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text: >>> Larrabee indeed resembles itanium to some extend, but not quite. >> >> wow, that has to be your most loosely-tethered-to-reality statement >> yet! >> it's true that Larrabee and Itanium are very close >> in the number of letters in their name. > > Your personal attack seems to indicate you disagree with my > qualification of the entire Larrabee line > having any reality sense in the long run. not surprisingly, no: I disagree that Larrabee and Itanium resemble each other in any but really silly ways. Itanium is a custom, VLIW architecture; Larrabee is an on-chip cluster of non-VLIW, commodity x86_64 cores. none of the distinctive features of Itanium (multi-instruction bundles, dependency on compile-time scheduling, intended market, implementation, success limited to predictable, high-bandwidth situations, directory-based inter-node cache coherency) are anything close to the features of Larrabee (standard x86_64 ISA, no special compiler needed, on-chip message-passing network, suitable for complex/dynamic/unpredictable loads, possibly not even cache-coherent across one chip.) my guess is that you were thinking about how ia64 chips tended to run at low clock rates, and thinking about how gpus (probably including larrabee) also tend to be low-clocked. > Instead of throwing mudd, mind to explain why a Larrabee, > an architecture far away from mainstream, makes any chance of > competing in HPC > with the existing architectural concepts in the long run? as far as I know, larrabee will be a mesh of conventional x86_64 cores that will run today's x86_64 code. I don't know whether Intel has stated (or even decided) whether the cores will have full or partial cache coherency, or whether they'll really be an MPI-like shared-nothing cluster. if you want to compare Larrabee to Fermi or AMD GCN, that might be interesting. or to mainstream multicore - like bulldozer, with 32c per package vs larrabee with ">=50". but not ia64. it's best we all just forget about it.


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Robert Joseph DOLE, Congress, KS (1923)
Senate Years of Service:1969-1996
DOLE Robert Joseph , a Representative and a Senator from Kansas; born in Russell, Kans., July 22, 1923; graduated, Washburn Municipal University, Topeka, Kans., with an undergraduate and law degree in 1952, after attending Kansas University 1941-1943 and University of Arizona 1948-1949; during the Second World War served as a combat infantry officer in Italy; was wounded twice and hospitalized for thirty-nine months; awarded two Purple Hearts and the Bronze Star with an Oak Cluster for military service; admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Russell, Kans., 1952; member, State house of representatives 1951-1953; county attorney of Russell County 1953-1961; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh Congress and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1961-January 3, 1969); elected to the United States Senate in 1968, reelected in 1974, 1980, 1986, and 1992, and served from January 3, 1969, to June 11, 1996, when he resigned to campaign for the presidency; majority leader 1985-1987, 1995-1996; minority leader 1987-1995; chairman, Committee on Finance (Ninety-seventh through Ninety-eighth Congresses), Special Committee on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Ninety-ninth Congress); chairman, Republican National Committee 1971-1972; advisor, President's Delegation to Study the Food Crisis in India 1966; advisor, U.S. Delegation to Study the Arab Refugee Problem 1967; advisor, U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization 1965, 1968, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1979; member, U.S. National Commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization 1970 and 1973; member, Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe 1977; advisor, GATT Ministerial Trade Conference 1982; member, National Commission on Social Security Reform 1983; member, Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Holiday Commission 1984; unsuccessful Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States in 1976; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 1988; unsuccessful Republican nominee for President of the United States in 1996; awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on January 17, 1997; chairman, International Commission on Missing Persons in the Former Yugoslavia 1997-2001; national chairman, National World War II Memorial 1997-2004; engaged in the practice of law in Washington, D.C., 1997-.
Dole, Bob. One Soldier's Story: A Memoir. New York: HarperCollins, 2005; Dole, Robert J. Historical Almanac of the United States Senate: A Series of "Bicentennial Minutes'' Presented to the Senate During the One Hundredth Congress. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1989; U.S. Congress. Senate. Tributes Delivered in Congress: Robert J. Dole, United States Congressman 1961-1969, United States Senator 1969-1996. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1996 (S. Doc.104-19).
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The scandal at Emmanuel Christian Seminary involving the attempt to (wrongfully) terminate Professor Chris Rollston appears to be much uglier and more mishandled than we first thought.
Thomas Stark, who first broke much of this story on the Religion @ the Margins blog, has posted a new story that at first seems too unlikely to be true. But after reading the story, and more amazingly, viewing the screen shots, it unfortunately appears to be all too real.
Emmanuel President Michael Sweeney apparently asked Thomas Stark to issue a press release for Emmanuel that addressed the Chris Rollston disciplinary action presently underway at Emmanuel. This is, quite frankly, insane! (With all due respect to Thomas Stark and the Religion @ the Margins blog.) Since when does a university president ask a blogger to issue a press statement on the blogger's blog? Does the Emmanuel President not own a computer and a website? And how is it that we STILL haven't heard a single thing from Emmanuel on this issue (outside of Paul Blowers divulging the confidential business of a disciplinary action to the public on Facebook, and then writing an entire article to the B&I website discussing the situation publicly)?
Who taught these guys to deal with press? And who taught them to do damage control? Silence from the Emmanuel administration only further exacerbates the perception that they have committed a grievous crime and STILL haven't even figured out how to begin to address it. The Emmanuel administration's complete failure at damage control (i.e., Blowers' self-serving, and quite unhelpful article at B&I, and nothing else?) and their inability to communicate to the public even an acknowledgment that something is, in fact, going on at Emmanuel, belies just how bad things are there.
(Side note: screaming "mind your own business" and "cheap seats" is not considered effective damage control.)
Not only is Emmanuel missing opportunity after opportunity to address and settle this matter in an expedient manner, now they have apparently taken to attempting to convince bloggers to release "official" statements containing numerous falsehoods on their behalf. That is, they appear to be trying to get bloggers to lie to the public for them. This is absolutely shameful.
Stark's latest post offers examples of four misleading, incorrect, or false statements in the Emmanuel statement. Here is an example of just one of them:
A fourth and final problem with Emmanuel's statement is this: "nor is a disagreement over the content of Dr. Rollston's Huffington Post article an issue in our discussions." This statement is, in no uncertain terms, false. It is not simply a mischaracterization; it is a lie. It is a very troubling lie, and it is a lie that could not have been unintentional. As revealed last Monday in the Inside Higher Education article, President Sweeney's letter to Rollston does in fact bring up the Huffington Post article as one of the causes justifying termination proceedings against Rollston. A whole paragraph is devoted to the subject of Dr. Rollston's Huffington Post article and his Facebook posts. In fact, the letter mentions the Huffington Post article more than once, and does in fact express disagreement with Dr. Rollston's conclusions.
But of course, Sweeney's letter resorts to obvious mischaracterization of Rollston's conclusions in his Huffington Post article. Sweeney's letter alleges Dr. Rollston's article made the claim that "the Bible, as a whole, marginalized women," and that its conclusion was, "we cannot put our trust in 'biblical values.'" This is of course completely false. Rollston did not argue that the Bible "as a whole," marginalized women. He argued that a majority of texts relevant to the question of women's status in ancient Israel reflected patriarchy, while a minority of texts pushed back against this ideology in various ways. In the article, he identified eleven examples of such push backs. Moreover, he did not conclude that we cannot put our trust in "biblical values." He concluded that patriarchy was one biblical value among many (and who in their right mind can deny this?), and that this specific biblical value is not something we ought to value. (Does President Sweeney wish to defend the patriarchal institutions established throughout much of the Bible, and argue that they should remain in force within modern Christianity?) Clearly Dr. Rollston's article showed that he saw a clash of values within the Bible, and demonstrated that he found some of those values to be morally praiseworthy. President Sweeney and the experts in hermeneutics at Emmanuel should be defending him from those who have plainly misinterpreted his article, not engaging in the same careless and sweeping mischaracterizations themselves.
More to the point, clearly this displays that there was discussion of and disagreement over the contents of Dr. Rollston's Huffington Post article in connection to disciplinary proceedings. So when President Sweeney releases a statement in which he flatly denies that any "disagreement over the content of Dr. Rollston's Huffington Post article" was "an issue in our discussions," we know he is lying. I have spent a great deal of time trying to imagine a charitable interpretation of this claim that does not amount to an intentional lie, and I have been unable to do so.
Unbelievable! But there it is. Not only has Emmanuel apparently begun termination proceedings against a tenured professor (wrongfully, I might add), but they have yet even to address the matter publicly, because their one attempt to quell the growing outrage from other scholars and former students against them failed miserably when the blogger they asked to release an official statement refused to do so because the statement was utterly false – falsehoods that were immediately confirmed by the publication of the Inside Higher Ed article.
Had Thomas Stark published the Emmanuel statement from President Sweeney as-is (like he was asked to do), Stark would have been roped into lying on behalf of Emmanuel, which based on the evidence, Emmanuel asked him to do!
Stark describes how he felt when he finally realized that he had been asked to lie for Emmanuel:
Then, when I was sent a deeply problematic "statement" described as "officially" from President Sweeney, to be published on my website, I had come firsthand into solid confirmation of my suspicions of incompetence. No matter whose idea it may have been, how incompetent would President Sweeney have to be to approve the publication of an official statement from Emmanuel, with his name on it, on my blog! Does this evoke a sense of direction? Does this communicate a sense of properly handling a potentially damaging scandal? What is more, to include in that statement a number of mischaracterizations, evasions, and an outright lie—a lie he should have known full well could be proved false at any time—I ultimately concluded that President Sweeney appears to be in over his head, and is having a great deal of trouble managing the combination of this financial crisis, this ideological controversy over the direction of the seminary, and now what appears to be the wrongful termination of Professor Rollston, in anything remotely resembling a competent manner. It seems to me that President Sweeney has made mistake after mistake after mistake, and in doing so, has put Emmanuel's reputation and its viability in serious jeopardy.
IMHO, Emmanuel should settle this case ASAP. They should either drop this farce of a "disciplinary action" against Professor Rollston immediately, apologize, and perhaps open an inquiry into Professor Blowers' activity in this whole mess, OR, Emmanuel should pay Professor Rollston his salary for the next bunch of years, apologize, part ways (I can't imagine Dr. Rollston (or any other faculty member for that matter) wanting to stay at Emmanuel after this), and end this absolute nightmare before they end up in court and the national press picks this up. It's only a matter of time. Emmanuel should go to their "six-figure donor", ask him for the money to buy out Dr. Rollston (and avoid court), and then at least Emmanuel can claim a partial victory (the departure of Prof. Rollston). Professor Rollston can go to a school that will actually appreciate him, and the remainder of the faculty can watch their backs as the Paul Blowers thought police plays hall monitor in Johnson City.
Only time will tell if Emmanuel's credibility and reputation are too damaged to recover from this inexplicable mess, brought upon their own heads by their own mismanagement.
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For The Daily Beast, recent graduate Miri Rosen '13 writes about her graduation day and the challenges of embarking on post-college life:
"The day was beautiful because I huddled on a bus caught in a torrential downpour with people I admire, all in caps and gowns. I watched friends I love earn degrees. I heard inspiring calls to "step out of the shadows" and "to make the world more beautiful." And I never once felt anxious about not having a job lined up for next year. I thought about the opportunity and the excitement of what is to come. I thought about my responsibility to do something that I enjoy and find valuable."


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Unemployment rate: Recovery leaves teens behind
The March unemployment rate fell slightly for all workers and women, blacks, Hispanics, and Asians. For teens, unemployment rose. Why are fewer teens getting jobs?
Employment grew at a disappointing rate in March, adding some 80,000 jobs fewer than what a consensus of economists had expected.
At least it was growth – 120,000 new jobs – and a tick down in the unemployment rate. But the recovery has left behind one important if less vocal class of worker: teenagers. Economists and advocates across the political spectrum are using words like "sobering" and "crisis" to describe historic levels of teen unemployment.
Last month, one quarter of young Americans age 16 to 19 was out of work. That's the highest rate in more than a year and, except for a run of more than a dozen months immediately after the Great Recession, the highest on record going back to 1948. Government and private groups are working on solutions. But with summer less than two months away, the numbers cast a dark shadow over the summer job prospects of US teenagers.
"Young people got beat up really bad in the last decade," said Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. "People say, 'Well, things are recovering,' but young people have not gotten one new job in the last two years. Fewer kids are working today then were two years ago."
The persistence of the problem extends nationwide, although there is a large disparity among states and cities, with low-income urban areas and minorities the hardest hit. In March, the unemployment rate for Hispanics in the 16 to 19 age range was 30.5 percent, and for blacks it was 40.5 percent.
The Great Recession can explain some of the decline in job opportunities for young people. During the mid-2000s, the overall teenage unemployment rate ranged between 14 and 18 percent. Then, the downturn hit and teen unemployment began to rise, peaking at 27 percent in October 2009 (overall unemployment peaked three months later at 10.6 percent). Since then, the recovery has created more than 1 million new jobs for adults and brought the unemployment rate down to 8.2 percent. But there's been no recovery for teens. For the past 41 months, the national average unemployment rate for teens has remained above 20 percent – a postwar record.
One factor behind the stark numbers is that the overall base of teen employment is eroding. For one thing, fewer teens are entering the workforce. That's not always a bad thing. The January issue of the Department of Labor's Monthly Labor Review cited an increase in school attendance, including summer school, as a major reason behind the decline in overall youth employment.
They also are facing more competition from adults, who are now more eager for jobs that they might have dismissed a few years ago. "If you look at the labor force participation of older workers, they are becoming a large contingent of the labor force," says Michael Saltsman, research fellow for the Employment Policies Institute, a research organization in Washington, D.C.
Also, new technologies are shrinking the number of available hourly jobs. 'We're at a transition point," Mr. Saltsman says. Jobs like bagging groceries or working the counter at the local drugstore are increasingly being replaced by automated self-checkout counters and automated price checkers.
The concern about teen unemployment runs across the political spectrum, because research suggests that a job helps teenagers learn job skills and earn more in later years. A National Bureau of Economic Research study from 1995 found that high school seniors employed 20 hours per week were, six to nine years later, expected to earn approximately 11 percent more annually than their unemployed peers. A 2006 Journal of Human Resources study found that periods of unemployment, even as a teenager, were more likely to adversely affect the future successes of the job seeker later in life.
"The value of a summer job is more than just a paycheck, it's the skills they pick up," says Saltsman, whose conservative Employment Policies Institute is managed by a communications firm with ties to the restaurant, tobacco, and food industry. "It's probably too early to write this generation off, but it's something to be concerned about when you have young people who get discouraged and say they'd rather spend the summer hanging on the couch instead of out there learning something."
President Obama, a Democrat, has also called attention to the problem: "America's young people face record unemployment, and we need to do everything we can to make sure they've got the opportunity to earn the skills and a work ethic that come with a job," he said, when announcing his summer jobs initiative in January.
The president's "Summer Jobs +" initiative is an effort to encourage private-public partnerships and reach a goal of at least 250,000 teens hired this summer. So far the White House says it has received pledges from companies including AT&T, Bank of America, and CVS/Caremark that amount to 180,000 jobs. The number of jobs partners have pledged varies greatly, however, from just a dozen paid positions to thousands.
Jamba Juice, a national food and beverage chain, has pledged to hire at least 2,500 young people and recently hosted a national hiring day in 80 cities across the country. "The issue with teen unemployment is a compelling story," says Kathy Wright, vice president of human resources, in an e-mail. "It made sense that the private and public sector work together to help put youth to work and we felt it was something that we could help out in doing. "
Others are not impressed with the White House plan. "The program [Mr. Obama] put out, let's be honest, it's a pretty pathetic initiative," says Mr. Sum, the Northeastern University professor. He says a better solution would be to offer government-funded tax incentives or wage subsidies to companies willing to take on teen employees. Also, brokers need to be put in place to help connect out-of-work youths with hiring managers.
Brokers like TeenForce, a northern California start-up, serve as a go-between for low-income and at-risk teens in Santa Clara County. Acting as a hybrid matchmaker, human-resources representative, and payroll office, TeenForce streamlines the hiring process for area teens and employers alike. The teens are paid by the nonprofit directly, so employers don't have to deal with paperwork or insurance.
"It makes it very convenient for employers," Mr. Hogan says. "Our model is definitely designed to be replicated, and scalable. Just as any community would want to have an YMCA, our vision is every community would want a TeenForce jobs program, because they work. Our vision is to demonstrate that there is a better way, that kids have value, their labor has value, and that businesses will pay for it."
In the short term, teens who do want a job when school lets out need to start thinking about possibilities, and be prepared to get creative.
While fast food and retail may seem like the obvious places for teens looking for work, Rick Parker, senior vice president in marketing at Snagajob, an hourly employment network site, recommends applying for positions in more unexpected sectors, like car care, for example.
Snagajob conducts an annual survey of over one thousand hiring managers nationwide, in advance of the summer season, to get a feel for current trends in the hourly labor market. This summer, it's all about timing.
"We're seeing that hiring mangers are hiring earlier this year than they have, in the past. Eighty percent will complete their summer hiring by Memorial Day," Parker said. "If teens want the best paying jobs, the best types of jobs, they should be looking early, in fact they really already should be looking."


text: David: > > This thread brings to mind the punch line from the second of the SNL > > "Citiwide Change Bank" ads. Here is a link to the transcript: > > > > http://snltranscripts.jt.org/88/88achangebank2.phtml Thank you, now my keyboard is covered in coffee. ;-) > Hmmmm. > > I'd just returned from a business trip to London, and all the cash I > had was a five-pound note. > Citiwide wasn't able to convert it to dollars, but they did give me > four guineas, two crowns, four shillings, and ten pence. [...] > I make that 479.17pence decimal in exchange for five pounds (500p). > Yup, that's how Citibank make their money Well John, that's American math for you. I blame our educational system. (You would have to go add that up, wouldn't you ;-). Going completely off topic, most US banks will not convert anything other than paper currency and I have a baggie full of Euro and Pound coinage to show for it. So the fact that "Citiwide" converted the note to coins would be another win for them. Have a good holiday weekend, for those of us on this side of the pond(*). To everyone else, have a nice normal weekend. -b (*) and north of Mexico and south of Canada, unless of course you are in Alaska or Hawaii.


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Fighting Summer Stains: Condiments
Winter is the season for one-pot meals and slow, simmered sauces. Summer's the time for quick, high-heat grilling and flavor-packed condiments. From cookout fixings like ketchup and mustard to the mayonnaise that dresses lobster rolls, these tasty topping are stains waiting to happen. If you find yourself with condiments on your clothing, follow these simple steps to remove the offending marks:
Ketchup and other tomato-based sauces like barbecue sauce and salsa should first be scraped off of the cloth, to remove as much of the sauce as possible (a dull knife is a good scraping tool). Then spray the stain with a laundry pretreater, rub it into the stain and let the product work for at least 10 minutes before laundering. Opt for the warmest water the garment can take according to the care label and feel free to add color-safe bleach to the load.
Tre Mitchell Wright, fabric care expert at Whirlpool Institute of Fabric Science, recommends removing as much of the mustard as possible and then pretreating the spot with white vinegar. Launder according to the care label with detergent and a little color-safe bleach to finish the job.
Don't get greasy stains wet! Your instinct may be to put water on the stain, but it's not effective; instead apply a pretreater or liquid detergent directly to the grease stain. "Work it in, don't just put it on there," says Tre, who says products work better when worked into the fibers.
As with mayo, avoid putting water on the stain. For a serious grease spot, cover the stain with either baby powder or cornstarch to absorb the oil. Let the powder soak up some of the oil, then brush it off and pretreat the stain before laundering.
Tip: If the offending mark persists after treatment for any of the stains mentioned above, launder the piece a second time before the garment has a chance to dry.
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Yes, Mr. Bissinger has bravely decided that it's time to jump in the mud pit for some good ol' fashioned rapid-fire conversation with anonymous angry folk. Obviously, he truly believes in this book.
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During his last six years working as an elite security researcher for Google, the hacker known as Morgan Mayhem spent his nights and weekends hunting down the malware used to spy on vulnerable targets like human rights activists and political dissidents.
His new job tasks him with defending a different endangered species: American national security journalists.
For the last month, 34-year-old Morgan Marquis-Boire has been the director of security for First Look Media, the media startup founded by eBay billionaire Pierre Omidyar that has recruited journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras.1 The website has become the most prolific publisher of NSA leaker Edward Snowden's remaining secrets. Marquis-Boire's daunting task is to safeguard those documents, and the communications of reporters who have perhaps the press' most adversarial relationships with Western intelligence agencies.
Beyond protecting Snowden's favorite journalists, Marquis-Boire sees his decision to leave Google for First Look as a chance to focus full-time on the problem of protecting reporters and activists as a whole, groups he sees as some of the most sensitive targets for governments globally. "I look at the risk posed to individuals in the real world," says Marquis-Boire, an imposing, often black-clad New Zealander with earrings, dreadlocks, and a taste for death metal. "In human rights and journalism, the consequences of communications being compromised are imprisonment, physical violence, and even death. These types of users need security assistance in a very real sense."
Marquis-Boire already has distinguished himself as a relentless counter-surveillance researcher and a vocal critic of the companies that have created an industry hawking spyware to governments. In 2012, he and researchers at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab were the first to identify Finfisher, a stealthy collection of spying tools sold by the British firm Gamma Group that they eventually tracked to command-and-control servers in 25 countries. Later that year he helped trace how a piece of software sold by the Italian firm Hacking Team was used by the government of the United Arab Emirates to spy on a political dissident beaten by thugs. Just last month he revealed new findings that showed how that company's tools have evolved to target iPhones, Android devices and other mobile targets. And in early 2013 Marquis-Boire and Citizen Lab researchers mapped the spread of surveillance and censorship tools sold by the Palo Alto, California firm Blue Coat to 61 countries, including Iran.
In the detective work required to pin those stealthy spying incidents on repressive governments and Western companies, Marquis-Boire is "extraordinarily talented," says Ron Deibert, a professor of political science at the University of Toronto and Citizen Lab's director. "There are some people who are phenomenally adept at forensics, who have an intuitive sense of how to make connections through different pieces of evidence," he says. "Morgan has those skills...But what I very much appreciate about him is his passion for human rights."
First Look and Marquis-Boire aren't saying much about exactly what he'll do at the closely-watched new media startup. But Marquis-Boire says he was convinced early in their recruitment meetings that First Look will treat security as a central tenet. (More about First Look's plans in the video below.) The job also presents a challenge worthy of leaving his high profile position at Google: Protecting the communications between non-technical reporters and their highly-sensitive sources in a post-WikiLeaks and -Snowden era where they're both increasingly targeted by spooks.
Marquis-Boire hints that he's already researching security vulnerabilities that affect journalists, and working with several companies to release security fixes to their services in the next couple of months. Brian Sweeney, First Look's head of technology operations, says Marquis-Boire's work likely will extend into research designed to protect reporters beyond the company's firewall. "The idea that all digital citizens, including and especially journalists, have access to data privacy is something that we strongly believe in," says Sweeney.
Marquis-Boire, the son of two literature professors at the University of Auckland, got started with security experimentation as a teenager in the New Zealand hacker scene under the handle "headhntr." After starting college at Auckland, he and a group of friends wrote an article for the university magazine about breaking into the school's website to take over the server that ran it. On another occasion he was called into a local telecom's office and "given a stern talking to about using their services as a test lab."
But from the beginning, his interest in hacking was also political: In the late 1990s the kiwi teenager discovered the Cypherpunks Mailing List, a group of cryptographers and radical libertarians bent on foiling government surveillance and empowering individuals with privacy tools. The group eventually would foster projects like the anonymous remailers that relay emails to obscure their senders' identities, the anonymity software Tor, WikiLeaks, and countless other privacy and encryption projects. "People realized that to actually have free speech, we have to be sure we won't be monitored or persecuted," says Marquis-Boire. "The intertwined nature of privacy and free expression was at the core of the cypherpunk movement."
Marquis-Boire and friends soon hosted what he says was the first anonymous remailer server in New Zealand out of a "dingy warehouse apartment with far too many blinking lights and whirring things." Eventually, he ran five Tor relays, the nodes in the Tor network that bounce users' traffic to obscure their location.
But Marquis-Boire's first real job in security, penetration-testing banks, power plants, and other clients for a New Zealand auditing firm, was unsatisfying. "I spent a bit of time musing about how much it costs to hire security consultants to do something like a black box [penetration test] of your whole enterprise," he says. "I wanted to give my skills to the people who really needed them."
In 2008, Google hired Marquis-Boire in its Zurich, Switzerland office. He was assigned to cybersecurity incident response at the company not long before the biggest known security crisis in its history: the so-called Aurora hacking operation, in which Chinese hackers breached Google's network for months and stole information that included source code from its servers. Marquis-Boire became an early member of the core team of network defenders assigned to battle the state-sponsored spies trying to eavesdrop on Google's users. "He has quite a hacker mind," says Heather Adkins, Google's manager of information security, "Of everyone I've ever hired at Google, I'd put him in the top one percent of technical capability."
When the Arab Spring began a year later, human rights activists like those at Citizen Lab who had seen Marquis-Boire's presentations on state-sponsored hacking began seeking his help analyzing attacks on vulnerable groups across the Middle East. As revolutions and political unrest blossomed from Tunisia to Egypt to Libya to Syria, his detective work became nearly a full-time job. "There have been a lot of books not read and canceled vacations," he says.
In the meantime, Google's Adkins adds, Marquis-Boire frequently uncovered weaknesses in the company's defenses for users---and he's been just as focused on locking out the NSA as China's People's Liberation Army. In the wake of revelations from Snowden's leaks that the NSA spied on unencrypted Google data moving between the company's data centers, Marquis-Boire was one of the first at the company to push for encryption not only of the company's internal data transfers, but also the exchange of emails between Gmail and other providers. That pressure led Google earlier this month to start publicly naming which email services do and don't allow for that encryption in a bid to pressure other companies to safeguard users' privacy.
Marquis-Boire's focus turned to protecting journalists in particular earlier this year, when he and other Googlers released research in March showing that 21 out of the 25 top media organizations in the world had been targeted in digital attacks that were likely the work of state-sponsored hackers. The same month, he joined a technical advisory group for the Freedom of the Press Foundation, which counts Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Edward Snowden as members of its board. "If you can't protect your privacy and that of your sources, it's debatable whether you can actually practice journalism in the traditional sense," he says.
That notion represents a shift from the cypherpunk views of Marquis-Boire's youth. Once, cypherpunks were mainly interested in seizing privacy for themselves. Now, he says, that's no longer enough. "When we discovered that we could create private and anonymous communications with math, that was super cool," he says. "But then after a while I think it dawned on us as a movement that the only conversations you could have with those tools were with other cypherpunks."
"Now it's been thrust into our faces that the people practicing adversarial journalism and exposing human right abuses are the real-world targets of precisely the kind of thing that the cypherpunk movement was trying to protect against," says Marquis-Boire. "It's become apparent we need to provide privacy to those who need it, not just to ourselves."
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Ro baby. I didn't die today. I really thought I was going to. I woke up this morning, knowing what the day had in store. I didn't dare tell your brothers what I had planned. Your daddy chose to ignore my danger day and left the house the way he always does; by kissing me goodbye and telling me to have a good day. We had talked on Thursday night about the skydiving I had planned for Monday. Well, we didn't actually talk about it…. I more just told him I was doing it. He said to me, "Don't you think we should sit down and have a discussion about this?" I said, "We're having a discussion now. I'm going skydiving on Monday." He said he didn't want me to go. That I could die. I told him that I could die crossing the street. He didn't think that was a very good argument. He made his feelings known that he didn't like the idea and we left it at that. We didn't talk about it again until after I made it safely to the ground today. Your daddy knows how I am, once I get an idea in my head. There is no stopping me. Especially not now. Your daddy knew I was a handful before losing you, Ro. Now the word handful has taken on a whole new meaning. Yowzer. At least I keep things spicy, right baby doll;) Extra spicy just for you.
I woke up this morning like it was just another normal day, without you. I got your brothers ready and Mandy Bee came over to help me as she was my danger crusade sidekick for the day. She packed your brothers lunches while I ran around the house, trying to get ready. I knew I wanted to take you with me, but there was no way I was going to bring your heavy locket, skydiving. I went and got a small ziplock bag and opened up your Urn. I put my hands inside and went to grab some of your ashes. I grabbed something hard instead. It looked like one of your little bones. I dropped it back into your Urn. I looked down at it, didn't want to touch it, but then thought to myself there is a reason I was supposed to touch that today. I scooped it up and put it in my little baggie and zipped it up in the pocket of my coat. I didn't throw up, but paced back and forth, crying instead. I quickly pulled it together so I could get your brothers off to school. I didn't want them to see me so upset as they would have worried. We hopped in Mandy's car so we could drop off Liam and Quinn. I hugged and kissed them both and told them how much I loved them and to have a wonderful day.
As we drove off, I got really quiet which is always the first clue that I'm a mess in my head. My silence screams my pain. Mandy asked what was wrong, besides the obvious. I didn't answer at first but stared out the window instead. After a minute or two, I pulled out your ashes told her the story and starting bawling that I couldn't believe you, my baby, were in a plastic fucking baggie. She just held my hand, listened, cried, and we talked about how fucking fucked up all of this is. What else could she have said? Nothing and she knows that. That's the thing I love most about that Mandy Bee. She never tries to make things better with bullshit words. She knows she can't so she just lets me be. We drove to Eloy and it was mostly a quiet drive. We both started to freak out as we got closer, talking about how we couldn't believe we were going to jump out of a plane. I told her I fully expected to die. She told me I was not dying on her watch so to shut the fuck up. I just laughed and told her that I thought I was going to and I was o.k. with that. As soon as we started to get closer, we looked up and saw about 10 parachutes falling from the sky. The excitement started to kick in. We checked in, watched a short video and signed a ton of paperwork in regards to our life. Or our death. We sat and signed our lives away without thinking twice. We went and got suited up, met our partners in crime and listened as they gave us very little, but informative instructions in regards to tandem jumping with them. I guess knowing less is better so that way you don't over think it. I chose to not over think anything at all today. I only thought about you the entire time.
The guy I jumped with was named Jason. I liked him instantly. He was young, tattooed, a great smile, and the icing on the cake was his beautiful blue eyes. I instantly felt like you were there, holding my hand, once I met Jason. As you yourself, had hand picked him out for me today to jump with because you knew he would keep me safe. I know this was one of the reasons why I didn't ever feel scared or panicked. I felt a peacefulness and a calmness that I have not felt in so long. We waited our turn and climbed on board of the plane which held about 20 people. Up and up we went. It was SO HIGH, Ronan. I had one moment as I was looking out the window of the plane that I thought, "What the FUCK am I doing?" But then I remembered that today, was your 8 months. Today, I remembered that it has been 8 months since I last kissed your lips. Today, I remembered that because I have faced my worst fear in life, that I have have nothing to fear anymore. 13,000 feet up in the air we went and I could have not felt more content or calm. My head has not been this quiet since before losing you. There were no screaming voices today in my head. Only pure silence. Jason was preparing me to jump. He was strapping me to his body and as he was putting me in-between his legs, he said something that was so inappropriately wrong, that it made my entire day and night because it was that raunchy, perverted and hilarious. It made me forget the fact that I was about to plummet to my death. I told you I knew you had picked just the right guy for me today, Ro. You know my sense of humor so well. I looked at Mandy as I was getting ready to jump out of the plane, first. She screamed, "I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!" I looked back at her, flashed her a smile and said, "I LOVE YOU MOOOOORRRRREEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!" Jason stood me up at the open door of the plane and told me to look up. ONE, TWO, THREE!!!!!! We jumped. We fell. We flew. We became one. I screamed, laughed, flipped off the camera man who was taking a video of the entire thing. I screamed "FUCK YOU CANCER!!!" I yelled, "I LOVE YOU, RONAN!" We fell, in the sky without our parachute being open for at least a minute. It was the most amazing feeling I've ever had, besides being your mama. I wasn't ever scared. I wanted to free fall, forever. It didn't feel like I was falling from the sky. I felt like I was floating. I felt closer to you today, then I have since you've been gone. Jason pulled the parachute after a minute or so. After that, we were able to talk while we floated all around in the sky. He pointed out the mountains in the horizon. I asked him how I did and he said amazing. I told him all about you and how I was doing this, for you, because of you. Because you'll never have the chance so now I have to do things like this, for you. If you were still here I would have NEVER done this. But now I wonder why not? It was the most freeing feeling that I've ever experienced in my life. I'm only sorry it took you dying, for me to do something like this. The landing was easy, and Mandy Bee was waiting for me. She came running over, jumped in my lap and kissed me smack on the lips. It was one of the top 5 BEST days, of my life.
Today, I didn't feel like I was buried alive. I didn't have a hard time breathing. I felt happy. I felt fearless. I felt free. I said to myself, If I can jump out of a plane for Ronan, I can do ANYTHING. I meant that today. All I wanted to do today was to get back into that plane, and jump again. I jumped up and down with Mandy on the ground, instead. My Mandy Bee who is afraid of heights, Ronan. Afraid of heights, but didn't think twice about going with me when I put this out there about a month ago. My Mandy Bee that you never got to know, but it is because of you that I have found my fearless soul mate in life. The friend who holds on to me the tightest when all I want is for her and everyone around me to let go. The friend that is not scared of my dark side that often exists. The friend who doesn't judge. The friend that trusts me, embraces my crazy ideas, and thinks I am capable of anything and everything. Thank you for her. Thank you so very much. You have no idea, how many times she has saved me. I don't know how I would be doing any of this without her. I am so glad I don't have to.
After our jump of death. Or jump of life…. whichever you prefer… we went and grabbed lunch at your favorite place, Chelsea's Kitchen. Mandy Bee also went grocery shopping with me, which you know I don't do well with. I would rather jump out of a plane any day then tackle the grocery store. It helped having her there so much. I'm learning that I do indeed need help with things and for now, grocery shopping is one of them. I'm learning that it is still o.k. to ask for help, especially now that you are gone. It's too hard to go there alone and without you. So Mandy shopped with me. We rode on the carts like I would have done with you. Remember how you would sit in the cart and I would push you so fast and crazy? You would giggle with fits of laughter. I pushed my cart fast and crazy for you today, only I was the one riding on it. I'm sorry for that. I'm sorry for everything. I'm sorry you got cancer and I couldn't make you better. I'm sorry I have to live without you. But thank you for letting me live today and making me feel like it might be o.k. That it won't hurt so badly, everyday without you. I know I can't jump out of a plane everyday to have good days like this. I hope you can give me some ideas on how else to ease the pain. I'll be here waiting to hear from you.
I went for a 6 mile late run tonight too. The moon was so full and beautiful. I yelled up at it that I loved you. I know you heard me. I know you hear me all the time. I love you baby doll. Sweet dreams. I hope you are safe.


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By: Bill Myers
Examiner Staff Writer
December 14, 2009
Copyright 2009 by The Washington Examiner
The economy has been in the dumps for years, but the good times keep on rolling for some favored D.C. employees.
City officials have doled out nearly $15 million in bonuses and awards since Mayor Adrian Fenty took office in January 2007, records obtained by The Examiner under the Freedom of Information Act show.
Among the big winners were Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, who was handed $41,250 in August 2007 after barely two months on the job; Department of Health Director Pierre Vigilance, who was given $15,000 in 2008; and city property manager Robin-Eve Jasper, handed $18,000 over two years.
More than 5,700 city employees have been given $14.9 million in bonuses since January 2007. Among the big winners: » Michelle Rhee, schools chancellor, $41,250 in 2007
» Mary Clegg, schools superintendent executive, $25,000 in 2009
» Karen Griffin, schools special education executive, $25,000 in 2008
» Eric Stanchfield, D.C. Retirement Board, $21,997 in 2009
» Anthony Pompa, finance office executive, $21,796 in 2008
» Robin-Eve Jasper, city property manager, $18,000 from 2008-09
» Pierre Vigilance, Department of Health director, $15,000 in 2008
The bonuses were ladled out even as the city was facing nine-figure budget shortfalls and officials — including Rhee — were firing employees by the busload, claiming they could no longer afford them.
It paid to be on Rhee's good side. School employees, including Rhee's top staff, accounted for nearly half of the Fenty-era bonuses, records show. Then-special education "czar" Phyllis Harris was paid $17,000 in 2008; special-ed bureaucrat Karen Griffin was given $25,000 the same year; and Rhee's chief of staff, Lisa Ruda, was given $17,000 in 2008, records show.
Under Rhee, standardized test scores in the public schools have made marginal improvements. Fourth-graders' test result are now only the fourth-worst in the nation; eighth-graders' are only the second-worst.
Worried by possible bad publicity for doling out cash during a recession, the city council voted to ban the practice as of Oct. 1, 2009. That hasn't stopped the gravy train from rolling: Records show hundreds of employees have been paid more than $565,000 in bonuses since October.
Attorney General Peter Nickles said most of the bonuses to employees were tied to contracts that were entered into when "times were better" and that the city couldn't back out of them now.
"We're no longer entering into those contracts," he said.
Nickles said the bonuses were worth the cost.
"We've made tremendous progress in these three years," he said.
Condemnation from other quarters was swift.
"Fenty, Rhee and [police Chief Cathy] Lanier have tried to tell everybody in the city we don't have enough police officers, firefighters and teachers because they don't have any money. But at the same time they're lining the pockets of their favorites," police union Chairman Kris Baumann said. "If you put this in a movie, people wouldn't believe it. It would be too far-fetched."
Councilwoman Mary Cheh, D-Ward 3, handed out bonuses for some staff in 2007-08, but this year voted to stop bonuses citywide. She said she was mystified that the practice continued.
"The idea was everybody was going to share the pain," she said. "We could hardly give bonuses when everybody was losing their jobs."
Not all of the bonuses had high price tags. Ted Loza, onetime chief of staff to Councilman Jim Graham, D-Ward 1, was given more than $3,000 in bonuses in the past two years, including a $700 bonus in April. In September, he was arrested on federal bribery charges.
"Of course, subsequent events have been very disturbing," Graham said. "But at the time, I wasn't aware of any of that."


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According to recent research there are a number of phrases that irritate the hell out of the majority of normal people. Further research suggests that around half of the people who use these phrases are the usual Office Plonkers whilst the other half are Office Plonker Baiters.
These OFBs are our leaders of the future who are showing the early signs of being irritating, irresponsible and invidious – the 3i's of middle, menial and mediocre management that eventual develop into a full blown 3M management strategy (Me, Me, Me).
We are here of course to help out people from 'C' level all the way down to the lower level Mediocre Management tiers so here are a few phrases, for those aspiring to manage, that will curdle the brains of your colleagues and will help pass a long winter afternoon or enliven a meeting.
Phrases guaranteed to irritate your colleagues:
- Can I borrow you for a sec? (13%)
- How long is a piece of string? (11%)
- Think outside the box (11%)
- Teamwork, dreamwork (11%)
- Keep me in the loop (9%)
- Win-win (9%)
- Pick your brains (8%)
- I'm stacked (8%)
- Blue sky thinking (8%)
- Just playing devil's advocate (8%)
However a word of warning never the use the phrases listed below as these are only used by Office Plonkers. OPs spouting cliches are to be kept well clear of as they will drain the very life force from your caffeine addicted persona and leave it as a moist patch on the office carpet to be trampled on by all who pass you by.
Irritating online expressions people say in the workplace
- Epic fail (10%)
- Cringe (8%)
- Swag (6%)
- On point / on fleek (4%)
- For the win (4%)
- That's cray (3%)
If cornered the best thing to ask an OP for is an 'Enhanced Assessment Methodology' implying that it was a request from their line manager's manager.


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Trending: Health IT in 2013
Larger-scale remote monitoring of chronic conditions and more patients using mobile apps are among predictions.
AT&T released predictions Monday for 2013's biggest health IT trends:
- A shift from stand-alone mobile health apps to "sponsored mHealth solutions" from health-insurance companies, health care providers, employers and other stakeholders, resulting in more patients using the apps and participating more fully in their own health care.
- The movement of more health data into the cloud, where data analytics will "better manage health care costs by finding and addressing patient needs earlier."
- Large-scale adoption of remote monitoring of patients with chronic conditions.
- mHealth applications that can integrate with other devices, apps and data and be safely shared across different vendors' health IT platforms.
- Significant growth in the telehealth market, bringing more access to health care in areas without enough physicians to meet demand.
"Physicians make better treatment decisions and predictions based on better data, so we must have better access to information when patients need it the most," said Dr. Geeta Nayyar, chief medical information officer at AT&T ForHealth, in a statement. "These kinds of technologies have the potential to help people make the shift from being reactive to being proactive with their care."