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Intrusion Detection Two most publicised threats are intruders – generally referred to as a cracker or hacker viruses Classes of intruders Masquerader: an individual who is not authorsied to use the computer and who penetrates a system's access controls to exploit a legitimate user's account Misfeasor: a legitimate user who accesses data, programs, or resources for which such access is not authorised, or who is authorisied for such access, but misuses his or her privileges. Clandestine user: an individual who seizes supervisory control of the system and uses this control to evade auditing and access controls or to suppress audit collection. The masquerader is likely to be an outsider; the misfeasor generally is an insider; and the clandestine user can be either an outsider or an insider. Intrusion Techniques Objective of the intruder is to gain access to a system or to increase the range of privileges accessible on a system. – Needs to acquire information that are generally protected (such as password files) General protection techniques are: encryption and access control. Intrusion detection Inevitably, the best intrusion prevention system will fail. Hence we need intrusion detection which also will be the second line of defense Approaches to intrusion detection Statistical anomaly detection Rule-based detection Auditing (which requires logging) Approaches to intrusion detection Statistical anomaly detection – Applying statistical tests to the observed behaviour to determine with a high level of confidence whether the behaviour is not a legitimate user behaviour (need data collection) • Threshold detection: - define threshold, independent of user, for the frequency of occurrence of various events. • Profile-base: profile of the activity for each (class of) is developed and used to detect changes in the behaviour of individuals. Approaches to intrusion detection Rule-based detection – define a set of rules that can be used to decide that a given behaviour is that of an intruder – Anomaly detection: rules that identify deviation from previous usage(for a user). – Penetration identification: an expert system approach that searches for suspicious behaviour. Approaches to intrusion detection Statistical anomaly detection is effective against masqueraders, who are unlikely to mimic the behaviour patterns of the accounts (users) they appropriate. Rule based approaches is appropriate for misfeasors which may be able to recognise events and sequences that, in context, reveal penetration. Approaches to intrusion detection However the most common and effective strategy used in intrusion detection is logging and auditing. – logging records the foot prints of the intruder and auditing those foot prints may reveal the actions performed by the intruder. Logging help to identify that there was an intrusion while the auditing allows to identify intruder's tracks and clean up the system. Discovering a break-in Three major rules for handling security breaches: – Do not panic!! • Is there a real breach of security, how important it is bring the system to normal operation as soon as possible? – Document • Keep a log of all the events and information in a hard copy so that different tracks of behaviour can be identified. – Plan ahead • Identify and understand the problem;contain or stop the damage;confirm your diagnosis and determine the damage; restore the system;deal with the cause and perform related recovery. Do not Panic!! One of the student in the class (I am not naming the person here – who is he? – may be Chad!! Or Nathan who is still not happy with the negative marking!!) – let us call him geek user - bosses over others including myself. I decided to take a revenge through this unit as follows: The geek user has to use a Unix system run by ITS for this unit. The local operational staff of this machine has made sure that no one can execute the su command expect the members of their group by removing the world execute permission for that program.Obviously the operations staff are somewhat worried when the following message started scrolling on their system console: BAD SU: geekuser ON ttyp4 AT 12:07:20 BAD SU: geekuser ON ttyp4 AT 12:07:30 BAD SU: geekuser ON ttyp4 AT 12:07:40 ……. When the console eventually displayed the following message SU: geekuser ON ttyp4 at 12:08:12 All hell broke loose and the system administrator form ITS grabbed our popular (and loud mouth) geekuser, took him away and gave him a good lesson on security and privacy!! However nobody noticed me. I was sitting at the corner of the room, quietly running the following script which periodically issued the above message and redirected to /dev/console which was world-writable. echo "BAD SU: geekuser ON ttyp4 AT `date` and after a while I issued the second message. The moral is – do not panic – you should treat your audit trail with suspicion. Discovering an intruder Catching the perpetrator in the act. Deducing that a break-in has taken place based on changes that have been made to the system. – e.g: email message from the attacker itself!!; change in the system files (such as /etc/passwd) – how to detect them? Strange activities on the system such as system crashes, significant disk activity, unexpected reboots, sluggish responses when it is not expected, etc. Catching the intruder in the act Many systems provide commands to help to figure out who is doing what on the system. – e.g: finger, users, whodo, w, who, ps etc on Unix system Monitoring the intruder – e.g: monitor the intruder's keystrokes using programs such as ttywatch or snoop – these programs provide a detailed, packet-by-packet account of information sent over the network. Tracing a connection – Determine the terminals using ps, w, who commands or by last and netstat and use whois.internic.net to find the appropriate system administration of the remote machine. Discovering an intruder's foot prints (tracks) Log files – look for things out of ordinary such as – Users logged in at strange hours; unexplained reboots; unexplained changes to the system clock; unusual error messages from the mailer, ftp daemon or other network servers; failed login attempts with bad password; unauthorised su command; users logging from unfamiliar sites on the network, etc. Check the integrity of system files. – The behaviour of system is not changed. Auditing and Logging Log files are an important building block of a secure system: they form a recorded history, or audit trail, of the computer's past, making it easier to track an attack. Log files also have a fundamental vulnerability as they are also stored on the system which can be modified by the intruder. The basic log files in Unix acct or pacct records commands run by every user aculog records of dial-out modems (automatic all units) lastlog logs each user's most recent successful login time; and possibly the last unsuccessful login too loginlog records bad login attempts messages records output to the system's console and other messages generated from the syslog facility sulog logs use of the su command utmp records each user currently logged in (usually it is in /etc) utmpx extended utmp wtmp provides a permanent record of each time a user logged in and logged out. Also records system shutdown and startup (usually in /var directory – see /etc/syslog.conf file for the location of log files) wtmps extended wtmp vold.log logs errors encountered with the use of external media, such as floppy disks or CD-ROMs xferlog logs FTP access Per-user trails in the file system Generally intruders login as an existing user on the system and hence per-user trail file may give a clue to the intruder's activities. These files are not real log files. – e.g: many standard user command shells keep a history file (e.g: on Linux, .bash_history for the bash shell). • However an intruder may delete this file before logging out. One possible way not to lose the contents of this history file is make a link in a directory on the same disk that is normally inaccessible to the user (e.g. in a root-owned directory). Even the intruder unlinks the file from the user's directory, it can still be accessed through the extra link. – Mail – some user accounts are configured to make a copy of all the outgoing mail in a file or records information about the mails sent and received. swatch – a log file tool A perl program to monitor log files. Available from ftp://sierra.standford.edu/swatch or ftp://coast.cs.purdue.edu/pub/tools/swatch Managing log files Plan to backup log files Review periodically the log files (may be daily or more often) Apply filters so that you do not get bored seeing the log messages Don't trust logs completely!! – they can be altered or deleted by intruder Plan to install software which can add security to the operating systems controls (such as tcp wrappers). Integrity Management The goal of integrity management is to prevent alterations to (or deletions of) data, to detect modification or deletions if they occur, and to recover from alterations or deletions if they happen. File protection Basic – all-none protection – group protection Single permission – password or token – temporary acquired permission Per-object & per-user protection Example – UNIX Integrity management Is achieved by – prevention – detecting change Prevention By placing controls – such as software, hardware, file system and operating system controls. By having immutable and append-only files – immutable files are those that cannot be modified once the system is running (suitable for system programs such as login, passwd programs) and append-only files to which data can be appended, but in which the existing data cannot be changed(suitable for log files) Integrity Management Techniques Setting appropriate file permissions and restricting access to the root account on Unix. Immutable files – that cannot be modified once the system is running. Append only files – files to which data can be appended, but in which the existing data cannot be changed. This type is ideally suitable for log files. Read-only file systems – a hardware read only protection will be even better. Detecting a change in a file(s) Meta data - such as file sizes, last modification time, etc Comparison copies – comparing byte-by- byte – unwieldy and time consuming. Checksum – file content can be modified in such a way that it generates the same checksum – not effective. Signatures Detection a change Comparison of files with a (good) backup copy. – the backup copy has to be in a protected mode. – comparison has to be performed byte-by-byte and hence time consuming process (especially for large files – such as database files) – once an authorised change is detected, replace the altered version with the comparison copy, thereby restoring the system to normal. Detection a change Checklists and metadata – Store only a summary of important characteristics of each file and directory and use this information for comparison. • e.g. of summary information – time stamps (last read/modified, file protection modes,link count using ncheck etc) • Running this kind of detection change as a cron (as a background) job may not be a good idea! Why? Detection a change Checksum and Signatures – changes can be made in such a way that the checksum and metadata may not change and hence the previous method may fail. • e.g. setting the clock backwards, perform the changes and the set the clock forward – CRC checksums – useful only when there are few bits of change and they are generated by well known polynomials. – Generate signatures for the file contents and use the signature to detect the change. Detection of changes using Signatures Remember that signatures are one way function and it is possible to generate signature for small and large files. Since signature is generated by one-way function and good signature function will generate different signatures for different files, it is difficult for the intruder to modify the content of a file and still able to generate the same signature as that of the un-modified file. Detection of changes using Signatures Assume that the initial signatures for the files listed in /usr/adm/filelist are stored in the file /usr/adm/savelist (say using MD5 algorithm). Then the following shell script can verify whether any of the files in the filelist has been modified in its contents or not. #!/bin/sh # generate new signatures for the files in the list find `cat /usr/adm/filelist` -ls –type f –exec md5 {}\; >/tmp/now # compare the old signature and the new signature (line by line and report the files which does not match) diff –b /usr/adm/savelist /tmp/now Detection of changes using Signatures It is important that the original signature file is not modified by the intruder. – It may be a good idea to store this file on a different system. For some files detection change with signature may not be meaningful. For example, /etc/passwd (or /etc/shadow) file contents will change quite often, hence hybrid of metadata (for such files) and signatures for other files should be used for detecting changes. Tripwire In practice one need not generate digital signature on the content of each of the file. – e.g. We need to know if the owner or protection of /etc/passwd file is changed, but we do not care about the size or checksum because we do expect the contents to change while we should be concerned if the contents of /bin/login is altered. tripwire is a package that allows to configure the files, directories that need to be monitored using MD algorithms. ftp://coast.cs.purdue/edu/pub/COAST/Tripwire
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'Good, Bad, Ugly' actor Eli Wallach dies
By Dan Wallach | June 25, 2014 | Updated: June 25, 2014 9:47am
Photo By Archive Photos/Getty ImagesClint Eastwood as 'Blondie' and Eli Wallach as Tuco in the western 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly', 1966.
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Eli Wallach in 'The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.'
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Honorary Oscar winner Eli Wallach, one of the stars of The Magnificent Seven, who was not among the "Seven," but played another major role in the 1960 movie as a Mexican bandit leader, has died. He was 98.
The death of the famous character actor, whose career spanned six decades, was confirmed to the New York Times by his daughter, Katherine Wallach.
The award-winning actor never received an Oscar nomination for one of his roles, despite a long and varied career. But in 2010, the Academy decided to reward him with an honorary gong for "effortlessly inhabiting a wide range of characters, while putting his inimitable stamp on every role."
He became the oldest-ever Oscar recipient.
Born in 1915 in Brooklyn, N.Y., Wallach headed west in the 1930s to the University of Texas because it was the least expensive college he could find, he had said. It was the middle of the Depression.
Wallach joked that one of his professors also would call on him, not because he was smart, but because the professor wanted to hear him speak in his Brooklyn accent.
Described as a "quintessential chameleon" while receiving his honorary Oscar, Wallach is perhaps best remembered for his role as vicious Tuco (the Ugly) in the classic spaghetti-western The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, alongside Clint Eastwood.
Wallach also acted opposite Marilyn Monroe in The Misfits and Audrey Hepburn in How to Steal a Million.
He also portrayed a Mafia don role in "The Godfather III," commenting that if he were such a good friend of the central characters, the Corleone family, why wasn't he in the first and second Oscar-winning pictures?
Wallach is survived by his wife of 66 years, the actress and his frequent co-star Anne Jackson. The couple have three children, Katherine, Peter and Roberta.

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less intense than at Earth. Continuing outward to Pluto, sunlight is 99.94 percent less intense. RPS-powered Voyager, Galileo, Cassini, and New Horizons spacecraft have enabled the United States to explore every planet in this dark, outer region of the solar system. Much of their success has been due in large part to having a reliable power source that provides enough power to operate complex instruments at a data rate high enough to optimize the capabilities of the scientific instruments they carry.
RPSs are also useful for missions to the surface of the Moon (especially during the long, cold lunar nights and in the permanently shadowed regions near the lunar poles); for missions to the surface of Mars (with its dust storms and extended winters); for extended missions below Venus's cloud deck; and for other missions where solar power is not practical, for example, because the dynamic range of solar power would preclude the use of solar arrays.2
Space nuclear power reactors are another potential option for missions where solar power is not practical. However, the performance and reliability of space nuclear power reactor systems using current technology remains unproven, especially for missions with long lifetimes. In addition, the committee is not aware of any substantive effort currently under way anywhere in the world to develop space nuclear power reactor systems. The history of space nuclear power reactors suggests that space nuclear reactors, if successfully developed, could meet the needs of some missions and could enable other missions that are not now under consideration because of power limitations. For example, Project Prometheus, which was NASA's most recent attempt to develop space nuclear power reactors, selected a nuclear electric propulsion reactor concept that was scalable from 20 kilowatts of electrical power (kWe) to 300 kWe. However, history also shows that the development of a high-power, long-life space nuclear power reactor would be very time-consuming and cost billions of dollars (see Appendix E).
Since 1961, the United States has launched 45 RPSs on 26 spacecraft dedicated to navigation, meteorology, communications, and exploration of the Moon, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and elsewhere in the outer solar system (see Table 2.1). This critical work could not have been accomplished without RPSs. Current RPS-powered space missions include the Cassini spacecraft, with three RPSs, which is studying Saturn and its moons; and the New Horizons spacecraft, with one RPS, which is studying Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. The Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft is scheduled for launch in 2011 with an RPS-powered rover. Over the longer term, RPSs are expected to support continued exploration of extreme environments of the Moon, Mars, and Venus, as well as the dimly lit outer reaches of the solar system and beyond. Such missions will be severely constrained or eliminated unless RPSs are ready and available (see Table 2.2).
FINDING. Importance of RPSs. RPSs have been, are now, and will continue to be essential to the U.S. space science and exploration program.
Plutonium-238, which does not occur in nature, is created by irradiating neptunium-237 (237Np) targets in a nuclear reactor. Although many studies over the past 50 years have assessed the advantages and disadvantages of using a wide variety of isotopes as a fuel for RPSs, every RPS launched into space by the United States has been fueled by 238Pu.3 Studies examined by the committee demonstrate that the longstanding decision by the Department of Energy (DOE) and NASA to rely on 238Pu is correct and well-justified. No other radioisotope meets or exceeds the safety and performance characteristics of 238Pu, particularly for long-duration, deep-space exploration missions (see Appendix D). Plutonium-238, which has a half-life of 88 years, is the only isotope that meets all of the general criteria for RPS fuels, as follows:
It generates heat for a sufficient length of time (i.e., it has a radioactive decay half-life of sufficient length).
The type and quantity of the emissions produced by the radioactive decay of the fuel allow it to be handled safely.
It has high specific power (heat per mass) and high power density (heat per volume).
It has a fuel form that is noncorrosive, water-insoluble, and chemically stable, and it demonstrates good engineering properties at high temperatures.
It can be produced in sufficient quantity at an affordable cost.
FINDING. Plutonium-238 Supply. Plutonium-238 is the only isotope suitable as an RPS fuel for long-duration missions because of its half-life, emissions, power density, specific power, fuel form, availability, and cost. An assured supply of 238Pu is required to sustain the U.S. space science and exploration program.
The Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (Public Law 83-703, 1954), establishes comprehensive requirements regarding the possession, use, and production of nuclear
A specific example is a solar probe mission using Jupiter for a gravity assist in order to pass the Sun in an orbit highly inclined to the plane of the ecliptic. For a mission such as this, the spacecraft experiences such a wide range of solar intensity that current technology is unable to provide the spacecraft with a low-mass solar power system.
The Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power (SNAP)-3 Program used both polonium-210 and plutonium-238 as nuclear fuel for RTGs during ground tests (Dieckamp, 1967). Over the years, some papers have erroneously reported that SNAP-3 RTGs fueled with polonium-210 were operated in space. That is not the case.


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Chris Murphy, Published July 10 2013
ESPN's Jimmy Dykes makes visit to West FargoWEST FARGO – Not many people would consider themselves lucky to fly from Arkansas to Chicago to Fargo and back on four flights in less than 48 hours.
ESPN and ABC Sports basketball analyst Jimmy Dykes was more than happy to do so to talk about two topics he holds close to his heart at the Fellowship of Christian Athletes' Basketball Bash at West Fargo High School on Wednesday.
"Basketball has given me a platform to share God's written word, so tonight I get to talk about two things I have a great love for and a great respect for and are very important to me," Dykes said. "I feel very fortunate and blessed to be worthy enough to have an invite to fly from Fayetteville, Ark., this morning to Chicago to Fargo, speak to a group of people tonight and fly home (Thursday). That's a great honor."
Dykes has been surrounded by basketball his entire life. He played at the University of Arkansas and graduated in 1985. After that, he was an assistant coach at six colleges, including the University of Arkansas, University of Kentucky and Oklahoma State University. He served as an NBA scout before going to ESPN. His basketball opinion has been on display for nearly two decades and he is a big fan of Milwaukee Bucks 6-foot-5 point guard out of South Dakota State University Nate Wolters. Born in St. Cloud, Minn., Wolters was the 38th overall pick in this year's NBA draft.
Even though he works 60 games a year, Dykes remembered Wolters.
"Saw him once in person two years ago," Dykes said. "I'm impressed with his size, his change of speeds, his ability to take the ball anywhere he wants it and his great tight handle on the ball. He has an unorthodox way of shooting the ball, but it goes in at a high rate. I think he's going to have a long career. I think teams that passed on him earlier in that draft are going to look back and regret it. He's a better athlete than people realize. He's got a little bit of cockiness and confidence about him that you want in your lead guard."
No analyst is going to leave out what needs to be fixed.
"I think the concern is how quick is he defensively and that's not something you can fix," Dykes said. "The only way to fix that for him would be to learn the shortcuts and study the game. Smart equates to quick on the basketball court. He's going to be a trusted teammate, he's a great locker-room guy. Guys are going to love playing for him. He's coachable and he stands for the right things. The only question mark is if he's explosive enough on the defensive end that he doesn't become a liability. I don't think he will be a liability, but that is a question a lot of teams have."
Wednesday, Dykes was back talking to young athletes as if he was coaching again.
"I have a platform that allows me to get in front of people and share with people about my life and what I think is important," Dykes said. "I'm not equating basketball to religion, I'm equating basketball to life and what's important in those areas."
As for getting back on the bench, Dykes hasn't ruled it out after the remaining three years left on his contract with ESPN.
"If you've been a coach, it never really leaves you," Dykes said. "I don't worry about the future. I'm secure where I'm at right now. If I'm coaching again somewhere that's great. If I'm at ESPN for another 10 years that's great. Just have to see where the Lord takes me."
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Keep the KTM 690 or get KTM 990 or 1190
OK fellow inmates, I need some input here. Saturday I was at the KTM shop getting my 2011 690 re mapped and like a good salesman the guy shows me the 2013 990 Baja. My 690 is completely tricked out, springs, FMF Q4 pipe, Wolfman bags, RR fuel tanks, seat. . Etc. So help me out what would you guys do and why would you do it. Thanks in advance for your help. :ear
I would move this to OC- this should not be in flea-market . But the real answer is have both :thumb
Keep the KTM 690 or get KTM 990 or 1190
I made a post in the wrong place, anyway I'll try again here. I was at the KTM shop on Saturday getting my 2011 690 remapped, and the nice salesman shows me the 990 Baja and the new 1190. Now that was just wrong. My 690 is tricked out, springs, RR tanks, seat, FMF Q4 pipe, Wolfman bags, Turatech racks. . . etc. So my fellow inmates what would you do and why would you do it. Thanks guys :ear
Sometimes I wish I got a 690 when I'm riding tight trails. But then I realize that if I had got a 690, I would have wished I had a 990.
Grass is always greener ...
And then of course is the question of intended use ...
But since you ask, I'd keep the 690 as the other 2 are pigs for what I would use the 690 for, and I already have a pig, F800GS.
the stable needs both :D
990 owner here - if you're selling your 690 pm me!!
To the topic the 990 is pretty darn heavy in rough stuff but I've done some big rides on it (coast to coast and back in a short time hitting parts of the tat) that would have been really tough on a smaller bike with shorter service intervals
Having done those rides though, something lighter sure would be nice for some rougher trail riding in the sierra. Not that the 990 couldn't do it in the right hands though
That what I did:clap
Well tks to you all. Good point that I didn't state in the first post. I ride in NV and UT mostly on FS roads I don't do very much of the trail stuff at all. Too old and too slow. Out in NV you have to have 300 range to get anywhere, that's why the RR tanks. Lots of two lane pavement with towns over 70 miles apart. The 690 is just OK as a highway bike but great off road. I am riding to AK this summer. Keep your inputs coming. :ear
Get used 990. Fit it with street tires and get 450 / 550 / 640 enduro with the leftover money.
Get used 990. Fit it with knobbies and get crotch rocket or touring bike with the leftover money.
Get 990, fit it with 50/50 tires and ride it anywhere anytime. Start exercising deadlift.
TKS l did post this over on O C. l wasn't sure where to post it . still a noob :shog
You should sell me your 690 for a sixer of PBR and get both the 990 and 1190.....:deal
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Writing inmates is an important task for us in the "free world." In the vein of Martin Luther King's letter crying "Why We Cant Wait," Comrade Malik writes us about current conditions in Texas prisons and specifically with the Houston Police Department and why we can't wait as prisoners are dying.
So many police departments withhold data on internal investigations that it can be difficult to even grasp the scope of problems, much less prescribe solutions.
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Just to speak the names of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin and Tamir Rice says more about pain and injustice than we should ever need to say, but these tragedies represent just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
The target audience for "Get Home Safely: 10 Rules of Survival" is not just for the African-American community; the film is for everyone who believes that we can do better as a nation.
It is one thing to profess the values that all people are equal and that we celebrate diversity, but how many people of a different race do you have over for dinner? Do you live in your home what you say you believe?
"I am continuously motivated when I see my work positively affecting members of the fire and police departments, and seeing them become excited about it. When they "get it" and continue to roll out their mats week to week, it adds to my passion to teach them."
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Mumsnet, the parenting community site, is to host a live webchat with Conservative leader David Cameron tomorrow, Thursday 19 November from 1.45pm.
It is the second time in a month the site has held the country's leading politicians to account, having hosted a discussion with current Prime Minister Gordon Brown last month.
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The Philadelphia Eagles have finalized a contract with the 12th-overall pick of the 2012 NFL Draft, Fletcher Cox. The terms of the agreement were not released, but it is expected to be worth just over $10.2 million, all guaranteed. Cox praised the new collective bargaining agreement for ensuring that rookies sign with teams much more quickly. With the signing of Cox, the Eagles are the 11th NFL team to sign all the members of its 2012 Draft Class.
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Lionsgate has hired Dirk Blackman and Howard McCain to rework a script for "Conan" after their success penning a script for "Amazon," another heroic
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In the books, the Creator made The Wheel of Time, which spins the Pattern of the Ages using the lives of men and women as its threads. The evil character Shai'tan and the incarnation of the force for good called The Dragon continually engage in a cyclical fight throughout the ages.
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Command and conquer 3 tiberium wars takes place in the world of tiberium,a crystal that is poisonous to the unshielded man,yet a great resource for gdi,Nod, and the Scrin.
You play a battle hardend commander for the entire game,and the characters and ai voices adress you as such.
similar to halo wars,you build up bases,collect resources for income,and build and upgrade units,but UNLIKE halo wars,structers and base defences can be put anywhere in your build radius,wich expands as you build towards the edges of it.
the graphics arent the best out there at the moment,but they are good enough to make you stop for a second to really admire it.
the ai is......ok during the early levels of all 3 campaigns,but gets harder as you move forward.
the skirmish ai isnt to bad either,the easy ai sort of turtles his base with a lot of defences and barley attacks.
sorta fun to just mess around in but the real challange in offline play comes more to the brutal and sometimes hard ai.these ai's will destroy the unprepared and taunt the semi prepared.
the difrent build systems for all the ai in skirmish is nice too,so you can practice fighting rushers,turtles,and geurilla based players of diffrent skill levels,theres also balanced and steamroller ai types as well.
the live action cutscenes really caught me offguard on this game.
i wasnt expecting to see real cutscenes about the tiberium war effort,allthough they were sorta cheesy,they were excelenty designed and acted out.
all in all this is a great game for those who like the rts gerne,and to those who are looking to get INTO the gerne,this is a great and easy first game.
the online is a diffrent story unfortunaly.
there are verry few players online in xbox versions anymore because of all the newest c&c games,but theres enough that you wont get angry at the game for not finding a game.
this game deserves more then it has in terms of fanbase because of the huge stride forward it took in rts on the console.
this game gets a 10/10
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October 17th, 2008 #1
animation critique
This is the first animation I've done, just wondering if any of y'all could offer some ideas on how to make it smoother.
Done in Photoshop during class when I'm supposed to be doing something else. Heh.
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The most important thing to do to make something move smoothly is to have it follow an arc.
Almost everything in real life moves in arcs.
Once you've got it following a smooth arc, make sure the size of the shapes are consistent in each frame.
Spacing is very important. The further apart the drawings are, the faster it will move when played back.
A general guide in animation is 'slow-in, slow-out'. Which means you'd make drawings closer together at the start of a movement, then further apart in the middle of the movement, and then closer together once again when the movement is coming to a stop.
I've done a quick animation for you.
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October 18th, 2008 #3
Ah! Beautiful! Thanks!!!
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October 20th, 2008 #4
I agree with HK, plus would like to add that his blink was distracting for me because when the eye is shut, it is larger than when the eye is open. Can you make it more of a slit than tripling the size?
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College Football Opening Line Report Week 9
- Updated: October 24, 2011
College Football Opening Line Report Week Nine
After weeks of the big favorites winning (and covering) in college football, the underdogs came to play in week eight and several big teams were beaten. Now heading into week nine, it is more important than ever to cover the opening odds.
Scrutinize the reports and uncover some hidden gems that will allow the sports bettor to make some scratch during the weekend. Here is a look at some of the games that stand out in week nine of the college football season.
Troy vs. Florida International
It's a Tuesday night and that must mean college football. The game may not have the top teams in football, but that won't stop folks from betting on it. The betting public is out in droves with 81% of the early money coming in at FIU. The current line is the same as the opening, FIU -6.5.
Connecticut vs. Pittsburgh
The Big East invades Wednesday nights on ESPN as college football kicks off midweek. The Panthers are playing the last year in the Big East and are 9.5 point favorites in this game. The early betting public pounded the Panthers to the tune of 65% and the line opened at 9.5 and is now at 10 in many offshore sportsbook outlets. This game will be a target for teasers with the number hanging around ten.
Wisconsin vs. Ohio State
The Wisconsin Badgers are off a huge upset loss on a last minute hail mary against Michigan State. Now they have to regroup and hope they defeat the Ohio State Buckeyes. The betting public thinks they will and 81% of the early money is on the Badgers. The line opened up at 7.5 and has been bet up to eight in many offshore sportsbook outlets.
This is just an example of a few of the line moves in week nine in college football. Check out all of the latest moves and information if you want to get an edge in betting on football.
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For new Covington coach Charles Mitchell, it was time to 'come home'
For Mitchell, time to 'come home'
It wasn't a move Charles Mitchell was looking to make. But coming home to West Tennessee feels like the right choice.
Mitchell, who spent the last 21 years as a highly successful coach at Knoxville Austin-East, is the new boys basketball coach at Covington.
Mitchell replaces Dion Real, who coached the Chargers boys and girls teams last year before leaving to take a job as an assistant at Tennessee-Martin.
"It's just a funny thing," said Mitchell. "When you're not looking for a job, one falls out of the air. ... I've turned down three or four jobs (in West Tennessee) in the past. I turned down the Arlington job two years ago.
"There hasn't really been a time when people weren't calling me, asking me if I was ready to come home. I knew I would come home eventually."
Mitchell said "all of his ties" are in West Tennessee. He graduated from Bolivar High in 1981 and has plenty of family and friends in the area. He said one of the draws of the Covington job was a chance to be closer to his daughters.
But that didn't make saying goodbye to Austin-East any easier.
Mitchell compiled a 547-170 record with the Roadrunners, taking them to the state tournament 13 times, including runner-up finishes from 1999-2001. His teams also won numerous district and region titles and were a phenomenal 13-1 in substate games.
"It's been a real painful process," he said. "Covington's been real patient with me. When you look at (the success at Austin-East), it's hard to just get up and leave. At the end of the day, I knew it was time. I wanted to leave on my own terms."
Mitchell will inherit a team that finished 25-4 last season and returns several key contributors. His coaching style should also suit the Chargers, as they compete in a tough district against Fayette-Ware, Jackson North Side and Liberty Tech.
"Covington always has athletes; I remember that from when I was in school," Mitchell said. "We're going to play sideline to sideline and baseline to baseline. We're going to press, trap and get after it."
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Mike Iaconelli is known for breaking things -- rods, most notably. But today, he did what no one expected: He broke Twitter.
Twitter occasionally calls into effect the "update limit" to manage traffic and will temporarily shut down the ability to tweet for someone it feels has tweeted too much. Iaconelli hit that limit today after a solid hour and a half of answering fan questions live, during the B.A.S.S. Twitter chat.
The questions were constant throughout the chat, and if Twitter hadn't shut him down, the personable pro might still be answering his fans. (Note the abrupt ending to the chat in the transcript below.)
Fans asked him about his rise to fame, advice for fishing certain bodies of water at this time of year and questions about the upcoming season. Throughout the chat, B.A.S.S. staffers talked with him via Skype and tweeted photos of him. (Enjoy his hat-changing act.)
Below is a transcript of the chat, lightly edited for spelling and clarity. You can also check out Twitter chat transcripts from other pros, including Kevin VanDam, Aaron Martens, Boyd Duckett, Jonathon VanDam, Todd Faircloth, Brent Chapman, Randy Howell, Ish Monroe, Brandon Palaniuk, Jeremy Starks and Alton Jones.
Keep up with Twitter chats, tournament news and bass fishing advice by following B.A.S.S. on Twitter at @BASS_Nation.
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@mike_iaconelli on Skype right now. He's about to start taking your questions! pic.twitter.com/KLxX1eAJ
Mike Iaconelli
Folks at home, folks at home, very excited to be here. Welcome to the fans.
Who were ur first sponsors out of jersey, and how did u get into the elite series?
Mike Iaconelli
A dual question! My first sponsors were my family, they supported me.
Mike Iaconelli
I worked my way up the ladder and fished through the B.A.S.S. Nation.
Do you like a lipless crankbait or a jerkbait more for late winter/early spring?
Mike Iaconelli
Those are my Top 2 picks. If I had to pick 1, I'd say a lipless because it's a sinking bait so I have more control
Any new shows for the upcoming season from you?
Mike Iaconelli
We've got one were working on called GoingIke, get a sneak peak on http://goingike.com !
Any way I could fish with you sometime?! That would be a great opportunity for a huge ike fan!
Mike Iaconelli
Yes! In fact, if you go on http://Bassmaster.com we are running a Fish with Ike sweepstakes!!
Awesome man!! Thank you!
What was your deciding factor on turning pro?
Mike Iaconelli
It was more of my performance that dictated my turning pro. It was always a dream of mine, but I'm a realist, too.
Ike, everyone says "time on water" is key to success. What would you deem is the most important success factor OFF the water?
Mike Iaconelli
That's a great question. For me, it's not getting away from fishing off the water. The minute I knew I made the Classic, I started thinking about that tournament. You can do things off the water to prepare like research, I use fishidy.com for good research.
Jonathan Davis
Frustrated mike! Had a tourney last weekend and after 3 warm days the cold front hit and shut down my pattern. Slowed down. No help
Mike Iaconelli
I know what you're talking about! There's 2 things I remind myself. 1-thicker-The fish will get into thicker cover. Second, when a cold front comes in, I go deeper. I'll go out deeper to refind those fish.
How many 5 pound smallmouth have you actually caught in
Mike Iaconelli
1,752 over 5 pounds, and I've got it right here on my calculator. You gotta go there to believe it.
Do you prefer cats or dogs?
Mike Iaconelli
I'm a dog person. My wife has a dog that spends time here when we're not traveling.


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I can understand why the UK hoaxers did it
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- December 18, 2012
WORKING in radio is stupid. It's a dying medium that encourages you to act like a baboon and be subjected to management and all its erratic inconsistencies.
It's an office job in the entertainment business and decisions are made on the fly in dark rooms with padded walls. Yet if something inside your brain makes you want to be on radio, you can't fight it. It's just something you need to do.
I first sent a demo tape to a radio station in 1996 and did not even receive a rejection letter, let alone feedback. I proceeded to send demo tapes three times a year, every year from then on, not letting a total lack of broadcasting experience ever hold me back.
In 2002 I was called in for a meeting and sat in the 2Day foyer for three hours before seeing myself out.
Just over three years ago I went through the motions again, sending off a CD to Austereo management. But this time the "right people" (content director Guy "Dobbo" Dobson and his lieutenant Craig Bruce) somehow heard and liked what I'd put together. Within two weeks, a mate and I were given three nights a week on 2Day's sister station, Triple M, and the freedom to make a radio show. Other staff openly despised this rapid 13-year rise to fame but I'd got a shot.
With no skills other than 30 years of stories, we proceeded to do our best to fill Triple M's late-night airwaves with something entertaining. Upper management was now quickly being identified as off-limits (except to ask that I change on-air partners) but I was in a system where I could at least impress. People would email us with compliments. We got a write-up in the paper. It was all pretty exciting.
Occasionally I'd be told that the "right people" still liked my stuff and had big plans for me - which for a grown man was depressingly self-fulfilling. Dobbo also requested our show change its title to "Running Of The Bullshit" - allegedly because he'd thought of the name years ago and always wanted to use it. Another announcer was nicknamed "Queer Pete" for the same reason. Queer and I were both happy because at least Dobbo knew who we were.
But being down the food chain of a radio station is a bloody hard gig. Individuals are under intense pressure to continually generate ideas and most of the advice given by middle managers is either inane ("be funnier") or a complete contradiction of the last time you'd spoken. You hope that the "right people" are still listening but in truth they are more likely lunching at Fenix.
Before I started at Austereo I thought I knew how radio stations worked. I envisaged writers and producers and intense appraisal of everything that went to air. This was not my experience.
Firstly, the majority of radio station staff are actually sales people rather than involved in making content. Stations teem with good looking Gen Y's in expensive suits and designer dresses talking about monthly targets. In terms of numbers, a radio station is more like a real estate office than a creative hub.
The small amount of finances that is allocated to actual programming is then primarily given to the breakfast shift. This is where the money is. In return, breakfast presenters have to live with constant critiques from four levels of management and attendants at advertiser functions. (Unless you're Kyle, of course, who does his own thing and will forever do so).
For our late-night show, we were given a young panel operator to get us to air and the ear of an overworked staff member that would appraise a few minutes of our stuff a week. Nobody in the station gave us an idea for content and every meeting with someone of reasonable authority seemed to be cancelled 15 minutes before it happened. I was paid $200 per week for a full-time gig.
And given the type of game radio is, I felt in an unfathomably lucky position. (Since the Southern Cross merger, I'd actually have been offered a gig in the country. But in 2009 Austereo only had a six-pack of stations to play with - these days they own a whole crate.)
The Hot 30 program, cancelled this week, was presented around the same time of night as ours upstairs at 2DayFM. Their show was also minimally resourced, with the only added luxury being a dedicated producer who answered phones and would say hi when we'd pop in to see if they had food. The Hot 30 had a far higher profile than us on a higher-rating station but with the same need to always impress those above them with continual output and little help.
In a year at Austereo, I attended two lectures on radio standards. Most of these were common sense with a strong leaning towards not upsetting advertisers. Prank calls may have been mentioned but certainly weren't a focus. At both lectures everything said was met with mild indifference by most and seen by many as a good chance to brush up on Angry Birds.
Yet despite what people may believe, radio stations are full of good young people who are genuinely excited to be there. Never in any other workplace have I seen people hang around unpaid just because they love being there so much. Competition is always in the air though, and the challenge of coming up with ideas becomes all-consuming. Be noticed. Break the boundaries. Oh yeah, and Nova sucks.
To the detriment of my bank balance and relationships, I dedicated all my time to trying to make the most of the opportunity - writing comedy pieces, coming up with hundreds of content ideas and chasing flaky PR people for interviews. I was sent to Melbourne one week to test with a girl I'd never met and got to meet Hamish and Andy (they're taller than you think). Whispers kept on filtering through that the "right people" liked my stuff.
Which made it a bit of a shock when a young middle manager called my mobile to tell me my services were no longer required. I'd just finished presenting 16 straight midnight-4am shifts about World Cup soccer so to be honest, I was pretty fragile. I'd also actually expected to be asked to do a breakfast show in Adelaide - so perhaps there's a silver lining there somewhere. But make no mistake, radio can be ruthless.
All of which is not an apology or justification for the royal call hoax. I personally wouldn't have aired the prank call because I think its content was none of people's business. But I fully understand the pressures of how a couple of kids may have thought it was a good idea. It's not easy making your way in a radio station with little support, contradictory advice from management and without even knowing if the "right people" are actually listening.
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A kurtka (куртка) is the generic word for a jacket in a number of European languages, most notably in Polish and Russian. The word itself is a Slavic diminutive of the original Hungarian word kurta, which in turn was derived of the Latin word curtus, "excurtus", meaning short (see Alejandro Cioranescu: Diccionario Etimologico Rumano).
In addition to the general meaning of "jacket", the word kurtka refers to the garment normally worn by Sambo practitioners, similar to the keikogi in style and function. A kurtka should be made of canvas or other heavy material, should be tight-fitting, should not extend more than eight inches below the belt (roughly equal to the bottom of the sleeve) and the sleeves must be long enough to cover the arms to the wrists, and wide enough at the end to fit the wrist and four fingers.
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In Jamming, John Kao also offers an approach that demystifies a topic traditionally confounding to businesspeople everywhere. He begins by showing how creativity, like the musical discipline of jazz, has a vocabulary and a grammar. It is a process,… (mehr)
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Slapping five and giving "propers" has turned into an absolute given following every foul shot in NBA and college basketball games. Teammates are all about letting the foul shooter know how proud of them they are because they have made (or even missed) a 15 foot shot without any defenders in their face.
A strange twist to free throw congratulations has come about in recent seasons though. Foul shooters have started seeking out propers from their teammates. It's come to the point where the league should outlaw it. It's similar to a hitter in baseball stepping out of the box to adjust his batting gloves after every pitch.
If the league doesn't want to completely outlaw it, it could preach for players to follow Thomas Robinson's lead. The Sacramento rookie forward, the fifth overall pick 2012 NBA Draft, totally ignored the extension of propers from teammate Alex Young. Young, an undrafted rookie from IUPUI, tried to give Robinson "five" after Robinson, from Kansas University, made a foul shot during an NBA Summer League game Saturday.
Robinson wanted absolutely no part of it. Young was left hanging, looking like an undrafted rookie from IUPUI.
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In 1990, Twin Peaks gave the world a nightmare vision into the seediness beneath the placid veneer of small-town America.
They would speak up, but in tones still soft and placid; and Spahn often overheard them describing him as a "beautiful person."
His face immediately shifted out of the placid, guarded, friendliness of the Scheduled Speaker into ambroad, welcoming smile.
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Margaret Karagas, associate director of the Center for Environmental Health Sciences at Dartmouth Medical School, said that this study could provide a model for future cancer research, noting that many discoveries about cancer that are applied to different types originated with skin cancer research.
"Skin cancer has been a useful model of carcinogen discovery," she said, listing radiation and arsenic among the cancer-causing agents that were initially discovered because they caused skin cancers.
"It's also important because in many parts of the world it appears to be one of the most rapidly increasing cancers," she said.
Alberg also noted that non-melanoma skin cancer may provide a better initial marker because any subsequent cancers are unlikely to be caused by the treatment.
"Non-melanoma skin cancer avoids [these problems] because it is locally treated, and so there aren't late effects of treatment like you might see with melanoma."
While he said the findings were interesting, Abdelmalek said he would be reluctant to use this information in his practice.
"The idea is fine to think about. You don't want to think of skin cancer as a separate issue that has nothing to do with the rest of the body," he said.
He noted that for many patients, however, there were other explanations for their cancers that the study did not adequately address. One problem he said he found was that patients' history of sun exposure was based on their own recall over 10 years after the study began.
"Relying on a patient's history to accurately report their sun exposure is a joke," he said. "You have no idea how many people will tell me they don't go out in the sun when they have a tan line glaring at me and their back is peeling from a recent sunburn."
He said that these warnings might not be helpful.
"The data can't really say which types of other malignancies are associated," he said. "So what do you tell people? 'You may get another cancer, but it's a crap shoot as to where?'"
While he sees promise in these findings for helping younger patients assess their future cancer risk, in older patients, he said, you have much more with which to gauge their chances of other cancers.
"They have other risk factors, not just that they've had a skin cancer," he said.


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what does this mean when my gas cap light keeps going on. I tighten the gas cap and drive and it goes off again.
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Answer #1mastertech6371 June 24, 2010, 18:00Master
did you have the gas cap tested at a shop?? may have a bad seal.
ReplyVisitor, June 23, 2011, 17:36
I'm having the same problem, I bought a new gas cap, and I'm still getting the error. Even the mechanics couldn't figure out how to reset it, it keeps giving them the error code that the gas cap is missing
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don't know mine is doing the same thing
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