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Author Affiliations: Departments of Psychology (Mr Fournier and Dr DeRubeis) and Psychiatry (Dr Amsterdam), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Departments of Psychology (Dr Hollon) and Psychiatry (Dr Shelton), Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee; Department of Psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder (Dr Dimidjian); and Department of Psychiatry, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque (Dr Fawcett).
Context Antidepressant medications represent the best established treatment for major depressive disorder, but there is little evidence that they have a specific pharmacological effect relative to pill placebo for patients with less severe depression.
Objective To estimate the relative benefit of medication vs placebo across a wide range of initial symptom severity in patients diagnosed with depression.
Data Sources PubMed, PsycINFO, and the Cochrane Library databases were searched from January 1980 through March 2009, along with references from meta-analyses and reviews.
Study Selection Randomized placebo-controlled trials of antidepressants approved by the Food and Drug Administration in the treatment of major or minor depressive disorder were selected. Studies were included if their authors provided the requisite original data, they comprised adult outpatients, they included a medication vs placebo comparison for at least 6 weeks, they did not exclude patients on the basis of a placebo washout period, and they used the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS). Data from 6 studies (718 patients) were included.
Data Extraction Individual patient-level data were obtained from study authors.
Results Medication vs placebo differences varied substantially as a function of baseline severity. Among patients with HDRS scores below 23, Cohen d effect sizes for the difference between medication and placebo were estimated to be less than 0.20 (a standard definition of a small effect). Estimates of the magnitude of the superiority of medication over placebo increased with increases in baseline depression severity and crossed the threshold defined by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence for a clinically significant difference at a baseline HDRS score of 25.
Conclusions The magnitude of benefit of antidepressant medication compared with placebo increases with severity of depression symptoms and may be minimal or nonexistent, on average, in patients with mild or moderate symptoms. For patients with very severe depression, the benefit of medications over placebo is substantial.
Antidepressant medication (ADM) represents the current standard of treatment for major depressive disorder (MDD).1 Antidepressant medication has been shown to be superior to placebo in thousands of controlled clinical trials over the past 5 decades.2,3 The extent to which ADM outperforms placebo (which controls for nonpharmacological aspects of ADM) can be used to index the "true" pharmacological effect of ADM in clinical settings.
The randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial is the gold standard for testing treatment efficacy and affords the opportunity to identify patient characteristics that predict differential pharmacological response. Baseline symptom severity is one dimension that may affect treatment outcome. Kirsch et al4 and Khan et al5 presented independent meta-analyses of randomized placebo-controlled trials based on data from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clinical trial database. Using mean scores and standard deviations on the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS)6 from each study, they examined the effect of baseline symptom severity on the relative efficacy of ADM vs placebo. Kirsch et al found that as the mean baseline HDRS score increased, the magnitude of HDRS change decreased for placebo but remained unchanged for ADM. Khan et al did not find a significant relationship between baseline scores and symptom change for the placebo condition but found greater symptom change in ADM as baseline HDRS scores increased. Thus, both studies found that the greater the baseline symptom severity, the greater the magnitude of the difference favoring ADM over placebo. Kirsch et al inferred from their findings that the minimum baseline HDRS score needed to achieve a clinically meaningful ADM/placebo difference is approximately 28 and that differences are negligible for lower baseline HDRS scores.
One limitation to these meta-analyses is the restricted range of baseline severity scores included in their constituent studies. In the analysis by Kirsch et al,4 only 1 of 35 studies comprised samples with mean baseline HDRS scores lower than 23. As the authors noted, a score of 23 is characteristic of "very severe depression" according to the American Psychiatric Association's Handbook of Psychiatric Measures (which defines mild depression as HDRS scores from 8-13, moderate depression from 14-18, severe depression from 19-22, and very severe depression as ≥23).7 Similarly, each of the studies included by Khan et al5 required a minimum entry score of 20 on the HDRS, meaning that all patients could be classified as severe or very severe. It is likely that a sizable proportion of depressed individuals who start ADM in the community present with severity levels well below this value. In fact, a recent survey of depressed, treatment-seeking outpatients found that 71% of the 503 patients assessed had HDRS scores less than 22.8 There has been a paucity of systematic investigations of the true effect of ADM in patients with less severe depression. Such data are scarce in the FDA database and in the published literature. This is partly the result of the inclusion criteria used for many FDA registration trials in which cutoff scores are imposed at baseline expressly to increase the sensitivity of ADM/placebo comparisons.
A second limitation of the Kirsch et al and Khan et al meta-analyses is that each included studies that used a placebo washout period. Typically, placebo washouts last from several days to 2 weeks, during which patients are administered a pill placebo in single-blind fashion. At the end of this period, patients who demonstrate an improvement of a particular magnitude (typically ≥20% on the HDRS) are excluded from the trial prior to randomization. The goal of this procedure is to increase the power to detect differences in efficacy between ADM and placebo by removing known placebo responders at the outset. Although it is not clear that placebo washouts actually enhance the statistical power of ADM/placebo comparisons,9,10 this design feature severely limits the ability to generate accurate estimates of the placebo response rate. Because early placebo responders are removed from the trial before they can contribute data, the true rate of placebo response may be underestimated in trials that use this feature.
In the present study, we combined data from 6 large-scale, placebo-controlled trials that comprised patients with a broad range of baseline symptom severity.11- 16 Because most MDD studies incorporate a minimum baseline depressive severity score as an inclusion criterion, studies of minor depressive disorder (which do not typically have such strict thresholds) were included in this analysis as well. The entry criteria allowed patients to enter these studies with HDRS scores that ranged from the low teens to the upper 30s.11- 16 Unlike the data analyzed by Kirsch et al and Khan et al, which contained information only at the level of treatment group and thus could support only standard meta-analytic procedures, the databases from the 6 studies included in the present investigation provided data for a patient-level meta-analysis, also known as a mega-analysis. This approach is more appropriate and more powerful than a standard meta-analysis when original data are available and a fine-grained multivariate analysis is desired.17 Based on the findings of Kirsch et al and Khan et al, we hypothesized that ADM/placebo differences would become larger as baseline severity increased.
English-language articles from January 1980 through March 2009 were searched in the electronic databases PubMed and PsycINFO using the following search criteria: antidepres* and randomiz* and placebo and depression and (treatment or trial). The Cochrane Library was searched using the following terms as key words: antidepres* and placebo and depression. No further restrictions were imposed on either search. We also examined the reference sections of meta-analyses and reviews to identify relevant randomized controlled trials.
The criteria for inclusion required studies to be randomized placebo-controlled trials of an FDA-approved antidepressant in the treatment of the full range of patients with major or minor depressive disorder (ie, studies that exclusively examined special populations or subtypes were excluded as were studies that exclusively examined patients diagnosed solely with dysthymia). The studies were restricted to adult outpatient samples; those that included children or adolescents below the age of 18 years were excluded. In addition, the studies had to include an ADM/placebo comparison of at least 6 weeks' duration and HDRS scores at intake and at the end of treatment. Studies were excluded if they excluded patients on the basis of a placebo washout period. The final inclusion criterion was that individual patient-level data had to be available for analysis.
The initial screening of the search results was supervised (S.D. and J.C.F.) and reviewed (J.C.F.) to ensure accuracy. All selected articles were read by 2 authors (J.C.F. and either S.D. or S.D.H.) to determine whether they met inclusion criteria (with an average κ of 0.82). Discrepancies were resolved by consensus.
The corresponding authors of studies meeting the inclusion criteria were contacted to verify that the study did not exclude patients on the basis of a placebo washout period and to ascertain whether individual patient-level data were available. Authors were initially asked to respond within 3 weeks, and additional time was provided to allow those making a positive response the opportunity to provide the requested data. Figure 1 displays the results of the search and data acquisition strategies.
Reasons for exclusion describe the first reason for exclusion that was encountered during the review process. Several articles had multiple reasons for exclusion. RCTs indicates randomized controlled trials; FDA, US Food and Drug Administration; ADM, antidepressant medication; HDRS, Hamilton Depression Rating Scale.
The sample consisted of participants from the ADM and pill-placebo conditions of 5 MDD trials—DeRubeis et al,12 Dimidjian et al,13 Elkin et al,14 Philipp et al,15 Wichers et al16—and 1 minor depression trial, Barrett et al.11 Full descriptions of the study designs, sample characteristics, treatment protocols, and primary outcome findings have been reported elsewhere.11- 16 Three studies used the tricyclic antidepressant imipramine14- 16 and 3 used the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor paroxetine.11- 13Table 1 lists characteristics that differ among the 6 studies. The pooled sample used in the current analyses included 434 patients in the ADM group and 284 patients in the placebo group. Individual baseline HDRS depression severity levels ranged from 10 to 39. In comparison with the 17 identified studies for which data were not available, the 6 included studies tended to have Jadad quality scores at the higher end of the range, to use flexible (as opposed to fixed) medication doses, and to provide more information about the samples in the original report (eTable).
Our primary statistical analysis investigated the relationship between baseline symptom severity and subsequent symptom change from intake to the end of acute treatment. We used a modified intent-to-treat approach whereby we used the most inclusive sample analyzed in the original publication of each of the 6 studies (Table 1). To investigate the association between initial severity and symptom change scores in ADM vs placebo, we conducted analyses of covariance that controlled for the effect of the study from which the data originated. For individuals who dropped out of treatment, we used the patient's last score prior to dropout (last observation carried forward) to calculate the change score. Continuous variables were centered at their grand means, and nonsignificant higher-order interaction terms were removed from the models. Level of significance was set at P < .05.
Mean baseline depression severity scores and attrition rates for the 6 studies are displayed in Table 2. A 2 × 6 (treatment × study) analysis of variance was conducted to examine differences in levels of intake depression severity. The study × treatment interaction was not significant and was removed from the model. Mean intake severity did not differ as a function of treatment condition (F1,711 = 0.05, P = .82), but the 6 studies did show different mean intake severity levels, reflecting differences in inclusion criteria (F5,711 = 79.56, P < .001). Attrition rates were compared in a logistic regression model examining the effects of study, treatment, and the study × treatment interaction. The study × treatment interaction term was not significant and was removed from the model. Attrition rates did not differ significantly as a function of treatment condition (χ21 = 0.47, P = .49), but differences did emerge in the rates of attrition among the 6 studies (χ25 = 30.34, P < .001) (Table 2).
Pooling the data across the 6 studies, the severity × treatment interaction (the statistic of primary interest in this investigation) was significant in a model that predicted depression change scores controlling for study of origin (F1,709 = 9.31, P = .002). The main effects of baseline severity (F1,709 = 59.54, P < .001) and treatment (F1,709 = 12.51, P < .001) were also significant.
As displayed in Figure 2, the regression coefficient (ie, the slope representing the relation between initial severity and change in symptoms) was positive for both ADM (b = 0.70, t709 = 8.49, P < .001) and placebo (b = 0.36, t709 = 3.87, P < .001). The difference in the slopes of the 2 regression lines, b = 0.34, represents the interaction effect described earlier in this section. The 2 regression lines converged near the lower end of the range of baseline severity scores and the magnitude of the difference between the treatments increased with increasing baseline depression severity. To illustrate the magnitude of the difference between the 2 treatments as a function of initial depression severity, we divided the sample into 3 groups based on the characterizations of the HDRS scores offered by the American Psychiatric Association: mild to moderate, HDRS score of 18 or less (n = 180); severe, HDRS score of 19 to 22 (n = 255); and very severe, HDRS score of 23 or greater (n = 283).7 For patients in the mild to moderate range, the Cohen d effect size was d = 0.11 (95% confidence interval, [CI], −0.18 to 0.41) and for patients in the severe range, d = 0.17 (95% CI, −0.08 to 0.43). Both values were below the standard description of a small effect (d = 0.20).18 For patients in the very severe group, d = 0.47 (95% CI, 0.22 to 0.71). This value was just below 0.50, the accepted cutoff for a medium effect size. We also converted these d effect sizes into estimates of the number of patients needed to treat (NNT) to increase by 1 the number of patients in the treatment group who would have a better outcome than a randomly selected patient from the control group.19 Number-needed-to-treat values were estimated to be 16, 11, and 4 for the mild to moderate, severe, and very severe subgroups, respectively.
Circles represent observed (raw) mean change in depressive symptoms from intake to the end of treatment at each initial Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) score for both the antidepressant medication (ADM) and placebo conditions. The size (area) of the circles is proportional to the number of data points that contributed to each mean. Regression lines represent estimates of change in depression symptoms from intake to end of treatment for ADM and placebo conditions as a function of baseline symptom severity. These regression lines were estimated from a model of the baseline severity × treatment interaction, controlling for the effects of the study from which the data originated. The National Institute for Clinical Excellence threshold for clinical significance (an HDRS point difference ≥3) was met for intake HDRS scores of 25 or greater, indicated by the blue line.
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) of the National Health Service in England has defined a threshold for clinical significance as an effect size of 0.50 or a drug/placebo difference of 3 points on the HDRS.20 Using least-squares means from the primary model described earlier in this section, we estimated that this threshold was met for intake HDRS scores of 25 or greater, using the more liberal of the 2 criteria (a difference in HDRS scores of ≥3 points). To examine the more conservative threshold defined by d = 0.50, we estimated Cohen d effect sizes, again using least-squares means estimates from the primary model. Drug/placebo differences were estimated to cross this threshold at an initial HDRS score of 27 (NNT = 4). When we divided the sample into subgroups using these 2 thresholds, the superiority of medications over placebo was associated with a medium-sized effect for patients with HDRS scores of 25 or greater (d = 0.53; 95% CI, 0.19 to 0.86) and a large effect for patients with HDRS of 27 or greater (d = 0.81; 95% CI, 0.30 to 1.32).
To determine whether the pattern of results reported was evident in patients diagnosed with MDD, data from the Barrett et al11 study of minor depressive disorder were removed and the models were rerun. The severity × treatment interaction was again significant (F1,633 = 6.93, P = .009). As before, the ADM/placebo difference was estimated to cross the NICE criteria at an initial baseline HDRS score of 25.
To assess whether attrition might have biased the results, the primary analyses were repeated in a completers-only sample. Again the severity × treatment interaction was significant (F1,597 = 5.62, P = .02). Among completers, the difference between ADM and placebo was estimated to cross the NICE threshold at an initial HDRS score of 24 (1 point lower than that observed for the entire sample). We also repeated the primary analysis using data only from the 3 studies with the lowest dropout rates.12,13,15 Again, the interaction of interest was significant (F1,452 = 6.98, P < .01).
Three of the studies used the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor paroxetine as the active ADM, whereas the other 3 studies used the tricyclic antidepressant imipramine. To investigate whether baseline severity moderates treatment response in both drug classes, we conducted a secondary analysis in which we replaced the term representing ADM/placebo with a categorical variable representing medication type. As in the primary analysis, the severity × drug class interaction was significant (F2,707 = 4.41, P = .01). Specific contrasts revealed that the regression coefficient (ie, the slope representing the relationship between initial severity and change in symptoms) was more positive for each medication class relative to placebo: imipramine, F1,707 = 5.60, P = .02, and paroxetine, F1,707 = 5.91, P = .02.
The present findings indicate that the efficacy of ADM treatment for depression varies considerably as a function of symptom severity. True drug effects (an advantage of ADM over placebo) were nonexistent to negligible among depressed patients with mild, moderate, and even severe baseline symptoms, whereas they were large for patients with very severe symptoms. For baseline severity scores on the HDRS less than 25, estimates of the magnitudes of drug/placebo differences did not meet either of the 2 thresholds for clinical significance proposed by NICE.20 Conversely, for patients with the highest levels of baseline depression severity, ADM was markedly superior to placebo.
As documented in the analysis by Zimmerman et al8 of published efficacy trials, as well as in the analyses by Kirsch et al4 and Khan et al5 of studies submitted to the FDA, evidence concerning the effects of ADM in patients with mild and moderate MDD has been sparse. Our findings add substantially to knowledge of the effects of ADM across the full range of symptom severity in patients diagnosed with depression. These findings are consistent with an understanding that has informed the entry criteria used in ADM registration trials, in which cutoff scores of 18 or greater typically have been imposed. As noted by Zimmerman et al, using such cutoffs can be expected to exclude nearly half of all patients who meet diagnostic criteria for MDD.
We note several limitations of the present inquiry. First, all of the studies used in the current investigation imposed a minimum baseline severity criterion. Because only a small proportion of the patients registered baseline HDRS scores of 13 or lower, the results of the current investigation may not generalize to such individuals. Second, when a minimum score at intake is required for study entry, study diagnosticians sometimes inadvertently inflate the scores of patients whose true score is just below the cutoff.21 We have no evidence that this occurred in the current data sets, but if it did, it should have worked against the hypothesis that severity moderates outcome. Moreover, the inclusion of studies with different minimum severity levels should have mitigated any bias that such rater inflation might have caused. Third, scores on the HDRS were used as the primary outcome measure for all analyses. The HDRS has been the most commonly used measure of depression symptom severity in clinical trials of ADM, but the measure's psychometric properties have been criticized.22,23 Future efforts might use alternative symptom measures to examine the effects of baseline severity on treatment outcome. Fourth, because few studies in the literature report the magnitude of the baseline severity × treatment interaction effect, it is difficult to assess the role of publication bias in this report. For a detailed account of publication bias regarding the main effect of ADM, see Turner et al.24 Finally, the results reported herein apply to acute treatment only and not to continuation or maintenance treatment.
Despite differences in methods, our findings are consistent with those of both Kirsch et al4 and Khan et al5 that ADM/placebo differences increase as initial severity increases. We used individual patient data and included patients with less severe depression, whereas both Kirsch et al and Khan et al analyzed group means that largely excluded patients with HDRS scores below 20. Moreover, both Kirsch et al and Khan et al included studies that screened out pill-placebo responders prior to randomization, whereas the studies from which our data were drawn did not.
Given these differences, the consistency of the primary finding across the 3 reviews is striking. However, there also were subtle differences in the pattern of findings across the 3 investigations that likely reflect additional differences in methodology. For example, using within-group effect sizes, Kirsch et al found that initial severity was unrelated to outcome among patients treated with ADM but negatively related to outcome among placebo patients, whereas using between-group comparisons, Khan et al found that initial severity predicted greater symptom change among ADM patients (as did we using individual patient data) but was unrelated with respect to placebo patients (whereas we found a small positive relationship). Given these inconsistencies, it would be premature to speculate regarding whether the increasing superiority of ADM relative to placebo as severity increases is due to an increasing efficacy of ADM or a declining efficacy of placebo. Such a distinction depends, in part, on the index of change that is chosen.
Several studies have demonstrated that ADM is superior to placebo for patients diagnosed with dysthymia, a condition partly defined by lower symptom levels relative to MDD.25,26 The dysthymia studies indicate that ADM can produce a true drug effect in patients with mild or moderate depressive symptoms. However, dysthymia is by definition a chronic condition, and chronicity is known to be associated with poor response to placebo.27,28 Thus, it may be the chronic nature of dysthymia that explains the advantage of ADM over placebo in this condition. Future work should examine whether chronicity moderates ADM/placebo differences across the range of baseline severity.
The general pattern of results reported in this work is not surprising. As early as the 1950s, researchers conducting controlled investigations of treatments for a wide variety of medical and psychiatric conditions described a phenomenon whereby patients with higher levels of severity showed greater differential (ie, specific) benefit from the active treatments.29,30 What makes our findings surprising is the high level of depression symptom severity that appears to be required for clinically meaningful drug/placebo differences to emerge, particularly given the evidence that the majority of patients receiving ADM in clinical practice present with scores below these levels.
Prescribers, policy makers, and consumers may not be aware that the efficacy of medications largely has been established on the basis of studies that have included only those individuals with more severe forms of depression. This important feature of the evidence base is not reflected in the implicit messages present in the marketing of these medications to clinicians and the public. There is little mention of the fact that efficacy data often come from studies that exclude precisely those MDD patients who derive little specific pharmacological benefit from taking medications. Pending findings contrary to those reported here and those obtained by Kirsch et al and Khan et al, efforts should be made to clarify to clinicians and prospective patients that whereas ADM can have a substantial effect with more severe depressions, there is little evidence to suggest that they produce specific pharmacological benefit for the majority of patients with less severe acute depressions.
Corresponding Author: Jay C. Fournier, MA, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Author Contributions: Mr Fournier had full access to all of the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.
Study concept and design: Fournier, DeRubeis, Hollon, Dimidjian, Amsterdam, Shelton, Fawcett.
Acquisition of data: Fournier, DeRubeis, Hollon, Dimidjian, Amsterdam, Shelton, Fawcett.
Analysis and interpretation of data: Fournier, DeRubeis, Hollon, Dimidjian, Amsterdam, Shelton, Fawcett.
Drafting of the manuscript: Fournier, DeRubeis, Hollon.
Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Fournier, DeRubeis, Hollon, Dimidjian, Amsterdam, Shelton, Fawcett.
Statistical analysis: Fournier, DeRubeis.
Obtained funding: DeRubeis, Hollon, Amsterdam.
Administrative, technical, or material support: Fournier, DeRubeis, Hollon, Dimidjian, Amsterdam, Shelton, Fawcett.
Financial Disclosures: Dr Amsterdam reported serving on the speakers' bureau of Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and Bristol Myers Squibb; receiving research support from Novartis, Eli Lilly, Sanofi, Cephalon, and Forest Laboratories; and serving as a consultant for Bristol Myers Squibb. Dr Shelton reported serving as a consultant to AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, Evotec, Forest Pharmaceuticals, Gideon Richter, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Merck, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Ostuka Pharmaceuticals, Pamlab, Pfizer, Repligen, Sierra Neuropharmaceuticals, and Wyeth; receiving speaking honoraria from AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, Forest Pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline, Pamlab, Pfizer, and Wyeth; and receiving research and/or grant support from Bristol Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Evotec, Forest Pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Ostuka Pharmaceuticals, Pamlab, Pfizer, Repligen, and Wyeth. Dr Fawcett reported serving as a consultant to Abbott Laboratories, Merck, and Slack; receiving speaking honoraria from Eli Lilly; and serving as a board member for the Berman Center and on the scientific advisory boards for the nonprofit advocacy organizations NARSAD and the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance. Dr Fawcett also reported providing expert testimony on cases involving pharmaceutical companies including Banner Health and Alphapharm and currently chairing the Mood Disorders Work Group for the forthcoming revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Fifth Edition). No other disclosures were reported.
Funding/Support: This research was supported by grants MH50129 (R10), MH55875 (R10), MH01697 (K02), MH01741 (K24), and MH060998 (R01) from the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
Role of the Sponsor: The funding sources had no role in the design and conduct of the study; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of the data; or in the preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript.
Additional Contributions: We thank the authors who shared their data with us for this project, with special thanks to Marieke Wichers, PhD, Maastricht University, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience; John Cornell, PhD, University of Texas Health Science Center; and Karl-O. Hiller, PhD, Steiner Arzneimittel, for providing us with the raw data from their respective studies. Finally, we thank all those who responded to our inquiries, even if data from their studies could not be made available. None were compensated for their contributions.
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The hard-hit regional food banks and the local pantries and agencies they serve will be getting a slight reprieve, with state appropriations released by Gov. Pat McCrory and $2 million in new money awarded by the N.C. Department of Justice.
On Monday, McCrory approved releasing $750,000 from state funds for the seven regional food banks that are part of the North Carolina Association for Feeding America Food Banks program, according to a news release.
Clyde Fitzgerald, executive director of Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest N.C. in Winston-Salem – the food bank serving agencies in Alamance and 17 other counties – explained the $750,000 is appropriated funds that are normally paid to the state's food banks on a reimbursement basis.
"Apparently they're freeing up some money earlier than usual," Fitzgerald said.
The state appropriation funds were released to assist the food banks and pantries in serving the demand increased by the federal government shutdown, according to the release.
"It's time for the president and Congress to remember who they work for. The American people pay taxes 365 days a year and have the right to expect the federal government to be fully operational every day of the year," McCrory said in the release.
"Federal services are not political chess pieces. Real people are being impacted in very real ways. The political brinkmanship must end," McCrory said.
The federal shutdown added insult to injury locally when the Salvation Army and other local agencies were scrambling to fill the void left by Loaves & Fishes Christian Food Ministry's closing in August.
Last month, the Salvation Army served 452 emergency food boxes as opposed to 35 in August. The food boxes – which originally were packed to last 10 days – have had to be downsized to food for five to seven days, due to increased demand and lack of supplies.
Capt. Jimmy Taylor said Monday that the Salvation Army is currently only giving emergency food to families referred to the agency by the N.C. Division of Social Services.
"We haven't been able to help everyone that walks in off the street," Taylor said.
THE $2 MILLION FROM the N.C. Justice Department will come in the form of grants, and from food and pharmaceutical consumer settlements attained by Attorney General Roy Cooper's office, a Monday news release stated.
"Certainly that's new money, and that's very good news," said Fitzgerald.
The grant money will be distributed through the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina, the Raleigh-based food bank associated with N.C. Association for Feeding America Food Banks.
The state's regional food banks benefited from Justice Department grant money in 2011 when Cooper awarded $741,200 attained as part of a price-fixing settlement with vitamin manufacturers and in 2004 when he awarded $100,000 from a settlement with Salton Inc.
"No food bank knows how much money they're going to get individually," said Fitzgerald. "We don't know when they're going to start distributing it."
But he's encouraged by McCrory's and the department's actions.
"I view this as an excellent first-step response by our government officials to provide additional assistance … to help us aid those in great need in our state," he said.
Taylor said the additional state funds allocated and granted to Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest N.C. will impact the Salvation Army since the organization receives 75 to 80 percent of its monthly food donations from the Winston-Salem food bank.
"We have served more than 5,000 individuals in the last month and we are seeing more people are coming now that food stamps and WIC have been suspended," Taylor said in a Times-News article requesting donations Saturday. "We are doing our best to meet the need but with our limited resources, it's getting very tough to serve everyone."
Last Tuesday, the partial federal shutdown led to the state Department of Health and Human Services to suspend the issuing of new vouchers for the Women, Infants and Children program for the remainder of October. Two days later, the DHHS reversed its decision saying it had secured funds for the remainder of the month. During that two-day period, local pantries including the Salvation Army were trying to stock baby formula and milk.
"We were contacted a lot by people with WIC who couldn't obtain new vouchers," said Taylor.
Fitzgerald said a contribution from Food Lion will help ameliorate the difficulties faced by parents who couldn't get new WIC vouchers. Last week, the corporation made a $500,000 donation in the form of gift cards to the state's seven regional food banks, in response to the suspended WIC benefits.
Fitzgerald said the Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest N.C. received $110,000 in Food Lion gift cards which will be distributed to the food bank's partner agencies beginning Wednesday.
"That was a wonderful initial response from the private sector," Fitzgerald said, adding that he hopes it spurs other companies to act.
"Hunger is a solvable problem," Fitzgerald said. "We need all elements of our society to be part of the solution."

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Troops had captured Timbuktu's airport and were set to take the entire storied city itself, al-Jazeera reported.
There were no updated reports on casualties.
Officials said rebels burned down City Hall, the governor's office and two buildings where the ancient texts were kept, a research center and a warehouse.
Mayor Halle Ousmani Cisse said destruction of the texts, some of which dated to the 13th century, was a "devastating blow" to world heritage, Britain's Guardian reported Monday.
Elsewhere in the country, people living in the northern city of Gao, on the River Niger, celebrated after French-led forces recaptured the city that had been under jihadist control since March 31, 2012.
Residents shouted "Liberte!" and "Vive la France!" in the streets, The Guardian said.
The French suffered no losses in the battle while about a dozen Islamic rebels were killed, the French Defense Ministry said.
Surviving rebels were reported to have fled on foot or by camel since there was no fuel for motor vehicles, The Guardian said.
Some Gao residents said they thought it was only a matter of time before the rebels would emerge again.
The books in the burned museum covered a wide range of topics, including astronomy, poetry, medicine and women's rights. Most were written in Arabic and some were in African languages, Hebrew and Turkish.
The texts were described as "priceless."
Seydo Traore a researcher, said the rebels also destroyed 300 shrines around the city dedicated to Sufi saints.


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Since I can't decide on what to do, I've just been making new characters and running through the first 5 levels in the new starting areas. They're very well done. A smooth introduction to the game, and several deft nods to experienced players.
Orc - They're introducing the human/orc conflict really early. It's an interesting choice. Otherwise very similar to the old version. Waking lazy peons is still the highlight of the early orc experience.
Dwarf - Nicely streamlined, with integration of the Dark Iron mages and warlocks. Of course, everyone rolled dwarf shaman. I don't think I saw a single dwarf mage or warlock.
Night Elf - They only make you run up to the top of the tree once, at the very end. And they give you a Slowfall buff so you can jump down! As well, the moonwell quest lore is now more in the game world, rather than quest text.
Tauren - The quillboar killed the Greatmother! I liked this the best of the starting areas I tried.
Gnome - Very well done. An interesting story, and lots of gnomish moments. Oddly, this was the hardest starting area. I almost died several times fighting troggs, as they hit hard and I kept getting attacked by multiples. They also have a knockdown, which didn't help. (I was playing a priest, so was a little squishy.) I did actually die during the final battle, as I got swarmed with little guys, and didn't use the special device properly, I guess. Still kind of shocked that I managed to die in the first five levels.
Haven't tried the others yet, but I probably will give the rest a whirl tomorrow.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
New Starting Areas
Since I can't decide on what to do, I've just been making new characters and running through the first 5 levels in the new starting areas. They're very well done. A smooth introduction to the game, and several deft nods to experienced players.
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- Elladrion said...
I was rather upset that the draenei and blood elf startring zones are virtually completely unchanged other than some new (welcome) flightpaths. After 2 years of time (in game) and 4 years of real-time, blood elves are still not part of the horde, and must prove their worthyness by dealing with dar'khan and then going to the warchief to finally become accepted into the horde. Waitwut?
Didn't get far into draenei, just to the first town, but that's far enough to know that you still wake up "a few weeks" after the crash and they still have no idea where the rest of the exodar crashed, and there's still blood elves attacking the isles. Very, VERY disappointing after the changes the other races get.
- 11:35 PM, November 24, 2010
- Fobok said...
So far, I've only tried Dun Morogh on live, took a Dwarf Shaman up to level 8. (I did see a warlock, no mages though.) I thought it was a lot of fun, some of the old quests are still there but there's a lot more cohesion to things now, and the quest to get the shimmerweed was so much better now. Last time around, early in vanilla, I was terrified of going up there, since every time I tried I'd be dead.
I also played an Undead in beta, took him up through Silverpine, which was fantastic.
- 12:43 AM, November 25, 2010
- Anonymous said...
Human starting zone is full of human/orc conflict too. Looks like they're trying to grow up more Varian Wrynns.
- 1:57 AM, November 25, 2010
- Darthregis said...
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- 6:26 AM, November 25, 2010
- Bronte said...
Somehow, I completely missed the part where not just Trolls and Gnomes (an eventually Goblins and Worgens) get their own starting experiences, but how several other races see the same changes.
I am kind of excited to login and try out the new starting areas now!
- 6:28 AM, November 25, 2010
- Darthregis said...
Althgouh I'm sure the Tauren zone is technically altered more than some other zones, it is essentially the same experience it was in Vanilla. And that's been SIX years.
With that said, some of of the changes are very welcome. The quillboars make a bit more sense than "kill some stupid animals". And the spirit travel forms that take you to the next quest hub was a nice change from the long, often dangerous walk. (Level 7 mobs are scary for a level 4, okay!)
Oddly enough, playing my Tauren Pally is mostly all I've done since the patch. Crusader Strike ftw! (Honestly, I'm still one-shotting many things with that attack.)
I might actually explore or grind Goblin rep. Eventually.
- 6:35 AM, November 25, 2010
- SirFWALGMan said...
Troll was super awesome too. I only tried Gnome and Troll because I thought the rest were the same... hmmm..
- 10:12 AM, November 26, 2010
- Anonymous said...
pleassseee tell me you guys have seen this WOW mash-up!
Awesome W.O.W quest for Jason Stantham!
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|Nov 3, 2012, 11:08 AM
How can I access home static IP when traveling?
I have a static IP address at my home that I use to manage some web sites. I need to be able to remotely access that static IP when I travel using my Macbook Air. I have looked into VPNs and tunneling, but aren't sure which, if any, of these solutions would work. I am not a network guy, so I am struggling with some of the products and suggestions I have come across thus far.
Can someone point me in the right direction? Thx.
|Nov 3, 2012, 11:28 AM
RE: vpn, vnc, ssh, ...
Hi Maui19,
I would suggest one of three possibilities, depending upon what you require for your connection to your home from the Internet.
1.) SSH (Secure Shell) allows you to login to your home machine (assuming your router has been properly setup to relay the appropriate ports from the Internet (WAN side) to your home network (LAN side). On your machine on the Internet, you would:
ssh yourloginname@homeIPaddress
where <yourloginname> is obviously your login account name and <homeIPadress> is the static IP address that you refer to in your post. The beauty of using ssh is that the communications can be encrypted and thus more secure. This gives you a terminal (shell) interaction with your home machine from anywhere on the Internet.
2.) VNC (Virtual Network Computing), also known as Screen Sharing in the Apple world, requires a little more setup than SSH but allows you to Screen Share with your home computer from anywhere in the world. This is very useful for managing/administering your home computer from work or from the road. VNC viewers, including third party viewers, are available on all platforms including Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. The builtin Screen Sharing app on the Mac is found in the directory:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Screen Sharing.app
3.) The VPN (Virtual Private Network) service is the most flexible of all, as it makes it look like your machine on the Internet is in fact hooked to your home network (LAN). Thus using VPN makes it appear as if you are sitting at home; you can use all of your home LAN's resources, such as backup disks, large file servers, printers, etc. For instance, you may wish to access some data/files that are stored on a RAID disk system mounted on your home computer, by using VPN you can access those data/files from the Internet.
I personally VPN from home to my work's LAN, and then use VNC to screen share with various machines at work, including Windows, Linux, and Mac OS machines. I also do the reverse, VPN from work to home, and then use VNC to screen share machines at home. I also mount my home RAID disks from anywhere on the Internet using VPN. Part of the advantage of VPN is that communications can be setup to be encrypted and thus more secure.
...just my two cents worth of suggestions, and the quality of which is directly proportional to what you pay for it...
Last edited by switon; Nov 3, 2012 at 11:38 AM.
|Nov 3, 2012, 02:32 PM
Will you have another system at home while away or is the MBA your only hardware? You will not be able to spoof your static IP while you are away.
If you had another system at home, you could be able to use something like logmein.com while away.
Or better yet, just let who ever is the network or sys admins know you are traveling. They may have a client based vpn solution for remote travelers.
|Nov 3, 2012, 03:06 PM
The only thing I need to accomplish is send files via FTP to a secure server that hosts my web sites. That server will only let me log in from a specific IP address, which is the static IP I have at home.
|Nov 3, 2012, 05:03 PM
Thanks for the great info. Unfortunately, I still can't determine if any of this will allow me to do what I need to do: send files via FTP that looks for my login info from a specific IP. I contacted one VPN vendor and asked if their software could do this, and they said no. So I don't really know where to go from here.
|Nov 3, 2012, 05:04 PM
My recommendation would be to buy the osx server app and set up VPN. This will let you use your home network while travelling and your air will appear to be coming from your home IP (you need to also tick 'send all traffic over VPN' on the client and set the VPN service as highest priority). Also set up screen sharing for the server, VPN services do sometimes need restarting so its useful to have another route to access the server.
|Nov 4, 2012, 09:17 AM
How good are you at using command line for that sort of stuff? If you can do it, SSH will be the easiest option.
If not, VPN will be the best, just make sure you either 'Remote Desktop' to your home Mac or use the 'Send all traffic over VPN' option to make sure your FTP leaves your home IP address.
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|Nov 4, 2012, 11:12 AM
RE: vpn and ssh...
I'm sorry, I guess I'm not understanding exactly what you need to do. It sounds like you wish to transfer files using FTP to your home Mac mini from only a specific Internet IP address. Is this so? If so, then I would still suggest using vpn or ssh (scp or sftp) for this. There are two places where you can block all other IP access, either on your router or on your Mac mini.
So, if you are wishing to login to your home LAN from only a specific Internet IP address, then you can set this up either on your router or on your Mac mini. For example, you could setup your router to only forward the FTP port 21 to your Mac mini if it comes from a specific Internet IP address. For any other incoming IP address your router will block access. Or you could also write a firewall rule on your Mac mini to "deep six" all packets on port 21 excepting those from the specific Internet IP that you wish to use FTP from -- essentially using your Mac mini to block all access excepting for a specific IP address. Either of these are possible (assuming your router has the necessary capabilities).
If you are worried about security, I would use ssh and its sftp (secure ftp) that provides encryption and thus better security than simple ftp. You could then readily write pfutil firewall rules on your Mac mini to only allow ssh (and sftp) from certain specific IP addresses, if you wish to have even greater restriction than what is already provided by the strong authentication of VPN or SSH.
(...removed irrelevant personal details...)
P.S. The Mac OS X Server ($20 from Mac App Store) gives you an easily setup VPN service for your Mac mini. So, how this would work for you is: you setup the VPN service on your Mac mini running Mac OS X Server. You forward the ports required for VPN from your router to your Mac mini. When you are "on the road", you login to your home LAN using VPN. This requires strong authentication and provides strong encryption of all communications. You now administer your Mac mini and your web sites just as if you were at home, but you are doing so from the road. In other words, if you need to ftp something from your laptop to your Mac mini, then you can do so. Or if you need to administer your Mac mini using Screen Sharing, then this is also possible. All of this is done over the VPN tunnel and is transparent to you --- as far as you are concerned your "on the road" connection appears as if you are sitting at home doing whatever you would normally do when you are at home.
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|Nov 6, 2012, 12:00 PM
If you have a mac mini at home and don't travel that often, I'd recommend trying out Logmein.com. It provides free remote access and you will not need to configure any port forwarding on your home router.
If you're workflow is more complicated or plan to travel often, I'd recommend using the VPN solution.
|Nov 6, 2012, 03:13 PM
RE: port forwarding...
I just want to clarify one point...
When you say that you will not need to configure any port forwarding on your home router, does this not mean that you won't have to "manually" configure port forwarding, as obviously if your router forwards no ports to your Mac mini, then you potentially can't reach the Mac mini from the "outside" (the Internet). At least you can't reach it with a SYN packet (meaning you can't instigate a connection from the Internet, but this does not mean that you can't "continue" an already established connection). Does Logmein.com provides some app that automatically configures your router for you, or does the Logmein.com app continuously run some routine communicating with the Logmein.com site to keep open a return port (ACK) through which you have access from the "outside" by going through the Logmein.com web site itself? (Sorry for my ignorance, but I've never looked into how Logmein.com actually works its magic.)
By the way, when using Mac OS X Server on a Mac mini, the VPN, SSH, and VNC services automatically configure the necessary port forwardings on Apple's wireless routers for you, thus you do not need to perform this task manually, just as you don't need to do so when using Logmein.com.
|Nov 6, 2012, 07:48 PM
Anyway, I am traveling now so no more fiddling with it until I return. Can you point me toward a good reference source to learn about this, perhaps a "VPN with Screen Sharing for Dummies?"
|Nov 7, 2012, 08:33 AM
VNC on the move
I have assumed here that you are using an iPad. You would need to find your IP and the port number which is used to route that incoming connection to you your computer. VNC Pocket Office pro on the iPad will do this for you. hope that helps
|Nov 7, 2012, 11:39 AM
If what I understand is correct, your solution is very simple.
You want to upload from your mac mini server big files to an ftp that only receives files from your mac mini IP.
Log me in will spare you a lot of trouble or teamviewer. Hook up using either of them to your mac mini and use your mac mini to upload files.
|Nov 7, 2012, 01:22 PM
If your web host requires that you use FTP, I would get a new web host. FTP is an insecure protocol that should never be used in any situation requiring security.
FTP transfer passwords in the clear. Anyone in a position to evesdrop on the connection at any point along the way can read your password.
Your web host apparently erroneously thinks that limiting the IP address provides some security to an insecure protocol. They are protecting you only from an attacker that is knowledgable enough and in a position to evesdrop, but is not also knowledgable enough and in a position to spoof your IP address...
It's false security, and if this is all they offer, I would take my business elsewhere.
Can't imagine why they don't support sftp. sftp, despite the name, is unrelated to FTP. It runs over an encrypted ssh connection.
If this really is a requirement, then, yes, you need a VPN or ssh tunneling. The later is probably easier to set-up. Either one will do the job.
A VPN can be set-up on your router without any need for your computer to be involved. Some commercial routers support this, in any case, you could install third-party firmware on your router to do this.
Otherwise, I think the ssh would be easier to set-up. You would need to set-up port forwarding on your router to direct ssh traffic to a computer that is always on. ssh is normally on port 22 - I would pick a non-standard support for a bit of additional security through obscurity.
This is pretty much the standard operating practice for network administratration these days.
ssh will let you log-in to your home machine to a command-line prompt. You can also transfer files to your home machine using sftp (assuming you configure sftp), and you can also arrange routing. So, you could perform the insecure FTP that your host apparently requires through a secure protocol from your notebook to your home machine.
(It would, of course, continue to provide a woefully insecure connection for transferring files from your home to the web host.)
|Nov 7, 2012, 05:50 PM
|Nov 7, 2012, 06:00 PM
You could give "TeamViewer" a try ... Or if you are eager to learn a bit: pfSense is a nice router solution I use as allowing me IPSec-based VPN connection.
When you go the ssh way make sure to use a very strong password. I see lots attempts in my logs to connect to my fixed IP.
Start with TeamViewer ...
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|Nov 7, 2012, 08:52 PM
|Nov 8, 2012, 08:32 AM
RE: VPN and Screen Sharing...
As jtara indicates, some routers have their own VPN service available, so you might look into using whatever router you have to see if you can setup VPN with it. While my router does do VPN, I don't use it but rather setup VPN on my server (I like the better control and logging of the server versus the router).
If you are using Mac OS X Server, the VPN service is relatively easy to setup and it saves a Configuration Profile that your client can use for easy setup of the client. Personally, I would choose L2TP VPN (more secure). I also choose my own Shared Secret instead of using the automatically generated one, just so that I can remember it and thus use it to VPN in from any machine, even ones for which I don't have access to my Configuration Profile file. Select an IP address range for your VPN clients that does not "step on" the IP addresses that you use for your machines on your LAN. Make sure the DNS servers are correct. I would setup your own caching DNS server first of all to give your local machines reasonable hostnames. If you are using Open Directory, make sure you set that up too. Then start the VPN service and save the configuration file for your client. Personally, I use 10.6.8 Server for VPN instead of 10.8.2 Server, mostly because 10.6.8 has a better GUI to serveradmin; I find that under 10.8.2 Server I use the commandline serveradmin command a fair amount for chores that are available in the ServerAdmin GUI under 10.6.8. If you don't use the Configuration Profile file, then it is still fairly simple to setup the client using the Add "+" button in the Network System Preference pane. Select VPN and enter your home's DNS name (if you have one) or its IP address along with the Shared Secret, etc.
To use Screen Sharing, the app is in the /System/Library/CoreServices/ directory. I drag this Screen Sharing.app to my Dock in order to have it readily available. On your home's server, or any machine that you wish to Screen Share with, first switch on the Remote Management and Remote Login (but not the Screen Sharing) by checking the On buttons in the Sharing pane of System Preferences. I would setup the "Allow access for: Only these users:" and add yourself; give yourself all of the options for Remote Management (Observe, Control, etc.) by checking every box available in the "Options..." button. If you are using VNC from Windows or Linux, then you might want to setup the "Computer Settings..." "VNC viewers may control screen with password:" setting, but this is a security risk. Close the Sharing pane when finished with your setup. On your client computer, click on the Screen Sharing.app and enter the hostname/IP address of the machine, say your home's server, that you wish to Screen Share with. Enter your password, and voila, a window opens showing your server's display. That's all there is to it. From "outside", i.e., the Internet, you should first VPN into your home's LAN and then use Screen Sharing to connect to your home's server's display. This keeps everything encrypted and secure.
Good luck,
P.S. I see that a number of others have suggested third party solutions to VPN and SSH. I don't have much experience with these, so I won't comment on them, but the setup of VPN and SSH is already fairly straightforward using Mac OS X Server. If you are using an Airport Extreme as your router, the VPN and SSH setup also automatically opens the appropriate ports on your router. If this does not happen, it is a simple matter to port forward the appropriate ports for both VPN and SSH. And, as I see jtara does also, I too setup my SSH to use a non-standard port (the standard SSH port 22 will get "hit on" by those hackers attempting to guess your usernames/passwords) that eliminates the username/password guessers. [Never use simple/common/default/personal information/none passwords, as these will likely get you into trouble.]
One further hint concerning security and unsecured machines: If you find yourself in the position of needing to VPN into your home LAN from a machine that is not yours (say public or from your customer's company), then I would use a "throw-away" account. By this I mean that before going to my customer's company or using a public computer, say at an university, I first setup a dummy account on my server. I give this dummy account the ability to VPN in, and I use a strong password for it (do not use a Guest account or one without a password - frankly, you should disable your Guest accounts). When I need to VPN from an insecure machine (say one that might be keystroke recording), I use this dummy account. I use it for a single VPN session, and then I delete the account afterwards. I also check my log files to make certain that the dummy account only VPNed in a single time. This way I am more protected when using VPN from a potentially insecure machine -- if a keystroke recorder sent my login and password somewhere else to a hacker, it doesn't matter since the account has been deleted. You can also check your logs to see if some hacker attempted to VPN in using the dummy account (which no longer exists since you deleted it).
|Jan 22, 2013, 07:07 AM
I agree with all the above and recommend Teamviewer as probably the best place to start. Free for personal use, cost if used commercially.
I have a personal, headless web/mail/file server at home, I can access it via teamviewer from anywhere in the world.
There are many, many ways to accomplish what you are looking to do.
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|Jan 22, 2013, 10:12 AM
If you have access to the remote machine, can you change SSH to allow for being key based. So now you need no password and you can allow all in the sshd_config, but restrict it to shared key.
Use scp for copying files not FTP.
One other option is ssh tunnel, little tricky to get going but will do the job.
The remote gui tools sound like over kill here.
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|Jan 22, 2013, 04:00 PM
Get a Cisco ASA 5505 and setup a SSL tunnel. This is how we access Cisco enterprise datacenters and its pretty much like being on the LAN. There are plenty of youtube clips of how to configure it.
How it works is that you configure the ASA with an external fixed IP address and connect to it externally via external IP address. after authenticating with the Cisco connection client, that you really download from the ASA itself you can ping IP addresses that previously were only reachable from the inside, meaning, that you in effect now are on the LAN and can reach private address spaces such as 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0 and 192.168.0.1. From here you can do anything as described in the above thread.
You may however have to run your main router in bridgemode, which can present a whole new set of issues.
|Aug 26, 2014, 02:18 AM
I know this thread is way old, but....
maybe set up sshuttle on (just) the laptop (which requires ssh and python on both your laptop and the mini, i think) then on the laptop do this in terminal:
./sshuttle --dns -r username@ipaddress 0/0
Then all of your internet traffic will go through the mac mini, and you should be able to FTP to the secure server, because all your internet traffic actually is going to it from your static IP (via the mac mini). That's my theory, anyway...
This is how I got around the great china firewall when i was in shanghai a short time ago. To China, all my internet was coming from some IP they didn't know and weren't blocking. To the rest of the internet, I was surfing from some server in the US, so they didn't redirect me to their localized non-US sites.
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You're so well known for your Strauss heroines—the Marschallin, Arabella, Countess Madeleine. What do you love about Capriccio in particular?I love Strauss, period! The final scene of Capriccio is one of his many sumptuous gifts to the soprano voice. It's incredibly beautiful vocal writing, and it fits me very well. But there are other wonderful, passionate moments as well. Capriccio really makes me wish I had known Strauss, because I suspect he had a rich inner life. There's a lot of subtlety in this piece.How would you describe Madeleine, the character you play in Capriccio?She's a confident woman who is very much in control of her surroundings and her life. On the spectrum of Strauss's soprano roles, I think Madeleine is between Arabella and the Marschallin. At the heart of the story is that she loves being in love—and that people are in love with her. She's enjoying all of this, I think, more than she wants to actually choose a partner. She enjoys the artistic process and being connected to creators—cultivating an environment where people can be inspired by each other. That's the kind of thing she really likes best. And if you have a love story to go along with it—well, what's better?The premise of Capriccio is very unusual—it's an opera about making art in which you find yourself torn between two men, a musician and a poet.It's a piece in which people are passionately discussing the merits of performances and theater and everything to do with putting on an artistic work. It isn't until the final scene that we get to hear Madeleine's expression of what she's actually thinking and feeling. It's hard to do when you're a beginner singer. I play her much more easily now that I'm more experienced.Last month you returned to the title role of Armida, which is about as different from Capriccio as it gets...These two roles represent the extremes of what I can do on the operatic stage. Capriccio is about expressing text and details; Armida is vocal display. It's completely virtuosic, it's athletic. Bel canto is about showing the entire range of colors. The text is secondary. It will be interesting to see how it feels to sing these two roles back to back! —William Berger
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DURHAM — One thing that Jeremy Cash had to remember when he made his Duke debut last weekend was to temper his excitement.
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So he went out and made Duke's first tackle of the season.
"I was a little anxious," Cash said. "Yet at the same time, you can't go out there and be overzealous."
Cash, a 20-year-old sophomore safety, is a transfer from Ohio State. He sat out the 2012 season, so he hadn't played in about two years when he made that initial stop against North Carolina Central on Saturday.
"It has been a long time," Cash said. "I went out and tried to play my hardest. I was just happy to be out there and help do anything to win the game. It felt pretty good to be back out there."
Cash, who described his role as a hybrid between safety and linebacker, finished with six tackles — tops among Duke's defensive backs.
"He had fun," Duke coach David Cutcliffe said. "He was chomping at the bit. No question, he made a lot of plays."
It had been a long time for Cash, who opted to leave the Ohio State program after playing in five games for the Buckeyes under former coach Jim Tressel. The coaching change prompted his decision.
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Origins and Galaxy Evolution
One of the major unsolved problems in physics regards the process of star formation in galaxies. Within the standard cosmological paradigm, dark matter and ordinary matter (mostly in the form of hydrogen and helium gas) collapse within growing density fluctuations forming self-gravitating structures called halos. Within galaxy-sized halos the gas will collapse and trigger star formation. However, this simplistic picture is complicated when considering the many, highly non-linear mechanisms that can play a role in shaping the star formation history of galaxies. The importance of intrinsic and environmental processes in controlling star formation in galaxies is an open question that has kept astrophysicists busy for decades.
Our research focuses on exploring the formation of galaxies both from a theoretical and an observational side. The goal is to determine the importance of processes such as feedback from supernovae or from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) to quench (or stimulate) star formation. We also study the evolution of dust and the complex astrochemistry present in star forming regions. Our theoretical work involves both phenomenological modelling as well as ab initio chemodynamical simulations. We also work on hydrodynamical simulations of the interaction between the jet from an AGN and the interstellar medium. The most detailed simulations are run in Legion, UCL's new 2,560-core supercomputer.
On the observational side we cover the full electromagnetic spectrum, from Gamma Rays to radio astronomy. MSSL is the lead UK institute for the ultraviolet/optical telescope on Swift. Swift is a NASA satellite dedicated to the capture of Gamma Ray Bursts. We are also the lead institute for the optical/ultraviolet telescope onboard the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory. P&A are involved in several submillimeter surveys with HARP and SCUBA2 on the JCMT.
Regarding future missions, we are involved in two major missions from the European Space Agency: Herschel (a far infrared telescope larger in aperture than the Hubble Space Telescope), which is due for launch early in 2009 and Gaia (a mission that will map up to a billion stars in our Galaxy). We are also active users of optical, infrared, submillimeter and radio ground-based telescopes. Finally, we are involved in the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope: The James Webb Space Telescope, a 6.5 metre telescope that will revolutionise our understanding of galaxy formation in the coming decade.
Our research is carried out both at MSSL and the department of Physics & Astronomy (P&A), keeping close links and active collaborations. The main emphasis at MSSL is on galaxy formation and evolution studies and X-ray astronomy, whereas P&A focuses on astrochemical studies of galactic and extra-galactic star forming regions and circumstellar environments.
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"The Chemical Composition of Star Forming Regions Near and Far"
Serena Viti (P&A) & Ignacio Ferreras (MSSL)
This project deals with the investigation of the chemical composition of massive star forming regions in low and high redshift galaxies. Massive stars are essential in defining the structure and evolution of their host galaxies: the injection of large amounts of energy and mass into the Interstellar Medium plays an important role in the distribution of warm gas and hence in galaxy evolution.
The student will couple two existing computer models - a chemical enrichment and galaxy formation model with a star formation chemical model - with the aim of 'constructing' the star formation history of a wide range of galaxies, from starburst to dwarfs, from low to high redshift.
This is an extremely topical subject as the cloud-scale observations of molecular clouds and star-forming sites in external galaxies is one of the major goals of ALMA.
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"Chemodynamical Modelling of Galactic Discs"
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This project aims to construct the most sophisticated chemodynamical model of galactic discs. Stars form from the interstellar medium (ISM) and there are both chemical and energetic feedback from stars to the ISM due to supernovae as well as mass loss from evolved stars. It is still unknown how the ISM and stars are affecting each other in the galactic disc. This is a very active area of reserch in astrophysics.
The student will add more sophisticated models of the ISM physics, star formation and feedback to the existing particle-based galactic chemodynamics simulation code, GCD+. The new improved code will be tested and calibrated by comparing high-resolution simulations of rotating discs with the latest multi-wavelength observations of the ISM and stars in discs of galaxies with different masses. The new code will be a unique tool to study the evolution of disc galaxies.
For more information, contact: d.kawata AT ucl.ac.uk (replace 'AT' by @)
Recent Papers of interest
- Timescales for Low-Mass Star Formation in Extragalactic Environments: Implications for the Stellar IMF. Banerji, M., Viti, S., Williams, D. A. & Rawlings, J. M. C. 2008, arXiv:0810.3662
- Molecular tracers of high-mass star formation in external galaxies. Viti, S., Williams, D. A., Rawlings, J. M. C. 2008 ApJ, 676, 978
- Strangulation in galaxy groups. Kawata, D., Mulchaey, J. S. 2008 ApJ, 672, L103
- The star formation history of the Universe as revealed by deep radio observations. Seymour, N.; Dwelly, T.; Moss, D.; McHardy, I.; Zoghbi, A.; Rieke, G.; Page, M.; Hopkins, A.; Loaring, N. 2008 MNRAS, 386, 1695
- Unveiling dark haloes in lensing galaxies. Ferreras, I., Saha, P., Burles, S. 2008 MNRAS, 383, 857
- Molecular signature of star formation at high redshifts. Viti, S. & Lintott, C. J. 2008, Ap&SS, 313, 327
- Decoding the spectra of SDSS early-type galaxies: New indicators of age and recent star formation. Rogers, B., Ferreras, I., Lahav, O., Bernardi, M., Kaviraj, S., Yi, S. K. 2007 MNRAS, 382, 750
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My only suggestion would be buyer/seller feedback for the classifieds (like NASIOC). I know if anything it will be further down the road, but just throwing it out there. So far things are looking good, keep up the great work!
My only suggestion would be buyer/seller feedback for the classifieds (like NASIOC). I know if anything it will be further down the road, but just throwing it out there. So far things are looking good, keep up the great work!
I think forums.vwvortex.com (and the other VMG sites) needs to be remedied soon. I'm hearing a lot of people complaining that they can't get on the forum... I told them to go in through the front door (vwvortex.com) to get to the new stuff.
a lot of people use bookmarks and history to get here (myself included)
So from what I read, all our watched/saved threads are gone?
Holy crap. Your talking over a million people just lost all thier saved threads and IM data.
Bernie needs to get dub-Nation up and going so he can swoop up the cats that flee.
this **** is garbage
that is all
you guys do know audiworld did this.
then lost 75% of it's users to quattroworld.
dumb ****ing move.
Will we be able to set the font size in account preferences?
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I can't believe people are bitching so much! This is a FREE website.... VMG has never once asked for donations or anything, and alot of you still find the need to complain?
Bitching and complaining is what the internet is for.
Probably a random glitch, but I just got booted out and had to relogin again, despite having had the "remember me" setting turned on.
Feature request (that was in old forum). To have the specific forum link available for each thread in the Subscribed List.
My old workflow was to create a bookmark to subscribed (watched) topics, bring it up, see if there were any new
updates to those threads, and if not, just click on the forum link to go to desired forum. Currently the subscribed list
has no link to any forum. You can't see where the threads came from without opening the thread. If there are no
updates, you're pretty much stuck. There isn't even a link to the top of the forum tree there.
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How about a pull down scroll through the forums like there was at the bottom of the old forum...
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Anthony - thanks for considering tweaks for us grumpy ungrateful masses.
A minor request - can we change quoted text to not be in italics? It makes large posts hard to read.
Ohhhh, Multi-quote is a nice feature!
Can't wait til its a bit easier on the eyes tho
New Vortex isn't so bad
New Vortex isn't so bad
There is going to be ALOT of people jumping ship.
think of all the users who used this forum as a secondary income by slanging parts and what not. all the old data is LOST with the new forum. Now multiply that by 10's of thousands.
people are going to have a stroke.
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New Vortex isn't so bad
Any chance of either enabling Profile Pics or just removing them all together? If they are not enabled there is not point to having the generic pic in everyone's profile.
Minor complaint, obviously not a high priority issue.
There would be no reason for the ZF administrators to completely shut them down. Positive income to Zero income doesn't make sense. Someone didn't agree on price/contract.