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|Identified Gaps in Biosafety Knowledge and Expertise in Sub-Saharan Africa
|The Prospects for Acceptance of Animal Cloning in the European Food Chain: Early Insights from an Irish Sentinel Group
|Risk of Regulation or Regulation of Risk? A De Minimus Framework for Genetically Modified Crops
|Variety Market Development: A Bt Cotton Cropping Factor and Constraint in China
|Yields, Insecticide Productivity, and Bt Corn: Evidence from Damage Abatement Models in the Philippines


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Cure for Your Financial Hangover
I had a great holiday and I hope you did too! Now real life sets in again and if nothing else does, the holiday bills and January credit card statements will sober us up real quick!
Continuing along the theme of last week's blog, let's talk a little more about 2013 resolutions for good financial health. A lot of it really all comes down to preparing for a rainy day and controlling spending impulses.
A good rule of thumb for a rainy day fund is to have cash equal to three to four times your monthly living expenses. Put money into this account every month so there will be enough to cover unexpected major repairs, medical emergencies, and even a temporary loss of income. Did I mention this could also help you fulfill your New Year's resolution of sleeping better at night?
If you need to use credit cards to cover normal monthly expenses…well just stop that! Easier said than done I know, but break this cycle now and pick one expense you will do without. In two weeks add another. Keep going until your monthly budget is balanced.
Automate your finances when possible. It's easy to set up automatic deposits to build your rainy day fund, college fund, or retirement program. On the other side, set up auto payments for utilities from your checking account (be sure to keep track of them) so you can avoid late fees and save a stamp (hey, it all adds up!).
Most important, write a budget and monitor it throughout the month. The more detailed the better so that you can easily identify cost cutting opportunities and track your victories!

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Sunset Dates
She was very flirty indeed with Aaron Eckhart on the set of Travelling in Vancouver but her flirty wasn't exclusive and since she wrapped her part on the set two weeks ago, she's been spending time with someone else.
Last Thursday, Sunset Towers – my sources tell me Jennifer Aniston was out on a romantic date with a mystery man. They staggered their departure to throw off gossips but got into her car, surrounded by her security, and apparently did not emerge all weekend.
This is a good thing. That she's not wallowing in Second Coming depression, it's a very good thing. Can the triangle seriously please die?
Attached – cute photos of a happy Jen from Travelling a few weeks back.
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Duke vs. North Carolina
Saturday, March 9, 2013 • 9:00 p.m. • ESPN
Chapel Hill, N.C. • Dean E. Smith Center (21,750)
Play-by-Play: Dan Shulman
Analysts: Dick Vitale, Jay Bilas
Sideline: Samantha Ponder
Blue Devil IMG Sports Network
Play-by-Play: Bob Harris
Analyst Opening: John Roth
Sirius – 85; XM – 91
The Opening Tip
- The Blue Devils are ranked No. 3 in the AP Poll and No. 4 in the USA Today Coaches Poll. Duke is 3-1 this season and 112-23 overall when ranked No. 3 in the country.
- The Blue Devils have been ranked in the AP top 10 for 111 consecutive weeks. Duke has been ranked in the top five in 15 of the 18 polls this season.
- Duke is playing its 207th straight game as a top-10 team in the AP poll. Duke is 172-34 in that span.
- Head coach Mike Krzyzewski ranks second all-time for most wins by a coach at one school with 880 career victories at Duke. Krzyzewski passed Dean Smith on the list following Duke's 85-57 win over Virginia Tech last Tuesday. His 880 wins at Duke are the most in ACC history.
- Duke is the only team in the top 5 of the Associated Press Poll (No. 3), Coaches Poll (No. 4), NCAA RPI (No. 1) and Strength of Schedule index (No. 1).
The Last Time Out
- Senior captains Seth Curry, Ryan Kelly and Mason Plumlee combined for 52 points on senior night Tuesday against Virginia Tech to lead Duke to an 85-57 win over the Hokies in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
- The win improved Duke to 16-0 in Cameron Indoor Stadium this season, marking the 17th time in school history – and 10th under Coach K – that the Blue Devils went undefeated at home. It was also Duke's 800th home win in Cameron.
- Curry led Duke with 20 points, while Kelly added 18 and Plulmee 14. Curry hit five three-pointers, including four in a row.
- Duke committed just four turnovers the entire game while amassing 17 assists for the second-highest assist-to-turnover ratio this season. Plumlee and Kelly led the team with five assists apiece.
- The win moved Coach K into second place on the list for most wins by a coach at one school.
Numbers Game
- Head coach Mike Krzyzewski won his 880th game at Duke on Tuesday, moving past Dean Smith for second place for most wins by a coach at one school. Krzyzewski is 880-236 (.789) all-time as Duke's head coach.
- Duke, ranked No. 3 in the latest AP Poll, has been ranked in the top 10 of the poll 111 consecutive weeks. The last time Duke was not ranked in the top 10 was Nov. 19, 2007.
- Duke is the only team in the top 5 of the Associated Press Poll (No. 3), Coaches Poll (No. 3), NCAA RPI (No. 1) and Strength of Schedule index (No. 2). Miami is the only other school to rank in the top 10 in all four polls.
- Duke has locked up at least a top-three finish in the ACC standings, marking the sixth straight season – and 16th time in the last 17 seasons – that Duke has finished in the ACC's top three.
- Duke went undefeated at home for the third time in the last four seasons. The only other time the Blue Devils accomplished that feat was from 1961-1964 (undefeated in 1961, 1963 and 1964). Duke is 800-153 all-time in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
- Duke has had at least one player score 20 or more points in each of the last six games. Four different players have accomplished the feat with Seth Curry posting four 20+ point games and averaging 18.8 ppg., while shooting 51.3 percent (20-of-39) from three-point range in that span.
- Seth Curry is just 18 points shy of reaching 2,000 for his career. He has 1,275 points as a Blue Devil and 1,982 during his college career.
- Duke is 17-0 with Ryan Kelly in the lineup this season, including a 4-0 mark against top-five teams. Kelly is among the winningest players in Duke history, posting a 107-13 (.892) record to rank third on the all-time winning percentage list.
- Ryan Kelly is averaging 27.0 points per game since returning to the lineup two games ago. Kelly is shooting 61.5 percent (16-of-26) from the field, 56.3 percent (9-of-16) from three-point range and 81.3 percent (13-of-16) from the free throw line during that span. He also leads the team with 8.0 rebounds per game during that two-game stretch.
- Quinn Cook has scored in double figures in 10 of the last 12 games and in four straight contests. Cook is averaging 14.8 points and 4.2 assists per game during that stretch.
Duke-North Carolina Series History
- Duke and North Carolina have met 235 times with North Carolina holding a 132-103 lead in the series. Duke is 38-37 against North Carolina under head coach Mike Krzyzewski.
- The series began on Jan. 24, 1920 and is the third most played series in Duke basketball history. North Carolina won the first meeting 36-25.
- Duke is 12-15 all-time in the Dean E. Smith Center after winning last year's meeting 85-84. Duke has won two of the last three games in the Smith Center.
- Duke is 20-11 against North Carolina since the 1999- 2000 season.
- The Blue Devils have won six of the last eight meetings against the Tar Heels.
- Neither team has won both regular season meetings in the same season since the 2008-09 season.
- The road team is 9-6 in the series since the 2005-06 season.
- In the last meeting, Mason Plumlee and Quinn Cook both scored 18 points to lead Duke past North Carolina 73-68 in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Duke outrebounded North Carolina 39-38 for the game.


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MyLab Pro iPhone App by Ubinuri
With MyLAB Pro, you can record yourself singing over a selected track of music. After you have recorded yourself, you can remove the background music and study and critique, note-by-note, your performance. Empowered by MyLAB with the ability to record your singing and go back to study your performance (and with the flexibility to do so, literally, anywhere and anytime!), you can teach yourself how to sound like the pros!
MyLAB has all the tools and features to let you perfect your style and delivery on your own, without having to invest a ton of money into expensive vocal lessons or studio time. With MyLAB you can fast-track your learning, enjoy your practice sessions and develop the confidence you'll need, at your own pace. Before you know it, you will be hitting each note with professional precision, and you will be a master at projecting your voice and your pitch in no time at all. And it's simple!
*Select the song you would like to sing
*Press the recording button and start singing
*Record your performance with musical accompaniment in the background
*Play back your recording without the music (to study your performance)
*As you build confidence, you can record yourself without the aid of background music (to more deeply study and analyze your skills)
Due to its ease of use and wide range of features and options, MyLAB is a highly versatile, all-around vocal delivery enhancement tool – and not JUST for singing. MyLAB can also, aside from helping produce the next generation of singing prodigies, be used as a supremely effective tool for perfecting language skills of all sorts – be it learning how to speak English or Japanese with a perfect accent, or improving your ability to pronounce words correctly in different languages.
MyLAB functions as a high-scope, mobile language lab that will help you improve your pronunciation, develop a better understanding of conversation exchanges, develop your vocabulary and teach you to speak fluently. You can learn your lessons without having to buy expensive language programs, or pour over heavy, complicated textbooks. To develop dynamic and perfect language skills, MyLAB gives you a cost-effective language enhancement app that really works!
*Learn the language of your choice by listening to files in your smartphone
*Improve your pronunciation through repeated listening and self-study
*Practice speaking through the shadowing technique
*Monitor your learning and track your progress as you advance
MyLAB gives you the flexibility of a personal (and mobile!) home recording studio, and has the capacity to serve as a powerful language improvement tool. And, no matter how you choose to use MyLAB, you can go at your own pace and learn, through self-study, in the most comfortable way for YOU!
If you've ever dreamed of singing at Radio City Music Hall, or the Grand Ole Opry, or if you hope to one day be able to speak a language just as well as a native speaker, then MyLAB is the app you need. Get started today!
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Comes with 6 FREE T5 tubes of your choice. Ideal for your marine or freshwater setup.
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The complete package Includes- contoller + leads T5 tubes, T5 Reflectors + Cable tidys
Multi-attachment capabilities mean no longer will there be any need to worry about how to suspend a light fixture over your aquarium
Most popular Aquarium LED lighting suspension fitting on the market. Versatile enough for almost all LED lighting fixtures available on the market today.
High Output T5's are better to use in your aquarium lighting than the regular T8 as they have increased water penetration and are more efficient. You don't lose the illumination at the bottom of the deeper tanks.
This tube can be used on a 92cm light unit. The following aquariums can be fitted with this tube: Rio 180, Trigon 350 (front light unit). These T5's are also compatible with the Aquatlantis range of T5 Lighting.
iQuatics reflector is like no other on the market, we use a the latest in technology material which helps to prevent against the most common problems you see with other brands, easy wipe and maintain, rust resistant, easy to replace costs effective reflective strips available
iQuatics® Airo-Carbon has been designed and manufactured to the highest possible specifications; its high activity pelletised granular shape has a greater surface area that allows maximum flow and a high contact time. Due to its sophisticated production process its low ash content helps to keep the pH of the water stable.
The iQuatics Filter Media Nets are manufactured to a high standard to suit all types of filter media. (NOT powder form)
Comes fitted with a easy fastening zip for replacement of the filter media. They are flexible to fit into all external filter designs
A primary reason that aquarium hobbyists throw in the towel is the endless battle against algae. Nitrates and phosphates, the two major causes of algae can be dramatically reduced by using iQuatics newly developed Bio Pearls. Our Bio Pearls are 100% biodegradable polymers which prompt the growth of bacteria that removes nitrates and phosphates from water when used with a fluidised reactor.
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One of our key differentiators is that we manufacture our own products, where we see a gap in the market that our unique approach of affordability and quality is best suited to meet. This is what has led to our reputation in the aquarium lighting business growing year on year and the doubling of our company size year on year. We take pride in total control of our products right from design, through manufacture, shipping and delivery to our end users and beyond. This means that our reliability is second to none and our customer service is made easier by having better products than anyone.
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Johnny Rotten necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 267 diseños de 78 diseñadores freelance.
In a pickle this time. I need a logo and biz card layout for "The Chandler Group" a parent company of 6 companies, 1 management company and 5 operating companies. Very short time frame to get this one done. All effort is appreciated in advance.
The Chandler Group
Desired Color Scheme:
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Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
This contest does not require any particular color scheme or web 2.0 styles (although they are welcome).
Here are a couple of things to consider in your designs:
Simple is better and more memorable.
Not to many intricacies that will be tough to make out in a small print version such as a business card.
You can look at the following temporary web page for an explanation of what all of our companies are all about.
The Chandler Group may grow through acquisition so be careful not to lock your design into something that will not scale with company growth.
I will be very prompt on feedback so please know that I will be paying a ton of attention to this during the contest. I promise to respond quickly.
Good luck and private message me if you have other questions
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When thinking about business optimisation, how often do you consider outsourcing? If you're serious about running your business on the best devised cost benefit platform, the answer should be yes. And if you are serious about marketing, considering outsourcing should be an absolute yes. But for many businesses the answer is not as clear cut. […]Read More
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TechDays 2011: Early Bird Pricing Extended Until 28 February 2011
Register now with extended Early Bird pricing
Discover new technologies and increase your knowledge about current technologies on April 26, 27 and 28 at Metropolis, Antwerp. Do you want to attend at a discounted price? We have good news for you: the Early Bird pricing period has been extended until February 28, 2011. Register now and save up to €125!
Why you should not miss this year's TechDays
TechDays 2011 delivers more than 80 technical sessions presented by top national and international speakers. The 3-day conference covers overview to very technical sessions on .NET language, framework and tools evolutions including C# and Visual Basic futures, WCF, parallel programming, development practices, OData, VSTS, ...; new web and client development techniques and technologies like ASP.NET MVC 3, HTML5, MVVM, Silverlight 5, Windows Phone 7, XNA, etc; and of course the newest stuff covering the Cloud with the Windows Azure Platform.
Further you can expect how to learn to write PowerShell scripts, how to lockdown your pc infrastructure with Applocker and Group Policies, how to build high available virtualization infrastructure, what VDI is and what the impact will be on your infrastructure. Finally you will also discover the vnext versions of some of the System Center product and the future of SQL Server.
Deep dives
On April 28th we are organizing different deep dives. Deep dives are full day post-conference workshops delivered by industry experts.
This year's Deep Dives are focused on Application Lifecycle Management, the Cloud (Windows Azure Platform), Direct Access and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.
For the ALM Deep Dive we can also confirm that some of the speakers are Visual Studio ALM Rangers (check out this site if you don't know what the Rangers are).
Top speakers
Even more top speakers have been confirmed, out of which we can give you a few names including Vittorio Bertocci, Glenn Block, Brian Keller, Rob Miles, Ingo Rammer, Clemens Vasters, Don Jones, Dan Holme, Jeremy Moskowitz, Dandy Weyn, John Craddock and many more…
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While it may be hard to be thankful for recent market trends, Jerry Gulke says this is the time we should start to see a rebound.
Prices have been on a pretty steady down trend for the last few months.
See the January soybeans chart:
And, the December corn chart:
While it may be hard to be thankful for these market trends, Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group, says if history repeats itself, these prices could be headed for a turnaround. "The market has a tendency to trend higher from around Thanksgiving into December and January."
The soybean market has been losing stream at a rapid rate. "We've lost over 50% of the total movement in soybeans, something that shouldn't have happened," he says.
But Gulke believes, from a timing and price standpoint now would be the time for the soybean market to take a stand and try to rally. "Whether we can rally to new highs, I doubt it."
He says the soybean market is especially volatile right now because yields are unknown for the South American crop.
Trading Days to Watch
The markets are closed on Thursday, Nov. 22 in honor of Thanksgiving and will trade for limited hours on Friday.
Gulke says when full trading resumes on Monday morning, we'll see what we have.
An indicator to watch for the next two weeks is how the close on Nov. 30 compares with the open on Dec. 3. "We don't want to start out lower in December than where we ended in November."
Listen to Gulke's full audio analysis:
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Shaving cream for jellyfish stings? Vinegar for sunburn? Meat tenderizer for just about anything that bothers your skin? Popular wisdom holds that vinegar and baking soda — among a slew of folk remedies — work for just about all that ails you.
Thinking outside the medicine cabinet, the use of home remedies (or repurposed products) can often be as effective as any commercial salve for mild discomfort caused by everyday accidents or encounters with critters. (The emphasis here is on mild. Anyone who is having a severe allergic reaction — difficulty breathing, excessive swelling, nausea, dizziness — should not wait to seek immediate medical help.)
Late summer owns the distinction of being the time of year when people suffer the most stings from insects and plants. That's because the months when people tend to spend more time outdoors coincides with whenbees and wasps are at their most active. It also means exposure to such natural irritants as poison ivy. In this region, it's also when the temperature of local waters peaks and brings with it swarms of jellyfish.
The hazards are plentiful but that's no reason to stay inside. But you might want to take note of these remedies for some of the accidents and ailments common at this time of year. Practicality is also a consideration. After all, who goes to the beach with a jug of vinegar? Or has immediate access to sliced onions?
Perhaps the best remedy comes from understanding the injury — then it's both easier to avoid and, if necessary, to treat. And really, these are remedies, or salves, not cures.
The most common local species, phylum cnidaria, go by the name of sea nettles. The trailing tentacles can prick a victim and release nematocysts, venom used to immobilize prey.
For instant relief, people recommend immersing the area in wet sand or sea water. Either should provide a temporary — very temporary — reprieve. (Perhaps this is another old wives' tale, but usually the antidote to nature's wounds can be found nearby.) Essentially both provide a soothing effect by helping to cool the affected area and rid it of more irritants.
But the discomfort is likely to stick around and the "sting" may even spread after initial contact as venom continues to be released.
To prevent this, it's important to remove remaining nematocysts by applying a paste to draw them out and then letting the coating dry before scraping it off. Some local EMS groups have jellyfish kits with nothing more sophisticated than vinegar and baking soda to make a paste. Meat tenderizer works in much the same way as vinegar, its enzyme papain neutralizing the venom and reducing inflammation. The powdered version can be mixed with sea water to make a paste.
However, the Mayo Clinic, which recommends the use of vinegar for most jellyfish stings, recommends using shaving cream or a paste of seawater and baking soda or talcum powder instead for sea nettle stings. Once dry, it can be scraped off using plastic, such as a credit card — or fingernails.
Do not, all agree: rub, rinse with fresh water, use rubbing alcohol, bleach or ammonia.
Wasps andbees
Their stings are different and therefore, while the enzymes from a freshly sliced onion or its juice might work to soothe a wasp's sting, other methods are necessary to remove a honey bee's stinger. As with jellyfish, the latter should be scraped off. Wipe gauze over the area or use a fingernail.
Whenbees sting they release a chemical that attracts other bees, so it's important to head out of the immediate area or out of the open into shade. Treat with an antiseptic afterwards to prevent infection.
Do not: squeeze a stinger or use tweezers, or scratch.
Poison ivy
The plant and its fellow offenders, poison oak and sumac, create a "wet rash" from oil from the plants that's absorbed into the skin. Contrary to popular belief, the rash of fluid-filled blisters is not contagious and does not spread after first contact. Any increase in the rash area is either attributable to a delayed reaction or re-infection — the offending oil, uroshiol, an allergen, remains active on surfaces for an extended time. Washing clothes and other surfaces thoroughly with soap and water limits re-exposure.
Liquid white shoe polish, recommended by some to calm the itching, probably won't do any damage; it contains pipe clay which has the same drying, soothing effect as calamine lotion. Pastes of baking soda and oatmeal baths are recommended for their anti-inflammatory properties. If the rash becomes infected — from scratching — then antibiotics are prescribed.
Do not: blot the areas with bleach, or scratch.
Once burned, the long-term damage to the skin is already done. But there's some relief for the burning, itching and scaling that follows a second-degree burn — that's when the skin gets red and peels. Most of the home recommendations involve products that offer a cooling sensation, such as aloe vera lotion, a cool shower, a vinegar-soaked wet towel, or petroleum jelly. There's no "cure," but they all offer a feeling of relief, a sensation of cool. For more severe second-degree burns, when the skin blisters, medical attention is essential, according to the American Academy of Dermatologists.
Do not: pop the blisters.


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Tips for Moving Large Mirrors
It's the one thing you dread moving: the 100 pound, colossal mirror. If you've never moved a large mirror with a moving truck before, every little bump in the road will make you second guess the thickness of the sheet you wrapped it in. But, with just a few tips, you'll be ready to go.
This step is especially important for larger mirrors. You'll want to tape across the mirror, horizontally and vertically. Create all kinds of crisscrosses. If your mirror breaks during the move, the pieces won't shatter all over the place. Instead, the tape will keep the shards in a somewhat better position to dispose of without injury.
Bubble Wrap
It's just essential. Bubble wrap will protect the mirror from edges and corners, bumps and boxes. Bubble wrap the mirror as many times as you want. The more you have the better, right? Just don't pop the bubbles until after the move.
The Best Box
Invest in a mirror carton. It's a box specially made for mirrors. The mirror carton is divided into four parts that interlock and move to fit the frames of most mirrors. In conjunction with the bubble wrap and tape, you won't have any problems moving any mirror.
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In a country where most people lack reliable electricity to their homes and workplaces, the government's declaration of an intention to sell of its pathetic state-owned electricity company is cause for celebration – and also reflection on what private-ownership will bring if the government manages to sell even a controlling stake to outsiders.
The government said Aug. 26 it wants foreign investors to put $10 billion into its ailing electricity company, Power Holding Company of Nigeria. The long list of potential investors includes Canada, Turkey, Saudia Arabia, China, and India, but not the United States.
Surely Nigeria offers profitable opportunities for foreign investors – and the promise of improved living standards for all but the top 10 percent of Nigeria's population who already live in relative opulence. Electricity is the critical technology for African countries to master. The difficulty is more political-economic than technological. State-ownership, while sometimes warranted, has been an utter failure in the electricity sector in Nigeria and in many other African countries.
Privatization isn't easy, however. Nigerians need look no further than neighboring Cameroon, where 10 years ago an American electricity supplier, AES, purchased a controlling stake in Cameroon's entire electricity system, dominated then as now by hydro-power sources. To date, the purchase by AES is the only case of a single company taking over responsibility to supply electricity to the residents of an entire African country.
While the Americans brought cash and expertise, they were initially stymied by the endemic corruption in the electricity network. Not only were customers routinely looting the company by stealing electricity or hijacking equipment, employees were conniving with the crooks. When I visited Cameroon in 2005 expressly to study the privitization, AES had installed a new local management that ultimately got its arms around the worst abuses of the old regime. Service vastly improved. Yet at a price: tariffs rose also. AES then faced a new problem: resentment at rising rates, without gratitude for the improvements brought by foreign investment expertise.
Nigeria likely will follow a similar path, if indeed the privitization occurs at all or even if Nigeria sells off different pieces of its electricity network to different investors. After all, the electricity supplier touches the lives of everyone. Power outages in Nigeria are of course a symbol of the impotence of a government that controls mammoth oil reserves and permits vast gas flaring that might even be used to generate electricity for beleagured locals. Even hardened socialists and their statist cousins must by now despair that the government can ever reform on its own the Nigerian electric power company.
But private investment is no panacea. While it ultimately may provide relief for those who live too much of their lives in darkness or by the dim light of a kerosene lamp, privatization may ignite new types of frustrations that neither the state nor private investors will be prepared to manage.
Hints of the possible mayhem were quick to emerge. Following the privatization announcement, workers at the state-owned electricity company went on strike, reinforcing their image as greedy incompetents yet at the same time causing more severe blackouts than what passes for normal.
The turmoil over who supplies electricity and how is worth the struggle. Nigerians can talk about shooting satellites into space, or the massive expansion in mobile phone use, or the creative explosion of the footprint of Nigerians on the Internet. These are impressive achievements. But until Africa's most populous country masters the most important technology of the 20th century, neither Nigeria nor Africa can enter the technological world of the 21st century. Electricity is a foundational technology on which so much else depends. No other technocratic project in Nigeria could be more important than renovating, improving, and indeed democratizing electricity delivery for all.
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text: Share: January 30, 2011 | by Lori Quillen Lakes Distant relatives of shrimp, zooplankton are an important food resource for aquatic animals. These free-floating crustaceans are considered one of the foundations of lake food webs, along with their plant counterparts, phytoplankton.While zooplankton are easy to overlook — to get up close and personal with them you need a microscope — they are vital to the survival of larger animals in lakes, such as fish.Scientists have long been interested in zooplankton diets. It's known they feed on organic material, but where does it come from? The assumption has been that they eat tiny aquatic plants. But Cary Institute limnologist Jon Cole and colleagues suspected that plant material from the watershed might also play a role.This month, in a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Cole and colleagues report nearly a third of zooplankton diets are supported by material derived from maple leaves, pine needles and other organic material that flows into lakes from the surrounding landscape.The study brings scientists one step closer to clarifying the role that watershed inputs play in aquatic food webs.Organic matter from land is carried to lakes in surface run-off and ground water. But it has been difficult to quantify how this material contributes to the aquatic food web, largely because the players involved are so small. While you can dissect a fish and analyze its stomach contents, it's not easy to identify the gut contents of a microscopic zooplankton.We've all heard the adage, "you are what you eat." By analyzing stable isotopes in zooplankton biomass — and determining where the organic material in their tissue originated from — the research team was able to reveal that while algae are a favored food source, the zooplankton also eat organic material washed in from the watershed.Cole and his colleagues relied on biogeochemical techniques to trace the diets of several zooplankton species commonly found in freshwater lakes: Daphnia, Holopedium and Leptodiaptomus. Samples were taken from different types of lakes — one was small with moderate nutrient levels, while the other was large and nutrient-poor.In both lakes, land-generated material made up a third of zooplankton biomass. When edible algae were scarce, zooplankton derived a higher percentage of their diet from things such as maple leaves.While ascertaining where microscopic animals get their food resources might seem esoteric, recognizing the connection between lakes and their watersheds is essential to managing healthy ecosystems and protecting fish populations. Like the microbes that enrich our soil, small-scale phenomena can have big-picture effects.The study challenges older views of lakes as closed ecosystems and adds to the growing body of evidence that lake ecosystems are intimately tied to their watersheds. It is the most recent of several Cary Institute-led studies investigating watershed inputs to aquatic food webs; all of them have resulted in findings indicating zooplankton feed on land-generated organic matter.While the lakes used in the study were part of the University of Notre Dame's Ecological Research Center in Wisconsin, it is expected that similar terrestrial subsidies are happening at water bodies in the Hudson Valley, including the Hudson River, which has very large terrestrial inputs. So the next time you catch a bass, thank a maple leaf.Lori M. Quillen is director of communication at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook. Share: Feature Zooplankton diets go with the flow › January 30, 2011


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One part of the famous Rioja wines are produced in this region of northern Spain, called Rioja Alavesa. Its geographical location, between the Ebro River and the Cantabria Mountains, give this region a privileged microclimate for vine cultivation. The care and dedication of local people also play an important role in the quality of these prestigious wines. They have combined traditional production processes with new technologies. This means that on the Rioja Alavesa Wine Route you can sample everything from vintages aged in medieval caves through to wines produced in the most avant-garde installations.
Wineries on the route.
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The most characteristic Rioja Alavesa wine is red. Most production is carried out from Tempranillo grapes. The wines have a lively, brilliant colour, a fine yet intense bouquet and a fruity flavour, velvety and warm on the palate. The result is a balanced wine that you will want to try again.
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Along with medieval wineries, you will also find avant-garde art in the form of installations designed by the most famous architects: the Ysios Winery, by Santiago Calatrava; the City of Wine complex, by Frank O. Gehry for the Marqués de Riscal Winery; and the Baigorri Winery, by Iñaki Aspiazu Iza, are a few examples. The Wine Museum in Laguardia will show you all about wine-related rituals and history in the most enjoyable manner. Vinotherapy treatments in Elciego. Internationally renowned cuisine: the gastronomy of the Basque Country. Important cultural heritage, with the outstanding old town and monuments of Laguardia. Here you will find everything from Romanesque shrines and stately houses, through to archaeological sites such as the La Hoya Settlement and the prehistoric dolmens of Elvillar and Leza. Excursions to countryside areas such as the Dueñas Pine Forest in Labraza and the Urbasa Nature Reserve, close to Kripan, where you can get in touch with nature. If you need more information, enquire at any of the tourist offices.
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Attorney General Alleges Failed Wilmette Bank Defrauded Troubled Asset Relief Program
Chicago — Attorney General Lisa Madigan today joined with the Special Inspector General for the U.S. Department of the Treasurys Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and the Office of the Inspector General of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to announce charges against former board of directors and officers of a state-chartered bank, alleging a wide-ranging criminal enterprise that cost the government more than $70 million.
Defendants Zulfikar Esmail, Shamim Esmail, Robert McCarty and William Brannin were formally arraigned earlier today in Cook County Criminal Court on a multi-count indictment for their roles in the alleged scheme at Premier Bank in Wilmette that failed more than a year ago.
The defendants are charged for their alleged roles in a long-running fraud scheme that defrauded the U.S. Treasury Department of $6.8 million from TARP and cost the FDIC $64.1 million when the bank failed on March 23, 2012.
The indictment alleged that from 2006 until the banks failure, the defendants hid the poor financial condition of the bank from state regulators. It alleges that Zulfikar Esmail engaged in a criminal shakedown scheme, soliciting and demanding bribes in connection with applications made for business loans and lines of credit to open and operate several Michaels Fresh Market grocery stores in Naperville, Downers Grove and Chicagos Hyde Park neighborhood. The indictment alleged Zulfikar Esmail demanded his children be given ownership stakes in the stores in exchange for loans and lines of credit.
The Attorney General also alleged Zulfikar Esmail ordered construction and improvement work done on his Evanston home and rental properties he owned, including the construction of an underground tunnel on the property of his home. The indictment alleges Esmail directed the contractor to prepare invoices that fraudulently showed the work was done at the bank in order to bill the bank for the work.
The perpetrators of this criminal enterprise are charged with using taxpayer funds to further their own shakedown scheme at time when our country was on the brink of disaster, Madigan said. Their brazen actions to cover up this fraudulent scheme led to the failure of Premier Bank at the expense of its trusting customers and American taxpayers.
Over the six-year period, the indictment alleged the bank officers submitted numerous fraudulent reports to the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, misrepresenting the financial condition of the banks numerous loans and lines of credit. To cover up the true condition of the bank, the indictment alleged money from third parties was used to make payments on several loans that were past due, including payments from a limited liability corporation owned in part by Zulfikar Esmails children.
By late 2008, when authorities allege the bank was nearing failure, the bank applied for and received the first of two payments from TARP, ultimately receiving a total of $6.8 million in taxpayer dollars, in order to further the criminal scheme.
On July 10, 2013, SIGTARP federal agents participated in the arrest of the individuals charged today, which represents the first criminal enterprise charges brought against officers and directors of a TARP bank, said Christy Romero, Special Inspector General for TARP (SIGTARP). Esmail, the former Chairman of TARP recipient Premier Bank, stands charged of orchestrating a criminal enterprise by using Premier Bank as his personal fiefdom and of exploiting TARP to finance an alleged long-running criminal enterprise while fattening his own pockets at the expense of customers and federal taxpayers. Esmail, his wife who was a senior officer and general counsel of the bank, and two bank directors are charged with a massive bank fraud conspiracy that hid the true financial condition of the bank. They are also charged with theft by deception for using allegedly fraudulent bank records to get $6.8 million in TARP bailout funds from Treasury, all of which was lost when the bank collapsed under the weight of this alleged fraud. SIGTARP and our law enforcement partners will aggressively investigate allegations of TARP fraud and ensure that TARP funds are used for their intended purpose, not to fund criminal activity.
The banks failure in 2012 resulted in a total loss to FDIC of $64.1 million.
We are pleased to join our law enforcement colleagues in announcing todays charges. The FDIC Office of Inspector General is committed to investigating and prosecuting cases where trusted insiders abuse their positions and engage in activities that harm their institutions, said John Lucas, Special Agent in Charge, FDIC Office of the Inspector Generals Office of Investigations. The alleged fraud in this case contributed to Premier Banks failure and corresponding losses to the Deposit Insurance Fund. We will continue to pursue such threats to the safety and soundness of FDIC-insured institutions throughout the country.
The defendants were arrested at their homes on July 10 and appeared in court today to formally face charges.
Zulfikar Esmail, 70, of Evanston, was charged with: Financial institution fraud, organizer of a financial crimes enterprise, continuing a financial crimes enterprise, theft by deception, commercial bribery of a financial institution and conspiracy to commit a financial crime. He faces a mandatory prison sentence for the Class X felony charges of theft by deception and organizer of a financial crimes enterprise, which each carry a mandatory prison sentence of six to 30 years. The remaining charges are Class 1 felonies punishable by four to 15 years in prison.
Defendants Shamim Esmail, 65, of Evanston; Robert McCarty, 51, of Geneva; and William Brannin, 53, of Chicago; were charged with financial institution fraud, continuing a financial crimes enterprise and conspiracy to commit a financial crime, each a Class 1 felony punishable by four to 15 years in prison. The three defendants additionally face the charge of theft by deception, a Class X felony with a mandatory prison sentence of six to 30 years.
Zulfikar Esmail and Shamim Esmail have been released on a collective $850,000 bond. McCarty was released on a $400,000 bond, and Brannin was released on a $350,000 bond.
The public is reminded that the defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
This case was investigated by the Office of the Special Inspector General for TARP and the Office of the Inspector General of the FDIC. Bureau Chief Edward Carter and Assistant Attorneys General Edward Snow and Anshuman Vaidya are handling prosecution of the case for Madigans Special Prosecutions Bureau.
For copies of the indictment and booking photographs, contact Madigans press office at (312) 814-3118.
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Newsweek, the iconic newsmagazine brand, was acquired Saturday by IBT Media, which publishes the news website International Business Times.
Newsweek has long been financially troubled and the venerable magazine published its last print edition in December. It was sold to IAC/InterActive in 2010, which had added it to the Daily Beast news website.
Newsweek was launched in 1933 by a former editor at Time magazine. For decades the two magazines defined the genre in the United States.
Terms of the deal, which is expected to close in "the coming days," were not disclosed. The acquisition does not include the Daily Beast site.
"We believe in the Newsweek brand and look forward to growing it, fully transformed to the digital age," said Etienne Uzac, co-founder and CEO of IBT Media said, in a statement. "We respect the brand's long history of delivering high-quality, impactful journalism and believe this aligns well with IBT Media's culture and mission."
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IAC, a media company led by billionaire media mogul Barry Diller, has been looking for a buyer for several months.
Calling his purchase of Newsweek "a mistake," Diller revealed his intention to unload the brand at a technology conference in May. "I got seduced into Newsweek," Diller said at the time, adding he wants to focus on the Daily Beast.
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In the previous blog post, we spoke about the 'Enabling Clean Talking' report released by Greenpeace. The report basically urges the Telecom Industry to switch to renewable sources of energy from diesel to power the ubiquitous mobile towers that are springing up all over the country to serve the ever increasing consumer base.
To understand more, let us look at what the 'Diesel conundrum' is all about. Recently, Economic Times carried a piece that spoke about how oil marketing companies including IOC, HPCL and BPCL are losing Rs 19.26 on every litre of diesel sold.
Some of the main points of the article:
Indian Oil Corp (IOC), Hindustan Petroleum Corp (HPCL) and Bharat Petroleum Corp (BPCL) are losing close to Rs 560 crore per day as they sell diesel, domestic LPG and kerosene way below cost to keep inflation under check.The Oil ministry sought cash subsidy for the remaining Rs 32,750 crore but the Finance Ministry has not released any.
What do the above mentioned figures mean? What is the story behind these statistics?
In India diesel is sold mostly by government-held entities like The Indian Oil Corporation , Bharat petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum Corporations (the OMCs or Oil marketing companies). Diesel in India is a regulated commodity. This means that the Government sets the selling price of diesel to be sold in the Indian market, a price much lesser than the purchasing rate, thereby shouldering the burden of the consumers. Diesel is used in a variety of ways. Right from being used as a transportation fuel to helping in power generation in industries and agriculture! The Government subsidises diesel owing to its large need by several sections of society, mainly the farmers, who would be unable to bear the market cost simply because it is very expensive. While crude oil prices have soared up over the past many years, the price of diesel has not increased much.
How does the telecom industry figure in this picture?
India has more than four lakh mobile network towers spread all across the country. The number is only set to grow as the number of mobile subscribers in India is all set to hit the billion mark by 2013-14. The mobile towers need a continuous stable supply of electricity 99.99 % of time to function. If not, one can expect drastic fall in the revenues of the sector.
Mobile towers are spread across different parts of India—areas that receive different levels of electricity. Close to 50 per cent of the towers are present in areas that receive only approximately 6-12 hours of power every day. Close to 15-20 per cent of the mobile towers are in areas in India do not receive grid electricity but have mobile towers!
Most mobile towers receive continuous energy when most parts of India face power outages on a regular basis. How?
The wonder fuel that makes this possible here is Diesel. An estimated 3.2 billion litres of diesel was consumed by the telecom industry last year alone! It is expected to hit 6 billion litres by 2020! Can you imagine the cost the Government has to bear?
The Indian telecom industry has been the second largest consumer of diesel after the Indian Railways! How fair is it for a cash-rich Telecom Industry to be using a subsidized fuel i.e. diesel for commercial purposes? This, when there are alternatives that are available! If we reduce the consumption of Diesel, not only would we be reducing the pressure on the Government and but also on the environment.
The subsequent posts will look into how use of renewable sources of energy is actually profitable for the Telecom Industry. To understand more about the issue, please have a look at 'Enabling Clean Talking' campaign page.
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"The latest pronouncement of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change doubles down on the menace of human-caused global warming – but the science and the planet aren't playing along."
The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released its long awaited "Summary for Policymakers". This 36-page document boldly reaffirms, with no trace of embarrassment, that "it is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century"
The casual reader may wonder what to make of the phrase "extremely likely". Notwithstanding the array of weasel word qualifications used throughout the summary, the IPCC wants us to believe that "most" of the rise of global average temperature since the mid-20th century was "very likely" caused by human-generated greenhouse gas emissions.
In the last report (AR-4, 2007) the IPCC experts were "90% confident" – whatever that meant – of this statement. Now they are reported as being "95% confident". One critical review (SEPP) notes that "The IPCC presents no physical evidence substantiating that it is 'extremely likely' that more than half of the [global temperature] increase during the past 60 years stems from rising greenhouse gas emissions or a rigorous method of calculating the 95 to 100% probability that the term 'extremely likely' embodies."
The most crucial linchpin in the IPCC's argument is its assumed sensitivity of climate to increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide. The new Summary report defends its previously assumed sensitivity. As climatologist Dr. Roy Spencer points out, "this is the entire political issue. Is the climate sensitive to human emissions of CO2 or not? Does an increase in the molecules of CO2 from 3 to 4 per 10,000 parts of air make a difference in climate?"
Spencer continues "A best estimate for climate sensitivity — unarguably THE most important climate change variable — is no longer provided, due to mounting contradictory evidence on whether the climate system really cares very much about whether there are 2, or 3, or 4, parts of CO2 per 10,000 parts atmosphere. Yet the IPCC claims their confidence has DOUBLED (uncertainty reduced from 10% to 5%) regarding their claim that humans are most of the cause behind the warming trend in the last 50 years or so."
The Summary also runs away from the fact that that there has been no statistically significant rise in surface temperatures for over 15 years. The Wall Street Journal offered this translation: "Temperatures have been flat for 15 years, nobody can properly explain it… and the IPCC doesn't want to spend much time doing so because it is politically inconvenient and shows that the computer models on which all climate-change predictions depend remain unreliable."
Dr. Richard Lindzen, the dean of American climatologists recently retired from MIT, observes "The latest IPCC report has truly sunk to level of hilarious incoherence. It is quite amazing to see the contortions the IPCC has to go through in order to keep the international climate agenda going."
It should also be explained that contrary to the practice in almost every scholarly profession, the IPCC releases its always-alarming Summary months before the release of the scientific working group reports on which the Summary is supposedly based. During the intervening months the IPCC's political commissars are tasked with making very sure that the working group findings corroborate the Summary.
Critics have recently graphed the 73 different computer projections of global temperature since 1990, and added in the actual observed temperatures over the same period. The result is an eye-opener. Beginning in 1998 the actual temperatures on the graph lie below every one of the 73 projections on which the IPCC has based its scary predictions.
Furthermore, the computer projections utterly fail to reproduce global temperatures beginning in 1950 (or 1900), the actual trends in which are already known. At least the IPCC deserves some credit for abandoning Michael Mann's notorious "hockey stick" graph contrived 15 years ago to terrify policy makers and the media about Planet Earth progressively boiling in its own juices.
The earth has been warming since the end of the Little Ice Age around 1850. There is no evidence that human release of greenhouse gases has any detectable effect on global temperatures. Those who want to put governments in charge of all fossil fuel combustion (and shower subsidies on "renewable energy") need to find a scientifically respectable case for their claims. So far they have embarrassingly failed, and the forthcoming IPCC report won't do them much good.
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Instead of storing data on traditional hard disks, solid-state drives use large blocks of flash-based NAND memory, which means these drives have no moving parts to malfunction over time. With no physical platter to spin like traditional hard drives, SSDs are faster at accessing data, and they also use less power and generate less heat, of particular benefit to laptops.
At the time of this review, Intel only offers one 80GB capacity drive, but it's available in 2.5-inch and 1.8-inch sizes for compatibility with a variety of modern desktops and laptops. The Serial ATA data and power inputs on the Intel drive mirror those of other SSDs as well as traditional hard drives, so while you may need drive rails to adapt it to a desktop chassis, the physical cable connections remain unchanged.
As exciting as we find SSDs, and in particular Intel's new model, their limitations are not insignificant to the average consumer. As you can see from our chart below, the price-per-gigabyte of a typical 160GB desktop hard drive is almost 10 times less than that of previous generation SSD drives, and almost 25 times that of Intel's new model. That makes the value proposition for Intel's new SSD, from a pure-gigabytes-per-dollar perspective, very hard to stomach.
You should also keep in mind that because of the nature of flash memory technology, solid-state hard drives have a relatively well-defined time before failure. An article by Robert Hallock at Icrontic.com called "The Hows and Whys of SSDs" provides a more in-depth, but also accessible description of the issue. The gist is that you get about 100,000 read-write cycles before the memory will wear out. As Hallock puts it, "While 100,000 cycles seems slight, it's more than 100GiB of new information written to the disk every day for five years before approaching failure." Perhaps your drive usage is more demanding, and if so, you'd be wise to weigh it carefully before springing for Intel's expensive new drive.
To test the performance of Intel's X-25M drive, we installed it in a Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop with a 2GHz dual-core processor and 32-bit Windows Vista Ultimate. For comparison we used a 200GB Seagate Momentus laptop hard drive with a 7,200rpm access speed (most traditional laptops drives are rated to 5,400rpm), and a 128GB Patriot Warp V.2 solid-state drive.
First, we installed Windows Vista Ultimate separately onto each clean drive and copied over our standard 10GB folder that we use for all hard-drive benchmark tests. Next, we performed a combined read and write test by measuring the time it took for the hard drive to copy all 10GB to another folder on the disk. We also ran our laptop battery drain test, which gauges how long a laptop will last on battery power while playing a movie. Finally, we subjected each drive to a boot speed test, hand timing how long it took to go from pressing the power button to a ready-to-go-Windows cursor.
The Intel X-25M was the clear winner on every test. Its read/write access speed was just under twice as fast as either the Patriot solid-state drive or Seagate's 7,200rpm laptop hard drive. We're also particularly impressed by the battery drain test, wherein the Intel drive kept our Dell laptop running for almost 20 minutes longer than its competition. And while its boot time advantage might be less dramatic, the Intel drive still maintained an observable edge. The verdict is clear, then: the Intel drive is faster, and will keep your laptop running longer, than either a traditional hard drive or its solid-state competition.
While it might not be surprising that the X-25M outperformed a traditional hard drive, we were impressed at the extent to which the Intel drive surpassed the Patriot SSD. Intel attributes its advantage to a ground-up design philosophy that's more thorough than its SSD competitors. If the proof is in the benchmarks, Intel seems to have achieved its goal. The prices need to come way down on solid-state drives before they achieve mainstream acceptance. The capacity also needs to increase for them to compete with standard hard drives for the sheer amount of data they can hold. But for gamers, travelers, digital media creators, or anyone for whom performance or battery life are the most important factors in buying or building a computer, Intel's X-25M has shown that it is at least the best-performing internal storage device on the market.


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What makes this recipe so good is that it's made with real, natural ingredients - it's satisfying, hearty and full of goodness. I love using spelt flour in both savoury and sweet baking and it is perfect in this loaf too. I've also used rye and lupin flour, but if you can't find lupin, try using soy or chickpea/besan flour instead. My home smells like freshly baked bread - now what could be better than that?


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Fritz Sperberg also played Ranek in Voyager's "Body and Soul".
One idea for the episode was to have the Jem'Hadar hold a gun to a Defiant crewmember's head and tell Sisko he would kill the man unless Sisko helped to repair the Defiant. Sisko would refuse, reassuring the man that it would be alright - only to have the Jem'Hadar murder him. The scene was ultimately judged to be too harsh for a lighthearted episode.
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Deploy secure passwords across multiple servers
At initial startup, Splunk Enterprise creates a file
$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/auth/splunk.secret. This file contains a key used to encrypt some of your authentication information in configuration files. Each of the following files can be encrypted across a deployment using
splunk.secret. Note that the passwords and encryption methods used for each file are not necessarily interchangeable.
web.conf: Your SSL passwords on every instance.
authentication.conf: Your LDAP passwords, if you have any.
inputs.conf: Your SSL passwords, if you use
splunktcp-sslto set up ssl for data distribution.
outputs.conf:: Your SSL passwords, if you use
splunktcp-sslto configure
inputs.confto set up ssl for data distribution.
server.conf: pass4symmkey, if you have one.
passwords.conf: Your password for a given app.
When Splunk software starts, if it detects a clear-text password, in one of these settings, it will create or overwrite the configuration in the equivalent local folder with the encrypted password.
Note: If the pass4symmkey or SSLPassword is specified in a default apps file, the password is obfuscated in the local version of the file upon restart. The default version of the file remains in clear text. However, if the file is listed using
curl or a splunkd endpoint, the passwords appear encrypted.
When you deploy Splunk software on multiple servers, you must encrypt the passwords and ensure that they are consistent across your deployment. Splunk recommends that you use an encryption tool such as Vault's "secret/*" to secure your passwords as you distribute them.
You should perform these steps at initial deployment and also any time you need to deploy a new password for your instances:
1. Using your encryption tool, deploy the passwords to all servers.
2. On each server, place the password, in clear text, in the relevant file.
3. Immediately start/restart to encrypt all the passwords under the server's unique secret.
In a search head cluster, the captain replicates its
splunk.secret file to all other cluster members during initial deployment of the cluster, so you do not need to copy it manually. As part of its normal operation, the cluster also automatically replicates any credentials that are stored by apps for their own use.
Secure your service accounts
Harden your KV store port
This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 6.3.0, 6.3.1, 6.3.2, 6.3.3, 6.3.4, 6.3.5, 6.3.6, 6.3.7, 6.3.8, 6.3.9, 6.3.10, 6.3.11, 6.3.12, 6.3.13, 6.3.14, 6.4.0, 6.4.1, 6.4.2, 6.4.3, 6.4.4, 6.4.5, 6.4.6, 6.4.7, 6.4.8, 6.4.9, 6.4.10, 6.4.11, 6.5.0, 6.5.1, 6.5.1612 (Splunk Cloud only), 6.5.2, 6.5.3, 6.5.4, 6.5.5, 6.5.6, 6.5.7, 6.5.8, 6.5.9, 6.5.10, 6.6.0, 6.6.1, 6.6.2, 6.6.3, 6.6.4, 6.6.5, 6.6.6, 6.6.7, 6.6.8, 6.6.9, 6.6.10, 6.6.11, 6.6.12, 7.0.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.5, 7.0.6, 7.0.7, 7.0.8, 7.0.9, 7.0.10, 7.0.11, 7.0.13, 7.1.0, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 7.1.3, 7.1.4, 7.1.5, 7.1.6, 7.1.7, 7.1.8, 7.1.9, 7.1.10, 7.2.0, 7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.3, 7.2.4, 7.2.5, 7.2.6, 7.2.7, 7.2.8, 7.2.9, 7.3.0, 7.3.1, 7.3.2, 7.3.3, 7.3.4, 8.0.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.2
just to mention it: "$1$ indicates MD5 hashing"
That is true in pretty much everywhere in IT, but not in Splunk - here it doesn't indicate an MD5 hash, but a value encrypted with Splunks proprietary own encryption. It's pretty confusing, so keep this in mind. ;-)
Done! Sorry that took so long.
Hi Intermediate,
$1$ indicates MD5 hashing, $6$ indicates SHA-512 hashing. My best guess is that this is either to do with your encryption tool(s) or it could be a configuration issue, I have emailed you directly to get more details to see if we can resolve it.
Correction to my previous comment:
"We've noticed that whenever the plain text password is used on one of these systems they come up with a unique decrypted password."
should read:
"We've noticed that whenever the plain text password is used on one of these systems they come up with a unique encrypted password."
Jworthington, are you able to provide an update please?
Also what's the difference between passwords which are encrypted with a $1$ prefix and a $6$ prefix, for example.
Currently we're having significant problems with a variety of Splunk 7.1.1 systems being unable to use the same encrypted password for "sslPassword" even though they all have the same splunk.secret file. We've noticed that whenever the plain text password is used on one of these systems they come up with a unique decrypted password. Could you please confirm that this is expected behaviour?
Thank you!
HI Tada,
Well, in a way, yeah. :)
Splunk secret is in an internal security process that can't be modified, so we didn't bother going into to much detail about how it works. But I can talk to some of our developers and see if we can add a bit more context.
Thanks for the feedback!
Why doesn't this topic detail exactly what encryption methods are being used? Security through obscurity?
Good point. The intent was never to suggest that these different password examples use the same encryption or even should in every instance. But I can see how it might be confusing. I'll add a bit of text (with links!) to make it clear that while these passwords are stored here, users should configure their encryption using the relevant topics in the manual.
Some of the files referenced in this document use different encryption methods. You can't always mix and match encrypted passwords between them. As an example the same password encrypted in both inputs.conf and outputs.conf may not match depending on which version of splunk you are using.
Is it possible to get the passwords.conf file added to the list of files that are checked for this?


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