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NIST guidelines, FISMA reform and DHS oversight bolster security moves
All three developments reflect the conclusion that agencies must monitor their networks continuously and manage security risks more effectively — and move beyond current requirements to file what many agree are outdated security compliance reports under the Federal Information Security Management Act.
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As the National Institute of Standards and Technology now sees it, and spells out in upcoming new guidance, agencies should take a three-tiered approach to continuous network monitoring, said panelist Marianne Swanson, senior advisor for information system security at NIST. Continuous monitoring needs to occur at the organization level, mission level and system level, she said.
Most of NIST's network security guidance over the past 10 years has been at the system level, and focused on certification and authorization, she said. What's needed now is assessment and authorization using a risk management framework.
Over the next few weeks, NIST plans to publish guidance on security strategy, performance metrics, risk tolerance and the frequency and types of monitoring controls agencies should consider using on an organizationwide basis, Swanson said. NIST also plans to provide recommendations for managing, configuring, gathering and reporting monitoring results at the mission level and approaches for implementing monitoring tools and assessing automated security controls at the system level.
Swanson stressed that, although automation is important, "continuous monitoring shouldn't be all about automated controls," arguing that some resources must still go toward management, personnel and physical security.
NIST also plans to release two other documents next month: One is a contingency planning guide; the other focuses on managing supply-chain risks. It will include recommended practices government agencies should follow in procuring software and hardware products — and which industry can use in developing supply chain practices that meet government requirements.
She said NIST won't define when systems may be too compromised to continue operating. "NIST guidance will always say that the senior official makes the risk decision," she said. But "they need the evidence on how the system truly is operating, so they can make a judgment. Right now, they don't have that."
How well agencies manage their overall network security risks was once the job of the Office of Management and Budget. That job now belongs to the Homeland Security Department, said Matt Coose, director of federal network security at DHS, who also spoke on the panel.
DHS is concentrating its efforts in four areas, he said: Assessing threats, through the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team; influencing security policy; enabling agencies to execute those policies, through best-o- breed examples; and measuring how agencies are doing, discerning what's working.
That effort is still only beginning to get traction, said Karen Evans, former OMB administrator for e-government and IT, who chaired the discussion. That's in part because DHS is still getting up to speed with that responsibility and because agencies are still only obliged to follow current FISMA rules.
Efforts to reform the FISMA rules took an important step forward last week when a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee approved a bill requiring continuous cybersecurity automated monitoring.
But according to panelist Erik Hopkins, professional staff member on the Senate subcommittee that examines government information technology, it will likely be the end year before work on the FISMA Act of 2010 is completed.
In discussing Congress's perspective on FISMA, he said, "It is protection of the information we care most about. But you have to define what the boundaries are…and what is a system." By some definitions, he said, a spreadsheet could be considered a system.
"We want to know what the American public is getting back for the $10 billion (annually) spend on security," he said.
Bob Dix, vice president of U.S. government affairs and critical infrastructure for Juniper Networks, voiced concern, however, that even with all theprogress that has been made because of FISMA, many agencies are still operating aging software systems that were never designed for the kinds of security demands being imposed on them today. And many other government systems are owned and managed by commercial parties, he said, putting them outside FISMA's full reach.
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Security monitoring is ONLY effective when an organization has established guidelines for what traffic/use "SHOULD" be on the network. By using a "white list" approach mapping approved applications to perimeter ports and shutting off non-essential access, monitoring usage and communications it places management is a much stronger position than trying to fend off the millions and millions of threat actions in the wild. Put another way, monitoring 12 approved business applications and 500 users is a lot easier than defending and watching out for 1,000,000s of stuff you want to keep out. Current alarm-response methods only perpetuate the madness and failed methods way too many still embrace.
Both pre-deploy independent certification/accreditation and real-time monitoring are important, but both only look for the 'known' risks per a checklist. (The alternative, noting all changes isn't realistic given today's diverse and complex systems.) Only professional hackers (Red and Black Teams) can find the 'unknown' weaknesses. One way to make automated monitoring easier is force resets back to a baseline -- essentially remove the persistance. There's many ways to do this - boot from CD/.iso, in a VM revert back to previous image, etc. By analyzing repeated deltas from baseline, trends and real anonmolies become significantly apparent.
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text: Okay, I am now accepting participates, instead of creating a new thread, I figure I would use this one but make my original post smaller so it doesn't look like a harry potter novel. Rules are below: 1.) I will accept as many participates as until Sunday Night on 9/25/11. Half of the participates must be in good standing for more than 2+ years, the other half must be in good standings for 4 to 23 months. I am not big on post counts, but if you have only one post in the last 12 months or something similar to that I will decline your invite. 2.) once you figure out if you are eligible, send me a PM titled "DRAFT PASS" stating you want in. 3.) Once accepted, please message me your 5 sticks between $8-$15 MSRP for each cigar. Please try your best to stay within that range. Also in that same message, send me your mailing address. 3.) I will then update this with all of the participates CP handle, their sticks and draft order. 4.) Once all of the above is completed I will send out an PM to all participates notifying you that the draft has started. Please try your best not to hold up the draft, if you are going to be away from the computer for a long time, or out of town either let me know or do not participate this time. (For the stake of this being new we will do one round with 1 5er per participate. Possibly if this goes successfully we can have 2 or 3 rounds with each participate putting together a 3er.) 5.) Once the 1 round draft is completed, I will gather the results and send everyone a PM on the address to send your 5er to. Once that happens, I am giving everyone 5 business days, to post the DC # on the thread so that everyone is aware of who is sending their package and who is not. ( I will announce this again when the time comes) There may be some flaws to this, but I assure everyone that the worst case would be that one person gets their own package (Saves packing cost :laugh: ). If problems arise, we will talk about it then go from there. I hope that we can continue this for many times to come. Posting this at the top (from post 22), a decision that needs to be decided in this tread. (Hey everyone thanks for your PM's I will be getting to them soon. It has been brought to my attention by several people on possibly doing two rounds. 1st round being a 5er and 2nd round being a 3er. Snake order A-B-C-D-E-E-D-C-B-A. I am okay with this. Another suggestion I thought about doing was, have everyone send me an PM (when ready) their 8 sticks and I will package them together. This way there the 3er packages are good enough to make up for the last person picking in the first round, it assures him that they will be getting a decent 3er. What I don't want happening is people submitting their sticks where their 5er is full of all of the "good stuff" while the 3er they submit is lacking the "good stuff"Is this clear? let me know what you think.David ) Hello all, I had this idea for the past few days on a new Pass Concept. It will need some modifications, and hopefully people can chime in on their opinions and views. If it ends up being a bad idea then I have no problem scraping this. But I thought this would be a fun way to get people to know each other better as well to smoke some cigars they may have never tried. Because we all know their are so many cigars out there and the odds are many of us do not have the luxury to smoke all of them. Below is my idea, remember this is just an creative idea, I am willing to make changes. This idea came to mind while doing a football fantasy draft. First we would establish some participates, for the time being I think we should start with 10 people. 5 members being long time members (2-3+ years) and 5 being members who are new but are active enough (6-23 months 50 + post). Each participate sends me ( or the facilitator) through PM, their address and 5 sticks ($8-$15 MSRP). Because of shipping cost there is no easy way to pick and match individual cigars. Because if participate A wants a cigar from B, C, D, E and F that would mean that each participate would have to send 5 different boxes with one cigar to 5 different people. That is not wise. So I thought that we would draft for participates 5 cigars that they submitted. Example, participate A wants participate B cigars, and participate C wants Participate A cigars. This means B will send his 5 cigars to A, while C will send his/her cigars to A. This way each participate is only sending out one box of five cigars to one participate. The way the draft will work is, by randomization. I will use a online random generator to see who gets picks first, second, third and so on. Some of you may think well that doesn't seem fair to the person who picks last. I envision this that those players who are newer will not have had the kind of cigars as long time members have tried. so I thought that the draft should go back and forth between newer members and long time members. example: A, B, C, D and E are long time members while F,G,H,I and J are newer members an possible draft order would be like this: A,G,C,H,D,F,B,J,E,I. So even though 'I' is last and has his package by default, since its a newer member odds are he/she may have not tried at least 1 or 2 cigars in the last package. To ensure the integrity of this, I will ask all those to PM me their cigars first for my approval (Facilitator) (will ask for feedback on items I am unsure with). As well as making sure each package is being send and delivered to each participate. I hope that this will be a fun way for people to interact with each other, get to know some of the newer members, and build a friendship among everyone that will be lasting and fun. As well as those to try out some cigars they may or may not have access to. Once/If this gets started, I will edit the rules to make them much more clear and straight forward, but right now I am in the creative mode. Let me know what you guys think. David


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Anders writes: "Indexdata has released the first version of Zoogle. This is a Z39.50 gateway to the Google web index. It is based upon SimpleServer which can be downloaded at the same URL." Love them Google APIs.
First release of Zoogle
From the official release: "Cheshire has support for storage of pre-parsed SGML/XML and also for virtual databases (a single database name can search and retrieve from multiple physical databases on the server). New documentation on the new commands and features in the docs directory." Very interesting! To download (or for more info) see the Cheshire site.
Kevin writes: "There is a new release of the YAZ toolkit . YAZ is a C/C++ programmer's toolkit supporting the development of Z39.50v3 clients and servers. In the release, there is a new ZOOM function, ZOOM_connection_last_event, that returns type of last event (such as "receive data", "send data", "apdu received", etc.) and two new YAZ client commands: . (dot, which sources a script of YAZ client commands), and ! (to execute shell command)."
YAZ release 1.8.2 available
Kevin writes: "There is a new release of the YAZ toolkit. YAZ is a C/C++ programmer's toolkit supporting the development of Z39.50v3 clients and servers. In the new release, there is a new client-side MARC decode/display function which properly rejects non-ISO2709 records. There are also some ZOOM API changes."
YAZ Release 1.8 available
Sebastian Hammer writes: "There is a new release of the YAZ toolkit available (in addition to maintenance releases of ZAP and Zebra). The most important change is that we include support for an early version of the ZOOM API. ZOOM is an exciting new development in Z39.50, which suggests a common, high-level interface which can be implemented across many toolkits, and in most programming languages. It promises to make life a lot easier for developers of Z39.50 clients."
OpenBook Technical Beta Preview
from Openbook-l: "By popular request, we have posted on our website a new OpenBook
Technical Beta Preview release. This release includes: MARC21 bibliographic, authority, community, classification and holdings format, as well as a major circulation component and a rudimentary Z39.50 client in the OPAC as well as in the
cataloging interface. (Z39.50 can be best described as early beta!)... If you want to get some experience with the interface and the system, please visit demo.trfoundation.org/opac/ since it runs the most up-to-date build of our current system at all times."
Simple Multi Target Z39.50 search portal - beta 1
Ian writes: "An initial beta release of the SimpleWebApp component of JZKit is now available for download, evaluation and feedback. JZKit is a 100% pure java (GPL'd) Z3950 tookit with no proprietary component dependencies. The SimpleWebApp application is an experiment in creating a pure java Z39.50 portal capable of searching multiple targets and displaying full or breif records with formatting defined by XSL style sheets. An online demo can be seen here and any comments would be welcome. The application is 100% pure java and is deployed as a .war file. Some minor tomcat configuration is needed to get everything working. You can read about the installation here (There are a few screen shots here too). As always, you can get all the source from Sourceforge."
Ian writes: "The Beta-2 Release is of JZKit, an open source pure java Z3950 toolkit is now available here or from sourceforge. JZKit is distributed under the LGPL and supports both origin and target development, but this beta release only features an example client.
The release is aimed at Z3950 developers (It really is for developers only at the moment, and the documentation is almost non-existent) who are interested in a java toolkit and don't mind playing around with beta software. The tookit uses its own internal ASN/BER runtime (Compiler also avialable for download in case you have any pesky private externals, or want to have a go with ISO10161). Right now, the project needs a few interested parties to generate some feedback so we can beat the thing into release shape."
Greenstone 2.27
Gordon writes: "Version 2.27 of the Greenstone digital library software is available. There are two big improvements: 'The Collector' now works in Windows 95/98 and is more stable on other platforms; and the experimental 'Phind' phrase browsing interface is now a Greenstone classifier (Unix only). Various smaller improvements include: document display modes, Z39.50 efficiencies, new metadata extraction, enhancements to the install and make scripts, and many bug fixes. Examples at www.nzdl.org; download from sourceforge."
Wrote up this short perl script which uses Zeta to grab a single ISBN's MARC record from LC. The goal is to make it easier for cuecat hackers and the like to get better data when they scan in their books' UPCs. See also today's NYTimes piece-free reg. req'd-for more on the sudden explosion of barcode mayhem.


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BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Negotiations between the Eagles and top draft pick Danny Watkins have hit a wall.
Eagles officials have become frustrated with the pace of talks with agent Eric Metz, while Metz' group points to their negotiating a deal for No. 9 pick tackle Tyron Smith as evidence that they can get a deal done.
When Joe Panos, who works with Metz, was asked about the slow pace he pointed out that negotiations for Smith – who was drafted by the Cowboys – "went in a very timely matter and he was signed and in camp by Thursday."
Panos would not comment specifically on Watkins' contract talks. Metz did not return a message.
"We handle contract talks internally," Eagles general manager Howie Roseman said. "But with Danny were eager to get him here and on the field."
Eighteen of the 32 first-round picks have either signed contracts or agreed to terms on a deal. Watkins was selected No. 23 overall out of Baylor. Draft picks Nos. 21 and 22 – Cleveland defensive tackle Phil Taylor and Indianapolis tackle Anthony Constanzo – have yet to ink deals.
Last week before the NFL lockout ended, Watkins said that he was not going to let his contract situation hold up getting into camp. The Eagles have the 26-year-old penciled in as the starter at right guard. Currently A.Q. Shipley is filling his spot.
Watkins drove up to Lehigh on Wednesday when players were to report, but the team – because he wasn't under contract -- sent him home after he collected his equipment.
The Eagles' previous two No. 1 draft picks – defensive end Brandon Graham and wide receiver Jeremy Maclin -- missed camp time because of extended negotiating.
Metz' group represented 2007 No. 1 draft pick Jamarcus Russell and the former Oakland and current free agent quarterback missed all of camp and the first game of the season.


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This week, Accellera Systems Initiative is announcing a new version of its SystemC library, Version 2.3 to be exact. There hasn't been a new version since way back in 2005 with Version 2.1 (albeit 2.2, a bug-fix release, was published in 2006), so this is the culmination of a lot of hard work.
I spoke by phone with Accellera Systems Initiative Language Working Group Chair David Black, Senior Member of Technical Staff at Doulos, on July 17th.
Black explained, "The purpose of Version 2.3 is to reflect the latest version of IEEE Standard 1666 – to fundamentally demonstrate new features introduced into the SystemC standard, which includes TLM 2.0, previously an OSCI-only standard and now part of the IEEE standard. Interested parties can download the SystemC 2.3 library from the Accellera Systems Initiative website. This download includes several bug fixes, the latest TLM 2.0 and new SystemC features"
I asked Black who has participated in this work, and how often they meet. He said, "The Language Working Group of Accellera Systems Initiative includes all of the major EDA vendors – Cadence, Mentor, Synopsys, and Forte – and service providers such as Doulos and Circuit Sutra – and various members of the industry such as Intel, TI and STMicro, with everyone contributing a perspective.
"I am the Co-Chair of the SystemC Language Working Group along with Andy Goodrich [Forte Design Systems] and took over my position from Mike Meredith [also with Forte]. Key contributors also include Tor Jeremiassen [TI], John Aynsley and Alan Fitch [Doulos], Bishnupriya Bhattacharya [Cadence], Jerome Cornet [STMicroelectronics], Dr. Torsten Maehne [UPMC], Pat Sheridan and Bart Vanthournout [Synopsys], and Philipp Hartmann [OFFIS], along with many others.


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Lamiopsis temminckii
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Lamiopsis temminckii (Müller & Henle, 1839)
Common Name(s):
Carcharhinus tephrodes Fowler, 1905
Carcharias temmincki Müller & Henle, 1839 [orth. error]
Carcharias temminckii Müller & Henle, 1839
Lamiopsis temmincki (Müller & Henle, 1839) [orth. error]
|Taxonomic Source(s):
|Müller, J. and Henle, F.G.J. 1839. Systematische Beschreibung der Plagiostomen. Plagiostomen, Berlin.
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Possibly a second Lamiopsis species occurs off Borneo, but this requires validation (W. White, unpubl. data).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Endangered A2d+3d ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|White, W.T., Fahmi & Dharmadi
|Stevens, J.D. & Valenti, S.V. (Shark Red List Authority)
The Broadfin Shark (Lamiopsis temmincki) is a rare shark with a sporadic distribution off Pakistan, India, Burma, Indonesia (Makassar Straits), Sarawak, and China. It occurs on the continental shelf, mostly close inshore. The species is taken in bottom and floating gill nets and with line gear regularly (but sometimes in low numbers) by local fishermen off India (Bombay), Pakistan (Karachi), Sarawak and Kalimantan (Indonesia). Its meat is utilized for human consumption, its fins dried for the shark fin trade, and it liver is used for vitamin oil. This species apparently is rare throughout the majority of its range, but it was once known to be common off the western coast of India. No information is available to determine historical trends in other areas. It is only observed in low numbers in heavily fished areas such as Indonesia, indicating probable population depletion. This species is fairly similar to Glyphis species, which are suspected to have undergone serious declines as result of heavy fishing pressure. Given its rarity, very heavy and unregulated fishing pressure throughout its entire range, and evidence to suggest that significant declines have already occurred off India, the Broadfin Shark is assessed as Endangered globally.
|Range Description:
|Indian Ocean and West Pacific: Pakistan, India, Burma, Indonesia (Makassar Straits), Sarawak, and China (Compagno in prep).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:China; India (Andhra Pradesh, Dadra-Nagar-Haveli, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal); Indonesia (Lesser Sunda Is.); Malaysia (Sarawak); Myanmar (Myanmar (mainland)); Pakistan
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Indian Ocean – western; Indian Ocean – eastern; Pacific – western central
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
|Click here to open the map viewer and explore range.
|Rare throughout most of its range, but once known to be common off west coast of India (Compagno et al. 2005).
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|Found inshore on the continental shelf (mostly close inshore). A viviparous species giving birth to four to eight pups per litter after an eight month gestation period. Pups are 40-60 cm long when born, and grow to a maximum of 168 cm TL. Males mature at 114 cm TL, whereas females mature at <130 cm TL (Compagno et al. 2005).
|Use and Trade:
|Meat is utilized for human consumption, fins dried for fin trade and livers used for vitamin oil (Compagno in prep.).
|Major Threat(s):
|Taken regularly (but in low numbers) by local fishermen of India (Bombay), Pakistan (Karachi), Sarawak and Kalimantan (Indonesia). Taken in bottom and floating gill nets and with line gear. Meat is utilized for human consumption, fins dried for fin trade and livers used for vitamin oil (Compagno in prep.). Probably threatened by habitat removal and destruction (e.g., inshore mangrove areas) which is prolific throughout much of its range. As this species predominantly occurs inshore, pollution from river outflow is also a possible threat.
|Conservation Actions:
|Few specimens occur in museum collections and its current abundance where it was formerly reported as being common (India) needs to be investigated (Compagno in prep.).
|White, W.T., Fahmi & Dharmadi. 2009. Lamiopsis temminckii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T161570A5454551. . Downloaded on 19 September 2018.
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International Commercial Litigation
von Holger Langer, LL.M.
Pleading and Proof of Foreign Law
A. Question of fact
B. How foreign law is proved
C. Witnesses who can prove foreign law
D. Advantages
Exclusion of foreign law
A. Foreign revenue laws
B. Foreign penal laws
C. Other foreign public laws
D. Foreign laws repugnant to English public policy
Forum non conveniens
A. Development
B. Principles
Structure of the problem:
Restraining foreign proceedings – Anti-suit injunctions
A. General underlying Principles
B. Categorisation of the cases
The Applicable Law under the Rome Convention
A. The scope of the Convention – Art. 1
B. Universal application – Art. 2
C. Freedom of choice – Art. 3
D. Applicable law in the absence of choice – Art. 4
E. Limitations of the applicable law by the concept of mandatory rules – Art. 7
F. Material validity – Art. 8
G. Formal validity – Art. 9


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This calendar shows all activities, meetings and services in and around St Peter's. You can skip to previous and future months, and hover over events of interest to see more information.
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Breakfast Club
We provide a free, hot breakfast from Monday to Saturday for all those who are hungry or in need. Simply come along between 8.15 - 8.45am, you are guaranteed a warm welcome.Find out more »
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Food parcel distribution
Daily food parcels are freely available to those in need from 4.45 to 5.00pm. No referral or vouchers needed.Find out more »


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Blu-ray Discs have the capacity to carry high definition data, along with pictures in the 1920 x 1080 resolution that defines full high definition images. This can only mean you get the best possible TV picture quality available today - so prepare to feast your eyes.
Enjoy an enveloping, surround sound experience with rich bass, crisp highs and clear dialog from your TVs internal speakers or external speaker bar. A suite of SRS technologies are combined to give you enthralling audio for everyone in the room, without extra speakers and wires. SRS TruSurround HD™ creates an immersive, feature-rich surround sound experience from two speakers, complete with rich bass, high frequency detail and clear dialog.
EasyLink uses the HDMI CEC industry standard protocol to share functionality between connected devices and the TV. HDMI makes an uncompressed digital RGB connection from the source to the screen for the ultimate picture quality. HDMI uses HDCP copy protection. With HDMI input of the TV you can connect multiple HD sources, for instance an HD settop box, a Blu-ray player, and Game Console or Digital Camcorder.
The USB connector allows access to jpeg photos and motion jpeg movie(320x240 30fps, PCM) of most USB-sticks (USB memory-class device). Plug the USB into the slot at the side of the TV and access the multimedia content using the easy on screen content browser. You can now view and share your movie and photos.
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Prey is a set of bash scripts that helps you track your computer when it is stolen.
This guide shows you how to install Prey.
Install prey-trackerAUR from the AUR.
Add your device using the control panel on Prey's website.
/usr/share/prey/config and add your device key and API key, both of which are listed in Prey's control panel.
/usr/share/prey/prey.sh as root to ensure that the configuration is correct.
/usr/share/prey-tracker/ folder, now (>0.5.10-2) it is in
Enable systemd service prey-tracker to automatically start Prey at boot
# systemctl enable prey-tracker.timer
To enable/disable modules, you must change the executable permissions for the the "run" files in prey's respective modules/core subdirectories. Adding executable permissions to a module will enable it, while removing permissions will disable the module.
GUI config
You can use a GUI to configure prey using the
prey-config script:
# /usr/share/prey/platform/linux/prey-config.py
Note that if this doesn't work you are missing a dependency, not sure if Python alone suffices.
Standalone Mode
The GUI can be used to configure standalone mode.
/usr/share/prey/config can be edited to change
post_method to
Note that in Standalone Mode, all modules in
/usr/share/prey/modules run by default. To disable them, remove executable permissions on the module's
run file (located within the module's
core subdirectory). For example, the following command disables the
alarm module:
# chmod -x /usr/share/prey/modules/alarm/core/run
To troubleshoot, run
# /usr/share/prey/prey.sh --check
Ensure you have enabled systemd service prey-tracker.service and prey-tracker.timer to start Prey at boot.
If you're not receiving webcam images in you reports, install xawtv from the official repositories.
If scrot is installed, prey will use it to take a screenshot if the
session module is enabled. Unfortunately, scrot emits an annoying beep everytime it is run. To disable beeping, append
xset -b
to the beginning of
There seems to be a bug in version 0.5.3 which gives an error if the SMTP password is set when using "email" post_method, which returns an error, but works fine when executed normally without the --check option.


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10 Other Artists Birdman Should Sign To Cash Money Records
The Artist: Soulja Boy
Why Birdman Should Sign Him: We actually thought this was going to happen a couple of months ago when Birdman and SB were spotted kicking it outside of a tour bus. But it never did. That being said, Birdman should push for this to happen and Soulja should be open to the idea. Soulja has a ton of Twitter followers, a loyal fan base, and a real appeal amongst young people. But he needs to have a better approach to the game, which is something we think he could learn from Birdman. That way, he won't be stuck selling 20-something-thousand copies of his next album.


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As Food Prices Rise, Fed Keeps a Watchful Eye
Central Bank Officials Sometimes Look Past Food-Cost Increases
U.S. food prices are on the rise, raising a sensitive question: When the cost of a hamburger patty soars, does it count as inflation?
It does to everyone who eats and especially poorer Americans, whose food costs absorb a larger portion of their income. But central bankers take a more nuanced view. They sometimes look past food-price increases that appear temporary or isolated while trying to control broad and long-term inflation trends, not blips that might soon reverse....


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BOSTON (AP) — The dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology officer allegedly killed by the suspect and his brother have links to the same boxing trainer.
Bob Covino co-founded the Somerville Boxing Club in the late 1970s. He says 26-year-old bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev (tsarh-NY'-ev) trained at that gym several years ago. Covino says the MIT officer slain by the bombing suspects, Sean Collier, began volunteering with him at a gym in a different location in Somerville seven or eight months ago.
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The researchers undertook the current study to determine whether providers who care for HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM) are following national guidelines that recommend asymptomatic routine STD screening for patients with HIV.
Medical records were abstracted to evaluate STD screening at eight large HIV clinics in six US cities. The team estimated the number of men who had at least one test for syphilis, chlamydia (urethral and/or rectal) or gonorrhea (urethral, rectal, and/or pharyngeal) in 2004, 2005, and 2006. The urethral testing included nucleic acid amplification tests of both urethral swabs and urine. Positivity rates for syphilis, chlamydia, and gonorrhea were calculated.
The analysis included 1,334 HIV-positive MSM who made 14,659 visits from 2004 to 2006. During this time, the annual screening rate for syphilis ranged from 66 percent to 75.8 percent. Annual screening rates for rectal chlamydia and rectal and pharyngeal gonorrhea ranged from 2.3 percent to 8.5 percent, despite moderate to high positivity (3 percent to 9.8 percent) among specimens from asymptomatic patients. Annual urethral chlamydia and gonorrhea screening rates were higher than for nonurethral sites, 13.8 percent to 18.3 percent, but remained suboptimal.
"Most asymptomatic HIV-infected MSM were screened for syphilis, indicating good provider adherence to this screening guideline. Low screening rates for gonorrhea and chlamydia, especially at rectal and pharyngeal sites, suggest that substantial barriers exist for complying with these guidelines," the authors concluded. "The moderate to high prevalence of asymptomatic chlamydial and gonococcal infections underscores the importance of screening. A range of clinical quality improvement interventions are needed to increase screening, including increasing the awareness of nucleic acid amplification tests for nonurethral screening."
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From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Carly Zakin
*** How Things Change: A year ago, a handful of potential Democratic presidential candidates (Hillary Clinton, Evan Bayh, and Tom Vilsack) attended the centrist Democratic Leadership Council's annual meeting in Denver. But this time around, not a single one has traveled to Nashville to speak at this year's conference, which continues today. On the flip side, most of them will participate this weekend at the YearlyKos convention, sponsored by the liberal political blog DailyKos.
*** The Center Didn't Hold: While not a single Democratic hopeful will speak to the DLC, the famous spouse of the front-runner -- Bill Clinton -- addresses the group today this afternoon. It was Clinton, of course, who once chaired the DLC and embodied many of its principles during his presidency. But as Noam Schieber put it in a Saturday New York Times op-ed, the DLC appears to have outlived its usefulness. Once a needed counterweight to the liberal excesses of the '70s and '80s, the DLC found itself on the wrong side of the Iraq war (its founder and staff backed Joe Lieberman's independent bid last year). What's more, a March NBC/WSJ poll (for the first time ever in the survey) showed a majority of respondents want an activist government. Will pendulum keep leaning toward the left come November 2008? The Democratic candidates seem to be betting the White House on it. However, of the current '08 field, Hillary Clinton may very well be the DLC candidate.
Video: None of the candidates attending Dem. Leadership Council meeting
*** The 3-Million-Dollar Man? Per NBC's Joel Seidman, Fred Thompson's "testing the waters" committee must file with the IRS by tomorrow to reveal -- for the first time -- some of his fundraising efforts for "Friends of Fred Thompson, Inc.," the Nashville based "527" political organization he formed in early June. Though the filing will provide records for only one month of funds raised, plus a list of contributors, it will somewhat lift the veil of mystery of Thompson's fundraising abilities. Will the amount be able to stop the flow of bad news for Team Fred (which includes staff defections, questions about his abortion record, and attention to his wife's role in his campaign)? Maybe not. NBC's Kelly O'Donnell reported last week that the tally will be around $3 million.
*** So You Say You've Got Experience: Newsweek's Wolfe writes about last week's Clinton-Obama spat and delves into something we're surprised some of the foes of Clinton and Obama haven't brought up yet: Whether either one of them really has a lot of foreign policy experience. "Both Clinton and Obama have called on foreign-policy heavyweights to educate them on the issues and help shape their approach to world affairs. But neither candidate would bring much in the way of hands-on foreign-policy experience to the Oval Office. Their efforts to promote their credentials can seem strained."
*** Living History: On Sunday, the New York Times front-paged letters that Hillary Clinton exchanged with a friend while in college. These letters are both revealing -- and not -- at the same time. They are revealing in that she comes across as, get this, a typical college liberal of the time. In the article, the Clinton camp acts as if it doesn't care for this type of coverage. But one can argue that it helps continue to make her three dimensional, which only helps. The tidbit, though, that she asked for copies of these letters wasn't surprising. The Clintons never like to be surprised.
*** On The Trail: Giuliani stumps in New Hampshire; McCain hits fundraisers in Pittsburgh and DC; Obama holds a town hall in Cedar Rapids, IA before traveling to Dallas for a fundraiser; Richardson raises money in New Mexico; Tancredo campaigns in Iowa; and Fred Thompson has a closed-press fundraiser in DC.
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Today's guest post is written by our good friend Shelina Moreda (Facebook & Twitter), an FIM eRoadracing rider for Team Parker Brammo, an AMA Pro Harley Davidson Vance & Hines rider with Team Spyke's H-D / She'z Racing, and the first female to have raced a motorcycle at the famous Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Having just got back from the FIM Women's Road Racing Training Camp in Albacete, Spain, we asked Shelina to share with us her experience teaching at the girls training camp, what she learned in attendance, and how the sport of motorcycle racing is being invaded by these talented ladies. -Jensen
The first ever FIM Women's Road Racing Training Camp in Albacete, Spain was better than any of us could have hoped for. The camp sold out, with 24 girls from 10 different countries in attendance.
The Women in Motorcycling Commission organized this camp as one part of their larger goal of promoting women in all motorsports, and I was honored to be asked to instruct at this camp.
My fellow teachers include Mr. Ismael Bonilla from Spain – former Grand Prix rider in the 250cc class from 1996 until 2001, as well as guest instructor Melissa Paris, of AMA Pro Daytona SportBike road racing fame — an athlete many female riders look up to.
The goal of the camp was to give female riders from all over the world the opportunity to train with high-spec motorcycles and professional coaches on a major racing circuit, and to give them the tools to make them better riders. The FIM hit it out of the ballpark.


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Labour slams 'too full' hospitals
Hundreds of thousands of patients in need of emergency care are being left at the doors of A&E in ambulances because hospitals are too full, Labour has said.
New figures obtained by the party show that last year almost 300,000 patients in England were caught in queues of ambulances outside emergency departments.
In 2013/14, 279,207 ambulances were delayed for more than 30 minutes and a further 30,601 faced waits longer than one hour, a Labour said.
New figures show that last year almost 300,000 patients were caught in queues of ambulances outside emergency departments
Freedom of Information requests conducted on all 10 ambulance trusts in England also revealed that some patients were forced to wait in these queues for hours on end.
A patient in the West Midlands was forced to wait for eight hours and 11 minutes, the party found. Another in the South West waited for seven and a half hours.
Labour said that the "handover delays" occur when ambulance crews cannot transfer a patient to the A&E department because of staff or bed shortages.
Labour's shadow health minister Jamie Reed said: "Under David Cameron, hospitals are full to bursting and he's forcing ambulances to queue at the doors for hours on end.
"Thousands of vulnerable people, many of them elderly and frightened, are being wrongly held in the backs of ambulances because hospitals don't have the space. And yet ministers deny that A&E is in crisis.
"People know from their own experience that the NHS is heading downhill on David Cameron's watch. It is clear the Tories can't be trusted with it."
A Department of Health spokesman said: "People rely on ambulances coming quickly in life and death situations and long handovers are completely unacceptable.
"We're already making good progress in reducing the number of patients waiting for 30 minutes or longer - down by almost a third last winter - though there's always more the NHS can do.
"We are providing extra support, including £28 million for ambulances from funds already given to the NHS this year, to keep services sustainable year-round. In the long-term, we want to reduce demand by looking after people better in the community."
An NHS England spokeswoman said: "The figures published for the winter of 2013/14 show that the number of ambulance handover delays were actually down on the previous year by 30%.
"We know that demands on ambulances are rising every year, and we're allocating a further £28 million to ambulance providers to help them deal with these pressures.
"However in some cases it may be the right thing to do for a patient to be cared for in the ambulance before transfer to stabilise their condition.
"One of the aims of our Urgent and Emergency Care Review is to capitalise on the skills and abilities of paramedics and the wider workforce so that ambulances can become more of a mobile treatment service, rather than just a transport service."
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Jamal Jackson, 23, came back to his parents Reisterstown home around 5 a.m. after spending the seven previous hours shopping only to be dragged out again with his family. This time, he ended up at Mondawmin Mall with bags of clothing from his mother that she'll wrap and put under the tree for him. Jackson said his biggest find was a wireless keyboard for his iPad for $40, marked down from $179. "I know that the most deals will be today," Jackson said. "You probably can't find a 60-inch TV for $200 again until next Black Friday." --Yvonne Wenger
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Jets given a stern lesson by the Bulldogs
Report on the NSW Cup trial match between Newtown and Canterbury-Bankstown played at Leichhardt Oval on Saturday, 12th February 2011.
The Newtown Jets were well beaten in their NSW Cup trial match against Canterbury-Bankstown played at Leichhardt Oval on Saturday. The Bulldogs are the defending NSW Cup premiers and showed that they have the firepower and playing strength to throw out a strong challenge for this year's title. Canterbury won by 34-6 in a match that was played in three segments of around 25 minutes each.
The game was played in somewhat different climatic conditions to the inferno at Redfern Oval on the previous Saturday, with cool weather prevailing and light rain falling for most of this match.The Jets dropped far too much ball to be able to apply any extended pressure on the Bulldogs defence, and Newtown's own defensive performance was well below the standard displayed against South Sydney.
The Jets' completion rate for the match of just on forty per cent shows why Canterbury had a feast of possession and were able to score six tries to Newtown's one.
Newtown was best served by front-rower and captain Khalid Deeb who set a good example to his younger team-mates. Stylish centre Francis Vaiotu scored Newtown's only try and showed the poise and speed that will make him a player to watch this season. Front-rower Lama Tasi, a Roosters signing who was previously with the Ipswich Jets and Manly-Warringah, showed a lot of aggression and the willingness to do the hard yards. Tasi overstepped the disciplinary mark slightly last Saturday and was sent off in the third session of the game.
The Jets return to Henson Park next Saturday (19th February) for a NSW Cup trial match against Manly-Warringah that is timed to kick off at 5.00pm. This match will be preceded by curtain-raisers starting at 1.30pm.


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One more to thank
Last week I wrote to you thanking many, many people who helped make Jamestown baseball a success this year.
However, my fears were realized because I forgot to thank someone else who was a critical member of our committee.
I would like to thank Chris Crawford, a board member and our league treasurer, for his immense help this year. He has been a source of valuable advice and Jamestown baseball owes him a debt of gratitude.
Tony Rafanelli,
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Twins Take Game Two From Tigers Saturday
The Twins evened up a weekend series with the Detroit Tigers with a 6-3 win Saturday night at Target Field. Every hitter in Minnesota's lineup charted at least one hit in the victory.
Trevor Plouffe had a big game for the Twins in his return from the disabled list, going 3-4 with three RBI. Clete Thomas, Justin Morneau and Chris Parmelee all had multi-hit games for Minnesota.
The Twins finish up a three-game series with the Tigers Sunday afternoon at Target Field.


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Netflix Added House of Cards Director Commentaries
Featuring David Fincher, James Foley, and Joel Schumacher.
In the lead-up to House of Cards' season-two drop on February 14, Netflix has added audio commentary from the first season's slew of directors: David Fincher, James Foley, Joel Schumacher, Charles McDougall, Carl Franklin, and Allen Coulter. Here's the service-y part: You can easily access the commentary just as you would add subtitles or alternate audio. Enjoy.


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This issue offers the latest information regarding the transmission of hepatitis viruses in various healthcare settings. It delves with a very timely and interesting patient safety subject that specifically targets healthcare professionals, gastroenterologists, hepatologists, oncologists, dentists and all healthcare workers to adopt and share a variety of best practices to prevent this adverse event. Well known faculty in liver disease, infection control as well as a medical practice in a legal setting have been assembled to produce a comprehensive and concise edition that highlights the latest information regarding hepatitis B and C transmission in healthcare. It aims to provide an overview on the molecular epidemiology, the outbreak reports, the transmission in hemodialysis, endoscopy, dental, oncology, management, legal aspects and the infection prevention measures to reduce the risk of needless exposure of patients to these blood borne pathogens.
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