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A few years ago, it was boom time in India. The economy was awash with capital and investors were salivating at the prospect of a nation with a young population and a growing aspirational middle class. For many entrepreneurs, whatever their background and experience, opening a business school seemed like a golden investment opportunity.
"The education market got seduced," says Ajit Rangnekar, dean at the Indian School of Business, one of the most respected institutions in the country. "A whole lot of opportunists and, as always, some charlatans started all sorts of business schools …thinking this is now the magic mantra to make money."
Although some of India's newer MBA programmes are highly regarded, such overzealous enthusiasm helped create a bubble of oversupply in the management education market. However, this bubble has now burst, as the Indian economy limps out of its worst financial crisis in almost two decades and the poor quality of many of these fledgling institutions has come to light.
More than 160 management schools have shut down in India in the past two academic years, according to the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the statutory body responsible for accreditation.
These closures follow a period of delirium when low-quality management institutes proliferated across the country, often churning out unemployable graduates.
During the upturn, MBA students were receiving multiple job offers with the promise of hefty pay packets even before they graduated, which in turn fuelled demand for management degrees.
Colleges are required to operate as not-for-profits in India – a rule that is often criticised for stifling investment – but commentators say many institutions are highly lucrative, covertly providing sizeable returns to the investor. Meanwhile, low barriers to entry make it easy for anyone with access to land to open a college.
"It is one of the most highly capital-efficient industries on the face of this planet," says Amit Garga, senior principle at the Parthenon Group, an education consultancy. "You can make a return on equity of 30 to 35 per cent unleveraged."
As a result, between 2008 and 2012 the total number of management schools in the country doubled to 2,385, according to AICTE, while the total student intake rose from 114,803 to 313,920.
Demand for management and engineering degrees has been rising consistently at about 6-7 per cent a year, Mr Garga estimates. But a few years ago that was outstripped by supply, which grew at double-digit rates and created the current excess.
AICTE estimates there are now 400,000 seats at management schools across the country but one in eight lies empty every year, forcing unprofitable schools to close.
"Your investment case crashes if you're not able to meet the first two or three years of enrolment," Mr Garga explains.
Moreover, this increase in supply has coincided with a period of economic slowdown in India, with pressures on corporate hiring and remuneration discouraging people from applying to business schools.
Weakness in the wider economy is undoubtedly affecting graduates' earning power. Crisil Education Grading, which evaluates management education programmes across India, says more than half of those on its list reported a decline in the percentage of students recruited by banking and financial services companies since 2011 and a marginal decline in placements in the IT sector, two of the most popular industries among MBA graduates.
There is a clear distinction in India between top-end business schools and their lower-tier brethren.
Compared with the west, the Indian market for business education has a very small number of premier institutions. While highly regarded colleges such as the Indian School of Business and the 13 Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) remain oversubscribed and place most of their students, poorer-quality institutions are being forced to fold.
"There is a huge demand in India for higher education but that demand-supply gap is for quality, higher education," says Dhiraj Mathur, executive director at PwC in India. "That's the fundamental reason why schools are closing down."
The Indian School of Business has increased its intake by about 200 students with the opening of a campus in Mohali, Punjab, and these additional graduates are securing plum jobs. Similarly, there were more than 500 applicants per place at IIM Ahmedabad this year, where just 380 students were accepted.
"The simple rule is: if you have quality you will survive, if you don't you will perish," says SS Mantha, chairman of AICTE.
Excluding the top 20 colleges in India, only 10 per cent of business school graduates are placed immediately after graduating, down from 54 per cent in 2008, according to a report from the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India released earlier this year.
As well as poor quality, there is a discernible pattern in the location of many of these failing business schools. Mr Mantha says that most of the unfilled places are in rural colleges where it is difficult to find trained staff and there are few employers nearby.
Of the 162 schools that closed in the past two years, 58 were based in the vast state of Andhra Pradesh, while 22 were in the desert state of Rajasthan and 20 were in the largely rural and relatively under-developed Uttar Pradesh.
"They are not close to a city or town, so their linkages with industry are poor," says Mr Mathur. "They have issues getting good faculty."
There will be hard-hitting consequences for the wider society, as India produces a mass of unemployable graduates.
The number and quality of MBA graduates India produces affects hopes for a so-called "demographic dividend" – the much-maligned theory that a young, working population will drive the growth of Asia's third-largest economy. And analysts at Kotak Securities, the Mumbai-based brokerage, point out that India is not only wasting resources but also generating a pool of frustrated young people unable to secure a job they consider commensurate with their qualifications.
As a wave of closures follows a period of excess the hope is that India's business education industry is now in the midst of consolidation.
"It is basically a case of a little bit of a bubble, a rush of easy money into education where the industry is not easily understood, and the market then stabilising," says Bibek Banerjee, director of the Institute of Management Technology in Ghaziabad.
Nonetheless, questions around quality checks remain. In a typical year about 600 or 700 engineering and MBA colleges are approved by AICTE, according to data from Parthenon, but that figure climbed to more than 1,300 in the 2009 and 2010 academic years.
"Fundamentally, what's missing is a reasonable level of accreditation for higher-education schools," says Mr Garga. He acknowledges, however, that monitoring quality is particularly difficult in a vast and varied market such as India where the industry is highly fragmented.
"I'm just surprised that so few [business schools] have failed," says Mr Rangnekar. "I would have expected the clean-up to be more."
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It was a warm summer day mom was in the kitchen making breakfast, Cameron and Candice my sisters were walking in and said good morning.
Cameron said mom can you do a favor for me. Mom said yes I can, and then said Bobby can you do the laundry today I said sure and ate my cereal.
It's been weird since dad left 4 months ago, Mom Cameron and Candice missed him, but mom still hated him. Mom went out to do Cameron's favor and left me in the house. I went to go get the laundry in each room. I then went to Cameron's room to get her laundry I heard moaning from behind the door. I wondered what my 16 year old sister could be doing. I opened the door and saw Cameron rubbing her pussy and squeezing her tits.
Her coos got me rock hard. I looked around to see if my 18 year old sister Candice was around. She wasn't so I whipped out my cock and jerked off.
She rubbed her pussy then licked her fingers and mummered I need a hard cock. I felt so horny when she said that. Her tits were great she had medium size juicy tits and that was big for her age. I knew I was going to cum and it was going to be great. As I stroked harder I creaked on the floor boards and Cameron looked up. She yelled Bobby what are you doing, I stuttered trying to explain myself.
She saw my 8inch and in a sweet soft tone she said. So you want to cum and she grabbed my dick.
She got on her knees and sucked my dick and I moaned so loud. I closed the door, and thought about Candice walking in. Cameron sucked great her mouth was warm and she knew how to suck my balls she swallowed them whole.
Then she got up and bended over her dresser I took my cock and shoved it in her butt. She moaned real loud I thrusted hard in her butt she yelped as I pounded her ass.
I grabbed her big tits, theyey felt so big and soft and her nipples were brick hard. She turned around and said Bobby can I get fucked in my pussy now. I said of course in one motion I threw her on the bed and stuck my fingers in her pussy.
At one at a time I stuck my fingers in her pussy. Each finger she moaned and pleaded for me not to stop. She was ready and I couldn't wait I stuck my dick in her pussy and it slid in like a hand coming in a glove.
She screamed loud and it was a mixture of pain and pleasure. I pushed in and out as fast as I could she screamed yes OH FUCK OH FUCK yes yes yes her tits bounced up and down and it got me pounding her twice as fast. I felt something trickling down my dick and I knew it wasn't cum so I looked down to see blood leaking out her pussy.
I said are you okay and she said in a soothing but direct tone. Yes yes just take that cock and fuck me with it. Teach Me how to take that cock she said. I turned her around and fucked her doggystyle. She yelled even louder and her tits made the hottest noises ever.
It was a constant slapping of skin. My balls slapping against her skin and her tits slapping against off her chest was music to my ears.
I then went in balls deep and held in the load of semen that was begging to cum out I stuck my dick in her pussy and stayed in her pussy and I squeezed her tits. She yelled so loud I was surprised Candice diddnt hear. I came in her and squirted one of the biggest loads I've ever had released in my 17 years of being alive. I slid out of her pussy and fell on the bed. She layed next to me and whispered in my ear you were my first and I loved it. I said thanks and she said how'd you get your cock so big.
I responded well I just jerked off a lot and ate healthy food and also stretching techniques. She smiled and said keep doing what your doin, and then she said something that rocked my world, she said Bobby can I be your cum bucket and as she said this she squeezed my balls and I coo"d and tightened my legs. She said ohhh someone's sensitive. She then got on her knees and put my sack in her mouth. I laughed and I said yes. I looked at her and said Cameron (she looked at me with her innocent blue eyes) can you convince Candice to fuck with us.
She said what you don't like my pussy. I said no it's just she's older and hot and both of you together would be awesome. Then Cameron looked at me and said Bobby we both know you'll never be able to last.
She laughed and I said oh looks like someone's not getting my cock. She got on her knees and said no no no please, I'm sorry you can last you just fucked me for 14 minutes I was joking.
She got over me and started kissing my neck saying please and started stroking my cock. I said okay and asked her a question that started it all. I asked her can I fuck you till you cum. She said yes and I said lower your butt down she did as I said, and I stuck my hard cock in her pussy, and she went up and down on my rod harder and harder every time she came down. She yelled yes OH Bobby itssss sooo biggg more more.
I did as she wished and went as fast as I could. She said I'm cumming I'm cumming I'm cumming and squirted all over my dick and fell on me.
We layed there catching our breath then she whispered in my ear now it's your turn to cum. She layed back on the bed and said give me all you got do what you want. I pounded my cock in her pussy and yelled yeah now your going to get it. She pleaded fuck me Bobby please please let me have it. Her pussy felt so tight it felt like a glove. I penetrated her so hard more blood came out and she yelled Bobby please make me your bitch cum I want you to just cum in me, my filthy pussy can't take it anymore.
I was about to cum, and then Candice walked in saying who's screaming, as she saw what was going on I pulled out and busted my load all over Candices face I was surprised how far it went, and it landed right on her face and right on her chest.
I was frozen and so was Cameron. .
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Frank was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin and is one of seven children. He attended Oshkosh West High School and after graduation worked at Bowery Savings Bank. In 1978, he decided to head westward to California.
While working professionally and attending the University of Pepperdine in Malibu, California, Mr. Jansen and his wife started their family of two daughters and one son. Shortly thereafter, he was offered a position at Chicago Title Company to head a newly formed department, of which he is now Sr. Vice President. Today, Chicago Title's Special Projects Department is a National Business Title and Escrow Group that oversees the coordination of over $10 billion dollars annually in commercial real estate transactions.
Frank is now a proud father of two daughters and three sons, and more recently became a first-time grandparent to his grandson. He enjoys his relaxation time between The Jonathan Club, San Gabriel Country Club and his family cabin in Rock Creek Cattle Company, Montana. His hobbies are golf, fishing, water rafting and wine tasting in Napa, California.
Memberships and Affiliations
- Founder of First Enterprise Bank
- Founder of Cap Harbor / 1031 Exchange
- Governor of Urban Land Institute
- Member of ICSC
- President of City of Hope (2004-2005) for Real Estate Group
- Board Member of Natural History Museum
- Board Member of Los Angeles Headquarters
- Board Member USC Lusk School
- Member of Jonathan Club
- Member of San Gabriel Country Club
- Member of Rock Creek Country Club


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|SWING News: New Tandem TWIN 5 an many succesful pilots
|New Tandem from SWING: The TWIN 5
Keep the well-proven and improve it with the latest technologies: this was the motto for the development of the TWIN 5. The goal was to further optimize SWING´s most successful tandem glider.
This was achieved with an improved leading edge design, 3D-Shaping, the use of flexible and durable rigid elements and other changes. The result: excellent start properties and an extremely stable canopy.
Just like its predecessor, the TWIN 5 offers great handling - almost like a solo glider. SWING kept the well-known high degree of passive safety. Fans of the TWIN 4 may therefore look forward to a familiar feeling in flight.
The TWIN 5 is also available as TWIN 5 S. Made for lightweight passengers & children with a handling like a solo glider. Maximum load capacity for the S size is 190kg. Good news for big boys: Using the "Vario"-risers, TWIN5 S is also certified for solo use.
The TWIN 5 has already been certified with LTF-B/EN-B. Also the pre-serial checks have been completed. Orders are accepted with imediate effect.
|Swing Pilots are succesful


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AEM026 Spirit Kid
Those of you familiar with Showtime's Weeds might already have rubbed aural elbows with Spirit Kid (A.K.A. Emeen Zarookian, the man with the most fabulous name in the universe) via an online only promo video (see below) that lifts his madly catchy and jangly Ampeater A-side "You Lit Up For Me" and gleefully reinterprets the lyrics in a way that you need only stare at the song title for two seconds to guess at. In fact, the song is secretly an elegy to a lost and puddle-killed cell phone (think about it: you fell down / out of my pocket and into the sea / you lit up for me), and this contrast between the hidden, mundane inspiration and the perfectly open ended lyrics is a perfect distillation of Spirit Kid. "You Lit Up For Me" is a perfect, concise pop song, recorded with a warm, full and just slightly muddy sound that sounds both musically and tonally straight out of 1965 (Zarookian lists the Beatles, Kinks, Beach Boys, and Zombies as influences and let me tell you, you can hear it in the best way) and yet with a secretly contemporary source. Who among us doesn't know the anxiety of a lost cell phone? Who would think to write a song about it? Meet the Spirit Kid, a man who, in his own words, is trying to capture "a child-like willingness to experience the world with open eyes and a open heart, something that many of us, including me, often let slip away with our own daily problems."
Spirit Kid songs are short and crammed to bursting with ideas. They stand in direct opposition to anything even remotely shaggy, as sharply dressed as those aforementioned English pop heroes of the sixties. They would sound surgical if they weren't so damned fun, performed with a charming looseness that belies the years this album has been in the making. You can hear lord knows how many Emmens shouting "I miss you terribly" on "You Lit Up For Me" in a big, bawling chorus of voices that you'd never hear on a more cleanly produced (read: sterile) album. It's the kind of shouty vocal harmony that's not supposed to be perfectly in harmony. There's a thickness to this kind of sound that autotune can never reach with its unnecessary clarity (nothing against autotune, which can clearly be used to do some cool shit but should never, ever be applied to the vocals in a guitars-bass-drums-catchysongs kind of rock band). Album cut "Wait A Minute" pretty much dissolves halfway through in a pile of full kit crashes and guitar solos before popping back into the bubbly country pop verses. The fact that Zarookian recorded this entire record himself (with mixing help from Jack Younger of 247 Studios) in bedrooms, bathrooms, basement rec rooms, graffiti-covered practice spaces, etc., etc., lends the whole thing a warmth and relaxed energy that just doesn't materialize in albums constructed in imposing studios.
Though Zarookian's musical roots lie mostly in the tight (bounce-a-quarter-off-that-song tight) mod pop of decades hence, he has cousins in recent times as well. Dr. Dog, especially on their near-flawless Easybeat, drew from some of the same pools, bringing back the big vocal harmonies and fluid, traditional harmony that makes Lennon/Mccartney songs sound so endlessly inventive and yet perfectly logical. That style of harmony (which incidentally is a huge part of why all those girl group pop songs that came out of the Brill Building are so amazing, when you combine it with the whole Phil Spector production style) is mostly neglected these days in favor of a minimalist diatonic (read: boring, two chords, maybe three) kind of thing.
Another musical relative is Elliott Smith, who you can hear in the ascending bridge of B-side "My Imagination", in the way the melody on another album track ("The World Doesn't Stop") resolves down a half step instead of the expected whole step, in the pure melody of the guitar solos, in the tight vocal harmonies and use of fancy little diminished passing chords, and who of course played all the instruments on his first few albums much in the way Zarookian does here. But don't let that make you think the attitude here is anything but joyous or the playing anything but accomplished. The drumming is propulsive and never shaky, pushing the piano riff of "My Imagination" forward with enough force to make it sound like a lost Big Star cut. The bass playing deserves 1000 words on its own, generating enough melodies to make about three more records. Check out the way it navigates the modulating half-time section of the bridge of "My Imagination", just spitting out ideas left and right. The piano hits hard and nails the obligatory giant glissandos at the climaxes. The vocals, as mentioned, perfectly pin down all the harmonies, for example the echoing I get scareds or ooh la la las in the second verse of "My Imagination".
"You Lit Up For Me", the aforementioned A-side, is a perfectly crafted pop gem, with crescendoing mobs of voices over the kind of loping country feel that shows up on a few of the other album tracks, here trading off with more reserved, open interludes. The way the vocals build and build up into an avalanche that tumbles right into the rolling, jouncing percussion of the verses is the most immediate evidence of Spirit Kid's genius for that long stretched and bruised art form: the song. The multiple layers of vocals that emerge after each extended verse chord are perfect, pure momentum, leaping in each time you think the chord just has to change. It's the kind of song you want to listen to whilst cutting down the street on a sunny Sunday afternoon with not much on your mind, maybe on your way out to get some brunch, preferably on repeat.
"My Imagination" is more complex, with more sections and more of those fantastic bass lines climbing all over the place like kids on a jungle gym. The song itself is great, catchy, full of motion, but even more than that there are the endless tiny touches of idiosyncrasy, the kind of thing that makes albums like, say, Pet Sounds so amazing and permanently listenable. The way the bass doesn't seriously enter until that ballsy fill around 11 seconds; the aforementioned ooh la la las, the way that every drum break on that minor chord comes back not on the one but a half beat early, the constant shifting of drum feels, the modulations and modulations of the bridge rising all the way into the triumphant falsetto, the drum fill at 2:15, the call and response of the harmony vocals just after that ("not tough"), the phasered "my my my imagination" over the ending. There is so much in these songs. I could keep going, too, though for practical reasons (read: boredom) I will spare you.
The great thing, for you, for me, for the Spirit Kid, is that these songs are A) so intoxicatingly enjoyable that it takes no effort whatsoever to just nod your head and think yes and B) so well arranged and interestingly built that you can sit here and write, oh, I dunno, 1259 words on them and there will still be more and more and more to say. It's a shame it looks like the album's going to be coming out in the winter, because it really deserves to be the soundtrack to your next summer. Those of you in New Zealand take note.
You Lit Up For Me
https://ampeater.s3.amazonaws.com/aem026/01 You Lit Up For Me.mp3
My Imagination
https://ampeater.s3.amazonaws.com/aem026/02 My Imagination.mp3


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There is, unfortunately, no universal standard or schedule for when you will need to have your brakes checked or replaced. The best way is by having your brakes regularly inspected to monitor the life of the brake pads.
Here is a list of factors that will determine whether you will need to have your brakes replaced sooner rather than later:
- Your usual driving environment. Driving an urban or suburban area inevitably means you will have to do frequent stopping and starting, which will wear your brakes out faster.
- Your car's age. The newer the car, the better the brake technology used with it. Similarly, newer cars will have built-in sensors to warn you when they're getting too thin.
- Your car's specific brakes. Some cars use lighter and thinner brake pads to save weight, improve fuel efficiency and lower costs. So while the technology in the brakes might be better than in the past, the reduced weight and thickness mean you might have to get them replaced just as frequently as in the past.
If your car doesn't come with built-in sensors, if you notice your car taking longer to stop or that it makes persistently loud noises when you apply the brakes, your brake pads are probably getting dangerously thin and should be replaced.
As an alternative, you can have them examined regularly. Most cars require you to have your wheels rotated every six months or so, which is a good time to have the mechanic inspect the thickness of brake pads and see if they need replacing or not.


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London Business School Essay Topic Analysis 2010-2011热6已有 671 次阅读 2010-06-25 18:36 标签: Analysis Business London School Topic
Although London Business School's first four essay topics are relatively unchanged from the prompts on last year's application, the school has introduced two new potential essay topics for the fifth question. The new essay questions continue to indicate the school's emphasis on international experience, as well as its interest in a candidate's past and proposed leadership experience. In addition, more than most programs, LBS asks applicants to share specific details of their future involvement on campus and contribution to the community. From this, one can extrapolate and assume that LBS is interested in candidates who've spoken to students and learned a good deal about the program to better understand how and where they might fit.
Question 1 (750 words)
Give us a brief assessment of your career progress to date.
In what role do you see yourself working in immediately after graduation and what is your longer term career vision?
How will your past and present experiences help you to achieve this?
How will the London Business School MBA Programme contribute to this goal?
Why is this the right time for you to pursue an MBA?
While last year's LBS application had the career goals essay broken down into two separate questions, this year's prompt maintains the compartmentalization format by including individual questions within this one essay topic. At its heart this is a standard career goals essay, although applicants will need to make sure that they respond to all of the questions posed in this prompt. In responding to the fourth question, applicants will benefit from learning about the school's academic offerings and other curricular and extracurricular programs, whether through a campus visit or conversation with alumni.
Question 2 (300 words)
Give a specific example of when you have had to test your leadership and team working skills. Given this experience what role will you play in a first year study group?
Based on this prompt, applicants should discuss an experience in which they faced challenges to their leadership and teamwork skills, such as a time when a team member refused to get on board with a group plan. After clearly outlining the situation, it's crucial that applicants explain how they persevered through the challenge, as doing so shows one's maturity and ability to overcome obstacles. It would therefore make sense to end this essay by explaining the strategies you've subsequently developed to navigate difficult situations, and explain how you can apply these processes to future work at LBS. Note that the question about LBS study groups offers applicants a great chance to showcase their familiarity with the program and prove that they've done their homework, as well as demonstrate that they've thought through the contribution they would make and the strengths they could bring to the program. With only 300 words allotted for this essay, applicants will need to be highly efficient with their writing to ensure that they can respond to each component of the prompt.
Question 3 (300 words)
Student involvement is an extremely important part of the London Business School MBA experience and this is reflected in the character of students on campus. Please describe how you will contribute to student clubs and the community and why?
This question asks candidates to broadly discuss the clubs and events in which they would like to participate. This framing gives candidates a wide berth to discuss how their interests and experiences to date would translate to contributions on several fronts. As with any essay of this sort, it would be ideal to link the clubs and events you cite to established interests or elements of your career goals, as these will help the admissions committee readily see how you are poised to make a contribution. Taking the time to learn about the school's special programs and extracurricular activities – whether through a visit to campus or conversation with alumni will pay dividends here.
Question 4 (300 words)
London Business School offers a truly global and diverse experience. Describe any significant experiences outside of your home country or culture. What did you gain and how will your experience contribute to London Business School?
With the prompt expanded from last year's application, this question allows applicants the opportunity to showcase their international experience, both professionally and personally, and is designed to gauge the applicant's ability to navigate unfamiliar terrain and resolve cross-cultural issues. In order to answer both components of this question, we suggest that applications quickly outline important experience abroad, and then focus on providing detail about the lessons and skills gained from these situations, as well as how the experiences would help the applicant benefit from and contribute to LBS. Based on the first sentence of this prompt, it will be important for applicants to show that not only can they contribute to the diversity at LBS, but also that they will thrive as a member of the diverse student body.
Please choose ONE of the following options.
Question 5a (150 words)
You have decided to stand for the role of Student Association President. Announcing your campaign to the London Business School community for the first time, please describe your manifesto.
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Opened 6 years ago
Closed 3 years ago
#13605 closed enhancement (implemented)
Create a client/relay-side ReducedExitPolicy
|Reported by:
|Owned by:
|Tor: 0.3.3.x-final
|Core Tor/Tor
|tor-relay, easy, review-group-18, review-group-24
|yawning, neel@…
|Actual Points:
|Parent ID:
We should have an "ExitPolicy Reduced" or "ReducedExitPolicy 1" torrc option for relay operators to more easily opt in to https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/ReducedExitPolicy.
We have a lot of people doing this on an ad-hoc basis. We should make it official.
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Change History (32)
comment:1 Changed 6 years ago by
Fwiw, we also have #6495 for a dirauth version of this, but that will require all clients+relays to upgrade before it can be used.
comment:2 Changed 6 years ago by
|easy added
|→ Tor: 0.2.7.x-final
comment:3 Changed 6 years ago by
|new → assigned
comment:4 Changed 6 years ago by
|lorax added
|Tor: 0.2.7.x-final → Tor: 0.2.???
This got triaged out of 0.2.7 today.
If we do it, we need to make sure that we aren't promising 100% abuse-resistance to the servers who use it.
comment:5 Changed 5 years ago by
|→ medium
|→ Normal
comment:6 Changed 4 years ago by
|Tor: 0.2.??? → Tor: 0.3.???
Milestone renamed
Changed 4 years ago by
|0001-Add-code-for-letting-user-select-Reduced-Exit-Policy.patch added
Patch for adding ReducedExitPolicy option to use Reduced Exit Policy
comment:7 Changed 4 years ago by
I have a patch to add a ReducedExitPolicy option, and to set the Exit Policy to the well known Reduced Exit Policy. Please tell me what you think about this patch.
Thank You,
Neel Chauhan
comment:8 Changed 4 years ago by
|tor-03-unspecified-201612 added
|Tor: 0.3.??? → Tor: unspecified
Finally admitting that 0.3.??? was a euphemism for Tor: unspecified all along.
comment:9 Changed 3 years ago by
|tor-03-unspecified-201612 removed
Remove an old triaging keyword.
comment:10 Changed 3 years ago by
|assigned → new
Change the status of all assigned/accepted Tor tickets with owner="" to "new".
comment:11 Changed 3 years ago by
|lorax removed
|Tor: unspecified → Tor: 0.3.2.x-final
|new → needs_review
comment:12 Changed 3 years ago by
Oh hey, there's a patch here! We should review this for when the next merge window happens.
comment:13 Changed 3 years ago by
|review-group-18 added
comment:14 Changed 3 years ago by
|needs_review → needs_revision
Yay! Thank you so much for doing this neel. Sorry for taking so long to look at it.
The patch looks OK, but needs a couple things before merge:
- Can you add an entry for this option in the manpage? (doc/tor.1.txt)
- Can you create a changelog entry in a changes file for this (ie: changes/bug13605)
Otherwise I think this looks good. It appears to match the most recent reduced exit policy wiki page still, too.
Nick - do we have to have unit tests for torrc options like this, or can we consider this covered by the other exit policy tests?
comment:15 Changed 3 years ago by
In an ideal world we'd have tests for everything, though for torrc options it might be better to wait until we have config.c factored in a much better way.
Changed 3 years ago by
|tor-patch-ReducedExitPolicy-001.patch added
Updated patch to add ReducedExitPolicy option
comment:16 Changed 3 years ago by
Sorry for the delay, but I have created a new patch with the filename tor-patch-ReducedExitPolicy-001.patch.
comment:17 Changed 3 years ago by
|Tor: 0.3.2.x-final → Tor: unspecified
Mark some needs_revision tickets as unspecified. If/when the revisions happen, they can go back into a live milestone.
comment:18 Changed 3 years ago by
Apart from unit tests, these two things need to be changed:
The maximum exit policy is now
#define EXIT_POLICY_REJECT_LOCAL_INTERFACES (1 << 3) #define EXIT_POLICY_ADD_REDUCED (1 << 4) #define EXIT_POLICY_OPTION_MAX EXIT_POLICY_REJECT_LOCAL_INTERFACES /* All options set: used for unit testing */ #define EXIT_POLICY_OPTION_ALL ((EXIT_POLICY_OPTION_MAX << 1) - 1)
Please check all uses of EXIT_POLICY_OPTION_ALL to make sure they still function as designed.
The last line of the changes file needs a newline, not an escape sequence:
operator to use a reduced exit policy rather than the default one. Closes\ ticket 13605.
comment:19 Changed 3 years ago by
|Tor: unspecified → Tor: 0.3.2.x-final
comment:20 Changed 3 years ago by
|Tor: 0.3.2.x-final → Tor: 0.3.3.x-final
Defer all needs_revision non-spec enhancements to 0.3.3.
comment:21 Changed 3 years ago by
|neel@… added
Changed 3 years ago by
|tor-patch-ReducedExitPolicy-002.patch added
Version 2 of patch to add ReducedExitPolicy option
comment:22 Changed 3 years ago by
I have created a new patch tor-patch-ReducedExitPolicy-002.patch which includes the requested changes. It passes the regression test (at least on my machine).
comment:23 Changed 3 years ago by
|needs_revision → needs_review
Looks great, but needs some more documentation.
The man page should talk about ReducedExitPolicy under ExitPolicy:
If you want to use a reduced exit policy rather than the default exit policy, set "ReducedExitPolicy 1". If you want to _replace_ the default exit policy with your custom exit policy, end your exit policy with either a reject *:* or an accept *:*. Otherwise, you're _augmenting_ (prepending to) the default or reduced exit policy.
The man page should document exactly what the reduced exit policy is.
For example, here is the man page entry for the default exit policy:
The default exit policy is: reject *:25 reject *:119 reject *:135-139 reject *:445 reject *:563 reject *:1214 reject *:4661-4666 reject *:6346-6429 reject *:6699 reject *:6881-6999 accept *:* Since the default exit policy uses accept/reject *, it applies to both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
Changed 3 years ago by
|tor-patch-ReducedExitPolicy-003.patch added
Version 3 of patch to add ReducedExitPolicy option
comment:24 Changed 3 years ago by
I have a new version of this patch. The filename is 'tor-patch-ReducedExitPolicy-003.patch' (without the quotes).
comment:25 Changed 3 years ago by
|review-group-24 added
review-group-24 is now open.
comment:26 Changed 3 years ago by
|Actual Points:
|→ 3
|medium → 3
This patch looks good to me.
I've not compiled it or run unit tests (are there existing unit tests for the exit policy code?).
We should do that before we merge.
comment:27 Changed 3 years ago by
|needs_review → merge_ready
This is looking reasonable. Two changes to make before I merge (i can do these, no worries):
- We should only add the reduced exit policy if BridgeMode is also 0.
- The else goes on the same line as any } before it.
I'll take another look too while I'm at it. I'd do all this now, but I need to go afk
comment:28 Changed 3 years ago by
|→ implemented
|merge_ready → closed
I've put my changes (minor) in branch
13605_reduced_exit in my public repository; I've merged a squashed version to master. Thanks!


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What could cause an upright freezer to leak water from the bottom, even though the freezer is freeing efficiently?Most likely the defrost drain is clogged. However, instead of the water draining out, the water is entering the freezer floor and leaking on to the floor. To resolve this problem first unplug the freezer and detach the lower rear panel inside your freezer. Here the individual will find the evaporator coils which defrost every 10 hours approximately. The drain which is about the size of a dime and which could be blocked is below the coils on the floor. Remove the ice and clear the hole. Use warm water to pour into the drain to ensure thorough clearing. If it does not clear out, insert a soft, flexible object and push it a couple of inches. Check the back of the freezer by removing the lower panel and looking for a tube which opens up over a drain pan. If you find a small amount of water in the pan, you have done the job right. The water will evaporate on its own.
What could be the problem with an upright freezer that the alarm continues to beep ever 15 minutes? The unit has had all contents removed and cleaned, however this has not helped.This model is most likely to have a temperature control with a red light and a beeper. It is one of the main components of the freezer since the entire functioning is controlled by it. Electricity to individual parts passes first through the temperature control before getting dissipated to other parts. This control could have failed and may need to be replaced. Unplug the freezer and use a putty knife along the side of the door. The control will pop out of its place. Change the wires with the new part and push the control back to snap into position.
It is important to equip yourself with basic information to handle issues that may crop up with your upright freezers. Engaging the services of a technician for simple issues which can be handled by you will prove to be expensive as well as unnecessary. Basic issues such as defrosting can be managed by you if you have someone to guide you. Therefore insights and information from Experts will be helpful and useful to tackle the problem immediately and effectively.


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How to Prune Palms' Side Sprouts
The palm (Arecaceae) family is extensive and includes about 2,500 species. Varieties either have a single trunk or grow side sprouts to become multi-trunked palms. The Senegal date palm (Phoenix reclinata) grows well in full sun in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 9 through 11. The European fan palm (Chamaerops humilis) grows well in the same conditions in well-drained soil in zones 8 through 10. Both of these palms are of the clumping variety. Pruning the side sprouts off clumping palms correctly enables you to shape a palm tree or to propagate it from suckers. Pruning is best done in late spring or summer when suckers are 6 inches in diameter.
Pour one part bleach and three parts water into a bowl. Stir the disinfecting solution with a spoon. Immerse a curved blade pruning saw into the liquid and allow it to soak for about five minutes. Remove the saw and rinse it thoroughly with water.
Place the pruning saw blade on the area where a sprout attaches to the main trunk of the palm tree. Side sprouts develop on the bottom of the trunk next to the ground.
Hold the side sprout in one hand and saw straight down on the sucker. Use slow, long strokes to saw through the side sprout completely.
Remove each unwanted side sprout in the same manner. You may trim a clumping or clustering palm back to a solitary main truck or allow some of the side sprouts to grow. Multi-trunked palm trees generally have an odd number of trunks for aesthetic purposes.
Spray a liberal amount of liquid copper fungicide on each area of the palm tree with exposed wood from the cuts. Copper fungicide prevents diseases and pests from entering the wood of trees and causing the tree to decline or die.
Things Needed
- Bowl
- Household bleach
- Water
- Spoon
- Curved blade pruning saw
- Liquid copper fungicide
- Do not water palm trees immediately after removing side sprouts because it will wash off the liquid copper fungicide that protects the tree.
- Removing side sprouts directs a tree's energy into growing taller, rather than wider.
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Game claims self-defense in response to 40 Glocc's lawsuit.
In March 2013 40 Glocc took his ongoing beef with Game to lawyers, and initiated a $4.5 million lawsuit against the rapper stemming from his beatdown (caught on camera) in July of 2012. Although legal proceedings have been quiet for a minute, they are not over. Game made sure to keep the beef present in Tyga's recent Lil Durk diss record, and now there are more court documents concerning 40 Glocc's initial lawsuit.
Game has responded to 40's lawsuit, claiming that 40 is only looking to extend his fifteen minutes of fame by using Game. Game claims he only beat up 40 Glocc in self-defense, saying that the punching only began after Glocc pulled out a gun on him. 40 has made the same claim of Game, however no guns are seen in the recorded footage.
In the court documents, Game claims that 40 Glocc's lawsuit is all part of Glocc's "gangster agenda to profit from threats, intimidation and taunts."
We'll keep you updated on the legal beef. If you need a reminder of what went down, watch the footage below.
[Update: 40 Glocc Calls Game A Coward]
The latest update on this never-ending beef: 40 Glocc responded to yesterday's report that Game claims he punched Glocc out of self defense. Of course, this isn't sitting too well with 40 and he has taken to Instagram to lay out his thoughts, in all caps lock. See what he wrote below.
"FUCK! @TMZ -THIS PUNK [Game] - SAYS I USE HIM FOR FAME.. U COWARD.. FUCK FAME... SHOW ME THE MONEY.. NOW U Contradicting YASELF SAYING I PULLED A GUN ON YOU IN COURT.. BUT THATZ WHAT U SAID IS SNITCHING??. IN THAT CASE U "SNITCHING & LIENG".. HOW U JUMP ME WIT A GUN PULLED ON U.. U EDITED A FAJE TAPE OF ME GETTING JUMP AT GUN POINT.. NO POLICE GOT CALLED NO POLICE REPORTS WERE FILED..NO CHARGES WERE PRESSED... YOU TGE 1 WANT THE FAME DUMMY U RECORDED AND EDITED IT.. AND PUT IT OUT. NOW YA FAKE SHIT BACKFIRED AND U CRYING ABOUT IM SUEING U FOR FAME.. YOU CLOWN PUT YA BIG RED NOSE ON.. U WOULD NEVER RUN UP ON A NIGGA LIKE ME FOR A HEAD UP.. AND U 4 SURE WOUKDNT RUN UP ON ME AND JUMP ME IF I HAD A GUN ON U... NOW U "SNITCHING LIEN & CRYIN"..-YOU CAN USE TMZ ALL U WANT.. THEY BEEN PUTTIN ME ON THEY WACK ASS SHOW WAY B4 ME & YOUR INCIDENT.. FUK TWITTER FOLLOWERS & INSTAGRAM LIKE & FOLLOWERS . IMA GO GETTA U FUK BOI.. I GET MONEY. & FUK NIGGAZ SHIT UP.. OFF CAMERA.. I DONT RECORD MY SELF DOIN NO CRIMES U DUMMY.. U A TREND SETTER FOR DUMMIES WIT MONEY ... NOW- #RunMeMyMoney."
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While my own views of the long-term consequences and negative effects are NOT as extreme as those claimed in some research, I don't share the belief of 'spare the rod and spoil the child'.
We ended up with a friendly but heated debate, something which we often do. (He is such a great opponent, being professionally trained as a legal counsel and being as opinionated as I am, it is always very intellectually stimulating to talk to him.)
Once we start caning, where do you draw the line? What misbehavior warrant physical pain as punishment and what don't? Do we start making a list for parents and kids to memorize? Are there some misdeeds that require two or more 'strikes' or would just one hit suffice regardless of the severity of the actions?
The problem is once we let ourselves start caning (or slapping or pinching etc), it is so easy to get carried away by our own anger with the child. As a result, there is always a good chance that we may end up delivering tougher sentences on our child that we may regret later.
There is enough hype over the possible psychological and emotional scars suffered by kids who received frequent physical punishment. So I don't intend to add on it.
I am more perplexed by the immediate lesson that we teach our kids when we hit them.


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Tottenham came from behind to beat CSKA Moscow 3-1 in their final Champions League game of the season and end their recent Wembley hoodoo. Here's how we rated the Spurs players.
Hugo Lloris: 7
A fairly uneventful night for the goalkeeper, although he saved well from Georgi Milanov, and was left little chance for CSKA Moscow's opening goal.
Kyle Walker: 8
Bright throughout and was strong defensively, both on the ground and in the air. Got forward well, particularly in the second half, putting in some good crosses.
Eric Dier: 6
Recovered from an early clash with 6ft 8in striker Lacina Traore but will have been disappointed with his part in CSKA's goal as Alan Dzagoev drifted past him. Moved into midfield when Toby Alderweireld came on.
Jan Vertonghen: 7
Beaten by Zoran Tosic in build-up to Dzagoev's goal but otherwise was excellent in the air and barely wasted the ball in possession.
Danny Rose: 8
Got up and down the left flank well and laid on the second goal for Harry Kane with an expertly weighted cross.
Victor Wanyama: 6
Kept things simple on the ball but was occasionally overzealous in the tackle. Replaced on 68 minutes by the returning Alderweireld.
Harry Winks: 8
Only his second Champions League start and his first at Wembley. Made 113 passes – more than CSKA's five-man midfield did managed between them – and only five failed to find a team-mate.
Christian Eriksen: 9
Inventive with his passing all evening, he had already laid on two chances for Dele Alli before the midfielder converted Eriksen's cross to equalise. He also began the build-up to the second goal, but wasted a good chance to score himself early on.
Dele Alli: 8
Struck the equaliser – having missed two easier chances – and then saw his header inadvertently turned into his own net by CSKA goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev to make it 3-1.
Son Heung-min: 7
Demonstrated his pace in the 62 minutes he was on the field and tested Akinfeev with an early shot. Replaced by Georges-Kevin Nkoudou.
Harry Kane: 8
Seven shots on goal, four of them on target, including the goal that put Spurs 2-1 up, from an inviting Rose cross. Laid on the third with a delivery of his own and linked up well with Eriksen.
Georges-Kevin Nkoudou: 7
Bright when he came on, and almost had an assist when his cross was headed just off target by Alderweireld.
Toby Alderweireld: 7
After 53 days on the sidelines, the centre-back made his return to a rapturous reception – and came close to marking it with a goal.


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