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I was going to take a nap on this long bus ride but did not feel that tired. How is the state of things? I have another blog for keeping my insights on what is going on but sometimes things cross over and this may be one incident. I am getting started again and a lot of things are unclear. I am in a way so glad I have come across so many phony and fake people also known as professionals in my lifetime. Wine field especially. A young field hence so many fakes? I really don't know. I really don't care. Nobody does. Nobody takes things seriously enough to think beyond basics. Fake is all there is? And what is wrong with that? These industries besides chain and fast food don't believe in depth in a timeless manner. A short or long period of time and what it takes to make money during this time are all most in these businesses especially restaurants are interested in. Wine retail is a lot better and as I said the more organized folk like chain and fast food are most interested in depth. Short term operations could care less about what is "really" going on so they can stay in business a decade or multiple decades from now. They like money. They like the lifestyle. They like the pace and then find something else to do. More than a handful also are in it because is a great front for handling dirty money, etc but we pretend they don't exist. The current industry has a lot of money invested in what they do but also are in development heavily hence very speculative. Napa as heaven of California wine? The damn place is so HOT since previous decades one wonders what is the future? These guys don't care. Their experiments have done well and everything "looks good" so can sell and move on anytime unlike the more organized folk like those chain people that have reached the frontiers and cannot expand more but can do better by doing a better job and depth means a lot to them. That is the reason why I am not enthusiastic about returning to wine "business." I am excited about wine and wine as an industry but not wine "business." A few are legitimate people but the rest are short timers who see things that "look good" for now and are in them. I think that is where my interest will be. Once I finish my reviews and start banging my head against bottles, I like to be where the bottles disappear. They come from places near and far and eventually are used somewhere. That is where I like to be. That is the destination. I find it more interesting to be where wine is tasted and drank than where it is sold as food or luxury to guests. The latter is not about wine and its culture. And I like to spend time bottle by bottle not same bottles over and over again or a line of bottles with no end in sight as the main event. I like to get to know wine even if is 4 oz from a bottle on an individual basis and leave thinking I have pondered as much as I cared over something of value not just passed by it or surveyed it. That sounds best for me. I don't know about others. Wine means different things to different people. Worship it so can sell it more and at higher costs is the culture of wine "business." I don't think so. 13 Jan 2014 6:19 pm Hayward, California
Wine – General
Enter Wine World! No We Don't Mustard You Up! Those Are Just Rumors!
I am tired and not pooped but tired. Another day in wine ends. The last few posts I started in my other blog My Week in Wine I ended up copying and pasting them here. The lines of thought I follow appear in blog posts as I write and so far they belonged here not there. That blog was created for random stuff. Lets say I ran into a wine blah blah and there is not much to tell to stick it in this blog but worth mentioning, then it goes in that one. That is what it is good for. I am starting this post here because my experience has been I end up moving it here and why not just keep it here from the start! Copying on a cellphone screen is relatively hard. That is another thing.
I had my Saturday. I did a lot. It was fun. I guess doing different things is fun versus doing same thing all day. I did a little experiment and had a second breakfast at Jack just to see what happens. Exactly as I had expected. Too much breakfast and I didn't even notice lunch time. My body decides that and if eats enough in the morning as in two or three breakfasts it will skip lunch on its own. And how was wine business. Who cares. Some businesses are always good. I have started confusing myself already. I need a lot of information before I can think and a huge space in three dimensions (not to mention that has smaller similar spaces all over) filled in all kinds of weird orders of various wines has a lot of not defined pieces and they need knowing before one can think. I guess not everyone thinks in three dimensional models to have my problem. Most of us think linearly. That is learned by learning language. People think that is a good way to think. As I have said the word stupid has too many meanings.
A study of literature is said to an excellent way to develop thinking abilities even if erroneously. It is said what I write online constitutes a fantasy realm that I have created or sort of like a video game fantasy world which is quite interesting but this game only has one player and everyone else strives not to be "in." it is said the only time another being appears in my realm it is because I dragged them in there so sooner or later I can say and do bad things to them and I have developed this abuse system down to a science and art hence so interesting so people love to know for instance if the President was in the realm today what happened? The details will be very interesting like a fantasy videogame world. Let me think, first we cover his head with a lot of mustard then put slices of tomatoes all over the mustard to see how he looks. We can always change it. Anyway this is my fantasy realm and I dare you try think life without it. It is a scientific model of what should become of a lot of things. Some unfortunate people get caught in its machinery sometimes and that is price of progress. And what does all this have to do with wine? I was going to try explain some of the allure of wine by using fantasy realm model but typing on this phone takes forever. I just say understanding wine requires traveling to a realm where wine is understandable. This fantasy realm needs construction and learning details of this world by learning about wine and experiencing it is the only way to reach this understanding. Otherwise we just talk about wine not knowing shit because the realm is big and too my unique details to simplify it and claim we know wine. It is too crazy inside wine world and fortunately this is not a video game where fool players get abused by power players called Sommeliers who learn abuse from French (i will be hearing back about this one.) can do as they please and fool players take it as it comes. You can survive and benefit the wine world by learning too much. One of the unique things about wine learning is beginning and intermediate knowledge are bullshit. They are not worth a dime. Only advanced meaning thorough knowledge works and fortunately this body of knowledge is Finite. After that you can explore and no power player can do it to you. Your power equals in many ways and can remain in the fantasy. It is a fascinating world. The more you explore wine the more details of this realm are reveled to you and nobody can cover your head with mustard and slices of tomatoes because this ain't a one player fantasy game where you get beat up by the player-owner. Wine world is great. Get into it. My stupid WordPress app won't let me scroll anymore. I end here. 4 Jan 2014 6:11 pm Oakland, California
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How Shall We Write So We Are Professional Sommelier Writers?
What is the solution? I like my material to be presentation quality which is easy. I just have to proofread before publishing and minor changes. The trouble is I have so little time. I have too little time. I can barely type up something of value while I eat breakfast or ride the train and proofreading delays the entire process to indefinite. I have always agreed with the feedback that I am a "vicious writer" and try to avoid that. A vicious writer knows too much about audience and how people read, think and follow thought. He can write so knocks the reader off one's seat everytime. All it takes is reading first draft slowly and fixing a little so there are no breaks in the vicious line of thought. Sometimes leaving draft for later makes for a better entire rewrite that is vicious rather than ambiguous. And what is the benefit of writing for audience whom need to try extremely hard to come up with something that creates an exchange? Writing at the level of the reader achieves such an exchange and that is best achieved by first drafts in my case. They are more humane! And now once again I have another objective. My blogs also represent professional level work. After a week I finally was able to grasp the idea presented by Wine Advice that some sommeliers write and achieve professional contribution rather than traditional duties of the trade! And it was added to that later how about doing more of that while doing the traditional stuff? How do I do that? Same way I did my photography. A Flickr handpick of under 200 from some 3000 uploaded says more about my signature style than all the blog posts I wrote on photography. I think I do what I did with an older blog. I write and post what I write but change some posts to private later. In time, what is left are posts that meet selection criteria. I won't censor old posts beyond what is now. In time, I hope my wine writing parallel my photography in saying a great deal about us and our philosophy rather than a river of blog posts that may have good content but…. We see if this works. 4 Jan 2014 9:06 am Lake Merritt, California
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Jan 3rd 2013
Friday ended. Fruitless day. Lots of activity. I worked my ass off. That is what college is for. I also got the word people who haven't got to college don't like college graduates. Lousy shitty school I went to never got me a good job and becomes trouble too. Governor thinks I am a California education success story! Please….. And then run into a bunch of people who don't like you because have college education. Is that why my fried chicken was late yesterday? I worked seven hours non-stop and handled what is referred to as hundreds of wine boxes. First the official word is I am too scary. And nobody believes me when I say my body makes its own decisions. It decided no lunch and we just keep going and nobody believes me that my body won't listen to me and keeps going. Then expert word is I have a trick system for moving boxes hence I can do a million and not get tired. They finally learned how stuff get moved. Little by little. Break the motion up to as many pieces as possible and heck is safe and non-stop. I don't know but if history is a lesson, don't copy my stuff. If you don't get killed or maimed for life, I will be hearing forever how was my fault and what I said. Ignore Uncle Cush. He went to California college. Aha. You cannot do what he does says Sacramento. Don't you wish you were educated in California too! Anyway that is the praise I get from the fine folks far away in high rises who get overpaid by US Treasury to whine I have a trick system? F… all of them. I learned a lot about wine today by keeping close to them boxes. They don't have a poetic presence but are coming to life slowly as I remember their stories. I have to learn a little French again. I want to learn functional French. They made me study grammar and all kinds of French stuff. I like it American style. Learn enough to fake it. I am glad I shall return. I don't know where. For now to my normal life. And something good did happen. Vegas says I can go work there now. They say if I can handle sixty million bottles of wine and climb three stories high holding them like I do I am good enough for Vegas. Yesterday, I got word a friend who is a General commented that I handle boxes of wine like they are boxes of Ammo and can explode. That is not far from the truth. Wine has a story. That is a decent or above. If you can understand it, you can handle it. The trains have these ads that say 40% of all food in America gets tossed and people hunger. That is how wine gets treated. Ever been to a big event tasting? The quantities of wine wasted by the reps as they pour to impress you! A few drunks appreciate it but the rest toss them. 40% of food in America gets tossed! That is still food. Boxes of wine are like boxes of ammo if we knew what the story of the wine inside was. It is not just taste. French are right getting mad that memorizing names of wines won't do and I have to understand French culture and people. There is a lot of that culture and people inside them better bottles. Trick system my ass! Losers work foe government except for our governor who bas been nice because they couldn't do anything right and think the other guy bas a trick system hence can do. One day I tell you the tale of Chateau Obama reds. The joke is Obama owns the winery and I am the wine maker and believe or not I can mix so joke says people pay a lot to get a bottle of Chateau Obama so they drink when mad. They hate both of us! Corny joke. Nobody knows Uncle Cush outside his circles. Try again. 3 Jan 2013 5:51 pm Montgomery Station, California
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More on Wine Tastings!
am getting me knowledge back and not even drunk yet. Ran into a list of some 2000+ good quality wines we sell and viola here is challenge how much can I remember by reading through it once? I am rusty but gets your brain started! Wine advice said I am back in my sommelier mind after a few days only. I was wondering is it because I am pissed off that I complained about Fried Chicken fast food not doing proper wine tastings! A few criticized me but the smart ones loved it. Yes, I am right and they agreed. It is SO hard to taste regularly for most as was to get an order of Fried Chicken out of these people within all these limits and barriers. That is an industry problem and only some have the "privilige" of easy regular tasting. Plenty of garbage for tasting always however but routine evaluative tastings! Ha Ha. Not in a country proud to make a fake version of everything and ban the real version so can sell fake with higher profits. Fake tastings everywhere and if real tastings abundant the fakes die. That is un-American. Selling genuine and tossing fakes! Oh my God!
French gave me wine advice because of my tasting problem. They warned if I say one word they clam up and won't talk to me so they got away. They claim visiting wine at the source is the only way. That is the vineyard etc and taste there and see and talk. They say a lot but basically that French make great wine because they go to each others vineyards and taste and talk and so on. They say bottle business is British invention and British never cared about wine. They traveled the world and stole or bought to sell. French say British had lots of bottles to show and taste so can sell what bought. They didn't care about wine. They just were into selling them and that is what this bottle tasting system is and for people who want to buy and sell and don't give a shit about wine or quality. French say my problem does not exist. I have a problem because bottle tasting system was not designed to appreciate wine or quality. It aims to sales. I have to do the minimum which is see the wine where wine is made and get all the info there is. And more not said here. I like that. Bottle tasting has advantages but is bullshit too. Once past a number there is a bunch of drunks socializing and tasting as business is over. Tastings have their own culture and we don't cover here but I am working on my problems differently now thanks to French (bastards some may say but not me. I am nice now). I listened and did not say nothing as they demanded. Others are rude in parenthesis this time. Such is life. Blame the British and I agree. No problem. They are rude. 3 Jan 2014 7:10 am Hayward, California
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January 2nd 2014
Thursday. I am tired. I am sleepy. My body has been adjusting to changes and is running well. I cannot complain except that I am confused. Who cares.
And I had my first wine tasting today. Lunch time was late lunch. I walked to the local store where fried chicken is popular. They serve with Sprite. It was good and yes no wine! It was a wine tasting however. Tastings are exactly the same. One needs a break and has a destination that needs calculating the time to get there. If and when one arrives the chances that things go wrong at the tastings are always good. The same here. My chicken wrap order took longer than expect. The Cajun rice was good but so small and I wonder what chemicals are added by US government to make us do what. This dude who was a Marine told me how government put stuff in their food so they feel neutered hence when off ship they would behave. He said the best looking girl would walk by on shore leave and they would look but felt neutered. It is more widespread now. Burritos are Mexican and the racist Fed are said not to like whomever eats food those foreigners like and adds chemicals that mess with eaters! I have been told this and my sources are dead so cannot prove true or false. Fried chicken is same. Supporters of Zero eat fried chicken in quantities and we need to watch for them racist government people. It can happen if not already. My order took too long as in the tastings when things go wrong. I was thinking if that was the tasting and I wa able to get and leave and taste in thirty minutes how many wines would I taste? And how would I get past the reps and to the wines I was curios about in that little time? As obvious my first tasting did not go well. It sucked. Chicken was good and I cannot complain about Sprite but service took too long and that rice definitely has government added chemicals. I am getting back into the swing of things however. I was expecting my clusters of wine knowledge and memories to travel from back of my head to the front (I can be very scientific) and they did. I abandoned the wine book I was reading! F that. I am not same crap for 10000th time. My wine mindset and memories are definitely back. Then again I will be doing more action stuff now. I feel like I am writing encyclopedia Wikipedia pages on wine (and while on topic how come I don't have my own page on Wikipedia yet? Third rate collections….) by documenting my events. Today was not much. 2 Jan 2013 5:38 pm McArthur, California
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January 1st 2014
I am going to concentrate on a backward approach. Wine Advice (that means the person who advised me and talks to others who discuss blah blah) says I write plenty to get back in. They do have a valid point. I learned about wine through specific wine bottles then ended up in studies which are hard and general in nature. The next step is same again and I need to make friends with many wine bottles to cover the whole spectrum. That is a difficult approach but necessary and what is meant by wine writing first. Wine experts are now identified differently. As one progresses through this field one comes across many. They all speak the same language and more or less same things but careful systems make us deal with them properly. It is like living in a community. We come across many people and all of them pass as "people" but we know by cultural learning who is who and what is what. We avoid. We approach and so on. Culture teaches us how to choose. Wine people are similar. Everyone talks of wine and has their angle on wine. Most need to be banned from discussing wine. Culture teaches us that. Dealing with them leads to losses. Many sell wine. Many write on wine. Most drink or serve wine. They need care in handling. Their angles on wine and industry are very incomplete if not destructive. Avoiding them is the rule. A few and a very few of those few know what they talk about. They naturally avoid you and all the rest. That is not a bad thing. The time has come once again to go through the field and one comes across so many "people" who are known collectively as "wine people" and most have this introductory line of "I have been in wine business for X number of years and…." and "I have been in restaurant business for X number of years and …." These are the people to avoid the most. They think they are authorities. They have the worst and most biased and possibly most erroneous ideas of the field and don't you dare have an alternate view as they told X number of years right in their opinions. We need avoid them. And personally, I have to deal with another group in my quest. The so-called knowledge people who have some education or a lot, have some name or drag a celebrity of the field as being part in their work and are equally a problem. The higher folks have a good name for them. They are called "professional wine drinkers." These folks have had enough background to be in the field at a higher than casual or tenure point and cannot be pushed off their step but their primary knowledge and ability lies in "drinking" a lot of wines and throwing labels, names, vintages, tastes and stories out at audience as their "knowledge" you cannot argue with unless you also drink their same and then can battle them. It sounds like there are not many left in the field. I guess that is why most "wine people" fit the nickname "doushbags" so aptly. We don't have an industry in spite of what we are told. I have told people and I have been told by higher folks what the hell I am talking about. Experience will prove they are right. Food, wine, liquor, hospitality and the rest at least on the West Coast are just businesses. They market themselves and persons as many things but all in all are just that. They don't have a deeper foundation of common principles and organization making them an industry. That means some level of regulation which fights easy dollars and let's face it at least the restaurant part of this great "industry" (don't forget great! That is a needed adjective in wine and food writing or upset some) many illegal activities are housed inside "restaurant biz" fronts and the existence of an industry structure would create serious conflicts with their "business" activities hence we promote "industry" but lack one. That is still the state of a lot of things on the West Coast. Who cares? We do so we avoid them. We need to look for and spend time with "good" parts of the food, wine, liquor and hospitality industry. That does not mean promoting them blindly but there are many "good" and "notable" things out there. The bads outnumber the "goods" by too many hence waste of time unless we are criminologists. The future needs more of "good" of this whatever we call "the industry." Let's stick to that in our path of visits, exploration and findings. 1 Jan 2013 12:05 pm San Leandro, California


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I vanished for a while; surely I've been up to something interesting.
...hmm, surely I can think of something... Let me just fish around in my memory a bit.....
What day is it?
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In all seriousness, though, what have I been doing? And why did I disappear yet again?
Well, in short, I ran out of things to talk about.
Actually, I ran out of things to talk about, then when I did have something to talk about I ran out of time. An observant reader might point to NaNoWriMo as the source of my busyness. However, my novel remains gloriously unwritten in lieu of a screenplay and college essays. Speaking of these essays, I'm quite pleased with how one turned out and shall probably post it shortly. (Hint: it involves my sojourn in Kansas.)
As I have several deadlines ominously wielding machetes in the distance, I must cut this short. Good luck to my fellow senior citizens. I mean, we're seniors in high school, at least, though I suppose our lack of a career negates any retirement money we could try to claim, barring time travel, of course. Or something like that.

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Digital divide
49. In our July 1999 Report we devoted some space
to discussion of the issue of the 'information divide'. We suggested
that there was a danger that "those people without jobs which
involve regular use of computers, without means of buying the
equipment needed to get onto the internet at home, or who are
currently unable or unwilling to use computers may miss out on
the benefits which it has been predicted electronic commerce might
provide". We agreed with the Government's objective to prevent
the formation of a class of 'information poor', and discussed
a number of policy issues in relation to the threat of an 'information
divide' developing within society. We raised issues such as the
skills required and the cost of access, and called for a national
debate on how the universal service concept could be applied to
electronic commerce.[50]
50. The Government response of October 1999 stated
that the Government was "committed to creating a truly inclusive
information society" and noted that addressing "e-exclusion"
had been identified as one of the roles of the e-Envoy. The response
listed some initiatives taken, including the IT for All centres,
the proposed IT Learning Centres, the recycling of computers to
"200,000 deprived families", and tax incentives to encourage
companies to provide employees with computers at home.[51]
51. In oral evidence in December 2000, Patricia Hewitt
admitted that "there is a very real digital divide "[52].
Policies designed to increase the take-up of Internet and other
digital services may indeed have the effect of increasing
the digital divide, unless active steps are taken to ensure that
those excluded for whatever reason are enabled or encouraged to
get connected.
52. The Government is justly proud of the global
figures showing availability of Internet access in homes. In the
Annual Report of September 2000 it quoted figures from the Office
of National Statistics to show that in March 1999 the number of
connected households was 13% and one year later 25%. This growth
has continued; the ONS report of 19 December 2000 showed that
by September 2000 this figure had risen to 32 %, some 7.8 million
53. Disturbing trends are, however, revealed in the
ONS Reports. Looking by social class at the number of adults who
have accessed the Internet, the ONS shows that 71% of professionals
have done so, 46% skilled non manual, 33% skilled manual but only
26% unskilled. 72% of adults accessed the Internet in their own
home, 38% at work, 34% at some-one else's home and 24% at an educational
institution. In looking at the differences between income groups
the ONS divided the population into ten income bands; from the
fifth group onwards the levels of access increased rapidly with
income, up to 62% for households with the highest level of incomes;
for the lower levels, the proportion with access was in all cases
less than 10 per cent.
54. The digital divide is of course one facet of
a far wider problem of social exclusion. There are many millions
of people who have, through poverty, no hope of regular access
to the Internet, some of whom may lack the basic literacy skills
even if they do. Those who have the means to do so may fear that
the basic costs, of up to £1 a day, will rise with excessive
use, particularly by younger family members, and if forced to
choose between the internet and pay TV will opt for the entertainment
of the latter. The record of companies claiming to be able to
provide ultra-low cost access has inspired understandable cynicism.
There are said to be upwards of 4 million people without bank
accounts, and a greater number without credit cards, who are effectively
ruled out of the e-commerce net. The universal banking proposals
now well advanced will not go as far as provision of credit cards.
1 in 12 households do not even have telephone lines.
55. This is the context in which we have to judge
the Government's initiatives, apparently designed to address the
availability of the hardware for poorer households, access
to infrastructure where there is no commercial case for it,
spreading (not only among the young) the knowledge and confidence
necessary to make use of electronic communications, and seeking
to ensure that there is content of some relevance to such
users. Some programmes seem to be designed to make a real difference.
Others are evidently a drop in the ocean; they are either pilots
which seek to prove that further expenditure is justified, or
futile gestures.
56. In the March 1999 Budget, the Chancellor announced
the Computers Within Reach Initiative, allocating £15
million to provide low cost recycled PCs for 100,000 low-income
families. Following eighteen months of discussions with computer
hardware and software suppliers, contracts were signed with seven
suppliers in October 2000. The Minister attributed the delay between
the announcement and final establishment of the scheme to difficulties
in finding partners in the private and voluntary sectors willing
and able to run the project. [53]
On 25 October 2000 Michael Wills, the Minister for Learning and
Technology, launched the scheme in several pilot areas. The Government
aims to allocate 35,000 computers to the pilot areas by 31 March
2001, with an evaluation of the scheme by the end of 2001. Each
recipient has to pay £60 for a computer. Ms Hewitt told us
that the £60 charge for a computer under the scheme will
be one of the issues evaluated by the department.[54]
Two years after the announcement that 100,000 low income families
would be receiving and paying for recycled computers, it seems
that only a third of that number have received them, within the
last few months.
57. The Wired up Communities initiative is
investing £10 million from the Capital Modernisation Fund
to pilot the idea of connecting homes in disadvantaged communities
to the internet. On 11 October 2000, the first pilot to the Wired
Up Communities Pilot Scheme was announced. The £500,000 project
intends to wire up 2,000 homes in Kensington, in Liverpool. The
residents receive recycled computers under the Computers Within
Reach scheme, without having to pay the £60 charge. On 16
March 2001, the Minister for Learning and Technology, announced
the second phase of six further local pilots in four urban areas
in east London, east Manchester, Blackburn, and south Yorkshire
and two rural areas Framlingham, Suffolk and Alston,
Cumbria. Phase 2 of the scheme is to be operational by June/July
2001. If the Wired Up Communities programme is to prove of
any value it can only be if the level of expenditure and effort
needed to produce worthwhile results stands any chance of being
replicated on a national scale.
58. On 11 September 2000 the Prime Minister announced
the Government's commitment to the establishment of 600 UK
online centres to be funded by the Capital Modernisation Fund
and to provide community-based internet access and training in
ICT skills. The September 2000 report provided a deadline for
the establishment of these 600 centres of March 2001, and the
target of the end of 2002 for the establishment of over 6000 UK
online centres, including facilitating internet access for all
public libraries. The Minister explained how the Government was
trying to make internet access not only available, but also accessible
to disadvantaged communities. She cited the example of a scheme
in the West Midlands where a UK online centre has been set up
inside a caravan which accompanies a travelling fair.[55]
A list of the proposed centres was placed in the Library following
a parliamentary question from Bob Laxton MP.[56]
This shows a great diversity of provision. Some of the Centres
are evidently genuinely new. Others seem to be public libraries,
which are being wired up under at least one DCMS programme, the
People's Network, whereby 60% of libraries are to have internet
access by May 2001. Some of the "centres" sound more
virtual than real. Further phases of the introduction of these
centres are due through the first half of this year.
59. The PIU report 'Counter Revolution modernising
the Post Office Network" of June 2000 put forward the proposal
that the Post Office network should develop initiatives to help
people access and use the Internet, through Internet Learning
Access Points. We referred to this in our November 2000 Report
on the Post Office.[57]
On 30 November 2000 a contract for pilot trials in 280 Post Offices
in Leicestershire was signed with the Post Office.
60. The Government's commitment to encourage employers
to provide PCs and Internet access for home use was helped
by the tax breaks for employees provided with home computers by
their employers. There is a parallel commitment to encourage low-cost
PC leasing schemes for public sector employees, possibly reflecting
the take-up by teachers of similar schemes to provide teachers
with PCs for use at home. Information on existing leasing schemes
for public sector employees has been collated and a summary of
best practice and of existing leasing schemes was to have been
circulated in mid-March. There is to be an evaluation made in
the summer of 2001. The DTI do not apparently offer this scheme
to their employees, but Ms Hewitt informed us that they were currently
developing a purchase scheme for employees which will provide
them with 'very favourable terms', and that other Departments
have shown an interest in developing similar schemes.[58]
61. The development of local content is one
of the specific commitments under the September 2000 document,
following the finding of a recent survey that half of the respondents
who were "unconnected" said that the internet was not
relevant to their lives. "The PAT 15 report also cited the
lack of perceived relevance of commercial online content as a
major stumbling block to the success of community ICT learning
centres". "Strong plans" for developing local content
were supposed to be emphasised when assessing bids to run UK online
centres. The Minister was not able to give very much indication
of what such content involved.[59]
The regular progress reports refer to a "community content
development programme".
62. These initiatives and centres and development
programmes do not amount to a strategy to overcome the digital
divide between old and young, rich and poor, urban and rural.
In the context of the scale of the digital divide, they look like
woefully inadequate gestures. Millions of people are excluded,
not the thousands reached so far by these initiatives. We hope
that the e-Envoy will be given time to look up from the world
of e-Whitehall and take a holistic view of the divide. His first
priority must be to bridge that gap with a rounded strategy, based
on the experience gained of the rather disparate initiatives of
the past few years. We look forward to its presentation in the
next Annual Report.
Education and skills
63. There are a number of targets and initiatives
intended to ensure that children and young people obtain the IT
skills necessary to be able to benefit from the new electronic
world, both for business and pleasure
64. There are also a number of initiatives directed
at making more and better educational, cultural and training material
available over the Internet, and at advising parents how best
to support their children's education through the Internet.
65. The speed of change in information technology
is a cause of concern for schools and further and higher education
centres investing in ICT equipment and programmes. In response
to this, the Minister explained that as schools connect to the
National Grid for Learning at higher band-widths, they will be
able to receive software from the network, instead of loading
it into the computers themselves. This will allow schools to buy
newer software without having to update all of their computers.[63]
£37 million was allocated during the current financial year
to eight Regional Broadband Consortia covering 86 LEAs, and £42
million is to be allocated in the next financial year to cover
all LEAs. The intention is that 20% of schools will have broadband
access by 2002. The modest announcement in February 2001 on expenditure
on broadband generally (see para 21 above) should assist education
as well.
66. There is an impressive array of educational
initiatives and efforts designed to get on top of the ICT training
agenda. There remains a massive task. Some of the initiatives
would repay closer study than we have given them, perhaps by other
departmental select committees; being able to teach Japanese by
ICT, for example, may be useful, but cannot be at the centre of
the nation's educational requirements. We suspect that it is proving
harder to reach older people. It would be useful to have some
idea of measurable output in the next Annual Report, and to have
a European perspective on the UK level of achievement, at all
stages of lifelong learning.
67. We devoted considerable attention to the issue
of consumer protection in our July 1999 Report. While transactions
making use of a computer are in some respects no different from
mail-order or telephone transactions, we noted a greater perceived
risk of fraud, an absence of a physical site to which to bring
complaints or seek help, and an increased likelihood of cross-border
transactions. We recommended that the pending EU legislation should
involve no reduction in the level of protection currently offered
to UK consumers, and warned that electronic commerce might be
deterred by " uncertainties as to what protection exists
for consumers when things go wrong."[64]
We have also had the opportunity to raise the issue with the European
Commissioner responsible in February 2000, and again this year
with his officials.
68. There has been much activity on these matters
since we reported. Issues of the place of jurisdiction for public
and private law issues have either been resolved to the UK's satisfaction
or should be shortly, including the extension outside the EU of
the country of origin principle. Alternative Dispute Resolution
(ADR) mechanisms are starting up. The TrustUK regulatory scheme
which validates codes of practice requires e-commerce codes of
practice to provide access to an ADR scheme.[65]
Trust UK was reported in the progress report to have approved
3 codes to date, and to be considering further applications, including
the German Trusted Shops Code. The aim is to have six codes approved
by March 2001. The European Extra Judicial Network (EEJ-Net) intended
to help consumers access ADR schemes in other member states was
launched in May 2000. The UK has now reached an agreement in principle
with NACAB that it will form its national clearing-house. We understand
that one or two EU states have now named their clearing houses.
The target is to have the full scheme running by June 2001.[66]
69. Consumer confidence in e-commerce and awareness
of consumer rights remains low. This was shown for example
in an August 2000 report from the National Consumers Council.
The recent BRTF report called for the DTI to provide consumers
with clear and accurate information on their rights as consumers
in electronic commerce. We note from the March 2001 progress report
that a DTI strategy paper was circulated in November 2000 and
that there was a Whitehall meeting on 7 March 2001. We would
welcome the deployment of the resources of DTI's consumer division,
led by the responsible Minister, to publicise the efforts being
made to make the electronic marketplace at least as safe a place
to buy as the real marketplace, and to consider what more needs
to be done.
Advice to business
70. The Minister stated in oral evidence that she
believes that the Government has a 'very important role' in drawing
small businesses into electronic commerce and electronic communications.[67]
There are some useful and some less useful things that Government
can do to help businesses and in particular small businesses with
71. We know of no basis for believing that SMEs in
particular have expressed a desire for the sort of services offered.
There is no shortage of consultants able and willing to sell their
services, especially if the Government helps their customers with
the expenses. Some consultants may have the track record in business
success with IT to justify the fees they charge. There are magazines
full of advice on effective use of IT. Conferences abound. There
is in our view a role here for the Chief Executive of the Small
Business Service to examine these support programmes anew and
satisfy himself and those who advise him on the Small Business
Council that this is the best use of the use of the business support
funds available.
Economic impact
72. We noted in our July 1999 Report that there had
been speculation that the growth of electronic commerce would
be detrimental to some sectors of the economy, such as commercial
intermediaries who might be by-passed. We recommended research
into the implications for UK employment of the growth of electronic
commerce.[72] The September
1999 PIU Report called for evaluation of the net impact of electronic
commerce on macro-economic performance.[73]
The September 2000 Annual Report refers to work on a joint paper
on the net economic impact of e-commerce, which has become commitment
25.1. The progress reports record that a paper on the new economy
was to be produced by the end of December 2000, and the first
Government economic impact study to be undertaken in 2002 or earlier
if data becomes available. The paper has now apparently been delayed
to Autumn 2001. The delay is not in itself a major problem, unless
it indicates any lack of urgency in mapping the effects on the
economy of electronic commerce. In the absence of an authoritative
study, undertaken by those without a vested interest in boosting
electronic commerce, strategies designed to increase the volume
of electronic commerce run the risk of being counter-productive.
We look forward to the early production of an evaluation of the
net economic effect of e-commerce.
835, page viii Back
62 Back
Q 72 Back
Q 73 Back
Q 64 Back
HC Deb, 16 November 2000, col 756w Back
HC 724 of session 1999-2000 Back
Qq 69-71 Back
Qq 66-7 and Ev, p 24 Back
HC Deb, 16 November 2000, col 755w Back
Department of Culture, Media and Sport Press Release, 28 September
2000 Back
Q 83 Back
Q 79 Back
HC 648, paras 115-124 Back
See HC Deb 8 December 2000 cols 322-28. Back
Q 56 Back
Q 95 Back
UK Online Back
Q 96 Back
Q 98 Back
Cm 5052, 4.62-70 Back
HC 648, para 76 Back
HC 835, page viii Back


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The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust,
commercial-grade, full-featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing
the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security
(TLS v1) protocols with full-strength cryptography world-wide. The
project is managed by a worldwide community of volunteers that use
the Internet to communicate, plan, and develop the OpenSSL tookit
and its related documentation.
OpenSSL is based on the excellent SSLeay library developed by Eric
A. Young and Tim J. Hudson. The OpenSSL toolkit is licensed under
an Apache-style licence, which basically means that you are free
to get and use it for commercial and non-commercial purposes subject
to some simple license conditions.
WWW: http://www.openssl.org/
WWW: http://sctp.fh-muenster.de/dtls-patches.html
make generate-plist
To install the port: cd /usr/ports/security/openssl/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install openssl
cd /usr/ports/security/openssl/ && make install clean
pkg install openssl
PKGNAME: openssl
SHA256 (openssl-1.0.2/openssl-1.0.2o.tar.gz) = ec3f5c9714ba0fd45cb4e087301eb1336c317e0d20b575a125050470e8089e4d
SIZE (openssl-1.0.2/openssl-1.0.2o.tar.gz) = 5329472
SHA256 (openssl-1.0.2/1001-crypto-hmac-support-EVP_MD_CTX_FLAG_ONESHOT-and-set-.patch) = 2eddcb7ab342285cb637ce6b6be143cca835f449f35dd9bb8c7b9167ba2117a7
SIZE (openssl-1.0.2/1001-crypto-hmac-support-EVP_MD_CTX_FLAG_ONESHOT-and-set-.patch) = 3717
SHA256 (openssl-1.0.2/1002-backport-changes-from-upstream-padlock-module.patch) = aee88a24622ce9d71e38deeb874e58435dcf8ff5690f56194f0e4a00fb09b260
SIZE (openssl-1.0.2/1002-backport-changes-from-upstream-padlock-module.patch) = 5770
SHA256 (openssl-1.0.2/1003-engines-e_padlock-implement-sha1-sha224-sha256-accel.patch) = c10b8aaf56a4f4f79ca195fc587e0bb533f643e777d7a3e6fb0350399a6060ea
SIZE (openssl-1.0.2/1003-engines-e_padlock-implement-sha1-sha224-sha256-accel.patch) = 20935
SHA256 (openssl-1.0.2/1004-crypto-engine-autoload-padlock-dynamic-engine.patch) = 97eb4411d0fc0890e94bc7c2d682f68b71135da782af769ca73914b37da2b1fd
SIZE (openssl-1.0.2/1004-crypto-engine-autoload-padlock-dynamic-engine.patch) = 832
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
This port is required by:
===> The following configuration options are available for openssl-1.0.2o_4,1:
DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation
EC=on: Optimize NIST elliptic curves
MAN3=on: Install API manpages (section 3)
PADLOCK=off: VIA Padlock support
RFC3779=off: RFC3779 support (BGP)
SHARED=on: Build shared libs
THREADS=on: Threading support
ZLIB=off: zlib compression support
====> Cipher Suite support
RC5=off: RC5 cipher (patented)
====> Hash Function Support
MD2=on: MD2 hash (obsolete)
====> Optimizations
ASM=on: Optimized Assembler code
SSE2=on: Runtime SSE2 detection
====> Protocol Support
SCTP=on: SCTP protocol support
SSL2=on: SSLv2 protocol support
SSL3=on: SSLv3 protocol support
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
compiler cpe perl5
Affects: users of security/openssl
Author: email@example.com
The EXPCIPHERS option has been removed from the security/openssl port.
Use the security/openssl-unsafe port if you require this feature.
Affects: users of security/openssl and security/openssl-devel
The shared library versions of OpenSSL have been bumped to avoid
issues with ports' and base's OpenSSL not being binary compatible.
Please rebuild all ports that depend on OpenSSL if you use OpenSSL
from ports.
If you use portmaster:
portmaster -r openssl
If you use portupgrade:
portupgrade -fr security/openssl
Affects: users of security/openssl*, security/libressl*
Author: email@example.com
Previously, to tell the ports tree, you needed to set:
And if you wanted a port that was not security/openssl, you needed to add,
for example:
OPENSSL_PORT= security/libressl
Now, all you need to do is:
DEFAULT_VERSIONS+= ssl=libressl
Valid values are base, openssl, openssl-devel, libressl, and libressl-devel.
Author: firstname.lastname@example.com
The OpenSSL port has been updated to 1.0.1a. Please rebuild all
ports that depend on it.
If you use portmaster:
portmaster -r openssl
Or, if you would prefer a more gradual approach:
portmaster -w openssl (check the man page for more information)
If you use portupgrade:
portupgrade -fr security/openssl
Number of commits found: 309 (showing only 100 on this page)
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 »
- Switch to new test framework
Approved by: portmgr blanket
security/openssl: Actually add patch file
Security: c82ecac5-6e3f-11e8-8777-b499baebfeaf
security/openssl: Security update
- Upstream update for CVE-2018-0732
Security: c82ecac5-6e3f-11e8-8777-b499baebfeaf
security/openssl: Add CVE-2018-0737 patch
- Bump portrev too
Security: 8f353420-4197-11e8-8777-b499baebfeaf
security/openssl: Security update
Security: 8f353420-4197-11e8-8777-b499baebfeaf
security/openssl: Fix distinfo for patches
Reported by: joneum
securit/openssl: Security update to 1.0.2o
Security: b7cff5a9-31cc-11e8-8f07-b499baebfeaf
security/openssl: Cleanup
- Remove EXPCIPHERS option (use security/openssl-unsafe) [1]
- Move port variables not dependent on bsd.port.pre.mk up
- Deleting man3 .pod files is redundant
- bss_dgram.c modification is a no-op
- Let openssl's Makefile install libs
- Simplify stripping
security/openssl: Update to 1.0.2m
- Remove patch now included upstream
- Include post-release patch for clang build error
Security: 3bb451fc-db64-11e7-ac58-b499baebfeaf
security/openssl: Unbreak build with No-SSLv3
- Importing patch from upstream
Submitted by: tijl
Reported by: Laurence Parry <firstname.lastname@example.com>
security/openssl: Security update to 1.0.2m
- Adds additional manpages too
Security: f40f07aa-c00f-11e7-ac58-b499baebfeaf
security/openssl: Fix build on MIPS
- gcc 4.2.1 on MIPS fails on -Werror
Submitted by: Fukang Chen <firstname.lastname@example.com>
security/openssl: Fix MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR
- DISTVERSIONFULL is not expanded before assignment
Submitted by: Fukang Chen <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Begin deorbit burn of ia64. We have not attempted to build packages for
it for many years.
While here, alphabetize ARCHs, pet portlint, and modernize usages.
Approved by: portmgr (tier-2 blanket)
security/openssl: Fix xmpp STARTTLS
- Add (refactored) patch from master branch
Submitted by: Alexey <email@example.com>
security/openssl: Fix distinfo after DIST_SUBDIR update
- Chase DIST_SUBDIR update in distinfo
Reported by: Cybil Courraud
security/openssl: Update to 1.0.2l
- Bugfix update to 1.0.2l
- Fix PADLOCK option
- Build failure -Wunused-function
- Properly disable with configure
- Strip patch-version from DIST_SUBDIR, reduce dirs
- Remove unneeded testssl patch, dtls tests are OK
- Add new WITHOUT_SSL3 testssl extra-patch
- Remove md5 patch (inconsistent output)
- Remove openbsd_hw.c patch (not compiled)
- Remove srtp patch (upstream fixed)
- Fix plist
security/openssl: Enable ASM by default
- Enable ASM option
* By extension this enables AES-NI [1]
- Order OPTIONS_DEFAULT alphabetically
- Switch to using @sample [2]
- Bump PORTREVISION
Reported by: dtestke [1]
Submitted by: Franco Fichtner <email@example.com> [2]
Approved by: asomers, allanjude
security/openssl: Update to 1.0.2k
Security: CVE-2016-7055
Security: CVE-2017-3731
Security: CVE-2017-3732
security/openssl: Bump PORTREVISION
- Make sure ports get rebuilt
Reported by: mat
security/openssl: Bump shared library version
- Bump shlib version for security/openssl
- Bump shlib version for security/openssl-devel
- Add instructions to UPDATING
Reported by: Matthew D. Fuller <email@example.com>
${RM} already has -f.
Submitted by: mat
Exp-run by: antoine
Sponsored by: Absolight
security/openssl: Fix ldconfig issue
- OPT_USE= feature does not behave as expected
Reported by: dinoex
Differential Revision: D8166
security/openssl: Mark MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE
- Revert removal of MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE in r423112
Reported by: D. Randolph
security/openssl: Modernize port
- Group options
- Migrate to <OPT>_CONFIGURE helpers
- Use CONFIGURE_ARGS not EXTRACONFIGURE
- Remove make-jobs unsafe (introduced 2009 / 0.9.8)
- Remove base SHLIBVER_BASE check (introduced 2006)
- Revert to default CPE_VERSION
- Rework MAN3 option
- Fix plist when SHARED disabled
Reviewed by: mat
Differential Revision: D8025
security/openssl: Update to 1.0.2j
- Update to 1.0.2j
- Fixes Missing CRL sanity check (CVE-2016-7052)
Security: 337d8-83ed-11e6-bf52-b499baebfeaf
- add missing man pages to pkg-plist (fix package building)
from poudriere log:
===> Parsing plist
===> Checking for items in STAGEDIR missing from pkg-plist
Error: Orphaned: man/man3/d2i_AutoPrivateKey.3.gz
Error: Orphaned: man/man3/d2i_PrivateKey.3.gz
Error: Orphaned: man/man3/d2i_Private_key.3.gz
Error: Orphaned: man/man3/i2d_PrivateKey.3.gz
===> Error: Plist issues found.
*** Error code 1
====>> Error: check-plist failures detected
!!! build failure encountered !!!
Approved by: blanket
security/openssl: Take maintainership
devel/openssl: change CONFLICTS to CONFLICTS_INSTALL
THere's no problem building openssl with other ports SSL libraries
installed, the conflict comes when it's time to install it.
- add option ASM for OPNsense
- drop MAINTAINERSHIP caused of version naming change
security/openssl: Update to 1.0.2i
- Update to 1.0.2i
- Move from PORTREVISION to PORTVERSION updates
- Remove patches that are included upstream
Reviewed by: mat, delphij
Sponsored by: EuroBSDcon 2016 DevSummit
Differential Revision: D8006
ftp.openssl.org is being taken out.
Sponsored by: Absolight
- unroll for loop
Submitted by: John Marino
- remove options ASM and GMP
Revert the OpenSSL 1.1.0 update, it was not tested.
With hat: portmgr
Sponsored by: Absolight
- update to 1.1.0
- bump SHLIBVERSION
- cleanup options
Cleanup $() variables in ports Makefiles.
Mostly replace with ${}, but sometime, replace with $$() because it is
what was intended in the first place. (I think.)
Sponsored by: Absolight
- fix possible integer overflow and application crash
Security: CVE-2016-2177
- update warning message for new macros
Add DEFAULT_VERSIONS=ssl=XXX
Move the openssl detection routine to bsd.default-version.mk.
Add warnings telling people to not use WITH_OPENSSL_PORT or
To ease maintainability, change the way the different ssl libraries
version numbers are checked.
Submitted by: mat
Exp-run by: antoine
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation, Absolight
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6577
- Fix DSA, preserve BN_FLG_CONSTTIME
Security: CVE-2016-2178
- Security update to 1.0.2h
Security: https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20160503.txt
Security: CVE-2016-2105
Security: CVE-2016-2106
Security: CVE-2016-2107
Security: CVE-2016-2108
Security: CVE-2016-2109
Security: CVE-2016-2176
- add some more manpages
Submitted by: email@example.com
- remove NOPRECIOUS*
- make portlint happier
Remove ${PORTSDIR}/ from dependencies, categories r, s, t, and u.
With hat: portmgr
Sponsored by: Absolight
security/libressl*: Register conflict with security/openssl-devel
- Add conflict for security/openssl-devel
- Sort conflicts alphabetically
Reviewed by: feld (mentor), koobs (mentor)
Approved by: feld (mentor)
Differential Revision: D5539
- extend CONFLICTS for openssl-devel
security/openssl: Revert disabling of SSLv2 and MD2
Disabling SSLv2 without a shared library bump has a visible impact to
some applications. It is unclear at this time if disabling MD2 could
cause the same issues, but both are being reverted at the moment to be
security/openssl: Disable SSLv2 and MD2
SSLv2 is being disabled due to DROWN.
MD2 is being disabled as it should not have been enabled by default.
This was disabled by upstream back in 2009.
Approved by: delphij, eadler
Security: CVE-2009-2409
Security: CVE-2016-0800
- Security update to 1.0.2g
Security: https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20160301.txt
Security: CVE-2016-0800
Security: CVE-2016-0705
Security: CVE-2016-0798
Security: CVE-2016-0797
Security: CVE-2016-0799
Security: CVE-2016-0702
Security: CVE-2016-0703
Security: CVE-2016-0704
- mark options ASM broken on sparc64
- add new manpages
Submitted by: olli hauer
- Security update:
- add LICENSE_FILE
Security: CVE-2015-3197
Security: CVE-2016-0701
security/openssl: Fix No-SSLv3 option
- This change adds `no-ssl3-method` to config args
- Bump portrevision
Testing with security/openssl buillt with SSL3 option disabled [1]
revealed that the openssl binary and the libraries still support SSLv3
connections and methods. With the added no-ssl3-method argument passed
to the config script, the binary no longer supports the -ssl3 option
and ports requiring SSLv3 methods fail on undefined references to
Reviewed by: koobs (mentor), feld (mentor, ports-secteam), dinoex (maintainer)
Approved by: koobs (mentor), feld (mentor, ports-secteam
Differential Revision: D4924
Update to 1.0.2e.
Security: CVE-2015-3193
Security: CVE-2015-3194
Security: CVE-2015-3195
Security: CVE-2015-3196
Security: CVE-2015-1794
Approved by: so
- use post-install-DOCS-on
- cleanup text in IGNORE
- new OPTION MAN3
- add more manpage links
- Security update to 1.0.2d
Security: http://openssl.org/news/secadv_20150709.txt
- update to 1.0.2c
- use portable cpu option for sparcv8
- fix path in SIZE lines
- Correct patch filename for SIZE
- Restore missing checksum for
- Correct ordering
- Resolve build issue
With hat: ports-secteam
- Update to 1.0.2b
- Partially pacify portlint
With hat: ports-secteam
Security: 8305e215-1080-11e5-8ba2-000c2980a9f3
MASTER_SITES cleanup.
- Replace ${MASTER_SITE_FOO} with FOO.
- Merge MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR into MASTER_SITES when possible. (This means 99.9%
of the time.)
- Remove occurrences of MASTER_SITE_LOCAL when no subdirectory was present and
no hint of what it should be was present.
- Fix some logic.
- And generally, make things more simple and easy to understand.
While there, add magic values to the FESTIVAL, GENTOO, GIMP, GNUPG, QT and
SAMBA macros.
Also, replace some EXTRACT_SUFX occurences with USES=tar:*.
Checked by: make fetch-urlall-list
With hat: portmgr
Sponsored by: Absolight
- patchfiles for option PADLOCK renamed again
- disable option ASM by default
- bump PORTREVISION
security/openssl: Remove patch hunk for configuring pthreads
The patching of Configure file for pthreads is unnecessary -- the effect
of -lpthread -D_REENTRANT is the same as -pthread -D_REENTRANT, so just
remove it to make things even more simpler.
security category: Remove $PTHREAD_LIBS
approved by: PTHREAD blanket
- Security update to 1.0.2a
- termios.h now default
- fix patches
- fix manpage generation
- option ZLIB removed from default
- restore padlock support
- restore RFC-5705
- restore patch history
- restore build on older FreeBSD
- restore soname
Security: https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20150319.txt
Security: CVE-2015-0291
Security: CVE-2015-0204
Security: CVE-2015-0290
Security: CVE-2015-0207
Security: CVE-2015-0286
Security: CVE-2015-0208
Security: CVE-2015-0287
Security: CVE-2015-0289
Security: CVE-2015-0292
Security: CVE-2015-0293
Security: CVE-2015-1787
Security: CVE-2015-0285
Security: CVE-2015-0209
Security: CVE-2015-0288
Fix botched patch, this fixes build for i386.
Reported by: ohauer
Pointy hat to: delphij
- mark BROKEN options
Update to 1.0.1m to fix multiple vulnerabilities.
With hat: so
- update to 1.0.1l
- fix option PADLOCK
Update to 1.01k.
With hat: ports-secteam
Security: vuxml 4e536c14-9791-11e4-977d-d050992ecde8
Security: CVE-2014-3569
Security: CVE-2014-3570
Security: CVE-2014-3571
Security: CVE-2014-3572
Security: CVE-2014-8275
Security: CVE-2015-0204
Security: CVE-2015-0205
Security: CVE-2015-0206
- new option TLSEXPCIPHERS
Submitted by: email@example.com
- options ordered by function
- extends descriptions
Update to 1.01j.
With hat: ports-secteam
Security: vuxml 03175e62-5494-11e4-9cc1-bc5ff4fb5e7b
Security: CVE-2014-3513
Security: CVE-2014-3566
Security: CVE-2014-3567
Security: CVE-2014-3568
- remove workaround for amd64
- new options SSL2 SSL3
Suggested by: Velcro Leaf
Update to 1.01i.
With hat: ports-secteam
Security: vuxml 8aff07eb-1dbd-11e4-b6ba-3c970e169bc2
Security: CVE-2014-3505
Security: CVE-2014-3506
Security: CVE-2014-3507
Security: CVE-2014-3508
Security: CVE-2014-3509
Security: CVE-2014-3510
Security: CVE-2014-3511
Security: CVE-2014-3512
Security: CVE-2014-5139
- rename patch files
Rename security/ patches to reflect the files they modify.
Add DOCS to OPTIONS_DEFINE to ports that check for PORT_OPTIONS:MDOCS.
- add CONFLICTS because of libressl
Include the final letter in the CPE version field.
- allow OPENSSLDIR be changed in /etc/make.conf or Makefile.local
Update to 1.0.1h.
Approved by: so (ports-security@ blanket)
Security: 5ac53801-ec2e-11e3-9cf3-3c970e169bc2
Add CPE information.
With hat: ports-secteam
- Security patch
Security: CVE-2014-0198
Security: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/232
Obtained from: OpenBSD
- fix a 4 year old "use-after-free" problem
Obtained from: OpenBSD
- fix perl path for CURRENT
- Update to 1.0.1g
- Fix for CVE-2014-0160
- Add TLS padding extension workaround for broken servers.
- Fix for CVE-2014-0076
Security: CVE-2014-0160
Security: CVE-2014-0076
Security: https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140407.txt
With hat: portmgr
- add missing LIB_DEPENDS for forbidden option GMP
- reset GREP_OPTIONS
- remove broken MANPREFIX
- error out early if users trying to break their base system
- use STAGEDIR
Submitted by: Takefu
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14 vulnerabilities affecting 116 ports have been reported in the past 14 days
* - modified, not new
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An All-Inclusive Dual-Sport Motorcycle Adventure
(9 days/ 8 nights)
This tour will bring you to many of Ecuador's most popular attractions in just over a week, while still taking the rider far-far off the beaten track and onto many of the country's best motorcycling roads. This tour will have you experiencing shocking cultural, climatic and geological changes each and every day. The ride goes through some of the world's most biodiverse natural areas and riders will have plenty of time to enjoy each visited location along the way. In addition, there are several opportunities to learn about Ecuador's amazing natural places such as an interactive fun tour at the Equator, a hike through the Amazon jungle with a native guide to learn about the wildlife there and the traditional uses of plants and insects, as well as a tour to learn how chocolate is grown and processed. You will also get an appreciation of how native Ecuadorians have lived for centuries, riding through lands where horses and oxen are still used instead of trucks and tractors. All accommodations are first-rate high quality hotels and resorts - some of the best in Ecuador. This tour is an opportunity to experience an "Amazing Ecuador"!
Distance Covered: 62 miles (10 miles unpaved road) / 100 km (15 km unpaved road)
You'll begin this 9-day / 8 night "Amazing Ecuador" dual-sport motorcycle tour from our shop in the magnificent capital city of Quito, Ecuador. In 1978, Quito became the first place on the planet to be designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site for having the best-preserved historic center in all of Latin America. Quito is high on the Antiplano Plateau (the second highest in the world) in the Andes at 9,350 feet. We suggest that you arrive a day or two early to experience our magnificent capital city while getting acclimated to high altitude before beginning the tour.
During the first morning of the tour you'll be outfitted with the motorcycle of your choice and given a thorough orientation. We'll answer all your questions about local customs, rules of the road, riding signals, Ecuadorian driver courtesies, and more. The first day's ride purposefully includes a sampling of the different types of roads that will be ridden. You will have the opportunity to safely become accustomed to asphalt, dry gravel, cobblestone, and dirt farm roads.
Our first stop: the middle of the world. Inti-ñan means "path of the sun" in the Quechua language and the Inti-ñan Museum is situated directly on the Equator. The indigenous peoples have revered this site for thousands of years and you will learn how ancient people came to understand that this was the center of the world centuries before the advent of modern geography or GPS devices. During this first stop located directly on the "red line" you will experiment with gravity, including witnessing how water drainseither clockwise or counter-clockwise depending on which side of the Equator you are standing. You will also have the opportunity to see how the indigenous populations of Ecuador live by visiting models of their homes. This will enable you to better understand the cultures and ways of life that you will experience as we pass through various regions.
Departing the Inti-ñan Museum we are now officially outside of the Quito metropolitan region and have begun riding in the Northern Hemisphere. Our second stop is to view the beautiful Pululahua Crater Geo-Botanical Reserve, a crater formed by a volcanic eruption 2,500 years ago. From there, we head onto the western slopes of the Andes that are full of dense, green forests and steep mountains. The roads have been recently paved and riding these twisties is certain to be exhilarating fun. Changing the pace a little bit, we then take a left turn off the main highway and venture onto an unpaved, unmarked road that leads deep into the cloudforest. Here, at the world-famous Bellavista Cloudforest Bird Lodge,we will take a break and relax on their amazing patio while watching hundreds of hummingbirds flit around us. There is probably no other place on earth where so many species of birds can be viewed.
We'll continue through the lush cloudforest, along clear streams with cascading waterfalls to the funky, eclectic town of Mindo. Mindo is situated in a warm microclimate cloudforest that's known for its natural beauty and great restaurants. We wilvisit the El Quetzal chocolate factory for a tour that entertains while educating about the farming and processing of organic cocoa and how it is turned into chocolate and formed into bars. You will want to sample this chocolate as Ecuador produces some of the best chocolate in the world.
After our visit to the The Quetzal, we check into the carefully selected accommodations for the night at the Hotel Caskafessu. We will enjoy a fantastic gourmet dinner before settling in for the night in this comfortable bed and breakfast inn.
Day 2
Mindo - Nanegal - Nangulvi - Lake Cuicocha - Cotacachi - Peguche Falls - Otavalo
Distance Covered: 127 miles (75 miles unpaved road) / 204 km (120 km unpaved road)
You will start your day in the bird watching capital of Ecuador, enjoying breakfast while hundreds of species of colorful birds surround you in every direction. You will then pack up your bike and head out of the micro-climate of Mindo and climb into the cloudforest of Ecuador's Western Slopes. You'll be awakened riding the twisties while the fragrant rainforest air surrounds you. Passing through the town of Nanegal, we will have a chance for a short hike and swim in a waterfall and small lagoon.
Continuing deeper into the rainforest, we enter one of Ecuador's most beautiful natural regions that few foreigners ever visit. The Rio Intag cloudforest region is fast becoming known though for its high quality coffee growers. The Intag farmers use the large leaves of other plants like bananas, naranjilla and guayaba to give a natural shade to the coffee bushes. These other crops also provide the farmer his own food and gives him his independence. You will witness a completely different pace of life here. You can have a stop at the naturally heated swimming pools at the volcanic baths at Nangulvi. The restaurant along the Intag river is a great place for a snack or lunch.
As we continue your ride, the elevations will rise and fall several times - and with each change in elevation we will see new wildlife, farming and vegetation. Stop to visit the Cuicocha Lake. This lake, which is in fact a crater, lies at the foot of the extinct Cotacachi Volcano (16,300 feet or 4968 meters). The volcano's eruptions in the past created the lake and produced the minerals that make the surrounding valley one of the most productive agricultural regions in the Andes. The lake is over 600 feet deep and when the ancient peoples could not find the bottom, they believed that the lake was in fact a tunnel to the Pacific Ocean.
Just below the lake, we will stop in the town of Cotacachi, known for its leather market and leather artisans. This is a opportune time to find a new wallet, belt, or boots at great prices. The next stop is at the Peguche Falls. When you get off the bike, you will hear the falls roaring in the background. It is a short walk to the falls through eucalyptus groves and once you arrive at the magnificent falls, you will understand why this is a sacred place for the shamans of the indigenous people.
Otavalo textiles are famous for their history and quality. The Otavaleños were skilled weavers even prior to the Incan rule. Then in the Spanish colonial days, after being granted land near present day Otavalo, Rodrigo de Salazar set up a weaving workshop that employed the already skilled weavers. Through technological advancements, the Otavalo weavers supplied textiles to most of Latin America. Today the area has a number of wool mills and looms producing high quality textiles. A visit to the Indigenous market at the "Plaza de los Ponchos" in the center of Otavalo is a feast for your eyes and an opportunity to bring back some great gifts for your friends and family.
You will become an expert at riding on cobblestone road after your visit to Lake Mojanda - a high-altitude lake (around 13,000 feet). To get there, we will follow a road that was constructed hundreds of years ago of cobblestone. Each stone has been carefully placed so that the road lasts several lifetimes with minimal maintenance. These roads are still maintained the old-fashioned way - by replacing the rocks by hand. Once at the top of this cobblestone road, you will be looking at the Fuya Fuya Volcano and the serene high altitude Mojanda Lake surrounded by highlands pampa and wild alpaca.
You will settle in for the night in your own private cabin alongside the tranquil Lake San Pablo in the luxurious Cabanas del Lago Hotel, just outside of Otavalo.
Day 3
Otavalo - Cayambe - Cangahua - Oyacachi - Papallacta
Distance Covered: 72 miles (50 miles unpaved) / 116 Km (80 km unpaved)
We will enjoy a great breakfast on the shore of Lake San Pablo while watching the duck and swans swim and feed in the tranquil water.
Today's ride will certainly be way off the beaten track, as most maps of Ecuador do not even have the roads identified on them! A special permit is required to enter this region, which ensures little traffic and unspoiled wilderness.
Our ride will start passing through the countryside of working farms outside of Otavalo, then we will cross the Equator again in Cayambe (another opportunity for photos if you want) and then take you on ancient Incan cobblestone roads that lead deep into the paramo rainforest. We will have great views of the massive snow-capped Cayambe volcano to our left. This is the only place on Earth where the Equator passes through snow. We will be entering the Cayambe Coca Ecological Reserve. At slightly over 400,000 hectares, the reserve is one of the largest in Ecuador. The reserve is home to more than 100 mammal species, and 395 bird, 70 reptile, and 116 amphibian species. This area is most known for the spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus). Other local mammal residents include the puma (Puma concolor), mountain or Andean cat (Oncifelis colocolo), fox (Lycalopex culpaeus), Andean coati (Nasuella olivacea), and dwarf deer (Mazama rufina). Birdwatchers may catch a glimpse of one of the beautiful hummingbirds, parrots, or the endangered Andean condor, which is the world's largest flying bird. Most of this ride will be in high elevations, at over 13,000 feet. Be prepared for dramatic changes in weather that come on fast. Temperatures can vary from the mid-30's to low 70's.
We arrive at the secluded town of Oyacachi in a fertile, volcanic valley. Oyacachi has thermal hot springs, with pools kept at various temperatures. Here will have a fresh trout lunch. And we mean fresh! Once you have ordered at the restaurant, they will go fish out a trout cook it up immediately. Nothing could be more healthy or delicious!
Then, we continue our ride through pristine forests and high altitude paramo to arrive at the luxurious Termas de Papallacta Spa & Resort. Here you can really pamper yourself after a rough ride through the wilderness. There is an outstanding gourmet restaurant, beautifully decorated thermal pools, jacuzzis, saunas and ample opportunities for a professional massage.
Day 4
Papallacta - Jumandy Caves - Puerto Misahualli - Cotococha Amazon Lodge
Distance covered - 99 miles on paved roads / 159 Km on paved roads
Enjoy your great breakfast, take another swim in the volcanic baths and get ready for another amazing day! (There is that word again!) The morning will have you twisting down the Eastern Slopes of the Andes mountains, passing tremendous waterfalls and crossing through rich fertile valleys. We will descend from an altitude of about 11,500 feet to about 1500 feet above sea level, so some stops to remove a layer of clothing will probably be necessary.
After passing through the rainforest town of Baeza, we enter the Amazonian region of Ecuador. You'll notice more humid air and a dramatic change in vegetation and culture. Further up the road are the Jumandi Caves, created by underground river currents. There are guides there that will show us around the caves, but you will need to wade through water - so be sure to have a pair of shorts handy. The guides will provide us with a pair of rubber boots. Be sure to bring a flashlight and your waterproof camera!
Riding onward, we pass through the white-water rafting capital of South America, Tena, and cross the roaring rivers that feed the Amazon river further to the east. The route will take us for a short detour out to the town of Puerto Misahualli - which is the most western navigable port of the Amazon river basin. From here, you could take a boat all the way to the Atlantic ocean via the Amazon river. Puerto Misahualli is famous for its mischievous monkey population that loves to play with the local dogs and tourists. Be sure to bring your camera -but hold on tight to it! The monkeys love to snap them out of your hands!
Then we'll cross the mighty Rio Napo on a one-lane wire bridge over the mighty Napo River, to find the Cotococha Amazon Lodge, and check into your private, riverside bungalow for the night. Each bungalow is built according to traditional architecture in harmony with the surrounding rainforest. All bungalows are equipped with a private bathroom, a private veranda with reclining chairs or hammocks in which to relax and enjoy the sights and sounds of Ecuador's Amazon.
Afterwards, we will enjoy a special welcome drink while relaxing around the elegant fireplace. We will coordinate and discuss our next morning's activities with the local crew. This is a very special place set in a peaceful setting filled with the sounds of the Amazon jungle. You'll sleep well tonight as the Napo River roars in the background.
Day 5
Cotococha Amazon Lodge - Puyo - Baños de Agua Santa
Distance covered: 88 miles / 142 km on paved road.
We wi'll begin our day eating breakfast amidst the sounds of the jungle. Then you will be provided a pair of rubber boots and we board a long, motorized canoe that will take us up the Napo River. Accompanied by a native guide, wel hike deep into the Amazon jungle and learn about the different plant, animal and insect species that we see along the way. You will learn how the native peoples communicated, hunted and used the plants and animals in this unique wilderness. The hike is about 45 minutes long and at the end we will be rewarded with a swim in a beautiful lagoon with a cascading waterfall in a natural setting.
After the hike, we float back to the lodge in an inner tube while enjoying the tranquility and beauty of this natural wonderland. Once back at the lodge, we pack your saddlebags and head back onto the road. You will have great views of the Sierra towering over you to the west as you ride at the edge of the Amazon jungle, passing through the city of Puyo, the commercial, cultural and political capital of this area. There are great places for lunch in and around Puyo - a good chance to taste the local Amazonian specialties.
From Puyo, we begin our climb back into the Andes on a twisty road lined with astounding waterfalls and beautiful wild orchids. We avoid the tunnels, opting for the side roads along the cliffs, for fantastic views of the roaring river below.
We end today's ride in the beautiful city of "Baños de Agua Santa", famous for its health-giving thermal springs. The town is set in the shadow of the mighty Tungarahua Volcano, which is now a very active volcano that occasionally erupts with pyroclastic emissions and thick ash. Baños is located in what is known as "magnetic vortex," a unique place where the planet's 4 essential life elements - Air, Earth, Water, and Fire - are found. Once in the heart of the small city, we check into the comfortable and friendly Floresta Hotel where we will spend the next two nights. Then we head to the volcanic springs, just a few blocks away, to soak away and refresh!
Day 6
"Rest" Day in Banos
Today is another chance for some additional great adventures! Baños is one of the world's best centers for adventure and extreme sports. With so many inexpensive, experienced guides and tours available, we strongly encourage you to take full advantage of them in order to experience the incredible natural beauty that surrounds this town. You can go for a day of rafting or kayaking on some world-class rapids, do some bungee jumps, go canyoning (rappelling down waterfalls), take a jungle tour, hike some magnificent trails, rent an ATV, ride down a volcano on a mountain bike or improve your rock-climbing skills. If none of those activities appeal to you, Baños has some great hangouts, restaurants and bars and an exciting nightlife, too. This is the perfect spot for a rewarding rest day, no matter what you choose to do.
Day 7
Baños - Riobamba - Chimborazo National Wildlife Refuge - Salinas de Guaranda
93 miles / 150 Km on paved roads
Leaving Baños, we follow a unpaved road that curves around the mighty Tungarahua volcano. This particular road can not be paved because of the frequent seismic activity. This road will follow along the Chambal river, leading past fertile farmlands to the colonial city of Riobamba with grand plazas and Spanish colonial architecture.
Once outside of Riobamba, we will begin a climb that will take us to over 14,500 feet. Be prepared to add extra layers of clothing and to have your winter gloves ready. The temperatures can be just above the freezing point along this high altitude ride. This is the famous Chimborazo National Wildlife Refuge and we will be riding around the Chimborazo Volcano, which soars above at a height of 6,310 meters (20,702 feet). This is the highest mountain in the Americas and is the highest land mass on earth when you take into account its distance to the core of the earth. Wild vicuña, a relative of the camel and llama, run free along with wild guinea pigs in this national wildlife reserve. The terrain is barren and the weather changes quickly in this high altitude desert. It makes you think you are somewhere on the Moon, not Earth.
After descending to slightly lower elevations, you will find yourself downshifting as you twist through curvy roads in a fertile valley of dairy farms and enter the town of Salinas de Guaranda. Salinas has a very interesting history. It is a town that has pulled itself out of poverty into a prosperous, thriving town. Their local economy is a collective - all of the means of production are owned by the townspeople and the profits are shared and re-invested into new projects that provide employment and opportunities to the residents. We will get a tour of their chocolate factory, cheese factory and natural health care production from one of the local youths that operate their tourism board. It is a very interesting tour that takes about an hour.
Tonight, we will be staying in the El Refugio Hotel, which overlooks the town and has a great fireplace in the lobby where you can sit and chat with fellow travellers.
Day 8
Salinas - Pujilli - Quilotoa Crater Lake - Chugchilan
Distance covered: 129 miles / 207 Km (15 miles / 25 km unpaved road)
In the morning we will be sure to stroll through Salinas to watch the early morning milk deliveries to the cheese factory. Dairy farmers bring their daily production into town by donkey, llama and by horseback. The city is alive in the brisk morning air. Then, we'll have a great breakfast (with fresh eggs and cheese of course) and set off on the road. You'll be riding along one of the most incredible motorcycle roads in the world - the "Antigua Ruta a Guaranda" which leads from a high elevation of about 12,000 feet following a river that carves a canyon through some of the most picturesque countryside in Ecuador. Be sure to have your camera ready for this ride!
We will pass through the beautiful colonial city of Latacunga with its Spanish colonial historical center and then ride westward, up into the mountains. We have now begun riding on the famous "Quilotoa Loop." The Quilotoa Loop is known for its beautiful scenery and for its friendly, indigenous people. We will stop in the town of Pujilli, which has a colorful indigenous market - not very touristy but with great textiles and other useful and inexpensive goods.
Once again, we will be steadily rising in altitude again and will have a chance to see more llamas and alpacas grazing in the highlands pampa. If just looking at them doesn't satisfy you, we could enjoy some llama meat at the Llama cafe just before you get to the town of Tigua. Tigua is known for its colorful paintings and ceramics and this small village has a fantastic gallery - we'll stop to see some of the fine artwork created in this part of the world.
In the town of Zumbahua, we turn north and ride through a beautiful valley to the Quilotoa Crater Lake. This is a water-filled caldera and the most western volcano in the Ecuadorian Andes. The 3 kilometres (2 mi) wide caldera was formed by the collapse of this dacite volcano following a catastrophicVEI-6 eruption about 800 years ago, which produced pyroclastic flows and lahars that reached the Pacific Ocean, and spread an airborne deposit of volcanic ash throughout the northern Andes. The caldera has since accumulated a 250 m (820 ft) deep crater lake, which has a greenish color as a result of dissolved minerals. Fumaroles are found on the lake floor and hot springs occur on the eastern flank of the volcano.
From the Quilotoa Lake the road will become unpaved and will wind through some incredibly picturesque countryside. We stop for the night at Mama Hilda's Hostel in Chugchilan, where the President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, has stayed on a few occasions. The hostel will serve us an enormous, family-style Ecuadorian dinner with pots and pots of locally grown food.
Day 9
Chugchilan - Saquisilli - Avenue of Volcanoes - Quito
151 kilometers / 94 miles on 90% paved roads / 5% cobblestone road / 5% unimproved dirt road
After a hearty country Mama Hilda's breakfast, we head out on the road for our last day of adventure. For groups with offroad riding experience and a desire for a more offroad route home, we can opt for a more offroad route for the last day.
We will continue on unpaved road until we reach the town of Sigchos. Sigchos was an indigenous settlement long before the arrival of the Spanish who settled it in the early 1500's. Once through Sigchos the road will become an ancient cobblestone road. There are a few of these ancient roads in Ecuador and they are maintained the old fashioned way - by replacing the stones by hand. The work is really impressive.
You will wind through some dizzying switch-back roads, climbing first in elevation and then descending into the town of Saquisilli. Saquisilli is known for its enormous indigenous market which happens every Thursday morning..
From Saquisilli, we will head north towards Quito on the Panamerican Highway, otherwise known as the "Avenue of Volcanoes". Along this highway you will be surrounded by towering snow-capped volcanoes - with the Cotopaxi Volcano on one side and the Illiniza on the other.
To end our tour on a festive note, we stop at the famous "Cafe de la Vaca" in Machachi. They set the standard for Ecuadorian food and have great Ecuadorian coffee.
We will finish our "Amazing Ecuador" Tour where it began - at our offices in the Mariscal Section of Quito. We hope that this has created memories to last you a lifetime!
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Blue Knifty Knitter loom
Red Heart yarn
Knitting tool
yarn needle
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1) I used the "flat bottom" method that Crystal explains here - with a slight variation. I found that when I got to step 2, It was hard to find the loops, and also hard to pull them all across. So I took a tip from the cupcake hat pattern by Sarah, using scrap yarn to mark my loops.
I e-wrapped 10 pegs once. Then I took pieces of contrasting yarn, putting one through each loop. I tried it 2 ways - with the rainbow I put the scrap yarn through the loop on the outside of the loom, and on the inside of the loom for the camo. I will tell you why I did this later on.
Then I knit back & forth for 9 rows. Now you are going to do step two of Crystal's flat-bottom directions - "stretch the stitches across the loom and attach them to the opposite side of the loom." This is where the scrap yarn-through-the-loops becomes real handy. The yarn not only marks the loops you need to pull over, but you can use it to help pull the loops over.
You will have 4 pegs empty - 2 on each side. Now you are ready for Crystal's step 3 - "pick up stitches from the side panels of the knitted piece and put them on the pegs." Now you have the bottom of your water bottle holder.
When I did the rainbow one, it left a small ridge on the bottom. So, when I did the camo one, I put the scrap yarn on the inside (see above). It got rid of the ridge, but it was much harder to pull the loops over. Not worth it since the ridge is so small.
2) Then I e-wrapped & knitted off for 2 rows. I wanted a mesh look so I next did the Mock-Crochet (MC) stitch found here. The method here describes a flat panel, which I did not want, so I kept going around the loom, and did NOT do the step titled "Last 3 pegs on your loom." I think I did about 10 rows of MC, but the number you do will depend on the size of bottles you want this to hold (mine is big enough to hold up to a liter bottle.) I did end up with a larger hole where it goes from the e-wraps to the MC. I think next time I will skip MC steps 1 & 2, and go straight to MC step 3.
3) Once your holder is as tall as you want (I kept a water bottle handy to try it on), do 2 rows of e-wrap. When I was done with the MC, here is where I did the MC step titled "Last 3 pegs on your loom," before starting the e-wrap. Again, I had a larger hole; I think next time I will skip that step - when reaching the end of the last row of MC, the last 3 pegs should be wrapped in the MC method. Knit over those 3, then go straight to the first peg with the e-wrap. To remove the holder from the loom, I did the Flat Removal Method found here.
4) To make the handle, I e-wrapped 4 pegs like a flat panel, going back & forth until I had the length I wanted. I took the handle off the loom with the Flat Removal method. I then "wove" the handle down the side of the holder, across the bottom, & up the other side, knotting the ends together (this is easier if the bottle is in the holder).
5) To make the drawstring for the rainbow holder, I e-wrapped & knitted off on 2 pegs to the desired length. I wanted to try something different for the camo holder, & wrapped and knitted off of just one peg - this resulted in a thinner drawstring. Then I "wove" this around the top of the holder.
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Hello, and welcome, blog skippers! If you came here from Lezlye's site, you have arrived safely! I'm so glad that you came to see what I will demonstrate from Perfect Paper Crafting today!
The product that I was so lucky to get to try is called the Perfect Layers tool. These ruler-looking straight-edge tools are just wonderful for making borders and layers for our card making. We all love lots of layers, right?
First off, I was very impressed by the craftsmanship of these tools. I do love high quality tools that are not flimsy because I know that they will be available in my papercrafting arsenal for a very long time! The three Perfect Layers tools shown here make it possible to create twelve different sizes of layers, can you imagine that? Tool #1 will make borders that measure 1/8, 5/8, 1/4 and 3/8". Tool #2 creates borders of 1/16, 1/2, 3/16 and 5/16", and so on. What a fantastic thing, not to have to worry about measurements. Just line up the width that you choose along each edge of your desired mat, and cut away. It's goof proof!
Here is what the tools look like close up. I love how the numbers that you see at the end of the tools show which measurement you will get using that edge. Just place the edge with the desired measurement right side up, and you are good to go. The tools are also made to work for both right and left-handed cutters. Bonus!
I decided to use this week's sketch # 191 to make my example card, because it already has lots of opportunities to make pretty layers.
I proceeded by preparing the pieces that I wanted to layer on some kraft colored card stock. I distressed the pieces of patterned paper first, and then used my ATG to glue them onto the kraft paper, leaving plenty of space to create edges. Perfect edges!
After much consideration, I decided to forego the cutting, which would have meant using the edge tool and a craft knife on a self-healing mat. I wanted to try the tools for something a little more than the obvious, so I used my left hand to hold down the tool, grabbed the kraft paper with my right, and gave it a good rip!
I love this. I love the look of paper tearing but I've never been able to get such a precise edge. In fact, I really doubt if I would have been able to accomplish this look without the Perfect Layers tool because my free-hand tearing would have been a disaster. I really enjoyed creating this look for a shabby-chic kind of card. I can definitely see using these tools over and over to create both straight cut, and torn edges in the exact measurements that I need.
I created three, torn edged mats to complete this romantic card. I hope that one of our heroes chooses it to send to their sweetie!
If you enjoyed seeing these tools today, I know that you will love the other great things available at Perfect Paper Crafting. I was pleasantly surprised to see that there are even more tools, called Perfect Tears, for even more of this look. I can't wait to give them a try, too. If you shop over there today, don't forget to use code OWH5% for an additional 5% off your purchase and leave me a comment today to enter to win the $50 gift certificate to PCC. What a wonderful OWH Birthday Gift that would be. :)
Now hop along over to Paper Craft Planet to see what Susanna has for you today. Or, if you would like to start at the beginning of the hop, you can do that at Stars & Stamps. Thanks so much for stopping by!


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The holidays. What can I say? This year was a rough one. I am still unemployed and yet tried to be festive. Forced gaiety is exhausting, by the way.
I drove a couple hours to see family. And I did what I always do when I am around family – try to figure out where my malfunctions come from. I mean, I spent nine years of my life with a man who clearly, in retrospect, did not want me in his life. (He was always searching for someone better.) And to make matters worse, after I finally came around to this situation, I fully expected this guy to apologize and feel remorse for the years he kept me at arm's length (years in which I missed out on having a real relationship and family). The delusion continues to this day. I am utterly stupid. I am not blaming my family, but this shit has got to come from somewhere. Right?
Unfortunately, no light was shed. But I do get enjoyment from seeing my mom, who is both unassuming and evil at the same time.
My mom and I went to visit my grandmother Christmas Eve day. (Is there an easier way to say that? The day of Christmas Eve? Because it was not actually Christmas EVE, as in the evening. Gah. It was Monday.) After being there for a while, I noticed that my grandmother's thermostat had a plastic lock box on it. Like the ones you'd see in an office, or a school. I asked my mother about this and she informed me this was the solution to my grandmother's excessive use of the heat. Apparently, her home was like a sauna. Because she is old and is always cold.
But now her thermostat temperature is set to go down at night and go back up during the day. I asked my mom what my grandmother did if it was night and she got cold. My mother replied simply, "She puts on layers." I started teasing my mom – "Too bad, Gram, you'll have to wait until sunrise to get warm." My mom laughed the laugh of the bitterly resolute and we carried on with our day.
My mom's laugh was a lot heartier when I said, "I think my glasses make me look smarter." She laughed too hard actually.
And when I asked her when she was going to quit smoking, I did not even let her reply. I quickly said, "Just say you are not going to quit so we can stop having this conversation."
By far, the most interesting revelation this holiday was the truth behind my mom's incredibly long conversational pauses. When I say "long", I mean LONG. I'll say something that should elicit a response or I'll ask a question and, I swear to you, the pause from her is endless. I'll eventually just blurt out, "are you listening to me?" She'll usually say, "yes, I'm listening…I'm just processing". No. No, mom. You cannot possibly take that long to process a reply to, "So, what do you need in the grocery store?" I AM NOT ASKING THE MEANING OF LIFE.
Even her boyfriend finds this behavior maddening. She does the same thing to him. And he also accuses her of not listening.
I finally reached the breaking point and said to her, "You know, it is weird when you do that. It is totally like you are not listening."
Her reply: "Yes, I'm listening. But sometimes…I'm not listening."
Happy Holidays, y'all.


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HILLSBORO, Ore., Oct. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- FEI Company
(Nasdaq: FEIC) will release its financial results for the third quarter of
2004 after the financial markets close on Wednesday, October 27, 2004. The
third quarter ended on October 3, 2004.
A conference call and simultaneous webcast to discuss the results will be
held on Wednesday, October 27 at 2:00 p.m. PDT (5:00 p.m. EDT). Access to the
call will be available at 1-800-257-1836 (U.S., toll-free) or 1-303-205-0055
(international), with the conference title: FEI Q3 Results. A telephone
replay of the call will be available at 1-800-405-2236 (U.S.) or
1-303-590-3000 (international) with the passcode: 11011551. Both live and
recorded audio webcasts of the call will be available at the investor
relations section of the company's web site at www.feicompany.com.
About FEI:
FEI's Tools for Nanotech(TM), featuring focused ion- and electron-beam
technologies, deliver 3D characterization, analysis and modification
capabilities with resolution down to the sub-Angstrom level. With R&D centers
in North America and Europe and sales and service operations in more the 40
countries around the world, FEI is bringing the nanoscale within the grasp of
leading researchers and manufacturers and helping to turn some of the biggest
ideas of the this century into reality. More information can be found on the
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SOURCE FEI Company
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