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The awesome pic is segment of Comparing Wheelbarrows and Garden Carts post which is classified within Garden, Cart, With and posted at November 27, 2017 4:13:13 pm by Richard Lowry
Comparing Wheelbarrows and Garden Carts: Garden Cart With Seat
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When faced with lugging plants, soil, other materials around the yard, wheelbarrows and garden carts are indispensable tools. As a means of transport, each has their advantages and disadvantages. Here are some side by side comparisons of their basic features, as well as some shopping tips if you find yourself in the market to buy one.
Many variations of the garden wheelbarrow have appeared over the years, but most of the wheelbarrows you see displayed in big box garden centers these days are actually modeled after a contractor's wheelbarrow - sloped metal sides designed to haul cement.
Traditionally, garden wheelbarrows were made of wood. They had one metal wheel in front, a stabilizing leg on each side in the rear, and upright sides that could be removed for dumping. Today's wheelbarrows benefit from advances in design and feature things like double wheels for increased stability and square-shaped trays for added capacity.
Wheelbarrow Advantages
- Maneuverability. With their narrow front, wheelbarrows can maneuver into tight spaces better than large garden carts.
- Dumping. Wheelbarrows tip easily making them handy for dumping loose material like leaves, compost, soil, or gravel.
- Design options. For gardeners who lack a shed or garage, collapsible or "ground flush" models fold flat for compact storage.
- Weight distribution. Since the load lies well behind the axle and wheel, the user bears is forced to bear a lot of the load with their arms, shoulders, and back.
- Stability. Pushing most loaded wheelbarrows through soft earth is virtually impossible. The same is true for pushing a heavy load up a hill.
Garden Carts
Garden carts have either two or four wheels. Depending on the style, the wheels may be tall and thin with spokes, similar to bicycle tires, or be short and wide like those on a wheelbarrow.
The body of a classic garden cart is made from wood panels reinforced by a metal frame, but many of today's models are made from metal or thick plastic. Some models have a fixed front panel, and removable panels on the sides. Others have flat beds with no sides at all.
Garden Cart Advantages
- Weight distribution. The placement of the tires on garden carts means that the load lies directly above the axles and wheels. This allows the user to move heavier loads with less effort.
- Stability. On a garden cart, the wheels are placed on either side of the load, which increases the load's stability and prevents it from tipping.
- Capacity. Garden carts are great for hauling heavy loads and bulky cargo, like stones and firewood. The square shape of the bed also maximizes cargo room.
Garden Cart Disadvantages
- Maneuverability. Flat beds can be difficult to maneuver on non-smooth surfaces and a garden cart is large, square shape doesn't fit easily into small spaces.
- Dumping. Garden carts are designed not to tip, so dumping can be difficult unless you have a removable front panel.
Tips for Buying Either One
- Workmanship. Make sure the frame and tray are held together with bolts or welded joints. If possible, select "professional" or "industrial" grade models. Cheap wheelbarrows and garden carts are widely available, but most of them wont stand up to heavy-duty yard work over time.
- Payload size. The capacity of wheelbarrows and garden carts are measured in cubic feet. The size you choose will determine how well it can carry a load. Think about the largest amount of materials you're likely to be transporting and consider getting slightly more capacity than you think you will need.
- Overall Size. If you have a gate, arbor, or you need to haul materials through a narrow space between buildings or trees, be sure to buy a wheelbarrow or garden cart that will fit in between the space. Take your physical limitations into consideration as well. For example, pulling a cart might be easier than pushing a wheelbarrow, if you have mobility issues.A cart with a low bed will be easier to get things in and out of than the deep tray of a wheelbarrow. Do you have trouble bending? A wheelbarrow may be easier to tip and dump. You should be able to easily pull or lift the weight of the cart/wheelbarrow when it's empty.
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Antoine Winfield couldn't crack a deep Seattle Seahawks secondary. The veteran cornerback might have taken that as a sign to end his lengthy NFL career.
Fox Sports' Jay Glazer reported Saturday that Winfield, who reportedly was going to be among Seattle's roster cuts, made the decision to retire from the league. Shortly thereafter, the Seahawks announced Winfield had been cut. Because of that, he now can collect $1 million in guarantees, according to NFL.com's Ian Rapoport.
Seahawks coach Pete Carroll confirmed the cornerback's intentions on Twitter.
Wishing Antoine Winfield the best in his decision to retire. He's a consummate pro and a great team player. We were lucky to have him!â Pete Carroll (@PeteCarroll) August 31, 2013
It's a surprising decision by Winfield, who showed he had plenty left in the tank last season with the Minnesota Vikings. Winfield was released for salary-cap reasons in March, but the Vikings were one of several teams interested in the 36-year-old's services. He signed with the Seahawks in April, but he couldn't find a role in the NFL's deepest and most talented secondary.
A tactical error in free agency perhaps, but it doesn't sound like Winfield is wracked with regret. He played 14 seasons and went to three Pro Bowls. A nice run by a solid player.The "Around The League Podcast" is now available on iTunes! Click here to listen and subscribe.

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Tor Browser 7.5 is released
The Tor Browser Team is proud to announce the first stable release in the 7.5 series. This release is available from the Tor Browser Project page and also from our distribution directory.
This release features important security updates to Firefox.
Apart from the usual Firefox security updates it contains some notable improvements compared to the 7.0 series. Here are the highlights:
We redesigned parts of the Tor Browser user interface. One of the major improvements for our users is our new Tor Launcher experience. This work is based on the findings published at 'A Usability Evaluation of Tor Launcher', a paper done by Linda Lee et al. At our work we iterated on the redesign proposed by the research, improving it even further. Here are the main changes we would like to highlight:
Welcome Screen
Our old screen had way too much information for the users, leading many of them to spend great time confused about what to do. Some users at the paper experiment spent up to 40min confused about what they needed to be doing here. Besides simplifying the screen and the message, to make it easier for the user to know if they need to configure anything or not, we also did a 'brand refresh' bringing our logo to the launcher.
Censorship circumvention configuration
This is one of the most important steps for a user who is trying to connect to Tor while their network is censoring Tor. We also worked really hard to make sure the UI text would make it easy for the user to understand what a bridge is for and how to configure to use one. Another update was a little tip we added at the drop-down menu (as you can see below) for which bridge to use in countries that have very sophisticated censorship methods.
Proxy help information
The proxy settings at our Tor Launcher configuration wizard is an important feature for users who are under a network that demands such configuration. But it can also lead to a lot of confusion if the user has no idea what a proxy is. Since it is a very important feature for users, we decided to keep it in the main configuration screen and introduced a help prompt with an explanation of when someone would need such configuration.
As part of our work with the UX team, we will also be coordinating user testing of this new UI to continue iterating and make sure we are always improving our users' experience. We are also planning a series of improvements not only for the Tor Launcher flow but for the whole browser experience (once you are connected to Tor) including a new user onboarding flow. And last but not least we are streamlining both our mobile and desktop experience: Tor Browser 7.5 adapted the security slider design we did for mobile bringing the improved user experience to the desktop as well.
- We ship the first release in Tor's 0.3.2 series, 0.3.2.9. This release includes support for the Next Generation of Onion Services.
- On the security side we enabled content sandboxing on Windows and fixed remaining issues on Linux that prevented printing to file from working properly. Additionally, we improved the compiler hardening on macOS and fixed holes in the W^X mitigation on Windows.
- We finally moved away from Gitian/tor-browser-bundle as the base of our reproducible builds environment. Over the past weeks and months rbm/tor-browser-build got developed making it much easier to reproduce Tor Browser builds and to add reproducible builds for new platforms and architectures. This will allow us to ship 64bit bundles for Windows (currently in the alpha series available) and bundles for Android at the same day as the release for the current platforms/architectures is getting out.
The full changelog since Tor Browser 7.0.11 is:
- All Platforms
- Update Firefox to 52.6.0esr
- Update Tor to 0.3.2.9
- Update OpenSSL to 1.0.2n
- Update Torbutton to 126.96.36.199
- Update Tor Launcher to 0.2.14.3
- Bug 23262: Implement integrated progress bar
- Bug 23261: implement configuration portion of new Tor Launcher UI
- Bug 24623: Revise "country that censors Tor" text
- Bug 24624: tbb-logo.svg may cause network access
- Bug 23240: Retrieve current bootstrap progress before showing progress bar
- Bug 24428: Bootstrap error message sometimes lost
- Bug 22232: Add README on use of bootstrap status messages
- Bug 10573: Replace deprecated nsILocalFile with nsIFile (code clean-up)
- Translations update
- Update HTTPS Everywhere to 2018.1.11
- Update NoScript to 126.96.36.199
- Bug 23104: CSS line-height reveals the platform Tor Browser is running on
- Bug 24398: Plugin-container process exhausts memory
- Bug 22501: Requests via javascript: violate FPI
- Bug 24756: Add noisebridge01 obfs4 bridge configuration
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- Bug 22084: Spoof network information API
- Build System
- All Platforms
- Switch from gitian/tor-browser-bundle to rbm/tor-browser-build
- Windows
- Linux
- All Platforms
I am another Tor user, a…
I am another Tor user, a contributor but not affiliated with Tor Project in any way.
> On top of that, censorship is 100% out of step with the legal intent behind Tor's existence and funding.
So you believe your comments are being censored?
I've been using Tor for many many years, and my own comments often fail to appear. But while this is frustrating, I generally assume they just got buried under what I hear is a mountain of commentbot junk.
> Those stupid little donation stunts don't change anything.
As a long time Tor user, I vigorously dispute the claim that Tor Project's long term project of moving from a USG-dependent funding model to a user-supported funding model (as at EFF, ACLU, etc) "won't change anything". I think this drive can and must succeed, and it will change everything. For the better.
Please join me, everyone, in contributing something, no amount is too small, to Tor Project!
Thank you.
Thank you.
Any news about Vista x64 fix…
Any news about Vista x64 fix for TorBrowser ? Both programs (Tor + Firefox) have problems as already described. Clearly became incompatible after version 7.0.11 (who worked and still works fine).
Take care that some new compilers and api are made Vista incompatible by MS on purpose. There is no benefit in using them on Tor Browser.
Hopefully I think Tor…
Hopefully I think Tor Browser will be better than the previous ones.
Am I missing something, I…
Am I missing something, I thought torbrowser 7.5 was meant to allow me to visit onion v3 links?
"Problem loading" on every v3 site I try.
Try these. Riseup worked…
Try these. Riseup worked for me.
I am having the exact same…
I am having the exact same problem on TAILS 3.5 with TOR Broswer 7.5
Same problem. I'm using…
Same problem. I'm using Tails 3.5 which is supposed to come with Tor 7.5 . All v3 sites that I attempt to go to immediately say unable to connect.
All tabs crash after a few…
All tabs crash after a few seconds.Never had any problem ever before 7.5.
What operating system are…
What operating system are you on? Does it work better for you if you set
browser.tabs.remote.autostart.2 to
false in your
about:config and restart?
keeps crashing for me,i get …
keeps crashing for me,i get "gah.your tab crashed" all the time.
What operating system are…
What operating system are you on? Does it work better for you if you set
browser.tabs.remote.autostart.2 to
false in your
about:config and restart?
I don't have time to check…
I don't have time to check,it crashes immediately
Okay, then you could try to…
Okay, then you could try to change the
extensions-overrides.js file before you start. You can find it in your Tor Browser directory in
Browser\TorBrowser\Data\Browser\profile.default\preferences. Open it with
notepad or some other editor and add at the end of the file
pref("browser.tabs.remote.autostart.2", false);. Save and restart.
It keeps crashing…
It keeps crashing nevertheless,i use win'10 home.
Do you have some Antivirus…
Do you have some Antivirus/Firewall software installed? If so, which one? Could you test whether uninstalling it fixes the problem? (disabling it is often not enough)
thank you for your work, my…
Thank you for your work, my dear reptilians!
Tis hard to please the whole…
Tis hard to please the whole lot , ain't it ? Thanks a lot for your time and effort , guys and gals...!
oh nice, even thought my…
oh nice, even thought my network is only 10KB/s, i still using Tor, because the chinese police is fucking my network and spying on it.
Both updates this month…
Both updates this month failed!! They would neither restart nor therefore work tor. The earlier one to version 7.0.11 was such a hassle redownloading and finally restoring tor on my own, after the same thing happened trying the 7.5 update today, 1/2017, I just reloaded 7.0.11 and await tor, or mozilla, or whoever is going to disable it until it thus stops working (i hope that is not soon). Unhappy.
Which operating system are…
Which operating system are you on? Could you enable update logging and report back which error you are seeing? Set
app.update.log to
true and then open the browser console with Ctrl+Shift+J when downloading/installing the update. You should see debug output there.
This update broke my marker…
This update broke my marker addon. Please fix!!
Torbrowser failed restart…
Torbrowser failed restart after download of 7.5
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- Jan 27 08:47:33.000 [notice] Tor has successfully opened a circuit. Looks like client functionality is working.

- Jan 27 08:47:33.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 100%: Done

- Jan 27 08:47:34.000 [notice] New control connection opened from 127.0.0.1.

- Jan 27 08:47:34.000 [notice] New control connection opened from 127.0.0.1.

- Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x0600

- Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x0601

- Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x0602

- Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x0603

- Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x06dd

- Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x070f

- Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x2028

- Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x2029

- Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0xfff9

- Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0xfffa

- Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0xfffb

- Illegal AddressMatcher: [xpconnect wrapped nsIPrefBranch] -- TypeError: s.split is not a function

- Illegal AddressMatcher: [xpconnect wrapped nsIPrefBranch] -- TypeError: s.split is not a function

- Jan 27 08:48:18.000 [notice] Owning controller connection has closed -- exiting now.

- Jan 27 08:48:18.000 [notice] Catching signal TERM, exiting cleanly.

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(firefox:27617): GLib-ERROR **: creating thread 'gdbus': Error creating thread: Resurssi ei tilapäisesti ole käytettävissä

- /home/hurtta/bin/torbrowser: rivi 368: 27617 Jäljitys/katkaisupisteansa (luotiin core-tiedosto) TOR_CONTROL_PASSWD=${TOR_CONTROL_PASSWD} ./firefox --class "Tor Browser" -profile TorBrowser/Data/Browser/profile.default "${@}" < /dev/null

- hurtta:~$

Starting it again worked
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- hurtta:~$ torbrowser --verbose

- Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x0600

- Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x0601

- Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x0602

- Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x0603

- Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x06dd

- Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x070f

- Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x2028

- Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x2029

- Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0xfff9

- Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0xfffa

- Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0xfffb

- 1517035791500 addons.webextension.<unknown> WARN Loading extension 'null': Reading manifest: Error processing permissions.1: Unknown permission "privacy"

- 1517035791500 addons.webextension.<unknown> WARN Loading extension 'null': Reading manifest: Error processing permissions.4: Unknown permission "unlimitedStorage"

- 1517035791600 addons.webextension.<unknown> WARN Loading extension 'null': Reading manifest: Error processing devtools_page: An unexpected property was found in the WebExtension manifest.

- Jan 27 08:49:52.142 [notice] Tor 0.3.2.9 running on Linux with Libevent 2.0.22-stable, OpenSSL 1.0.2n, Zlib 1.2.8, Liblzma N/A, and Libzstd N/A.

- Jan 27 08:49:52.142 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning

- Jan 27 08:49:52.143 [notice] Read configuration file "/home/hurtta/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/torrc-defaults".

- Jan 27 08:49:52.143 [notice] Read configuration file "/home/hurtta/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/torrc".

- Jan 27 08:49:52.145 [notice] Scheduler type KIST has been enabled.

- Jan 27 08:49:52.145 [notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9150

- Jan 27 08:49:52.145 [notice] Opening Control listener on 127.0.0.1:9151

- Jan 27 08:49:52.000 [notice] Parsing GEOIP IPv4 file /home/hurtta/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/geoip.

- 1517035792100 addons.webextension.{73a6fe31-595d-460b-a920-fcc0f8843232} WARN Loading extension '{73a6fe31-595d-460b-a920-fcc0f8843232}': Reading manifest: Error processing permissions.1: Unknown permission "privacy"

- 1517035792100 addons.webextension.{73a6fe31-595d-460b-a920-fcc0f8843232} WARN Loading extension '{73a6fe31-595d-460b-a920-fcc0f8843232}': Reading manifest: Error processing permissions.4: Unknown permission "unlimitedStorage"

- Jan 27 08:49:52.000 [notice] Parsing GEOIP IPv6 file /home/hurtta/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/geoip6.

- Jan 27 08:49:52.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 0%: Starting

- Jan 27 08:49:52.000 [notice] Starting with guard context "default"

- Jan 27 08:49:52.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 45%: Asking for relay descriptors

- Jan 27 08:49:52.000 [notice] New control connection opened from 127.0.0.1.

- Jan 27 08:49:52.000 [notice] New control connection opened from 127.0.0.1.

- 1517035792800 firstname.lastname@example.com WARN Loading extension 'email@example.com': Reading manifest: Error processing devtools_page: An unexpected property was found in the WebExtension manifest.

- 1517035792800 firstname.lastname@example.com WARN Please specify whether you want browser_style or not in your browser_action options.

- Illegal AddressMatcher: [xpconnect wrapped nsIPrefBranch] -- TypeError: s.split is not a function

- Illegal AddressMatcher: [xpconnect wrapped nsIPrefBranch] -- TypeError: s.split is not a function

- Jan 27 08:49:53.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 52%: Loading relay descriptors

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My opinion. Just keep…
My opinion. Just keep Torbrowser 7.0.11. Disable automatic updates and even alerts to update (though not all possible). Install Torbrowser 7.5 somewhere else as Torbrowser2, in a portable way. Use the one that works. My opinion, 7.5 is full of unsolved problems and new incompatibilities.
Could you name those please,…
Could you name those please, so that we can fix them? I am fine if you add them as a comment to this blog post but if you could open trac tickets at https://trac.torproject.org that would rock. Thanks!
How do I download tor on an…
How do I download tor on an iPhone? Or is that still not really possible?
There is no Tor Browser for…
There is no Tor Browser for iPhone, correct. The best tool available is OnionBrowser right now, see: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/CommunityTeam/S…
how to fix this?…
how to fix this?
frameLoader.tabParent is null
It might be that the enabled…
It might be that the enabled sandboxing is not working for you, hm. Which Windows version are you using?
v3 sites don't works with 7…
v3 sites don't works with 7.5! (fresh install)
Try to load the page and always "Problem loading page"
I'm autoquote myself. I've…
I'm autoquote myself. I've changed several first node (blacklisting the IPs on my firewall) and now v3 sites work fine. But there are some general problems with v3 sites because they go up/down frequently.
BTW, 7.5 works good with the normal .onion sites and the rest of the web.
It is written on the…
It is written on the download page :
Tor Browser
Version 7.5 (2018-01-23) - Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP
This is FALSE. Torbrowser 7.5 is completly incompatible with Vista x64 !!! Both, Firexof part and the Tor part DO NOT work on Vista 64.
Tried on several computers. This is simply put "not working".
You need to go back to Torbrowser 7.0.11 and configure it before anything to stay away from automated updates.
If you got in the menu, your links tranfered, you need to save them from Torbrowser 7.5 before deleting Torbrowser and restore them in 7.0.11.
Take care not to update to 7.5 if it was not automated, before this major bug, if this is one, is repaired.
You could help us debug that…
You could help us debug that and try to find a fix for your problem. So, you said the Tor part is not working either on Vista 64bit. Could you download the expert bundle (32bit), extract it and run it on your machine? (The link to the file is: https://archive.torproject.org/tor-package-archive/torbrowser/7.5/tor-w… and to the signature: https://archive.torproject.org/tor-package-archive/torbrowser/7.5/tor-w…) What error are you getting?
I am very glad to see TP…
I am very glad to see TP using some thoughtful advice from a researcher who has studied usability issues!
However, I am concerned that your work in trying to improve usability (which is a good idea in general) will be rather quickly "buried" if TP neglects the needed follow up:
o reorganize the website so that the most up-to-date and most useful (to newbies) data is easy to find; for example
+ the nice "videos" [animated images] above showing how to use the new interface,
+ "follow these simple steps" tutorials on verifying the detached signature of the tarball,
+ EFF's diagram of the onion concept (a Snowden leak shows NSA teaches bad guys using it; why shouldn't we teach the world using it?),
+ links to EFF's "Surveillance Self-defense", ACLU's "They are Watching" sites, Riseup
(examples of information *not* useful to newbies would include the original Tor design specification and outdated technical information now of interest primarily to historians of technology not to newcomers to the Tor community),
o list of key people and Tor Board must be kept up to date and easy to find,
o statement of principles must be kept up to date and easy to find (in particular, keep trying to make "no backdoors ever" less ambiguous and easier to understand, perhaps by saying the same thing five different ways and by defining all terms e.g. [software application level] "backdoor"),
o list of Tor products and their status (mature, beta) must be easy to find and kept up to date,
o to help at risk people (e.g. soda tax advocates, bloggers, journalists) better understand the technical attacks they might reasonably expect to confront in the months and years ahead, I think the following should also be easy to find in TP's website:
+ link to EFF's collection (not up to date alas) of published Snowden leaks,
+ in particular, to GCHQ/NSA attacks on Tor circa 2012,
+ link to Micah Lee's encryption for activists tutorial,
+ link to WP "Top Secret America", The Intercept "Cell Spies", Wikileaks "Spy Files" sites,
+ link to Citizen Lab site (e.g. reports on Ethiopian government cyberattacks on USPERS),
+ links to best nontechnical explanations of Shellshock, Krack, Meltdown, Spectre flaws,
o institute a regular Friday post in this blog allowing users to "ask us anything", or make suggestions in the comments; sure it will be a pain to keep out spambot comments from such a regular posting, but such an institution will surely be useful and reassuring to newbie Tor users and non-US Tor users in particular, if they see a genuine question being answered promptly and authoritatively; many newbie questions are best answered by citing a link or two and currently these are too hard to find if for security reasons you don't keep them in browser bookmarks (see above for a better way to keep the most quotable links handy)
o ask Tails people to check the blog for questions about Tails; Tails Project is listed as partner of Tor Project so it is confusing and off-putting when some comment in the blog here angrily suggests that Tails questions don't belong here; of course they do; the purpose of this blog is or ought to be to offer helpful information to the Tor community--- including not only node operators, other volunteers and "power users", but also "ordinary users", especially newbies!
o in short, look over your entire website and outreach activities, and ask a hard question about everything you see: does this enhance our *current* drives to persuade/enable more ordinary people all over the world to use Tor (wisely) every day?
> Meltdown, Spectre flaws…
> Meltdown, Spectre flaws
While using Tails 3.5 (running on a laptop which uses an Intel chip) to comment in this blog, I am definitely seeing the unfortunate effects of the patch against Meltdown! This is interesting because although I upgraded Tails as soon as 3.4 and 3.5 became available, this is the first time I've definitely seen the slowdown due to preventing the problematic speculative execution.
Needless so say, as one journalist wrote, the needs of security must always come before matters of convenience, so I am happy to cope with changes.
Who do I contact to offer to…
Who do I contact to offer to help with UI or branding for Tor?
We have a UX mailing list …
We have a UX mailing list (https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ux) and regular UX team meetings on IRC (https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/UxTeam) Feel free to subscribe and contribute, and welcome to the meetings!
If you want to start working right away on branding issues in Tor Browser for instance, have a look at our bug tracker: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=!closed&keywords=….
Since I use 7.5 I see in my…
Since I use 7.5 I see in my task manager constantly something being uploaded and downloaded. This was never before. What's that about?
And everytime I delete history in Tor, after logging in and out somwhere with my email, and refresh de page I see my email already filled in the box. How is that possible?
Not sure yet. Does this…
Not sure yet. Does this happen with a clean, new Tor Browser 7.5 as well? Do you see the email address filled in the box after doing a "New Identity" as well (click on the green onion icon -> New Identity)?
Already reported on TBB 7.0…
Already reported on TBB 7.0 series, see https://blog.torproject.org/comment/273040#comment-273040
TBB ships with several sites allowed by default to install add-ons.
Even after they are removed, they are re-allowed upon restart.
This HUGE security hole still exists in TBB 7.5.
The excuse that they can't remove them because they get NoScript updates via those sites
is bull@#$%. The commenter was exactly correct who said that starting from firefox is a
bad idea for security. Better to start from scratch.
> Better to start from…
> Better to start from scratch.
Generally speaking, I share your concerns about possible security holes in Tor Browser.
But I think we need to place the decision to base Tor Browser on Firefox-ESR in context. Modern browsers are enormously complex things, and users (even Tor users) expect them to do many things seamlessly. That means browsers require a big team to make-- and also, as you know, it means they are hard to secure. Given the small size of the Tor Project's budget and developer staff, and the enormority of the technical/political threats TP must confront, I think it makes good sense to base Tor Browser on an existing open source browser.
There may be merit to discussing the possibility of basing Tor Browser on another open source browser, but this would raise another issue, the fact that making big changes in something millions of at risk people rely upon can be more dangerous than opting for slow evolution of something we know more or less works for most users.
So generally speaking, I feel we must place our trust in the TB developers to make the best (or "least bad"?) decision when choices are available.
Tor for Windows works…
Tor for Windows works perfectly but Tor for Linux does not.A strange
situation in the sphere of anonymity and security. :)
> Tor for Windows works…
> Tor for Windows works perfectly but Tor for Linux does not.
This is a very sweeping and ambiguously stated claim made without any evidence whatever.
You claim "Tor for Linux" does not work perfectly. Do you mean Tor Browser 7.5 for 64 bit Linux? Did you download the tarball from torproject.org and verify the detached signature before installing it on your 64 bit computer running some Linux distribution?
For all we know at this point, you tried to install 64-bit Tor Browser on an old 32-bit laptop, for example.
I am just an ordinary Tor user, not affiliated with Tor Project, but I've see enough comments to know that the more detail you can provide, the better, assuming you actually want TP to help you fix a genuine problem.
> A strange situation in the sphere of anonymity and security. :)
The Tor community is under constant assault, ranging from technical attacks (e.g. from Carnegie-Mellon nasties) to state-sponsored disinformation/suasion campaigns (e.g. those documented a few years ago in this blog).
Tor Project has very few paid employees and runs mostly on volunteer labor.
Given the forces arrayed against the Tor community, I feel we deserve a great deal of credit for having proven (so far) much harder to kill off than some of the nastiest governments on Earth wish.
I wanted to watch a new…
I wanted to watch a new story video in Australia that only plays to Australia, so I set exitnodes to Australia's country code (AU). This worked and Tor is exiting in Australia. I went to the news web page and it saw me from Australia and drew the page. But when I go to play the video it fails and says I am from the wrong country.
How is it the video was able to determine my real IP address? Is this an HTML5 thing, and I thought by default Tor prevented videos from obtaining your real IP? I am confused.
How do I configure Tor 7.5 to not give up my real IP to a video stream?
My guess: when your Tor…
My guess: when your Tor Browser requested the page it used an exit server in AU, so the remote server gave you the exit server the page and it passed back down the circuit to you. But when your Tor Browser requested the video, owing to the vagaries of CDN networks, that was on a different server using a different URL domain and Tor created a new circuit for the second connection, for which the exit server was not in AU.
> I set exitnodes to Australia's country code (AU).
Or maybe my guess is wrong!
Tails may be safer for you, because Tails does better at avoiding leakages of your real IP.
Hi there,…
Hi there,
An error occured when I was trying to verify the signautre of tor browser 7.5 using GPG4WIN, plz see below:
gpg: requesting key 93298290 from hkp server pool.sks-keyservers.net
gpg: no valid OpenGpg data found
gpg: total number processed: 0
gpg: keyserver communications error : keyserver helper internal error
gpg: keyserver communications error: General error
Could you help me to see what is the problem?
Many thanks in advance!
Sounds like it might not be…
Sounds like it might not be listed in that keyserver, or something else went wrong on the server.
That key (the TBB signing key) has been around for a long time so it should have propagated to that keyserver. I checked and it is in pgp.mit.edu. Try downloading it there. Search for
My guess is this is due to something innocuous, but you certainly shouldn't install the new TBB until you can verify the detached signature.
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noscript icon still jumping (update to 188.8.131.52)


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...The message they [commentators] hold is clear: if you're a girl or woman who likes receiving overt sexual attention from men and boys (in public), it's because you lack the self-respect necessary to throw off the confines of external validation regarding female sexuality and beauty. We hear this self-esteem argument in various places, including conversations about female promiscuity, girls and women who wear revealing clothing, and the reasons women become sex workers. The underlying assumption in this logic is that desiring or expressly seeking out male sexual attention is the result of having low self-esteem.
For starters, comments of this kind set up a false dichotomy of women who have self-confidence and those who lack it (as though we don't all struggle with confidence in various circumstances), which allows the speaker to denigrate and "other" women who engage with men unfamiliar to them in a sexual manner on the street, blame these women (at least in part) for the problem of street harassment, and bolster one's own sense of personal integrity and moral superiority.
I thought Mandy's points in the rest of the article (which I highly suggest you read) were really spot-on and insightful. I especially appreciated that she mentioned how fine but distinct the line between flattery and street harassment is. I thought she put it well when she said, "Who determines the difference between a compliment and street harassment? The simple answer is: you do. The not-so-simple-answer is that we all do... and it depends heavily on context."
I do have one criticism with Mandy's article, however. While she quite rightly states that the distinction between flattery and street harassment is partially defined by what the target of the comment or gesture thinks it is, I think she should have clarified that street harassers aren't people who meant to pay a compliment and were just misunderstood. Street harassment, like sexual assault, is not the result of the perpetrator finding their target so irresistible that they cannot control themselves. It is about the perpetrator trying to exert power over and intimidate the person they are directing their comment or gesture at and it is not okay.
While I don't think Mandy was in any way disagreeing with what I said, I do wish she clarified what she meant. Street harassment is unfortunately so normalized and accepted that many targets of it feel they don't have a right to be upset about it or take action against it. In our current environment, myself and my fellow feminist bloggers out there need to be careful that we do not accidentally reinforce an upsetting misconception by not clarifying our meaning.
All in all though, I thought Mandy made some really great points and I applaud her for taking on this issue and pointing out a common problem in the way people talk about victims of street harassment.


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Monday, June 6, 2011
a dream came true today
33 comments:
- Sharla Watene said...
So cute!!! Is that Charlie in the background? How is that little guy?
- June 6, 2011 at 7:26 PM
- Red She Said said...
ADORABLE!!!!!!!! Your family has the best hair. We're talking history here.
- June 6, 2011 at 7:48 PM
- kelly said...
persistence persistence persistence i have four little girls and i just kept on plugging away, and now they love pigtails or as know in our house "pig in the tails"....
btw..Davy looks super adorable with them in her hair, she has such gorgeous hair colour...xx
- June 6, 2011 at 8:34 PM
Oh my gosh, they make Davy look like so much more of a big girl :) I love it! Sooooo adorable!
- June 6, 2011 at 8:35 PM
- Tee said...
So precious! That was a very exciting day for us; the day I got to put piggy-tails in my daughter's hair. And is she standing in that top photo?! Even if she's kneeling on her own...wow! She jut gets cuter by the day ;)
Oh, happy late anniversary, too!
- June 6, 2011 at 8:44 PM
- al said...
she is an absolute doll!
- June 6, 2011 at 8:44 PM
- Emily said...
Oh man, I can't wait for the pigtails! My daughter is just a month younger than Davy and I think she aaaalmost has enough hair to pigtail it up. The only thing that is a little sad about pigtails though is that they suddenly look like a little girl instead of a baby and then I get sad that my baby is growing up too fast.....but, let's be honest I get over that pretty darn quick cuz the pigtails are pretty darn cute and on Davy especially!
- June 6, 2011 at 8:51 PM
- heather said...
she looks SO cute ruthy. I'm also a major sucker for a little girl with a red bow in her hair- so DOUBLE whammy. I used to man-handle wendy until she eventually gave up, so... hang in there and just keep re-doing them every ten minutes. totally worth it.
- June 6, 2011 at 8:52 PM
- Ora said...
Holy honk! She is so adorable! I love little "spit tails" lol. My daugther had so little hair that hers were only visible when they glowed in the sun the first time I did it lol. It's never too early to train them to love having their hair all done. Keep at it, eventually she will comply lol.
- June 6, 2011 at 9:11 PM
- Ariana said...
They're SO cute!! These are some of the most adorable pictures of her I've seen! (I've been following your blog for a couple months now)
My daughter constantly pulled her clips and ponytails out but one day she just stopped! She was still pretty little, too.
Davy's hair is so thick! I love it.
- June 6, 2011 at 11:01 PM
- thefoxkids said...
if you get those tiny clear elastics she won't be able to take them out you can only use them once (or at least I never had luck using them more than once)... I had a girl after 2 boys and felt the same as you re the pigtales I had to wrestle my daughter to the ground but I kept it up and it wasn't long before she submitted to pigtails and didn't even try o take them out!!! good luck!
- June 7, 2011 at 2:23 AM
- Huddyma said...
ha ha! Davy is so cute! Look at all that thick hair you have to work with...love it!
- June 7, 2011 at 5:13 AM
- Ruthie said...
- June 7, 2011 at 5:23 AM
- Georgia said...
LONG LIVE PIGTAILS.....I love it. She is just adorable in them!!!
- June 7, 2011 at 6:43 AM
- Brittany said...
As soon as I read the title and saw the picture I knew where you were going with this post. I too have this dream...I'm just not sure mine will ever come true. She is adorable!!!
- June 7, 2011 at 8:06 AM
- Kim said...
This makes me want to put pigtails on Beau.
- June 7, 2011 at 8:59 AM
- Artfulife said...
So adorable :)
- June 7, 2011 at 10:02 AM
- Regan said...
Could she be any cuter? I have never posted, but I want you to know I appreciate your blog and love your dedication and appreciation for your children. I am the mom of one 7 month old without a hair in sight! Hoping for pigtails someday.....
- June 7, 2011 at 8:05 PM
- Beth said...
May the force be with you!
She looks so big! and adorable
- June 8, 2011 at 3:50 PM
- drudgemom5 said...
I swear I didn't think Davy could be any cuter but she is stinkin adorable with her pigtails.
- June 8, 2011 at 8:11 PM
- Sarah Hull said...
Just melt my heart all over the place right this second!! She is a DOLL!!! Can't wait to meet her on Friday night!! Whoot!!!
- June 8, 2011 at 9:43 PM
- mer said...
oh my goodness...cutest thing ever!
- June 9, 2011 at 3:02 PM
- Corrie said...
love the hair! she is so adorable!
- June 11, 2011 at 5:58 PM
- Katherine said...
I'm visiting from Karen's blog. I have to say, you have such an inspiring blog, such an inspiring family and life. I guess that's what they say when you go through dark times and live to tell the stories.
And as for the pigtails. Well, I have boys, so I have severe pigtail envy. There is no way my boys are letting me do that to them.
- June 11, 2011 at 6:27 PM
- Roberta said...
Oh, yes! Pigtails are the best! Serious cuteness going on there! Stopping by from Karen's blog.
- June 11, 2011 at 7:32 PM
- The Book Nut said...
She is perfect for pigtails! Very cute! :)
I'm just stopping by from Karen's, congrats on being her featured blogger!
- June 12, 2011 at 4:49 AM
- Jen said...
I am a big fan of pigtails, myself.
- June 12, 2011 at 12:19 PM
- Caitlin said...
You were right, she's at least 20% cuter! All my daughter wears is pigtails, so we share a love of that hair style. Can't wait to hear about the benefit. Wish we could have been there.
- June 12, 2011 at 7:34 PM
- ~Valentina~ said...
Love it! She looks super cute and big!
- June 13, 2011 at 1:48 PM
- Jax @ AlyandAsh said...
I just had to come back and tell you it's been fun with season one of YGG coming on instant view on Netflicks my son has been enjoying watching the older episodes and it's so cute to see Max and Ollie on there dancing and counting etc. It's amazing how fast kids grow, they were so little back then!
- June 13, 2011 at 3:37 PM
- Jax @ AlyandAsh said...
And Davy looks mad cute in those pigtails! I love it!
- June 13, 2011 at 3:38 PM
- HypoGal said...
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- June 13, 2011 at 5:43 PM
- Charisse said...
This is my first time here and your little girl is a DOLL!!! Love that chubby face and those little pigtails. My little munchkin tore her pigtails out all the time, too. I started using those little bitty plastic bands. They work GREAT and are hard for little fingers to get a hold of.
- June 14, 2011 at 10:17 AM


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Day 3.
Springs Junction to Otira. 220 kms
I pack up my tent quickly where I pitched it the night before, conscious of the fact that not only am I close to the road but that there is a tourist lodge nearby and I'm sure that that class of people won't want a grubby cycle traveller camped on their front door step. No other cyclists have passed while I perform this and in no time I'm on my bike and have covered the 4kms to Springs Junction where I stop for an energy drink and other small morsels that I now can't recall. I'm impatient to get to Reef ton a further 40kms on and over the Rahu Saddle. I need to get there by 9am in order to be on Schedule for today's ride. At this stage I don't know where I will end up but in training for the event I left Reef ton at 9am in order to get through the Big River Track and Waiuta Track. So that's what I want to replicate today. The ride over the Saddle is easy and I role into Reef ton bang on time to find Vaughn just about to leave. He apparently got there last night but must have had a late start.
I grabbed a breakfast of filled rolls, the usual coke and a rather nice custard pie. I pondered on whether to take food with me on this leg through the bush but decided against, packing only a couple of packets of sweeties. I was confident that I could get through the track and out to Ikamatea by early afternoon. When I practised this section I had pouring rain but today the weather was lovely raising my spirits. So without further delays I was off after Vaughn out of town and up into the old Gold Miner's trails. So far my bike had run beautifully but I was noticing that with the dust my gear changing was stiffer than normal. I worried that I could break a gear cable and toyed with the idea of buying a new cable at the bike shop in Reef ton before I left. But in the end Reef ton residents are obviously not early risers because by 9.30am when I left the bike shop was still not open. I decided to take the chance.
The Big River trail was un-eventful. My thoughts as I cycled through turned to how dusty and sticky that I felt after yesterday's ride and a night in the tent. I tried to give myself a bit of a clean-up in the Big River but short of stripping completely and dunking myself in the river it was a waste of time. The Waiuta trail (next on the agenda) was pretty much a walk festival with my bike and its slick tyres. However I was pleased to see that rangers had cleared up a number of fallen trees that I had encounter when I was last through so progress was better than expected. Thinking that by now Vaughn must be well ahead I got quite a surprise to find him coming up behind me and lamenting that he had taken a wrong turn and had cycled 10kms off course. I let him go ahead and continued my walk out of the track. The almost deserted gold mining town of Waiuta is at the end of the track and from here a gravel road heads downhill through native bush and out to the main road and town of Ikamatua. I loved this section and the Mercian sailed over the gravel with no problems. My spirits were high because I knew that now I had just the odd gravel road on the west coast to negotiate and then the main sealed road over the Southern Alps (Arthurs Pass) to Sheffield on the Canterbury Plains. Years ago I used to race this leg in the annual Grey mouth to Christchurch bike race and later I used to ride it as a training ride with Nelson cycle buddies. It's a road I really enjoy in any conditions. When I was a kid of 13yrs my mates and I used to tour through Arthurs Pass during the school holidays.
At this stage of the event Vaughn never ceased to surprise me. I arrived at the Ikamatua store to find Vaughn still there having lunch and getting his stuff together. He left and I go in for multiple ice-creams, drink and filled rolls for later. Andrew Scott and another couple of cyclists arrived as I was about to depart. They asked me how far I was headed. I looked at my h/bar clock to discover that it was only about 2.30pm. It was going to be a strong headwind to Blackball but I figured after that, as we turned east towards the pass, we would be getting a good tail wind. I told them I had no idea, but inwardly I felt so good that I figured that I could get to Arthurs Pass township if I had the inclination to ride the steep pass in the dark. This was a reoccurring feeling for me throughout the brevet. A feeling of only being limited by the amount of daylight hours and whether I could be bothered to pitch the tent in the dark. Putting up with freedom camping each night. My desire to get clean had not gone away. I thought later as I cycled along that if I rode strongly I might make Otira and the pub before it closed. I could then have a meal and a hot shower. I'd stay the night and do the leg to Sheffield the next day.
Well, darkness fell and I was still riding towards Otira at 10pm. Previously I had completed the gravel sections of the course around Bell Hill. This had slowed me down and although scenic I just wanted my shower. After riding for 12hours I was in no mood to be harassed by what appeared to be a particulary viscous sheep dog (big too) while climbing the gravel road towards the scenic reserve. When that dog snarled and headed straight at me what he hadn't counted on was the fact that just a couple of years earlier I had been riding through Bolivia where stray dogs really are hungry and usually attack in packs. So I didn't flinch at his head on attack nor did I change direction. His head hit the back wheel with some force, enough to knock me slightly sideways. But that was the end of it, I carried on as if nothing had happened and he went off with a sore snout. I later found that a sizeable chunk of my rear sidewall had been taken out by one of his fangs.
At 10.30pm I arrived at Otira to find that the pub was closed and even more annoying was the sight of 3 brevet bikes parked inside. Happy brevet people having showers and going to bed on silk pillows. I decided then and there that I would have my shower in the morning and a full cooked breakfast. So I pitched my tent in the paddock next to the pub and went to sleep munching on the dinner I'd bought in Ikamatua, Adi's sausages that she'd given me for the road and lots of sweets.
Riding up to Arthurs Pass was not now an option as I saw no easy way to score a shower up there in the morning.
Day 4.
Otira to Lees Valley. 135kms
I woke up at 7am and packed my tent away. The Otira pub was open and just as I was contemplating my shower and English cooked breakfast Vaughn turned up. Once again Vaughn had taken a wrong turn and ended up backtracking to get back in the game. Vaughn seemed to be making a habit of early starts (4am) and then losing his way later in the day. So while I negotiated a hot shower with the publican and put my order in for a full on breakfast, Vaughn was grabbing fast food for the ride up Arthurs Pass. (Or maybe a push as he was using a single speed).
The shower was like heaven, ample hot water and big cuddly towels to dry myself off on. But what of the three cyclists that I realised were staying when I arrived last night? There now seemed to be no sign of them save from a few puddles on the bathroom floor. When I had finally shampooed and rinsed enough and had retired to the pub kitchen I asked the publican what time they had left.
"4am"he replied. They left at 4am!!! Honestly, what normal cyclists would leave at that time in the morning? Finally it dawned on me that the people around me seemed to honestly be treating this as a race and not a social ride. Well I was happy to do the odd long day but there was no way I'd be getting that keen. I did make a mental note though to ride a bit more seriously when I was on the bike and not amble so much.
While I was eating breckie Andrew Scott and another couple of pedlars turned up, threw some food down and were gone up the Pass. I asked the publican for a coffee refill and decided that I would not stop now until Sheffield on the other side of the Southern Alps. I easily had fuel for the 100kms through, and the weather was sunny with a good tail wind. Then I was on my bike riding up the pass with a good tail wind making the steeper sections easily tolerable. As I rocketed into Arthurs Pass township I suddenly realised that I was required to phone in for the organisers here. So I changed plans and stopped long enough to due this duty, grab some water and observe all the others having breakfast and in the case of one, loose his entire twin pack of sandwiches to a kea. I've never seen a pack of sandwiches disappear so quickly into the surrounding bush. Vaughn gave chase but came back empty handed.
The 100 odd kilometres across the Southern Alps went so quickly that I really can't say too much about it. The bike sang alone with the tail wind. The altitude kept the temperature at bay and I saw nobody except the one brevet rider I past near Flock Hill. Springfield was my next stop for lunch and to resupply for the extended period to come without any services. I packed sandwiches for tomorrow's breakfast, two big bits of bacon and egg pie for dinner and some cans of fruit for dessert. Then it was back up into the backcountry to the Whafedale Track and Lees Valley. I'd not been along the Whafedale track for a number of years and I had never used the Lees valley route. This is an old early settler's route North towards Hurunui. According to the blurb all manner of self-propelled vehicles have traversed the Whafedale Track so I was pretty happy when I finally made the track head and was advised by the sign that walkers could get through in 4 hours. I got there at about 3pm so felt so comfortable time wise that I relaxed by using the long-drop toilet. A long-drop toilet with a spectacular view of the Canterbury plains stretched out below.
The ride to the summit of the Whafedale was pretty good and as expected. The rest of the track was horrendous. I don't know whether all the slips were a result of the Canterbury earthquake or from erosion but big bits of the track were missing and regular bike hauling was required. At times I barely had the strength to drag my bike up the banks or over the obstacles. At times I was truly scared that I would lose my Mercian over the side while perched on a 5 inch piece of track while rounding a bluff.
|Arthurs Pass TownShip.
It was after losing the Mercian down a steep bank that I realised that half of my dinner was missing from the rear bag. One big piece of bacon and egg pie had jumped ship and was now destined to be weka food. I walked back along the track looking for it but to no avail. Finally the track hut arrived and I signed the register before making the last effort out to the 4 wheel drive road on the other side. By this time I had used the full 4 hours and some and it was getting towards dusk. I would have liked to get to Lees Valley but didn't fancy putting the tent up again in the dark while being attacked by sand-flies. So I pitched at the track head and quickly got inside to have what was left of my dinner and an early night.
Sometime later I was rudely awakened by Andrew Scott and friends banging about outside shouting "Hello Niel the Wheel, is there a mechanic in the house?"
"Piss off and come back during normal business hours" was my reply. To which they did and I last heard them stomping off down the river bed in the dark after refilling their drink bottles.
They had the last laugh though because I found out later that one of the guys had found my bacon and egg pie and he told me that it was very nice.
Day 5.
Lees Valley to Rainbow Road. 150kms
This leg of the brevet was for me the least inspiring and the most tedious. After packing the tent away the day got off to a bad start when I found that the 4 wheel drive track out to Lees Valley was virtually un follow able as it cut in and out of the river and I ended up following stock trails until finally finding a farm trail that led out to the gravel road leading up the Lees Valley. I heard later that some of the guys trying to follow this trail in the dark got lost. Others were lucky enough to have someone with them that had done the brevet before and knew what to expect. I wondered how Vaughn would go on this section when he came across it.
Stock herding was in process along the Lees Valley when I got there so all traces of cycle tracks had been obliterated by the many hoof prints. As well as making the trail harder to follow it gave me now no evidence as to who was up ahead on bikes and how close they might be. Adding to my lack of drive in this section was weather that could be best described as grey and drizzly. Just to round off my discontent was the innumerable number of farm gates that needed opening and closing. Up and down over one eroded farm hill after another. When what seemed like an eternity I finally popped out onto the gravel roads of the Hurunui hinterland only to lose my way slightly and go too far south to Wakari.
This wasn't all bad though because by now the wind had changed to a cold southerly and once again would be at my back as I headed north towards Hamner Springs and the rain had not come to anything. I eagerly scoffed pies and apple turnovers in Wakari. Lunch never tasted so good having not had breakfast. I opted on eating all of the food I had left for dinner the night before after losing my pie on the trail. Breakfast consisted of just sweeties. (Not such a bad life, but not sustainable).
Sealed road and a tail wind once again beckoned and I arrived in Hamner Springs in good time and catching up with all the guys who went past me the night before as I camped on the Whafedale. It was here that I made one of the few tactical errors of my brevet. I decided to have a sit down meal at a restaurant and then ride up over Jacks Pass and camp in the Rainbow. The sit down meal was not a mistake, but leaving Hamner Springs that night was. Before the meal the guys riding on restocked at the supermarket where Andrew Scott tried to get me to go 1/3's on a 3 pack of warm socks.
"What are you thinking about Andrew? I don't need socks at this stage. I'll be finished tomorrow evening".
I then had a nice chat to Ian Depoff during my meal and then headed up Jacks Pass in the now rain bordering on sleet. Andrew and co. had gone on ahead but I soon caught them at the top of the pass putting on every bit of warm clothing that they had. I went past after a brief conversation about what the heck we were doing and should we go back. I had a full stomach and a tent so there was no way I was going back. And they too chose to carry on. I suppose when you have cycled over the Andes in snow storms, crashing in Lama huts you get a different view on what constitutes hardship. But it was cold, and in terms of the event it would become clear that camping up there was in no way a good strategy.
I carried on until dark and then pitched the tent in the shelter of a stock shed. Andrew and co. arrived a bit later on and decided that on account of there being way too much cow shit about that they would camp 10kms up the road at an abandoned hut.
Andrew, I should have bought the socks! It was a cold night in the tent with just a summer sleeping bag and no lama skins to keep me warm.
Day 6.
Rainbow Road to Blenheim. 200km.
One consolation, and there always is one, is that there were no sand flies for the first time in ages. I was packed up and away by 8am. Once again I had to catch the early starters, who had started before dawn in Hamner Springs and were now cruising past my tent. In this case I felt that they had made the correct decision enjoying a bed and hot shower instead of a frigid night and a dung mattress in the tent.
I took no prisoners on my last day and rode by at least six breveters, bouncing from one bounder to the next on the Mercian as they spun their insanely low gears and enjoyed the opulence of their full suspension. Riding on my own for the full brevet had made me somewhat selfish and focused on just getting to the finish line now. I was bunny hoping a group of 4 for a while as they overtook me on the looser sections and I hammered past on the hills. Then one of the 4 blew his rear tyre and I left them to it knowing that they had ample resources and if the shoe was on the other foot I would be fending for myself.
I shot out of the Rainbow Road expecting a tail wind down the Wairau Valley to Blenheim only to find out at the intersection that the cold wind was not a Southerly but a Northeaster and in my face for the last 100kms. I opted not to restock with food in St Arnaud but just to go with what I had and do the rest on an empty stomach.
The gravel road on the North bank of the Wairau was best forgotten with fist size shingle that I almost couldn't ride through with my slick tyres and one section called circuit road that I'm sure was put in just too personally piss me off. Going up into the hills at gradients I couldn't ride with my touring gears, just to come back down again to re-join the valley road a bit further along!
My annoyance and reluctance to do this circuit was mainly brought about by the disintegration of my cycle shoes. The right sole of my Sidi MTB shoes had virtually parted company from the upper shoe due to previous wet river crossings and the large amount of trail walking I had previously done. I was concerned at this late stage in the event that without a right shoe I might not be able to finish the event. I had tried to use a toe strap to keep it all together with very limited success. What I needed was duct tape. But in the forest finding some might prove problematic.
The forestry signs indicated 4kms to go of this horrendous gravel and then sealed road until the end in Blenheim, although be it with a strong headwind. At this stage a group of 4 breveters caught me up and over took me without much to say as I swum around in the gravel. If the lack of friendly banter was not bad enough, on passing the back markers kept looking around to see if they had dropped me.
Well it may have appeared rude on my part but on the next gravel hill, and unfortunately for them there were hills, I banged the Mercian in a big gear and wheel spinned past them, rode the last section of gravel in a very sketchy manner and then on hitting the seal put the hammer down and didn't look up until I had reached Renwick shouting at regular intervals along the way…."Take that".
In fact I rode that last section so quickly that I past yet more breveters who had stopped in Renwick for something to eat. It was dusk and I wanted to finish in Blenheim with enough time to get a motel and dinner so I hammered on.
And for anyone who cares I finished at 9.15pm and in about 15 or 16th place.
But what was more important to me was that I not only managed to get a nice motel with all the extras but had time to get to Pac & Save before it closed. Back at the motel I spent the night eating bad for me food and having hot showers. I managed in 4 hours to use every coffee sachet provided and watch a couple of movies on Sky.
|Finally Finished.
Would I do it again?
Certainly, apart from minor nerve damage in my right hand I was unscathed.
How would I do it differently?
I would recognise it as a race from the start and would pre book accommodation along the way now I know where I can easily get to. That would enable me to go without a tent and bed roll. I think doing it that way I could not only knock off a bit of time but I'd be cleaner, better fed and have an even lighter bike to pull through the track sections.
Would I change my bike?
Don't be silly. It was perfect.
Thanks to the Kennet brothers and their friends for organising, what I regard as an awesome event.


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CHICAGO - The Blackhawks' top line of Jonathan Toews, Patrick Sharp and Marian Hossa is proving to be quite a challenge for the rest of the NHL these days.
Just ask the Winnipeg Jets.
Toews scored in the first period and Sharp had a goal and an assist, leading the Blackhawks to a 4-1 victory over the Jets on Wednesday night.
"We've had a couple games where we didn't click as much as we want to, but I think we got back to where we support each other, being in the right areas, and you saw the chances we got," Toews said. "The more we do that, the more chances we get to score."
Fellow Winnipeg native Duncan Keith added two assists in Chicago's fourth win in five games. Patrick Kane scored in the final seconds of the first period and Brandon Pirri added his third of the season on a breakaway in the second.
Sharp also scored in his hometown of Winnipeg during Saturday's 5-1 win. Toews is tied with Kane for the team lead with 14 points, and Sharp has three multipoint games this season.
"Three players that want to hold onto the puck and make plays," Sharp said, explaining the recent success of his line. "You don't see anybody trying to beat people 1-on-1. It's getting goals by moving the puck back and forth, and all three guys like to score."
Winnipeg forward Michael Frolik received a standing ovation when he was recognized during a break in the first period in his first game in Chicago since he helped the Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup in June. Frolik, who played a pivotal role on Chicago's penalty-kill unit last season, was traded to the Jets for draft picks at the beginning of the off-season.
Frolik stood in front of the Winnipeg bench and waved as the crowd cheered after the Blackhawks showed some of his highlights from his time in Chicago.
"It was awesome. The fans are great here," Frolik said. "They're one of the best in the league and I really appreciate what they did. It's something very special and will never forget it."
With the game in hand with 6:22 left in the third, Blackhawks forward Brandon Bollig got a big cheer from the sellout crowd when he drove Jets defenceman Adam Pardy through a glass panel in Winnipeg's end of the ice.
Pardy then was leaning over the boards and into the crowd when a fan took his helmet off and put it on. A woman also dumped her beer on Pardy before the officials were able to break up the scrum.
"I don't know what happened to my stick, either. It got lost in the crowd somewhere, too," Pardy said. "Just a little insult to the injury, I guess. It was a tough night for all of us.
"It was tough enough to get put through the glass, but then to get a beer thrown on my head, too, it wasn't a good thing."
Devin Setoguchi scored his third goal for the Jets in the third period of his 400th career game. Al Montoya had 24 stops in his second career game in his native Chicago.
The Blackhawks grabbed control at the end of the first, jumping ahead 2-0 in a span of 2:25 while bouncing back from Sunday's 3-2 overtime loss to Calgary.
Toews provided a spark when he set up Kane with a nice spinning pass on a 2-on-1. Kane was stopped by Montoya, but Toews skated around to the front of the net, got a pass from Sharp and stuffed it home at 17:29.
Kane then skated through much of Winnipeg's end before beating Montoya with a wrist shot for his team-best ninth goal of the season with 6 seconds left in the first. Kane also had a dizzying skating stretch in the second that led to a tripping penalty on Jets forward Eric Tangradi.
"He had a couple of shifts when he was putting on a show," Toews said. "That was old-fashioned Kaner there. When he gets it going — I think that one play when he drew the penalty, it was pretty fun to watch."
Sharp made it 4-0 when he beat Montoya on the glove side at 4:00 in the third period.
Crawford was working on his first shutout of the season before Setoguchi scored on a rebound at 8:40 of the third. Former Blackhawks defenceman Dustin Byfuglien got an assist on the play.
"I thought the game was pretty much what we anticipated," Winnipeg coach Claude Noel said. "That's a team that can really hurt you, and we made some of the mistakes we made the previous time we played these guys."
NOTES: Jets LW Evander Kane missed his second straight game with an unspecified injury. D Zach Redmond also was scratched. ... Fs Michal Handzus, Jeremy Morin and Brad Mills were scratched for the Blackhawks. Handzus has missed six straight games with an upper-body injury. ... It was Winnipeg's first game in Chicago since a 4-3 loss to the Blackhawks on Oct. 13, 2011.
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Federal and state special education regulations require that school districts
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There are three dispute resolution options available under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. These three options can address concerns about the identification, evaluation, educational placement, and provision of Free Appropriate Public Education to a student (age 3–21). Those options include: Mediation, Citizen Complaints and Due Process Hearings. For information on these options,
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Dems eye hobbled Haley in 2014
South Carolina's tandem of 2014 Senate races, thanks to Jim DeMint's unforeseen resignation, may be drawing all the attention. But what has Democrats really licking their chops is the chance to take on Republican Gov. Nikki Haley in two years.
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Oft-mentioned as a potential national candidate, the 40-year-old GOP luminary has seen her popularity in the Palmetto State plummet midway through her first term.
Signs abound that her combative approach with the Republican-led state Legislature is wearing thin. Her conservative critics grouse she's more interested in burnishing her maverick image than fostering relationships that produce legislation.
"She is headstrong and will not take advice from anyone who is not part of her inner circle," said one lobbyist who has done work in Columbia.
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Haley's idea to grade lawmakers through a "report card" system was met with bipartisan mockery and disdain. Her veto of a bill designed to block a port expansion in Georgia spurred many to question her loyalty to her home state.
An ethics inquiry last spring into whether she improperly used her office as a state representative was ultimately dismissed — but not before a rash of biting headlines.
More recently, a hacking scandal at the Department of Revenue that exposed hundreds of thousands of residents' Social Security and debit-card numbers has called into question her administration's management and competency.
It all adds up to a floundering first-term governor in a solid red state who is likely to be a top target for Democrats if she decides to run again.
"The crown jewel is the governor's race," said Jaime Harrison, a vice chair of the state Democratic Party.
A warning flare of sorts was fired this week in the form of a poll by Public Policy Polling, the Democratic firm from neighboring North Carolina. Just 42 percent of voters approve of Haley's performance, and the governor would narrowly lose a hypothetical rematch with her 2010 opponent, state Sen. Vincent Sheheen.
"This poll proves that the people of South Carolina want a governor they can trust, who is focused on the state and its issues — not a governor who cares about her personal success and national recognition," said South Carolina Democratic Party Executive Director Amanda Loveday.
That frame of attack — that Haley is more interested in the national limelight than mundane home-state matters — is likely to be an overarching theme for Democrats.
Sheheen, who fell just under 60,000 votes short of upsetting Haley in the Republican tsunami of 2010, is already laying the groundwork for a repeat run.
"The poll numbers were encouraging in that South Carolina wants to go in a different direction whether or not I run," Sheheen said in an interview Wednesday, adding that any decision on a campaign is still months away. "The greatest disappointment has been her inattention to the state, her lack of transparency and the dysfunction of state agencies."
Haley political aide Tim Pearson signaled he expected Sheheen to run again and welcomed his candidacy.
"Vince Sheheen has been doing nothing but running for governor for the last four years — while Nikki Haley was actually governing," he said. "When it comes time for us to re-enter the political ring with him, the results will be just as bad for Vince as they were last time."


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A cushion of reserve ethanol stocks and "banked credits" amassed by the ethanol industry will allow the industry to cut back on ethanol production to the equivalent of 1.3 billion bushels of corn and still meet the Renewable Fuel Standard in 2012-13, said Renewable Fuels Association's Geoff Cooper.
This makes a waiver of the RFS unnecessary this year, said Cooper, speaking at a recent RFA webinar.
The Environmental Protection Agency is authorized to waive the national RFS if the agency determines that the mandated biofuel volumes would cause "severe harm" to the economy or the environment. In 2008, EPA turned down a request from Texas for a partial waiver of the standard, noting there was no compelling evidence the RFS was having such an effect.
Here's more on that decision.
Over the last two months of this year, dry, hot weather in the Midwest has shriveled potential U.S. corn production by an estimated 25 percent, according to USDA's latest crop assessment. As the crop shrinks and prices rise, a number of trade organizations, governors of several states, as well as members of the House of Representatives have urged the Environmental Protection Agency to waive the mandate for ethanol.
Barry Carpenter, CEO of the North American Meat Association said a waiver is necessary"to ensure an adequate supply of corn for America's livestock producers and others who put food on the tables of American consumers."
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A waiver request by the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) and others stated, "The drought-induced reductions in the corn supply mean that the mandated utilization of corn for renewable fuels will so reduce the supply of corn and increase its price, that livestock and poultry producers will be forced to reduce the size of their herds and flocks, causing some to go out of business and jobs to be lost.
"In addition to this direct harm, these herd and flock reductions will ripple through the meat, milk and poultry sectors, causing severe harm in the form of more job and economic losses. This drought-induced harm exists now, will continue to exist into the latter part of 2012 and 2013, and could continue to be felt in 2014 depending on the policy choices made now."
Cooper, the RFA's vice president of research and analysis, says flexibility in the ethanol mandate allows the industry to participate in demand rationing, at least for another year. He noted that since early June, the ethanol industry has reduced corn consumption by 12 percent, approximately 1.5 billion gallons of capacity has been idled, and many other plants are operating well below capacity. In addition, ethanol production has fallen to a 2-year low in response to high corn prices, which has pushed ethanol stocks to high levels.
The effect of corn demand rationing in the ethanol industry is on par with that of other end users, according to Cooper. USDA's August estimate of supply and demand numbers for corn estimated a 13 percent reduction in seed and residual use, a 13 percent reduction in distillers grains, an 8 percent reduction in ethanol production, a 19 percent reduction in exports and a 5 percent reduction in food, seed and industrial use.
Cooper noted that if the ethanol market does get tight, refiners will draw on stocks first. If they become short on physical gallons, refiners can use excess or "banked credits," which are known as RINs (renewable identification numbers) for compliance. Refiners can meet as much as 20 percent of their obligation using RINs generated in the previous year, which for last year is equivalent to 1 billion bushels of corn. If the refiner is short on physical gallons and RINs, the refiner can carry the compliance deficit forward one year.
Cooper said a waiver could "send a chilling signal" to advanced biofuel investors, slow commercial roll-out of E-15 and would be a disincentive to farmers to plant corn in 2013. "There are a lot of investors on the sidelines today who are waiting and watching to see what EPA is going to do with the RFS, and if it will cave in to the pressure."
In its waiver request to EPA, the NPPC said research from professor Bruce Babcock at Iowa State University indicated that a waiver of the RFS in 2011 would have reduced the price of a bushel of corn by $1.48.
Also citing Babcock's research, Cooper said a waiver of the mandate "would have little impact on corn price above and beyond what is already coming from these flexibilities in the standard."
Cooper said Babcock's research indicates that a complete waiver would result in a 4.5 percent decrease in corn prices, or a 28-cent per bushel reduction. "That's not the type of relief that the livestock folks are seeking, nor the type of impact they claim will happen," Cooper said.
Cooper acknowledges that another low corn production year could remove the current cushion of excess RINs and heavy ethanol stocks. "We can get through 2013 and meet the RFS of 13.8 billion gallons without much of a problem. We can produce as much as 11.8 billion gallons of ethanol in 2013 and still meet the requirements.
"If we do encounter a situation that would put strain on the corn and ethanol markets (in the next production year), we would need to sit down with EPA and other stakeholders and figure out the best course forward. But assuming this is a one year deal, we have the flexibility to get through."