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The local broadcast sort of glossed over the play, so the only video I've seen of it since it happened in tonight's second period is this grainy, slow-motion video relayed by Yahoo! Sports hockey writer Greg Wyshynski from a reader.
But upon my live viewing of Bruins forward Brad Marchand's hit on Columbus' R.J. Umberger in the neutral zone while pursuing a loose puck during the Bruins' 3-2 win, it looked like nothing more than a potential interference call.
This video, while grainy, clearly shows Marchand hitting Umberger's head. I'd like to see the hit with the screen expanded so we can see exactly where Marchand's coming from. A quick Web search just now didn't turn up anymore clips of the hit, which was only shown on NESN once more — as far as I recall — after it was shown live.
As the poster mentions, there was no penalty. In fact, Marchand got a scoring chance after the Bruins got the puck.They scored their first goal of the night about 30 seconds later.
If Umberger was injured, he didn't show it much, as he returned to the game and skated 25 shifts total for the night.
After the game, he spoke to the Columbus Post-Dispatch. The Puck-Rakers blog posted this quote from the veteran forward:
"I haven't seen it, but I've heard he might have left his feet with an elbow. That's what it felt like. … You got to think that's one of the hits we are trying to eliminate whether it's inadvertent or not."
It'll be interesting to see if the league reviews the matter and doles out some supplemental discipline to Marchand, who for the time being seems to have gotten away with one. Globe & Mail hockey writer James Mirtle points out via Twitter that this hit is similar to the one Pavel Kubina was suspended three games for last week. Here's the Kubina elbow:
So we could be looking at another hearing with the league for a Bruins player following up on Zdeno Chara and Daniel Paille's previous hearings.
The NHL should at least have to answer for the reasoning behind failing to penalize the hit to the head.

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The Dark Side of the Bird
For years we've exported dark chicken meat to Russia—but that market is drying up.
There's no question that Americans overwhelmingly prefer white chicken meat to dark. We eat chicken almost 10 times a month on average—according to data from 2007— but on less than two of those occasions do we choose chicken legs, thighs, or drumsticks. At the household level, this isn't problematic; families can buy prepackaged white meat instead of whole birds. But magnify this preference millions of times over on a national scale, and the imbalance could, theoretically, lead to canyons of perfectly edible chicken going to waste.
Historically, Russia has helped keep this hypothetical from becoming a reality. Through a miracle of yin-and-yang cultural predilections, Russians actually like gamier dark meat. And since the collapse of the former Soviet Union, they have imported it in stunningly large quantities. In 2009 alone Russia doled out $800 million for 1.6 billion pounds of U.S. leg quarters.
Recently, however, the Russian appetite for our chicken legs has waned. Last January, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin barred U.S. chicken from Russian shores, supposedly because it's treated with "unsafe" antimicrobial chlorine. Although Russia subsequently lifted that ban, in November it prohibited the use of frozen poultry in processed products (again citing safety concerns), effectively preventing the use of American chicken in Russian nuggets—since it's shipped frozen. There's no scientific evidence that chlorination, much less freezing, poses any danger to health, so it's doubtful that safety is the real impetus for the bans. It's far more likely that Putin simply wants Russia to become less reliant on imports. (In fact, he's said publicly that he intends for Russia to be fully self-sufficient in chicken production by 2012.) Assuming Putin gets his way, American poultry companies will have to rely on alternative outlets for its dark meat.
This raises the question of why Americans are so enamored of white meat to begin with. Why do we treat dark meat—perfectly edible dark meat, savored abroad—as a waste product?
Up until 50 years ago, retailers sold chicken almost exclusively in the form of whole birds. This practice began to change in the 1960s, when federal inspection of poultry slaughterhouses became mandatory and chicken producers realized they could save money by recycling substandard carcasses into bits and pieces rather than simply discarding them.
The most popular cut—then as now—was the breast. According to several food scientists I interviewed for this article, this preference developed in part because of the perception that chicken legs are tough. This may have been the case in our great-great-grandparents' day, when chickens were almost exclusively free-range and regular exercise resulted in muscular legs. With factory farming, these muscles atrophy, and the legs become quite tender. Nevertheless, the habit of rejecting legs in favor of breasts seems to have been passed down from one generation to the next.
Tenderness isn't the only reason Americans reach for breasts above all other parts; color also shapes this choice. According to Dr. Marcia Pelchat of the Monell Chemical Senses Center, consumers unconsciously perceive dark meat as dirty when compared to the breast, perhaps because it's situated at the back and bottom of the animal. There's nothing actually harmful about dark meat: The brown hue comes from a compound called myoglobin, which helps transport oxygen to the muscles so that they function efficiently. As chickens spend most of their lives standing, their legs are full of it. Inversely, since chickens don't fly, as ducks or geese do, their breast muscles contain only a negligible reserve of myoglobin resulting in significantly lighter meat in their upper bodies. Of course few people care to study up on chicken biochemistry before dinner—which brings us squarely to another reason why chicken legs rarely make it into our shopping carts: We're squeamish. "When you're faced with a chicken leg, there's no hiding the fact that it's the leg of an animal," says Pelchat. The modern consumer is nearly as averse to seeing a leg on their plate as they are to seeing a fish head. We have grown accustomed to buying boneless, bloodless slabs of meat in cellophane-wrapped trays and don't want to be reminded of the provenance of our meal, that it came from an animal that was once living, breathing, and moving. A nondescript breast fillet appeals since it bears little resemblance to an actual chicken.
Ask people why they don't like dark chicken meat, though, and they're unlikely to cite an indisposition to digging into unvarnished animal parts. According to William Roenigk, senior vice president of the National Chicken Council, Americans say they choose white chicken meat by a 2-to-1 margin mainly for health reasons. A quick Google search or a flip through a fitness magazine yields advice condemning fatty legs in favor of the lean breast. And the poultry industry hasn't been shy about jumping on this bandwagon, either. Take the 2007 Perdue commercial featuring a lithe Jim Perdue bounding through his offices in a fit of acrobatics while promoting his 99 percent fat-free, high-protein, carb-free, hand-trimmed "guaranteed healthy" breasts. Or the Perdue Chicken Cookbook from 2000, in which Frank Perdue's wife Mitzi advises readers to "choose breast meat" so as to avoid fat and calories. She even writes that "Frank watches his cholesterol and I've never seen him go for anything but breast meat."
Even the U.S. fast-food industry uses breast meat in its chicken products to profit from rising consumer beliefs that white meat is nutritionally superior. In October 2003, McDonald's reformulated its 30-percent dark-meat recipe for Chicken McNuggets to create a reduced-calorie, all-white offering. The new six-piece pack shed 60 calories and 5 grams of fat. Though costs were higher, McDonalds did not increase the price of the nuggets; the well-publicized gamble paid off and sales increased by 35 percent.
The catch is that when it comes to fat and calories, there is very little to distinguish between boneless, skinless chicken breast and boneless, skinless thighs. According to the Department of Agriculture, 100 grams of the former contains 0.56 grams of saturated fat and 114 calories, and the latter 1 gram of saturated fat and 119 calories. Dark chicken meat is also nutrient rich, containing higher levels of iron, zinc, riboflavin, thiamine, and vitamins B6 and B12 than white meat.
The myth that white meat is significantly more healthful than dark chicken meat is nearly as old as the retailer practice of selling chicken in parts. In the 1960s and '70s, medical studies revealed links first between cholesterol and heart attacks, then between cholesterol and high-fat foods, like red meat. The medical community advocated that Americans should consume less beef and opt instead for lower-fat options such as chicken. With the fervent encouragement of the chicken industry, the newly health-conscious nation heartily embraced this advice and chicken consumption began to rise steeply. The average American was eating 36 pounds of chicken a year in 1970; by 1985 this had risen to 51 pounds, at the expense of beef. * Poultry producers also realized that they could market and advertise the slight disparity in calories and fat content between dark and white chicken meat to their further advantage—not only to perpetuate the chicken craze, but also to retail a "premium" poultry product that could be sold at a higher price. They didn't deliberately malign chicken legs; they simply wholeheartedly extolled the salubrious qualities of breast meat. Chicken was a healthy option, but chicken breast was the healthiest, and it turned out that consumers were willing to shell out for the well-being of their families.
Once Americans signaled a clear preference for breast meat in the '60s and '70s, producers needed an outlet for the dark meat that wasn't selling domestically. They knew that foreign markets, notably in Asia, prized the moist, succulent, and richly flavored leg meat. (In Asia, it's the breasts that end up in bargain buckets.) And so they worked to convert a domestic waste product into a profitable export. American chicken legs were purchased eagerly by Asian importers, and for a while a happy equilibrium was struck. Yet in the 1980s, when chicken consumption in the United States increased at a phenomenal rate, the poultry industry needed new outlets to absorb the growing numbers of discarded legs.
It was most fortuitous, then, that the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, resulting in the relaxation of trade restrictions that had hindered commerce with the formerly Communist state. U.S. chicken exporters, eager to exploit this fresh market, were able to underprice virtually all other animal protein produced in Russia, and American dark meat flooded the country. The chicken legs became so popular that locals endearingly nicknamed them "Bush legs," after President Bush Sr. In 1975 the United States was exporting less than 140 million pounds of chicken globally. By 1995 this figure reached nearly 4 billion—with nearly 1.5 billion going to Russia.
Now the once symbiotic relationship is showing strain. Over the course of 2010, William Roenigk estimates that just 0.6 billion pounds of dark meat was exported to Russia. That's 1 billion pounds less than in 2009, and 1.7 billion less than the peak of 2001.
A seemingly obvious solution to this growing problem is to convince Americans that dark chicken meat is just as worthy as white. According to a 2007 National Chicken Council survey, 41 percent of consumers would eat dark meat more frequently if it "tasted better." But taste is entirely subjective, and familiarity is a powerful agent. Undoing many decades of conditioning would be a radical undertaking, and one that would probably prove futile. The extensive national television campaigns, in-store advertising, and revamped packaging necessary to re-educate consumers would be extremely expensive, even for the likes of Tyson and Perdue. Moreover, since boneless, skinless breasts cost nearly twice as much as similarly prepared thighs, and the production costs of dark meat are already absorbed into the price of the breasts, there is little incentive for producers to alter the status quo.
A much more realistic option is to find new export destinations. In fact the chicken industry has already started courting Mexico and China as well as Eastern European, Latin American, and smaller Asian nations with a similar palette to the Russians. Competition for foreign markets is, however, extremely stiff, with Brazil—currently the world's largest exporter of chicken—posing the biggest threat. And in this rapidly changing marketplace it's unlikely that producers can rely on exports alone to make use of all our unwanted dark meat.
Another solution would be for fast-food companies to save the day by carrying a dark meat product, which, despite everything you've just read, might actually happen in the not-too-distant future. But only because science has managed to transform dark meat into white. Some 10 years ago, when the chicken industry was in a similar state of crisis due to the collapse of the Russian Ruble, the USDA provided funding to find new uses for the much-maligned cut. Dr. Mirko Betti, a professor of nutritional science, embraced the challenge while completing his Ph.D. at the University of Georgia and developed a product similar to surimi, the synthetic crabmeat found in Asian eateries. The production process is simple; excess water is added to ground dark meat and the slurry is centrifuged at high speed to remove the fat and myoglobin. At the end there are three distinct layers: fat, water, and the extracted meat. The first two are discarded, and the third, which resembles a sort of meaty milkshake, is where the money is. It promises endless commercial applications (in nuggets, burgers, and other processed products) for businesses that can both fulfill demands for "white meat" and exploit the favorable supply-side price of dark meat. Betti, who's currently at the University of Alberta, is confident that in just a couple of years his meaty milkshake will be featured on a menu near you.
Roenigk doesn't share Betti's enthusiasm for fake breasts, and suggests that to compensate for the glut, larger amounts of dark meat will simply be diverted to outlets that already make use of this "waste" product. "While Americans might not feed themselves dark meat, they don't seem to have any problems feeding it to their pets," he says. And we don't have a problem feeding it to the poor, either. Last summer, the USDA announced that it would purchase up to $14 million dollars of dark chicken meat "products" for federal food nutrition assistance programs, including food banks.
Despite the loss of the Russian market, the ever-resourceful chicken industry is still some way off from dumping dark chicken meat in landfills, and no doubt it will continue to mine this discarded commodity for profit—no matter how meager. Or maybe the industry will find a more permanent solution to the American taste imbalance. Since the 1970s, poultry producers have been altering the ratio of breast meat to dark meat through strategic selective breeding—with great success. Thirty years ago the yield of breast meat from an average chicken was 36 percent of the bird's total retail weight; today it's more than 40 percent. The cellophane-wrapped boneless, skinless chicken breast halves ubiquitous in grocery stores used to weigh 4 ounces in 1980; today they weigh nearly 5.5 ounces. Birds with all breast and no legs—pure science fiction or a future reality?
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Correction, Jan. 26, 2011: This piece originally provided two, contradictory estimates of average chicken consumption in the United States in 1970 versus 1985. (Return to the corrected sentence.)


text: Last night was Hype Machine's Fast Forward League Night, which was put on by the Hype dudes themselves as well as Consequence Of Sound, Gorilla Vs. Bear, I Guess I'm Floating, Awesome Tapes From Africa and us. The lineup featured the likes of Beat Culture, Killer Mike (who mixed it up in the crowd), High Highs and DIIV. BUZZMEDIA's Jesse DeFlorio was there to provide the visual documentation; check out his gallery up top.


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Football state championship, city water lines top year's headlines
1. Ricebirds top Ozark 28-7 to win first state title since 2002
The Stuttgart Ricebirds were crowned state champions for the seventh time in school history after defeating Ozark 28-7 Saturday, Dec. 8, at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock.
Stuttgart accomplished its goal of playing in the very first high school football game in the state of Arkansas in 2012, as well as playing in the final game of the 2012 season.
2. Sewer line problems plague residents, city council
The night of Nov. 21, 2011, brought a high amount of rainfall that had Beumer Street area homes experiencing large amounts of water coming from their clean out valves, which are attached to homes every 100 feet to relieve pressure from a line before backing up into homes.
One family was displaced entirely from their home due to the back up and several other residents from the area have had to replace carpet, flooring and other items due to their homes flooding.
A grounding rod, shower curtain, woman's girdle and other clothing were removed from the city's sewer lines in the Beumer Street area since the back up.
The city council originally voted to pay the Beumer Street residents to help cover costs related to the sewer back up, however the vote was ruled void after it was discovered that the council needed a majority vote of council members elected, not members present.
Stuttgart Municipal Waterworks spent much of 2012 upgrading water and sewer lines throughout the city.
3. Stuttgart Public Schools millage increase passes
The proposed millage increase for the Stuttgart School District passed with 464 votes for it. The district's millage will now increase from 31.9 to 36.9.
It's the first millage increase since 2001 with the new 5 mills to be split evenly between debt service and maintenance and operation.
It would also continue the pre-existing 6.9 debt mills through 2042, a 12-year extension, and go toward a $16,280,00 refunding and construction 30-year bond issue.
The bond issue's proceeds would then be used to refund the June 1, 2010, bond issue and produce approximately $4,350,000 in construction proceeds for constructing, refurbishing, remodeling and equipping school facilities.
4. One dead, two injured in botched robbery
A Stuttgart teen was killed and two other men were injured after a botched robbery attempt at A-Z Mart on Saturday, Aug. 25.
Two masked suspects — Bronshea L. Ferrell and Kendrick Haynes — allegedly entered the store with firearms at 9:50 p.m., according to the Stuttgart Police Department. There were three clerks on duty in the store who decided to put up a fight against the robbers.
When one of the suspects went behind the counter, a struggle for a firearm ensued, leaving one clerk with a bullet wound in the thigh. The clerks fought for the gun and shot Ferrell. Haynes received three bullet wounds that were described as superficial.
Ferrell later died at a Little Rock hospital.
Haynes fled the scene and was apprehended later. He was charged with aggravated robbery, first-degree battery and criminal attempt theft of property.
5. Producers expands, sets new season green rice record
Production began in the spring on Producers Rice mill's Dryer No. 6, and the project was completed just in time for the 2012 harvest.
This improvement brings an extra 3.5 million bushel storage space.
Producers set a new single season green rice record Thursday, Oct. 25, after a load was brought in pushing the mark over the 2010 record of 16,621,000 bushels.
"This is an all time record. With the acreage being low this year I believe the ratoon crops and having Dryer (No.) 6 helped out significantly," Producers Rice Mill President and CEO Keith Glover said.
6. Arkansas County post offices remain open
Surrounding towns will not lose their post offices after all. A new strategy — shorter retail window hours — is the latest news from the U.S. Postal Service that will save individual P.O. Boxes, town ZIP Codes and community identities.
The proposed hours of operation in Arkansas County Post Offices include four hours for Almyra, Casscoe and St. Charles; two hours for Clarkedale, Crocketts Bluff, Ethel and Tichnor; and six hours for Gillett.
7. Arkansas County polling places consolidated
Arkansas County consolidated its polling places for all upcoming elections. It's news that Arkansas County Judge Glenn "Sonny" Cox told the Arkansas County Quorum Court on Tuesday, Jan. 11, that the Arkansas County Election Commission made the decision, which is about 10-15 years behind other counties' moves to a similar system.
The consolidation brings all polling places to within the county's incorporated cities with only one poll place per city.
8. County sees tornadoes, drought, snow in 2012
Arkansas County saw just about everything Mother Nature could throw at it in 2012.
The National Weather Service confirmed two EF2 and one EF1 tornadoes touched down in Arkansas County in late January.
A summer drought plagued area farmers, before Hurricane Isaac made its way to the Grand Prairie.
Arkansas saw its first white Christmas in over 80 years as snow blanketed the state and knocked out power to over 150,000 residents. Arkansas County suffered no damage during the storm and residents kept power throughout the holiday.
9. Glover reigns as Miss Ark., competes in Miss America
Stuttgart native Kristen Glover was crowned Miss Arkansas in July 2011 and kicked off 2012 by competing for the Miss America crown.
Glover was named a Quality of Life finalist at the national pageant.
Glover made appearances throughout the state, including several across the Grand Prairie.
10. Hayes named Teacher of the Year regional finalist
Ashley Hayes, a sixth-grade literacy teacher at Meekins Middle School, was named a regional finalist for the 2012-13 Arkansas Teacher of the Year competition. Hayes was named the Stuttgart teacher of the Year in August.


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Al-Qaida gives President Elect Obama an experimental push.
The self-styled leader of an Iraqi al-Qaida front group is calling on President-elect Obama and other Western leaders to withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan.
The purported leader of the Islamic State of Iraq, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, makes the call in a speech posted on the Internet.
It was reported Friday by the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors extremist Web sites.
Al-Baghdadi makes the call "on behalf of my brothers in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Chechnya" and says it's better "for you and us" to "withdraw your forces" and "return to your homes."
These little tests will continue until Obama takes office. Then, as VP Elect Biden so famously predicted, there will be a real test. Will he push back, or try to nuance his way through "negotiating" with al-Qaida? As if that were even possible.
A great deal is riding on what he does.


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Categories: International and Comparative Law
Instructor(s) Yackee, Jason
This course provides a hands-on introduction to international commercial arbitration. The course is organized around the Vis Moot Arbitration contest, a premier international student moot. During the first month of the fall semester we will examine in detail the rules governing international commercial arbitration. Then, in October and November, students will break out into litigation teams and each team will be responsible for researching and writing a professional-quality claimant's memorandum based on the current problem for the Vis Moot Arbitration contest. Finally, each litigation team will argue a portion of its brief orally to a panel of student "arbitrators". Students will receive three credits for the course. The course is mandatory for students who wish to try out for UW Law School's official Vis team, which competes in the Vis contest in Vienna and Hong Kong during the spring semester.


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Alleged drunk driver arrested after Hooksett accident
December 14. 2013 4:29PM
HOOKSETT — A local man who allegedly crashed his pickup truck near his home was arrested Saturday on charges of driving under the influence, police said in a release.
Kevin Powers, 45, went into a Rite Aid store about 12:20 p.m. Saturday and, according to a store manager, "appeared confused, dropped his personal belongings, exited the store and got into a blue pick-up truck," the release said.
Powers drove away and was involved in a crash near his home in the Windsor cluster at Granite Hills Villages off Hooksett Road, police said. Police said he hit a utility pole and another car, police did not say if the other car was parked or being driven by another motorist at the time.
He is scheduled to appear Dec. 30 in Hooksett Circuit Court.


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WHAT Three-bedroom house on nearly four acres.
WHERE Kinderhook, N.Y., in Columbia County, about 130 miles from Midtown Manhattan.
WHO Matthew Malin, 42, and Andrew Goetz, 48, partners in life and in Malin+Goetz, their New York-based skin care company, talk about life in the house, which dates back to the early 1800s and which they purchased last March.
MR. MALIN It takes willpower to do nothing. And apparently we lacked that. In the six years or so since starting our business, we'd worked nonstop. And finally we had to acknowledge that unless we obligated ourselves to be out of town, we'd never slow down. So we started our house hunt.
MR. GOETZ We knew we wanted a historic but affordable home. And we knew we didn't want a big renovation. After all, the whole point was to relax. So this place won us over immediately. It had huge floor-to-ceiling windows, 10-foot ceilings and glowing light that just poured in. Old farmhouses can be quite dark inside, but this was open and bright and ... 'ahhhh.'
MR. MALIN And it appealed to our love of architecture. Everywhere, there was gracious millwork and on the front was a pretty porch. Plus, the home's lines were simple enough that we could decorate with midcentury pieces but still retain a sense of tradition.
MR. GOETZ Don't get the idea we spend our weekends decorating, though.
MR. MALIN We don't. In December we were snowed in and we couldn't have been happier. We read books — and actually finished them. We napped. We cooked and went for runs. It was perfect.Continue reading the main story
MR. GOETZ And we socialized too. I don't want to say that Kinderhook is a Norman Rockwell painting, but you go to somebody's house for dinner, and everyone, whether they're weekenders or people who live there year round, is together. Of course, there are adjustments to being here, too — caring for the lawn, for example. You might think, well how hard can it be to find someone to mow a lawn? But you start getting quotes, and it's like, are you a gardener or an attorney? Some serious searching is required. In our case, we got lucky, though. Our yard is cared for by a guy who was one of the original tasters for the Old Chatham Sheepherding Company. So the lawn gets mowed as we discuss cheese and wine. Come on. What could be better than that?Continue reading the main story


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Add this planning information to the Local File System Layout Worksheet.
For maximum availability, mirror root (/), /usr, /var, /opt, and swap on the local disks. Under VxVM, you encapsulate the root disk and mirror the generated subdisks. However, Sun Cluster software does not require that you mirror the root disk.
Before you decide whether to mirror the root disk, consider the risks, complexity, cost, and service time for the various alternatives that concern the root disk. No single mirroring strategy works for all configurations. You might want to consider your local Sun service representative's preferred solution when you decide whether to mirror root.
See your volume-manager documentation and Configuring Solaris Volume Manager Software or Installing and Configuring VxVM Software for instructions about how to mirror the root disk.
Consider the following points when you decide whether to mirror the root disk.
Boot disk – You can set up the mirror to be a bootable root disk. You can then boot from the mirror if the primary boot disk fails.
Complexity – To mirror the root disk adds complexity to system administration. To mirror the root disk also complicates booting in single-user mode.
Backups – Regardless of whether you mirror the root disk, you also should perform regular backups of root. Mirroring alone does not protect against administrative errors. Only a backup plan enables you to restore files that have been accidentally altered or deleted.
Quorum devices – Do not use a disk that was configured as a quorum device to mirror a root disk.
Quorum – Under Solaris Volume Manager software, in failure scenarios in which state database quorum is lost, you cannot reboot the system until maintenance is performed. See your Solaris Volume Manager documentation for information about the state database and state database replicas.
Separate controllers – Highest availability includes mirroring the root disk on a separate controller.
Secondary root disk – With a mirrored root disk, the primary root disk can fail but work can continue on the secondary (mirror) root disk. Later, the primary root disk might return to service, for example, after a power cycle or transient I/O errors. Subsequent boots are then performed by using the primary root disk that is specified for the eeprom(1M) boot-device parameter. In this situation, no manual repair task occurs, but the drive starts working well enough to boot. With Solaris Volume Manager software, a resync does occur. A resync requires a manual step when the drive is returned to service.
If changes were made to any files on the secondary (mirror) root disk, they would not be reflected on the primary root disk during boot time. This condition would cause a stale submirror. For example, changes to the /etc/system file would be lost. With Solaris Volume Manager software, some administrative commands might have changed the /etc/system file while the primary root disk was out of service.
The boot program does not check whether the system is booting from a mirror or from an underlying physical device. The mirroring becomes active partway through the boot process, after the volumes are loaded. Before this point, the system is therefore vulnerable to stale submirror problems.


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Royals' defense golden in preserving win over Yanks
KANSAS CITY -- This one was an exhibit entered by the defense -- the defense played by two members of the Kansas City Royals in particular.
First baseman Eric Hosmer won a Gold Glove Award in 2013. Shortstop Alcides Escobar hasn't won a Gold Glove, but with his ability, the award ought to be a question of when, not if.View Full Game Coverage
KANSAS CITY -- This one was an exhibit entered by the defense -- the defense played by two members of the Kansas City Royals in particular.
First baseman Eric Hosmer won a Gold Glove Award in 2013. Shortstop Alcides Escobar hasn't won a Gold Glove, but with his ability, the award ought to be a question of when, not if.View Full Game Coverage
Hosmer and Escobar repeatedly made run-saving defensive plays in Sunday's 2-1 win over the Yankees. In a closely-contested, low-scoring game, their defense made all the difference.
Escobar began the defensive highlights reel, at the first opportunity. With none out and a runner on first base in the first inning, Derek Jeter hit a smash deep into the hole. Escobar made a diving stop, and then threw out Jeter from his knees with a hard, accurate throw.
"That's a nice play," Escobar said and then added with a smile:
"When Derek Jeter came back to second base, he said: 'You no mas amigo. No more friends.' "
As impressive as Escobar's stop was, the throw from his knees was every bit as good.
"I was thinking that I have to throw the ball as quick as I can in that situation," Escobar said. "That's not an easy play."
The next batter, Jacoby Ellsbury, hit a comebacker to the mound. James Shields gloved it, but his toss to first got away from him. It soared high, but then so did Hosmer, who recorded the out at first.
"That's what [Shields] likes to do. As soon as he gets it, he likes to get rid of it," Hosmer said and added with a smile: "I knew he was going to throw it and I think it just took off out of his hand. I really didn't jump that high. I made it look a lot better than it was."
In the second, with the bases loaded and one out, Hosmer made what turned out to be a game-saving decision. Brett Gardner hit a ball sharply in back of first. Hosmer gloved it, and rather than taking the easier, obvious play at first and conceding a run, he made a quick, strong throw to the plate to force Yangervis Solarte.
In a 2-1 game, that play turned out to be a real difference-maker. Hosmer's logic in making this play turned out to be flawless.
"Just basically with Gardner running, there's not a very good chance of getting a double play," Hosmer said. "You know you're getting one out either way. I told myself I was not going to play too far back and if he hit it good enough, I was going to make sure I got the out at home. But the way Gardner has been swinging, you can't really play in, because you want to gain some range.
"That was the thought process. If it's hit hard, right at me, go home with it. If it's hit hard, go for it right there. Turned out to be a big play."
The Royals are a superior team, and these plays underscored the importance of their defense.
"That play that Esky made in the first inning was tremendous," manager Ned Yost said. "The play that Hoz made with the bases loaded to get the force out at the plate was as big. It was a one-run game. We won, 2-1.
"A lot of first basemen would just take the out at first. It's early in the game. But Hoz made a great play there. And it turned out it was probably a game-saving play for us."
In the third, Hosmer very likely saved another run.
With no outs and a runner on second, Carlos Beltran hit a smash well wide of first. Hosmer ranged to his right, made a diving stop and flipped to Shields covering to get the out and keep the runner from advancing further than third. Shields struck out the next two batters to keep the Yankees off the board again.
"With a lot of these guys, you want to play real deep," Hosmer said. "Some of these guys aren't running that well, so you want to get as much range as possible. With [Beltran], I'm playing way back there. Looking back on it now, it might have been a ball that [second baseman] Omar [Infante] could have got, but I figured Shields is real athletic, he can get over [to first], so I'm just trying to get anything I can."
In the fifth inning, it was Escobar's turn again. A looping line drive hit by Ellsbury looked like a sure bet to land safely in left-center. But Escobar raced out and made a leaping, lunging grab.
Shields, who won his seventh game of the season, was suitably appreciative of the defensive support.
"They've been making plays like that all season long," Shields said.
This was a terrific display of defense that resulted in a very encouraging victory for the Royals.
As Escobar put it: "We had great defense today, great pitching for both sides, that's a great game."
Mike Bauman is a national columnist for MLB.com.


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England Nonconformist Church Records
Nonconformist is a term referring to religious denominations other than an established or state church.
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Presbyterians, Baptists, and Independents
- 3 Methodists
- 4 Roman Catholics
- 5 Huguenots
- 6 Society of Friends
- 7 Online non-conformist church records
A nonconformist denomination in England is any denomination not conforming to the Church of England, including Roman Catholics, and Quakers. The registers of these religions sometimes contain more information than those of the Church of England, often including a person's birth date, baptism date, father's name and residence, and mother's name (including maiden name).
Lord Hardwicke's Act, passed in 1754, required that couples had to be married in the Church of England for their marriage to be legal, regardless of what religion one belonged to. An exception was made for Jews and Quakers. The law lasted until 1837 when civil registration began.
Nonconformist registers contain some burial entries, though nonconformists were usually buried in parish churchyards until the chapel obtained its own burial grounds or until civil cemeteries opened.
It is not uncommon to find an ancestor affiliated with more than one religion during his or her lifetime. Search all religions and all chapels of a particular religion if an ancestor might be a nonconformist because some people changed religions and travelled long distances to attend their meetings. Ministers often travelled large circuits keeping the vital statistics of several places in the register they carried with them.
A law passed in 1836 required many nonconformist groups to send their registers into the Public Record Office. The Family History Library has microfilm copies of those that were deposited. Many of these records have been extracted, and the names appear on www.familysearch.org under 'Historical Records.'
The Official Non-Parochial BMDs Service is a database to search for records of birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial taken from non parish sources. Currently, the site indexes The National Archives records for RG4 and RG5. The projects continues by indexing RG 6, RG 7, RG 8, RG 32, RG 33, RG 34, RG 35, RG 36 and BT 158, BT 159, BT 160.
Major nonconformist groups are discussed below. The following two works contain more information about nonconformist sects:
- Steel, Donald J. Sources for Nonconformist Genealogy and Family History. London, England: Phillimore, 1973. (FHL book 942 V26ste, vol. 2.)
- Sources for Roman Catholic and Jewish Genealogy and Family History. London, England: Phillimore, 1974. (FHL book 942 V26ste, vol. 3.)
The following was copied from a duplicate article prior to deleting it.
Nonconformist records for England and Wales available online.
Nonconformist records are essential for those families who did not have a baptism, marriage, or burial take place in a Church of England or Church of Wales ceremony. As a result the Nonconformist records need to be looked at if your ancestor does not show up in the Church of England or Wales records.
Online at http://www.bmdregisters.co.uk/ is an index being complied from RG 4, RG 5, RG 6, RG 7, RG 8 RG 32 RG 33, RG 34 RG 35 RG 36 BT 158, BT 159 and BT 160.
This website came online on September 14, 2007.
I have generated this partial report from the article Online! Key records pre-1837 Nonconformist church records from Family Tree Magazines article from the October 2007 issue on pages 14 and 15.
This article shows what records are in the BT and RG numbers series from the National Archives.
The Family History Library has some of the RG 4 and RG 5 records and most of the RG 4 series of what the Family History Library has was extracted and put into the International genealogical Index for Births and Baptisms.
As a result, both the International Genealogical Index and www.bmdregisters.co.uk should be looked at for nonconformist records. As time goes by the website will make more records available and your search may be more fruitful.
The index to the bmdreisters.co.uk is free to use, but to look at the details or the image of the record www.bmdregisters.co.uk is a pay website, but could very well be the answer. The International Genealogical Index is free to use at www.familysearch.org. Some entry are also on the British Isles Vital records Index. However, the original records can be viewed free at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Presbyterians, Baptists, and Independents
These religions evolved from 16th century Puritanism. The records of these religions are similar to those of the Church of England. The Baptists, however, practiced adult baptism and recorded births in birth registers, not baptism registers. The Independent Church is also known as the Congregational Church.
For information about the different denominations, you may contact their respective historical societies:
- Baptist Historical Society
15 Fenshurst Gardens Long Ashton,
Bristol BS18 9AU England
- United Reformed Church History Society
86 Tavistock Place,
London WC1H 9RT England
(The Presbyterian and Congregational churches are now combined.)
Many congregations did not keep consistent records. In January 1743 officials formed a central registry for births for all three denominations, called Dr. Williams' Library. This registry contains about 50,000 birth records. Information recorded includes the child's name, parents' names, birth date, address, names of witnesses, registration information, and sometimes the grandparents' names.
The original records of Dr. William's Library are housed at The National Archives near London, England. Copies of these records are on microfilm in the Family History Library. They include:
- The birth records from Dr. Williams' Library are indexed in the British Isles Vital Records Index, which is available at the Family History Library and at family history centers.
- Some nonconformist church records also available on FamilySearch.org Historical Records. Read more about it in England Vital Records Index (FamilySearch Historical Records) and England and Wales Nonconformist Index for RG 4-8 (Record Groups 4-8) (FamilySearch Historical Records)
- Nonconformist church birth/baptism, marriage and death records are also indexed on the website called The Genealogist.
Charles Surman compiled a biographical card index of Congregational ministers which was given to Dr Williams' Library in 1960. The Surman Index Online makes the contents available electronically via the internet for the first time. The index includes the names of about 32,000 ministers, and, where known, their dates, details of their education, ministries or other employment, together with the sources used. It covers the period from the mid-seventeenth century to 1972, and though it focuses on England and Wales, it includes Congregational ministers serving abroad provided they trained or served as ministers in Britain. Although intended as an index of Congregational ministers, it also gives details of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Presbyterians.
For Further Reading
For information on the various denominations, see:
- Breed, Geoffrey R. My Ancestors Were Baptists: How Can I Find Out More About Them? London, England: Society of Genealogists, 2002, 4th ed. (FHL book 942 K23bg.)
- Clifford, D. J. H. My Ancestors Were Congregationalists in England & Wales: How Can I Find Out More About Them? London, England: Society of Genealogists, 1997, 2nd rev. ed. (FHL book 942 K23cdj.)
- Ruston, Alan R. My Ancestors Were English Presbyterians/Unitarians: How Can I Find Out More About Them? London, England: Society of Genealogists, 2001, 2nd ed. (FHL book 942 K23ra.)
- The Congregational Magazine [formerly The London Christian instructor) for 1827: pages 681 to 721, Supplement to the Congregational Magazine for the year 1827 - Congregational Churches of the United Kingdom. free google ebook
There are many forms of Methodists Societies in England:
- Wesleyan
- Primitive
- New Connexion, and so on.
The Wesleyan group was the largest. They were all united under the United Methodist Church in 1932. Some groups recorded their baptisms and burials in the Church of England until the 19th century. For historical material, contact:
- The Methodist Archives and Research Centre
John Rylands University Library
Manchester M3 3EH,
England, UK
To find the location of the original birth and burial records, contact:
- Wesley Historical Society
34 Spiceland Road
Birmingham B31 1NJ,
England, UK
A useful guide for tracing Methodist ancestors is:
- Leary, William. My Ancestors Were Methodists: How Can I Find Out More About Them? 2nd ed. London, England: Society of Genealogists, 1999. (FHL book 942 D27l 1999.)
The Wesleyan Methodist Metropolitan Registry recorded over 10,000 Wesleyan Methodist births and baptisms that occurred between 1813 and 1838 throughout England, Wales, and elsewhere. The records are available at the The National Archives of the UK (part of collection codes RG4 and RG5).
Indexes and Copies of Records
Many Methodist records are indexed in a searchable online database called BMDRegisters. A basic search is free but there is a fee for advanced searching and to download images.
The records of the Metropolitan Registry are also available on microfilm at the Family History Library (FHL). In addition, the library holds copies of records of individual circuits and congregations. Many of the records are indexed in the British Isles Vital Records Index, which is available at the FHL, family history centers, and other archives and libraries. See England Vital Records Index (FamilySearch Historical Records)
Shovellers List of Methodist Churches
Roman Catholics
Catholic priests usually did not keep registers before 1778 and many registers were written in Latin. Baptism registers usually include the names of the child's sponsors or godparents.
Some registers have been published by the Catholic Record Society. The Family History Library has most of these published registers, and depending on the area, may have microfilms of some Catholic parish registers. Currently, unlike in Scotland, and most other church registers of the United Kingdom, the vast genealogical treasures of the Roman Catholic parish registers have mostly never been centrally located--at least on a national basis, for preservation and security, nor microfilming/imaging purposes.
For information on records not available at the Family History Library, contact the society.
This Protestant group began in France then spread to England as its members fled persecution. Huguenots began keeping records as early as 1567; however, few pre-1684 records still exist.
After arriving in England many Huguenots changed their names from French to English. For example, the French surname LeBlanc may have changed to White.
Until 1754, Huguenots often recorded their marriages in both Huguenot and Church of England registers. None were recorded in Huguenot registers after that date. The Huguenot Society has transcribed and published most of their original church records. Contact them at:
- The Huguenot Society
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT England
Just about all of the published Huguenot records are held at the Family History Library and are listed in the library's catalog under:
Most of the names from these Huguenot registers are listed at FamilySearch.org and at BMDRegister.co.uk.
Society of Friends
Also known as Quakers, the Society of Friends did not have appointed clergy to perform the rites of baptism. They recorded births instead. Burial registers usually include the date of death. Quakers recorded marriages to ensure their validity.
The organization of Quaker religious groups, known as "meetings," includes:
- The preparative meeting or the local church group, about the size of a parish.
- The monthly meeting, made up of several preparative (local) groups, is the primary meeting for church affairs and includes records of births, marriages, and deaths.
- The quarterly meeting, comprised of two to seven monthly meetings, similar to a diocese.
- The yearly meeting includes representatives from the quarterly meetings and Friends from other countries.
Quaker registers began in the late 1650s. From 1840 to 1842, the Society made digests of its records (to about 1837), which cover all English meetings. The digests are arranged first by date and then alphabetically by surname. Copies of digests and original registers are in the Family History Library. The original records are in The National Archives, England.
For a valuable booklet on this subject, refer to:
- Milligan, Edward H., and Malcolm J. Thomas. My Ancestors Were Quakers: How Can I Find Out More About Them? London, England: Society of Genealogists, 1983. (FHL book 942 D27m.)
Online non-conformist church records
- The Official Non-Parochial BMDs Service is for records of birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial taken from non parish sources BMDRegister.co.uk such as non-conformist records of Methodists, Wesleyans, Baptists, Independents, Protestant Dissenters, Congregationalist, Presbyterians, Unitarians, Quakers (Society of Friends), Dissenters and Russian Orthodox. Maternity Records plus various other BMD records are also included.
- The Genealogist has recently placed millions of entries of names transcribed from nonconformist church registers. See their website for searching.
- Record Search at FamilySearch.org has millions of entries transcribed and indexed over the last 40 years, now available online.
Wiki articles describing online collections are found at:


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Estrogen and Neurogenesis in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease
Dominique Toran-Allerand, M.D.
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Alzheimer's disease is characterized by the gradual death of neurons in specific areas of the brain. Researchers have wondered if, in women, loss of estrogen after menopause might put these neurons at increased risk. In fact, research shows that estrogen protects neurons in mice with Alzheimer-like pathology and that the steroid hormone spurs neurogenesis, or the birth of new neurons, in the brain.
Dominique Toran-Allerand, M.D., plans to study the role of estrogen in the aging brain. She recently found that a largely ignored form of the steroid, 17alpha-estradiol, is present in the brains of young animals but is not as abundant in older animals, which also have reduced capacity for neurogenesis. Dr. Toran-Allerand plans to investigate if this novel estrogen might spur neuro-genesis and protect against Alzheimer's disease.
She and her colleagues will correlate the level of neurogenesis with the amount of the novel estrogen in mice of various ages. They will run similar experiments in mice that have been genetically modified to develop Alzheimer-like pathology. They will also compare two different forms of estrogen to see which can best stimulate neurogenesis. This work may lead to an entirely new view of the properties of estrogens. Furthermore, because the novel estrogen is devoid of the properties of the "normal" estrogen, the results could lead to novel therapeutics free from the cardiovascular and cancer risks associated with traditional hormone replacement therapy.


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Francia Raisa gets splashed under a waterfall while crossing a rope bridge on vacation at Villa del Palmar earlier this week in Cancun, Mexico.
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Members of the public will get their first chance tonight to see and buy gold coins from a massive hoard of buried treasure discovered by a couple walking their dog on their property in California's Gold Country last year.
A collection of coins from the "Saddle Ridge Hoard" will be on display in the Old Mint in San Francisco at 7:30 p.m. in an exhibit hosted by the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society.
The 1,400-plus Gold Rush coins from the Saddle Ridge Hoard are estimated to be worth at least $10 million. The discovery is believed to be the largest find ever of buried treasure in the U.S.
"Many coins in the group that are finer than anything we've ever seen before," said David McCarthy, a senior numismatist at Tiburon-based Kagin's Inc., a firm of rare coin experts that is handling the collection's sale.
McCarthy was the first coin expert to examine the coins, which had been buried in decaying metal canisters.
"I picked up one of the coins and looked at it, and underneath the dirt, I could see it was essentially perfect," McCarthy said. "I almost fell out of my chair."
The coins were minted between 1847 and 1894 and McCarthy said 95 percent of them were struck in the San Francisco Mint.
Most coins of the Gold Rush-era were heavily used and handled, but these coins appear to have been buried when they were brand-new, likely the cause of their pristine condition, McCarthy said.
The treasure collection's first coin will be sold at auction at the Old Mint event tonight.
The 1874-S $20 coin was one of the first struck at the Old Mint and its sale will benefit the Old Mint's restoration, according to Lisa Bower, administrative and volunteer manager with the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society.
The bulk of the rest of the collection will go on sale tonight on Amazon.com and Kagins.com, McCarthy said.
The couple that discovered the coins is remaining anonymous. They will keep some of the coins for themselves, McCarthy said.
The coin that will be auctioned tonight was valued between $3,000 and $4,000, but McCarthy said he expects it to sell for more.
Admission to the exhibit at the Old Mint, 88 5th Street, is $10 for the public and free for San Francisco Museum and Historical Society members. The exhibit starts at 7:30 p.m. and the auction will run from 8:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
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On Nov. 12, the results were in: The Latest James Bond movie, �Skyfall,� had taken in a stunning $87 million over the weekend, an all-time record � for movies.
That same day, the video game �Halo� took in $220 million � not over a weekend, but in one day. There was some press about that, but nothing compared to the stories about �Skyfall.� A few days later, the latest version of the game �Call of Duty� was released and had sales of $500 million. That was also in one day. It�s doubtful that lifetime sales of �Skyfall� will ever reach that total. We�re big James Bond fans, but there is another story here.
If you look at the numbers � and believe us, Hollywood always looks at the numbers � the story is who has the numbers. Along with the enormous sales of these top video game franchises versus a top movie franchise, one might look at the huge differences in the details of the story. A movie has big salary, production and distribution costs; a video game has nowhere near those kinds of upfront costs and almost no distribution cost � it can be downloaded to the customer.
And then there�s the question of value � entertainment value. A movie is enjoyed for a couple of hours. And yes, it was fun, but the video game will be played for hundreds of hours. So the point of all this seems pretty obvious: There�s been a change in the weather, as the song goes.
We�ve never been smartphone fans. When we leave our office, we leave the Internet behind. We are two of those now seldom-seen people whose noses aren�t glued to a tiny screen.
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The phone is fine; it�s the plan that stinks. Joy went on the Internet to check messages for about 10 minutes and the phone showed she had used half her allotted Web usage for the month. They have other plans, but the costs go up quickly. In short, beware of deals aimed at seniors. When we called to say we wanted to cancel the service, they just hung up.
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We�re looking at T-Mobile�s offer of a Samsung Galaxy for $200. Hey, even if we rarely use it, we want the best. You never know when you might need to send an emergency email or get an answer to important questions, like �How old was Cary Grant when he starred in �Charade?� �
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When Joy was 7, she thought asking for a giant stuffed donkey for Christmas was the height of extravagance. But today�s kids want gadgets. The iPad, iPod Touch, iPad Mini and iPhone took four of the five top slots on the Christmas wish-list for kids, according to a Nielsen survey. The iPad is in first place and the Nintendo Wii U is in second. Everything else in the top five is an Apple device.
Every day we hear of a new business or science project that�s been �crowd sourced.� That�s the phrase for a website that asks for donations or investments for projects instead of going to a bank or venture capital firm. So this just in: crowd-sourcing Christmas and holiday activities using CrowdTilt.com.
A group in Dallas is raising $400 for a Christmas party, while another is shooting for New Year�s. In Worcester, a group raised $1,690 to rent a ski lodge in Vermont.
CrowdTilt also lists charitable causes, and the site automatically sends receipts for tax deductions. Eighty-six percent of fundraising campaigns on the site are successful, and they usually raise about double their initial goal. The average request size is $870. A campaign that makes it a third of the way toward its goal pretty quickly usually ends up with all of it a few hours before deadline. Most fundraising campaigns last around 11 days. If a campaign �tilts� (is successful), the site collects a fee of 2.5 percent, though fees have been waived recently for any fundraising related to Hurricane Sandy.
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After installing Kingsoft Antivirus, we tried downloading and installing a bridge game at funbridge.com. Before it installed, however, the Kingsoft program warned us the bridge game was about to change the computer�s registry, something that is often an indicator of malware. We took the recommendation to not install and dumped the bridge program.


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Intro to securing Free BSD part 3
A bit about Kerberos -
Kerberos was developed at MIT as a centralized login management system at the Athena cluster at MIT. Kerberos pretty much allows users to authenticate themselves with a server on a net and of course be issused tickets for tasks like FTP, Pop3, Telnet and NFS.
Doing this makes it so you don't have to log on each time.
As long as the hosts on your network between which you're running traffic do support the system, and subscribe to the master server, the system takes care of all authentication for you.
Free BSD allows you to set up a Kerberos server, or just use it where it is already at.
I'm only listing this all for the curious, this is NOT a security system, or have much to do with network security really, but in a pure Unix environment, it can help get rid of a lot of work.
A lot of enterprises use Kerberos to provide encrypted log in services, and Windows 2000's security model is largely based on Kerberos (Though it is a moded version) it's becoming an important part of networks again.
Enabling Kerberos for Free BSD -
in /etc/rc.conf :
This starts up the services needed in a master Kerberos server.
If you're already Using it, just un-comment the lines /etc/pam.conf to enable centralized authentication for the services that support it. Here is an example which is probably in a lot of docs:
login auth sufficient pam_kerberosIV.so try_first_pass
More information about Kerberos -
Avoiding problems with clear text services -
Transmissions between your machine and the server in things like HTTP, Telnet, and even FTP and Email may seem secure because your passwords are hidden and things are transmitted in packets along with a whole lot of other packets.
Who would have the painstaking mindset to actually sit there and try to get the network wiretap and actually put all of this tegother for something interesting like your Username and password? Or maybe you Social Security Number or credit card number?
It's a shame users actually believe this to be true. To all the newbies and users that believe this, think about this:
If no one actually enjoyed putting a puzzle together, stores wouldn't sell so many of them. Youo're not safe, the ARE watching you, and you should be ashamed of that net traffic you pervert.
Security doesn't exist in clear text services and security through obscurity, the notion that you're safe because no one is interested in what you're doing, is very very false. ALWAYS assume that a person with intent to do harm to your network, is always watching. They probably are.
If you're not paranoid enough start smoking weed. THAT is how you realise the importance of security. And hey, you're work creativity would sure sky rocket.
Monitoring traffic -
I was going to do a section here about this subject, but I liked this one better by IronGeek:
This is going in here because it shows how easy it really is to monitor traffic and the things you can find. A lot of Unix based OSs come with a lot of network tools and a lot of sniffers and traffic things that make this even easier.
The section I was going to do for this was going to be with tcpdump, but as I said, IronGeek already did it and I liked it. No point in reinventing the wheel.
Adding security with encrypted protocols -
Now that you have read IronGeek's very good tutorial and doing some of my work for me in writing that ;) You should have an idea just how someone can listen to what you're doing online and over the network. What can you do to fight that? Well, most protocols have an encrypted version or replacement that you can use which I will discuss now:
First, I want to give a short list that is no where or any where, close to complete:
Telnet is not encrypted, everything sent over it, is done so in clear text. SSH gives you the same experience but is encrypted.
HTTP isn't encrypted, HTTPS is.
FTP was not meant for security, SCP was.
The data in the tcpdump isn't encrypted, at all. It only takes a small amount of effort to get a look into everything sent. Tools like tcpflow, tcpshow, and Etherpeek even do the work for you in showing the full packet. If the packets you get are log in information, your username and password now belongs to an attacker.
Safegaurding against the use of these applications is especially important in systems where passwords and other sensitive information can be transferred. Protecting communication is as much a security concern as it is a privacy concern.
You can combat sniffer tools quite easily. The Free BSD installation contains a lot of tools that can be used instead of insecure clear text services like Telnet. SSH is right on the Free BSD installation media, and SSL can be used for HTTP and other services. Securing clear text services is quite easy, knowing is half the battle, and knowing these tools exist for Free BSD wins that half. Hopefully GI Joe doesn't sue me for that line, but hey, it's not like anyone watches or buys their stuff anymore... Right? ;)
Secure Shell -
A lot of people log into machines remotely to work. Doing so over rlogin and Telnet is not a good idea, something better exists called SSH. This comes with Free BSD and Linux and most copies of Unix I've used. OpenSSH was originally developed on Open BSD. Open SSH allows you to have an encrypted tunnel to the server, or your workstation. Some users such as I, use it and allow the service to run so if X freezes up for some reason, you can log in and kill it over SSH.
This allows you to combat the problem with tapped networks as no one can read the information going over the network.
The SSH Server, or Daemon, SSHd runs on port 22 as a stand alone server. Like Apache, it spawns off a new process for each incoming connection and to enable the SSH server in Free BSD you just simple add a line to /etc/rc.conf:
Now you can either reboot, or type sshd.
SSH doesn't actually give you the prompt of the remote machine, it has it's very own and then when you type in your information, it then send it all, encrypted, to the remote host.
From here on though, it is very much like telnet.
Users who have Windows or old Mac machines have more work to do as no command line SSH client is installed. MacSSH and Putty should be downlaoded and installed so they can use SSH as well.
This is all fine but users never listen to the admin. Go to /etc/inetd.conf and comment out the line here:
telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/libexec/telnetd telnetd
Just make it look like this:
#telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/libexec/telnetd telnetd
Then restart the inetd process:
# killall -HUP inetd
A bit the lack of security in Email services -
POP3 and IMAP are argueably worse than Telnet security wise. If users set their E-Mail clients to check the mail every couple minutes, you now have clear text passwords being sent over the network, which is bad, and worse, it's every couple minutes which is giving an attacker a road map on when to sniff, so this is really bad.
The IMAP-UW software package for Free BSD can do something similar to Qpopper with the SSL which can encrypt POP3 connections. You can enable SSL in Free BSD to encrypt POP3, which is maybe the wrong word choice here, let me rephrase it if that doesn't catch you right:
You can use the same method to secure IMAP, employing the IMAP-UW software package. You can enable SSL support in IMAP-UW by generating a certificate with a certifying authority. If you have a certificate generated already for a service like Qpopper, you can use the same certificate for IMAP-UW. Check out http://www.washington.edu/imap to get info.
The stunnel program provides an alternative way to encrypt both IMAP and POP3. stunnel manages Certificates centrally and doesn't use a service's SSL support.
Stunnel allows you to set up a universal SSL tunnel for any service on the system that you choose. And of course stunnel is part of the Free BSD port collection :
If you install it from here, the default script /usr/local/etc/rc.d/stunnel.sh.sample starts a listening process on the machine, port 993 and port 995. 993 is for IMAP and 995 is for POP3 which should be listed as the secured versions of these ports in /etc/services.
Make sure you rename the file stunnel.sh.sample to stunnel.sh as the .sample part is to make sure you look at the file and make sure the patrhs to .pem cert files are in fact the correct ones.
If you choose to use stunnel, you will need to generate a cert just as you did with IMAP-UW. The stunnel certificate should be placed in /usr/local/etc/stunnel.pem
Once you have it there, your POP3 and IMAP clients should be able to connect to the right ports to establish a secure connection which is 993 for IMAP instead of the usual 143, and 995 for POP3 instead of 110.
A lot of pop email clients (Pop as in popular, not Post Office Protocol ;) ) support SSL on POP3 and IMAP, but others may only support one of the two, or neither.
In some clients, support is even incomplete or optional. Requiring these may make some users switch Email clients. Microsoft Outlook does in fact support both so if they use Windows boxes with Office, you shouldn't worry. And yes that is the only time you'll have me recommeding an Outlook style Email Client.
Stunnel is NOT a replacement for IMAP or POP3.
So for other things, this means yes you do in fact need the regular IMAP and POP3 service enabled. You will need a bit about IPFW if you want to close of these ports and only allow the secured version from anything but localhost which I will talk about in another.


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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Johan Santana's first spring training appearance of the year for the Mets has been pushed back until mid-March.
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Johan Santana's first spring training appearance of the year for the Mets has been pushed back until mid-March.
The left-hander does not have any structural damage in his throwing shoulder, but needs more time to build up strength.
"I haven't been on the mound for a while, so it takes time to get everything adjusted again and to get in that pitching mode again," Santana said Friday. "It takes time. It's not a setback at all. It just needs time to build up."
General manager Sandy Alderson said the 33-year old left-hander is expected to pitch in an exhibition game March 10-12 instead of March 2. Mets manager Terry Collins said he would like to see Santana make four exhibition starts, increasing his pitch count from 45 to 95 pitches in his spring training finale.
After watching Santana throw this week, Collins said he immediately knew that Santana didn't have the arm speed or feel for his pitches that he did at this time last year.
"As we started getting everything ready for the games, it's just going to take a little time," Santana said. "I feel fine, but I've just got to build up my strength in my shoulder and do a little more — play catch and throw long toss to be able to go on the mound."
Alderson said he didn't think Santana will miss the start of the regular season, but said it was a possibility.
A two-time AL Cy Young Award winner, Santana missed 2011 following shoulder surgery and went 6-9 with a 4.85 ERA in 21 starts last year, when he pitched the first no-hitter in Mets history on June 1 against St. Louis. He didn't pitch after Aug. 17 because of lower back inflammation.
Santana threw off a mound Sunday for the first time since August. He said he felt fine after the 20-pitch session and was on track to start the April 1 opener against San Diego.
Mets medical director Dr. David Altchek examined Santana this week.
"We expected he would have had a normal offseason and he did have a normal offseason with the exception of not throwing," Alderson said. "His throwing program is somewhat behind, but the important thing is Altchek saw him yesterday. There's no structural issue. There's no shoulder issue, it's just an overall conditioning issue as it relates to throwing."
Santana gets $25.5 million this year in the final guaranteed season of his $137.5 million, six-year contract. The Mets hold a $25 million option for 2014 with a $5.5 million buyout.
Alderson also said reliever Pedro Feliciano and outfielder Jamie Hoffmann have returned to New York for follow-up exams to their physicals, which took place Sunday. Alderson would not go into detail other than terming the issues "non-orthopedic." He expects both players to return to camp within two days.
New York said reliever Frank Francisco is expected to begin throwing Monday or Tuesday. Francisco was examined by Altchek on Thursday and Alderson said it was determined there was no structural issues in his surgically repaired right elbow. Francisco has not pitched in more than a week due to inflammation.


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Paul E. Sax, M.D., is director of the HIV Program and Division of Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
In today's New England Journal of Medicine, the SINGLE study finally makes its appearance "in print." (The study results were first presented over a year ago.) The highlights:
Setting aside the NRTIs for now, we must again note that this is the very first time anything has beaten an EFV-based regimen, and it's not for lack of trying. Starting with its surprising defeat of indinavir way back in the 1990s, efavirenz has subsequently bested fosamprenavir, lopinavir/r, nevirapine, nelfinavir, and abacavir.
(And let's not forget once-daily soft-gel saquinavir/r. That's nine pills/day just for the saquinavir/ritonavir, yikes.)
The most any challenger could do was tie -- see atazanavir/r, raltegravir, elvitegravir/cobicistat -- or, in the case of rilpivirine, offset lesser antiviral activity with a better tolerability profile. In short, up until the SINGLE study, one could argue that EFV-based treatments -- especially TDF/FTC/EFV -- represented the gold standard against which all other regimens must compete.
Has that now changed? I think it has.
Note that these SINGLE study results come out just as other data and clinical experiences have less forcefully nudged efavirenz off its perch on top of the HIV treatment world. Want a single pill for HIV treatment? There are now two other options, TDF/FTC/rilpivirine and TDF/FTC/elvitegravir/cobicistat, both of which have significantly lower rates of CNS side effects and rash; abacavir/lamivudine/dolutegravir is on its way as another option.
Furthermore, those efavirenz CNS side effects may not be so benign -- a study presented at this year's IDWeek (disclosure: I'm a co-investigator) found that those randomized to efavirenz had twice as high a rate of suicidal ideation as in the non-efavirenz treatments. Yes, the absolute risk was low, but this is a much more serious adverse effect than the famous "vivid dreams" reported so frequently by those receiving efavirenz.
So what about the rest of the world? The World Health Organization Guidelines, updated just this summer, have this to say about initial regimens:
Once-daily regimens comprising a non-thymidine NRTI backbone (TDF + FTC or TDF + 3TC) and one NNRTI (EFV) are maintained as the preferred choices in adults, adolescents and children older than three years ... TDF + 3TC (or FTC) + EFV as a fixed-dose combination is recommended as the preferred option to initiate ART
Which means we are far from seeing the end of the efavirenz era globally, where the drug is widely (and accurately) viewed as effective, inexpensive, and relatively well-tolerated. All good things.
Just not quite good enough anymore, given what's out there as competition.
Your thoughts?
I still frequently use efavirenz-based regimens as initial therapy.
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FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas linebacker Alonzo Highsmith had an idea when he noticed the 2012 schedule in the weight room earlier this week.
The Razorbacks were wounded. They had just suffered through their second straight embarrassing loss in the 52-0 blowout to Alabama. And a season that began with so much promise had been reduced to rubble in just three weeks.
So Highsmith decided the magnetic game-by-game schedule had to be torn down.
"I just walked in there and I was just like, 'Man, nothing else matters except for this week,'" Highsmith said. "We're not looking forward, we're not looking back. …
"It was in the middle of a workout. Everybody saw me do it."
The "one-game-at-a-time" cliché has become a frustrating staple in the sports vernacular, but Highsmith and the Hogs took it a step further as they prepared for tonight's game against Rutgers in Razorback Stadium.
He and strength and conditioning coach Jason Veltkamp collaborated to rip down the schedule. Past opponents Jacksonville State, Louisiana-Monroe and Alabama were gone. So, too, were upcoming opponents like Texas A&M, Auburn and LSU.
The only thing they left was Rutgers, symbolizing the redefined goals Arkansas has set for itself after quickly falling short of its preseason national title aspirations.
Arkansas (1-2) insists it can still make something out of the season. But the Razorbacks also realize it has to begin by snapping their slide against Rutgers (3-0).
"Obviously the last two games were not something that you want to have happen," Arkansas offensive coordinator Paul Petrino said. "But the most important thing right now is that I think you win this week, give it everything you've got, throw everything into it. … We've got to go win this week."
Arkansas received a reason for hope Thursday night, when quarterback Tyler Wilson was cleared after missing the Alabama game with a concussion. The senior has been key to holding the Razorbacks together since Bobby Petrino's motorcycle wreck and eventual firing in April, but couldn't help on the field in the loss.
The senior will be back under center to face a Rutgers defense that has been preparing for him all week. It doesn't change the challenge for Arkansas, which was outscored 79-10 in six quarters without Wilson. But it does add more confidence.
"We really need a win," Arkansas safety Ross Rasner said. "I wouldn't say it's a must win game for us, but with Tyler coming back I think we have a great chance to win.
"I think the team morale is good. We're putting everything that happened behind us and we have a big home game against Rutgers and we're just excited to get out there and compete our butts off."
If Arkansas needs a blueprint for surviving early-season implosion all it has to do is look at Georgia last season. The Bulldogs opened the year with consecutive losses to Boise State and South Carolina, but regrouped and recovered to win 10 straight.
Arkansas coach John L. Smith said earlier this week he's confident the Hogs can do the same despite the bad start and the negativity that has followed the sharp tumble out of the Associated Press top 25 poll. Smith thought Highsmith's symbolic gesture with the schedule in the weight room shows Arkansas hasn't lost its composure.
"The kids are saying that we don't want to look at anything other than the Rutgers game," Smith said. "Which is a great statement for him to make and kind of the mindset of our football team. We don't want to look at anything other than them."
Said defensive coordinator Paul Haynes: "We've licked our wounds and it's time to move forward."
Rutgers enters Saturday's game with a chance to improve to 4-0 under first-year coach Kyle Flood. It's the program's first trip to Arkansas and also is the first time the Razorbacks have hosted a Big East team in Fayetteville.
It's also the end of a season-opening homestand for the Razorbacks, who will play two straight on the road at Texas A&M and Auburn. But none of the Razorbacks cared to look that far down the road when speaking to the media this week.
They can't in the weight room any more.
The schedule is gone and only Rutgers remains.
Arkansas center Travis Swanson said that's the way it should be as Arkansas tries to salvage its season beginning with tonight's game against the Scarlet Knights.
"We need to win," Swanson said. "This week is imperative. We have to win."


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