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Is Home Health Right for You?
Megan Malugani | Monster Contributing Writer
Is a career in home healthcare right for you? The independence, one-on-one patient contact and flexibility appeal to many healthcare job seekers, but home health work isn't for everyone. If you're considering a job in home care, ask yourself the following questions — courtesy of home health veterans — to determine whether you'd be happy and successful in the field.
Can You Stomach the Responsibility?
A patient's life often depends on home care workers, whether they're home health aides, nurses, social workers or rehab therapists. "You just never know what you're walking into," says Susan Patillo, RN, BSN, of the Rutland Area Visiting Nurses Association and Hospice. "You could go in thinking a person is fine, and they're in respiratory distress."
Have You Honed Your Clinical Skills?
When an emergency such as respiratory distress does arise, a home care worker isn't surrounded by a team of healthcare professionals. For this reason, many home care professionals — especially nurses — have mastered basic clinical skills by working in an inpatient healthcare facility for a year or two before moving into home care. "In home care, there is really a huge range of skills you utilize on a daily basis," Patillo says. "You need to polish your clinical skills before going into home health."
Do You Have an Independent Streak?
Love it or loathe it, autonomy is the name of the game in home care. Although home health providers stay in touch via telephone and pagers, they spend many days without seeing coworkers or bosses face-to-face. Some home care workers can't hack the isolation and leave the field. "If you need a lot of supervision, you won't do so well in home care," says occupational therapist Diana Nelms, who works for Holy Redeemer Home Care and Hospice.
Are You Proactive?
Effective home health providers are also proactive, says Jodi Stokes, RN, of the Visiting Nurse Association of Cleveland. When Stokes needs to call a physician about a patient's condition, she offers the doctor specific suggestions about possible courses of actions. "Doctors don't want to hear, 'Your patient's wound is worse. What should we do?'" she says. "Doctors want to hear, 'Your patient's wound looks like this, and here's my recommendation.' The doctors want to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to my suggestion rather than making the patient come in."


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Ulrike Meinhof
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Thirty-eight years ago today, on June 14 1972, West German police raided the house of Fritz Rodewald, a teacher who'd been habitually sheltering German-based U.S. Armed Forces deserters in his Langenhagen home. This time, they were after the two young German strangers who'd appealed to him for accommodations. The cops had already apprehended armed and wanted Red Army Faction terrorist Gerhard Mueller at a public phone, and Rodewald had tipped them off that Mueller's comrade Ulrike Meinhof was inside.
It had been a busy couple of years for Ulrike the activist/journalist. She'd left her job at the leftist magazine konkret and—sometime soon after the interview below—entered the realm of armed revolutionary struggle in what was then one of the richest democracies on earth. This clip must have been recorded just before she helped break out RAF leader Andreas Baader from his detention in a research institute in May 1970. Twenty-four months of bank robberies and bombings later, she was in prison, where she would be found hanged under dubious circumstances. Later it was speculated that a 1962 operation to remove a brain tumor might have played a tragic part in her violent fate. Regardless, along with Patty "Tania" Hearst, Meinhof had become one of the most well-known female terrorists of the century.
Following the interview is part one of the BBC's documentary on the RAF, Baader-Meinhof - In Love With Terror.

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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Gold futures topped $1,300 an ounce on Thursday, marking the highest close in more than three months as a bigger-than-expected fall in January U.S. retail sales and a rise in weekly jobless claims helped fuel weakness in the dollar and lured investors to the perceived safety of the precious metal.
Gold for April delivery US:GCJ4 tacked on $5.10, or 0.4%, to settle at $1,300.10 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange after a high of $1,301.60. Prices haven't closed at levels this high, or above $1,300 since Nov. 7, according to FactSet data tracking most-active contracts. They've now climbed for seven sessions in a row for a total gain of nearly 4%.
March silver US:SIH4 added 5 cents, or 0.3%, to $20.395 an ounce following eight-straight session of gains.
Gold climbed on "worse-than-expected retail sales figures along with a higher initial jobless claims number — both contributing to lower U.S. dollar DXY, -0.14% and therefore a higher gold price," said Jeffrey Wright, managing director at H.C. Wainwright.
The Commerce Department on Thursday said retail sales saw a seasonally-adjusted drop of 0.4% in January. Economists polled by MarketWatch had forecast retail sales to fall 0.1% overall.
Weekly jobless claims rose by 8,000 to a seasonally adjusted 339,000, compared with the total claims of 330,000 expected by analysts surveyed by MarketWatch.
Economists said the figures probably won't alter the U.S. Federal Reserve's plan to continue scaling back its bond purchases. Gold tumbled sharply in 2013 as the Fed prepared to scale back the purchases. The Fed's aggressive monetary easing had been seen as a major driver of gold's post-financial crisis rally on ideas the measures would undercut the dollar.
Gold traders were looking for further testimony from Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen, which was scheduled for Thursday, but that was postponed. On Tuesday, Yellen said the markets should expect the central bank to continue to follow the low-interest-rate path laid out by her predecessor.
"Gold bulls are taking advantage of Yellen's comment that the taper is not on a fixed path," said Jason Rotman, president of Lido Isle Advisors. From here, prices may head to at least $1,307, which is Lido Isle Advisor's our next technical target, he said.
But also looking ahead, Yves Lamoureux, president of Lamoureux & Co., a market advisory firm based on behavioral economics, said he expects gold prices to fall toward his $1,000 target, as the recent bounce in prices has been "shallower and shorter" than he expected.
"Most of the rebound is short covering and we are shocked at how weak gold has been," he said.
In other metals trading Thursday, April platinum US:PLJ4 rose $9.30, or 0.7%, to $1,416.60 an ounce, while March palladium US:PAH4 added $2.05, or 0.3%, to $731.10 an ounce.
March high-grade copper futures HGH4, +0.00% fell less than a cent to $3.25 a pound.
Miners rise
Metals-mining companies, meanwhile, were busy reporting quarterly earnings. It's "not going well so far" but there also hasn't been any big surprises either, said Wright.
Still, the Philadelphia Gold and Silver Index XAU, +1.15% climbed 3.2% Thursday afternoon, tracking gains in gold prices as well as the broader equities market.
"The market is not expecting very good financial performance from gold [and] silver miners in the quarter given a drop in gold and silver prices," Wright said. "The key is to look at impact in any companies declared reserve update. Both Goldcorp GG, +1.81% and Barrick US:ABX reported lower reserve estimates; primarily due to the requirement to use a lower gold price assumption in the calculation."
Shares of Barrick Gold Corp. were up 5.3%. The company reported a net loss of $2.83 billion, including after-tax impairment charges. It saw adjusted earnings of 37 cents a share, below the 41 cents a share forecast by analysts polled by Thomson Reuters. Revenue fell but beat Wall Street's expectations.
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My idea so far is to have instrument-free nasheed and programs similar to Alafasy TV, Peace TV, and Huda TV.
Could you please advise me on what I can and cannot do?.
Praise be to Allaah.
We praise and thank Allah for enabling some of His slaves to strive to serve and spread Islam, and we praise and thank Him for making these people among Ahl al-Sunnah who follow the guidance of the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him), and who seek out what is prescribed so that they may do it and who seek to recognise what is innovated and contrary to Islam so that they may shun it. We ask Allah, may He be exalted, to make our brother who is asking this question one of these people.
The things that are permissible and prescribed and that may be presented to both Muslims and non-Muslims in the radio station that you want to establish are many. We will mention some of them to you, not as a definitive list but by way of example, such as:
A. Programs about the Book of Allah, such as:
(i) Regular readings of the entire Qur'aan
(ii) Recitation of Qur'aan by distinguished shaykhs
(iii) Teaching tajweed in an easy manner
(iv) Broadcasting simple lessons of tafseer
B. Programs about the Sunnah of the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him), such as:
(i) Regular readings from saheeh books of Sunnah
(ii) Simple commentaries on saheeh hadeeths
(iii) Warning against weak and fabricated hadeeths
C. Programs for children, such as:
(i) Interviews with children who have memorised the Qur'aan and Sunnah
(ii) Welcoming questions from children and giving suitable answers to them
(iii) Interesting and enjoyable stories
D. Programs for women, such as
(i) Teaching them fiqhi rulings that apply to them
(ii) Discussions about problems in marriage and social life
(iii) Biographies of female scholars and daa'iyahs, among the early generation (salaf) and contemporary women
E. Programs for non-Muslims, such as:
(i) Stories of how and why people converted to Islam
(ii) The beauties of Islamic religion, its rulings and teachings
(iii) The eloquence and miraculous nature of the Qur'aan
F. There are some general matters that may be appropriate, such as:
(i) Broadcasts of prayer from the Harams in Makkah and Madeenah
(ii) Nasheeds, so long as they are free of musical instruments, daffs and sound effects that resemble instruments, and they should not be the main focus; rather they should be used as intermissions or in links between educational programs.
(iii) Beneficial academic contests
(iv) Islamic fatwas from trustworthy scholars
(v) General lectures
(vi) Structured lessons, such as commentaries on books of fiqh and salafi 'aqeedah
(vii) Books and writers, in which beneficial and useful books of Islamic or general knowledge may be introduced, and the authors of those books may also be introduced
(viii) You can seek the help of trustworthy Islamic websites to publish various audio materials that are already prepared, such as those on the Islam Way website (http://english.islamway.com/). You could also contact channels such as al-Majd, al-Hikmah, al-Shaykh al-'Uthaymeen and others to supply you with useful material that may be published in audio format.
We advise you of things that are not permissible according to Islam, such as the following:
1. Do not broadcast music or songs, including musical interludes.
2. The broadcast studio should be free of haraam mixing, because there is no need for there to be any women in the workplace. If it is thought that a woman is qualified to participate, she may do so by telephone.
3. You should avoid accepting advertisements for banks and riba-based institutions, or for haraam products.
We advise you to have a sharee'ah committee composed of specialists in Islamic knowledge who are known for the soundness of their methodology, to advise you on programs and evaluate performance. This will be better for you so that your da'wah may be successful. We ask Allah to help you and make things easy for you.
And Allah knows best.


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Ziccardi has worked with two of the top collegiate program's in the country in his career. In addition to his football coaching experience he has also worked in strength and conditioning at the collegiate level.
Ziccardi's most recent role was as a strength and conditioning assistant at the University of Texas. Prior to that, he served as a strength and conditioning assistant at the University of Alabama, working primarily with the defensive line during the 2011 season.
In the three years prior to working in strength and conditioning, Ziccardi was a student assistant and intern with the Alabama football program. Working with the tide between 2007 and 2010, he assisted the program's efforts in winning the 2008 Southeastern Conference Championship and the 2009 BCS National Championship.
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Friday, March 25, 2011
Tweetbaggery: You ask . We answer. Sorta.
@LD10 just lost again at Roll Up the Rim. Nevertheless, he asks: how many years until Lawrie wins MVP?
Okay, simmer down there Gordie. It's fun to get out of your mind excited about a prospect. But can we cool it down for a second on Brett Lawrie? What you (and every other Dougie Canadian) are doing is building up expectations on a young man which he'll have a hard time living up to. It's like looking at your new born and saying: "One day, you'll be the greatest (insert your own preoccupation here...ballerina, hockey player, pole dancer, school administrator...what have you)."
Can't we just let the dude go and get some reps, get himself ready and build his way into what we hope will be a long and productive career? Relax.
Man about town @MassF throws it down like it ain'no thang: Assuming Morrow misses just 1 start who stays and who goes between JL Jo-Jo and KD?
This is a trick question that supposed to get us to deny our undying affection for Jo-Jo Reyes, and we're not having it. What happens is that Morrow comes back, and Jo-Jo goes to the pen temporarily, while the team invents an injury for David Purcey so that they can put him on the DL and have a long rehab period while he recovers from hysterical blindness. Or some such thing.
the_real_THF (as opposed to the fake one, we suppose) asks: Should we be freaking out about Cecil? If not, can you give me an acceptable substitute? #gottafreakoutaboutsomething
You know, if you sing "Gotta freak out about something" to the tune of Michael Jackson's "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'", you can totally lose your train of thought. Especially when you get to the "ma ma se ma ma sa ma ma coo sa" part. Sorry, what did you ask?
Ah yes, Cecil.
We'll put it to you this way: We don't want to encourage freaking out, because frankly, it's not good for you. It puts you in a foul state of mind, and you end up doing crazy stuff just to make yourself feel better. (At least, that's a couple of hundred episodes of Intervention have led us to believe.) Let the season play out, and let's see what we have to actually freak out about before we start inventing scenarios to lead us to anguish.
We ask you THF: Will you accept this gift of sanity that we offer you here today?
The Nefarious Y.V.R., dlbrows, taking a break from attempting to run the Roto-Hoedown of its rails, asks: bigger year, Adam Lind or Travis Snider? (relevant to the Hoe-Down)
Oh that's rich. (And yes you bear all the blame. Drew is absolved.) But if we must help you in any way in the Hoe-Down, we would say that the upside of both players is about the same, and the question is who is best equipped to reach that upside. Most of the projections that we've seen would tend towards Lind because of his past performance, and we'd tend to agree, at least in HRs, OBP, and SLG. Snider (depending on his spot in the batting order) could be stronger in Runs, and Net Stolen Bases.
Over the next three years, though? We'd definitely take Snider.
Life is just a fantasy, BlueJayHunter can live his fantasy life: Who is your Fantasy Baseball mancrush this year and why the bromance for said player?
We hate to give away our real targets on the eve of our fantasy baseball drafts. So we won't. (Nice try!) But we'll go a little further down the board and pimp one of our home nine's more interesting options: Rajai Davis.
Davis is going to have an everyday job in Toronto, mostly because there are precious other options in center. (And if Corey Patterson were to make the team and get a regular turn, we'd image that Davis would shift to a corner.) Plus, he's going to run. And even more so, he's going to a hitter's park for the first time in his career. We could see him hitting more than 15 homers and stealing more than 40 bags, which is a pretty intriguing combination for a third outfielder.
More questions! Marathon Tweet Bag! Rub your eyes, shake your brain and dig in!
The man, the myth, the legend, Starbyson asks: pretend we're 2.5 games back in July. Who do we pick up at the deadline?
That question is way too hypothetical to even broach. It depends too much on who's healthy, who's hurt, who the Jays are chasing, and so on. But the bigger point here is that the Jays have started to assemble a very strong minor league system, and they should be cautious about emptying it out for the sake of a low-percentage run in 2011.
But if Colorado were offering up Ubaldo Jimenez, we'd be interested in listening.
My other brother, darelleats, asks: Q: Do you know where Griffin worked before he covered the Jays? He's never mentioned it and I'm legitimately curious.
You are funny.
@PdcD is all like" You can't see me or my tweets! Suck it!" Still, he offers: do u feel Rivera will surprise a few people and put up more than respectable numbers this yr being his 'contract yr'?
Yes, actually. We keep hearing about how Rivera is some useless slug, mostly from those who are in the pro-Lawrie camp. (Lawrie to third! JoBau to right! Cannon arm! Future MVP! BALLLLLSSS!!!!!)
And yet, we actually think that the best lineup that the Jays can put out every day has Rivera as part of it. His upside is 25 homers, 85 RBI and an OPS over .820, and a 1.5-2.0 WAR. Which don't seem unattainable, and seem very respectable from where we sit.
More modest projections figure him for 15 homers and an OPS in the .740 range, which we think is still better than what Lawrie would put up this year once the real men's games start in earnest.
Last one! NicholasDerosa asks: how's frasor been pitching? His velocity sucked this time last year
Indeed, Frasor's April was forgettable. But sometime after losing the closer's job to Kevin Gregg, his velocity mostly came back (his heater averaged 92.8 MPH for the year versus 93.8 for the previous...not an insignificant drop, but not off a cliff.) He had at least enough to get guys out.
As for this year, he's pitched four innings in fake games, and we haven't seen or heard any of them, and we won't read too much into the output (2Ks, 2BBs). We're not about to lobby for him to get the closer spot again. He's a decent arm, but we probably cast more thoughts towards Shawn Camp than him.
That's it! Go have a weekend! Everybody, get up and dance! Be happy for chrissakes!
8 comments:
- Ian - BJH said...
Judging by the power that Rajai has displayed in Spring Training, I wouldn't be surprised to see him hit 15+ home runs. He just needs to steal those damn bases!
- March 25, 2011 at 4:34 PM
- Ty said...
Seems like all of Davis' hits this spring have been for extra bases - so the lack of SB's isn't too concerning. Can't steal after a HR or triple, and I wouldn't bother trying to steal 3rd after a double with JBau entering the on-deck circle. He's going to be a fun player to watch, that's for sure.
- March 25, 2011 at 6:28 PM
On a side note - I'm taking my 3 1/2 year old daughter to the April 2 game (bummed I'm missing Morrow, but happy to see Drabek live for the first time).
I cheaped out and bought us tickets up top in 525 because I figure she's not going to sit through the game, so why pay for real tickets, right?
Anyway, has anyway ever taken a kid to a Jr. Jays Saturday game, and what do you do to get the kid down to the field and in line for some autographs when they always herd those with 500-level tickets away from the 100 level and up that giant fucking ramp?
Need some tips here... thanks!
- March 25, 2011 at 8:02 PM
- dlbrows said...
I see you put us in the same division, Tao. I plan on beating you so bad you feel obligated to change the league's name to "dlbrow's Roto Hoedown".
This will be the year none of the Mets I pick get injured. I can feel it.
- March 26, 2011 at 5:05 AM
Buck16, just explain to an usher you're taking your daughter down to the field for the Jr. Jays thing. I can't imagine it would be any more difficult than the dozens of times I've walked without impediment to the 100 level directly from the gate I come in at with my 500 level tickets to watch the entire game from the concourse.
- March 27, 2011 at 10:28 AM
Buck16, during the game I believe they also make PA announcements about which gate/section to go to after the game.
- March 28, 2011 at 12:16 PM
Thanks for the tips! I'll see how it goes... the kid might be throwing a tantrum by the third anyway.
Or I might be if Drabek's not hitting his spots...
- March 28, 2011 at 4:04 PM
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Masters in Economics Programs
Economics graduate schools may award a Master of Arts (MA) or Master of Science (MS) in economics or applied economics. These programs might take 1 to 2 years, but it depends on the school, country and curriculum. You might also sometimes pursue a MA or MS part time. Or, find a Masters that rolls into or prepares you to pursue a PhD.
Masters in Economics curriculums may offer courses that are like those in a PhD program - microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics, and a focus area. In some universities, MA programs stress theory, the history of economics, law and policy while MS programs are often more technical. However, most Masters in Economics focus on the practical application of economic theory and thus cover a wide range of topics in addition to statistical analysis.
To earn their degree, some students might engage in directed research to then present a Masters thesis, engage in directed reading and research or write a project report based on an internship with a department of a business, industry, or government.
PhD In Economics Programs Schools
A PhD in Economics is the highest degree that economics graduate schools might award. As a research-focused program, it typically requires students to develop breadth and depth of knowledge, and to contribute original thought through publishable written work.
Students who work towards their PhD on a full-time basis may take about 5 years or more beyond the Bachelor's degree. A Master's is not usually required to enter a PhD, although some students may enter a joint Masters/PhD economics program.
Usually, students spend two years taking a full load of courses. The first year could be devoted to microeconomic and macroeconomic theory, econometrics, and usually some additional mathematics or statistics courses. After the first year, students may need to pass exams (prelims) in these fields to be allowed to continue in the program. Every program has slightly different exam formats, but may limit the number of times a student could take these exams.
Second year PhD students might focus on their field of emphasis (E.g. international economics, monetary economics, labor economics). Students could also choose to focus on advanced microeconomics, macroeconomics, or econometrics. From there, PhD students typically devote time to their dissertation research.
When surveyed, 58% of Economic Analysts reported they earned a Doctorate degree, and 29% reported they earned a Masters degree.i
Economics Graduate Certificates
Some economics graduate schools may offer certificate programs. Certificates are typically structured non-degree programs that consist of several credit-bearing University courses that target a single theme. Sustainable development and economic policy are two examples.
What Might I Study in Economics Graduate Programs?
Each economics graduate school may offer a unique syllabus of core courses and electives. Some universities with on-campus economics graduate programs may deliver courses via lectures. Lecturers may be active in academic and applied research and students may get to closely interact with their professors and classmates to help discover the relevance of the course material. Curriculums often address the following key economics courses
- Microeconomics looks at basic consumer and producer theory. Coursework might discuss the behavior of markets, households, firms, buyers and sellers. At more advanced levels of study, micro-theory coursework could discuss risk, uncertainty, game theory and information economics
- Macroeconomics analyzes the entire economy and could look at patterns of production, consumption, savings and capital. Moreover, macro-theory might discuss factors that influence this big picture. Labor, inflation, business cycles, economic growth, fiscal policy are some examples
- Econometrics focuses on the application of statistical tools to economic data. Coursework could discuss estimators, economic history, and linear regression models
- Mathematics for Economists courses may help students acquire a deeper grasp of how and why each method of analysis or theory works, and which approach may be more suitable to apply to a specific problem
- Statistics courses usually tackle things like probability theory, random variables, expectation, conditional and multivariate distributions. Other topics in mathematical statistics may also be presented that could include moment estimation, hypothesis testing, asymptotic theory, and maximum likelihood estimation
Economics Graduate Degree Concentrations
One of the differentiators between economics graduate schools is their choice of emphasis tracks. A concentration could allow students to tailor their studies to support career goals and or research interests. Some examples are listed below.
Accounting and Control: Students who want to immerse themselves in the world of governance, control and accounting might choose a focus in Accounting and Control. Coursework could cover topics like transfer pricing, management accounting, mergers and acquisitions. A course in empirical analysis might familiarize students with STATA software.
Corporate Finance and Control: A focus on Corporate Finance and Control might stress the financial management and governance of firms. Students could learn about international financial markets, financial risks, and financial reporting.
Economics, Behavior and Policy: A focus in Economics, Behavior and Policy could discuss aspects of psychology, sociology, public choice, political economy, culture, and philosophy. Courses might explore issues such as environmental protection, health-care sustainability, poverty and financial decisions. Students might learn how behavior economics might inform policy.
Financial Economics: A focus in Financial Economics might help students analyze and understand the ways global financial markets work. Courses could discuss aspects like financial risk management, asset pricing and monetary policy
International Business: A focus in International Business might help students to understand the global economic situation that multinationals operate in. Courses might cover how these firms shape and are shaped as they study current issues. Students might gain the skills to develop successful business strategies and international (trade) policies.
International Economics and Development: A focus in International Economics and Development might analyze and compare the economic development of developing countries. Students might study issues such as inequality, pluralism and price behavior. A course in culture and institutions could explore economic theory. Topics might address the use of culture throughout the history of economics as well as its current use in international economics and politics, finance, economic development and international business.
International Political Economy: A focus in International Political Economy might cover the economic and political dimensions of global issues and the power struggles behind policy choices. Students might study to understand and explain the current issues and debates.
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Above script really help me work. And notice the script use fixed ip, and someone like me may change net vpn addr, i'd like to put my further script below(not sure how to add attachment, so just raw ):
Above script really help me work. And notice the script use fixed ip, and someone like me may change net vpn addr, i'd like to put my further script below(not sure how to add attachment, so just raw ):
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L2TP/IPsec is a secure Virtual Private Network solution that is well supported on many different platforms.
This article aims to describe in a HOWTO like fashion how to configure and use a L2TP/IPsec client on Arch Linux. This article will cover the installation and setup of several software packages. One of the packages is only available in the AUR, so knowledge of how to build and install AUR packages on your system is required, as I will not cover how to do that.
This guide is primarly for clients connecting to a Windows Server machine. It uses some setting that are specific to the Microsoft implementation of L2TP/IPsec.
- 1 Installation
- 2 Configuration
- 3 Routing
- 4 Troubleshooting
- 5 Tips and Tricks
- 6 External links
- 7 Acknowledgements
Install xl2tpd from the repos and ipsec-openswanAUR from the AUR.
/etc/ipsec.conf: It should contain the following lines:
config setup virtual_private=%v4:10.0.0.0/8,%v4:192.168.0.0/16,%v4:172.16.0.0/12 nat_traversal=yes protostack=netkey oe=no # Replace eth0 with your network interface plutoopts="--interface=eth0" conn L2TP-PSK authby=secret pfs=no auto=add keyingtries=3 dpddelay=30 dpdtimeout=120 dpdaction=clear rekey=yes ikelifetime=8h keylife=1h type=transport # Replace IP address with your local IP (private, behind NAT IP is okay as well) left=192.168.1.101 leftnexthop=%defaultroute leftprotoport=17/1701 # Replace IP address with your VPN server's IP right=18.104.22.168 rightprotoport=17/1701
This file contains the basic information to establish a secure IPsec tunnel to the VPN server. It enables NAT Traversal for if your machine is behind a NAT'ing router (most people are), and various other options that are necessary to connect correctly to the remote IPsec server. The next file contains your pre-shared key (PSK) for the server.
Create the file
/etc/ipsec.secrets: It should contain the following line:
192.168.1.101 18.104.22.168 : PSK "your_pre_shared_key"
Remember to replace the local (192.168.1.101) and remote (184.108.40.206) IP addresses with the correct numbers for your location. The pre-shared key will be supplied by the VPN provider and will need to be placed in this file in cleartext form.
At this point the IPsec configuration is complete and we can move on to the L2TP configuration.
/etc/xl2tpd/xl2tpd.conf: It should resemble the following:
[lac vpn-connection] lns = 184.108.40.206 ppp debug = yes pppoptfile = /etc/ppp/options.l2tpd.client length bit = yes
This file configures xl2tpd with the connection name, server IP address(which again, please remember to change to your servers address) and various options that will be passed to pppd once the tunnel is set up.
Now modify
ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote refuse-eap require-mschap-v2 noccp noauth idle 1800 mtu 1410 mru 1410 defaultroute usepeerdns debug lock connect-delay 5000 name your_vpn_username password your_password
Place your assigned username and password for the VPN server in this file. A lot of these options are for interoperability with Windows Server L2TP servers.
This concludes the configuration of the applicable software suites to connect to a L2TP/IPsec server. To start the connection do the following:
/etc/rc.d/openswan start /etc/rc.d/xl2tpd start ipsec auto --up L2TP-PSK echo "c vpn-connection" > /var/run/xl2tpd/l2tp-control
At this point the tunnel is up and you should be able to see the interface for it if you type:
$ ip link
You should see a
pppX device that represents the tunnel. Right now, nothing is going to get routed through it. You need to add some routing rules to make it work right:
Routing traffic to a single IP address through the tunnel
This is as easy as adding a routing rule to your kernel table:
#route add xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx gw yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy eth0
Replace xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with the specific ip address of the server that you wish to communicate with through the tunnel, then replace yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy with the remote IP your PPP connection. The remote IP of a PPP connection can be discovered by issuing:
and reading the P-t-P address for the PPP interface that corresponds to your tunnel.
Routing all traffic through the tunnel
This is a lot more complex, but all your traffic will travel through the tunnel. Start by adding a special route for the actual VPN server through your current gateway:
#route add 188.8.131.52 gw 192.168.1.1 eth0
This will ensure that once the default gateway is changed to the ppp interface that your network stack can still find the VPN server by routing around the tunnel. If you miss this step you will lose connectivity to the Internet and the tunnel will collapse. Now add a default route that routes to the PPP remote end:
#route add default gw yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy eth0
The remote PPP end can be discovered by following the step in the previous section. Now to ensure that ALL traffic is routing through the tunnel, delete the original default route:
#route delete default gw 192.168.1.1 eth0
To restore your system to the previous state, you can reboot or reverse all of the above steps.
Issue: I get a message from pppd saying "Failed to authenticate ourselves to peer" and I've verified my password is correct. What could be wrong?
Solution: If you see the following in your /var/log/daemon.log:
Dec 20 15:14:03 myhost pppd[26529]: rcvd [CHAP Challenge id=0x1 <some_or_another_hash>, name = "SonicWALL"] Dec 20 15:14:03 myhost pppd[26529]: sent [CHAP Response id=0x1 <some_or_another_hash>, name = "your_vpn_username"] Dec 20 15:14:03 myhost pppd[26529]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 magic=0x45c269c6] Dec 20 15:14:03 myhost pppd[26529]: rcvd [CHAP Failure id=0x1 ""] Dec 20 15:14:03 myhost pppd[26529]: CHAP authentication failed Dec 20 15:14:03 myhost pppd[26529]: CHAP authentication failed Dec 20 15:14:03 myhost pppd[26529]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x3 "Failed to authenticate ourselves to peer"] Dec 20 15:14:03 myhost pppd[26529]: rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0x2] Dec 20 15:14:03 myhost pppd[26529]: sent [LCP TermAck id=0x2] Dec 20 15:14:03 myhost pppd[26529]: rcvd [LCP TermAck id=0x3]
then you are authenticating against a SonicWALL LNS that does not know how to handle CHAP-style authentication correctly.
The solution to this is to add the following to your options.l2tp.client file:
This will cause the SonicWALL to default to the next authentication mechanism, namely MSCHAP-v2. This should authenticate successfully, and from this point xl2tpd should successfully construct a tunnel between you and the remote L2TP server.
Tips and Tricks
Script start up and shut down
You can create some scripts either in your home directory or elsewhere(remember where you put them) to bring up the tunnel then shut it back down.
First, a utility script to automatically discover PPP distant ends: getip.sh
#!/bin/bash /sbin/ifconfig $1 | grep "P-t-P" | gawk -F: '{print $2}' | gawk '{print $1}'
Next, the script to bring the tunnel up. This will replace the default route, so all traffic will pass via the tunnel: startvpn.sh
#!/bin/bash /etc/rc.d/openswan start sleep 2 #delay to ensure that IPsec is started before overlaying L2TP /etc/rc.d/xl2tpd start /usr/sbin/ipsec auto --up L2TP-PSK /bin/echo "c vpn-connection" > /var/run/xl2tpd/l2tp-control sleep 2 #delay again to make that the PPP connection is up. PPP_GW_ADD=`./getip.sh ppp0` route add 188.8.131.52 gw 192.168.1.1 eth0 route add default gw $PPP_GW_ADD route delete default gw 192.168.1.1
Finally, the shutdown script, it simply reverses the process: stopvpn.sh
#!/bin/bash /usr/sbin/ipsec auto --down L2TP-PSK /bin/echo "d vpn-connection" > /var/run/xl2tpd/l2tp-control /etc/rc.d/xl2tpd stop /etc/rc.d/openswan stop route delete 126.96.36.199 gw 192.168.1.1 eth0 route add default gw 192.168.1.1
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Above script really help me work. And notice the script use fixed ip, and someone like me may change net vpn addr, i'd like to put my further script below(not sure how to add attachment, so just raw ):
#!/bin/bash if [ $# != 1 ] ; then echo "Usage: (sudo) sh $0 {init|start|stop}" exit 1; fi VPN_ADDR=XXX IFACE=wlan0 function getIP(){ /sbin/ifconfig $1 |grep inet|awk '{print $2}' } function getGateWay(){ /sbin/route -n |grep -m 1 "^0\.0\.0\.0" |awk '{print $2}' } function getVPNGateWay(){ /sbin/route -n |grep -m 1 "$VPN_ADDR" |awk '{print $2}' } GW_ADDR=$(getGateWay) function init(){ cp ./options.l2tpd.client /etc/ppp/ cp ./ipsec.conf /etc/ cp ./xl2tpd.conf /etc/xl2tpd/ } function start(){ sed -ie "s/^lns =.*/lns = $VPN_ADDR/g" /etc/xl2tpd/xl2tpd.conf sed -ie "s/plutoopts=.*/plutoopts=\"--interface=$IFACE\"/g" /etc/ipsec.conf sed -i "s/left=.*$/left=$(getIP $IFACE)/g" /etc/ipsec.conf sed -i "s/right=.*$/right=$VPN_ADDR/g" /etc/ipsec.conf /etc/rc.d/openswan start sleep 2 #delay to ensure that IPsec is started before overlaying L2TP /etc/rc.d/xl2tpd start /usr/sbin/ipsec auto --up L2TP-PSK /bin/echo "c vpn-connection" > /var/run/xl2tpd/l2tp-control sleep 2 #delay again to make that the PPP connection is up. route add $VPN_ADDR gw $GW_ADDR $IFACE route add default gw $(getIP ppp0) route delete default gw $GW_ADDR } function stop(){ /usr/sbin/ipsec auto --down L2TP-PSK /bin/echo "d vpn-connection" > /var/run/xl2tpd/l2tp-control /etc/rc.d/xl2tpd stop /etc/rc.d/openswan stop VPN_GW=$(getVPNGateWay) route delete $VPN_ADDR gw $VPN_GW $IFACE route add default gw $VPN_GW } $1 exit 0
AUR link for the OpenSwan package
OpenSwanAUR can be found in the AUR.
External links
- http://openswan.org/
- http://www.xelerance.com/software/xl2tpd/
- http://strongvpn.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=1844/
I would like to thank phaoost from the StrongVPN forums for his initial guide to setup L2TP/IPsec on Linux, for without, this article would certainly not be possible.


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Editor's Note (from Heritage editor):
Today's most controversial public policy questions concerning race in the United States--from the debate over affirmative action and racial quotas to financial demands for reparations--ultimately derive from the fact that those who founded this country did not abolish the institution of slavery as part of their project to establish a nation dedicated to the cause of liberty. Does this mean, as Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall said, [America] "was defective from the start"? To the contrary, argues Spalding in this paper adapted from his essay "A Note on Slavery and the American Founding," presented in The Founders' Almanac: A Practical Guide to the Notable Events, Greatest Leaders & Most Eloquent Words of the American Founding (The Heritage Foundation, 2001). Slavery was the exception to the rule of liberty proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence and established in the United States Constitution.
Since America's beginning, there has been intense debate about slavery, precisely because it raises questions about this nation's dedication to liberty and human equality. Does the existence of slavery in the context of the American Founding, its motivating principles, and the individuals who proclaimed those principles make the United States or its origins less defendable as a guide for just government?
At the time of the American Founding, there were about half a million slaves in the United States, mostly in the five southernmost states, where they made up 40 percent of the population. Many of the leading American Founders- most notably Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and James Madison-owned slaves, but many did not. Benjamin Franklin thought that slavery was "an atrocious debasement of human nature" and "a source of serious evils." He and Benjamin Rush founded the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery in 1774.
John Jay, who was the president of a similar society in New York, believed:
the honour of the states, as well as justice and humanity, in my opinion, loudly call upon them to emancipate these unhappy people. To contend for our own liberty, and to deny that blessing to others, involves an inconsistency not to be excused.
John Adams opposed slavery his entire life as a "foul contagion in the human character" and "an evil of colossal magnitude." James Madison called it "the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man."
From his first thoughts about the Revolution, to his command of the Continental army, to his presidential administration, George Washington's life and letters reflect a statesman struggling with the reality and inhumanity of slavery in the midst of the free nation being constructed. In 1774, Washington compared the alternative to Americans asserting their rights against British rule to being ruled "till custom and use shall make us as tame and abject slaves, as the blacks we rule over with such arbitrary sway."
When Washington took command of the Continental army in 1775, there were both slaves and free blacks in its ranks (about 5,000 blacks served in the Continental army.) Alexander Hamilton proposed a general plan to enlist slaves in the army that would in the end "give them their freedom with their muskets," and Washington supported such a policy (with the approval of Congress) in South Carolina and Georgia, two of the largest slaveholding states.
In 1786, Washington wrote of slavery, "there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it." He devised a plan to rent his lands and turn his slaves into paid laborers, and at the end of his presidency he quietly freed several of his own household slaves. In the end, he could take it no more and decreed in his will that his slaves would become free upon the death of his wife. The old and infirm were to be cared for while they lived, and the children were to be taught to read and write and trained in a useful skill until they were age 25. Washington's estate paid for this care until 1833.
During his first term in the House of Burgesses, Thomas Jefferson proposed legislation to emancipate slaves in Virginia, but the motion was soundly defeated. His 1774 draft instructions to the Virginia Delegates for the First Continental Congress, A Summary View of the Rights of British America, called for an end to the slave trade: "The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state." That same year, the First Continental Congress agreed to discontinue the slave trade and boycott other nations that engaged in it. The Second Continental Congress reaffirmed this policy in 1776.
Jefferson's draft constitution for the state of Virginia forbade the importation of slaves, and his draft of the Declaration of Independence-written at a time when he himself had inherited about 200 slaves-included a paragraph condemning the British king for introducing slavery into the colonies and continuing the slave trade:
He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of a CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
These words were especially offensive to delegates from Georgia and South Carolina, who were unwilling to acknowledge that slavery went so far as to violate the "most sacred rights of life and liberty." So, like some of Jefferson's more expressive phrases attacking the king, these lines were dropped in the editing process.
Nevertheless, Jefferson's central point-that all men are created equal-remained as an obvious rebuke to the institution. From very early in the movement for independence, it was understood that calls for colonial freedom from British tyranny had clear implications for domestic slavery. "The colonists are by the law of nature free born, as indeed all men are, white and black," James Otis wrote in 1761. "Does it follow that it is the right to enslave a man because he is black?" In the wake of independence, state after state passed legislation restricting or banning the institution.
In 1774, Rhode Island had already passed legislation providing that all slaves imported thereafter should be freed. In 1776, Delaware prohibited the slave trade and removed restraints on emancipation, as did Virginia in 1778. In 1779, Pennsylvania passed legislation providing for gradual emancipation, as did New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut in the early 1780s, and New York and New Jersey in 1799 and 1804. In 1780, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that the state's bill of rights made slavery unconstitutional. By the time of the U.S. Constitution, every state (except Georgia) had at least proscribed or suspended the importation of slaves.
Thomas Jefferson's 1784 draft plan of government for the western territories prohibited slavery and involuntary servitude after the year 1800. The final Northwest Ordinance of 1787, passed by the Confederation Congress (and passed again two years later by the First Congress and signed into law by President George Washington), prohibited slavery in the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin. That same year, Jefferson published his Notes on the State of Virginia, which included this passage about slavery:
And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever ... I think a change already perceptible, since the origin of the present revolution. The spirit of the master is abating, that of the slave rising from the dust, his condition mollifying, the way I hope preparing, under the auspices of heaven, for a total emancipation, and that this is disposed, in the order of events, to be with the consent of the masters, rather than by their extirpation.
When delegates convened at Philadelphia to write a new constitution, however, strong sectional interests supported the maintenance of slavery and the slave trade. "The real difference of interests," Madison noted, "lay not between large and small states but between the Northern and Southern states. The institution of slavery and its consequences formed a line of discrimination." In order to get the unified support needed for the Constitution's ratification and successful establishment, the framers made certain concessions to the pro-slavery interests. The compromises they agreed to, however, were designed to tolerate slavery where it currently existed, not to endorse or advance the institution.
Consider the three compromises made by the Constitutional Convention delegates and approved as part of the final text:
It is significant to note that the words "slave" and "slavery" were kept out of the Constitution. Madison recorded in his notes that the delegates "thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men." This seemingly minor distinction of insisting on the use of the word "person" rather than "property" was not a euphemism to hide the hypocrisy of slavery but was of the utmost importance. Madison explained this in Federalist No. 54:
But we must deny the fact, that slaves are considered merely as property, and in no respect whatever as persons. The true state of the case is, that they partake of both these qualities: being considered by our laws, in some respects, as persons, and in other respects as property. In being compelled to labor, not for himself, but for a master; in being vendible by one master to another master; and in being subject at all times to be restrained in his liberty and chastised in his body, by the capricious will of another-the slave may appear to be degraded from the human rank, and classed with those irrational animals which fall under the legal denomination of property. In being protected, on the other hand, in his life and in his limbs, against the violence of all others, even the master of his labor and his liberty; and in being punishable himself for all violence committed against others-the slave is no less evidently regarded by the law as a member of the society, not as a part of the irrational creation; as a moral person, not as a mere article of property.
Frederick Douglass, for one, believed that the government created by the Constitution "was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government." Douglass was born into slavery in Maryland but escaped and eventually became a prominent spokesman for free blacks in the abolitionist movement. "Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered," he wrote in 1864:
It was purposely so framed as to give no claim, no sanction to the claim, of property in man. If in its origin slavery had any relation to the government, it was only as the scaffolding to the magnificent structure, to be removed as soon as the building was completed.
This point is underscored by the fact that, although slavery was abolished by constitutional amendment, not one word of the original text was amended or deleted.
Judging by the policy developments of the previous three decades, the Founders could be somewhat optimistic that the trend was against slavery. At the Constitutional Convention, Roger Sherman said: "the abolition of slavery seemed to be going on in the United States and that the good sense of the several states would probably by degrees complete it." In the draft of his first inaugural address, George Washington looked forward to the day when "mankind will reverse the absurd position that the many were made for the few; and that they will not continue slaves in one part of the globe, when they can become freemen in another." And in one of his last letters, Jefferson wrote:
All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
Nevertheless, there was plenty of reason for concern. In 1776, Adam Smith argued in The Wealth of Nations that slavery was uneconomical because the plantation system was a wasteful use of land and because slaves cost more to maintain than free laborers. But in 1793, Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, making cotton production economical and leading to dramatic growth in the cotton industry, which greatly contributed to an increased demand for slave labor in the United States.
In 1819, during the debate over the admission of Missouri as a slave state, John Adams worried that a national struggle over slavery "might rend this mighty fabric in twain." He told Jefferson that he was terrified about the future and appealed to him for guidance. "What we are to see God knows, and I leave it to Him and his agents in posterity," he wrote. "I have none of the genius of Franklin, to invent a rod to draw from the cloud its thunder and lightning."
The Missouri crisis was "a fire bell in the night," wrote Jefferson in 1820. "We have the wolf by the ears and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other." But Jefferson gave no public support to emancipation and refused to free his own slaves. "This enterprise is for the young," he wrote.
Slavery was indeed the imperfection that marred the American Founding. Those who founded this nation chose to make practical compromises for the sake of establishing in principle a new nation dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. "The inconsistency of the institution of slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented," John Quincy Adams readily admitted in 1837. Nevertheless, he argued:
no charge of insincerity or hypocrisy can be fairly laid to their charge. Never from their lips was heard one syllable of attempt to justify the institution of slavery. They universally considered it as a reproach fastened upon them by the unnatural step-mother country and they saw that before the principles of the Declaration of Independence slavery, in common with every mode of oppression, was destined sooner or later to be banished from the earth.
"In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in the belief that it was in the course of ultimate extinction," Abraham Lincoln observed in 1858. "All I have asked or desired anywhere, is that it should be placed back again upon the basis that the Fathers of our government originally placed it upon."
Lincoln once explained the relationship between the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence by reference to Proverbs 25:11: "A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver." He revered the Constitution and was the great defender of the Union. But he knew that the word "fitly spoken"-the apple of gold-was the assertion of principle in the Declaration of Independence. "The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it," Lincoln wrote. "The picture was made for the apple-not the apple for the picture." That is, the Constitution was made to secure the unalienable rights recognized in the Declaration of Independence.
As such, the slavery compromises included in the Constitution can be understood-that is, can be understood to be prudential compromises rather than a surrender of principle-only in light of the Founders' proposition that all men are created equal. In the end, lamentably, it took a bloody civil war to reconcile the protections of the Constitution with that proposition and to attest that this nation, so conceived and dedicated, could long endure.
Dr. Matthew Spalding, director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation, is the editor of The Founders' Almanac: A Practical Guide to the Notable Events, Greatest Leaders' Most Eloquent Words of the American Founding.
This article can be found on the Heritage Foundation website. Reprinted with permission.


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SAN BERNARDINO >> Twenty-six hours after a woman called police, telling them a man was threatening to shoot himself, two officers crept down a residential street, under cover of a shield, and grabbed a case containing the man's gun from his front yard.
Soon after, police tape blocking the 2100 block of North Sepulveda was being snipped and residents emerged from their homes, leery of what just happened.
The unidentified man never left his home, and police said they would continue talking to him by phone, adding he was not a threat to the public, only himself.
"He felt offended that we felt he might be a harm to us," said police Capt. Ron Maas.
The night before a police spokesman said the man — who was going through a breakup with his girlfriend — was adamant he only wanted to hurt himself, no one else.
Even so, police had closed down a stretch of Sepulveda just south of Highland Avenue after receiving the initial call about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday.
They evacuated residents, including Jeremiah Halpin.
After the situation ended about 6:30 p.m. Thursday, he said the woman he stays with, who is "basically my mom," needed medical treatment after waiting outside under the hot sun Wednesday.
"She was out in the sun for like three, four hours and she had a lupus attack," Halpin said, referring to the immune system disease. The woman was taken to a hospital and has recovered.
Halpin and the rest of the block were allowed to return to their homes about 10 p.m. Wednesday, when police scaled back their presence. All but two squad cars left the scene and the street was reopened overnight.
Earlier Wednesday police had parked their armored truck in the man's driveway, before positioning it around the corner on 21st Street.
Thursday morning, police restrung yellow tape across Sepulveda, blocking it to non-residents. Residents were allowed to enter and exit their homes as they pleased.
Maas, the police captain, said they recovered a Glock .45 handgun from the case the man dropped in his yard for the officers.
Once police had the firearm, they disassembled their makeshift command center and most of the officers left the scene.
Two squad cars remained parked around the corner from the man's home, but Halpin still didn't feel completely at ease.
"Would you feel comfortable with the guy who just locked down your neighborhood?" he asked.
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DeKalb County Physician Indicted for Using Medicaid Funds to Perform Abortions
A DeKalb County Grand Jury indicted Tyrone Cecil Malloy, MD, and his former office manager CathyAnn Edwards Warner on December 8, 2011, on two counts of Medicaid Fraud, O.C.G.A. 49-4-146.1(b)(2). Malloy owns and operates Old National Gynecology, a medical practice devoted to the performance of abortions.
The indictment alleges that Malloy and Edwards accepted medical assistance payments for medical office visits associated with the performance of elective abortions and for ultrasound services which were never performed. Federal funds may not be used to pay for abortions and services associated with abortions, except in instances where the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest or under circumstances in which continuation of the pregnancy would endanger the life of the mother.
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Of course, now that all the pre-launch fuss surrounding the new iPad is over, if you listen carefully you can hear the sound of something else; something cranking ever so slowly into action. You got it — it's the iPhone 5 rumor mill, which from now until launch date, whenever that may be, will be presenting Apple smartphone fans with a dazzling variety of will-it-won't-it possibilities, in the process whipping up a frenzy of expectation so head-spinningly crazy that when the device does finally hit the shelves with its spanking new this or spiffing new that you'll be first in line, eyes bulging, mouth drooling, sweat pouring, ready to hand over your hard-earned dollars in order to have that darn handset in your possession. Or something like that.
So here goes. The new iPhone will have an enormous 4.6-inch Retina display, a Reuters report claimed on Wednesday. It also said the device would be launched "around the second quarter" and that the Cupertino company had already placed orders with its display suppliers, LG Display and Samsung.
Reuters obtained its story from South Korean newspaper Maeil Business, which received its information from an "unnamed industry source." All a bit vague then.
It's widely expected that the next iteration of Apple's big-selling handset will come with a larger screen, but exactly how big is the question. A 4.6-inch screen, as the report suggests, would be a significant jump from the current 3.5-inch display. Apple enthusiast site MacRumors is skeptical.
"There have been persistent rumors that the next generation iPhone would carry a larger 4-inch screen," it says. "We are convinced that Apple had exactly such designs in late prototype stages in China. The proliferation of iPhone cases with measurements of at least a 4-inch screen seemed to suggest that a number of suppliers were also convinced of that fact."
The suggested second quarter introduction date would fit with the launch dates of earlier versions of the phone, except the iPhone 4S, which was unveiled just last October. Would Apple really launch another handset so soon after the 4S hit the market? Or might they give it a year and wait till October before showing it off?
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Computed Tomography (CT or CAT) Scan of the Brain
What is a CT scan of the brain?
Computed tomography (CT or CAT scan) is an imaging test that uses X-rays and a computer to make detailed images of the body. A CT scan shows details of the bones, muscles, fat, and organs. CT scans are more detailed than standard X-rays.
In standard X-rays, a beam of energy is aimed at the body part being studied. A plate behind the body part captures the variations of the energy beam after it passes through skin, bone, muscle, and other tissue. While much information can come from a standard X-ray, MRI captures much more detail about internal organs and other structures.
In a CT scan, an X-ray beam moves in a circle around the body. This provides many different views of the same organ or structure. The X-ray information is sent to a computer that interprets the X-ray data and displays it in a two-dimensional (2D) form on a monitor.
CT scans may be done with or without "contrast." Contrast refers to a substance taken by mouth or injected into an intravenous (IV) line that causes the particular organ or tissue under study to show up more clearly on the scan.
CT scans of the brain can give more detailed information about brain tissue and brain structures than standard X-rays of the head. CT scans can give healthcare providers more information related to injuries or diseases of the brain.
Why might I need a CT scan of the brain?
A CT scan of the brain may be used to check the brain for tumors or other lesions, injuries, bleeding in the brain, structural anomalies, infections, brain function changes, or other conditions. A CT scan may be done when another type of exam, such as an X-ray, MRI, or physical exam, is not conclusive.
A CT scan of the brain may also be used to see if treatment is working for brain tumors and to look for clots in the brain that may cause a stroke. Another use of brain CT is to guide brain surgery or biopsies of brain tissue. A biopsy is when a small piece of tissue is removed so it can be examined in the lab.
There may be other reasons for your healthcare provider to recommend a CT scan of the brain.
What are the risks of a CT scan of the brain?
You may want to ask your healthcare provider about the amount of radiation used during the CT procedure and the risks related to your situation. It is a good idea to keep a record of your radiation exposure, such as previous CT scans and other types of X-rays, so that you can inform your healthcare provider. Risks associated with radiation exposure may be related to the cumulative number of X-ray exams and/or treatments over time.
If you are pregnant or think you may be, tell your healthcare provider. Radiation exposure during pregnancy may lead to birth defects. If it's necessary for you to have a CT of the brain, special precautions will be taken to reduce the radiation exposure to the fetus.
Nursing mothers should talk with the radiologist about when to resume breastfeeding after contrast material is injected.
If contrast dye is used, there is a risk for allergic reaction to the dye. Tell your healthcare provider if you are allergic to or sensitive to medicines, contrast, or iodine. Most people will not have a bad reaction from iodine contrast. However, let your healthcare provider know if you have ever had a reaction to any contrast dye, or have kidney problems.
There may be other risks depending on your specific medical condition. Be certain your healthcare provider knows all of your medical conditions.
Make a list of questions and discuss any concerns with your healthcare provider before the procedure. Consider bringing a family member or trusted friend to the appointment to help you remember your questions and concerns and to take notes.
How do I get ready for a CT scan of the brain?
- Your healthcare provider will explain the procedure to you and ask if you have any questions.
- If your CT scan involves the use of contrast dye, you will be asked to sign a consent form that gives permission to do the procedure. Read the form carefully and ask questions if anything is not clear.
- Generally, you won't need to fast before a CT scan, unless a contrast dye is to be used. Your healthcare provider will give you special instructions ahead of time if contrast is to be used and you will need to withhold food and drink.
- Tell your healthcare provider of all medicines (prescribed and over-the-counter), vitamins, herbs, and supplements that you are taking.
- Tell the technologist if you have ever had a reaction to any contrast dye, or if you are allergic to iodine.
- Tell the technologist if you are pregnant or think you may be.
- Based on your medical condition, your healthcare provider may request other specific preparation.
What happens during a CT scan of the brain?
CT scans may be done on an outpatient basis or as part of your stay in a hospital. Procedures may vary depending on your condition and your healthcare provider's practices.
Generally, a CT scan of the brain follows this process:
- You will be asked to remove any clothing, jewelry, or other objects that may interfere with the procedure, such as eyeglasses, hairpins, dentures, and possibly hearing aids.
- If you are asked to remove clothing, you will be given a gown to wear.
- If you are to have a scan done with contrast, an intravenous (IV) line will be started in your hand or arm for injection of the contrast dye.
- You will lie on a narrow scan table that slides into a large, circular opening of the ring-shaped scanning machine. Pillows and straps may be used to help keep your head still during the scan.
- The technologist will be in another room where the scanner controls are located. However, you will be in constant sight of the technologist through a window. Speakers inside the scanner will allow the technologist to talk to you and hear you. You will have a call button so that you can let the technologist know if you have any problems during the scan. The technologist will be watching you at all times and will be in constant communication.
- The scanner will rotate around you, and X-rays will pass through your body for short amounts of time. You will hear clicking and whirring sounds, which are normal.
- The X-rays absorbed by the body's tissues will be detected by the scanner and transmitted to the computer. The computer will transform the information into an image to be interpreted by the radiologist.
- It will be very important for you to stay very still during the scan. You may be asked to hold your breath for a short time at various times during the scan.
- If contrast dye is used, you will be removed from the scanner after the first set of scans has been completed. A second set of scans will be taken after the contrast dye has been given.
- If contrast dye is used, you may feel some effects when the dye is injected into the IV line. These effects include a warm flushing sensation, a salty or metallic taste in the mouth, a brief headache, and/or nausea. These effects usually only last for a few moments.
- You should tell the technologist if you feel any breathing difficulties, sweating, numbness, or heart palpitations.
- When the procedure is done, you will be removed from the scanner.
- If an IV line was inserted, it will be removed.
- You may be asked to wait for a short time while the radiologist examines the scans to make sure they are good images
While the CT procedure itself causes no pain, having to lie still for the length of the procedure might cause some discomfort or pain, particularly if you've recently been injured or had surgery. The technologist will use all possible comfort measures and complete the procedure as quickly as possible to minimize any discomfort or pain.
What happens after a CT scan of the brain?
If contrast dye was used, you may be monitored for a period for any side effects or reactions to the contrast dye, such as itching, swelling, rash, or difficulty breathing. Tell the radiologist or your healthcare provider right away if you notice any of these symptoms.
If you notice any pain, redness, and/or swelling at the IV site after you go home, tell your healthcare provider as this could be a sign of infection or other type of reaction.
Otherwise, there is no special type of care needed after a CT scan of the brain. You may go back to your usual diet and activities unless your healthcare provider tells you differently.
Your healthcare provider may give you other instructions after the procedure, depending on your particular situation.
Next stepsBefore you agree to the test or the procedure make sure you know:
- The name of the test or procedure
- The reason you are having the test or procedure
- What results to expect and what they mean
- The risks and benefits of the test or procedure
- What the possible side effects or complications are
- When and where you are to have the test or procedure
- Who will do the test or procedure and what that person's qualifications are
- What would happen if you did not have the test or procedure
- Any alternative tests or procedures to think about
- When and how will you get the results
- Who to call after the test or procedure if you have questions or problems
- How much will you have to pay for the test or procedure
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Winter's recent blast reminds us that home is often the best place to be this time of year. So settle in for some cozy winter nesting and find some inspiration in the kitchen. Gather family and friends for some conversation and great food.
Bring everyone into the kitchen and see who has the chops to be a 'Top Chef" in your group. Get inspired with some tasty, comforting foods to warm body and soul.
Keep warm with hearty dishes that satisfy appetites and comfort food cravings. By using natural ingredients, relying on veggies and lean proteins, you can create many tempting meals that are tasty and healthful.
The potato, for example, can be used as a starting point for a creative meal. From russets to reds, fingerlings to purples, the hearty potato comes in many beautiful varieties that add color and texture to beloved comfort dishes.
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Think beyond the French fry. Potatoes also boast many benefits to your diet. Here are few reasons to add this versatile vegetable into meals:
Potassium: Potatoes are a great source of potassium, which may help lower high blood pressure, making them a heart-healthy choice. In fact, potatoes contain more potassium than a banana or spinach.
Vitamins: A spud a day may keep the cold germs away. One medium-sized spud has nearly half the recommended daily value of vitamin C and is also a good source of vitamin B6.
Dietary fiber: Potatoes are also a source of dietary fiber, a complex carbohydrate, which is known to increase satiety and help with weight loss.
Gluten free: Potatoes are a naturally gluten-free food, so those with gluten sensitivity can enjoy this flavorful vegetable.
Try out these recipes for inspiration.
Country Stew
5 pounds bone-in short ribs, trimmed and cut into 2-inch pieces
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
¼ cup vegetable oil
2 cups water
1 1/3 cups Zinfandel wine
1 medium onion, chopped
1 clove garlic, minced
2 teaspoons salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
2 beef bouillon cubes
6 large potatoes, washed, peeled and
1/2 pound small fresh mushrooms, cleaned and trimmed
1 package (10 ounces) frozen whole green beans
1 can (16 ounces) peeled whole tomatoes, undrained
Dredge ribs in flour to coat; reserve leftover flour.
Heat oil in 8-quart Dutch oven on moderate heat. Add half of ribs and brown on all sides. Once browned, remove ribs. Repeat instructions for remaining ribs.
Stir in the reserved flour. While stirring, add 1 cup water and wine and stir until thickened.
Return ribs to the pan. Add onion, garlic, salt, pepper and bouillon and bring to a boil.
Cover and lower heat to simmer for about 1 hour, or until ribs are tender.
Remove ribs with slotted spoon and cover with foil to keep warm.
Add potatoes, mushrooms and beans. Simmer 20 to 30 minutes, or until vegetables are tender. Add ribs and tomatoes with liquid, and heat through.
Use slotted spoon to remove meat and vegetables to large serving platter.
Remove gravy to serving container and serve with ribs. Yield: 6 servings.
Healthy Potato Lasagna
2 links Italian turkey sausage (3 1/2 ounces each)
1 1/2 cups chopped onion
1 cup low-fat ricotta cheese
1 teaspoon dried basil or Italian seasoning
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1 egg white
2 cups marinara sauce, divided
1 1/4 pounds yukon gold potatoes, peeled and thinly sliced, divided
1 cup part-skim shredded mozzarella cheese, divided
Remove sausage from casing and crumble into medium skillet with onion.
Cook for 10 minutes or until both are browned, breaking up sausage with back of spoon.
Stir together ricotta, basil, garlic powder and egg white in small bowl.
Spread 1/2 cup marinara sauce in bottom of 9-inch square baking dish.
Place 1/3 of the potatoes in the bottom of the dish, forming solid layer with no gaps.
Drop 1/2 ricotta mixture in spoonfuls over top and spread out just a little.
Sprinkle with 1/3 of mozzarella and 1/2 sausage mixture.
Add 1/2 cup more sauce then repeat potato, cheese and meat layers.
Top with last layer of potatoes, remaining sauce and mozzarella. Cover with plastic wrap and make small slit to vent.
Microwave on high for 30 minutes or until potatoes are tender.
Yield: 4 servings.
Turkey Green Bean Chili with Cheesy Corn Fritters
1 pound ground turkey breast
1 cup chopped onion
1 cup chopped red bell pepper
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 (14.5-ounce each) cans chili style diced tomatoes, undrained
1 cup water
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1 (14.5-ounce) can cut green beans, drained
Corn Fritters:
1 (8.5 oz.) package corn muffin mix
1 large egg, beaten
2/3 cup milk
1 cup whole kernel corn, canned or frozen
1/3 cup shredded pepper jack cheese
2 tablespoon vegetable oil
Cook turkey, onion, bell pepper and garlic over medium heat in a large pot for 8 to 10 minutes or until meat is brown and vegetables are tender; drain.
Stir in tomatoes, water and cumin. Bring to a boil; reduce heat. Simmer, uncovered, 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir in green beans. Serve with cheesy corn fritters.
For cheesy corn fritters, combine muffin mix, egg, milk, corn and cheese in a large bowl. Heat oil in a very large skillet over medium heat. For each fritter, pour about 3 tablespoons of batter into hot skillet. Cook 4 minutes or until golden brown, turning once. Keep cooked fritters warm in a 200 F oven while cooking the remaining fritters.
Skillet Gnocchi with Chard and White Beans
1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon extra-virgin olive oil, divided
1 16-ounce package shelf-stable gnocchi
1 medium yellow onion, thinly sliced
4 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 cup water
6 cups chopped chard leaves, (about 1 small bunch) or spinach
1 (15-ounce) can diced tomatoes with Italian seasonings
1 (15-ounce) can white beans, rinsed
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
1/2 cup shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
1/4 cup finely shredded Parmesan cheese
Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add gnocchi and cook, stirring often, until plumped and starting to brown, 5 to 7 minutes. Transfer to a bowl.
Add the remaining 1 teaspoon oil and onion to the pan and cook, stirring, over medium heat, for 2 minutes. Stir in garlic and water. Cover and cook until the onion is soft, 4 to 6 minutes.
Add chard (or spinach) and cook, stirring, until starting to wilt, 1 to 2 minutes.
Stir in tomatoes, beans and pepper and bring to a simmer. Stir in the gnocchi and sprinkle with mozzarella and Parmesan.
Cover and cook until the cheese is melted and the sauce is bubbling, about 3 minutes.