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Health Care
The Natchez and surrounding areas have 5 medical centers offering comprehensive programs in outpatient and inpatient care.
Merit Health
Merit Health Natchez and Merit Health Natchez – Community Campus combined in November 2015 to form a single, strong provider to serve the healthcare needs of the Natchez community. Merit Health Natchez recently underwent several renovations to update and expand services in preparation for the consolidation of the two campuses. The Joint Commission-accredited hospital has 179-beds and offers a broad range of services including emergency medicine, surgery, cardiology, labor and delivery, radiology, outpatient diagnostic testing, physical therapy and more. Merit Health Natchez holds additional accreditations from the American College of Radiology for mammography, the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation and the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities. Learn more on their website.
Riverland Medical Center
Riverland Medical Center is located in Ferriday, Louisiana which is about 20 minutes west of Vidalia. The public hospital offers all the services of a progressive hospital in a rural setting. Riverland offers diagnostic radiology services, including CAT scan, ultra sound and mammography; intensive and coronary care and cardio and pulmonary services in addition to general medical services and surgery, including endoscopy and laparoscopy. Riverland also has a 24-hour physician-staffed emergency room and a blood bank in house. View the Riverland Medical Center website for more details.
Long Term Acute Care Hospitals
Promise Hospital of Miss-Lou
Promise Healthcare, Inc. is one of the largest Long-Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH) organizations in the country providing quality specialty care for patients requiring a longer acute care recovery period. They specialize in the treatment of complex, acute and chronic conditions due to catastrophic illness or severe injury. This brand new 40 bed state-of-the-art all private room hospital also features full-service laboratory services, a full-service radiology department and an in-house pharmacy. View this facility on the Promise Hospital website.
Multispecialty Clinics
Doctors' Pavilion
Natchez is also home to the recently constructed Doctors' Pavilion. The building, which sits next to Natchez Regional Medical Center, is home to a variety of doctor's offices.
Riverpark Medical Center
Natchez Community Hospital and Riverpark Medical Center have partnered to provide several areas of service. Riverpark is a multiservice ambulatory care center, known more familiarly as an outpatient center. It includes multispecialty clinics, an ambulatory surgery center, a digital imaging center, a sports medicine and physical therapy department and an after hours clinic.
Doctors built Riverpark to provide equipment, technology, convenience and access to specialists within the setting of a smaller population so fewer people would leave the area for medical care in larger cities.


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I always enjoy cooking with Yaz. It is easier to be brave trying new things with two in the kitchen. I must confess that I felt I didn't do as much of the cooking as I would have liked. I was too busy constantly keeping an eye on Sylvia, who loved jumping up and down on the coffee table and running outside at every opportunity. Yaz's partner, Mindy, helped with keeping an eye on Sylvia but my little one would disappear quickly. Yes, that is Sylvia in the photo of the garden below.
We stopped for afternoon tea to sample some sweet buns and chocolate honeycomb. It was a sunny afternoon and their garden is lush with all the rain we have had. We sat by the bamboo in a shady corner with a cuppa. The food was lovely but the mozzies enjoyed feasting on my legs and there were spilt drinks. Even better was dinner with fantastic soup and buns.
Vegan Bacon
This recipe for vegan bacon was my must-try dish. I have actually decided that it was so good that I must make this again soon. I will post more about it then to do it justice. Meanwhile you can find the recipe at the Ordinary Vegetarian.
I can also tell you that it is one of my favourite discoveries this year. It is the first home made "facon" I have found that fries up to a pleasing crispness. I took home a tub of it and loved it in sandwiches and pasta dishes. Expect to hear more about it very soon.
Steamed Mushroom Buns
These steamed buns were chosen by Yaz. It is always nice to try yeasted goods with him. We had thought we might make pretzels too but ran out of time so I was pleased we had a bread of sorts. I would never have thought to try these but I would make them again. Having come to steaming late in life, I have learnt to appreciate how forgiving steaming is with timing. I didn't do much with these but if you have time, they are not too hard.
Yaz originally suggested making them with red bean paste as his recipe suggested but I have never learnt to appreciate sweet bean paste. (I have my limits even in shared cooking.) We compromised on a mushroom filling. In fact I wondered how vegan bacon would go in these.
We set aside a few buns and filled these with a range of sweet fillings - chocolate and honeycomb, raspberries and honey, jam and one other filling I can't remember. These were the buns we sampled at afternoon tea and they were fantastic, even though the honeycomb filling melted away.
Tempeh and Corn Soup
I bookmarked this tempeh and corn soup recipe a while back because I often would like a vegetarian version of chicken and sweetcorn soup in Asian restaurants. This is exactly what I wish was on offer. We were a bit slapdash with the recipe because just as we started cooking, Yaz's laptop refused to show the website. A few things were added late and we only had powdered not fresh ginger. But the recipe showed itself to be robust enough to handle our vagaries.
Before turning vegetarian, I often cooked casseroles with meat tossed in flour and fried before adding other ingredients. This was the method used by this recipe. It was strangely comforting in a nostalgic way. I am sure the meat used to stick to the pan just like the tempeh, though there is less fat released with tempeh so maybe we didn't have enough oil. I am not always that keen on tempeh but it was excellent in this recipe and I was in heaven with all the tinned creamed corn. It was fantastic accompanied by the steamed buns. Why can't Chinese restaurants serve such excellent vegetarian food?
Vegan Crunchie (aka Chocolate Honeycomb)
I was taken by Kristy's recent post on vegan crunchie. I must tell you that I am really a violet crumble girl. Not by choice but by heritage. You see, my dad loves them. So much that each Chrismas and birthday my older sister and I took it in turns to buy him violet crumble and pollywaffle. If you didn't grow up in Australia you might not know the difference. Violet crumbles are harder honey comb – it doesn't melt in your mouth like Crunchie but Crunchie always tasted a little burnt to me. Yet I was intrigued by Kristy's vegan version, especially as I love anything with golden syrup.
Our crunchie was not perfect. In fact it didn't get very close to looking like crunchie or even violet crumble. Yaz has made honeycomb a few times before but had mixed results. We decided to use a loaf tin which in retrospect was a little small for our mixture. The mixture could have been cooked a little less than the recipe said. It was a little dark, though it rose amazingly, and then sank again as it cooled. But maybe if we just spread it on baking paper like I saw Nigella Lawson do on tv tonight, it might have been easier to deal with.
We drizzled the chocolate on chunks rather than smoothing it over a slab. I suspect the weather was more humid than is ideal (thanks for the tip Cindy). We didn't even wait for the chocolate to set but it tasted wonderful fresh. In fact it was so good that it was hard to stop eating.
I was quite sad when we left because this will be my last cooking session with Yaz in his bright and cheerful kitchen. Who knows when we will cook together again as he and Mindy are setting off overseas at the end of the year to start a new adventure on the other side of the world. I am sure I will make some of these recipes again and remember enjoying them together with Yaz and Mindy.
Previously on Green Gourmet Giraffe:
This time last year: The Last Drop - cosy pub grub
This time two years ago: Lentil Loaf with Chutney
This time three years ago: Dahl for the Soul
Steamed Mushroom Buns
adapted from the Fresh Loaf
Makes 16 buns
- 3 cups bread flour
- 1½ teaspoons instant yeast
- 1 tsp sugar ½ cup soy milk
- ½ cup warm water
- 1 tablespoon butter or margarine,
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- Oil
- Spring onions, finely chopped
- Variety of Asian mushrooms, chopped
- Soy sauce
To make dough: Mix together all ingredients and add an extra spoonful of water or two if the dough isn't quite supple enough for stretching and shaping. Yax kneaded the dough for a minute, let it sit for 10 minutes, and repeated this 3 times rather than kneading for 10 minutes as suggested by the recipe. I can't quite remember how much longer he let it sit for but the recipe suggested the dough rising for 45-60 minutes.
Cut the dough into 16 pieces and let rest. The recipe says 5 minutes but we let them sit quite a bit longer. Then use a rolling pin to roll each piece into flat circles of about 20cm diameter. Place a spoon of filling into the middle and pinch the edges together at the top. (If you want a smooth bun you can roll the ball to smooth the edges but we chose not to.)
Once shaped let the buns sit for 10 minutes. While they are sitting, heat the water for the steamer and line your steamer basket with baking paper to stop balls sticking to the basket. Place buns in steamer, cover and steam about 15 minutes. Serve warm. I kept some in the fridge overnight and steamed them for 15 minutes the next day.
Tempeh and Corn Soup
Adapted from Veggie Num Num via Vegematarian
Serves 4-6
- 250g tempeh
- 2 tablespoons cornflour
- Canola oil (or other neutral oil)
- 1-2 tsp sesame oil
- 1 brown onion (or leek,) finely sliced
- 1 stick of celery, finely diced
- 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon of ginger, finely grated (we used ginger powder)
- 2 x 400g tins of creamed corn
- kernels of 2 corn cobs (or use a drained 400g tin of corn)
- 1 litre of vegetable stock or tricken stock like Massel's liquid stock
- 1 spring onion, finely sliced
- Coriander (optional)
Heat oils in a large saucepan. You will need a decent glug or two. Add the onion (or leek) and celery and fry until soft. (We forgot to add the celery until later but I would add it around when I added the onion.) Add ginger and garlic and fry for 1-2 minutes.
Add tempeh and cornflour mixture. Cook over medium heat for about 4-5 minutes or til tempeh has started to turn golden brown. Our tempeh was all clumpy and seemed to take ages to brown and stuck to the bottom. Some firm stirring and a bit of stock to loosen the tempeh will help.
Add the vegetable stock, creamed corn and corn kernels. Bring to the boil and gently simmer for about 15 minutes or until soup has slightly thickened. Serve with spring onions and coriander if desired.
Update June 2014: made this and had to use 2 tins of corn kernels and 1 tin of creamed corn because that was all I had. The texture was not quite right but it was rescued by adding some rice to the soup.
Vegan Crunchie
from In the Mood for Noodles (using an allrecipes.com honeycomb recipe)
makes lots
- 4 tablespoons golden syrup
- 1 cup white sugar
- 3 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda (or less)
- 1 cup of choc chips (or more)
Gently heat the golden syrup and sugar together until the sugary clumps become liquid. Bring to a boil and then simmer on low heat for 5-10 minutes (or even less – ours was a bit overcooked and we just did 5 minutes – apparently dropping a little syrup into water will help to show it is done if it becomes brittle.)
Remove pot from the heat and quickly mix in the bicarb of soda. It will foam up instantly. Pour into prepared tin and let it set (I think this took a few hours – NB apparently it sets better if the weather is dry rather than humid).
Kristy poured melted chocolate into a tin (advising that it is lined with baking paper), placed the honeycomb on the chocolate and pour more over the honeycomb. We chopped up the honeycomb and did this but ended up just drizzling the chocolate over the chunks because it was too hard to smooth it.
Ideally you are meant to let it set and then chop it up but we started to eat it before it was set and by the next day there was bloom on the chocolate. Not perfect but still delicious.
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Aeskulap - DICOM Viewer
Aeskulap is a medical image viewer.
It is able to load a series of special images stored in the DICOM format for review.
Additionally Aeskulap is able to query and fetch DICOM images from archive nodes (also called PACS) over the network.
The goal of this project is to create a full open source replacement for commercially available DICOM viewers.
Aeskulap is based on gtkmm, glademm and gconfmm and designed to run
under Linux. Ports of these packages are available for different
platforms. It should be quite easy to port Aeskulap to any platform
were these packages are available.
Hot news
Aeskulap 0.2.1 release.
It's been a long way to go, ...
Spotlight on, here it is, ...
Aeskulap 0.2.1
This release introduces new features like windowlevel presets and major bug fixes.
More details on the release can be found in the README file.
Please test this release and give us feedback about your impressions and thoughts.
Download the source:
Aeskulap 0.2.1 tarball
Binaries and build instructions can be found at the download section.
- [08-mar-2006]
Aeskulap 0.2.1 release. This release introduces new features like windowlevel presets and major bug fixes. - [23-feb-2006]
Gentoo portage overlay. See the download section for details. - [02-oct-2005]
Aeskulap 0.2.0 release. This release introduces major bug fixes and improvements. The search form and the preferences dialog have been greatly improved. - [11-sep-2005]
Aeskulap 0.1.1 maintenance release. The release fixes minor compilation bugs and some major bugs in the networking (C-Find, C-Move) code. - [9-sep-2005]
We're online. The website has been uploaded. Enjoy. - [25-aug-2005]
The Aeskulap project just startet. The code has been uploaded to the savannah CVS.


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What College Has Been Named the Top Party School in the US?
Pop another keg in Athens, Ohio because Ohio University has been named the top party school in the nation by a student survey in the Princeton Review's annual 'Best Colleges' edition.
Ohio University has made the best party school list 12 times since 1997, but this marks the first time it ranked number one.
The University of Georgia, which topped the list last year, placed second, while the University of Mississippi, University of Iowa and University of California, Santa Barbara rounded out the top five.
Needlessly to say, Ohio University's administration wasn't so thrilled with the the big honor.
"We take seriously our responsibility to help our students succeed in all facets of their experience, including addressing high-risk behavior," Dean of Students Ryan Lombardi said in a statement. "We are disappointed in the party school ranking as it is not indicative of the overall experience of Ohio students and does not match the data we have collected."


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The Trial of Gu Kailai – Did the CCP Bite Itself in the Butt?
On Monday morning (Beijing time) the Hefei Intermediate Court will announce its verdict in the murder trial of Gu Kailai (pronounced Goo Kai-lie), wife of Chongqing's purged Party Secretary and former rising star, Bo Xilai (pronounced Bwo See-lie). The world will be waiting but not because the verdict is uncertain (Gu will be found guilty) or because she will receive the death penalty (likely her sentences will be commuted to death penalty with 2 year reprieve, a.k.a. life sentence); the world will be watching more because this absurd tale of kangaroo justice mixed with seemingly bizarre and inconsistent facts will finally come to an end.
August 9, 2012: The Eight Hour Murder Trial
Gu is accused of murdering one-time family friend and British businessman Neil Heywood in order to protect her son, Bo Guagua (pronounced Bwo Gwa-gwa). While the eight-hour trial was publicized in the Chinese press, the evidence against Gu is flimsy at best. Even the prosecutor's arguments seemingly contradict the facts and common sense. At the trial, prosecutors argued that Gu was motivated by a motherly (and as presented to the court mentally unstable) need to protect her adult son.
Allegedly, Heywood kidnapped Bo Guagua, kept him in his basement in England, and threatened his safety after a business deal went bust. To
protect her son, in November 2011, Gu allegedly hatched a Tudor-esqe plan to convince Heywood to come to Chongqing where she met him at his hotel room, had him drink copious amounts of wine and tea, watched him vomit and then gave him a glass of water mixed with cyanide. When Heywood's dead body was discovered two days later, on November 16, 2011, by hotel staff, Gu allegedly convinced his wife in Beijing to cremate the body.
None of this makes sense, at least in terms of justice and accountability. Since 2010, Gu's son has lived in the United States, attending Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and Politics (he graduated May 2012). At the very latest, Bo Guagua's "kidnapping" would have occurred in early 2010, when he was a student at Oxford. But wouldn't Oxford have been aware of a missing student? Wouldn't a protective mother call the British police at the time to alert them of the kidnapping of her son? Other than Gu's "confession" and other witnesses' statements read into the record by prosecutors, no tangible evidence was presented.
Gu Kailai – A Pawn in Her Husband's Purge?
But this trial is not about sense, justice or accountability. Instead, with its lack of evidence and with its fantastical soap-opera explanations, it is a song-and-dance number put on by the Chinese Communist Party ("CCP") to explain the downfall of Gu's husband, Bo Xilai.
Since 2007, Bo has had a successful run as Chongqing Party Secretary. Starting in 2009, Bo lead a popular crack-down on corruption, prosecuting thousands of black market operatives. Under Bo's leadership, no one was safe; even corrupt politicians were prosecuted. Chongqing, once the bastion of organized crime, had been cleaned up under Bo and its people were very happy.
As Chongqing Party Secretary, Bo also began efforts to revitalize Maoism. Calling on the people to sing "red songs" and for the young to go to the countryside, Bo harkened back to the days of the Cultural Revolution. Bo's neo-Maoism was criticized in the Western press but was not opposed by all in Chongqing. Namely, the "losers" of China's economic development benefitted from Bo's focus on public work projects and subsidized housing for the poor.
In Chongqing, Bo was becoming a powerful politician with an already regal pedigree (Bo is known as a "princeling," the son of one of Communist China's founding leaders). By the middle of 2011, Bo had positioned himself perfectly for a powerful, national position with China's change in leadership set for October 2012. A position on the all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee was not out of reach.
But Bo's downfall began, not with the November 14, 2011 death of Neil Heywood, but with Wang Lijun's – Chongqing's police chief and long-time Bo ally – alleged attempted asylum at the U.S. Consulate in Chengdu. On February 6, 2012, Wang fled to the U.S. Consulate, allegedly fearing for his life and confessing to U.S. Consulate staff the secrets of Bo Xilai's reign. The U.S. did not provide Wang with asylum; once he left the consulate, Chinese officials boarded Wang on a flight to Beijing to be disciplined by the Party.
On March 15, 2012, Bo was dismissed as Chongqing Party Secretary although retained his position on the Politburo (but not yet the Standing Committee). On April 10, 2012, the Chinese government announced its investigation of Gu Kailai for the November 14, 2011 murder of Neil Heywood and dismissed Bo from his remaining Party positions, effectively purging him.
But did Gu actually kill Neil Heywood? With the minimal "evidence" presented at trial, it's unclear. It could be that Heywood unexpectedly died while in Chongqing or that someone else killed Heywood and that pinning the murder of Gu is a more pleasant way for the Party to explain Bo's purge than the actual truth.
Does a One-Party Authoritarian Dictatorship Need to Explain Its Purge?
In the past, the CCP has purged Party leaders without any explanation. But in the case of Bo – with his international stature, relative popularity among the people, good looks, and money – purging him without any explanation would raise eyebrows to say the least. One thing the CCP cannot have as it jockeys its leadership transition, is a public who questions its legitimacy.
The internet, fervent micro-blogging and greater access to information (even if it is government-censored), leaves the CCP susceptible to rumors (or in some cases, to uncovering the truth). Some Party-approved narrative is necessary to explain a popular politician's purge. Here, Bo's downfall is his wife's alleged murder of Neil Heywood. The criminal trial – held in a Hefei, not Chongqing court – adds further legitimacy to the Party's narrative.
But even more importantly, the trial serves as an important signaling device for China's internet users. By leaking some information to the government-controlled press from the trial regarding the Party-approved narrative, the Party puts Chinese society on notice as to the acceptable dialogue surrounding Bo's purge.
But Will the Trial of Gu Kailai Ultimately Bite the CCP in the Butt?
It could be that Gu killed Heywood. It could also be that she didn't and that her trial is being used to mask the real reasons for Bo's purge. But
regardless, the flimsy manner in which Gu will likely be convicted gives the appearance of her innocence. The facts just don't make sense and not just to the Western audience. Likely many in the Chinese audience see this as well (they just know that they can't talk about it).
The Party put on this show trial to bolster its legitimacy. But ultimately it's this trial that will undermine the Party's legitimacy. The CCP has a serious trust problem with its people – its people know that food safety is flouted with abandon, that government officials' children get away with murder, that government statistics on air pollution are a lie, and now that something weird is going on within the Party over Bo Xilai. But a people's trust of its own government is necessary to its ultimate success. Yes, in every country, people question some aspect of their government or their history, but not to the extent that happens in China. Without trust, at some point the government won't be able to function. So the question emerges, how many lies can the CCP continue to tell before its house of cards comes tumbling down?


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About our Blue Plaid Kids Pillow Bed
You and your plaid loving child, little ones and teens alike, will absolutely love this Blue buffalo plaid print pillow bed slipcover. It is foldable, creating options for a comfortable floor lounger cushion, plush seat, or sleeping mat for Kids of all ages.
- This versatile pillow bed will transform any space into an immediate sleepover or mermaid party. It is great for birthday celebrations, campouts, and travel. Your child will enjoy napping on it, using it in a fort, watching cartoons and playing video games on it, or reading books or studying by the fireplace. It makes a quick, portable extra bed for overnight guests, hotel stays, camping, and sleepovers at grandma's house.
- Features soft fabric for ultimate lounging and snuggles. It measures 88 inches by 26 inches. Lay flat to create a bed or fold it over to create a comfy floor lounger. The slipcover is Machine Washable on Delicate, or can be hand washed. It may be tumble dried on low, or laid flat to dry. When not in use, it can be folded and stored in a small area.
- This is a large pillow slipcover, it has 5 queen size zippered pockets, Pillows Are Not Included. This allows you to choose 5 Queen size pillows of the comfort level you prefer.
- Create the perfect gift for a special someone by choosing the fabric that fits their unique style. There are other fabrics available.
- Perfect for Cowboy or Cowgirl themed Birthday Slumber Parties and Sleepovers. Check out our Slumber Party Bundles, and treat your guests to memorable, reusable party favors.


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The FDA has issued a warning against feeding dogs the Nature's Deli Chicken Jerky treats after 34 out of 72 samples taken by the Colorado Department of Agriculture tested positive for Salmonella. These snacks were sold at Costco stores in the Denver area.
Kasel Associates of Denver has recalled several of their other products this year, but did not voluntarily recall these treats. Costco has pulled all of these treats with lot code BESTBY061913DEN.
The FDA says that this recall is not in connection with the string of illnesses and deaths linked to other chicken jerky strips, which are primarily Chinese-manufactured. Kasel Associates makes, packages and distributes their products in the US.
Salmonella in dogs can cause fever, shock, lethargy, dehydration, decreased appetite, stomach pain, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Salmonella can also be spread to humans, so be sure to wash hands thoroughly after disposing of these treats. Humans and animals displaying these symptoms should seek immediate medical attention. Serious complications can manifest if left untreated.
Other treats that have been recently recalled due to possible Salmonella contamination:
- Kasel's Boots & Barkley Roasted American Pig Ears
- Kasel's Boots & Barkley American Variety Pack Dog Treats
- Kasel's Boots & Barkley Beef Bully Sticks
- Carolina Prime Pet Company's Priority Total Pet Care All Natural Bullstrips (Lot Codes 20082712 S3195 and 20090312 S3195)
- The Barking Dog's Yoghund Organic Banana & Peanut Butter frozen yogurt
Complaints about pet treats can be issued to:


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Following up on a story we broke last week: it looks like Rogers Wireless has reverted back to a 24-month term for their customer hardware upgrade program. The program — which previously allowed customers to upgrade handsets, with full subsidies, after fulfilling 24-months of a 36-month contract — was adjusted last week, requiring customers to fulfill a 30-month term before getting the discounted pricing. Now, according to a second company communication, it looks like Rogers will be reinstating the 24-month hardware upgrade term. A memo to employees reads:
Last week, we communicated some changes about our Hardware Upgrade Policy (HUP) eligibility. To ensure our current promotions are clear and consistent, Data to Data HUP eligibility will be revised to 24-months as of October 28. This current promotion aligns Voice to Voice, Voice to Data and Data to Data eligibility all to 24-months.
Important Note about Hardware Upgrades:
To remain competitive and increase customer loyalty, we regularly offer customers promotional options to upgrade their hardware before the expiry of their current commitments. However, it is important to remember that our HUP program is a promotion and not a plan feature. These promotions are subject to change and as a result, should not be promised to customers at the point of sale.
Back to business as usual in Canada. Anyone feeling relieved?
Thanks, solidsnake3467!


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From Fedora Project Wiki
This is to verify that Anaconda can successfully install a package selection that is offered by default.
How to test
- Boot the installer using any available non-live means (anything except
) - Do not make any modifications in software selection
- Proceed with installation
Expected Results
- The installation completes successfully
- The new system boots into an environment that matches the default package selection (e.g. GNOME desktop)


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This is the third part in a mini-sequence presenting material from Robert Kurzban's excellent book Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind.
The press secretary of an organization is tasked with presenting outsiders with the best possible image of the organization. While they're not supposed to outright lie, they do use euphemisms and try to only mention the positive sides of things.
A plot point in the TV series West Wing is that the President of the United States has a disease which he wants to hide from the public. The White House Press Secretary is careful to ask whether there's anything she needs to know about the President's health, instead of whether there's anything she should know. As the President's disease is technically something she should know but not something she needs to know, this allows the President to hide the disease from her without lying to her (and by extension, to the American public). As she then doesn't need to lie either, she can do her job better.
If our minds are modular, critical information can be kept away from the modules that are associated with consciousness and speech production. It can often be better if the parts of the system that exist to deal with others are blissfully ignorant, or even actively mistaken, about information that exists in other parts of the system.
In one experiment, people could choose between two options. Choosing option A meant they got $5, and someone else also got $5. Option B meant that they got $6 and the other person got $1. About two thirds were generous and chose option A.
A different group of people played a slightly different game. As before, they could choose between $5 or $6 for themselves, but they didn't know how their choice would affect the other person's payoff. They could find out, however – if they just clicked a button, they'd be told whether the choice was between $5/$5 and $6/$1, or $5/$1 and $6/$5. From a subject's point of view, clicking a button might tell them that picking the option they actually preferred meant they were costing the other person $4. Not clicking meant that they could honestly say that they didn't know what their choice cost the other person. It turned out that about half of the people refused to look at the other player's payoffs, and that many more subjects chose $6/? than $5/?.
There are many situations where not knowing something means you can avoid a lose-lose situation. If know your friend is guilty of a serious crime and you are called to testify in court, you may either betray your friend or commit perjury. If you see a building on fire, and a small boy comes to tell you that a cat is caught in the window, your options are to either risk yourself to save the cat, or take the reputational hit of neglecting a socially perceived duty to rescue the cat. (Footnote in the book: "You could kill the boy, but then you've got other problems.") In the trolley problem, many people will consider both options wrong. In one setup, 87% of the people who were asked thought that pushing a man to the tracks to save five was wrong, and 62% said that not pushing him was wrong. Better to never see the people on the tracks. In addition to having your reputation besmirched by not trying to save someone, many nations have actual "duty to rescue" laws which require you to act if you see someone in serious trouble.
In general, people (and societies) often believe that if you know about something bad, you have a duty to stop it. If you don't know about something, then obviously you can't be blamed for not stopping it. So we should expect that part of our behavior is designed to avoid finding out information that would impose an unpleasant duty on us.
I personally tend to notice this conflict if I see people in public places who look like they might be sleeping or passed out. Most likely, they're just sleeping and don't want to be bothered. If they're drunk or on drugs, they could even be aggressive. But then there's always the chance that they have some kind of a condition and need medical assistance. Should I go poke them to make sure? You can't be blamed if you act like you didn't notice them, some part of me whispers. Remember the suggestion that you can fight the bystander effect by singling out a person and asking them directly for help? You can't pretend you haven't noticed a duty if the duty is pointed out to you directly. As for the bystander effect in general, there's less of a perceived duty to help if everyone else ignores the person, too. (But then this can't be the sole explanation, because people are most likely to act when they're alone and there's nobody else around to know about your duty. The bystander effect isn't actually discussed in the book, this paragraph is my own speculation.)
The police may also prefer not to know about some minor crime that is being committed. If it's known that they're ignoring drug use (say), they lose some of their authority and may end up punished by their superiors. If they don't ignore it, they may spend all of their time doing minor busts instead of concentrating on more serious crime. Parents may also pretend that they don't notice their kids engaging in some minor misbehavior, if they don't want to lose their authority but don't feel like interfering either.
In effect, the value of ignorance comes from the costs of others seeing you know something that puts you in a position in which you are perceived to have a duty and must choose to do one of two costly acts – punish, or ignore. In may own lab, we have found that people know this. When our subjects are given the opportunity to punish someone who has been unkind in an economic game, they do so much less when their punishment won't be known by anyone. That is, they decline to punish when the cloak of anonymity protects them.
The (soon-to-expire) "don't ask, don't tell" policy of the United States military can be seen as an institutionalization of this rule. Soldiers are forbidden from revealing information about their sexuality, which would force their commanders to discharge them. On the other hand, commanders are also forbidden from inquiring into the matter and finding out.
A related factor is the desire for plausible deniability. A person who wants to have multiple sexual partners may resist getting himself tested for sexual disease. If he was tested, he might find out he had a disease, and then he'd be accused of knowingly endangering others if he didn't tell them about his disease. If he isn't tested, he'll only be accused of not finding out that information, which is often considered less serious.
These are examples of situations where it's advantageous to be ignorant of something. But there are also situations where it is good to be actively mistaken. More about them in the next post.


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CALL strives to be a visible and effective access point for persons needing health and human service programs, promoting consumer education and choice of options. CALL provides Comprehensive Information and Referral for Muskegon County as well as Specialized Senior Information and Assistance for Muskegon, Oceana, and Ottawa Counties. CALL is its own 501(c)(3) organization, housed at Senior Resources, 255 West Sherman Boulevard in Muskegon Heights, but operating independently according to the Information and Referral standards established by the National Alliance for Information and Referral Systems (AIRS).
CALL is Michigan AIRS endorsed, is in the process of seeking National AIRS accreditation, and is designated by the Michigan Public Service Commission as the 2-1-1 Call Center for Muskegon County. We are a proud partner of the United Way of the Lakeshore.
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CALL's mission is to increase access to community services through effective and compassionate information and referral. Our program and our staff is committed to fulfilling this mission and to upholding the values that serve as the foundation for the way CALL operates.
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Kerala School Kalolsavam Kerala School Kalotsavam is a Kaleidoscope of Kerala's young talent in the field of art and literature. The Kerala School Kalolsavam got a facelift in 2009 with the introduction of a software application which incited the biggest event happening in the student's community. This online application has been developed to manage all the cumbersome process of the School Kalolsavam, mainly the data entry part. Previously the data entry part, which includes school registration, entering participants details, remitting fees etc were a chaos at the fest venue every year. But with the introduction of an online system which is expanded up to the district level, all the processes are now made ease, fast and effective. This system not only provides an easy way for data entry but also does the validation part too. The information has been classified into three: pre-fest, festival time and after fest reports. Every school and students would be given a unique identification number to avoid any kind of duplication. The system also generates conspicuous participant cards which include detailed information about the participants. The system generates the tabulation sheets and score sheets for the judges and the festival committee can simply download the page and use it. Stage allocation, time slot for each item, list of participants and even the entire Kalolsavam manual can be viewed online. The system also enabled the automation of the rank list generation process, making it reliable and reusable. Website : http://www.schoolkalolsavam.in (to view results) |
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Fodor's, the leading name in travel information, today announced that the Grand Victorian B&B has been recognized as a 2011 Fodor's Choice selection. This distinction designates the Grand Victorian as a leader in its field for service, quality, and value in the 2011 year.
Fodor's travel, founded in 1936 by Eugene Fodor, is currently celebrating it's 75th anniversary. The editors and experts of Fodor's have been selecting only the top fifteen percent of their listed properties and activities as Fodor's Choice award recipients since 1988. Every year, Fodor's writers experience, examine and evaluate thousands of hotels, restaurants and attractions in their travels across the globe. While every business included in a Fodor's guide is deemed worth a traveler's time, only those offering a truly remarkable experience are given the Fodor's Choice designation.
For 75 years Fodor's has presented travelers with the very top recommendations from hidden-away restaurants to can't-miss museums, to make sure they're making the most of their travels. The 2011 Fodor's Choice recipients are the best of the best, providing a remarkable experience in their price range or category.
As a 2011 Fodor's Choice property the Grand Victorian will receive special recognition in the next Fodor's guidebook to the New Orleans area and on www.Fodors.com.


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A British sniper in Afghanistan killed six insurgents with a single bullet after hitting the trigger switch of a suicide bomber whose device then exploded, The Daily Telegraph has learnt.
The 20-year-old marksman, a lance corporal in the Coldstream Guards, hit his target from 850 metres, killing the suicide bomber and five others around him caught in the blast.
The incident in Kakaran in southern Afghanistan happened in December but has only now been disclosed as Britain moves towards the withdrawal of all combat soldiers by the end of the year.
Lt Col Richard Slack, commanding officer of 9/12 Royal Lancers, said the unnamed sharpshooter prevented a major attack by the Taliban, as a second suicide vest packed with 20kg of explosives was found nearby.
The same sniper, with his first shot on the tour of duty, killed a Taliban machine-gunner from 1,340m.
Several hundred British and Afghan soldiers were carrying out an operation in December when they were engaged in a gun battle with 15 to 20 insurgents.
"The guy was wearing a vest. He was identified by the sniper moving down a tree line and coming up over a ditch," said Lt Col Slack. "He had a shawl on. It rose up and the sniper saw he had a machine gun.
"They were in contact and he was moving to a firing position. The sniper engaged him and the guy exploded. There was a pause on the radio and the sniper said, 'I think I've just shot a suicide bomber'. The rest of them were killed in the blast."
It is understood the lance corporal was using an L115A3 gun, the Army's most powerful sniper weapon.
The Armed Forces are gradually decreasing their presence in Helmand, handing over security of the country to the Afghan armed forces. Last month, three major bases were closed or handed over to Afghan control. At the height of the campaign, there were 137 bases across Helmand - now there is only one base outside Camp Bastion, Sterga 2, which is staffed by a company from 4 Scots and the 9/12 Royal Lancers.
The sniper incident was one of a dwindling number of gun battles between British forces and the insurgents. In total, 448 UK soldiers have died since 2001, but far fewer have been wounded in the most recent tour, with Afghan forces now leading 97 per cent of the security operations across the country.
Yesterday at Sterga 2, soldiers said they were looking forward to returning home and hoped their work would help the Afghans achieve stability.
Sterga 2 stands on a plateau above the Helmand river, about 29 kilometres south-east of Camp Bastion. Between Bastion and Sterga 2 is the "protected zone", next to the river, where the local population is living under the protection of the Afghan armed forces.
The camp has only come under attack once, and that was when it was being built last August. "In my tour in 2007, I had seven guys injured while they were actually inside the base," said Lt Col Slack. "We had rocket attacks every day. This base hasn't been attacked since it was built. It feels like it is time to go."
Capt Ed Challis, who is in charge of Sterga 2, said he was hopeful about the future of Afghanistan.
The country has its first round of presidential elections this Saturday, with an increase in violence expected as voters go to the polls.
"I am an optimist," said Capt Challis. "There are lots of things that have changed for the better. You would be a fool to think you can change a hundred years of culture fast, but have things improved? Yes. I believe they are able to take it forward."
He added: "I'd imagine once I get back it's something I'll look back on and sort of realise the historical importance of it - but at the moment we're just focusing on our primary role here."
Highlander Paul Carr, 27, from Paisley, was on sentry duty in the watchtower above the river. He said he was enjoying the hot weather, after the camp was hit by snow in February. "When this base closes, we will go home," he said. "I get a holiday feeling when I think about it."
Highlander Carr was monitoring a small compound on the bank of the river. Camels and goats wandered around outside the farm, with small fields of onions growing in the sun. Poppies were also starting to flower, despite years of programmes to eradicate the poppy crops in Afghanistan.
Abandoned fortifications - Russian installations from the Eighties and older - dot the horizon.
Inside the camp, a company of servicemen and women were working to gather intelligence about the surrounding area.
The information is passed on to the Afghan security forces and intelligence from Sterga 2 aided the sniper attack in December.
Cameras mounted on balloons monitor the fields and compounds for several kilometres around, feeding into an operations room and providing protection for Bastion. The Taliban thought that the large balloon was a "white whale in the sky" when it was first launched.
Lt Col Slack lost one soldier, L/Cpl James Brynin, 22, of the Intelligence Corps, who was shot dead on patrol last October.
Lt Col Slack said he had watched Afghanistan evolve dramatically over the years.
"The price has been heavy for the Army and in particular it has been heavy for the families of those nearly 450 [dead soldiers], and no one is under any illusion about that," he said.
"I will finish my tour knowing one of our NCOs will not be coming home and that is a heavy price to pay.
"Has it been worth it? At my level when I look at security that is here and the way the ANSF [Afghan National Security Forces] have developed, I certainly think it's been worth it."


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With any luck, Mike Pettine won't have to say another word about Cleveland's elongated quarterback derby.
Speaking with reporters Wednesday after Brian Hoyer was named the team's starter over Johnny Manziel, the Browns coach assured that his veteran passer wouldn't be "looking over his shoulder."
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Despite Mike Pettine's decision, Bucky Brooks still believes Johnny Manziel is a better option at quarterback than Brian Hoyer. **READ**
"This is Brian's job," Pettine told NFL Media's Aditi Kinkhabwala. "I never think of it as (if) it's a leash or we want a guy to be a game manager. We want him to be confident and go out and play."
Pettine also rejected the idea that Cleveland would use Manziel as change-of-pace passer, saying: "I don't foresee us now, especially early, being in a two-quarterback system."
Pettine wouldn't rule out making a switch down the road -- what coach would? -- but he hinted at the possibility that Manziel "doesn't play this year."
The Browns spoke openly this summer about Manziel as a potential subpackage weapon, but Pettine sang a different tune on Wednesday, sounding doubly committed to Hoyer.
"There was nothing I would change, nothing I would do differently," Manziel told reporters. "I feel like, if I would have come out and made some plays and done better in the last two weeks, then it could have been a different outcome. But no, I don't feel that I would have gone back and done anything differently."
The option of a redshirt year for Manziel feels more alive than ever before.
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Racing Seat and Harness Installation - Anchor In
Your High-Dollar Racing Seat And Belts Are Only As Good As Your Mounting Procedures. Here's How To Do It Right
Thanks to NASCAR's big push to improve driver safety in the past few years, the trickle-down effect has produced greatly improved seat and belt designs that are affordable for the Saturday night racer. For once, something besides the ever-increasing costs of racing is being passed down from the big leagues to us regular racers.
However, the quality of your harness and racing seat means little if they aren't properly installed in your race car. The idea of a seat and harness system is to hold the body with very little movement in the case of an accident. Even with the smallest race car drivers, the weight of the human body can produce tremendous inertial forces when it is allowed to move even an inch or two during a crash. For example, a 200-pound man in an accident that results in a 70g hit, which isn't unusual in racing, produces 15,000 pounds of force. To help your safety systems hold your body in place during a potentially violent crash, your seat and belts must be securely mounted in the race car and the mounts have to be in the right place. And don't make the mistake of believing you have to be on a big NASCAR-style superspeedway to require top-of-the-line safety equipment. It is actually the smaller tracks that produce the biggest hits because the turns are sharper. Because of this, when you get out of shape, the wall will come up on you more quickly. You are a lot more likely to take a hard hit into the wall at a bullring than at Daytona, where the turns are gradual.
"The most important thing when it comes to mounting your seatbelt brackets is to give your belts the opportunity to work the way they are designed," says racing seat builder Kris VanGilder, owner of Innovative Safety Products (ISP). "That means the belts should have the proper angles across your body, and they should also be in a straight line across your body."
ISP is one of the top racing seat manufacturers, providing comprehensive seating systems to race teams at every level. ISP arguably has as much sled testing experience as any private safety products manufacturer. But you may be surprised to hear that VanGilder says the greatest portion of any workday for him is spent educating racers and crew chiefs-everyone from the Cup level to the Late Model ranks-on how to properly fit and install a comprehensive restraint system. "It is that important," he says. "The best seat in the world won't do any good if the overall system isn't sound."
MOUNTING TO THE CARThe primary point of emphasis when mounting your seatbelt and racing seat inside your car is that the mounts should never connect directly to the car's frame or sheetmetal. Both the seatbelt and seat should mount to a "seat hoop" that is connected to the rollcage. This way, if the driver takes a side impact that is strong enough to move the 'cage, the seat and harness will move with it. The idea is to protect the driver from being injured by his or her own rollcage.
VanGilder says that the seatbelt mounts should also allow the belt to swivel. This keeps the belt in a straight line between the mounting point and the buckle. In the event of an accident, the force of the driver's body against the belt is distributed evenly. If the seatbelt bracket cannot swivel, there is the potential for the belt to be loaded unevenly, which greatly increases the chances for equipment failure. This phenomenon is called "web dumping." It works much the same way as the old trick where it is impossible to tear a phone book in half but relatively easy if you open it and rip it along the spine. Finally, make sure to use at least a 31/48-inch or larger bolt for all your fasteners.
LAP BELTSVanGilder says the key component of the harness system for protecting the driver-even against head and neck injuries-is the hip (or lap) belt. This is because when you are in a seated position, the pelvis is the center of mass in your body. It is also capable of handling the greatest amount of pressure without injury. VanGilder says that by properly restraining the hips and pelvis, it is much easier to maintain control of the rest of the body in an accident.
"When your pelvis is locked in place, your body produces less momentum and it is easier to control your head," he explains. "Again, the belt should run straight across your hips without any curves or bunching up. Where you've mounted your lap belts to the seat hoop is also important. Once the belts exit the seat, they should come just about straight down. Ideally, you want the lap belts to mount at the same width as your hips. Consider how you would tie down a box in the center of the bed of your pickup truck. If you could, you would anchor the straps as close to the sides of the box as possible because if the straps were anchored way out wide, the box can slide around underneath the strap.
"Also, you want the lap belt anchors behind the tail bone laterally. This helps pull you down into the seat. Combine that with a slight angle to the bottom of the seat, and this really helps lock you in place. Now, in the event of a frontal hit, you would have to rise up before you could come out of your seat."
CROTCH/LEG STRAPSThe crotch strap is also referred to as the antisubmarine belt. Its purpose is to keep you from sliding underneath your lap belt, but it is also useful to help make sure your lap belt stays properly positioned. Often, male drivers are uncomfortable if the crotch strap is too tight, but it must be at the proper length so that the lap belt cannot ride up over the hips and onto the stomach.
"You've got to make sure the lap belt stays on your hips because your hips can take over 4,000 pounds of force without you getting injured," VanGilder explains. "But just at 800 pounds of load across your stomach, you are going to get hurt. That's a big difference in terms of what we can do to protect you on the racetrack. Right now, I have systems that can take a 72g hit and still properly protect the body so that you should be able to walk away from the car. But it's all about seatbelts and angles. If the angles and the position of the belts aren't right, then nothing will protect you."
You may also want to consider switching out the standard five-point harness system with a crotch strap to a six-point system that ditches the single crotch strap in favor of two leg straps. The leg straps wrap across the inside and top of the legs before securing at the buckle. They are an improvement over the crotch-strap system because they assist the lap belt in anchoring the pelvis. Also, male racers are often more comfortable with the two leg straps and are willing to cinch them down tighter. VanGilder says that the six-point belt systems are quickly gaining popularity because they are both safer and more comfortable, and he estimates that 90 percent of the seats he is currently selling are configured for the six-point system. The leg belts (and sometimes the crotch strap) are the only portions of the harness that do not attach directly to the rollcage. Instead, most seat builders mount these belts to a steel plate that is located underneath the aluminum racing seat.
SHOULDER STRAPSThe purpose of the shoulder straps is to anchor the driver's torso against the seat. Although brevity is necessary with all the belts, you especially want to keep the shoulder straps as short as possible because they are the longest pieces of the system. Any safety harness will allow a certain percentage of stretch, so the longer the belt, the more overall stretch it will allow. To minimize shoulder-belt length, the belts should mount to a rollcage bar almost directly behind the driver's seat and approximately level with his or her shoulder blades (or slightly higher).
The height of the shoulder strap mounts is critical because if they are too low they can actually compress the driver's spine in a collision. But if the mounting position is too high, the driver will be allowed to slide up in his or her seat if the car is overturned.
VanGilder says that the location of the shoulder strap mounts depends on the position of the driver. The mounts should be at a 90-degree angle to the line of the driver's spine. That means if the seat is more reclined, the mounts should be lower. But if the seat has the driver sitting up straight, the mounts should be higher. No modifications are necessary depending on whether the driver wears a head-and-neck restraint such as a HANS Device. Remember that these guidelines for properly mounting your seat and belts could be the difference between walking away from a crash and being carried out on a stretcher. But there is no substitute for talking with the belt and seat manufacturer. The manufacturer you choose will offer resources to help you properly mount your seat and belts.
BETTER THAN A LEISURE SUITIt turns out that polyester has a useful purpose after all. Forget that George Jefferson leisure suit hanging in the back of your closet. Polyester is making a comeback in racing. During our discussions with ISP's Kris VanGilder, he mentioned sled testing with upgraded polyester belts versus the standard nylon belts. It turns out that as a material, polyester has properties that are very advantageous in a racing harness system. Simpson Racing Products is now producing new polyester belts in its Platinum line (They are easily recognized because they are silver).
Versus nylon restraints, Simpson says its polyester-blend belts are 20 percent stronger and stretch approximately 9 percent less. They are also more resistant to chemicals, moisture, and abrasion, meaning they are less likely to weaken over time. Moisture resistance should be a big concern for racers because it is easy to wet a belt with your own sweat during a race on a hot summer night, and a nylon belt loses approximately 12 percent of its strength when wet. No matter which brand you prefer, if you haven't already, you may want to consider upgrading to polyester when purchasing your next set of belts.
HEAD NETSAnother relatively new development is head support nets, or "Sprint Car nets" as many stock car racers call them. Simpson Racing Products says the nets, which are positioned just to the outside of the driver's head supports, help contain the driver's head during a crash and make sure any movement is within a safe zone. In some extreme examples, a driver's head can get caught on the wrong side of the head support, which can be quite dangerous. The large area of the head net keeps that from happening without obstructing the driver's view outside the cockpit too badly.


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Naked Bedrooms: Interior Designs Dressed Down [Photos]
You will not find these rough, rugged and raw interiors in any posh modern interior design magazines. Photographer by Andrew Moore captures these spaces without fancy dress or updated decoration; our simple, most private, as-is sleeping quarters in the nude – so to speak.
Dressers are left open, accessories are strewn about, furniture sets sit in their existing configuration and decorating is left alone for each image. Shot everywhere from Russia and Cuba to Bosnia and Vietnam, some of these are hardly recognizable as made-for-sleeping spaces.
Chipped and faded wall, floor and ceiling surface paint shuffles slowly toward gray, black and white. Bent, broken and cracked furniture reveals raw wood underneath a finished veneer. The beauty in these pictures, in short, is tied to visual complexity that comes with natural age despite muted colors.
Sometimes he shoots a bedroom space directly, while in other cases he takes photos from across another room peaking in. Indirectly or otherwise, bedrooms are not his only subject, nor is photography his only approach to representing reality.
Through contextual photographs of building exteriors, montages of house interiors and other mixed-media work he also creates a broader picture – but is arguably most compelling when he tackles the organic states of walls, ceilings, furniture, furnishings, fixtures right in the innermost heart of a home.


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The sys admin's daily grind: Single-packet authentication
Key Experience
Conventional, woodpecker-style port knocking is open to sniffing and brute force knocking attacks. Sending an encrypted packet with an access request to the server is safer and more modern. Learn more about Firewall Knock Operator, a.k.a. Fwknop.
Conventional port knocking, which I described last month [1], protects you against attackers who routinely scan whole networks looking for "low-hanging fruit." A cracker who takes more time and logs communications can also identify knocking signals because the sequences will repeat.
In theory, you might consider using lists of one-off knocking signals that become obsolete after use. Unfortunately, this is really complex. Besides, if the administrator is not creative enough, an attacker could just try out popular knocking sequences (port 7000, 8000, 9000, …) to gain access.
Single-Packet Authentication (SPA) is one possible solution. The knocking system sends a single packet containing the encrypted authentication credentials – typically a pass phrase – and the client request to open a specific port. An SPA implementation that works really well is Firewall Knock Operator, or Fwknop [2]. Besides the normal build tools, the installation requires Perl, the libpcap-dev package, and the CPAN Net::Pcap module. After installing all of these resources, installing Fwknop is a breeze thanks to the Perl-based installer.
Matching Knobs
Fwknop comprises the fwknopd server and the fwknop client. By editing two files below /etc/fwknop/, you can configure the server; fwknop.conf contains the basic configuration. Initially, you will just need to change a couple of parameters, which are tagged __CHANGEME__.
The other knobs you could tweak here have very sensible defaults. Note that you need to synchronize the time between the server and the client because if the difference is too big, fwknopd will ignore the knocking client.
The entries in /etc/fwknop/access.conf define how fwknopd responds to a client knocking. The secret key that the client uses to identify itself is stored here. The SOURCE line can be used to restrict the networks from which the daemon accepts knocking. To set the port that the system opens on successful knocking – for example, tcp/22 for SSH – you can use OPEN_PORTS. Figure 1 shows a successful attempt. The fwknop client picks up the key from its own /etc/fwknop/access.conf.
If the SSH connection doesn't open quickly enough, the FW_ACCESS_TIMEOUT on the server triggers. This time is normally set to 30 seconds, but I went for twice that – never rush an admin on the job!
- "Knock-Knock" by Charly Kühnast, Linux Magazine, September 2008, http://www.linux-magazine.com/issues/2008/94/knock_knock
- Fwknop: http://www.cipherdyne.org/fwknop/
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IMF predicts slower economic growth for world, US
IMF: European financial crisis, US budget crisis worsens global economic outlook
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The global economy will grow more slowly over the next two years, according to the International Monetary Fund's latest forecast.
And Europe's financial crisis and a potential budget crisis in the United States could slow world growth even further, the international lending organization warned.
The world economy will likely expand 3.5 percent this year, the IMF said in a quarterly update to its World Economic Outlook. That's down slightly from its previous estimate of 3.6 percent in April.
The IMF also cut its forecast for global growth to 3.9 percent in 2013, from 4.1 percent three months ago.
And it shaved its U.S. growth forecast to 2 percent this year from 2.1 percent in April. For 2013, it expects U.S. growth of 2.3 percent, down from 2.4 percent.
The IMF warned that economic conditions could worsen if the United States doesn't deal with a pending budget crisis soon.
Several large tax cuts are set to expire at the end of the year and big spending cuts are scheduled to kick in at the same time. If Congress doesn't take action, the U.S. could suffer another recession and the global economy could slow sharply.
Olivier Blanchard, the IMF's chief economist, said failure to deal with these issues could cut up to 4 percentage points off U.S. growth in 2013. It would also reduce growth in other advanced economies — principally Europe, Canada and Japan — by 1.5 percentage points.
"We are talking about, potentially, an enormous shock," Blanchard said. "If it were to happen, it would be a major, major event."
The U.S. should also raise its borrowing limit, the report said. The level of debt the government can issue is capped by law. Last August, a battle between the Obama administration and Congress over raising the limit wasn't resolved until the U.S. almost defaulted on its debt.
Blanchard noted that Europe's leaders must follow through on the promises that were made at a leaders' summit at the end of last month.
At that time, the 17 nations that use the euro agreed to centralize the regulation of European banks and to expand the use of the region's bailout funds.
European leaders need to ensure that borrowing costs for Spain and Italy don't get so high that they are unable to borrow from private lenders, possibly necessitating another bailout.
"The implications of such an event could easily derail the world recovery," Blanchard said.
Even if the 17-nation eurozone follows through with its commitments, the region's economy will shrink 0.3 percent this year and grow only 0.7 percent in 2013, the IMF predicted.
Germany and France are expected to grow this year and in 2013, though at a slow pace. The IMF estimates Italy and Spain will contract this year and next.
IMF officials said that European leaders should do more to aid Spain and Italy. They should consider using the region's bailout to funds to provide aid to struggling banks. And the European Central Bank could purchase more government bonds, to hold down the two nations' borrowing costs.
The IMF also expects growth will slow in several large developing countries, mostly because they will export less to Europe and the United States.
China's economy will likely expand 8 percent this year, down from April's 8.2 percent forecast. India's economy will grow 6.1 percent, down from 6.8 percent. And Brazil's growth will be only 2.5 percent, compared to 3.1 percent.


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How Affirmative Action Helped George W.
MICHAEL KINSLEY MICHAEL KINSLEY, How Affirmative Action Helped George W.The President might ask himself, "Wait a minute. How did I get into Yale?", Time Magazine, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2003 George W. Bush is all for diversity, he explained last week, but he doesn't care for the way they do it at the University of Michigan. The Administration has asked the Supreme Court to rule the Michigan system unconstitutional because of the scoring method it uses for rating applicants. "At the undergraduate level," said Bush, "African-American students and some Hispanic students and Native American students receive 20 points out of a maximum of 150, not because of any academic achievement or life experience, but solely because they are African American, Hispanic or Native American." If our President had the slightest sense of irony, he might have paused to ask himself, "Wait a minute. How did I get into Yale?" It wasn't because of any academic achievement: his high school record was ordinary. It wasn't because of his life experience prosperous family, fancy prep school which was all too familiar at Yale. It wasn't his SAT scores: 566 verbal and 640 math. They may not have had an explicit point system at Yale in 1964, but Bush clearly got in because of affirmative action. Affirmative action for the son and grandson of alumni. Affirmative action for a member of a politically influential family. Affirmative action for a boy from a fancy prep school. These forms of affirmative action still go on. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Harvard accepts 40% of applicants who are children of alumni but only 11% of applicants generally. And this kind of affirmative action makes the student body less diverse, not more so. George W. Bush, in fact, may be the most spectacular affirmative-action success story of all time. Until 1994, when he was 48 years old and got elected Governor of Texas, his life was almost empty of accomplishments. Yet bloodlines and connections had put him into Andover, Yale and Harvard Business School, and even finally provided him with a fortune after years of business disappointments. Intelligence, hard work and the other qualities associated with the concept of merit had almost nothing to do with Bush's life and success up to that point. And yet seven years later he was President of the U.S. So what is the difference between the kind of affirmative action that got Bush where he is today and the kind he wants the Supreme Court to outlaw? One difference is that the second kind is about race, and race is an especially toxic subject. Of course, George W.'s affirmative action is about race too, at least indirectly. The class of wealthy, influential children of alumni of top universities is disproportionately white. And it will remain that way for a long time especially if racial affirmative action is outlawed. A second difference is that the Michigan system is crudely numerical, whereas the favoritism enjoyed by George W. Bush is baked into the way we live. Between these two extreme examples are all the familiar varieties of preference: explicit racial favoritism without numbers, favoritism based on something as amorphous as social class or as specific as your high school, favoritism limited to recruitment and preparation, and so on. Opponents and supporters of affirmative action actually tend to agree that there is something bad, generally called quotas, and something good, generally called something like diversity. Their argument is about where you draw the line. Bush calls the Michigan 20-point bonus a quota, and his critics insist that it is not. But both sides are wrong. If your sole measure of the success of any arrangement is whether it increases the representation of certain minorities, then it doesn't really matter what procedure you use to achieve that result: some people are getting something desirable because of their race, and an equal number of people are not getting it for the same reason. Of course a series of somebodies didn't get into Andover, Yale and Harvard Business School because their blood wasn't as blue as Bush's, and other somebodies didn't get a chance to own the Texas Rangers or to use the capital Bush borrowed to buy his share of the team because these somebodies were nobodies. Life is unfair. A legitimate criticism of affirmative action is that it politicizes life chances and focuses blame on race. If you get turned down by Yale to make room for a George W., you're not even aware of it. But if you get turned down by the University of Michigan, you're likely to blame affirmative action (if you're white), even though the numbers say you probably would have been turned down anyway. So ask yourself: Would you rather have a gift of 20 points out of 150 to use at the college of your choice? Or would you rather have the more amorphous advantages President Bush has enjoyed at every stage of his life? If the answer to that isn't obvious to you, even 20 extra points are probably not enough to get you into the University of Michigan.
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But who am I to talk? I ain't shittin' roses
We in in the same picture but we all got different poses
I'm looking in my rear view, I see the world in it
I try to slow down, and I get rear ended
Pause! Like a red light, I'm dead right!
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'Ant-Man' Star Paul Rudd Talks About His Size-Shrinking Role at Comic-Con 2014
Comic-Con 2014 marked the first time 'Ant-Man' star Paul Rudd attended the epic geek extravaganza, and he was pretty darn stoked about the whole experience, considering he's also joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Following the big Marvel panel, the actor faced the press to talk about his experience becoming the size-shrinking superhero, when he goes into production, and the one thing his friends will never let him live down.
In addition to Rudd, 'Ant-Man' stars Michael Douglas as Hank Pym (the original Ant-Man, while Rudd will portray his successor Scott Lange), Evangline Lilly as Hope van Dyne/Wasp, and Corey Stoll as villain Darren Cross/Yellowjacket. As Cross takes his company in a bad direction, Hank Pym enlists Scott Lange as his new partner. But things get even worse when Cross steals some size-shrinking Pym Particles and wreaks havok.
In addition to Paul Rudd, we also spoke with the cast of 'Avengers 2' at Comic-Con 2014, including Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, and new cast additions Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen. Check out more of our Comic-Con 2014 video coverage below:
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How Advertisers Failed Women in 2012
Miss Representation, an organization dedicated to ending sexism in media, has taken a look at sexism in advertising in 2012. The video calls out Carl's Jr., Axe, Go Daddy, Teleflora, Hello Kitty, Dolce & Gabbana, Fiat, Barbie, Victoria's Secret, Svedka, American Apparel and others.
The video raises a fair point. But just imagine a world in which we didn't objectify women in advertising.


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Cosmos At Least 250x Bigger Than Visible Universe, Say Cosmologists
When we look out into the Universe, the stuff we can see must be close enough for light to have reached us since the Universe began. The universe is about 14 billion years old, so at first glance it's easy to think that we cannot see things more than 14 billion light years away.
That's not quite right, however. Because the Universe is expanding, the most distant visible things are much further away than that. In fact, the photons in the cosmic microwave background have travelled a cool 45 billion light years to get here. That makes the visible universe some 90 billion light years across.
That's big but the universe is almost certainly much bigger. The question than many cosmologists have pondered is how much bigger. Today we have an answer thanks to some interesting statistical analysis by Mihran Vardanyan at the University of Oxford and a couple of buddies.
Obviously, we can't directly measure the size of the universe but cosmologists have various models that suggest how big it ought to be. For example, one line of thinking is that if the universe expanded at the speed of light during inflation, then it ought to be 10^23 times bigger than the visible universe.
Other estimates depend on a number factors and in particular on the curvature of the Universe: whether it is closed, like a sphere, flat or open. In the latter two cases, the Universe must be infinite.
If you can measure the curvature of the Universe, you can then place limits on how big it must be.
It turns out that in recent years, astronomers have various ingenious ways of measuring the curvature of the Universe. One is to search for a distant object of known size and measure how big it looks. If it's bigger than it ought to be, the Universe is closed; if it's the right size, the universe is flat and if it's smaller, the Universe is open.
Astronomers know of one type of object that fits the bill: waves in the early universe that became frozen in the cosmic microwave background. They can measure the size of these waves, called baryonic acoustic oscillations, using space observatories such as WMAP.
There are also other indicators, such as the luminosity of type 1A supernovas in distant galaxies.
But when cosmologists examine all this data, different models of the Universe give different answers to the question of its curvature and size. Which to choose?
The breakthrough that Vardanyan and pals have made is to find a way to average the results of all the data in the simplest possible way. The technique they use is called Bayesian model averaging and it is much more sophisticated than the usual curve fitting that scientists often use to explain their data.
A useful analogy is with early models of the Solar System. With the Earth at the centre of the Solar System, it gradually became harder and harder to fit the observational data to this model. But astronomers found ways to do it by introducing ever more complex systems, the wheels-within-wheels model of the solar system.
We know now that this approach was entirely wrong. One worry for cosmologists is that a similar process is going on now with models of the Universe.
Bayesian model averaging automatically guards against this. Instead of asking how well the model fits the data, its asks a different question: given the data, how likely is the model to be correct. This approach is automatically biased against complex models–it's a kind of statistical Occam's razor.
In applying it to various cosmological models of the universe, Vardanyan and co are able to place important constraints on the curvature and size of the Universe. In fact, it turns out that their constraints are much stricter than is possible with other approaches.
They say that the curvature of the Universe is tightly constrained around 0. In other words, the most likely model is that the Universe is flat. A flat Universe would also be infinite and their calculations are consistent with this too. These show that the Universe is at least 250 times bigger than the Hubble volume. (The Hubble volume is similar to the size of the observable universe.)
That's big, but actually more tightly constrained than many other models.
And the fact that it comes from such an elegant statistical method means this work is likely to have broad appeal. If so, it may well end up being used to fine tune and constraint other areas of cosmology too.
Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1101.5476: Applications Of Bayesian Model Averaging To The Curvature And Size Of The Universe
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BEIRUT – Syria's information minister has slammed the international community for rejecting a proposal by President Bashar Assad aimed at ending the country's civil war.
Omran al-Zoubi says countries like the United States and its Western allies, who have called on Assad to step down since the uprising against his rule began in March 2011, have dismissed Assad's initiative "before even having the time to translate it."
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CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) over HDMI
The Raspberry Pi (Broadcom BCM2835 SoC) hardware has integrated support for CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) over the HDMI port.
CEC (Consumer Electronics Control) is the control protocol found in HDMI. Trade names for CEC are Anynet+ (Samsung); Aquos Link (Sharp); BRAVIA Link and BRAVIA Sync (Sony); HDMI-CEC (Hitachi); E-link (AOC); Kuro Link (Pioneer); CE-Link and Regza Link (Toshiba); RIHD (Remote Interactive over HDMI) (Onkyo); RuncoLink (Runco International); SimpLink (LG); HDAVI Control, EZ-Sync, VIERA Link (Panasonic); EasyLink (Philips); and NetCommand for HDMI (Mitsubishi).
Media center systems XBMC and MythTV already support HDMI-CEC via libCEC[1][2]; libCEC gained support for the Raspberry Pi in version 1.8.0[3], allowing you to control them via your television remote control without having a dedicated HTPC / MCE remote for your Raspberry Pi.
Once you have connected your Raspberry Pi to your TV and receiver with HDMI you should be able automatically to turn on and off your TV, receivers, and other home theater equipment, control your amplifier's volume, manage your DVD or Blu-Ray player, and redirect the active source on your TV to other equipment, all from one remote control. No line of sight is required and cables can be hidden neatly out of sight!
What is HDMI CEC?
Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) is an HDMI feature designed to allow the user to command and control up to ten CEC-enabled devices connected through HDMI by using just one of their remote controls (for example by controlling a television set, set-top box, PVR/DVR, and DVD player using only the remote control of the TV). CEC also allows for individual CEC-enabled devices to command and control each other without user intervention.
HDMI-CEC is a one-wire bidirectional serial bus that uses the industry-standard AV.link protocol to perform remote control functions. CEC wiring is mandatory, although implementation of CEC in a product is optional. It was defined in HDMI Specification 1.0 and updated in HDMI 1.2, HDMI 1.2a and HDMI 1.3a (the last added timer and audio commands to the bus). USB to CEC Adapters exist that allow a computer to control CEC-enabled devices.
Some of the available HDMI-CEC commands
- One Touch Play: the device will become active source when playback starts
- System Standby: switches all connected devices to standby
- Preset Transfer: transfers the tuner channel setup to another TV set
- One Touch Record: start recording immediately
- Timer Programming: allow one device (e.g. a TV set or HTPC) to set the timer programming of another (e.g. a PVR/DVR or DVD-recorder)
- System Information: checks all components for bus addresses and configuration
- Deck Control: playback control
- Tuner Control: control the tuner of another device
- OSD Display: use the OSD of the TV set to display text
- Device Menu Control: use the menus of another device
- Routing Control: control the switching of signal sources
- Remote Control Pass Through: pass through remote control commands
- Device OSD Name Transfer: transfer the preferred device names to the TV set
Technical concept
CEC stands for Consumer Electronics Control. It is implemented as a single wire bus in the HDMI connector (pin 13). It allows various HDMI-enabled products to connect and communicate with each other. It allows various HDMI-enabled products to connect and communicate with each other. The intent is to enable one remote control to interface with all the A/V components. Various message opcodes can be exchanged between the connected systems in order to do device specific actions (like recording on a STB/DVR) or get general information across (like transferring remote control key press details).
In any HDMI setup, the display is considered to be the root, and gets allocated two special tags, a physical address of 0.0.0.0 and a logical address of 0. In any given system, all CEC enabled devices have both physical and logical addresses, while the non-CEC devices have only physical addresses. Physical addresses are taken up based on the position of the device with respect to the root. For example, if an A/V receiver's output is connected to HDMI1 of the TV, it gets the physical address 18.104.22.168. A device connected to the first HDMI input port of the A/V receiver would get the address 18.104.22.168, while one connected to the second HDMI port would get 126.96.36.199. Logical addresses are taken on by the devices depending on their functionality (as mandated by the CEC specifications document). When the HDMI device menu is brought up on the display (On a Sony KDL46EX720, this is achieved by pressing the Sync Menu button), the display sends a broadcast over the CEC wire to all the downstream devices. It then collects the responses arriving over the CEC wire and presents the user with a list of CEC enabled devices. Choosing one of them ensures that future remote key presses are transferred by the TV to that particular address.
If you are interested in learning about the bus protocol and a bit more in-depth overview, I suggest taking a look at QuantumData's excellent CEC whitepaper (PDF). For more details on the various messages which can be exchanged between the devices, the full CEC specifications from the official HDMI documentation may be perused (PDF).
CEC with XBMC Media Center software
CEC allows XBMC to turn your TV, receivers, and other attached equipment on and off (if they support HDMI CEC) adjust the volume or eject the disk from a drive. Start playback, etc. and much more.
Likewise these same devices can tell XBMC what to do, for example, your TV remote can also control XBMC, or vice versa. With this device you can move that step closer to a clutter free living space while maintaining simple remote control for friends and family who may not be familiar with all of the features of a professional remote control.
See CEC in action and read about what it can do with XBMC:
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eDJbT35X5k
- http://xbmc.org/natethomas/2011/11/01/the-usb-cec-adapter-is-a-look-into-the-future/
libCEC is an open-source dual licensed library originally designed for communicating with the Pulse-Eight USB - HDMI CEC Adaptor.
libCEC needs the following dependencies in order to work correctly:
- udev v151 or later
- cdc-acm support compiled into the kernel or available as module
libCEC Features
- Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux support
- Turns on/off TV and receivers (e.g. when the screensaver becomes active, to save power)
- Switch the TV and receivers to the correct HDMI port when starting your media center software
- Send and receive key presses from your TV's remote
- Control the volume of a CEC capable A/V receiver from your media center software
- Sniff active traffic on CEC bus
- Interfaces for C, C++ and .NET/CLR
- No binary-only or obfuscated code; everything is open and can be modified
- Example implementations in C++ and C#
- And much more...
libCEC supported software
- XBMC v11.0 "Eden" or higher
- MythTV v0.25 or higher
Alternative open source libraries and code for CEC
Alternative, a cross-platform CEC library designed for Realtek SoC, a GPL v3 libraries exists for Arduino board (tmega series chip) and the TI msp430 chip the TI MSP430 chip, that could probably also be modified to work on the Broadcom BCM2835 SoC in the Raspberry Pi.
Realtek 1283 SoC ('MARS') platforms with CEC, a cross CEC library and a CEC daemon/service
- http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/cecd/
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/cecd
- http://cecd.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cecd/cecd;a=summary
cec-arduino - Arduino library for communicating with HDMI CEC equipment
- http://code.google.com/p/cec-arduino/
- http://www.andrewncarr.com/hdmi-cec.html
- http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1261237176/all
TI msp430 linux changes and CEC library repository
SH4 duckbox
External links with more information for developers
- Broadcom BCM2835 ARM peripherals datasheet (PDF)
- CEC-O-Matic website, helps developers in decoding and creating CEC frames for communication - For the general user, the cec-o-matic.com website also gives an idea as to what can be achieved in a home automation system using CEC with HDMI equipment
- Quantum Data white paper - Designing CEC into your next HDMI Product (PDF)
- HDMI.org - Designing CEC into your next HDMI Product (PDF)
- The Promise of HDMI-CEC (PDF)
- HDMI-CEC Specifications v1.3a
- RainShadow Tech LLC - HDMI-CEC to USB Bridge and HDMI-CEC to RS-232 Bridge (PDF)
- Kwikwai's HDMI CEC-Ethernet-USB-Serial bridge


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