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As a result, she's had a hard time preparing a resume in advance without knowing which of her three jobs to address or what experiences to highlight.
While accounting was her college major and she is close to receiving her CPA license pending some audit work, completing this is more of a check off her list than getting her closer to her revenue goals and doing what she wants to do.
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The Chesapeake Bay is our nation's largest estuary and sustains more than 3,600 species of plants, fish and animals. However, if global warming continues unabated, projected rising sea levels will significantly reshape the region's coastal landscape, threatening waterfowl hunting and recreational saltwater fishing in Virginia and Maryland.
See how sea-level rise will impact Chesapeake Bay habitats. Click each region to learn about global warming impacts in that area.
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Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Habitats of the Chesapeake Bay: A Summary - May, 2008
NWF commissioned a modeling analysis of how Chesapeake Bay habitats will be affected by sea-level rise in the coming century.
The Chesapeake Bay and Global Warming: A Paradise Lost for Hunters, Anglers, and Outdoor Enthusiasts? - September 2007
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Chicken with Kalamata Olives
(Makes 4-5 servings, recipe created by Kalyn)
8-10 chicken thighs, skin removed
(can be bone-in or boneless, whichever you prefer)
1 T olive oil plus 1 tsp. butter
1 tsp. poultry seasoning to season chicken before browning
black pepper, to taste (do not add salt)
1/2 onion, diced very finely
1 cup chicken stock or broth (low salt type is best if using canned broth)
1/4 cup Kalamata olives (or use your favorite type of olives), cut olives lengthwise into fourths
1/4 tsp. dried thyme
1 tsp. dried parsley or 2 tsp. fresh parsley, chopped
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Mandela's 'sparkle' fading as illness recurs
CAPE TOWN: Nelson Mandela's wife has described how the former president's ''sparkle'' is fading, as South African officials disclosed that he is suffering from a recurring lung infection.
The authorities added that Mr Mandela, 94, was ''responding to treatment'' in a military hospital in Pretoria where he had spent three nights.
Graca Machel, whom Mr Mandela married on his 80th birthday in 1998, told of her pain at having to watch her husband ''ageing'' before her eyes. ''I mean, this spirit and this sparkle, you see that somehow it's fading,'' she said.
''To see him ageing, it's something also which pains you,'' she told an African television reporter. ''You understand and you know it has to happen.''
A granddaughter Ndileka Mandela said that Mr Mandela seemed to have accepted his condition. ''I think he takes it in his stride, he has come to accept that it's part of growing old, and it's part of humanity as such,'' she said.
Security is tight at the military hospital in Pretoria where the government says Mr Mandela is ''comfortable'' and not in any immediate danger. But officials have declined to say when he might be released. His condition was considered serious enough to fly him almost 1000 kilometres from his home village of Qunu to the capital on Saturday.
The authorities waited until Tuesday before giving any solid information about his condition. Mr Mandela has been prone to lung infections ever since he caught tuberculosis as an inmate at Pollsmoor prison, Cape Town, at the age of 70 in 1988.
In January last year, Mr Mandela spent two nights at Milpark private hospital in Johannesburg for what officials described as routine tests. It turned out that he was suffering from a serious respiratory infection.
Mr Mandela was last admitted to hospital in February for a surgical procedure to determine the cause of an abdominal complaint.
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By Jesper M. Johansson
Principal Security Architect, Amazon.com
Default Setup
Amazon EC2 running Windows is provided through an Amazon Machine Image (AMI). The Amazon-provided Windows AMIs are, as much as possible, configured the way you would expect a Windows Server to be configured if you just installed it from Microsoft-issued media. It is our goal to deliver an instance that behaves exactly the way you would expect and to avoid any surprises with respect to features and functionality.
Please note that third parties may provide Amazon EC2 AMIs running Windows as well. Amazon.com cannot vouch for the configuration or contents of those images. This document applies solely to AMIs provided by Amazon.com.
Differences Between Default Windows and Amazon EC2 AMIs
For proper functioning of your instances as well as for your convenience, a few changes have been made from the installation defaults. This section outlines those changes.
EC2config Service
The images contain one additional service installed by Amazon Web Services, the EC2 Config Service. This service runs as LocalSystem. The ec2config service provides the following functionality:
- At initial setup
- Sets the hostname to the private DNS name
- Generates and sets a random password on the Administrator account
- Initializes and formats the ephemeral disks
- Generates and installs the host certificate used for Terminal Services
- Syncs the instance clock with a time server
- After initial setup
- Writes the last three entries in the System event log to the Amazon EC2 console so you can debug startup problems.
- Prepares instances for bundling
The ec2config service is primarily used during initial setup, as you can see from above. If you are not planning on bundling the instance (preparing a new AMI from it) you may be able to disable, or even uninstall, that service. If you uninstall the service you may reinstall it from its installation (msi) file. Notifications of updates to the service will be posted on the Amazon EC2 forums, at http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/forum.jspa?forumID=30. Further details about the Ec2Config Service and a link to download the latest version is available at http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/UsingConfig_WinAMI.html.
Should you wish to remove the ec2config service, you may do so by running this command:
sc delete ec2config
The binaries for the ec2config service, as well as additional tools needed to configure the image appropriately at first start, are contained in the %ProgramFiles%\Amazon directory.
Xen Drivers
The images contain a set of drivers to permit access to the Xen virtualized hardware presented by Amazon EC2 to the guest operating system (OS). The source files for the drivers are in the %ProgramFiles%/RedHat directory on 32-bit images, and in the %ProgramFiles(x86)%\RedHat directory on 64-bit images. The binaries actually in use are copied into %SystemRoot%\System32\DRIVERS. The two drivers are the rhelnet, the RedHat Paravirtualized network driver, and rhelscsi, the RedHat SCSI miniport driver. The following are the relevant characteristics of these two drivers:
SERVICE_NAME: rhelnet TYPE : 1 KERNEL_DRIVER START_TYPE : 3 DEMAND_START ERROR_CONTROL : 1 NORMAL BINARY_PATH_NAME : system32\DRIVERS\rhelnet.sys LOAD_ORDER_GROUP : NDIS TAG : 12 DISPLAY_NAME : RedHat PV NIC Driver DEPENDENCIES : SERVICE_START_NAME : SERVICE_NAME: rhelscsi TYPE : 1 KERNEL_DRIVER START_TYPE : 0 BOOT_START ERROR_CONTROL : 1 NORM BINARY_PATH_NAME : \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\rhelscsi.sys LOAD_ORDER_GROUP : SCSI miniport TAG : 33 DISPLAY_NAME : rhelscsi DEPENDENCIES : SERVICE_START_NAME :
SCW Installed By Default
The Security Configuration Wizard (SCW) is a new security tool included with Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 and higher. In Windows Server 2003, however, SCW is an optional component; not installed by default. In order to make it easier for you to secure your Amazon EC2 instances, we have added SCW to the default installation image. It is available from the Start menu in the Administrative Tools folder.
SCW is a wizard that walks you through the process of attack surface reduction on Windows. It will analyze your computer and recommend services to disable, settings to make, and ports to close off. You can even use it to build IPsec rules to restrict inbound communication only to particular hosts as well as set a few basic security settings. It helps you actually implement one of the most basic security recommendations: turn off everything you do not need. SCW contains a database enumerating the interdependencies between services making that task much easier. It is an extremely valuable tool for securing Windows.
A complete guide for how to use SCW is beyond the scope of this document. For more information, please see the following Microsoft resources:
- SCW Homepage - http://www.microsoft.com/scw
- SCW Quickstart Guide - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=43850
- SCW Deployment Guide - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=43851
- SCW Troubleshooting Guide and all other documentation in a single archive: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=903fd496-9eb9-4a45-aa00-3f2f20fd6171&DisplayLang=en
SCW is a very valuable resource for securing Windows. We highly encourage you to use it.
Pagefile Configuration
Due to limitations in the maximum size of the volume hosting the C: drive, the pagefile on the C: is set to a very small size, only large enough to be able to create a memory dump if the instance crashes. A larger pagefile may be hosted on a separate volume.
Managing Your Instances
You can either manage your instances using the command line utilities or using the ElasticFox Firefox extension. Both are available for download from http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=88. The ElasticFox extension, shown in Figure 1, provides graphical access to all or most of the management functionality.
Figure 1 The ElasticFox Firefox extension makes managing your Amazon EC2 instances much simpler
Using Elasticfox you can get all the relevant information about your instances, including the console output and the last three errors in the System Event log, as shown in Figure 2. It can also be used to create new instances, retrieve their initial passwords, and decommission instances.
Figure 2 ElasticFox gives you all the relevant console output
Remote Administration
You will administer your Windows instances via the Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). RDP is exactly what it sounds like: a method to access the desktop of a computer remotely. While it is possible to configure authenticated Amazon EC2 instances to receive connections using other ports, the intent is to use RDP to administer your instances.
If you have several Windows instances we recommend that you open RDP access from the Internet to only one of them, and use it as a proxy administration instance. The preferred setup is shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3 Preferred Amazon EC2 Management Flow
By configuring your management flow as shown in Figure 3 you avoid having to expose RDP to the Internet on more instances than necessary. This enables you to reduce your attack surface and exposure.
By default, all access to your images, including RDP, is blocked. To open access to the images you must use the ec2-authorize command, or by creating a rule using ElasticFox. For example, this command will enable RDP access to all your current and future instances by opening port 3389 to your default security group:
ec2-authorize default -p 3389
Using ElasticFox you can create a rule by going to the Security Groups tab, and clicking the green checkmark under group permissions. That will pop up the dialog shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4 You can enable RDP using ElasticFox
Figure 4 shows how to create a rule for all hosts on the Internet. By specifying a different IP address and subnet mask in CIDR notation you can restrict access to only specific hosts.
You may also block RDP access using the built-in IPsec functionality in Windows. For management hosts that may move and get different IP addresses, IPsec enables you to still provide minimal access to your instances. For example, you can use a blanket rule such as the one shown in Figure 4 to open RDP, and then use an IPsec rule to restrict access to only those hosts that can present the appropriate certificate. This prevents you from having to open it to all hosts when the source is likely to change IP address. For more information on these options, see the section below on "Restricting Access".
Server-Authenticated RDP
By default, all instances are configured to present a self-signed digital certificate to authenticate themselves to you when you connect over RDP. This allows you to verify that you are, in fact, sending your credentials to the computer you think you are. You must, however, manually verify the thumbprint of the certificate and you must have an RDP client that supports server authentication. The default client in Windows XP does not. You may download an updated client from Microsoft at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925876.
To verify the certificate, follow these steps:
- Launch your Windows instance
- Get the password for the Administrator account on the instance by using ec2-get-password command or by right-clicking on the instance in ElasticFox and selecting "Get Administrator Password".
- Use
ec2-get-console-outputcommand to get the RDP certificate thumbprint. For example:
c:\> ec2-get-console-output i-01234abcd 10/1/2008 1:13:59 PM:
CN=i-5586263c, OU=EC2, O=Amazon.com 197068665D415FCAB3DEE7C10E36DDA16024DB67
You may also use ElasticFox to get this information, as shown in Figure 2.
- Make note of the line surrounded by the
- The CN value (inside the
tag) should match your instance Id
- The string contained within the
tag will be used later to make sure that you are correcting to the correct server.
- The CN value (inside the
- Launch the Remote Desktop Connection. You can do this within ElasticFox by right-clicking the instance and selecting "Connect to Public DNS Name," or by launching the Microsoft RDP client from Start\All Programs\Accessories, or by typing mstsc.exe at a command prompt. If you did not use ElasticFox, also take these steps:
- Enter the Public IP Address for your instance in the text box and click the "Options" button.
- Click on the rightmost tab (it will be labeled either "Security" or "Advanced". If it is not there, you will need to upgrade to a more recent version of the client.
- As shown in Figure 5 and Figure 6 you will see a drop-down box with different levels of Server Authentication. Select the middle one. It will be either "Attempt authentication" or "Warn Me". If you select "No authentication" you will be allowed to connect without warnings, but you will also be unable to verify the server identity. If you select "Require authentication" you will be unable to connect to Windows AMIs at all.
- Click "Connect"
Figure 5 Windows XP and Windows Vista RDP Options Dialog
Figure 6 Windows Server 2003 RDP Options Dialog
- Upon connection you will be presented with a "Security Alert," shown in Figure 7 and Figure 8 that tells you the client cannot verify the identity of the remote computer because:
- The Server name on the certificate is incorrect
- The certificate is not from a trusted certifying authority
Figure 7 Certificate warning in Windows XP and Windows Vista
Figure 8 Certificate warning in Windows Server 2003
- Click "View certificate" to manually verify the information. You will be presented with one of the dialogs in Figure 9 or Figure 10
Figure 9 Certificate dialog in Windows XP and Windows Vista
Figure 10 Certificate dialog in Windows Server 2003
- Click on the "Details" tab at the top of the dialog box. You will see one of the dialogs in Figure 11 or Figure 12
- In the list of fields on the "Details" tab, you will find an entry called "Thumbprint". This value needs to match the "Thumbprint" you recorded earlier. The thumbprints may differ in formatting and capitalization, but the actual value must match.
Figure 11 The certificate details dialog on Windows Vista and Windows XP shows the thumbprint information
Figure 12 The certificate details dialog on Windows Server 2003 shows the certificate thumbprint
- Click "OK"
- Click "Yes" to continue connecting to the remote computer
Note that whenever you are connected to a server that has identified itself using a certificate a padlock will appear in the connection bar at the top of the screen, as shown in Figure 13. If you click on the padlock, you can view the certificate and verify its thumbprint.
Figure 13 The RDP connection bar shows the security state of the connection
Site-to-Site Access
If you are planning on using your Windows Instances to provide services to internal Windows clients at your main site we recommend using the Site-to-Site VPN feature in Windows Routing and Remote Access Services (RRAS). A complete guide to using RRAS is beyond the scope of this document, but further information is available on the Microsoft web site: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc787328.aspx as well as in the book "Deploying Virtual Private Networks with Windows Server 2003" (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0735615764).
Passwords, Users, and Authentication
The default password on the Administrator account is set automatically on all instances to a random value by the ec2Config service. You can retrieve the password originally set by using the ec2-get-password command, as shown here:
C:\>ec2-get-password i-cb1db1a2 -k gsg-keypair.txt 3bA2tIP123C
Alternatively, you may use the "Get Administrator Password" command in ElasticFox by right-clicking on the instance, as shown in Figure 14. The first time you use this feature in ElasticFox you will be asked to set your gsg-keypair. This is the keypair you generated when you first configured your AWS account. The path to the gsg-keypair file is stored in the ec2ui.last.ec2privatekey.file Firefox variable.
Figure 14 ElasticFox can retrieve the original Administrator password on your instances
Keep in mind that both of these methods only show you the original password set on these instances. Neither gets you the current password. We highly recommend you change the initial password as soon as possible. However, once you do, Amazon cannot recover your password for you. Amazon does not keep any record of any of the passwords you configure on your instances. If you forget the password or passwords needed to connect to an instance, you will have no option other than to decommission the instance and create a new one. For that reason, we recommend you record the administrative password for your instances in accordance with your normal security practices.
Windows Server 2003 supports passwords up to 255 characters. In addition, spaces are fully supported in passwords, enabling you to use true pass phrases instead of passwords. We recommend you use this functionality to create very strong and very long pass phrases for the accounts on your instances. In addition, we recommend you use different pass phrases for the Administrator accounts on each instance. This prevents an attacker who manages to gain control over one of your instances from using it to "Island hop" to another of your instances using the security dependency created by sharing pass words across hosts.
Finally, we recommend that every user who needs to administer your instances use a separate account. If multiple users use the same account you have no way to track who did what to your instance, losing accountability. Use the "Computer Management" tool or set up a Windows domain to manage accounts on your instances. Make sure that all your users have the right to access your instances using Terminal Services as this is the only method you can use to connect to your instances. Administrators have that right by default but you can grant it to additional users using the Group Policy Editor, as shown in Figure 15. You can access the Group Policy Editor using the gpedit.msc command. Alternatively, add any users who need to connect to your instance via Remote Desktop to the Remote Desktop Users group.
Figure 15 Grant additional users permission to access your instance in the Group Policy Editor
Restricting Access
As mentioned earlier, we highly recommend that you restrict access to your Amazon EC2 instances as much as possible. By default, Amazon EC2 restricts access to all ports on your instances. You must use the ec2-authorize command (http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonEC2/dg/2006-10-01/CLTRG-authorize.html), as discussed earlier, to open additional ports to your instances. We highly recommend you use the ec2-authorize command to very restrictively provide access to your instances.
Firewall and IPsec
In addition to the ec2-authorize command, you may use the Windows Firewall and IPsec to restrict access to your instances. Using a technique known as "Server Isolation" you may provide extremely restrictive access to your Amazon EC2 instances, making exploiting them extremely difficult for an attacker. For example, by ensuring that only the web server can connect to the database server and the only port it can do so on is the SQL Server port, TCP 1433, you can prevent an attacker on one computer from executing many attacks on another computer. For example, rather than providing unlimited access within your virtual network, you may build a very restrictive network, as shown in Figure 16
Figure 16 Using Server Isolation you can effectively contain attacks
As shown in Figure 16, using Server Isolation you can restrict communications within your network to only that which is absolutely necessary. Should an attacker compromise, for instance, the SQL Server, the types of traffic he can send to the rest of your network or the Internet is extremely limited, making further compromise much more difficult.
A complete guide to deploying Server Isolation is beyond the scope of this document. However, the following are helpful resources.
- Microsoft's Server and Domain Isolation page: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/network/bb545651.aspx.
- Protect Your Windows Network: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321336437. A book on protecting a network running on Windows, which includes two chapters on network isolation and security dependencies.
- Port Requirements for the Windows Server System: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832017. A Microsoft knowledge base article which documents all ports used by all components of the Windows Server System.
Security Tools
Windows includes several built in and optional tools and resources to assist you in protecting your Windows hosts. While no tool or process can guarantee absolute security, the following resources should be helpful.
SCW, the Security Configuration Wizard, is a wizard-based security configuration tool. It can be used to explore your server's attack surface as well as to tailor a security policy to exactly what you want your server to do. For example, it can be extremely helpful in building a Server Isolation deployment because it knows about the traffic patterns of all the services in Windows and can help you configure IPsec rules to permit them. SCW is not installed by default, but we have included it in the default Windows instances on Amazon EC2.
Security Policy Tools
The security policy tools: Local Security Policy (secpol.msc), the Security Configuration Editor (consists of two separate Microsoft Management Console snap-ins), and the Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) are the primary tools to configure low-level security policy settings in Windows. These tools mostly provide access to the same set of tools but through slightly different interfaces. They provide access to a large number of low-level settings, and can have significant adverse effects on the stability of your system if used incorrectly. However, for detailed security configuration of Windows, they are absolutely essential.
Security Guides
To minimize the chances that you use the security tools incorrectly, we recommend you use the Windows Security Guides to help secure your Windows instances. The Windows Server 2003 Security Guide (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc163140.aspx) is created by Microsoft with the input of many external entities and is the definitive resource to configuring security settings on Windows. It includes configurations for enhanced security for several types of servers for those organizations that do not consider the default settings sufficient. Keep in mind, however, that the default settings in Windows more or less map to the Enterprise level of the Security Guide. In other words, you may or may not need to use the Security Guide.
For SQL Server 2005 security, refer to the SQL Server 2005 Security Best Practices document: http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/5/e/85eea4fa-b3bb-4426-97d0-7f7151b2011c/SQL2005SecBestPract.doc and the SQL Server security technical center at http://www.microsoft.com/sql/technologies/security/default.mspx.
Instances with SQL Server pre-installed have all the default databases installed in %ProgramFiles%. This is contrary to normal recommended best practice, which recommends keeping all the databases on a separate volume. However, when an image is bundled into an AMI, only the C: drive is bundled. This requires putting the default databases on C:. We recommend you install all other databases on a separate drive, and consider moving the default databases as well. Remember, however, that if you do they will not persist if you bundle an instance into a new AMI.
SQL Server 2005 Surface Area Configuration
SQL Server 2005 comes with the SQL Server 2005 Surface Area Configuration tool, shown in Figure 17. We highly recommend that you use this tool to help configure the attack surface on your SQL Server instances.
Figure 17 SQL Server 2005 Surface Area Configuration
The Surface Area Configuration tool is designed for two main purposes. First, it helps you manage all the services that are installed as part of a SQL Server 2005 installation. For example, you can use it to disable any unnecessary services and to manage the protocols used to connect to your SQL Server and where those connections may come from. Second, you can use it to manage features on the SQL Server. For example, the xp_cmdshell extended stored procedure is one of several commonly used by attackers. You may use the Surface Area Configuration tool to ensure that extended stored procedure stays disabled (it is disabled by default). Keep in mind, however, that while the Surface Area Configuration tool is a useful tool, it does not give you the power that a competent database administrator can give you by hand tuning your instances. For example, while the Surface Area Configuration tool can disable xp_cmdshell, a competent administrator can delete it entirely.
We highly recommend that you evaluate your risk posture, learn as much as you can about the services you run, and harden them appropriately according to your risk tolerance.
Other Resources
In addition to the guides, there are two very good books on Windows security that we recommend. The first is Protect Your Windows Network, mentioned above (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321336437). It is a practical guide to how to protect networks based on Windows, specifically focused on Windows Server 2003. The second book is the Windows Security Resource Kit (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0735621748). The Resource Kit is part of the technical documentation set for Windows and contains much information on how security works in the operating system. An updated version of the Resource Kit is available (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0735625042) but it is primarily focused on Windows Server 2008, which is not yet available in Amazon EC2.
Disabling Features
By default, Windows Server 2003 comes reasonably locked down. However, for maximum security, there are still features that can be disabled. For instance, if you are not using a particular instance to serve up files over Windows networking you may disable the Server service. The Print Spooler service is only needed on print servers or computers that must be able to print. The Computer Browser service largely superfluous as it relies on broadcast traffic to help you locate servers on the network graphically. Broadcast traffic is not permitted in Amazon EC2. There are many more examples. In general, we recommend that you analyze the footprint needed on your servers using SCW and disable all services that are not needed.
A caution is necessary here, however: do not disable RDP or Terminal Services. If you do you will no longer be able to access or manage any of your instances! You may want to experiment with disabling services on a local computer before you try it on your production instances in Amazon EC2.
Keeping Your Instances Updated
While your instances are relatively well updated when you receive them, Amazon AWS is not responsible for deploying future updates to your instances. The AMIs provided at the initial launch of Amazon EC2 running Windows contain all security updates issued up through October 14, 2008. Future AMIs will contain more recent updates.
Once you deploy an instance you must manage the patch level of your instances yourself, including any updates issued after the AMIs were built. You may use the Windows Update service, or the Automatic Updates tool to deploy Microsoft updates. Any third party software you deploy must also be kept up to date using whatever mechanisms are appropriate for that software.
Bundling and Secret Data
Bundling is a term used to refer to the creation of a new AMI. If, for instance, you are building a set of instances that are nearly identical you may want to create an AMI that has most of the configuration of those instances already performed. This enables you to very quickly get a new instance up and running. However, if you do so, you should consider clearing any private data prior to bundling the image.
First, ensure that the Administrator password, and passwords on any other accounts, is set to an appropriate value before bundling. These passwords will be available to anyone who launches your AMI.
Second, if you have stored passwords in the Windows credential stores you may want to clear those before bundling. To do so, go into the Stored Usernames and Passwords Control Panel applet and remove any values you do not want in there.
Finally, you should consider wiping all free space on the disks before bundling the image. You may do this with the cipher command in Windows. For example, this command will wipe all free space on the C: drive, ensuring that all data stored there is unrecoverable.
cipher c:\ /w
Reporting Problems
If you believe you have discovered a security problem with your Windows instances, please contact the regular support channels for Amazon EC2.


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Maybe you need killer instinct if you're going to be a top banana but we know that Paul won't be that. Just like Roy doesn't really need to score that much. With Danny, West, and Hill we just need Roy and Paul to be complementary players.
Idk how I feel about this whole age excuse. PG has been in the league, receiving consistent minutes since the second half of his first yr. Yes he's improved, but it's been steady, smaller improvements. It's not the fact that he doesn't score 20ppg that pisses ppl off, it's the fact that he has times where he plays like he doesn't care. Thompson is the same age and has been in the league a yr less than PG, and he doesn't seem to be struggling to look to shoot or score.
Many of the better players in this league are extremely young. SO I don't buy the "it's because he's young" bit. His defense has been inconsistent this year as well. More than a few players have scored on Paul pretty easily. If he's not playing good defense, then at this point he's an average to below average starter, because his J is inconsistent, he can't create his own shot, and he can often times be lazy.
We dont fully know what we have in PG at this point, but if he's going to continue to be so inconsistent, he needs to be on a short leash in the same way that Lance is. Lance's inconsistent play stems from being too aggressive, Paul is the opposite.
Funny how the Danny Grangers fan club members and Danny Granger excuse makers are the ones that want to trade Paul George because "is enough of excuse making" lol, yeah let's trade the guy with the must potential and let's keep Danny and West for the future because "they are guys that play like old mans so they should be able to play for at least 5 more years" .....
At this point I'm hoping they trade him for another "old man game" type of player to see what this same people are going to say when Paul George is kicking a$$ on another team and the Pacers are in rebuilding mode once again.
For some constructive criticism of PG, besides the obvious stuff (shoot more but less from outside, get to the line): When he whiffs a shot he almost always has poor form. A shot doesn't have to be pretty to be effective (Reggie was the master of the off-balance, awkward but deadly shot), but he's got plenty of time and still rushes it.
He takes one or two inside fadeaways per game. I've said it before, but this is a shot he needs to take more often, but mixing in a pump-fake. He's still shooting close to 0% on the season on those shots, but it's because he doesn't finish with form so the shots always hit the front of the rim. This gets me to wondering why a 6'10 guy would rush a fadeaway against defenders who are almost invariably shorter than he is (and thus have almost no chance to block the shot). The answer, I think, is the same reason he doesn't take the ball to the basket: He is very scared of contact.
Why he's so scared of contact, I don't know. Maybe he feels like his body can't handle it, but if that's the case he needs to hit the weights (which was suggested by several posters in the offseason). I think it's crazy when people say he can't be an elite scorer. He absolutely can, the physical tools and ability to shoot from outside are there. Whether he will or not is another story, and one that depends on what he wants to be.
No kidding.
Danny's third year, he went from averaging 12pts to 19pts. That won him the MIP award. Obviously Paul's progression isn't that good, but that was the best improvement in the entire NBA. That shouldn't be the standard.
Paul averaging 14pts, while isn't a best case scenario, is still showing signs of progress. Paul has shot horribly, on shots we know he can make. If he starts just hitting a little lower than his average, that ppg will increase to 15/16. Right back at that Harden level. (who was playing 31mins a night to get that btw and PG is at 32)
No, Paul hasn't played well yet, but the fact that he's averaging 14ps while playing like crap actually gives me hope that he can keep progressing forward. If he doesn't end up as a superstar, so what? That's the best case scenario, not the standard.
EDIT: And to keep with the Harden theme (and no, I'm not comparing them) Harden also averaged 4.1rebs and 3.7assists. Paul is averaging 6.5rebs and 3.4assists.
Paul is turning into a pretty good player, and I just hope that the expectation that he should be a superstar doesn't spoil that.
Last night sucked though.
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Thompson scored 4 points in 2/8 shooting (in 23 minutes) against OKC earlier this season.
Thompson also scored 2 points in 1/6 shooting (in 22 minutes) against Utah last season.
Gordon Hayward scored 4 points in 1/8 shooting (in 27 minutes) against Denver this season.
He also scored 4 points in 1/10 shooting (in 33 minutes) against San Antonio in Game 3 of the SAS vs Utah playoff series.
He scored 0 points in 0/7 shooting (in 25 minutes) in Game 4 of the same series.
He also had several low scoring games during the last season.
The point is that it is natural for those guys to have some low scoring games. It's also natural to have some big scoring nights. They will be more consistent as they mature.
One thing I noticed while searching basketball-reference.com for their games was that Klay Thompson seemed to be less prone to low scoring nights. But if you look at their career numbers it makes absolute sense.
Klay Thompson is averaging 11.8 FGAs per game in his career. 4.6 of those are 3 point shots. He is averaging 15.6 FGAs this season. 6.8 of those are 3 point shots.
Gordon Hayward is averaging 6.9 FGAs per game in his career. 1.9 of those are 3 point shots. He is averaging 11.1 FGAs this season. 3.3 of those are 3 point shots.
Paul George is averaging 8.7 FGAs per game in his career. 3.2 of those are 3 point shots. He is averaging 13.5 FGAs this season. 5.3 of those are 3 point shots.
So, it's pretty natural that Thompson is scoring more because he's also shooting more. He also posts the highest Usage Rate of the 3. His career USG% is 24.5%. PG's career USG% is 19.2% and Hayward's is 17.7%.
So, why is he shooting more than the other 2? Well, it's quite simple, really.
Golden State runs a perimeter-oriented system. Utah and Indiana run post-heavy offenses.
So, it's quite natural that Klay attempts (and hits) more shots than the other two. He has the green light to do so.
Reggie was a finesse player but he had a finesse game and was agressive. Paul needs some work.
DJ gets a C+? Another too kind grade. Someone has a man crush. Look at +/- in 1st when DJ hit the court. I told Gnome that Jack might have 20 by the half. Also said he would hit halfcourt over DJ before he did. Game over.
In an interview last year, Paul said his goal was to break the Pacers all time scoring record.
"Look, it's up to me to put a team around ... Lance right now." Kevin Pritchard press conference
I about choked on this statement while eating a Triscuit! I sure in the he11 would hope a player being paid the MAX is more than a complementary player. I'm sure Roy's agent didn't sell Walsh on Hibbert just being a complementary for a max contract. You can bet Portland looked at Hibbert as more than a complimentary player when offering a max contract. If that is all Hibbert needs to be then he should have been paid D Jordan and J McGee complimemtary 10 mil salary.
Hibbert is the anchor of the defense, and must be accounted for by all defenses. He might be a "complimentary" player on offense, but he is the most important complimentary player in the league.
With Paul his potential lies in his all-around game, not his scoring. His peak scoring wise really should be about 18ppg, and he is not the type of player you just give the ball and tell them to do his thing like so many people want him to be. While his ball handling is much improved it still isn't good enough to do that. If people would just understand the type of player Paul, instead of projecting what they want him to be (i.e. LeBron or Durant) maybe you guys will realize how much better he is than last year. The only thing preventing him from averaging 16+ppg is his career low type of shooting, which is remarkably similar to how Granger shot last year in the first month or so. George struggled on defense last night, but anyone that has watched George could have told you he was going to struggle. He struggled for the same reason he always struggles against active sharpshooters. He has improved from last year, but he still has a long way to go in that category.
George played like **** last night, but it has been the only game where he has played like **** from start to finish this season. That tends to happen when you play teams that are able to expose your biggest weakness. While he has had defensive lapses this season, he hasn't had anymore than anyone else. They are just more obvious than everyone else because we are so used to his great defense, and typically he is guarding the other teams best perimeter player. While he hasn't done a great job of scoring he has found other ways to contribute most of the season. If it wasn't for his 9 assists against Sacramento David West most likely doesn't go off for as much as he did nor do we win that game. So far he has had one game where he was not able to positively affect the game. Not bad for a third year player.
PG 18 ppg? Nah. I'd say more like 14 is his ceiling. What we're seeing is about the best we'll get on offense, IMO. He might become more consistent though.
I want the coaching staff to tell him they want him to be a defensive stopper, and I mean a true stopper: able to play off the ball as well as on and the passing lane. Guy could be a defensive force, DPOY type. That's where his impact identity lies, so tell him to focus on that.
Then if we get some consistent O it's just gravy, and he's a great complementary player to West, Hill, Granger and (hopefully) Hibbert. But actually, Hill and Hibbert are definitely options 4 and 5. They don't have the DNA to be any more offensively.
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Can we agree that he will never have a breakout year?He will be an excellent defender but never ever a constant offensive threat.
I will thankfully eat a humble pie if i am proven wrong but i just can't see it.
LOL remember last year when we both said we were aspiring for Paul to become someone like Rudy Gay?Yeah,forget about that.
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It's not so much that the expectation for George is to score 20 ppg. The Pacers run an equal opportunity offense, therefore having a player average 20 ppg is not likely, especially when the player is at best a 3rd scoring option. But it is NOT unreasonable to expect George to start becoming more consistent in the way he plays and how he effects the box score.
Without any prior knowledge of Granger not being available, I would have expected George to provide between 10-14 points every night out, with a few 18-20 point games and a few 6-8 point games sprinkled in. When he isn't hitting his shots I would expect him to get to the line to contribute his minimum share of points. For the most part, George has contributed those points, although with Granger out, he is not contributing additional points to help compensate. Where I'm most disappointed in George offensively is in his inability to do the things he needs to do to get to the line and in the fact that I haven't seen a significant improvement in his ability to drive the ball.
Defensively, you guys can give him accolades all you want, but frankly, I am extremely disappointed. Paul George is a great on the ball defender, although like most of his teammates he oftentimes loses his man through screens. But he absolutely sucks in weak side off-the-ball defense. So many on this forum hated Dunleavy's defense because he had difficulty staying with quicker opponents. But one thing that Dunleavy did do was to play very good weak side defense.
Paul George claims to want to be a great player. Everyone talks about his work ethic, but frankly I don't see a lot of results. If you have such great athletic talents as Paul George and can literally stifle many wings in this league when you guard them man on man, then why in the hell can't you also guard them when they don't have the ball? Is anyone catching on yet? It should be very clear. Mr George lacks focus. It's that simple. He is not mentally tough enough to force himself to maintain the focus necessary to shut down his man whether or not his man has the ball. And, if you are very often guarding your opponent's best scorer, is there really anything more important for you to do on the defensive end of the floor than to take your opponent out of his offense... to prevent him from scoring?
That leads me to what I think might result in the worst of all catch-22s for the Pacers. Like a former player named Bender, George shows a ton of potential. So much so that other teams will maintain interest. This season, the Pacers have expressed faith in George and have increased their dependency on him. So, what do we do following next season when it comes time to re-sign George if he continues his current inconsistency and also is unable to provide consistent focus defensively in order to become the truly elite defender he is capable of being? Will we be forced by other teams to sign him to a Bender-sized contract of 7M-8M per year if we want to keep him, all the time still praying that he becomes a mentally tougher player and that his potential finally comes to fruition?
I've said all along that this is George's crap or get off the pot year. I think the Pacers have easily determined which post they need to hitch to. Granger is the SF, period. From my perspective at least, that question has already been decided. For me, it is now a question of who shall you keep. Do you re-sign West and know that you have your PF slot manned for another 3 years or so with an excellent player? Or, do replace West and the following year spend the bucks to keep George and continue to hope that you might have your SG slot covered? I suppose that it is entirely possible that the Pacers re-sign West and continue to wait on George, knowing they may have to trade one of the two by next year's trade deadline.
P.S. If I were Paul George, I would get out some old tape of Ron Artest's Pacers games if I wanted to know how a player is to be guarded away from the ball.
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His play in the Warriors game was about as bad as it gets for a guy with his talents. Your shot not falling? Get to the basket and play great D. Yet he still floated around the arc and Klay was killing us.
Paul George is a slightly more skilled Derrick McKey, sure I would trade him in the right package
The problem Peck and a lot of other people are having is they thought Paul would lead us in scoring even though that never really seemed in the cards. Peck, I believe you said Paul would average 19-20 per game at the forum party, so I can see why you are upset, but I told you then at Perkins that it wasn't realistic. If he continues to still gives us 14 ppg, 7 rpg, and 3 apg, with a couple steals and a blcok night, he is still one of the better two way wing players you will find, especially on a rookie deal. Sure, I would shop Paul, but right now I would shop pretty much anyone on the team in the right deal, Paul gives great production for his current contract, so if you're upset with him, well I think you just need to look no further than what were probably unrealistic expectations in the first place. The guy is most likely never going to average 18-20 ppg, that is hard to do in the NBA, Danny Granger is able to do it barely and his offensive game is miles ahead of Paul's.


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One of the primary arguments for walking away from the logical, time-tested standard of marriage is the assumption that reserving marriage to a man and a woman is unfair or discriminatory. Hoosiers, known across the nation for their sense of fair play, rightly feel compelled to address this issue of fairness.
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Indiana law sets a standard for driver's licenses, which some could argue is not fair to the young, the elderly, the blind or the intoxicated. Our election law restricts voters and those running for office to living in certain areas if they want to participate politically in that locality. During this last election season, many of Indiana's laws were carefully applied to those who would have liked to be the exception to some of these rules — was that fair?
Marriage is not a universal entitlement open to anyone who has a passion and desires society's stamp of approval. For example, under Indiana law, a brother and sister or two 13-year-olds cannot marry, no matter how sincere their relationship. Love is not the only standard two people need to meet before they can be married.
If our laws are overturned, and any two people can get married simply due to desire, why can't three men, why not a woman and two men? What if someday it's a man and a boy seeking "fairness"?
This point angers many proponents of same-sex marriage, but has anyone asked homosexual activists in the LGBT community if they intend to be unfair to their own members? What does the "B" stand for? If a man is married to a woman, but he is bisexual, can he also marry a man? To be fair, they must say yes, and the boundary of both bigamy and polygamy are gone. Little will be left of marriage, as we know it.
The largest polygamy organization in the U.S. has the slogan, "Polygamy: the Next Civil Rights Battle." This raises a similar claim that reserving marriage to a husband and a wife violates the "rights" of those with different sexual behaviors.
Much like the fairness claim, equating the proposed overturning of marriage law with a civil rights struggle can have an emotional pull (even though courts have rejected this sexual minority status analogy). We have already established above that the law is able to discriminate — when the legal qualifiers are reasonably necessary for the activity's normal operation.
This demonstrates just how much our view of marriage has been turned upside down. The essential public purpose of marriage is to attach men to women, fathers to mothers and both to their children. Whatever two men may be, they are not a mom. Children have a right to a mother and a father.
Some are quick to note that not every husband and wife have children. Yet, every child does have a father and mother. This requires us to look at marriage not just from the desire of adults, but as a societal responsibility to the needs of children.
Rosie O'Donnell once admitted on ABC's "Primetime" that her toddler son had often asked, "Mommy, why no daddy?"
Rosie's response was revealing: "Because I am not that kind of mommy." Yet, her son, like every other, is that kind of child who needs both a mother and a father.
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Brantley emerging as leader on and off field
GLENDALE, Ariz.-- Earlier this spring, left fielder Michael Brantley shared with new Indians manager Terry Francona that he felt forced into a leadership role when things got rough for the Tribe last season. As a younger player, Brantley was not sure he was supposed to accept that role and run with it.
Francona wants Brantley to embrace being a leader.
"That's exactly what I told him, to just be himself," Francona said. "He doesn't have a ton of time in the big leagues, but that doesn't mean he can't do that. I would love for guys to follow his example. He does everything right. He's easy, man. You just wind him up, let him go play and see how good he can be."
Over the past three years, Brantley has improved across the board.
Consider that Brantley's batting average has risen from .246 to .266 to .288 over the last three seasons, respectively. His on-base percentage (.296, .318, .348), slugging percentage (.327, .384, .402) and OPS (.623, .702, .750) have followed suit over the 2010-12 campaigns.
Last season, the outfielder added six home runs, 37 doubles, 60 RBIs and 63 runs scored in 149 games.
Through 14 Cactus League games this spring, Brantley hit at a .405 (15-for-37) clip with one homer, five doubles, six runs and nine RBIs for Cleveland.
Francona is not about to guess what kind of numbers Brantley might turn in this year.
"We don't know. You never know," Francona said. "That's the fun part of baseball. You never know how much power guys are going to grow into."
In this case, growing into a leadership role is easier to predict.
"He's about as professional as you're going to find," Francona said. "He exhibits all kind of leadership traits. He's a good player that's getting better. That's very exciting for the organization. He's everything I had heard. You read every scouting report and you talk to him, he's just a great kid."
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A Study of Combivir Plus Abacavir Plus 141W94 in Patients Who Previously Have Used Anti-HIV Drugs
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The purpose of this study is to test the effectiveness of Combivir plus abacavir plus 141W94 in patients who previously have used anti-HIV drugs.
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Henry K, Wallace RJ, Bellman PC, Norris D, Fisher RL, Ross LL, Liao Q, Shaefer MS; TARGET Study Team. Twice-daily triple nucleoside intensification treatment with lamivudine-zidovudine plus abacavir sustains suppression of human immunodeficiency virus type 1: results of the TARGET Study. J Infect Dis. 2001 Feb 15;183(4):571-8. Epub 2001 Jan 11.
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The group lined up to speak at last week's Santa Fe Public Schools Board of Education meeting forum differed from the usual assortment of PTA parents and neighborhood association members who typically take the podium.
"Gracias por apoyarnos" (thank you for supporting us) was all many of the speakers said, but they still stole the show. Mostly elementary-school boys, they were members of the district's first all-volunteer soccer league, which recently began playing on Sundays at Sweeney Elementary School's field.
The new league's young members, each wearing soccer jerseys and slightly self-conscious smiles, thanked the school board and SFPS Superintendent Bobbie Gutierrez for giving them use of the school's field.
League organizer Miguel Acosta translated the words of one of the soccer coaches, who explained that kids' engaging in more positive activities with each other instead of "wasting time playing Nintendo" is important.
"I think Miguel was trying to show it just takes a little bit of organization, and there's a lot of demand for sort of family-oriented activities, so they very quickly were able to put together the soccer league," board Vice President Glenn Wikle says.
In an email to SFR, Gutierrez writes that Capital High School may have a state soccer title in its future because of the youngsters' early practice.
"I am impressed by their organizational skills and desire to create a safe and fun family activity for many of our students and their families," Gutierrez writes of the league's organizers.


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Facebook foibles in a veterinary practice
One of the technicians at our practice has made friends with a lot of the practice's clients on Facebook. The problem is, sometimes she posts personal comments about her politics and her activities that make me uncomfortable. As the practice manager, should I say anything?
DEAR FRIEND:Every progressive veterinary practice now has a social media presence, but the ability to reach so many people with ease also carries a few pitfalls—and a rogue employee can be one of them.
Not only does every practice need to develop a specific policy about the use of social media and then make the policy clear to employees, but your management should check with an attorney to understand what the legalities are in your home state about social media and employee freedom of speech. In many states, an employee is held to the exact same standards on social media as they would be if they were speaking publicly.
To keep the lines clear, I recommend that employees who want to chat with clients do so through the official practice Facebook page and only during work hours. If they're chatting through their personal page, it should be off hours and they should be cognizant of not defaming the hospital or saying anything unprofessional.
You have to say something to this employee and share practice policy. This isn't about how you feel, it's about sticking to practice policy. If you don't have a policy, it will be hard to have this discussion.
Shawn McVey, MA, MSW, is a member of the Firstline and Veterinary Economics editorial advisory boards and is CEO of McVey Management Solutions in Chicago. For videos and articles containing more of McVey's tips and tricks on issues relating to veterinary personnel management, conflict, and communication, visit http://dvm360.com/mcvey.


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Click here, or on the image above, for a brief video from CNN in which Sight and Sound editor Nick James discusses the poll results.
Alfred Hitchcock's classic and deeply personal film Vertigo (1958) has taken the top spot in the prestigious Sight and Sound "greatest films of all time" poll.
It used to be Orson Welles' Citizen Kane (1941) in the top spot, but Kane dropped to number two in the latest rankings. Actually, this doesn't really surprise me; I have never been a Kane enthusiast; as remarkable as the film is, it still strikes more as an inspired pastiche of every possible style and technique jammed into one narrative, pegged on what Welles himself described as "a gimmick, really, and rather dollar-book Freud."
I've always agreed with this admittedly rather harsh self-assessment, although I run the film every year in my Intro to Film History class nonetheless so students can see the film for themselves, and make up their own minds on the subject; certainly, everyone should see it.
Nevertheless, this poll seems like a very welcome breath of fresh air on a long rather static subject, and the choices overall seem both judicious and absolutely reasoned. And actually, there are two lists; one for critics, and one for directors. Critics get a shot at ranking the best of the cinema history, and then directors get a similar opportunity to pick their own favorites.
Here's the top ten films of all time in the poll, as picked by the critics;
1. Vertigo
2. Citizen Kane
3. Tokyo Story
4. La Regle du Jeu
5. Sunrise: A Song for Two Humans
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey
7. The Searchers
8. Man with a Movie Camera
9. The Passion of Joan of Arc
10. 8 1/2
and then the top ten of all time as picked by directors;
1. Tokyo Story
2. Tie: 2001: A Space Odyssey and Citizen Kane
4. 8 1/2
5. Taxi Driver
6. Apocalypse Now
7. Tie: The Godfather and Vertigo
9. Mirror
10. Bicycle Thieves
As Nick James, editor of Sight and Sound noted in an editorial announcing the new rankings, "to many of you it's probably a familiar story. Every ten years, from 1952 onwards, Sight & Sound has conducted a worldwide poll of critics in order to decide which films are currently regarded as the greatest ever made. (Vittorio De Sica's neorealist parable Bicycle Thieves won the first iteration only four years after it was shot. Famously, Citizen Kane has won ever since.) We're proud that the longevity of this poll means that it's widely regarded as the most trusted guide there is to the canon of cinema greats. So for us this year is a very big moment.
About a year ago, the Sight & Sound team met to consider how we could best approach the poll this time. Given the dominance of electronic media, what became immediately apparent was that we would have to abandon the somewhat elitist exclusivity with which contributors to the poll had been chosen in the past and reach out to a much wider international group of commentators than before. We were also keen to include among them many critics who had established their careers online rather than purely in print.
To that end we approached more than 1,000 critics, programmers, academics, distributors, writers and other cinephiles, and received (in time for the deadline) precisely 846 top-ten lists that between them mention a total of 2,045 different films. As a qualification of what 'greatest' means, our invitation letter stated, 'We leave that open to your interpretation. You might choose the ten films you feel are most important to film history, or the ten that represent the aesthetic pinnacles of achievement, or indeed the ten films that have had the biggest impact on your own view of cinema.'"
You can read all about it by clicking here. I'm proud to say that I was one of those consulted for the poll; it was a distinct honor.


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