Ebola facility in Liberia attacked; patients flee

Seventeen patients infected with Ebola were unaccounted for on Sunday after they fled an armedraid on a quarantine centre in Monrovia by men who claimed the epidemic is a fiction.

"They broke down the door and looted the place. The patients have all gone," said Rebecca Wesseh, who witnessed the attack out the outskirts of the Liberian capital.

Her report was confirmed by residents and the head of Health Workers Association of Liberia, George Williams.

Williams said the unit housed 29 patients who "had all tested positive for Ebola" and were receiving preliminary treatment before being taken to hospital.

"Of the 29 patients, 17 fled last night (after the assault). Nine died four days ago and three others were yesterday (Saturday) taken by force by their relatives" from the centre, he said.

The attackers, mostly young men armed with clubs, shouted that President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf "is broke" and "there's no Ebola" in Liberia as they broke into the unit in a Monrovia suburb, Wesseh said.

Residents had opposed the creation of the centre, set up by health authorities in part of the city considered an epicentre of the Ebola outbreak in the Liberian capital.

"We told them not to (build) their camp here. They didn't listen to us," said a young resident, who declined to give his name.

"We don't believe in this Ebola outbreak." The Ebola outbreak, the worst since the virus first appeared in 1976, has claimed 1,145 lives in five months, according to the UN World Health Organization's latest figures as of August 13: 413 in Liberia, 380 in Guinea, 348 in Sierra Leone and four in Nigeria.

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England thrash India at The Oval to secure 3-1 victory in Test series

                     England thrash India at The Oval to secure 3-1 victory in Test series

On a late summer Kennington afternoon, India suffered their final humiliation of a month that had already seen indignity heaped on indignity. Faced with the task of making 338 in their second innings even for England to bat again, they had capitulated with almost relentless predictability by 4.20pm, dismissed for 94, leaving England winners by an innings and 244 runs. Only at Lord’s, in 1974, when the margin was an innings and 285, have England delivered a bigger beating to India, for whom this represents their third heaviest innings defeat.

Thus, England, seemingly on the ropes and in crisis only a few weeks ago, after they themselves had been dismissed ignominiously at Lord’s, finish the summer having won the last three matches by 266 runs at Ageas Bowl; an innings and 54 at Old Trafford; and now this. It also means that England retain the Pataudi Trophy that they won under Andrew Strauss and retained under Alastair Cook in India.

The England seam bowlers were irresistible, aided by the substantial movement, both in the air and from the pitch of a kind that has made batting a trial throughout this match, and indeed the last four matches, and by the technical and mental inadequacies of the Indian batting. The chief beneficiary was Chris Jordan, who polished things off with clinical precision, taking 4 for 18, with Jimmy Anderson taking 2 for 16, and Stuart Broad and Chris Woakes taking a wicket apiece for 22 and 24 runs respectively. There were two run outs.

Anderson stands only four wickets short of overtaking Ian Botham’s England record of 383 wickets, but must wait at least until Antigua in April for the opportunity to do so in what would be his 100th Test match. In taking 25 wickets at 20.6 runs apiece, Anderson was the obvious choice for Duncan Fletcher, the India coach, to nominate as England’s man of the series.

The man of the match award went to Joe Root, whose unbeaten 149 in batting conditions that became ever more demanding as the pitch gained pace over three days, helped propel England to a formidable 486 that left India with no chance, beyond the weather, of saving the game. There was, indeed, some rain, but it arrived shortly before lunch and delayed play by only 20 minutes after the interval while the covers were mopped up.

Since their first innings at Lord’s, India’s scores have been progressively lower: 347; then 330 and 178 at Ageas Bowl; 152 and 161 at Old Trafford; and now 148 and 94. In their last five innings, then, they have lost 50 wickets for 733 runs in 247 overs, which means one wicket every five overs. This is not just poor batting, it is calamitous.

Now, for India, comes the soul searching, a challenge to see quite how much this defeat, in this form of cricket, affects the perception of the team in India. As with England it is a young side, largely anyway, who came up against a similarly developing team but, crucially, in familiar conditions. They were just not up to the job.

Now, though, the teams will soon exchange their Test match whites for their limited-overs colours, and here India might find England in the process of significant redevelopment, as close as they are to February’s World Cup. Would this Test match humiliation be offset, airbrushed away even as almost an irrelevance, by a win in a one-day series as a precursor to their own defence of the World Cup? And how will this affect the position of Fletcher, whose Test match record away from India is abysmal. Can his limited overs record, which includes the Champions Trophy in this country a year ago, sustain him (always assuming he wants it, of course)?

England had begun the final day already in a commanding position, with Root approaching his fifth Test match hundred, and with time enough to extend that to one of total dominance. So hard did Root and, after the loss of Jordan, Broad go that 101 runs were scored in the 11 overs and three balls it took India to finish off the innings. Whereupon, the bowlers, backed by high-quality catching and ground fielding, began the process of working their way through the order.

Anderson, inevitably, made the first incision, a brilliant outer-outer-inner three-card trick to have Murali Vijay lbw, and Woakes the second incision, running out the hapless Gautam Gambhir just as the rain began to fall. After the restart, it was relentless pressure, with five and sometimes six men close catching on the offside. Anderson found another special delivery for Cheteshwar Pujara, and Gary Ballance made an outstanding left-handed diving catch at third slip to pluck an edge from Ajinkya Rahane that would not have carried to second slip.

The main stumbling blocks that remained now were Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni. But Woakes found a little extra bounce to have the India captain caught at short leg from inside edge and thigh pad, and Jordan, brought into the attack to replace Broad, immediately had Kohli, aiming to clip the ball through midwicket, well caught by Cook at first slip.

It was processional thereafter as Ravichandran Ashwin and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, the latter India’s man of the series, were caught by Ian Bell at second slip, Ashwin after Ballance had parried into the air a sharp head-high chance. When Varun Aaron was run out, with brilliant work from Jos Buttler in gathering Moeen Ali’s throw, it left Ishant Sharma as the last bastion. Jordan’s bouncer, fended into the air and caught by Moeen running in from short extra cover, made short work of it.

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Bill Gates Soaked In Ice Bucket Challenge

The Microsoft pioneer took the Ice Bucket Challenge to raise awareness for ALS, also known as Lou Gherig's disease, or motor neurone disease.

The video - posted on his gatesnotes blog - shows Mr Gates watching Mr Zuckerberg nominate him and then rigging up an elaborate tipping mechanism to out-do the Facebook boss.

Gates rigs up a special dunking contraption Pic: thegatesnotes/YouTube

The 58-year-old sketches out a plan, appears to weld the structure before pulling the cord and unleashing the icy water over his head - as the camera captures it all in slow motion.

Gates is worth an estimated $80.2bn (£48bn), according to Forbes, and is well known for his philanthropy through the charitable foundation he runs with his wife.

The billionaire gets the inevitable soaking. Pic: thegatesnotes/YouTube

The Microsoft co-founder nominates other famous entrepreneurs to take a dip in the 90-second clip, saying: "I'm going to challenge three more people - Elon Musk (of SpaceX and Tesla electric cars); Ryan Seacrest (American Idol host); and Chris Sanderson (curator of the TED conferences).

"You have 24 hours - good luck!"

Gates nominees include Elon Musk

The challenge sees people tipping ice water over themselves to raise awareness of ALS - and if a nominee does not take up the challenge within a day they must make a donation.

Charities have reported a massive surge in donations after the campaign went rival, with celebrities such as Justin Timberlake and US talk show host Jimmy Fallon also getting in on the act.

In the UK, Macmillan Cancer Support is also using the Ice Bucket Challenge to raise awareness and donations. 

Source:- http://news.sky.com/story/1319561/bill-gates-soaked-in-ice-bucket-challenge

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Desi kalakaar. YoYo Honey Singh featuring Sonakshi Sinha!

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Desi kalakaar. YoYo Honey Singh featuring Sonakshi Sinha! 
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Song Name - Desi Kalakaar
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Music Director - Yo Yo Honey Singh
Lyrics - Yo Yo Honey Singh
Presentation - Anup Kumar
Mix & Master (sound design) - Vinod Verma
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Osmania University B.Tech Chemistry IV-II Sem Revaluation April 2014 Exam Results

Osmania University B.Tech Chemistry IV-II Sem Revaluation April 2014 Exam Results

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Osmania University established in 1918, is the seventh oldest in the Country, third oldest in South India and the First in the princely state of Hyderabad. The establishment of Osmania University symbolizes a renaissance in the Indian Educational System and has shown a remarkable resilience throughout its existence. The university is instrumental in propagation of Higher Education to cater the needs of community in the region over nine decades and has grown into one of the major Universities of India. It has a vast sprawling green campus of 500 hectares set in picturesque and idyllic surroundings. It owns number of buildings of great architectural elegance and variety to enhance the beauty of the campus. The university is an autonomous institution created through an act of legislature and most part of funding is from the State Government. The university holds the flagship for Higher Education of Government of Andhra Pradesh and has played a key role in planning, initiating and implementation of various development programs.

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Karnataka State Womens University BSC 2nd SEM 2014 Results Announced.

 Karnataka State Womens University BSC 2nd SEM 2014 Results Announced. 

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About University

Karnataka State Women's University, established in 2003 in the city of Bijapur is the only Women's University in Karnataka dedicated exclusively for women's education. It is recognized under 2(f) and 12(B) of the UGC Act. Seventy women's colleges spread in twelve districts of North-Karnataka are affiliated to this University. The University offers various UG programmes leading to Bachelor's degree in Arts, Business Administration, Computer Applications, Commerce, Education, Fashion Technology, Home Science, Physical Education, Science and Social Work. It also offers 20 P G Courses, P G Diploma and Certificate Courses in the Faculties of Arts, Commerce and Management, Social Sciences, Science and Technology and Education.

It is recognized under DEC for Distance Education across India and abroad. The university is dedicated to promote excellence through academic achievement, research, creativity, innovation, interaction and collaboration, personality development and leadership qualities.

Vision:

Empowerment of society through education Mission:

• To provide quality education and impart professional and vocational skills to enable women to be self reliant and meet the challenges of the changing socio-economic needs

• To promote personality development and leadership qualities with a balanced outlook towards society

• To help women enrich their knowledge and reap the benefits of knowledge power

Objectives:

• To ensure holistic education treasuring cultural heritage, core values of personal integrity, professional skills, awareness about the socio-economic, scientific and cultural developments at all levels in order to enable women lead personally and professionally fulfilling lives

• To equip women with necessary qualities to play an equal role in decision making in matters of importance to herself, family and society

• To promote advanced research in science social sciences, arts and humanities' especially on topics of regional importance

• To contribute towards socio-economic transformation of women in need through formal and non-formal education and training, out reach programs and facilitate strengthening of mass education and primary education programs.

Goals:

• Bridge gender gap
• Help communities and women from rural and backward areas join main stream
• To enable and motivate communities and women to play an effective and constructive role in the society at all levels.

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CABLE TV SCRAMBLING TECHNIQUES

CABLE TV SCRAMBLING TECHNIQUES 

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There are 4 major methods of pay-channel security and each has different

consequences for cable ready receivers. The 4 systems are jamming, trapping

out-of-band scrambling and in-band scrambling.

Jamming:

   A jamming signal is placed between the picture carrier and and the aural

carrier of the secured channels. The cable operator supplies a filter for

each customer for each paid channel. This type of security is easily defeated

by homemade notch filters.

Trapping:

   In these systems frequency filters are installed in line with the cable

drops on telephone poles. The traps are removed for customers paying for the

premium channels. Cable-ready TV's work fine in these systems. 

Scrambling - The gated Sync Methods:

   Scrambling in the cable TV business still generaly means pulsed sync 

suppression. In its simplist form, amplitude of the picture carrier is reduced

by 6 db during the horizontal blanking intervals and sometimes during the

vertical blanking intervals. The resulting video signal has sync tips between

the black and white levels. Sync seperators in the set cannot operate properly

with this signal, nor can AGC and color circuts, so the picture is scrambled.

The decoder compensates by antennuating the signal during the time in which

the transmited signal was not antennuated. In order to accomplish this, the 

logic controlled gain switch must get timing information. In-band systems

transmit pulses as amplitude modulation of aural carrier or a seperate carrier

in out of band systems.

Out of band scrambling:

     The usual setup is that the decoder is connected directly to the cable

ahead of the channel converter. Decoding is done at the pay channel frequency.

The decoder is likely to be in a seperate box, added to an old system to 

provide pay channels. The box consists of a simple receiver (90-120mhz) for the

out-of-band data carrier and a broad band 6db gain switch. There is provision

for several scrambled channels, each which has a different data carrier.

This system is directly compatable with cable ready receivers. Without the

cable converter, the decoder is connected to the TV. Tuning and remote features

of the TV are preserved with the only inconvience being the need to operate the

switch on the decoder when changing to and from any scrambled channel. Out-of- 

band systems tend to last until the operators using them rebuild to provide for 

a large increase in the number of channels.

In Band Scrambling:

    In this system any number of the available channels can be scrambled. 

Because the data carrier for each scrambled channel is its own aural carrier, 

only one data receiver, at the aural carrier frequency (eg. ch 3) is required.

The decoder detects the presence or absense of data automaticly switching 

itself in or out. The converter-decoder box can be hardwired to decode just the

channels ordered, using a prom like device. Alternatively, the transmitted

channels can be "tagged" by time division multiplexing binary tag (program

identification)  data with the sync data on the aural carrier. The decoder 

boxes can be wired for "tiers" (groups of programs the cable operator sells

togeather) rather than fixed channels, giving the operator more flexibility.

The decoder boxes can be "addressable". These boxes have a seperate out of band

data channel for data from the head end. Each box has a serial number burned

into its logic or otherwise available to its logic circutry, and its channel

or tier authorization stored in volatile ram. A computer at the headend 

periodicaly addresses all decoders in the system individualy and loads each

with the channel or tier capacity ordered by the customer. The need for house

calls is reduced, PPV (Pay per view) is possible, and missing boxes cam be 

turned off, rendering them useless for premium channel viewing. Some but not

all of these features can be programmed into out-of-band systems.

Aside form their ability to generate sync pulses, thus foiling the scrambling

system, cable ready TV's have presented another dificult problem for in-band

systems. Because the decoder operates at the converted channel, a channel 

converter is required ahead of it. Wheather the TV receiver is cable-ready or

not, it operates only at the converted channel, wasting the tuning and remote

control features.

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Tools Description of Concept of Hacking – Proxy Servers

GPass 

GPass is a highly advanced software that can encrypt your online data, hide your IP address, and sidestep content filtering and monitoring using a number of secure channels to connect to the Internet and break through the Internet blockade. GPass supports the online applications that you use the most, including Web browsers (e.g. Firefox), multimedia players, email, instant 

messengers, download managers, and so on. 

Hopster 

Bypass Firewall - Bypass Proxy - HTTP tunnel 

Chat with your friends using your favourite applications: MSN, AOL, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, 

Miranda, Trillian, mIRC... Wherever your friends are, hopster will bypass a censoring firewall and take you right to your buddies. Browse, Surf, Download & Chat Anonymously Hide your real IP address and protect yourself from nosy people and wannabe-hackers. With hopster, there's no way anyone will know where or who you are. 

M Proxy 

This provides proxy solutions, with which you can access the blocked websites and protect your online privacy. You can also get free proxy lists. 

Proxy I 

A server that sits between a client application, such as a Web browser, and a real server. It 

intercepts all requests to the real server to see if it can fulfill the requests itself. If not, it forwards 

the request to the real server. 

Tor 

Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of 

network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis. 

Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run 

by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection 

from learning what sites you visit, and it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical 

location. Tor works with many of your existing applications, including web browsers, instant 

messaging clients, remote login, and other applications based on the TCP protocol. 

Ultrasurf 

Ultrasurf is a Proxy Server Software which can provide you: Privacy 

Protect Internet privacy with anonymous surfing and browsing -- hide IP addresses and 

locations, clean browsing history, cookies & more ... 

Security 

Completely transparent data transfer and high level encryption of the content allow you to surf 

the web with high security. Freedom UltraSurf allows you to overcome the censorship and blockage on the Internet. You can browse any website freely, so as to obtain true information from the free world. 

Your Freedom 

The Your Freedom services makes accessible what is unaccessible to you, and it hides your 

network address from those who don't need to know. Just download our client application and 

install or just run it on your PC; it turns your own PC into an uncensored, anonymous web proxy and an uncensored, anonymous SOCKS proxy that your applications can use, and if that's not enough it can even get you connected to the Internet just as if you were using an unrestricted 

DSL or cable connection -- just like the firewall suddenly went boom! You can even make your 

PC accessible from the Internet if you like. Nearly all applications work with Your Freedom, and 

so far no-one has managed to block our service completely and permanently without blocking 

your Internet access entirely. 

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