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- Only artists on the Autism Spectrum are invited to participate.
- Each artist may submit a maximum of 3 images. Submission is not a guarantee of acceptance into the show.
- The deadline for submitting digital entries is May 1, 2012. Images in jpeg format must be sent to email@example.com.
- Paintings or drawings submitted must not exceed 18″x24″ (not including the frame size) and can be in any medium. Exceptions for sizes may be requested by contacting Gene Sasse directly at : firstname.lastname@example.com.
- All entries must be framed or professionally presented (frameless pieces must have canvas edges painted, with no visible staples showing, watercolors and drawings must be professionally presented under glass or plexiglass) and ready to hang with a wire on the back.
- Artists will be informed as to their acceptance into the show by June 1, 2012
- Intake will be July 29 and Aug 2. Artists are responsible for delivery and pick up or shipping costs both ways.
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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The New Jersey Devils have acquired forward Steve Sullivan from the Phoenix Coyotes for a seventh-round pick in the 2014 NHL draft.
Devils President and General Manager Lou Lamoriello announced the deal Wednesday afternoon.
Sullivan has five goals and seven assists in 33 games with Phoenix this season. The 15-year NHL veteran signed with the Coyotes a free agent last July.
Sullivan was drafted by the Devils in 1994 and played with them from 1995-97. He has 288 goals and 454 assists in his career.

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It takes a district: Utah landowners control groundwater use
Escalante Valley citizens plan to save their declining aquifer
Standing in a circle of verdant alfalfa shoots, Cody Staheli peers from under his Staheli Farms ball cap, looking beyond the irrigation lines to the snow-packed mountains framing southern Utah's Escalante Valley. This year's snowmelt is expected to be higher than average. "I try not to cuss at the mud," Staheli says. "Without water, none of us would be here."
But the extra snowmelt won't change a basic fact about the valley's groundwater: For decades, landowners have held rights to much more of it on paper than the aquifer can sustainably yield. In 2006, legislation gave Utah the power to manage the groundwater it had long over-allocated in valleys around the state. The Escalante Valley became the test case for reducing groundwater use.
As farmers and ranchers felt their livelihoods threatened, a multi-year political, legal and ideological debate ensued. Finally, this March, legislation was passed that allows communities to create their own plans for managing groundwater.
Other southern Utah communities also face impending groundwater shortages. They're closely watching the Escalante Valley, where a soon-to-be-formed water district, authorized by the legislation, will likely set a statewide precedent as it seeks to preserve both the aquifer and the community's economic viability.
"The (Escalante ranchers) recognize they have a problem," says state Sen. Dennis Stowell, R, who sponsored the new bill. "This allows them to solve it the way they want rather than through a mandate from the state."
Between 1935 and 1959, the Office of the State Water Engineer allocated about 45 percent more groundwater than the Escalante Valley's aquifer could replenish. As farming expanded, shifting from barley to thirstier grass and hay crops, the aquifer began to shrink. Since 1948, the water level in some wells has dropped more than 100 feet. Other wells have run dry. Around 2005, large fissures, some hundreds of feet long and up to six feet deep, appeared in the valley's soil, indicating that the aquifer was subsiding.
The over-allocation happened partly because groundwater is difficult to gauge, says Deputy State Engineer Boyd Clayton. "With surface water, when it's gone, it's gone," he says. With groundwater, even when the aquifer is being depleted, there's still water to pump: "People don't accept the prospect of not using it just because someone says it shouldn't be available." The problem is compounded by "the basic nature of the water-right appropriation business," which encourages allocating more water than exists so that "excess" water never goes unused.
The 2006 legislation allowed the state water engineer to establish groundwater-management plans for reducing usage in over-allocated areas. State Engineer Jerry Olds identified several "critical" areas, with the Escalante Valley at the top. He introduced a plan in 2007 whereby the valley would reduce its groundwater use by nearly half over 90 years.
To the valley's farmers, ranchers and homeowners, Olds' plan seemed anything but simple. Under Utah's water-management system, some stood to permanently lose all their groundwater rights. "That kind of reduction would be catastrophic for the third- and fourth-generation farmers whose livelihoods rely on those water sources," says area rancher and Enterprise City Mayor Lee Bracken. However, the law also allowed communities to come up with alternative, voluntary arrangements to reduce water use, provided they were approved by the state engineer.
So Bracken and the other local water users did something unusual for a group of competitors: They suggested pooling their water rights in order to share the burden of the reductions, in addition to seeking grants to compensate for the rights that must be retired. But the group they formed, the Escalante Valley Water Users (EVWU) association, disagreed more and more with Olds over how the reductions should happen and especially over the timeframe. Tensions heightened as Olds and the EVWU debated the best solution, and in late 2008, Olds resigned. The group then sought an official way to take charge of its groundwater and formalize an agreement among its members. Last year, it approached legislators for advice, and the bill enabling local groundwater management was the result.
The bill, SB-20, transferred primary responsibility for groundwater management from the state engineer to a community-run water management district. "This is a way to control our own destiny," says EVWU president Mike Brown.
As the bill neared passage, nearby communities raised questions. Can a community with its own economic interests at heart effectively manage its groundwater? Could such a district, which can tax water rights without involving elected officials, misuse its powers? Would it threaten adjoining water-management areas? Most neighboring entities now appreciate the bill's do-it-yourself spirit, but plan to watch closely as the law is put into practice.
Later this spring, the EVWU will meet with State Engineer Kent Jones to discuss the groundwater district's boundaries. Then they'll work out the details of the management plan and petition Iron and Washington counties for permission to form the district. The process could take two years or more.
The group is determined to soften the economic impact by stretching out the reductions as long as possible, perhaps by decreasing groundwater use by just 5 percent every 20 years. At that rate, it could take up to 180 years before the area is no longer mining its aquifer. Jones will have to decide if that timeframe is acceptable.
Staheli says he believes the group is dealing with the groundwater issue in a way that will benefit future generations. "We're here for the long run. We need to make sure we're good stewards of the water for generations to follow."


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Who's Looking Into PrEP for Women?
June 21, 2013
There has been a great deal of talk lately about the most recent addition to the HIV prevention "toolbox": pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP -- taking HIV meds when you're still HIV negative in order to reduce your risk of becoming HIV positive. Much of the focus of conversation and writing about PrEP has focused on gay men; and though Truvada (tenofovir/FTC) is approved as PrEP for all people at high risk for HIV, news regarding PrEP for women has been largely negative, what with several PrEP methods proving ineffective in a large study of women in sub-Saharan Africa.
So what is going on in the realm of PrEP for women? TheBody.com spoke with Valery Hughes, a nurse practitioner who has been providing HIV care since the dawn of the epidemic. Today, she's helping to run a PrEP study just for women -- and it's enrolling now. Hughes shares her expertise and opinions on how HIV-negative women will get PrEP (and what barriers they may face); comparisons between PrEP and birth-control pills; what non-HIV-specialist docs ought to know about PrEP; how far we've come in all areas of the epidemic since the dark days of the '80s; and how far we have still to go.
Having worked in the community providing HIV care for for as long as you have, and now working on this HIV prevention drug study, what do you think the rollout of PrEP for women is going to look like? What do you think will be the most effective way to go about it?
There are a bunch of issues to consider. I think the first is: Should we link any kind of HIV prevention to primary care? I know a lot of physicians are thinking about that. I think it's a great idea, because, of course, the more people we get into primary care, the more we can discuss the full issue of sexual health, including testing and treating for other STIs (sexually transmitted infections) and preventing other viral infections, such as HPV (human papillomavirus), hepatitis B and hepatitis C. But I'm not sure if that's the best idea.
I think that, in my professional heart, I would love to see this linked to primary care. But I can see that there are going to be some obstacles for that. Because I think a lot of women don't have access to primary care. I think we're talking about people with limited insurance, or possibly no insurance. And I'm wondering whether there would be a better way to roll it out with easier access, without so much bureaucracy and without so much money involved, sort of in the Department of Health model.
I think the Department of Health does a great job in STI surveillance and treatment. And it's pretty easily accessible. However, there are some issues with PrEP that aren't there when you do testing and empiric treatment of STIs. Part of that, of course, is the long-term monitoring of side effects. So, there are two ways that I can see it going: one, as I say, linked to primary care; and the other in a sort of more accessible way.
Can you explain the Department of Health model around STI surveillance, and how that relates to PrEP availability?
If a person thinks they may have been exposed to an STI -- if they get a call from their friend saying, "I just tested positive for syphilis; you should get tested" -- you can actually just walk into the Department of Health at any time and they'll test you and treat you right then and there. No money up front. There is a fair amount of waiting around at the Department of Health. But they're very good about that. So it's a great, accessible model.
However, in these cases, they're testing and treating for something that is in existence; PrEP is a different thing because it's trying to prevent something that, of course, hasn't happened yet. And here's the crux of the problem: If you are going to take a medicine for a disease that you have that's going to fix something that's broken, that's a very, very different thing than taking medication for something you don't have yet. And so there have to be more safety tools in place in order to prevent people from having side effects from whatever medication we end up using for PrEP.
Speaking of taking medications to prevent something from happening: What do you think of the comparison that's occasionally made between PrEP and "the Pill" to prevent pregnancy? They both need to be taken every day in order for them to work properly; but is this an apt comparison? What are the points of similarity and difference between these two prophylactic medications?
I think in the ways in which they're similar, they do confer freedom to be sexually active in a less restrictive way. That certainly was, I think, [PrEP consumer and advocate] Damon Jacobs' whole argument in comparing the Pill and PrEP.
But a glaring difference is that pregnancy is one form of consequence of sexual activity, while HIV is one of several -- arguably the worst, some would say -- of all the STIs that can be the consequence of sexual activity. Part of the issue with PrEP is that it's protecting against only one of the possible consequences of sexual activity. So they're alike in some ways, and very different in other ways.
I used to hear all the time that pregnancy could be a serious health risk for a woman. Well, I think that's kind of a silly argument for birth control. I think birth control has all sorts of things to recommend it. But the consequence of getting pregnant is very, very different than the consequence of getting a disease. So I really think that they are, emotionally and in all sorts of other ways, a very, very different kettle of fish.
However, if it's something that you have to take every day -- and women have proven that that can happen -- then I think we need to look at the comparisons in a positive way.
As has been said in commentary on recent PrEP study results, particularly those that proved unsuccessful: PrEP works if you take it -- if people are able to be adherent to it, and take it every day. The recent disappointing results of the VOICE study gave nods to the fact that there are all sorts of different challenges that come up in people's lives that make it hard to adhere to meds -- and we know that's the case even for conditions a person already has. Would you talk a little bit about that?
Using VOICE as an example is interesting, because it does sort of highlight the difference between women in sub-Saharan Africa, where the study was conducted, and women in New York City. They have very different priorities and very different lives.
Another thing about VOICE was that it was a three-arm study; one of the arms was a microbicide gel form of tenofovir (Viread). I think what was definitely part of the issue with non-adherence there was the acceptability of gel. Which is really one of the endpoints of the study: They found that women don't like to use the gel. So that tells the story right there.
But regarding swallowing the pills every day: I wish they had parsed out some of the reasons why women did not take the pills. I understand that they did have a questionnaire in the VOICE study and that, by questionnaire, women were 90 percent adherent; whereas in pill returns and in blood levels, they were obviously much less than that. So that speaks to that whole issue of: Why would you go forward and accept a prescription for a medication, or even accept a bottle of pills, and then not swallow them?
There are two things that occur to me. One is that life in Africa is very different than life here. And a lot of times I've found some of my patients who are from Africa often will take the meds that I give them and ship them home to family members who have HIV. So I think that that could be part of the problem. It could also be that perhaps people just cannot find it in their schedule to take medications every day, when they have a different type of life.
Or it could be that, like all women, they have so many competing priorities that their health comes last. And I think that's probably, for me, the biggest challenge to getting women to take PrEP: Their health always comes last. On the spectrum of things to do, taking care of my health is always at the last. I think that's what happens with a lot of women.
Going back to what you mentioned earlier about potentially incorporating PrEP into primary care: Our community, the HIV-affected community, is clearly the arena where there's the most PrEP knowledge (and the most PrEP conflict), but out in the realm of general primary care, maybe that's not necessarily happening. Maybe there are even misunderstandings about HIV itself, much less prophylactic pills for it.
In an ideal world, what do you think training and education would look like for non-HIV specialist primary care providers about PrEP? And what might it actually look like in the non-ideal world that we currently live in?
Well, of course, in the ideal world, if there's a new therapy we would all get trained; we would all find out about ideal dosing; possible side effects; how to monitor; how to assess adherence; how to assess for other sexual health issues. It would be a whole day event, I think.
But in the real world, I think the big take-away would be that PrEP has to be combined with frequent HIV testing, at least every three months, and periodic renal monitoring if we're going to use Truvada (tenofovir/FTC); and possibly even bone density monitoring.
I think we don't have the answers to those questions about what is the ideal way to monitor people who are on PrEP, and I'm hoping that further studies will help to clarify that. But once again, you want to make sure that people are getting tested at least every three months because you don't want people to be on substandard HIV treatment if they do, in fact, become HIV positive while taking PrEP.
If there was one key point that you would want a provider -- someone who may not have PrEP be a regular part of their practice, but might have one or two patients that they'd consider referring -- to take away from their hypothetical, brief PrEP training, what would that point be?
I guess probably the most important one would be the frequent HIV testing; that would be the first one. And the second would be monitoring for side effects. So, periodically get them in and look at the creatinine. See what's going on there and see what's happening with renal function.
One of the things about tenofovir is that it's a great drug until it's not a great drug. And then if the person happens to be one of the very, very few that are affected by it, in terms of a little damage to the kidneys, then it's one of the things you want to catch early. Every drug has warts; even aspirin has warts. So we have to really pay attention. We can't just be writing prescriptions out without any kind of follow up.
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Demi Lovato Covers 'Seventeen' February 2012
Demi Lovato graces the cover of Seventeen magazine's February 2012 issue, on newsstands Tuesday (January 10).
Here's what the 19-year-old singer had to share with the mag:
On the problems she faced a year ago and just how bad it got: "I'm not gonna lie. I was self-medicating. I was doing things like drinking and using [drugs], like a lot of teens do to numb their pain."
On how she's doing today: "I don't drink, I don't do drugs, I don't throw up after my meals, I don't starve myself. There's nothing that I do that I feel ashamed of."
On who was there for her during the tough times: "There were two people [who were there for me]. No matter how many times we fight, we will always be in each others' lives. [Miley Cyrus and I] are very strong-headed, so when we fight, it's brutal and we're like, 'We're never going to be friends again!' Then two days later, we're like, 'I love you and I miss you!' Selena and I, we never fight. She's not a confrontational person at all. Both of them will never leave my life no matter what happens, because we've been through so much together."
For more from Demi, visit Seventeen.com!
FYI: Demi is wearing a Pre-Spring 2012 BCBGMAXAZRIA Runway dress.


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Full-time daddy duty? Ioan Gruffudd is already signed up!
With his wife Alice Evans off filming The Vampire Diaries in Atlanta, the actor is quickly learning how to be a hands-on dad to the couple's daughter, Ella Betsi Janet.
"The last time [Alice was in Atlanta], she was there for 10 days. So I had Ella the entire time, playing superdad," the Ringer star, 38, says during a Thursday visit to the Rachael Ray Show.
"It's very exciting. I love it. I can't get over what great company they can be."
Adding a new twist to the father-daughter relationship is that the 2½-year-old has learned to express herself.
"Now she's able to communicate and starting to form full sentences and that evolution is just beautiful to us," he shares.
But, according to the first-time father, the toddler's way with words has also allowed her to make her needs — and wants — quite clear to her parents.
"She's very, very strong. She's like her mother," Gruffudd admits. "I've got my work cut out for me at home."
To prove his point, he shares that not only is Ella "insistent on not going in her bed right now," but she also lays down the law when it comes to visiting her dad on set.
Despite the playroom costar Sarah Michelle Gellar has set up for the children, Ella much prefers to skip the socializing and head for Gruffudd's stomping grounds.
"My daughter comes to set and she's like, 'No, no Daddy. Trailer, Daddy's trailer,'" she says. "She wants to play in the trailer."
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The controversial new rail cars with the aisle-facing seats made their debut on the Red Line on Monday, the CTA said.
Two trains with eight of the new rail cars were added to Red Line service. The cars will replace 35-year-old cars already on the line, the CTA said. The new rail cars are also on the Green and Pink Lines.
The CTA initially said it would not add the new rail cars to the Red Line until after next year's improvements to the line. The agency reversed course on this decision months ago.
The southern portion of the Red Line will shutter for five months next year as the CTA overhauls track.
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New Zealand will never make a world cup in my life time which means I have to choose other teams to support.
The Netherlands have always been the team I support so I will be backing them again along with Australia. I never thought I would see the day where I supported Australia in a sporting event but they are generally useless at football and I would love to see them do well and put football in this part of the world on the map.
Oh and anyone who is playing England!
Who is everyone else supporting that doesn't have a country in the world cup or as a second team and who do you want to see crash out?


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GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.'s top human rights body has appointed three experts from Australia, Serbia and Indonesia to carry out an inquiry into North Korea for possible crimes against humanity.
The 47-nation U.N. Human Rights Council said Tuesday it has appointed Australian retired judge Michael Donald Kirby and Sonja Biserko, founder and president of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, to join Indonesian lawyer Marzuki Darusman on the three-member commission.
Council president Remigiusz Henczel said Kirby will serve as chair.
In March, the Geneva-based council approved a one-year probe — based on the recommendation of Darusman, already the U.N. special rapporteur for North Korea — into what U.N. officials describe as suspected widespread and systematic human rights violations in North Korea.
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By Harichandan Arakali and Aradhana Aravindan
BANGALORE/MUMBAI (Reuters) - Tata Consultancy Services, India's largest software services exporter, posted a 17 percent rise in quarterly profit and maintained an upbeat outlook, fuelled by demand from the United States.
TCS's results, driven by its highest sales volume growth in seven quarters, reinforce expectations that Indian IT vendors will be helped by the strongest demand from U.S. businesses since the end of the 2008-9 financial crisis.
The United States is the biggest market for India's $108 billion IT sector.
"Our pipeline is very very good, not only in the U.S. but also elsewhere," Chief Executive N Chandrasekaran told reporters after the company released results for its financial first quarter.
TCS, part of the salt-to-steel Tata conglomerate, India's biggest business house, does not give a revenue forecast, but Chandrasekaran maintained his earlier view that the company will grow faster than the industry.
That is typically taken to mean the industry lobby group National Association of Software and Services Companies' outlook for exports growth, pegged at a 12-14 percent this financial year.
Consolidated net profit for the quarter ended June 30 rose to 38.31 billion rupees ($642 million) from 32.8 billion rupees a year earlier. That topped the 37.8 billion rupees average of 24 analyst estimates, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
"I think demand should get a little bit better from here onwards. If the U.S. economy is moving in the right direction in its own growth, then it definitely aids the Indian providers," said Kuldeep Koul, an analyst at ICICI Securities.
Sales rose 21 percent over the year-earlier period to 179.9 billion rupees and operating margins rose 50 basis points over the previous quarter to 26.9 percent.
The U.S. outlook for Indian IT outsourcers is clouded by pending immigration legislation that could make it more difficult and expensive to send workers there on temporary visas, a important element of the industry's business model.
Last week, rival Infosys posted-better-than expected results. Bangalore-based Infosys, which had lost ground to TCS in recent quarters, was cautiously optimistic about client spending on its services after beating profit estimates and retaining its sales forecast for the year ending in March.
TCS, whose customers include Citigroup, BP PLC, and AstraZeneca PLC, announced its results after the Mumbai markets closed. Its shares were down about 1 percent compared with a 1 percent gain in the overall index.
($1 = 59.68 rupees)
(Editing by Tony Munroe and Erica Billingham)


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Blood and tumor specimen collection from cancer patients is critical to research into new, more personally targeted therapies. But biospecimen collection among diverse populations lags far behind that of whites.
In work aimed at boosting these collection rates, researchers at UC Davis and collaborators at three other institutions found that Asian, African and Hispanic Americans are open to donating specimens for research when clinicians and scientists adopt the right strategies.
Based on an exploration of barriers to biospecimen collection among ethnic and racial minority groups, they recommended three fundamental strategies for researchers:
- Commit to investing the time necessary to developing community relationships
- Earn community trust
- Be transparent, use clear communication and culturally and contextually appropriate education
The findings were published online this week in the Journal of Community Genetics in an article entitled "Engaging Diverse Communities in Biospecimen Donation for Cancer Research." It is the first such research paper to analyze cognitive, communication and sociocultural factors affecting biospecimen donation among diverse racial and ethnic populations. The researchers investigated these dynamics in three different parts of the United States.
"Time, trust and transparency are essential to success in biospecimen collection among these groups," said Julie Dang, administrative core director at Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness and Training, headquartered at the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, and lead author of the article.
"You can't just go in and ask patients for biospecimens without building trust, and you can only do that by spending a lot of time with them, getting to know them, and having a vested interest in understanding what the community wants and where they are coming from," she said.
Collection and banking biospecimens from all groups is critical because clinical research increasingly relies on the availability of appropriate genetic materials for the development of new, more targeted cancer therapies, the authors write. When underrepresented, racial and ethnic minority patients cannot equally benefit from clinical research breakthroughs.
"To move closer to a cure for cancer it is vitally important to have a diverse sampling of biospecimens available to researchers," said Cathy Meade, a senior member of faculty research in the Division of Population Science at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa Bay, Florida, and a study collaborator, who worked with a researcher at Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health at Georgia Southern University. "That is why we are committed to studying differing patient beliefs and attitudes towards biobanking. Understanding factors that motivate or hinder patients from providing a sample could help doctors and researchers improve the process."
For their studies, collaborators collected data using similar methods, which involved community advisory boards, interviews and focus groups. Data interpretation was conducted within a cross-cultural community framework to identify patterns among community groups and sources of divergence among the findings by geographic, racial or ethnic group.
Cultural differences, language barriers, distrust and nuanced perceptions of the meaning of biospecimens all can hamper efforts to get patients to donate blood or tissue samples for research. The researchers found differences – often very subtle – in the reasons for a lack of trust in medical research efforts.
African Americans in Western New York, for example, expressed concerns about being "guinea pigs," and Hmong and Vietnamese participants in California worried that specimens could be used to cause ill will against them, while white participants in Western New York expressed suspicion of exploitation by corporations such as large pharmaceutical companies.
Similarly, the groups differed only slightly in their comments about the importance of biospecimen donation. Latinos in Tampa Bay thought collection of specimens would "better humanity" or improve the health of family members or future generations. Chinese respondents reported that research could help others save lives, while white participants discussed the role of research as helping to "reduce suffering."
"For a long time there's been an assumption that people from diverse and underserved communities approach all medical research with skepticism and distrust, but in all three study sites we found great openness to the idea," said co-author Elisa M. Rodriguez, assistant professor of oncology in the Office of Cancer Health Disparities Research and director of the Community Engagement Resource within the Center for Personalized Medicine at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Western New York.
"Once people out in the community understand what biospecimen donation is and the role it plays in cancer research," she continued, "they're more willing to consider participating in studies. But we have to give clear explanations of the process and use examples that are relevant for those communities."
Funding for the study was provided in part through cooperative agreement grants to the collaborating institutions from the National Cancer Institute's Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities, including 3U01CA114640-05S4, 1U54 CA153499, U54 CA153499-01S1, 1U54 153499-02S1, 5 U54 CA153509-03, 3 U01 CA114627-05S2, U54CA153598, R03HD059556, and P30CA016056-27.
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"Our dock came crashing through our living room wall," said a woman from the Canals who came to the city's public housing forum on Feb. 13. "The bricks tumbled all over the place. There's a 12-foot hole in the side of the house. That somehow did not end up on the report from the insurance company."
In the months since Hurricane Sandy ripped through Long Beach, residents have been struggling to repair their homes and restart their lives. Many have complained about wildly incorrect insurance assessments, weeks of unreturned phone calls from insurance companies and conflicting information from different agencies.
The city and the Federal Emergency Management Agency hosted the forum at City Hall to give residents a chance to direct their questions about housing and storm recovery to representatives of the agencies they have been struggling with — FEMA, the National Flood Insurance Program and the U.S. Small Business Administration.
"The city wants to get you answers," said Long Beach Building Commissioner Scott Kemins. "The only way to get answers is to get everyone in the same room at the same time."
But many attendees complained afterward that the forum was useless, that the representatives didn't have the information they needed and that they left with more questions than they came with.
When a woman asked if there was any way FEMA could extend its rental assistance program past the 18-month limit, she was told that the decision wasn't FEMA's to make, and that Congress would have to pass legislation to change the rule.
When a man asked why, when it comes to recoverable depreciation, his house is assessed differently by FEMA and NFIP because it is a two-family dwelling, he was told by a panel member, "Well that's the rule."
"You have to give me a little bit better answer than that," the man said. "Why am I considered a second-class citizen? This is why we're all here, to get some answers."


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February 21. 2013 11:45AM
Retailers warned to be on the lookout for counterfeit bills
MANCHESTER - Police are urging retailers to be vigilant in checking currency after three incidents of counterfeit bills being passed at local stores in the city.
On Wednesday afternoon, a young woman tried to use a fake $100 bill to buy some items at Bunny's Superette, 75 Webster St. The clerk recognized it was counterfeit and questioned the customer about it.
Police said the woman acknowledged it was a fake and then left the store, leaving the $100 bill behind. The woman is described as white, in her late teens, about 5-foot-5 and weighing 160 pounds with long, reddish hair. She was last seen leaving in a light blue Dodge occupied by a tall black man, also in his late teens.
Another man, Brandon Ross, 22, of Manchester, was arraigned in 9th Circuit Court, Manchester District Division, Wednesday morning on charges related to using counterfeit money to purchase items at A&A Market, 540 Hall St. Ross, already in custody on an unrelated robbery charge, was charged with two counts of forgery and two counts of theft by deception.
On Feb. 8 police say he went to the market and twice, within a short period of time, bought items with counterfeit currency.
Police said Ross used a counterfeit $100 bill to buy items valued at $10.85, receiving the remaining $89.15 in cash. A short time later, he returned to the store and bought a bag of chips for $1.09 and paid for it with a counterfeit $50 bill, receiving $48.91 in change.


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Free Shakespeare in the Park?
By Jerry Tallmer
Theater lovers were informed by a recent story in the Sunday drama section of The New York Times that 100 lawyers from the art-loving firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom had attended a July 1 performance of the Joseph Papp Public Theaters production of Much Ado About Nothing in Central Park.
The 100 legal eagles did not have to stand in line but had tickets at the ready. Seats had been reserved for them. The firms bill was $10,000, said reporter Jason Zinomans dispatch. He then appended an inquiry:
Hold on. Reserved seats for law firms certainly doesnt sound like the democratic vision of Joseph Papp, the founder of free Shakespeare in Central Park . . . Isnt free Shakespeare in the park supposed to be, well, free?
Well, yes. And in Joe Papps day, or in any event the first half-dozen years of that day, the rich and mighty had to show up at the Delacorte and stand in line for admission to every show just like all the rest of us the hoi polloi, the young lovers, the old geezers, the Shakespeare freaks, the press. I have a pretty vivid memory of something that illustrated this rather well.
The New York Post in those years had an agony (i.e. advice) columnist named Dr. Rose Franzblau. This energetic lady had one overarching piece of advice for all readers under any and all problem-wracked circumstances: Marriage breaking up? Go to a shrink. Mother dying? Go to a shrink. Lose your job? Go to a shrink. Not getting sex? Go to a shrink. Too much sex? Go to a shrink. Dont know what sex you are? Go to a shrink.
I dont think she ever knew this, but I once, back on The Village Voice, wrote a review (an unkind review) of the Broadway production of William Inges The Dark at the Top of the Stairs in the form of an advice-seeking letter from a neurotic teenager to Dr. Rose Franzblau.
She was, in fact, herself, as a theater fan and investor, extremely visible at each and every Broadway opening, where she would always arrive 10 minutes early, stand in the aisle in her fur coat by her seat in the fifth or sixth row, her back to the stage, and remain there, waving to this one and that one as you might say, counting the house - until the lights went down.
Confession of a misbegotten youth: I once was a Tony voter. And once, where the ballot says: Best Female Supporting Performance in a Musical, I wrote in: Dr. Rose Franzblau.
Ah well.
The telephone rang. I was now on the New York Post. Who is this? said a female voice. I identified myself. Dollink, said the voice, this is Dr. Rose Franzblau. You write like an angel.
Look, dollink, I want to ask a little favor. I have some friends, five very important people, coming in for the weekend. I want to take them to Shakespeare in the park, but I dont want to have us have to stand in line. Could you call someone there and ask for that to be arranged?
I said: Dr. Franzblau, the someone there is Joseph Papp, and he requires EVERYBODY to stand in line.
Dollink, please, just try.
Dr. Franzblau, Im sure he wont do it.
These are five very important people . . .
Dr. Franzblau . . .
Did I tell you that you write like an angel? Joseph Papp would listen to you.
So I tried. I called Joseph Papp, whose infusion of dramatic lifeblood into this city I had been covering ever since hed started out in the mid-50s on East (very far east) 6th Street as the Shakespearean Workshop Theater. I now communicated to him that New York Post columnist Rose Franzblau wanted to bring herself and five other people to the show in the park and not have to stand in line.
Joe Papp said: Tell Dr. Rose Franzblau to go f- herself.
I called Dr. Franzblau, but I did not tell her that. I just said: Dr. Franzblau, he wont do it.
There was a bit of a pause on the phone. And then Rose Franzblau said: You could try again . . . Dollink, let me ask you just one question: Are you a nice Jewish boy?
And thats what I think of - Rose Franzblau and Joe Papp when I read of the New York Shakespeare Festivals sale to Skadden, Arps of $10,000 worth of non-standing-in-line tickets to Much Ado About Nothing.
The same arts-loving playgoers from Skadden, Arps, incidentally, who - some of them - stood in the lobby of their building on Times Square a few months ago and demanded that the vivid socio-critical sculptures of long-time SoHo artist Bernard Aptekar be taken down before they even went up. Id like to have sold tickets to that much ado.
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Oracle Berkeley DB Replication for Highly Available Data Management
Berkeley DB provides replication for high availability and horizontal read scalability in distributed systems or within redundant hardware systems. Berkeley DB HA is a single master, multi-replica system with automatic failover. Replicas service reads, the master can service read and write operations. Replicas receive updates as transaction log records sent from the master or from other replicas and apply them locally. They inform the master of ther state and the master uses that information to manage consistency across the replica group. Each node in a replicated system maintains a complete copy of the data and logs. This architecture provides excellent read scalability, near instantaneous failover, and can deliver near 100% uptime. Applications using Berkeley DB HA scale beyond the processing constraints of a single system and gracefully manage failures to provide maximum availability.
Berkeley DB HA infrastructure can support any communications systems, not just TCP/IP, which can dramatically improve proformance in embedded hardware systems with internal high-speed custom interconnects between redundant systems (blades for instance). However, Berkeley DB does provides built-in support for managing replication groups over a TCP/IP network.
Only the master node can modify the database. Applications perform create, update and delete requests at the master then the master distributes those changes automatically to as many replicas as the application requires for the requested degree of consistency. A transaction, immediately consistent, require a quorum of nodes, or any other criteria your application requires. Reads can be processed by any node at any time, master or replica. Replicas can join, leave, even re-join the group at any time allowing you to size the solution to your needs as they change. When a master fails, an election is called to identify and promote a new master. This solution:
Where Berkeley DB HA is applicable:
The choice of a master is made using a distributed two-phase voting protocol, which ensures that a unique master is always elected. Elections require that at least a simple majority of the electable nodes participate in the process. The participating Electable node which has the most up-to-date state of the environment is elected the master. An Electable node can be in one of the following states:
The master sends changes down to the replica asynchronously, as fast as the replica can process them. Changes are streamed to the replica eagerly, that is, even while the transaction is in progress and before the application attempts to commit the transaction on the master. If the transaction is subsequently aborted on the master, the replica will abort the transaction as well. An application thread may wait for one or more replicas to catch up to a specific transaction if the durability requirements of the transaction require it. The replica responds with explicit acknowledgment responses for such transactions, but this does not inhibit forward progress on the master, as it is free to proceed with other transactional work.
The write operations to the replication stream by the master and the read (and replay) operations on the replica are asynchronous with respect to each other. The master can write to the replication stream as soon as the application creates a new log entry. The replica reads from the replication stream and replays changes as soon as it reads them, additionally responding with acknowledgments to the replay of a commit operation if requested by the master.
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What was your favorite video game
Did you get SSDI and EBT(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3552617&forum_id=2#32825630)
For 26-year-old Guillaume, the trade-off is all too easy to understand. In May 2016 he finished his graduate-school training in business law. A few months later, he decided he didn�t want to work in law after all; he wanted to play video games. Guillaume likes adventure games, which allow players to immerse themselves in fantastic and foreign worlds. During his studies, he could only spare a couple of hours each day for his habit. Now he can slip into his video-game worlds for five or six hours at a time. A law career would have meant more money. Yet it would also have meant much more time spent at law.(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3552617&forum_id=2#32825601)
I FUCKING HATE LIBERALS AND I WISH THEY WOULD ALL FUCKING DROP DEAD. i seriously do believe this. i wish they would fucking all die, like tomorrow. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3552617&forum_id=2#33969654)


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A very basic introduction on cryptography.
Dear AO.
In this tutorial i will try to cover cryptography in general with a few common used ways of encryption. This tutorial will be based on SuSE Linux. I'm sure that most of what i will cover here will work on any *nix system. The main topics which i will cover are:
1 A brief introduction on the history of cryptography.
2 Symmetric and Asymmetric cryptography.
3 Digital Signatures.
4 Secure Shell (ssh)
5 Pretty Good Privacy (pgp)
6 GNU privacy Guard (GNUPG)
7 Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
8 Site to site VPN with Crypto IP Encapsulation (CIPE)
As usual, please forgive any bad English or typos, since all my sources and knowledge on this are in the German Language.
Special Note: I WILL NOT GO INTO A LOT OF DETAIL ON HOW TO SETUP OR CONFIGURE ANYTHING. I WILL PROVIDE ONLY GENERAL INFORMATION AND WHERE TO FIND INFORMATION REGARDING CONFIGURATIONS SUCH AS LINKS OR MAN PAGES. THIS TUTORIAL IS NOT MEANT TO TEACH YOU HOW TO SETUP ANYTHING, BUT ONLY TO PROVIDE THE INFORMATION ON WHAT CRYPTOGRAPHY IS AND THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF CRYPTOGRAPHY. THE INFORMATION I PROVIDE CAN TEACH YOU HOW TO DO ALL THIS PROVIDING YOU RTFM THE INFORMATION GIVEN HERE BY ME.
1 A brief introduction on the history of cryptography.
A very old method used was to hide the original message by using an invisible ink. The next method was to display the message publically, masking it with secret characters/symbols to make it unreadable. An example to this was Leonardo da Vinci. He wrote his notes backwards (mirrored) so it could only be read inside a mirror. Because at his time, most of the people could not read or write in general, this method made his notes secure from others.
The attempt to substitute clear text from masked characters/symbols offers no real security, and what makes it even worse, if someone was able to decrypt it, then these so called substitutes became useless and new ones would have to be created/found. A better solution to do this would be to actually keep the ingredients and change only the encoding's regulations which could be changed at any given time. This great advance was introduced by Caeser with a technology named after him. This technology does not use any masked characters or symbols. Only the normal alphabet is used with a built in encoding variable. An example would be as follows:
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t etc...
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s etc...
So b became a, c became b and so on. This could be changed in many ways.
A b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t etc...
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 a b c d e f g h i j etc...
so a became 1, b became 2, k became a and so on.
Modern cryptography is a mathematic discipline, combined with informatics. The use of modern cryptography has expanded a great deal thanks to the Internet and its commercial uses such as e-commerce, and e-cash. The basics have remained though. The secrecy from saved and sent information, and its authentication (proof that the data and its source are original) belongs to these basics.
2 Symmetric and Asymmetric cryptography.
A system which uses symmetric encoding means that en-/de-crypting uses the same key. Symmetric encoding has the disadvantage of which both communicating parties must find a secure way to exchange the key. Anyone who would get his hands on that key, would be able to decrypt.
For systems using asymmetric encoding this disadvantage does not exist, because the encryption and decryption uses different keys. Today's possibilities using asymmetric cryptography means that the 2 keys in pairs are created with a mathematical method giving them an opposite effect. Data which is encrypted with one key can only be opened with its 2nd key pair. This makes it possible to make the key used to encrypt public. Today's most known and used asymmetric encryption method is called RSA, which is named after its developers Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman. RSA and many other patented methods are highly disliked by Open Source developers. The fact that a RSA patent in the USA has just expired does not change anything for this general situation. Developers who want to share their software for free, such as software under the GNU (General Public License (GPL)) cannot afford to pay the license costs for this algorithm.
3 Digital Signatures.
Asymmetric encoding methods can not only be used to encrypt data, but also to digitally sign data (messages). It is also possible to use the same key when encrypting or signing messages. The following 2 reasons will explain why though this is a very bad idea.
A Depending on the rules and laws in your country, you can be forced to give out your private key used to encrypt. If you use 2 different key pairs to encrypt and digitally sign your data, then even if you give out your private key, it is not possible to fake the signature or decrypt, since the signature key remains secret.
B Under certain circumstances it is possible to fake a signature if you use the same key pair to encrypt and sign your data/messages.
A few possible attacks against digital signatures are explained with great detail by Bruce Schneyer's Used Cryptography which is available by Addison-Wesley, and Bonn from 1998.
4 Secure Shell (ssh)
Under the name Secure Shell, there is a collection of alternatives for telnet, rlogin, ftp, and other applications with similar functions. The normal applications transfer data and passwords in clear text across a network. Once that network is accessible from a public network or the Internet, it is time to replace these applications with secure variants which are provided by SSH. SSH encrypts the entire data communication securing network connections from attacks. Except the substitution for telnet, rlogin,rcp, and ftp ssh also offers other possibilities to secure network services using encrypted tunneling.
SSH includes the program ssh (secure shell) which replaces telnet, rlogin, and rsh.
The program scp (secure copy) which substitutes rcp (remote copy) and ftp (file transfer protocol).
The sshd (secure shell daemon) provides the server side for the so called client applications. Also, ssh provides helper applications such as ssh-add, ssh-agent, and ssh-keygen. There are 2 variants of ssh. SSH and OpenSSH. SSH is the orginal and commercial software. OpenSSH comes from the OpenBSD-Projects as an alternative to SHH and is licensed by the BSD license, making it available for anyone freely.
New versions of SSH have brought upgraded protocols with them in the past. OpenSSH is supported by protocol-version 1.3, 1.5 and 2.0. (im not sure about v3.0 and up). Except the license, there are no differences worth mentioning. SuSE and other distributors have included a free version of SSH aswell as the OpenSSH package in the SuSE Linux distribution. The documentation for each individual programs are inside your man pages:
man ssh (OpenSHH Secure Shell Client)
man sshd (Secure Shell Daemon)
man ssh-keygen (Key generator)
man ssh-add (RSA-Authentications-data for the Agent)
man ssh-agent (The Agent puffers Authentications-Data during a login session making a passwordless login possible to a remote computer with password protected keys)
For windows clients, you can use tools such as TTSSH or putty.exe to remotely administer your *nix systems.
5 Pretty Good Privacy (pgp)
Philip R. Zimmermann developed Pretty Good Privacy to protect exchange of e-mails from preying eyes who are not supposed to get the information inside the e-mails. The US government had started a 3 year investigation against him for breaking the US cryptography export laws because PGP uses very strong encryption and he offered it as freeware worldwide (2048 bits hehehe ). Although the fact that no payed developers or any companies were involved with the PGP product, or the US government's attempt to stop him from giving PGP to the whole world, PGP is now the MOST used software worldwide for e-mail encryption. After the US government stopped investigating against Philip in 1996, he created the company PGP Inc, which was bought in 1997 by Network Associates.
PGP is available in 2 variants:
A the original free version which is given out by Network Associates along with MIT for all kinds of operating systems. The Linux version comes from this source.
B The commercial version which is given out by Network Associates. The difference between the free version and the commercial version is the GUI version, the Outlook plugin, and the S-Mime-support through X509-certificates.
6 GNU privacy Guard (GNUPG)
The commercialization of PGP and the splitting it into a freeware version not to be used for commercial purposes and the commercial version itself let developers develop an alternative which would run under the GNU Privacy Guard (GPG or GNUPG) aka Open PGP.
For Linux there is no real reason anymore to use Pretty Good Privacy. GNUPG supports everything needed to provide a safe method of exchanging e-mails. GNUPG is compatible with PGP. At times, GPG is even more/better compatible to the commercial PGP version than the Freeware PGP version itself.
SuSE Linux and other modern distributions also include a pre-configured GNUPG and a freeware-PGP. Linux users will find PGP and/or GNUPG support inside the terminal clients such as mutt, and pine (need pgp4pine also included) or even in EMACS. KDE users can find PGP and GNUPG support in Kmail.
To create a keypair within your shell (this is a copy paste from my shell prompt.
instronics@mybox:~ > gpg gen-key
will create a key pair. Just simply answer the questions the program will ask of you.
After this, by:
instronics@mybox:~ > gpg list-keys
you can view the key entries.
To import public keys issued by friends, relatives, customers, or anyone really who you wish to use encryption of e-mails with, type in:
instronics@mybox:~ > gpg import filename
In order to export your public keys and to make them import-able for other:
instronics@mybox:~ > gpg -a export firstname.lastname@example.com >bill.gpg
The file instronics.gpg contains the public key in ASCII format and can be easily be placed on your own website.
To create a fingerprint of the key:
instronics@mybox:~ > gpg fingerprint firstname.lastname@example.com
gpg: Warning: Sensible Data could be stored on Harddisk.
Pub 1024D/6DB4CE88 2003-03-17 ***** ***** (<-- My real name)
(Have a lot of fun!!!) <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Key fingerprint = 00E2 0362 CF0A 5E4A D7E7 A09C 234B 3B0F 6DB4 CE88
sub 2048g/A560FA5F 2003-03-17
instronics@mybox:~ >
(Grrr, i got carried away with details. Im really sorry that i am not providing a lot of details about how to configure or setup these things as you are used to by me. But if i would have done all that, then this tutorial would have become a 50 page tutorial. Who knows, i might actually make a more detailed one some day when i have the time.)
Using the fingerprint we just made, you can verify the key at any time. It is therefore a good idea to print the fingerprint for example on a card or something that you would give a person by hand. Therefore you can place the public key on your website.
In order to see how to sign a key, what a public keyserver is and everything else related to GNUPG which i will not post here have a look at: http://www.gnupg.org/gnupg.html .
The use of GNUPG or also PGP is for KDE users thanks to Kmail very easy and simple.
The PGP user identity is the e-mail address which is used upon creation of the key pairs using gpg gen-key.
7 Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
Although some vendors and service providers might disagree, in common usage a virtual private network is a group of two or more computer systems, typically connected to a private network (a network built and maintained by an organization solely for its own use) with limited public-network access, that communicates "securely" over a public network. VPNs may exist between an individual machine and a private network (client-to-server) or a remote LAN and a private network (server-to-server). Security features differ from product to product, but most security experts agree that VPNs include encryption, strong authentication of remote users or hosts, and mechanisms for hiding or masking information about the private network topology from potential attackers on the public network. Examples of where VPN can be used are:
A A secure connection of LANs from different locations (Company building A to company building B).
B To allow users to connect to a company from another location.
C The extension from a company network to its suppliers and partners (e-commerce).
D A secure connection for online banking from a customer to the bank's server.
VPNs can be put into 3 variants.
A End-to-End:
The virtual connection will be switched to different computers.
B Site-to-Site:
This is the classic internet variant. So called VPN routers using a form of tunneling to connect multiple LANs across an unsafe/public network such as the Internet.
C End-to-Site:
This is a classic variant used to allow access to the LAN from users who are outside the LAN, such as home workers, Tele-workers, aswell as customers. Mostly used by people who need to access their work from home or other locations. This is also called RAS (Remote Access Service).
IMPORTANT NOTE: IT IS HIGHLY ADVISABLE TO NOT SETUP A FIREWALL TO ACT AS A VPN SERVER TOGETHER WITH A RAS SERVER. Although technically it is possible.
Such systems can become very quickly very complicated. Complicated means unsafe, due to the fact that complicated systems are much more vulnerable to mistakes compared to slim systems.
Firewalls are typically placed between public networks and private networks. They control the traffic between the public network (such as the Internet) where many dangers may lurk and the LAN where many trusted hosts/users want to communicate via a network and who wish to remain safe from an untrusted network. If the firewall does have to allow access to the internal LAN, then the amount of work for a system administrator is a lot less and easier.
VPN-Servers are typically placed between public networks and internal networks. They control the traffic between different locations which share the trusted network. Compared to a firewall, it only controls the traffic within the local trusted network.
RAS-Servers make it possible for employees outside of the company to access the company network, people such as Tele-workers. These are for people that are trying to connect from a location thats not 100% trusted. So its in between the firewall and the vpn server. (the privelege stage, not the physical location.)
8 Site to site VPN with Crypto IP Encapsulation (CIPE)
The CIPE-Project offers software that will allow the use of encrypted routers in Linux. This protocol is very slim and efficient. CIPE was developed to be able to create encrypted tunneling using the UDP protocol. This solution is not so flexible like IPSEC for example, but to connect 2 trusted networks between a untrusted (Internet) this solution is very good. Also available are CIPE implementations for win32 systems.
CIPE is very well documented. In SuSE Linux you can find information on it in /usr/share/doc/packages/cipe. If in that directory you could also type in:
instronics@mybox:~ > info -f cipe.info
for more information.
A CIPE connection is always between 2 end points (point-to-point) which make the entrance and exit of the tunnel. The actual versions are 1.3.0, and 1.4.3 and they need a 128 bit encryption key which must be present on both sides of the tunnel (both computers that wish to use CIPE). This connection key is a static key which will handle all new dynamic keys needed to make the tunnel.
A future version of this is already being planned, to handle the dynamic keys to be protected by a public key, similar to the Secure Shell (SSH) process. The static keys aka shared secret will then not be needed anymore.
SuSE Linux comes with a pre-configured CIPE-Packet which you can choose during the installation, and can then configure to your likings. You can set it to start in /etc/rc.config by editing the variable in there. Once configured, you start it with rccipe start and stop it again with rcceip stop. (the rc's are a feature in SuSE Linux to start and stop different scripts or applications.)
An example of the /etc/rc.config:
# Start the cipe-daemon for encrypted IPIP-Tunnel?
The files are located inside /etc/cipe. Please read the CIPE manuals for more detailed information on how to configure it between hosts.
I would love to include VPN with IPSEC to this document, but alas my knowledge on this is very poor, so i choose not to write anything about this subject. Also because i use CIPE, so IPSEC is not of any interest to me. For information on IPSEC, make sure the package is installed, then look at the files inside /etc/ipsec.*
I hope that this document comes in handy for people who wish to learn and understand what cryptography is and where it is usefull. Until the next time.


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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — In an open letter Thursday to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the president of the African Union urged the U.N. to take immediate military action in northern Mali, which was seized by al-Qaida-linked rebels earlier this year.
Yayi Boni, the president of Benin who is also head of the African Union, said any reticence on the part of the U.N. will be interpreted as a sign of weakness by the terrorists now operating in Mali. The AU is waiting for the U.N. to sign off on a military plan to take back the occupied territory, and the Security Council is expected to discuss it in coming days.
In a report to the Security Council late Wednesday, Ban said the AU plan "needs to be developed further" because fundamental questions on how the force will be led, trained and equipped. Ban acknowledged that with each day, al-Qaida-linked fighters were becoming further entrenched in northern Mali, but he cautioned that a botched military operation could result in human rights abuses.
The sprawling African nation of Mali, once an example of a stable democracy, fell apart in March following a coup by junior officers. In the uncertainty that ensued, rebels including at least three groups with ties to al-Qaida, grabbed control of the nation's distant north. The Islamists now control an area the size of France or Texas, an enormous triangle of land that includes borders with Mauritania, Algeria and Niger.
Two weeks ago, the African Union asked the U.N. to endorse a military intervention to free northern Mali, calling for 3,300 African soldiers to be deployed for one year. A U.S.-based counterterrorism official who saw the military plan said it was "amateurish" and had "huge, gaping holes." The official insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the matter.
Boni, in his letter, said Africa was counting on the U.N. to take decisive action.
"I need to tell you with how much impatience the African continent is awaiting a strong message from the international community regarding the resolution of the crisis in Mali. ... What we need to avoid is the impression that we are lacking in resolve in the face of these determined terrorists," he said.
The most feared group in northern Mali is al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, al-Qaida's North African branch, which is holding at least seven French hostages, including a 61-year-old man kidnapped last week.
On Thursday, SITE Intelligence published a transcript of a recently released interview with AQIM leader, Abu Musab Abdul Wadud, in which he urges Malians to reject any foreign intervention in their country. He warned French President Francois Hollande that he was "digging the graves" of the French hostages by pushing for an intervention.
Also on Thursday, Islamists meted out the latest Shariah punishment in northern city of Timbuktu. Six young men and women were each given 100 lashes for having talked to each other on city streets, witnesses said.
Associated Press writer Virgile Ahissou in Cotonou, Benin and Baba Ahmed in Bamako, Mali contributed to this report.


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PARIS (AP) — French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday decried an "unforgiveable moral error" by his former budget minister, who has jolted France's body politic by admitting on his blog to having lied about a once-secret foreign bank account.
Authorities filed preliminary charges against Jerome Cahuzac, a former plastic surgeon-turned-politician, for alleged money laundering, a spokeswoman for Paris prosecutors said. If convicted, he faces up to five years in prison and a 375,000 euro ($481,500) fine.
After months of denials, Cahuzac wrote on his blog that he had told investigating judges he had a foreign bank account for 20 years. Calls by The Associated Press to his lawyer and to colleagues were not returned and he could not directly be reached for comment. Cahuzac, who had long criticized the use of overseas tax havens, quit the government last month as the scandal swelled.
On his blog, www.jerome-cahuzac.com, the former minister wrote that he had taken steps to repatriate 600,000 euros worth of holdings now in the account.
Cahuzac also made a thorough mea culpa, expressing regret to his colleagues, supporters and all French, and asking Hollande, the prime minister and former colleagues for "forgiveness for the damage I have caused them." Fellow Socialists expressed disappointment and betrayal, and rival conservatives pounced: At least two scolded the Socialists for having lectured the political right on morality issues in the past.
Top government officials swung into crisis-management mode. Hollande's office said in a statement that the president "noted the admission of Jerome Cahuzac with great severity," and regretted how he "committed an unforgiveable moral error" with his public denials — including on the floor of parliament.
Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said he spoke to Cahuzac on Tuesday, and that the former budget minister admitted to him that he had been dishonest.
"With sadness and dismay, I learn the truth. This truth is cruel: Jerome Cahuzac lied," Ayrault said. "He acknowledged holding an undeclared bank account abroad. He has just made these facts public — these facts are serious ... Now, Jerome Cahuzac is alone in the face of his responsibilities. He must now answer to the justice system."
When the scandal first broke, Cahuzac said solemnly in the National Assembly: "I never had a foreign account, not now, not before. I deny these accusations." But in the blog posting Tuesday, a far less combative Cahuzac wrote: "I was caught in a spiral of lie and I lost my way. I am devastated with remorse."
The scandal couldn't have come at a worse time for Hollande, whose poll numbers have sunk in recent months, largely over concerns about his handling of France's gloomy economic picture and double-digit jobless rate. He had surged to victory over conservative incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy in the presidential race in May, in part by pledging greater ethics in government: Sarkozy's own budget minister, Eric Woerth, had resigned in another scandal.
Cahuzac had garnered Hollande's trust as a point man to help boost tax revenues as France battles a lackluster economy and growing budget deficit.
Cahuzac, a sharp-speaking former hair-transplant specialist, had made his name as budget minister by singling out corporate multinational tax dodgers, citizens who live abroad to avoid taxes, and those within France who stash money in overseas accounts. The issue struck a chord among many French as the government looks for ways to trim a swollen budget deficit.
Paris prosecutors opened a judicial investigation last month into a case of alleged laundering of money gained through tax fraud centering on Cahuzac, though investigators had not yet turned up enough evidence to charge him by name. That prompted Cahuzac's resignation — making him the first minister to leave the 10-month-old Socialist government.
The online journal Mediapart broke the story in December, alleging that Cahuzac had transferred money from a Swiss account into another in Singapore. It produced a recording that it said was of Cahuzac's voice talking about his secret account. Mediapart said the recording, dating back more than a decade, turned up — apparently accidentally and unbeknownst to Cahuzac — on the voice mail system of someone he knew.
Cahuzac, who garnered a hand-shake from Ayrault and a pat-on-the-back from a colleague after his fervent speech of self-defense in the National Assembly, repeated his denials on French TV and radio interviews. He also filed a defamation suit against Mediapart.
Ayrault, the prime minister, defended the role of a free press in French society and said he had previously had doubts — but no proof — about whether Cahuzac was telling the truth.
"I am deeply hurt for the French people," Ayrault told France-2 TV. "There are sometimes serious individual cases — and this is one."


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BEVERLY HILLS, California (AP) — Gordon Ramsay's, dare we say it, softer side comes out when the formidable chef presides over aspiring kid cooks on a new reality show.
Kids between 8 and 13 who love to work in the kitchen will face off on "MasterChef Junior" debuting Sept. 27 on Fox.
Ramsay is the expletive-spewing restaurateur and star of such Fox shows as "Kitchen Nightmares" and "Hell's Kitchen." The new show is based on a popular British series.
"I don't think I swore once," Ramsay told the Television Critics Association on Thursday.
"Twice," corrected Gavin, a 10-year-old contestant from San Francisco, adding that Ramsay's cursing was directed at servers during a restaurant challenge, not the kids.
"We know the F-word means food," Ramsay said.
The contestants knew of Ramsay's fiery reputation as a demanding taskmaster, but 9-year-old Sarah from Pacific Palisades, California, said, "He can't be really mean because we're kids."
Ramsay, a father of three daughters and a son, told the budding chefs when their food wasn't good enough.
"I'm brutally honest and I think the kids appreciate that," Ramsay said. "Being firm and fair isn't anything we can be short on."
To soften the blow, they were sent home in pairs during eliminations.
"We hate saying goodbye," Ramsay said. "We let them down gently."
Tommy, an 11-year-old contestant from Palos Verdes Estates, California, said, "He was giving us tips on making it better."
Added Gavin, "He taught you not to give up and keep on trying."
Several of the seven kids at the TCA panel said they hope to pursue careers in food when they grow up. Ramsay said he enjoyed mentoring the kids and teaching them life-long skills about eating healthy foods.
"Learning to cook for yourself is so important to set them up for the rest of their lives," he said.
Joining Ramsay on the judging panel are restaurateur Joe Bastianich and chef Graham Elliot.
The first audition round features 24 kids split into three groups of eight to create seafood, pasta or desserts.
The top 12 finalists earn a white apron and advance to a series of challenges and cook-offs, including preparing Beef Wellington as a tag-team. The kids take over a fine dining restaurant in Los Angeles to prepare a three-course meal.
The eventual winner earns $100,000.


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Scientific analysis of the Leichhardt plate
David Hallam, National Museum of Australia
Ludwig Leichhardt series, 15 June 2007
Conservator David Hallam outlines the metal and corrosion analysis which helped to authenticate the Leichhardt nameplate. The plate is the only known artefact from Ludwig Leichhardt's lost 1848 Australian expedition with a corroborated provenance.
Leichhardt panel discussion
Dr Tom Darragh, David Hallam, Matthew Higgins, Professor Rod Home, Dr Philip Jones, Dick Kimber, Dr Darrell Lewis, Dr Susan Martin, Professor Henry Nix and Dr Martin Woods
Ludwig Leichhardt series, 15 June 2007
Alice Springs historian Dick Kimber proposes an alternative theory for the fate of Ludwig Leichhardt's expedition, arguing that it was lost in the Simpson Desert, in a closing discussion with earlier symposium speakers.
Overview of the National Museum of Australia's purchase of the Leichhardt nameplate
Matthew Higgins, National Museum of Australia
Ludwig Leichhardt series, 15 June 2007
Curator Matthew Higgins outlines the work undertaken to establish the authenticity of a small brass nameplate, the first object with a corroborated provenance from explorer Ludwig Leichhardt's lost 1848 expedition.
'A very tolerable addition': Leichhardt's mapping of the Balonne River
Dr Martin Woods, National Library of Australia
Ludwig Leichhardt series, 15 June 2007
Curator Martin Woods examines a rare map drawn by Ludwig Leichhardt. Woods says the map of the Balonne and Condamine rivers in Queensland raised hopes of an expanded Darling Downs farming district and funded Leichhardt's final journey.
Leichhardt: the motivations of an explorer
Professor Rod Home, University of Melbourne
Ludwig Leichhardt series, 15 June 2007
Historian Rod Home looks at Ludwig Leichhardt's family background, financial situation and formal scientific training to argue the explorer was also a perceptive naturalist with a well defined research agenda in Australia. NOTE: audio loops from 18:40 on.
Deepening the mystery: the 1938 South Australian government Leichhardt search party
Dr Philip Jones, South Australian Museum
Ludwig Leichhardt series, 15 June 2007
Historian Philip Jones re-examines evidence found in the Simpson Desert in 1938, which prompted a search for the Ludwig Leichhardt's lost expedition. He argues the search party may have discovered an Aboriginal burial site.
He nearly made it: Leichhardt's 'grand plan' of 1848
Dr Darrell Lewis, Australian National University
Ludwig Leichhardt series, 15 June 2007
Darrell Lewis examines German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt's intended route for his attempted east-west crossing of Australia. Lewis argues that Leichhardt followed his plan and managed to cross two-thirds of the continent.
Leichhardt in Australian literature
Dr Susan Martin, La Trobe University
Ludwig Leichhardt series, 15 June 2007
The fascination of Australian writers with explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, including Patrick White's Voss, earlier elegiac poems and Lemurian novels, is examined by English lecturer Susan Martin.
Leichhardt as scientist and diarist
Dr Tom Darragh, Museum Victoria
Ludwig Leichhardt series, 15 June 2007
Tom Darragh uses Ludwig Leichhardt's diaries to show the skill and accuracy with which the explorer and naturalist recorded scientific observations and information about plants and geological specimens, in terminology which is still used today.
Ludwig Leichhardt: a loss to science and Australian culture
Professor Henry Nix, Australian National University
Ludwig Leichhardt series, 15 June 2007
Scientist Henry Nix argues that had explorer Ludwig Leichhardt lived, he could have published the results of his scientific observations and joined the company of peers including Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin.


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Reading 1: The Battle of Guilford Courthouse
On the bright, late winter day of March 15, 1781, the Revolutionary War came to a remote county seat in north central North Carolina. Guilford Courthouse, with its population of considerably fewer than 100, was on this day the temporary residence of 4,400 American soldiers and their leader, Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene. The British had overrun Georgia and South Carolina and showed every indication of ripping the stars and stripes of North Carolina and Virginia from the new American flag. From the ragged remnants of a defeated southern army, Greene had raised a new force comprising 1,700 Continentals (three-year enlistees in the regular army) and about 2,700 militia (mostly farmers who were nonprofessional temporary soldiers called up for short periods of service during an emergency). Early on the morning of March 15, General Greene deployed his men in three lines of battle across the Great Salisbury Wagon Road that led off to the southwest toward the camp of the British army commanded by Lord Charles Cornwallis. Although grossly outnumbered, Cornwallis nonetheless was certain that his redcoats, victors on scores of battlefields, could overcome the rebels.
The battle began about noon and progressed unevenly. The first line of the North Carolina militia, its center deployed behind a rail fence facing cleared farm fields and its flanks extending into the forest, collapsed rapidly after the center of the line gave way. Before they retreated, however, the militia inflicted heavy casualties on the redcoats. One British officer later recalled that when his men of the 71st Highland Regiment were hit by a volley (a simultaneous discharge of firearms, in this case 1,500 muskets), "one half of the Highlanders dropped on that spot."¹
The second line proved to be an even greater obstacle for the British. Located in heavy forest and with noncommissioned officers ordered to shoot any men who ran away, the Virginia militia grappled with their attackers for about an hour in an action a British writer later described as "a number of irregular, but hard fought and bloody skirmishes."² After enduring more heavy losses, the redcoats finally were able to break through.
The heaviest fighting took place on the third line where General Greene had stationed his Continentals. Even here the intensity of the fighting varied; some new Continentals retreated after offering only token resistance, while other, more experienced soldiers fought furiously. In the final stages of the fighting Lord Cornwallis found portions of his army under simultaneous attack from two directions, as if caught between hammer and anvil. He extricated his men by firing two cannon directly into the mass of struggling soldiers, as if to blast them apart. A number of his own soldiers were killed in the process (another British officer, Brig. Gen. Charles O'Hara, begged him not to do it), but when the smoke cleared the battle was over. General Greene had ordered his army to retreat, leaving the British in possession of the battlefield.
Questions for Reading 1
1. What was the difference between Continentals and militia?
2. Which battle line saw the heaviest fighting? What happened?
3. Which side won the Battle of Guilford Courthouse?
4. In your own words, how did Cornwallis put an end to the fighting? If you had been in charge of the British troops, would you have made the same decision? Why or why not?
5. Compare Reading 1 and Map 2. Does the map accurately portray the scene described?
Reading 1 was adapted from Thomas E. Baker, Another Such Victory (Philadelphia: Eastern National Park and Monument Association, 1981).
¹ Eli Caruthers, Revolutionary Incidents: and Sketches of Character, Chiefly in the Old North State, Second Series, (Philadelphia, 1856).


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The Georgia Southwestern baseball team defeated Thomas
University 11-1 on Wednesday afternoon at Hurricane Field.
The 'Canes scored a run in the first that was set up by a one-out Daniel Lynn triple. The visiting Night Hawks answered with their lone run in the top of the second. From there it was all GSW.
The Hurricanes brought 11 batters to the plate in the third inning and generated seven runs on three hits and a Thomas University error. Night Hawk starting pitcher Chris Poulos walked three consecutive batters after Daniel Stokes had reached on a throwing error to start the frame and Jordan Mullis doubled. Nick Rex proceeded to drive in one on a sacrifice fly. A Lynn single knocked in two more and Francisco Gomez cleared the bases with a triple. Gomez went on to score the last run of the third.
Any hope Thomas had to rally was snuffed in the fourth when Lynn made a remarkable defensive play in left field to rob Stephen Cheney of a two-run home run. Lynn timed his jump perfectly, reached over the fence and pulled Cheney's shot back into the field of play for the out.
GSW added two runs in the fourth. The 'Canes final run in the sixth was brought in on a Cody Adams double.
Jody Sellars (1-1) earned the win going six innings while allowing the one run. He scattered five hits and struck out four. Tyler Smith pitched an inning of scoreless relief.
Lynn led the GSW offense with a 3-for-4 performance at the plate. He belted the triple, knocked in two and scored three runs. Gomez finished 2-for-3 with a double and a triple, two RBI and two runs scored. Mullis also had a two-hit night that included a double. He stole a base and scored a run.
With the win, GSW improves to 12-23. The Canes travel to UNC-Pembroke to take on the Braves in a Peach Belt Conference series starting Saturday at 1 p.m.
Canes Cruise
The Georgia Southwestern baseball team defeated Thomas
University 11-1 on Wednesday afternoon at Hurricane Field.