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All are welcome to visit the Tower Hill Library which is on the lower level of the Stoddard Building. The Tower Hill Library has more than 7500 resources on plant science broadly defined, including books on gardening for all ages and abilities. The Library is a great space for reading, quiet study and research. We welcome you to drop by any Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday from 10:00 am until 4:00 pm while visiting Tower Hill, or contact us by email or phone, 508.869.6111 x116 with your questions. We love questions, so don't hesitate to call or make an appointment with the Librarian if you're working on a topic that may require reference or archives assistance.
Tower Hill Botanic Garden opened in 1986 but its history as the Worcester County Horticultural Society dates back to the 1840's, and the Library goes back almost as far. Early library holdings began with donations from founders and members, and reflected their interest in modeling themselves on the London Horticultural Society. In time, a cataloged and curated collection emerged with books and journals on many aspects of horticulture, economic and practical botany.
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The Subways
The Subways are a British garage rock/indie rock band. Their debut album, Young For Eternity, was released on 4 July 2005 in the UK and February 14, 2006 in the US. Billy Lunn (guitars/vocals), Charlotte Cooper (bass/vocals), Josh Morgan (drums) They released their second album All or Nothing on 30th June 2008 and this is preceded by the first single Alright on 16th June 2008. The first track from the album Girls & Boys was given away as a free download from the artist's site. Beginnings
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Rock & Roll Queen
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" Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round! "
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Eating certain types of fat makes my heart dance. My heart gets a very erratic heart beat when I consume a certain type of fat -- no idea why. I was even taken to a hospital's ER because my heart rate went erratic. Doctors have no idea why or what really caused it, but it seems its an odd fat type. Luckily, its only found in certain animals.
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if you will play the GANGNAM SONG lol
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im serious with that :)
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hahaha yeah its fun to dance it too
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hahaha cool!!! oppss okay okay.. shh..
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Hearing my bf's voice when he calls me
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Too much caffeine
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The addition of T3 also makes treatment and monitoring more complex. Treatment with T4 provides steady levels of both T3 and T4 hormones. However, when synthetic T3 is given, it builds up and then dissipates quickly, according to Jonklaas, who added that if patients on combination therapy aren't carefully monitored, they can develop symptoms of thyroid overactivity, such as heart palpitations and trouble sleeping.
In an attempt to put this debate to rest, Jonklaas and her colleagues followed 50 people between the ages of 18 and 65 who needed to have their thyroid removed due to thyroid nodules, cancer or a goiter. None of the volunteers had symptoms of underactive (hypo) or overactive (hyper) thyroid glands at the start of the study.
All of the study participants were treated with T4 alone after surgery.
The researchers measured T4 and T3 levels both before and after surgery and essentially found no change.
"This is further evidence that combination therapy is unlikely to be of use to people who've had thyroid surgery," said Dr. David Cooper, director of the division of endocrinology at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore and director of Johns Hopkins University's thyroid clinic. He wrote an editorial that accompanied the study.
Cooper did point out that there were some people who had slightly lower levels of T3 after surgery and that these people may be the ones who are candidates for combination therapy.
Both Jonklaas and Cooper said the findings are likely applicable to people who have improperly functioning thyroid glands as well, particularly for people with overactive thyroids that either have their thyroids removed or destroyed with radioactive iodine.
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Watford charged by FA over penalty protest against Bournemouth
Watford have been hit with a Football Association charge following last Saturday's 1-1 draw at Bournemouth.
The Hornets players were unhappy when referee Michael Oliver gave Bournemouth an 82nd-minute penalty for Etienne Capoue's foul on Adam Smith.
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MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — University of Denver freshman Kristine Haugen doubled her pleasure at the NCAA Skiing Championships.
Haugen, who won the women's giant slalom Wednesday, took the lead in the first run of Friday's slalom with a time of 48.67 seconds. She then posted the sixth-fastest time in the second run to finish with a combined time of 1:37.97 and become the first woman to win both disciplines in the same season since Lucie Zikova of CU accomplished the feat in 2008.
"I'm thrilled to get two wins in the NCAA championships," said Haugen, a native of Norway. "I never thought I could win both races. There was a lot of pressure on me to win the giant slalom, so it was fun to win that one. I've had really great training, and I just went for it in these races."
Fellow DU freshman Tianda Carroll moved from ninth in the first run to third overall by posting the fastest second run time. She finished with a combined time of 1:38.27, and helped push the Pioneers from fourth to third in the overall standings.
The third day of the four-day meet wasn't as kind to the Colorado Buffaloes, who had only one top-10 finish — Kasper Hietanen's tie for eighth place in the men's slalom.
Despite the disappointing day, the Buffaloes held on to second place, 54 points behind Vermont with two events remaining.
"It was a tough day, as tough as slalom can be," Buffs head coach Richard Rokos said. "There are two approaches: Go out and give everything like Utah and Denver did, or ski conservatively and hope that everybody else will have bad luck or ski the same way. (Vermont) knows this place well and they took advantage. ... It's part of the deal."
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Jun 16 - Mom: Teacher forced students to line up, hit my son for being a 'bully'
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24 x 5=120 x 2= 240 fingers to the face! got damn good for his a.ss
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That's whats wrong with this country. When a teacher actually does some teaching and gets in trouble for it. What's that you say? Violence is not teaching? I beg to differ. A bully only bullies until he gets hit back. She knew this, rectified the situation and the bully got feelings and made a sob story out to his delusional (via giving birth to him) mother. Of course she's going to not like it, but the school needs to tell her, "Shut the fu*k up, your kid was being a d!ck, so we made him stop, you should be thanking us you blind biased c*nt."
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Teaching 1 bully a lesson by creating 24 more is not the move. DUMB a.ssES. The boy is in kindergarten. There is corrective action to be taken but this is not it. That bi*ch ought to have her licensed revoked for trying to send a 6 year old a message like that in that way.
That little boy's mom should have beat the sh*t out of this lady for physically and psychologically abusing her child and followed up by suing the school system.
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He is in kindergarten and he is prolly a only child. Children have to adapt to being in structure where they cant just run to their mothers. He was probably getting picked on himself and then started bullying to get what he wanted. I am not saying that's right but what this bi*ch did was fu*ked up royally, if someone forced my kid to get slapped I would seriously beat the sh*t out of this woman.
And this is the other problem she was too young. If we stopped hiring kids straight out of collage who are still only concerned with where the party Friday night is , as the teachers who are in charge of our children we might get somewhere. I mean what happened to the teachers who liked to teach ....
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As someone said, maybe not the best appraoch, but still. You act like a as*hole being a bully and then u get 'bullied' by the teacher. eye for an eye. i dont see the problem
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i went through the academy and is a active officer, and never got bullied. So exactly what is this suppose to mean?


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Oakland Event Kicks Off Sector-Wide Initiative
OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaiser Permanente, a leader in green building and environmentally responsible purchasing, has partnered with a group of influential health care organizations to help spread green practices across the industry.
As a founding member of the Global Health and Safety Initiative, Kaiser Permanente aims to share best practices and help to broaden the market for cleaner energy, safer products and innovative environmental technologies.
"If we collaborate, we can create leverage in the marketplace for safer and healthier practices that protect patients and staff while reducing our overall environmental footprint," said George C. Halvorson, chairman and CEO of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals. "Our hope is that through the Global Health and Safety Initiative, many more leaders in the health care sector will realize that being green is a team sport."
Health care is one of the largest and fastest growing sectors of the economy, representing more than 15 percent of the nation's gross national product. Health care facilities in the United States generate 2 million tons of waste per year that pose occupational and environmental threats. In addition, health care accounts for 11 percent of all commercial energy use in America and is a major water consumer.
Kaiser Permanente has broad experience with green building, environmentally responsible purchasing and sustainable operations. Over the past five years, for example, Kaiser Permanente has chosen ecologically sustainable materials for 29 million square feet in new construction, prevented the release of 70 billion pounds of air pollutants annually and saved more than $10 million per year through energy conservation strategies.
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Older hip implants made with metal-on-polyethylene or ceramic-on-polyethylene surfaces are associated with low failure rates. However, newer metal-on-metal hip implants have been linked with severe cases of accumulation of metal ions in patients' tissues.
In 2009, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration began a review of the evidence for the safety and effectiveness of approved hip implants.
Working with the FDA, Sedrakyan's team looked at the safety and effectiveness of various types of hip implants in 18 studies including more than 3,000 patients and 800,000 operations.
The investigators found no difference between the various types of implants in terms of the patients' quality of life or ability to function normally.
Commenting on the study, Dr. Peter Cram, an associate professor of medicine in the division of internal medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, said that "the study highlights a critical issue in joint replacement surgery, which is there is not a lot of good data."
Cram noted that it is "shocking" that there are so many hip replacements done with so little data about which implants are best.
For patients, the best way of ensuring they are getting the best hip replacement they can get has really nothing to do with the device, Cram added. "You probably want an experienced surgeon, who does lots of these procedures, in a hospital that does lots of these procedures," he said.
Dr. Joseph Zuckerman, professor of orthopedic surgery and chair of the orthopaedic surgery department at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City, said that "this study confirms what many surgeons already practice -- that in the pursuit of providing the best outcome, a surgeon must base
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Comparison of measures of comorbidity for predicting disability 12-months post-injury
1 Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, The Alfred Centre, 99 Commercial Rd, Melbourne, Victoria, 3004, Australia
2 National Trauma Research Institute, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
3 Research Centre for Injury Studies, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
4 College of Medicine, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom
5 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Alfred, Melbourne, Australia
6 Emergency and Trauma Centre, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
BMC Health Services Research 2013, 13:30 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-13-30Published: 26 January 2013
Understanding the factors that impact on disability is necessary to inform trauma care and enable adequate risk adjustment for benchmarking and monitoring. A key consideration is how to adjust for pre-existing conditions when assessing injury outcomes, and whether the inclusion of comorbidity is needed in addition to adjustment for age. This study compared different approaches to modelling the impact of comorbidity, collected as part of the routine hospital episode data, on disability outcomes following orthopaedic injury.
12-month Glasgow Outcome Scale – Extended (GOS-E) outcomes for 13,519 survivors to discharge were drawn from the Victorian Orthopaedic Trauma Outcomes Registry, a prospective cohort study of admitted orthopaedic injury patients. ICD-10-AM comorbidity codes were mapped to four comorbidity indices. Cases with a GOS-E score of 7–8 were considered "recovered". A split dataset approach was used with cases randomly assigned to development or test datasets. Logistic regression models were fitted with "recovery" as the outcome and the performance of the models based on each comorbidity index (adjusted for injury and age) measured using calibration (Hosmer-Lemshow (H-L) statistics and calibration curves) and discrimination (Area under the Receiver Operating Characteristic (AUC)) statistics.
All comorbidity indices improved model fit over models with age and injuries sustained alone. None of the models demonstrated acceptable model calibration (H-L statistic p < 0.05 for all models). There was little difference between the discrimination of the indices for predicting recovery: Charlson Comorbidity Index (AUC 0.70, 95% CI: 0.68, 0.71); number of ICD-10 chapters represented (AUC 0.70, 95% CI: 0.69, 0.72); number of six frequent chronic conditions represented (AUC 0.70, 95% CI: 0.69, 0.71); and the Functional Comorbidity Index (AUC 0.69, 95% CI: 0.68, 0.71).
The presence of ICD-10 recorded comorbid conditions is an important predictor of long term functional outcome following orthopaedic injury and adjustment for comorbidity is indicated when assessing risk-adjusted functional outcomes over time or across jurisdictions.


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... Babies, weddings, holidays ... we take eight billion pictures of them a year, and rising. Tim de Lisle explores how families and photographs became so entwined.
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Deswell Announces Second Quarter 2014 Results Company Announces Second Quarter Cash Dividend of $0.05 Per Share Business Wire MACAO -- November 13, 2013 Deswell Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq:DSWL) today announced its financial results for the fiscal second quarter ended September 30, 2013. Net sales for the second quarter ended September 30, 2013 were $11.9 million, a decrease of 27.2% compared to net sales of $16.3 million for the same quarter ended September 30, 2012. Net sales decreased by 34.0% to $5.6 million in the Company's plastic segment and decreased by 19.9% to $6.3 million in the electronic and metallic segment. The operating loss in the second quarter was $1.5 million, compared to an operating loss of $0.08 million for the same quarter of fiscal 2013. Total gross margin decreased to 8.8% in the second quarter ended September 30, 2013 compared to 16.1% in the same quarter last year. Gross profit margin in the plastic segment decreased to 8.8% of net sales for the second quarter of fiscal 2014 compared to 19.3% of net sales for the same quarter of last fiscal year. The decrease in gross profit and margin in the plastic segment was mainly due to the combined effect of decrease in sales volume, plus relatively higher labor cost as a percentage of sales due to a raise in minimum wage rate offsetting the decrease in headcount. Gross profit margin in the electronic and metallic segment decreased to 8.8% of net sales for the second quarter ended September 30, 2013 compared to 12.7% of net sales for the year-ago quarter. The decrease in gross profit and margin in the electronic and metallic segment was mainly attributed to increase in labor costs, resulting from a higher labor rate, offsetting the decrease in headcount. The Company reported a net loss of $1.2 million for the second quarter ended September 30, 2013 compared to net income of $0.2 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2012. Deswell reported a basic and diluted loss per share of ($0.076) for the second quarter of fiscal 2014 (based on 16,201,000 and 16,206,000 weighted average shares outstanding, respectively), compared to a basic and diluted income per share of $0.011 (based on 16,726,000 and 16,749,000 weighted average shares outstanding, respectively), for the quarter ended September 30, 2012. Net sales for the six months ended September 30, 2013 were $23.0 million, a decrease of 25.3%, compared to sales of $30.8 million for the corresponding period in fiscal 2013. Operating loss for the six months ended September 30, 2013 was $2.9 million, compared to operating loss of $0.4 million for the first six months of fiscal 2013. The Company reported a net loss of $2.9 million in the first half of fiscal 2013, compared to net income of $0.2 million for the six months ended September 30, 2012. Deswell reported basic and diluted net loss per share of ($0.181) for the first six months of fiscal 2013, (based on 16,247,000 and 16,271,000 weighted average share outstanding, respectively), compared to basic and diluted income per share of $0.014 (based on 16,596,000 and 16,654,000 weighted average shares outstanding, respectively), for the prior corresponding period. The Company's financial position remained strong at the end of the second quarter of fiscal year 2014, with $24.6 million in cash and cash equivalents at September 30, 2013 compared to $26.7 million at September 30, 2012. Working capital totaled $54.6 million as of September 30, 2013, versus $61.1 million as of September 30, 2012. Furthermore, the Company has no long-term or short-term borrowings as of September 30, 2013. Mr. Franki Tse, Chief Executive Officer, commented, "This was another challenging quarter for our business and our results continue to be impacted by weak export sales, higher labor wages and RMB appreciation. We remain focused on controlling costs while also taking the initiative to sell out of date or unused equipment, restructure our factory operations and bolster our R&D and marketing organizations so that we may provide improved products to our existing customers and attract new customers. Our balance sheet is strong with approximately $25 million in cash and no short or long term debt." Second Quarter Dividends The Company also announced that on November 13, 2013 its board of directors declared a cash dividend of $0.05 per share for the fiscal second quarter ended September 30, 2013. The dividends will be payable on December 18, 2013 to shareholders of record as of November 25, 2013. About Deswell Deswell manufactures injection-molded plastic parts and components, electronic products and subassemblies, and metallic products for original equipment manufacturers ("OEMs") and contract manufacturers at its factories in the People's Republic of China. The Company produces a wide variety of plastic parts and components used in the manufacture of consumer and industrial products; printed circuit board assemblies using surface mount ("SMT") and finished products such as telephones, telephone answering machines, sophisticated studio-quality audio equipment and computer peripherals. The Company's customers include Vtech Telecommunications Ltd. and Lenbrook Industries, Ltd. To learn more about Deswell Industries, Inc., please visit the Company's website at www.deswell.com. Forward-Looking Statements Statements in this press release that are "forward-looking statements" are based on current expectations and assumptions that are subject to risks and uncertainties. For example, our statements regarding our expected growth in sales from the electronic and metallic division in the coming year and our efforts to reduce overhead costs in our plastic division are forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially because of the following factors, among others, which may cause revenues and income to fall short of anticipated levels or our overhead expenses to increase: our dependence on a few major customers; vigorous competition forcing product price reductions or discounts; the timing and amount of significant orders from our relatively few significant customers; continuing increases in resin prices that cannot be passed on to customers; unexpected production delays; obsolete inventory or product returns; losses resulting from fraudulent activity of our customers or employees; labor shortages that increase labor and costs; changes in the mix of product products we manufacture and sell; adverse currency fluctuations in the renminbi and Hong Kong dollar when translated to US dollars; potential new accounting pronouncements; and the effects of travel restrictions and quarantines associated with major health problems, such as the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, on general economic activity. For further information regarding risks and uncertainties associated with the Company's business, please refer to the "Risk Factors" section of Company's Annual Report on Form 20-F, copies of which may be obtained from the Website maintained by the Securities and Exchange Commission at http://www.sec.gov. All information in this release is made as of the date of this press release. Deswell undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statement to conform the statement to actual results or changes in Deswell's expectations. DESWELL INDUSTRIES, INC. CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET ( U.S. dollars in thousands) September 30, March 31, 2013 2013 ASSETS (Unaudited) (Audited) Current assets : Cash and cash equivalents $ 24,576 $ 32,030 Fixed deposits maturing over three months 12,076 8,684 Marketable securities 5,726 6,168 Available-for-sale securities 1,478 1,586 Accounts receivable, net 11,009 8,291 Inventories 12,486 11,376 Prepaid expenses and other current assets 1,085 1,152 Total current assets 68,436 69,287 Property, plant and equipment - net 40,969 42,694 Deferred income tax assets 196 192 Goodwill 392 392 Total assets $ 109,993 $ 112,565 LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY Current liabilities Accounts payable $ 5,205 $ 3,144 Accrued payroll and employee benefits 4,685 4,133 Customer deposits 1,166 1,254 Other accrued liabilities 1,390 1,260 Income taxes payable 655 592 Deferred income tax liabilities 688 606 Total current liabilities 13,789 10,989 Shareholders' equity Common shares nil par value - authorized 30,000,000 shares, shares issued and outstanding 53,063 52,443 September 30, 2013 - 16,296,211; March 31, 2013 - 16,387,648 Additional paid-in capital 5,885 6,831 Accumulated other comprehensive income 5,180 5,288 Retained earnings 32,076 37,014 Total shareholders' equity 96,204 101,576 Total liabilities and shareholders' equity $ 109,993 $ 112,565 DESWELL INDUSTRIES, INC. CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS & COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS) (UNAUDITED) ( U.S. dollars in thousands, except per share data ) Quarter ended Six months ended September 30, September 30, 2013 2012 2013 2012 Net sales $ 11,869 $ 16,303 $ 22,989 $ 30,791 Cost of sales 10,824 13,678 21,171 25,928 Gross profit 1,045 2,625 1,818 4,863 Selling, general and 2,900 2,767 5,479 5,346 administrative expenses Other income, net 336 67 750 89 Operating loss (1,519 ) (75 ) (2,911 ) (394 ) Non-operating income, net 367 345 117 788 Income (loss) before (1,152 ) 270 (2,794 ) 394 income taxes Income taxes 76 81 154 165 Net income (loss) attributable to Deswell $ (1,228 ) $ 189 $ (2,948 ) $ 229 Industries, Inc. Other comprehensive income (loss) Unrealized gain (loss) on available-for-sale $ 4 $ 613 $ (108 ) $ 564 securities Comprehensive income (loss) attributable to $ (1,224 ) $ 802 $ (3,056 ) $ 793 Deswell Industries, Inc. Net income (loss) per share attributable to Deswell Industries, Inc. Basic: Net income (loss) per $ (0.076 ) $ 0.011 $ (0.181 ) $ 0.014 share Weighted average common shares outstanding shares 16,201 16,726 16,247 16,596 (in thousands) Diluted: Net income (loss) per $ (0.076 ) 0.011 $ (0.181 ) $ 0.014 share Weighted average number of shares outstanding (in 16,206 16,749 16,271 16,654 thousands) Contact: Investor Relations: Institutional Marketing Services (IMS) John Nesbett/Jennifer Belodeau 203-972-9200
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So I bought a few of these but wanted a few more. My wife and I used one of the purchased ones as a stencil. It's worked really well. There's an XDA link that has this thread but I've not been able to post to it. So I figured that I'd go ahead and post it here.
XDA Link – http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/accessories/nexus-6-d-brand-skin-t2921852/page51?nocache=1
Silhouette Cutter Stencil attached as a picture of what was cut.
Silhouette Cutter Stencil – https://goo.gl/eP9Yr3
Nexus 6 – Silhouette Cutter 3M Sticker's
So I bought a few of these but wanted a few more. My wife and I used one of the purchased ones as a stencil. It's worked really well. There's an XDA link that has this thread but I've not been able to post to it. So I figured that I'd go ahead and post it here.
Fedora Gnome Gmail Password Issues
So like many of us, I setup an online account in Gnome on Fedora 20. I hoped for Calendar, Mail, Contacts and all the magic it promised. I was answered with the torment of constant password promtps that always failed.
So I set out to find this issue.
In short, this is the proper way to setup the online Gmail account.
1. Setup your normal Online Gmail account in Gnome
Settings > Online Accounts
2. Now you're in password prompt land.
If you use 2 factor this is where you need to get your app password
3. Open Evolution
4. Go into Calendars and disable all calendars from your Google Account.
5. Add your Calendars back the normal way in Evolution.
File > New > Calendar
**On your user you can put your short name but if you use an apps account you need to enter your full email address.
6. Click Calendar and enter your password or the app password if you use 2 factor.
7. Rinse and repeat for all calendars you want to add.
Never enable those old Calendars.
Chrome Remote Beta Notes –
Coming soon,
– an RPM
– better fully functional init script.
– you tell me..
How to get Chrome-Remote-Desktop (BETA) working under Fedora
**** My work on this has paused. 9-5 job. Gonna pick this back up as time permits.
Last I had the app listening and had just modified pam to fix failed logins. Everything was working with the exception of X errors on connection. I'm pretty sure it's due to my session in the pam file.
Download the Debain package – https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1649523?hl=en
Convert the deb package to an RPM **
Ok so the –force, I'm not saying it's a good idea. Just that it works.
[root@localhost Downloads]# alien -r chrome-remote-desktop_current_amd64.deb Warning: Skipping conversion of scripts in package chrome-remote-desktop: postinst postrm preinst prerm Warning: Use the --scripts parameter to include the scripts. chrome-remote-desktop-35.0.1916.17-2.x86_64.rpm generated [root@localhost Downloads]# yum localinstall chrome-remote-desktop-35.0.1916.17-2.x86_64.rpm Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit Examining chrome-remote-desktop-35.0.1916.17-2.x86_64.rpm: chrome-remote-desktop-35.0.1916.17-2.x86_64 Marking chrome-remote-desktop-35.0.1916.17-2.x86_64.rpm to be installed Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package chrome-remote-desktop.x86_64 0:35.0.1916.17-2 will be installed --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================================================================= Installing: chrome-remote-desktop x86_64 35.0.1916.17-2 /chrome-remote-desktop-35.0.1916.17-2.x86_64 28 M Transaction Summary ============================================================================================================================= Install 1 Package Total size: 28 M Installed size: 28 M Is this ok [y/d/N]: y Downloading packages: Running transaction check Running transaction test Transaction check error: file / from install of chrome-remote-desktop-35.0.1916.17-2.x86_64 conflicts with file from package filesystem-3.2-19.fc20.x86_64 file /etc/init.d from install of chrome-remote-desktop-35.0.1916.17-2.x86_64 conflicts with file from package chkconfig-1.3.60-4.fc20.x86_64 Error Summary -------------
Now you can force the RPM…. yes we all know these dangers but here we go
Also add the python-psutils and xorg-x11-server-Xvfb package
[root@localhost Downloads]# rpm -Uvh --force chrome-remote-desktop-35.0.1916.17-2.x86_64.rpm yum install python-psutil xorg-x11-server-Xvfb
Create a group for yourself and add yourself to the group
[root@localhost Downloads]# groupadd chrome-remote-desktop [root@localhost Downloads]# usermod -G chrome-remote-desktop mwells [root@localhost Downloads]# chkconfig chrome-remote-desktop on
Now lets get rid of that ugly debian init script
#!/bin/bash ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: chrome-remote-desktop # Required-Start: $remote_fs $syslog # Required-Stop: $remote_fs $syslog # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: Chrome Remote Desktop service ### END INIT INFO # /etc/init.d/chrome-remote-desktop: Start and stop Chrome Remote Desktop host daemon. HOST_PATH=/opt/google/chrome-remote-desktop/chrome-remote-desktop # Group of users for which Chrome Remote Desktop is enabled. Users are added # to that group when they start the host for the first time. CHROME_REMOTING_GROUP=chrome-remote-desktop test -x $HOST_PATH || exit 0 . /lib/lsb/init-functions if [ "$(whoami)" = "root" ]; then # Extract list of users in the chrome-remoting group. USERS=$(getent group $CHROME_REMOTING_GROUP | awk -F ':' '{ gsub(",", " ", $4); print $4 }') else USERS=$(whoami) fi # Tries to wait for 10 seconds until specified command exits and then kills it. run_with_timeout() { "$@" & pid=$! local time_left=10 while [ $time_left -gt 0 ]; do (kill -0 $pid 2>/dev/null) || return `wait $pid` sleep 1 time_left=$((time_left - 1)) done (kill -0 $pid 2>/dev/null) || return `wait $pid` echo command \"$@\" has timed out >&2 kill $pid return 1 } # Usage: daemon [--login] user program [args...] # --login: # Run program in a clean login shell. This requires backgrounding, since # the user's .profile or .login script might be run, which might contain # blocking commands. daemon() { login_options="" if [ "$1" = "--login" ]; then login_options="-b -i" shift fi user=$1 shift set +e if [ "$(whoami)" = "$user" ]; then "$@" else sudo -u "$user" $login_options "$@" fi } do_start() { echo -n $"Starting Chrome Remote Desktop host for $1..." daemon --login $1 "$HOST_PATH" --start retval=$? } do_stop() { echo -n $"Stopping Chrome Remote Desktop host for $1..." killproc $1 "$HOST_PATH" --stop retval=$? } do_reload() { echo -n $"Reloading Chrome Remote Desktop host configuration for $1..." daemon $1 "$HOST_PATH" --reload retval=$? } do_restart() { echo -n $"Restarting Chrome Remote Desktop host for $1..." daemon $1 "$HOST_PATH" --stop daemon --login $1 "$HOST_PATH" --start retval=$? } for_each_user() { for user in $USERS; do $1 $user done } case "$1" in start) for_each_user do_start ;; stop) for_each_user do_stop ;; reload|force-reload) for_each_user do_reload ;; restart) for_each_user do_restart ;; *) log_success_msg "Usage: /etc/init.d/chrome-remote-desktop" \ "{start|stop|reload|force-reload|restart}" exit 1 esac exit 0
Now we need to worry about pam
echo "#%PAM-1.0
auth include password-auth
account required pam_nologin.so
account include password-auth
session include password-auth
" > /etc/pam.d/chrome-remote-desktop
As you !!!
21:01:11-mwells@Oracle:~$ echo "exec /usr/bin/icewm-session" > ~/.chrome-remote-desktop-session
And finally start the service up.
[root@localhost Downloads]# service chrome-remote-desktop start
Enable remote connections
Open the Chrome Remote Desktop web app.
Click "Enable remote connections."
Enter a PIN and re-type the PIN. Then click OK.
Dismiss the confirmation dialog.
** credit – ljv5555 in the following post for getting this started; awesome start.
Ansible IPA Server Playbook V1
So this is my first "real" playbook. Right now it should be clear that it's in V1, that said….
it works.
In this iteration of the playbook you would modify the vars to match what you need. I've also pointed directly to one host via IP address.
So as I said, version 1 and I'll grow it from there.
Things to come
– logic to ensure the /etc/hosts is setup properly
192.168.122.135 ipa.example.com ipa
– playbook for replica setup and install
– just some general 'more goodness'
So I'm asking, comment away. What needs to be done? I'm really new with Ansible so let me know.
In general it's really two commands and that's a base setup. But I thought it was fun to do and started me farther down the path of Ansible.
--- - hosts: 192.168.122.135 sudo: False user: root name: Define IPA Server vars: - servername: ipa.example.com - domain: example.com - adminpassword: password1 - directorypassword: password1 - realm: example.com - dnsforwarder: 22.214.171.124 tasks: - name: Install IPA RPMs, this may take some time yum: pkg={{ item }} state=latest with_items: - ipa-server - bind - bind-dyndb-ldap - name: IPA Server Is Installing, this will certainly take time shell: ipa-server-install -a {{ adminpassword }} --hostname={{ servername }} -r {{ realm }} -p {{ directorypassword }} -n {{ domain }} --setup-dns --forwarrder={{ dnsforwarder }} -U - name: Firewall is being configured shell: lokkit -p 53:tcp -p 80:tcp -p 88:tcp -p 123:tcp -p 389:tcp -p 443:tcp -p 464:tcp -p 636:tcp -p 749:tcp -p 953:tcp -p 7389:tcp -p 7390:tcp -p 9180:tcp -p 9443:tcp -p 9444:tcp -p 9445:tcp -p 9710:tcp -p 53:udp -p 123:udp -p 464:udp
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Cisco Anyconnect with a Chromebook
Ok all, I wanted to post how I now use my chromebook (non-pixel) to connect to my work Cisco Anyconnect VPN.
In developer mode. Install crouton, this is mainly to get the chroot environment.
Open a shell and 'enter-chroot'
# Install the following items
apt-get install network-manager network-manager-openconnect apt-get install vpnc uml-utilities
My bash script to connect each time. Once you edit it
#!/bin/bash ### Edit this section for your VPN Setup SSLVpn="ssl.example.com" SearchDomain="example.com" DNSServer="192.168.1.1" # Below the 192.168.1.1 is a static example of an internal DNS Server ### if [ ! -f /dev/net/tun ]; then tunctl -t tap1 -f /dev/net/tun fi mknod /dev/net/tun0 c 10 200 cp /etc/resolv.conf ~/.resolv.conf echo "nameserver ${DNSServer}" > /etc/resolv.conf echo "search ${SearchExample}" >> /etc/resolv.conf cat ~/.resolv.conf >> /etc/resolv.conf openconnect -s /etc/vpnc/vpnc-script ${SSLVpn} cat ~/.resolv.conf > /etc/resolv.conf rm /dev/net/tun0
When you're done, just ctrl+c out and your done.
edit: I was getting some strange errors and had to a little more of a brute force on tun0. SO…. I added the create and delete on tun0.
How to – Nagios and Pushover alerts
First and foremost some great credit to Jedda Wignall from (http://jedda.me) for the notify_by_pushover.sh script. Drop by his site and say thanks.
This is just my implementation of that script and nagios setup in order to get alerts in my notification panel on my Android phone, tablet and iDevices (of which I have none.)
01. Purchase Pushover from your app store; links can be found here – https://pushover.net/
02. Download the notify_by_pushover.sh script. Can be found here – http://jedda.me/tag/pushover/
03. Login to pushover.net and copy off your "Your User Key" for later use
04. Click "Edit" that's next to "Your Applications"
05. Then select "Create New Application"
06. Name the application Nagios or maybe your Nagios Server name
07. The type will be "website"
08. You can leave the URL blank and upload an Icon for your Nagios server
09. Accept the EULA and click "Create Application"
10. Copy off your "API Token/Key" for later use
11. On your device(s) open and login to the pushover app
12 Copy the "notify_by_pushover.sh" to the Nagios server; I copied mine to "/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/notify_by_pushover.sh"
13. Ensure that the file is owned by your Nagios user
# chmod 755 /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/notify_by_pushover.sh # chown nagios:nagios /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/notify_by_pushover.sh # restorecon /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/notify_by_pushover.sh
14. Modify your Nagios templates file to add the "generic-pushover" template
define contact { name generic-pushover host_notifications_enabled 1 service_notifications_enabled 1 host_notification_period 24x7 service_notification_period 24x7 host_notification_options d,r service_notification_options c,r host_notification_commands notify-host-pushover service_notification_commands notify-service-pushover can_submit_commands 1 retain_status_information 1 retain_nonstatus_information 1 register }
15. Now add command definitions to enable the notification to leave
# 'notify-host-pushover' command definition define command { command_name notify-host-pushover command_line /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/notify_by_pushover.sh -u $CONTACTADDRESS1$ -a $CONTACTADDRESS2$ -c 'persistent' -w 'siren' -t "Nagios" -m "$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Host $HOSTNAME$ $HOSTSTATE$" } # 'notify-service-pushover' command definition define command { command_name notify-service-pushover command_line /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/notify_by_pushover.sh -u $CONTACTADDRESS1$ -a $CONTACTADDRESS2$ -c 'persistent' -w 'siren' -t "Nagios" -m "$HOSTNAME$ $SERVICEDESC$ : $SERVICESTATE$ Additional info: $SERVICEOUTPUT$" }
16. Now finally add some information to your contact information. I added a new stanza with Pushover information. Also since Nagios has a limited set of options it can use within contacts I used the "address1" and "address2" attributes.
define contact{ use generic-pushover contact_name matt_wells_pushover alias Matt Wells Pushover contactgroups pushover-it address1 zxcvbnmUSERKEYmnbvcxz address2 poiuytrewqAPIKEYqwertyuiop }
You should be done now! Enjoy your alerts.
Some items to note. I selected the "persistent" alarm when critical and the "siren" when warning. You can change those to anything you see fit.
Also I've toyed with the idea of adding links to the alerts but haven't really done much with that yet.
Git activity
Master IPTables
These are some awesome videos for iptables; I really enjoyed them and if you as well make sure you tell the guys over at Linux Journal.
I find embedded videos annoying so I'm just putting these links up.
Mastering IPTables by Linux Journal


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Luther Avenue is a small street in the cuts of West San Jose. It's a unique place where impoverished families and middle class homes sat side by side. It's a place where I spent my childhood acting like the big dog. Baylingual aka Ookie Robinson takes you on a photographic journey through his block, Luther Block.
This week in Hip Hop was good because so many artist are dropping so many different styles of Hip Hop music from different cities all over the Northern California. From Aftah Sum and his Hood Anthems, to A1 and his Abstract/Thought Provoking/Electro music, to the RnB styles of Maeli and Taj Withers. So kick back and have yourself a seat, dim the lights and enjoy this weeks playlist.


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Users of the Allen Human Brain Atlas comprise a diverse array of biomedical researchers primarily neuroscientists throughout the world. They include scientists who study the human brain itself, as well as those working in mouse and other model systems, providing a rare and important opportunity for them to probe the relevance of the findings to humans. Already, some 4,000 unique visitors are accessing the new Atlas each month.
It is anticipated that the Allen Human Brain Atlas will be used in small and large-scale applications to examine diseases and disorders, such as obesity, Parkinson's disease, autism, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis as well as those exploring how the healthy brain works.
The Allen Institute for Brain Science will continue to expand the Allen Human Brain Atlas in the coming years, with new data from additional brains, as well as enhanced tools for searching, analyzing and viewing the data.
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Four men in a car carrying a caravan injured in collision with a lorry at the junction of the A50 and A521 at Blythe Bridge in the Staffordshire Moorlands
Posted: September 01, 2014|
FOUR men in a car towing a caravan have been injured following a collision with a lorry near Cheadle
West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to the junction of the A50 and A521 at Blythe Bridge shortly before 6.10am today, Monday, September 1.
Four ambulance crews, four BASICS emergency doctors, a paramedic in a rapid response vehicle and a paramedic area support officer in a rapid response vehicle attended.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: "The car ended up between the jackknifed lorry's cab and trailer. The caravan was smashed. The driver was the relatively most serious casualty with a chest injury, the others had minor injuries.
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"Because of the extent of the vehicle damage. all four were taken as a precaution to the major trauma centre at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire to be further assessed.
"The lorry driver was in shock but otherwise uninjured."We are currently in attendance at a road traffic collision on the A50 eastbound, at its junction with Grindley Lane.
Staffordshire Police said: "The eastbound carriageway remains closed and is likely to be for some time as all vehicles are recovered. Traffic is being diverted in the area but there are long delays.
"The four occupants of the Ford Mondeo have been taken to the University Hospital of North Staffordshire. Their injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
"The lorry driver is uninjured. As a result of the collision the caravan has been completely destroyed."
Police officers were joined by colleagues from the fire and ambulance services at the scene. Highways Agency staff and vehicle recovery personnel are also in attendance.
An investigation to understand the circumstances of the collision will now take place. Witnesses are asked to contact us on 101 quoting incident 83 of September 1.
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Jose Reyes, Edwin Encarnacion, Melky Cabrera and Adam Lind each doubled for the Blue Jays.
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Rogers was 5-9 with a 4.77 ERA in 44 games with the Blue Jays last season. He is a candidate for the fifth spot in the rotation.
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