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Yesterday, Adobe and Photobucket announced a partnership that will eventually allow millions of Photobucket users to make use of a new web-based video editing tool developed by Adobe to create their own "remixed" videos. The tool allows users to choose from their own library of uploaded images and videos to splice together—complete with captions, borders, and transitions—or select from any of the publicly-shared content available on Photobucket. The video remixer will be available for free to all Photobucket users in early March, but for now, the tool is available only in a limited beta to Photobucket Pro users. Ars sneaks a peek at the beta to find that it's a very simple, easy-to-use tool, but still has some issues that need to be worked out before public launch.
When a Photobucket Pro user logs into the service, he or she is greeted with the addition of a new button immediately above the library and below the upload box that says "Create Remix." The remixer is a Flash-based tool and requires all users to have the latest Flash plugin installed—version 9.0.28—on their browsers before proceeding. I installed this plugin on both of my browsers, Safari and Firefox for Mac, beforehand, but Photobucket did not agree.
Ultimately, I was unsuccessful in getting the video remixing tool to load on any Mac browser, despite having installed the latest Flash plugin. We can only assume that such browser compatibility problems will be fixed before the public launch of the service.
Under Windows, however, the tool was able to detect the Flash plugin under both IE and Firefox and loaded as expected. I was presented with the option of watching a very simple tutorial on how to use the remixer.
The tool would have been significantly more difficult to use without watching the tutorial, as the interface elements are large, easy-to-find, and self-explanatory. Library elements—both images and videos—load on the right side of the screen with the left side dedicated to the remixed video. The user can then drag-and-drop elements into the video timeline, with the ability to drag-and-drop any number of extras on top of my current section, such as frames or various captioning options.
Video clips can be trimmed or split in the remixing tool without affecting the original source, and an image can be dragged out to occupy nearly any stretch of time that the user desires. There's also the option to add in transitions between clips, although currently the tool only has three possible transitions: fade to black, fade to white, and fade out—which seems to be the same as fade to black. This is obviously a rather boring selection of transitions, and hopefully Photobucket and Adobe will add a few more before the product's official release. The selection of frames is rather cheesy as well, and anyone with a sense of dignity is not likely to use them. So that means that most of us can expect to receive video links from our family members with the gratuitous use of candy cane frames any day now.
Users can also add music to remixed videos, but not their own. When making my (rather bad) video, I was presented with 50 different songs from various artists, ranging from Alice Lee to The Orion Experience to Opus 7. Dragging the music clip anywhere onto my remix area placed it in the appropriate receptacle, which was nice, since I really didn't know or care at the time where that was. Dragging it out was equally simple.
Time to preview my remix! Users can preview their new creations at any point during the process without committing to saving it, which causes the background of the Flash-based app to blur and show a little pop-up preview in the foreground. During the previews of my two different remixes, the borders that I had dropped onto my movie were not displaying—probably a good thing, but those who like their borders will probably not be happy with that bug.
Once a masterpiece has been created, users can hit the "Publish" button, which processes the video for a few seconds and then brings the user to a new page to view the finished product. What's nice about this is that there is a button here that allows the user to go back and edit the remix if he or she so desires at a later date. My video was published without the cheesy borders here as well. From this page, users can then copy the URL to the movie for linking purposes, grab HTML embedding code for inclusion it on a web page or blog, or [img] code for forum use. The video is saved as a Flash SWF file to Photobucket's site, so users who want to save it as some other format are out of luck while using this tool. The remix also gets saved to the user's library for access later.
Overall, Photobucket's new video remixer is easy to use but only contains the simplest functionality that one could expect from web-based tools meant for the masses. Even desktop apps such as Apple's iMovie—once considered as simple as it could get—offer a lot more options than Photobucket in terms of editing capabilities, transitions, and other tools. That said, Photobucket's remixer does eliminate the need for any type of dedicated video editing software—or nearly any software at all, aside from a browser and a Flash plugin—making the process extremely simple for average users. Is this a feature that we expect many of Ars' readers to make use of? Probably not. But those we know and love might. Hopefully Photobucket and Adobe will get their browser/Flash detection worked out within the next couple of weeks so that the tools will be truly platform and browser agnostic upon launch. A few more of those ugly frames and transitions could help, too.


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Ask a couple of twentysomething anglophones like Ryan Bedic and Brian Abraham how many of their friends have left Quebec and you are likely to draw a long pause. It isn't that they need time to count up all of those who have left. It's that they have trouble coming up with the name of anyone in their largely English-speaking entourage in Montreal who has left.
Bedic, 23, and Abraham, 27, are students at the Pearson Electrotechnology Centre in western Lachine. In the 1970s, it was Bishop Whelan High School, an English-speaking Catholic school where students studied two hours of rudimentary French a week. Like anglo high-school students everywhere in Montreal in those days, the Bishop Whelan kids ended up graduating and finding out that Quebec politics was about to pull the rug out from under their feet.
Today, the old Bishop Whelan has been reincarnated as Pearson Electrotech, a vocational-education facility with dual electricity and telecommunication streams – as well as a four-year-waiting list for specialized trade instruction in English. Most students, like Bedic and Abraham, are totally at ease in French, and counting on building careers in Montreal.
Bedic says he knows one guy, an engineer, who has left for Saskatchewan. But that, he says, was because someone in his family, who owns a company there, had offered him a job. For his part, Abraham says he can also give one example of a friend who has left Quebec. "But maybe she doesn't count," he says, "because she always wanted to travel. She left for Vancouver. Now she's in Dubai working for an airline."
To stay or not to stay; that has been the question for young anglophones in Quebec, across all education levels, through these past four decades of political change in Quebec.
But after 35 years of uninterrupted population decline, the latest census data made public in December 2007 showed a 5.5-per-cent increase in the anglophone community from 2001 to 2006. It was the first census-to-census, five-year growth in the English-speaking community since 1971. Overall, the number of anglos who came to Quebec from other provinces and countries, or who were born here between 2001 and 2006, exceeded the number who left, or who died during these same five years.
Within Canada itself, there was still a net loss of anglos to other provinces. But the average annual net loss of 1,700 anglos from 2001 to 2006 was roughly equal to the average loss in just one month in the late 1970s, or one season in the late 1990s.
When the new census data came out, anglophone community leaders could hardly believe the statistical evidence of a turnaround. They didn't know whether to trust the data. Since then, however, there has been a slow acceptance that something relatively encouraging has been happening within the English-speaking community.
"It's still too early to say that we are on a positive track for the foreseeable future," says Jack Jedwab, executive director of the Association for Canadian Studies. "But there are definitely encouraging signs. Identity is built on events that shape you – and clearly, the dominant event for the anglophone community over time has been the migration phenomenon, and the profoundly negative psychological impact that that has had."
From 1971 to 2001, Quebec's anglophone population – defined as those who speak primarily English in the home, no matter their ethnic background or mother tongue – declined by 15.9 per cent, from 887,875 to 746,890. During these same 30 years, Quebec's population rose by 18.2 per cent and Canada's 39.1 per cent.
Ever since the 2006 census, Statcan has reported a new uptick in departures from Quebec. But Statcan analyst Hubert Denis says the rise hasn't been unique to Quebec. There's been a corresponding rise in migrations out of Ontario, he says. In fact, Ontario has begun losing more people to other provinces than Quebec is losing – something not seen since the recession of the early 1990s.
"There's something special going on there," says Denis, citing the decline of traditional manufacturing industries in eastern Canada, as opposed to political or economic uncertainty unique to Quebec. In the case of both Ontario and Quebec, he says, people drifted to Alberta. Both La Presse and Le Journal de Montréal, Montreal's two largest French-language newspapers, have reported over the past 18 months on a new wave of francophone migration to Fort McMurray and other oil-patch communities in Alberta. By contrast, there has been no anecdotal evidence of a new anglo exodus.
Mary Deskin, a real-estate agent with Royal LePage in Pointe Claire, says 2007 was the first year since she started working in the industry in 1990 that she didn't have a single anglo client who listed a home for sale in order to leave Quebec for another province. It was the same story last year, she says. "My listings have been all upgrades or divorces," she says. Tom Filgiano, president of Meldrum the Mover, in Notre Dame de Grâce, has also found anglo Montreal to be all quiet on exodus front. "In fact, there is no exodus at all anymore," he says. "It's more of a balanced flow now."
Bedic of Pearson Electrotech, who is the son of an anglophone mother from Verdun and an immigrant father from Croatia, says he's staying put. "I'm pretty confident about finding work in Montreal and building a life here," he says.
Abraham, the son of immigrant parents from Grenada, feels the same way. "French isn't a problem for me," he says. "And I like the low cost of living in Montreal."
Richard Bourhis, a professor of psychology at the Université du Québec à Montréal who has studied the anglophone community closely, says the low cost of living in Montreal has been an important driver of new anglo population growth.
Bourhis isn't the only demographer who has noticed that the 2006 census showed most of the anglo population growth was concentrated in the age 15 to 24 category. Bourhis says this suggests to him that a lot of young anglos from the rest of Canada have been migrating to Montreal to attend school or just have a good time – sort of like Canadian backpackers going to Europe a generation ago. For some out-of-province students, the cost of university tuition in Quebec is now cheaper than it is in their home provinces. For example, tuition this year is $6,155 at the University of New Brunswick, versus fees of $5,378 that Quebec charges its own out-of-province students (compared with $1,868 for Quebec residents). Many kids from small-town Canada who leave home to go to university have discovered that the cost of off-campus housing and public transit in Montreal are a bargain by Canadian standards. Bourhis says tuition, rent control and heavy taxpayer subsidization of transit have combined to create winning conditions for an influx of young anglos. For young Americans facing even more onerous tuition fees at home, the financial allures of Montreal are that much greater.
In 2001, one of these young Americans who drifted up to Montreal was a 21-year-old man from Houston, Tex., named Win Butler, who came up through a Boston prep school to study religion at McGill University.
A musician, he created a new band, called Arcade Fire, with a Concordia student from Toronto, and other anglo migrants from Ottawa, Guelph and Vancouver. They were joined in the band by a francophone woman of Haitian origin from the Montreal suburbs. Butler ended up marrying that woman, Régine Chassagne. Today, Arcade Fire is an international sensation. And with other new English-language indie bands like The Dears and The Stills, they have become symbols of a radically new anglo chic.
It all came to a sociological climax in February of 2005, when Spin magazine, and then the New York Times, anointed Montreal the next big thing in music, the new Seattle. For anyone who remembers the acute morosity in the English-speaking community after the 1995 referendum, the proposition that Montreal would soon have international resonance because of its English cultural vibrancy would have been preposterous.
But Montreal's essence is still undeniably French, not to mention alluring for anyone who grew up admiring the city from a distance. Tamera Burnett, 22, a third-year McGill University political-science student from Kamloops, B.C., came to Montreal thinking it was a very special place. She first came to Quebec when she was 16, to study French in Jonquière. She's continuing to improve her French today at McGill, and hopes to study law in Montreal or at the bilingual University of Ottawa. "I'd love to end up in Montreal," she says.
Bourhis, the UQAM professor, is also director of the Centre d'études ethniques des universités montréalaises, a research organization with offices at the Université de Montreal. He and Jedwab are on opposite sides of the spectrum, when it comes to interpreting the 2006 census results. Bourhis thinks the 5.5-per-cent increase is a blip that will wash out over time if the cost of living in Montreal rises to national averages for large Canadian cities, and fewer anglos come to Montreal from other provinces.
But Jedwab says the main reason why the English-speaking community is growing isn't this new influx of young anglos from the rest of Canada. The main reason is that young anglos born and bred in Quebec aren't leaving anymore, at least not in the numbers that they did a generation ago. The reasons for that, he says, go beyond mere cost-of-living considerations. And they reflect a major shift in perception within the anglophone community, he adds.
"This psychology, this sense of persistent losses, has been broken," says Jedwab.
Anglo community leaders aren't so sure. They're not comfortable with the notion of a renaissance. Their worry, as Jedwab sees it, is that governments will respond to the census findings of growth by reducing financial support to all the different little anglophone community groups in Quebec.
"That's the concern some people have," Jedwab says. "And so the good news, in a perverse sort of way, is really bad news. People are afraid that governments will say, "Well, the anglophones are doing very well, thank you very much. What kind of support do they really need anymore?' "
Robert Donnelly, president of the Quebec Community Groups Network, the main umbrella group for all the anglophone community organizations in Quebec, says the census results need to be interpreted with caution.
In almost every region of Quebec outside of Montreal, says Donnelly, anglophone populations are continuing to shrink – and shrink fast. Without strong government financial and moral support, he says, English schools, old-age homes, community newspapers and health services in the regions will be severely threatened.
"While the numbers are up overall, they mask serious declines outside of Montreal," says Donnelly, a native of Quebec City, which has a 2 per cent anglo population, down from 40 per cent a century ago.
But Donnelly admits that something encouraging does appear to be going on with young anglos in Montreal.
"Are we finally moving on beyond Bill 101 and the after-effects of that? Maybe there's a stabilizing factor that has kicked in," he says. "We're hearing less and less about people leaving."
Bill 101 chased away a lot of anglos at first. But over time, the demands of the language law also created the conditions for the rise of a new generation of anglophones more at ease in French than their Bishop Whelan forefathers were in the 1970s. And that has helped make it easier for young anglos today to stay.


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- An Apple Watch cellular model with an active cellular plan*
- watchOS 5.1.2 or later
* RTT and TTY aren't supported by all carriers or in all regions. RTT and TTY functionality depends on your carrier and network environment. When making an emergency call in the U.S., iPhone sends special characters or tones to alert the operator. The operator's ability to receive or respond to these tones can vary depending on your location. Apple doesn't guarantee that the operator will be able to receive or respond to an RTT or TTY call.
Set up RTT for Apple Watch
You can use RTT for conversational text calls on your Apple Watch when you're away from your iPhone.
Here's how to set up RTT:
- On your iPhone, open the Apple Watch App.
- Go to Accessibility > RTT.
- Turn on RTT.
Place an RTT call
Your Apple Watch needs to be connected to a cellular network to place an RTT call. Learn how to set up cellular service.
On your Apple Watch:
- Tap the Phone app.
- Select a contact and tap the number you'd like to call.
- Tap RTT Call.
- When the call connects, swipe up and tap RTT.
- Choose from the default replies, send an emoji, or tap the Scribble button to text. If you've turned on Send Immediately in Settings, your recipient sees your message as you type. If not, enter your message and tap send.
Answer an RTT call
If you've set up RTT, here's how to answer a call and upgrade it to a text conversation.
- Tap Accept to answer the call.
- Swipe up and then tap RTT.
If you haven't set up RTT, you can still answer an RTT call. Here's how.
- When an RTT call comes in to your Apple Watch, you'll see this message: "RTT allows text messages to be sent during a phone call between recipients. This service is typically used by those with hearing impairments. Press the RTT button to communicate using text with the caller."
- Tap Got It to accept the RTT call.


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The Adobe PostScript (AdobePS) printer driver 8.8 for Macintosh enables you to print documents from any application running in Mac OS 8.6 through 9.2.2 to a printer that includes Adobe PostScript. AdobePS 8.8 is a maintenance release only.
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- PowerPC processor
- Mac OS 8.6 through 9.2.2 (German versions only)
- 4MB or more of available memory
- 3.1MB of available hard-disk space
- Additional space for PostScript Printer Description (PPD) files
- Apple ColorSync 2.0.1, if using the AdobePS ColorSync features (AdobePS does not support ColorSync 1.x.)
After downloading a ".hqx" file on a Macintosh, use StuffIt Deluxe or StuffIt Expander to access the file's contents. StuffIt Expander is available as a freeware product.
NOTE: Please ensure you have the latest version of StuffIt by Allume Systems, Inc.
Need help with downloading? See our Downloading Help documents.
The Easy Install installation option requires a maximum of 3.1MB of disk space to install AdobePS components and documentation. Verify that you have this much space available before starting to install AdobePS 8.8.
Installing AdobePS 8.8 will overwrite any previous version of AdobePS, but will not overwrite other printer drivers (such as LaserWriter or PSPrinter).
To install AdobePS 8.8:
1. Ensure that your computer is running Mac OS 8.6 through 9.2.2.
2. Download the AdobePS setup files from the Web to your hard disk, or insert the Installation diskette or CD-ROM into the appropriate drive.
3. Double-click the Installer icon.
4. In the Installer, click Continue, then click Accept to accept the licensing agreement.
5. Select the Easy Install option.
The Easy Install option installs the following items:
- AdobePS
- PrintingLib
- Adobe Printing Library
- Folder on the root level of your hard drive called AdobePS Components containing an Installer Log File, the Desktop Printer Utility, and a folder named AdobePS ReadMe files containing the AdobePS License Agreement file, AdobePS ReadMe file, VirtualPrinter ReadMe file, and Watermark ReadMe file
- Folder called Printer Descriptions containing AdobePS driver extensions (DXTNs) called Create Adobe PDF, Custom Page, Virtual Printer, and Watermark. Note that Easy Install installs no printer description files in this folder.
- Folder in the Preferences folder named Watermarks containing sample watermark files
Note: If you obtained AdobePS software from your printer manufacturer, Easy Install may install other files.
License agreement
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The export and re-export of Adobe software products are controlled by the United States Export Administration Regulations and such software may not be exported or re-exported to Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, or any country to which the United States embargoes goods. In addition, Adobe software may not be distributed to persons on the Table of Denial Orders, the Entity List, or the List of Specially Designated Nationals.
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Rested Blue Jays' bullpen picking up slack
SEATTLE -- Toronto manager John Gibbons did not have to lean heavily on Tuesday's starter Josh Johnson because of a rested bullpen. Instead of pushing Johnson an extra inning, Gibbons went to the bullpen for the final four frames to close out the win.
The Blue Jays have received quality innings from their starters the past few days. But when a starter has struggled, relievers have been able to eat up a chunk of innings, like Brad Lincoln did on Saturday when he worked the final three innings against the Angels. Thursday's off-day will also help keep the bullpen rested.
Even though the bullpen lost All-Star Steve Delabar when he was placed on the disabled list on Sunday due to shoulder inflammation, Sergio Santos' return from the 60-day disabled list last Thursday has been a welcome addition.
"He's looked good these two outings he's had," Gibbons said of Santos, who's allowed one run in 3 1/3 innings since his return. "Two innings the other day in Anaheim and then yesterday. He's throwing strikes and that's the key for him. He feels good."
In Wednesday's 9-7 loss to the Mariners, Aaron Loup was tagged with the loss after allowing a two-run homer to Humberto Quintero to break a 7-7 tie. Lincoln followed with 1 1/3 scoreless innings despite walking three, and veteran Darren Oliver allowed only one hit in 1 2/3 innings.


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If so, look for the little red barn with the trillium in the centre on meat and poultry products at your local retailer. The Homegrown Ontario logo is your guarantee that your meat and poultry has been raised on an Ontario farm and processed at an Ontario plant.
Many independent and chain grocery retailers and butchers already offer Ontario produced meat and poultry at their meat counters. However, with the Homegrown Ontario program, and with the support and commitment of Ontario processors and retailers, the product can be clearly identified with the Homegrown Ontario logo.
What is Homegrown Ontario™?
Homegrown Ontario was created to brand and promote Ontario meat and poultry. An Ipsos Reid1 study shows that consumers are eager to support Ontario farmers and the local economy by choosing meat produced in Ontario. Homegrown Ontario makes it easier for consumers to identify Ontario meat products at their local retailer with an eye-catching logo featuring a red barn with a trillium in the centre. This emblem is a testament to the quality meat and poultry products produced by Ontario's farmers and processors for Ontario retailers and consumers.
Homegrown Ontario™ History
In 2006, the Ontario Pork Producers' Marketing Board (OPPMB), the Ontario Veal Association (OVA) and the Ontario Sheep Marketing Agency (OSMA) came together to form Homegrown Ontario. In January 2008 and May 2008 respectively, Turkey Farmers of Ontario (TFO) and the Ontario Independent Meat Processors (OIMP) joined the Homegrown Ontario program.
In 2010 the Ontario Independent Meat Processors (OIMP) assumed ownership of Homegrown Ontario and continues the mandate to build and promote a branded identity for Ontario meat and poultry.
The OIMP is the representative voice of the independent meat processor in Ontario, working closely with agricultural and commodity organizations and various levels of government for over 30 years. OIMP's membership includes Business Members (meat and poultry processors, retailers and wholesalers); Associate Members (industry suppliers); and seven Affiliate Members (not-for-profit organizations that support OIMP's objectives).
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Talk:Securing tomcat
- Choose an installation directory (referenced as TOMCAT_DIR from now on), preferably on a different drive to the OS.
- do we get many advantages separating application and webapps? - Darren Edmonds
- it could prevent path traversal under windows, but not unix. Separating apps from OS is common good practice anyway. Stephendv 02:32, 9 October 2006 (EDT)
Network Security
Generic advice common to all server security (link).
- Not sure what information should go here? Stephendv 04:21, 16 October 2006 (EDT)
- I was thinking of a firewall discussion in relation to protecting the server. Perhaps this should be changed to only mention the shutdown port needs protecting in tomcat dledmonds
User Input
User data, whether it be HTTP headers or parameters, should '"never"' be trusted. It is usually the responsibility of the application to validate data, but it is important that one poorly written application doesn't compromise Tomcat as a whole.
- global filters
- global error pages (see above)
- permission lockdown (see below)
- I think this section would be more appropriate for apps themselves, rather than applying to the server as a whole. Stephendv 04:24, 16 October 2006 (EDT)
- Agree the section doesn't seem relevant to Tomcat as it is, but I wanted to focus on preventing one webapp ruining it for everyone. Perhaps a full rundown on java security is out of scope, but how could we prevent a poorly written download webapp from using path traversal exploits to download files of other webapps? dledmonds
Securing Manager WebApp
- By default there are no users with the manager role. To make use of the manager webapp you need to add a new user into the CATALINA_HOME/conf/tomcat-users.xml file.
<user username="darren" password="ReallyComplexPassword" roles="manager"/>
- Using a valve to filter by IP or hostname to only allow a subset of machines to connect (i.e. LAN machines). Add one of the following within the Context tag in CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost/manager.xml
<!-- allow only LAN IPs to connect to the manager webapp --> <!-- contrary to the current Tomcat 5.5 documation the value for allow is not a regular expression --> <!-- future versions may have to be specificed as 192\.168\.1\.* --> <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve" allow="192.168.1.*" />
<!-- allow only LAN hosts to connect to the manager webapp --> <!-- contrary to the current Tomcat 5.5 documation the value for allow is not a regular expression --> <!-- future versions may have to be specificed as *\.localdomain\.com --> <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteHostValve" allow="*.localdomain.com" />
- You can rename the manager webapp to something else, e.g. foobar (confirm nothing breaks in this move)
- Move CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost/manager.xml to CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost/foobar.xml
- Update the docBase attribute within CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost/foobar.xml to ${catalina.home}/server/webapps/foobar
- Move CATALINA_HOME/server/webapps/manager to CATALINA_HOME/server/webapps/foobar
Using Port 80
If you are on a Windows machine you will be able to change the port attribute of the connector within the Catalina service from 8080 to 80. This allows you to use tomcat directly to serve all requests. Depending on your requirements it may not be good enough to serve directly from Tomcat so you may like to consider;
- Use IIS / Apache running on port 80 and mod_jk to proxy requests to Tomcat
On a UNIX machine only root is allowed to run services on ports below 1024 (kernel recompilation can overcome this). It is a very bad idea to run Tomcat as root, so the options are;
- Use Apache running on port 80 and mod_jk to proxy requests to Tomcat (is mod_jk the correct version?)
- Run Tomcat as root, but in a chroot jail
- Use a tool like authbind to enable a non root user to bind to ports below 1024
- Use a port forwarder such as Iptables to redirect incoming requests from 8080 to 80. This has the disadvantage that internal redirects still need to use 8080.
- Run Squid as a web accelerator in front of Tomcat
- Use JSVC/procrun
Cleartext Passwords in CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml
When configuring a resource, such as a JDBC pool, it is necessary to include clear text username and password in CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml Best practices advice us never to store clear text passwords, but the following paragraphs highlight it is very difficult to avoid.
If one way encryption was used on the password it must be possible for a database connection to be established using a username and encrypted password - so the encrypted password is just as valuable as the clear text one to an attacker.
If two way encryption was used a keyfile is needed which must also live on the filesystem. To make it more secure a passphase is added to the keyfile which then has to be stored in the configuration as clear text - no improvement.
Encoding is security by obscurity and offers no form of protection (algorithms can be reverse engineered). What encoding does do is make huge amounts of overhead work - you need to customise Tomcat and the commons digester it uses to parse the config files. You'd also need a way to create encoded passwords.
In the case of a JDBC pool what you can do is;
- make sure the database user only has access to the databases and tables they need (also limit rights as necessary).
- make sure the raw database files are only accessible to the user running the database services (e.g. mysql/postgresql user)
- make sure the Tomcat configuration files are only accessible to the tomcat user


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The Future of Federalism in a Polarized Country
The states' widening ideological gulfs have begun to spill over into the implementation of federal programs. Are we headed for an age of 'variable-speed' federalism?
What do health reform, homeland security, education reform and abortion have in common? Substantively, very little. But structurally, each of these areas has been subject to congressional or Supreme Court actions that were intended to guarantee equal and uniform treatment nationwide but which are now characterized by large policy differences among the states.
Diversity across states has always been one of the most important strengths of federalism. States' freedom to innovate new approaches to public problems is a foundation for our highly touted laboratories of democracy. In fact, most federal programs, including welfare reform, health reform and educational testing standards, have their antecedents in state innovations.
Over recent years however, widening differences in state politics, political cultures and priorities have emerged, contributing to increased policy polarization among the states. These differences are readily apparent in the diverging of public policies originated among the states, whether they be legalization of gay marriage and marijuana use or "stand your ground" gun laws and climate-change policies. Recently, however, these yawning ideological gulfs have begun to spill over into the implementation of federal programs as well.
The 2012 elections brought even greater polarization to state governments. In fully half of the states, a single party now controls a supermajority in the legislature, up from only 14 states a decade ago, and 23 states now have unified Republican control of both the governor's office and the legislature. At the same time, the ideological distance between the two parties has continued to widen in the states just as it has in Congress. Both developments give conservative Republican governors greater capacity and incentives to challenge federal mandates and policy prescriptions.
The ideological differences across states have accentuated wide differences in participation by states in some of the major grants under the 2009 stimulus program and the 2010 health-reform law. The map below charts the differences in states' participation in expanded state Medicaid and health exchanges under the Affordable Care Act as well as state participation patterns in new major high-speed rail networks funded under the stimulus program. As the map shows, only 18 states participated in all three of these major federal initiatives, while 14 refused to participate in any of them.
For the most part, states participation in federal programs is broadly reflective of their ideological and partisan composition, and the ideological winds are strong enough to cause these states to act in defiance of fiscal logic and rationality: States opting out of major federal grant programs give up the opportunity for their taxpayers to get a return on their federal taxes, ensuring that their federal tax payments will, in effect, subsidize programs in other states to the neglect of their own.
These state differences have become a source of policy drag on national activism. Consigned to work with the states they have rather than the ones they might want, national officials have adopted flexible strategies that largely enable states to participate in new federal initiatives as much or as little as their politics permit:
• Partial preemptions: These establish a floor but not a ceiling for new regulations, allowing some states to go beyond a federally required level of regulation. This is something that California, for example, has long taken advantage of with the Clean Air Act, which allows states to impose stricter limits on auto emissions than what is federally mandated.
• Waivers: These tools have been used for several decades, first in welfare reform and later in Medicaid. States been able to tailor federal entitlement and grant programs to achieve cost savings, shifts in service-delivery approaches and other innovations.
• Opt-outs: These have allowed conservative states to avoid participating in some federal programs altogether. In the case of regulatory opt-outs, the federal government typically stands by to enforce federal rules in nonparticipating states, thereby ensuring some level of national uniformity. This was most notable with the Affordable Care Act, which allows states to opt out of operating their own insurance exchanges. When states opt out of grants, however, there is typically no federal fallback.
Where is all of this leading? In the European Union there has been much discussion of a "variable-speed" union, currently illustrated by use of the euro. Most EU members have joined the monetary union and utilize the euro, while some countries, including Britain and Denmark, have opted to retain their own currency. In our own system, we are heading toward more of variable-speed federalism as well.
The consequences remain to be seen. On the one hand, states could emerge as newly empowered actors in charge of federal programs. The polarization that gave rise to wide variations among the states could become institutionalized, further segmenting the nation into radically different policy worlds.
However, there could be a cyclical quality to the states' resurgence, coming on the heels of strong national reforms in health, financial regulation and even education. As such, variable-speed federalism may be a temporary speed bump on the way to the adaptation of new national programs to the differences among our states and people.
Should the goals of national programs become more deeply rooted, differences among states could prompt renewed and stronger forms of nationalization of programs, possibly including more centralized federal leadership and mandates. Already there are voices on the progressive side arguing that the refusal by two dozen states to expand Medicaid coverage justifies a nationalized program under federal control. Variable-speed federalism, thus, could be the defining force shaping the next decade of national policy debate.


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Forum discusses scope of child trafficking problem in Connecticut
HARTFORD >> A prostitution investigation at a Connecticut casino led authorities to a 16-year-old girl, allegedly taken to a hotel last month for pre-arranged sex with a customer. The Rhode Island woman accused of taking her there was charged with human trafficking.
The case highlights child sex trafficking that officials say is pervasive across the state and the nation. At a forum Wednesday in Hartford devoted to the issue, officials urged continued collaboration among government branches and agencies to fight a scourge they described as modern-day slavery.
"The reality is that as society we need to do as much as we possibly can to end that misery for as many people as we can, and discover it as early as possible," Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said. He said Connecticut has had 195 reported cases of child sex trafficking over the last six years.
A spokesman for the FBI, which was involved in the investigation at the Foxwoods Resort Casino, said the casino atmosphere may attract prostitution more than some other places, but such cases appear to be growing everywhere.
"There are a lot of vulnerable kids that fall prey to these people," Connecticut FBI spokesman Dan Curtin said.
Kaieema Gadson, 24, of Providence, was arrested on Dec. 19 at the Two Trees Inn at Foxwoods. She was charged with human trafficking and promoting prostitution. No phone number was listed at the home address for Gadson, who posted bond and is due back in court on Feb. 4.
Authorities did not say whether Gadson has any relation to the girl, who was taken to a hospital for medical evaluation.
A task force made up of state police, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and the Mashantucket Pequot tribal police department began the investigation at the hotel and at Foxwoods after learning of "pervasive use" of websites to solicit prostitution, according to a preliminary state police report. Agents identified several people engaging in prostitution, according to the report.
The chief of Mashantucket police, William Dittman, said the tribe is dedicated to ensuring all laws are followed and that he did not know of any other similar cases at Foxwoods or other tribal-owned properties.
"I'm sure it didn't develop here but it led here," Dittman said of the trafficking investigation.
The state Department of Children and Families hosted Wednesday's forum at the Connecticut Convention Center, which was attended by people including state and federal law enforcement, medical providers and school officials. It coincides with National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month.
DCF Commissioner Joette Katz said child sex trafficking is of particular concern to her agency in part because many of the victims are or were once in the state's child welfare system.
"This issue is one that together we can help prevent," she said.
Connecticut has passed several laws in recent years to help fight child sex trafficking, requiring that victims who are minors be referred to DCF rather than face prostitution charges and strengthening criminal penalties for convicted traffickers.
The FBI has declared child prostitution a "persistent threat" and says a joint effort by federal, state and local authorities has resulted in more than 2,700 children being rescued and more than 1,350 people being convicted since 2003.


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A Turkish custom of giving gifts of gold–either in the form of jewelry or coins–to celebrate such occasions as weddings and births, has grown in popularity popular over the past decade as Turkey's inflation rate has climbed above 70%.
As a result, the country's banks have been inspired to go for the gold as they try to convince people to turn over those precious gifts and exchange them for currency to lessen the nation's current-account deficit.
Bloomberg reported late Monday that the campaign is targeted at gift-givers. Banks are offering "golden age" accounts and products such as gold gift checks in an effort to convince Turks that such gifts are preferable to the recipient than those shiny pieces of metal.
We're not talking about gold dust here. This is the mother lode–estimates are that Turkish citizens are holding onto somewhere in the neighborhood of $302 billion in the precious metal. The drive seems to be working, too; The country's central bank said that gold-based deposit accounts have jumped 15% this year through the end of July, three times the increase in standard savings accounts.
Customers bring their gold to the bank, which then gives them Turkish lira based on the weight of their deposit that they can either take out as a loan or withdraw as cash. The bank can then retain or sell the gold, putting the precious metal back into the economy.
The World Gold Council estimates there are some 5,000 metric tons (5,512 tons) of gold trinkets floating around Turkey–more than Ireland's entire GDP. According to Erdal Aral, deputy chief executive officer of Isbank, if Turkey can bring a chunk of that hoard into its banking system, the country can cut down on its gold imports and stop borrowing so much externally as well.
He was quoted saying, "We have to get the gold that's out there into the financial system. This is going to be an important step toward solving our current-account problem."
Deposits in gold-based mutual funds (which invest at least 51% of their money in precious metals and offer a guaranteed return on capital) increased 62% in 2012 at Yapi Kredi Bankasi, owned by UniCredit, and Koc Holding. At Turkiye Is Bankasi, Turkey's largest bank by assets, the situation is rosy, too: Gold deposits increased tenfold in the two years through June.
Turkey's regulators are considering possible legislation that will permit customers to buy or sell gold at bank branches or transfer gold into other accounts, and Bank Asya has said it will soon start purchasing and selling bullion at its branches.
Turkish jewelers, perhaps predictably, are not thrilled with the idea, saying that banks' entry into the gold market would cost jewelers profits and spur development of an underground market.
At first, some were not so opposed; Kamil Karakas, chairman of gold producer Karakas Atlantis Kiymetli Madenler AS, said in the report, "I always viewed gold deposit accounts positively because the funds will return to our industry as loans. But banks buying and selling gold is a serious blow for jewelers."


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Just because one can sense emotions, it doesn't make one compassionate. Being compassionate is a voluntary act; take Carlisle, who exudes compassion, even during the battle with the newborns in Eclipse, willingly sparing Bree (albeit temporarily).TillyWhitlock wrote:But here's a question from you. Jazz is an empath, so yes he is compassionate to things. However, do you think that he's become more compassionate since meeting Alice? I'd ask if he's gone soft, but he hasn't so it's all good. But seriously, do you think Jazz is more compassionate?
That being said, Jasper came from a background of war. He has learned that there are ways other than constant battles since Peter came back for him, and he left Maria. Since he met Alice, he knew emotions other than the constant fear or hatred that were his companions for so long. So in a sense, he has become more compassionate since his time with Maria, but in my opinion he has always been a compassionate person. I think about the time when he (as a human) stopped upon seeing Maria, Nettie, and Lucy, thinking they required aid; he didn't stop to consider it, he just stopped.


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Governor speaks from Rome about Pope's inauguration
Martinez honored to represent U.S. and N.M.
Late at night from her hotel room in Rome, Gov. Susana Martinez said she's at peace being in the holy city on the eve of Pope Francis's inauguration.
Martinez was selected to join Vice President Joe Biden and two other leaders to represent the United States for the inaugural mass Tuesday morning. During her free time in Rome, the governor went on a search for special rosaries that smell like roses. In a small shop she found exactly what she was looking for and bought 50 of them.
The governor said she'll bring the rosaries with her to Vatican City for the pope to bless. She is also carrying a picture of her mother from her mother's communion. The governor's mother, a devout Catholic, passed away on the same date, March 19th, as the inauguration.
The governor said she's all wearing two necklaces, one with a crucifix and one with a Virgin Mary. She says she and her husband have worn those necklaces since they were dating 22-years ago.
The governor attended a reception Monday evening where she met several cardinals.
While on the flight home aboard Air Force Two, Martinez said she'll spend time talking with the vice president about how important it is to keep federal funding for the labs in New Mexico.


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6 militants face charges for Philippines bombing
Philippine police have filed murder complaints against six Muslim militants from a little-known al-Qaida-inspired group they blamed for a bombing last month that killed eight people in a crowded bar in the south, officials said Wednesday.
Witnesses identified Usman Hapids of Khilafa Islamiyah Mindanao as the man who left a mortar round concealed in a bag that went off in a bar at a shopping mall complex, killing eight people and wounding 46 in Cagayan de Oro city, said regional police chief Catalino Rodriguez.
Rodriguez told a Senate committee that was looking into the July 26 blast that the complaints filed against Hapids and his companions before government prosecutors were part of a legal offensive to help discourage other such bloody attacks.
Despite a security alarm set off by the explosion, a series of bombings rocked other southern regions this week, including in Cotabato city, where a powerful bomb rigged into a small van exploded on a busy avenue during rush hour Monday, killing eight people and wounding more than 30.
Three bombs went off in the region on Wednesday, including a roadside explosive that wounded seven soldiers on board a passing army truck in Maguindanao province, near Cotabato city, regional military commander Maj. Gen. Romeo Gapuz said.
Another bomb that exploded Wednesday caused no injuries but damaged a bridge in Maguindanao's Datu Piang town.
Officials said that there was no evidence the bombings were connected and that different motives may be behind them, including terrorism and personal feuds.
"It hurts to say, but the impression given is that it's so easy for one to get attacked in the Philippines," Sen. Grace Poe-Llamanzares told top police officials in her law and order committee inquiry on the Cagayan de Oro bombing. "We should prevent this from happening."
Hapids was seen with five other suspected Muslim militants before he detonated the bomb in Cagayan de Oro, about 800 kilometers (500 miles) south of Manila, police senior inspector Pepito Reyes said in documents submitted to government prosecutors.
A government counterterrorism official said Hapids' group, Khilafa Islamiyah Mindanao, has fewer than 15 members and aspires to bring the southern Philippines under an Islamic caliphate, or religious state. Set up a few years ago, the group has staged a few bombings in the past, including at a hotel in Cagayan de Oro months ago, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to reporters.
Another Muslim rebel group, the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement, claimed responsibility for the bomb attack Wednesday against the soldiers, who were returning to camp after buying supplies from a market in Shariff Saydona Mustapha town in Maguindanao province.
The group broke off from the Philippines' largest Muslim rebel group, the 11,000-strong Moro Islamic Liberation Front, two years ago. The breakaway guerrillas have rejected talks between the government and the main rebel group and have vowed to continue fighting for a southern homeland for minority Muslims in the predominantly Roman Catholic country.
Abu Misri Mammah, a spokesman of the rebel faction, said his group would continue attacks against government forces. Government troops have strengthened security in the south, concerned that the breakaway guerrillas may intensify attacks, including bombings when the holy Muslim month of Ramadan ends this week.


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Readers will find here not only the country's leading conservative thinker offering a pas'sionate defense of limited government, but also a highly independent mind whose views on feminism, evolution and the death penalty, for example defy ideological convention. Things That Matter also features several of Krautham mer's major path-breaking essays on bioeth ics, on Jewish destiny and on America's role as the world's superpower that have pro foundly influenced the nation's thoughts and policies. And finally, the collection presents a trove of always penetrating, often bemused re flections on everything from border collies to Halley's Comet, from Woody Allen to Win'ston Churchill, from the punishing pleasures of speed chess to the elegance of the perfectly thrown outfield assist.
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March 15, 2014 (BBC News Europe) Russia has vetoed a draft UN resolution criticising Sunday's secession referendum in Ukraine's Crimea region - the only Security Council member to vote against the measure. China, regarded as a Russian ally on the issue, abstained from the vote.
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Tiggy's story takes place in the Scottish Highlands as well as the hills and caves of Granada, Spain. Tiggy has a gift for working with animals and has inherited a sixth sense from her ancestors. If you are already following the Seven Sisters Series, this is the last one in the series that is available for now. The sixth instalment is still being written and is due to be released in the fall of 2019. It will focus on Electra, the famous yet troubled sister.
If you are new to the series, it is recommended to read them in order. Pa Salt, a mysterious wealthy man, adopts 6 daughters from various corners of the globe and names them after a star constellation. Upon his death/disappearance, the girls are given clues about their origins and each one embarks on a journey of discovery. Each book focuses on one sister, and the books just keep getting better and better. In this one there are a few more clues about what will be coming in the final book which has been top secret all along. However, there is a mystery building about the 7th sister called Merope, who is mentioned but was never found, and about Pa Salt's disappearance. Is he really dead?
For a complete list of the books in the series, visit Lucinda Riley's website. I also found an article about her personal life which reads like a page-turner in itself: click here.


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The Kindle Fire will ship to customers today — one day early — and the company's new lineup of E-ink devices will ship tomorrow — a full six days early. But how many of them have been sold? Amazon declines to say, as usual. In press releases, Amazon Kindle VP Dave Limp goes so far as to say that the Fire is Amazon's bestselling item across the site, and that it is building millions more than planned. Meanwhile, sales of E-ink Kindles are "more than double any previous Kindle launch," Limp added.


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RED Epic cameras are the bees' knees in camera tech, but their data throughput makes using typical storage options seem like filling a water balloon with a fire hose. Vincent Laforet gives us a look at how his team handles the deluge.
Shooting on the RED Epic in full 5k resolution eats up a preposterous 3-5 GB per minute. They also shot with a Hasselblad H4D, EOS 5D Mark II, EOS 7D, and EOS 1D Mark IV, each of which shot RAW images at about 40MP each. Their workflow is really impressive—and informative—but I can't help but imagine them blowing through those 128GB SSDs and tossing them aside like empty clips in a Stallone movie. [Vincent Laforet]
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It had been 15 days in the New Year, and I haven't been for a trek. This feeling was killing me from inside. All the plans I was making were getting cancelled and I was annoyed with the same.
|Hatia Lokmanya Tilak Terminus
|General Unreserved compartment
|Shilpa and Me at Manmad Station
|Shilpa and Me at Ankai Killa station
|Goods Train, we crossed
|Group Selfie, backdrop is Ankai Fort
|Landmark - Temple, opposite the fort
|Temple at Ankai base village
|Unknown tomb at the base of Ankai and Tankai Fort
|Another Tomb
|Tankai Jain Caves and Tankai Fort
|Steps leading to Tankai Jain Caves, Anaki Fort and Tankai Fort
|Group Selfie
|Structure near the Tankai Jain Caves
|Tankai Jain Caves
|Tankai Jain Caves
|Temple in Tankai Jain Caves
|Fortification of Ankai and Tankai Fort from Tankai Jain Caves
|View from Tankai Jain Caves
|Elephants sculptured on the Tankai Jain Caves
|Three Sparrow at Tankai Jain Caves
|Fortification of Ankai Fort
|Main Entrance to Ankai and Tankai Forts
|Shilpa and Me at one of the Fort Darwaza
|View from the common entrance of Ankai and Tankai Fort
|Tankai Fort
|Group Selfie
|Playing cards in a water tank atp Ankai Fort
|Another monumnet on Ankai Fort
|Inside the monument premises on Ankai Fort
|Inside of monument premises
|Tem ples in Ankai Fort
|Caves on Ankai Fort
|View of Tankai Fort from Ankai Fort
|Main Entrance to Tankai Fort
|Monuments atop Tankai Fort
|Me, Tankai Fort in the backdrop
|Shilpa and Me on the railway tracks


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109th CONGRESS
2d Session
March 28, 2006
Mr. Jindal introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to prohibit the confiscation of firearms during certain national emergencies.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the
Disaster Recovery Personal Protection Act of 2006.
Congress finds the following:
The Second Amendment to the Constitution states,
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed, and Congress has repeatedly recognized this language as protecting an individual right.
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, State and local law enforcement and public safety service organizations were overwhelmed and could not fulfill the safety needs of the citizens of the State of Louisiana.
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the safety of these citizens, and of their homes and property, was threatened by instances of criminal activity.
Many of these citizens lawfully kept firearms for the safety of themselves, their loved ones, their businesses, and their property, as guaranteed by the Second Amendment, and used their firearms, individually or in concert with their neighbors, for protection against crime.
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, certain agencies confiscated the firearms of these citizens, in contravention of the Second Amendment, depriving these citizens of the right to keep and bear arms and rendering them helpless against criminal activity.
These confiscations were carried out at gunpoint, by nonconsensual entries into private homes, by traffic checkpoints, by stoppage of boats, and otherwise by force.
The citizens from whom firearms were confiscated were either in their own homes or attempting to flee the flooding and devastation by means of motor vehicle or boat, and were accosted, stopped, and arbitrarily deprived of their private property and means of protection.
The means by which the confiscations were carried out, which included intrusion into the home, temporary detention of persons, and seizures of property, constituted unreasonable searches and seizures and deprived these citizens of liberty and property without due process of law in violation of fundamental rights under the Constitution.
Many citizens who took temporary refuge in emergency housing were prohibited from storing firearms on the premises, and were thus treated as second-class citizens who had forfeited their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
At least one highly-qualified search and rescue team was prevented from joining in relief efforts because the team included individuals with firearms, although these individuals had been deputized as Federal law enforcement officers.
These confiscations and prohibitions, and the means by which they were carried out, deprived the citizens of Louisiana not only of their right to keep and bear arms, but also of their rights to personal security, personal liberty, and private property, all in violation of the Constitution and laws of the United States.
Prohibition on confiscation of firearms during certain national emergencies
Title VII of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5201) is amended by adding at the end the following:
Firearms policies
Prohibition on confiscation of firearms
No officer or employee of the United States (including any member of the uniformed services), or person operating pursuant to or under color of Federal law, or receiving Federal funds, or under control of any Federal official, or providing services to such an officer, employee, or other person, while acting in support of relief from a major disaster or emergency, may—
temporarily or permanently seize, or authorize seizure of, any firearm the possession of which is not prohibited under Federal or State law, other than for forfeiture in compliance with Federal law or as evidence in a criminal investigation;
require registration of any firearm for which registration is not required by Federal or State law;
prohibit possession of any firearm, or promulgate any rule, regulation, or order prohibiting possession of any firearm, in any place or by any person where such possession is not otherwise prohibited by Federal or State law; or
prohibit the carrying of firearms by any person otherwise authorized to carry firearms under Federal or State law, solely because such person is operating under the direction, control, or supervision of a Federal agency in support of relief from a major disaster or emergency.
Private rights of action
In general
Any individual aggrieved by a violation of this section may seek relief in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress against any person who subjects such individual, or causes such individual to be subjected, to the deprivation of any of the rights, privileges, or immunities secured by this section.
In addition to any existing remedy in law or equity, under any law, an individual aggrieved by the seizure or confiscation of a firearm in violation of this section may bring an action for return of such firearm in the United States district court in the district in which that individual resides or in which such firearm may be found.
Attorney fees
In any action or proceeding to enforce this section, the court shall award the prevailing party, other than the United States, a reasonable attorney's fee as part of the costs.


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WASHINGTON – As more than 200 million passengers begin their summer travel, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) reminds travelers of recent modifications to airport screening procedures and provides tips for travel preparations.
As part of TSA's risk-based security approach, the agency has implemented changes in screening protocols that strengthen aviation security by better focusing its resources and, at the same time, improving the travel experience for lower risk passengers. Summer travelers may be able to take advantage of these modifications at airports across the country.
The changes include the implementation last fall of modified screening procedures for passengers 12 and younger. Passengers 12 and younger can now leave their shoes on during security screening. These new screening procedures also include permitting an additional pass through advanced imaging technology to clear any alarms, as well as greater use of explosives trace detection.
Additionally, TSA recently concluded a modified screening pilot program for passengers aged 75 and older. As the program proceeds toward full implementation, passengers 75 and older will undergo similar modified screening procedures to those 12 and under and will be able to leave on a light jacket or outerwear when passing through security. Passengers 75 and older may see these procedures in place as they travel this summer.
TSA anticipates these changes will further reduce – though not eliminate – the need for a physical pat-down for these passengers. However, the agency reminds travelers that they may be required to remove their shoes or undergo a pat-down if anomalies are detected during security screening that cannot be resolved through other means.
Last fall, the agency also launched TSA Pre✓™. To date, TSA Pre✓™ has provided expedited screening to more than one million passengers and is currently available at 15 airports, with plans to expand to more airports and airlines throughout 2012.
As the busy summer travel season gets underway, TSA reminds passengers to prepare for the security check-in process before arriving at the airport. Passengers can find travel tips and a list of allowed and prohibited items on www.tsa.gov. Passengers with smartphones are also encouraged to visit TSA's mobile site or download the "MyTSA" app. Passengers can access helpful information about TSA policies and procedures including the "Can I Bring" feature that allows passengers to type the name of any item to see if it is allowed to be carried through the checkpoint.
As an added convenience, the TSA Contact Center (TCC) recently extended its hours, and representatives are now available Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. – 11 p.m. Eastern time, and weekends and federal holidays, 9 a.m. – 8 p.m. Eastern time. Passengers can contact the TCC with questions about TSA procedures, upcoming travel or to provide feedback or voice concerns. The TCC can be reached at 866-289-9673.
Travelers and families of passengers with disabilities or medical conditions may call the TSA Cares helpline toll free at 855-787-2227, 72 hours prior to traveling with any questions about screening policies, procedures and what to expect at the security checkpoint. A TSA Cares helpline representative is available during all TSA Contact Center hours.


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Pagan Studies
Steel is tested and shaped on the anvil. Here, we try every Pagan idea on the anvil of history, hammered by insight and intellect, to forge a Pagan Future.
Pagan Values, Pagan Morals
Please excuse the delay of our intended post on the supernatural. That will come next month. However, due to the Pagan Values Blogject event this month, I have decided to weigh in on the topic.
I have previously touched this matter in some of my previous Arkadian Anvil posts: Better than Belief, Evil, Ethics and Freedom, and God's Boredom or Why we are not Enlightened. . .
But today I wish to look directly at the idea of values through the lens of ethics and morality. . .
If we want to discuss Pagan values first we need go back to a much older mode of thought. To do that we need to first separate Ethics from Morals.
Ethics are those prescriptions that forbid or require action which we have arrived at through reason and experience. The negatives of not hurting, not killing, not stealing, not cheating, etc. fit here. Likewise are the positives of being kind, altruism, civic duty, mutual support. These matters we can workout for ourselves from thought and observation. We don't need a God to tell us that these are the right things for us to do.
Morality, often confused with Ethics, is religious. For a Jew, it is immoral to eat pork. I enjoy my bacon. Christians are not allowed to worship any other God than theirs. Pagans can worship who they please. Muslims are to pray five times per day. I must make offerings at the Dark of the Moon. We don't have to behave the same way to be moral. Each of us need to behave in the manner told to us by our religious obligations. A proper understanding of this, along the separation of Church and State, would eliminate many conflicts in the Law. Ethics are what we agree upon. Morals are the other things we do to embody our religions.
One of the ways this manifests in traditional religions is through taking on commitments to do or to avoid. The Irish called it a geis, the Tibetians a damsig, Indians, samaya, Masons an obligation, or generally a vow, or an oath. As part of the entry into a religious practice, or in ancient times even civic office, one would swear to do or no do certain practices. Failure in this would incur significant penalties or losses, which can often be repaired by further rites and practices. For instance an ancient Irish King had a geis laid upon him at his coronation to only travel a certain way about the Hill of Tara. In the tale of his fall, the failure to do this was one of the things that lead to his death.
As a priest of Hermes there are a set of commitments I've made to Hermes as part of my practice. These are my moral, that is, religious obligations that I maintain along with my connection to Him.
1. When out in the World, always to have writing tools on my person.
Hermes is the scribe and herald. Bearing the tools of that office is in keeping with His nature and function, which as His priest, I emulate.
2. Never to lie, cheat, or steal, unless at war.
Hermes is most skilled in stealing, cheating and lying. We who work His way are ever tempted to use these powers to make our way easier, but we must maintain our integrity as humans and treat our fellows with respect. The Gods, while wholly good are not-dual, Their blessings are also Their curses and so we bear the responsibility to use those powers for good in our lives.
3. Make offerings to Hermes at every Dark of the Moon.
This is the active maintenance of His cult which establishes and maintains His blessings in the World, in the region of the Temple and in lives of those connected to Him. (I do this for Hekate too, and have without fail since January 1992.)
4. Bless all travelers in the name and sign of Hermes. )O+
The first duty of the Priesthood is to bless, and Hermes blesses especially the Traveler, the Venturer, the Merchant, all commerce and communications for success, safety and happy return. We who establish connection with Him and maintain His presence bless with His power.
These four obligations I keep are part of my priesthood in service to Hermes. These are my morals, leastwise regarding Him. Other Gods require other things from me. As for treating folks right, reason, experience, and contemplating the effect of my actions continually teach me how to be better to those around me. I am still learning.
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Christopher Victorio Metallica at San Francisco's Outside Lands festival.
The following is a dispatch from Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, from our sister paper, SF Weekly.
Metallica, headlining Saturday night of the Outside Lands festival in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, proved just about as huge and satisfying and powerful as Metallica can be in 2012. With a greatest-hits setlist, a small war's worth of explosives and pyrotechnics, and a huge meadow of fans shouting along, the biggest heavy metal band in the world showed that not only can it win over casual listeners and non-fans, but that it's at its best when trying to do so. Compared to Metallica's four intimate and indulgent 30th Anniversary shows at the Fillmore last year, the more than two hours of outright rampage last night felt like a well-edited tour de force.
It wasn't perfect: Hetfield played sloppily on "Master of Puppets," which may have been due to the cold; the lyrics to new song "Hell and Back" made us wish that Metallica was an instrumental band; "Ride the Lightning" sounded rickety and awkward, especially compared with contemporaneous songs like, "For Whom the Bell Tolls"; more than two hours of any artist is kind of lot; and Lars and James basked in the crowd's adoration maybe a bit too much at the end, and could have just said thank you three times and bowed and called it a night.
But those complaints are minuscule compared with the fiery spectacle Metallica put on in San Francisco last night. Here are our top five favorite parts of the show.
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Number of minutes Metallica spent bowing and basking and sucking up love from the crowd long after the music had ended: We didn't count, and it was probably 10, but it felt like 35.
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Monthly Archive for September, 2012
"Love Thy Neighbor" Wasn't Optional
Around the Meyerland neighborhood which is protesting the building of a multi-unit housing facility, there are signs posted. Love Your Neighborhood, they say. Opponents of the project, which would help lift single mothers out of their struggle by providing shelter, training and resources, claim that the multi-family housing unit could adversely affect property values in the deed-restricted neighborhood.
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Slumping Tigers flail against Dickey's floater
Stuck in a slump, this was not quite the pitcher the slumping Detroit hitters hoped to face: A resurgent R.A. Dickey and his speeding knuckleball.
Dickey won again, Jose Reyes and Mark DeRosa homered and the Toronto Blue Jays beat Detroit 8-3 on Monday for their seventh straight home win.
The Tigers, meanwhile, lost for the sixth time in seven games. Despite a lineup loaded with sluggers Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder, Detroit has averaged just three runs per game in its past six contests.
"We're in a little funk right now and we've just got to get ourselves out of it," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "You'll got to roll with that punch and you've got to try and do something about it."
Detroit came in with a major league-high .280 team batting average, but didn't manage much against Dickey (8-8). He allowed two runs and six hits in seven innings, striking out four and walking one to win for the third time in four starts.
"Just another great outing," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. "Second one in a row. I see more bite on his knuckleball than we've seen in the past a little bit."
Fielder hit a solo homer, his 14th, but said it was tough to track Dickey's dancing pitches.
"It was knuckling," Fielder said. "It's hard for catchers to catch it, so imagine how hard it is to hit it."
Omar Infante hit a solo homer off Aaron Loup in the ninth and went 4 for 4 with three hits against Dickey. Bumped up to seventh in the order, Infante improved to 16 for 31 career against Dickey.
"Omar had very good numbers against Dickey and that's why I moved him up today," Leyland said. "I guess that's one of the few things we did right today."
Cabrera, who came in with an AL-leading .373 batting average, went 0 for 4 with two strikeouts.
Leyland said bad luck may be to blame for some of Detroit's recent struggles.
"We're a little bit snake-bitten right now as well as not swinging as good as we can," Leyland said. "The combination of those things is normally not a good one. When we hit one hard right now they're catching it, and we're not hitting a whole bunch of them hard."
Even so, he remains convinced his batters will break out of it soon.
"We've got too many good hitters not to hit," Leyland said. "A normal person sees our lineup and is amazed maybe. But when you're in the game and in the business for a long time, you know that those things happen."
The Blue Jays delighted a sellout crowd of 45,766 on Canada Day with their 11th victory in 13 games at Rogers Centre.
Reyes hit a leadoff shot in the third against rookie Jose Alvarez (1-2). For Reyes, it was his third homer of the year and second in two days.
DeRosa added a three-run drive in the fourth off reliever Luke Putkonen.
Toronto reliever Steve Delabar struck out the side in the eighth and Loup finished in the ninth.
The Blue Jays opened the scoring in the second when Munenori Kawasaki hit an RBI single. Catcher Josh Thole tried to score from second on the hit, running through third base coach Luis Rivera's stop sign, but was thrown out at the plate by left fielder Andy Dirks.
Toronto chased Alvarez with a four-run third. After Reyes homered, Rajai Davis doubled and stole third on a throw back to the pitcher.
Walks to Jose Bautista and Colby Rasmus loaded the bases for J.P. Arencibia, who hit a two-run single. Bautista slid home safely after Dirks' throw hit his helmet and bounced away, sending Rasmus to third. Maicer Izturis followed with a sacrifice fly.
"Today was a rough day," catcher Brayan Pena said. "In that inning, nothing worked for us and they took advantage of our mistakes."
Fielder homered in the fourth and Infante added an RBI double.
Alvarez lost his second straight start, giving up four earned runs in a career-low three innings. He walked three and struck out four.
"He just didn't have real good control and he left the ball up," Leyland said. "Of course, you pay for that against good big league hitters."
NOTES: Following the game, Detroit optioned C Bryan Holaday to Triple-A. C Alex Avila, out since June 17 with a sore left forearm, will be activated off the DL Tuesday. ... Blue Jays DH Edwin Encarnacion was scratched from the lineup with hamstring soreness and replaced by Arencibia. ... Canadian IndyCar driver Alex Tagliani threw out the first pitch.