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Leak site directory
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Welcome! This is a directory of official and community based sites that actively support whistleblowing / leaks about various topics.
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This directory is community-edited. Use your own judgment in evaluating these sites and services.
WikiLeaks-Like Whistleblowing Sites
Sites dedicated to accepting submissions of leaks and publishing them inspired by the original WikiLeaks.org concept.
- WikiLeaks - WikiLeaks website - love them or hate them - has a new submissions system
- WikiLeaks Hrvatska (Croatia) - WikiLeaks Hrvatska website
- RevenueWatch - Revenue watch official resources and documents
- PirateLeaks CZ - PirateLeaks CZ
- Balkanleaks - Balkan Leaks website
- Indoleaks - Indoleaks website - Indonesia
- IrishLeaks - IrishLeaks website - uses PGP, SSL, I2P
- FrenchLeaks - FrenchLeaks website
- EnviroLeaks - EnviroLeaks website
- RuLeaks - Russian Leak website - uses PrivacyBox.de dropbox
- QuebecLeaks - Quebec Leak website - SSL and Tor hidden services. PGP when received.
- Jumbo Leaks - Jumbo Leaks website
- ScienceLeaks - ScienceLeaks Blogspot website
- Filtradas - Filtradas website - Venezuala - PGP Key and PrivacyBox.de dropbox
- Corporate Leaks - Corporate Leaks website
- BaltiLeaks - website Pertaining to government and business in Baltimore, Maryland, USA - PGP Key
- WikiLeaks.si - WikiLeaks.si website - Slovenia
- LeakyMails.com - LeakyMails.com website - Argentina
- MagyarLeaks - MagyarLeaks website - Hungary - PGP Key
- KHLeaks - KHLeaks website - Korea
- MafiaLeaks MafiaLeaks website - supporting whistleblowing against organized crime
- Allerta Anticorruzione ALAC - ALAC website - Transparency International Italia anti-corruption service
- Filtrala - Filtrala website - Spain, promoted by Associated Whistle-Blowing Press (AWP) - uses PGP, SSL, AES
- CSE Leaks - CSE Leaks website - Revelation of Controversial Deals In Sri Lanka's only capital market: Colombo Stock Exchange CSE Leaks website, the site says its intention is Purely Simple which is to reveal the 'Exclusive Deals' and 'Major Controversial Activities' in Colombo Stock Exchange that in turn affects the retailers and investing General Public of Sri Lanka - uses Drop Box and an email account for submissions
New Concept Leak Sites
Different approaches and leaking methodologies
- ExtremeLeaks.org - Leaks about extremists and extremist organisations all over the world, but in particular Middle East, North Africa and Europe - Use while operating the TOR Browser. A whistle blower site operated by the investigative center Hate Speech International. Leaks will never be published in their entirety but will be subjected to an editorial process and thorough review in order to avoid putting innocent people in harms way. Whistleblower channel runs on open source GlobaLeaks software and offers full anonymity, both IP address, meta data and identity."
- SecuriLeaks.org - Leaks about threats against global security. Primary focus on the security situation of European countries and issues related to Russia and NATO. - Use while operating the TOR Browser. This is a whistle blower site operated by a group of independent, award winning Norwegian reporters. Whistleblower channel runs on open source GlobaLeaks software and offers full anonymity, both IP address, meta data and identity. Information will always be edited in order to prevent putting innocent people in harms way."
- Office Leaks - Office Leaks website
- WikiSpooks - WikiSpooks website- - secure and anonymous, realistically cynical and cautiously paranoid.
- MapleLeaks - MapleLeaks website
- OpenWatch - OpenWatch.net encourages the public to use their mobile phone software to record encounters with the police and authority, then submit them for posting online.
- CorruptionWatch.org.za - Corruption Watch - South Africa - Trades Union organised, anti-corruption pledge signatures, mapping of corruption hotspots, but no security or anonymity measures for contributors or informants at all except for "Leave this field empty, if you want to stay anonymous."
- 100 Reporters - 100 Reporters Whistleblower Alley - "joins 100 of the planet's finest professional reporters with whistle-blowers and citizen journalists across the globe, to report on corruption in all its forms.". Uses PrivacyBox.de (Tor and I2P) and publishes PGP Public Encryption keys
- WCITLeaks - WCITLeaks.org - "Bringing transparency to the ITU" - publishing leaks from the secretive United Nations - International Telecommunications Union ahead of the World Conference on International Telecommunications - SSL web form hosted on Amazon Cloud
- NGOLeaks - onionSite - SSL Website - Based on open source GlobaLeaks software platform, NGOLeaks focuses on corruption within NGOs all around the world.
- Publeaks - Publeaks.nl - Leak documents to the (Dutch) media securely and anonymously. The initiative is designed to protect whistleblowers, shed light on wrongdoings and encourage and support investigative journalism.
- XabarDocs - XabarDocs.org - Ukrainian anti-corruption tool that provides an opportunity to leak securely to the local investigative journalists. The tool was developed with the assistance of the Tallinn Technical University.
- UniLeaks UK - UniLeaks UK website - Blog only - Encouraging British universities to treat students fairly
Political Denunciation / Tip Off websites
Lunatic fringe politicians and political agenda driven mainstream media organisations sometimes try to exploit genuine public fears and worries, by running public Campaigns, to "name and shame" or to anonymously denounce locally unpopular individuals or racial or religious minorities etc.
- MeldpuntMiddenenOostEuropeanen.nl - Meldpunt Midden en Oost Europeanen webform - controversial "complain about Eastern European immigrants" website set up by the right wing / extremist Partij Voor de Vrijheid in the Netherlands - no encryption, no anonymity advice and no privacy policy, even though they explicitly accept "anonymous" reports and collect sensitive personal data.
Established Leak Sites
Websites which have been publishing censored or leaked material before, or independently in parallel with WikiLeaks
- Cryptome.org - Cryptome.org website established 1996
- Mathaba.Net - Mathaba.net website established 1999, PGP/Bitmessage secure/anonymous contact available
- Public Intelligence - Public Intelligence website established 2009 - now back online in Luxembourg after server move from the Netherlands caused by "complaints" to the hosting company. Good Encryption, now no longer using Quantserve web bug tracking
- SECRET OF KOREA - secret of Korea website established 2009
- LiveLeak - video leaking site established in 2006
Mainstream Media Whistle blowing Sites
Leak Sites that are operated by the media organizations directly
- ABC News Online Investigative Unit - ABC News Online Investigative Unit "anonymous" contact form - Australian Broadcasting Corporation - not at all secure or anonymous.
- Al Jazeera Transparency Unit - Al Jazeera Transparency Unit website - not very secure or anonymous - now improved
- Radio Leaks - Radio Sweden secure submissions website Radio Sweden is a national public service radio broadcaster
- WSJ SafeHouse - Wall Street Journal secure submissions website- currently closed as of 8/13/15
- Austroleaks - AustroLeaks - KURIER - Investigative Recherche - mainstream newspaper based in Vienna, Austria
- FolhaLeaks - FolhaLeaks - Folha de S.Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil - no encryption, web form is not distinct from the main newspaper website so it betrays "anonymous" visitor details to FaceBook and to various banner advertisers etc.
- Zeit Online briefkasten - Zeit Online briefkasten - Zeit Online (Germany) - https:// encrypted submission system which strips out meta data and then uses PGP encrypted emails to the investigative journalists. "Reasonably secure" but not that anonymous - open source code mostly in python published on github. Very unusually, the Zeit Online investigative journalists and editors all have PGP Keyserver published personal PGP Encryption key links listed on the corporate website.
- SecureDrop (official directory) sites:
- Strongbox by The New Yorker
- SafeSource by Forbes
- ExposeFacts by ExposeFacts
- ProPublica by ProPublica
Environmental Protection Whistle blowing sites
Leak Sites and Organization that accept reporting about environmental issues
- Polluters Watch - Greenpeace Investigation tipline
- EnviroLeaks - Environmental leak aggregator and tipline
National Security or Serious Crime anonymous tip off / whistleblower sites
- Czech BIS - Bezpečnostní Informační Služba - Security Information Service - Counter-intelligence service of the Czech Republic
- Mossad - Israel Mossad Contact form (not as secure as you might expect)
- NZ SIS - New Zealand Security Intelligence Service Public Contribution Form - no longer uses a hidden PGP key, still tracks IP address etc. and the rest of the website still tracks visitors with Google Analytics
- UK CEOP - Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre contact form - they now have an encrypted form to protect the Sensitive Personal Data, after a complaint to the Information Commissioner's Office
- UK Crimestoppers - UK Contact Crimestoppers Online
- UK Home Office - CITRU - UK Home Office - Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit - reporting terrorist and extremist material online - innovative secure submission progress feedback system, spoilt by use of external Google Re-Captcha
- UK Met Police Anti-Terrorist Hotline - UK London Metropolitan Police - Confidential Anti-Terrorist Hotline
- UK Secret Intelligence Service MI6 -Secret Intelligence Service MI6 - Contact us form
- UK Security Service MI5 - UK Security Service MI5 - Reporting Suspected Threats
- UK Security Service MI5 - UK Security Service MI5 - How You Can Help - Arabic
- UK Security Service MI5 - UK Security Service MI5 - How You Can Help - Welsh
- USA Central Intelligence Agency - USA Central Intelligence Agency - English
- USA Central Intelligence Agency - USA Central Intelligence Agency - non-English
- USA Customs & Border Protection - e-allegations - - USA CBP - e-allegations - Online Trade Violation Reporting System
- USA Federal Bureau of Investigation - USA secure FBI tips and public leads submission form - see also the Financial Whistle Blowing section below
Privacy Commissioners etc.
Tax Whistleblowing
- UK Government Tax Whistleblowing - UK Government Tax Whistleblowing
- USA Government Tax Whistleblowing - USA IRS Tax Whistleblowing
- Jamaica Government Tax Whistleblowing - Jamaica Government Tax Whistleblowing Hotline
Financial Whistle Blowing
- FSA - UK FSA Whistleblowing
- SFO - UK confidential international fraud reporting
- USA Securities and Exchange Commission - SEC Whistleblower Program Under Dodd-Frank Act
- EU competition commissioner - snail mail and unsecured e-mail contact details (Leniency policy unsecured FAX contact details)
- OLAF - European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) Fraud Notification System Whistleblowing and Anonymous Fraud Reporting in the European Union. (N.B. freephone telephone numbers in 27 countries)
Whistle Blowing for Censorship and Net Neutrality
- RespectMyNet - Respect MyNet, Net Neutrality abuse reporting from La Quadrature Du Net
- MobileCensorshipReporting - Mobile Censorship Reporting from Open Rights Group
Leak friendly websites
Websites which have a specific topic, audience and editorial position and as part of their reporting have frequently published high level unpublished documents
- FAS Secrecy News - USA Federation of American Scientists - Secrecy News blog established 2000 (mailinglist archive)
- Statewatch - European Statewatch website established 1991
- Global Witness - globalwitness.org
- ArmscontrolWonk - the Arms Control Wonk blog
- Metaleaks - Metaleaks Whistleblowing platforms aggregator Established in 2011, Metaleaks collects and reindex thousands of leaked documents coming from multiple sources.
Public, USA FOIA and/or historical document release sites
- USA National Security Archive The George Washington University national security archive
- USA Government Attic - FOIA focused website, includes FOIA requested records of FOIA request
- What Do They Know UK-Based FOIA request and archive site
Leak Site ideas
Add here links to the pages containing your ideas for a Leak site. You may be lucky enough that somebody will come along and do it :).
- [1] Microsoft reporting of counterfeit software.
- http://www.leakdirectory.org/index.php/CrimeLeak Crime reporting site
Sites about whistleblowing and leaking
Leak Support Sites
Sites that support leaking in the editing and publishing processes, providing news, commentary or other stuff
- WLCentral - WikiLeaks Central website
- CrowdLeaks - CrowdLeaks website
- WikiLeak.org blog - WikiLeak.org blog
- Mathaba News Agency - Mathaba.Net
- CableSearch - CableSearch website
- CablegateSearch - CablegateSearch website
- Global Whistle Blog - GlobalWhistle website
- Decrypted Matrix - Decrypted Matrix Ad-Free Truth Seekers Archive. Crack The Pyramid Control System - Unplug Yourself
- HackDemocracy - HackDemocracy Bruxelles Website
- Hints and Tips for Whistleblowers - ht4w.co.uk website - Technical Hints and Tips for protecting the anonymity of sources for Whistleblowers, Investigative Journalists, Campaign Activists and Political Bloggers etc.
- The Whistleblower's Handbook - The Whistleblower's Handbook (PDF 1.6MB) 89 pages - Brian Martin, The Whistleblower's Handbook: How to Be an Effective Resister
- Libreleaks.org - Libreleaks.org website
- Pistaljka - Serbian Whistleblowing Site
Sites Commenting Leaks
- Tunileaks - TunisiaLeaks website
- ThaiCables - ThaiCables website
- Rospil Russian Leaks - Rospil Russian Website
Whistle Blowing Organizations
Organizations around the world that support Whistleblowing by promoting it as a transparency practice is public and private sector.
- Transparency International Whistleblowers support website
- SpeakUp.ie - SpeakUp.ie - Transparency International Ireland Helpline (phone and hushmail secure dropbox)
- German Whistleblower-Netzwerk e.V.
- Whistleblowing Austria
- Canadian For Accountability NGO website
- Canadian Federal Accountability Initiative for Reform (FAIR)
- USA Official Whistleblower Protection Program website
- USA National Whistleblower Center, Government Accountability Project
- Transparency International Switzerland Whistleblowing Political Activity
- WhistleBlowing.it A Transparency International Italy WhistleBlowing Projects
- The international "publish what you pay" movement for mining, oil and other extractive industries. Supports whistle blowing through revenuewatch.org
- Global Integrity Report Open-source metrics, indicators, and techniques for assessing transparent and accountable government. Strong whistleblowing protection law considered as an effective anti-corruption framework.
- Australian Whistleblower Association
- South Africa Open Democracy Advice Center
- International Chamber of Commerce Whistleblowing Initiative
- Public Concern at Work - UK Public Concern at Work NGO and legal advice centre set up in 1993 to address public interest whistleblowing: a) confidential advice to whistleblowers b) policy & campaigning c) public education (throughout UK, and to law/policy makers and all employers)
- WhistleBlowersUK - WhistleBlowers UK- Whistleblowers UK (WBUK) is an organisation of whistleblowers and their supporters, established to provide advice and support to those who are considering acting on their conscience.
Whistle Blowing Consulting Businesses
Organization that do business related to WhistleBlowing and leaking (Consulting, Services, Press Agency middle men etc).
- WhistleBlower Lawyers - SEC Whistleblower Attorney
- UK Whistle Blowers Press Agency Ltd - - UK Whistle Blowers Press Agency Ltd - secure Contact web form
- My Whistleblower Rights - - MyWhistleBlower Rights Confidentially report Corruption and Bribery Law Consulting
- Whistleblower Justice Network - Whistleblower Justice Network WJN was established to help guide and support whistleblowers navigating various types of fraud.
Whistle Blowing Hot Line Services
Charity and Profit organization that provide to public agencies and private corporation hotline services for whistleblowing in order to outsource the internal reporting service.
- Public Concern at Work - UK Public Concern at Work A leading authority on making public interest whistleblowing work. Provide training, consultancy, audit support and access to advice line for organisations wanting to ensure they provide their staff a real alternative to silence.
- WhistleBlow Direct - WhistleBlowing Direct Hotline service for Health Care and Social Care
- ExpoLink - Expolink Whistleblowing Hotline
Whistle Blowing Software as a Service
The commercial services are typically known as Whistleblowing reporting systems, or anonymous internet reporting systems.
- WhistleBlower Security Inc - Company website. Look also at their SaaS case management system
- UK Disclose Me - Disclose Corporate Whistle Blowing Services
- TheWatchfuli Anonymous Reporting System - TheWatchfuli Whistleblowing Services website
- MySafeWorkPlace Anonymous Reporting System - MySafeWorkPlace Whistleblowing Services website
- Swiss Corporate Whistleblowing Services and Consulting - Company Protection website
- Global Compliance SaaS phone/web whistleblowing services - Globalcompliance Website - See also their submission system (type bank to see customer list) Alert Line Whistleblowing SaaS
- Swiss Corporate Whistleblowing Services and Consulting - Company Protection website
- Disclose.com.au - Disclose.com.au Corporate Whistle Blowing Service
- ContatoSeguro.com.br - ContatoSeguro.com.br Corporate Whistle Blowing Service
Whistle Blowing Software
Software used by public and private organization to manage whistleblowing sites (We need more free software!)
- Aristotle Corporate Whistleblowing Anonymous Forum - Aristotleforum website
- ClearView Corporate Whistleblowing Software - ClearView Whistleblowing Solutions website
- PrivacyBox - PrivacyBox website - to-be-launched secure cloud storage
Open Source Whistleblowing Software
- GlobaLeaks - GlobaLeaks website - GlobaLeaks Implementations - Open Source Whistleblowing Framework software project, which spawned this LeakDirectory.org wiki
- Briefkasten - BriefKasten - Simple opensource submission system
- SecureDrop - SecureDrop website (formerly DeadDrop) - Secure submission system with hardened architecture, originally developed by AaronSw, used by Forbes and The New Yorker
- Honest Appalachia - Honest Appalachia website - uses Tor Hidden Service and PGP and publishes its own Open Source documents submission website software and configuration scripts to help other similar whistleblowing projects
Whistle Blowing in Corporations
A Directory of corporations that implemented corporate transparency by implementing whistleblowing through the organization:
- Italian ENI SpA Internal WhistleBlowing Result
- Netherland KLM Financial Whistleblowing Policy
- European Investment Funds Whistleblowing Policy
- European Investment Bank Whistleblowing Policy
- Anglo American Corporation SpeakUp Website
Whistle Blowing Laws, Study and Regulations
A directory of laws, study, regulations and assessments on Whistle Blowing laws and practice in various countries.
- European Parliament - Whistleblowing Rules: Best Practice; Assessment and Revision of Rules Existing in EU Institutions
- Transparency International: Alternative to Silence: Whistleblower Protection in 10 European Countries
- Bulgaria Whistleblower Protection Assessment
- Czech Republic Whistleblower Protection Assessment
- Estonia Whistleblower Protection Assessment
- Hungary Whistleblower Protection Assessment
- Ireland Whistleblower Protection Assessment
- Italy Whistleblower Protection Assessment
- Latvia Whistleblower Protection Assessment
- Lithuania Whistleblower Protection Assessment
- Romania Whistleblower Protection Assessment
- Slovakia Whistleblower Protection Assessment
- Australia Best Practice Whistleblowing Programs in Public Sector Organisations
- Ethics World - 18 Best Practices: The EU on Effective Whistleblowing Policies
- Japan Whistleblower Protection Act
- Switzerland Law proposal on whistleblowing in Francais, Deutsch and Italian
- Italian Laws on whistleblowing
- USA Texas Whistleblower Protection Act Attorney
- UK Public Internet Disclosure Act (whistleblowing law)
- French WhistleBlower Guideline (by Commission nationale de l'informatique)
- USA Sarbanes-Oxley Section 301: Whistleblower provisions
- UK British Standard Whistleblowing Arrangements Code of Practice
- USA Boston University: Beyond Protection - Invigorating Incentives for Sarbanes-Oxley corporate and Securities Fraud Whistleblowers
- Protecting the Whistleblowers–Asian and European Perspectives (International Anti Corruption Conference)
Whistle Blowing Cases
- USA Some Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblowing Cases
- USA, US Qui Tam, Canada, Australia, EU Whistleblowing Cases (Caslon Analytics)
Possibly Defunct/Dead websites
- internalmemos.com Part of the fuckedcompany coverage of the internet bubble collapse. All of the 2002-2007 memos not behind the paywall are available from the internet archive highlights include:
- MTV Europe lists anti-iraq war videos to be censored
- MTV Europe remind everyone not to leak internal e-mails
- US navy warns of GPS tracker Coca Cola cans
- Steve Ballmers "realizing potential" memo
- The Memory Hole 2003-2010 project, Archive available
- Thai Leaks - Thai Leaks website
- LocalLeaks.tk - LocalLeaks.tk website - now blocked by .tk domain registry
- HackerLeaks.tk - HackerLeaks.tk website Website down as of 9 Nov 2011
- PornWikiLeaks - Porn WikiLeaks website- now points to an adult film industry job website
- blackfridaywikileaks.com - Blackfriday wikileaks America - WordPress blog with no entries since June 2011, full of Google Analytics, Quantserve etc. visitor tracking, no encryption etc.
- BrusselsLeaks - BrusselsLeaks website
- (defunct as of December 2013) OpenLeaks - OpenLeaks website- experienced former WikiLeaks.org tech team but not yet a live project
- (defunct as of December 2013) IsraeliLeaks - IsraeliLeaks website
- (defunct as of December 2013) Localeaks.com - Localeaks.com website
- (defunct as of December 2013) BritiLeaks false start - BritiLeaks website - original false start: launched with less than no anonymity or security protection at all - see below for current site .
- (defunct as of December 2013) BritiLeaks - BritiLeaks website - still to be launched, but "open alpha" testing of a secure submission system and hosting mirrors of other whistleblowing websites.
- (defunct as of December 2013) MurdochLeaks - The Murdoch Leaks Project website - "will accept tips or evidence of wrong doing relating to Rupert Murdoch's affiliated institutions such as News International and News Corporation"
- (defunct as of December 2013) EccieLeaks - eccieleaks.com - "Exposing the child trafficking/child prostituting websites" - publishing the private/secret/staff forums of child prostitution advertising websites
- (defunct as of December 2013) PinoyLeaks - PinoyLeaks website
- (defunct as of February 2016) TradeLeaks - TradeLeaks website
- (defunct as of February 2016) LectureLeaks - LectureLeaks - Use recording mobile software to record and leak university lectures. Has content already, open source.
Encryption / Anonymity infrastructure services/ software used by some Whistleblower Sites
- Tor - Tor project - encrypted anonymity router cloud - Tor Hidden Services and anonymised web browsing / web form submission (N.B. caveats)
- I2P - I2P - anonymous network - I2P eepsite
- PrivacyBox.de - PrivacyBox.de - encrypted contact web forms also via Tor and I2P
- Hushmail Forms - Hush Secure Forms - encrypted contact web forms
- GPG - Gnu Privacy Guard - open source Pretty Good Privacy compatible Public Key Encryption and Digital Signature cryptographic software
- TrueCrypt- TrueCrypt - open source, multi-platform file, hard disk and USB memory device etc. strong encryption
- CounterMail.com - CounterMail - encrypted email and forms, can provide free premium accounts for whistleblower sites
- Bitmessage - Bitmessage] easy to use anonymous encrypted e-mail system
LeakDirectory related
Here misc stuff on Leak Directory initiative
Leak Directory backup wiki
A spam protected backup wiki mirror of this website is available at:
External opinions/reportage on LeakDirectory
LeakDirectory workshop at 28C3 Chaos Computer Congress
There will be a workshop about the LeakDirectory project at the
28C3: Behind Enemy Lines 28th Chaos Communication Congress December 27th to 30th, 2011 Berliner Congress Center, Berlin, Germany,
See http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/wiki/SocialHacking_LeakDirectory:
The Workshop has been glued together with GlobaLeaks one, you can download slides here
SocialHacking LeakDirectory Social Hacking
We will give an overview of what whistle blowing is and how it can be applied a wide array of different situations. Hopefully by the end of the workshop you will understand that whistle blowing is a fundamental tool for a democratic and transparent society.
We will focus in particular on the Leakdirectory Project, a shared crowd based initiative to represent most of the world of whistleblowing with the goal to became a reference for all the whistleblowing initiatives.
The Leakdirectory Project
Overview of the Whistleblowing World
Results of research on whistleblowing world
Evaluating Whistleblowing Sites
The future scope of LeakDirectory
Room: A03
Date: Day 2 - 2011-12-28 Wed
Time: 12:30--13:30


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My best friend and I once got so fed up with groups of man-children who felt it appropriate to say sexually suggestive things as we passed, we decided on a new strategy: holler back at them as loudly and crudely as they did to us. I don't know if that was the wisest move - from memory I think sometimes they got angry and called us sluts or lesbians? - but it was sort of satisfying, and seemed to shut them up for the most part.
Generally there would be a stunned silence, followed by a shuffling away. Or a zooming off, if they were hollering from the comfort of their race toys. It was certainly the only way we could think of to regain some of the power that seeps away from you when you're publicly demeaned like that. And it was interesting to observe how fast the bravado dissolved when exposed for what it was: public harassment.
There are varying levels of public - or street - harassment. Prolonged staring; weird grunt noises; crude 'praise' of specific body parts; suggestions or (more often) demands of sexual acts; public masturbation. They're just a few, and I don't know a single woman who hasn't endured at least most of those examples numerous times. Who you are is irrelevant. The simple fact you're a woman is enough. Specific incidents remain in my mind: the man at the bus depo going at it right in front of me; the man on the park bench going at it right in front of me and my school friends; the guy in the mall who, as I walked by with my grandmother, felt it necessary to compliment my breasts; the boys who poked their heads out of a moving car some years ago to tell my boyfriend they'd like to "have a turn" on his "bitch".
Somehow, inexplicably, being demeaned in company felt additionally shameful. No matter that the shame rightfully belonged to the gormless twerps in the car - who went on their merry way and promptly forgot all about it. (Should good men help out on such occasions? The Guardian's Emer O'Toole says probably not.)
Cue: "It's better than getting no attention at all"; "You should lighten up" "Can't you take a compliment?" "Men just can't win these days." To which I can only say: being treated as public property does not make you feel admired, desirable, or flattered. It makes you feel like the butt of some horrible joke, and - in that moment, at least - excruciatingly aware of your body, how you're walking and what you're wearing. In short, it makes you self-objectify. It goes without saying, but their goal is never to flatter anyway. Rather, it's a futile parade of WATCH ME BE A MAN for the benefit of friends - a heady mix of insecurity, bravado and social ineptitude, of which women far too often bear the brunt.
Despite (or maybe even because of) its everyday nature, street harassment is under-researched, under-reported, under-legislated and under-discussed. For these reasons, grass-roots, anti-street harassment movements have exploded in the past two years. Acting as lobby groups, online forums and resource centres, they're too numerous to list but all are based online. (Start here). One of the very first, Holla Back, began as a blog asking people to post photos or video of their street harasser. It's now a fully-fledged organisation with online-based branches all over the world, including New Zealand.
Such groups have seen a recent rise in male interest and participation. Most men don't catcall, but most cat-callers are men, and that can be embarrassing for other, better men. (It's not even uncommon to see an embarrassed male face within each pack of swaggering harassers.) As the organisation Stop Street Harassment emphasises, "Men who care about equality, or who care about a daughter, mother, sister, aunt, cousin, girl friend, spouse or friend, should care about street harassment. Women should not have to be the ones who work on this issue alone."
The worst kind of stance - held by many men and women alike - is that unwanted sexual attention is simply part and parcel of being female. Some hope technological advances will erode that idea by teaching women how to respond when targeted. The I'm Not Your Baby app has just been released in Canada. It formulates responses to various specific scenarios, because "a lot of people said they had a hard time thinking of responses [to harassment] in the moment," said its creator, Andrea Gunraj.
Street harassment features in the arts, too. As far back as 1998, American filmmaker Maggie Hadleigh-West, who it is thought coined and defined the term "street abuse", made a feature film that interviewed everyday men about the reasoning behind their catcalls. (You can see five minutes of it here.) And just last month, film student Sofie Peters released a documentary titled Femme de la Rue, which revealed - via hidden camera - the sexual commentary thrown at her as she walked around her neighbourhood. Once online it became an internet success story and Belgium politicians now claim to be drawing up legislation that would fine offenders.
It'll be interesting to learn the parameters of that legislation. Fining offenders would be tricky, because where do you draw the line? Whose definition of offence do you follow? And how can you prove it caused damage, with no visible bruising? Street harassment would be difficult to police precisely because it's so tightly woven into the fabric of society - and old stains are always the hardest to shift. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try.
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Fallout - it's already destroyed. FF6
Dragon warrior monsters for the gbc is one of the few rpgs I can think of that saving the world doesn't factor into the plot at all. It's also imo the best game made for the gbc(yes, better than pokemans) so if you haven't played it, I'd say give it a shot. I heard they remade it for the 3ds too, it helps if you're a dragon quest fan as a lot of the previous games bosses appear as unlockable monsters.
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Know what this means? The trees are barren, their skeletons exposed, the sky is turning the most desolate shade of grey and soon the corpses of all the plants will be buried beneath a ghostly white grave.
PRETTIEST TIME OF THE YEAR! 8D Makes me want to visit a cemetary. ^^ Also puts me in the mood for a nice cup of Earl Grey...
Maybe it's because I've always felt miserable around this season and I got so down I'd look for anything positive in the world, but I always find all of those things to be some of the best sights of the entire year. <3
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The National Institute for Farm Safety has changed its name to International Society for Agricultural Safety and Health (ISASH).
The organization's first name change since incorporation in 1962 was prompted by several key considerations, including:
- Growth in international membership.
- An increase in the number of members involved in health and agromedicine.
- The desire to replace "farm" with the more encompassing "agricultural."
"Our new name and tagline, 'Protecting People in Agriculture,' better reflect the needs of agriculture and the work of our membership," said ISASH President Michael DeSpain, John Deere. "With our 50th anniversary coming up in 2012, we felt it was a good time to take a look at how we've evolved and where we want to go."
A name change was recommended in the 2008 NIFS Strategic Plan. The name change was approved at the January 18, 2011, board meeting.
"It was a long process, and the name change required a membership vote," said Amy Rademaker, Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana, Illinois, and co-chair of the ISASH public relations committee. "But all the steps were important in getting the feedback necessary for truly making this the membership's name, logo and tagline."
ISASH is preparing for the first national meeting to be held under its new name, June 26-30, in Boise, Idaho. The theme is, "Strengthening Partnerships across Multiple Disciplines." Details are at www.isash.org.
The International Society for Agricultural Safety and Health is dedicated to the professional development of agriculture safety and health professionals. Its 200 members include engineers, educators, insurers, physicians, nurses, veterinarians, statisticians, communicators, business leaders and others who contribute to a safer and healthier agricultural work place. For more information, go to www.isash.org.


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Adoption of cloud services has undeniably soared, with Microsoft calling Office 365 its fastest growing commercial product ever, and more than 70 percent of Fortune 500 companies now using at least two different Microsoft cloud services. However, while organizations are actively deploying more cloud applications, they are also keeping on-premises solutions, creating a hybrid environment of both on-premises and cloud-based applications.
To manage employee authentication, identity management and access control policies across hybrid environments, companies often leverage the Azure Active Directory (AD) Connect management tool, which performs a one-way sync from on-premises AD to the online Azure AD. The problem is that on-premises AD does not include the same types of security controls that the cloud-based version does, leaving a big hole in an organization's security program that exposes the business to risk.
In this slideshow, Alvaro Vitta, principal solutions consultant specializing in security at Quest Systems and Information Management, recommends six steps for organizations to strengthen their hybrid directory environment to ensure successful hybrid cloud environment performance.
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Cheats, Tips & Walkthroughs
FAQs & Walkthroughs
Paid in Fyrestone
Objective: Completed 5 missions in the Arid Badlands
Ding! Newbie
Objective: Earned level 5
Ding! Novice
Objective: Earned level 10
Objective: Killed 25 enemies with incendiary weapons
Discovered Skag Gully
Objective: Discovered Skag Gully
Master Exploder
Objective: Killed 25 enemies with explosive weapons
Get A Little Blood on the Tires
Objective: Killed 25 enemies by ramming them with any vehicle
Objective: Sold 50 guns to a shop
There are some who call me...Tim
Objective: Equipped a class mod for your character
You call this archaeology?
Objective: Applied an elemental artifact
Ding! Expert
Objective: Earned level 20
Paid in New Haven
Objective: Completed 5 missions in the Rust Commons
Discovered Sledge's Safe House
Objective: Discovered Sledge's Safe House
1.21 Gigawatts
Objective: Killed 25 enemies with shock weapons
Rootinest, Tootinest, Shootinest
Objective: Killed 5 Rakk in under 10 seconds
Weapon Aficionado
Objective: Reached proficiency level 10 with any weapon type
Discovered Headstone Mine
Objective: Discovered Headstone Mine
Wanted: Sledge
Objective: N/A
There's No "I" In "Team"
Objective: Completed 15 missions in co-op
Objective: Killed 25 enemies with corrosive weapons
Made in Fyrestone
Objective: Completed all missions in the Arid Badlands
Ding! Hardcore
Objective: Earned level 30
Pandora-dog Millionaire
Objective: Earned $1,000,000
Group LF Healer
Objective: Rescued a groupmate from death in a co-op game
Discovered The Scrapyard
Objective: Discovered The Scrapyard
12 Days of Pandora
Objective: N/A
And They'll Tell Two Friends
Objective: Gamed with fame
Discovered Krom's Canyon
Objective: Discovered Krom's Canyon
Wanted: Krom
Objective: N/A
Down in Front!
Objective: Killed 15 enemies with the Soldier's action skill
United We Stand
Objective: N/A
Ding! Sleepless
Objective: Earned level 40
Discovered Trash Coast
Objective: Discovered Trash Coast
Objective: Won a duel against another player
Destroyed the Hive
Objective: N/A
Discovered Crimson Lance Enclave
Objective: Discovered Crimson Lance Enclave
Discovered Eridian Promontory
Objective: Discovered Eridian Promontory
Careful, He Bites
Objective: Killed 15 enemies with the Hunter's action skill
Wanted: Flynt
Objective: N/A
Truly Outrageous
Objective: Killed an enemy with the Siren's action skill
Made in New Haven
Objective: Completed all missions in the Rust Commons
Destroyed the Destroyer
Objective: N/A
Making a Monster
Objective: Built the New Car: Monster
House of the Ned
Objective: Completed the "House of the Ned" mission
Jakobs Fodder
Objective: Completed the "Jakobs Fodder" mission
Athena, Out
Objective: Rescued Athena
Ned's Undead, Baby
Objective: N/A
Night of the Living Ned
Objective: N/A
Objective: Won a duel without taking damage
Ding! Champion
Objective: Earned level 50
Fully Loaded
Objective: Rescued enough Claptraps to earn 42 inventory slots
Reckless Abandon
Objective: Killed 15 enemies with the Berserker's action skill
Ding! Overleveled
Objective: Reached Level 51
Depot Demolition
Objective: Destroyed the Lance Depot
Speed Kills
Objective: Destroyed a Lancer while in a Racer
Ding! Overleveled to 11
Objective: Reached Level 61
My Brother is an Italian Plumber
Objective: Killed an enemy plumber-style
Small Tournament
Objective: Completed the Prove Yourself mission
Objective: N/A
Objective: N/A
Objective: N/A
Muerte la robo-lución
Objective: Defeated the Interplanetary Ninja Assassin Claptrap
Objective: Completed the "Braaaaaaaaaaaaains!" mission
You're on a boat!
Objective: N/A
Can't We Get BEYOND Thunderdome?
Objective: Emerged victorious from an arena match
Objective: Killed Crawmerax the Invincible
It's so realistic!
Objective: Collected 5 3D glasses
Sneaky Little Buggers
Objective: Killed each of the loot midgets
Speedy McSpeederton
Objective: Raced around the Ludicrous Speedway in record time
The Collector
Objective: Completed Tannis' crazy request
Sucker born every minute
Objective: N/A
Objective: Read all 6 claptrap statue placards
Objective: Completed all missions in Secret Armory
The Gully
Objective: Reached the end of the larger challenge in The Gully coliseum
Objective: Reached the end of the larger challenge in the Hell-Burbia coliseum
The Angelic Ruins
Objective: Reached the end of the larger challenge in The Angelic Ruins coliseum
Big Tournament
Objective: Reached the end of each of the 3 larger challenges with one character
What a party!
Objective: Collected 3 panties, 5 fish in a bag, and 15 pizzas
The Lubricator
Objective: Found 25 claptrap oil cans
Objective: Collected 15 claptrap bobbleheads


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The schedule says Cowboys camp began on July 24.
But it really got underway Tuesday morning when linebacker Bradie James and fullback Deon Anderson exchanged blows.
"That's how you know you're in two-a-days,'' James said. "It's official when you have that first skirmish. You get the red eye and you just want to go blast somebody. It kills the monotony of practice.''
Anderson's take:
"I got a little enthusiastic out there,'' he said.
The exchange was brief and James and Anderson were seen laughing afterwards. That was not the case in the first fight of last year's camp between nose tackle Jay Ratliff and right tackle Marc Colombo.
"Well, they were actually able to break us up,'' James said of Tuesday's fight. "You get in there with Ratliff and Colombo, they might knock everybody down.
"You don't want to break a fight like that up. You've got to wait until they're finished.''


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I am having trouble integrating
\ \int_{0}^{\pi/2} x^{1/2} \cos x\, dx \end{aligned}
I see I can use the Trapezoidal or Simpson's Rule to approximate the integral, but when I used the Trapezoidal Rule, I got .6366 for n=4. I understand there should be some margin of error because I am only using 4 trapezoids, but the real answer is .7040 according to Wolfram. It seems my answer is a bit beyond what I expected - I thought I would be closer to the .7040 value.
Wolfram Link: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=integrate+sqrt%28x%29+cos+x+dx+from+0+to+pi%2F2
When I used Simpson's Rule, I got .6847 when n=4.
Edit: I resolved my own error - it was a simple button punching error (I made it for Simpon's Rule and Trapezoidal Rule - twice (I did the problem over again, too)).


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Channel-shaped metal strut is highly versatile. With semicaptive nuts, it is used to construct racks to support electrical equipment, or used as a conduit support, a hanger, a raceway for Type FC cable assemblies, and for direct mounting of light fixtures. It is available in various materials and in a variety of sizes for meeting specific strength requirements. It is also available with knockouts for conduit entrances, couplings, closure strips, and other accessories, as required.
Anchors of various types are used to secure electrical equipment, or even metal strut, to the floor, ceiling, or wall. Examples include stud anchors with threaded ends, lead-type expansion anchors, and even plastic anchors for drywall applications. They are available in an assortment of sizes and materials to meet most applications.
Poleline equipment and hardware
Lightning arrestors are critical power system components, providing protection against steep-rising wave shapes generated by lightning and switching. They can be polemounted, located within distribution enclosures, or directly mounted at large motors and generators. They are available in three classes: distribution, intermediate, or station. Their application depends upon the degree of protection required and voltage level involved.
Fused cutouts, isolating switches, and brackets to hold distribution transformers, capacitors, reclosers, and lightning arrestors are also component parts of polelines.
Poleline hardware is highly specialized. Poles are generally of wood, but concrete, fiberglass, steel, and aluminum are also used. Wood poles up to 90 ft are available. Crossarms and their associated bracing are also varied. Insulators of glass, porcelain, or polymer support or deaden cable to crossarms or directly to the pole. Guy wires, anchors, and associated hardware provide the forces necessary to oppose those imposed on the pole by conductor tension, ice, wind, or other variables.
Besides being installed on polelines for power-factor correction on distribution lines, capacitors are widely applied for the same purpose within facilities. NonPCB liquid-filled units and dry types are available with enclosures for indoor and outdoor environments. Individual capacitors can be connected directly at a load, grouped at a MCC, or centralized in larger ratings to bulk-correct the power factor of a system. Many times these centralized systems are provided with automatic controls that switch them onto or off the line. This results in maintaining a specific power factor.
A wide variety of enclosures is available for containing and mounting electrical equipment. They can range from huge consoles in central control rooms to individual enclosures for control and instrumentation. According to application, they are suitable for indoor general-purpose use, oiltight, raintight, and explosion proof. Various materials include sheet metal, stainless steel, PVC, and fiberglass. Depending on the application, individual enclosures use optional mounting plates within the terminal strips or miscellaneous devices.


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Label: Lamat records
Format: Jewel case cd
The real can be known only through the false, so the ego is a must. The real can be known only through the illusion. You cannot know the truth directly. First you have to encounter the untrue. Through that encounter you become capable of knowing the truth. If you know the false as the false, truth will dawn upon you. Ego It's a false thing, through the ego the society is controlling you. One has to pass through the chaos before one attains to the real center. The real center is the soul, the self, the god, the truth, or whatsoever you want to call it.
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w/p by Greg Farley (San Francisco California)
02) M.M.C - Mr Papshmer - 150bpm
w/p Alex Karlin (Moscow)
03) Antagon - Disfunction - 150 bpm
w/p by Lars Peter (Germany)
04) Arcek & Hawk - Aikan - 152 bpm
w/p by Alejandro Rayas Rivera & Daniel Rivera Diaz (Mexico)
05) Jelly vs Entre Nous - Western fubar show - 154 bpm
w/p by krim Gressier & fabrice berat (France)
06) Battery Leak (Bodhisattva 13.20 and limber timbre) - Globigerina - 155 bpm
w/p by C.L. Martin and C. Bradshaw (San Diego California)
07) System Crash - Ghost Hunter - 155 bpm
w/p by michael pröll (Germany)
08 ) Audiopathik - Geez - 158 bpm
w/p by Alex Urias & Gilberto Wendlant (Sonora Mexico)
09) OxiDaksi - Something Like That - 175 bpm
w/p by Nir dak & Eliran Hasan (Tel aviv Israel)
10) Dirty Phreak - Shamanic Overdrive (System Crash rmx - 178 bpm)
w/p by michael pröll (Germany) and Cesar Perez (Guatemala)
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Blues at Capitals In-Game Blog: 11-29-11
Pregame Preview:
Tonight marks the beginning of a new era for the Washington Capitals as legendary center Dale Hunter makes his return to Washington behind the bench as the franchise's 15th head coach.
Hunter made his mark in the NHL as a talented offensive player with the Quebec Nordiques and with the Capitals after being involved in a 1987 trade to D.C. that began a 12-year career in Washington. He evolved into one of the most feared players in the league, racking up 3,565 career penalty minutes, which is second most in NHL history.
For the past 11 seasons, he has owned and coached the London Knights of the Ontario Hockey League and in the process, turned a struggling franchise into one of the most respected teams in the OHL for the past decade. Among his notable achievements in London, Hunter became the fastest coach in OHL history to reach 300 and 400 wins. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Alex Ovechkin, Cody Eakin, Dale Hunter, Dmitry Orlov, Jaraslov Halak, Jason Arnott, Kevin Shattenkirk, London Knights, Marcus Johansson, Matt D'Agostini, Ontario Hockey League, Quebec Norqiques, Scott Nichol, St. Louis Blues, T.J. Oshie, Tomas Vokoun, Troy Brouwer


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Another municipality has taken the first step to pulling out of the Pocono Mountain Regional Police Department, the second in two weeks to do so.
Another municipality has taken the first step to pulling out of the Pocono Mountain Regional Police Department, the second in two weeks to do so.
Mount Pocono Borough Council voted 5-2 to send a letter to the department's commission stating its intention to leave the four-municipality police department at the start of 2014.
Coolbaugh Township voted on Dec. 18 to send a letter to the police commission stating its intention to leave, and sent the letter on Dec. 21.
Tobyhanna and Tunkhannock townships are the other two municipalities covered by the department. Neither has sent an intent letter, and officials from both townships said they don't plan to. Under the department's charter, the deadline to send an intent letter to be out of the department by 2014 is Monday.
Councilman Fred Courtright said Mount Pocono's "hand was forced" by Coolbaugh sending its letter, since the township is responsible for 42 percent of the department's $4.8 million budget.
"We had talked about it, but when Coolbaugh made its move, it was more of a safety valve for us," he said. "Now we have this in hand in case of the worst-case scenario."
A municipality sending the letter does not guarantee they will leave the department. The municipality can negotiate with the department throughout 2013 to stay and rescind the letter at any time.
Borough Council President John Finnerty said he "hated" voting to send the letter, and vowed to do what he could to try and keep the department together. He praised the department's work, but said the letter being sent is a budget matter, nothing else.
Finnerty and Councilman Roy Gross, who serves as the chairman of the police commission, both were part of the founding team of the department when it formed in 1994 as a combination of the Mount Pocono and Tobyhanna Township police departments.
Gross and William Jabara were the two dissenting votes to send the letter.
"We're looking after our financial behinds," he said. "Maybe we should have been talking about this previously, but we need to talk about it now."
Tunkhannock Township Supervisor and police commission Treasurer Fran DePiano said he hopes the issues will be worked out.
"We have to figure out what the root of the problem is, find out how to fix it and then get them to continue on," he said. "It's disappointing. But I will make every effort to see if we can rectify it."
Mount Pocono pays 49.7 percent of its revenue toward the police department and is in a precarious situation because it is nearly maxed-out on its property tax millage. To raise taxes likely would require permission from a judge.
If Coolbaugh left, Courtright said he believes the cost for the borough will rise and send it to court to try to raise taxes.
"If Coolbaugh pulls back its letter, then I would imagine we'd almost certainly pull ours back," Courtright said.


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Christian Irrationalism
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Description: Dress of off-white / ivory wool knit. The form-fitting full-length sheath has a round neckline and short cap sleeves. The entire dress is covered with iridescent sequins, and is decorated at lower part with five bands of gold/copper sequins, 3 bands of rosettes composted of gold beads and pearls, and two bands of "garlands" with suspended pine-cone forms and diamond shapes of copper/gold sequins, gold bugle beads, and gold beads. Dress has zipper closure along center back. Label reads: "Gene Shelly's / Boutique Internationale / California / Hand Decorated in Hong Kong / 100% Wool"
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Gold Route in Parati and its landscape
Delegation permanente du Brésil aupres de l'UNESCO - Municipality of Paraty
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The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate harmonization of Tentative Lists at regional and thematic levels.
The sole responsibility for the content of each Tentative List lies with the State Party concerned. The publication of the Tentative Lists does not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever of the World Heritage Committee or of the World Heritage Centre or of the Secretariat of UNESCO concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its boundaries.
Property names are listed in the language in which they have been submitted by the State Party
The colonization of the Brazilian territory and the conquest of its backlands are reflected in the routes of Parati. In its explicit destiny, Parati became the first benchmark for trade along the Atlantic Forest's trails. Parati was a turning point and an interface between sea and land, a temporary or permanent point for extinct, absorbed or excluded races.
Ever since the Europeans first caught sight of Brazil in 1500, and especially of Parati's coast in 1502, the slopes of the so-called Serra do Mar – covered by the Atlantic Forest, which lies along with the Atlantic coast between the Brazilian plateau and the coastal plains – have been playing a critical role in Brazilian history.
Before the Portuguese arrived, the trails outlined by tapirs 10,000 through 5,000 b.C. to cross the virtually insurmountable wall in Serra do Mar were used by tupinambás and guaianás. After discovery, the Paulista bandeirantes renewed the sense of those trails during their expeditions into the backlands for wealth. The route started out in Parati bay and became the shortest link between the Piratininga plateau, in the State of Sao Paulo, and the State of Rio de Janeiro, seat of the General Eastern and Southern Government. As gold was discovered in the State of Minas Gerais, they became part of the gold route. First made into a path and later into a road, it was used by the early colonizers of Brazil's backlands in the 18th century, to coffee troopers in the 19th century and today it serves the local population and historical and environmental tourism.
Its sheltered bay with protected waters provided optimal port infrastructure to the discoverers' vessels. The Portuguese maritime expansion fueled by mercantilism provided extensive experience with urbanization. In Brazil, two urban models were used. Parati's urban structure reflects the vernacular heritage as shown in the close relationship between the urban design and the topography of the location.
The village's character was perfectly expressed in the extraordinary impression of density caused by the aligned constructions that made up a homogeneous mass of buildings, which involves the blocks entirely and infuses them with a sense of monumentality, despite the limited dimensions, where ground or terraced houses prevail. The typical pace of warehouse pillaring is lessened by walls that envelope the houses' backyards; the urban composition has a simple geometry. Two side squares stand out in the landscape.
Differently from all other coastal colonial cities, Parati is still paved with stones, as well as the streets' drainage system. The urban language interfaces with the landscape seamlessly, framed between the mountain background and the wide and alternate pace of tide. Under a full moon, it takes hold of the historical site.
The architectural ensemble stages religious traditions that take place along the streets connecting the churches and the oratories called squares. The religious ceremonies that have been held every year since the colonial period include Festa do Divino Espírito Santo (a celebration of the Holy Ghost), Festa de Nossa Senhora dos Remédios (a celebration of Our Lady of Cures), Procissão do Encontro, which builds on Passos da Paixão (the Stations of the Cross) and Festa do Fogaréu (Bonfire Procession).
Traditional technologies applied both to activities and development of instruments associated to these activities have been preserved in the locals' memory.
Its landscape is comprised by zeniths, valleys and slopes, which spread into the sea as sudden promontories or smooth hillsides. The waterfalls lead to jagged beaches or mangroves where a significant portion of sea life abounds. Over sixty islands make up a real garden. The mere contact with this small universe is enough to behold the wealth of its biodiversity, which comprises plant and animal species that dwell in holes deep in the sea and peaks that are nearly 2 thousand meters high. Sea environments, especially the estuary systems in Parati Bay, Saco do Mamanguá and Parati-Mirim, are natural breeding areas for countless sea species.
Nowadays, the Atlantic Forest is one of the most endangered ecosystems in the planet, and the Parati area was deemed extremely important for the preservation of flora, mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians, as well as climatic, hydrological and geomorphological factors that support these forms of life.
These attributes were a justification for the area involving the whole municipality of Parati to be deemed by Unesco's MAB program as an integral part of the Atlantic Forest Biosphere Reserve in 1992.