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Browser Safe Color - a table to determine what the 216 browser-safe colors look like on different monitors
Browser Safe Color Palettes The Browser Safe palette, as I so named it is the actual palette that Mosaic, Netscape and Internet Explorer use within their browsers. The palettes used by these browsers are slightly different on Macs and PCs.
The Colorizer A java applet that helps web designers select colors for web pages
ColorMix Provides a quick and easy way to combine colors and
reference the possibibilities and create new colors
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ColorSieve ColorSieve is a utility that will display the color information for any pixel on the screen
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You know, no big. Just another day. We got a cool new video from Anamanaguchi. And oh hey also, a single from a little-known singer named DAVID BOWIE.
This is the first single of Bowie's in ten years, released to celebrate his 66th birthday. "As long as there's me, as long as there's you," he sings. Man, Bowie, as long as there's you, there will be me out here, listening.
His latest album, The Next Day, will be out in March. Works for me.
Hope you're all doing well, enjoying the new year with some great new music. What have you been listening to lately? Maybe I'll put together a Kotaku Spotify playlist or something. Feel free to talk tunes, or anything else Talk Amongst Yourselves forum.
Oh and hey! I'm going to be doing a reading at a fun event called "Writers with Drinks" this Saturday night at the Make-Out Room in San Francisco. It's hosted by io9's Charlie Jane Anders, and it's gonna be a lot of fun. Figured I'd drop that in here as a PSA.
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You have a right to represent yourself in all court cases. People who represent themselves in court are called "Pro Se" or "Self-Represented" litigants. Pro Se is a Latin phrase that means "for yourself."
Representing yourself in a legal proceeding is not an easy decision. Before you decide to represent yourself, ask yourself whether it wouldn't be better use of your time and money to consult with or hire an attorney who knows the law and can give you advice about what to do, how to do it, and what your chances are of getting what you want.
Court staff can provide valuable information to you. But, there are limitations on what information can be given. The court can't give you legal advice, so you may be interested in Finding Legal Assistance. Use the helpful links on this website to learn more about representing yourself.
A corporation sued in a small claims case can be represented by an attorney or by any authorized officer, director or employee of the corporation (CCA §1809) as long as the non-lawyer, who appears in defense of the corporation, has the power to bind the corporation in a settlement or trial.
In commercial claims, a corporation may appear, as a claimant or defendant, by an attorney as well as by an authorized officer, director or employee of the corporation (CCA § 1809-A) as long as the non-lawyer who appears for of the corporation has the power to bind the corporation in a settlement or trial.


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Labels, Monograms, School Supplies, Oh My!
Summer break has come to an end, and school season is upon us! Carina is starting Kindergarten next week, and we have been busy getting everything ready!
I decided to buy some labels to help with keeping things organized, and chose two brands to try out. Our sweet friend also gave Carina a set of vinyl monogram labels for her birthday, so we are fully stocked!
The first set I chose are from Kidecals. This company advertises that all of their labels are waterproof, laundry safe, microwave safe, dishwasher safe, and BPA free.
Below is a photo of our "mixed set" of "blue bead" style lables. The set includes 24 classic labels (2″ round) and 48 mini labels (1″ round). You can personalize your colors and the information that you want your labels to include. http://kidecals.com/
The second set that I chose are from Name Bubbles. These are from the School Labels Pack, which allows you to choose from several different designs and includes pages of stickers for specific purposes – some are dishwasher safe and some are laundry safe. http://www.namebubbles.com/
Below is a snap of some vinyl monograms made by Simply Monogram It. I am looking forward to using these too! You can check out all the great options here: https://instagram.com/simplymonogramit/


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Fiscal crisis is the new normal in Washington
They don't manage crises. They manage BY crisis.
Their last-minute deal Monday to avoid the fiscal cliff largely kicked the nation's pressing budget problem to the next crisis, days or weeks down the road.
The bargain did not help stabilize Medicare or Social Security, or make it easier to plan highway projects, school funding or military strategy. The tortured bargaining by Washington politicians to avoid the higher taxes and drastic spending cuts due to take effect this week aimed at best at a small and temporary fix – and provided a vivid reminder why the American political system is badly broken.
President Barack Obama, despite a fresh mandate from voters, once again couldn't get a bigger deal. The nation technically did go over the cliff Tuesday after midnight, since Congress has still not given the deal final approval. If it does Tuesday or Wednesday, Obama and Congress next face an endless string of more doomsday deadlines to avoid hitting the debt limit or simply keep the government open. More ominously, the current turmoil illustrates how nothing makes the legislative and executive branches work smoothly anymore.
While last-minute compromises are hardly new, such agreements historically came amid momentous debates on matters such as civil rights and war. The current drama involved what should be a routine task, funding and running the government.
The system of doing what for 200-odd years was normal governing is crumbling.
"When some officials turn political stances into articles of religious faith and refuse to compromise, the system becomes dysfunctional," said presidential historian George Edwards.
Indeed, the fiscal cliff standoff underscored that no threat, financial or political, seems able to cool tensions or prod a big deal. Not the "fiscal cliff," not last summer's downgrading of the government's AAA rating, not a president just elected with a popular majority, not even the time-honored device of bipartisan commissions.
The "solution" for the past four years has been a series of temporary patches, and no serious steps toward denting the government's $16.4 trillion debt or slowing Medicare and Social Security spending, now 36 percent of federal expenditures in fiscal 2011 and growing.
The next fiscal deadline comes in about six weeks, when the nation's debt limit needs to be raised. Then another flashpoint comes in two months when automatic spending cuts originally set to take effect Wednesday kick in, delayed but not averted in Monday's deal. And thanks to a separate measure passed last year, federal spending is due to run out March 27.
The problem, said retiring Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., is modern lawmakers often view themselves differently than their predecessors.
"The role of the Senate should be governance, not taking positions," said Lugar, who's leaving the Senate after losing the Republican primary to a diehard conservative who wound up losing to a Democrat.
The change has unfolded slowly, suggesting the damage to the political system won't be repaired any time soon.
Two developments in the 1980s helped trigger today's mayhem: Televised congressional proceedings and Republican backlash against the ironclad Democratic House rule from 1955 to 1994.
Newt Gingrich and his allies determined that their only path to power was to rally the party's conservative base and use the power of television to get attention. Night after night, after the House had finished its formal business, they'd make televised speeches outlining their views and galvanizing a new constituency outside the Washington establishment.
What that told politicians, said Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., is that offering simple solutions to complex problems was a winning strategy.
"Try to explain to people what a sequester is. It's just about impossible," he said. "But tell them government is too big and needs to be made smaller and they like you."
Democrats noticed. They rallied their own troops – generally, liberal activists – and regained control in 2006.
By then, politics had new rules: Each party had to play to its base to keep up not only support, but fundraising.
Monday afternoon, for example, one liberal group jumped in urging Democrats in Congress to reject the fiscal deal because it would allow incomes between $250,000 and $400,000 to escape tax increases. "Tax rates on those making $250,000 must go up," the Progressive Change Campaign Committee said in an e-mail to congressional Democrats. "The public is paying attention. . . . The current deal violates progressive principles. It should be opposed."
While Democrats and Republicans talk about tackling other issues in coming months, the fact is that fiscal matters will continue to stymie them.
Hope for bigger things rests with Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. But neither has shown the kind of political toughness that would muscle a big deal through Congress.
Obama once again was unable to get a big, bipartisan deal, and again showed himself out of touch with Congress' rank and file. His Monday afternoon appearance before TV cameras, essentially a political rally with cheering supporters, proved an affront to the Republicans he badly needs.
"The next time we talk about fiscal problems in America, I want a news conference where the president is center stage, not surrounded by political activists," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
Boehner tried to get tough with hard-line Republicans, throwing some off key committees and hoping to send a signal that dissenters would be punished. It hasn't worked.
In the meantime, lawmakers and leaders appear motivated to do little but await the next deadline and figure out how to act "in stages," as Obama said Monday.
That's not a good sign. "I worry," said Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, "that we are losing the art of legislating."


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Live Mail is Hotmail's companion application, and it gives you many more tools than its web-based sibling.
Hotmail can aggregate multiple email accounts. Live Mail can do that too (now including Exchange), but it also gives you one place for managing multiple online calendars, RSS feeds, contacts and newsgroups.
If you're used to Outlook Express, Live Mail can replace it, and do a lot more as well. For example, email is the most common way of sharing photos. Live Mail works with this by making images attached to email appear in a filmstrip at the top of the message. When you send photos, they are automatically arranged into an album on SkyDrive.
Unlike Hotmail, Live Mail doesn't let you change the date when albums expire, but you do get other options, including the ability to change the file size, make images only available to the people you email and complete very basic tweaks to images before sending.
Productive changes
The new ribbon interface is particularly useful in this app, making the options for writing email easy to find.
Contacts and calendar open in the main window, but you can type in events and to-do items in the calendar within the Mail view. This is extremely useful, especially after you've been using it for a few days.
You can choose which of the eleven Quick Views you see in the folder pane. Outlook Express-style views and filters remain, but Quick Views are much more useful for finding the mail you need to deal with.
The new conversation view is clear and simple – messages in a thread are nested and you can expand or collapse them at will with a single click.
Live Mail has a remarkable amount of functionality packed into a neat and friendly interface. There are some oddities, but overall this is one of the best mail apps available out there, especially for Hotmail users.
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G20 Summit Anarchy in Pictures
It's sad to see a peaceful demonstration turn to a violent one because of a few idiots in the crowd getting too excited, but unfortunately with the pressures we face in today's society sometimes such things are simply unavoidable. For example, take the most recent G20 summit demonstration in London, things turned to shit real quick. The demonstartion was largely against an array of [ Continue Reading ]


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Sunday Sweets: Tasty Tentacles!
So I was thinking I wanted to do something different this week for Sweets. Something new. Something crazy. Something, I don't know...tentacley.
Don't worry; I'm not going to show you anything WEIRD. Besides, I bet most of you like a cute lil' octopus as much as you obviously like owls. (YOLO!)
By Cake Central member Miniminipop
And besides, lookit that cutie!
(True story: I just learned what YOLO meant last month. I'm such an internet trend failure.)
(Truer story: I just learned YOLO does NOT mean "you obviously love owls." MY ENTIRE LIFE HAS BEEN A LIE. [sob])
Of course, not ALL octopuses/octopi/octopodes are that adorable. Some just look all hip and cool while hanging out in their undersea gardens:
Submitted by Kelly M. and made by Jacqueline Marie's
I'd like to be
Under the sea
In an octopus's garden
In the shaaaade.
(See, that's why he's cool!)
While others search the sea floor for awesome steampunk accessories:
Submitted by Heather and made by Over the Top Cakes
"Yesss... I shall glue some gearsss on it, and call it 'ssssteampunk!' Mwah-ha-haa!"
(Not sure why I think octopi sound like vampire snakes, but there ya go.)
Now you might think that octopodes are the only things with tentacles. NOT SO.
There are also the giant squids in storybooks:
By Sweet Fix
In this case, literally.
(See what I did there? LITERALLY?!)
And fashion-forward Disney villains:
By Cake Central member e-cakefactory
Ursula, dahling, you've never looked more delectable!
...and who can forget the infamous Davy Jones?
By Rub-a-Duckie
EEEK!! Ok, gotta be honest: this thing is WAY too realistic for me. Amazing, yes, but I swear I can see his "beard" squirming. [shudder]
Yep, I'm going to need some serious cute to recover from that.
By MyCakeSchool (photo tutorial at the link)
Ahh, that's better. Such a sweet design, and I like the writing in the sugar "sand."
What is it about a little octopus in a sailor hat that makes him look so huggable, anyway?
By D Bar Denver
D'awwww. And if I'm not mistaken, those are sugar glass gems on the top tier and on the wire sprigs. Way to whip out the SKILLZ, guys!
Now, I know my fellow geeks are waiting for a Cthulhu cake, but I've gotta tell you, I think we posted the best one just a few months ago for Halloween - and believe it or not, good Cthulhu cakes are hard to find!
Besides, just picture this next guy with a body and wings and a seeping aura of horror, and that's basically Cthulhu right there:
By Kathy Cakes
(Can you believe this is cake? 'Cuz I'm not sure I can!)
Oh! And of course we can't talk about amazing octopus cakes without this famous showstopper:
Submitted by Ashley B. and made by Highland Bakery
That's 200 pounds of airbrushed awesomeness, right there. Ahhhh-MAZING.
Now, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, "Gee, if you love octopuses so much, why don't you get married with 'em?"
Oh, you mean like with this super-fantabulous wedding cake?
By Cake Central member RejectedSeoul
EXCELLENT IDEA, you!
Now, just throw in a few cute little seahorses, and I am SO THERE.
And finally, I'm going to end with this stunning, mildly bizarre, excessively tentacley example of cakey goodness:
Wowza. Tentacles have never looked more elegant.
And bizarre.
But mostly elegant.
Have a sweet to nominate? Send it to Sunday Sweets [at] Cake Wrecks [dot] com.


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Whole Foods' decision to promote a new line of foods geared toward Muslims has generated a heaping portion of controversy.
The hubbub started late last month when the upscale food chain posted a blog entry on preparing for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
The blog post coincided with Whole Foods' national launch of line of halal foods from a company called Saffron Road. Halal foods comply with Islamic dietary laws.
The post prompted plenty of positive feedback from Muslims looking for these types of foods, as well as some backlash.
"There were some folks who were upset that we were promoting halal foods, just like there are some folks who are upset that we sell meat," Whole Foods spokeswoman Libba Letton said.
Letton said it was partly that backlash that prompted one regional manager to question whether some signs that had been created for stores in her area in relation to Ramadan should be changed. She declined to say what region of the country the e-mail originated from.
The email was obtained by the Houston Press. According to that publication, it reads, in part:
"It is probably best that we don't specifically call out or 'promote' Ramadan. … We should not highlight Ramadan in signage in our stores as that could be considered 'Celebrating or promoting' Ramadan."
More on Islam in America
- Islamic schools on rise in US, look for acceptance
- Lawmakers seek to restore 9/11 panel
- Ramadan becomes an issue for Whole Foods
- Muslim weightlifter fights to protect her modesty
- Radical Islam hearing stirs hornets' nest
- War for American hearts and minds rages over Islam
- Muslim-Americans: Good riddance to bin Laden
- Victim of 9/11 hate crime fights for attacker's life
- Muslim travelers still saddled with 9/11 baggage
Letton said the e-mail was limited to one region and that the company as a whole has not changed its plans. She said the company has promoted halal foods and Ramadan in the past as well, just like it promotes other holidays such as Passover or the Fourth of July.
"We're about celebrating food," Letton said. "We like to provide food that people need for their holidays and special occasions."
Ibrahim Hooper, national communications director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said he's not too concerned by the email — but he is happy to see Whole Foods offering the halal foods.
"I think that was just a one-off thing by one person," Hooper said. "What's important is that the corporation itself stood up to these hate bloggers and did the right thing. It's doing what any corporation does. It promotes events and products that will hopefully gain more customers."
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Apple's official page doesn't do a good job explaining it, but not every sexy iOS 7 feature is headed to every Apple device.
Yes, the mobile operating system will still power your older devices like the iPhone 4, 4S, or iPad 2. You just won't have access to some more modern features.
Here's what each device will support.
AirDrop, the tool for wirelessly sharing files, will work on iPhone 5, the fourth-generation iPad, iPad mini, and the fifth generation iPod touch.
Siri, the voice-powered personal assistant, will work for iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, Retina iPad and newer, iPad mini, and the fifth generation iPod touch.
Panoramic photos are supported by the iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, and fifth generation iPod touch.
You can filter photos in the Camera app on the iPhone 4, 4S, and 5, and any iPad since the third generation.
You can filter photos in the Photos app on the iPhone 5 and the fifth generation iPod touch.
iTunes Radio, the Pandora-like music streaming service, will work on any device running iOS 7.


text: A South Korean man was fined $265 for calling another man "bald" in an online chat session, after "an investigation" revealed that the victim was not bald after all. But the country's Supreme Court has now overturned the conviction, because "the word 'bald head' might have been used to insult the plaintiff, but we cannot say from an objective viewpoint that it implies damage to the social status or reputation of people." Makes sense to us — everybody knows bald can be sexy.


text: \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \begin{document} \title{The rsync algorithm} \author{Andrew Tridgell \quad\quad Paul Mackerras\\ Department of Computer Science \\ Australian National University \\ Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia} \maketitle \begin{abstract} This report presents an algorithm for updating a file on one machine to be identical to a file on another machine. We assume that the two machines are connected by a low-bandwidth high-latency bi-directional communications link. The algorithm identifies parts of the source file which are identical to some part of the destination file, and only sends those parts which cannot be matched in this way. Effectively, the algorithm computes a set of differences without having both files on the same machine. The algorithm works best when the files are similar, but will also function correctly and reasonably efficiently when the files are quite different. \end{abstract} \section{The problem} Imagine you have two files, $A$ and $B$, and you wish to update $B$ to be the same as $A$. The obvious method is to copy $A$ onto $B$. Now imagine that the two files are on machines connected by a slow communications link, for example a dialup IP link. If $A$ is large, copying $A$ onto $B$ will be slow. To make it faster you could compress $A$ before sending it, but that will usually only gain a factor of 2 to 4. Now assume that $A$ and $B$ are quite similar, perhaps both derived from the same original file. To really speed things up you would need to take advantage of this similarity. A common method is to send just the differences between $A$ and $B$ down the link and then use this list of differences to reconstruct the file. The problem is that the normal methods for creating a set of differences between two files rely on being able to read both files. Thus they require that both files are available beforehand at one end of the link. If they are not both available on the same machine, these algorithms cannot be used (once you had copied the file over, you wouldn't need the differences). This is the problem that rsync addresses. The rsync algorithm efficiently computes which parts of a source file match some part of an existing destination file. These parts need not be sent across the link; all that is needed is a reference to the part of the destination file. Only parts of the source file which are not matched in this way need to be sent verbatim. The receiver can then construct a copy of the source file using the references to parts of the existing destination file and the verbatim material. Trivially, the data sent to the receiver can be compressed using any of a range of common compression algorithms, for further speed improvements. \section{The rsync algorithm} Suppose we have two general purpose computers $\alpha$ and $\beta$. Computer $\alpha$ has access to a file $A$ and $\beta$ has access to file $B$, where $A$ and $B$ are ``similar''. There is a slow communications link between $\alpha$ and $\beta$. The rsync algorithm consists of the following steps: \begin{enumerate} \item $\beta$ splits the file $B$ into a series of non-overlapping fixed-sized blocks of size S bytes\footnote{We have found that values of S between 500 and 1000 are quite good for most purposes}. The last block may be shorter than $S$ bytes. \item For each of these blocks $\beta$ calculates two checksums: a weak ``rolling'' 32-bit checksum (described below) and a strong 128-bit MD4 checksum. \item $\beta$ sends these checksums to $\alpha$. \item $\alpha$ searches through $A$ to find all blocks of length $S$ bytes (at any offset, not just multiples of $S$) that have the same weak and strong checksum as one of the blocks of $B$. This can be done in a single pass very quickly using a special property of the rolling checksum described below. \item $\alpha$ sends $\beta$ a sequence of instructions for constructing a copy of $A$. Each instruction is either a reference to a block of $B$, or literal data. Literal data is sent only for those sections of $A$ which did not match any of the blocks of $B$. \end{enumerate} The end result is that $\beta$ gets a copy of $A$, but only the pieces of $A$ that are not found in $B$ (plus a small amount of data for checksums and block indexes) are sent over the link. The algorithm also only requires one round trip, which minimises the impact of the link latency. The most important details of the algorithm are the rolling checksum and the associated multi-alternate search mechanism which allows the all-offsets checksum search to proceed very quickly. These will be discussed in greater detail below. \section{Rolling checksum} The weak rolling checksum used in the rsync algorithm needs to have the property that it is very cheap to calculate the checksum of a buffer $X_2 .. X_{n+1}$ given the checksum of buffer $X_1 .. X_n$ and the values of the bytes $X_1$ and $X_{n+1}$. The weak checksum algorithm we used in our implementation was inspired by Mark Adler's adler-32 checksum. Our checksum is defined by $$ a(k,l) = (\sum_{i=k}^l X_i) \bmod M $$ $$ b(k,l) = (\sum_{i=k}^l (l-i+1)X_i) \bmod M $$ $$ s(k,l) = a(k,l) + 2^{16} b(k,l) $$ where $s(k,l)$ is the rolling checksum of the bytes $X_k \ldots X_l$. For simplicity and speed, we use $M = 2^{16}$. The important property of this checksum is that successive values can be computed very efficiently using the recurrence relations $$ a(k+1,l+1) = (a(k,l) - X_k + X_{l+1}) \bmod M $$ $$ b(k+1,l+1) = (b(k,l) - (l-k+1) X_k + a(k+1,l+1)) \bmod M $$ Thus the checksum can be calculated for blocks of length S at all possible offsets within a file in a ``rolling'' fashion, with very little computation at each point. Despite its simplicity, this checksum was found to be quite adequate as a first-level check for a match of two file blocks. We have found in practice that the probability of this checksum matching when the blocks are not equal is quite low. This is important because the much more expensive strong checksum must be calculated for each block where the weak checksum matches. \section{Checksum searching} Once $\alpha$ has received the list of checksums of the blocks of $B$, it must search $A$ for any blocks at any offset that match the checksum of some block of $B$. The basic strategy is to compute the 32-bit rolling checksum for a block of length $S$ starting at each byte of $A$ in turn, and for each checksum, search the list for a match. To do this our implementation uses a simple 3 level searching scheme. The first level uses a 16-bit hash of the 32-bit rolling checksum and a $2^{16}$ entry hash table. The list of checksum values (i.e., the checksums from the blocks of $B$) is sorted according to the 16-bit hash of the 32-bit rolling checksum. Each entry in the hash table points to the first element of the list for that hash value, or contains a null value if no element of the list has that hash value. At each offset in the file the 32-bit rolling checksum and its 16-bit hash are calculated. If the hash table entry for that hash value is not a null value, the second-level check is invoked. The second-level check involves scanning the sorted checksum list starting with the entry pointed to by the hash table entry, looking for an entry whose 32-bit rolling checksum matches the current value. The scan terminates when it reaches an entry whose 16-bit hash differs. If this search finds a match, the third-level check is invoked. The third-level check involves calculating the strong checksum for the current offset in the file and comparing it with the strong checksum value in the current list entry. If the two strong checksums match, we assume that we have found a block of $A$ which matches a block of $B$. In fact the blocks could be different, but the probability of this is microscopic, and in practice this is a reasonable assumption. When a match is found, $\alpha$ sends $\beta$ the data in $A$ between the current file offset and the end of the previous match, followed by the index of the block in $B$ that matched. This data is sent immediately a match is found, which allows us to overlap the communication with further computation. If no match is found at a given offset in the file, the rolling checksum is updated to the next offset and the search proceeds. If a match is found, the search is restarted at the end of the matched block. This strategy saves a considerable amount of computation for the common case where the two files are nearly identical. In addition, it would be a simple matter to encode the block indexes as runs, for the common case where a portion of $A$ matches a series of blocks of $B$ in order. \section{Pipelining} The above sections describe the process for constructing a copy of one file on a remote system. If we have a several files to copy, we can gain a considerable latency advantage by pipelining the process. This involves $\beta$ initiating two independent processes. One of the processes generates and sends the checksums to $\alpha$ while the other receives the difference information from $\alpha$ and reconstructs the files. If the communications link is buffered then these two processes can proceed independently and the link should be kept fully utilised in both directions for most of the time. \section{Results} To test the algorithm, tar files were created of the Linux kernel sources for two versions of the kernel. The two kernel versions were 1.99.10 and 2.0.0. These tar files are approximately 24MB in size and are separated by 5 released patch levels. Out of the 2441 files in the 1.99.10 release, 291 files had changed in the 2.0.0 release, 19 files had been removed and 25 files had been added. A ``diff'' of the two tar files using the standard GNU diff utility produced over 32 thousand lines of output totalling 2.1 MB. The following table shows the results for rsync between the two files with a varying block size.\footnote{All the tests in this section were carried out using rsync version 0.5} \vspace*{5mm} \begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|} \hline {\bf block} & {\bf matches} & {\bf tag} & {\bf false} & {\bf data} & {\bf written} & {\bf read} \\ {\bf size} & & {\bf hits} & {\bf alarms} & & & \\ \hline \hline 300 & 64247 & 3817434 & 948 & 5312200 & 5629158 & 1632284 \\ \hline 500 & 46989 & 620013 & 64 & 1091900 & 1283906 & 979384 \\ \hline 700 & 33255 & 571970 & 22 & 1307800 & 1444346 & 699564 \\ \hline 900 & 25686 & 525058 & 24 & 1469500 & 1575438 & 544124 \\ \hline 1100 & 20848 & 496844 & 21 & 1654500 & 1740838 & 445204 \\ \hline \end{tabular} \vspace*{5mm} In each case, the CPU time taken was less than the time it takes to run ``diff'' on the two files.\footnote{The wall clock time was approximately 2 minutes per run on a 50 MHz SPARC 10 running SunOS, using rsh over loopback for communication. GNU diff took about 4 minutes.} The columns in the table are as follows: \begin{description} \item [block size] The size in bytes of the checksummed blocks. \item [matches] The number of times a block of $B$ was found in $A$. \item [tag hits] The number of times the 16-bit hash of the rolling checksum matched a hash of one of the checksums from $B$. \item [false alarms] The number of times the 32-bit rolling checksum matched but the strong checksum didn't. \item [data] The amount of file data transferred verbatim, in bytes. \item [written] The total number of bytes written by $\alpha$, including protocol overheads. This is almost all file data. \item [read] The total number of bytes read by $\alpha$, including protocol overheads. This is almost all checksum information. \end{description} The results demonstrate that for block sizes above 300 bytes, only a small fraction (around 5\%) of the file was transferred. The amount transferred was also considerably less than the size of the diff file that would have been transferred if the diff/patch method of updating a remote file was used. The checksums themselves took up a considerable amount of space, although much less than the size of the data transferred in each case. Each pair of checksums consumes 20 bytes: 4 bytes for the rolling checksum plus 16 bytes for the 128-bit MD4 checksum. The number of false alarms was less than $1/1000$ of the number of true matches, indicating that the 32-bit rolling checksum is quite good at screening out false matches. The number of tag hits indicates that the second level of the checksum search algorithm was invoked about once every 50 characters. This is quite high because the total number of blocks in the file is a large fraction of the size of the tag hash table. For smaller files we would expect the tag hit rate to be much closer to the number of matches. For extremely large files, we should probably increase the size of the hash table. The next table shows similar results for a much smaller set of files. In this case the files were not packed into a tar file first. Rather, rsync was invoked with an option to recursively descend the directory tree. The files used were from two source releases of another software package called Samba. The total source code size is 1.7 MB and the diff between the two releases is 4155 lines long totalling 120 kB. \vspace*{5mm} \begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|} \hline {\bf block} & {\bf matches} & {\bf tag} & {\bf false} & {\bf data} & {\bf written} & {\bf read} \\ {\bf size} & & {\bf hits} & {\bf alarms} & & & \\ \hline \hline 300 & 3727 & 3899 & 0 & 129775 & 153999 & 83948 \\ \hline 500 & 2158 & 2325 & 0 & 171574 & 189330 & 50908 \\ \hline 700 & 1517 & 1649 & 0 & 195024 & 210144 & 36828 \\ \hline 900 & 1156 & 1281 & 0 & 222847 & 236471 & 29048 \\ \hline 1100 & 921 & 1049 & 0 & 250073 & 262725 & 23988 \\ \hline \end{tabular} \vspace*{5mm} \section{Availability} An implementation of rsync which provides a convenient interface similar to the common UNIX command rcp has been written and is available for download from http://rsync.samba.org/ \end{document}


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|On November 15, 1860, Virginia Governor John Letcher called the
General Assembly into extra session to begin on January 7, 1861. The Virginia General
Assembly called for a state convention to determine Virginia's course in the crisis. 152 delegates
were elected, and they convened in Richmond on February 13.
Upon his election as president of the convention, John Janney of Loudoun County informed his fellow delegates, "It is our duty on an occasion like this to elevate ourselves into an atmosphere, in which party passion and prejudice cannot exist - to conduct all our deliberations with calmness and wisdom, and to maintain, with inflexible firmness, whatever position we may find it necessary to assume."
|For the first two months of the convention, moderate sentiment prevailed,
and the general mood of the delegates was against secession. However, on April 12, 1861, Fort
Sumter surrendered to Confederate forces, and three days later, President Abraham Lincoln
issued a call for 75,000 troops to put down the rebellion. These events convinced the majority of
delegates that the time had come for Virginia to leave the Union. On April 17, 1861, delegates
passed an Ordinance of Secession by a vote of 88 to 55. Led by John Carlile, many western delegates withdrew from the convention, returned to western Virginia, and began planning opposition to the ordinance, which would be voted on by the citizens of the state on May 23.
Primary Documents:Biographies of Western Virginia Delegates to the Richmond Convention
"A Bit of History:" Recollections of the Richmond Convention
Virginia Ordinance of Secession
Votes on the Ordinance of Secession


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Super Simple Chicken Soup
It's not always easy to get kids to eat veggies, but my 3 year old loves chicken soup.
Here's my quick and easy recipe:
- 1 boneless, skinless chicken breast
- 1 box low-sodium chicken broth
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 white onion
- 3-4 stalks celery
- 1 large handful baby carrots
- any other veggies you want to add
- 1/3 cup quinoa or any other pasta, rice, or grain that you like
- lemon juice, herbs, salt, pepper to taste
Place the chicken breast, bay leaf, and broth in a large pot.
Turn on the stove to the medium-high setting, allowing the pot to boil.
Chop the vegetables to your desired size and add them to the pot (I like my soup chunky).
Add any pasta, rice, or grain that you like.
Turn the chicken over once the bottom is white.
Cover the pot, and cook the chicken through.
Once the chicken is cooked, it will be easy to break it apart. Shred the chicken into chunks.
Add any flavor ingredients that you like (lemon juice, herbs, etc.).
Cover, and allow the soup to simmer.
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LMFAO party rockin' in Houston
LMFAO works. You may think they are quirky, too kiddish, or a fly-by-night fad. Well, you're wrong. LMFAO is successful across the board and the duo of Redfoo and SkyBlu are loved by fans of all ages.
The Los Angeles duo headlined the Sorry For Party Rocking Tour at the Toyota Center in Houston on June 12. My photog (Sir David Block) and I endured a massive thunderstorm before heading into the venue and I thought surely the bad weather would scare away concert goers. Not.
I last saw Redfoo (the one with the afro) and BlueSky (Redfoo's nephew) opening for Ke$ha last summer and now they are headlining arena shows, which seem to draw big crowds.
Every song is catchy, sort of like a DJ Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince vibe, but with a more mature subject matter. When you eyes weren't fixated on the two, you were scanning around at blow-up zebras, confetti rain, a plethora of dancers and dancing robots. They literally had it all. It was like bringing Vegas to Toys 'R' Us and mixing it up in a bowl of Fruit Loops.
What's impressive is the fact that LMFAO has just two studio albums, but the two have been in such hot demand they've collaborated with other artists such as Lil' John, Dirt Nasty, The Crystal Method, Pitbull, and others.
Though these guys may not be able to remain relevant for years to come, they sure are throwing a party while they're here.
Opening for LMFAO were a slew of artists including Far East Movement, DJ Sidney Sampson, Eva Simons and Matthew Koma.
Of course Far East Movement has a No. 1 single to their name, "Like a G6," and have other songs that have charted such as "2gether," "If I was You (OMG)," "Live My Life" and my personal favorite, "Rocketeer."
Who I was really impressed with was 28-year-old Amsterdam native Eva Simons. She's already had two songs chart on the Billboard dance charts including "I Don't Like You" and "Take Over Control." This girl has the look and the pipes. Interscope Records hit a home run with Eva.
Set List – LMFAO
Rock the Beat 2
Sorry for Party Rocking
Get Crazy
Take it to the Hole
Put That A$$ to Work
I'm in Miami Bitch
Gettin' Over You
Boom Boom Pow
Shooting Star
Reminds Me of You
I Am Not a Whore
Hot Dog
One Day
La La La
Party Rock Anthem
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I moved a few Friday before the Ice Bowl, but forgot to update the page.....sorry.....Let's put 17 on the Island if you get a chance!
The initial holes are probably about 20 hours each, and the #6 extension I really can't figure out how much time, and more importantly how to remove the cuttings once we get there.....it is much more difficult than I had thought, but I know once it is done, it will be one of the cooler holes available.
I really like the "cheater" routes in the heavy wooded holes. I wanted to look at doing one on the final few holes, but I am not going to be using that area now, and I am glad. I think that they are going to be working on that area as a dog park. Glad I am not going to be battling that option!


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One Really IS the Loneliest Number
Or at least the most pathetic-looking:
My guess is the decorator ran out of cupcakes towards the bottom (oh yes, this is another cupcake-cake monstrosity), which resulted in this wonky number 7 with tiny feet attached.
Apparently the decorator also ran out of 'y's; check out the inscription. "Happ 1st Birthday"? Y not?
Marissa H., I hear two can be as bad as one, but I'd have to see that 2 to believe it.


text: Share: Comments Print March 6, 2013 at 10:04 AM 'Christ' banned from Longview council invocations Posted by Nick Provenza LONGVIEW (AP) — Ministers should refrain from invoking Jesus Christ in invocations for City Council meetings, Longview Mayor Don Jensen said. Jensen told the Kelso-Longview Ministerial Association last month that such prayers were not acceptable because they could expose the city to a lawsuit, The Daily News reported Tuesday. "It's not my choice to stop this, but I don't know how we can put our citizens at jeopardy and cost our city and our citizens a lot of money," said Jensen, who met with the association upon the advice of the city attorney. If they can't speak the name Jesus Christ, association ministers will no longer provide the invocation, said President Mark Schmutz, pastor of Northlake Baptist Church. He called the development sad and disappointing. "They're asking us not to do what we're (called) to do," he said. "This is the one and only true God, and so we're not trying to be against anybody — we're just being clear about what we're for." A Christian invocation has started Longview City Council meetings since the 1950s. There was no invocation at last Thursday's meeting. The invocation complaint was lodged by Longview resident Dan L. Smith, 69, who describes himself as a "very comfortable atheist." Smith has emailed council members for years, saying that people of other faiths or no faith shouldn't have to endure a Christian prayer at a government meeting. He didn't want to take the case to court, even though he "would undoubtedly win" based on prior court decisions, he wrote. "All I am asking is that you remove … the invocation from the council's agenda and that you sever any council ties with the (ministerial association's) responsibilities for the delivery of the invocation," Smith wrote in a March 2012 email, which he copied to the city attorney. "I do fully realize that this may not be a popular thing for you to do, but as an elected public official it is the right thing to do." Longview City Attorney James McNamara said the U.S. Supreme Court law has made it clear that invocations can be given at city council meetings. "The more unclear answer is whether the prayer can invoke the name of Jesus Christ," he said Monday, adding that different courts have reached different conclusions on the matter. Smith said people can pray privately all they want, but there shouldn't be a designated time for prayer in a public building. "Religion should not be a part of government," Smith said. "Who cares what (religion) anyone is. When they're there to conduct business of government and you have an invocation, then all of a sudden people start to look around to see who's standing and who's sitting." Jensen, however, likes the invocation. "I just think it sets a tone for the meeting that we'll be more friendly," he said. "I guess I really can't explain it, but it just seems right to me." Comments | More in General news, Government, Religion | Topics: council, invocation, Jesus


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From the biggest of Hollywood blockbusters like The Hunger Games to made-for-TV movies like HBO Films' Game Change, Woody Harrelson manages to find himself in a bit of everything. And deservedly so since the actor almost always delivers a compelling performance, including his current work as Haymitch Abernathy in the first of what is sure to be a mammoth three feature franchise. For his next role, Harrelson is in negotiations to star opposite Christian Bale and Casey Affleck as the villain in the crime drama Out of the Furnace.
Variety reports that Harrelson is close to signing on to Scott Cooper's followup to Crazy Heart. The writer-director's debut nabbed Jeff Bridges his first Oscar but this new film sounds far different than that tale of a worn and weary country singer. Written by Copper and Brad Ingelsby, Out of the Furnace is about a pair of brothers (Bale and Affleck) trying to make a name for themselves in the Rust Belt. When unfortunate circumstances put older brother Christian in prison, Casey winds up running with the wrong crowd, headed by Woody Harrelson. Without going into too much detail, let's just say that when big brother gets out of prison, he comes looking to make things right and violence is all but assured.
Out of the Furnace also includes Zoe Saldana as Christian Bale's love interest, and the amazing Sam Shepard in the role of the boys' uncle. Relativity Media's crime drama was originally a star vehicle for Leonardo DiCaprio who remains on board the project as a producer alongside his Appian Way partner Jennifer Killoran. Joining Appian as producers on Cooper's sophomore effort are (and there are many big names) Scott Free's Ridley Scott, Tony Scott and Michael Costigan, as well as Relativity CEO Ryan Kavanaugh (who produced Bale to that Best Supporting Actor Oscar in The Fighter). Not a bad group of producers to round out an excellent creative team. Production on Out of the Furnace is scheduled to begin later this month.


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I've recently seen a new bug appear on a site running WP e-commerce. New products (or certain existing products) get stuck as 'drafts'. Once they are marked as draft clicking 'publish' does not do any good, and the only way to make the products publicly accessible is by directly editing the entry in the MySQL database.
UPDATED Further investigation shows that this is not an wp-ecommerce problem - it affects all posts.
Switching to twentyten theme fixes the problem, so clearly the inability to publish must lie somewhere in the custom theme I'm using. Seeing as it's my own theme, I guess I'm to blame ;-)
Error reporting throws up a mention of an incorrectly called register_script() function, however I don't think this is what's causing the problem, as it's not in my code.


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Given the battering President Obama took this past week on a trio of political scandals, any public opinion survey results that aren't dreadful probably are viewed with some relief at the White House.
That may be the clearest message from a CNN/ORC poll released Sunday morning.
According to the survey, which was conducted Friday and Saturday, 53 percent of Americans say they approve of the job the president is doing, with 45 percent saying they disapprove, CNN reports. That's actually a tick better than the 51 percent approval rating Obama had in early April – but not enough to break out the sparkling cider.
"That two-point difference is well within the poll's sampling error, so it is a mistake to characterize it as a gain for the president," says CNN polling director Keating Holland. "Nonetheless, an approval rating that has not dropped and remains over 50 percent will probably be taken as good news by Democrats after the events of the last week."
For those of you blissfully unaware, those events are the administration's handling of the terrorist attack on the US diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, last September (where US Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed); the IRS badgering of tea party and other conservative organizations; and the Justice Department snooping into the telephone records of Associated Press journalists as part of a crackdown on national security leaks.
(We would add to that trio a fourth item reported in recent days: losing track of a couple of terrorists in the federal witness protection program.)
Gallup's latest numbers track closely with CNN's – a slight improvement for Obama to 51-to-42 approve/disapprove.
For now, as the headline on an AP story puts it, "Obama agenda seems to be weathering controversies."
"Despite Democratic fears, predictions of the demise of President Barack Obama's agenda appear exaggerated after a week of cascading controversies, political triage by the administration and party leaders in Congress and lack of evidence to date of wrongdoing close to the Oval Office," writes AP special correspondent David Espo.
That could change, of course, given the possibility of new revelations, Republican intransigence, or both. GOP leaders certainly spun it in that direction on the TV news shows Sunday.
On NBC's "Meet the Press," Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said the IRS scandal – singling out tea party and other conservative groups for special scrutiny of their tax status – was part of a broader "culture of intimidation" within the Obama administration.
To what extent are Americans paying attention to all of this?
"Slim majorities of Americans are very or somewhat closely following the situations involving the Internal Revenue Service (54 percent) and the congressional hearings on the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and its aftermath (53 percent) … well below the average for news stories Gallup has tracked over the years," writes Frank Newport, Gallup's editor in chief.
CNN's numbers here seem more troubling for the White House.
More than 70 percent of those surveyed say IRS targeting of conservative groups was unacceptable; a majority (52 percent) say the Justice Department's actions regarding the AP phone records were unacceptable; 59 percent say the US government could have prevented the attack in Benghazi; and a large minority (44 percent) say statements made by the Obama administration soon after the attack "were an attempt to intentionally mislead the public."
At this point, according to CNN, most Americans do not think Republicans have overplayed their hand on either the Benghazi or IRS controversies. Gallup finds that 74 percent on the IRS and 69 percent on Benghazi find these situations "serious enough to warrant continuing investigation."
"More Republicans than Democrats or Independents say these three issues are very important to the nation, but even among Democrats, nearly half say the matters are very serious," says CNN polling director Keating Holland.


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For many wreckerators, no cake is more of a tongue-out, slightly-hunched-and-grunting impossibility than an animal cake. It's not for lack of trying, mind you. ("Squished Shih Tzu" is actually a bakery standard these days.) For all their trying and failing, though, there are times when the results are actually kind of cute. Kind of. In a mutant sort of way.
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Brussels, 25th June 2008
"Think Small First": A Small Business Act for Europe
Most jobs in the EU are provided for by Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs), companies of 250 employees or less. They have a crucial importance for the future development, but very often face enormous bureaucratic hurdles and obstacles. European SMEs deserve to be better assisted to fully unlock their potential of long term sustainable growth and of more job creation. To achieve this goal, the European Commission has unveiled today the Small Business Act for Europe (SBA), based on ten guiding principles and proposes policy actions to be undertaken by both the Commission and Member States.
Commission President José Manuel Durão Barroso said: "Today's Small Business Act is a step towards a Europe of entrepreneurs, with less red tape and more red carpet for Europe's 23 million SMEs. It aims to help small businesses to thrive and to give the best ones a launch pad to grow into world beaters. The Small Business Act is a crucial milestone in the implementation of the Lisbon Strategy for Growth and Jobs. It will mean more responsive public administrations, less late payment of invoices, access to more help with finance, innovation and training, lower VAT for services supplied locally and better access to public procurement contracts. The package will also give SMEs access to a European Private Company Statute to cut bureaucracy and increase clarity"
Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen, responsible for enterprise and industry policy said "Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship are of enormous importance for our societies. Today and even more so tomorrow small and medium sized enterprises will provide for professional education and employment opportunities. Caring about SMEs means therefore caring about present and future jobs in the EU. Therefore it is high time that an SME friendly policy becomes mainstream policy in the EU. The Small Business Act is driven by the "Think Small First principle" and brings the full weight of EU and its Member States behind small companies. Together we can deliver."
Internal Market and Services Commissioner Charlie McCreevy said: "Small companies across Europe can look forward to a new instrument to do business in the Single Market. The SPE is transparent, flexible and will offer a strong label everywhere. I therefore encourage the Council and the European Parliament to quickly reach an agreement on the Commission's proposal."
European Investment Bank (EIB) President Philippe Maystadt, added: "The analysis of the Commission confirms the conclusions of the EIB's own consultation exercise: small and medium-sized enterprises wellbeing and growth will be key to Europe's future competitiveness. The market alone is unable to provide sufficient and appropriately priced finance for SMEs, in particular for high growth, innovative businesses. The EIB Group will therefore seek to address gaps in the market by broadening the scope of its financing."
The Commission is proposing a genuine political partnership between the EU and the Member States reflecting the political willingness to recognise the central role of SMEs in the EU economy and to put in place for the first time a comprehensive policy framework for the EU and its Member States. The SBA proposal goes hand in hand with the recently announced plans of the European Investment Bank Group to simplify, modernise and diversify the range of its instruments to support SMEs.
At the heart of the SBA is the conviction that achieving the best possible framework conditions for SMEs depends first and foremost on society's recognition of entrepreneurs, including crafts, micro-enterprises, family owned or social economy enterprises, and making the option of starting one's own business attractive. This means that the rather negative perception of the role of entrepreneurs and risk-taking in the EU must change.
The European Small Business Act sets out 10 principles which should be adopted at the highest political level and concrete measures that will make life easier for small businesses. After consulting with businesses and their representatives, the European Commission has also resolved to propose new legislation in four areas that particularly affect SMEs:
10 principles shall guide the conception and implementation of policies at EU and Member State level, such as granting a second chance for business failures, facilitating access to finance and enabling SMEs to turn environmental challenges into opportunities.
In addition to the standing commitment to cut administrative burden by 25% by 2012, the time needed to start a new company should be no more than one week, the maximum time to obtain business licenses and permits should not surpass one month and one-stop-shops should assist to facilitate start-ups and recruitment procedures.
Where practical, the Commission plans to use concrete dates in a year for the entry into force of regulations/decisions affecting business. Member States are invited to consider similar measures.
The SBA includes an ambitious set of measures to allow SMEs to fully benefit from the Single Market and expand into international markets by orienting more resources to small companies' access to finance, Research & Development and innovation. They will also make it easier for them to participate in the standard-setting process, win public procurement contracts and turn environmental challenges into business opportunities.
Finally, the SBA seeks new ways to stimulate interest in entrepreneurship and cultivate a more entrepreneurial mindset, especially among young people. Young people, who want to start up a business, can now gain experience by spending time in an SME abroad via the just launched "Erasmus for young entrepreneurs" programme. This will help upgrade their skills and contribute to the networking among SMEs in Europe. Similar mobility programmes are also underway for apprentices.
The SBA is fully embedded in the Growth and Jobs strategy. Member States are invited to take advantage of the update of the Lisbon cycle 2008 to reflect the SBA in their National Reform Programmes.
Although 99% of companies in the EU are SMEs (companies with a maximum of 250 employees and a maximal turnover of € 50 million), most legislation and administrative procedures don't distinguish on the basis of company size. As a result, 23 million SMEs often have the same administrative requirements as Europe's 41,000 large companies. During past years SMEs have created 80 % of the new jobs in the EU.
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From the Archive: Oscar Winners at SFIFF/
Oscar-winning actors, actresses, directors, writers, and producers have graced the San Francisco International Film Festival many times in years past. Quite a few of them picked up SFFIF's own awards while here, including the Peter J. Owens Award for excellence in acting, the Akira Kurosawa Award in directing, and the Founder's Directing Award. Let's take a trip down a red-carpet-lined memory lane.Read More


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The Boko Haram-Benghazi Link
In making the case that al Qaeda was on the run, the Obama administration sought to narrow down its enemies list—especially in Africa.
When it comes to out-conspiracizing his GOP competitors, Allen West is the master. The former Florida congressman's latest triumph in the endless race for "Wildest Rant Against the Democrats" came Monday, when he suggested in a blog post that there was a dark connection between Benghazi and Boko Haram: The Obama team was focusing on the kidnapped Nigerian girls in order to divert attention from the congressional probe, West wrote. "Are we witnessing an Obama 'Wag the Dog' moment with Boko Haram in Nigeria? I say yes."
The odd thing is, in ways that West probably didn't figure, there are very likely real links between the Obama administration's handling of Boko Haram, the Nigerian terrorist group, and the violent extremists behind the Benghazi tragedy.
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According to current and former U.S. officials, the reluctance of Hillary Clinton's State Department to designate Boko Haram as a foreign terrorist organization in the summer of 2012 was no isolated case; it was partly rooted in a larger effort by the Obama administration to narrowly define al Qaeda and deemphasize the rise of its new affiliates, especially in Africa.
The administration displayed a similar attitude toward Libya around the time of its Boko Haram decision, when it underestimated the rise of the violent Islamist groups there—these are the conclusions of Clinton's own review panel—in the months before U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed in Benghazi.
Coincidentally or not, this tendency to ignore, sidestep or minimize the violent actions of groups such as Boko Haram and the Islamist militias in Benghazi served to bolster the president's case during his re-election campaign that he had largely defeated al Qaeda, or, as his administration sometimes neglected to clarify, at least the "core" group that attacked the United States on 9/11.
Now here's a complicated thought: This does not mean there was any cover-up of what really happened in Benghazi, as Republican critics are alleging anew, or that it was necessarily wrong to keep Boko Haram – which provoked international outrage last week when it kidnapped more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls – off the list of foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs) at the time the decision was made. Johnnie Carson, the former assistant secretary of state for Africa, and other senior officials argued then that there was little evidence of any relationship between the fractious and ill-defined Boko Haram group and al Qaeda, and the Nigerian terrorists appeared to have no goals apart from ousting the Nigerian government and bringing Islamist rule to the country. Although the debate inside the administration was intense and passionate, the White House and State Department ultimately decided that Boko Haram's links to al Qaeda groups were "very, very thin," a former senior administration official told me. Even today, he added: "There remains almost no evidence of that."
Carson was said to be the chief advocate of this point of view, and yet he and other State and White House officials were in the minority when it came to that assessment, officials involved in the debate said. As early as January 2012, Lisa Monaco, then-head of the Justice Department's national security division and now White House counterterrorism coordinator, sent a letter to State Department counterterrorism chief Daniel Benjamin contending that Boko Haram had links with "transnational terrorist groups," including al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, an affiliate of al Qaeda in north Africa, and saying that the Nigerian group "openly espoused violence against the West," Reuters reported. In late June of that year U.S. Africa commander Gen. Carter Ham said that the linkages between Boko Haram and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb "are probably the most worrisome in terms of the indications we have that they are likely sharing funds, training and explosive materials that can be quite dangerous."
So why did the cautious Carson win that argument? One U.S. counterterrorism official familiar with the discussions says there was a "real reluctance" to expand the war against al Qaeda to "other parts of the world, especially Africa, and a desire to avoid mission creep." He said: "Sure, these guys [Boko Haram] are monsters, but they were Nigeria's monsters. They weren't our monsters."
The Boko Haram decision, this official and others involved in the debate say, came at a time when the president was genuinely worried that the war against al Qaeda and its affiliates had become too broad and ill-defined, even in violence-wracked places like Yemen, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The administration was especially determined not to let the fight spread too far into Africa, although the United States had already set up an Africa Command. "There was a sense that we have to be a lot more deliberative about everyone who pops up as an Islamist," this official said. "Certainly there was a reluctance to make international terrorists out of people who weren't international terrorists."
It was in this super-stringent context that the administration approached Boko Haram and the various Islamist threats emerging in northern Africa, including the groups ultimately responsible for the Benghazi attack. This attitude was reflected broadly in speeches by Obama warning that America must get off a "perpetual wartime footing," and declaring that "core al Qaeda is a shell of its former self." In a landmark speech at National Defense University last year, Obama said, "We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us.… Unless we discipline our thinking, our definitions, our actions, we may be drawn into more wars we don't need to fight."
That's Obama's counterterrorism philosophy in a nutshell, and it helps explain the administration's effort to blame the Benghazi violence mainly on widespread protests against a video lampooning the Prophet Mohammad rather than "a failure of policy," as Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes put it in his recently released and controversial memo. It has also given rise to Republican charges, unsubstantiated though they remain, that the administration covered up what it knew about the Benghazi attackers to further the president's case that he was defeating al Qaeda.
In a telephone interview over the weekend, Carson gave me a window into why he opposed designating Boko Haram.


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I was curious to watch Anwar ever since I first listened to the songs Aankhen Teri (a beautiful love song) and To se Naina Laage (Shilpa Rao's first hit song in Bollywood, I believe). Saw the film today, starring Siddharth Koirala, Vijay Raaz, Nauheed Cyrusi, Hiten Tejwani, Manisha Koirala, and Rajpal Yadav. Enjoyed the first 30 minutes or so because of the music and art direction. But talk about beating a dead horse and being redundant within the same film. Redundantly redundant is how I would describe it.
And while I try not to be too harsh to the film, I cannot help but express my disappointment at the final product. There was so much potential wasted. It's almost like every character in the film says 'and I want my own little story in this one too'.
While I appreciate the emotion that went into making this film (communal strife rules over a love triangle here), I am disappointed in the approach to the storyline and the portrayal of frustration. Not a film I would recommend.
Movie Rating: *1/2 (BELOW AVERAGE)
If you, like me, enjoyed the soundtrack, stick to listening to it. Watching the film might just make you want to avoid future listening.
My Classification: R (for language)
Anwar - potential wasted?
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I watched this solely for the gorgeous "Maula Mere Maula" song, but couldn't finish it. Redundantly redundant is a great way to describe it!
- Friday, January 02, 2009
- theBollywoodFan said...
Hi Emily, and happy new year! 'Maula Mere Maula' is a fantastic and indeed gorgeous song. It was very testing to see 'Anwar' in its entirety, and you're probably better off not having finished it. :)
- Friday, January 02, 2009


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Via FOX on Demand, FOX.com and FOX NOW Beginning Sunday, August 11
Miss the first season of THE MINDY PROJECT? Wish you'd seen Nick and Jess' first kiss on NEW GIRL? Now you can break that summer diet and fill up on all of your favorite returning FOX dramas and comedies during the FOX SUMMER BINGE!
Beginning Sunday, Aug. 11, fans can indulge in the most recent seasons of BONES, NEW GIRL, THE MINDY PROJECT, RAISING HOPE, GLEE, BOB'S BURGERS, FAMILY GUY, AMERICAN DAD and THE SIMPSONS on FOX On Demand through participating cable and telco providers nationwide before they return this fall. In addition, full episodes of these seasons can be streamed online on FOX.com and through the FOX NOW app, which is currently available on iOS, Android phones, Windows 8, Roku, Xbox and Samsung devices.
Episodes will be released in chronological batches every Sunday - in most cases, five to six episodes at a time - through September, making it easy for fans to discover or catch up on many of FOX's most popular series before the new season begins.
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2009 Holy Cross Track & Field Home Meet Information
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Results from all meets at Holy Cross will be available at www.coolrunning.com.
April 15-16, 2009: Holy Cross Decathlon & Heptathlon
April 18, 2009: Holy Cross vs. Bryant, Central Connecticut State, Colgate (men only), Hartford, Maine, Siena & Stonehill
April 21, 2009: Holy Cross Men vs. Clark, New Hampshire, Quinnipiac, Rhode Island & Worcester State
Holy Cross Decathlon & Heptathlon
(always Wed/Thurs the week before Penn Relays)
Wednesday April 15, 2009
Men's Decathlon First Day Events
Beginning at 12:00 p.m.
100-Meter Dash
Long Jump
Shot Put
High Jump
400-Meter Dash
Women's Heptathlon First Day Events
Beginning at 12:30 p.m.
100-Meter Hurdles
High Jump
Shot Put
200-Meter Dash
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Men's Decathlon Second Day Events
Beginning at 11:00 a.m.
110-Meter Hurdles
Pole Vault
1,500-Meter Run
Women's Heptathlon Second Day Events
Beginning at 11:30 a.m.
Long Jump
800-Meter Run
Events will probably last until about 5:30 each day.
Holy Cross vs. Bryant, Central Connecticut State, Colgate (men only), Hartford, Maine, Siena & Stonehill
Saturday, April 18, 2009
11:00 a.m. Men's Hammer Followed by Women's Hammer Women's Shot Followed by Men's Shot Put Women's Pole Vault Followed by Men's Pole Vault Women's Long Jump Followed by Men's Long Jump 1:00 p.m. Women's High Jump followed by Men's High Jump
1:45 p.m. (approx.) 30 minutes after Shot Put Men's Discus Followed by Women's Discus 1:45 p.m. (approx.) 30 min after Long Jump Women's Triple Jump followed by Men's Triple Jump 1:45 p.m. (approx.) 30 min after Hammer Women's Javelin followed by Men's Javelin
(Women before men in all running events)
12:00 p.m. 3000-Meter Steeplechase 12:40 p.m. 400-Meter Relay 12:55 p.m. 1500-Meter Run (Sections on Time) 1:20 p.m. 100-Meter Hurdles Finals 1:35 p.m. 110-Meter Hurdles Finals 1:50 p.m. 400-Meter Dash (Sections on Time) 2:10 p.m. 100-Meter Dash Finals 2:30 p.m. 800-Meter Run (Sections on Time) 2:50 p.m. 400-Meter Hurdles (Sections on Time) 3:10 p.m. 200-Meter Dash (Sections on Time) 3:30 p.m. 5000-Meter Run (Sections on Time) 4:15 p.m. 1600-Meter Relay
Holy Cross Men vs. Clark, New Hampshire, Quinnipiac, Rhode Island & Worcester State
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
3:00 p.m. Hammer Long Jump Pole Vault Shot Put 4:15 p.m. (approx.) Triple Jump follows Long Jump Discus follows Shot Put Javelin follows Hammer High Jump follows Pole Vault
3:45 p.m. 3000-Meter Steeplechase 4:00 p.m. 400-Meter Relay 4:10 p.m. 1500-Meter Run 4:20 p.m. 110-Meter Hurdles 4:30 p.m. 400-Meter Dash 4:40 p.m. 100-Meter Dash 4:50 p.m. 800-Meter Run 5:00 p.m. 400-Meter Hurdles 5:10 p.m. 200-Meter Dash 5:20 p.m. 5000-Meter Run 5:40 p.m. 1600-Meter Relay
Individual Events: 10-8-6-4-2-1
Relays: 10-8-6-4-2
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I should know better than to pay attention to Terry Franks' comment on the post, whose views seldom approach comprehension. But it was East TN blogger David Oatney who took the prize for defending criminals with a "hey, that's just the way things are in East TN" perspective:
"I agree that what Vick did was horrible, but it is a double standard that the Left sees the wrong in this, but not the wrong in aborticide.
As for Davis: I don't agree with his position on dogfighting, but he has been consistent. He voted against making cockfighting a felony (I agreed with that vote), and I understand his motus here. This is Upper East Tennessee we are talking about. There are people around here who still run moonshine because it makes a good living, for crying out loud.
If Joe P. lives here, he would not need to wonder why Davis takes a position like this. Visit Erwin sometime, you'll get it."
And yes, WBIR-TV featured a story last night that a dogfighting club was uncovered by law enforcement here in my home county, Hamblen County, during Memorial Day weekend. And Jefferson County officials told me last weekend they too have had numerous reports of dog thefts from residences related to an apparent dogfighting operation there too.
And yes, more topics will be offered today on this page other than this dogfighting insanity, and I hope WBIR and reporter Brittany Bailey will follow up on these events with some more detail.
Some other bloggers and commenters share their views on the topic --
Aunt B. at Tiny Cat Pants
Rachel at Music City Bloggers
More at Volunteer Voters
David O. responds as well


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Hi, I carried out a RCD test for the first time yesterday, but I was not happy with the results, as it tripped the main RCD in the wall socket, so left RCD test until I had more info, I reset the Wall RCD and I continued with an IEC lead test which was ok I then tried to do a portable appliance Class II test all ok until the load test where the 350 gave me and Alert box saying "Mains Relay Safety test has failed Code 0400" " Please re-check the incoming mains supply" Press the Green Start key to re-start.
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William H. Freeman Collection
Attached to the 20th Air Base Group in 1941, Athol-native Bill Freeman was a first-hand witness to the beginnings of the war in the Pacific. Enlisting in the Army Air Corps in 1940, Freeman was stationed at Nichols Field in the Philippines when the Japanese invaded, and after taken as prisoner or war, he was forced on the Bataan Death March. Freeman died of malaria in Cabanatuan Prison Camp in July 1942.
The Freeman scrapbook and photograph album that Bill Freeman kept offer a visually-intensive perspective on the brief life of an American serviceman in the Second World War. Kept during and immediately after high school, the scrapbook includes notices of his musical performances and other activities; the extensive photograph album documents his service in the Army Air Corps from the start of deployment through his travels in Hawaii and Guam to the early months of his service in the Philippines. The collection also includes a letter written from the Philippines during the summer 1941.


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Ravens reserve rookie cornerback Asa Jackson is active for today's AFC divisional-round playoff game against the Denver Broncos, his first game following four-game suspension for violating the NFL's performance-enhancing drug policy.
Jackson was punished by the NFL for unauthorized usage of Adderall. He could be utilized on special teams.
With Jackson active, the Ravens scratched wide receiver David Reed.
The Ravens' other inactives are: safety Omar Brown, cornerback Chris Johnson, outside linebacker Adrian Hamilton, offensive guard Ramon Harewood, wide receiver Deonte Thompson and defensive tackle Bryan Hall.
The Broncos' inactives were predictable with cornerback Tracy Porter ruled out Friday due to the lingering effects of a concussion.
The Broncos also deactivated quarterback Caleb Hanie, wide receiver Andre Caldwell, fullback Chris Gronkowski, center-guard C.J. Davis, tight end Julius Thomas and defensive tackle Sealver Siliga.