Colorado wildfires are 'what global warming really looks like' (+video)

The wildfires ravaging Colorado are a preview of the kinds of disasters that human-caused climate change could bring about, say scientists.?

By Deborah Zabarenko and Laura Zuckerman,?Reuters / June 29, 2012

A firefighting helicopter makes a run over a plume of smoke rising from the Waldo Canyon wildfire west of Colorado Springs, Colo., Thursday.

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Scorching heat, high winds and bone-dry conditions are fueling catastrophic?wildfires?in the U.S. West that offer a preview of the kind of disasters that human-caused climate change could bring, a trio of scientists said on Thursday.

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"What we're seeing is a window into what?global?warming?really looks like,"?Princeton University's?Michael Oppenheimer?said during a telephone press briefing. "It looks like heat, it looks like fires, it looks like this kind of environmental disaster ... This provides vivid images of what we can expect to see more of in the future."

In?Colorado,?wildfires?that have raged for weeks have killed four people, displaced thousands and destroyed hundreds of homes. Because winter snowpack was lighter than usual and melted sooner, fire season started earlier in the U.S. West, with?wildfires?out of control in?Colorado,?Montana?and?Utah.

The high temperatures that are helping drive these fires are consistent with projections by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which said this kind of extreme heat, with little cooling overnight, is one kind of damaging impact of?global?warming.

Others include more severe storms, floods and droughts, Oppenheimer said.

The stage was set for these fires when winter snowpack was lighter than usual, said?Steven Running, a forest ecologist at the?University of Montana.

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PFT: Richardson expects to Browns' workhorse

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Plenty of this year?s franchise players have yet to receive multi-year deals.? Recently, Titans safety Michael Griffin got one.

Widely reported as a five-year, $35 million deal with $15 million guaranteed, the first part is right and the second part requires a little clarification.

Per a source with knowledge of the deal, the contract indeed has a base value of $35 million, but only $11.5 million is fully guaranteed.? The other $3.5 million is guaranteed for injury only; it becomes fully guaranteed on the fifth day after the start of the 2013 waiver period.

In all, Griffin gets a $9 million signing bonus, a $2.5 million fully-guaranteed base salary in 2012, a $3.5 million base salary in 2013 guaranteed for injury only until next year, a $1 million roster bonus due on the 15th day of the 2013 league year, a $6.2 million base salary in 2014, a $6.3 million base salary in 2015, and a $6.5 million base salary in 2016.

The cap numbers are $4.3 million in 2012, $6.3 million in 2013, $8 million in 2014, $8.1 million in 2015, and $8.3 million in 2016.

With cap numbers at and above $8 million in the final three years of the deal, Griffin will need to continue to play at a high level to persuade the Titans to honor all five seasons of the contract.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/07/03/richardson-eyes-a-workhorse-role/related

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Children's Health & Fitness ? Educating Families On Childhood ...

July 2nd, 2012 by Len Saunders

From KPBS?..

One Wednesday afternoon toward the end of May, the cafeteria at Rice Elementary School in Chula Vista was packed. Parents filled rows of seats for a cooking demonstration conducted in Spanish. The menu included fruit smoothies, a chicken salad and other quick, healthy foods kids are likely to enjoy.

The demonstration was part of the school?s first annual wellness fair. Fairs like it have been happening across the Chula Vista Elementary School District over the past year. In 2010 the district measured students? height and weight. They found that in some schools up to 40 percent of the students were overweight or obese. Rice was one of those schools.

Now the whole school community is undergoing a health-focused transformation. They?re doing it in part with the help of doctors from the nearby Chula Vista Family Clinic.

One facet of their partnership has been helping adults model healthy behaviors for students, according to Dr. Shaila Serpas, who leads the partnership for the clinic.

?Rice was sort of a trial in how do we really support staff wellness and allowing staff to determine how to do that but then providing them support,? she said. ?One example was they were looking for quick healthy recipes. Many of them with children

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Source: http://www.lensaunders.com/wp/?p=1852

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Shrew Soft VPN

Shrew Soft VPN Client (Free) is a freely available IPSEC client for Windows and Linux machines used to connect to a Virtual Private Network. Organizations are increasingly offering employees remote VPN access to protect their network, data, and applications from outside threats. However, many of the vendor client offerings can be expensive and difficult to install. The Shrew Soft VPN client takes the complexity out of the equation and makes establishing the VPN connection as simple as possible for the end-user.

Shrew Soft's VPN software is a true VPN client in that it connects to an existing VPN server, whether that's from the big giants such as Cisco or Juniper, or from smaller players such as Cisco's Linksys. If you already have a VPN server, then you should definitely consider Shrew Soft. If you don't have a VPN server handy?either as a stand-alone product or as a feature on a firewall or a router?you would be better served looking at one of the all-in-one VPN software such as our Editors' Choices Logmein Hamachi and Comodo Unite. With these products, you can create a VPN connection between individual endpoints and have secure connection on the fly.

Features
Shrew Soft's VPN client is capable of working with VPN servers from several major commercial vendors, including Cisco, Zyxel, and Juniper Networks. The software's website has instructions on configuring the software to work with Adtran NetVanta, Check Point NGx, Cisco ASA, Cisco IOS, Cisco PIX, DrayTek, Fortigate, Fritz!Box, Juniper SSG (with and without certificates), Lancom, Linksys, NetASQ, Netgear, Sidewinder 6.x, Sidewinder 7.x, Sonicwall, and ZyXEL Zywall. There are instructions on the Juniper Networks knowledgebase on configuring the client to work with SRX Services Gateway and ScreenOS firewalls, as well. It can handle Cisco VPN connections that rely on pre-shared keys or certificates (IPSec) or with AnyConnect (SSL VPN).

The client supports a variety of operating systems, including Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, several Linux distributions, and OpenBSD. For organizations with a heterogeneous network, Shrew Soft's software allows them to standardize on one VPN client, regardless of the operating systems running.?

The fact that Macs aren't supported is disappointing. Considering the increasing numbers of Macs in the workplace, having a single client for all platforms would make the software a much stronger competitor.

Some advanced features are supported, including Split Tunneling, Split DNS, Nat Traversal, IKE Fragmentation, Packet Pre Fragmentation, Dead Peer Detection, Hybrid XAuth and automatic client configuration.

Support
The Shrew Soft Website offers a thorough wiki with detailed setup instructions and screenshots on how to configure products from specific vendors. There are how-tos for open source gateways including OpenSWAN, StrongSWAN, m0n0wal, and pfSense.

One thing I like about Shrew Soft is the fact that it supports multiple VPN servers. In a scenario where a user needs to connect to multiple networks, and if they don't have the same type of server, that user would normally have to install client software for each connection. That can easily get messy and difficult, if the tools wind up conflicting with each other. With Shrew Soft, everything is configured easily under one tool, making it easy to switch back and forth.

Installation and Setup
Getting started is a breeze, as the user downloads the desired version for the operating system directly from the website. No registration required. After downloading and installing the software, users can launch Shrew Soft VPN Access Manager.

If the IT department has a Cisco .pcf VPN configuration file already available, the process is even easier. All the user has to do is save the .pcf file somewhere on the local computer, and then go to the VPN Access Manager's File menu to import the file. Once the file has been imported, an icon with the file name will appear on the screen. Click on it once and hit connect to establish a VPN tunnel.

If the .pcf file has an encrypted password, some versions of Shrew Soft VPN may not be able to access that information. You will then need to obtain the required information from the IT department and replace the encrypted password.

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Video: Jindal on running with Romney

A Second Take on Meeting the Press: From an up-close look at Rachel Maddow's sneakers to an in-depth look at Jon Krakauer's latest book ? it's all fair game in our "Meet the Press: Take Two" web extra. Log on Sundays to see David Gregory's post-show conversations with leading newsmakers, authors and roundtable guests. Videos are available on-demand by 12 p.m. ET on Sundays.

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Tom Cruise Gushes About Katie Holmes To MTV In 2005

'I want to share my life with this woman,' Cruise told Sway.
By Kara Warner, with reporting by Sway Calloway

Tom Cruise in 2005
Photo: MTV News

Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1688856/tom-cruise-katie-holmes-2005.jhtml

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