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Winter Solstice and Seasons Greetings
Saturday, December 21
Winter Solstice 2013
Today is the shortest day/longest night for us and that makes Boo a happy bunny…. Why? Because it means that from tomorrow we can start looking forward to the days getting longer and the nights getting shorter lol. I am so not into long dark nights. Are you? I love the long light nights of summer. It makes me feel alive and energised. I think it matters so much to me because I spent so many years working the night shift. I went to work in the dark and came home in the dark and that can get kind of depressing after a while. I've added 8 fascinating facts about the Winter Solstice in my WEB FINDS today.
But first…….
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· Click on the sound bite to listen to the xmas tune, When you think you know the tune just leave your answer in today's comments box at the end of the daily post. Please only post in that days comment box.
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· If you are a winner please email Boo firstname.lastname@example.com stating your name & number of comment along with the date of your comment and your prize will be sent out within 24 hours (usually much sooner)
· Have fun, good luck and enter as often as you like but you must make each entry a separate comment.
Have fun with todays quiz folks.
Congratulations to our winner for yesterdays rendition of O Come, O Come Emmanuel which I thought was a tough one. It's Jays all time favourite Christmas Tune so had to be included
This was our winning comment by Karen
O Come,, O Come Emanuel (Veni Veni Emanual) . We got the 60 degrees today, by Sunday 70 with a tornaod watch and then cold. We've already done the 8″ snow thing twice. I'm ready for spring but Merry Christmas all!
Comment by Karen — December 21, 2013 @ 1:27 am
Well done hun, be sure to email me for your prize.
Thank you all for your amazing snow stories. I can't believe some of you are having 8 " or more, I don't think I've ever seen that much snow.
Boo's fun and festive WEB FINDS
Here are a few facts you may have not have known about the winter solstice.
1. It happens at a specific time
The winter solstice isn't the full day of Dec. 21, but rather occurs at a specific time. At that point, the sun is shining farthest to the south, directly over the Tropic of Capricorn. There's no duration to the event, per se. Paul Stokles, a meteorologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration refers to the winter solstice as a "single event."
Of course, the sun isn't actually moving, the Earth is. At 12:11 p.m. ET, the North Pole is tipped about 23 degrees away from the sun. When summer rolls around, the South Pole is tipped 23 degrees away from the sun. During the vernal and autumnal equinoxes, the Earth is not tilted in either direction.
2. It happens at a different time each year
The winter solstice doesn't always occur on Dec. 21. Sometimes it comes on Dec. 22, which will happen again in 2015. The hour of day also fluctuates. Last year, the solstice came at 11:12 a.m. ET. Next year, it occurs at 11:03 p.m.
3. The meteorological winter began three weeks ago
If it feels like winter has already begun, you are correct. Meteorologists consider Dec. 1 the start of the meteorological winter and March 1 the start of the meteorological spring. That's because December, January and February are the three coldest months of the year. By the time the Spring Equinox rolls around on March 20, 2014, average temperatures in most areas will have already started rising. The winter solstice isn't the coldest day of the year, either — that comes later.
4. Last year at this time, some people thought the world was ending
Remember how the Mayan calendar supposedly said the world would end on Dec. 21, 2012? That was based on a reading of the end date of the Mayans' 5,126-year-long Mesoamerica Long Count Calendar, which corresponded to certain astronomical events, including the winter solstice.
5. There's no biblical justification for celebrating Christmas on Dec. 25
Though we picture the Three Wise Men visiting the baby Jesus in a manger in Bethlehem in the dead of winter, that's just a popular interpretation. There's nothing in the Bible that states what time of year that event occurred. Instead, some believe the Christian church chose the date to offset Saturnalia and Natalis Invicti celebrations that revolved around the winter solstice.
The ancient name for Christmas, Yule, may also have been derived from jól, the Scandinavian winter solstice festival that pre-dated Christmas. Christmas has also been celebrated in the past on March 28 and May 20, among other dates.
6. In some regions, the winter solstice is a short day, indeed
Nine and a half hours may seem like a short period of daylight, but consider the winter solstice in Iceland, where it doesn't get light until 10 a.m. and starts getting dark at 4:49 p.m. — that's about seven hours of daylight. Of course, in places further north, like Barrow, Alaska, there is no sunrise. In Nome, Alaska, sunrise comes at noon, and then there's four hours of light until sunset. If you want consistency, move to the equator, when sunrise and sunset are at around 6:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m., respectively, all year round.
7. There's no proof that this is the most depressing time of the year
Many scientists believe that the paucity of sunlight during the winter months makes your brain deplete its stores of serotonin by requiring the pineal gland to convert it into melatonin, which makes you sleepy. However, some studies have found there aren't higher instances of winter sadness in countries like Norway vs. the U.S.
Though there's an urban legend that the suicide rates are highest in Scandinavian countries, the actual list shows that — although the sparsely populated Greenland is No. 1 — South Korea, Guyana and China are far ahead of Norway, Sweden and Finland. Denmark, rated thehappiest country in the world, also has just seven hours of daylight this time of year.
8. This isn't the day of the earliest sunrise and latest sunset
Most U.S. locations see their earliest sunset a week or so before the solstice and see their latest sunset sometime in January. For instance, in New York City, sunset came at 4:28 p.m. on Dec. 7, and then started occurring later. On Dec. 29, sunrise will come at 7:20 a.m. — the latest of the year. It won't start getting lighter earlier until Jan. 11.
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Special thanks to Mashable for the original post
and that folks is a wrap for today
Take care, enjoy the rest of your day and we'll see you tomorrow for more fun and festive games
Boo and the Blossoms
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That's a genuinely imsipesrve answer.
Thanks very much, Boo, for today's advent gift. I did not know most of these winter solstice facts! Thanks so much for sharing them! You think of the most interesting things to put on your blog. My poor blog is very neglected, most of the time I can't think of anything to say. I would love to be on a creative team, but if selection is based on blog posts I may never get a chance lol.
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town… Interesting read about the solstice, thanks!
the song is Santa Claus Is Coming To Town.
Today's song is "Santa Clause Is Coming to Town". Today is one of my daughter's birthday. She is 25 now Thank you for today's gift
Song is Santa Claus Is Coming To Town. Loved reading all your info re: Solstice. Thanks for the great freebies for your new gorgeous kit. Also a big thanks for today's daily advent download.
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Out here in Seattle, we got 8 hours, 25 minutes and 24 seconds of daylight today. Of course it was so heavily overcast you really couldn't tell (If you've ever seen the American version of "The Killing", it really is that dark here in the winter, but they exaggerated the rain).
Tomorrow we'll have 3 more seconds of daylight. Wheeeee!
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, is today's song.
Forgot to add the new kit is fantastic!
thank you for all the awesome gifts! Santa Claus is Coming to Town, one of my favorite kiddie movies and songs. Thanks for the cool Solstice info!
Santa Claus is coming to town
thanks for all the freebies
Enjoy your soltice, Boo! =) I forgot to mention yesterday we got nearly a foot & a half of new snow last weekend (Saturday night) here in Northern New England (US). We've had a few inches a day since then, too. Snow, snow, snow! Good thing I like it…
Today's song is….Santa Claus is Coming to Town.
And thank you for the lovely freebies. 😉
Santa Claus is Coming to Town… Sooner than I want, too! I loved the facts about the solstice – most of them were new to me. Thanks for all the goodies today!!!
The song is Santa Claus is Coming to Town. Thanks so much for the goodies.
The problem with the link to the Blog2 gift is the word designs is spelled deisgns — just transpose the two letters and the link works fine. Thanks again Boo!!
Thanks for the goodies Boo, as mentioned in an earlier post "Blog2" isn't working, but I'm sure you'll get it fixed. Today's song is "Santa Claus is coming to town". Loved that song when I was a kid (still do). Your post was very interesting, and contained links which were even more interesting. I enjoyed following them.
Lisa Stewart
Santa Claus is coming to town and thanks for all the facts on the solstice.
Santa Claus is Coming to Town and yes indeedy he is!! In just a few short days. Hard to believe.
I grew up in the Midwest and have seen snow piles taller than I am — as an adult, even! They're due to get 6 to 9 inches tonight and tomorrow morning. However, I'm in Fl right now and LOVING the 80 degree sunny weather!! Snow and cold, BAH-HUMBUG!!
Thanks for the goodies, boo! The BLOG2 download is not working. I'll check back.
Mary aka angmag55
Today's song is "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" it is a fun song and seems to be the most popular song sung at Children's school Christmas programs. Love to watch the children sing and interact with this song. I forgot that today is the shortest day of the year wow better get outdoor things done early!
Santa Claus is Coming to Town…another fun one…love the old claymation holiday special…thanks again!


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Garlic Ginger Beef Recipe
This stir-fry takes a little longer to prepare, since the meat has to marinate first—but it's well worth the wait! Our Test Kitchen staff tossed together the pleasing combination.
- 4 tablespoons reduced-sodium soy sauce, divided
- 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
- 1-1/2 teaspoons minced garlic, divided
- 1 teaspoon brown sugar
- 3 teaspoons minced fresh gingerroot
- 1 pound beef top sirloin steak, cut into 1/4-inch strips
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 1/2 cup beef broth
- 2 tablespoons ketchup
- 2 tablespoons sherry or white wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon steak sauce
- 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 4 teaspoons canola oil, divided
- 2 large sweet red peppers, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 6 green onions, cut into 2-inch pieces
- 8 ounces fresh snow peas
- Hot cooked rice, optional
- 1. In a large resealable plastic bag, combine 2 tablespoons soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, 1 teaspoon garlic, brown sugar and 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger or 2 teaspoons gingerroot; mix well. Add the beef. Seal bag and turn to coat; refrigerate for at least 1 hour, turning once. In a bowl, combine the cornstarch, broth, ketchup, sherry or vinegar, steak sauce, cayenne and remaining soy sauce until smooth; set aside.
- 2. In a large nonstick skillet or wok, stir-fry beef in batches in 2 teaspoons hot oil until no longer pink. Remove and keep warm. In the same pan, stir-fry red peppers and onions in remaining oil for 2 minutes. Add the peas and remaining garlic and ginger; stir-fry for 2-3 minutes or until vegetables are crisp-tender. Return beef to the pan. Stir broth mixture and add to the pan. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Serve with rice if desired. Yield: 4 servings.
Nutritional Facts
One serving (1 cup stir-fry mixture, calculated without rice) equals 310 calories, 11 g fat (3 g saturated fat), 75 mg cholesterol, 934 mg sodium, 21 g carbohydrate, 4 g fiber, 30 g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 3 lean meat, 3 vegetable, 1/2 starch, 1/2 fat.
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So far, Exeter has done a decent job of managing public perception of the organization, considering the breadth of the outbreak. But it's what the hospital does in coming weeks, months, and years that will determine if it will be able to get its image back on track.
At Forbes, hospital leaders found the solution was to keep talking about the situation. Though tests discovered that not a single patient was infected, and the public admission resulted in the parent health system being tied up in litigation over the situation for several years, Farah and Rubino believe continuing to inform the public was the right thing to do.
"Keeping quiet might have enabled us to avoid a prolonged court case and negative publicity, but it was never a consideration," they wrote. "We believed then, as we believe now, that our patients have a right to all information related to their health care. We value both patient safety and transparency."
Transparency is something Exeter must focus on as it continues to face inspections and other probes. Even if under normal circumstances it would not release certain results, it must do so in the next few years.
Anything less than absolute transparency while the organization is under the shadow of this outbreak will look suspicious, if not sinister.
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NATCHEZ — Two local teenagers say they took the most important step to making their voices heard across America for the first time Tuesday.
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Her decision Tuesday, Jenkins said, helps determine the future of this country.
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The College Basketball Invitational (CBI) Postseason Tournament will take 16 teams left out of the NCAA madness to have their own tournament, which will begin on Tuesday night and air on the cable network known as Fox College Sports.
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This document details how to connect your workstation to a Cisco VPN concentrator utilizing vpnc to manage the connection.
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Installation
- 3 Configuration
- 4 Tips and tricks
- 5 External resources
If you're reading this, then you likely need to connect to your office network from home or during travel. Many companies utilize Cisco 3000 VPN concentrators for their VPN needs, and I am willing to bet that most Linux newbies think that they are forced to use Windows to connect to them. Well, this document informs you that connecting to a Cisco VPN is very possible and will hopefully enable you to setup a working tunnel using your Gentoo workstation or laptop.
What this document is
- A guide to the basic workings of vpnc
- A discussion of DNS and routing issues that relate to VPNs
- Examples of managing VPN sessions
- Useful tips and tricks (hopefully)
What this document is not
- An in-depth guide to VPN/encryption technologies
- A feature by feature explanation of vpnc
The assumptions made at this point are:
- You have Gentoo installed
- You have Internet access
- You want to connect to a Cisco 3000 VPN concentrator
- You know how to configure, build, and install a new kernel
In order for Linux to be able to open a VPN connection Universal TUN/TAP device driver support must be enabled in the kernel. What is it and why do you need it? Below is a relatively straight forward explanation from the kernel configuration dialog:
TUN/TAP provides packet reception and transmission for user space programs. It can be viewed as a simple Point-to-Point or Ethernet device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical media, receives them from user space program and instead of sending packets via physical media writes them to the user space program. When a program opens /dev/net/tun, driver creates and registers corresponding net device tunX or tapX. After a program closed above devices, driver will automatically delete tunXX or tapXX device and all routes corresponding to it.
It is possible to verify the kernel has TUN/TAP support by grepping the kernel's configuration file:
root #
grep "TUN" /usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_INET_TUNNEL=m # CONFIG_INET6_TUNNEL is not set # CONFIG_IPV6_TUNNEL is not set (TUN/TAP enabled as a module) CONFIG_TUN=m # CONFIG_8139TOO_TUNE_TWISTER is not set
As you can see above,
CONFIG_TUN=m is compiled as a module. If it is disabled in your setup, enable it in your kernel of choice, rebuild, install, reboot and return to this document before continuing with the next steps.
Device Drivers ---> Network device support ---> [*] Universal TUN/TAP device driver support
If you built TUN/TAP support directly into the kernel, you should see information from dmesg output like the following:
root #
dmesg | grep TUN
Universal TUN/TAP device driver 1.5 (C)1999-2002 Maxim Krasnyansky
If you build TUN/TAP support as a module, you first must load the
tun module:
root #
modprobe tun
root #
Module Size Used by tun 7296 0
Now that the
tun module is loaded, check dmesg output. You should see something like the following:
root #
dmesg | grep TUN
Universal TUN/TAP device driver 1.5 (C)1999-2002 Maxim Krasnyansky
Now that you have a working kernel setup, you need to install the net-misc/vpnc package:
root #
emerge --ask net-misc/vpnc
Make sure to check the supported USE flag combinations and see if they apply to your environment. If you encounter a problem later with the following error, you will need to enable the
hybrid-auth USE flag:
vpnc was built without openssl: Can't do hybrid or cert mode.
In order to make the following sections more clear, we need an example setup to work from. For the purposes of this exercise, we will assume that you have a home network of several computers. All computers are on the 192.168.0.0 / 255.255.255.0 network. The LAN in question is run by a Gentoo box using an iptables firewall, DHCP, caching DNS, etc ... and it masquerades the LAN behind the public IP address it receives from an ISP. You also have a workstation on the LAN from which you want to be able to VPN into your office with.
Our example workstation configuration looks like the following:
nameserver 192.168.0.1
127.0.0.1 desktop localhost 192.168.0.1 router 192.168.2.2 mediacenter
root #
ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:2F:8D:08:08 inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::211:2fff:fe8d:808/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:3657889 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2305893 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:2193722103 (2092.0 Mb) TX bytes:1415104432 (1349.5 Mb) Interrupt:185 Memory:fac00000-0 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:35510 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:35510 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:16023838 (15.2 Mb) TX bytes:16023838 (15.2 Mb)
root #
netstat -r
Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 loopback desktop 255.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 lo default router 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
Now that you have vpnc installed and we have an example to work from, let's discuss the basics of setting up vpnc. The configuration file for vpnc connection settings can be located in a couple places, depending on how many profiles you want to setup. By default, vpnc looks for /etc/vpnc/vpnc.conf for its connection settings. This setup will only address a single profile example and will use the configuration file location /etc/vpnc/vpnc.conf .
IPSec gateway vpngateway.domain.org IPSec ID group_id IPSec secret group_password Xauth username network_signon Xauth password network_password
The configuration file example above should be modified to reflect the appropriate values for your setup. The gateway option
vpngateway.domain.org can be a fully qualified domain name or an IP address. The ID and secret options should be given to you by a network administrator. If you cannot obtain this information but you currently have a working setup on a Windows box which utilizes the official Cisco VPN client, then all you have to do is export your profile. The user name and password options are for your normal network sign-on, such as a Windows NT domain account.
If you are forced to export your profile from a Windows machine, then what you will likely have is a file ending in .pcf . This file will have all the information you need. Below is an example:
[main] Description= Host=VPNGATEWAY.DOMAIN.ORG AuthType=1 GroupName=group_id GroupPwd= enc_GroupPwd=F3256220AA200A1D532556024F4F314B0388D48B0FBF2DB12 EnableISPConnect=0 ISPConnectType=0 ISPConnect=FOOBAR ISPCommand= Username= SaveUserPassword=0 UserPassword= enc_UserPassword= NTDomain= EnableBackup=0 BackupServer= EnableMSLogon=1 MSLogonType=0 EnableNat=1 TunnelingMode=0 TcpTunnelingPort=10000 CertStore=0 CertName= CertPath= CertSubjectName= CertSerialHash=00000000000000000000000000000000 SendCertChain=0 VerifyCertDN= DHGroup=2 ForceKeepAlives=0 PeerTimeout=90 EnableLocalLAN=0 EnableSplitDNS=1 ForceNetLogin=0
In the above example, we can see entries for
GroupName, and
enc_GroupPwd. Your
Username and
UserPassword may or may not be exported depending on the setup. To generate a working vpnc configuration out of it, you can use
pcf2vpnc, included with vpnc.
You can decrypt the password with the help from the cisco-decrypt program, shipped with the latest vpnc.
Testing the setup
Now that a configuration is in place it is time to test the setup. To start vpnc do the following:
root #
Enter password for firstname.lastname@example.com: VPNC started in background (pid: 14788)...
As you can see from the above command output, once you type vpnc (as root), you are prompted for your password. After entering the password (which will not be echoed to the terminal), the vpnc process will automatically become a background process.
If you specified the
Xauth password option in the vpnc config file, then you will not be prompted for a password at vpnc startup. Additionally, if vpnc needs some extra options not specified in the configuration file, or if you have forgotten something, don't worry, it will ask you for it.
root #
ifconfig -a
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:2F:8D:08:08 inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::211:2fff:fe8d:808/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:2101119 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1577559 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:1757862627 (1676.4 Mb) TX bytes:732200131 (698.2 Mb) Interrupt:177 Memory:faa00000-0 sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4 NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) tun0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 inet addr:192.168.160.42 P-t-P:192.168.160.42 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1412 Metric:1 RX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:500 RX bytes:60 (60.0 b) TX bytes:616 (616.0 b)
root #
netstat -r
Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface vpn01.domain.or router 255.255.255.255 UGH 1500 0 0 eth1 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 loopback desktop 255.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 lo default * 0.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 tun0
As you can see from the above command output(s), vpnc has done the following:
- Created the tun0 network interface, a virtual interface to handle the traffic across your VPN tunnel
- Obtained the IP address for the tun0 device from your VPN provider
- Set the default route to your VPN gateway
At this point, your workstation is capable of communicating with hosts via the VPN. Because vpnc sets your default route to your VPN gateway, all network traffic will travel across the VPN, even if it destined for the Internet or elsewhere not specifically specified by additional routes. For some, this basic type of connection may be satisfactory, but for most, additional steps need to be taken.
Additional things you might want to have:
- DNS for the VPN
- A routing setup that will only send traffic destined for the VPN down the virtual tunnel. This way, you can browse the Internet while connected to the VPN, without your personal web/p2p etc. traffic going across the tunnel.
- A script to manage all this, because vpnc just doesn't do enough by default.
When you are ready to end the VPN session, execute vpnc-disconnect. An example is shown below.
Don't disconnect yet, because we have additional things to test. The example below is just for informational purposes.
root #
Terminating vpnc daemon (pid: 26250)
Set up DNS
Unfortunately, vpnc doesn't handle the setup and management of DNS for your newly established tunnel. The user is left to decide how DNS should be handled. You could just overwrite /etc/resolv.conf when you connect, but that would utilize your VPN DNS for all DNS queries regardless of whether or not the traffic is destined for your VPN tunnel. This is a very functional solution and if you simply need to connect to the tunnel, do your work, and then disconnect, read no further. But, if you want to be able to leave your tunnel connected for lengthy periods of time and don't want your work DNS servers handling requests for your personal traffic, read on.
The ideal setup would allow you to separate your DNS queries into two categories: VPN-related and other. Under this setup, all VPN-related DNS queries would be answered by DNS servers located at the other end of your VPN tunnel and all other queries would continue to be answered by local or ISP supplied DNS servers. This is the setup that will be demonstrated here.
We will consider VPN-related DNS queries to be any query belonging to the example.org domain, such as host1.example.org or server1.example.org.
So how do you set things up, so that only requests made to hosts on the example.org domain get sent to VPN supplied DNS servers? Well, you're going to need to install a local DNS server, but don't worry, it's much easier than you think. There are several software packages that can handle the type of setup we desire, but for the purposes of this demonstration, dnsmasq will be utilized. Let's emerge it now:
This DNS server software will not be available to the network, and will only answer requests from localhost,
root #
emerge --ask net-dns/dnsmasq
Now you need to add an option to dnsmasq's startup options. Edit the following option to suit your needs. Substitute .example.org with the appropriate domain and the IP address with a valid DNS server that belongs to the VPN tunnel.
# See the dnsmasq(8) man page for possible options to put here. DNSMASQ_OPTS="-S /.example.org/192.168.125.10"
Next, make sure that the first entry in /etc/resolv.conf is your local host
127.0.0.1, followed by the location of the backup DNS servers that should handle the DNS traffic in case dnsmasq fails to start, or if it needs to forward a DNS query it doesn't currently have in its cache. An example /etc/resolv.conf is shown below.
nameserver 127.0.0.1 nameserver 192.168.0.1
Now that you have setup a rule for your VPN tunnel DNS, you need to start dnsmasq.
root #
/etc/init.d/dnsmasq start
root #
rc-update add dnsmasq default
The routing table
The ideal scenario would be if only the traffic destined for VPN tunnel would travel across the link. At this point, you have a VPN tunnel setup and all traffic will travel across the tunnel, unless you specify additional routes. In order to fix this situation you need to know what networks are available to you on your VPN. The easiest way to find out the needed information is to ask a network administrator, but sometimes they are reluctant to answer such questions. If your local network admin won't provide the needed information, some trial and error experiments will be required.
When the VPN tunnel was started, vpnc set the default route to the tunnel. So you must set your default route back to normal, so that things work as expected.
root #
route add default gw 192.168.0.1
Earlier, when DNS services were being configured for your VPN, you specified a DNS server to handle your example.org domain. You need to add a route for the 192.168.125.0 subnet so that DNS queries will work.
root #
route add -net 192.168.125.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev tun0
At this point, you should add any additional routes for known networks (such as for the subnet 192.168.160.0, which includes the IP address received by the TUN/TAP virtual device). If your friendly network administrator gave you the required info, great. Otherwise, you might need to ping hosts you will be connecting to frequently, to give yourself an idea about what your routing table should look like.
Due to your setup, when using VPN network services by name, you must specify the fully qualified domain name, for instance: webserver1.example.org
root #
ping intranet1.example.org
PING intranet1.example.org (172.25.230.29) 56(84) bytes of data. --- intranet1.example.org ping statistics --- 18 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 16997ms
As you can see from the above example, the ping probes to
intranet1.example.org were unsuccessful. So we need to add a route for that subnet.
root #
route add -net 172.25.230.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev tun0
A few ping and route commands later, you should be well on your way to a well working routing table.
Manage the connection
Calling vpnc when needed
Next is an example script to manage the VPN connection. You could execute it (as root) from an xterm to start a connection to your VPN. Then all you have to do is press return to disconnect the VPN. Obviously you will need to modify this for your setup, remembering to add all the additional routes that you may need.
#!/bin/bash source /sbin/functions.sh ebegin "Connecting to the VPN" vpnc eend ebegin "Modifying the routing table" route add default gw 192.168.0.1 route add -net 172.25.230.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev tun0 route add -net 192.168.160.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev tun0 route add -net 192.168.125.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev tun0 eend einfo "Press any key to disconnect ..." read $disconnect ebegin "Disconnecting from the VPN" vpnc-disconnect eend ebegin "Reconfiguring the default routing table" route add default gw 192.168.0.1 eend einfo "VPN should now be disconnected"
Start vpnc on boot
Version 0.4.0-r1 of vpnc contains an init script (/etc/init.d/vpnc) which can handle multiple configurations. The default script looks for /etc/vpnc/vpnc.conf, but as many configurations as can be imagined are possible. Before and after shutdown and start-up custom-made scripts can be executed that are connected by their name to the corresponding init script (since version 0.5.1-r1). Their names end in -preup.sh, -postup.sh, -predown.sh and -postdown.sh, stored in the /etc/init.d/scripts.d/ directory. The general naming scheme is sketched in the following table.
|Init script name
|Needed configuration file
|Pre-up script name
Add vpnc to default runlevel with the following commands (in this case for the standard configuration). Do not forget to add the tun module (if you have built it that way) to the kernels autoload mechanism at startup.
root #
rc-update add vpnc default
If you don't want to save your password in the configuration file, you can tell the init script to show all output and prompts on standard output by editing /etc/conf.d/vpnc. Set the VPNCOUTPUT variable to
yes or
no, where its default is to not display screen output.
The init scripts don't handle DNS separation, but you can use the custom scripts to achieve that.
Tips and tricks
Graphical remote access
If you are looking for a Linux application that supports RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) then give net-misc/grdesktop a try. It is a GUI app written in GTK+ that fits in well with a Gnome desktop, but doesn't require it. If you don't want the GUI configuration dialog that grdesktop provides, then just install net-misc/rdesktop. Ultimately, grdesktop is just a frontend for rdesktop.
If you are a KDE user, you might want to try net-misc/kvpnc. It a appears to be a very mature VPN management GUI.
If you need to connect to a Windows machine which doesn't have a DNS entry, and you know the address of an available WINS server, you can use a tool called nmblookup to query the WINS server for the host name of the machine you want to connect to. Unfortunately, you have to install net-fs/samba to get it, but if you are going to be working with boxes running Windows you might as well want to install samba, because it includes several other useful tools.
root #
emerge --ask net-fs/samba
When you have samba and its tools installed, test nmblookup by asking the WINS server at IP address 192.168.125.11 about a host named wintelbox1.
root #
nmblookup -U 192.168.125.11 -R 'wintelbox1'
querying wintelbox1 on 192.168.125.11 172.25.230.76 wintelbox1
Custom scripts on boot
The custom-made scripts for the init.d file can be used to setup a user-defined routing for the vpnc connection. The examples below show how to setup the routing table so that only connections to 123.234.x.x are routed over the VPN and all other connections use the default gateway. The example uses work-preup.sh to save the current default gateway before starting vpnc (which resets the default gateway using the VPN connection). Once vpnc has been started, work-postup.sh deletes this new default gateway, restores the old default gateway and sets the route for all connections to 123.234.x.x to use the vpnc connection.
grep -E '^0.0.0.0 '
#!/bin/sh route del -net 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 dev tun1 route add default gw $(cat /var/tmp/defaultgw) route add -net 22.214.171.124 netmask 255.255.0.0 dev tun1
The example scripts assume that the vpnc connection uses tun1 as tun device. You can set the device name in the connection's configuration file.
Interface name tun1 IPSec gateway vpn.mywork.com Pidfile /var/run/vpnc.work.pid
External resources
This article is based on a document formerly found on our main website gentoo.org.
The following people contributed to the original document: David H. Askew, Sven Vermeulen, Christian Faulhammer, Thomas Fischer, nightmorph
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Aztec Secret Indian Healing Clay
593 reviews
88% would repurchase
Package Quality: 3.8
Price: $$
Package Quality: 3.8
Price: $$
INGREDIENTSCALCIUM BENTONITE (green clay)
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Hair: Brunette, Straight, Fine
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Skin: Acne-prone, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Blond, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
I definitely always try to keep this product on hand! It's great for DIY facials and masks which I use it a lot for, maybe 2-3x a week. From my experience, mixing with just the ACV is a little harsh and drying on my skin, so I usually add a combination of: essential oils, honey, activated charcoal (one of my faves), turmeric (newest obsession) or just a few drops of carrier oils so it's not so drying. Yes, your face will "pulsate", and yes, it will itch like hell! Your skin will most likely be pretty red afterwards, but it subsides within half an hour. But this stuff is great at pulling everything out from under the surface, for spot treatments, and makes your face smooth as a baby's bottom! It can also be tricky to scrub off, so if you have this issue I suggest adding a bit of raw honey so it doesn't dry as "hard" and washes off much easier :)
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I've been wanting to buy the Nu Skin Epoch Mud Mask but I've read a lot of reviews here on this mask. It's my first time to try this with Bragg Apple Cider Vinegar on equal parts. I have stubborn acne and oily skin. I bought this out of desperation to end this acne life! It's cheap and a tub would last me maybe more than a year. I felt the strong pulsate like pulling my skin, like blood circulating to the surface. it dried hard on my face and rinsing is a lot of work. Mind the clay clogging the sink! As expected my face was red, I toned and moisturize afterward. Acne is still visible but it came to the surface. I will repeat after 2 days. Overall I'm satisfied!
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Hair: Black, Other, Other
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Eyes: Hazel
Absolutely love this! Wow to think of all the money I wasted on other masks before I read about this is mind boggling lol. You can get a one pound tub of this on Amazon for around $10, and since you use so little to make a mask it's going to last the entire year. Like other reviewers said, mix this with apple cider vinegar to make a paste. I purchased an inexpensive mixing bowl set with spatula, face brush and measuring spoons just for face masks on Amazon as well, so cleanup was a breeze. After you measure out a small amount of the powder to the bowl, mix it with an equal amount of apple cider vinegar. The mix will bubble and then you paint it on. I left mine on about 25 minutes. You might feel it pulsating, but I liked the fact that it meant that it was drawing out impurities. Unlike store purchased brands, this becomes rock hard so eating something isn't exactly an option when this is on. I rinse it off with war water in the sink. I put down several paper towels in the sink at the beginning of rinsing it off so the large pieces of clay don't go into
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Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Hazel
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Samsung UE40D6530
Luscious design, silky blacks, generous Smart TV portal, integrated Wi-Fi, motion resolution
Pernickety media streaming compatibility, average sound, some motion artifacts
Between the two of us, we've fallen a little bit in love with Samsung's D6530. Maybe it's the way it doesn't try too hard to look gorgeous, or the seductive silkiness of its blacks. Whatever the reason for its magnetic allure, we just want to sit and stare at it all day.
Not that we meant to feel so drawn to this particular screen. It's positioned some way below Samsung's high-end products, a modest 40-inch girl-next-door that you can generally pick up for less than £800. But hey, they say love is blind, right?
Samsung has cultivated quite a reputation for design, and this 40-incher doesn't disappoint. Fashionably thin at 29.9mm, the screen has a stylised transparent edge and a tiny bezel, just 12mm wide. The finish is a steely grey, which contrasts dramatically with the panel which looks jet-black when switched off.
Connectivity is good, comprising four HDMI inputs, SCART and component (via supplied adaptors), a PC input, three USBs, Ethernet LAN and a digital audio optical output. Wi-Fi is built-in, so no need to fuss about with an optional dongle.
Well connected
The UE40D6530 is well specified. It's obviously Smart, in the connected sense. Samsung's investment in online content is really beginning to pay off, with the number of apps available for download mushrooming at an exponential rate. A good 70 per cent are tish, but the sheer volume is impressive. The Hub's user interface mixes up a live TV window with Smart functionality, media streaming and setup buttons. It can also be customised: individual folders can be created to store various apps. This allows a family to assign folders to each member, or genres of apps to be grouped together.
Streaming services include YouTube, LoveFilm, Daily Motion, BBC iPlayer and Acetrax. There's also free 3D in the form of the brand's Explore 3D channel, which offers trailers and assorted full-length movies, from the IMAX stable. The quality of this side-by-side stream is actually rather good.
The Smart Hub home page also has a simple movie database allied to a 'My Videos' Search function. Enter a movie title and the TV scours the interwebs for relevant content, and offers you the chance to VOD the movie if it's available.
And if you need to check out what's new on Pocket-lint between programmes, you can call up a fully featured web browser, with Flash support. You won't miss the start of your show, because a live TV window is overlaid in the corner of the page.
Calibrating this telly doesn't take too long, once you work your way through the extensive picture menus. Take care with the sharpness setting, anything much beyond 17 on the sliding scale will introduce nasty ringing around fine details.
Colours are vibrant and the aforementioned blacks are terrific. This screen delivers eye candy with generosity.
The set's motion resolution is high, making it a particularly good choice for sports fans. Proprietary Motion Plus picture processing retains a full 1080 lines of clarity, although it does bring with it some motion artefacts, seen as smudgy ripples around certain moving objects. The most benign setting is Clear.
That said, it's worth delving into the Motion Plus Custom settings to find the best balance between clarity and judder. Our recommendation is take Judder down to 0. This keeps motion image sharpness but reduces the motion artefacts.
We don't much care for MotionPlus when watching movies, as it robs an image of cinematic texture and makes everything look like it was shot on video. The good news is that even without MotionPlus, this 40-incher does a good job of holding detail.
The third dimension
The set's 3D performance will entertain the kids - if you're brave enough to let them play with expensive Active Shutter 3D eyeware. Brightness is high, although double imaging crosstalk is evident on verticals. You can fiddle with 3D perspective and 3D optimisation adjustments but these really just shift problem in and off the screen plane.
2D-to-3D conversion is also on hand to convert any flat source, be it images from the Freeview+HD tuner of regular Blu-ray or DVD discs. The quality of this conversion tech is high, although frankly we see little point to it - contrary to James Cameron's opinion, we really don't want to watch everything through shuttering bins. There are no 3D glasses provided in the box, although you'll probably find your local dealer offering a bundle deal of sorts.
Media streaming
Media playback from USB is robust. All key video formats are supported, including AVI, MOV and MKV. Streaming across a LAN is more problematic, with MKVs unplayable from a NAS.
The set's audio performance is perfectly functional. The 2x15W sound system makes enough of a noise, although it obviously doesn't have any great depth.
Overall, the 40D6530 should be considered something of a star performer for the price. Its images are enticing, it looks as pretty as a picture and the feature set hits all the hot buttons. Isn't love wonderful?
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The radical changes to Turkey's judicial system proposed by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) to the parliamentary Constitutional Reconciliation Commission, which is tasked with drafting a new constitution for Turkey, have triggered a heated debate, with many opposition party members and columnists arguing that the government aims to have the judiciary under its control and that it holds politics above the law.
They are mainly concerned about the proposed change to the method of appointment to the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK). While today 15 of the 22 HSYK members are elected by judges and prosecutors and the rest are appointed by the president and Parliament, the proposal suggests that the president appoint seven, Parliament appoint seven and that the rest are elected by judges and prosecutors.
Taha Akyol from the Hürriyet daily says judicial activism persists in Turkey and it is what prevents the judiciary from functioning effectively. According to the proposal, the authority to determine the HSYK members is largely in the hands of the president. Akyol says he fully supported the 2010 referendum, the ratification of the 26-article constitutional amendment package, because the referendum made it possible for some members of the Constitutional Court to be elected by Parliament and that the members of the HSYK are elected by a diverse group. And at the same time, he says, he has been defending the idea that the majority of members of the HSYK should be elected by the judiciary. Today Akyol says he holds the same views, but the government appears to have changed its mind and is acting completely differently than it did in 2010.
Radikal's Cüneyt Özdemir writes that we first need to ponder why the government felt the need to make such a drastic change. The most important reason is the huge difference in the perception of the government and the judiciary of what the "new Turkey" is. For example, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has consistently expressed his dissatisfaction over the detention pending trial of former Chief of General Staff İlker Başbuğ and says he prefers Başbuğ be released pending trial. However, the judiciary has not responded to the prime minister's call. There are many other examples indicating dissent between the judiciary and the government. As a matter of fact, this is the way it is supposed to be considering the principle of separation of powers, the columnist says
As for the content of the proposal, Özdemir thinks it seems that the proposal is an attempt on the part of the government to have the judiciary under its control. The fate of judges and prosecutors will depend on the government's decisions after the planned changes are made, he says.
Nazlı Ilıcak, a columnist for the Sabah daily, is also critical of the proposal. She recalls that Erdoğan previously said that they would not change the amendments made with the 2010 referendum. However, the new proposal is totally contradictory to the changes made after the referendum and what's more it is an attempt to have political control over the judiciary, she argues.


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Two years ago 18 punts were returned for TDs. This year we're on pace for just seven. Why? That depends on who you ask.
Updated: December 3, 2005, 4:20 PM ETBy Len Pasquarelli | ESPN.com
Over the first 12 weeks of this season, return specialists have cried foul over the seemingly exorbitant number of fair catches being forced by the legion of directional and hang-time punters now in such preponderance in the league.
"Just about everyone is concentrating on net [yardage] and maybe sacrificing a little bit of [gross] distance for hang time," noted Indianapolis Colts punt return ace Troy Walters. "You are seeing so many fair catches now, it's unbelievable, really. There are ...
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All freedom-loving people would be inspired to walk into the Menil Collection Bookstore and see, front and center on the largest display rack, an art-book cover photograph of a very lifelike sculpture of an erect penis -- and directly across from the children's section, too. Perhaps it's an up-yours salute to the outgoing senator and philistine from North Carolina. More likely, it simply struck manager and book buyer Patrick Phipps as an arresting image, of which this little gray building is chock-full. Phipps and his assistant, William Willis, are themselves artists. That's probably why the Menil bookstore cannot be compared to the self-absorbed, kitsch-filled truck stops that are most museum gift shops today. In addition, nobody's lips move when they're thumbing through the stock. Indeed, the hypnotic array of imagery -- books, postcards and posters -- is dedicated only partially to what's currently on display in the Menil Collection. Perhaps the most appealing part of the bookstore is hanging on the walls: paintings, collages and prints by Houston artists. Although they are for sale, they represent a kind of second, rotating collection of local talent to supplement the masterpieces across the street.
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Finally, a drink special we can get on board with: On Wednesdays at Ozona Grill & Bar, domestic drafts are $1 all day. That's one dollar. All day. Are you listening? Beer snobs, obviously, need not apply. But if domestic brews don't rankle your nose hairs (how else to explain your snout's permanent uplift?), then bring a few bucks and park your butt on a plastic chair on Ozona's patio. And if you are a beer snob, maybe it's time to go slummin', because we love Ozona and we think you should, too. Ozona has personality and a homey feel that some might call...domestic.
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Cap-n-Trade by Any Other Name
Remember President Obama vowing, in his "shellacking" post-mid-term press conference, that there are 'other ways to skin that cat' now that cap-n-trade not only was rejected but led to electoral malaise?
My CEI colleague Marlo Lewis makes an important note in a blog post today. Specifically, last night Obama asked Congress to mandate that 80% of U.S. electricity come from 'clean energy' by 2035. Amazingly enough, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) projected that under the House-passed Waxman-Markey cap-n-trade bill, about 80% of our electricity would come from 'clean' sources by 2030.
And you remember the effect that Obama said was his goal of that scheme? Something about making 'electricity rates necessarily skyrocket'. See Marlo's post for the unsavory details.
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1. His writing is marked by an emphasis on the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women and the drudgery of work.
2. During his youth, he was socially inept and withdrawn--a condition later exacerbated by an extreme case of acne.
3. He had an epiphany when he was introduced to alcohol.
4. He viewed alcoholism as a method by which he might come to more amicable terms with his life.
5. Failing to break into the literary world, he grew disillusioned with the publication process and ramped up his drinking markedly.
6. The "lost years" which followed formed the basis for all his later autobiographical chronicles.
7. He agreed to marry a smalltown Texas poet, sight unseen, but they divorced two years later.
8. She insisted that their separation had nothing to do with literature.
9. She often doubted his skill as a poet.
10. He launched a mimeographed literary magazine with a friend. The magazine had no effect whatsoever.
11. With increasing notoriety and growing fame, he embarked on a series of love affairs and one-night stands.
12. His one girlfriend later wrote a book about him entitled Blowing My Hero.
13. He died shortly after completing his last novel.
14. His gravestone reads "Don't Try."
15. After his death, there was a movement to preserve his bungalow.
16. His fans worried this could jeopardize his outsider status.
17. He disliked having Bono over to the house.
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I was referred to Bukowski by a friend in High School who wrote his name down on a Ross Perot brochure. I still have it somewhere. I do prefer his prose over his poetry though.ReplyDelete
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I actually like Bukowski's writing, both the poetry (well certainly a decent number of those poems) and his prose.
But he's a bad critic of anything that doesn't reflect his own very circumscribed aesthetic (but he's smart enough to be very funny while doing that usually).
I think it's weird that the Wiki article on him seems to have been largely authored by people somewhere in the U.K.--you can tell by the spelling.
I just like having fun with those Wiki articles on poets.
That's where all those lines are found and barely manipulated at all really.
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Lafourche couple charged with growing marijuana
Published: Monday, August 22, 2011 at 9:14 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 8:56 a.m.
A formerly-married couple were arrested Saturday night after Lafourche Narcotics Task Force agents found 38 marijuana plants in their Raceland home.
Deputies were called to the home, 4047 La. 308, at about 10:15 p.m., authorities said. Forty-seven-year-old Patricia Savoie Chauvin had called about a domestic disturbance involving her ex-husband, 51-year-old Cornel Chauvin. complaining that he hit her. When police were in the home, they saw the marijuana plants, all between 2 and 5 feet tall.
The plants were later found to be worth about $57,000, officials said. Patricia told deputies the plants were her ex-husband's, though both are charged with cultivation and possession with intent to distribute marijuana.
Patricia also had an outstanding failure to appear warrant, while Cornel is charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and domestic abuse battery. Patricia is being held at the Lafourche Parish jail in lieu of a $5,100 bond, while Cornel was released after posting a $5,500 bond.
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Google Realtime Search picked up a nice boost this week with the addition of a handful of new sources. Joining the likes of Facebook and Twitter are Quora, Gowalla, Plixi, Me2day,
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Austin-based Gowalla gets a big update ahead of this year's SXSW festival. From a revamped UI to integration with other services, Gowalla 3.0 is a recommended Android app!
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This week we learn how a new technology uses predictions to speed mobile video playback; and we explore another platform for crowdsourcing photos and video. PART 1: Video playback with Inmobly A technology from Inmobly can predict which videos a mobile viewer might want to watch and download files in advance as a way to […] more »
This week we explore two tools that help newsrooms get photos and video from outside contributors. PART 1: Stringr Having a small staff often limits the amount of video a news operation can gather, but Stringr provides a digital marketplace where producers or editors can request and download specific footage from a network of contributors. […] more »
A 2014 study conducted by Vida, a research-driven organization that helps bring attention to women's literature, found that female writers were shockingly underrepresented in general interest magazines. Last year, only 30 percent of articles in the New Yorker were written by women. The New Republic was even worse at 27 percent. And believe it or not, […] more »
PBS MediaShift is launching a new series of online training courses called DigitalEd, in partnership with BigMarker. These one-hour live courses will help teach practical digital skills with experienced instructors. Title: How to Create and Monetize an Entrepreneurial Journalism Venture Instructor: Kathryn McManus, VP at SocialWhirled and faculty associate at the Walter Cronkite School of […] more »
This week we offer a quick recap from the 2015 South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas. We also learn about a startup that enables anyone to try out the latest tech gadgets, and we hear how another startup is hoping to use mobile technology to transform democracy. PART 1: SXSWi 2015 Recap Intelligent […] more »
1. Obama on net neutrality: No blocking and other proposals (Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun-Times) 2. The war of the words (Keith Gessen / Vanity Fair) 3. The 36 people who run Wikipedia (Stephen Lurie / Matter) 4. Editor's note: Reader comments in the age of social media (Reuters) 5. Wearing your (startup) failures on […] more »
There is plenty of advice available for startups and entrepreneurs, but what do you do if you are inside a company and want to develop a new concept or project? There are no incubators, angel investors or college courses around to help you. Collab/Space, a production of PBS MediaShift, with premier sponsorship from the Donald […] more »
Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication is partnering with American Public Media on a new startup called the PIN Bureau. Students in the bureau help newsroom clients across the country engage with their communities and develop enterprise stories through use of APM's Public Insight Network. In a PIN Bureau pilot […] more »
Two of the hot topics in education in the last few years have been Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC's) and the flipped classroom. I've been experimenting with both of them. What I've learned (besides being able to use the word "pedagogy" in a sentence) is 1) Assigning students lectures as homework doesn't guarantee the students will […] more »
Starting a new magazine is no easy task in today's competitive, complex media world, but a new book offers aspiring magazine entrepreneurs, students, and instructors a resource for the adventure. I recently interviewed Mary Hogarth, the author of the just-released book How to Launch a Magazine in this Digital Age. Hogarth is the leader of […] more »


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The S410 is the 10-shot version of the S400 precharged pneumatic, but it also has the added benefit of adjustable power. You'll get about 60-80 shots on low power and 30-40 on high. The power adjustment wheel is located on the right side of the rifle. The low end delivers about 600 fps, the high about 920 fps (.22 cal.) The variable power makes this a much more useful gun for dispatching small and large pests at distances other guns can only hope to achieve!
On the top end, you'll see remarkable energy in the range of 30-35 ft-lbs. This whopping power will serve you well when the time comes to quickly and humanely dispatch pests.
Of course, power is nothing without accuracy. And, this gun has it in spades! It comes with a 12-groove Lothar Walther barrel, the cream of the crop when it comes to accurate barrels. If you do your part, the gun will do its part every time! And, the shrouded barrel helps deaden the sound so the report won't spook the very critters you're hunting.
The two-stage adjustable trigger lets you customize things according to your own needs. It also has a quick-release charging connector. Manufactured in Air Arms' state-of-the-art facility in England, the S410 sets a new standard for accuracy, power and versatility in precharged pneumatics.
There are no sights on the S410; remember to buy a scope & mounts!
Click on the AMMO link for suggested pellets and the ACCESSORIES link for scopes, mounts, targets, cleaning gear and more.
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Things I liked: I got this gun in .177 RH and I'm loving it. It's so quite that the people next door don't even know when I'm shooting. The Sparrows and Starlings have all but disappeared. (one shot, one kill)
Things I would have changed: I'm going to keep this one "AS IS"!!!!
What others should know: This will be the gun that will be passed down, when I'm gone.
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Things I liked: I purchased the .22 caliber rifle in walnut and it is gorgeous. Workmanship is beautiful and the gun is supremely accurate. 1/4 inch groups at 45 yards no problem. The bluing on this gun is better than my Weatherby MK V. Also, I would like to thank Gene in the tech department. I had an issue with a defective S410 initially and Gene got involved and took the time to make sure the replacement gun was perfect in every way. Kudos Gene!
Things I would have changed: Nothing
What others should know: The power adjustment on this gun is very useful. Not only does it give you a range from 14 to 36 ft lbs, which takes you from backyard plinking up to small game hunting at the twist of a dial, but once you do some chrony testing it is possible to get some really long shot strings at level well above that of a magnum spinger (25 or so ft lbs) by starting at half power and adjusting upward at predetermined points. Also, JSB heavies are the perfect fodder for this gun. Heavy enough to withstand some wind and light without drifting but light enough to easlity nail targets accurately out to 110 yards and beyond.
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Things I liked: the AirArms S410 FAC. Is a superbly crafted rifle. Every component of this gun is flawless. from the ergonomic stock, to the rugged and reliable action, to the overall fit and finish. This gun is cocked using a side lever action which I find to be a improvement over the traditional bolt action. The outstanding accuracy obtained with this gun is really impressive. I am getting 1/2" fifty yard groups that opened up to 1" at 100 yards. It is a dream to shoot. The rifle is spitting out pellets at a avg. velocities of 915 fps, using the JSB 18gr pellets packing a walloping 33ft/lbs. The shrouded barrel is very quiet. AA S410 FAC is one of the finest PCPs available superb accuracy excellent trigger and beautiful.
Things I would have changed: can't find anything lacking or wanting for improvement with this gun.
What others should know: Buy a extra magazine and lots of pellets you will shot through them faster then you think.
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After 6 months of hard work for you, we are delighted to announce the winners of the High Flier's Cup 2012.
Following 2010 and 2011 where we managed to grow by more than 50 % we are happy to let you know that we achieved further growth in 2012,
this time of roughly 9% – which is given the difficult economical situation in some of the markets a very respectable result!
And you are the ones that contributed to this success in a crucial way – we would like to congratulate you on your excellent work in developing your existing accounts and for convincing so many new customers that The Network is THE solution for their international hiring needs!
The prizes for the best ambassadors in 2012 go to:
The prize for the biggest YOY country growth goes to Hungary! Congratulations to Alexandra Farkas on an amazing growth of more than 800% which comes with a travel voucher of 800 EUR!
Congratulations to all of you and enjoy the holidays that you can pay with these travel vouchers!
We would like to thank all of you for your great participation and look forward to great international deals in 2013!