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Teri Biebel, a local office manager by day and humor blogger by night, has been featured in a best selling book called, "I Just Want to Pee Alone."
Biebel, who said she's more of a professional complainer than writer, landed an opportunity to contribute to the anthology on motherhood as a result of her work, griping about or making light of different aspects of her life on her Blogspot blog, "Snarkfest."
"I have a wicked sense of humor," she said about starting the blog a year ago, which features comical and anecdotal stories about her kids and husband, as well as observations on culture and news.
"I don't have the chops for stand up," she said.
Instead Beibel took to the growing medium of blogging and quickly found favor with other humor bloggers like Jen, of the popular "People I want to Punch In the Throat," blog.
It was Jen, who has risen to national notoriety after the success of her first book "Spending the Holidays with People I want to Punch in the Throat," who tapped Biebel to be a contributor to "I Just Want to Pee Alone."
Jen said she decided she wanted to publish an anthology of stories based on the experience of raising children.
"You have these days that if you don't laugh, you're going to cry, so you might as well laugh," she said.
She said the book is designed to make sure all moms know they're not alone in the less than glamorous experience motherhood can sometimes be.
Beginning two years ago, Jen asked approximately 50 bloggers and writers she was familiar with to submit essays. After consideration, 36 essays were chosen, including Biebels piece about her struggles to get a teenager to clean the house.
"I knew readers wanted to read more writers," Jen said about the book.
She said she wanted to use her second self-published book as a vehicle for bloggers at varying levels of success and popularity.
"We can all now say that we're Amazon Best Sellers," she said.
"I Just Want to Pee Alone," landed on both the Itunes Top 10 Humor Book list and Amazon's list of Best Sellers in the Parenting and Humor category, even besting famous funny woman and mom, comedian Tina Fey's book "Bossy Pants."
"It's been kind of exciting," Biebel said of the unforeseen success.
Biebel said plans for the future include a book signing at Shepherdstown's Four Seasons Books on May 17, where the book is available for sale.
She said that though she never imagined she'd be contributing to national best selling book, the experience has given her confidence.
"It's not out of the question that someday I'll write a book of my own."

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38th Annual Jefferson Lecture follows the intellectual journey of an "unlicensed" humanist
Leon R. Kass, noted author, humanities scholar, and bioethicist, presented the 38th annual Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities in Washington last night. Before an audience at the Warner Theatre, Dr. Kass recounted how the humanities guided his intellectual journey from his time as a student, through his career as a physician and medical researcher, his participation in the Civil Rights movement, his life-long interest in ethics and moral philosophy, to his current positions as teacher and scholar at the University of Chicago and the American Enterprise Institute. His lecture, ''Looking for an Honest Man': Reflections of an Unlicensed Humanist," has been made available on the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Web site (www.neh.gov).
Kass, in acknowledging his formal training as a medical doctor and biochemist and current role as a teacher of the humanities, proclaimed himself to be an "unlicensed" humanist. In "'Looking for an Honest Man': Reflections of an Unlicensed Humanist," Kass spoke about the deep understanding of humanity he has gained through his pursuit of the humanities and offered his own experiences as an example of the wisdom anyone can gain from the humanities: "The quest for my humanity is a search for what we all have in common. The point is not what I have learned, but rather what I have learned and, therefore, what anyone can learn with and through the humanities."
Alluding to the Greek cynic Diogenes, who purportedly walked the sunlit streets of Athens looking for an honest man, Kass cites in his lecture the biographer Diogenes Laertius to clarify that Diogenes was not seeking a truth-telling human being, but was seeking to find the truth about human beings. Kass, in his own similar quest, argues that he found more truth about human beings in the great works of literature, than he did in medical text books. "The science was indeed powerful, but its self-understanding left much to be desired. It knew the human parts in ever finer detail, but it concerned itself little with the human whole." Instead, Kass was able to learn about the human condition and human meaning by reading and comparing works by writers such as Rousseau, Aristotle, Homer, Aldous Huxley, C.S. Lewis, Leo Tolstoy, and Isak Dinesen.
In the conclusion of his lecture, Kass recognizes that he has not yet found a "neatly formulated" answer in his search of the human being, yet he shares a compelling realization: "I have come to believe that looking honestly for the human being, following the path wherever it leads, may itself be an integral part of finding it."
To read the complete text of the 38th Jefferson Lecture, and to find more information about Dr. Kass and the Jefferson Lecture, please visit: www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/leon-kass-biography.
The annual Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities was established by the NEH in 1972. Created to honor the intellectual and civic virtues exemplified by Thomas Jefferson, the lectureship recognizes significant scholarship and the ability to communicate the knowledge and wisdom of the humanities in a broad, appealing way. The Jefferson Lecture is held each spring in Washington, D.C. The lecturer receives an honorarium of $10,000.


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Yeah, so there was this BBC article in which a Cambridge professor said Pompeii was buried by lava… and George pointed it out… and I couldn't help but to read a few papers, and ask Professor Beard to please clarify, and then write up a post. Yeah, I could've left it at "It wasn't lava, it was a pyroclastic flow," but would we have really learned anything?
I learned a lot. Hopefully, there will be a bit or two in there you didn't know.


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May 27, 2018 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmFree
With their fluid movements and peaceful self-awareness, cats could be the original yoga masters! Stretch out and unwind with some of our adoptable cats at a one-hour session of "Yoga with Cats" on May 27, 2018. Bring your yoga mat and get flexible with the felines! "Yoga with Cats" is offered at no charge, but any donations will be greatly appreciated.
There will be one session offered from Noon until 1:00 pm. The doors will open 15 minutes before the session starts. In order to provide an enjoyable and relaxing experience for participants, we cannot admit anyone to the session after 12:05 pm.
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Come by our office Tuesday October 4th between 10:30am and 1 to get your new Axxess Card.
I'll be serving up complimentary coffee and treats as well as giving away a few prizes.
If you're interested in earning a Free Axxess Card, come learn about our Ambassador Program and find out how.
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Click inside to see content related to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. If your paper has something that would work on a national scale, please Zope it to us or e-mail it to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Gold-medal winner pulling for U.S. in women's showdown with Canada
Rick Rogers: New sports to add to Winter Olympics
Paul Jannace: U.S. vs. Canada a great game ... if you saw it
Mike Fine: In defense of NBC's Olympic coverage
Team USA undeterred by underdog tag in Olympic men's hockey tournament
Anne Delaney: Luge track might be safer, but is that what's best?
Olympic curling official: 'The people make it fantastic'
Anne Delaney: Luger Grimmette's 5 Olympics hard to fathom
'We're all just people': Athletes sow friendships in Olympic Village
Michael Morse a moguls man for U.S.
Meghan Duggan: The view from Vancouver
Steve Langton goes for Olympic gold with U.S. bobsled team
Gary Brown: TV sports leave little time to talk
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frigidmagi wrote:I was there. I fought. What should we do?
This is what we should do.
This is the Long War. It has more in common in with the Cold War then any World War. Like the World Wars, like the Cold War, we can win. We will win.
But it will take time. A long time.
Never the less, this is what must be done if you would have your children grow up free. Not safe, free. Forget safe, there is no more safe left in the world. It is no longer among your choices, it may even be that it never was among the choices. Your choices are now free, or chained.
Brilliant. You have summarized my own thoughts very well.


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Underground Storage Tank Section
The Underground Storage Tank Section manages the Underground Storage Tank (UST) program, the Non-UST releases program (including petroleum aboveground storage tank (AST) releases and other petroleum releases), and the Ex Situ Petroleum Contaminated Soil Remediation Permit program. The section issues permits, collects annual fees and handles requests for information for regulated and/or commercial underground storage tanks. The section ensures compliance with all relevant state and federal laws, policies, rules and regulations by assisting owners and operators in complying with operational standards (leak detection, spill and overfill prevention, etc.). This section also oversees the permanent closure activities of UST systems and corrective actions required to address spills and releases from USTs. This section also oversees the administration of several trust funds for the reimbursement of cleanup costs associated with UST releases.
The Underground Storage Tank Section consists of three branches.
- The Permits and Inspection Branch issues permits to operate UST systems and inspects UST facilities to ensure compliance with UST statutes, rules and policies. In addition to helping develop and review statutes, the staff provides technical assistance to enhance compliance and prevent pollution. Outreach efforts include educational and training opportunities.
- Ex Situ Petroleum Contaminated Soil Remediation Permit program. The staff helps create, review and explain statutes, regulations and policies in addition to informing and training the regulated community about cleanup and corrective action issues.
- The Corrective Action Branch staff trains and provides data to UST owner/operators and consultants through its central and regional offices. The staff oversees assessment and cleanup activities, conducts inspections and makes technical assistance visits. Staff also pre-approve trust fund requests and review claims for technical reimbursement. To reduce risk to human health and the environment, the staff samples wells and monitors cleanup efforts. This branch also oversees the Electronic Document Submittal for the UST Section Corrective Action Branch (see instruction memo). The UST Section is transitioning to electronic data management in order to enhance customer service, reduce paper consumption and decrease requirements for file space. Starting March 1, 2014, all reports (including, but not limited to, 20-day reports, initial abatement action reports, LSA reports, CSA reports, CAPs, NTCPs, monitoring reports, etc.) required by the UST Section are to be submitted according to the instructions in the instruction memo. The instructions for naming the electronic documents is available in the linked document: UST File Names for Laserfiche.
- The Trust Fund Branch administers the N.C. Leaking Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Funds and EPA grants. To do so, the staff oversees trust fund eligibility decisions and fund reimbursements. The branch's staff oversees when the state contracts to assess and clean contaminated sites. Staff members also review technology to assess and clean groundwater and soil contamination and approve innovative technologies for use statewide. The branch's staff helps create, review and explain our statutes, regulations and policies in addition to informing and training the regulated community about trust fund issues.
- What's New
- ePay online Tank Fee payments
- AST Program
- Databases and Reports
- FAQs/Brochures/Manuals
- File Review Procedures
- Forms
- Guidance
- Innovative Technologies
- NonUST Program
- Oil Terminal Facilities
- Reasonable Rates Documents
- Rules, Regulations and Statutes
- Soil Remediation Dedicated Permit Sites
- DWM Contacts
- UST Service Provider List
Flood Preparation Information
The guide will help prepare for, prevent or lessen the catastrophic effects and environmental harm that could occur as a result of flooded UST systems as well as help return these UST systems to service as soon as possible.
Before a Flood, What Should Owners and Operators Do?
After a Flood, What Should Owners and Operators Do?
U.S. EPA's Underground Storage Tank Flood Guide, EPA 510-R-10-002, November 2010
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Biographical Resources
Picture Book Biographies of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline B. Kennedy
Simplified text, large images with captions and questions, a glossary, and activities make these booklets accessible to elementary readers.
Biography of John F. Kennedy
Biography of Jacqueline B. Kennedy
Written for upper elementary to adult readers, these narratives summarize the life and legacy of the 35th president of the United States and his wife.
Lesson Plan: Picture It: JFK in High School
Students examine a photograph from JFK's high school years and write a caption that reflects their knowledge gained through observation, research, and interpretation.
Lesson Plan: Young Jack's Plea for a Raise
Students learn how young John F. Kennedy tried to convince his father to raise his allowance and then try their hand at persuasive letter-writing.
Resource Packet: Rose Kennedy: Her Life and Legacy
These resources guide elementary students to become biography detectives as they investigate Rose Kennedy's life. Three classroom activities feature documents, photographs, and a giant timeline.
Campaign, Election and Inauguration
Activity: Road to the White House
Students make the "trip" with JFK from the Democratic National Convention to the November 8, 1960 election, answering questions with information gleaned from the primary sources located in the Campaign Office in The President's Desk.
Lesson Plan: Televised Debates: Candidates Take a Stand
Use primary source material to explore what voters can learn from political debates. Students then create a guide book to help voters select a candidate.
Lesson Plan: Red States, Blue States: Mapping the Presidential Election
Use electoral maps to analyze the results of the 1960 election, and collect and analyze data for a recent presidential election.
Lesson Plan: Managing a Presidential Campaign: The 1960 Election
Students use materials related to the 1960 presidential election to explore the elements of a successful political campaign.
Lesson Plan: "Ask not what your country can do for you"
John F. Kennedy's inaugural address inspired children and adults to see the importance of civic action and public service. The letter included in this activity, written by a third-grade student, is one of thousands housed at the Kennedy Presidential Library.
Lesson Plan: The President's Pledge
Provided for in the US Constitution, the oath of office is a key component of a presidential inauguration and symbolizes a peaceful transition of power. This lesson, which introduces students to the president's official pledge, begins with examining an artifact, the top hat Kennedy wore on January 20, 1961.
In the White House
The President's Desk: A Resource Guide for Teachers, Grades 4-12
Invite your students to take a seat at The President's Desk and discover what it means to hold the highest office in the land. This online interactive exhibit features JFK's treasured mementos and important presidential records. Primary sources ranging from recordings of meetings in the Oval Office to family photographs populate the site and provide an engaging and fascinating look into John F. Kennedy's life and presidency. The President's Desk Resource Guide provides an overview of the Desk and suggested curriculum-relevant lesson plans and activities. To access the President's Desk interactive exhibit: http://microsites.jfklibrary.org/presidentsdesk
1963: The Struggle for Civil Rights
Bring the pivotal events of the civil rights movement in 1963 to life for your students through more than 230 primary sources ranging from film footage of the March on Washington and letters from youth advising the president to JFK's landmark address to the American people and secret recordings of behind-the-scenes negotiations on civil rights legislation. To foster your students' understanding of this era, lesson plans on each of the seven topics are available in the "For Educators" section of the website.
Activity: The President's Seal
Students discover the meaning of the symbols in the Seal of the President of the United States, and create a seal of their own design.
Lesson Plan: Race to the Moon
Students use a letter of advice from a young student to President Kennedy to learn about the "Space Race."
Lesson Plan: Investigating the March on Washington
Students learn about the speakers at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. They reenact the March and recite excerpts from the speeches delivered that day.
Lesson Plan: They Had a Dream
After investigating primary source material on the March on Washington, students put themselves in the role of a civil rights leader and write a letter to President Kennedy.
Lesson Plan: A President's Day
If you are elected to the nation's highest office, what are you actually expected to do? Spend a day at the White House with John F. Kennedy to learn about some of the president's most important roles and responsibilities.
Lesson Plan: Making Your Voice Heard
Students investigate historical letters to public officials, including several to President Kennedy, and then write their own letters of concern.
Lesson Plan: Jacqueline Kennedy's White House Restoration
Students will learn about ancient symbols and ornamental and architectural elements to identify some symbols of American democracy in the White House as an introduction to the origins of common symbolic representations of the United States and its values.
Historical Resources
Historical Literature Resources for Elementary and Middle Grades
Annotated bibliographies of biographies and other history-related literature. Includes guidelines for critically analyzing biographies and history-based literature.
JFK in History
This section of the website contains topic guides on the significant events that occurred during President Kennedy's years in office. These essays are intended to give an overview of challenges and issues that defined Kennedy's administration, and include relevant primary source material.


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MITT Romney, in his first remarks since an unexpectedly lopsided election loss to Barack Obama, blamed his defeat on "gifts" showered by the president on his female, African-American and Hispanic supporters.
A little more than a week after the election, Romney in a phone call with his national finance committee accused Obama of following the "old playbook" by bestowing favours on key Democratic constituencies in exchange for their support at the ballot box.
"In each case they were very generous in what they gave to those groups," said the defeated Republican presidential nominee, adding that young voters were also among the beneficiaries of Obama's largesse.
"With regards to the young people, for instance, a forgiveness of college loan interest, was a big gift," Romney said.
Obama garnered 51 percent of the popular vote, while Romney got 48 percent.
The president's win was more decisive in the Electoral College, where he earned 332 votes against Romney's 206.
Romney's remarks, reported by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, echoed controversial remarks made to donors at a private fundraiser, denigrating the "47 percent" of US voters who he said failed to pay income tax.
Those comments in May, captured surreptitiously on video, confirmed some voters' views that Romney was an elitist who cared only about the rich.
He told the donors on the conference call that Obama "made a big effort on small things," while his own campaign had been about "big issues."
Among the goodies Romney said Obama gave to his backers were "free contraceptives," which were very big with young college-aged women.
The president's controversial health care reform plan was another campaign plum that helped secure the youth vote, Romney said.
"Obamacare also made a difference for them, because as you know, anybody now 26 years of age and younger was now going to be part of their parents' plan, and that was a big gift to young people," Romney told his backers.
"They turned out in large numbers, a larger share in this election even than in 2008," he said.
The conservative Mormon nominee locked up the elderly voters in the November 6 election, and earned a definitive 59 percent of the white vote.
But in addition to young voters, minorities rallied around Obama, with 93 percent of African Americans, 71 percent of Hispanics and 72 percent of Asians casting a ballot for the president.
Romney said the perquisites on offer were particularly tempting to low-income voters.
"You can imagine for somebody making $25,000 or $30,000 or $35,000 a year, being told you're now going to get free health care – particularly if you don't have it – getting free health care worth, what, $10,000 per family, in perpetuity," Romney said. "I mean, this is huge."
The former Massachusetts governor – whose landmark achievement while he led the state was a health reform program after which Obama patterned his own national health initiative – depicted the president's medical care plan as a campaign bonbon his campaign couldn't compete with.
For Latinos' "free health care was a big plus," Romney said during the 20-minute call.
"But in addition with regards to Hispanic voters, the amnesty for children of illegals, the so-called 'Dream Act' kids, was a huge plus for that voting group," he said, referring to a program introduced by the president this year allowing some undocumented youths to temporarily remain legally in the United States.
President Barack Obama yesterday urged lawmakers to agree as early as January on a bill to lay a path to citizenship for the estimated 11.5 million illegal immigrants in the United States.
"I'm very confident that we can get immigration reform done," Obama told reporters at his first press conference since a decisive November 6 re-election victory.
Meanwhile Romney seemed still rueful after last Tuesday's vote, which his own campaign team had predicted he would win handily, and which numerous polls leading into the election said was too close to call.
"I'm very sorry that we didn't win," he said.
"I know that you expected to win, we expected to win, we were disappointed with the result, we hadn't anticipated it, and it was very close but close doesn't count in this business."
Romney, who apparently had been convinced that he would be moving into the White House, said he and his campaign advisers were still sorting out what their futures would hold.
"So now we're looking and saying, 'OK, what can we do going forward?'" he said.
"But frankly we're still so troubled by the past, it's hard to put together our plans for the future," the defeated candidate said.
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Dakotas-based Sanford Health Might Expand to India
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Sanford Health has added India to the list of countries where it is considering expansion.
The Argus Leader reports that Executive Vice President Ruth Krystopolski says the Dakotas-based health network will consider whether a clinic in India would be able to support itself economically while providing services to children in need.
India is the world's second-most populous country, with 1.2 billion people, behind China with 1.3 billion.
Sanford has main offices in Sioux Falls, S.D., and Fargo, N.D. It has opened a number of medical facilities outside of its main service area of the Upper Midwest since 2009, both in the U.S. and abroad.
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Tonight Live: The KDE Desktop on The Linux Show!!
NEWS ALERT: In tonight's edition of the The Linux Show our beloved KDE desktop
From the announcement:
A Look at KDE from the top
Tonight we are going to joined by George Staikos and Aaron J. Seigo, two
Aaron has been a UNIX developer since the early 1990s and Linux user
George Staikos is a professional software developer and Linux hobbyist
KOffice is a free, integrated office suite for the KDE desktop. The
For other clueless Europeans like myself, 2am GMT may help. Or not. Hopefully it does!
Currently I'm listening to a very quiet American guy talk about something, I think it's Linux but I can't concentrate on what he's saying..
I'll tune in tomorrow, I can't stay up tonight. Well maybe I could.. gaa! How come KDE always keeps me up all night?!
By Max Howell at Wed, 2003/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: 02:00 GMT
if you can't stay up, don't worry... they replay each week's show continuously until the next week's show, so you can grab it whenever (that quiet American guy you hear right now is quite likely Bruce Perens or ESR from last week's show). of course, by grabbing the repeat feed you can't join in on the IRC chat or experience the excitement of being part of a live experience. but sleep is usually far more interesting than either of those things, especially during the work week. ;-)
oh, and KDE keeps you up all night because it loves you. ;-)
By Aaron J. Seigo at Wed, 2003/12/10 - 6:00am
I wasn't aware that KDE was all released under the GPL/LGPL; I thought there were lots of components under BSD and others. A bit of a slip there in the announcement!
By Tom at Wed, 2003/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: Licenses
yeah... we didn't write the announcement, the Linux Show guys did... there's a few phrases i kind of winced at when reading it... but it's generally cool... and it's a pretty good opportunity to address some of The People directly.
By Aaron J. Seigo at Wed, 2003/12/10 - 6:00am
Hey all the servers are sux0rd. Can someone mirror this on peercast p2p radio plz?
By vod at Wed, 2003/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: peercast
By Aaron J. Seigo at Wed, 2003/12/10 - 6:00am
I caught you just in time!
By vod at Wed, 2003/12/10 - 6:00am
Good Show
I listed in, it was a good show.
Concise, accurate and clear. Well done guys!
By Leonscape at Wed, 2003/12/10 - 6:00am
Bad timing
Man... 9 EST is when the 2nd of SciFi's remake of Battlestar Galactica aired. Don't make geeks choose! :)
By Brendan Orr at Wed, 2003/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: Bad timing
hehe.. no doubt.. priorities, gawd dammit! you can listen to it later, though... they play it on repeat loop all week...
screw andy warhol. gimme 10080 minutes of fame! ;-)
By Aaron J. Seigo at Wed, 2003/12/10 - 6:00am
Archive Link
By Anonymous at Wed, 2003/12/10 - 6:00am
This interview was great, I learned a lot about KDE and it's always nice to see some insider information. I love reading what developers have to say, such as on their blogs and listening to them is even better!
I think Aaron and George have done a great job, very detailed and helpful answers. Not superficial and brief like some other interviews I've seen. However, I was dissapointed that the hosts didn't seem to transmit any real energy, for any part of the show, not just KDE>
Also you can find the full show here: http://www.thelinuxshow.com/archives/2003/tls-12-09-2003.mp3
The entire thing is in the MP3 format, sorry redhat users =p, and the KDE segment starts about 55% through and takes up the rest of the show.
By Alex at Wed, 2003/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: Insightful
> the KDE segment starts about 55% through
With minute 54 to be more informative. :-)
By Anonymous at Wed, 2003/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: Insightful
Dang. Transcripts, anyone? :)
By Navindra Umanee at Wed, 2003/12/10 - 6:00am
From Aaron's blog
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/view/265 :
The Linux Show went rather well tonight. George was a great co-guest, and I think we handled the questions well in general. We maintained a positive and factual yet enthusiastic air throughout. Even the SUSE/Novell/Ximian and User Linux queries went well. They had a record number of people attending tonight; even the IRC channel had ~80 people in it (they usually only have ~50). So, they were happy with it too. Good fun and a great way to get KDE some positive exposure. I?m feeling rather spent now, though. Time to find some wine and a good book.
Yay! Nice jobbie!
By ac at Wed, 2003/12/10 - 6:00am
awesome interview
Both Aaron and George are really well-spoken! I am really enjoying this interview!
Anyone know what happened when Aaron was cut off? heheh.
By anon at Wed, 2003/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: awesome interview
i was abducted by aliens, obviously. ;-) honestly, i have no idea. ++weird.
btw, we just got an email from one of the show hosts and apparently the show has been a great success... 1000s have listened to the show since it aired some 21 hours ago, and their website visitation has spiked noticeably since the show as well... =)
By Aaron J. Seigo at Wed, 2003/12/10 - 6:00am
World Summit on The Information Society
At the UN world summit the free internet cafe is based on KDE/knoppix with Mozilla and Open Office.org
By WSIS-koord at Wed, 2003/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: World Summit on The Information Society
documentary photos would be cool =)
By Aaron J. Seigo at Thu, 2003/12/11 - 6:00am
Now I know how kiosk is pronounced in English. Very different from the Swedish pronounciation (it's spelled the same way). ;)
By Apollo Creed at Wed, 2003/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: kiosk
Give me a clue on Swedish "kiosk" remembering the English word "ghoti"
gh as in "enough"
(George Bernard Shaw got there first)
By Gerry at Wed, 2003/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: kiosk
Well, "kio" in Swedish sounds like "sho" in "shot", while "sk" is pronounced the same.
By Apollo Creed at Thu, 2003/12/11 - 6:00am
Kiosk Mode
I listened to the recording earlier today and was really very impressed with how both George Staikos, and particularly Aaron Seigo represented themselves and KDE. Really very professional, and exciting; what a shame the presenters aren't made of the same metal.
One thing I was really surprised about was Kiosk mode. I had heard the name but assumed it was something to do with running KDE inside little cabinets.
I really feel you have the wrong name here. Aaron mentioned that most people do not seem to be aware what a winner this technology is, and I think it's the name that's the problem. Sadly, kiosk != centralised enterprise desktop configuration. It's a silly thing really, but if one of your messages is simplified enterprise desktop management, you need to say that loud and clear.
Perhaps the name was chosen because it is almost relevant and has a K in it? How about something like KEnterprise Desktop Manager instead? There is no confusing that!
By Dominic Chambers at Wed, 2003/12/10 - 6:00am
Re: Kiosk Mode
not in name but in spirit it is... read what its about and stay tuned ;)
By Ian Reinhart Geiser at Thu, 2003/12/11 - 6:00am
Re: Kiosk Mode
you are, IMHO, correct. i believe that with time the term "Kiosk" will likely recede from public view to remain primarily as a developer's detail. as Ian said: stay tuned.
as to where the name "Kiosk" comes from, the Kiosk framework started with work done in response to people's needs to run KDE in kiosk environments in public places. in such environments, you need to lock down the system and control it completely. thus was born Kiosk. it has come a long ways since.
i'm really happy that you, and many others, enjoyed the interview... hopefully we'll be able to make such events a more regular part of KDE's public persona.
By Aaron J. Seigo at Thu, 2003/12/11 - 6:00am
Why APPS.KDE.COM IS DOWN!
Andreas, the maintainer of the website sounds off:
By the way, I don't think using the FM website is a good idea unless it won't use the same design. I want something that is only KDE/Qt and that is more feature rich than FM.net Possibly with some better organization and sorting (such as by downloads, popularity, activity, release date etc.) I also don't like the design, it is too impersonal and not enough eyecandy =p
By Alex at Thu, 2003/12/11 - 6:00am
They all sounded like they were about to fall asleep! They were speaking so slooowwwlyyyy... Maybe they're all just wrecked for some reason or other.
By Anonymous at Thu, 2003/12/11 - 6:00am
Really Impressed..
with Aaron's articulation. The KDE league needs to sponsor this man to go and talk about KDE everywhere. I bet we could even sell KDE to Microsoft if Aaron was the pitchman :-)
The interviewers need to study how Aaron talks. :-) Please take this as constructive criticism but if they are reading this the interviewers need to :
- stop coughing in the mic and trying to muffle it up.. just say "excuse me" instead. aaron did this once and he said "pardon me."
By anon at Thu, 2003/12/11 - 6:00am
Re: Really Impressed..
> The KDE league needs to sponsor this man to go and talk about KDE
thanks for the vote of confidence =) however, shipping me all over hell's half acre to yak about KDE is probably not a realistic option right now, baring someome who steps forward with funding and some speaking opportunities. but i'm more than happy to do interviews/roundtables via phone or other teleconferencing means. if you line up a speaking engagement and you give me ample time to schedule around it, i'll do it.
of course, i still won't turn down in-person speaking engagements if the travel & loding is paid for ;-)
> I bet we could even sell KDE to Microsoft
hrm... is that harder or easier than selling ice to Eskimos? ;-)
By Aaron J. Seigo at Thu, 2003/12/11 - 6:00am
Re: Really Impressed..
> hrm... is that harder or easier than selling ice to Eskimos? ;-)
Eskimos have ice, MS doesn't have a decent desktop ;)
By Leonscape at Fri, 2003/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: Really Impressed..
lol... POINT!
By Aaron J. Seigo at Fri, 2003/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: Really Impressed..
> with Aaron's articulation. The KDE league needs to sponsor this man to go and talk about KDE everywhere. I bet we could even sell KDE to Microsoft if Aaron was the pitchman :-)
I've always been impressed with Aaron. He has an incredibly solid grasp of the technical aspects and very good insticts. He's also usually excellent with his diplomacy, though like me, he's occasionally too hot blooded for casual conversation. I would personally love to be partnered with Aaron (or George for that matter) in some sort of KDE presentation. While George presents himself well Aaron is overtaken by his enthusiasm, something I enjoy as others have noted the same about me, often in entertaining ways.
I do have to note that in KDE circles I'm probably the guy with the most sales experience, though George and Aaron have more specific to KDE. Still, I thrive on the ultimate pitch... but due to my attitude I'd probably just make the MS guys feel really inadequate with the "take it away" tactic and then say "what the heck" and make them beg. ;-)
By Eric Laffoon at Fri, 2003/12/12 - 6:00am
Re: Really Impressed..
You do like talking about yourself a lot, however ;-). Admit it! :-D
Re: Really Impressed..
And if we can get you to quit talking about Quanta so much, maybe we would put you in that position.
Yours Truly,
Anonymous Coward
By AC at Sat, 2003/12/13 - 6:00am
Re: Really Impressed..
hehe... actually, we need to find an Eric Laffoon for every important KDE application. it's notable how the involvement of someone like Eric, when coupled with excellent and dillagent developers, can really elevate a project to the next level.
By Aaron J. Seigo at Sat, 2003/12/13 - 6:00am
Re: Really Impressed..
I mean, don't get me wrong, Eric rocks - I love Quanta, I enjoy how he drives both the developers as well as the user community. I'm getting wonderful software for free, and I'm grateful. Rock on, Eric!
However, I some criticism applies IMHO. You've typed "one of the most important apps in open source [...]" and "Thinking about how I work on Quanta, the best thing since sliced bread [...]" a little bit *too* often - it's beginning to sound like a broken record. You really don't have to do that in the first place! Quanta speaks for itself.
Well. To make things easier, we should probably all donate more so the Quanta team doesn't have to worry about funding as much.
Re: Really Impressed..
Agreed - Aaron was great. You got the feeling he knows what he's talking about, he spoke very clearly, seemed honest and fully prepared. Good job!


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Sweet Benne Wafers
Addictively chewy, slightly caramelized and full of toasted sesame flavor, these sweet 'benne' wafer cookies Lee Bros. Charleston Kitchen will disappear as fast as you can turn them out.
Reprinted with permission by Matt and Ted Lee. Copyright © 2013. Published by Clarkson Potter Books. Available wherever books are sold. All rights reserved.
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- Yield:makes about 120 cookies
- Active time: 30 minutes
- Total time:50 minutes
- 1/2 cup sesame seeds
- 1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup tightly packed light brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, cold
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Preheat the oven to 375°F. Line a cookie sheet with parchment.
In a cast-iron skillet, toast the sesame seeds over medium-high heat, stirring them frequently in the pan with a wooden spoon, until they are the color of unpopped popcorn, about 5 minutes. Keep stirring for a minute more after removing from the heat.
Sift the flour with the sugar, salt, and baking soda twice. Cut the butter into the dry ingredients with your fingertips or with a pastry blender until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
Using an electric mixer, beat the egg on medium until it stiffens, about 2 minutes. Add the dry flour mixture in three parts, beating until the batter is consistently smooth and lustrous, about 2 minutes. Add the toasted sesame seeds and vanilla, and beat on low speed just until the seeds are evenly incorporated. Transfer the batter to a pastry bag fitted with a small round tip or to a plastic bag with a tiny piece of its corner cut out.
Working in batches of 30, pipe the batter in very small, ¼ teaspoon–size drops about 2 inches apart onto the cookie sheet. Bake until the cookies turn noticeably chestnut-brown and lacy, 4 to 6 minutes. Transfer the cookie sheet to a rack and cool until the cookies have stiffened, about 10 minutes, then transfer to a plate or open container to dry further. Repeat until all the cookies are baked, and let them cool completely before sealing the container. If the first batch isn't crisp enough after 15 minutes of cooling time (they should be slightly chewy), pipe subsequent batches with slightly more batter and bake slightly longer to stiffen them. (Cookies will keep in a sealed container at room temperature about 4 days.)
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KeyCue, Secret Spy Folder Fight the Good Fight
Oct 8, 2013 5:00 AM PT
KeyCue by Ergonis is available at the Ergonis Store for 19.99 euros (about US$31).
Keyboard shortcuts can be a way to accelerate productivity, but their number can be overwhelming. The average OS X app alone has from 40 to 80 menu shortcuts. That's a lot of memorization for one program, let alone the multitude of programs an average user runs on a Mac.
Wouldn't it be nice if, with a single key press, all the shortcuts for a program would pop up on your screen? Ergonis Software thinks so. That's why it created KeyCue.
KeyCue pops up a screen of context-sensitive shortcuts for an open app when you hold down the command key. The menu also can be activated from an icon on the Apple bar.
Better yet, the program lets you execute the shortcut from the KeyCue screen. So if you're in Google Chrome and you forget the shortcut to bookmark a page, you can pop up KeyCue, move its selector to Bookmarks/Bookmark This Page/command-D, and the shortcut will be executed.
You can modify KeyCue in a number of ways to suit your taste. For example, you can change the activation key and color scheme and transparency of the KeyCue screen.
It takes only seconds to see how valuable KeyCue can be for productivity. Still, its pricing may discourage some users from trying it. Fortunately, Ergonis offers a trial version of the app to ensure you'll be satisfied with the program before you buy it.
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Secret Spy Folder - Hide and Protect Personal Sensitive Files by Hoi Yan Mak of App Digital Concepts is available for US$2.99 at the Mac App Store.
You don't have to be paranoid these days to worry about the safety of your data. With stories breaking daily of government spooks randomly collecting info from the Internet, hackers breaking into computers and ransacking their digital treasures, and cybercriminals extorting money with ransomware, there's plenty of reasons to take precautions against information theft.
One precaution you can take is to create a digital lock box on your computer in order to password protect important digital items from prying eyes. The "box" serves the same function as a wall safe or safe deposit box in the real world, although it's more convenient in the digital world.
That's the purpose of Secret Spy Folder.
Put a PIN In It
Secret Spy Folder is easy to set up. After launch, a screen will appear prompting a four-number PIN for the main program. You enter the PIN by clicking keys on a virtual keypad on the screen.
While a four-digit PIN may be satisfactory for banks -- although that's a bone of contention in the security community -- some of us would breathe easier if the developer had allowed a more complex password to be used for opening the app's main folder.
In addition to entering a PIN, the setup screen lets you create a hint for it. If your hint is "my birthday" or "my street address," you may want to pick another PIN. Those numbers, while not as easy to crack as 1-2-3-4 or 5-6-7-8, are easily deduced by password guessers.
After you create your PIN, the app asks you to create a password for accessing all files in the Secret Spy Folder. This password can be as long and complicated as you want it to be.
Password Proliferation
Before you can start adding files to the app, you need to set up a group. This seems like an unnecessary imposition, especially since each group requires another password. So at this point, you have to remember a PIN, a password to enter the All Files section of the program, and a password for the group.
In addition to choosing a password for a group, you need to choose an icon for it. Stock icons are included for videos, photos, downloads, documents and PDF files. Icons for a group can be changed at any time.
After the group is created, you can drag files or folders from anywhere on your Mac into Secret Spy Folder. Although you can't drag files into the All Files section of the program, you can see all files in all your groups in that section.
A tally of the amount of space a group of files occupies on your hard drive, as well as the number of files in a group, is prominently displayed in a panel to the right of a list of files and folders in a group.
Snapping Intruders
The app is designed to smoothly export files out of the protected confines of Secret Spy Folder and into other areas on your computer or in the cloud. Simply click the Export Files button, choose the files and folders to be exported and where you want them sent, and you're done.
Removing groups and files works in a similar way. Buttons for those functions are located on a toolbar at the top of the app.
While there are a few apps on the market similar to Secret Spy Folder, SSF has a neat little wrinkle. Every time the PIN for the program is entered incorrectly, the app takes a photo of the potential intruder with a Mac's built-in camera.
Secret Spy Folder will keep nosy people from looking at files you want to control access to, but it is unlikely to thwart a skilled hacker or the NSA. What's more, if you create a lot of groups, you're going to have to remember a lot of passwords. That can be more of a hassle than you may want to bear.
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It's coming up in just a couple weeks… the SQL Saturday in Madison, Wisconsin. On April 6th, a couple hundred of your closest SQL Server peers will be meeting in the state of beer and cheese to do a little learning and networking around SQL Server. I'll be there, with unicorn on hand and my boys in tow, to join in on the event. This will be my boys first exposure to SQL Saturday's so this should be an interesting time.
I did promise them a stop in the Wisconsin Dells on the way home.
As part of the event, I'll be presenting my session from last year's PASS Summit:
Discovering the Plan Cache
Execution plans are stored after execution in the plan cache. This metadata about how queries are executed can provide insight into how your SQL Server environment is functioning. By using XQuery to browse and search the plan cache you can find potential performance issues and opportunities to tune your queries. This information can be used to help reduce issues related to parallelism, shift queries from using scans to using seek operations, or discover exactly which queries are using what indexes. All of this and more is readily available through the plan cache. In this session we will explore the plan cache and start you on the road to discovery.
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Global icon Dwayne Johnson leads the cast of Legendary's SKYSCRAPER as former FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader and U.S. war veteran Will Ford, who now assesses security for skyscrapers. On assignment in China he finds the tallest, safest building in the world suddenly ablaze, and he's been framed for it. A wanted man on the run, Will must find those responsible, clear his name and somehow rescue his family who is trapped inside the building...above the fire line.
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Chicken or Egg Debate Moves to Breakfast with Hardee's Chicken Fillet Biscuit
Mar 31, 2008
Chicken Isn't Just a Lunch and Dinner Entree Option Anymore
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – March 31, 2008 – Long a staple on its breakfast menu in the South, Hardee's® is now rolling-out the popular Chicken Fillet Biscuit to its restaurants system-wide. Consumer interest in breakfast sandwiches and entrees without eggs has been on the rise for many years, from cold pizza to hot burgers, so the chain believes the time is right to bring the Chicken Fillet Biscuit to the masses.
"For generations, people in the South have been eating biscuits with various types of meat in them - and no eggs - for breakfast," said Brad Haley, Hardee's executive vice president of marketing. "Over the years we have sold many, many breakfast biscuits with not only traditional breakfast meats, like ham or bacon, but also fried chicken, grilled pork chops and other egg-less creations. When people in other parts of the country hear about this kind of thing, their first reaction is often one of surprise but, when they think about it for a moment, they realize that they really don't automatically have to have eggs on their breakfast sandwiches and that, in this case, fried chicken on a biscuit sounds pretty darned good in the morning."
The Chicken Fillet Biscuit features a crispy buttermilk battered chicken breast fillet served on Hardee's signature Made from Scratch biscuit. It will be sold at participating Hardee's restaurants (and Carl's Jr. restaurants in Oklahoma City) for $2.99 by itself or $4.59 in a small combo meal. Prices may vary.
Hardee's Food Systems, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of CKE Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE: CKR) of Carpinteria, Calif. As of its fiscal 2008 fourth quarter ended Jan. 28, 2008, CKE Restaurants, Inc., through its subsidiaries, had a total of 3,067 franchised, licensed or company-operated restaurants in 42 states and in 13 countries, including 1,141 Carl's Jr. restaurants and 1,926 Hardee's restaurants. For more information, or to find a Hardee's near you, go to www.ckr.com or www.hardees.com.


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Justin Bieber Will Reportedly Be Charged With Criminal Vandalism in Egging Incidentby Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
After a week of legal decisions that included reportedly accepting a plea deal in his DUI case and not being charged with a felony in his alleged attempted robbery case, Justin Bieber will reportedly be charged today with criminal vandalism in his egging incident, TMZ reports.
While the site is unsure if he will be charged with a felony or a misdemeanor, the vandalism may be cause for a felony.
In early January, Bieber allegedly pelted his neighbor's house with about 20 eggs and supposedly caused upwards of $20,000 in damage — that's no small number. The enraged neighbor managed to get part of the incident on video, in which you can hear him screaming and cursing out what sounds like the 20-year-old singer, who is heard yelling, "F— you! I got another one for you, actually!" (Watch the NSFW video here.)
While the Biebs is known to be a prankster and cause some mischief, it looks like this situation got a little out of hand — especially because it is just one of several legal issues he is dealing with right now. Yikes.
In the midst of all the legal drama, Bieber is focused on the music, spending time in the studio with Cody Simpson and Chris Brown and Akon.
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Shay Gueron is an Intel Principal Engineer and security architect for the CPU Architecture Department in the Mobility Group. Michael E. Kounavis is a Senior Research Scientist at Intel Labs. They can be contacted at [email protected] and [email protected], respectively. Copyright (c) 2009 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
Message confidentiality and integrity are key to the security of applications, operating systems, and the network infrastructure of the Internet in the future. As a result, improving the performance and security of encryption and authentication has significant benefits for today's computer platforms. In this article we describe new tools that Intel offers in this area.
First, we focus on instructions and software techniques for supporting high-performance encryption and decryption (for confidentiality) by using the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), and for supporting the Galois Counter Mode (GCM), which is used (for integrity) in the AES-GCM authenticated-encryption protocol. AES is the Federal Information Processing Standard for symmetric encryption and is defined by FIPS Publication #197 (2001). It is widely used in a large variety of security applications. GCM is a message authentication protocol that was endorsed by the US Government in April 2006, and it is typically used, together with AES, for authenticated encryption. The GCM is also used by the IEEE 802.1ae standard, where its usage is recommended for forwarding rates higher than 10 Gbps. Other usage models of GCM include IPsec (IPsec RFC 4106), the storage standard P1619, and security protocols over fiber channels (ISO-T11 standard).
We describe how AES can be accelerated with the new processor instructions that Intel is introducing to the ISA, and we look at how GCM can be accelerated with another new instruction that computes the carry-less product of two 64-bit operands. This new instruction is used by a reduction algorithm that takes advantage of the fact that in GCM, the reduction polynomial of the associated GF (2128) Galois field is sparse [2]. This algorithm uses carry-less multiplications, implemented by this new instruction, and due to its efficiency, there is no need to add field-specific reduction logic to the processor architecture: the generic carry-less multiplication primitive can do the computation.
The AES Instructions
AES is a block cipher that encrypts a 128-bit block (plaintext) to a 128-bit block (ciphertext), or decrypts a 128-bit block (ciphertext) to a 128-bit block (plaintext). AES uses a cipher key whose length can be 128, 192, or 256 bits, respectively. Hereafter, encryption/decryption with a cipher key of 128, 192, or 256 bits is denoted as AES-128, AES-192, AES-256, respectively. AES-128, AES-192, and AES-256 process the data block in 10, 12, or 14 iterations of pre-defined sequences of transformations, which are also called AES rounds (hereafter referred to simply as "rounds"). The rounds are identical except for the last one, which slightly differs from the others (by skipping one of the transformations). They operate on two 128-bit inputs: state and round key. Each round from 1 to 10/12/14 uses a different round key. The 10/12/14 round keys are derived from the cipher key by the "key expansion algorithm." This algorithm is independent of the processed data, and can therefore be carried out independently of the encryption/decryption phase. (Typically, the key is expanded once and is thereafter used for many data blocks by using some cipher mode of operation). The data block is processed serially; initially, the input data block is XOR'd with the first 128 bits of the cipher key to generate the state (an intermediate cipher result). Subsequently, the state passes, serially, through 10/12/14 rounds, with each round consisting of a sequence of transformations operating on the state and using a different round key. Listing 1 illustrates the AES encryption flow, for a single 16-byte block, by using the terminology of the FIPS197 document, which defines AES (see also [1] for details).
Input: Data: 16 bytes to encrypt Round_Key_Encrypt: array of 11-15 16-byte blocks which are the expanded cipher key Tmp = AddRoundKey (Data, Round_Key_Encrypt [0]) For round = 1-9 or 1-11 or 1-13: Tmp = ShiftRows (Tmp) Tmp = SubBytes (Tmp) Tmp = MixColumns (Tmp) Tmp = AddRoundKey (Tmp, Round_Key_Encrypt [round]) end loop Tmp = ShiftRows (Tmp) Tmp = SubBytes (Tmp) Tmp = AddRoundKey (Tmp, Round_Key_Encrypt [10 or 12 or 14]) Output: Tmp : (16 bytes)
A new set of instructions will be introduced in the next generation of the Intel processor family to facilitate secure and high-performance AES encryption and decryption. The instructions are described by using the terminology found in FIPS197; in this document, the details of the transformations, the encryption/decryption flows, and key expansions are provided in full. See also [1] for details on the AES instructions and their usages.
The AES architecture offers six instructions to support AES (see Table 1 and Listing 2). AESENC and AESENCLAST support encryption. AESDEC and AESDECLAST are building blocks suitable for decryption that use the Equivalent Inverse Cipher (see FIPS197 for definition).
AESIMC and AESKEYGENASSIST support the key expansion. AESIMC facilitates the conversion of the encryption round keys to a form suitable for the Equivalent Inverse Cipher. AESKEYGENASSIST uses an immediate byte as part of the input (used as RCON).
Input: Data: 16 bytes to encrypt Round_Key_Encrypt: array of 11-15 16-byte blocks which are the expanded cipher key Tmp = XOR128 (Data, Round_Key_Encrypt [0]) For round = 1-9 or 1-11 or 1-13: Tmp = AESENC (Tmp, Round_Key_Encrypt [round]) end loop Tmp = AESENCLAST (Tmp, Round_Key_Encrypt [10 or 12 or 14]) Output: Tmp: (16 bytes)
The AES processor instructions are designed based on the structure of AES, a structure that includes transformations in a GF(28) Galois field and byte shuffling transformation. The instructions execute the AES transformations efficiently by holding the operands in the SIMD registers of the IA architecture, and by using dedicated hardware.
Protection Against Software Side-Channel Vulnerabilities
An important security advantage of using AES instructions is the protection it provides against software side-channel attacks (by other Ring 3 malicious applications).
Software side channels are vulnerabilities in the software implementation of cryptographic algorithms, and they emerge in multiple processing environments (cores, threads, and operating systems).
Cache-based software side-channel attacks exploit the fact that it takes time for a particular piece of data to be accessed, if the data are not in the cache. Because of this time lag, malicious code can potentially detect the memory addresses that are being accessed during encryption or decryption. In software implementations of AES, based on look-up tables, these addresses can reveal sensitive information about the keys.
On the other hand, the AES instructions are implemented via combinatorial logic, and their latency is data-independent. Therefore, software implementations of AES that use these instructions are not susceptible to any of the known software side-channel attacks [1].
The Carry-less Multiplication Instruction
Carry-less multiplication, also known as "binary polynomial multiplication," is the mathematical operation of computing the product of two operands without generating or propagating carries. Such multiplications are an essential step in computing multiplications in binary Galois fields.
Carry-less multiplication is defined as follows. Let A and B be two n-bit operands in Equation 1:
and Equation 2:
If the carry-less product of A and B is denoted by C = A * B, and C is the bit array C = [c2n - 1 c2n - 2 ... c0], then, the bits of C are defined as the following functions of the bits of the inputs A and B in Equation 3:
for 0 ≤ i ≤ n - 1, in Equation 4, and:
for n-1 ≤ i ≤ 2n-1
See Figure 1.
As an example, if A = 0x63746f725d53475d and B = 0x5b477565726f6e5d, the carry-less product is C = A * B = 0x1d4d84c85c3440c0929633d5d36f0451.
The PCLMULQDQ Instruction
Together with the AES instructions, Intel also introduces PCLMULQDQ, an instruction for computing the carry-less multiplication of two 64-bit halves (hereafter referred to as "quadwords") that are selected from the instruction's two operands (two xmm registers or one xmm register and one memory location), according to an immediate byte value (imm8), defined in Table 2:
Efficient Implementation of AES-GCM
AES-GCM is an authenticated encryption algorithm, which is built upon AES encryption in counter (CTR) mode, and it is a computation of a Galois hash. AES-GCM uses a single key to both encrypt and authenticate data. An authenticated encryption algorithm is different from classical encryption and authentication schemes, where two independent keys are required to make both functions secure [2-8].
Figures 2 and 3 briefly describe the CTR mode of operation and the AES-GCM algorithm. Figure 2 shows the AES encryption of multiple blocks, by using CTR mode, and Figure 3 illustrates the AES-GCM algorithm.


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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A backlash by some customers who have seen PayPal freeze their funds, sometimes for weeks at a time, is forcing the payments unit of eBay Inc (EBAY.O) to change its anti-fraud policies.
PayPal is testing new, relaxed policies that may expose the dominant online payment service to more risk as it tries to tackle an issue that has dented its reputation.
Alex Stultz of Red Star Merchandise used the company's PayPal Here mobile service to accept card payments at the Outside Lands music festival in San Francisco in August.
The arrangement was part of a promotion by PayPal at the festival. Despite that, Stultz said some of his funds were held up by PayPal following the event. The issue was cleared up after a couple of emails and one phone call, he noted.
"I'm glad to hear they are working on it for everyone else," Stultz said. "Holding funds is tough on merchants because they need the cash flow."
PayPal says such account holds affect a small percentage of users and are needed to protect the company from big losses. But complaints have increased this year and some users are considering other ways to accept payments.
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"In the past, we took steps to protect customers and ourselves. Unfortunately, sometimes we catch a dolphin in our nets," said PayPal's new President David Marcus.
"Now that we have better technology than a few years ago, better algorithms, we can do things a little differently."
Braintree said on Wednesday that the next 1,000 businesses to sign up for its payments service would have processing fees waved on their first $50,000 worth of transactions.
With some types of transactions, involving things like event ticket sales, PayPal said it is exposed to a lot of potential fraud. An organizer could sell thousands of tickets ahead of time and then cancel the event, leaving PayPal on the hook.
"Where we have had a lot of losses in the past and we strengthened our rules, we're going to try figure out how to do a better job and potentially take more risk for the benefit of our customers," Marcus said.
PayPal is testing new, relaxed policies with a limited number of users and is monitoring the impact before deciding whether to roll them out more widely. Marcus declined to give details of the results so far.
In September, PayPal emailed some of its top-performing business users that it would no longer put holds on their funds when there was a dispute, claim or chargeback. In the past, money was placed in a "pending balance" until PayPal resolved such issues, according to the company.
WePay specializes in helping users collect payments from multiple people, making it useful for event organizers. In 2010, the start-up dumped a 600-pound block of ice outside a PayPal conference with a sign saying "PayPal freezes your accounts."
Square, led by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, has gained a lot of small merchant customers by helping them accept card payments through a small swipe device that attaches to smartphones.
Stripe focuses on making it easier for website and app developers to accept payments.
PayPal's moves are part of a broader push by Marcus to make the company's payment service more customer-focused, according to Gil Luria, an analyst at Wedbush Securities.
"In terms of providing better customer service and holding funds, there's certainly a change of philosophy at PayPal and Marcus is behind a lot of that," he added.
The tests may increase PayPal's losses in the short term. PayPal's loss rate was 0.30 percent in the third quarter, up from 0.26 percent in the previous quarter.
That means for every $100 of purchases PayPal processes, it paid 30 cents to cover losses. In the third quarter, PayPal handled more than $35 billion worth of transactions, up 20 percent from a year earlier. The business has about 117 million users in 190 countries.
"If the loss rate rose on its own without a corresponding return, that would be a concern for investors," Luria said.
But the changes should improve customer service and increase revenue growth by encouraging more merchants to use PayPal, he added.
"Even if there's a little higher loss rate, the incremental revenue from this will fall to the bottom line pretty quickly," Luria said. A typical loss rate for online transactions is 1 percent or more, he noted.
PayPal's policy changes may also be needed as the company expands from its online roots to try to process more transactions in the physical world, said Rick Oglesby, a payments expert at consulting firm Aite Group.
As the company works more with small merchants, like Stultz of Red Star Merchandise, there will be more spikes in payment volumes. Such spikes are often an early sign of potential fraud, which can lead to account holds, Oglesby explained.
"If PayPal treats all these offline transactions the same, their new products and services will not be workable," he added.
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You may request an early or absentee ballot by telephone, fax, email, mail, or in person. You may also request and track the status of an absentee ballot using our My Voter Page online resource.
When you use the My Voter Page, your request will be instantly sent to the clerk, who will need to approve it before issuing you a ballot. Using this resource may significantly reduce the time it takes for your clerk to receive and process your request.
However, under Vermont law, ballot(s) must be physically returned to the town clerk sealed inside the absentee certificate envelope (with the voter's original signature). You can request that the ballot and certificate for the return envelope be sent to you by email or fax, or you may have it sent by mail. If you have the ballot and certificate sent by email or fax, the clerk will include instructions for you to print and return the ballot and envelopes.
Download or print a Vermont absentee ballot request form here.
A single form may be used to make requests for absentee ballots for local, primary, and general elections during a single calendar year, if the "mail to" address is the same for both elections. Please note that a request must be made every election year.
If you do not receive your early voter absentee within a reasonable time after your request, you may apply to the town clerk for a duplicate ballot. A sworn statement affirming that you have not received the original ballot or that the ballot was lost must accompany the application.
If a duplicate early voter absentee ballot is issued and both the duplicate and original early voter absentee ballots are received before the close of polls on election day, the ballot with the earlier postmark or received first shall be counted.
If you lose your absentee ballot after you receive it, or you never receive an absentee ballot that was mailed to you, you can sign an affidavit for lost or undelivered absentee ballot and the town clerk will provide you a replacement ballot.
Yes. Please contact our office to obtain a list of voters who have requested and/or returned an absentee ballot. They are mailed out on a weekly and then daily basis as the election approaches. Please contact JP Isabelle at email@example.com or 802-828-2304. On Election Day the list must be available in each polling place in the town. If you have any questions about early or absentee voting, please call or visit your town clerk. For further assistance, call the Elections Division at 1-800-439-VOTE.
A voter who has received an early voter absentee ballot can change his or her mind and vote at the polls on Election Day. To be eligible to do this the voter must bring in the early voter absentee ballot as well as the envelope and any other voting materials received. The presiding officer shall return the unused early voter absentee ballots and envelope to the town clerk, who shall make a record of their return on the list of early or absentee voters and treat them as spoiled or unused ballots. A voter who has returned a voted early voter absentee ballot cannot change his or her mind and vote at the polls. Even if that ballot has not yet been counted, it is considered a voted ballot and cannot be retracted.
When absentee ballots are delivered by pairs of justices of the peace to voters who cannot come to the polls because of a sickness or disability, those pairs are to be made up of two justices of the peace from different political parties. If there are not enough justices of the peace from different parties to make up the required number of pairs, the remaining pairs may be selected by the board of civil authority from lists of registered voters submitted by the chairs of the town committees of political parties, and from among registered voters who in written application to the board state that they are not affiliated with any political party. See 17 V.S.A. § 2538.
No. No candidate; or spouse, parent, or child of a candidate; shall be eligible to serve as an election official, including delivering ballots, unless the candidate is not in a contested election.
You should check with the Secretary of State or Elections Board in your home state to find out how to register to vote and/or request an absentee ballot. Most states have this information online. Also, your college registrar should have information for you on registering and voting in your home state.
Federal law states that the Federal Write-in Absentee Ballot (FWAB) can be used only if the voter has applied for an absentee ballot 30 days before the general election and has not received the absentee ballot. In addition, members of the military must be absent from their voting residence. All other voters must be residing outside the United States.
A voter who has moved from a Vermont town directly to a location that is outside of the United States or who entered the military service directly from living in a Vermont town is entitled to stay on, or be added to, the voter checklist in the last place of residence in Vermont. If a person moves from Vermont to another residence in another state before moving overseas or joining the military, that person must register to vote in the last place of residence.
If the member of the armed forces resided in Vermont immediately before joining the military, then that person's spouse and/or dependents can also register or remain registered in Vermont. 17 V.S.A. §2103(20)
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No, nor is there any provision that specifically prohibits this.
If a person turns 18 years old while residing outside the United States or if a person turns 18 years old before leaving the United States but never registered to vote, then the person can register to vote in Vermont.
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Duration 2h22 - From $74
- Departure station : Wien meidling (Eichenstraße 27 1120 Wien)
Wien huetteldorf (Hadikgasse 312 1130 Wien)
Wien westbahnhof (Westbahnhof 140/1 1150 Wien)
- Arrival station : Salzburg hbf (Südtiroler Platz 3 5020 Salzburg)
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It takes only 2 hours and 20 minutes for the Railjet train to reach Salzburg from Vienna. The train is equipped with comfortable large seats. Travellers can choose to travel in first class or second class carriages.
Wien Westbahnof is a train station located in Vienna. It is one of the most important train stations in Vienna. Wien Westbahnof is well connected to public transportations and is easily accessible. Salzburg HBF is a train station located in Salzburg. Being one of the major train stations in Salzburg, it is served by buses and other public transportations.
For a single return trip from Vienna to Salzburg, a train ticket is the best value for money. Best prices are available when buying the train ticket well in advance. For extensive train travel, a rail pass for Austria is a better choice.
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Vienna is the capital city of Austria. The city is also regarded as the best known musical city in the world. Vienna has been home to great composers and musicians like Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven, Johann and many others.
From Salzburg, travellers can take the train to reach other cities and regions of Austria and even beyond to Germany.
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"we enjoyed or trip from Salzburg to Zurich - we had a first class pass and would thoroughly recommend the extra money - ! But please note the seats we paid to be reserved were not reserved for us on any of our trips ! "
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"We have been travelling around Europe for the last eight weeks by rail. It's been a very affordable mode of travel and without any problems . I will use rail Europe again on our next holiday "
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"I booked first class tickets and received a third world experience. The coach was extremely shabby and dingy with very poor seating. Instead of getting a meal (as I had understood we would get according to the website) we were offered the chance to purchase (?) a sandwich which was one of the most unpleasant food experiences of my life. In addition train staff were constantly wandering through the coach making unnecessary noise and disturbance. Altogether a massive disappointment which was vastly over priced. The only good part was the end. "
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"My wife and I traveled to Salzburg from Vienna on railjet. The journey was fantastic and we reached Salzburg in a little over 2 hours. We returned the same day after soaking in the sights of the incredibly beautiful Salzburg. I wish there were some signboards in English for people like us in the train stations. Philip, Singapore "
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"Delay for one hour and no any explainations. Sitting in the train without any air condition was a very bad exprience, No any staff helped custmers to transfer. "
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"Great way to travel within Austria and perfect for Vienna City connections. "
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"This was a smooth transition from bus to train. It made the 7 hour total trip less monotonous to change from bus to train when coming from Venezia. Train was comfortable and beautifully scenic through the alps. Also watching the subtle changes in houses between Italy and Austria was interesting. "
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"rail euro journey was a fantastic experience- they are very efficient, give good instructions, very clean and tidy, the routes are very scenic and breathtaking- epecially the venice to innsbruck journey. few drawbacks are- in places elevators and escalators are not functioning, which makes it very difficult when you have luggage and if you are weak.otherwise the journeys are a treat- we enjoyed them. Dinakar Singaram Muniswamy "
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"After leaving Prague, we were told that we had to board buses due to construction for part of the track. Train staff did not speak English and we were explained this by another passenger. We boarded buses from 1970, had to get off and reboard another train, then switch cars based on our final destination. Extremely uncomfortable, confusing, and we probably should've been told this before we even left. Lugging a 50lb suitcase on 3 different trains and a bus was not in my travel plans. I would've rented a car if I knew this would happen. "
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"I travelled first class from Zurich to Salzburg, then from Salzburg to Vienna. The trains were on time, had clear announcements, and arrived on time. The only complaint I have is that for first class, the service was not great. A snippy woman came by to sell drinks — not even a bottle of water free — and she would not accept Swiss francs for the coffee I ordered, even though we were travelling through Switzerland. She insisted on Euros, which fortunately I happened to have. You can eat on the train, but if you don't want to pay their prices, you definitely need to bring along something to eat and drink. Also, first class does not suggest luxury. This is quite an ordinary first class. On the other hand, first class is not expensive by most countries' standards, and I thought the two rides were excellent value for money. Reliability is often an issue with trains, and this one was right on time all the way. Finally, it was easy to get to the train stations in central Zurich and Salzburg, and I got off at a station in Vienna where I could catch the subway to my hotel. Very convenient. "
"Unable to change rating from excellent to very good. Comfortable,pleasant and helpful staff A great way to travel through Europe. "
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"Its excellent way to travel, very comfortable "
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"The OBB train is clean, new, and has free Wifi access. A comfortable ride for travellers. "
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"Our trip from Salzburg to Vienna was an unexpected pleasure. The service was prompt and timely while the compartments comfortable, clean and elegant. The contrast with train travel in the US could not be greater. When will the moral that investing in infrastructure enhances the quality of life of the population as a whole ever be recognized? "
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"Everything was very good except three things : First the toilet was not so clean and had a bad smell. Second and very important if you wanted to drink some coffee Or water , they where very expensive so I didn't buy anything Due it was very expensive. Third and last , I couldn't charge by mobile telephone due to the voltage of the Train was 230V! Except the above two things all the rest was very good. Thank you "
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