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Guest blog post by Nicole Y. Lamb-Hale, Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing and Services, International Trade Administration
This week I'm in Singapore leading a delegation of fifteen small and medium sized U.S. aerospace companies to the 2012 Singapore Air Show. The delegation is part of the overall presence of U.S. companies at the U.S. International Pavilion, which this year featured more than 70 companies, 27 of whom are first time exhibitors. In total, more than 170 U.S. companies are exhibiting at the air show, which is Asia's largest aerospace and defense event and one of the top three air shows in the world.
One of the highlights of my trip was witnessing a signing ceremony between Boeing and Indonesia's Lion Air. Lion Air has agreed to buy 230 new 737-model aircraft from Boeing, valued at $21.7 billion, making it the largest commercial deal in company history. The sale is estimated to support 110,000 industrial jobs in the U.S. Singapore is a global aviation hub in the Asia Pacific region, widely considered to be the most promising market for the aerospace industry worldwide. Boeing estimates that Asia Pacific airlines will need an additional 11,450 new airplanes valued at $1.5 trillion over the next 20 years. Singapore is a major buyer of U.S. aerospace products and just last year, the U.S. exported $3.6 billion in U.S. aerospace products to Singapore, a 10.4 percent increase over 2010.
Participants in the mission are exploring export opportunities through pre-arranged meetings with potential buyers, agents and distributors, are being briefed by local industry leaders on local market conditions and are meeting one-on-one with U.S. Commercial Service aerospace and defense industry specialists from ten markets throughout Asia as part of the Commercial Service's AsiaNow Showtime program.
In addition to leading the trade mission, I had the opportunity to meet with a range of U.S. aerospace companies to better understand the trade and manufacturing issues of greatest importance to them and had high-level advocacy and policy discussions with foreign government officials about how we can continue to increase our international trading partnerships.
These partnerships are helping to expand manufacturing exports from the U.S. Through the use of foreign markets, U.S. businesses are increasing their customer bases, boosting both production and their ability to support new jobs at home.
In January alone, the U.S. manufacturing sector added 50,000 jobs, which means in the last two years the industry added 404,000 jobs across the country, and many of these manufacturing jobs are supported by profits made through international trade.
The buzz this week in Singapore is the aerospace sector, but what excites me is how the U.S. aerospace industry typifies the success of U.S. manufacturers across industry lines. Many of our manufacturers and service providers are finding success in markets around the world and putting more American's back to work. A strong U.S. manufacturing sector is an important pillar of an economy built to last!
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Gabriel Aubry and Olivier Martinez got into a physical altercation at Halle Berry's home on Thursday, Nov. 22, Us Weekly has confirmed.
A Hollywood division watch commander for the LAPD tells Us "the investigation is ongoing" and says "the cause of the fight between the two men is unknown." However, law enforcement sources tell TMZ the fight began when Aubry showed up with his daughter, Nahla, 4, for a custodial handoff to Berry. After Martinez (the Academy Award winner's fiance) reportedly told the model, "We have to move on," Aubry pushed the actor and threw a punch at him.
The two continued to struggle until Martinez managed to pin Aubry to the ground, according to TMZ. The site also claims Aubry sustained a broken rib, contusions on his face and a possible head injury. Martinez may have broken his hand and suffered neck injuries.
Police were called to make a citizen's arrest for battery against Aubry, 36. The watch commander tells Us that "no one has been booked yet. One man was transported with unknown injuries to a local hospital. I do not know the extent of the injuries or if he remains in the hospital." UPDATE: The Associated Press reports that Aubry was arrested and booked for investigation of battery, a misdemeanor charge; he was released on $20,000 bail, with a court date set for Dec. 13.
According to Radar Online, Martinez, Aubry and Berry were cordial during a pre-holiday party Nov. 21.
Earlier this month, a judge ruled that Berry, 46, will not be able to move to France full-time with Nahla. Following their April 2010 split, the exes have been engaged in a nasty custody battle.
Twice-married Berry has been engaged to her Dark Tide costar Martinez, 46, since late 2011. Aubry briefly dated Kim Kardashian in late 2010.
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Centre golf team has six new members
Staff writer
The Centre High School golf team is rebuilding this year, with six new members. They are junior exchange student Sualeha Mustafa, sophomore Courtney Hett, and freshmen Trevor Williams, Nathaniel Engler, Jacob Matz, and Tyler Bentz.
Three returning members are junior Karl Riffel and senior letter-winners Kodey Johnson and Dylan Svitak.
Svitak lettered as a freshman and junior. Johnson lettered for the first time last year. Both of them medaled at the regional golf meet in 2012 and went to the state tournament. They hope for a repeat performance this year with more medals and improved scores.
Wyatt is in his 13th year as golf coach. In recent years, his teams advanced to state competition for three consecutive seasons.


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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. --- After splitting the first two games of the series against Dayton, the Tennessee Tech baseball team put together a late game rally Sunday to win the series with a 9-8 victory.
Tech scored its nine runs on 10 hits, four of which went for extra bases as Zach Stephens notched a three-run shot in the first, and a solo-shot in the fourth.
The Golden Eagles wasted no time at the plate as they jumped on Dayton starter Kyle Coenen as they rang off six runs, on four hits before chasing him after just 0.1 of an inning pitched.
Tech added two more runs in the fourth off reliever Bryce Lahrman, who threw 3.1 innings while giving up three hits and three walks.
Leading 8-7, Tech reliever Nick Price entered the game in the sixth and guided the Golden Eagles through a scoreless seventh, but in the eighth the Flyers managed to score the tying run behind two hits to even the score at eight.
In the bottom of the eighth, Tevis Sherfield coaxed a leadoff walk and was moved over to second after Austin Wulf's sacrifice bunt. Parker Schrage managed to get the second out, but Ben Burgess drove in Sherfield with an RBI-single up the middle to give Tech the 9-8 lead.
Price managed to get the first two Flyer batters in the ninth before Josh Bryant came on to get the final our for his first career save.
With the win Price improved to 1-0 on the season, as he gave up just one run on three hits in 3.1 innings pitched.
Schrage took the loss as he fell to 0-4 on the season after giving up one run in 4.1 innings pitched.
Tech starter David Hess left the game after 5.1 innings, after giving up seven hits and seven runs, six of which were earned.
Austin Wulf extended his hitting streak to 12 games as he notched three hits and two RBI.
The Golden Eagles travel to Kentucky for a single game Tuesday at 3 p.m.


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Both bigger guys.
Look out Schillens, ya bum.
Fodder, I know.Jets signed WRs Wes Kemp (Missouri) and Chris Forcier (Furman), according to source #nyj
Both bigger guys.
Look out Schillens, ya bum.
Forcier's a converted QB, if he's good enough to stick in WR tryouts, he may end up on the practice squad as a developmental guy and scout team QB.
Re Kemp, he sounds like a Patrick Turner clone:
http://www.fanaticalfootballfiend.co...g-reports.htmlA tall, thickly strapped together wide out with the size to create mismatches. However, he isn't a real explosive kid, it takes him a while to build speed off the line, he doesn't eat up the cushion real quickly and isn't a threat to run past defenders. However, he does a nice job changing gears and slow-playing his routes.
Will try to run past defenders down the field if they start to sit on his routes and is a tough cover the further down the field he gets. Possesses "plus" ball skills and concentration when asked to go get the football since he consistently extends his arms and uses his length and strong hands in order to make a play.
Exhibits a good feel underneath sitting down in zone coverage and working his way back toward the quarterback, limiting the corners' angles toward the football. Showcases a decent combo of power and shiftiness after the catch, can gain half a step, but doesn't have the acceleration to run by anybody.
IS tighter in the hips and really rolls into his sharply breaking routes. Doesn't create any kind of burst for himself out of his breaks and needs to get his body between the ball and man in order to box out and make a play. Seems to get hung up far too often vs. any kind of press coverage or physicality in the short passing game.
Doesn't use his hands well to keep himself clean and lacks the short area quickness to gain a step and separate, even vs. linebackers in zone. Will get after it in the run game, is physical on the edge, displays a willingness to block and is tough guy to disengage from once he gets his hands on you.
Impression: Possesses good size and ball skills, but I just don't see him as a dynamic enough option, even at his size, to consistently get open underneath. Looks like a size free agent only.
Gap closed.
I have a feeling we are going to be talking about the Wr position a lot during the course of this season.
Cromartie must feel totally disrespected.
Not really a big deal.
Jets have like 8 injured WR's. These are camp bodies
Wes Kemp
Notes: Three-time first-team all-state selection at wide receiver as a Missouri prep. Saw limited action in seven games as a true freshman in 2008, grabbing one 15-yard pass. Started all 13 contests at "Z" receiver in '09 and hauled in 23 passes for 418 yards (18.2-yard average) and two touchdowns. Helped out at kickoff returner for the last five games with six returns for 136 yards (22.7-yard average). Held down the "Z" receiver position again in '10, posting 39-420-3 (11.2) in 13 starts. Hauled in 29-369-5 (12.7) in 13 starts at the "Z" receiver in '11. Graduated in December in just 31⁄2 years. Never lost a fumble.
Positives: Terrific size — well put together with long arms. Intriguing timed speed and leaping ability (has a 39-inch vertical). Can extend to catch outside his frame. Good field awareness. Competitive after the catch. Strong weight-room numbers. Experienced, durable, three-year starter. Solid personal and football character.
Negatives: Does not play to measurables. Average initial quickness. Builds to speed. Average burst and flexibility in/out of breaks. Route running needs work (limited tree). Struggles to track and adjust. Has concentration drops and is inconsistent making contested catches. Ordinary career production.
Summary: Long-armed, size-speed prospect with outstanding leaping ability, though he is more of a short-to-intermediate receiver whose tape and production are less intriguing than his measurables.
Positives: Marginally productive college receiver with outstanding size/speed numbers. Fluid releasing off the line, comes back to the ball out of breaks and consistently extends to make the reception away from his body. Displays solid eye/hand coordination and makes the difficult catch over the middle of the field. Has good size and offers the quarterback a nice target. Effective blocking downfield.
Negatives: Lacks naturally soft hands. Minimal burst and displays little downfield speed.
Analysis: Kemp passes the eyeball test but never met expectations on the field. He offers a good degree of upside and should get consideration for a practice squad based on his measurables. However, he must elevate every aspect of his game to have an NFL career.
Projection: FA


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Solidarity against online harassment
One of our colleagues has been the target of a sustained campaign of harassment for the past several months. We have decided to publish this statement to publicly declare our support for her, for every member of our organization, and for every member of our community who experiences this harassment. She is not alone and her experience has catalyzed us to action. This statement is a start.
The Tor Project works to create ways to bypass censorship and ensure anonymity on the Internet. Our software is used by journalists, human rights defenders, members of law enforcement, diplomatic officials, and many others. We do high-profile work, and over the past years, many of us have been the targets of online harassment. The current incidents come at a time when suspicion, slander, and threats are endemic to the online world. They create an environment where the malicious feel safe and the misguided feel justified in striking out online with a thousand blows. Under such attacks, many people have suffered — especially women who speak up online. Women who work on Tor are targeted, degraded, minimized and endure serious, frightening threats.
This is the status quo for a large part of the internet. We will not accept it.
We work on anonymity technology because we believe in empowering people. This empowerment is the beginning and a means, not the end of the discussion. Each person who has power to speak freely on the net also has the power to hurt and harm. Merely because one is free to say a thing does not mean that it should be tolerated or considered reasonable. Our commitment to building and promoting strong anonymity technology is absolute. We have decided that it is not enough for us to work to protect the world from snoops and censors; we must also stand up to protect one another from harassment.
It's true that we ourselves are far from perfect. Some of us have written thoughtless things about members of our own community, have judged prematurely, or conflated an idea we hated with the person holding it. Therefore, in categorically condemning the urge to harass, we mean categorically: we will neither tolerate it in others, nor will we accept it among ourselves. We are dedicated to both protecting our employees and colleagues from violence, and trying to foster more positive and mindful behavior online ourselves.
Further, we will no longer hold back out of fear or uncertainty from an opportunity to defend a member of our community online. We write tools to provide online freedom but we don't endorse online or offline abuse. Similarly, in the offline world, we support freedom of speech but we oppose the abuse and harassment of women and others. We know that online harassment is one small piece of the larger struggle that women, people of color, and others face against sexism, racism, homophobia and other bigotry.
This declaration is not the last word, but a beginning: We will not tolerate harassment of our people. We are working within our community to devise ways to concretely support people who suffer from online harassment; this statement is part of that discussion. We hope it will contribute to the larger public conversation about online harassment and we encourage other organizations to sign on to it or write one of their own.
For questions about Tor, its work, its staff, its funding, or its world view, we encourage people to directly contact us (Media contact: Kate Krauss, press @ torproject.org). We also encourage people join our community and to be a part of our discussions:
In solidarity against online harassment,
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>With anonymity, sadly,
>With anonymity, sadly, often we also get people doing and saying things that they'd never do in person.
I don't think that's a sad thing at all. People should be given the ability to say things that they otherwise would not feel comfortable doing. In Tor's case, it's a win-win situation. It allows people to avoid censorship, while simultaneously giving people the tools they need to nullify online harassment.
>Speaking anonymously is a mechanism to protect yourself against nation-state harassment (or worse).
That is not entirely true. Speaking anonymously is also about protecting against an adversarial society, one in which your views make you a target for harassment, discrimination, or even physical harm. I have a feeling you would instantly do a 180 if asked if a victim of abuse should have to decry their abuse, using their real name instead of doing so anonymously. Anonymity cannot, and should not, be selectively dealt out only to those that you (or any given social climate's collective opinion) label as victims.
>If you've got a beef with any of those things or whatever else, write a blog post, under your real name, and argue your case with precision.
A world where that can be done under your real name safely is a world where Tor is obsolete. We do not live in such a place yet. The only times at which this would be safe is if the point you are arguing is socially accepted by a critical mass of people.
It is socially acceptable to call a person who is advocating murder for profit despicable and disgusting, but it is not socially acceptable to call a person who is fat (or of a different political view, or a different sexuality, etc) the same. Both of these are harassment, but the average person might not agree because to them, "harassment" is only harassment if it is against a person they align with, and I find that very disappointing. I think that people should be free to say anything to people anonymously, while the "target" should also be free to protect themselves with tools like Tor.
We at Take Back the Tech!
We at Take Back the Tech! are thrilled to see this very powerful statement from Tor and are always happy to partner on related initiatives. Online harassment causes real harm and restricts a variety of rights from freedom of expression to right to work.
For anyone facing online harassment, we have resources on our site: https://www.takebackthetech.net. For developers, we recommend incorporating the Feminist Principles of the Internet into your work in order to create technology and digital spaces that are open, inclusive and equal and that reject violence in all its forms: http://www.genderit.org/articles/feminist-principles-internet
In solidarity,
Take Back the Tech!
Thanks Tor Project, for
Thanks Tor Project, for taking a stand against online harassment! (On top of all the other things you do.)
Click-baiting writers like to portray you as somehow responsible for everything illegal or idiotic that people do over the Tor network. It's not so simple.
This is an important and
This is an important and welcomed step. I stand by the colleagues at the Tor project and I proudly join them in this invitation to improve the space we work in. Let's aim for dialogue instead of harassment, but let's not be shy of calling it out when we come across it.
Enrique Piracés
Thanks for this public
Thanks for this public statement. It is good to be explicit about our expectations of basic decency to one another, though it's a bit depressing that these standards aren't obvious for every thinking and feeling person already.
In solidarity,
Daniel Kahn Gillmor (dkg)
Thanks for taking a stand.
Thanks for taking a stand. Online harassment is why we can't have nice things.
It is good to realize not just the victim suffers, but everyone who stands by and does nothing loses. The community loses and society at large loses.
We fully trust the people at Tor and support them in their fight for freedom and and a better world.
- The Greenhost Team -
"Don't feed the trolls"
"Don't feed the trolls" works when they're isolated. But when they become organized mobs and plan malicous harassment campaigns, they feed themselves. Standing up to them and saying 'no', firmly, becomes necessary. Thank you for this.
Thank you for this effort.
Thank you for this effort. Online harassment is not being addressed, and the emotional, physical and psychological toll it has on women and sexual minorities is enormous. As a staff at a rapid response grantmaking organization, we are Urgent Action Fund take online harassment very seriously, as women and trans* human rights defenders continue to get attacked online, which further undermines their work.
I literally had to leave
I literally had to leave Twitter, because the entire platform is just rife with mistreating people who are unhappy with their own bodies, and seeking to match their brain with it.
Personally, I don't recommend Twitter or Facebook for a multitude of other reasons. There is a reason most of my real friends use Diaspora and not Facebook.
Start caring about trans rights, then we'll talk.
I'm proud to see such strong
I'm proud to see such strong solidarity in our community on this issue.
Folks may be interested in a recently published guide "How to Survive the Internet: Strategies for Staying Safer Online" by Yael Grauer. It discusses some ways of defending oneself against online harassment & targeting, you can find it here:
(disclosure: I provided some feedback on an early draft)
Where was your solidarity
Where was your solidarity when Brendan Eich was being harassed for having the wrong political opinion?
Missing. We have a long way
Missing. We have a long way to go in our various communities. That's why it's so important to raise awareness about these issues.
(I am happy to see that Brendan has signed on to our statement.)
A thousand thanks to all Tor
A thousand thanks to all Tor staffers for your hard work!
arma's post raises more questions than it answers in my mind, but it is probably not a bad thing to state that you are determined to protect your staff from harassment.
I'm totally with you
I'm totally with you guys.
We in Tunisia were able to change our lives, lead our revolution and ouste what we once thought an undefeatable dictator using the Internet. With Freedom online, we really changed our destiny, and the destiny of our children as well. We must keep it safe an free.
Thanks for taking an
Thanks for taking an important step to create coalitions who stand in solidarity against online harassment.
As is the case in an offline world, people get harassed because of gender, believes, political affiliation, etc. This is not how we should treat each other and work towards a better and more equal world.
Let's create that better and more equal world.
In solidarity,
Jurre van Bergen
I LOVE YOU TOR guys.
I LOVE YOU TOR guys.
I think that, whether you're
I think that, whether you're talking about online harassment or just how to behave in an academic environment, everyone could use more education about these kinds of issues. What I see in University environments a lot are students who are otherwise good people and just aren't aware of their own nature, and other students who think the behavior is specifically targeted at them and not a general problem that the more aggressive student has. For example, male students tend to talk over female students who are, e.g., giving a talk. I've seen it a hundred times where a female student is giving a presentation and a male student interrupts, then another male student jumps in, and suddenly it's a discussion amongst the male students and the female student is standing there wondering whether she'll be allowed to speak again. I just try to: (1) educate the more aggressive students that they may not realize they're doing it, but they are; (2) keep it in my mind, since I have the exact same tendency and sometimes don't catch myself; and, (3) let the speaker know that others not letting them speak is a general problem that they should be aware of and that other students have faced, too.
My point is that education is needed all around. We need to educate people who are prone to harassing behavior about what they're doing, we need to educate people like me that are well-meaning but not as sensitive to these issues as we should be, and we need to educate people that may become targets that---while the specific instance of harassment is specific to them---the problem is a general one that a lot of people face.
Jed Crandall
Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science
University of New Mexico
I've often wished that
I've often wished that civics courses (with a strong helping of ethical philosophy and topical cybersafety) were standard fare in US high schools. The problem is that parents (and school boards) tend to react badly when their child reports that their teacher asked them to read... almost anything a teacher might assign for a classroom discussion about ethical philosophy.
Its all very well making
Its all very well making wonderful statements that everyone can agree with. However I don't see anything in the way of solutions being presented. And, let's face it, technology like Tor is both a blessing and a curse. A blessing because it makes it harder for internet bullies to locate you and a curse because it makes it harder for victims of internet bullying to identify them!
I can't help feeling that this statement is somewhat defensive given that Tor technology does make it much easier to bully people anonymously. I have no idea how you are going to prevent internet bullying at the same time as making it harder to trace or identify any of the people doing the actual bullying.
So, whereas I like the sentiment of this message, I am skeptical about what can be done to remedy the situation.
Calls for solidarity must
Calls for solidarity must always be called into question. Allowing a respected body to act on behalf of its community to inform them how they should be behaving is inherently a call for centralized control regardless of good intentions. This is the case here, and I find the support for this move a sign that skepticism towards authoritarian language is dwindling.
"Harassment" is a nebulous and poorly defined term. Unless you can cite a clearly written and objective law agreed upon by consensus as to what harassment truly is, saying you stand in solidarity against "online harassment" is a defacto endorsement of censorship. As an example, I have seen "harassment" being used to describe any form of contact between parties on a public forum. One can argue this is an extreme outlier but only after "harassment" is clearly defined.
Your article here creates a false equivalency between real word abuse and online "harassment". A person suffering from abuse in the real world often has bodily harm and emotional distress which is unavoidable. Online harassment, in of itself, never has bodily harm and the emotional distress is almost always avoidable by not engaging with toxic individuals. The comparison portrays a skewed version of reality in order to emotionally appeal to the audience to stop them from questioning your statements.
The sexism card is also on the table in full display. Their is a common belief that women online receive more harassment and/or receive worse harassment than then men. There has been no peer-reviewed rigorously provided body of studies confirming this to be reality. Without a source to back up the assertion, it is meaningless. Further, would it not be better these measurements are being done to prevent all harassment regardless of one's identity?
Most troubling is the line "Further, we will no longer hold back out of fear or uncertainty from an opportunity to defend a member of our community online." which implies a guilt-before-innocence mentality. If someone comes to you claiming they are being harassed, would you blindly believe them and act on their behalf to take punitive or legal action against the accused? Such an attitude will lead to false flags and will promote an environment of abuse from those trying to prevent it.
Very well said. I do wish to
Very well said.
I do wish to point out though that, at least as far as I've heard, the Tor Project member who was being harrassed was being harrassed in a more serious way than normal, troll-tier "internet harrassment". From what I've heard, it could have been an organized effort, much the way arma or ioerror has been harrassed before moving to Germany (I don't remember which one it was). I could be totally wrong, but that's what I've heard.
"at least as far as I've
"at least as far as I've heard"
"From what I've heard,"
"that's what I've heard."
Why should anyone have to rely on such hearsay?
Why is the post completely devoid of any information or facts of what actually happened in the case in question that is being called "harassment"?
Does this not concern you?
Ah, the old "more study is
Ah, the old "more study is needed" delaying tactic.
"Ah, the old "more study is
"Ah, the old "more study is needed" delaying tactic."
Yes! Much better to just accept any and every claim, allegation and accusation at face value, without any scrutiny. As long as the crime or sin that is alleged to have been committed supports the correct narrative, confirms the correct biases and furthers the correct agenda, then there is no need to demand facts, evidence or proof, is there?
Worked really well in the case of the University of Virginia rape tale, didn't it? (That being only the latest well-known example of such libels, hoaxes and fabrications).
Glad to see I wasn't the
Glad to see I wasn't the only one who noticed the conspicuous absence of any description whatsoever of what actually occurred that is being described as "harassment". Incredibly, I could not find even the vaguest description anywhere in the post. Without this, we simply cannot know what actually happened and whether or not the characterization of it as "harassment" is reasonable and justified.
[NOTE: I first submitted the below post on or around December 25th, 2014. Since then, other new comments have appeared while both this one of mine as well as several similar ones have not. In my experience, this is entirely uncharacteristic behavior for this blog; in the time I have been submitting comments to this blog, the overwhelming majority of them have appeared, usually not long after my submitting them. It is difficult to imagine how comments such as the above one of mine and the similar ones I cited could be considered inappropriate or off-topic in any way. In fact, MANY of the comments of mine that WERE approved over the now-years that I've been participating here stuck to the topic-at-hand far less than the above one. Thus, it baffles the mind as to why the one above and the similar ones that I first submitted on or around this past December 25th would not be approved.]
Thank you to Tor for
Thank you to Tor for speaking out publicly against this kind of abuse and harassment.
Thank you for taking an
Thank you for taking an unequivocal stance against harassment, and for committing to contribute to the larger conversation. -Yael
To Mr. Crandall: what female
To Mr. Crandall: what female researchers ask is a basic working environment rights. Justifying it by saying male don't notice it is just an excuse for undermining the problem. Also, postponing finding solutions for it.
I didn't intend to make
I didn't intend to make excuses or postpone finding solutions. The point I was trying to make is that if you ask most males "Do you do things that are inappropriate w.r.t. to how you treat female students/researchers in your field" many will (thinking they're being honest) answer "no" when the true answer should be "yes". If we were all a little more sensitive to these issues and understood our own role in them better then finding solutions will be easier.
He didn't justify or attempt
He didn't justify or attempt to justify it. On the contrary, he very clearly stated that it was unjustified and unjustifiable.
Thank you to *everyone* @
Thank you to *everyone* @ Tor.
Signed in solidarity!
It is sad that in the year
It is sad that in the year 2014 we still need to deal with this shit.
Absolutely well said. I'm so
Absolutely well said. I'm so proud to support a project that has these ideals and helps provide protection to online abuse/harassment. Just one of many solid uses and benefits of using Tor.
Many thanks to all Tor
Many thanks to all Tor staffers for your hard work!
Against online harassment .Solidarity!
Jinping xi !!!!
What about those evil
What about those evil entities such as Cloudfare and Google who continue to harass Tor users?
Yes, this is indeed a big
Yes, this is indeed a big issue that needs attention too.
But it's a different issue. It's in large part one of education, since the particular engineers at these two companies who handle abuse don't understand the value of privacy and don't understand how pervasive Tor use has become in recent years. And it's also a technical problem, because we (the privacy research community) still need to work on better technical approaches that these sites can use to handle abuse while still allowing privacy for their users.
For much more on this topic, check out
arma: What you have written
arma: What you have written here suggests that you do not agree with the commentor's characterization of the companies-in-question as "evil".
Shouldn't you have stated as much?
I have been following the
I have been following the Tor project for a very long time now, and I want to make it crystal clear: I stand with you.
Good post and it's nice to
Good post and it's nice to see the name list growing, but I wonder about the inclusion of obvious pseudonyms and submissions from anons. For example, I could have created a post saying, "Please add my name, Roger Dingledine, to the list."
I guess that the worst that could happen is someone is placed on the list that doesn't want to be on, or a pseudonym is on that is then used somewhere online to harass. Is the point of signing the post supposed to be showing that there are real people who are willing to work towards the goal?
i salute you what you have
i salute you what you have done
It was about time we started
It was about time we started to act about this issue. Great initiative
I'm a co-founder of
I'm a co-founder of AntiPolygraph.org, a non-profit, public-interest website. I literally depend on Tor daily and am deeply grateful for the hard work of everyone at the Tor Project.
I deplore the harassment campaign directed against Tor developer Andrea Shepard and wish to publicly express my solidarity.
George W. Maschke
Raising awareness is
Raising awareness is generally good.
What does it mean to "not tolerate harassment"?
Especially in a Tor context, might it mean for example that the answer to (anonymous) bad speech is a flood of (anonymous or not) counterarguments and support? Or is there a backdoor being considered to trace harassing users?
This is excellent. Thank
This is excellent. Thank you so much.
in addition to it's privacy
in addition to it's privacy enabling, tor is also helpful for advancing human rights. so this statement against harassment fits easily within that human rights work.
some people are just so miserable they can't see it benefits all internet users to be against harassment.
keep up the good work!
Freedom for all. Peace. :)
Freedom for all. Peace. :)
Thank you for highlighting
Thank you for highlighting this issue. I condemn all forms of of harassment, on-line or otherwise. The right to anonymity and free speech does not confer a right to harass, insult or otherwise maltreat any other person.
I am proud to add my voice in support.
Mick Morgan
Am I the only one who had
Am I the only one who had hoped that Tor would refrain from making any political/social justice/otherwise biased statements?
I honestly expected a complete neutrality towards any internet activity from the project that claims support for internet freedom.
As much as I'm against any harassment, this blog entry did strike me as dissapointing.


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I have standardised my shows to open with a three lines Menu: 1. Title; 2 "A Walter Seaton Production"; 3 "Press PLAY to Start". All fonts are Arial, but when I burn the DVD and play it on a TV one of the three lines (and this can vary – I don't know the cause) changes from Arial to hollow letters similar to ST. Allstar (see attachment). At first these "hollow" letters also had a double highlight (yellow and red) but when I changed the highlights on the "Thumbnails" screen to white the colours disappeared from the letters, but did not change the fonts back to Arial. "Navigation" seems to have something to do with this, but I don't know what. If there were a way of switching off "Navigation" I would do it because I never use it. One more item of information. When I put the DVD in my PC's DVD player, all letters are Arial (no hollow ones).
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Here are some images I found inspiring or just plain odd:
Yes, let's just put a 600 VDC overhead electric railway on a floating raft of logs instead of a bridge! No Health & Safety Executive here!
Let's do it again!! (Shown before the electric was installed - compressed air locomotives were used for initial construction).
And how about a third time! A floating end to a jetty this time. Note the flipped over flatcar in the right foreground and the locomotive and car in the background.
And another view of the buildings in the previous photo.
And for some very interesting track work...two inclines coming together and then diverging again...two frogs but that is NOT a double slip turnout. The track running perpendicular to the junction uses removable rails to span the gap...and those rails are also the moving rails of a stub turnout. Go ahead...model this and see how many people try to tell you they wouldn't do this in real life!!
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I found this link off of WIRED Gadget Labs today and figured the Bento crowd would love it.
The concept, from designer Alex Cheong, is modular and would be fully dishwasher safe.
It's an interesting concept, but it uses a power connection to generate the heat. Whenever you have to rely on AC or DC to power anything up, it's just one more thing to fail. When it fails, it's probably unrepairable because of labor / parts cost. Then it's just a simple bento box. Nevertheless, I might get one if it's cheap.
I'll just wait until they make one that has a chargeable battery like a laptop, cellphone or digital camera, and then you flick the switch on when you want something to heat and recharge the battery at home. Having to heat up your lunch by plugging it in seems a bit inconvenient to me. Though I love the idea of a self heating lunchbox.
It's only a 'design concept', not an actual product it seems.
This reminds me of the George Foreman iGrill.
The Big Onigiri.
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This isn't a self heating Lunch box...but its a self heating lunch bag for your bento.
to me its just a bonus that it plugs into the wall to heat itself. This box is sooooo awesome and sexy. I like everything from the changeable (CLEAR! 0.o) little trays, to the pop colors used in the design. I just wish somewhere online would answer more practical questions like how much will it cost, when and WHERE :-( will it be sold, what the storage capacity is, etc. But still I'm sold.
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Boulder's Rally Software Development Corp. began the second quarter with an $84 million initial public offering and finished it with a larger base for its corporate operations.
Rally Software, the provider of cloud-based services for managing Agile software development, inked a lease that will more than double the size of its headquarters operations, company officials announced Friday.
Rally leased an 89,000-square-foot building that is under development at the company's 3333 Walnut St. site, company officials announced today.
The new building should be completed in 2015.
Rally currently occupies the existing 65,545-square-foot building on the corner of 33rd and Walnut streets.
Last fall, Ann Arbor, Mich.-based MAVDevelopment — which in March 2012 purchased Rally's building and the neighboring 2.35-acre property at 3625 Walnut for $13.78 million and $2.02 million, respectively — submitted plans to the city of Boulder to build a three-story, 93,000-square-foot addition to the north of Rally's existing building.
Rally officials made modifications to the plans after energy modeling was conducted, so it's likely that those changes affected the building's size, said Tim Miller, Rally's chief executive officer.
"Our heart and soul has been in Boulder since we've been founded, and it has been challenging at times to have such a fast-growth company and meet our physical needs in Boulder," Miller said.
Rapid revenue growth and expansion have marked Rally's 10 years in business, with the Agile-based software firm bouncing around Boulder to larger quarters.
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The company ended its last quarter with 378 employees across the globe. The Boulder site houses about 200 people.
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I hate that.
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Police have ended their search for a man reportedly walking in the area of 38th and Phillips Ave and have determined that the report was "unfounded."
Police initially went door-to-door after they received a report of a man seen carrying a rifle. One resident suggested that the rifle may have been a pool cue.
Area schools were on lockdown as police conduct their search. Police spokesman Sam Clemens was not aware what schools were "sheltering in place." The schools have locked their outside doors, but are continuing with business as usual inside.
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The person who called in the report said the gun was in a sling over his back. A second person said they saw the same person but couldn't say for sure what the male was carrying.


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Unlike last year when my US Road Trip made the blog nearly every day, this year's vacation was shorter, much more family-filled (think fourteen people to organize for dinner every night) and involved much less culinary creativity. Then again, why get creative when you can grill every night to this sort of view.
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. However, as someone who doesn't have a grill for most of the year, I always find recipes where you need one frustrating, so I will spare you the (amazingly yummy) details and head back to recipes you can make with little or no special equipment.
I had marked this recipe on the defunct blog Antics of A Cycling Cook a few years ago (yes that's how long the turnover is in my bookmarked recipes file) and finally got sick of paying lots of money for tiny tiny bottles of vanilla extract and decided to give it a try. Hands down the easiest recipe in the world, cheap in the long run, and made my baked goods so much better. I topped it off and gave it a good shake before vacation and came back to amazing vanilla extract. I highly recommend doing it yourself!
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(I used a 20cl bottle of cheap Armagnac from the supermarket. Sam used cheap vodka. Anything will do - brandy, light rum, etc - but you don't want the alcohol flavor to overpower the vanilla so I would avoid dark rum and stuff like that.)
5 vanilla beans
(This is the expensive part but worth the investment because you can use the same beans to make lots of vanilla. Sam suggests buying vanilla beans online because it's much cheaper.)
Split the vanilla beans almost all the way down lengthwise, leaving the base intact. Put them in your chosen bottle of alcohol. Shake well and let sit in a cool, dark place for 8 weeks. Shake every once in a while.
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(Yonhap Feature) N. Korea appears to struggle to woo Chinese investors
BEIJING, Aug. 23 (Yonhap) -- The only sign of activity at the North Korean trade promotion agency here in Beijing is the faintly lit banner in front, and it is hard to tell whether the office is open for business.
No one is seen at the reception desk of North Korea's Investment and Development Group building, located in a northern Beijing suburb, and its front door, though appears to be open, remains stationary for most of a weekday.
"North Koreans are still working there," said a Chinese cleaner near the building, who only gave his surname Wu.
The Beijing branch of North Korea's Investment and Development Group was believed to have launched operations early last year, but it appears certain to be a dead duck as the North's unpredictability continues to keep Chinese investors away.
Its website has not posted any statement since Jan. 23 this year, and there was no response to a phone call made on Aug. 16.
A South Korean diplomatic source in Beijing, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the North Korean branch has been dormant since the North's defiant launch of a long-range rocket last December.
Tensions on the Korean Peninsula soared early this year, with North Korea conducting its third nuclear test and its near-daily war threats during an annual joint military drill between South Korea and the United States.
"We have figured out that operations at the Beijing office of the North's Investment and Development Group almost ground to a halt," the source said.
After months of high tensions, North Korea of late seems to have shifted its stance, reaching agreement with the South on various issues including reopening an inter-Korean factory zone, resuming reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War and holding talks on restarting South Korean tours to a scenic mountain resort on North Korea's east coast.
The North even scaled back its usual bellicose rhetoric against annual U.S.-South Korea joint drills, using a milder-than-usual tone in criticizing the military exercise that started early this week.
"North Korea's decision to reopen the Kaesong Industrial Complex may be partly aimed at reassuring Chinese investors of their potential investment in the North," the source said.
China, North Korea's biggest trading partner and aid donor, has become increasingly frustrated with its wayward ally, particularly after the North's February nuclear test. In May, the Bank of China closed accounts with North Korea's Foreign Trade Bank, which was accused by the U.S. of helping to finance the North's nuclear weapons program.
According to the South Korean Embassy in Beijing, North Korea's trade volume with China fell 6 percent on-year in the first six months of this year.
The North's trade with China stood at US$2.95 billion in the January-June period, compared with $3.14 billion a year earlier, embassy officials said.
Exports to China rose 6 percent to $1.36 billion, while imports declined 14 percent to $1.59 billion, they said, citing official data.
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WASHINGTON — President Obama tapped a senior Treasury official to take over as one of Wall Street's top regulators, leading the agency charged with overseeing complex financial derivatives.
Obama said Tuesday he would nominate Timothy Massad to succeed Gary Gensler as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Gensler's term expires at the end of the year.
Massad has spent more than two years in charge of winding down the $700-billion financial crisis bailout fund, which has turned into a gain for taxpayers so far, though a small projected loss on paper.
Calling the CFTC a "small but mighty independent agency," Obama said it plays a crucial role in using new rules under the 2010 Wall Street reform law to try to prevent a repeat of the financial crisis.
One of the commission's responsibilities is "to guard against some of the most reckless and irresponsible practices at the heart of the financial crisis, and this includes making sure big banks can't make risky bets with their customers' deposits — something we call the Volcker Rule," Obama said during a White House ceremony with Massad and Gensler.
The rule would place strict limits on so-called proprietary trading by Wall Street firms. The CFTC is drafting the rule along with other financial regulators, and a final version is expected by the end of the year.
Massad has been assistant Treasury secretary for financial stability since 2011. The job put him in charge of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, which was created during the 2008 crisis to stabilize the financial system.
He has been credited with helping sharply reduce expected losses in the program. The latest estimate from the Congressional Budget Office is that TARP will end up costing $21 billion.
The Treasury Department has distributed $421 billion in bailout funds and has received $424 billion in repayments, dividends and sales of stock in American International Group Inc., General Motors Co. and other rescued firms, according to the department's latest figures.
"Tim's a guy who doesn't seek the spotlight, but he consistently delivers," Obama said. "I have every confidence that he is the right man to lead an agency designed to prevent future crises because I think it's safe to say that he never wants to have to manage something like TARP again."
Gensler led the commission through tumultuous times. Like other regulators, the CFTC was criticized for not moving faster to enact a slew of new regulations called for under the financial reform law.
But Gensler has drawn praise from consumer groups and liberals for pushing the agency to draft tough new rules to oversee derivatives. Obama said Gensler "transformed what was a secretive and shadowy derivatives market" and imposed nearly $1.8 billion in penalties against companies in rate-rigging cases.
Mary Jo White, chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, called Gensler "a tremendous regulator" who leaves office with "quite a strong record." She also said Massad has done a "superb job" overseeing TARP.
But Massad has kept such a low profile at the Treasury Department that groups backing tough Wall Street regulation were unsure whether he would continue Gensler's aggressive efforts.
"Timothy Massad's views on most of the key issues before the CFTC are not known," said advocacy group Public Citizen. "We need a CFTC chairman who will stand up to the Wall Street interests that aim to block the agency from doing its job."
His nomination comes as the five-person agency finds itself strapped for voting members. It already has one vacancy, and Commissioner Bart Chilton recently said he would leave at the end of the year. It could take months for the Senate to confirm Massad and any new appointees.


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PCEF to try new strategy for Live PC Give PC
With less than a week to go, the Park City Education Foundation is putting a strategy in place this year for Live PC Give PC, getting individual schools in on the day of giving. Every school in the Park City School District is participating, posting a project on the PCEF page where prospective donors can give to individual schools.
Live PC Give PC, a one-day online fundraiser for Park City and Summit County nonprofits, is scheduled for Nov. 16 and will last 24 hours. The event helps raise money for nonprofits ranging from maintaining hiking trails to hosting cultural events to providing supplies to those in need. Last year, the single-day event raised $330,000 for 55 nonprofits, with funds coming from 1,500 donors. The Park City Foundation set a new goal to raise $500,000 this year, with hopes of getting new donor participants. In that wake, PCEF has changed strategies.
"We thought it would be better for the schools to join in," said Jennifer Billow, the PCEF Communications Manager.
"This is one way that the parents can donate to their own school," she added. "It is a strategy that's perfect for this event, to allow donors to look at schools individually. And every school gets to participate."
The Park City High School is hoping to raise funds for the Community Scholarship Fund. Treasure Mountain Junior High School is hoping to bolster the Anti-Bully Coalition. Ecker Hill Middle School is focusing on the Renew Crew, a recycling group. The Jeremy Ranch project is investing in wireless technology for classrooms, McPolin wants more field trips for students, Parley's Park wants to support the school arts program and Trailside Elementary hopes to add a part-time science coordinator to the school staff.
Each project was created by either the school principals or the local PTA/PTO chapter with the help of PCEF. At the end of Live PC Give PC, the annual day of giving in Park City sponsored by the Park City Foundation, each school will receive a check from PCEF for the incoming donations.
"We asked schools to come up with a specific need," said Abby Funabiki, the PCEF Office Manager.
"At the beginning of the year, we sat down with each principal to discuss their needs and the grants, and then a specific need for this day," she added. "We were able to list every school, every project, online for donors to see."
Through the Live PC Give PC website on the PCEF page, donors can review each school project.
"These funds are unrestricted," Billow said. "When we do our grants, we can only take applications from teachers or administrators, a certain group. A parent cannot ask for a grant.
"Through this, these funds are unrestricted, which means things we typically can't fund can be now."
In its first year, all donations that went to PCEF were used for the grants the nonprofit hands out to the local school district, teachers and principals. The change in format came after PCEF decided to implement a strategy, an opportunity outside its scheduled fundraising efforts for the year, that would benefit school projects directly.
Last year, the nonprofit fell in the top 20 nonprofits that received donations. This year, the Park City Foundation is setting the bar for donations higher, and some locals are already giving.
"Hopefully, this website will put the schools out in front," Funabiki said. "People will be able to see directly where their $10 donation will go, and that's a big difference from before."
For more information about Live PC Give PC or to learn how to donate, visit http://livepcgivepc.razoo.com/.
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The County Council doled out grants supporting ventures ranging from discounting plane tickets to supporting a classical music festival.


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Details of the Hubble Abell 370 Image
Abell 370
4.9 billion light-years (1.5 billion parsecs)
The Hubble images were created from data from proposal 11507: K. Noll (STScI), M. Chiaberge (STScI/ESA/INAF), M. Mutchler, D. Golimowski, and R. Lucas (STScI), and M. Sirianni (STScI/ESA).
Acknowledgments for Abell 370
Observers: K. Noll (STScI), M. Chiaberge (STScI/ESA/INAF), M. Mutchler, D. Golimowski, and R. Lucas (STScI), and M. Sirianni (STScI/ESA)
Data Analysis: M. Mutchler (STScI) and R. Hook (ST-ECF)
Image Composition: R. Hook, O. Hainaut, A. Bombik, and L. Christensen (ST-ECF), Z. Levay and L. Frattare (STScI)
Text: L. Frattare, D. Weaver, and R. Villard (STScI) and C. Sharkey and M. Lombardi (ST-ECF)
Illustrations: Z. Levay (STScI)
Video: G. Bacon (STScI)
Science Consultants: M. Livio and B. Whitmore (STScI) and J.-P. Kneib (Observatoire Midi-Pyrenées)
F475W (G), F625W (R), and F814W (I)
The image is a composite of separate exposures made by the ACS instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. Three filters were used to sample broad wavelength ranges. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic image. In this case, the assigned colors are:
Blue: F475W (G)
Green: F625W (R)
Red: F814W (I)
Details of ACS Hubble image of galaxy cluster Abell 370


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Net Resources
Mailing lists
There are three Linux/MIPS-oriented mailing lists:
- email@example.com
This mailing list currently has the most traffic. It is especially of interest as a good number of active developers are subscribed to this list.
- firstname.lastname@example.com
This is an announcement only mailing list to which a message for every CVS commit into linux-mips.org's, CVS archive of the Linux/MIPS community, is being sent. This allows following the development as it happens.
- email@example.com
This is an announcement only mailing list. The content is the same as on linux-cvs except that emails contain the full patch commited into CVS. If you subscribe to this list be prepared to receive huge emails of upto 30MB and beyond. Most people are better of by reading patches in the HTML archive.
Due to the conversion of the kernel SCM from CVS to git the firstname.lastname@example.com and firstname.lastname@example.com no longer receive postings. The lists will stay archives in the HTML archive and the plan is to convert them to a future linux-git and linux-git-patches mailing lists that will receive the same kind of notifications but for git commits.
- email@example.com - a mailing list for discussing "NUBI", the new MIPS ABI proposed by MIPS Technologies. Despite the domain name of the address, use of NUBI is not intended to be restricted to building Linux kernels and applications.
Subscription to this lists is handled via Ecartis (email@example.com), just send an email with the words subscribe <list-name>. In order to unsubscribe, send unsubscribe linux-mips. Sending the word "help" will reveal further secrets about the advanced use of Ecartis. There's also a web-based interface to Ecartis.
Note linux-mips.org is using the Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) TCP extension as described in RFC 3168. The bug is known for years yet still defective firewalls that are dropping TCP SYN packets with ECN bits set are in use. If you can reach linux-mips.org yet don't receive any email from any of the linux-mips.org mailing lists you may have this problem.
The majority of subscribers doesn't seem to like HTML email, so please disable HTML for postings.
There are archives for these lists in UNIX mbox format and a searchable web archive. The web archive is re-indexed every few hours, so usually it's a good idea to try it first when searching for anything that might be archived on one of the lists. Archives are also maintained for a few historic mailing lists.
Privacy: linux-mips.org will not use the subscriber list for any other purpose than operation of the mailing lists and in rare cases for other administrative purposes of linux-mips.org. Postings to the public mailing lists will be archived and possibly mirrored on other sites. If you don't like this don't post.
Verizon users
Since a little while Verizon is blocking email from Britain, France, Germany and Russia. According to the company this is due to spam - even though the USA are clear leader in global spam. Anyway, if you're a Verizon user don't mail us about this problem. It's Verizon's fault and we don't do anything to workaround this problem and frankly we couldn't care less than about an ISP patronizing it's customers this way.
Related articles can be found at:
- http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/19/19225/1.html (German)
- http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,66226,00.html (English)
There is an IRC channel named #mipslinux for Linux/MIPS which may be found on irc.freenode.net.
Weekly Snapshots
Snapshots of "linux" are available at ftp.dfpost.ru (user mips without password).
The snapshot service on longlandclan.hopto.org has been discontinued. The snapshot service was provided, primarily for those who were working from behind firewalls which blocked CVS. Git however, runs via HTTP (i.e. if you're reading this, then you can use Git) or RSYNC, and so makes my mirror redundant. It is therefore recommended people use Git to download kernels.


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They were part of a treasure trove of photos, documents and photo albums that came into my possession when my mother's cousin Doris (daughter of Auntie Cordie) died in 1998.
I knew the brothers were almost certainly part of Auntie Cordie's family but until last night I did not know how they fit, or what their surnames were.
The text on the back reads:
"Auntie Cordie
Horace 4 yrs 4 mos Leslie 1 yr 7 mos"
I have an earlier photo of Horace labelled "Horace Leonard 1 year, [2?] May 1922" So I had a birth year for Horace of 1921. In case you are thinking that "Leonard" might be his surname, it isn't.
Last night I decided to enter Auntie Cordie's COOK family tree on Ancestry.com. I spent several hours linking records suggested by Ancestry.com shaky leaf (after reviewing them of course to be sure they were the correct family)
|Horace Leonard Cook 1 year old, May 1922
As I discovered more facts about Auntie Cordie's family, I decided to search Free BMD indexes for a Horace Leonard born in 1921 and a Leslie born 1923-1924. I used the surnames I knew were in Auntie Cordie's family (Cook, Towner, Malpas etc) and there they were - Horace and Leslie Cook born to a mother whose surname was Towner.
I knew that Clara Towner married Horace Stephen Cook in 1920 and Horace Stephen was Auntie Cordie's half-brother. Bingo! At last I can give these engaging brothers a family. I'm crossing my fingers that a descendant or other family member stumbles on my blog or my Ancestry Family Tree as I really would like these photos to go to someone who is connected to the boys. And I have more of Horace and his parents.
The date of birth of "Gran" would be ca 1862 and Rose Dugwell, the second wife of their paternal grandfather Henry Stephen Cook is the best candidate. Their maternal Grandmother was Emily Curtis born ca 1855.
Auntie Cordie's mother was Priscilla Edith Curtis (1856-1889) and she was the sister of the maternal grandmother Emily Curtis.
The families lived for the most part in or near Ramsgate, Kent England.


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1 oz Chinese Panda 2012 Gold Coin
Tavex is pleased to offer the Chinese Gold Panda, the most popular gold bullion coin from the People's Republic of China. Introduced in 1983 as legal tender by the Chinese Central Bank, it is the first gold bullion coin to vary the design of its main motif, an aspect highly appreciated by collectors. Containing a gold purity of 99.9%, the Chinese Gold Panda coin exhibits a graceful portrait of a gentle and serene panda bear, a Chinese national symbol and one of the world's rarest animals. Made with a unique engraving method, the Chinese Gold Panda coin diffracts bright and darker shades of gold, an exceptional aesthetic representation of the panda bear's black patches and white fur. These artistic features, coupled with the coin's high quality, have contributed to making the Chinese Gold Panda coin one of the four most sought after investment-grade gold bullion coins in the world. For those who are keen on acquiring Chinese Gold Pandas as an investment, Tavex, as an official distributer for Europe, is able to offer market leading quotes for any desired quantity of this significant gold bullion coin.
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- Chinese Gold Panda coins have considerable upside potential. Sought after by collectors because of their limited annual mintage and varying design, Chinese Gold Pandas fetch considerable premiums in the secondary market.
- Chinese Gold Panda coins are money. Deemed legal tender by the Chinese Central Bank, the Gold Panda coin is exempt from Value Added Tax inside mainland China.
- The Chinese Gold Panda coin is internationally recognised. Being the only legal tender gold bullion coins in the world to portray a Panda Bear, an endemic animal to China, assures investor recognition worldwide.
- Gold Pandas are 99.9% pure gold. In many ways it is more exciting to hold a Gold Panda in your hands than an alloyed gold coin. Unlike alloyed gold, pure 24 karat gold has a lustrous gold colour and being of higher density it also has a better heft or "feel" to it.
- Chinese Gold Pandas are the equivalent of savings. Gold Pandas are an ideal choice for any type of long-term investor who appreciates the security and stability of owning physical legal tender gold coins.
- Gold Panda coins are excellent portfolio diversifiers. Gold's low correlation with other financial assets makes the Gold Pandas serve as a portfolio hedge against market risk.
The Chinese Panda Gold Coin
The price and premium of Chinese Gold Panda coins
Compared to American Eagles, Austrian Philharmonics, Canadian Maple Leafs, and other well-known legal tender gold bullion coins that have been minted from their inception in unlimited quantities, Chinese Gold Pandas have an annual limited edition, although subject to change. This, coupled with the changing panda bear motif, has contributed to making older dated issues fetch a considerable collector's premium in the secondary market. In 2014, as a response to heightened demand, the Chinese Central Bank increased the annual mintage limit of the most popular 1 ounce weight to one million pieces per year, the highest ever. While the larger supply has somewhat dampened the premium on the 2014 Panda coins in the secondary market, this could prove to be a perfect window of opportunity for longer-term investors given the potential upside these coins carry.
The future value and premium appreciation of Chinese Gold Panda coins are supported by several conclusive facts, the first and most obvious being that they are China's only legal tender gold coinage. It should also be considered that there are 1.35 billion Chinese and the current mintage limit of one ounce Gold Panda coins is set at 1 million pieces per year, while the United States has a population of 320 million and is currently minting on average 850,000 pieces of the one ounce American Gold Eagle coin per year. Secondly, the legislation that allowed free market pricing of gold and that enabled Chinese citizens to invest and trade in the metal has only been around for a little more than a decade, leaving further room for gold's popularity in China to grow. The third reason concerns the distribution of Chinese Gold Pandas inside mainland China which has until recently been under direct state control, meaning that only government affiliated institutions could sell these coins, resulting in a highly ineffective and illiquid market. This has now changed and bullion dealers and financial institutions are able to facilitate the trade of these coins. Fourthly, the Chinese government is making a concerted effort to promote gold ownership, something you will not see in western countries. Lastly, China is now the world's biggest gold consumer, with demand set to increase further in the coming years, which will further promote the liquidity and transparency of the Chinese gold market and this will directly benefit Gold Panda coins.
Chinese Gold Pandas marked the beginning of the country's bullion market liberalisation
Contrary to most major western economies, China never used gold but rather silver as the primary anchor for its monetary system. The monetary system based on silver served the country for several centuries, but the onset of the Great Depression in conjunction with the rise of communism in the 1930s led the authorities to abandon it in favour of a pure paper standard. To support the new fiat system, legislation was introduced which stipulated that circulating monetary silver had to be turned over to the authorities in exchange for the new paper currency. In spite of the new harsh rules, commercial trade of silver and ownership of jewellery and antiques made out of gold was still allowed, albeit only for a short period. In the late 1930s, the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War and the rivalry between the Communist and Chinese establishment forced the authorities to proclaim a ban on precious metals ownership in any shape or form.
This ban would be in place for five long decades before the Chinese Government made an economic and philosophical turnaround regarding its domestic bullion market with the introduction of the Chinese Gold and Silver Panda coins in 1982 and 1983 respectively. From these years onwards, the Chinese authorities would slowly begin to loosen the restrictions that had been put in place since the 1930s. Besides being a symbol of the country's liberalisation of the precious metals market and the economy itself, the Gold Panda coin also marked the subtle beginning of a long-term plan to make gold bullion, for the first time in the country's modern history, the foundation of China's new monetary system.
The Chinese Panda Bear
The decision to use the iconic panda bear as the coin's main motif has played a major part in the successful promotion of Chinese Gold Panda coins. The panda bear is an animal endemic to central China and is characterised by the black patches around its eyes and ears. In spite of its charming and peaceful nature and its status as a Chinese national symbol, panda bears are unfortunately very rare animal. Due to deforestation and commercial farming, large parts of the panda bears' natural habitat have been destroyed and thus the population of pandas living in the wild has dwindled by some estimates to only 2000 individuals. In the past decade, extensive conservation efforts have been made by the Chinese Government to stem the declining panda bear population. Although still an endangered species, the conservation efforts are believed to be working as scientific surveys show that the population of wild pandas has started to recover.
Chinese Panda Manufacturer
The Chinese Gold Panda was first introduced in 1982 and Silver Panda in 1983, both have since been in continuous production, with the exception of 1986 when no silver Pandas were issued. Chinese Panda coins have been manufactured at three different locations:
*Shanghai Mint 1982-2004
*Shenyang Mint 1985-1999, 2003-2004
*Shenzhen Guobao Mint 1999-2002, 2005 onwards
The Shenzhen Guabao Mint is a subsidiary of the People's Bank of China (China's Central Bank).
|Face value description
|Gold weight in grams
|Product weight in grams
|Gold weight in Troy ounces
|Manufacturer country
|500 yuan
|Shenzhen Guobao Mint 1999-2002; 2005 onwards
The obverse portrays the Temple of Heaven, a UNESCO world heritage site that consists of a complex of religious buildings located in the central parts of Beijing. Above the Temple of Heaven is a text in Chinese that means "People's Republic of China" and inscribed at the bottom is the year of mintage.
The reverse exhibits a graceful portrait of two chubby sitting panda bears feeding on bamboo, with a bamboo forest in the background. The face value of 500 Yuan is clearly stated at the top, and the weight "1oz" and the gold content marked "Au .999" are inscribed at the bottom.
Each coin is sealed in original mint plastic packaging.
Your order is fully insured and delivered by Posti. After we have received your payment, the products will be dispatched within 24 hours. Delivery time is within 2 or 3 working days. You will receive a delivery notification from Posti and after that you may pick up your order from the nearest post office. If you wish, you can also personally pick up your order at one of our offices in Helsinki the same day we receive your payment. In cases where we are unable to send your order right away, we will always inform you about the time delay.


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I'm posting this to see if anyone wants to have a topic with a compendium of the puzzle solutions. I don't know them all but I know several - I know it's the challenge that's supposed to be fun, not looking in the back of the book for the answers, but after lucking into several solutions I'm starting to have sympathy for the person who rage quits after 20 minutes of banging their head against a puzzle with nothing to show for it (there really should be some small gold reward for losing a mission/puzzle, even if it's just 1 gold. Losing after putting in that much time feels awful to come away with nothing).
I've seen several puzzle solutions spread out in topics but nothing that's centralized. Depending on feedback I'll post what I have (what I can remember) and encourage other solution minded people to post what they have.


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When do people usually take this thing? I know you can take it anytime. I'm a 1L and considering signing up to take it in August before my 2L year begins. I'd like to get it out of the way and possibly be able to put it on my resume for 2L OCI.
48 hours of actual studying is way more than enough. I put in about 20-25 hours by memorizing the rules from the barbri book, taking the 3 practice tests in the back of the book and doing the practice test online. I didn't even take the actual class, just bought the book on ebay. I got a 150. The MPRE isn't bad at all so you won't need to kill yourself to get ready for it.


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The One Item That Aldi Will Never Sell In Its Stores
Remember when roast chooks a the supermarket used to be $11? And then suddenly Coles slashed them to $8 and Woolworths decided to go to $7.90.
Well investment bank Morgan Stanley has said the roast chook blitz was designed to attack German supermarket Aldi and its had some good news, with Australia's biggest chicken producer having its biggest year ever.
"Fresh categories, such as fruit and vegetables, meat, bakery and deli, are a key differentiator for Woolworths and Coles versus [German discounter] Aldi, and a large driver of foot traffic," Morgan Stanley said in its report on Ingham's.
"Aldi's chicken range is far more limited than that of both the majors at present; its focus on a narrow range and very low costs preclude it, for example, from offering customers ready-to-eat BBQ chickens. It does not operate a deli in store, given the high associated cost.
"For this reason, we think Ingham's (and other chicken operators) provide the majors with a product that cannot be offered by Aldi, and thus yields a differentiating factor for such operators.
"Retail supermarkets accounted for 53 per cent of group revenue in the 2016 financial year, and Ingham's likely benefited from supermarkets reducing the price per roast chicken to $8 in January."
Chicken is two of the top five fresh-food products sold in Woolworths, Coles, IGA and Aldi, according to the report but it looms like, due to cost, we will never see them served fresh in Aldi.


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"Kill Screen" - Scorpion S1 E13
Team Scorpion must help Ralph when the FBI questions him after his dark web game play inadvertently reveals the location of a CIA safe house and results in the murder of CIA operatives, on SCORPION, Monday, Jan. 5 (9:00-9:59 PM, ET/PT), on the CBS Television Network. Pictured: Jadyn Wong as Happy Quinn. Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2014 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved


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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) Missouri defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson will play Saturday at No. 9 Texas A&M after he was suspended for last week's 31-27 loss to Syracuse for violating team rules.
Coach Gary Pinkel also said Monday that quarterback James Franklin is questionable for the game after suffering a concussion on an option play in the fourth quarter of Saturday's loss.
Richardson's 70 tackles are second-most on the team and rank first in the Southeastern Conference among interior defensive linemen. The Tigers (5-6, 2-5 SEC) gave up 508 yards to Syracuse.
Franklin has missed three starts this year because of shoulder and knee injuries after starting all 13 games in 2011. Backup Corbin Berkstresser will start if Franklin isn't able to play.


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There is this spoiler from Survivor Sucks poster RKsurvivor, which is interesting. Basically, he says Mike Skupin from season two (the guy who fell in the fire and had to be evacuated) said he was asked to participate in next season. Skupin also said that the producers tried to get former Survivors involved in past seasons but it never worked out. I can't imagine that any past Survivor would have a chance if they were on a tribe of brand new contestants. Early on you're always looking for any reason to vote for someone. A previous player comes into the game with a huge red X on his or her back.
As for who the 2 players are, we can guarantee that they are none of the quitters from past seasons. Think popular, think gritty. One woman. One man.
JelloRocks Re: Possible Contestant?-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I asked Coby about this, and here's his response:"Jello- I have heard there is some return players this season as well...hmmmm....who could it be?"Sounds like a confirmation to me -- he just can't give any specifics . . .
ChrisRL6Reply Re: Possible Contestant?-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I found out that Bobby John works at PFChangs in Santa Monica and I called and they said that he had been gone for a couple of weeks and that he had gone back home....to Survivor WOO!
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text: After discovering that she could sing in perfect pitch at just 18 months, Leann Rimes' parents enrolled her in vocal and dance lessons and by age 6 she has won her first talent contest. By 8, she was a Star Search finalist and was playing 100 gigs a year. A Texas deejay who wrote "Blue" for Patsy Cline saw her deliver the national anthem at a Dallas Cowboys game and helped launch her career in 1996 with her first album named after the hit cover, which sold more than 8 million copies. She won two Grammys in 1996, including Best New Artist, and ACM's Song OF The Year. With the help of an Early Years CD and "How Do I Live" ballad she was 1997's biggest-selling artist in the U.S. In 1998, she moved to LA with her mom and dated actor Andrew Keegan. In 2000, the "Nothin' But Love Makes Sense" singer brought suit against her father and former manager claiming they took $7 million from her (it was settled in 2002) and starred in Coyote Ugly. At an 2001 awards show rehearsal, she was reintroduced to dancer Dean Sheremet and they married less than a year later, but that fairy tale came to an end amid allegations claiming she had an affair with Eddie Cibrian on the set of Northern Lights surfaced in March 2009. By July both had left their spouses (his was Brandi Glanville) and they married in April 2011. Constant reporting on marital problems and her scary-skinny body plagues her and might have led to her 2012 treatment for anxiety.