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If this year's presidential election was, as even "Doonesbury" has said, a victory for the reality-based world, then it appears America is ready to watch the documentary "Chasing Ice" with clear eyes.
Director/cinematographer Jeff Orlowski, who won the award for cinematography at this year's Sundance Film Festival, captures amazing images of glaciers in Greenland, Iceland and Alaska. He does so while following James Balog, the National Geographic photographer who has made it his job since 2005 to capture inarguable proof that glaciers are receding as a result of global climate change.
How Balog and his crew of the Extreme Ice Survey do this is by mounting stationary cameras to shoot time-lapse footage of the glaciers. This is a simple idea in theory, but Orlowski shows how fiendishly difficult it is in execution because of the technological challenges of programming cameras, then making sure their protective housing doesn't ice up or get knocked over.
But the footage is worth it. The time-lapse scenes, compressing years of melting into seconds, are jaw-dropping. The footage does in seconds what all the environmentalists' talk has failed to do for the past few decades: Put the undeniable science of global climate change in an unambiguous presentation.
Sometimes, it doesn't take years to make the case. In one harrowing scene, an EIS crew captures the rolling, rumbling destruction of a massive ice sheet in real time, and the thundering upheaval is bigger than anything you'll see in a Hollywood action movie.
Balog makes a fascinating character, too, and Orlowski smartly puts the focus on him as much as on the work. Balog has the heart of an explorer, carrying on even when his knees give out (he's had four surgeries on them) by going to the glaciers on crutches.
"Chasing Ice" is that movie that every environmentally conscious person has been waiting for, if only to show their right-wing relatives who parrot the standard oil-industry-funded line that "the science is still uncertain." There's nothing uncertain about the science, or these images, or Balog's determination to make the world see them.
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I read Rebo. Warden, you might want to work on your letter structure.
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If you haven't done so already, install the guest drivers for Virtualbox.
First of all, I wanna say hi to all of this community's members, since this is my first post.
I have installed Backtrack 4 recently and I can't set the resolution higher than 800x600. In resolution tray this is my highest one. If I tray to set any resolution bigger than 800x600 with xrandr it says "Size 1440x900 not found in avalable modes" and so on.
I have a GeForce 8600 GT video board and I run Backtrack from VirtualBOX under Ubuntu 9.10.
If you have a solution please let me know
If you haven't done so already, install the guest drivers for Virtualbox.
i dunno what to do under virtualbox, but i think you should install your graphic card's drivers to customize your video settings.try to google '' video drivers and virtualbox ''
What have you tried so far to fix the problem? have you tried "fixvesa"?
@OP your best option in this case would be to try installing the virtualbox guest additions on your backtrack vbox. if you find that they don't work for screen resizing (I have this problem from time to time) try as Snayler said, and run fixvesa this may clear up your issue.
as i've said many times before, rtfm (can you tell that i'm a sysadmin?) before you install software. i know that the guest additions "cd" comes with a readme file that provides clean and clear instructions on how to install the drivers.
not that this is an ubuntu support forum, but as far as your 'buntu 9.10 puter's resolution: if you haven't already done so, i recommend installing the nvidia graphics drivers. nvidia is very nice to the open-source community and provides drivers for linux anyway, check out my tutorial for doing this here, and follow on from the lspci portion down.
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I have had a similar problem on a different laptop with a GeForce card. try editing the X.org file.


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To the people in the rest of Canada it might have been just another Olympic medal but to Newfoundlanders the victory in Turin by the Brad Gushue rink goes closer to the heart and holds a meaning that runs deep.
"When they close all the schools in Newfoundland it shows how big this is. A lot of people here (Toronto) say what's all the fuss about," Cal Head said, watching the TV screen at the Eton Pub on Danforth Ave. "But this day is as important to Newfoundlanders as 1972 and the hockey is to the rest of Canada."
Head, like many other transplanted Newfoundlanders, gathered in pubs across Canada.
"But I'd like to be in Newfoundland tonight," Fred Layden, watching the game with friends at Noah's Ark on Dawes Rd., said. "There'll be a three-day hangover after this back home. This is the big time for Newfoundland."
Yes, this was more than just about curling. It's about vindication for a people and a province that are isolated from the rest of Canada geographically -- and often politically and socially.
Tom Adams left Concepcion Bay 40 years ago. But his soul never left The Rock. "We've never won anything before. This is the first time I think someone from Newfoundland has even made it to the Olympics.
"We always seem to get the raw deals. Quebec gave us a raw deal on the hydro. We've got offshore oil, but instead of us getting benefits, it all goes to the U.S. None is refined in Newfoundland. They took away the fisheries but nobody can take this away from us," Adams said, watching Gushue raise his arms on the podium.
Gushue has given the province validation, Newfoundlanders in Toronto said. It shows that, given an opportunity, they can compete with the best in the world. So when Gushue put up a six-spot, Layden, who left Lewisport, Nfld., 25 years ago whooped: "We're kickin' ass now."
Fortunately for a black-hearted columnist who dared use dark humour in praise of Gushue when he won the Canadian championship -- raising the ire of Newfoundlanders -- it wasn't his own.
But many e-mails and telephone messages -- suggesting I should die of AIDS, deserve to be shot and fired, and am a racist who must be the spawn of Hitler -- indicate that others are not about to forget this without a colourfully written letter or a telephone message that would make a sailor blush.
But at the bars, there was only one discouraging word amid the jubilation. It came as the TV screens showed Gushue taking the podium for the national anthems. "They should burn the Canadian flag now and jump on it. Then we should join the United States," said Adams' fellow patron, jamming a hat over his head and heading for the pub door -- leaving his invective without his name.
Probably best that way for everyone.
Mostly, though, this was a day of joy, happiness and pride.
"This is a big day for Newfoundland. Maybe you have to be (a Newfoundlander) to understand how big," Layden said. "I can't think of any other Newfoundland athletes who've made it this big.
"The thing with Newfoundland is that it's pretty isolated and there isn't a lot of sponsorship, which makes it difficult for any athlete. What's the point in training for something only to reach a point and have to quit and get nothing out of it?"
Cal Head skipped work to watch this final. "I was talking to my sister back home and watching the CBC and all the crazed curling fans at the stadium in St. John's."
He grew up in Glenwood, hard by the Gander River, and knows how starved his home province has been for international heroes. "I hope this makes everyone feel proud. We have Rick Mercer, who is the greatest since sliced bread, and Harry Hibbs was famous -- but he just played the accordion. For anyone to make it internationally or at the Olympics as an athlete is an incredibly big thing for us.
"You've got to remember the whole population of Newfoundland is less than half a million, less than Scarborough," Head said. "We don't get many chances and because of that we probably appreciate it more than other parts of Canada."
Not that we'd be able to comment on that, considering the next medal someone from Toronto wins at these games would be the first.
Not that that's likely to happen.
Final score: Newfoundland 1, Toronto 0.


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Backstage at her show, held at a spanking new building down by the River Thames, and in the looming shadow of London's latest megatower, the 72-floor The Shard, Roksanda Ilincic claimed she was stressed out by pre-show nerves. Saying that she didn't look it one bit made her laugh. "But I am!" she said. "I've got my red lipstick on. That helps!" A touch of gloss and glamour as an antidote to life's tougher moments might as well be the ethos of Roksanda Ilincic's designs, given the way her aesthetic has always been about beautifying, elevating, and celebrating femininity, but also challenging it to think out of the box; put a brave face on it, or better still, put a gorgeous (and interesting) dress on while you are at it. Her spring collection played to what she does best, which is this: quirky embellishments; paintbox colors mixed with shades pale and powdery enough to be redolent of 1930s lingerie; and, a ton of artisanal effects, with pleating, draping, and paneling of fabric swirling and sweeping around the body. (And let's give a shoutout to her idea of adding in Nicholas Kirkwood's great flat booties with bow fronts, taking down, quite literally, the drama going on northward of the ankles.)
The specifics for next spring are: decoration from hundreds of hand-cut plastic petals transformed into blooms covering the bodices of a rather lovely couple of dresses, their skirts etched with cubes embroidered from black velvet thread; black neoprene turned into a kind of scuba lace; swooping planes of pleats over pants, while silk was deconstructed into ribbons that were stitched onto dresses; and, intense highlighter hues of orange and yellow, spliced together with black, white, pale gray, and green, and a rather industrial shade of barely there gray. These colors are very much to her taste and maybe not to everyone else's, but her fierce commitment to going there, palette-wise, is a reminder of her attitude that if you are going to get up and get dressed every morning, you might as well embrace something energizing and different and stand out from the crowd. The red lips are optional.


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Hello, i already have dual boot (Windows Vista and Ubuntu) and i want to
make it a triple boot and add Backtrack 3. Is it possible?
I ran backtrack 3 from vmware now but i have some problems with the
internet connection so i want to install it completly to my pc. thnx
To be successful here you should read all of the following.
If you are new to Back|Track
Back|Track Wiki
Failure to do so will probably get your threads deleted or worse.
yes but i already have a dual boot installed (vista and ubuntu).
please help me...
If you don't have any free space, then you will have your resize the existing partitions and create new partitions. Also you may have to modify your boot loader to add BT3. All they needed information is under that link that archangel.amael gave you.
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strings, search next time.
iv tried to attack my own sky router but couldnt be bothered doing a full install i just ran it of the live cd and went through xploitz excellent vids (which showed me how to crack wep in minutes)
i will be doing a full install soon when i get another sata drive so i dont need to worry about boot loaders etc
oh my hardware is a dell lattitude d620 and im using the alfa usb wifi adapter with both the 2db and 9 db antenna depending on situation
im leaving my key at default till i find out how easy it is to crack with the mac address then i will change it and start trying to attack it using xploitz video guide and i always login and check for rogue clients but never seen any on the occasions i have checked due to slow download speeds
thanks for reading hope you can help
strings, search next time.
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post your MAC and your passphrase for your wpa, perhaps someone will notice some equation to solve it
Edit: and to answer the question in the title "what tools are there in BT", try search google for "Aircrack" and using that, though it seems you already answered your own question by watching Xploitz vid...
According to another thread, the SKY pass phrase for WPA is spawned from the MAC address of the AP, He's asking how to figure that out. As I believe there is a formula to calculate the pass phrase from the AP MAC.
^^you can tell that was written by someone who lacks the required Google skills
So to be blunt and answer your problem, there is not any tools within backtrack to work that specific calculation out, using that method, how ever there are many other tools you may use to assist you in cracking any WPA pass phrase.
If you are genuine and actually own a SKY AP you should possibly be able to figure this out by yourself. As I do not own a SKY AP nor do I know anyone who does, I am unable to help you
well i am a genuine 16mb customer and i dont fancy posting up my mac address on these here forums lol no offence , i know its more or less code cracking i thought the excellent release of bt3 would contain such a tool i didnt want to ask if there was A tool/ program for it and get flamed for not knowing it was already in bt3!
i reckon its a pretty simple process i imagine something like the asci to hex convertors or as someone previously mentioned something about aircrack i am fairly new to actually having success thanks to xploits and my alfa usb adapter and as handy as i am with computer hardware etc linux im still fresh but learning quick , just wish there was more wep clients about so i could practise them all and learn the commands of by heart instead of watching xploits vid at the same time on my other laptop, but im getting there....
thing is it just worried me that it is apparently so easy to find the default passphrase via the mac on my router yet some heacy searching on here and google only leads me to the news reports i have already seen ..... quite a few people i know have taken up the sky deal as most folk do have sky round here due to lack of cable and the price for the package deal is pretty good i must say so iv already warned friends and family but im still leaving mines in the default state as a sort of honeypot but im in a very quiet area so i guess i wont find many having a go at my router, not too fussed if they do as theres nothing important on that side of my network
my main network consists of the media centers the server and xbox360's wii's and ps3's all linked upto a switch which i will only connect to the internet periodically to download updates as i dont use any of the consoles online play functionality we have plenty fun here when we have the time
oh and i did try searching here as someone mentioned i should have hence why i posted as my search terms were too short and i wasnt coming up with much
once the algo is posted what is stopping anyone up and down the country using it to connect to any default sky router
I just sent you a PM with the only warning you will ever get. The next time you mention behavior like this I will buy you a one way ticket on the ban bus.just wish there was more wep clients about so i could practise them all and learn the commands of by heart


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It wasn't that long ago that landscapes for affordable housing entailed a few trees, easy-to-maintain grass, and an overabundance of paving—all in the interest of saving a buck. "There was this mentality of making everything cheap and cheaper," says David Baker, FAIA, whose San Francisco firm won the AIA California Council's 2012 Distinguished Practice award for successfully prioritizing and integrating sustainable design in affordable housing. "Developers used to say, 'It's just plants. Who cares?'"
Instead of being value-engineered out, sustainable landscapes are increasingly becoming an integral component of affordable housing, plus a way to build strong and safe communities for those who live there. In high-end and market-rate housing, "green" has become a selling point—but not, until recently, for affordable housing. Architects were often left trying to convince developers that creating sustainable landscapes is just as beneficial as a LEED certification. Case studies conducted by the nonprofit environmental group Great River Greening of St. Paul, Minn., proved just that. In 2008, Great River Greening collaborated with Urban Homeworks, an affordable-housing provider that was retrofitting two apartment complexes.
Up until that time, "there had been a lot of very exciting improvements on the architectural end," says Deborah Karasov, Great River Greening's executive director. "But in 2008 the conversation about sustainable landscapes hadn't really started. We thought it would be a good way to affect a major sector of the building industry."
At the sites, Great River Greening planted native species and installed permeable pavement, vegetative swales, and rain barrels. Such practices, which cost no more than typical engineering solutions that whisk water away in pipes, actually cut down water use and kept much of the runoff on-site. The findings were published in the 2010 booklet "Sustainable Landscape for Affordable Housing," now a resource promoting eco-friendly practices in the industry.
"Even within the budgets of affordable housing, you could do sustainable things," says Karasov, who coauthored the booklet with landscape ecologist Todd Rexine.
In the 30 years he has been creating affordable housing, Baker has challenged other commonly held budgetary assumptions. He maintains that hiring the best landscape architects is actually preferable over hiring "the cheapest," and frequently collaborates with prominent landscape architects such as Andrea Cochran on both high-end and affordable housing projects. The cheapest landscaping proposals, Baker explains, often don't include fine grading, which then becomes the responsibility of the architect to provide, often at a higher cost.
Then, of course, there are aesthetic benefits of collaborating with professionals at the top of their game. Rain gardens or swales are certainly more beautiful than what Baker describes as "filling a big hole with rocks and pipe." And affordable housing developers and nonprofits alike are increasingly showing more of an interest in good design.
Aesthetics aside, residents need to be invested in their communities. At Via Verde, a new subsidized housing development in the Bronx, Lee Weintraub, FASLA, of Yonkers, N.Y., designed a series of sequenced roof gardens that will include fruit trees, Christmas trees, and vegetable gardens that will be tended and harvested by residents. "Landscapes that enable the residents to dig and grow and harvest create a culture of involvement and engagement, a culture of being great neighbors and of working together," says Weintraub.


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Countries in Asia now face the same level and type of sophisticated cyber attack as countries in the West, according to a new report from non-profit US cyber-crime research organisation Team Cymru.
Countries in Asia now face the same level and type of sophisticated cyber attack as countries in the West, according to a new report from non-profit US cyber-crime research organisation Team Cymru. "We would expect to see high concentrations of compromised machines in areas with high concentrations of Internet saturation and urban population," said Team Cymru director, global outreach, and former Scotland Yard detective, Steve Santorelli.
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International police agency Interpol launched Monday a "most wanted" site for suspected child sex offenders across the Group of Eight (G8) most industrialised nations. The "G8 Wanted Child Sex Offender" site, accessible via Interpol's homepage (www.interpol.int), draws together information from G8 members the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia.
It includes photographs of people wanted on charges of abuse and enables the public to access to information about how to report missing sex offenders who may have crossed borders.
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In a bid to cut down on fraud and inappropriate content, the organization responsible for administering Russia's .ru top-level domain names is tightening its procedures. Starting April 1, anyone who registers a .ru domain will need to provide a copy of their passport or, for businesses, legal registration papers.
Loopholes in the domain name system help spammers, scammers and operators of pornographic Web sites to avoid detection on the Internet by concealing their identity. Criminals often play a cat-and-mouse game with law enforcement and security experts, popping up on different domains as soon as their malicious servers are identified. Criminals in eastern Europe have used .ru domains for a while, registering domain names under fake identities and using them to send spam or set up command-and-control servers to send instructions to networks of hacked computers.
(Source: PC World)
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Hollywood and Bollywood linked arms Thursday to fight piracy, with the announcement of a coalition among the Motion Picture Association of America and seven Indian companies to tackle counterfeiting in one of the world's largest film markets.
The alliance comes as Hollywood tries to tap global markets more aggressively and as Indian movie studios grow in size and stature narrowing the gap between Indian and U.S. filmmakers, who have not always seen eye-to-eye on intellectual property issues. A year in the making, the coalition to fight film piracy in India will work with movie theaters to crack down on camcorder piracy the source of 90 percent of all pirated DVDs with police to tighten enforcement, with Internet service providers to fight Internet piracy and with politicians to create more effective laws.
(Source: AP)
Spam levels have not been dented by a series of strikes against controllers of networks of hijacked computers. Early 2010 has seen four such networks, or botnets, tackled via arrests, net access cutoffs and by infiltrating command systems. The successes have not inconvenienced hi-tech criminals who found other routes to send spam, say experts. And, they add, despite falling response rates, spam remains too lucrative for criminals to abandon.
"Most non-commercial spam these days is aimed solely to get you to click on a link, even out of curiosity," he said. "As soon as you click on that link, you're infected, most likely to become yet another botnet victim, have your identity and information stolen and go on to participate, all unknowingly in the infection of further victims."
(Source: BBC)
At the eighth Ministerial eHealth Conference in Barcelona today, EU ministers have outlined a joint vision and policy priorities on how to make eHealth more accessible, interactive and customised to patients. The Declaration outlines a vision and identifies key objectives to be achieved in the next ten years.
The Declaration calls for policy coordination amongst the various areas where eHealth can have an impact on citizens' health in order to enhance benefits for patients, healthcare systems and society. It recognises the need for stronger synergies with policy areas like competitiveness, research and regional development both at European and national levels.
(Source: Europe's Information Society)
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The government has added fresh resources to the fight against cybercrime with the launch of a £4.3m programme to help combat fraud, estimated to cost UK consumers £3.5bn per year. The programme, which aims to take down scam websites, was launched by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills this week. Under the scheme, up to 300 of the UK's approximately 3,000 existing trading standards officers will receive "intermediate" level training in tackling cybercrime.
In addition, a new cyber enforcement team within the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) will be set up. The team will lead investigations into websites selling fake or non-existent goods, tickets or services online, and will have an attached digital forensics lab that will be available to all OFT staff.
(Source: Silicon)
Reporters Without Borders issued the third annual report ahead of Friday's World Day Against Cyber Censorship, an awareness campaign organized by the Paris-based media advocacy group. Le Coz said repressive regimes seemed to be winning a technological tussle with dissidents who try to circumvent online restrictions. "Enemies of the Internet" list, got more sophisticated at censorship and overcoming dissidents' attempts to communicate online, said Reporters Without Borders' Washington director, Clothilde Le Coz.
Including Cisco Systems Inc., which has been criticized by activists who say that it sells networking equipment that could be used in official efforts to monitor and control Internet use. In a statement Thursday, the company reiterated that it does not provide any government with any special capabilities, and said products sold in China are the same ones sold elsewhere.
Fraudsters are continuing their switch from traditional card fraud to raiding online bank accounts, according to new research. Fraud losses on UK credit and debit cards totalled £440m in 2009 - a drop of 28% compared with the previous year - the UK Cards Association said. But the number of "phishing" attacks rose by 16% in the same period. This is when fraudsters trick people into entering their personal details on a website or in an e-mail.
Overall losses from card fraud fell last year. Chip-and-pin was highlighted as the major factor behind an 11% fall in fraud on lost and stolen cards - now at its lowest for two decades.
From 15 to 18 March 2010 the Ministry of Health of Spain and the Regional Government of Catalonia in cooperation with the European Commission are organizing a ministerial Conference in Barcelona. It will co-locate with the World of Health IT conference. High-level eHealth conferences organised by the presiding countries since 2003 represent important annual milestones in this specific field. Spain therefore will carry on the tradition and host this Conference in Barcelona as a part of its presidency in the first half of 2010.
A platform will be provided to encourage the development of on-line health services in Europe. The politicians, health administrators, researchers and suppliers, along with health professionals, are meeting to share their experiences and to discover what is new in this fast-evolving area.
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Twitter launched a new link-screening service on Tuesday aimed at preventing phishing and other malicious attacks against users of the popular microblogging service.
Phishing scams on Twitter usually involve attackers trying to obtain the login credentials of Twitter users, and then sending spam messages from the stolen accounts in a bid to make money, Twitter said on its blog last month. Twitter also fights phishing scams by watching for affected accounts and resetting passwords, it said. Phishing attacks ballooned on Twitter last year as the service grew in popularity. Twitter's new link-screening service comes after it last year started using Google's Safe Browsing API to check for malicious content in links posted by users.
The Internet was built on freedom of expression. Society wants someone held accountable when that freedom is abused. And major Internet companies like Google and Facebook are finding themselves caught between those ideals. Such may have been the case when three Google executives were convicted in Milan, Italy on February 24 over a bullying video posted on the site -- a verdict greeted with horror by online activists, who fear it could open the gates to such prosecutions and ultimately destroy the Internet itself.
Matt Sucherman, a Google vice president and general counsel, wrote in a blog post that the company was "deeply troubled" by the case, saying it "attacks the very principles of freedom on which the Internet is built."
(Source: Reuters)
More than three-quarters of people across the world believe access to the Internet is a fundamental right, a poll carried out for the BBC indicated Monday. The poll, which questioned more than 27,000 adults across 26 countries, suggested strong support globally for access to the web. The findings come as efforts are stepped up across the world to increase net access, with the United Nations leading a push for more people to be given the opportunity to get online. Countries including Finland and Estonia have already ruled it is a human right, said the BBC.
"The right to communicate cannot be ignored," Hamadoun Toure, secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union, told the broadcaster. "The Internet is the most powerful potential source of enlightenment ever created."
This three-day event fosters opportunities for IT and Telecommunication professionals to network, build relationships, and explore new ideas. It brings together IT professionals, developers, decisions and policy makers, governmental officials, experts, consultants, industry leaders, bankers, law enforcement officials, academics, networks security managers, database administrators, IT marketing executives, surveyors, etc. to share their protection experience in IT security and exchange ideas on most emerging technology trends, applications and practices.
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Hackers breaking into businesses and government agencies with targeted attacks have not only stolen intellectual property, in some cases they have corrupted data too, the head of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation said Thursday. The United States has been under assault from these targeted spear-phishing attacks for years, but they received mainstream attention in January, when Google admitted that it had been hit and threatened to pull its business out of China -- the presumed source of the attack -- as a result.
Researchers investigating the Google attack -- thought to have affected at least 100 companies including Intel, Adobe and Symantec -- say that prime targets of the hackers were the source code management systems used by software developers to build code.
The government develops a new strategy to help the information technology industry cut down on waste While no one will ever confuse the polluting effects of the information and communications technology sector with, say, the oil industry, all is not green in the realm of ICT. The world throws away of hundreds of millions of mobile phones, computers, printers, batteries and gadgets annually, while energy and raw materials consumed by the industry account for more than 2% of global greenhouse gases emissions.
It is with this in mind that the Egyptian government has begun work on a green information and communication technology (ICT) strategy aimed at reducing the sectors energy use and finding a place for the tons of hardware thrown away every year.
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The teaching of the Buddha is the unchanging truth whether in the present or in any other time. The Buddha revealed this truth 2,500 years ago and it's been the truth ever since. This teaching should not be added to or taken away from. The Buddha said, "What the Tathagata has laid down should not be discarded, what has not been laid down by the Tathagata should not be added on to the teachings". He 'sealed off' the Teachings. Why did the Buddha seal them off? Because these Teachings are the words of one who has no defilements. No matter how the world may change these Teachings are unaffected, they don't change with it.
I searched briefly for this online and couldn't find it (paraphrased perhaps?) -- I'm curious which sutta(s) Ajahn Chah is referencing here, any help?


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After all, the interventions in Guatemala and other places were carried out for a noble cause—stopping the spread of communism.
After World War II, anxiety turned more toward the Cold War threat of communism.
For the anti-Semite, both capitalism and communism are Jewish plots.
Keynes well understood the attractions of communism to the affluent young.
The absence of those rights, she said in her speech, is an abuse of power and principle equal to slavery or communism.
Much, no doubt, could be done even by what is now called communism, but what in earlier days was called Christianity.
An early form of communism with a sort of military-priesthood at the top.
communism, Socialism abolish private property and push us back into Collectivism.
communism possesses a language which every people can understand.
I hasten to say, that if Protection can be and ought to be likened to communism, it is not that which I am about to attack.
"social system based on collective ownership," 1843, from French communisme (c.1840) from commun (Old French comun; see common (adj.)) + -isme (see -ism). Originally a theory of society; as name of a political system, 1850, a translation of German Kommunismus (itself from French), in Marx and Engels' "Manifesto of the Communist Party." Cf. communist. In some cases in early and mid-20c., a term of abuse implying anti-social criminality without regard to political theory.
Each [i.e. socialism, communism, anarchism] stands for a state of things, or a striving after it, that differs much from that which we know; & for many of us, especially those who are comfortably at home in the world as it is, they have consequently come to be the positive, comparative, & superlative, distinguished not in kind but in degree only, of the terms of abuse applicable to those who would disturb our peace. [Fowler]
An economic and social system envisioned by the nineteenth-century German scholar Karl Marx. In theory, under communism, all means of production are owned in common, rather than by individuals (see Marxism and Marxism-Leninism). In practice, a single authoritarian party controls both the political and economic systems. In the twentieth century, communism was associated with the economic and political systems of China and the Soviet Union and of the satellites of the Soviet Union. (Compare capitalism and socialism.)


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After acquiring some 2nd hand routers, I felt inspired and dug out the old laptop to have a tinker, and was curious how the BT5 series was doing.
Some interesting figures regarding aireplay-ng injection though...
All tests were conducted on the same AP
Cards used
ath5k Cisco aironet AIR-CB21AG-E-K9 (cardbus)
zd1211rw Buffalo WLI-U2-KG54L (usb)
rt2800usb Alfa AWUS036NEH (usb)
Code:BT4 - 126.96.36.199 vanilla & 2.6.34 hand rolled Same results with vanilla drivers, and compat-wireless 3.5rc3-1 (patched) tested Driver Packet rate laptop/VM ath5k 700 pps/no PCMCIA slot zd1211rw 1000pps/800pps rt2800usb not tested on physical hardware & device fails to work correctly in a VM ( AWUS036NEH ) Enough IVs to crack within 5 minutes. ----------------------------------------------- BT5 - R1 & R2 Vanilla drivers & compat-wireless 3.5rc3-1 (patched) tested Driver Packet rate laptop/VM ath5k 50pps/no PCMCIA slot zd1211rw 50pps/50pps rt2800usb 50pps/50pps Takes well over 25 minutes to gather enough IVs to crack
Note, on BT5 (r1/r2) aireplay output states its packet rate is hitting 1000 (or whatever I fix it to) but aireplay 'sent packet' count is only creeping up somewhere around the 50pps rate.
If checked with airodump, you can clearly see the data rate of replies is incredibly low.
I've also tried fixing the packet-rate to 150 to lower the load & see if there is any change, but its still remains around 50pps
Also, some other things to note,
when using Alfa AWUS036NEH with rt2800usb driver on BT5R2, rmmod/modprobe -r rt2800usb hangs Backtrack completely, requiring a hard reset.
Unplugging the device is the only way the driver can be unloaded without hanging. This is the same on both physical hardware, and a VM.
VM & AWUS036NEH do not like each other much, monitor mode is available, but refuses to collect any data, or inject. (all versions of BT, stock drivers & up to date+patched compat-wireless tested)
BTR2 reports incorrect max TXpower for AWUS036NEH, on R2 it can only be set to 27dbm, all other versions (4/5r1) support setting at 30dbm (1000mw)
BT5 r1/r2 was tested from both live DVDs, and updated installs.
So, I guess what I'm interested in the most, is what happened between BT4 and BT5 regarding injection speeds?


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'"Just watch his shifts and you see how hard the kid worked," said coach Lindy Ruff. "He paid the price in a lot of different areas. If [the Carolina coaching staff] didn't show the film of him scoring the short-handed game-winner against Ottawa, they probably should have because that's a pretty strong move to the net."'
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Only child Alice and her parents go to the same beach every winter, where they celebrate her birthday and visit with the various vacationers, young and old, who have become their friends. This year is Alice's tenth birthday, but there are some disappointing changes: Some friends can't make it, others have aged, and some newcomers (interlopers?) are unexpectedly included, such as a motherless, annoying six year old. Alice is a sensitive, observant girl,and the various disappointments that arise from these changes are difficult for her, partly because they reveal to Alice unflattering things about herself. Throughout the less than ideal vacation, she relies on the knowledge that she is "alone together" with people who love her.
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- The main goal is to create numerical programs directly from Feynman rules. It is actually developed for few known models like the electroweak standard model and QED, and the limit of application is, for the moment, the 2 to 2 particles reactions involving only external fermions
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- 'absence' is a CGI application designed to help keep track of people in a group. It is intended to do one thing: allow the user to display the plans of all people in a group in a way that makes it easy to see who's present and who's absent. It is not intended for anything else. The resolution is one day. It could easily be adapted do handle reservations for any set of objects, as long as a resolution of a day is acceptable. An example of a possible use is reserving machines/computers in a laboratory.
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EVERETT — Some nasty weather could be ahead for parts of Snohomish County.
Both minor flooding and possible lowland snow are in the forecast this week.
Everett and surrounding areas could see snow late Wednesday night, Thursday and Saturday, according to the National Weather Service in Seattle. Little or no snow is expected to stick by Thursday evening.
The weekend might see about a half-inch of snow on the ground.
Meanwhile, the Stillaguamish River had a bit of minor flooding Wednesday afternoon in Arlington, the Weather Service said. More minor flooding was expected, especially in low-lying areas such as Silvana.
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Editor's note: We are reprinting this Remember When column, which was originally published in the Nov. 8, 2008, edition of The Lancaster News, at the request of our readers.
At one time, the significance of Nov. 11 – Veterans Day – wasn't lost on anyone.
Of course, World War I ended years before I was born, but Uncle Harry made sure I was well-schooled on what he called the War to End All Wars.
There was a bunch of World War I soldiers around, too.
The issue of road funding – or, to put it slightly differently, the question of how South Carolina should fix its broken road system – is now a constant topic in politics and the media. A fair number of state lawmakers have therefore begun to advocate what politicians always advocate when they don't want to make tough decisions about the budget – raising taxes, specifically the fuel tax.
The world is shrinking and with the Internet we are now all hyper-connected. One result of this is that where once we looked at problems as local or maybe state and national issues, now we can see issues simultaneously on a local to global level – all at the same time and in real time.
You've probably heard much discussion lately about the condition of South Carolina's roads and bridges, and how to fund their repairs and maintenance.
Policy-makers agree that the issue will be front and center when the Legislature convenes in January. The unanswered question is where to find the billions of dollars needed to fix them – and whether there will be an increase in the gas tax, raising pump prices.
In September, I was invited to watch Jaden Mix, a ninth-grader at North Central High School, run in a 3 ½ mile cross country track race at Lancaster High School stadium.
Once I heard the name Jaden, I dropped everything to cheer him on. Although quiet and reserved, one Sunday, I saw Jaden go to the front of the church with a full congregation and pray a prayer with no reservation.
This election year is important for one reason. The party that wins will supposedly either stop the Obama admnistration policies or continue them.
The issues related to the Lancaster County Probate Court are ones which hit close to home in Lancaster County.
While the incumbent has had years to lead the court, there are growing questions about how the court is really doing in serving the citizens of Lancaster County.
The most important function of the court is to settle estates, helping families who have lost loved ones. But the records show these families are being let down by a staggering backlog of cases in the probate court.
I just thought I would put in a good word for Sandy Estridge – our current probate judge who has presided for more than 20 years in that capacity.
Prior to becoming the probate judge, Sandy was employed by Charlie Connelly as a tax expert.
I have always been very pleased with her service on my personal taxes during tax season at that time, and I had numerous friends who were pleased as well.
She and her staff do an outstanding job probating estates.
Is this a new dance sensation or perhaps a term used in fishing as you watch a landed fish do its thing? Actually, based on your point of view, what I am going to say could be interpreted either way.
In our current political season, we see an interesting, bi-annual shifting of positions taking place. Many hard-liner politicos start taking their respective stances, from which they will do battle for the retention of their exalted seats in Congress, but this year, as the mid-term elections approach, there is a different element that has poked its ugly head into the mix.
I am honored and humbled to be running for re-election for probate judge of Lancaster County.
I have spent the last two decades working tirelessly to serve the people of this county with honesty and integrity, and most importantly, with compassion.
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5 U.S. Code § 3524 - Effect of subsequent employment with the Government
§ 3524.
Effect of subsequent employment with the Government
(a) The term "employment"—
in subsection (b) includes employment under a personal services contract (or other direct contract) with the United States Government (other than an entity in the legislative branch); and
An individual who has received a voluntary separation incentive payment under this subchapter and accepts any employment for compensation with the Government of the United States with [1] 5 years after the date of the separation on which the payment is based shall be required to pay, before the individual's first day of employment, the entire amount of the incentive payment to the agency that paid the incentive payment.
(1) If the employment under this section is with an agency, other than the Government Accountability Office, the United States Postal Service, or the Postal Regulatory Commission, the Director of the Office of Personnel Management may, at the request of the head of the agency, may [2] waive the repayment if—
the individual involved possesses unique abilities and is the only qualified applicant available for the position; or
If the employment under this section is with an entity in the legislative branch, the head of the entity or the appointing official may waive the repayment if the individual involved possesses unique abilities and is the only qualified applicant available for the position.
(Added Pub. L. 107–296, title XIII, § 1313(a)(1)(A), Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2293; amended Pub. L. 108–271, § 8(b), July 7, 2004, 118 Stat. 814; Pub. L. 109–435, title VI, § 604(f), Dec. 20, 2006, 120 Stat. 3242.)
[1] So in original. Probably should be "within".
[2] So in original.
2006—Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 109–435 substituted "Postal Regulatory Commission" for "Postal Rate Commission" in introductory provisions.
2004—Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 108–271 substituted "Government Accountability Office" for "General Accounting Office" in introductory provisions.
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Brevard, N.C. - The Tornados fell at home Thursday afternoon against the Carson-Newman Lady Eagles, 9-1 in game one and 8-0 in game two. Brevard falls to 16-22, 2-12 in the South Atlantic Conference while Carson-Newman improves to 25-13, 9-5 in the SAC.
Game 1: Carson-Newman 9, Brevard 1 (6)
Jennifer Gift (7-11) fell victim in the first game of the doubleheader. A fielder's interference call extended the fifth inning as Carson-Newman plated eight runs in the inning to take the commanding lead. Stephanie Templeton received the win, allowing one run on five hits in the game.
Brevard scored in the bottom of the third. Sarah Carlos sent a two-out offering to the right centerfield fence for a double. The next batter, Beth Brooker, drove a pitch to shallow right field scoring Carlos. Brooker was thrown out on the play trying to advance to second to end the inning with Brevard up, 1-0.
The Tornados nearly scored again in the fourth as they loaded the bases with two outs on Kasey Fagan and Katie Thornburg's singles and Katie Brown's walk, but were unable to put across a run as Maddie Fletcher grounded out to end the inning.
Carson-Newman put most of their runs across in the fifth. Gift retired the first batter on a grounder. Amber Hewitt and Leah Price both walked to give the Lady Eagles runners on first and second. The next batter, Jessie Howard, hit a grounder back to the mound that Gift fielded and fired over to third, but the umpires stopped the play and awarded Hewitt third on fielder's interference.
The Lady Eagles took advantage of the play as Whitney Durham singled home a run and Sarah Little cleared the bases with a two-out double before Amber Palmer capped the scoring with a two-run shot to straightaway centerfield for an 8-1 lead.
Carson-Newman put across their final run in the sixth as Templeton drove in Price on a sacrifice fly to right.
Game 2: Carson-Newman 8, Brevard 0 (5)
Back-to-back home runs in the first inning off Liz Houser (9-10) put Carson-Newman up early in the nightcap of the doubleheader and Mary Shealy retired all fifteen batters she faced to earn the win.
The Lady Eagles scored four in the top of the first as Durham drove home Howard with a double to left center and Little and Kee drove out back-to-back home runs to give Shealy the early lead.
Three more runs crossed the plate in the second as Howard, Templeton and Kee came around to score to make the lead 7-0.
Templeton drove in the final run of the game in the fifth with a sacrifice fly to right field deep enough to score Brianne Coon.
Brevard takes the field again on Saturday, April 18th, as they host their final South Atlantic Conference matchup of the season against Lenoir-Rhyne. First pitch of the doubleheader is set for 1 p.m. Carson-Newman keeps to the road for the SAC finale, playing at Wingate also on Saturday at 1 p.m.


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By Ashley Marshall / Special to MLB.com | April 11, 2013 7:31 PM ET
As Fort Wayne's Opening Day starter, it's easy to consider Joe Ross the team's de facto ace.
Whether he attaches that specific label to himself or not, the 19-year-old hasn't shirked away with the responsibility that comes with pitching first in the rotation. Rather than a chore or a burden, the young right-hander embraces his role.
The first-rounder struck out a career-high eight batters -- seven swinging -- and surrendered one hit and one walk over five innings in the Class A Fort Wayne TinCaps' 4-0 rain-shortened win over the visiting Lake County Captains on Thursday.
"It's not that I feel it has to be responsibility, it's that I've put it on myself to set the tone," Ross said. "I'm not pressured from my teammates, I'm just hard on myself. I want to take the lead and set the tone not just for them, but for myself.
"It gives me a lot of confidence, especially with the rough start I had last year. It's a huge confidence booster."
Ross struck out two batters in each of the first three innings before Nellie Rodriguez doubled to center field with two outs in the fourth to break up the no-hit bid. But Ross fannedLeonardo Castillo to strand Rodriguez in scoring position and set the side down in order in the fifth to complete his night.
Of the eight Captains to put the ball in play against Ross, six grounded out.
"I owe a lot of credit to my catcher Dane Phillips," said Ross, who has only pitched deeper than the fifth once in his pro career, in a no-decision against West Michigan on April 4. "We were on the same exact page tonight. Whatever I was thinking -- a righty-righty changeup or a backdoor slider -- he'd already thought it.
"My fastball command was a little bit less than I would have liked, but my changeup and slider combination helped pull the game together for me. The second time through the lineup, just showing them one of the two pitches in an at-bat had to make them guess and not sit back on the fastball."
The Padres' No. 13 prospect bested his previous high of seven strikeouts, set in Eugene's 5-4 win against Spokane last Aug. 28 in his final outing of the season.
It marked the second consecutive strong outing for Ross, who also allowed two baserunners over the minimum in five scoreless frames in Great Lakes on Opening Day.
Across the two starts, the right-hander has an unblemished 0.00 ERA, a 0.40 WHIP and 12 strikeouts with only two walks over 10 innings.
Selected by San Diego 25th overall in the 2011 Draft, Ross (2-0) has adjusted well to his second time in the Midwest League.
The California native made six starts for Fort Wayne last year, but he went 0-2 with a 6.26 ERA and 21 runs over 27 2/3 innings before missing around 10 weeks with shoulder tendinitis.
Thursday's start also gave Ross a sense of redemption and closure. He made his full-season debut against the Captains last April, but things didn't turn out nearly as well. He only lasted 1 1/3 innings after being tagged for seven runs on seven hits and three walks.
"It was a mental thing, I was trying to be too perfect," he said. "The level I was at was never in question. I would just say it was first full-season jitters. That and being too fine."
Phillips was 2-for-3 with a double and two runs scored and first baseman Luis Tejada plated his first two runs of the season in the winning effort.
Lake County starter Luis DeJesus (0-1) gave up four runs -- all unearned -- on five hits over five innings. The game was called in the middle of the sixth following a 30-minute delay.
Ashley Marshall is a contributor to MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @AshMarshallMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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this tutorial, and then try to use the ifconfig command again.
I'm trying to get my Hawking HWUG1A device recognized but When I type -
"ifconfig rausb0 up"
as was advised in the HCL: Wireless section
I get -
"rausb0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device"
Please help me. Thx
Driver: RT73
Chipset: ralink
this tutorial, and then try to use the ifconfig command again.
To my understanding, the HWUG1A and HWUG1 are exactly the same. Except the HWUG1A works with MAC. They both have the same chipset, my HWUG1 works out of the box with BT Pre Final.
Have you changed anything since the install of BT before connecting the HWUG1A? What kind of PC are you using?
The tutorial is a little over my head. Thanks anyways.
I havn't changed anything. I'm actually using a macbook and running VirtaulBox.
This is what I get
~# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440FX - 82441FX PMC [Natoma] (rev 02)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton II]
00:01.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH VirtualBox Graphics Adapter
00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] (rev 40)
00:04.0 System peripheral: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH VirtualBox Guest Service
00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 08)
~# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
This should answer your question, had a brain fart and forgot about this. Look at the post by balding_parrot. Shoudl answer your question.
Thanks for the link. It appears that what balding_parrot was trying to communicate was that only usb devices with be able to be controlled within a guest OS. The Wireless device that I have is a USB device, but aparently is not being recognized.
I have this card...
Did you try
???$sudo modprobe rt2570
ifconfig rausb0 up
I'm still quite the n00b. Let me know if it works for you.
Oh wow...I'm replying to a really old post...Oh well.
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WSJ Hides Rubio's Obstructionist Past
The Wall Street Journal ignored key parts of Senator Marco Rubio's (R-FL) Senate record to promote him as "bipartisan" and in "pursuit of legislative harmony." In fact, Rubio has a history of obstructionism, voting against major bipartisan legislation, blocking nominations, and filibustering Democratic initiatives in the Senate.
Wall Street Journal Pushes Image Of Rubio As "Bipartisan"
Wall Street Journal: Rubio's Image Is "A Conservative Leader With A Bipartisan Bent." The Wall Street Journal claimed Rubio's speech following the president's State of the Union address Tuesday would allow him to "build his image as a conservative leader with a bipartisan bent" who is in "pursuit of legislative harmony." [The Wall Street Journal, 2/11/13 [1]]
In Fact, Rubio Has History Of Obstructionism And Partisanship
Rubio Helped Senate Republicans Block Critical Bills Addressing Unemployment And Economic Recovery. Rubio supported filibusters and other maneuvers to disrupt the democratic process and kill proposals that otherwise would have passed the Senate:
- The American Jobs Act would have boosted the economy with a combination of tax cuts and spending designed to specifically impact employment at the state and local levels. [United States Senate, 10/11/11 [2]]
- Paying A Fair Share Act Of 2012 proposed that taxpayers with incomes over $1 million to pay at least a 30 percent tax rate. [United States Senate, 4/16/12 [3]]
- Repeal Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act would have taken away several tax breaks for oil companies. [United States Senate, 3/29/12 [4]]
- The Bring Jobs Home Act intended to provide incentives for companies to bring jobs to the U.S. while ending tax breaks for companies that send jobs overseas. [United States Senate, 7/19/12 [5]]
- The Disclose Act required greater transparency in the finances of campaign advertising. [United States Senate, 7/17/12 [6]]
- The Small Business Jobs And Tax Relief Act would have offered job creation incentives like tax credits. [United States Senate, 7/12/12 [7]]
- The Paycheck Fairness Act sought to require employers to prove that discrepancies between male and female employee wages were not based on gender, and to protect employees who share salary information from employer retaliation. [United States Senate, 6/5/12 [8]]
Rubio Pledged Not To Raise The Debt Ceiling. In a March 2011 Wall Street Journal opinion piece, Rubio wrote that he would never vote to raise the debt ceiling, which allows the government to issue debt to pay for spending already authorized, unless the Senate agreed to never raise the debt ceiling again:
In a few weeks, we will once again reach our legal limit for borrowing, the so-called debt ceiling. The president and others want to raise this limit. They say it is the mature, responsible thing to do.
In fact, it's nothing more than putting off the tough decisions until after the next election. We cannot afford to continue waiting. This may be our last chance to force Washington to tackle the central economic issue of our time.
I will vote to defeat an increase in the debt limit unless it is the last one we ever authorize and is accompanied by a plan for fundamental tax reform, an overhaul of our regulatory structure, a cut to discretionary spending, a balanced-budget amendment, and reforms to save Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. [The Wall Street Journal, 3/30/11 [9]]
S&P Sovereign Ratings Committee Chairman: U.S. Downgrade Due To Debate Over Debt Ceiling. In an August 5, 2011, Wall Street Journal article discussing Standard & Poor's decision to downgrade the U.S. credit rating, John Chambers, the chairman of S&P's sovereign ratings committee, cited political paralysis over the debt ceiling as a reason for the decision to downgrade. He claimed the "conclusion was pretty much motivated by all of the debate about the raising of the debt ceiling ... It involved a level of brinkmanship greater than what we had expected earlier in the year." [The Wall Street Journal, 8/5/11 [10]]
Roosevelt Institute's Jeff Madrick: "S&P Downgrade Brought On By Republican Obstructionism." In a post for the Roosevelt Institute where he is a senior fellow, former New York Times economics columnist Jeff Madrick wrote that the S&P downgrade was due to Republican obstructionism over the debt ceiling increase:
For all of S&P's handwringing about the nation's debt problems, Congressional recalcitrance was the driving issue. So when the press says neither the Democrats nor the Republicans can escape blame, it is in truth nonsense. The showdown caused the downgrade, not the nation's financial liabilities, and Republicans deliberately caused it in pursuit of their own political and ideological goals. [The Roosevelt Institute, 8/8/11 [11]]
Bipartisan Policy Institute: Credit Downgrade Cost Taxpayers Billions. In a report on the economic consequences of the 2011 debt ceiling debate, the Bipartisan Policy Institute estimated that the S&P downgrade of U.S. debt will likely cost $18.9 billion over ten years due to elevated interest rates. [Bipartisan Policy Institute, 11/27/12 [12]]
Rubio Voted Against Recent Bipartisan Compromise To Delay Debt Ceiling Deadline. In January 2013, Rubio voted against the bipartisan compromise to delay the deadline for extending the federal government's ability to borrow new money and pay off debts until May 2013. [United States Senate, 1/31/13 [13]]
CNN: Bipartisan Delay "Will Give The U.S. Treasury The Ability To Meet All Federal Spending Obligations Through At Least The End Of July." CNN reported that the deal passed by the Democratic Senate and Republican House, which Rubio voted against, allowed the Treasury to meet its spending obligations through July:
The Democratic-controlled Senate passed legislation on Thursday extending the federal government's ability to borrow new money through mid-May, delaying a partisan standoff that some analysts warn could derail a fragile economic recovery.
The bill, which passed in a 64-34 vote, cleared the Republican-run House of Representatives last week. It now advances to President Obama's desk to be signed into law.
While the measure suspends Washington's $16.4 trillion debt ceiling through May 19, some budget analysts estimate it will give the U.S. Treasury the ability to meet all federal spending obligations through at least the end of July. [CNN.com, 1/31/13 [14]]
Rubio Obstructed Obama Administration Nominees
Rubio Threatened To "Hold" Chuck Hagel Nomination For Secretary Of Defense. In a statement to the Washington Free Beacon, Rubio communications director Alex Conant stated that Rubio might put a hold on the nomination of Chuck Hagel to secretary of defense, noting that the senator has "put holds on other administration nominees over the issue" of promoting democracy in Latin America. [Washington Free Beacon, 12/20/12 [15]]
Rubio Filibustered Nomination Of U.S. Ambassador To El Salvador. The Washington Post's In the Loop blog reported that Rubio was "under fire" from Latinos and fellow Republicans for filibustering the nomination to allow the U.S. ambassador to El Salvador to remain in her post:
Latino lawmakers and organizations are furious over the Senate's failure to break a GOP filibuster of the nomination of recess appointee Mari Carmen Aponte to remain in her post as ambassador to El Salvador.
The Obama administration and Senate Democrats fell 11 votes short of the 60 needed to bring the nomination to a vote. Without confirmation, Aponte will lose her ambassadorship at the end of this year.
Latinos specifically singled out Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) for blame.
Rep. Nydia Velazquez (R-N.Y.) said he "promised to be the voice of Puerto Ricans in the Senate" but declined to "use that voice in support of a Puerto Rican woman who has shown she is immensely qualified."
Rubio, who voted to maintain the GOP filibuster, said he wasn't opposed to Aponte but was blocking her nomination and a couple of others to protest administration policy in Latin America. [The Washington Post, In the Loop, 12/14/11 [16]]
Rubio Temporarily Blocked Nominee For U.S. Ambassador To Vietnam. The Hill's Global Affairs blog reported that the U.S. ambassador to Vietnam, David Shear, had his nomination "held up temporarily by Sens. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) over concerns that Vietnamese children in the process of getting adopted by U.S. citizens were being left in limbo." [The Hill, Global Affairs, 5/23/11 [17]]
Rubio Voted Against Major Legislation That Had Bipartisan Support
Rubio Voted Against Bipartisan American Taxpayer Relief Act. Rubio was one of only eight senators to vote against the Senate's deal to avoid the automatic spending cuts and tax increases planned for early January 2013. [United States Senate, 1/1/13 [18]]
Wash. Post: Bipartisan Deal Helped Working Poor And Small Businesses. The Washington Post's Wonkblog reported that the deal allowed the Bush tax cuts to expire on incomes above $450,000, included a one-year extension on unemployment insurance, and significantly benefited the working poor, due to an extension of tax breaks for low-income families. The deal also continued targeted tax breaks for businesses, and virtually exempted small businesses from the estate tax. [The Washington Post, Wonkblog, 12/31/12 [19]]
Rubio Voted Against Bipartisan Violence Against Women Act In 2012. In April 2012, Politico's On Congress blog reported that Rubio voted against the Senate bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Fifteen Republicans supported the bill. [Politico, On Congress, 4/27/12 [20]]
Rubio 1 of Only 8 Senators Against Reconsidering VAWA. In February 2013, Rubio was one of only eight senators to vote against reconsidering VAWA, while 85 senators voted in favor. [United States Senate, 2/4/13 [21]]
American Bar Association Official: "VAWA Has Been The Single Most Effective Federal Effort" Against Domestic Violence. Debbie Segal, who chairs the American Bar Association Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence, said of VAWA:
"VAWA has been the single most effective federal effort to respond to the epidemic of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking in this country."
The act has ensured that "legal and social services are available to survivors, and that law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, attorneys and advocates are well-trained with cutting-edge resources to effectively address these crimes in their own communities." [American Bar Association Journal, 1/1/12 [22]]
Since VAWA's Original Enactment, Domestic Violence Against Women Has Fallen By More Than Half. From the Bureau of Justice Statistics:
The rate of intimate partner violence against females declined 53% between 1993 and 2008, from 9.4 victimizations per 1,000 females age 12 or older to 4.3 per 1,000. [Bureau of Justice Statistics, 10/23/09 [23]]
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