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Cyrus Beck Algorithm generally clips only once or twice, unlike the Southland Cohen Algorithm, where the lines are clipped about four times. This algorithm was introduced back in 1978 by Cyrus and Beck. Clipping the line twice has the idea that the line will be clipped for the first time when it enters the box, and second time when it exits the box.
Supposing a line with coordinates P0 and P1, is partially inside the view port, and partially outside it.
P (t) = P0 + t (P1 – P0);
X= x0 + t (x1 – x0);
Y= y0 + t (y1 – y0);
Now for finding the intersection point of the line in the view port we find out the value of the mid point.
Let P (e) be the point on the plane that may be the middle point.
n. (P(t) – P (e))
if > 0 the vector is pointed towards inner side of the view port.
if = 0 the vector is pointed towards the parallel side of the view port.
if < 0 the vector is pointed away from the view port.
Here n denotes the normal of the current clipping view port.
Hence the exact point of intersection is found.
Unlike the Southland-Cohen Algorithm, which follows multiplication and division, the Parametric Line Clipping or Cyrus Beck Algorithm avoids these calculations and follows the basic principle of coordinate geometry. It basically marks the gives line with two coordinates, say P0 (x1 and x2)P1 (y1 and y2). Now a mid point is made on the line, say M with coordinates (x1 + x2)/2 and (y1 + y2)/2. Now the line or the abscissa is divided into two equal parts. And each of the two line is now tested for its position in the view port. Now first of all, the end points of the line is tested to see where it falls, if both the ends are inside the display box or the view port, it means that both the abscissa lie inside the box and the whole line will be displayed, this is the case of acceptance. Similarly other lines are tested one by one.
Now if any one of the abscissa of any line lies outside the view port, the part outside is clipped, this called the case of partial acceptance.
Now again if both the abscissa of the line is outside the view port, then the whole is omitted to be displayed, and whole line is clipped, this is the case of rejecting the line.
This is how Cyrus Beck Algorithm works. At each step generally one half of the line is omitted while the other half Is included in the view port. In the same manner the other lines are divided and tested.
Also this is the manner the Southland Cohen Algorithm works.
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There will be 53,371 ticket holders hoping it doesn't, but if it rains on the Orioles' final Memorial Stadium parade Oct. 6, respondents to "It's Your Call" think the game should be rescheduled.
Under ordinary circumstances, a Tigers-Orioles rainout that day would not be made up, unless it would have an effect on the AL East pennant race. (Of course, with the Tigers only four games out, that too is a possibility.)
But with it being the last game at Memorial Stadium, callers by a 2-1 margin said the AL commissioner should make an exception and reschedule it. Out of 461 callers, 66.6 percent (307) said it should be reset and 33.4 percent said it shouldn't.
"It's Your Call" represents a sampling of opinions from certain segments of the community, but it is not balanced demographically, as would be done in a scientific public opinion poll.

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The Congressional Budget Office has issued a report encouraging Congress to promote the use of mileage-based user fees to pay for roads. The current highway funding process is very inefficient, says the report. For example, urban roads are most heavily used and need the most maintenance, but most maintenance dollars are spent on rural roads.
The report offers three solutions to this problem: mileage-based user fees; allocating spending on the basis of benefits and costs; and linking spending to "appropriately chosen" performance measures. The report does not say so, but the problem with the second and third solutions is that assessments of benefits, costs, and performance measures by government agencies inevitably become political. Attempts to use either of these solutions at the state level have had, at best, mixed results and in fact mostly negative ones.
For example, Utah required planning agencies to use benefit-cost criteria. The result was that the Salt Lake metropolitan planning organization cooked to books to support their predetermined outcome. Although this was discovered by the Utah legislative auditor's office, no correction was ever made.
Similarly, the Washington Department of Transportation tries to apply performance measures to its spending. Yet there has been so much interference by both the governor and the legislature that transportation users have seen few benefits result from the process.
Mileage-based user fees avoid these problems because users will pay for what is most valuable to them. Any effort by politicians or ideologues to divert funds to non-performing parts of the transportation system will result in lower revenues, thus discouraging the diversion.
As an aside, the CBO report has a sidebar on road privatization. Highway "infrastructure displays, at least to some degree, important characteristics of a 'public good,'" says the report. "To wit, charging everyone who benefits from the service provided can be difficult if not impossible; as a result, the private sector would supply less infrastructure than would be optimal for society to have."
The Antiplanner strongly disagrees. Modern technologies make it possible to easily charge everyone who uses a road. While it could be argued that people benefit from roads even if they don't use them, the same could be said for just about anything, which means the "public good" argument can be used to justify any subsidy. Those subsidies always end up being way out of proportion to the supposed public benefits, and the real beneficiaries of the subsidies are the people who are paid to overproduce whatever resource is supposedly a public good.
Unlike some libertarians, the Antiplanner doesn't see privatization as the best solution to every problem. Some private railroads have received lots of market-distorting subsidies, while some public roads have been well-managed and funded solely out of user fees. The important thing is to get the incentives right, and mileage-based user fees are the best way of doing so.
As noted here before, the Antiplanner is a volunteer for Oregon's mileage-based user fee experiment. The state charges me 1-1/2 cents for each mile I drive in the state, and nothing for out-of-state driving. Rather than refund me the actual gas taxes I pay, the state refunds an estimate based on the miles-per-gallon rating of my car. My car supposedly averages 30 miles per gallon, and since Oregon's gas tax is 30 cents a gallon, the refund is a penny per mile, so the state charges me a net half-penny per gallon. If my car got 20 miles per gallon, no money would change hands. Since I actually do get 30 miles per gallon, I have nothing to complain about.


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I've seen tons of different What I Really (fill in the blank) type memes floating around out there. You may have seen them posted to Facebook or on other blogs. I figured that the low carb diet deserved its own. I filled it with all the various comments that have been made when I say I follow a low carb diet. Click on the picture to see it full size. Hope you enjoy it!
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Amanda Burchfield of Paragould, Ark., has opened her senior art show at Williams Baptist College. The exhibition, entitled "Hand Made," will run through Nov. 3rd in the gallery of WBC's Maddox Center.
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NEW: Providence Named Top 25 Porn Capital by Men's Health
Saturday, April 21, 2012
The new ranking of America's Smuttiest Cities just released by the popular magazine assessed the smuttiness of the 100 largest cities in America, and Providence came in at a pretty tawdry #21 overall--just outside the Top 20.
The porn capital of the USA
The smuttiest city in the country? Get ready--it's the home of the Magic Kingdom… Orlando, FL. A more predictable #2 went to Las Vegas, NV. Wilmington, DE, Raleigh, NC, and Charlotte, NC, came in at #3, #4, and #5.
No other New England cities ranked higher than Providence. Manchester, NH came in at #27, Bridgeport, CT at #57, Portland, ME at #59, Boston at #83 and Burlington, VT at #84. The most prim city on the list? Jackson, MS, at #100.
What makes a city smutty?
According to Men's Health, it "peered through a statistical peephole" to tabulate the following criteria: the number of DVDs purchased, rented, or streamed (AdultDVDEmpire.com); adult entertainment stores per city (StorErotica.net); rate of porn searches (Google Insights); and, for fans of soft-core, percentage of Cinemax-subscribing households (SimplyMap).
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Postcard Perfect PortofinoIf only life could always be as splendid as Portofino appears. The Ligurian village is postcard perfect. Cypress-covered hills roll into the distance, a verdant frame to the marvelous painting of impeccably maintained buildings, floral gardens, piazzas and a boat-filled harbor hinting at the Mediterranean beyond. It's one of those places where it is nearly impossible to take a bad photograph, so visually stimulating is Portofino's old-world personality. Of course, Portofino is no secret. Imitation is, as they say, the highest form of flattery, and attempts have even been made to model its beauty in Japan and the United States.
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The Stack Market: Vblock, FlexPod, VSPEX (and me)
I've written several times on this blog about converged infrastructure and a few recent events have compelled me to revisit the topic. These events include the launch of EMC's VSPEX solution along with my decision to accept a new position with a NetApp/FlexPod partner.
I've spoken very favorably in the past about the Vblock and even interviewed EMC's Chad Sakac on this blog about the Vblock, the value proposition, and how it compares to other "stacks". Have my opinions changed? And what does the introduction of VSPEX mean for the market? Let's start by looking at stacks using a car analogy.
Imagine that you are a sports car enthusiast and you have three different choices for obtaining a vehicle. One option is to pick out the best individual components and build your shiny new custom sports car from the ground up. You get exactly what you want from whomever you want, but you have to incur the engineering burden of figuring out how best to get all those parts to work together — and if you change a part or two in the future you'll have to re-engineer it then as well. This build-your-own approach is the traditional way of doing things, but it requires good amounts of both engineering expertise and time.
Now there's one company out there who has selected best-of-breed components from multiple vendors — the best chassis, tires, engine, transmission, and more — all engineered to work together to form one fantastic sports car. This car can then be purchased and supported as a single product. Simply select the size and model you want and you've got one great sports car ready to burn some rubber.
But what if you had a favorite gearbox or set of tires that you wanted to use in order to change your ratios or to achieve some other specific goal? You're kinda stuck. Now depending on your goals that might not be such a bad thing, but some might want a more middle-of-the road solution that offers more flexibility.
Fortunately, there is a second company that has put together a reference architecture. In this model, the company has selected a finite list of best-of-breed solutions and has certified these solutions to work together to achieve the desired results. Like the first solution, the engineering burden is removed from you the customer, and you're getting a solution that was designed to work together. In addition you have a bit more freedom to pick best-of-breed components, but you are forgoing some of the benefits of the single product model such as procurement and support. In short, you gain more flexibility while taking a step back from the "pure product" concept.
The Vblock is of course the "product" solution in the example above. It's an excellent solution comprised of EMC Storage, VMware vSphere, Cisco server (UCS) and networking hardware, and Unified Infrastructure Manager for orchestration across these components. The FlexPod uses Cisco UCS and Nexus (as does the Vblock) but offers a choice of hypervisor and leverages NetApp storage solutions. FlexPod customers can also select from a variety of orchestration solutions ranging from Cloupia, CA Automation Suite, Cisco IA, and many more.
For a variety of reasons the FlexPod has been catching on as of late enjoying more than 400% growth in customer adoption in the past year. While the Vblock has experienced a measure of success, it has become clear that for reasons ranging from the technical to the political, there will be a market need for more "flexible" solutions –as opposed to the single product model — for some time. EMC reacted to this and the success of the FlexPod by launching their own reference architecture called VSPEX to fill this gap in their portfolio.
There are certainly some for which the product approach is a good fit, and others will opt for the relative flexibility of the reference architecture model. Now everyone with an agenda will try to give their own spin on why reference architecture X or storage solution Y is better so here's my opinion/spin: they are all great solutions — you need to find the right fit for your business and technical goals.
We can split hairs and compare EMC Storage to NetApp storage and I'm sure each will find what they believe to be relative advantages. As for VSPEX, yes it does seem to cover a broader array of hardware than the FlexPod, but I happen to be very comfortable with Cisco UCS blades just like the Vblock solution is. And with so many strong management solutions available (Cloupia, CA, BMC, Cisco IA, etc.) it becomes easier to tailor the solution to your needs either as a solutions provider or a IT organization.
In several ways I believe that EMC's decision to introduce the VSPEX is a validation of the success of the FlexPod solution which has been extremely well received in the channel. Some will of course espouse that the VSPEX is somehow superior because it includes more vendors and components, but I think that at a certain point the value of a solution can be diluted. The components of the FlexPod are certainly best-of -breed including Cisco UCS, VMware vSphere (or Hyper-V), NetApp storage and then customers can select the orchestration and management elements that best align with their needs and goals. In fact, I really don't need to state that I think that the FlexPod is a great solution — the clear market success combined with EMC's decision to attempt to emulate this with their own reference architecture (VSPEX) speaks for itself I think.
When we take our propeller-hats off and take a step back we see that the real value here to the customer isn't component X, Y or Z, but rather the sum of all of parts in being able to provide private cloud and IaaS solutions which provide captial, operational and strategic benefits to the organization (see "What is Cloud Computing?"). I couldn't be more excited to have the opportunity to work with NetApp and FlexPod solutions that have been proven to be remarkably successful and have delivered phenominal value to their customers.
Your business has a new initiative which requires a web farm of 10 servers, plus an additional 12 servers supporting databases and middleware. How long would it take to design, purchase, engineer and then provision the resources for this new initiative? Using the traditional "build-your-own" approach this could take months, significantly impacting the success and trajectory of your business initiatives. A well designed converged infrastructure such as a FlexPod solution can provide the technical foundation for vastly reducing your "mean time to provision" and improving your business and profitability as a result.
How is it possible that companies like Instagram and DropBox had only 13 and 89 employees respectively at last count? Who maintains the datacenter, the cooling, the cabling, the halon system, and everything else that goes along with a datacenter? The answer is that they leverage the cloud. In this same manner, mid-to-large companies can leverage IaaS using solutions like the FlexPod in a variety of cloud scenarios to achieve the same type of success. The FlexPod is an outstanding platform towards this end and I'm very excited about working with it, in a variety of cloud scenarios to help customers achieve these benefits. More to come.
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Interesting post. Ive just started looking at converged infrastructure for an upcoming project. Where do you see Oracles ExaLogic and HPs Cloudsystem fitting in, if at all?
Thanks for posting Edward.
HP's Cloudsystem strikes me as a reference architecture, along the lines of FlexPod and VSPEX, but of course it prefers to use HP storage, blades and networking where possible. If you want an HP flavored solution, it's seems like a viable reference architecture.
Oracle's Exalogic is a bit unique (and not necessarily in a good way in my opinion). It strikes me as being a bit inflexible and likely that you may end up buying more hardware than you really need. See http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/oracles-exalogic-box-cloud-washing-at-its-best/39343 and http://smarterquestions.org/2012/03/oracle-exalogic-%E2%80%93-the-emperor-has-no-clothes/ for more details.
@BlueShiftBlog Nice blog Kevin. Disclaimer I work for HP in CloudSystem team. HP CloudSystem is not just a reference architecture. It is a completely integrated cloud solution with its own product team, its own part numbers and is available as an out of the box, ready to go cloud direct from HP or through our partners. It is completely open in that we support mutliple hypervisors, multi-vendor servers, storage and networking. There are big advantages to using HP servers, storage and networking due to the level of investment we have made in making them work best together but we certainly don't insist or force customers to do so. For example 3Par storage is the only storage array platform built from the ground up for Cloud environments with embedded multi-tenancy. We have increased the levels of automation and reduced the amount of steps required in carving out storage so it happens faster with fewer people. Cloud computing by its very nature needs to be open and capable of interoperating across various public and private clouds running on multi-vendor platforms and that forms the basis of HP CloudSystem. We already support Cloud bursting (physical and virtual) to Savvis from HP CloudSystem and others will be added this year. I'd also like to point out that while virtualisation is a very important part of a cloud solution; virtualisation does not on it's own = cloud. It is an enabler of cloud but any cloud solution worth its salt also needs to cater for orchestration of both physical and virtual infrastructures; it needs to include a self service portal for both IT and end users, it needs to include always on capacity planning and automated DR. These are the basics and if it doesn't have these features it shouldn't be called a cloud. Finally one other unique thing from CloudSystem is the availability of Cloud Maps – which turn best in class reference architectures from HP and our partners, Microsoft, VMware, Oracle, SAP, F5 and many many more into templates which can be deployed on CloudSystem at the click of a mouse button. We have over a 100 cloud maps available already free of charge on hp.com. If you fancy seeing some real world demos of Cloud Maps or other @HPCloudSystem features check out http://www.hp.com/go/cloudsystemdemos
@jhenry_irl @HPCloudSystem Thanks for posting James!
Now that you mentioned it, I do recall discussion of HP's Cloud System as being more of a product than a reference architecture. I should have verified this before commenting, but you did a much better job than I could have of explaining HP Cloud System!
I've used HP servers and storage in the past and I'm sure its a compelling solution for many. Thanks for correction and info!
@jhenry_irl @HPCloudSystem VCE'er here. Nice article Kevin.
jhenry, here are my thoughts, and i do not want to start a post battle, i just want to put my opinion out there. The is the only reason I don't consider HP CloudSystem to be a true converged architecture is because even though it's a single order SKU, there is still going to be 300 boxes shipped to your loading dock and a team of HP Professional Services guys that have to put it all together. It's still a reference architecture IMO until it's built on standards. Even if you have two different customers ordering the same equipment, can you guarantee that the 10GB cable 2 meters long connects from port 13 of switch A to port 4 of FEX B on both of them? what about the upgrade process? How can i guarantee interoperability between all my components if I can stick any hypervisor or any type of switch in there? i could go on and on, but this article should answer most everything – http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/the-sanman-10014929/converged-infrastructure-vs-reference-architecture-10025940/
There is no single answer to everything. Every customer has their choice, and it's all about solving the business need at the end of the day.
@KendrickColeman That's simply not true Kendrick. Customers can have their CloudSystem delivered any way they want; up to and including pre-cabled in a rack with servers, storage and networking so it arrives in a single box if they so wish (by the way every HP solution is available this way – it's called HP Factory Express). If customers want to order CloudSystem without a LAN and SAN so they can hook it up to their existing core LAN and SAN then our pre-installation workshop (included with the CloudSystem) handles these eventualities of physical placement, cabling etc. The important point is customers do have a choice to order CloudSystem without a SAN and we will connect just fine to any industry standard SAN or iSCSI storage array. Same goes for the core LAN; we just flatten the network and reduce the number of hops required by handling most of the traffic inside the CloudSystem especially in a VM environment where most of the traffic is east to west (VM to VM or server to server) and not so much North South or server to client. This allows customers extend the life of their core LAN infarstructure and defer costly investment when it may not actually be required. Obviously I don't accept your argument on converged infrastructure; we have been selling converged infratsructure solutions starting with HP BladeSystem cClass back in 2006 and are the only vendor who has servers, storage, networking and management software in Gartners magic Quadrants. If I'm not mistaken I think we are the only vendor to allow vCenter admins manage their servers, storage and networking as well. As regards the article you cited – this was written by a VCE employee and I have lots of HP views should you want them. Let me know and I'll send on the links 😉
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Hardy Stone, a disabled veteran, began publishing VetLikeMe, a national news publication for service-disabled veteran-owned business owners back in 2009. When he and I met several months ago he had no website and was sending subscribers a link to his Google Drive where they could view or download a copy of the latest newsletter. Creating a newsletter was an arduous task and sending the emails out to over 7,000 subscribers took a lot of time.
He needed help if he was going to be able to continue publishing this popular newsletter, which he's passionate about so we decided to partner up. I publish GovCon Network, which has a lot of synergy with VetLikeMe as both audiences sell (or want to sell) to the federal government. We came up with an arrangement whereby I'd create a website for him and migrate his subscribers and newsletter over to a platform that worked for he and his subscribers. We just finished most of the heavy lifting and will be sending out the first newsletter early next week.
So I dusted off his unused domain name, loaded WordPress, added Genesis and one of my favorite themes from Studiopress that runs on Genesis and began outfitting the website and building a site ready for combat!
We embedded each newsletter from 2010, 2011, and 2012 into it's own page on his site. Visitors simply need to click on the page to be able to easily read the issue. Here's a link to the most recent issue as of this post: VetLikeMe Winter 2012 For recent issues visit: VLM News
I also outfitted he and the VetLikeMe publication and community with:
A Facebook page: VetLikeMe
A LinkedIn Group: VetLikeMe
RSS feed using Google's Feedburner: VetLikeMe
He had two Twitter accounts, one @hardystone and the other @vetlikeme, so we drew a line between them (no, not literally) to separate his personal tweets from his @VetLikeMe tweets.
We still have some beautifying to do with these, but they are all setup, functional, and linked to. The beginning of something really useful to the SDVOSB community Hardy is a part of and serves.
Here's his new logo and an icon we created for him and a screenshot of his site as of Jan 31. Would love to know what you think and please holler if you spot something not quite right! Thanks for checking in and checking this project out.


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The world is abundantly full of mind-blowing instruments, but one you'll always remember is a Sousaphone. It's related to the tuba and predominantly designed for marching bands, wrapping around the body of the player. It's instrumental hug.
What the world is not full of is people like Cosmo Sheldrake – a looper, composer and multi-instrumentalist. And yes, one of those instruments is a sousaphone.
Cosmo pieces together a world of influences from Mongolia to West Africa, blues to classical and folk to Balkan brass into an all consuming musical hug.
He's recently released two electronic loopy masterpieces, with a blend of beeps, textures and sounds that you may never have heard before. I love DJ Shadow and The Avalanches, but I think I might be falling for Cosmo more.
Rich is his lead single. Just so good:
Here's the video for Rich, live, from a farm:
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It's pretty much ALL TV on this week's Anne Levine Show! The Briefcase, Middle-Class America, The 2015 Tony awards, Bruce and Caitlyn Jenner, TRIPLE CROWN WINNER, President Obama, wearing your GoPro to the Wedding, Eyelash Farming and Tante Elaine is coming!
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same here
Thread: White page with ad problem
Hi, I'm at a loss for where to post this exactly but for the last two days whenever I sign in, a white page that has a small add in the far left upper corner that says HP Ultrabook pops up and stays there until I try to back out. Every time I try to navigate on this site, the same page pops up and covers wherever I'm trying to go. It follows me around everywhere, and makes it extremely difficult to move from place to place. Is anyone else having this problem?
Every time I slip into the ocean, it's like going home. ~ Sylvia Earle
same here
Me too! Even though at times I just do "open link in new window" TWICE and somehow the 2nd one works fine while the first one goes to that hp ad.


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Facts About Baypamun
and its effectiveness and availability
Many people have contacted me, asking me about a treatment for feline leukemia called Baypamun. My research into the availability of this drug has led me to the conclusion that Baypamun is not available in North America (and will not be for quite some time) due to FDA concerns. Because of the way Baypamun is manufactured, there is concern about the possibility of "Mad Cow Disease (MDC)" contanination. You see, Baypamun is cultured on Bovine kidney tissue, so, because of the recent scare regarding cows and MCD, the FDA won't allow it into the US. It is widely available, though, in countries like Germany- home of Bayer Corporation which manufactures it.
There are many "anecdotal" stories about the effectiveness of Baypamun as a treatment for FeLV+ cats. There is also a well-substantiated rumor that experimental studies of Baypamun are being done at the Bayer Co. in Kansas at this moment. Further information about all of this is sketchy at best, so I'll leave this subject with a link to a site that is devoted to Baypamun as a treatment for FeLV. You can find this site at: Corax.com If you have information (or corrections) that you'd like to contribute to this page, please send them to me at: email@example.com, and I'll add them as quickly as I possibly can.
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NYC Preview: Afro-Cuba Culture on the Upper West Side
April 29, 2016Starting this Sunday, May 1 and running through next Sunday, May 8, The Source Project explores the African presence in Cuban culture. Kicking off with a free street party this weekend, the program includes concerts, dancing, films, and a talk on Cuba's marine biology. Here's a quick round-up of the schedule, capped by a concert next weekend by the Pedrito Martinez Group with Issac Delgado.


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General, Boxing, Wrestling
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Year of the Tiger (Chinese New Year) is 2010! 2011 is the Year of the Rabbit.
A man met a beautiful lady and he decided he wanted to marry her right away.
She protested, "But we don't know anything about each other."
He replied, "That's all right; we'll learn about each other as we go along."
So she consented, and they were married and went on a honeymoon to a very nice resort.
One morning, they were lying by the pool when he got up off his towel, climbed up to the 10 meter board and did a two and a half tuck gainer, entering the water perfectly, almost without a ripple. This was followed by a three rotations in jackknife position before he again straightened out and cut the water like a knife. After a few more demonstrations, he came back and lay down on his towel.April fools jokes. Good humor any time of year. They're a long way off, but we're already thinking about the 2022 Winter Olympic Games!


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Radio: WJXL (1010 FM).
Notes: Stetson, which led the nation in assists per game earlier this season, is now at 16.2 per contest. … UNF's cold spell (three points in final 7½ minutes) against Northern Kentucky resulted in a 13-point loss Wednesday. … Beau Beech is the league's newcomer of the week after back-to-back games of 17 points. … Will Wilson had 17 assists in the Ospreys' two A-Sun games this week to rank second in the league. … Parker Smith has hit 54 of 125 (.432) 3-point attempts this season. … Smith and Travis Wallace rank fourth and fifth, respectively, in the conference in scoring.


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2010 continues to bring some good news and some "publicity". BBC Wildlife Magazine this month featured my Crocodile and Wildebeest image ( see a couple of posts down ). It was selected as Editors Photo of the month. Thanks to the BBC for sending me two very comprehensive Encyclopedias ( Birds and Mammals ) which should help me in future identification topics. Since the magazine was published, I have been contacted to authorise the use of the Crocodile images in many online publications both in the UK and overseas. The Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and The Sun all featured the story and images.
I have also been contacted by Will Nicholls, Britain's Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009 (BWPA), who is putting together a Wildlife World Website. He was looking for images of Cheetah cubs showing their mantles. Here is the image I have supplied in support of this new website. You can find Will Nicholls site and access to his new Wildlife site in the links section.


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Though the focus of the Houston Dynamo and Los Angeles Galaxy will be on winning the most important match of the season, there are a host of other storylines behind the scenes that will impact Saturday's MLS Cup.
As December rolls around, most teams are already prepping for 2013 -- making roster moves, scouting college and international players and discussing offseason signings and draft strategy. Every MLS team has already conducted individual player meetings, notifying them whether contract options will be picked up, renegotiated or simply waived.
That is, every team, except for the Galaxy and Dynamo. There are players on both rosters whose futures with each club are uncertain. Although I'm sure these players will be focused on the task at hand, it's also extremely unnerving to be forced to wait until the final hour to learn your fate. By Wednesday, all clubs must notify the league which players' contract options they plan on exercising and which players will be made available for the re-entry draft.
Depending on who those players are for Houston and L.A., and their influence in the locker room, it can serve as added motivation for a team to win for a departing teammate or deflate a team that begins to question management. Regardless, these final days of preparation serve as a reminder that things will never quite be the same as during this magnificent season.
Last week, David Beckham announced he would not be returning to MLS next season. For Galaxy players, I expect it to have much of the same effect as D.C. United and U.S. National Team veteran Earnie Stewart's announcement had on me the night before MLS Cup 2004. I couldn't help but be reminded of that moment, when one of the players I looked up to the most throughout my career stood up at dinner and announced that the next day's game would be his last as a professional.
He told us all to take a long look around the room at the faces that were surrounding us because it would be the last time this particular team would ever be together. As a 22-year-old who very much viewed my team as my extended family, what Stewart said suddenly hit home. This extended family dinner would never be replicated. This would be the last time I would play the game I loved with this group of players and staff. In Beckham's case, as a former teammate, I know he is as well respected in that locker room as any MLS player ever. Throughout the ups and downs, he carried himself with a level of professionalism, competitiveness and charisma that only he could pull off. There is no question Beckham's Galaxy teammates will be looking to give him a proper sendoff for all he contributed the last six years.
But Houston won't have a lack of motivation. Aside from aiming to avenge last year's MLS Cup loss to the Galaxy, it, too, has key players to rally around. It's unclear whether Dynamo stalwart Brian Ching, 34, will be back next season. He's certainly in the latter stages of his career -- his role changing drastically from go-to scorer to late-game substitute -- after being the face of the franchise since its debut season in 2006. Houston will look to get Ching another ring just in case this is his last opportunity. Brad Davis and Ricardo Clark will both be itching to make an impact after being sidelined in previous MLS Cups. Davis sat out last year's 1-0 loss to the Galaxy with a torn quad. Clark has never played in an MLS Cup despite the Dynamo's success. He was injured in 2006 and suspended in 2007.
The onus is also on coaches Bruce Arena and Dom Kinnear to keep their players from distractions. During both my MLS Cups (2004 with D.C. United and 2009 with the Galaxy), there was always a bit of unexpected news that would raise eyebrows and invoke tension. Everything from the inevitable chatter of teammates hearing from their agent they might be waived, traded or simply not be back the following season, to ticket and flight demands from family members, in-laws and even ex-girlfriends who seem to come out of the woodwork.
But these clubs have been here before. If any coaches have mastered what it takes to get their teams prepared to play in a MLS Cup final, it is Arena and Kinnear. With all the side plots, I expect this to be an MLS Cup for the ages.


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Lisa Overholser is staff folklorist at the New York Folklore Society, where she manages the NYSCA Mentoring and Professional Development for the Traditional Arts – A Partnership with the New York Folklore Society and contributes to many other projects and initiatives. She holds a PhD in folklore and ethnomusicology from the University of Indiana.
The traditional graveposts and gates that he crafts allow him to express his identity as a Hungarian and engage with cultural history.
This column appeared in Voices Vol. 36, Fall-Winter 2010. Voices is the membership magazine of the New York Folklore Society. To become a subscriber, join the New York Folklore Society today.
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Author: Jean Morrison
Make your life healthier with all sorts of cheap and easy recipes
Hello, I'm Jean Morrison. My motto is to do everything in a heathy but budget conscious way.
Say "goodbye" to fast food and overly processed food
You will find all sorts of ideas on my web site that will enable you and your family to live better and spend less. My passion is to help others rid themselves of fast food and many of the processed supermarket foods that are full of sugar, saturated fats and trans fatty acids. We all know those foods are likely to make us put on weight and they increase our cholesterol levels but how many people are aware that these "rubbish foods" are attacking our brain cells too? Indeed we are what we eat! So many products these days are made from questionable ingredients.
Make your home as chemical-free as possible
We already know the effects that some chemicals have on both our bodies and the environment but there are so many others out there that are silently working away creating yet to be discovered havoc.
For example, if you have lived in a home that was (or still is) routinely treated with pesticides indoors or in the yard, then you may have been exposed to nerve toxins and you and your family could be at greater risk of developing Parkinson's disease.
In order to protect the health of our families we need to question both the value of our diet and the chemicals we use in our immediate environment. On this website you will find ideas to help you live in a healthy way. The information here is purely a starting platform. Please start researching and learning and, in return, you must then teach others to be more aware.
Make your own natural cleaners, beauty products and health remedies
When we become aware of the dangers we are exposing ourselves to we soon find healthy ways to deal with issues. In most cases those newly learned, healthy habits cost us far less money than we were spending with our old lifestyle. Who wouldn't want to live better for less!
First - my inspiration: My Mum grew up in England in the war years so she knew what it was like to make-do and mend. In 1963 my Dad died. He was only 43 years of age when he died. Only a couple of weeks before his death he'd had an electric shock at work whilst welding. We never knew if that precipitated his death. Anyway, Mum had to deal not only with his death but somehow find an income for herself and us kids. There was no Widow's Pension in England back in the 1960's. Luckily we had a large house so Mum took in boarders and we survived on the money she earned from housing and feeding them. Her accommodation was regarded as excellent and was always sought after.
Later on, Mum married a second time and shortly after that we migrated from England to Australia. My step father turned out to be a bit of a drunkard who wouldn't and couldn't hold down a job so, yet again, poor Mum had to struggle on a pittance. Mum was so resourceful. At that time we lived just north of Cairns. Late on Saturday mornings, just before the shops closed, Mum would race into the AL&S supermarket and buy up on the fresh goodies the supermarket wanted to dispose of before the shop was closed for the weekend. She would get them for a bargain price, hurry home with them and then spend Saturday afternoon walking around the neighbourhood selling the food for a few cents profit.
Mum was a dab hand at growing vegetables. Food scraps would be buried in trenches and later on down the track Mum would plant beans, peas and silver beet in those trenches. Poor as we were, we never went hungry. Mum raised us four kids on masses of love. The poor Darling didn't have much else to raise us on.
Make thrifty, healthy habits a way of life
Mum's healthy and thrifty habits became a way of life for us all. Consequently, we are forever grateful for that. Our kids are now young adults and Mum's thriftiness and green fingers are now appearing as traits in our own children. A wonderful legacy is now passing on to a new generation.
Mum died on 23rd August 2008. She had severe dementia. This web site is dedicated to my lovely Mum.
On a cheerier note, here is a lovely e-mail I received recently:
"Jean, Just a quick note to say a massive Thank You! Your recipes are so tasty, healthy and easy to follow. Being a young guy, I fell into the trap of convenience food. Since finding your website, I now spend a lot of time in the kitchen whipping up a nice healthy meal. (With plenty of leftovers for lunch!) From French Onion Soup to Lamb Rissoles with Eggplant, I can't fault any of your recipes. Your website is also a fitting tribute to your late Mum, who sounds like a very kind hearted generous lady. A very sincere Thank You".................. Cal Phillips, Jindabyne, NSW.


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Earth Day: Making a Big Impact
Posted on April 22nd, 2016
On Earth Day, you are probably going to be overwhelmed with advice on how to save the planet. You'll hear things like:
- Plant a tree
- Recycle your plastic, cardboard, and aluminum
- Use reusable grocery bags
- Take shorter showers
These are fine suggestions. They help to limit our negative impact, and perhaps more importantly, they help us train ourselves to be mindful of our choices.
Now, some more adventurous sources will have suggestions like:
- Downsize your home
- Carpool
- Reduce the amount of your lawn that is grass
- Buy less, and buy used when you need to buy
These tactics are even better. They make a larger reduction in our impact, and are the types of changes that cause us to reorient our lives in enduring ways.
But what if you are really committed to harm reduction? What if you want to make a difference that could be orders of magnitude larger? Do you think it's possible?
Let me suggest that there are four areas that make an incredibly large and lasting impact on the earth.
- eating meat
- driving and flying
- waging war
- having children
I imagine some of you are already shocked and recoiling at at least one of the things in that list. "This is necessary!" Bear with me.
Meat consumption is a huge drain on the earth's resources, diversity, and health. Whether it be the clearing of forests, the runoff from farming, the allotment of a huge portion of our crops to animals that go to slaughter, the quantity of fresh water that is used, or one of many other factors, farming animals has many large and negative impacts on the earth.
We all know that driving and flying are problems. We know about how they affect the atmosphere, about the environmental costs of extraction and transportation of the fuel and parts, and of the massive infrastructure that is dedicated and maintained for these personal modes of transportation.
Wars, too, are incredibly damaging, and not just from the conventional sense. The war apparatus (especially from the perspective of the USA) requires a huge portion of material resources, of transportation resources (see above), and is sustained by bases in hundreds of locations all around the world. This is, of course, compounded by the fact that these vast resources are not used to build, but to destroy. Much of them are literally wasted.
And finally, let's talk about children. This is the most painful topic to consider, but also the most evident: another human being is a whole new life's impact on the world. At least, that is, until we learn sustainable ways to live. Let's turn to that next.
None of these are easy areas to consider. If they were, we'd hear much more about them. But let's see if there are ways we might be able to orient our lives differently in these areas. Here are some things we can consider:
- go vegetarian or vegan
- drastically reduce meat consumption
- only eat meat that is hunted or caught on private land
Driving & Flying
- go carless: walk, bike, & skate
- live close to work, work close to home, or telecommute
- only use one car per family
- videoconference instead of flying for business
- use shared transportation only
- advocate for policies that defend the nation, instead of policies that expand the attacking of other nations
- support troops in the best way possible: return them home
- refuse to support politicians that continue to expand war budgets
- have fewer children
- adopt
- inspire and support children as they strive to build a sustainable future
Can you do any of these? Do you have other impactful ideas?


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Hackers With Ties to China Led Hundreds of Attacks Symantec Says
A professional team of hackers called Hidden Lynx has used network infrastructure in China to target hundreds of organizations worldwide since November 2011, computer security company Symantec Corp (SYMC) said in a report.
The group mostly targeted the financial services sector and is "breaking into some of the best-protected organizations in the world," Symantec said in its Sept. 17 report.
The exposure adds further details about hacking groups with alleged ties to China, a country U.S. officials have said is behind cyber attacks to acquire technology. China has said it is a major target of hacking and has called for international regulations to address the issue.
"Much of the attack infrastructure and tools used during these campaigns originate from network infrastructure in China," the report said.
The report found Chinese software was used during the construction of Trojans. It didn't mention any links with the Chinese government.
In one campaign it found a popular Chinese application was used to install a Trojan, which infected victims' computers in China, the U.S. and Hong Kong, Symantec said.
The group's methods suggest that it may be a private organization of "hackers for hire" obtaining information "that could be used to gain competitive advantages at both a corporate and nation-state level," the report said.
The group pioneered a technique in which Trojans were distributed via websites visited by targets, the report said. One such website was one that featured the history of New York.
Financial organizations, including investment banks and asset management companies, made up 24.6 percent of the group's targets since November 2011, followed by education and government organizations, it said.
"Targeting this sector in such a concentrated fashion could provide invaluable information when negotiating large takeovers or trading shares on the stock exchange," Symantec said.
The report detailed a July 2012 attack on the Waltham, Massachusetts-based security company Bit9 Inc. by Hidden Lynx, which used Trojans that made their way into the defense industrial sector, it said.
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For the last seven years, our family has hopped around twelve times. Twelve. We were moving every six months or so, and when your life is that transitional, you don't exactly let yourself root in anywhere and make meaningful connections with people. I was getting by on friendly smiles and small talk, essentially, for years. That is, until this last move, This time, we knew we'd be staying put for two years. For the first time since college, I allowed myself to get to know people – to be vulnerable. I invested myself into new relationships, and let me tell you, it's been good for the soul. It has felt real. Raw, even.
One of these new, deep-rooted friendships had been on my mind a lot. She was going through some difficult circumstances, and even amongst her own pressures, she was making time for me, and for my children. She's a good egg, this one.
Sometimes there's just no better way to express your gratitude for a person than to put pen to paper and tell them in a note. And even then, sometimes words come up short. When this happens, you make a simple basket to hold said note, as a gesture of thoughtfulness and hope that they understand what you're trying to say.
I recently shared with you how to make your own rope using fabric remnants, and today I will be showing you how to use that rope to make a basket (or a coaster/hot pad/rug, whatever).
1. Start by coiling the end of the rope until there is about a 2″ diameter, and pin through all the layers of the coil. Sew a large X across the coil, to hold it in place. This will just make the beginning of the process a bit easier to sew in the next step.
2. Set your sewing machine to a zigzag stitch. With the tail of your coil coming down from the right (pictured above) begin sewing the coil together.
If you are using handmade rope, it might have a bit of stretch to it. In order to keep the basket flat, you will want to twist the rope tighter, if possible, as you sew. This won't be applicable with store-bought rope.
3. When the base of the basket is the size you'd like, tilt the entire base onto its side and continue sewing in the same way. This will form a lip and begin the sides of the basket.
4. When the basket is as tall as you'd like it, tuck the rope tail into the basket and sew back and forth over the end a few times. Cut off the excess rope.
Steps 1 & 2 can be used to make coasters, hot, pads, or even a rug. If you run out of rope, you can always twist more onto the end as you go.
Who doesn't love a great basket? And they make for lovely gift baskets, too!


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assumptions for fossil fuel phase out
More than 80% of the current energy supply is based on fossil fuels. Oil dominates the entire transport sector; oil and gas make up the heating sector and coal is the most-used fuel for power. Each sector has different renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies combinations which depend on the locally available resources, infrastructure and to some extent, lifestyle. The renewable energy technology pathways used in this scenario are based on currently available "off-the-shelf" technologies, market situations and market projections developed from renewable industry associations such as the Global Wind Energy Council, the European Photovoltaic Industry Association and the European Renewable Energy Council, the DLR and Greenpeace International.
In line with this modelling, the Energy [R]evolution aims to map out a clear pathway to phase-out oil and gas in the long term. This pathway has been identified on the basis of a detailed analysis of the global conventional oil resources, current infrastructure of those industries, the estimated production capacities of existing oil wells in the light of projected production decline rates and the investment plans known by end 2011. Those remaining fossil fuel resources between 2012 and 2050 form the oil pathway so no new deep sea and Arctic oil exploration, no oil shale and tar sand mining are required for two reasons:
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Author Notes: Recently my son and I were lucky enough to spend 10 days in Paris, and everywhere we went we sampled the Croque Mesdames available at different cafes. This is my combination of all the things I like best - a pretty classic version of a French favourite comfort food! I like to serve it for an easy dinner with a glass of red wine and a simple green salad. —From The Kitchen
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Béchamel Sauce
- 1 tablespoon butter, softened
- 2 tablespoons plain flour
- 1 1/4 cups milk
- 1/2 cup grated parmesan (or tasty cheese)
- 1 teaspoon dijon mustard
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- salt and pepper to taste
- 8 slices white bread
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 8 slices ham
- 1 cup grated cheese (I use gruyere)
- 4 eggs
- 1 tablespoon butter
- You can make the Béchamel Sauce either on the stove top, or in the microwave. The method is very similar. On the stove top, heat the butter in a saucepan over a gentle heat until just melted. Stir in the flour with a wooden spoon. Add the milk in three lots, stirring continuously, until well incorporated. Keep stirring while cooking over the heat until the sauce is thickened and smooth. If it misbehaves, just whisk it with a wire whisk until smooth - it should finish thick and silky. Add the parmesan and stir to combine. Yum. Leave to cool. (Left over Béchamel Sauce can be kept in the fridge for a couple of days). Preheat oven to 200?C (400?F) and get out an oven tray.
- Butter one side of each piece of bread. Lay 4 pieces butter-side down on baking tray. Spread each piece with 2 tablespoons of Béchamel Sauce and 2 pieces of ham. Top with remaining bread, butter side up, and spread with 1 more tablespoon of Béchamel Sauce each. Sprinkle with gruyere cheese and pop in the oven until golden and bubbling, about 15 minutes. While the toasts are cooking, heat remaining butter in a frypan and fry eggs over medium heat until cooked through, but still with a runny yolk. Remove toasts from oven and top one with a fried egg. Serve as-is for breakfast, or accompanied with a dash of dijon mustard and a small green salad and a glass of red wine for lunch or dinner. Serves 4 for breakfast - or two for dinner.
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WASHINGTON (AP) Federal immigration agents were prepared to arrest an illegal immigrant and registered sex offender days before the November elections but were ordered by Washington to hold off after officials warned of "significant interest" from Congress and news organizations because the suspect was a volunteer intern for Sen. Robert Menendez, according to internal agency documents provided to Congress.
The Homeland Security Department said last month, when The Associated Press first disclosed the delayed arrest of Luis Abrahan Sanchez Zavaleta, that AP's report was "categorically false."
Sanchez, 18, was an immigrant from Peru who entered the country on a now-expired visitor visa. He eventually was arrested at his home in New Jersey on Dec. 6. He has since been released from an immigration jail and is facing deportation. Sanchez has declined to speak to the AP.
After the AP story, which cited an unnamed U.S. official involved in the case, Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa and six other Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee asked the Obama administration for details about the incident.
According to those documents, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Newark had arranged to arrest Sanchez at the local prosecutor's office on Oct. 25. That was fewer than two weeks before the election.
Noting that Sanchez was a volunteer in Menendez's Senate office, ICE officials in New Jersey advised that the arrest "had the possibility of garnering significant congressional and media interest" and were "advised to postpone the arrest" until officials in Washington gave approval. The documents describe a conference call between officials Washington and New Jersey to "determine a way forward, given the potential sensitivities surrounding the case."
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A illegal alien who is a pedophile. That's pretty much get out of free card for life.
I guess Menendez is party neutered but it is good of the AP to identify the political parties of those that asked for an investigation.
That's much more important than the voters knowing what kind of people are on the staff of the person they are voting for.
Since an arrest warrant is a command by the court to bring before it, without undo delay, a person named it would seem to me anyone who interfered with that command would be in violation of a court order or had obstructed a court activity. They should be so indicted if a violation of a criminal law or if not they should be arrested for contempt. Either or but the result should be the same: Jail time.
I think this is the best readers comment of the day at link...how does one commit a crime, register as a sex offender and still not get deported? Things that make you hummmmmmmmmmmmmm??
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Grand Central Oyster Bar & Restaurant (seen here) — named for the original in Manhattan — will feature 12 New York wines by the bottle and the glass for a month beginning Feb. 15.
Jim Trezise, head of the New York Wine & Grape Foundation, reports:
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Chicago White Sox rookie first baseman Jose Abreu was announced the winner of the Rookie of the Year Award for 2014. Abreu coming off one of the most impressive hitting starts in years. Abreu was reportedly the winner of the award by unanimous decision according to ESPN, FOXSports and BleacherReport. The news was first broken by the Fox sports MLB twitter account tweeting: 'It's unanimous! The 2014 @officia ...Read more ›


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Murphy is a venture capitalist multimillionaire from Missouri who has lived in New York for more than a decade. He replaces Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand, who succeeded Hillary Rodham Clinton in the U.S. Senate after Clinton was chosen to be Obama's secretary of state.
Surrounded by friends and family, Murphy discussed his victory as he stood outdoors in the business district of Glens Falls, 45 miles north of Albany, during rush hour Friday evening. He grinned as cars honked as they drove through a nearby roundabout and people yelled "We love you, Scott."
Murphy said he expects to be sworn in next week, and that he's looking forward to getting to Washington where "the work's piled up." He said he received calls of congratulations from Obama and Gillibrand, both of whom had endorsed him.
Obama's $787 billion stimulus plan was an issue on the campaign trail. Tedisco attacked Murphy for supporting the plan, while Murphy criticized Tedisco for refusing to take a stance on the stimulus for most of the campaign, a misstep that ultimately hurt the veteran assemblyman.
In a statement, Tedisco congratulated Murphy and said he'd work with him in his role as a state assemblyman.
"It became clear that the numbers were not going our way and that the time had come to step aside and ensure that the next Congressman be seated as quickly as possible," he said. "In the interest of the citizens of the 20th Congressional District and our nation, I wish Scott the very best."
Murphy said he was grateful for Tedisco's offer for help in the district. He declined to talk about the frequently negative overtones of the campaign, including political ads.
The diverse district stretches from the rural Adirondack Mountains, south of the Canadian border, to the mid-Hudson Valley, north of New York City. It has more than 196,000 registered Republicans compared with about 125,000 Democrats.
Nationwide, Republicans have taken a pounding in the past two election cycles and in New York, the pain has been acute. They lost three congressional seats in 2006 and three more last year, leaving just three Republicans in the 29-seat state delegation. They also lost the state Senate for the first time in four decades last November, and every statewide elected office is held by a Democrat.
Early on, Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele declared the 20th a top priority for 2009. For Republicans, victory would have given them a claim in the heavily Democratic Northeast.
Still, National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Pete Sessions described the race as a symbolic victory for Republicans.
"We should not ignore some of the encouraging signs that came out of this race," Sessions said in a statement. "Just a few short months ago, President Obama carried this district and Kirsten Gillibrand won by an overwhelming margin against a well-funded challenger. For the first time in a long time, a Republican congressional candidate went toe-to-toe with a Democrat in a hard-fought battle over independent voters."
Democrats didn't waste any time celebrating and congratulating Murphy.
Murphy "courageously championed the economic plans we need to lift our nation and put it on a better path, and he will continue to do so in Congress," Obama said in a statement.
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