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Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
The journal aims to encourage and enhance the role of mechanics and other disciplines as they relate to earthquake engineering by providing opportunities for the publication of the work of applied mathematicians, engineers and other applied scientists involved in solving problems closely related to the field of earthquake and geotechnical engineering.
Emphasis is placed on new concepts and techniques, but case histories will also be published if they enhance the presentation and understanding of new technical concepts.
Fields Covered:
• Seismology and geology relevant to earthquake problems.
• Elastodynamics: wave propagation and scattering soil and rock dynamics.
• Dynamic constitutive behaviour of materials.
• Mathematical methods: system methodology and identification in soil dynamics relevant to earthquake phenomena.
• Practical methods.
• Probabilistic methods in: seismology, geotechnical earthquake engineering; risk analysis; earthquake engineering reliability; interaction problems; soil structure interaction and fluid-soil interaction; instrumentation and experimental methods; inelastic and nonlinear problems; finite element analysis in dynamics and elastodynamics; earthquake case histories; tsunamis.
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SO I tried Ultimate team for the first time today I was wondering if you guys play it? Whilst I liked the idea of it, this gamemode seems odd. In my first game I had an ok ish team and played against a team that was virtually all hall of famer's- whilst I had Hartline and Roberto Wallace as receivers
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That's serious balance issues.
Any of you guys play this much? If so how on earth do you compete? (short of spending hundreds of dollars on packs.) I never rage quit in Madden but after being picked off by legendary cb's for the fourth time I gave up.

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Dear Editor,
Several weeks ago I noticed a new item on a novelty stand at a local business I patronize. The figurine depicted a "Gothic style" scantily clad female in fishnet hose, bikini panties, and a plunging neckline hanging on a cross.
As a Christian, I experienced a myriad of emotions ranging the gamut from anger to spiritual anguish. To some it would be a work of art, for me it was sacrilege.
After a time of prayerful reflection, I contacted the manager of the business who very graciously removed the offensive item. The company certainly has the right to display and market whatever products they so desire, however they chose to listen to the concerns of one customer.
In the recent wake of worldwide violence and bloodshed over a video, and the shooting of a teenager who just wanted to go to school, it is a comfort to know prayerful perseverance is the alternative to religious jihad.
Eddie Russell


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Cooper Coach Mike Spradlin Talks About Crosstown Showdown
By: David Robinett
Updated: September 8, 2009
The Cougars struggled in the 1st half with turnovers, but bounced back with a big 2nd half with 28 points.
Ryan Heslep led Cooper offensively with 346 yards and 2 touchdowns and the defense forced 4 turnovers.
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ROSEBORO — Mr. Lewis W. Jones Jr., 80, of 602 Eleanor St., died Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013 at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, Fayetteville.
The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, at St. Thomas AME Zion Church. Interment will be in the Hillcrest Cemetery, Clinton, with full military honors.
Mr. Jones is survived by his wife, Belvia Jones of the home; two nephews, Tony Watson of Fayetteville and Yafue Nantwi of Williamsburg, Va.; and one niece, Sheryl Mckinnie of Cincinnati, Ohio.
A public viewing will be held from 12 to 6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18, at Butler & Son Funeral Home, Roseboro, with family present from 5 to 6 p.m.
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Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
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Django's auth system ( algorithm, but increasing processor speeds and theoretical attacks have revealed that SHA1 isn't as secure as we'd like. Thus, Django 1.4 introduces a new password storage system: by default Django now uses the
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app let you specify change list filters by specifying a field lookup, but it didn't allow you to create custom filters. This has been rectified with a simple API (previously used internally and known as "FilterSpec"). For more details, see the documentation for
to store the session data in the client's browser.
Session data is signed and validated by the server, but it's not encrypted. This means a user can view any data stored in the session but cannot change it. Please read the documentation for further clarification before using this backend.
has been replaced with a new implementation based on the class-based views introduced in Django 1.3. It features a pluggable storage API and doesn't require the wizard to pass around hidden fields for every previous step.
also introduced in Django 1.4 to store the wizard's state in the user's cookies.
was added to allow using URL reversals before the project's URLconf gets loaded.
helper function. It's also now possible to define translatable URL patterns using
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This new filter truncates a string to be no longer than the specified number of characters. Truncated strings end with a translatable ellipsis sequence ("..."). See the documentation for
storage backend. It uses the storage backend's
management command) by appending the MD5 hash of the file's content to the filename. For example, the file
We've added a middleware to provide easy protection against header. It's not enabled by default for backwards compatibility reasons, but you'll almost certainly want to
We've made various improvements to our CSRF features, including the
to test whether the client's response contains a given HTML fragment. See the
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- A more usable stacktrace in the technical 500 page. Frames in the stack trace that reference Django's framework code are dimmed out, while frames in application code are slightly emphasized. This change makes it easier to scan a stacktrace for issues in application code.
- It's now possible to load fixtures containing forward references when using MySQL with the InnoDB database engine.
setting useful. It solves the problem of your proxy "eating" the fact that a request came in via HTTPS. But only use this setting if you know what you're doing.
It's now possible to pass initial values to the model forms that are part of both model formsets and inline model formsets as returned from factory functions
that's lighter than and company. It can be useful in tests that don't need to hit a database. See
disables many of Django's security protections and can lead to remote-code-execution vulnerabilities. No Django site should ever be run without a
Starting in Django 1.4, the admin's static files also follow this convention, to make the files easier to deploy. In previous versions of Django, it was also common to define an setting to point to the URL where the admin's static files live on a Web server. This setting has now been deprecated and replaced by the more general setting
If you've previously used a URL path for
setting to the correct URL – for example,
If you're implicitly relying on the path of the admin static files within Django's source code, you'll need to update that path. The files were moved from
Django hasn't had a clear policy on which browsers are supported by the admin app. Our new policy formalizes existing practices: YUI's A-grade
As part of an effort to improve the performance and usability of the admin's change-list sorting interface and "filter" widgets, some icon files were removed and grouped into two sprite files.
If you used those icons to customize the admin, then you'll need to replace them with your own icons or get the files from a previous release.
To avoid conflicts with other common CSS class names (e.g. "button"), we added a prefix ("field-") to all CSS class names automatically generated from the form field names in the main admin forms, stacked inline forms and tabular inline cells. You'll need to take that prefix into account in your custom style sheets or JavaScript files if you previously used plain field names as selectors for custom styles or JavaScript transformations.
- Consequences: The user will see the validation error "Security hash failed."
- Note: This is actually a Django 1.1 fallback, not Django 1.2, and it applies only if you're upgrading from 1.1.
- Consequences: Each user's password will be updated to a stronger password hash when it's written to the database in 1.4. This means that if you upgrade to 1.4 and then need to downgrade to 1.3, version 1.3 won't be able to read the updated passwords.
- to use your original password hashing when you initially upgrade to 1.4. After you confirm your app works well with Django 1.4 and you won't have to roll back to 1.3, enable the new password hashes.
- It includes milliseconds for datetime and time objects. There is still some precision loss, because Python stores microseconds (6 digits) and JSON only supports milliseconds (3 digits). However, it's better than discarding microseconds entirely.
when a query triggered an exception. We've fixed this bug, and we now raise , you'll need to update your
Database connection's thread-locality
object anymore and is now a proxy to access that object's attributes. If you need to access the actual
Finally, while it's now possible to pass connections between threads, Django doesn't make any effort to synchronize access to the underlying backend. Concurrency behavior is defined by the underlying backend implementation. Check their documentation for details.
Django's has historically supported excluding the comments of a special user group, but we've never documented the feature properly and didn't enforce the exclusion in other parts of the app such as the template tags. To fix this problem, we removed the code from the feed class.
Until Django 1.3, it was possible to exclude some URLs from Django's
, which is a list of compiled regular expressions. Django won't send an email for 404 errors on URLs that match any of them.
It's not Django's role to decide if your website has a legacy
Don't forget to escape characters that have a special meaning in a regular expression, such as periods.
Previously, Django's – i.e., we exempt GET, HEAD, OPTIONS and TRACE, and we enforce protection on everything else.
If you're using PUT or DELETE methods in AJAX applications, please see the
parameter, which is passed to the password save form as a keyword argument. If you are using this view with a custom password reset form, then you will need to ensure your form's
since 2005, and we've removed it without emitting a warning due to the length of the deprecation. If your code still referenced this, please use
is able to construct any Python object, which may trigger arbitrary code execution if you process a YAML document that comes from an untrusted source. This feature isn't necessary for Django's YAML deserializer, whose primary use is to load fixtures consisting of simple objects. Even though fixtures are trusted data, the YAML deserializer now uses
now assumes that the URL is already escaped and doesn't apply URL escaping again. This is wrong for URLs whose unquoted form contains a
It's now possible to check whether a template was used within a block of code with
The default test runner no longer restores the database connections after tests' execution. This prevents the production database from being exposed to potential threads that would still be running and attempting to create new connections.
If your code relied on connections to the production database being created after tests' execution, then you can restore the previous behavior by subclassing
now groups available commands by application. If you depended on the output of this command – if you parsed it, for example – then you'll need to update your code. To get a list of all available management commands in a script, use
tag used a buggy method of parsing arguments, which could lead to it erroneously considering an argument as a string literal when it wasn't. It now uses
The internals of the tag aren't part of the official stable API, but in the interests of full disclosure, the
The code that powers Databrowse is licensed under the same terms as Django itself, so it's available to be adopted by an individual or group as a third-party project.
in order to make the parent "project" directory importable under the old flat
This function was never documented or part of the public API, but it was widely recommended for use in setting up a "Django environment" for a user script. These uses should be replaced by setting the
, define how each template filter interacts with Django's auto-escaping behavior. They used to be attributes of the filter function:
, but it actually provided the body of the HTTP request. It's been renamed to
objects used in sitemap classes were cached, which could result in stale site maps. We've removed the caching, so each request to a site map now creates a new Paginator object and calls the
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was totally killer.
I honestly think that the previous two maps were pretty weak compared to the Combine level, which feels like it was ripped from Half-Life 2: Episode 3. Absolutely superb. I will be playing that third level again and again, just to gawk and study.


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Kids of all ages will have fun at the C Lazy U Ranch on a horseback riding vacation. We divide kids up into groups based on age: teens, youngsters age six to twelve, and kids three to five.
Teens (Ages 13-17): The teens have an action packed week filled with great adventures. From playing hide and seek in the willows to riding to the reservoir and going swimming, the teen will get to enjoy the best of riding. Riding times will be the same as the regular adult rides. For more on the overall experience for teenagers, visit the Teens page.
Mustangs (Ages 6-12): The mustangs are assigned their own personal horse for the week. Throughout the week the kids will grow in their riding skills with great leadership from their counselor. Their horse rides are filled with adventure as they visit the ranch outlaw's hideaway, Shorty's Cabin, and make the myth of blue dot forest come to life. For more on the overall experience for this age group, visit the Mustangs page.
Cowpokes (Ages 3-5): The cowpokes don't get their own horse yet but are able to be led by our ranch pony named Katie. A unique treat that they exclusively hold the right in is getting pulled behind our Sicilian Donkey named Petey. For more on the overall experience for this age group, visit the Cowpokes page.
We're in the book! The C Lazy U Ranch is listed in the new edition of the "Top 1000 Places to See Before You Die"
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Let's teach ourselves Objective-C for iOS development! If you want to learn to develop iPhone or iPad apps, please join us. Early meetups will start from scratch. As we grow, we can start helping beginners as we become more experienced. We plan on having meetings twice a month in Northern VA and DC. The NoVA meetings will meet on Mondays at 7 or 7:30 PM. The DC meetings will be on Thursdays. I'm standardizing on the Big Nerd Ranch book series: Objective-C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide …
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The Washington C-Suite Breakfast is a confidential and informal forum for top leaders and managers to discuss challenges, trends, and solutions of leading organizations in the the 21st century. For senior executives, top leaders and their direct reports from large organizations or government institutions, and only the senior executives and top leaders from small and medium organizations. Membership is free but subject to acceptance. Requests are handled on a case-by-case basis. In general, peopl …
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Gay Atheists of Washington, D.C. (GAWD) is part of District of Columbia Atheists. It is intended to serve primarily as a social gathering point for gay and lesbian atheists and their friends in the atheist community of the Washington, D.C. area. The group is intended to meet the needs of gay men and lesbian women in the atheist community, but sympathetic freethinkers, regardless of sexual preference or identity, are welcome to join. Happy hours and other social events will be scheduled as we hea …
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F.I.E.R.C.E... Ladies Over 40 F.I.E.R.C.E = Fun, Intelligent, Respectful, Encouraging, Confident & Empowering ! We're bringing fun events back to the DC over 40 gay women's community! Our goal is to provide a safe, comfortable, inviting atmosphere where women can meet, mix and mingle. Our group caters to single and coupled gay women over 40. We invite you to enjoy activities such as pool parties, dances, cocktail parties, wine tastings, dinners, movie nights, game nights, etc. If you're looking …
D.C. Film Unite. Ideas will flow and contacts will be made. Find out what projects local production companies are working on and what independent film is looking for people..Come join the our growing network of professionals and non pro's. Our meetups are usually monthly, co-hosted with many other related groups. They offer networking and a chance to learn what others are doing with their projects and passions.
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The D.C. Irish Sports League promotes Irish sport in the metro area by providing a semi-competitive and fun environment to learn the national sports of Ireland: hurling and Gaelic football. We run co-ed weekend leagues downtown in the Spring and Fall. No experience necessary - we will show you how the games are played! Just bring cleats and an interest to learn these ancient sports. We have many members that go on to play for the local GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association) clubs against other …
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The D.C. Lady Arm Wrestlers (D/CLAW) are DC metro-area women who wrestle for charities benefitting women and children. These events draw crowds of several hundred people and have raised up to $7,000 per event for their selected Charity. On Saturday, May 18th, the D/CLAW will host their eleventh such event and we are challenging ourselves to raise more than ever and we invite you to attend this event and help us meet this goal.
The Washington DC LGBT Ballroom, Latin, Swing & C/W DanceMeetup is the Meetup group for Lambda DanceSPORT DC (http://www.LambdaDanceSportDC.org) which supports the art and sport of partnership dancing of all styles for same-gender couples and LGBT-friendly mixed-gender couples in the Baltimore/Washington Metropolitan area. Lambda DanceSPORT DC (http://www.LambdaDanceSportDC.org) is an affilliate of the LGBT DC Sports Connection, Team DC (http://www.TeamDC.org). DanceSport in C/W, Ballroom & Lat …
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The Ivy League Alumni Club of Washington DC Welcome, DC Ivy Leaguers! We are a face-to-face social network of alumni from Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Upenn, and Yale. We host business and professional networking events and publish a weekly newsletter with job postings catered to alumni of these schools in the Washington D.C. area. We also organize career enhancing professional events weekly and monthly in our city (event frequency contingent upon member interest a …
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Chinatown is a Great Place. We will bet you have eaten at some of it's tasty restaurants or strolled the streets getting to know the culture. And we want it to last for many years to come. It is a hub of culture where Chinese, Americans, Chinese-Americans and people from all over the world visit as part of their visit to Washinton D.C. It represents what can be some of the best ideas for our ONE city. Join us as we discuss the future of CHINATOWN and our ONE CITY, Washington D.C. We hope to mee …
Women Allies for One City and Allies for Women are members of the combined Meetup for Conversations Friendship Archway Alliance. This combined event of many groups with similar interests are held each month at the same time and place on the 3rd Sundays from 12:30PM to 2:30PM in Downtown Wash. D.C. This is an opportunity to develop more friends and allies for mutual support. This is not an event limited only to women attendees. This is a combined community networking event for women to connect wi …
We invite you to join us for Conversations for One City to bridge cultural, digital and other divides. We are allies and friends for "ONE CITY, ONE LOVE, ONE WORLD"! Let's engage in conversations for friendship to strengthen harmony and unity of purpose among people from different groups and backgrounds. Let's get to know each other better for mutual understanding and support! Also sign up at www.meetup.com/ONECITY/ EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED! Join us for conversations over lunch (self-pay) on the 3 …
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Welcome to the D.C Cyber Security Group. This is where network security professionals get together to discuss the latest security breaches, the latest unpatched vulnerabilities, threats and vulnerabilities at the unclassified level with a special focus on IPv6. This group of Cyber Warriors will keep you current, whether you are new to Cyber Security or a seasoned veteran. Self promoting is welcomed. If you have a new book, class, website or blog to discuss, you can have an opportunity to be a fo …
Have you always asked yourself: What is this thing called life? Why am I here? Where do we come from? Is this all there is, or is there more? When your loved ones die do you break your heart wondering: How is it that one day, my father, mother, brother, sister, child is here, the next, they are gone, and it is as if they never where here. What happens to them after life. And is this life truly worth living in the end?THE ESSENES HAVE THE ANSWER!!!Here, you will find answers to these questions an …
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Entrepreneurial moms meet and network with each other. Anyone who owns a business, wants to own one, is working on a creative venture, or wants to be around other businesswomen in D.C. and surrounding areas can be a part of this Exchange. You do not have to be a business owner yet. This Exchange is about networking, helping each other through trials and tribulations, questions, problems, educating and empowering each other. We will invite speakers and experts on interesting topics. And, of c …
Meet other locals from the Washington, D.C. area interested in running for public offices and working on political campaigns. Join us to network and discuss the unique perspective that belongs to future elected officials and campaign professionals like you and importantly to organize ourselves. The group is opened to every interested person who would like to join. However, minorities are highly encouraged to join to foster increase minority participation and voice in public offices.
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Are you Looking for more friends and dates?? Do you want to meet more people fast? New to Town and wondering how to make new friends quickly? If you are, This is how!! Speed Friending Events are for you!! Come see what everyone is talking about. Speed Friending Events is a fast new, super fun, and very low pressure way to make lasting friendships around town. Our events are the quickest, safest, most effective low-pressure way to meet new people in town. This is the ONLY place in DC where yo …
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I moved from NY to DC and was really going to miss the Hack and Tell meetup there, so I decided to start one in DC! (What follows is the shamelessly ripped off description of the original). If you've ever visited Hacker News, you've almost certainly seen the "Show HN" or "Ask HN" posts. Well, it's time to get off the Internet and tell us about it face to face. We'll provide you with our honest feedback, you provide us with a great hack, or idea. We'll give you 5 minutes to show off your tool …
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Hello!! Welcome to the Washington D.C. Metro Area English Bulldog Meetup! This group gets English Bullies together for a monthly play date. We hope you can join us!
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The purpose of this Ron Paul Meetup is to celebrate a return to constitutional law after we have elected Ron Paul President. We will meet on January 20, 2013 in Washington D C where we will become a part of history and be able to tell our grandchildren and great grandchildren that we participated in the Ron Paul Revolution that restored freedom and liberty in America. See you then.
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Have you ever wondered where Washington D.C. ranks in Luxury & Fashion? This group is for " Fabulous Fashionistas" and "Serious Luxurians", that enjoy the decadence of style, the impressions of good taste, and the uniqueness of all things beautiful. If you are the known as the "It Girl or Guy" in your place of business, or among friends, you would most likely be the candidate for membership in this group. If you live and breathe cosmopolitan style, we gather you're the one that eveyone inqui …
The Rotaract Club of Metro Washington, DC could be just what you are looking for, giving you an instant group of new friends, a fun social calendar and lots of opportunities to help your local community. "Rotaract" stands for "Rotary in Action" and is a program of Rotary International for young adults between the ages 18-30 focusing on students and young working professionals. It was established in 1968 by Rotary International and clubs are found in over 160 countries around the world. Our club …
This is a group for single professional in Washington, D.C. interested in socializing, growing, partying, and becoming the best we can become. If you are single and interested in meeting people trying to become the best they can be, the is the group for you. We will meet for happy hours, work outs, meditation and other activities and learn and grow together.
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Are you Looking for more friends and dates?? Do you want to meet more people fast? New to Town and wondering how to make new friends quickly? If you are, This is how!! Speed Friending Events are for you!! Come see what everyone is talking about. Speed Friending Events is a fast new, super fun, and very low pressure way to make lasting friendships around town. Our events are the quickest, safest, most effective low-pressure way to meet new people in town. This is the ONLY place in DC where yo …
We are Cubs fans in the D.C. area who gather once a month or so to watch a game. All fans and Chicagoans are welcome.
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May 24. 2012 — Lassen Community College (LCC) will have a new president beginning July 1.
The LCC governing board unanimously selected Dr. Marlon Hall as the new superintendent/president at a May 22 special meeting.
Dr. Hall is currently the vice president of student services at West Hills College in Coalinga, Calif.
He holds a doctorate in educational leadership and change with an emphasis on community college leadership.
He also brings extensive teaching experience to the campus.
According to a press release from LCC, the college is "very fortunate to have this proven leader coming to us as superintendent/president, and we wish to welcome him to the campus and community."
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Petraeus evades cameras, testifies that he believed Benghazi was terrorist attack
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ex-CIA Director David Petraeus told lawmakers Friday that classified intelligence showed the deadly raid on the U.S. Consulate in Libya was a terrorist attack, but that the administration withheld the suspected role of specific al-Qaida affiliates.
The recently resigned spy chief explained that references to terrorist groups suspected of carrying out the violence were removed from the public explanation of what caused the attack so as not to tip off the groups that the U.S. intelligence community was on their trail.
Petraeus also said it initially was unclear whether militants infiltrated a demonstration to cover their attack.
The retired four-star general addressed the House and Senate intelligence committees in back-to-back, closed-door hearings as questions persist over what the Obama administration knew in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks and why their public description did not match intelligence agencies' assessments.
After the hearings, lawmakers said Petraeus testified that the CIA's draft talking points written in response to the assault on the diplomat post in Benghazi that killed four Americans referred to it as a terrorist attack. But Petraeus told the lawmakers that reference was removed from the final version, although he wasn't sure which federal agency deleted it.
Democrats said Petraeus made it clear the change was not made for political reasons during President Barack Obama's re-election campaign.
"The general was adamant there was no politicization of the process, no White House interference or political agenda," said Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif. "He completely debunked that idea."
But Republicans remain critical of the administration's handling of the case. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said Petraeus' testimony showed that "clearly the security measures were inadequate despite an overwhelming and growing amount of information that showed the area in Benghazi was dangerous, particularly on the night of Sept. 11."
Petraeus told lawmakers that security at the consulate was so lax that protesters literally walked in and set fire to the facility, according to a congressional official who attended the briefing, leading to Ambassador Chris Stevens' death from smoke inhalation. Petraeus said security at the CIA annex was much better, but the attackers had armaments to get in.
Petraeus, who had a long and distinguished military career, was making his first Capitol Hill testimony since resigning last week in disgrace over an extramarital affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell. Lawmakers said he did not discuss that scandal except to express regret about the circumstances of his departure and say that Benghazi had nothing to do with his decision to resign. Continued...
Petraeus testified that the CIA draft written in response to the raid referred to militant groups Ansar al-Shariah and al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb but those names were replaced with the word "extremist" in the final draft, according to a congressional staffer. The staffer said Petraeus testified that he allowed other agencies to alter the talking points as they saw fit without asking for final review, to get them out quickly.
The congressional officials weren't authorized to discuss the hearing publicly and described Petraeus' testimony to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., said Petraeus explained that the CIA's draft points were sent to other intelligence agencies and to some federal agencies for review. Udall said Petraeus told them the final document was put in front of all the senior agency leaders, including Petraeus, and everyone signed off on it.
"The assessment that was publicly shared in unclassified talking points went through a process of editing," Udall said. "The extremist description was put in because in an unclassified document you want to be careful who you identify as being involved."
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said it's still not clear how the final talking points developed. The edited version was used by U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice five days after the attack when the White House sent her out for a series of television interviews. Republicans have criticized Rice for saying it appeared the attack was sparked by a spontaneous protest over an anti-Muslim video.
"The fact is, the reference to al-Qaida was taken out somewhere along the line by someone outside the intelligence community," King said. "We need to find out who did it and why."
King said Petraeus had briefed the House committee on Sept. 14 and he does not recall Petraeus being so positive at that time that it was a terrorist attack. "He thought all along that he made it clear there was terrorist involvement," King said. "That was not my recollection."
Schiff said Petraeus said Rice's comments in the television interviews "reflected the best intelligence at the time that could be released publicly."
"There was an interagency process to draft it, not a political process," Schiff said. "They came up with the best assessment without compromising classified information or source or methods. So changes were made to protect classified information."
Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., said it's clear that Rice "used the unclassified talking points that the entire intelligence community signed off on, so she did completely the appropriate thing." He said the changes made to the draft accounts for the discrepancies with some of the reports that were made public showing that the intelligence community knew it was a terrorist attack all along. Continued...
Lawmakers spent hours Thursday interviewing top intelligence and national security officials, trying to determine what intelligence agencies knew before, during and after the attack. They viewed security video from the consulate and surveillance footage take by an unarmed CIA Predator drone that showed events in real time.
The congressional staffer told the AP that the composite video shown to lawmakers to illustrate the chronology of the attack also included the cellphone footage that has been on YouTube showing Stevens being carried out by people who looked like they were trying to rescue him.
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Spring Insight looks incredible. We're using the Spring stack but not running on tc server. Should it be possible for me to explicitly pass the right jvm parameters to add SI instrumentation on WebSphere 6.1 (jdk 1.5 based)?
Spring Insight looks incredible. We're using the Spring stack but not running on tc server. Should it be possible for me to explicitly pass the right jvm parameters to add SI instrumentation on WebSphere 6.1 (jdk 1.5 based)?
You won't be able to use it outside of tc Server for the time being. We rely on Tomcat's classloader for a few of our tricks.
Thanks for the quick response. It saved me from wasting time trying to get it to work.
Is that something you see SI moving towards at some point in the future, or is the vision that this would be a part of the value of using tc?
I wouldn't rule it out in the future, as we want people who are writing Spring applications to have this valuable tool irrespective of how it's deployed. However, at this time we are focusing our energy on the Tomcat container -- specifically tc Server. As you can imagine, it makes our death matrix much smaller which allows us to move much more quickly.
Are you not able to try your app out on tc Server? What ties you to websphere?
Makes sense, and you guys are certainly moving quickly.
The apps I'm interested in for this are EARs, fairly integration-heavy with plenty of JNDI stuff configured in WebSphere already. Ideally we'd be able to just run them on tc, but I suspect this would be quite a bit of work in reality.
We've generally been using Jamon with Spring-injected timing aspects for high level performance data. We're looking seriously at OSGi for future apps, and I suspect that approach will hit problems, as I think Jamon holds it's data within a single classloader. Works great in JEE, but what about when there are many bundles and each with it's own classloader? I need to dig to see if this is really a problem, but that's my hunch.
SI looks like it holds timing info in it's own WAR, and gathers data in the target by instrumenting bytecode within the same JVM. ...currently moot point since tc isn't OSGi based, but if it were, would this approach work to capture timings in OSGi apps?
Apologies if this is a dumb question. I'm still trying to sort out all of the implications of OSGi.
Hey Jon,
Just wondering if its a possibility to use Insight on plain vanilla Tomcat. Considering tc is using Tomcat and as you mentioned earlier you are using the Tomcat classloader is there a way to deploy Insight in standard Tomcat.
My app uses JDK 1.6 and Tomcat 6.x
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Yes, it would be possible to run Insight with vanilla Tomcat, as tc Server is pretty much just that with some additional niceties. Does tc not fit your needs?
Tc fits my need as Dev but not for production/commercial use. Right now our production stack is all tomcat and/or approaching tomcat as part of our migration effort to make it consistent operational environment across the board.
And that is the reason for asking. Considering that you have said yes, what do I need to do to get Insight running on Tomcat 6.x.
There are a few things that the Insight tc Server template does that you'll need to replicate in Tomcat:
- context.xml -- You will need to use the same configuration as we use (namely changing the valve and adding the weaving classloader)
- setenv.sh -- To get weaving information from the items in tomcat's /lib directory, you'll need to use our standard classloader.
- lib/* -- We have a variety of libs that must be in the tomcat top-level classloader to properly process traces.
Obviously the plugin and configuration for insight exists in insight/*, so you'll need all that as well. Let me know how it works out for you.


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MERRIMAC - A young life ended far too soon and the Tug Valley area lost a special resident on Friday, who had captured many hearts and been an inspiration to all who knew him.
Zachary "Zach" Dylan Baisden was a 10-year-old boy who had fought a courageous battle with the debilitating disease, Muscular Dystrophy, since birth. Confined to a wheelchair, Zach never let the hand life had dealt him dampen his spirit, smile or zest for life.
Friday, May 11, Zach was pronounced dead at the Williamson Memorial Hospital from health complications following a short illness.
Ironically, just two short weeks ago, the young man was photographed with medals around his neck, smiling from ear to ear, as he claimed first place in races during the 2012 Special Olympics held at the Mingo Central High School.
Riverside Elementary Principal Paula Brown, where Zach attended school, spoke of her memories of the young man at the Olympics, remarking about what a truly special young man he was, and of his caring and gentle heart.
"Zach had already won two medals and was preparing for his third race when he turned toward me and commented that his opponent didn't have a motor on her wheelchair like he did," said Brown. "As much as I know Zach wanted to win another medal, he made the decision to not give the race his all. Instead, he held back and let the little girl beat him, knowing how happy she would be to win the race and take home a medal.
"That's who Zach was; he often reminded us of how we're to treat others. He set a fine example for others to follow."
Zach was the son of Scott and Brandi Hensley Baisden, and had one sister, Kaeleigh. He leaves behind numerous family members and many friends at Riverside who will greatly miss him. Another group of men that will always feel a void left by the sudden departure of Zach are the present and past members of the Williamson Fire Department.
In 2006, Zach was the subject of an article that appeared in the Daily News.
While interviewing the amazing young man, he revealed his love for fire trucks and spoke of how much he wanted to take a ride in one. Fire Chief Jerry Mounts was contacted, and within a few short moments, the big yellow fire truck was sitting outside the Daily News with Mounts and several firefighters on board.
They loaded Zach on the truck and made his dream a reality.
Since that day, Zach had been a close friend of the firemen, and could be seen seated in his wheel chair beside the firefighters every Labor Day weekend as they conducted donation drives for the Muscular Dystrophy Association Firemen's "Boot Day."
"When Zach and his family first began partnering with us for the Muscular Dystrophy Telethon, he was a little shy and was quiet natured," commented Chief Mounts. "But as each year passed, Zach began to open up more to us, and we had the opportunity to really get to know him.
"One of my fondest memories of Zach was watching him high-five all the firefighters after we finished our "Boot Day" and counted our donations.
"If the Baisden family doesn't know it by now, then I want them to hear this from me. Zach, his parents and little sister are a true inspiration to people in this entire region. Zach touched our lives; he touched our hearts. His memory will continue to inspire all of us to be better people for many years to come."
Funeral services (see complete obituary inside on page 6A) for Zach are scheduled for Wednesday at noon, at the Delorme Pentacostal Tabernacle In Jesus Name Church. Burial will follow in the family cemetery at Merrimac.
Fire Chief Jerry Mounts was asked by the family to say a few words about Zach during his wake at the church this evening scheduled to begin at 7 p.m., and several firefighters will also serve as pallbearers.
Fellow students of Zach will be singing a song tonight in memory of their special friend.
Donations to be used toward Zach's funeral costs may be dropped off to Chief Mounts at the Williamson Fire Department or to Principal Brown at Riverside Elementary. Checks may be made payable directly to the Chafin Funeral Home at Delbarton.