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		<title>Feeling Stressed In The Office? Get Home And Unwind The Green Fingered Way!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might have many reasons why you should garden like wanting to eat fresh fruits and vegetables to having a beautiful landscape. It isn&#8217;t going to make any difference what reason you have, the end goal is that gardening can &#8230;<p class="read-more"><a href="http://opencarnivore.org/feeling-stressed-office-home-unwind-green-fingered-way/">Read more &#187;</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://opencarnivore.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/lawnGarden1-300x225.jpg" alt="" title="relax-garden" width="300" height="225" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-268" />You might have many reasons why you should garden like wanting to eat fresh fruits and vegetables to having a beautiful landscape. It isn&#8217;t going to make any difference what reason you have, the end goal is that gardening can be a great <a href="http://www.canada.com/ElderCollege+winter+semester+starts+soon/6006602/story.html">stress reliever</a>. When you always view gardening as something fun and enjoyable, it will be possible to relieve stress. It isn&#8217;t going to be a stress remedy if you regard it as a chore that you want to get done quickly.</p>
<p>The solution to relieving stress is by focusing on your garden task. Because of the movements of gardening such as digging, chopping and hitting, you can release a lot of the tension and stress. Many people obtain relief by means of slamming pillows, batting dummies or throwing punches in the air so gardening would also be a good outlet.</p>
<p>An outlet for aggressions that have been pent-up can be furnished by strenuous activities, but that certainly isn&#8217;t the only way. Walking around your garden and appreciating the many plants you are growing could also help release the aggression. Simply by experiencing and enjoying the sights and smells of your garden, you can easily be freed of all that ails you. You&#8217;ll realize that your stress has actually been reversed as a result of all the hard work you did in your garden.</p>
<p>The thing you have to do is make sure your gardening is stress-free. It&#8217;s best to compose a list of things you need to complete and follow the list. It does not really need to be done all at once, or in a day, otherwise you will just produce stress. Your garden tasks should be done like your exercise routine.</p>
<p>Essentially you&#8217;ll want to work hard, take needed breaks and drink a lot of water. Train your young ones ways to garden, and you can use the experience as a way to bond with them. It will not only teach them a skill that will follow them, but they will always remember the time you spent with them.</p>
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<p>Many people happen to be suffering with chronic illnesses, because of their stress, and today is a good time to learn how not to be stressed. If you feel that gardening will help you minimize stress, then you should try it. If you don&#8217;t have any space, there are plenty of programs that can help you grow and garden. As well as alleviating stress, gardening can additionally provide other benefits as well. It is possible to grow fruits and vegetables that you can share with everyone to enjoy. Spending time with your garden boosts your time in the sunlight, which increases your vitamin D intake.</p>
<p>This can brighten your mood. Gardening is often a pleasurable activity designed to relieve your stress. It is also a great way to get your children and yourself nearer together. It&#8217;s a thing that you can do from now until you die. You will even have the benefit of saving money by raising your own fruits and vegetables.</p>
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		<title>An Italian Soccer Match Prompts An Online Gaming Product Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, we attended a soccer match in Italy, courtesy of some of our sponsors, and noticed many advertising billboards promoting the online betting company, Bet-at-Home. As we enjoy the odd sports bet ourselves, we were curious as none of us &#8230;<p class="read-more"><a href="http://opencarnivore.org/265/">Read more &#187;</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Recently, we attended a soccer match in Italy, courtesy of some of our sponsors, and noticed many advertising billboards promoting the online betting company, Bet-at-Home. As we enjoy the odd sports bet ourselves, we were curious as none of us had heard of this company before. </p>
<p>Therefore we decided to do some more research into the company before we joined. Being intelligent types, we do not, of course, deposit money into an account without doing a few background checks first. So here are our findings&#8230;.</p>
<p><img src="http://opencarnivore.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/bet-at-home-review.jpg" alt="" title="bet-at-home-review" width="160" height="100" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-266" />In the industry of online sports betting, among the most commonly known companies is certainly Bet-at-Home Of course, they are far from the only bookmaker in town, and whenever there is such a lot of choice it can sometimes be difficult to know where to go.</p>
<p>The large quantity of internet bookmakers can be especially puzzling for novices. This is because they could have a decreased understanding of the particular sector, and also the terminology associated with internet sports betting. Devoid of some sort of assistance, it is easy to end up being overwhelmed by the predicament.</p>
<p>This particular article on Bet-at-Home is actually focussed on some key aspects of the actual product they provide. Newcomers preferably should employ this information to help them make a decision when picking an appropriate online bookmaker.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s important for users to have the means to get what they are looking for quickly, which is why the design of a sports betting website is really important.</p>
<p>Most of the style and design within the Bet-at-Home site is a lot like a number of other sports betting websites. Various kinds of sports are detailed on the left side, with more popular sports displayed in the middle.</p>
<p>In order to satisfy demand from customers, Bet-at-Home provide in-play betting on a huge selection of events daily. Members are also able to actually view the event they&#8217;re placing bets on through the complimentary Bet-at-Home live video service.</p>
<p>Users are able to modify various setting in their online account. For example, the amount of cash a customer can deposit each day can be limited. This is a very important and responsible feature that will permit somebody that has an addictive temperament to manage their particular expenses upfront.</p>
<p>Free bet deals play a very important part in terms of obtaining new sports betting customers. They provide users the opportunity to take a look at the sports betting service on offer while not risking too much of their own money. Considering the fact that customers can keep any money they might make by using free bets, they are really viewed as a chance to obtain something for free. Needless to say, this is one more reason that explains why they are coveted by customers.. Anyone questioning the level of popularity connected with free bets simply needs to consider the many comparison sites as evidence of the significance clients place upon these types of promotions.</p>
<p>When starting up a new membership with Bet-at-Home, all new clients have the chance to receive the popular <a href="http://www.free-bet-advice.com/bet-at-home-free-bet" title="Bet at Home bonus">Bet-at-Home bonus</a>. The £15 Bet-at-Home free bet is presently one of the very best deals within the sports betting niche, though of course these promotions are susceptible to alter from time to time.When joining up, it may be necessary to type in a Bet-at-Home bonus code, and this can be acquired from a suitable free bets site. It may not be necessary however it&#8217;s preferable to make sure before opening a membership.</p>
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		<title>Open Carnivore</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ars Electronica &#8220;Golden Nica&#8221; winner (2002) Carnivore is a surveillance tool for data networks. At the heart of the project is CarnivorePE, a software application that listens to all Internet traffic (email, web surfing, etc.) on a specific local network. &#8230;<p class="read-more"><a href="http://opencarnivore.org/open-carnivore/">Read more &#187;</a></p>]]></description>
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Carnivore is a surveillance tool for data networks. At the heart of the project is CarnivorePE, a software application that listens to all Internet traffic (email, web surfing, etc.) on a specific local network. Next, CarnivorePE serves this data stream to interfaces called &#8220;clients.&#8221; These clients are designed to animate, diagnose, or interpret the network traffic in various ways. Use CarnivorePE to run Carnivore clients from your own desktop, or use it to make your own clients.</p>
<div id="attachment_247" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 442px"><img src="http://opencarnivore.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/winotfi.jpg" alt="" title="winotfi" width="432" height="352" class="size-full wp-image-247" /><p class="wp-caption-text">&quot;WINOTFI&quot;—A CARNIVORE CLIENT BY ANYA STAFFORD, AUDREY HANLEY, AND JOHANNA BOLTON </p></div>
<h3>Diagram</h3>
<div id="attachment_248" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 285px"><img src="http://opencarnivore.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/carnivore-diagram.gif" alt="" title="carnivore-diagram" width="275" height="135" class="size-full wp-image-248" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Open Carnivore Diagram</p></div>
<p>This diagram shows, at a basic level, how the Open Carnivore system worked. It positions itself on a network segment and monitors the traffic of certain designated users, looking for specific keywords or phrases. If it finds a matching data string in the monitored traffic, it will intercept and store that transmission for later analysis by the Carnivore administrator.</p>
<h3>Schedule</h3>
<p>Installations with multiple Carnivore clients:<br />
Villette Numerique, Paris, 9.21.04-10.3.04<br />
New York Digital Salon, New York, 2003<br />
Ateneo Art Gallery, Philippines, 6.25.03-8.30.03<br />
University of Michigan Gallery, Mount Pleasant, MI, 1.15.03-2.15.03<br />
Eyebeam, New York, 10.15.02-12.1.02<br />
Ars Electronica Center, Linz, 2002-2003<br />
Art Futura, Barcelona, 10.31.02-11.3.02<br />
The Watson Institute, Providence, 9.8.02-9.20.02<br />
NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, 6.21.02-8.11.02<br />
White Columns, New York, 6.14.02-7.21.02<br />
New Museum, New York, 5.2.02-6.30.02<br />
Kontrollfelder, Germany, 4.5.02-5.5.02<br />
Illinois State University Galleries, US, 2.26.02-4.3.02<br />
Transmediale, Berlin, 2.5.02-2.10.02<br />
Princeton Art Museum, US, 1.19.02-4.1.02</p>
<p>Additional installations of &#8220;Out of the Ordinary&#8221;:<br />
computerfinearts.org (permanent collection)<br />
Electrohype, Malmö, Sweden, 10.23.02-10.27.02</p>
<p>	  	Additional installations of &#8220;Police State&#8221;:<br />
DETOX, 3.26.04-4.18.04, Oslo/Trondheim, Norway.<br />
ElectroFringe, October 2-6, 2003, Newcastle, Australia.<br />
SuperSonic, July 12, 2003, Birmingham, UK.<br />
Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF), 2.25.03-3.9.03, Rotterdam.<br />
Darklight Film Festival, Sept 20-22, 2002, Dublin, Ireland.</p>
<p>Additional installations of &#8220;History of Art for the Intelligence Community&#8221;:<br />
Neue Galerie, Graz, 10.27.02-11.25.02<br />
Chelsea Art Museum, New York, 9.14.04-10.16.04</p>
<p>Additional installation of &#8220;ActiveMetaphore&#8221;:<br />
BananaRAM Net.Festival, Ancona, Italy, 18/21 September 2002</p>
<p>Additional installation of &#8220;Order and Chaos&#8221;:<br />
Techne02_Spazio Oberdan_Milan_Italy ? Oct. 30/02 > Feb. 02/03</p>
<p>Permanent installation of &#8220;Network is Speaking&#8221;:<br />
XYZ, Milan, February 2004</p>
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<h3>News Archive</h3>
<p>The following news announcements documented the first two years of Carnivore&#8217;s development (June 2001 &#8211; May 2003)</p>
<p>05/05/03—Carnivore is covered today in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/">The New York Times</a><br />
03/02/03—View a film or another film of Jonah Brucker-Cohen&#8217;s &#8220;Police State&#8221; client. The footage is from DEAF 2003 in Rotterdam.<br />
01/17/03—RSG documents numbered 000320, 000321, and 000322 have been declassified for public review.<br />
12/29/02—The very first Carnivore Client, called RSG-CPE0C-1, is now web-accessable thanks to a nice Flash port by Todd Holoubek. Doron Golan of Computer Fine Arts has included RSG-CPE0C-1 in his new group project called dialoque.ws.<br />
11/11/02-Carnivore begins talks with online gaming companies with a view to increasing the security of their networks. In particular, online poker networks are interested in using Carnivore to detect users who seek to exploit <a href="http://www.apokerbonus.com" title="poker bonus">poker bonus</a> offers and manipulate them for financial gain through multi player collaboration.<br />
10/25/02—Vuk Cosic opens his &#8220;History of Art for the Intelligence Community&#8221; at the Neue Galerie in Graz.<br />
10/15/02—&#8221;Beta Launch&#8221; opens today at Eyebeam. This is the largest Carnivore exhibition to date.<br />
09/24/02—SF Camerawork puts Carnivore in their &#8220;net.narrative&#8221; show<br />
09/07/02—Carnivore opens at the Ars Electronica Center for the 2002-2003 season.<br />
09/05/02—Area3 made a dandy new client called World Wall Painters for the artFutura exhibition in Barcelona.<br />
08/28/02—Check out Stats, a new client by the Witness.<br />
08/16/02—<a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/jonah-brucker-cohen">Jonah Brucker-Cohen</a> announces the first physical client. &#8220;Police State&#8221; is a Carnivore client involving twenty radio-controlled cars. See its premier in Dublin on 9/21, or catch a sneak preview at Ars Electronica.<br />
06/17/02—RSG speaks: How We Made Our Own Carnivore.<br />
06/14/02—Carnivore opens at White Columns in New York featuring a new client by Golan Levin.<br />
06/03/02—Limiteazero releases Active Metaphore, a new Carnivore client.<br />
05/20/02—Carnivore wins Golden Nica at Ars Electronica.<br />
05/02/02—Carnivore opens at the New Museum (NYC). New work from Lisa Jevbratt, Paul Johnson, and others.<br />
04/23/02—There is now an email list for folks making clients using CarnivorePE. To subscribe email majordomo@rhizome.org with &#8216;subscribe carni_dev&#8217;<br />
04/19/02—CarnivorePE version 1.3.3 is now available! CarnivorePE turns your computer into a personal data surveillance tool. Download info below&#8230;<br />
01/30/02—Carnivore surveys data from RTMark, BIT and other hacktivists demonstrating at the World Economic Forum in New York.<br />
01/18/02—Carnivore premiers at the Princeton Art Museum<br />
12/01/01—Carnivore Clients are released by Mark Daggett, Entropy8Zuper!, Mark Napier and Praystation.<br />
12/18/01—Mark Napier releases Black and White<br />
12/11/01—The Guernica client is released by Entropy8Zuper!<br />
11/19/01—Praystation releases amalgamatmosphere, the first public Carnivore Client<br />
11/16/01—Paul Johnson joins the RSG to build Carnivore Server #2<br />
10/26/01—Discussants on Slashdot are &#8220;terribly afraid of this falling into the wrong hands.&#8221;<br />
10/26/01—Carnivore covered in Memepool and Metafilter<br />
10/24/01—Eyebeam Atelier awards Artist-in-Residence to Carnivore<br />
10/09/01—Make your own Carnivore using this schematic<br />
10/01/01—&#8221;Food for thought,&#8221; writes The New York Times<br />
09/15/01—Carnivore goes public<br />
06/08/01—Carnivore is covered in Wired News</p>
<h3>About Carnivore</h3>
<p>ABOUT CARNIVORE:</p>
<p>CarnivorePE is inspired by DCS1000, a piece of software used by the <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/">FBI</a> to perform electronic wiretaps. (Until recently, DCS1000 was known by its nickname &#8220;Carnivore.&#8221;) Improving on the FBI software, CarnivorePE features new functionality including: artist-made diagnosic clients, remote access, full subject targetting, full data targetting, volume buffering, transport protocol filtering, and an open source software license. Carnivore is created by RSG.</p>
<h3>History Of Carnivore</h3>
<p>In 2000, an independent group of network security specialists offered to perform an independent review of Carnivore, which had previously caused controversy among those with privacy concerns.</p>
<p>Previously, various privacy groups had claimed that Carnivore might potentially be set up to intercept and store more traffic than it should, when installed at an Internet service provider (ISP). </p>
<p>They also claimed that even if Carnivore intercepts massive amounts of data and successfully discards anything that is not relevant, it could (potentially) still violate the prohibition on &#8220;unreasonable searches and seizures&#8221; as specified in the Fourth Amendment.</p>
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		<title>Help Beat Cancer By Donating To Cancer Research Campaign</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[An estimated 12.66 million people were diagnosed with cancer across the world in 2008, and 7.56 million people died from the disease. Just four cancer sites – lung, female breast, colorectum and stomach – accounted for twofifths of the total &#8230;<p class="read-more"><a href="http://opencarnivore.org/beat-cancer-donating-cancer-research-campaign/">Read more &#187;</a></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An estimated 12.66 million people were diagnosed with cancer across the world in 2008, and 7.56 million people died from the disease. Just four cancer sites – lung, female breast, colorectum and stomach – accounted for twofifths of the total cases diagnosed worldwide. Lung cancer continued to be the most common cancer diagnosed in men worldwide (accounting for 16.5% of all new cases), and breast cancer was by far the most common cancer diagnosed in women (23% of all new cases). As the world’s population continues to grow and age, the burden of cancer worldwide will inevitably increase, even if current incidence rates remain the same. The United Nations high-level meeting in September 2011 provides a huge opportunity in the global fight against cancer and other noncommunicable diseases.</p>
<p>Focusing resources on research of high scientific quality and clinical impact will help us to work towards improving survival for people with cancer.</p>
<p>We undertook a thorough review of our research portfolio before putting our research strategy together, so we are confident that we are focusing our resources in the most effective way we can. We have three particular areas of focus.</p>
<p><strong>Building on current strengths</strong></p>
<p>We will continue to invest in our strengths in lab research, drug discovery and development, clinical research and research to understand the causes and prevention of cancer.</p>
<p>Our lab research to understand cancer biology is a vital area of our work and is a great strength for Cancer Research UK. We have also contributed to the discovery and development of many of the top drugs used to treat cancer. And each year over 30,000 people enter clinical trials that we support.</p>
<p>In addition, our scientists are world-renowned for their role in uncovering and understanding factors that increase the risk of cancer.</p>
<p><strong>Realising new opportunities</strong></p>
<p>We are leading on or involved in several important strategic initiatives, for example our Stratified Medicine and Genomics programmes, and the International Cancer Genome Consortium.</p>
<p>Other examples where we are realising new opportunities include our work in early diagnosis, imaging and biomarkers.</p>
<p>Diagnosing cancer at an early stage is one of the most promising ways through which we could improve cancer survival rates. Detecting and treating cancer earlier could mean thousands of cancer deaths could be avoided each year in the UK. This is a key area where we are investing in new opportunities.</p>
<p>The National Awareness and Early Diagnosis Initiative (NAEDI) is at the forefront of our work in this area, aiming to co-ordinate and provide support to activities that promote earlier diagnosis of cancer.</p>
<p>Advances in imaging have exciting potential to help people with cancer through more accurate diagnoses, and by allowing doctors to watch how cancer cells spread and respond to treatment in real time. New opportunities in imaging could have a real impact on how cancer is treated. We are currently funding four imaging research centres and five imaging programmes.</p>
<p>Biomarkers are molecules that can be tested for in a person&#8217;s tissues or body fluids that answer important questions about their cancer or cancer risk. They can help doctors diagnose and screen for cancer, and work out what the best treatment for each person is. This is a new and exciting area of research which our scientists are developing.</p>
<p><strong>Boosting areas of unmet need</strong></p>
<p>We are taking steps to boost research into surgery and radiotherapy. Both play an important role in treatment for most people whose cancer is cured and we want to refine them further, making existing methods more effective or developing new techniques that more people can benefit from. </p>
<p>We will also promote more research into harder to treat cancers such as lung, oesophageal and pancreatic cancers and other cancer types with the poorest outcomes. While survival rates for other cancers have been steadily improving over the years, survival rates for these cancers are still low. We aim to improve this.</p>
<p>You can donate by visiting the <a href="http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/">Cancer Research Campaign</a>.</p>
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