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Next, click Remote Settings (beneath tasks).
Within System Properties, ensure Remote Desktop is not set to Don't Allow Connections To This Computer.
Also, ensure appropriate users possess remote desktop access rights. Click the Select Users button to configure users.
When configuring Remote Assistance, ensure the Allow Remote Assistance Connections To This Computer checkbox is selected. Clicking the Advanced button displays this menu, which enables configure remote control and invitation timeout parameters.
If you click the Select Users button within the Remote Desktop section of the System Properties window, Windows Vista presents this menu. Click Add to provide additional users with remote desktop access permissions.
After clicking the Add button to configure remote access permissions for additional users, Vista presents this menu. Enter the names of users and groups for which you wish to provide access, then click OK.
Once additional users are added, they'll appear within the provided window.
If you click on provided Help links, Windows Vista displays contextually relevant support information, including this passage covering Remote Assistance.
Before connecting to a remote system, be sure you know its computer name or IP address. You can confirm the computer name by right-clicking Computer (from the Start menu) and selecting Properties. Here you can see the computer name displayed within the System Properties' Computer Name tab.
To initiate a remote desktop connection in Windows Vista, click Start, select All Programs, and click Accessories.
Next, click Remote Desktop Connection.
The Remote Desktop Connection window will appear. Enter the name or IP address of the computer you wish to connect to and click Connect.
Alternatively, you can configure additional settings using the Options button.
Clicking Options reveals a host of additional RDP parameters that can be set. You can also create a shortcut icon for a Remote Desktop Connection usiong the Save button (shown here on the General tab).
From the Display tab, users can configure the size of the remote desktop window and the color depth.
From the Local Resources tab, users can specify sound, keyboard and local device (including printer) settings.
Windows Vista users specify programs that should begin upon starting up a remote desktop connection using the Programs tab.
Remote Desktop Connection's Experience tab enables configuring connection speed, desktop background, font smoothing and other features to optimize performance.
Server authentication and terminal services connections requiring firewall penetration are both configured using Remote Desktop Connection's Advanced tab.
When attempting to connect to other systems using Windows Vista Remote Desktop Connection, users must enter a username and password for an account possessing remote access permissions on the target workstation or server.
Once proper credentials are entered, Windows Vista displays the remote system's desktop within a dedicated window. To suspend a Remote Desktop Connection session, users can click Start and select Disconnect.
If users attempt to connect to other systems running older versions of Windows, Windows Vista presents this security warning. To continue, users need only click Yes.
Windows XP's Remote Desktop Connection has proved popular among both administrators and users alike. The feature continues in Windows Vista, albeit with a few security refinements.
PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, fresh from his emotional visit to Gaza and Jericho, held talks in Paris on 6 July with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin about the next steps in the peace process.
The two leaders and Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres were in Paris to receive a UN Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) award for their September 1993 peace accord.
Rabin said after his first session of talks with Arafat that the first phase in the peace agreement has been completed successfully. He said it had been agreed to set up three committees to discuss the next phases. The first issue to be addressed will be the redeployment of Israeli forces in the West Bank. The PLO has made clear it wishes Israeli troops to be moved from the main West Bank towns soon. Israel is seeking to link any redeployment to Palestinian elections.
Arafat said the Palestinians want to hold elections as soon as possible. The plan is for this to be in October. Arafat said former US president Jimmy Carter has agreed to help supervise the polling.
The PLO is also seeking early progress on the release of some 6,000 Palestinian prisoners. Arafat has made a special request for the early release of Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, head of the Islamist Hamas group. Israel says any such release depends on Yassin pledging to renounce violence.
After these issues have been settled, the two sides are due to embark on the sensitive issues of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories and the status of Jerusalem.
Arafat’s visit to Gaza and Jericho was welcomed by US Secretary of State Warren Christopher, who said in Geneva on 5 July that the visit was ‘thrilling’. He said he expected to meet Arafat during his forthcoming Middle East peace mission, that will start on 17 July.
Positive news for the peace process has also come on the economic front. Ahmad Qoreia (Abu Ala), the Palestinian official in charge of economy and trade, said in Tunis on 5 July that talks with the World Bank and the US administration in Washington at the end of June had been very positive. He said the World Bank had agreed to make available sufficient funds to cover the Palestinian National Authority’s budget deficit for the third quarter of 1994. He also said the bank had allocated $150 million for urgent infra-structure projects in Gaza and Jericho.
Days before he was to testify on the Benghazi assault, the CIA director quit. Was he hiding more than an affair? By Eli Lake.
Just days before he was scheduled to testify before Congress on the assault in Benghazi, Libya, that killed U.S. diplomat Chris Stevens, Gen. David Petraeus resigned as director of the CIA on Friday after admitting to an extramarital affair.
Petraeus did not name the woman with whom he had the affair. A congressional staff member who deals with intelligence issues identified her to The Daily Beast on Friday as Paula Broadwell, the author, with Vernon Loeb, of the retired four-star general’s biography, All In: The Education of General David Petraeus.
Senior U.S. officials say Petraeus informed the White House on Wednesday about the affair, just one day after President Obama won election to his second term. The president learned the news Thursday and considered his options that evening, according to one senior U.S. official. On Friday, he accepted Petraeus’s resignation.
The news came as a shock to the inner circle of advisers and friends who surrounded Petraeus as he rose from battlefield general in Iraq to his role at the top of the CIA. As late as early Friday afternoon, advisers at the CIA were confirming the general’s schedule for the following week—appearances that now have been shelved.
Jack Keane, a retired four-star general and a mentor to Petraeus, said Friday, “I feel sad, and I feel a desire to be very supportive of him as a friend.” Keane was one of the director’s closest advisers when he took command of allied forces in Iraq. In 1991, Keane stayed with Petraeus after he was shot in his heart at a live-fire exercise at Fort Campbell, Ky.
“I am sad he is going to be ripped to shreds by the media and we are going lose sight of his tremendous accomplishments as one of America’s most distinguished generals,” said Max Boot, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and an informal adviser to Petraeus in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Petraeus for a moment was a favorite among some Republicans for a presidential run. In 2007, as he commanded the troop surge and counterinsurgency strategy in Iraq that over time led to an American withdrawal from the country, the general faced strong opposition from antiwar Democrats, who accused him of lacking candor in his assessments of the fighting. When President Obama came into office in 2009, he allowed Petraeus to finish his term in charge of Central Command, the region that included Iraq and Afghanistan. When Petraeus dismissed his commander in Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, Petraeus took over his responsibilities as well.
By the time Petraeus came to his job as director of the CIA, he was largely behind the scenes, often turning down requests for media interviews. Broadwell was one of the few writers to get access to him during this period.
Last week, game wardens killed a mountain lion in a Redwood City backyard. In August, another lion was shot in downtown Berkeley, just blocks from Alice Waters’ famous Chez Panisse restaurant.
Yet despite such high-profile incidents, a permanent ban on mountain lion hunting 21 years ago and steady growth in California’s human population, dangerous encounters between mountain lions and people in California are not on the increase. Actually, they are falling dramatically.
The reasons remain a mystery to biologists.
Fewer lions are being shot in urban areas. In 2001, there were 15 mountain lions shot and killed in California for safety reasons, according to Fish and Game data. By 2008, there were three. And in 2009, the most recent year available, there was one, in San Diego County.
Fewer lions also are being shot in rural areas. Under state law, landowners can obtain “depredation permits” from Fish and Game to kill lions that are attacking or threatening livestock. In 2009, 42 lions were killed in California under such permits, a 25-year-low, and a drop of 71 percent from a high of 148 killed in 2000 under depredation permits.
No one has been killed by a mountain lion in California in seven years. In 2004, Mark Reynolds, a 35-year-old mountain biker, was killed at Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park in Orange County. Since 1890, six people have been killed by mountain lions statewide, fewer than have died from bee stings or dog bites.
But in recent years, as lions have wandered into populated areas — Palo Alto in 2004, a Pleasanton condominium complex in 2006 and the most recent two — the public has often been left with the impression that such occurrences are becoming more common.
“I’ve seen incidents where a mountain lion has been sighted, and it’s reported 50 times by the same TV station. It’s an attention-getter for ratings,” said Tim Dunbar, executive director of the Mountain Lion Foundation, a Sacramento nonprofit.
Part of the reduction in lion-human conflicts may be that people are behaving more responsibly. Dunbar’s group has worked in Sierra Foothill counties with 4-H clubs, teaching kids how to better protect livestock. In places like Plumas County, lions killed by depredation permits fell sharply, he said.
Still, because lions are so elusive, understanding them is difficult.
The cash-strapped Fish and Game Department has no ongoing mountain lion population study. Kenyon estimates the statewide number at between 4,000 and 6,000. In recent years, he said, the lion population may be declining because the state’s deer population has been falling.
Deer numbers are down due to a variety of factors, including development in rural areas and fire suppression, he noted, which often keeps overgrown forests too thick for deer.
Another theory is that some lions that live near populated areas are being killed by cars before they can wander into trouble.
Winston Vickers, a veterinarian at UC Davis, has worked on a study putting radio and GPS collars on mountain lions since 2001 in Orange and San Diego counties. Of 54 lions the researchers have tracked, 34 have died. Of those, the leading cause of death was being hit by vehicles, which killed nine lions. Disease, shooting and wildfires also were significant causes of death.
“If you look at it from the lion’s perspective, the more humans and the trappings of humans — more cars and faster, wider roads — the more of them die,” he said.
Gov. Ronald Reagan banned the sport hunting of mountain lions in California in 1972 for five years. After the ban was renewed by state lawmakers several times, the Fish and Game Commission approved a hunt in 1987. Environmental groups collected signatures and voters passed Proposition 117 in 1990, which permanently banned mountain lion hunting.
Hunting groups and rural lawmakers predicted a large increase in the number of humans attacked and killed. But it hasn’t happened.
Chris Wilmers, a biologist at UC Santa Cruz who tracks lions in the Santa Cruz Mountains, predicted there are between 50 and 100 lions from the Pajaro Valley to the San Francisco County line. Adult males have territories as large as 100 square miles, he noted, an area 60 times the size of Golden Gate Park.
Book Review|In This Novel, a Man’s Face Becomes Distorted. His Sanity Follows.
In This Novel, a Man’s Face Becomes Distorted. His Sanity Follows.
“The Alarming Palsy of James Orr” starts with a nod to one of the most recognizable plot openers of all time: An ordinary man wakes up one morning to find that he’s been transformed overnight by a grotesque affliction.
By beginning his first novel on such a blatantly Kafkaesque note, it’s as if the British writer Tom Lee is announcing on Page 1 that he’s forgoing all subtlety when it comes to his central metaphor — physical disfigurement as a product of bourgeois dread, a sum of the daily spiritual paper cuts that aspirational living can inflict.
Nevertheless, the protagonist’s lopsided mug is a shocking sight. “The left-hand side of James’s face had collapsed, a balloon with the air gone out of it, a melted waxwork,” giving the unsettling “impression of two different faces, two different people, welded savagely together.” But more than the physical symptoms, the comorbid psychological trauma is what tips James into a hellish downward spiral, which Lee draws us into with unrelenting dread and deadpan wit.
At first James treats his recovery like a much-deserved vacation for a hardworking father of two. He’s free to wander his neighborhood, an idyllic development carved out of the dense woods of a former Victorian estate. Yet as his palsy fails to improve, the hallmarks of upper-middle-class ease, which used to provide him almost smug levels of satisfaction, begin to rankle. Everything from the size of a neighbor’s dog (“there was something a little conceited in having an animal this big”), to the gratuitous shirtlessness of the unmarried serial D.I.Y.-er a few doors down (“it was still only March, after all”), to his wife’s “pragmatism and lack of drama” swirls together, amassing into a more serious crisis. James suffers a series of humiliations carrying the taint of failed manhood: He bursts into tears while presiding over a residents’ committee meeting, a friendly neighborhood soccer game turns into an outlet for his mounting aggression, an attempt to seduce his wife after weeks of sleeping apart goes disturbingly awry. Not surprisingly, Lee works the symbol of James’s flaccid face on several levels.
Along with impotence, sudden illness is a recurring concern in Lee’s work (including a 2009 story collection, “Greenfly,” not available in the United States). It’s an experience Lee knows intimately, as he addressed in a pair of extraordinary autobiographical essays for The Dublin Review a few years ago. One recounts the time, just before “Greenfly” was published, when he was flattened by an anxiety disorder that left him feeling as if he’d “forgotten how to be”; and the other the medically induced coma he underwent for a case of pneumonia so serious his doctor dubbed him “the sickest man in London” (and his ensuing intensive care unit psychosis, which is just as horrifying as it sounds).
In both essays, Lee reckons with the decline of one’s health as a micro-apocalypse — life is separated into a “before” and an “after” — and the almost dystopian alienation that emerges between sufferers and the well. In “James Orr,” he explores these same themes with greater artfulness and delicious doses of body horror and contemporary British social satire. While James doesn’t become an oversize bug, the juxtaposition of his common affliction and Lee’s use of familiar genre conventions adds up to something fresh, highlighting the terrifying plausibility — perhaps even inevitability — of the real-life transformations Kafka predicted to be lurking in our DNA, waiting to wreak havoc on an otherwise ordinary morning.
Stephan Lee is an associate director at Bustle and a former editor at Entertainment Weekly. He is at work on a debut novel.
195 pp. Soho Press. $23.
Last Friday, everyone was buzzing about the big werewolf transformation of Hemlock Grove, Netflix’s adaptation of the Brian McGreevy novel.
ShockTillYouDrop.com spoke with executive producer Eli Roth (who directed the first episode as well) briefly about this transformation which appears in an episode directed by Deran Serafian.
Serafian is where our conversation with Roth began because, in case the name doesn’t jump out at you, Serafian spent the early days of his career on the Italian horror scene before going on to produce shows like House M.D.
Inside, Roth talks about the werewolf transformation, why gore has gone mainstream on television and offers an update on his cannibal film The Green Inferno. All 13 episodes of Hemlock Grove season one will be available exclusively on Netflix beginning April 19th.
Shock Till You Drop: I just got done talking to Deran Serafian – who has a rich history in Italian horror and is now directing Hemlock, too. Did you bring him on board?
Eli Roth: We knew Deran from his experience on House and, of course, his father directed Vanishing Point, so we knew him from that. And he told me, “You know, I shot second unit for Argento.” And I was like, “What?” And he’s the lead in Zombie 3. He had worked so closely under Fulci and Argento and that’s what I loved. We talked about the transformation and it had to be signature. I thought about the average viewers that have watched Twilight and seen the transformation of a shirtless guy walking by a tree and transforms. Our idea of a transformation is Rick Baker and Rob Bottin. So, we’ve got to do something modern that’s in the classic tradition. It has to be a violent birth, I want it to eat its placenta after and Deran was into it. It should shake off all of the blood and goo. And that’s how we approached all of the kill scenes. Obviously, we had to adhere to Netflix’s guidelines and standards, but in terms of the twists and such, we can go dark with it.
Shock: How many episodes did you direct?
Roth: Just the first one. I wanted to direct more, but the production moved to Toronto and pushed and I had to work on The Green Inferno in Peru. The nice thing about shooting a show that’s 13 episodes is you can change things up in the earlier episodes as you go along. You realize in episode five “Oh, we should have set this up better in episode one, so you can go back and shoot it.” The werewolf transformation, Deran was able to storyboard out and parcel it out while we’re doing ten episodes so we can get it right.
Shock: How’s Green Inferno coming along?
Increased federal assistance to Florida for handling the massive -- and rapidly growing -- influx of Cuban refugees: 1. May not be enough to meet the long-range resettlement costs for the continuing waves of refugees. An estimated 20,000 had arrived by midweek, with US officials unable to get any clear idea of how many may ultimately come ashore. Some 3,600 arrived in a 24-hour period earlier this week.
2. Was too slow in coming. Florida Gov. Robert Graham, as well as other state and local officials, has complained that federal government slowness in helping has compounded problems in receiving the refugees there.
Airlifts from Key West to a "tent city" at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida's panhandle have somewhat relieved seriously overcrowded facilities in the Miami area. But now facilities at the Air Force base are themselves becoming overcrowded.
One local group here in Atlanta is seeking sponsors for refugee families. This may signal what could become a more organized national effort to settle refugees -- at least temporarily -- in various cities outside Florida.
Clearly it is Cuban President Fidel Castro, and not Presidnet Carter, who is calling the shots on the influx of refugees to the US by allowing the massive numbers to leave his country.
President Carter's positions have simply been responses to accept some 3,500 refugees from the Peruvian Embassy compound in Havana, then threatened boat owners with fines for bringing in undocumented Cubans, and finally made a statement May 5 about welcoming the refugees with "an open heart and open arms."
Some 1,400 federal employees were in Florida as of Wednesday working on refugee assistance. That number "could double," says a federal relief official. A second "tent city" was started Tuesday at a military base near Miami and a third one is being prepared, he added.
But for the moment, things are "pretty bad" in the Miami area, where most of the refugees are, says Aida Levitan, Latin affairs director of Dade Metropolitan government. There is an immediate and increasing need for help in sending new arrivals to some 10,000 homes and jobs located across the United States by Catholic Charities, she says. Some $2 million has been raised by Spanish-speaking groups across the country to help in the resettlement, but there are not enough volunteers to administer the funds.
Most of the refugees have temporary shelter, some in warehouses and 730 in hallways of the Orange Bowl. But many feel "completely disoriented" and need someone to assure them of their future, says director Levitan.
Governor Graham's chief of the Bureau of Disaster Preparedness, Bob wilkerson , is concerned about long-range resettlement costs. The current federal emergency assistance covers only temporary needs, he says. But not far ahead lie costly problems of permanent resettlement, employment, and job training, he explains.
Global News Blog Syrian refugees are quietly trickling into the US: How many, and where?
Integrated Concrete Forms are a new way to build houses.
Stick framing is a century-old form of construction, and one contractors know very well. Most building inspectors and all licensed architects are also very familiar with stick framing. Materials are readily available, easy to work with and relatively inexpensive. An adaptable form of construction where changes are easily made once the project has started, stick framing also accommodates almost any size or placement of windows or doors and is flexible to specific design changes. There are also no out-of-the-ordinary engineering or code approvals required.
Unfortunately, the process is made up of many steps – measuring, cutting, fitting and nailing each stick is time consuming, encourages mistakes and produces a high material waste. Stick framing is also difficult to seal and effectively insulate, with wall thickness limiting insulation levels. Poor sealing leads to air infiltration, condensation and moisture problems, leaving the wood susceptible to insect infestation and rot. Fiberglass batts and cellulose insulation are only marginal insulators and their performance depends wholly on the quality of installation. Adding spray foam helps to seal and boosts R-value but doesn’t guarantee an airtight envelope.
Integrated Concrete Forms (ICF) and Structurally Integrated Panels (SIPs) are modern solutions that move residential housing forward. They’re popular because you get a lot of results for not a lot of work. You also have low labor costs because installation is easier and quicker. But you need to know what you’re doing.
If you use unskilled labor, there will be mistakes. Also, because SIPs and ICFs are somewhat new to the industry, not many contractors know how to work with them and tend to avoid them. Tradespeople need to learn how to work with these new products no matter what they are. Interview builders that use these systems, ask for references, and talk to those homeowners about whether the builder built a quality product on time - and on budget.
The main selling point of these panels is they provide all the layers in a wall that should be there without having to build them, which saves time and cost related to labor. Both SIPs and ICFs provide integral structural strength without the need for studs; therefore, reducing thermal bridging. Also, every SIP and ICF panel is manufactured according to specific engineered construction plans; you can’t go to the store and just buy them.
Insulated concrete forms offer a high level of energy efficiency compared to masonry foundations and traditional “stick built” wood-framed walls. They have a layer of concrete sandwiched between two layers of foam insulation, usually EPS (expanded polystyrene). This forms a sound structure with excellent thermal properties. However, when pouring the concrete, it’s important there aren’t any air pockets, as gaps in the concrete will compromise the structural strength of the entire wall or structure you’re building.
Conventional foundations are constructed by pouring concrete into temporary wooden forms, which are removed when the concrete has cured. Without adequate curing, the wall weakens and is prone to cracking and even shifting. One of the most common complaints in new homes is leaky basements due to cracked foundation walls. When built with Insulated Concrete Forms (ICFs), foundation forms remain in place, and provide insulation on each side of the concrete. In fact, because of its optimum curing environment, an ICF wall cures to be stronger than a conventional wall.
An ICF foundation is warm and dry, preventing any opportunity for mold growth; since there is no cavity where warm moist air meets a cold wall and condenses.
Typically, a foundation built with ICFs will cost more (20 percent to 30 percent) than a comparable concrete or block foundation. However, in the one step that would have produced a bare concrete wall, an ICF wall produces an insulated wall with a vapor barrier, all the way up to the floor joist. Foundation walls built with ICFs are easier and faster to construct than either a concrete masonry unit or cast-in-place concrete foundations.
What sets an ICF home apart is its sheer mass. Concrete stands up well to high winds (200 mph plus); these heavy walls also deaden street noise, making the home much quieter than a wood frame. And concrete doesn’t get eaten by bugs.
The foams in ICFs are manufactured with flame-retardant additives. In “firewall” tests, they were subjected to continuous gas flames and temperatures of up to 2,000°F for as long as four hours. None of the ICF walls failed structurally; in contrast, wood-frame walls will typically collapse in one hour or less.