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Cost to fight ISIL in Syria and Iraq declared secret by Conservative government
Canada Prime Minister Harper is applauded after introducing a motion in the House of Commons, Tuesday, March 24, 2015, in Ottawa, to expand and extend Canada's war against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Syria. Canada is expanding its military mission against the Islamic State group to include airstrikes on targets in Syria, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Tuesday. Photo by Adrian Wyld /THE CANADIAN PRESS
Parliament may have approved a year-long extension to the country's combat mission in Iraq and Syria, but the Harper government is once again refusing to say how much it will cost taxpayers, Murray Brewster of the Canadian Press writes.
Here is the rest of Murray Brewster's article:
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Nor will it reveal the estimated pricetag for upcoming involvement in NATO's reassurance operations in eastern Europe.
Late Tuesday, the federal Treasury Board tabled its reports on plans and priorities for the coming fiscal year, which is a rough guidebook to upcoming departmental spending.
The costs of Operation Impact and Operation Reassurance are classified, according to National Defence.
Dave Perry of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute says he's astonished.
He says it is the first, and only, time since this form of Parliamentary reporting was created in 1996-97 that a cost estimate for an international operation was withheld because that information was deemed classified.
"I have absolutely no clue why this information is being withheld, and I'm astounded that it is," said Perry, an expert on defence spending who has written several detailed analyses of the effects of Conservative government's spending cuts on the military.
"I can't think of any reason why this information would — for the first time ever — now be considered classified and not releasable."
New Democrat defence critic Jack Harris accused the government of not only keeping the public in the dark, but watchdogs such as the parliamentary budget office, which had a tough time compiling its own estimate on the war earlier this winter.
"This looks like Mr. Harper wants a blank cheque for this war, with no one having access to the numbers," he said. "They've already refused the PBO access, now the public will be kept in the dark."
The House of Commons approved a motion late Monday to extend the campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant for a year, and expand airstrikes into Syria.
In Europe, Canada has sent a frigate to patrol with NATO's standing fleet, CF-18s for air policing over the Baltic and ground troops for land exercises with other allied nations. All of it is meant to show western solidarity in the face of Russia's annexation of Crimea.
More deployments and training are expected this year.
But it was over the cost of the mission in Iraq where the Conservatives fought a pitched battle with Opposition parties.
Former defence minister Rob Nicholson stonewalled the accountability demands of the New Democrats and Liberals, who pointed out the Americans keep a running, publicly reported tab of their expenses.
The wall of silence ended in early February with the appointment of Jason Kenney to the portfolio.
He promptly released the estimated cost to the end of the fiscal year, which amounted to $122.5 million. Although Kenney warned at the time that the figure at the end of the fiscal year could very well be higher, depending on whether the mission was renewed.
National Defence has also declared the revised estimates for that mission — and the one in eastern Europe — to be classified.
It notes that authority to spend money on both missions will come through supplementary appropriations before Parliament, but given that an election is expected this fall it will likely be a year, or more, before those figures are tabled.
The numbers add to a heightened level of secrecy surrounding both missions.
Access to flight crews carrying out the bombing campaign in Iraq — and now Syria — is non-existent. The military claims the Kuwait government won't allow journalists on its air bases.
Special forces, who are based in northern Iraq, do not allow media access. All information comes through tightly censored briefings at National Defence headquarters.
The department also prohibits photographs that identify soldiers taking part in overseas operations, including troops who recently left for a training exercise in Eastern Europe.
(the above is from the Canadian Press)


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VIAW SPECIAL EDITION – Port of Oakland closed
OAKLAND, Calif. — The Port of Oakland will remain closed until tonight following the death of a 45-year-old Suisun City woman who worked there, a spokesman said.
The fatality was reported Tuesday in the late afternoon at the TTI Terminal, Port of Oakland spokesman Robert Bernardo said.
"Everyone is just very saddened by this tragic news. Our thoughts are with the family during this difficult time," he said. "It is definitely a somber mood right now because of this."
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OPEN LETTER FROM VIAW PRESIDENT
Dear Steward of California's Workers Compensation System:
We write to express our profound concern with draft language to implement SB 863 that would impose a requirement regarding immigration status on eligibility for workers compensation benefits.
The Supplemental Job Displacement Benefit (SJDB) voucher is a crucial benefit for thousands of California injured workers each month. It is such a valuable lifeline in part because it provides relatively swift access to key support services that facilitate injured workers' resilience, wellbeing, and workforce reentry, at their own initiative.
Any effort to infringe on California workers' rights under our state constitution to cure and relief of the effects of their work-related injury—or to exclude them altogether from the scope of this guarantee—harms injured workers and undermines our state's hard-won standard of rewarding work and equal protection under law.
The proposed regulation is a needless erosion of this standard, in that no binding legal precedent or prevailing evidence dictates or disposes any such policy. To the contrary, the proposed regulation creates a loophole in workers compensation enforcement and California law and an incentive for unscrupulous behavior by employers in the state that would have the effect of rewarding exploitative behavior in our workforce and punishing injured workers at precisely the most vulnerable moment of their lives. Such a regulation would create a malignant precedent of its own, with far-reaching negative implications in state law and society.
Indeed, the proposal would invite employers to adopt a posture of willful ignorance regarding the documentation status of workers and to invoke affirmative knowledge of a potentially disqualifying status by an injured worker at the point of eligibility for relief.
California is one of several states whose workers compensation system includes no conditions regarding immigration status. We call upon you to maintain this distinction. It is worth noting that the supreme court of even such states as Nebraska held recently that undocumented workers are entitled to full workers compensation coverage. It would indeed be a sad irony for California to initiate an historic retreat from the non-conditionality of its workers compensation system at precisely the moment when its progress has provided an example of logic and lawful inclusivity for others.
In conclusion, we call upon you to step up incentives for employers' compliance with workers compensation coverage and documentation requirements in hiring. And on behalf of our members and the nearly half a million Californians injured on the job each year, we call upon you to abandon any language that would have the effect of imposing any requirement related to immigration status on eligibility for benefits under our state's workers compensation policies.
Workers' comp legislation introduced in House
Workers' comp legislation introduced in House to benefit injured workers, help employers
Representatives Dave Reichert (R-Washington) and Mike Thompson (D-California) introduced the Medicare Secondary Payer and Workers' Compensation Settlement Agreement Act (H.R. 1982) into the U.S. House of Representatives on May 15.
According to a press release, the Act establishes clear and consistent standards for an administrative process that provides reasonable protections for injured workers and Medicare. It would benefit injured workers, employers and insurers by creating a system of certainty and allows the settlement process to move forward while eliminating millions of dollars in administrative costs that harm workers, employers, and insurers.
The legislation aims to protect injured workers whose workers' compensation claims overlap with Medicare coverage. Often, these claims are subjected to lengthy and cumbersome reviews by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to determine appropriate set-aside amounts to pay for future medical costs in which Medicare may have an interest. The delays associated with this review place unfair burdens upon the injured party.
"This is a common-sense measure to ensure that hard-working Americans are not left in limbo because of inefficient bureaucratic procedures," said Rep. Reichert. "Injured workers must have the confidence that their heathcare claims will be processed in a fair and timely manner. By introducing this bill, Rep. Thompson and I aim to do just that: protect our hard-working citizens by making sure our systems serve them and their families."
"The last thing injured workers should have to worry about is if needless bureaucracy is going to prevent their medical bills from being paid," said Thompson. "This bill will make sure hard working families' medical claims are processed efficiently and quickly, it will reduce bureaucratic headaches for businesses, and it will save taxpayers money. I will continue working with Congressman Reichert to get this bipartisan bill signed into law."
The legislation has widespread support from groups such as the American Insurance Association, the American Bar Association, the National Council of Self-Insurers, Property Casualty, Insurers Association of America, UWC-Strategic Services and the Workers Injury Law and Advocacy Group (WILG).
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Case involving worker's death sparks grief, outrage throughout California
A ruling by the state Workers Compensation Appeals Board has ignited both sorrow and anger over the death of an injured worker five years ago this week.
Compounding the indignation over the details of how Charles Romano died is outrage at the meager fines—still to be issued in the case—that advocates say highlight the weakness of state oversight and the failure of state lawmakers to hold insurers accountable.
"I mourn the loss of Charles Romano and the suffering that preceded it," says Jesse Ceniceros, board president of Voters Injured At Work.
"The facts of his case–how the rule of law in this great and wealthy state turned its back on this hardworking man–cast shame upon his employer and its insurer. His case also shows once more how powerful interests have rigged the workers compensation system against ordinary Californians. If it can happen to him, cut down in the prime of his life, it can happen to anyone."
Charles Romano, a grocery worker at Ralph's in Camarillo, died at the age of 47 in early May 2008, ending a five-year effort to recover from a shoulder and neck injury he suffered on the job in 2003. Frustrating that effort, as the appeals board found, were repeated delays and denials of care by Romano's employer, part of the Kroger foods chain, and its claims administrator, Sedgwick CMS.
The ruling denied an appeal by Ralph's and Sedgwick of their liability in the case (Romano v. Kroger, or ADJ1372133). It revealed that Sedgwick "continued to deny or delay care through the end of applicant's life," failing to pay even for Romano's final hospitalization for more than 4 months after his death.
Facts of the case elicited unusually blunt and evocative language from the appeal board. The "horrifically ill" Romano repeatedly sought authorization and attention to his claims from Sedgwick, which showed only "blithe disregard for its legal and ethical obligation to provide medical care to a critically injured worker."
Despite its determination that Sedgwick "unreasonably delayed medical care in 11 separate instances," the board cited the limitations of state law in setting the maximum penalty of "25 percent of the delayed medical benefit, not to exceed $10,000." The maximum fine Sedgwick faces stemming from the death is thus only $110,000.
"Adding insult to injury in the case is the trifling amount of state penalties," adds Ceniceros. "Such fines are an affront to working people. They mock the notion of fair play and the American way. They fail to provide a deterrent to unconscionable abuses and invite multi-billion-dollar companies to treat the lives of workers as a cost of doing business. Unless state lawmakers act to fix the systemic problems exposed once again by this case, they risk being complicit in shame. The death of Charles Romano must not be in vain."

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Two weeks ago, I was dragged, literally kicking and screaming, to a flea thing.
My One Thing Du Jour was another CF for my small cf collection, but this one's different. It's the first pull back CF I've ever seen.
This one is a "Turbo" Bluebird; I'm guessing the pull back feature was the same as adding a turbo kit in 1:64 size.
I couldn't find the yellow CF Levin for the family portrait, so these guys will sit for another one in the future.
Imperial makes NASCAR stuff, didn't know that.
One of my local diecast buds sent me this ERTL Plow truck because I was looking for exactly this set up; truck front wheels, double axle, dual wheels on the rear. Too bad they're too big.
I picked this up on the bay for $2!
I'll probably DLM it soon and try another time for a momc.
I realize that I sound ungrateful after getting a great deal on the car, but I thought the card would be unbent.
This is a group of Vintage Redlines, the re-releases of previously re-released releases. Since taking this photo, I've found a turquoise "Red" Baron to add to the lot. Anyone interested?


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Wheres the Courage of our China Conviction?
Lieutenant Colonel Paul Darling
China is the foremost security challenge the United States faces in the future. At least that is the conventional wisdom. Declaring victory, or at least apathy, in the Middle East upon his election President Obama swiftly declared (and then retracted somewhat) a Pacific Pivot. The Department of Defense, understandably wishing to ignore a decade long failure in Iraq and Afghanistan, was all too happy to return to a new cold war against a modern foe who would demand masses of highly expensive military equipment to thwart.
Civilian think tanks, working with generous DoD and defense industry grants, quickly developed scenarios which amazingly enough demanded precisely what the various services, particularly the United States Air Force, had already decided to purchase. Air Sea Battle as envisioned by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment (CSBA) is a scenario apparently custom made for F35s. One might argue deliberately so.
Having shored up lagging congressional support for a program which has violated every legislative check on procurement pork, CSBA published a new scenario which matched the USAFs newer desire for fleets of long range bombers: A New Offset Strategy. Here, CSBA boldly predicts that short range fighters, the kind Air Sea Battle based its entire warfighting strategy around, would be unable to operate against China. Rather, stealthy, long range bombers are essential to penetrate the predicted Chinese defenses. The top three procurement desires of the USAF: F35s, bombers, and the new tanker fleet to support them are immaculately justified by independent analysis.
The fact that the two scenarios are mutually exclusive is somehow a detail too minute to discuss. If Air Sea Battle is correct, then we do not need 200 new bombers. If New Offset is correct, 2400 F35s is not only wasteful, but criminal in the projected lives lost against an enemy we knew beforehand could counter them. But either way, we must ask why we require so many new aircraft after the precision guided munitions revolution should have reduced our strike requirements by an order of magnitude? Because China is building a massive army, navy and air force. And they are building it with our money.
While many wish to compare our current challenge with China to the previous cold war against the Soviet Union (and, more to the point, wish to emulate our procurement strategy from a generation ago) the preeminent fact is that China enjoys Permanent Normalized Trade Relations (PNTR) (known more generally as Most Favored Nation trade status) with the United States. For all our efforts at realpolitik, détente and glasnost, we never gave this status to the Soviet Union. In fact, we explicitly used the promise of this status to place pressure against the Soviet Union (Jackson-Vanik amendment of 1974 which was repealed in 2012.) Yet now, our apparatchiks in the Pentagon demand we spend another fortune to counter a military built with a fortune we provide. It is logical to assume the easiest way to sink a ship is to not give your enemy the money to build it in the first place.
Our trade imbalance is approximately $310 billion per year with China. In 1990, prior to PNTR, this number was about $10 online casino billion. Chinas claimed defense budget in 2014 was $130 billion. This excludes the very real, but harder to quantify, advanced technology we have given to China which gives them not only the quantity, but the quality which demands only the most expensive military hardware. We must accept the fact that we created the dragon which many now demand we prepare to slay at great expense.
To revoke PNTR, and to restrict trade with China, would be highly damaging to the United States economy. The lists of companies highly dependent upon China for supplies would be a whos who on the Dow Industrials. The destruction it would wield on Wall Street is too obvious to detail. It might take a decade or more for the United States to adjust to a world without cheap Chinese labor. But it would be an existential disaster to the free trading capitalist commissars ruling through the Chinese Communist Party.
One of the many contradictory ironies in the Sino-American relationship is that the implied casus belli in the South China Sea (SCS) has partially developed because China feels the need to secure trade routes and energy resources to continue fueling its manufacturing base; itself highly dependent upon American markets. In the absence of that market, the SCS loses much of its materialistic appeal. The feverish island building on the aptly named Mischief Reef could easily be countered military immediately by the United States and our growing band of allies, friends and mutually concerned parties throughout the Pacific region. If we choose to not stop China now when it would be easy, why would anyone, particularly China, believe we will do so when it is hard?
Is China a serious threat to American interests? To the many hawks lobbying vociferously to fund unquestioned the demands of the defense experts, the answer is an unblinking, Yes. The consistent actions of China in the past decade certainly show, at the very least, China's disdain towards American sovereignty. The latest data hack affecting 4 million government employees would be shocking from some of our other PNTR partners. Chinese complete disregard for intellectual property rights has become an unquestioned fact of doing business with them. But before spending a trillion dollars on military hardware, should we not first attack the means by which China acquires its apparently terrifying capability? Failure to do so merely highlights the unserious nature of the China alarmists. To the would-be dragon slayers I request, on behalf of the men and women who will fight that future war and the taxpayers who will fund it, first demonstrate the courage of your convictions.
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Very perceptive. As a retired USAF officer I feel slightly traitorous by saying spot on re F-35 & next generation bombers and tankers. That said, some R&D effort needs to continue in those areas if for no other reason than to force the Chinese to continue to spend their resources countering those threats and leave them uncertain as to the directions we might be taking .
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Worse than 'Fake News': The Forced Conformity of the Media!
Helga Zepp-LaRouche giving an interview to Rosalie Falla, journalist for The Finnish-based private pro-China media outlet GBTimes at a Schiller Institute conference. June 30 - July 1, 2018 (Photo: Michelle Rasmussen / EIRNS)
by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Chairwoman of the German political party BüSo, the Civil Rights Solidarity Party. You can follow Helga on twitter @ZeppLaRouche.
The following is an English translation of an article appearing in the German newspaper, Neue Solidarität.
Aug. 4—We should have learned from the 1920s and 1930s that the spread of cultural pessimism throughout the population has fatal consequences. But such pessimism is spreading today in many Western societies, and especially in Germany, in the face of uncertain future options, with the result that more and more citizens have completely given up the hope of being able to make a difference through their own participation, or they are joining right-wing parties that provide an outlet for anger but offer no solutions. The culprit in this development is not least the political establishment, which leads us to accept a "TINA" politics—TINA is the acronym for "there is no alternative"—and the forced conformity of the mainstream media, which suppress all messages that point to alternatives.
We are living through what is probably the greatest strategic change of all time. Under the leadership of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), the majority of the developing countries are currently focussing on close win-win cooperation, with the aim of achieving the leap to the status of industrialized nations, and a good standard of living for their entire populations as quickly as possible. The 10th BRICS Summit in Johannesburg July 25-27 included some of the largest and most important international organizations of developing countries, such as the Group of 77, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Mercosur, and the African Union, which were there to join forces with the BRICS in what might be called the Global South initiative.
The New Silk Road is Changing Everything
China's Belt and Road Initiative, and the idea that relations are no longer based on geopolitical confrontation but on mutual benefit, have changed the political climate in many regions of the world in a completely positive way. For example, the election victory of newly designated Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has created for the first time the potential to settle the conflict between India and Pakistan. Khan promised to ensure that his country takes two steps toward India for every step that India takes towards Pakistan. The cooperation between the BRICS countries also has its impact on Pakistan; China has traditionally good relations with Pakistan, and just now the Russian and Pakistani navies had a high-level meeting, after the first-ever joint manoeuvres of Russian and Pakistani ground troops took place just one year ago.
The Horn of Africa is also embraced by the new spirit of cooperation. There the hitherto mutually hostile states of Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea and Ethiopia are massively expanding their mutual diplomatic and economic relations, largely thanks to Chinese investment, such as in the construction of the railway from Djibouti to Addis Abeba.
And, in contrast to the consistently negative media coverage of the progress of negotiations between North and South Korea and the United States, this process is on a good track, with the option that a leading North Korean government official may speak in New York before the upcoming UN General Assembly in September.
Meanwhile, the Syrian government has begun the economic reconstruction of the province of Aleppo. The first part of a three-phase program is the reconstruction of the infrastructure, the second step is the specific provisioning of each individual family, and the third phase is the return of people to a safe environment, as the Deputy Governor of the province, Hamid Kenno, stressed. At the same time, the Russian military has helped create a refugee center in Syria that will welcome refugees returning from Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey, and assist them in their return to their homes. An inter-ministerial coordination committee of the Russian Foreign and Defense Ministries has taken over the orderly repatriation of the refugees.
You Aren't Hearing the Good News
One might assume that these developments would dominate headlines, immediately bringing hope to all clear-thinking people that world peace has become more secure, poverty can be overcome, and the refugee crisis can be resolved in a human way. Instead, the media do not say a word about the "Global South" initiative. An article in the German national daily, Die Welt, furnished with much geopolitical spin, cites Xi Jinping's speech at the BRICS Summit: "Africa has more development potential than any other region in the world." And what does the author conclude? That "China is working to build its empire" and the upcoming summit between China and the African nations in Beijing this September is just Xi Jinping's "charm offensive."
Of course, this censorship of good news has the purpose of depicting the politics of the old neo-liberal paradigm as having no alternative. If China—incidentally, along with India, Russia and Japan—now demonstrates that Africa can indeed be industrialized, and if that were truthfully reported, then someone might think to ask why the African continent, after centuries of colonialism and decades of the IMF's notorious credit conditionalities, is in its current precarious state, and whether this is not a major cause of the refugee crisis.
Instead of responding to China's repeated offer to work together with the African states on their industrialization in the context of the New Silk Road, the German government is blocking Chinese investments in Germany, such as the recent acquisition of the precision machinery manufacturer Leifeld Metal Spinning, although various surveys confirm that Chinese investors have always taken care to increase the number of jobs and raise wages. Where was the government's veto when, in recent years, dozens of American and British hedge funds have taken everything from mid-sized companies to housing companies and infrastructure, carved out the choicest portions to sell, and closed down the rest as socially unacceptable?
It is an absurd idea to think that one could halt the rise of emerging and developing countries—India and China alone account for 2.6 billion people—and impose the neo-liberal model of geopolitics as the only possible option on the rest of the world. Blair's and Obama's policies of converting the whole world to Western democracy through regime change and "humanitarian" interventions, as a sort of modern crusade, have clearly failed. Neither China nor Russia wants this model, and more and more developing countries see the Chinese model as the model for their own development.
The reason is that the BRICS offer a form of cooperation that focuses on mutual development, while "the West" prefers the neo-liberal model of profit maximization for the few at the expense of the many. It is also not overlooked in the rest of the world that the EU is slipping into more and more disagreement between its member states, whether in dealing with the refugee crisis; in choosing between greater integration versus emphasis on sovereignty; or in relations with China, Russia and the United States.
Looking at the world through Eurocentric glasses obscures the view that the greater part of humanity, represented by the BRICS and Global South, has drawn from the neo-liberal policies of the West the conclusion that a revision of the current system of global governance is urgently needed, and that this reorganization cannot be left to the West.
Instead of arrogantly continuing to sit on the high horse of egoism in their supposed superiority and soon landing their own populations on the margins of history, the nations of Europe, and the United States, should look to the offers from China and Russia for cooperation and co-creation of the New Paradigm. Despite the punitive tariffs imposed by Trump, China continues to offer cooperation with the United States in order to overcome the trade deficit through joint ventures in third countries. A spokeswoman for China's Ministry of Commerce has just said, "We always believe that bad things can be turned into good ones and challenges can be turned into opportunities."
And at the just-ended ASEAN Summit in Singapore, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov recalled Putin's words at the 2016 Russia-ASEAN Summit in Sochi, where he called on partner-countries to be aware of the huge geopolitical and geo-economic potential of the Eurasian continent, where the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), the Shanghai Corporation Organization (SCO) and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) complement each other. Lavrov stressed that the door remains open to the EU, and no one should doubt that the EU should be interested in it purely for pragmatic economic and business interests.
But one could also find reasons for such cooperation that go beyond the pragmatic. If Europe does not want to completely forget, and lose, its humanistic and classical culture, then we could revive the ideas of Nicholas of Cusa, Leibniz and Schiller, and make our contribution to the development of humanity. You certainly will not read about it in the mainstream media. But you can read it here.
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Q: Disable image compression on Chrome browser in Android I am using background Image by applying below css on main body element in my UI.
.homepage-bg {
    margin:0;
    padding:0;
    background: url("@{imagePath}/homepage/bg.jpg") no-repeat center fixed;
    -webkit-background-size: cover; /* pour anciens Chrome et Safari */
    background-size: cover; /* version standardisée */
    overflow-y: auto;
}

I am facing issue of image compression on Chrome browser on Android devices. (Works fine in firefox)

I have searched on internet regarding this and found some solution like applying pagespeed_no_transform but it didn't worked for me.
I am attaching screenshots of chrome (Not working) and firefox (Working)

Any help please?
Thanks
EDIT:
I tried adding min-height:<SOME GOOD VALUE> (Ex. 600px, 800px) And now the image is stretched to whole page. (ScreenShot Attached below)

My question is why i can't simply apply min-height: 100% in which
  image should take full height?

A: Ok so after doing some troubleshooting, below css done the trick for me.

min-height: 100vh;

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Wizard Studios Puts Out a Call for New Films To Distribute and Stream on FullMoonStreaming.com
From the fevered mind of maverick cult movie mogul and FULL MOON FEATURES President Charles Band comes the triumphant return of the brand that first brought oddball shock to your living room: WIZARD Studios!
WIZARD Studios is an evolution of Band's iconic WIZARD Video label, the home video imprint that blazed trails in the early 1980's, bringing the world's weirdest horror, fantasy and exploitation films to audiences everywhere via big box rental and sell-through VHS. WIZARD Video (the successor to Band's landmark Meda Home Video label) not only pioneered many concepts in how we watch films, it introduced young audiences to a cavalcade of exciting, erotic, esoteric and avant-garde international genre films and auteurs with such now celebrated pictures as Lucio Fulci's ZOMBIE, Meir Zarchi's I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE, Jess Franco's OASIS OF THE ZOMBIES and A VIRGIN AMONG THE LIVING DEAD and Joe D'Amato's MONSTER HUNTER (aka ABSURD). Many of these legendary releases are now highly sought after and WIZARD Video maintains a level of myth among serious film culture collectors.
Now, inspired in part by the unprecedented success of Band's Full Moon Streaming initiative (www.FullMoonStreaming.com), WIZARD Video has been reborn, this time as WIZARD Studios, an exciting acquisition program and distribution outfit designed to spotlight rising independent filmmakers and their cutting-edge genre pictures.
Filmmakers are invited to submit their feature length, undistributed films to WIZARD Studios and, after an internal screening process from the WIZARD Studios team, a new movie will be selected every week to premiere - with much fanfare, including stills, trailers and other promotional tools - on the WIZARD Studios portal located at FullMoonStreaming.com. Filmmakers will then promote their film and share it with cast, crew, friends and family, encouraging them to sign up for a minimum three-month term to FullMoonStreaming.com (a rate of only $18.00). As soon as the filmmaker signs up just 50 people, he or she will automatically receive a $2,500.00 advance and WIZARD Studios/FULL MOON FEATURES will additionally distribute the film on DVD and other high profile digital platforms. The filmmaker will then receive an additional 50% of all sales from said product. receive an additional 50% of all sales from said product.
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"""Unittests for dry_run library."""

from __future__ import print_function

import fixup_path
fixup_path.FixupPath()

from chromite.lib import cros_test_lib
from chromite.lib.paygen import dryrun_lib

# pylint: disable=W0212

class FuncClass(object):
  """Helper class with a Func to call."""
  @staticmethod
  def Func(func, *args, **kwargs):
    """Dummy function."""

class TestDryRunMgr(cros_test_lib.MoxTestCase):
  """Test cases for dryrun_lib."""

  def testNonzero(self):
    self.assertTrue(dryrun_lib.DryRunMgr(True))
    self.assertFalse(dryrun_lib.DryRunMgr(False))

  def testCall(self):
    self.mox.StubOutWithMock(FuncClass, 'Func')
    drm = dryrun_lib.DryRunMgr(False)

    # Set up the test replay script.
    FuncClass.Func('arg1', 'arg2', keya='arga')
    self.mox.ReplayAll()

    # Run the test verification.
    drm._Call(FuncClass.Func, 'arg1', 'arg2', keya='arga')
    self.mox.VerifyAll()

  def testSkip(self):
    self.mox.StubOutWithMock(FuncClass, 'Func')
    drm = dryrun_lib.DryRunMgr(True)

    # Set up the test replay script.
    self.mox.ReplayAll()

    # Run the test verification.
    drm._Skip(FuncClass.Func, 'arg1', 'arg2', keya='arga')
    self.mox.VerifyAll()

  def testRunCall(self):
    mocked_drm = self.mox.CreateMock(dryrun_lib.DryRunMgr)
    mocked_drm.dry_run = False
    mocked_drm.quiet = False

    args = ['arg1', 'arg2']
    kwargs = {'keya': 'arga', 'keyb': 'argb'}

    # Set up the test replay script.
    mocked_drm._Call(FuncClass.Func, *args, **kwargs)
    self.mox.ReplayAll()

    # Run the test verification.
    dryrun_lib.DryRunMgr.Run(mocked_drm, FuncClass.Func,
                             *args, **kwargs)
    self.mox.VerifyAll()

  def testRunSkip(self):
    mocked_drm = self.mox.CreateMock(dryrun_lib.DryRunMgr)
    mocked_drm.dry_run = True
    mocked_drm.quiet = False

    args = ['arg1', 'arg2']
    kwargs = {'keya': 'arga', 'keyb': 'argb'}

    # Set up the test replay script.
    func_path = '%s.%s' % (FuncClass.Func.__module__, FuncClass.Func.__name__)
    mocked_drm._Skip(func_path, *args, **kwargs)
    self.mox.ReplayAll()

    # Run the test verification.
    dryrun_lib.DryRunMgr.Run(mocked_drm, FuncClass.Func,
                             *args, **kwargs)
    self.mox.VerifyAll()

if __name__ == '__main__':
  cros_test_lib.main()

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Two iconic Boston brands are teaming up. The Boston Red Sox and New Balance today announced a multi-year partnership that will make NB the Official Footwear and Apparel Sponsor of the Boston Red Sox. As part of the deal, New Balance unveiled a 70' illuminated sign featuring New Balance's signature red logo atop one of the new HD videoboards in Fenway Park's right field.
Supplementing the deal, New Balance recently announced an endorsement with Red Sox third basemen Kevin Youkilis, and has existing partnerships with second baseman, Dustin Pedroia, and Manager, Terry Francona.
The New Balance sign was designed with the ability to display a looped and flashing "we won" message to highlight Red Sox victories to the surrounding area around Fenway.
The multi-faceted deal will see New Balance provide footwear and apparel to all fan-facing Red Sox employees at Fenway Park starting with the 2011 season. The agreement includes additional in-park branding at Fenway Park, as well as the team's Spring Training ballpark, JetBlue Park in Lee County, FL, and LewisGale Field, the home of the Red Sox Advanced Class-A team, the Salem Red Sox in Salem, VA. .


Life without Windows or OS X: Where to get Linux.
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The PC has caused humankind to have critical reflections of ideas. Families stay in touch, friends share pictures from thousands of miles a way, and students research term papers, thanks in part to computer and Internet innovations.
Windows has dominated the desktop and laptop operating system scene for so long, it's easy to see why people might not realize that competition is still out there. I feel that the meager income that many are stuck with now days should not keep them out of touch with the tech revolution.
One of those other choices is a little known OS called Linux. Now I'm sure you heard none geeks can't install Linux. But lets face it, most people use Windows because it is what's installed on computers when they buy them. So when people say that Linux distributions are too hard to install, what are they basing that idea on? Did they actually install Windows in the first place? Unless they built their own system, probably not. They just bought their computer, paid for Windows® OS and started using it.
I wont kid you here. Many Hardware Manufactures do not support Linux directly. Take Epson for example. It takes more effort for Linux users to get full use of Epson Multifunction Printers than it does for Windows or Mac users. It seems Epson is willing to work with the free software world, but only through its "Epson Kowa". There has to be some kind of monopolistic marketing deal Microsoft which restrict Epson from working directly with the Linux people. Thats why I would love to see some kind of an OHM Initiative.
Migrating from a Windows machine to Linux is not that difficult. I along many Linux users can attest to that fact. There are also many applications that are available on the Linux operating system, some of which are and also free and secure.
Which Distribution Is The Best? Hmmm. Well the best distribution is whichever one that "You" think is best. Ken Starks wants to see Linux succeed on the desktop. To that end, Starks has been beating the drum for Linux on his Lobby4Linux Web site the past year or so. More recently, he has launched something called The Austin Project, which has since been renamed to Linux4Austin. Its place where people new to Linux can go for help.
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"If monopoly persists, monopoly will always sit at the helm of government.I do not expect monopoly to restrain itself. If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it." (President Woodrow Wilson).
K-Mart and Sears have Mirus PCs preinstalled with Linux.
the list is endless.. find a mirror near you . download the ISO files and burn a DVD /CD's and install Linux.
There are plenty of Howto install linux tutorials on the internet which you can read ..before you start installing linux on your Intel box.


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FreeNAS e безплатен и с отворен код софтуер за мрежово запаметяващо устройство (NAS), базиран на операционната система FreeBSD и файловата система OpenZFS. Разпространява се под условията на BSD лиценза и работи върху x86-64 хардуер. FreeNAS поддържа Windows, OS X и Unix клиенти, както и различни източници на виртуализация, като XenServer и VMware, използвайки CIFS, AFP, NFS, iSCSI, SSH, rsync и FTP/TFTP протоколи. Някои от разширените функции на FreeNAS са цялостно криптографиране на диска и plug-in поддръжка за third-party софтуер.

Файловата система OpenZFS
FreeNAS поддържа файловата система OpenZFS, която от своя страна предоставя възможности за проверка на целостта на данните, с цел да се предотврати загубата им, създаване на запис на състоянието им в определена точка от времето, копиране и няколко нива остарели технологии, като например – stripping, mirroring, mirrored stripping и три нива на RAID-Z.

Потребителски опит
FreeNAS се управлява чрез цялостен уеб интерфейс, който се допълва от минималистична shell конзола (команден интерпретатор), която обработва основните административни функции. Уеб интерфейсът поддържа конфигурация на storage pool (общ логически дял за съхранение, състоящ се от група физически дискове), управление на потребителя, конфигурация на споделянето и поддръжка на системата.

Вградено в поддръжката на системата, FreeNAS може да се зарежда от USB Flash устройство или SATA DOM. Зареждащото се изображение (файл) е конфигурирано с помощта на USB Flash / CD-ROM стартиращ инсталатор. Операционната система FreeNAS е напълно независима от своите дискове за съхранение, което позволява настройките на базата данни и криптиращите ключове да бъдат архивирани и възстановявани върху нова инсталация на операционната система. Това разделяне също така дава възможност системните ъпгрейди на FreeNAS да бъдат изпълнявани през уеб интерфейса.

История
Проектът FreeNAS стартира през октомври 2005 г. от Оливие Кошар-Лабе (Olivier Cochard-Labbé), базирайки го на вградената защитна стена m0n0wall и операционната система FreeBSD 6.0. Волкър Тейл (Volker Theile) се присъединява към проекта през юли 2006 г. и застава начело на проекта през април 2008 г. През септември 2009 г., екипът от разработчици стига до извода, че проектът, тогавашния рилийз .7, се нуждае от цялостно преработване, за да се пригоди към новите особености като плъгин архитектурата. Тейл решава, че проектът най-добре да бъде пренаписан с помощта на Debian GNU/Linux и насочва усилията си за развитие на временния проект CoreNAS, впоследствие преименуван на OpenMediaVault, където Тейл продължава да е начело. Кохърд Лабе отвръща на обществените възражения срещу т.нар. "Debian-версия на FreeNAS" и възобновява дейността на проекта, прехвърляки го на FreeNAS потребителя iXsystems. iXsystems пренаписват FreeNAS с нова архитектура, базирана на FreeBSD 8.1 Beta и Django CMS, и през ноември 2010 г. пускат рилийз FreeNAS 8. Плъгин (plug-in) архитектурата пристига с FreeNAS 8.2 и FreeNAS версията се синхронизира с FreeBSD за яснота. FreeNAS 8.3 въвежда цялостно криптографиране на диска, а FreeBSD 9.1, на която се основава FreeNAS 9.1, въвежда актуализирана плъгин архитектура, съвместима със структурата на управление на затворите (jails) на PC-BSD Warden. FreeNAS 9.1 също така е първата версия на FreeNas, която ползва поддържаната от общността файлова система OpenZFS v5000, използваща Feature Flags.

Архитектура
Ъпдейтът 8.0 на FreeNAS променя архитектурата на проекта от m0n0BSD/m0n0wall/PHP-базирана, до такава базирана на FreeBSD, на езикът за програмиране Python, на система за управление на съдържанието Django CMS и на библиотеката на JavaScript – dojo toolkit. Архитектурата използва също и уеб сървъра lighttpd, който е заместен от nginx в ъпдейта 8.2.

Функции
 Уеб интерфейс с възможност за SSL криптиране – SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) – тип криптиране, което се използва от SMTP сървъра. Той създава криптирана връзка между уеб сървъра и браузъра, за да защити информацията от подслушване, подправяне и т.н. Осигурява висока степен на конфиденциалност. Използва се при on-line разплащания, on-line трансфери, електронно банкиране и др. Със стартирането на версия 9.3, FreeNAS може да действа като сертифициращ орган (Certificate Authority). За да се използва SSL или TLS криптирането за която и да е от връзките в системата на FreeNAS, първо трябва да се създаде сертифициращ орган, след това да се създаде или да се импортира сертификатът, който ще се ползва за криптираните връзки.
 Локализиран на над 20 езика – FreeNAS e локализиран на над повече от 20 езика, от които: Чешки , Холандски , Украински , Руски, Китайски , Румънски , Френски , Португалски, Турски , Испански , Германски, Шведски , Сръбски, Латвийски , Италиански , Китайски , Гръцки, Португалски , Японски, Полски и др. За управление локализацията на екранните менюта, използвани от графичния интерфейс за администриране, FreeNAS използва приложението Pootle, което е с отворен код. Приложението Pootle лесно открива локализацията на вашия местен език и превежда текста за всяко меню, което все още не е локализирано.
 Плъгин архитектура – Въвежда се с FreeNAS версия 8.2.0. Плъгин архитектурата дава възможност за разширяване на вградените NAS-услуги, чрез осигуряване на механизъм за инсталиране на допълнителен софтуер, който потребителят сам да избере. Тази архитектура се основава на FreeBSD jails и PC-BSD 9.x PBIs. FreeNAS поддържа мощен набор от плъгини, което позволява да се разшири и оптимизира функционалността по подразбиране, така че да отговаря на изискванията на потребителя.
 Включва плъгини като Transmission, Plex и FireFly:
 Transmission плъгин – това е BitTorrent-клиент, който разполага с разнообразие от потребителски интерфейси на върха на back-end мултиплатформа. Transmisiion е свободен софтуер, лицензиран при условията на GNU General Public License (GNU GPL), с части под лиценза на MIT.

 Plex Media Server плъгинът – back end медия сървър на софтуерния пакет Plex. Въведен през 2009, Plex Media Server се използва, за да хоства съдържание и плъгини, които след това се стриймват на Plex екранни приложения (включително Plex Home Theater) и Plex мобилни приложения или на същата машина, локална мрежа или през интернет. Plex Media Server е достъпен за FreeBSD, Linux, и девет различни NAS-устройства. Plex Media Server може да бъде конфигуриран да индексира съдържанието във всяка една директория на машината, където е стартиран сървърът, както и автоматично да добие съдържанието от източници, като Aperture, iPhoto и iTunes. Съдържанието може да прекодирано от сървъра преди да бъде излъчено, за да се намали нужният трафик или за съвместимост с устройството, на което ще бъде излъчван стриймингът.

 FireFly Media Server e аудио медия сървър за Roku SoundBridge и iTunes. Той е с отворен код и обслужва медия файловете използвайки протоколите Roku Server Protocol (RSP) и Digital Audio Access Protocol (DAAP). Firefly Media Server не е в процес на активна разработка. Има един неуспешен опит за продължаването на проекта като Firefly2 Media Server. От юли 2009 разработването продължава като Linux/FreeBSD разклонение, именувано forked-daapd. Последната версия на forked-daapd е v23.1.

 Графики на производителността – FreeNAS® предоставя възможност за графично представяне на производителността и отделни параметри, като:
 CPU Usage : събира данни за използването на компютъра.
 system load : осигурява общ преглед на използването на системата в интервали от една, пет и петнадесет минути.
 disk : Показва средното време за изпълнение на I/O операция.
 physical memory : Показва използването на физическата памет.
 interface : Показва получения и изпратения трафик в битове за секунда за всеки конфигуриран интерфейс.
 disk space : Показва свободното и използваното място на всеки от дисковете.
 processes : Показва броя на процесите групирани по състояние.
 target: съдържа статистически данни за трафик за ISCSI портове.
 zfs : Показва големината на ARC, честотата и исканията. Докладните данни се записват, което позволява да се видят и следят тенденциите на използване в течение на времето. По подразбиране докладните на данни се записват в /data/rrd_dir.tar.bz2 и се съхраняват при ъпдейтване и изключване на системата.

 Email log and reporting notification – По подразбиране, дневници се съхраняват в RAM, тъй като няма място в устройството за съхранение на log-ове. Това означава, че log-овете се трият, когато системата се рестартира. При желание да се съхранят тези log файлове има възможност за:
 Конфигуриране на дистанционен Syslog сървър на друга Unix-подобна операционна система.
 Създаване на ZFS набор от данни, наречена Syslog и рестартиране на системата; FreeNAS® автоматично ще създаде лог / директория в този набор от данни, която съдържа трупите.
 Конфигуриране на системата, така че да може автоматично да изпраща имейли със скрипт до root потребителски акаунт, съдържаща важна информация като здравето на дисковете. Сигнализиращи съобщения също се изпращат до посочения акаунт.
 Downloadable configuration file and encryption keys – Trivial File Transfer, Protocol (TFTP) е олекотена версия на FTP и обикновено се използва за прехвърляне на конфигурация или файлове между рутери в локална среда. TFTP осигурява изключително ограничен набор от команди и не осигурява сигурност на достъпа. Ако системата FreeNAS® ще се използва за съхраняване на изображения и конфигурационни файлове за устройства на мрежата, трябва да се конфигурира и стартиране на услугата TFTP, което ще отвори UDP порт 69. От версия 8.3.1, FreeNAS® поддържа GELI пълно дисково криптиране при създаване на ZFS.
 OpenZFS v5000 file system with Feature Flags – ZFS е модерна, съвременна файлова система, която е специално проектирана, за да предостави функции, които не са налични в традиционните UNIX файлови системи. Тя първоначално е била разработена в Sun с намерението да бъде отворена файловата система, която да може да бъде пренасяна към други операционни системи. След придобиването Oracle на Sun, някои от инженерите на оригиналните ZFS основават OpenZFS, за да продължи съвместната разработка на версията с отворен код. За да се разграничи от номерата на версиите на Oracle ZFS, OpenZFS използва т.нар. Feature Flags. Feature Flags се използват за маркиране на функции с уникални имена, за да се осигури преносимост между OpenZFS реализации, работещи на различни платформи, толкова дълго, колкото всички Feature Flags активирани на ZFS pool се поддържат и от двете платформи. FreeNAS® използва OpenZFS и всяка нова версия на FreeNAS® в крак с времето с най-новите Feature и OpenZFS корекции на грешки.
 Disk Deduplication – за да се спести място, процесът не е точно създаване на дублирани копия на данните. В зависимост от размера на дублираните данни, дедупликацията може да подобри капацитета за съхранение, като по-малко данни се записват и съхраняват. Обаче процесът на дедупликация е RAM интензивен и общото правило е 5 GB RAM на TB. В повечето случаи, използването на компресия вместо "дедуплициране" осигурява по-добра производителност. Във FreeNAS, процесът може да се активира по време на създаването на набор от данни. Няма начин да се върне процесът, деактивирането не оказва влияние върху съществуващите данни. Колкото повече данни има, толкова повече RAM изисква. Ако системата не разполага с необходимата оперативна памет ще се "паникьоса" и едно от решенията е да добавите още. Знаете, че може да използвате компресия. Ако дедупликация е променена на "On", дублиращите блокове данни са отстранени синхронно. Резултатът е, че само уникални данни се съхранявати и общите компоненти са споделени между файлове.
 File system snapshotting and replication Периодичният снапшот позволява да се планира създаването на версии на ZFS (само за четене) и масиви от данни, в дадем момент. Снапшотовете могат да се създават бързо, а ако малка част от данните е променена, снапшотовете заемат малко място. Снапшотовете предоставят хитър начин на водене на историята на файловете, ако има нужда да се възстанови по-старо копие или дори изтрит файл. Поради тази причина, много администратори правят често снимки (например на всеки 15 минути), съхраняват ги за период от време (например за един месец), и това става на друга система (например Replication Tasks). Преди да създадете моментна снимка, трябва да има съществуващ ZFS обем. Репликация дава възможност за автоматизиране на копието на ZFS снимки в друга система през криптирана връзка. Това ви позволява да създадете резервно копие на ZFS набора от данни. Преди да конфигурирате репликация, следните предварителни условия трябва да бъдат изпълнени: – > ZFS басейн трябва да съществува на PUSH, както и на PULL. – > Снапшот трябва да бъде създаден на PUSH. – > Услугата SSH трябва да бъде включена в PULL. Първият път, когато услугата е активирана, ще генерира необходимите ключове за SSH.
 Disk encryption with GELI hardware acceleration Започвайки с 8.3.1, FreeNAS подкрепя GELI пълно дисково криптиране при създаване на ZFS обеми. За да създадете криптиран обем, проверете "Encryption" прозорецът. Това е изключително важно, за да направите резервно копие на ключа, тъй като без него данните на дисковете са недостъпни.

Ако импортвате съществуващ GELI-криптиран ZFS басейн, първо трябва да се декриптират дисковете. На следната фигура, изберете "Yes: Разкодирай дискове" за достъп до екрана. Избирате дисковете в криптирания басейн, отивате на местоположението на запазения криптиран ключ, въвеждате паролата свързана с ключа, "OK", за да декриптира дисковете. Създаване / Промяна Passphrase: кликнете върху този бутон, за да настроите и потвърдете паролата, свързана с GELI клиптиращ ключ. След това въвеждате и повтаряте желаната парола, не трябва да забравяте да добавите нов ключ за възстановяване. За разлика от другите пароли, Passphrase може да съдържа интервали. Един добър пропуск е лесен за запомняне, но труден за отгатване. Ако забравите паролата, данните за обема могат да станат недостъпни.
 Six levels of file system compression including lz4 and gzip При избора на вид компресия, трябва да се балансира производителността с размера на дисковото пространство, спасено от компресия. Компресията е "прозрачна" за клиента и приложение като ZFS автоматично компресира данните. Поддържат се следните алгоритми за компресия:
 lz4: препоръчва метод за компресиране, който позволява на компресирани масиви от данни да работят в близост до скорост в реално време. Този алгоритъм компресира само файлове, които ще се възползват от компресия. По подразбиране, ZFS басейни, направени с помощта на FreeNAS® 9.2.1 или по-висока версия използват този вид компресия.
 gzip: Разделя се на нива от 1 до 9, където ниво 9 осигурява най-добрата компресия, но не се препоръчва поради въздейсвието върху производителността.
 rsync – инструмент, който позволява да прехвърляте и синхронизирате данни между сървъри. Може да се използва по 6 различни начина, както е описано в официалната документация:
 За копиране на локални файлове.
 За копиране от локалната машина, на дистанционна, използвайки за транспорт shell програма (ssh, rsh и др.).
 За копиране от дистанционна машина, на локалната, използвайки за транспорт shell програма.
 За копиране от дистанционен rsync сървър, на локалната машина.
 За копиране от локалната машина, на дистанционен rsync сървър.
 За показване на списък на файловете на дистанционна машина.
 lagg – Link aggregation and link failover interface. Това е функция, която позволява струпването на множество мрежови интерфейси в един виртуален, с цел да се постигне неспирен поток на данните докато поне един мрежов интерфейс все още има връзка. Lagg работи най-добре на суичове, които поддържат протокола LACP, тъй като той разпределя трафика двупосочно, като в същото време отговаря и на отказите на индивидуалните връзки.
 VLAN networking – VLAN представлява метод за разделяне на една физическа компютърна мрежа на различни виртуални мрежи с цел логическа организация, контрол и защита. Потребителите в един VLAN могат да комуникират само помежду си, но не и с потребители от другите виртуални мрежи. Предимството е, че едни и същи комутатори могат да предоставят множество VLAN-и и по-този начин се спестяват разходи за оборудване.
 dynamic DNS client – Основният начин за обновяване на данните на DNS сървър е използването на браузър. Това обаче е доста наудобно при честа смяна на IP адреса. Затова е създаден динамичен DNS клиент. Пример за използването му е, когато искаме да хостваме интернет страница на личния си компютър.
 syslogd – Взаиомодействието със системните логове е критичен аспект на системната администрация и сигурност. Контролирането на регистрите на множество хостове може да се превърне в много тромав процес, когато те са разпределени в средни или големи мрежи, или са части от множество различни видове мрежи. В тези случаи се използва дистанционна интеракция със системните регистри, именно чрез syslogd.
 SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) – протокол от приложния слой, който улеснява обмяната на контролна информация между мрежовите устройства. SNMP е част от пакета TCP/IP и позволява на системните администратори да управляват работата на мрежата, да откриват и решават възникнали в нея проблеми и да планират бъдещи разширения.
 UPS (Uninterruptible power supply) – FreeNAS® използва NUT (Network UPS Tools) за да предостави поддръжка на непрекъсваемо захранване. Ако системата използваща FreeNAS® е свързана към UPS, то може да се добави и стартира.
 iozone, netperf, OpenVPN, tmux и други инструменти.

 Active Directory клиент поддръжка с Windows ACLs – Active Directory (AD) е услуга за споделяне на ресурси в Windows мрежа. AD може да бъде конфигурирана за Windows сървър под Windows Server 2000 или по-нова версия, както и за UNIX базирана операционна система със Samba версия 4. Тъй като AD осигурява оторизиран достъп на потребителите в мрежата, не е необходимо профилите им да бъдат създавани отново във FreeNAS. Вместо тяхното повторно създаване се извършва конфигуриране на Active Directory услугата. По този начин може да се импортира информацията за акаунта и импортираните потребители могат да получат разрешение за достъп до CIFS дялове на FreeNAS.
 CIFS, AFP, NFS, iSCSI, SSH, FTP/TFTP протоколи –  Споделянето на файлове е това, което FreeNAS прави най-добре. Всяка по-голяма операционна система поддържа SMB/CIFS (Windows file shares), NFS (Unix file shares) и AFP (Apple File Shares) както и FTP, iSCSI (block sharing), WebDAV и други методи за споделяне на данни в мрежата. iSCSI поддържа също VMware VAAI, Microsoft ODX и Microsoft Windows Server 2008 и 2012 R2 Clustering. Повечето операционни системи в това число и Windows, Mac OS X, много от Linux дистрибуциите, както и PC-BSD могат да се свързват посредством SMB с малка или абсолютно никаква конфигурация от страна на клиента. Повечето Unix базирани операционни системи поддържат свързването с NFS .AFP се използва предимно от Mac OSX и е подходящ за мрежови среди осъществяващи връзка само с Macintosh клиенти. FreeNAS поддържа също Time Machine резервни копия.
 Apple Time Machine support  – Mac OS X включва приложението Time Machine, което се използва за планирането на автоматично архивиране. Може да се конфигурира Time Machine потребител за архивирането на AFP дял във FreeNAS. Препоръчително е създававането на отделен дял за всеки потребител, който ще използва Time Machine за архивирането на своята Mac OS X операционна система във FreeNAS. Процесът за създаване на отделен оторизиран дял е същият както при създаването на Time Machine потребител.
 LDAP – FreeNAS включва OpenLDAP клиент. Като това предоставя възможността за достъпване на инфорация съхраняване на LDAP сървър. LDAP сървърът предоставя услуги за намиране на мрежови ресурси, като например потребители и техните права. Примери за LDAP сървър са: Microsoft Server (2000 и по нови), Mac OS X Server, Novell eDirectory, и OpenLDAP работещ под BSD или Linux система. Ако вашата мрежа включва LDAP сървър, то услугата FreeNAS LDAP трябва да бъде конфигурирана, така че потребителите в мрежата да се удостоверяват посредством LDAP сървъра и по този начин да се извършва контролиран достъп до данните съхранявани на FreeNAS системата.

UFS2, NTFS, FAT32 and EXT2/3 поддръжка за импортиране на данни – FreeNAS позволява импортирането на самостоятелен диск, форматиран с някои от следните файлови системи: UFS, NTFS, MSDOS(FAT32) или EXT2/3. Това е временно решение, правещо възможно копирането на данните от импортирания диск във вече съществуващ ZFS dataset. Не могат да бъдат импортирани повече от един диск едновременно. За да импортираме диск е нужно да изберем "The Volume" ‣ "Import Disk". Ще се появи диалогов прозорец, в който можем да изберем входната файлова система, както и пътя до мястото, на което искаме да го копираме. След като натиснем "Import Volume", дискът ще бъде монтиран автоматично, ще бъде копиран и демонтиран след приключване на копирането.
 S.M.A.R.T. disk диагностика – S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) е система за наблюдение на твърди дискове, която следи и отчита различни показатели за надежността на твърдия диск. Когато S.M.A.R.T. отчете неизправност на определено устройство, то трябва да бъде заменено. Повечето съвременни ATA, IDE и SCSI-3 хард дискове поддържат S.M.A.R.T. Това може да се провери в документацията на устройството. За добавянето на S.M.A.R.T. тест е нужно да изберете "Tasks" ‣ "S.M.A.R.T. Tests" ‣" Add S.M.A.R.T. Test". Ще се появи диалогов прозорец в него можем да изберем:
 Дисковете за наблюдение
 Tипа на теста. Важно е да се отбележи, че някои типове тестове могат да забавят производителността на устройството или изцяло да го направят неизползваемо по време на теста
 По избор добавяме описание на теста
 Можем да изберем през колко часа да се изпълнява теста или в кои часове
 Също така имаме свободата да изберем кои дни от седмицата или кой месец да се изпълнява теста.

След създаването на необходимите за нас тестове, те могат да бъдат стартирани от "Services" ‣ "S.M.A.R.T.". Ако въведете имейл адрес в полето "Email to report", системата ще ви уведоми при неуспешен тест.

Важно е да се отбележи, че при наличието на RAID контролер трябва да се избягва включването на S.M.A.R.T. услугата поради възникването на проблеми. Именно RAID контролера наблюдава работата на устройствата и ги отчита като евентуално проблемни.

Плъгини
Плъгините позволяват разширяване на вградените функции. Един начин за тяхното инсталиране е като се работи през графичен интерфейс, който е много лесен за употреба, но е ограничен до наличността на предлаганите приложения. Друг метод е посредсвом "jails", който предоставя много повече контрол върху процеса на инсталация, но изисква работа чрез интерфейс с команден ред, както и добро разбиране на компютърните мрежи и софтуерната инсталация при системи базирани на FreeBSD.

Достъпни плъгини във FreeNAS 9.3
 Bacula – набор от софтуерни приложения с отворен код, които позволяват да се управлява процеса по създаване на резервно копие, възстановяването и проверката на данни в мрежа от компютри от различни видове. Bacula е относително лесен за употреба и много ефикасен, предлагайки много разширени функции, с които може лесно да се намерят и възстановят изгубени или повредени файлове.
 BTSync – BitTorrent Sync патентован от BitTorrent Inc е peer-to-peer инструмент за синхронизацията на файлове за Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Amazon Kindle Fire и BSD. Той може да синхронизира файлове в локална мрежа или между отдалечени устройства в интернет посредством модифицирана версия на BitTorrent протокола.
 CouchPotato – е автоматична NZB и торент програма за сваляне на файлове. Предлага опция, в която при въведени филми, извършва търсене за тях в интернет през определен интервал от време. Когато бъдат намерени могат да бъдат препратени към SABnzbd или направо да бъдат свалени в указана директория.
 cruciblewds  – е програма с отворен код за cloning и imaging. Прилича много на Symantec Ghost Solution Suit or Acronis Snap Deploy, но това което я отличава от другите подобни програми е леснотата, с която се борави с нея. Поддържа imaging за Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 и Linux.
 Emby – е медийно приложение, което събира цялото ви медийно съдържание на едно място. Emby ви предлага приятен интерфейс и лесно достъпване до вашите любими филми, сериали както и цялото ви медийно съдържание, което притежавате. Както повечето подобни програми, Emby предлага и стрийм услуга.
 Headphones – е плъгин за автоматично изтегляне на музика за NZB и торенти, написан на Python. С него може да сканирате цялата си музика на хард диска и да я импортирате в Headphones, създавайки своя музикална библиотека. Поддържа SABnzbd, NZBget, Transmission, µTorrent, Deluge и Blackhole.
 HTPC-Manager – плъгинът дава пълен контрол над HTPC навсякъде, с един лесен за използване интерфейс. HTPC Manager ви позволява да преглеждате, възпроизвеждате и управлявате всичките си медийни файлове. Дава възможност за търсене на нови телевизионни предавания, филми и др., получаване на информация за тях, преглед и управление на активните изтегляния. Интерфейсът му позволява лесно управление на приложения като XBMC, SABnzbd, Sick Beard, CouchPotato, Transmission и др.
 Maraschino – този плъгин има лесен за използавне интерфейс за управление на компютър за домашно кино (Home Theater PC). Приложението е безплатно и с отворен код. Някои от основните характеристики на плъгина са:
 Модул за персонални приложения, който осигурява бърз достъп до вашите уеб интерфейси (например SABnzbd, SickBeard или др.);
 Браузър на медийните файлове – може да разглеждате цялата си колекция от филми, клипове и др., и да ги стартирате през XBMC;
 Контрол на множество XBMC сървъри – при повече от един сървър с помощта на Maraschino можете моментално да превключвате между сървърите и да ги контролирате.
 SABnzbd+ модул, който изкача при стартиране теглене по мрежата и се скрива при завършване, показва текущите файлове, скоростта и оставащото време при сваляне.
 Модул за дисковото пространство – показва използваното и свободното място на различни устройства.
 Модули за uTorrent и Transmission за потребителите на торенти

 MineOS – плъгинът е специално разработено приложение за създаване на MineCraft сървър на Linux или BSD-базирани платформи. Снабден е с уеб администраторски интерфейс, SSH мрежов протокол за криптирано предаване на данни и лесна поддръжка на плъгини.
 Mylar – приложение, написано на Python за автоматизиране на процеса по сваляне на комикси (cbr/cbz), базиран основно върху дизайна и логиката на Headphones.
 ownCloud  – софтуер с отворен код за синхронизация и споделяне на файлове, подходящ както за лични нужди, използвайки безплатната версия ownCloud Server edition, така и за големи компании и доставчици на услуги посредством версията ownCloud Enterprise Subscription. ownCloud предоставя сигурен, защитен и удобен начин за синхронизация и споделяне на файлове на сървъри. Може да се сподели един или повече файлове и папки на личния компютър, след което да се направи синхронизация с вашия ownCloud сървър. Поставете файловете в локалната директория за споделяне, след което тези файлове незабавно ще бъдат синхронизирани със сървъра, а също и с други устройства, които използват ownCloud Desktop Sync Client, Android приложение или iOS приложение.
 s3cmd – безплатно приложение с интерфейс с команден ред за качване, извличане и управление на данни в Amazon S3 и други доставчици на облачни услуги за съхранение, които използват S3 протокола, като Google Cloud Storage или DreamHost DreamObjects. Най-подходящ е за потребители, които са запознати от близо с работата на приложения от командния ред. Написан е на Python с отворен код и лиценз GNU Public License v2 (GPLv2), безплатен е както за търговска, така и лична употреба. Необходимо е единствено да се заплати на Amazon за използването на техните услуги за съхранение.
 SABnzbd – NZB приложение, написано на Python с отворен код. Работи почти върху всяка платформа, прави свалянето от Usenet много лесно като автоматизира целия процес. Има уеб базиран потребителски интерфейс.
 SickBeard – персонален видеорекордер за потребителите в дискусионни групи или т.нар. "newsgroup" (с ограничена поддръжка за торенти), който следи за нови епизоди на любими предавания и когато са налични ги сваля, сортира, преименува и с възможност за създаване на метаданни. Текущо поддържа NZBs.org, NZBMatrix, NZBs'R'Us, Newzbin, Womble's Index, NZB.su, TVTorrents and EZRSS и извлича информация за предавания от TVDB.com и TVRage.com.
 SickRage – мениджър за управление на мултимедийни файлове базиран на SickBeard. По негово подобие също може автоматично да сваля телевизионни предавания, когато те бъдат налични, но за разлика от него има и поддръжка за торенти и субтитри, създаване на бекъп и възстановяване, по-добро поведение при провалено сваляне и др.
 Sonarr – персонален видеорекордер за Usenet и BitTorrent потребители. Може да следи множество RSS известия за нови епизоди на любими предавания, след което да ги свали, сортира и преименува. Предоставя и възможността така да бъде настроен, че автоматично да обновява качеството на файловете, които вече са свалени, когато се появи формат с по-добро качество.
 Subsonic – уеб базиран мултимедиен сървър с отворен код. Написан е на Java, така че може да се ползва на всяка операционна система с поддръжка за Java. Поддържа стрииминг към множество клиенти едновременно, на всякакъв вид медия (включително MP3, AAC и Ogg). Също така може да поддържа медийно конвертиране в движение (посредством употребата на плъгини) на най-популярните медийни формати, включително WMA, FLAC и др.

 Syncthing – peer-to-peer приложение с отворен код за файлова синхронизация, налично за Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, Solaris, Darwin и BSD. Може да синхронизира файлове между устройства в локална мрежа или между отдалечени устройства през интернет. В основата на дизайна на софтуера е осигурена защитата и сигурността на данните.
 XDM – съкратено от eXtendable Download Manager, това е плъгин базиран мениджър за управление на мултимедийни колекции. Написан е на Python, като работи във фонов режим и предоставя уеб базиран интерфейс. В действителност по-голямата част са плъгините, като PostProcessor или доставчици на метаданни. Повечето от плъгините могат да бъдат конфигурирани по няколко начина т.е. необходимо е един Newznab плъгин, за да се осъществи връзка към множество индексатори. XDM не е ограничен само до най-популярните формати за сваляне, те могат да бъдат разширени с такива като FTP, SSH или IRC.
 CrashPlan – приложение, което ви позволява да направите резервно копие (архив) на данните от вашия компютър върху облак, друг компютър или на външен диск. Приложението архивира файлове от всякакъв тип и размер, като освен ръчно, създаването на резервно копие може да става и планувано – по график със задаване честота на архивиране. При всяко архивиране може да избирате някой от двата варианта за съхранение – онлайн или офлайн. Онлайн архивирането не е безплатно, но се изпълнява автоматично през определено време. Офлайн съхранението на данни е безплатно и се изпълнява по-бързо, но трябва да сте сигурни в защитата на хардуера, на който се архивира информацията. Позволява да направите резервно копие на 10 различни машини.
 transmission
 plexmediaserver
 Firefly Media Server

Източници

Екрани от програмата
Така изглеждат добавените вече дискове. Има информация за размера файловата система и дали дискът е включен.

Така изглежда добавянето на нов диск.

Форматиране на диск.

Тук избираме диска, който искаме да форматираме и задаваме подходяща файлова система.

Външни препратки

 doc.freenas.org
 networkworld.bg

Софтуер
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The O'Connell effect is an asymmetry in the photometric light curve of certain close eclipsing binary stars. It was named after the astronomer Daniel Joseph Kelly O'Connell, SJ of Riverview College in New South Wales who in 1951 studied this phenomenon and distinguished it from the so-called periastron effect described by earlier authors, as it does not necessarily appear near the periastron, when tidal effects and an increase in mutual radiation may cause an increase in luminosity.

The effect

The out-of-eclipse brightness maxima of some binary stars are unequally high. This is contrary to expectations that the observed luminosity of an eclipsing binary should be the same when its components switch positions every half period. The maximum following the primary minimum is nearly always brighter than the preceding one. This is called the positive O'Connell effect, the reverse case is referred to as the negative O'Connell effect. The difference increases with the ellipticity of the stars, and the differences in their sizes and densities. Also, spectral differences have been observed between subsequent maxima.

Attempts at explanation

In some systems where the phenomenon has been observed, such as in CG Cygni, RT Lacertae, XY Ursae Majoris, or YY Eridani, the luminosity difference between subsequent maxima has been found to be variable, in others relatively stable. Furthermore, it has been observed in a variety of configurations, such as over-contact, semi-detached, and near contact systems alike. These factors make an explanation difficult and suggest that various mechanisms may be responsible for the effect to manifest. Several reasons have thus been proposed: an asymmetric distribution of starspots, impacts of one-way gas streams between the components of the binary system, or the flow of circumstellar matter, asymmetrically deflected due to Coriolis forces.

Examples

The O'Connell effect has been observed, among others, in the binary systems W Crucis, RT Lacertae, CX Canis Majoris, TU Crucis, AQ Monocerotis, DQ Velorum, and CG Cygni.

References

External links

 A Possible Explanation of the O'Connell Effect in Close Binary Stars

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Home Khel Bengal CRICKET Vijay Goel Felicitates Indian Cricket Eves
Vijay Goel Felicitates Indian Cricket Eves
New Delhi: Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Vijay Goel on Thursday felicitated the Indian women's cricket team for their tremendous performance in the recent ICC Women's World Cup.
Congratulating the team for putting up great show, Goel said the Mithali Raj-led side might have lost the finals against hosts England at Lord's by nine runs, but they have won the hearts of the entire country.
"I believe that our women's cricket team has done exceedingly well that any form of appreciation will be less for them. Despite ending as runner-ups, I feel that the women's team has won the finals because they have won the hearts of the entire country. And winning the hearts of the entire country is so big thing that even Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said, `We are proud of you`. And that is why PM Modi says `if you play, you will flourish`," Goel said.
The Sports Minister further pointed out that it was after their performance in the 50-over tournament that people around the country have become more aware of women cricketers.
"The country was not aware much about the women's team prior to the World Cup, but now after the final match, people are aware about all women players.
So, I want to congratulate Mithali Raj and her entire team. The female players have done so well in cricket; I want to congratulate them on behalf of the entire sports ministry. I also want to congratulate the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). I also want to congratulate the coaches, team managers and supporting staff of the team," he added.
On Wednesday, the Indian team was given a rousing reception at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai on their return from London.
The Women in Blue performed extremely well throughout the tournament before ending up as runner-up, going down by nine runs to England in a nail-biting final at Lord's on July 23.
Vijay Goel
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