
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Reader Audra submitted this article, Confessions of a Young Anti-Feminist, by Josephine Asher. I've long maintained that sexist arguments are rarely rational, and usually represent intellects that are more privileged than trained, but rarely have I seen an article do a better job of inadvertently making the argument for me. Asher's failure to separate rationalized emotion from rationality begins here:
Instead of harnessing the different qualities of men and women to energise us, we are striving to make men and women equal.
I long ago banned gender essentialist arguments from this site. Gender essentialism is the idea that men and women are inherently different, and therefore any woman claiming not to like pink and babies is either lying, rebelling or deranged – and likewise, any man claiming not to care for sports or want to spend time with his kids even if it means changing diapers is similarly deranged. The assumption of inherent biological differences completely lacks scientific foundation, and I make that case more thoroughly in the article linked above. But worse, what it's founded on is an emotional desire to believe that everyone who doesn't conform to gender "norms" is defective and can therefore be discounted as a representative of humanity. If we want to be taken seriously as thoughtful human beings, the desire to believe any large group of people defective is something we must all struggle to avoid, not struggle to legitimize with pseudo-intellectual chatter. Unfortunately, Asher missed this memo.
More women are joining the battle for the CEO's chair and pursuing dominance in their homes and communities. But in the process they're becoming more like men. And men are becoming… well, less like men.
"Less like men?" And what are men like? Some claim carpenters and farmers are real men while stock traders are not. Some claim richer men are more manly than poorer ones, so the stock traders would beat the carpenters. In some cultures, manly men greet each other with double kisses on the cheek. Where I grew up, that would start a fist-fight. So, again, what does "like men" mean?
Asher has found a compatriot in pseudo-scientific emotional bigotry rationalization:
Renowned Australian neurosurgeon Charlie Teo believes men and women have different roles "set not only by society but set by physiology".
"The current trend is for dads to be more hands on. But for all we know it may be proven in a hundred years time that that may be a negative thing for the upbringing of children," he said recently on Seven's Sunday Night program.
"They're there to be protective. A man has to have a good job; he has to do well at school so he can get a good job and support his family. A woman has to be loving and caring," he said.
Ah, here comes the heteronormativity – another perspective that seeks to negate the experiences of all people who don't conform to gender norms. Even though millions of men miss the mark Teo sets for them – and many others aren't even aiming for it – we know this is what men should be like because, um… well, let's see if Asher has any science to clarify it. Maybe this statement?
For thousands of years men were providers and protectors and women nurturers. Evolution provided each with the physical and emotional assets to do these jobs well.
Hmm, nope, sorry. You can't look at each trait we have now and assume evolution had a great and noble purpose for it. There is debate, for example, over whether blue eyes were actually an advantageous adaptation or merely a trait that bottlenecked in a particular population, but didn't hurt anyone, and therefore became rather popular. We'll probably never know for sure.
But there are additional problems with Asher's claim. First, in hunter-gatherer societies, it's ridiculous to negate the role of women in providing since gathering is part of that. Second, there is a history of some women fighting to protect their tribes or villages, and there are cultural reasons why women have been excluded from warfare.
But here Asher offers some statistical information. Stats can be scientific, when they're properly gathered and sensibly applied, so let's give them a shot.
The Annual Child Care and Workforce Participation Survey found 33 per cent of women who returned to work did so for independence, and 27 per cent for career progression.
However, a British survey of 2000 men revealed one-third of men would prefer to be the sole breadwinning traditional father while another quarter would like to be the main breadwinner with their spouse working only part-time.
When she said "however," weren't you expecting her to follow with something that revealed more about the women's responses in the first survey? Instead, she counters a statement about women's preferences with one about men's: "Women want X; however, men want something mutually exclusive with X." Surely she'll explain the significance of this contradiction.
Instead, men are sporting aprons, doing their own ironing and pushing trolleys down supermarket aisles – roles that don't exactly exude manliness.
The survey also found more than half of respondents thought 21st century society was turning men into "waxed and coiffed metrosexuals", who had to live according to women's rules.
Oh, I see now: her point was simply that men aren't getting what they want thanks to feminism. You know, I kind of thought that might be her point all along. It usually is the point with people making this argument: "Feminism is making men unhappy. I don't like that. I shall find a way to rationalize my desires into what sounds kind of like logic, and then no one can stop me!" But wait – there's a Real Problem here:
When a man is stripped of his sense of purpose, it's more difficult to satisfy that instinctive hunger for power and purpose. Could this be part of the reason why one in eight Australian men experiences severe depression in their lifetime?
Actually, no, no, no, no, no. Plenty of men have always experienced depression, and typically manifested it as manly manly rage. It's not that more men are experiencing depression; it's that more men are getting treatment for it and being counted. You can thank feminism and mental health advocacy for that: in seeking to make the culture understand that depression is neither just a bad attitude nor a factor of wacky female emotionalism, they made it less uncomfortable for men to seek treatment instead of just drinking themselves into an early grave or shooting themselves in the face, like they did back in the good ol' days.
At no point does Asher mention how many women are depressed.
Never does Asher offer any logical foundation for her assertions (or Teo's) that men are supposed to protect and provide for a family while women nurture. That's because there isn't one. That's because the woman who could've been a big somebody if only she hadn't gotten pregnant with those damn kids and had to marry existed long before feminism. The man who didn't derive purpose from his occupation also existed long before feminism. These people and many other non-conformists are part of why feminism came into being: because millions of people have always found a conflict between their true inner nature and the supposed "norms" of their gender.
The "norms" have never been true mathematical norms: sure, many people naturally happen to conform to stereotypes of their gender, and that's absolutely fine. But a huge minority don't – much too big a minority to be dismissed as a fluke. Especially when you consider how the minority might be increased if we could somehow eliminate from the count people who have merely convinced themselves they conform in order to make life easier. Because it does make life oh so much easier.
If the norms were really norms, why would culture work so incredibly hard at brainwashing us all into our acceptable roles, that we have an entire collection of industries for this site to critique for that very reason?


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William L. Ducharme Sr., 86, of Warwick, died July,25,2013 at Kent hospital. He was the beloved husband of Martha (Giovine) Durcharme.
Mr. Ducharme was born in Providence a son of the late William J. & Loretta (Lombardi) Ducharme.
William, was a Master Cable Splicer for the former Narragansett Electric Company now National Grid for over 45 years, before retiring in 1990. He was a Warwick resident since 1951, a veteran of World War II serving in the United Statea Coast Guard. Mr. Ducharme was a parishioner of St. Catherine of Siena Church, a 32nd Degree Mason of the Manchester Lodge F &AM, a member of the American Legion Wm. Shields Post, a member of the Sons of Italy Mazzi Lodge.
Besides his wife, he is survived by his devoted sons Alfred M. Ducharme and his wife, Claire of Debary Florida, and William L. Ducharme and his wife, Mary Jo of Royal Palm Beach Florida; a sister Cecile Berardis of Warwick. He was the grandfather of five; and the great-grandfather of four. Mr. Ducharme was the brother of the late Peter Ducharme.
His funeral will be held Tuesday July 30 2013 at 9:00 a.m. from the Urquhart-Murphy Funeral Home, 800 Greenwich Ave., (exit 12A on I–95) Warwick, RI, followed by a mass of Christian Burial at 10:30 a.m. in St. Catherine of Siena Church 3250 Post Road, Warwick RI, burial will follow in St. Ann Cemetery, Cranston, RI. Relatives and friends are invited and may call Tuesday morning from 9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m.
In lieu of flowers, gifts in his memory the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, 399 Fruit Hill Avenue North Providence RI 02911–2842 will be appreciated.


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Senators Urge Trade Talks with Japan and USDA Has Grants Available
- A bipartisan group of Senators is urging U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman to negotiate a comprehensive and acceptable agreement with Japan that will increase market access for all agricultural products as part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks.
The Senators expressed concern that Japan has not made a comprehensive offer on agricultural talks that would increase access for U.S. agricultural products in Japan in a letter sent Friday.
They said the lack of a comprehensive agreement would undermine the Administration's goal of significantly increasing market access for U.S. agricultural products in TPP party countries.
- USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture will make $6 million in grants available this year, and up to $30 million over the next five years, as part of a new initiative to provide solutions to agricultural water challenges.
The grants, announced by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Monday, will be used to develop management practices, technologies and tools for farmers, ranchers, forest owners and citizens to improve water resource quantity and quality.


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Tom Best says he works in the best place ever—the Keepsake Studio. To him, it feels like stepping into Santa's workshop. "We're like elves," he says. "We make Christmas joy." One day he could be fashioning a rockin' guitar or a mighty beer stein, and the next day it might be a cute miniature or the beloved Frosty Friends. That's the magic of a Keepsake, he says. Something amazing always awaits. Learn more about Tom Best.Shop all Tom Best


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Improve and adapt the Gitorious Web Application for its use in the development of KDE
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Improve and adapt the Gitorious Web Application for its use in the development of KDE
Evaluate the current peculiarities of Gitorious and the process or politics of the KDE development to define the new modifications needed to obtain the best integration with Gitorious.
First we need to study the KDE repository structure with Git. KDE is an umbrella of many big projects, each of them is made of several smaller parts that are projects of their own. What seems to be the current agreement is that KDE big projects would be git supermodules and KDE sub-projects would be git submodules.
README/TODO/CMake/... includes doc ... kdecore.git (module) kdeui.git (module) kio.git (module) knewstuff.git (module) ...
README/TODO/CMake/... includes doc ... plasma.git (module) ruphy-plasma.git notmart-plasma.git chani-plasma.git someone-plasma.git ... kdm.git (module) ...
KDE has a history of being developer friendly and easily giving svn accounts to most people that apply for them. Git makes this even easier as anybody can commit to his/her own branch.
That being said, KDE is more or less a meritocracy and some developers have more power than others when it comes to administration. This is necessary but SVN can make the administration painful for admins and frustrating for wanna-be developers as they have to wait before they can commit.
Given that, we have thought of a simple user/role organization (no complicated rwx type of permissions system that nobody gets and uses).
This is what we have so far.
1) What's the use of private clones?
2) The question is to know if each submodule of a supermodule will have one or several admin or if every developers of a submodule will have the ability to accept or reject new developers?
3) If there are submodules admins, who does grant them there role? the supermodule admin?
4) Gitorious would be a websvn replacement only or will it be a bugzilla replacement too? Gitorious devs are implementing ticket tracking as of this document writing.
5) is it necesary to implement "applying for developer status" or will it continue to happen by mail as it does now?
1) suggestion: anybody will be able to create projects/repositories/forks without any permissions, those projects will be moved to kdeplayground/<submodule> with the submodule created by the superadmin. The project creator could choose the submodule by him/herself. This seems to be in the spirit of kde playground, what do you think?
2) Playground module for each supermodule(kdelibs, kdebase):
... playground/ project1.git project2.git ...
... playground/ project3.git project4.git ...
playground/ (is a supermodule)
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When the PC's primary home was in the office, noise wasn't a real factor. But no one wants a noisy computer in their living room. And as PCs make a serious play for a spot in your den or as part of your home theater setup, users and vendors have started paying more attention to this annoyance.
Here's the problem: To handle media-heavy functions, PCs need lots of processing power. Power means heat, and that typically means more buzzsaw-like fans. But two companies, Hush Technologies and Voodoo PC, offer PCs that boast multimedia power, bold style, and very low noise level, thanks to fanless cases.
Each company uses the same basic method to cool its PCs: custom-designed heat pipes and a case that acts like a big heat sink. With fans gone, hard drives are the main source of noise. But that's where similarities end. Aimed at both the digital home and the executive office, the $2230 Hush ATX-Business PC is a tightly integrated machine in a sleek, low-profile case with the minimalist appeal of high-end audio gear. The $3750 Voodoo Rage F-50 is a server-like system well suited for networked gaming, with broad expansion capabilities, easy access to the interior, and a macho, industrial look. (Prices do not include a monitor.)
We tested the units with PC WorldBench 4 and performed sound tests both with the PCs on idle and with intense hard-drive activity (see chart).
Sound Check
Unlike many prior quiet PCs, the two we saw used mainstream, fairly powerful CPUs. The Hush, with a 2.8-GHz Pentium 4 and 512MB of RAM, earned a PC WorldBench 4 score of 122; the Voodoo had a 2-GHz Athlon 64 3200+ and 1GB of RAM, and scored 138. Both were on a par with PCs in their processor class, so you won't have to compromise performance for quiet.
Both units also deliver on that promise of muted operation. The Hush at idle measures 27 decibels adjusted for a human ear's sensitivity (dBA). With the drive cranking, that figure rises about 6 dBA. The Voodoo has a noticeably quieter idle state at 23 to 24 dBA, but that goes up to 38 dBA with its two 120GB RAID-configured drives at work. The Voodoo's thick-walled aluminum case helped keep noise down at idle. But unlike the Hush's rubber-cushioned drives, the Voodoo's drives are hard mounted, and the noise with drives at work seemed to echo in the undampened interior.
Though neither system is completely silent, both yield far better results than typical PCs, which measure up to 60 dBA--a level few users would tolerate in their living rooms.
Whether either of these PCs is right for you depends partly on the level of low noise you require, and whether their unusual styling is worth the cost. Specialists such as Arm Systems and even PC market leader Dell offer fairly quiet PCs using optimized fans and case designs at better prices.
--Mike Chin


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HUD Information: Submission and Audit Requirements for PHAs and Multi-family Program Participants
Financial statement and other information must be submitted to REAC electronically by PHAs or multi-family program participants on FASS using templates (referred to as FASS templates) specifically designed for them. Auditors participate in this submission process. In order to insure accuracy and consistency of financial data in the assessment process, REAC requires the following as the basis for electronic submission:
- Audited annual basic financial statements prepared in conformity with GAAP (PHAs submit basic financial statements and certain auditor's reports electronically to REAC as well as maintain a hard copy of all financial statements and audit reports for three years; however, multi-family program participants maintain a hard copy of the basic financial statements and audit reports for three years but do not submit the statements or reports electronically)
- Report by auditors on the hard copy of the FASS templates as to their "fair presentation in relation to audited basic financial statements" in accordance with the audit provisions of the AICPA Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 29, Reporting on Information Accompanying the Basic Financial Statements in Auditor-Submitted Documents, (PHAs must electronically submit the required FASS template and related SAS 29 reporting to REAC; multi-family program participants must electronically submit the required FASS templates to REAC, however, are not required to electronically submit the related SAS 29 reporting; PHAs and multi-family program participants must both maintain a hard copy of the SAS 29 reporting for three years); and
- A separate (i.e., not part of the above two requirements) attestation agreed-upon procedures engagement under AICPA Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements where the auditor compares the electronically submitted data in the REAC staging database (the FASS template information) to the related hard copy documents (the attestation report is prepared and submitted to REAC electronically by the auditor).
REAC requires owners to engage a licensed CPA or CPA firm to perform the agreed-upon procedures (see previous bullet) enumerated in a document titled, Guidelines for Reporting and Attestation Requirements of Uniform Financial Reporting Standards For Public Housing Authorities, Not-for-Profit Multi-family Program Participants, For-Profit Multifamily Program Participants, and their Independent Accountants. The main purpose of this Guideline is to provide guidance to PHAs and multifamily participants and their auditors in meeting the above requirements.


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Rep Bobby Scott, D-Newport News, is teaming up with Republican Congressman Richard Hanna of New York to propose a new federal-state partnership to expand access to preschool.
Their bill would fund preschool for four-year-old children whose families earn less than 200 percent of the federal poverty level (that's $31,860 for a single parent with one child).
"Too often low-income and moderate-income children, and students with disabilities, tend to fall behind," Scott said. "Both Democrats and Republicans agree that increased access to quality preschool helps to ensure that all of our children have a fair shot to succeed."
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Inwardly revived again, I can feel
my own being's vastness.
I can pour forth powerful beams of thought
rising from the soul's Sun-like might -
to solve life's mysteries
and give fulfillment to many wishes
whose wings loss of hope had lamed.
This is a wonderful painting. I have often admired waldor art and the fact that the children mix without creating swamp water. Do you encourage that by limiting the color choices? Beth


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GHS Class of 2013 – Small But Proud
Escorted by kilt-clad junior honor students, they walked in two by two, the Glasgow High School graduating class of 2013, the white-robed girls carrying red flowers, the boys in red wearing white boutonnieres.
As Andy Gardner, the class representative, told them in his Senior Address, their class of 47 graduates is the smallest class since 1930, and the smallest from this school building. Seventeen of them started kindergarten together.
Seniors are graduating all over the country but today, he said, "We're graduating from Glasgow High School – it's a miracle!"
He joked about half of them being ready for the challenges ahead, then said, "Growing up in Glasgow, we are bred not necessarily to be perfect or the best, but to not give up."
"I knew someday I would be speaking to a graduating class," said Sam Knodel, class of 1985, Homecoming King in 1984, who went away to Northern Montana College in Havre for two years and returned to start a family and spend his life in the family business, Eugene's Pizza.
"I'm not a lawyer, doctor, CEO. I'm not a lot of things. I didn't even fly here to speak. I have written a stage play. I have songs and plays in my head. I'm not finished yet. I have plenty of dreams, goals and ideas."
He gave the seniors six keys points for success and advised them to be patient, it can take years, but "When the green light shines, go after it."
Before their eyes he achieved what he said had been a secret goal: to give the successful speech, have people laugh at his jokes and get a standing ovation at the end.
School Board Chairman Alison Molvig noted seven teachers, staff and board members who are retiring with a total of 167 years of service in the Glasgow schools. GHS Principal Marj Markle is one of them. The students presented her with a farewell gift, a framed photo of the Scottie dog in front of the school.
The Concert Band, Concert Choir and Swing Choir performed their final numbers together. Knodel had the next-to-last word - or note - at graduation. Just before the rousing final rendition of the school song, the student musicians performed a recessional he wrote, "Here's To You."


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Thatcher Funeral To Be Held April 17 [VIDEO]
Queen Elizabeth II will be among the mourners at the funeral of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on April 17, officials announced Tuesday.
Buckingham Palace said the queen and her husband, Prince Philip, would attend the ceremony at St. Paul's Cathedral, which is expected to draw dignitaries from around the world.
The only other prime minister whose funeral the monarch has attended was that of Britain's World War II leader, Winston Churchill, in 1965.
Churchill was the last British leader to receive a state funeral, also at St. Paul's. Thatcher's service, a ceremonial funeral with full military honors, is not officially a state funeral, which requires a vote in Parliament.
But the ceremony features the same level of pomp and honor afforded Princess Diana and the Queen Mother Elizabeth.
Thatcher's coffin will lie overnight at the Houses of Parliament ahead of the funeral, before being taken by hearse to the church of St. Clement Danes and then, on a horse-drawn gun carriage, to the 17th-century cathedral along a route lined by military personnel.
The televised funeral will be followed by a private cremation.
Early Tuesday, undertakers removed Thatcher's body from London's Ritz Hotel where she died Monday at the age of 87. A van carrying Thatcher's casket left the hotel for an undisclosed location, where it will remain during preparations for the funeral.
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It was a long, hard fought battle to get hairdressers acknowledged for an Academy Award. Ted Gibson has been at the forefront of this battle and the results have been fruitful. The nominees, (in this new special category) announced yesterday, include Hitchcock,The Hobbit and Les Miserables.
"Look at the ballot," Ted told me this morning. "Look at the listing of the nominees. The category is MAKE UP AND HAIRSTYLING! This is fantastic and long overdue, but I am still not satisfied. I will be satisfied when HAIRSTYLING gets its own ballot."
Ted and I started to chat about some of the other films nominated for Best Picture: "Just look at all those films. All the hair is spectacular and the hairdressers who created those looks deserve recognition not just for their research, but for the finishes. Look at Lincoln and Django Unchained. The hair plays an integral role in character development. I am so happy that the incredible talent behind the work will finally be acknowledged...at least in the three nominated."
Ted wanted to acknowledge the efforts of everyone who banned together to make a difference. "It wasn't just the professional communtiy, but consumers as well," he says. "This is a great first step."
To get to the next step, Ted plans to continue his lobbying for hairdressers at the Academy Awards. He asks that we all sign the petition at http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/we-need-an-oscar-for-hair/ or visit the We Need an Oscar for Hair Facebook page.


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Biomedically-focused research productivity by Namibian authors and institutions 1995-2010.
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Filter emerged as one of the most popular bands in the mid-'90s post-industrial alternative scene. Vocalist and primary member Richard Patrick had been a guitarist with Nine Inch Nails during the Pretty Hate Machine and Broken eras. In 1993, Patrick decided to leave NIN to form his own band. He met Brian Liesegang through a mutual friend and the pair began to record together. Patrick handled vocals, guitars, bass, programming, and drums, while Liesegang covered programming, guit... Read more


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US Cites al-Qaida Threat In Issuing Travel Warning [VIDEO]
The threat which has prompted the U.S. to shutter some diplomatic posts and issue a travel alert is reportedly based on intercepted communications.
The New York Times is reporting that the communications were between senior al-Qaida operatives.
The top U.S. military commander says there is what he calls "a significant threat stream." Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey told ABC News that the threat was "more specific" than previous ones and that potential targets are Western, not just U.S. interests."
The State Department is urging American travelers to take extra precautions overseas. Potential dangers listed include public transportation systems and other prime sites for tourists.
The threat follows this week's White House meeting between President Barack Obama and Yemen's current president, Abdo Rabby Mansour Hadi.
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