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Quara and the Volleyball Peruvian Federation signed an important agreement (Translation)
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Official sponsor of the Peruvian Volleyball Team and the Women's Volleyball National Major League
Lima, July 5th, 2010. During a press conference, the Peruvian Volleyball Federation President, Mr. Juan Castro, announced a sponsorship agreement signed with Quara, whereby this brand becomes the official sponsor of the Peruvian Volleyball Team and the Women's Volleyball National Major League.
This strategic alliance strengthens Quara commitment to contribute with Peruvian volleyball, just as it has been doing since last year with its participation in the program "Put on a T-shirt," promoted by congressman Luciana León.
Thus, Quara, an alcoholic beverage inspired by women, renews and strengthens its commitment to Peruvian women, who just as our female volleyball players have shown initiative, strength, talent, and above all, a different attitude that makes them stand out and succeed.
Enrique Rosas, Quara's Director, expressed: "Quara is a brand that is proud of the Peruvian women who stand out by their unique capabilities and who make their dreams and desires a reality. And what better example of that than our volleyball team members."
Juan Castro, Peruvian Volleyball Federation President, said: "Signing this agreement means the renewal of the confidence of the private sector on the work we do in the Peruvian Volleyball Federation that seeks to give Peru the place it deserves in the panorama of world volleyball."
Thus, Quara stands behind this important sport that has given us so much joy and reasons to celebrate in recent years.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Even with only one game of film on Georgia's backup quarterback, Nebraska seems confident in its ability to prepare for Hutson Mason and the Bulldogs' passing attack.
Mason, who's taken over for the injured Aaron Murray, completed 22 of 36 passes for 299 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Bulldogs to a 41-34 overtime win over Georgia Tech in the regular season finale. Mason showed impressive accuracy and a strong arm, according to NU defensive back Ciante Evans.
"He did a good job," Evans said. "He handled the offense well."
The Huskers do expect some tweaks to the system and a few new wrinkles now that Mason's been practicing as Georgia's top quarterback for a month. But coach Bo Pelini is convinced that the Bulldogs will stick to their basic principles on offense.
"What they do, they do well," he said. "It's not a lot of trick 'em things going on. Very similar to what they did a year ago. They believe in what they do."
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Nebraska's leaders on offense don't want the skill level of Georgia's rebuilding defense to take them out of what they do best.
Junior I-back Ameer Abdullah and senior wide receiver Quincy Enunwa indicated Tuesday that the Huskers have identified some weaknesses in the Bulldogs' defense. NU's coaches will have a plan. It's up to the players to take advantage Wednesday.
"We're going to go out and play our game," Enunwa said.
The Bulldogs lost seven members of last year's defense to the NFL. This season's unit ranks 80th nationally in points allowed per game at 29.4.
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"We're looking to get their best shot," he said.
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Gator Bowl fans will get a peek Wednesday at a pair of tailbacks who might be Heisman Trophy candidates in 2014.
Nebraska's Abdullah will go into the game ranking No. 7 nationally with 130.7 rushing yards per game. His 1,568 yards this season are the most by a Husker since Ahman Green in 1997.
Georgia sophomore tailback Todd Gurley, with 903 yards (6.3 per carry), is chasing his second straight 1,000-yard season despite missing three games and part of a fourth.
"They're both great backs," Nebraska coach Bo Pelini said. "They're different — they have different styles, obviously built differently — but great players come in a lot of different shapes and sizes, and a lot of different skill sets."
Abdullah is a 5-foot-9, 190-pounder, while Gurley is 6-1 and 232 pounds. Both Pelini and NU defensive end Jason Ankrah said the Huskers also must stay aware of Gurley in the Georgia passing game after he had five touchdown catches among his 30 receptions.
"We have a lot of respect for Gurley, and I think he's a heck of a football player with his size and strength, and he can do a lot of different things," Pelini said. "But I said it all year: I wouldn't trade Ameer for any back in the country."
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Before there was EverBank Field, the old home to the Gator Bowl was ... the Gator Bowl.
Gator Bowl President Rick Catlett said Tuesday that those involved with the bowl game and those around Jacksonville don't necessarily miss the stadium along the St. Johns River that was built in 1927 and then expanded and renovated in the 1940s, '50s, '70s and '80s.
"No, no ..." Catlett said. "None of us."
After the Jacksonville Jaguars were awarded an NFL franchise in November 1993, the Gator Bowl hosted its last bowl game that Dec. 31 when Alabama beat North Carolina 24-10. The bowl was moved to Gainesville for one year while EverBank Field was being constructed, first called Jacksonville Municipal Stadium and then Alltell Stadium from 1997 through 2006.
EverBank Field's location compared with the old Gator Bowl?
"Four yards east of where it was," Catlett said.
Catlett worked for the mayor's office in the final years of the Gator Bowl stadium and said the aging facility was slowly becoming decrepit. He recalled the 1983 matchup between Florida and Iowa coming on the heels of a week of temperatures in the 20s — and the stadium being without running water for the game.
But in its heyday, the Gator Bowl hosted a Pat Sullivan-Archie Manning showdown after the 1970 season, featured Ohio State coach Woody Hayes slugging a Clemson linebacker in 1978 and included six games in the 1980s that drew crowds of 80,000 or more.
With EverBank Field, Catlett said, Jacksonville plans to stay in bidding for college playoff games and has a facility that can hold 85,000.
Nebraska beat Clemson 26-21 in the Gator Bowl on Jan. 1, 2009. The Huskers never played in the old Gator Bowl stadium.
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These bad boys look great and get the job done. I use nothing else on my string-through ToM builds.
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Free software is now available that enables Internet connections to be shared using Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems.
The new Virtual Router software, developed by a Microsoft MVP and released last week at the CodePlex site, enables wireless router capabilities for Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. It transforms those OSes into wireless routers and allows the sharing of any Internet connection. Typically, router hardware would need to be present to share an Internet connection, but Virtual Router can create a wireless access point without it.
Virtual Router might come into play when just one Internet connection is available. It might be used at conferences, for example, or while visiting someone else's home.
Virtual Router supports any Wi-Fi-enabled device, allowing it to connect wirelessly regardless of the type of Internet connection. The connection could be through a LAN, a cellular network, Wi-Fi access point, cable modem and even dial-up modem.
The software defaults to the current WPA2 protocol for secure wireless connectivity, and that protocol can't be turned off. The developer of Virtual Router says that WPA2 encryption is built into the Wireless Hosted Network APIs in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 as a security precaution. Users can name their Windows wireless network and set a password.
Virtual Router is free software available through Microsoft's CodePlex community site, which is a distribution point for open source software for Windows-based systems. The author says that Virtual Router is free of ads, as well.
The Virtual Router application is currently available as a 0.9 beta test version. It can be downloaded at the CodePlex site here.
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Can this work on an iPhone on its current safari search engine?
This software is just a wrapper for existing Win7 functionality.
Searching for "windows 7 netsh hostednetwork" finds hundreds of pages that explain how to do it.
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there is already a software which has been doing this for ages:
This is much needed in windows phone 7 though.
If I'm reading that right, the current version was uploaded in 2009. Not exactly fresh news.
Now, do this for Windows Phone!!!
Mac OS X has had this built into the OS for years.
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CTL is a cross-platform control dispatching tool that makes it easy to automate any kind of distributed systems management or application provisioning task. Rather than writing complex and error-prone scripts that over utilize "for loops", CTL handles the network dispatching for you and allows you to focus on the actual management tasks you need to accomplish. In addition to being a dispatching tool, CTL comes with pre-built cross-platform utilities so you don't have to script actions like file distribution or process and port checking. You can also write your own custom utilities and share them with others in your organization. Custom utilities are defined in XML, and your scripting can be done in multiple scripting languages (Perl, Python, etc.), *nix shell, Windows batch, and/or Ant.
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Khan Academy's mission is to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. We are a not-for-profit 501c3 entity, and our purpose of establishing ourselves as a non-profit entity is so that our mission of education and trust with the user never comes in conflict with a for-profit motive. We believe that this is necessary for us to be trusted with your private data.
Khan Academy Privacy Policy
Last Updated: March 11, 2013
Welcome to the web site and online services (the "Website") operated by Khan Academy, Inc., a 501(c)(3) organization ("Khan Academy"). Khan Academy values the privacy of our members and others who visit and use the Website (individually, "You" or collectively, "Users"). We take your privacy seriously and make it a priority to protect personally identifiable information that we obtain from and about individuals both online and off-line.
This Privacy Policy describes what information we gather from you, how we use that information, and what we do to protect it. By using the Website (whether or not you are a registered member), you expressly consent to the information handling practices described in this policy. If you do not want information about you to be used in the manner set forth in this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Website.
This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and is subject to the Khan Academy Terms of Service. Your use of the Website and any personal information you provide on the Website are subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy and Khan Academy's Terms of Service. Any capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meaning set forth in the Terms of Service.
Our Commitment to Children's Privacy:
Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. For that reason, Khan Academy puts in place certain features designed to help protect the personally identifiable information of children less than 13 years of age. Khan Academy does not knowingly permit any person less than 13 years of age to register directly for the Website unless Khan Academy reasonably believes, or has received assurances from a Coach, that the child's parent has consented to such registration and use of the Website. If Khan Academy learns that personally-identifiable information of persons less than 13 years of age has been collected on the Website without parental consent, then Khan Academy will take the appropriate steps to delete this information. If you are a parent or guardian and discover that your child under the age of 13 has a registered account with the Website without your consent, then you may alert Khan Academy at firstname.lastname@example.com and request that Khan Academy delete that child's personal information from its systems.
Child Registration:
When a child under the age of 13 ("Child Member") requests to register for the Website, Khan Academy first seeks consent from the child's identified parent or guardian ("Parent"). During the initial registration process, we may collect from a potential Child Member their email address and birth date, along with an email address for a Parent. In some cases, a Coach may be able to directly register a Child Member for the Website by the Coach providing to us during such registration process a username and password for the Child Member account, the child's birth date and an email address of the child's parent. Khan Academy attempts to inform the child's Parent, using the email address provided by the child or the Coach, of the request for a Child Member account and directs the Parent to this Privacy Policy. Please note that, although Khan Academy will make reasonable efforts to inform the Parent following the creation of a Child Member account by a Coach, the Child Member account will be immediately active and ready for use by the Child Member upon registration by the Coach. If you are a Parent and wish to consent to your child's registration on the Website, you must first register for the Website under an adult account. If you are a registered Parent on the Website, you may create a child account, or request an existing child account to be assigned to your parent account, for each Child Member for whom you are a parent or legal guardian. A Parent may additionally revoke a child's permission to use the Website at any time by either contacting Khan Academy at firstname.lastname@example.com or by changing the password for the child's account using the features provided for a parent account. If you are a Parent and register your child for a Child Member account or have the Child Member account assigned to your parent account, you agree and acknowledge that you permit the Child Member to use the Website and all features made available on the Website as fully contemplated by Khan Academy. As a Parent, you understand that any personally identifiable information of your child that you or a Coach provide in connection with registration or otherwise may be used by Khan Academy as provided in this Privacy Policy. Except where the context indicates otherwise, the remainder of this Privacy Policy (including any discussion of the personally identifiable information that Khan Academy may collect, use or disclose) shall apply equally to a Child Member account and a Parent account. The Website does not condition a Child Member's participation in an online activity on the Child Member providing more personal information than is reasonably necessary for that activity.
The Information Khan Academy Collects
- User-provided Information: When you register for, browse and use the Website, you may provide to Khan Academy what is generally called "personally identifiable information" (such as your full name, email address, postal mailing address, and/or home/mobile telephone number). You may also be able to add a picture of yourself. If you decide to register through or otherwise grant access to a third party social networking or integrated service that we may make available ("Integrated Service"), such as Facebook Connect or Google, Khan Academy may also collect any such "personally identifiable information" that you have provided to the Integrated Service from the account you have with the Integrated Service. You may revoke Khan Academy's access to your account on the Integrated Service at any time by updating the appropriate settings in the account preferences of the respective Integrated Service. You should check your privacy settings on each Integrated Service to understand and change the information sent to us through each Integrated Service. Please review each Integrated Service's terms of use and privacy policies carefully before using their services and connecting to our Website. From time to time, Khan Academy may also ask you optionally to provide other information. If you choose to provide such information, during registration or otherwise, you are giving Khan Academy the permission to use and store it consistent with this policy. Therefore, please understand that when you sign in with Khan Academy, you are not anonymous to us.
- Information from other Users: We may make available certain features in the Website that allow other Users of the Website to provide us information that may include your personally identifiable information. For example, we may permit a Coach to register an account for you on your behalf in which the Coach pre-populates certain profile information about you.
- "Cookies" Information: When you visit the Website, whether or not you are a registered member, we may send one or more cookies – small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters – to your computer. Cookies remember information about your activities on a website. Khan Academy may use both session cookies and persistent cookies. A session cookie disappears after you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the Website. Persistent cookies can be removed. Please review your web browser "Help" file to learn the proper way to modify your cookie settings. However, without cookies you will not have access to certain services and features on the Website. Third party advertisements displayed in connection with the Website may also contain cookies set by internet advertisers. We do not control these cookies and users of the Website should check the privacy policy of the advertiser to see whether and how it uses cookies.
- "Automatically Collected" Information: When you use the Website, we may automatically record certain information from your browser by using different types of technology, including standard log files, "clear gifs" or "web beacons." This "automatically collected" information may include your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring or exit pages, click stream data, operating system and the dates and times that you visit the Website. Additionally, we may record certain information regarding your use of features that Khan Academy may make available on the Website, such as the number of problems you have attempted, the number of videos you have viewed and the amount of time spent to complete a problem.
- Third Party Web Beacons: We may also implement third party content, such as advertising, on the Website that uses "clear gifs," "web beacons," or other similar techniques, which allow the third party content provider to read and write cookies to your browser, or implement similar tracking mechanisms, in connection with your viewing of that third party content displayed on the Website. This information is collected directly by the third party, and Khan Academy does not participate in that data transmission. Information collected by third parties in this manner is subject to that third party's own data collection, use, and disclosure policies.
- Location Information:We may collect and store information about your location if you enable your computer or mobile device to send us location information. You may be able to change the settings on your computer or mobile device to prevent it from providing us with such information.
- Information from Other Sources:We may also obtain information, including personally identifiable information, from third parties and sources other than the Website. If we combine or associate information from other sources with personally identifiable information that we collect through the Website, we will treat the combined information as personally identifiable information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
The Way Khan Academy Uses Information
- Khan Academy uses the information that you provide or that we collect in order to establish and enhance our relationship with you. Khan Academy generally uses the information you provide or that we collect to operate, maintain, enhance, and provide all of the features and services found on the Website. If you have given Khan Academy consent, we may use your personally identifiable information to provide you with information about Khan Academy's features, services and other offerings that may be of interest to you. We may also send information or offers to groups of users on behalf of other businesses. Under certain circumstances (for example if you win a contest) we may post your personally identifiable information on the Website. However, we will notify you of this possibility when collecting personally identifiable information or we will obtain your consent. We may share your personally identifiable information with certain other websites that we link to (and that you click upon) in order to enhance your experience in connection with the Website.
- Khan Academy uses all of the information that you provide or that we collect from Users to understand and analyze the usage trends and preferences of our Users, to improve the way the Website works and looks, and to create new features and functionality.
- Khan Academy may use "cookies" information to: (a) remember your information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Website; (b) provide customized third-party advertisements, content, and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of third-party marketing campaigns; (d) monitor aggregate site usage metrics such as total number of visitors and pages viewed; and (e) track your entries, submissions, and status in any promotions or other activities.
- If you have registered as a member and given Khan Academy consent, we may share your personally identifiable information with advertisers, business partners, and other entities that are not affiliated with Khan Academy who would like to send you information about their products and services. We do not share personally identifiable information with other third-party organizations for their marketing or promotional use without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in.
- Khan Academy's employees, agents and contractors must have a legitimate business reason to obtain access to the personally identifiable information you may provide to register as a member of Khan Academy. We may share your personally identifiable information with companies that provide services to us, including outside contractors or agents who help us manage our information activities (for example, contest and sweepstakes administration), but they may only use your personally identifiable information to provide us with a specific service and not for any other purpose.
When Khan Academy Discloses Information
- Aggregate Information: Khan Academy discloses automatically collected and other aggregate non-personally-identifiable information to interested third parties to assist such parties in understanding the usage, viewing, and demographic patterns for certain programs, content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality on the Website.
- User Postings on the Website: Khan Academy enables you to share your User Postings with other Users of the Website, such as Users of the Website that you choose to register as your Coach and Users associated with your Educational Organization. Khan Academy may also permit you to share your User Postings publicly on the Website. If your User Postings are shared with other Users, any personally identifiable information that you choose to include in, or is associated with, such User Postings will be accessible by such Users. Once you make your personally identifiable information available to others in any of these ways, it may be collected and used by the recipients without restriction. Khan Academy enables Users to share information and resources. If you are a User subscribing to the Website and you consent, Khan Academy may disclose certain personally identifiable information to other Users of the Website, such as Users registered as Coaches and Users associated with your Educational Organization. If you consent, Khan Academy may also share information about your use of certain Website features with other Users of the Website, such as sharing your activity history with your Coach or Users associated with your Educational Organization.
- Child Member Information: Although Khan Academy makes available certain features that allow a User to disclose personal information to other Users, we attempt to restrict a Child Member's access to certain features that could result in disclosure by the Child Member of personally identifiable information. For example, a Child Member account is not normally permitted to post public comments on the Website for any videos or exercises. However, some features of the Website may permit a Child Member to enter free-form text through which the Child Member could include personally identifiable information that could be visible to other Users (such as when a Child Member enters personal information in answering an exercise problem or creating other projects on the Website). Further, certain features of the Website may allow the Child Member to communicate with other Users, such as when a Child Member communicates with a Coach through the Website or through third party services accessing the Khan Academy API. If the Child Member chooses to include personally identifiable information in such communications, the recipient may be able to collect and use such information without restriction. For example, a Coach may receive personally identifiable information that is made available by a Child Member and may be able to use such information without restriction.
- Social Networks: Khan Academy will disclose your personal information if you have explicitly agreed that we may do so. In particular, we will disclose personal information where you have elected to connect your account on our Website to a social network or other similar service (e.g., Facebook or Google), or have elected to have your activity on our Website published to a social network or other similar service (e.g., Facebook or Google). To control the information that you share, you should review and, if appropriate, modify your privacy settings on such services.
- Required by Law: Khan Academy may also disclose User information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with state and federal laws (such as U.S. Copyright law) or respond to a court order, judicial or other government subpoena, or warrant. In some cases, we may make such disclosures without first providing notice to Users.
- Merger or Acquisition: In the event that Khan Academy is acquired by or merged with a third-party entity, we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information that we have collected from Users as part of such merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control.
- Other Purposes: Khan Academy also reserves the right to disclose User information that we believe, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to take precautions against liability; protect Khan Academy from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful uses; to investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations; to assist government enforcement agencies; to protect the security or integrity of the Website; or to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Khan Academy, our Users, or others.
Your Choices:
You may, of course, decline to share your personally-identifiable information with Khan Academy, in which case Khan Academy will not be able to provide to you some of the features and functionality found on the Website. If you register as a member of Khan Academy, you may update, correct, or delete your profile information and preferences at any time by going to your account settings page.
To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you account access or making corrections to your information. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information at all times.
Third Party Applications
Khan Academy endeavors to make the educational videos and content available through Website as broadly available as possible. To encourage this, Khan Academy makes available to third party application developers and service providers ("App Developers") an application programming interface ("API") for use in creating complementary or additional services for users (such as creating mobile applications that provide access to Khan Academy content). Through the API, Khan Academy may allow App Developers to access a variety of personal information related to your use of the Website and related services, including your username or other unique identifier, messages, comments, browsing history on the Website, exercise history and other information related to your use of the Website. When you use, download or access an application or service from such App Developers, we may give them access to such personal information you have provided or we have collected. The first time an App Developer wishes to access your information through the API for a particular service or application, you will first be given the option to approve such access to your information by such service or application. You understand that you may not have access to certain features or services if you choose to not provide such access to your information to App Developers.
You understand and agree that such App Developers may use this information for its internal business purposes in operating its services and may also disclose such information to its other customers and users. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party services and application. Khan Academy's privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such App Developers.
Third-Party Advertisers, Links to Other Sites
You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party websites and third party ad servers or ad networks. Khan Academy's privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other third party advertisers or web sites. Please be aware that Khan Academy does not warn you when you have chosen to link through to another website from the Website.
Our Commitment to Data Security
Khan Academy uses certain physical, managerial, and technical safeguards designed to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to Khan Academy, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission of information, Khan Academy makes commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security of our systems. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.
If Khan Academy learns of a security systems breach, then we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. Khan Academy may post a notice on the Website if a security breach occurs. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing.
International Visitors
The Website is intended solely for visitors located within the United States. If you nonetheless choose to use the Website from the European Union or other regions of the world with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, then please note that you are transferring your personally identifiable information outside of those regions to the United States and by providing your personally identifiable information on the Website you consent to that transfer.
Changes and Updates to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to change the privacy policy at our sole discretion. Khan Academy users will be informed of any such change by us posting a new privacy policy on the Website and the effective date of any change of privacy policy will be clearly marked. We will not use any personally identifiable information of yours in ways that are materially different from the ones described in this Privacy Policy without also providing notification of such practices and obtaining consent to any such different uses. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our Website.
Contact Information
Please contact Khan Academy with any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, your personal information, our third-party disclosure practices, or your consent choices by email at email@example.com or by mail at: Khan Academy, PO Box 1630, Mountain View, CA 94042.


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WASHINGTON — A Maine woman who has struggled for decades to overcome the trauma of a sexual assault that ended her military career said Wednesday that it was a bittersweet honor to lend her name to a bill to help other veterans who are haunted by past assaults.
Ruth Moore of Milbridge, Maine, who was raped twice while serving in the Navy, testifies at a Veterans Affairs subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs hearing on July 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
The Ruth Moore Act of 2013, introduced in the House and the Senate, aims to make it easier for those who suffered "military sexual trauma" to receive disability benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
"It gives hope to every MST survivor that things can be made right," Moore said Wednesday during a news conference announcing the bills. "This act is our future and it gives us back our dignity when we try to get help."
Moore, who is from the Washington County town of Milbridge, was a reluctant spokeswoman for the cause as recently as last year, but has since become a vocal advocate for helping others who were sexually assaulted.
Moore said she and representatives for the Service Women's Action Network have heard from thousands of veterans who were assaulted. They delivered more than 150,000 petition signatures to Department of Veterans Affairs officials in support of relaxing the evidentiary requirements for sexual assault survivors.
The measures, sponsored by Democratic Rep. Chellie Pingree of Maine in the House and Sen. Jon Tester of Montana in the Senate, would set essentially the same standards for sexual assault survivors as for veterans who seek disability benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder.
To qualify, an applicant would need a diagnosis of a mental health condition with a link to the assault.
"Although we have made some progress, the VA has been very inconsistent about enforcing their own policies," Pingree said. "I have heard from veterans across the country who have been denied disability benefits by the VA. It is so obvious to us that the current system is not working."
According to the Service Women's Action Network, less than one-third of benefits claims for post-traumatic stress disorder due to sexual assaults were approved, compared with more than 53 percent for PTSD claims overall.
The Defense Department's own estimates are that as many as one in every four women in the military will be the targets of sexual abuse or assault. Yet groups estimate that nearly 90 percent of sexual assaults in the military are never reported, due in large part to concerns over retaliation
"We have seen enough lives ruined and we have seen enough suicides," said Anu Bhagwati, a former Marine captain who is executive director of the Service Women's Action Network. "Because the VA will not act on its own to do the right thing, it is now time for justice to be legislated."
Sexual assault in the military is getting more attention from Congress and defense officials. The documentary "The Invisible War," which investigates the military's lackluster record of investigating and prosecuting sexual assaults, is nominated for an Academy Award.
Moore fought for years to get recognition from the Department of Veterans Affairs. She was raped and assaulted twice by a superior officer while serving overseas more than 20 years ago and was never properly treated for the assault, despite reporting the crime to a chaplain.
Her attacker was never prosecuted and Moore was wrongly diagnosed. After being hospitalized for being suicidal, she was discharged from the Navy. She struggled for decades with emotional and problems related to the incidents.
Moore was repeatedly denied benefits because her records had been expunged, which advocacy groups say is common. She eventually gained partial benefits and, in July, went public with her story in news reports and in testimony before a congressional committee.
Pingree sponsored a similar bill last year, but it died in committee. She and Tester said they are optimistic that their bills will have more success this year, given the focus on sexual assault problems in the military.
Moore said she was shocked when Pingree first asked to put her name on the bill this year, but she agreed to do so, in part because of the response from veterans since she went public.
Moore said she has received calls and emails, and even been stopped in airports by veterans who were assaulted.
After Wednesday's news conference, Moore said, "If my voice is going to be heard, I better make sure my voice reflects what all of the other MST survivors want heard."
Kevin Miller can be contacted at 317-6256 or at:
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If you want to dive directly into the source, look below or go to our PolarSSL GitHub
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Each cipher and hashing algorithm in PolarSSL (AES, MD5, SHA-1, etc.) is self-contained and can be easily reused as a standalone module.
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This is a fabulous hotel for an island getaway. Brilliant staff (except on accounts desk who need some better people skills) and beautiful accommodation in individual chalets superbly designed. The all-inclusive food could not be faulted. Do arrange to fly to island. Views worth the price! Points to watch out for: trips to the best snorkelling beaches are charged for and are expensive, and soft drinks also are charged for. Big plus: do have a spa treatment - really excellent hot stone massage."
The Pestana Ihaca is a great place to stay for a few days rest and relaxation on a beautiful island easily accessed by ferry from Maputo. The hotel provides accommodation and service of a standard very much in keeping with it's location - low-key and relaxed, not luxurious, but comfortable and friendly."
I was pleasantly surprised by the hotel considering the reviews I'd read about it I stuck to cereals and bread for breakfast and toasted sandwiches for supper as could not afford to get sick!! The area is not bad I walked around the town aduring the day and was fine. My only complaint was the two days of showering in cold water and due to my portuguese been zero was not able to explain the problem."
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This year, some of our Extra Special Christmas party range has been specially selected by Leith's School of Food and Wine. They loved our gorgeous Extra Special pies, especially the Cranberry Topped Mini Pork Pies which contain outdoor-bred pork in golden pastry, layered with cranberry and special reserve port chutney and also our Mini Steak & Ale Pies which are butter enriched short-crust pastry filled with tender pieces of steak in a rich Dorset ale gravy, topped with puff pastry. They also thought our Extra Special Olive Selection was great for pre-dinner nibbles! These contain a mix of olives sourced from the finest regions in both Italy and Greece.
The rest of our Extra Special range, came from an inspiration trip to Thailand and Vietnam. We sourced some of the most authentic recipes from the Middle east and brought them back to ASDA for you. We have got a mix of prawn, duck and chicken in our range so there's something for everyone! Our Prawn Selection includes authentic wontons made with the very best Vietnamese black tiger king prawns, we also offer a twin pack of Pan Asian Style Chicken Skewers, charcoal-grilled over hot coals for an authentic satay flavour and a Duck Selection pack including authentic flavours like hoisin, red thai, rendang and massaman.


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Posted by on December 03, 2013
The Problem:
Excessive and unnecessary regulations hurt our economy, increase costs and restrict access to private sector capital that our nation's job creators need to grow the economy and create jobs.
The Example:
Title IV of the Dodd-Frank Act imposes new registration and reporting requirements on hedge funds and private equity firms. Specifically, Title IV requires investment advisers to private investment funds to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. As a result of Title IV's registration requirements, advisers to private funds must maintain records and file reports with the SEC, which are made available to other regulators, including the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC).
Requiring all advisers to private funds to maintain records and file reports with the SEC does little to improve the SEC's ability to meet its mission, while weighing it down with unnecessary tasks and stifling rather than promoting capital formation.
The Bottom Line:
The Dodd-Frank Act was not written in stone or handed down from Mount Sinai, and Congress has an obligation to amend or repeal those provisions that did not cause or contribute to the financial crisis and whose costs outweigh their purported benefits.
The Solution:
The bipartisan H.R. 1105 – which the Financial Services Committee reported by a 38-18 (.pdf) vote on June 19, 2013, would exempt advisers to certain private equity funds from the new registration requirements imposed by Title IV of the Dodd-Frank Act. H.R. 1105 would exempt from SEC registration advisers to private equity funds that have not borrowed and that do not have outstanding a principal amount in excess of twice their funded capital commitments.
Posted by on December 02, 2013
The House is in session Monday through Thursday this week and will consider one Financial Services Committee bill. Be sure to check back here on the Bottom Line Blog -- and sign up for our email updates -- for additional information throughout the week.
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On Wednesday at 10 a.m. the Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on regulatory relief bills in 2128 Rayburn. And on Wednesday afternoon, the House will consider H.R. 1105, the Small Business Capital Access and Job Preservation Act.
Posted by on November 27, 2013
Chairman Hensarling Op-Ed | November 27, 2013
Persistently weak job growth, higher taxes on families and record-breaking government debt are the hallmarks of the failed economic experiment known as Obamanomics. It is an experiment made up of many policies, but its core revolves around one central belief: A larger, more powerful, more intrusive government can and should fix every problem.
The fact that you can no longer keep your health insurance, even if you like it, is yet more proof that government today has more control over our lives than ever. Perhaps nowhere is the presence of government more intrusive and dominant than in housing.
Government has maintained an oversized role in housing, based largely on the noble — but ultimately unsound — proposition that everyone should be encouraged to own a home. Tragically, a federal government that lives well beyond its means also encourages Americans to do the same.
What has been the effect of government housing policy? A dizzying cycle of booms and busts, first regionally in places such as California, New England and the western "oil patch" states, culminating finally in the massive national housing bubble that gave way to the financial crisis.
That crisis should have shown the wealth-destruction and significant social costs of exaggerated government intervention in housing. Yet instead of pursuing meaningful reforms, President Obama used the crisis to create a virtual government monopoly of the housing finance system.
At the heart of this monopoly are taxpayer-backed entities like Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Housing Administration, which now guarantee nine of every 10 new mortgages. This puts hardworking taxpayers on the hook for more than $6 trillion in mortgage guarantees, more than one-third the size of our entire economy.
The unfortunate irony here is that the very institutions the administration is relying upon to prop up our housing system are themselves already broken, broke and bailed out. Fannie and Freddie infamously received the biggest taxpayer-funded bailout in history: nearly $200 billion. Now there is a crisis at the Federal Housing Administration, which in good times is used to partially finance the operations of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
A New Deal creation designed to help first-time homebuyers and those with low and moderate incomes to buy homes, the Federal Housing Administration has experienced extreme mission creep since the start of the crisis. It now insures loans on homes valued as high as $729,750 — far beyond the reach of those with truly low or moderate incomes — and controls nearly 60 percent of the mortgage-insurance market, nearly twice its pre-crisis level.
This untenable expansion finally caught up with the Federal Housing Administration in September when it became the latest recipient of a taxpayer bailout. The agency's $1.7 billion bailout — the first in its history — equals roughly 10 percent of its annual receipts.
To make matters even worse, the agency bailout took place without a vote of Congress. The Federal Housing Administration has a permanent and unlimited direct line to the U.S. Treasury, so taxpayers could be writing blank checks for its bailout indefinitely. Every penny gets added on top of our already staggering $17 trillion national debt.
The bailout occurred despite years of assurances from the Obama administration that "all was well" at the agency. Administration officials repeatedly disregarded warning signs of its deteriorating condition, such as last year's actuarial report that revealed the agency's mutual mortgage insurance fund has a negative economic value of $16.3 billion. In fact, every year since 2008, the agency has been in violation of federal law for failing to maintain reserves equal to 2 percent of the current value of its guarantees.
The Federal Housing Administration's financial decline has been hastened by employing many of the castigated practices of subprime lenders such as small down payments, low credit scores and cheap upfront pricing. As a result, families become trapped in homes they ultimately cannot afford to keep. One in eight agency loans ends in default or foreclosure.
The agency has also refused to make full use of the tools it has at its disposal, such as raising premiums to their maximum or increasing minimum down payments. Commissioner Carol Galante testified recently before Congress that such increases would upset the "balance between strengthening the fund [and] making the cost of credit prohibitive for qualified homebuyers."
However, such arguments miss the fundamental point that a bankrupt Federal Housing Administration helps no one.
Clearly, the Obamanomics approach of more government to fix our housing problems is not working, nor is it sustainable.
That's why Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee, of which I am chairman, have offered a new vision for a sustainable housing system for America called the Protecting American Taxpayers and Homeowners Act. The Path Act is designed to reduce the government's domination of housing and right-size the agency's market share.
Specifically, the Path Act reforms the agency by returning its focus to its historic role of helping first-time, and low- and moderate-income homebuyers. It also gives the agency a clear countercyclical role to assist borrowers in times of significant credit contraction.
The Path Act removes the Federal Housing Administration from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, establishing it as a separate, self-sufficient agency. It requires the agency to charge minimum annual premiums, limit taxpayer exposure by properly adjusting the agency's maximum insurable loan limit, and maintain a strict 4 percent minimum capital reserve ratio.
The reforms enacted in the Path Act will create a sustainable housing-finance system and end the ruinous cycle of Washington's failed boom-bust-bailout housing schemes once and for all.
Americans deserve and demand a healthy economy. We cannot borrow, spend or bail out our way to prosperity. President Reagan said, "As government grows, liberty contracts." That applies to our economy as well. If government continues to dominate the housing market, we may never have a truly healthy and sustainable economy.
Posted by on November 24, 2013
Congressman Robert Pittenger (Twitter | Facebook) delivers this week's Sunday Video Message on the dangerously unaccountable Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The committee approved six bills to reform the CFPB last week.
Posted by on November 21, 2013
It has been five years since Lehman Brothers collapsed and longer since the US subprime bubble burst. Yet plans to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – the government-sponsored behemoths that underwrite the US housing market – are little nearer to completion. Both Republicans and the Obama administration agree on the need to wind these entities down. Just not quite yet.
Now a group of activist investors are agitating Washington to privatise their key mortgage insurance functions. Last week they raised their equity stakes in the two enterprises. Their business plans no doubt add up nicely – Fannie and Freddie have returned to solid profitability in the past two years. But a sell-off would make little sense from the taxpayer's point of view. The US has already privatised too many gains and socialised too many losses. It is past time for Washington to start the liquidation of Fannie and Freddie.
The temptation will clearly be to let things drift on for a while longer. Having pumped $187bn into Fannie and Freddie in 2008, the US government has now been more than repaid in dividends and profits. This year alone, dividends from the two GSEs has reduced the US fiscal deficit by almost $100bn. Fannie and Freddie have also helped to underpin the US housing recovery by underwriting roughly two-thirds of new mortgages. Again, the temptation will be to let the apple cart roll on.
Yet the bigger the US government's exposure to the housing market the more difficult it will be to wind down Fannie and Freddie. Reforming, rather than abolishing, them would be a mistake. Among the plans in circulation is a bill that would replace the GSEs with a smaller agency that would guarantee mortgage lenders against "catastrophic loss" defined as 10 per cent of principal. The Obama administration also wants to continue with the 30-year mortgage loan – a unique feature of the US housing market. Finally, it wants to maintain support for mortgages to low-income borrowers.
The first two goals are unnecessary and risky. There is no reason the US taxpayer should be on the hook for the next housing bubble. If there is a market for mortgage guarantees, then it will emerge. There is no need for Washington to keep inventing one. The Great Depression conditions that led to the agencies' creation have lost all relevance. Nor should the US government shield borrowers from the effects of monetary policy. No other country allows borrowers to lock in fixed-rate 30-year mortgages and then to refinance their loans when rates fall. Nor should the US. Instead of insuring against risk, it incentivises risk taking. Again, if a market exists for 30-year fixed paper, let it develop. Washington's role should be confined to regulation.
There is a stronger case for retaining support for low-income home ownership. But Fannie and Freddie are highly imperfect vessels to deliver it. Low-income support should come by targeted and explicit subsidy rather than an implicitly government-backed market. Fannie and Freddie's 2008 bankruptcy is sufficient testament to how easily others can game the system. By the time the meltdown hit, the two agencies were backing a majority of subprime mortgages. Never again should the US taxpayer have to step in.
Selling the business off to private investors is the worst option of all. Whatever Washington's protestations, the market would be likely to treat the agencies as implicitly guaranteed. The original design flaws would persist in a new form. Washington should sell off Fannie and Freddie's assets to the highest bidders. But the core business should be closed down. To avoid disruptions, the process should be gradual and phased. But that is no excuse for waiting. It is time to bring the curtain down on Fannie and Freddie.
Posted by on November 18, 2013
The House is in session Monday through Thursday this week. Be sure to check back here on the Bottom Line Blog -- and sign up for our email updates -- for committee specific information as the week progresses.
Here's what's happening:
On Tuesday morning at 10 a.m., the Oversight & Investigations Subcommittee undertakes a general overview of disparate impact theory. And in the afternoon, at 1:30 p.m., the Housing & Insurance Subcommittee reviews the implementation of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Act of 2012.
Addressing the lack of oversight and accountability at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the full committee will markup the following CFPB reform legislation on Wednesday at 10 a.m:
Finally, on Thursday at 9:30 a.m., the Capital Markets & GSEs Subcommittee will consider a legislative proposal to amend the Securities Investor Protection Act.
Posted by on November 17, 2013
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Matthew Cooper | November 7, 2013
It's been five years since Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac went under during the financial crisis. Since then, the mortgage giants have been in conservatorship. Congress is still pondering what to do. Everyone's pretty much agreed that the two should go. (For the record, neither lends money to homeowners directly; they buy mortgages and turn them into financial instruments that can be traded—thus pumping more money into the housing-finance market.) The question is, what should replace Fannie and Freddie? And it's there that the House conservatives admired by the tea party have offered an intriguing solution, albeit one that's galvanized many other Republicans and business interests in opposition.
The plan, proposed back in 2011 by Jeb Hensarling, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, would abolish Freddie and Fannie; but the big thing his proposal would do is eliminate any guarantee that the government would bail out a new entity. The bill would create a platform for investors to securitize mortgages—kind of like the old Fannie—but there'd be no fallback rescue plan. Hensarling says this would end "the boom, bust, and bailout cycle," because investors would take fewer chances with their money; that caution would remove the fuel that triggered the flood of housing finance that, in turn, encouraged people to gleefully buy what they couldn't afford—creating the price bubbles and defaults that led to the financial crisis. What's more, Hensarling's plan would rule out a huge price tag like the $180 billion to bail out Freddie and Fannie.
Over in the Senate, Mark Warner and Bob Corker see it differently. The Virginia Democrat and the Tennessee Republican are known for seeking common ground in a divided chamber. Together, they have been working for more than a year on their own plan for abolishing Fannie and Freddie and replacing the two entities with a mortgage market that requires large amounts of private capital to obtain a government guarantee. In other words, the industry would be putting up its own kind of insurance in case things go wrong, akin to the way plain-old banks pony up insurance money to protect customers' deposits. But if a catastrophic economic event occurs, the government then would provide a guarantee for investors. The president has praised the Corker-Warner approach, and his administration had provided considerable technical assistance. "We've been on the phone with them a lot," Corker says.
Both senators say the guarantee is essential to preserving the 30-year mortgage. Without a government backstop, they argue, investors will not finance a risky endeavor such as the standard mortgage loan—which may appear vanilla to homeowners but to investors represents considerable risk because interest rates fluctuate wildly over the generation-long term of the loan. "If you don't have this [guarantee]," Warner says, "there would be dramatically higher interest rates, no 30-year mortgage, and you would see a dramatically different housing market."
The myriad groups involved in housing overwhelmingly back the idea of keeping a guarantee. "We're actively and aggressively opposing [the House bill]," says Jamie Gregory of the National Association of Realtors. The housing phalanx in Washington is a formidable one, involving lobbies from financial institutions to builders to community activists who want more affordable housing. "Everybody in the industry believes that [Fannie and Freddie] reform needs to take place ... but the complete elimination of the government guarantee is not viable," says David Stevens, president and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association.
While those concerns are legitimate, eliminating the government backstop may be less risky than it seems. Here's the case for getting rid of the guarantee. The first reason is that it created a moral hazard, encouraging investors in mortgage-backed products to be reckless, because they knew they could be bailed out. That irresponsible spending on the housing side made it ridiculously easy to get a loan, thereby sending demand and prices up, creating the famed bubble. It's a stretch to say Fannie Mae alone caused the financial crisis; many other actors played a part. But there's no question that the guarantees are a big problem, and it's fair to ask if the more sensible guarantees in Corker-Warner would still encourage bubbles.
There's another reason for getting rid of the guarantee: evidence of enough money floating around the system to keep the 30-year mortgage alive and well, despite the housing lobby's fears. Look at the market for "jumbo" mortgages, those loans too large to have had a guarantee under Fannie. They have historically done well. Who's to say funding can't be found for less valuable 30-year mortgages? "From what I know about capitalism," Hensarling says, "if somebody demands a product, they'll get it." Those in the Housing Industrial Complex want the guarantee, despite its problems in the past, because they fear what would happen to interest rates and availability of capital. Fair enough. If the critics are right and the money does dry up for the housing market, Congress can always turn back to some kind of guarantee. But first, let's see if the market works.
Warner and Corker would like to get their bill moving to the Senate floor this year. "I am actually optimistic," Warner says. And, indeed, his bill has bipartisan cosponsors and is likely to become the basis for a Senate Banking Committee bill. For his part, Hensarling will have to sell the idea to a House Republican Conference that will be under pressure to block it unless he backs down on guarantees. That would be an unfortunate retreat. The guarantees didn't cause the financial crisis, but they made it worse. Industry and the markets cling to them. And that may be exactly the reason to be done with them.
This article appears in the November 9, 2013, edition of National Journal Magazine as After Fannie and Freddie.
Posted by on November 12, 2013
The House is in session Tuesday through Friday this week. Be sure to check back here on the Bottom Line Blog -- and sign up for our email updates -- for committee specific information throughout the week.
Here's what's happening:
On Wednesday the committee will hold our two subcommittee hearings of the week. At 10 a.m. the Housing and Insurance Subcommittee discusses the future of terrorism risk insurance and at 2 p.m. the Monetary Policy and Trade Subcommittee examines international central banking models. Both hearings are in 2128 Rayburn and will be live streamed on our website.
Finally, on Thursday, the committee will meet in open session to mark up the following measures:
The markup will also be held in 2128 and live streamed on our website.
Posted by on November 10, 2013
Wall Street Journal | Affordable Housing Is What You Can Afford
American Action Forum President Douglas Holtz-Eakin on a Senate housing "reform" bill that includes provisions for politically motivated lending.
Baltimore Sun | Consumer protection bureau fails to protect
A report by a Bipartisan Policy Center task force comes after almost a year's worth of in-depth review and analysis and seems to support what critics of the CFPB have been saying all along: This unaccountable bureaucracy harms business and consumers alike.
Heritage Foundation | Fannie and Freddie: What Record of Success?
The notion that the housing finance system in the U.S. worked until banks foreclosed on millions of homes is inaccurate.
Los Angeles Times | Dodd-Frank: Obama's other big bad law
The financial reform measure, like Obamacare, is flawed, with a similar potential to harm ordinary Americans.