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Thanksgiving dinner is one of the most loved meals of the year – and that can put a lot of pressure on the cook! Everyone knows what to look for on Thanksgiving, and everyone has a favorite, but sometimes it's good to change it up a bit – nothing too crazy, but a new take on an old classic can be a welcome treat.
One great idea is to have one or two new additions to the menu each year. That way, favorite traditional fare will stay in place, but a few new options will be on the table. Here are a few suggestions…
Side Dishes –
Side dishes are a great place to mix it up and try something new. Although mashed potatoes are somewhat sacred on Thanksgiving, Butternut Squash Risotto is a great option too, plus it's very festive and seasonal for the occasion.
Many households have some take on a sweet potato recipe – usually a sweet dish topped with pecans, brown sugar and marshmallows, but why not turn them into a savory side dish and feature Sweet Potatoes with Lime and Ginger.
Turkey Talk –
Now, you might not want to mess around with the main course too much, but these suggestions are pretty tame, and, if you're cooking for a very large number of people, you you might be cooking two bird anyway so try one traditional recipe and one that's a little different.
If you haven't tried a deep-fried turkey yet, maybe this is the year – try this yummy Cajun Deep-Fried Turkey recipe. If frying the turkey is just not your thing try this delicious recipe for a Honey Brined Smoked Turkey – it's sure the please!
Sweets –
It can be fun coming up with interesting recipes while sticking with seasonal ingredients for dessert. Try this Apple Crostata with Cheddar Crust, or how about Pumpkin Fudge? Of course, you can't go wrong with a perfect Pumpkin Pie Recipe – and it's always a good idea to have one on hand.
Have fun with these Thanksgiving Recipes and don't forget that sending a quick Thanksgiving Ecard is a great way to connect during the holiday season – let your friends and loved ones know you're thinking about them today!


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Currency wars again took another leap forward this week as Japan's Economic Minister Wants Nikkei to Surge 17% to 13,000 by March.
Economic and fiscal policy minister Akira Amari said Saturday the government will step up economic recovery efforts so that the benchmark Nikkei index jumps an additional 17 percent to 13,000 points by the end of March.
"It will be important to show our mettle and see the Nikkei reach the 13,000 mark by the end of the fiscal year (March 31)," Amari said in a speech.
"We want to continue taking (new) steps to help stock prices rise" further, Amari stressed, referring to the core policies of the Liberal Democratic Party administration — the promotion of bold monetary easing, fiscal spending and greater private sector investment.
The key index started rallying from around 8,600 points in mid-November when then-Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda decided to hold a general election Dec. 16 that saw his ruling Democratic Party of Japan trounced by the LDP. Share prices have risen largely in response to the yen's depreciation against other major currencies on expectations for aggressive monetary easing measures by the Bank of Japan since the LDP's return to power.
Contender for Bank of Japan Supports Additional Easing
In addition to stock market cheerleading and targets from Japan's economy minister, Yen Weakens as Candidate for Bank of Japan Promotes Easing.
Japanese stock futures rose and the yen weakened after Haruhiko Kuroda, a potential contender for Bank of Japan chief, said additional monetary easing can be justified this year.
"If we do see a BOJ Governor of Kuroda's calibre, the dollar-yen could well punch through 95 and would head to 100 very quickly," said Evan Lucas, Melbourne-based market strategist at IG Markets Ltd., a provider of trading services. "It would also signal to Japanese consumers and investors alike that the government is finally taking action."
For the record, I have been in on a long Japanese equities, short the Yen play for quite some time.
Yet, I do not pretend to know whether or not the Nikkei will soar another 17% by March. However, I do know that it is economically foolish for politicians to hijack currencies and stock markets. Thus, my positioning is certainly not an endorsement of Japanese policy.
At some point, and perhaps we have crossed the point already, currency wars can and will get out of control. If and when that happens, the Yen will spiral downward out of control, with energy prices (in Yen) skyrocketing. Moreover, Japanese exports may not necessarily rise as everyone believes.
Sentiment is a powerful thing. Convincing everyone in Japan that a huge outburst of inflation is on the way, is not the brightest thing to do, to say the least. As I have stated many times, Japan better be careful or it may get (and then some in spades) more of what it seeks.
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Here you go!.
At last we have a brand new trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug! While it certainly looks exciting, and a proper image of the world we came to love in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings films, it's resemblence to the original book seems rather stretched.
At last, here are some details (and a new clip!) for the extended edition of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey! In short, there's 13 minutes of new footage, as well as an additional 9(!) hours of behind-the-scenes and making-of footage.
Peter Jackson's decided to live blog his final day of Hobbit shooting today on his Facebook page!
Here's some seriously bad news for anyone attending Comic-con in San Diego this year...
Peter Jackson has just posted the newest (and first) production video diary for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. I love seeing these videos and the scale involved--even the pickup shoot is such a large endeavour.
Here's (nearly) a shot-by-shot look at the new trailer! Give it a look and let us know what you think!
Here's the first trailer for the second film in all it's HD glory!
The Hobbit Blog has announced that the teaser trailer for The Desolation of Smaug will debut tomorrow morning at 10am PDT, 1pm EDT!
Here's a high-quality image of the just-released poster for The Desolation of Smaug...
Entertainment Weekly posted an exclusive new article about Tauriel, Peter Jackson's new female Elf Tauriel in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
A new book based on JRR Tolkien's notes and unfinished manuscripts has just been published, The Fall of Arthur.
If you watched the 6 minute video Peter Jackson released today, you may have caught a big of an "Easter Egg" while he's pulling out some artwork showing off Mirkwood.
Peter Jackson has posted on his facebook page a 6 minute excerpt from the live event for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug that took place back on March 24th.
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Dems wonder: Is opposing Trump enough to win primaries?
Democrat Elizabeth Pannill Fletcher says Donald Trump has a "basic disrespect" for his fellow man. She calls his Twitter-based diplomacy "irresponsible with all of our lives." And she states flatly that he isn't qualified to be president.
But when it comes to Democratic Party policy positions, this House candidate — and one of the top fundraisers of 2017 — is far more circumspect. Single-payer health care? Not yet practical, she says. Impeachment? Due process comes first. Progressive? No, this lawyer from battleground Houston rejects the label.
"I'm not really good at labels," Pannill Fletcher said during an interview inside her campaign headquarters. "This district has historically been Republican, but I think it's a centrist district, and I think that is what we're seeing in the rejection of Donald Trump."
One of the most significant questions facing Democratic candidates in House races this year is whether running against Donald Trump — something nearly every House Democratic candidate will promise to do — will be enough to secure victory. Can congressional hopefuls win over primary voters on criticism of Trump alone, as the party's moderates suggest, or are the increasingly influential progressives right when they say Democratic voters demand something more?
The answer will shape general election matchups against Republicans in the fall and could complicate what many Democrats expect will be a wave election year.
"Opposition to Trump, that's table stakes," said Mark Longabaugh, a senior adviser to Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign. "From there, in many of these primaries and especially in Democratic-leaning seats especially, you're going to have to have a bolder progressive agenda to put on the table, or it's not just going to be enough. You're going to get outflanked."
Pannill Fletcher is one of seven candidates running in a crowded Democratic primary for this Houston-area seat, held by vulnerable Republican Rep. John Culberson. Democrats, who have received a surge in new candidates since Trump took office, face a multitude of similar multi-candidate brawls in House races this year, in key districts ranging from upstate New York to Orange County, Calif.
Democratic strategists fret that in such crowded primaries, the competition for votes will drive candidates further and further to the left as they try to stand out from the pack. Those concerns are most acute on issues such as single-payer health care and impeachment, issues where public support is relatively soft, but also extend to liberal priorities such as free college tuition and so-called "sanctuary cities" for undocumented immigrants.
With so many contenders, even a relatively small share of the vote could deliver a victory — or at least push the candidate into a two-person runoff. (In Texas, the top two candidates in a primary advance to a run-off if neither receives more than 50 percent of the total vote.)
At least one of Pannill Fletcher's rivals has already begun staking out more liberal ground.
"What do they mean by moderate?" asked Laura Moser, a former journalist turned liberal activist after Trump's election. "Do they mean they don't want to kick 13 million people off their health care, they just want to kick 6 million people off?"
Moser, who founded a national activist group that urged members through a text-message service to take action against the Trump administration every day, said she'd support legislation to convert the nation's health care into a single-payer system, though she doubted such legislation has a realistic chance of passage. More broadly, she took issue with Democratic candidates who hesitate to embrace a progressive identity and agenda, arguing that they're necessary to oppose Trump and congressional Republicans.
Democrats need to be about more than opposing Trump, Moser said.
"Being not evil is not enough," she said. "We have to fight for the good."
Texas' primaries are on March 6, the earliest in the country. Pannill Fletcher has raised the second largest sum among Democrats through September, trailing only Alex Triantaphyllis. Both candidates are considered favorites to advance to a May run-off.
In an interview, Triantaphyllis also expressed some reservations with parts of the liberal agenda, including single-payer health care.
"Well before I even thought about running for office at all, I described myself as a practical progressive," Triantaphyllis said. "Strong and proud in my progressive values, but at the same time, using evidence and applying data to my decisions."
For all the talk of a rising liberal movement within the Democratic Party, even some progressive strategists expressed reservations that their brand of candidate will have widespread success this year. Many House races are relatively low profile, lacking in local media coverage and with smaller pool of money available for TV ads and other media.
Those who win often do so because they raised the most money.
"The ideological divide, if it was purely about that, I clearly think the candidates with the boldest progressive agendas would be the ones emerging from these primaries," Longabaugh said. "But … some of these progressives are not going to put the money together."
Through September, Triantaphyllis raised $668,000 while Pannill Fletcher had rasied $550,000. Moser had $400,000.
Not every House primary might be primed for an ideologically liberal candidate, either. During his 2016 presidential primary fight against Hillary Clinton, liberal presidential candidate Bernie Sanders won only 25 percent of the vote in Harris County — which includes the 7th District.
Pannill Fletcher is also far from a conservative Democrat: She argued climate-change is a pressing concern for the city, resolutely opposes the GOP's tax bill, and touts the benefits of immigration. She's also a longtime supporter of abortion-rights, saying that one her formative political experiences was standing outside a Houston Planned Parenthood clinic during the 1992 Republican National Convention to protect it from protestors. (Pannill Fletcher has been endorsed by EMILY's List, which supports Democratic women who favor abortion rights.)
"This district especially is looking for alternatives to the Trump administration and the tea party, and I think they want people who are going to stand up and fight for our values," she said. "That's what the Democratic electorate right now cares about the most."
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Audit triggered when officials accused of falsifying data
School districts across Ohio were investigated by the state auditor to determine whether they'd scrubbed their attendance numbers to boost their ratings.
"We do not always get the truth about what's going on, (and) we need better accountability," said State Auditor David Yost.
The audits were triggered after principals in three school districts, including Lockland Schools, were accused of changing attendance records to boost their state report card numbers.
The Lockland district board put its superintendent, Donna Hubbard, on paid leave while it investigated allegations that 36 students who were often absent during the 2010-2011 school year were coded as having withdrawn from their schools.
The superintendent of Cincinnati Public Schools said officials in large districts could face difficulties keeping track of students who move frequently.
"Our district has 12,000 withdrawals out of 33,000 students, (and) last year some of our students moved eight or 10 times, and it's this mobility that has the state auditor looking at five of our 55 schools," said CPS Superintendent Mary Ronan.
But the auditor said he wanted to ensure that proper counting procedures were followed.
"Nothing been found with CPS, (and) we are still working with the auditor to retrieve some of the records they want," Ronan said.


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I2P dev meeting, November 18, 2003 @ 21:02 UTC
Quick recap
- Present:
dm, duck, godmode0, jrand0m, mihi, Ophite1, soros, TC, tusko, yodel,
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[22:02] <jrand0m> agenda:
[22:02] <jrand0m> 0) welcome
[22:02] <jrand0m> 1) i2p dev status
[22:02] <jrand0m> - 0.2.1.1 is out (peer and tunnel updating and testing, tuning enhancements, tunnel throttling, a DoS defense)
[22:02] <jrand0m> - don't use bw limiting (still some debugging)
[22:02] <jrand0m> - keep your clocks generally correct (30 minute fudge factor) [used for lease expirations and garlics]
[22:02] <jrand0m> 2) kademlia, 0.3, and idn
[22:02] <jrand0m> 3) roadmap revise (0.2.3 --> 0.4, 0.2.2 --> 0.3.1)?
[22:02] <jrand0m> 4) app status [ppp2p, i2ptunnel, im, ns, squid]
[22:02] <duck> 5) why does jrand0m drink cheap local beer?
[22:02] <jrand0m> 5) comments / questions / etc
[22:02] <jrand0m> heh
[22:02] <jrand0m> so yeah, basically that fits under 5 :)
[22:02] <mihi_> double 5 ;)
[22:03] <mihi_> oops...
[22:03] <jrand0m> 0) welcome
[22:03] * mihi_ did not look 2 the left column
[22:03] <jrand0m> hi. 65th meeting I suppose.
[22:03] <jrand0m> hehe
[22:03] <jrand0m> 1) that code stuff
[22:04] <jrand0m> 0.2.1.1 came out last night
[22:04] <jrand0m> lots of goodness in there.
[22:04] * mihi tests it atm.
[22:04] <jrand0m> tunnels are tested and fail fast, penalizing all participants so they won't likely get into the rebuild
[22:05] <jrand0m> messages in i2ptunnel are also throttled to max 64k size (larger messages caused badness)
[22:05] <jrand0m> there are some bugs being worked out with the bw limiting code, so make sure your bw limits in router.config are negative values
[22:06] <jrand0m> (i2p doesn't have enough traffic on it to cause real load atm anyway)
[22:06] <jrand0m> (but bw limiting will be unit tested and fixed for 0.2.1.2)
[22:07] <jrand0m> also, please try to keep your clocks close to correct. it sucks that we have to need that, but right now we do.
[22:07] <jrand0m> we may be able to work out a way to not require semi-sync'ed clocks, but its delicate.
[22:07] <jrand0m> 2) fun stuff
[22:08] <jrand0m> a lot of the bugs being worked out in the last few releases are related to the crappy kludge of a BroadcastNetworkDB.
[22:08] <jrand0m> since its planned for replacement in 0.3, might as well at least mention what its being replaced with
[22:09] <jrand0m> kademlia is a structured distributed hash table (DHT) that lets us insert and fetch in under O(log(N)) time, guaranteed
[22:09] <jrand0m> [with one small caveat thats still being worked out]
[22:10] <jrand0m> that kademlia code needs to get written for 0.3 so we can do insert and fetch of RouterInfo and LeaseSet structures.
[22:10] <jrand0m> however, things would be simpler if it were implemented seperately - and hence testable seperately.
[22:10] <jrand0m> (unit testing == good)
[22:11] <jrand0m> so, whats a simple way to unit test a dht? to write a simple file store/lookup service on it.
[22:11] <dm> insert fetch? are we talking about content?
[22:11] <jrand0m> enter idn: (Link: http://wiki.invisiblenet.net/iip-wiki?I2PIDN)http://wiki.invisiblenet.net/iip-wiki?I2PIDN
[22:11] <Ophite1> dm: No, only routerinfo and leaseset structures.
[22:12] <jrand0m> dm> i2p's networkDatabase currently contains only two specialized structures, as ophite said
[22:12] <dm> okay, thanks.
[22:12] <Ophite1> may or may not be useful to use it for bootstrapping other protocols too, but it's not anonymous itself. (?)
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[22:12] <tusko> one question: which protocol is used now for networkDatabase?
[22:13] <jrand0m> sorry, phone.
[22:13] *** Signoff: godmode0 (Ping timeout)
[22:13] <jrand0m> correct, kademlia is not anonymous, but not non-anonymous either
[22:13] <Ophite1> modified kademlia will scale. random will not.
[22:13] <jrand0m> tusko> currently we do a flooded broadcast
[22:13] <duck> what about kademlia getting splitted?
[22:13] <dm> no cell phones allowed into meeting.
[22:13] <duck> <insert zooko comments>
[22:13] <Ophite1> flooded broadcast aka gnutella method definitely won't ;)
[22:13] <jrand0m> Ophite1> right, kademlia doesn't use random ones :)
[22:13] <duck> Ophite1: works better as freenet routing :)
[22:14] <jrand0m> duck> exactly (<jrand0m> [with one small caveat thats still being worked out] )
[22:14] <Ophite1> duck: i rest my case... ;)
[22:14] *** Signoff: mihi (Ping timeout)
[22:14] <tusko> is kademlia some sort of hypercube?
[22:14] <Ophite1> no, a circle.
[22:14] *** Signoff: mihi_ (Ping timeout)
[22:14] <jrand0m> and/or a xor tree :)
[22:15] <Ophite1> splits/joins... reshuffle tree? can we take a peek at emule's overnetalike for this? :)
[22:15] <jrand0m> its a fairly easy protocol, but we can definnitely look around.
[22:16] <jrand0m> icepick has implemented kademlia in python too, for ent (as kashmir)
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[22:16] <Ophite1> consider also malicious nodes deliberately fragmenting the tree.
[22:16] <jrand0m> absolutely. but its fairly attack resistant
[22:16] <Ophite1> 256 bit keyspace is more resistant to that though.
[22:17] <Ophite1> plus would have to make a lot of routeridentity structures = hard.
[22:17] <tusko> i found interesting the papers of gravepine: (Link: http://grapevine.sourceforge.net/)http://grapevine.sourceforge.net/
[22:17] <jrand0m> this is also why I want to implement it first as an application, rather than rip out the core of i2p - so we can work out all the messy details first
[22:17] <Ophite1> so I'm pleased with sec 3 of 0.9 draft.
[22:17] *** Signoff: nickthief54450 (Excess Flood)
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[22:18] <tusko> look to (Link: http://grapevine.sourceforge.net/tech-overview.php)http://grapevine.sourceforge.net/tech-overview.php
[22:18] <Ophite1> though I might point out that if message 0, DatabasePing, is inplemented, you might want to include a hashcash in it.
[22:18] <jrand0m> interesting tusko, I think their economic model might require some revision, as with their sybyl defenses
[22:19] <Ophite1> (you may already; haven't ready that part)
[22:19] <jrand0m> absolutely Ophite1. I was actually thinking about putting hashcash certs into all of the messages (DatabaseLookup included)
[22:20] <Ophite1> good idea. though, be careful of performance and tuning vs. dos defense there, and you might want to run hashcash calc in a separate, lower-priority thread?
[22:21] <jrand0m> well, hashcash verification should be near instantaneous
[22:21] <jrand0m> and hashcash generation shouldn't be able to be precompiled
[22:21] <jrand0m> er, precomputed
[22:21] <dm> Ophite1 must be an avatar created by jrand0m so that he can finally talk about I2P with someone who understands wtf he's saying.
[22:22] <jrand0m> lol
[22:22] * dm is not fooled.
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[22:22] <Ophite1> one way of preventing that is to use derivatives of session keys as part of the hashcash..
[22:22] <jrand0m> right. and/or put in a nonce and the date
[22:22] <Ophite1> date leads to those troublesome timing problems though. that could be a real issue.
[22:22] <Ophite1> unless you feel like rewriting ntp as well ;-)
[22:22] *** Signoff: mihi (Ping timeout)
[22:23] <jrand0m> heh
[22:23] <jrand0m> well, we've already run into that a little bit
[22:23] <jrand0m> (hence the 30 minute fudge factor)
[22:23] <jrand0m> a session hash may be workable though. good idea.
[22:24] <Ophite1> and no, i'm not jrand0m's clone ;)
[22:24] <jrand0m> ok, so for idn, I'm probably only going to implement the stuff on that I2PIDN wiki page
[22:25] *** Signoff: dm (Ping timeout)
[22:25] <jrand0m> what would probably rule would be if someone would take that and run with it - make a real user interface, better get/store apps, fec/ecc/etc.
[22:25] <jrand0m> also, I had some ideas about a search network built in parallel as well
[22:26] <jrand0m> but, well, its probably more useful to i2p that I focus my time on the router
[22:26] <Ophite1> it runs on top of i2p?
[22:26] <jrand0m> (making it functional, scalable, and secure)
[22:26] <jrand0m> yes
[22:26] <jrand0m> i2p lets idn be anonymous
[22:27] <Ophite1> what were your search network ideas?
[22:27] <jrand0m> note: its not written yet, but its looking like its #2 on my task list
[22:27] <Ophite1> can another dht be built through tunnels?
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[22:27] <jrand0m> basically a distributed replicated db, with hashcash inserts and syncs, where people store idn keys along side metadata / etc
[22:27] *** dm (~email@example.com) has joined channel #iip-dev
[22:28] <jrand0m> hmm, yes, certainly. but i2p isn't inherently tunnel based - its message based (i2p is IP, i2ptunnel is TCP)
[22:28] <Ophite1> if ~all node participate = very useful for "discovering" other protocols.
[22:28] <jrand0m> definitely
[22:28] <Ophite1> so, should be standard.
[22:28] <Ophite1> dhcp/zeroconf for the i2p? :)
[22:28] <jrand0m> idn would be a very good app to bundle with i2p to let people have an 'out of box experience'
[22:29] <Ophite1> If it's meant to be a fully featured communication/file transfer/storage application, I'd like to propose the name "Darknet".
[22:29] <jrand0m> :)
[22:29] <Ophite1> You, of course, probably already know where that comes from. :)
[22:30] <dm> Where does it come from?
[22:30] <Ophite1> MS Research's paper: The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution.
[22:30] *** Signoff: godmode0 (Ping timeout)
[22:30] <TC> link?
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[22:30] <jrand0m> well, tim may says he invented the term ~11 years ago ;)
[22:30] <tusko> where is the I2PIDN wiki page?
[22:30] <dm> (Link: http://crypto.stanford.edu/DRM2002/darknet5.doc)http://crypto.stanford.edu/DRM2002/darknet5.doc
[22:30] <jrand0m> tusko> (Link: http://wiki.invisiblenet.net/iip-wiki?I2PIDN)http://wiki.invisiblenet.net/iip-wiki?I2PIDN
[22:30] <Ophite1> also implies that the network works "in the dark" - noone knows who anyone is ;)
[22:30] <jrand0m> exactly.
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[22:31] <jrand0m> well, i2p itself is a darknet in that sense, but its generic messaging - it is the IP layer for such a darknet.
[22:31] <jrand0m> i2ptunnel is the TCP layer, and idn is NFS :)
[22:31] <Ophite1> i2p is the protocol that allows such a network to be created from something broadly like overnet.
[22:31] <Ophite1> speaking of which... is there a way to specify priority in messages?
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[22:32] <jrand0m> funny that you mention that :)
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[22:32] <mihi> oops...
[22:32] <jrand0m> I was just reading some of the upcoming HotNets2 papers ((Link: http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/HotNets-II/program.html)http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/HotNets-II/program.html) and got inspired for some QoS over i2p mechanisms
[22:33] <Ophite1> would a bulk/low-latency bit compromise anonymity slightly (intersection attack?) by allowing traffic linkage? well, even if it were sometimes flips?
[22:33] <Ophite1> ah, well that might work better of course =)
[22:33] <Ophite1> Don't worry about local plausible denability.
[22:33] <jrand0m> right, i2p assumes the local machine is trusted
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[22:33] <Ophite1> That is a problem to be solved by Rubberhose/Marutukku and Thermite, not I2P.
[22:34] <jrand0m> exactly. (otherwise, the software is compromised and it doesn't matter what we do)
[22:34] * TC hopes his local machine is trusted
[22:34] <jrand0m> heh
[22:34] <Ophite1> TC: easy way to find out; make death threats against bush and see if SS agents turn up at your door ;-)
[22:34] <jrand0m> lol
[22:34] <TC> done and done
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[22:34] <jrand0m> hah!
[22:35] * jrand0m watches my squid proxy get taken down by the fbi
[22:35] <TC> its a trap!
[22:35] <jrand0m> get an axe!
[22:35] <jrand0m> :)
[22:35] <TC> anybody play uplink?
[22:35] <Ophite1> completed it. cracked it. released it.
[22:35] <Ophite1> trained it too ;)
[22:36] * jrand0m takes that as a "yes"
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[22:37] <Ophite1> there may be some dos possibilities in caching, in memory stuff...
[22:37] <jrand0m> ok, so thats what I'm thinking with idn/kademlia. get idn implemented and working over the 0.2. code, smash it in a bit, then implement 0.3 with that kademlia implementation
[22:37] <jrand0m> oh certainly. the todo list has 'sync pending and large messages to disk' :)
[22:37] <dm> shouldn't IDN be implemented after I2P is tested and mature?
[22:38] <jrand0m> thats one of the problems we ran into testing a large file of TC's eepsite
[22:38] <Ophite1> dm: not given as it's a testbed for the fancy db.
[22:38] <jrand0m> dm> I was thinking that too, but I need to implement the kademlia code to get 0.3 ready. basically the kademlia code IS 0.3
[22:38] <Ophite1> I do like the hybrid dht nature such a network would provide though.
[22:39] <dm> aha...
[22:39] <jrand0m> but if no one wants to toss a normal UI onto it until i2p 1.0, that might be a good idea as well
[22:39] <Ophite1> dht node discovery + ngr-like routing = scalability capable of handling critical mass
[22:39] <dm> what happened to that original milestone list. secure-->anonymous-->not harvestable, etc...
[22:39] <Ophite1> jrand0m: I will refrain from advertising it to pirates until it's ready. that enough?
[22:39] <jrand0m> well, minus the ngr-like routing :) we tunnel :)
[22:39] <TC> as long as we keep the cli
[22:39] <dm> ah scalable was one of the items in that chain.
[22:39] <jrand0m> dm> 0.3 is necessary for scalable. which is before not harvestable
[22:39] <jrand0m> thanks Ophite1 :)
[22:40] <jrand0m> definitely TC. I'll need the cli to test it
[22:40] <Ophite1> scalability of the actual anonymous stuff is directly related to choices made in the routing for the tunnels, and that's a router implementation thing?
[22:40] <jrand0m> (and, c'mon, we'll probably do software distribution / releases with idn)
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[22:40] <dm> alrighty... sounds okay then.
[22:40] <jrand0m> absolutely ophite.
[22:40] <Ophite1> suggestion: maximum message size?
[22:40] <jrand0m> thats the Hard problem
[22:41] <jrand0m> max message size is currently insanely large (4g) but I'm thinking of trimming it to 64k or 128k
[22:41] <jrand0m> but I don't want to resort to that yet
[22:41] * Ophite1 goes digging in notes
[22:41] <Ophite1> BitTorrent/Scone scalability notes indicate 512K.
[22:42] <jrand0m> heh ok cool. (any refs I can dig into?)
[22:42] <Ophite1> but, think of it like tcp window size.
[22:42] <jrand0m> right
[22:42] <Ophite1> not for scone, sorry - friend's research project.
[22:42] <jrand0m> coo', no worry
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[22:42] <Ophite1> fwiw, your kademlia is about as good as his though :)
[22:42] <jrand0m> hehe
[22:42] <jrand0m> (well, I haven't implemented it yet ;)
[22:42] <Ophite1> uh, hers I mean :/
[22:42] <jrand0m> oh wikked
[22:43] <dm> boner..
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[22:43] <jrand0m> heh
[22:43] <jrand0m> so, thats 2) kademlia, 0.3, and idn
[22:43] <Ophite1> she named her toys after puddings. custard, crumble (Waste-like), strudel.. her bittorrent-a-like was the fastest pudding in the world - 'scone ;)
[22:43] <jrand0m> haha
[22:45] <Ophite1> she's a math.
[22:45] <jrand0m> even better
[22:45] <jrand0m> there's a lot of stats gathering / analysis that will be coming up for advanced peer selection
[22:45] <Ophite1> but I'll see if I can bounce stuff past her. scalability from i2np 0.9 was from her - she likes it.
[22:45] <jrand0m> (unfortunately we can't cheat like mnet, mixminion, and tor)
[22:46] <jrand0m> great to hear
[22:46] <Ophite1> one comment - dsa?
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[22:46] <Ophite1> dsa 1024 bit, as in SHA-1?
[22:46] <jrand0m> yea
[22:47] <Ophite1> 'spose it is tried and tested.
[22:47] <Ophite1> also small.
[22:47] <jrand0m> right. but I'm not 100% tied to our particular crypto impls
[22:47] <Ophite1> anyway. to roadmap.
[22:47] <TC> haha, lets name a windows version 'Microsoft Darknet (r)'
[22:47] <jrand0m> heh tc
[22:48] <jrand0m> ok, 3) roadmap revise (0.2.3 --> 0.4, 0.2.2 --> 0.3.1)?
[22:48] <jrand0m> because of all the bugs I've been running into wrt the broadcast db, I want to escalate the 0.3 (kademlia db) release
[22:48] <TC> its nice not being limmited by trademarks like a normal open source project
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[22:49] <jrand0m> 0.2.3 is restricted routes / trusted peers, and probably not a hard feature requirement that anyone here has. it can be shuffled out to 0.4 without problem, I think
[22:50] <jrand0m> 0.2.2 is tunnel mods, but I think a lot of the pressure to get that implemented will be eased with the 0.2.1.1 release (which tests and rebuilds tunnels as necessary, rather than waiting 10 minutes)
[22:50] <Ophite1> trusted peers is an area that needs some revision imho.
[22:50] <jrand0m> agreed.
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[22:50] <Ophite1> only area that doesn't give me warm fuzzies.
[22:50] <Ophite1> though that may just be the word "trusted". :)
[22:50] <jrand0m> basically my current thoughts are to publish tunnels to routers
[22:50] <jrand0m> heh
[22:51] <jrand0m> (if we publish tunnels to routers, we can get away with untrusted gateways, which drops the 'trusted' from trusted peers)
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[22:51] <Ophite1> need to analyse anonymity implications of that.
[22:51] <jrand0m> but trusted peers is inherently necessary in a militant grade anon system, where /all/ nodes you can contact are considered attackers.
[22:52] <Ophite1> don't think that is truly possible...
[22:52] <jrand0m> certainly. yet another reason it should get 0.4
[22:52] <jrand0m> Ophite1> trusted nodes with timed / triggered self destruct.
[22:52] <jrand0m> set up a patsy, route through it, kill it
[22:52] <jrand0m> exactly, if patsies delete their logs after N hours / N bytes / N messages
[22:52] <Ophite1> I mean if you want me to release a worm that sets up a couple of million...
[22:53] <Ophite1> logs? what logs?
[22:53] <jrand0m> :)
[22:53] <jrand0m> ok, format the disks ;)
[22:53] * Ophite1 wrote kernel-level stealth trojan
[22:53] <jrand0m> nice
[22:53] * dm wrote kernel level outlook calendar plugin.
[22:53] <Ophite1> ...when I was 19 :)
[22:53] <Ophite1> still works. :)
[22:54] <Ophite1> not going to include it in this though, don't worry, or, uh, check my code, which would probably be a Good Thing To Do anyway ;)
[22:54] <dm> when I was 12.
[22:54] <jrand0m> I don't think i2p will want /that/ large distribution until after 1.0 is stable and heavily peer reviewed
[22:54] <jrand0m> heh Ophite1
[22:54] <jrand0m> heh dm
[22:54] <Ophite1> frankly, think that is a fluff feature.
[22:54] <jrand0m> perhaps.
[22:55] <jrand0m> restricted routes is a necessity though
[22:55] <jrand0m> its basic functionality for people behind firewalls
[22:55] <jrand0m> (very restrictive firewalls)
[22:55] <Ophite1> hello, transports.
[22:55] <Ophite1> we'll get to that.
[22:55] <Ophite1> or is now the appropriate time to discuss them?
[22:55] <jrand0m> sure, lets dig in :)
[22:56] <jrand0m> we've already run into a problem with an unreachable peer that could be solved with restricted routes
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[22:56] <jrand0m> even though it was due to misconfiguration, it could be more common
[22:57] <Ophite1> Also: given two cooperating peers behind inbound-filtering firewalls that drop bad packets, and one cooperating peer which is not behind a firewall and can send packets with forged IP source addresses to both of the other peers...
[22:57] <Ophite1> You can establish a TCP connection between the two firewalled peers that both firewalls think is outbound.
[22:57] <jrand0m> definitely
[22:57] <dm> forged IP addresses?!?
[22:58] <Ophite1> believe me, firewalls are a VERY common problem.
[22:58] <Ophite1> sometimes they are user-controlled but the user is a doofus. that can be handled with the installer handling the firewall :)
[22:58] <dm> I2P is gonna use IP spoofing? :)
[22:58] <jrand0m> definitely. if i2p can't operate behind firewalls / NATs / proxies, there's no reason to continue.
[22:59] <Ophite1> sometimes they are actively hostile, corporate or educational gateways seeking to deliberately mess up everything. It's got to traverse those, and traverse them cleanly.
[22:59] <jrand0m> dm> transport options
[22:59] <jrand0m> absolutely Ophite1
[22:59] <Ophite1> dm: I have a working implementation - in the Direct Connect protocol.
[22:59] <jrand0m> i2p wants to be the battleground for that code.
[22:59] <Ophite1> dm: If *that* can handle it, i2p can.
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[23:00] <Ophite1> I suggest leaving it turned off by default though. Only a very few want it turned on, and it would be nice if they can advertise which they are so requests can be routed to them.
[23:00] <dm> you can't spoof IPs without native code can you?
[23:00] <Ophite1> the advantage is that they don't have to route *through*, just help the setup.
[23:00] <Ophite1> = massive speed boost.
[23:01] <jrand0m> definitely Ophite1, thats what the RouterInfo.routerAddress[] structure is for
[23:01] <Ophite1> dm: yeah, like this isn't going to be rewritten?
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[23:01] <dm> okay, just checking...
[23:01] <jrand0m> right dm, I have no qualms whatsoever with including native code in i2p
[23:01] <Ophite1> I would like to state that I don't think java is a permanent solution.
[23:01] <Ophite1> And that I regard java router as testbed/prototype.
[23:01] <jrand0m> thats fine. if it gets us to 1.0, works out the protocol, etc, good enough.
[23:02] <Ophite1> ...and hope it doesn't get stuck there as freenet has ;)
[23:02] <dm> IPAddress.Spoof(192.168.32.1);
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[23:02] <jrand0m> lol dm
[23:02] <dm> import IPSpoofing;
[23:02] <Ophite1> mmm... raw sockets in java ;)
[23:02] <jrand0m> fcntl / ioctl in java... mmMMmm
[23:02] <mihi> hmm, raw sockets require root on unix, don't they?
[23:02] <dm> women with large breasts lickig my penis.. mmMMmmm
[23:02] <jrand0m> so we include a rootkit
[23:03] <jrand0m> ;)
[23:03] <Ophite1> jrand0m: got it covered =)
[23:03] <jrand0m> heh
[23:03] <Ophite1> besides as I said; only a few need it.
[23:03] <jrand0m> right
[23:04] <jrand0m> and only for legitimate reasons, of course.
[23:04] <Ophite1> on my dc hub, only one (bot) had the capability, and the hub told it when passives wanted to connect to passives.
[23:04] <Ophite1> caused a bit of amazement that did.
[23:04] <jrand0m> hehe
[23:04] <Ophite1> also got the bot's host shut down, hence my suggestion to perhaps turn it off by default :)
[23:04] <jrand0m> thats definitely a good feature to have avail
[23:04] <jrand0m> lol
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[23:05] <jrand0m> ok, so with restricted routes pushed to 0.4, we have a month or so to continue the debate as to whether the functionality is necessary
[23:06] <jrand0m> any other thoughts / things that should be in the roadmap that aren't, things that are in the wrong place, etc?
[23:06] <Ophite1> I say push it to 0.4 definitely. It will cause firewall issues at the moment but we are still in testing...
[23:06] <Ophite1> ...someone that can't open a firewall port probably shouldn't be trying it yet.
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[23:06] <jrand0m> right. and even with firewalls, PHTTP lets them through.
[23:07] <Ophite1> though need to test phttp against hostile proxies.
[23:07] * jrand0m is behind a firewall I don't control and I participate fully in i2p
[23:07] <dm> hax0r
[23:07] <jrand0m> well, yes, hostile proxies can fake confirm, but its all signed, so the message can't go to the wrong place / etc
[23:08] <jrand0m> but the phttp relay and transport does have a lot of features needed
[23:08] <Ophite1> in particular, to examine the future possibilities application level routers might have at detecting/fucking up the protocol.
[23:08] <jrand0m> hm?
[23:08] <Ophite1> have some experience with firewall tunnelling though.
[23:08] <Ophite1> might want to include a GET fallback.
[23:09] <jrand0m> hmm. GET goes into logs. but perhaps as a fallback
[23:09] <jrand0m> (POST can be to /index.html)
[23:09] <Ophite1> jrand0m: but it's all signed/encrypted if noderefs are cool...?
[23:10] <Ophite1> unless the proxy becomes an active attacker too, that's going to be quite hard for it.
[23:10] <jrand0m> all messages are encrypted to the destination router, and the designation as to what phttp relay to go through is signed in the routerInfo
[23:10] <jrand0m> right. phttp proxy as is certainly isn't strong enough to go against an active attacker
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[23:12] <jrand0m> I think it'd be great if people posted some alternate transport ideas to the wiki :)
[23:12] <jrand0m> ok, 4) app status [ppp2p, i2ptunnel, im, ns, squid]
[23:12] <jrand0m> damn, tusko left
[23:12] <jrand0m> tusko wrote a python script (ppp2p) to let people run ppp over i2p via i2ptunnel
[23:13] <Ophite1> Told you someone would do that :)
[23:13] <dm> ppp over i2p?
[23:13] <jrand0m> I haven't looked at it, but last I heard he was running a vpn over i2p with 5s ping times
[23:13] <jrand0m> heh yeah
[23:13] <Ophite1> dm: of course.
[23:13] <dm> when could you use that?
[23:13] <dm> could/would
[23:13] <jrand0m> dm> anonymous outproxy
[23:13] <Ophite1> dm: anonymous ANYTHING.
[23:13] <jrand0m> to, say, run a kazaa node anonymously, or whatever
[23:13] * Ophite1 points out that anyone running an outbound i2p->ppp link is insane and will probably be blacklisted/hunted down
[23:13] <dm> ah, I understand.
[23:13] <jrand0m> definitely Ophite1
[23:14] <jrand0m> so right now, its only for trusted peers.
[23:14] <Ophite1> see also: the dresden JAP cascade... :)
[23:14] <jrand0m> which, well, doesnt really make sense for anonymity...
[23:14] <jrand0m> heh
[23:14] <Ophite1> also most of the stuff going out of their node will be unencrypted...
[23:14] * jrand0m thinks about ike over ppp over i2p
[23:15] * jrand0m watches my head explode
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[23:15] <Ophite1> jrand0m: why not i2p over ppp over i2p?
[23:15] <jrand0m> definitely doable. aint recursion fun?
[23:15] <soros> i2p over i2p :-o
[23:15] <jrand0m> or i2p over ppp over i2p over i2p over freenet over kazaa
[23:15] <Ophite1> now that's just silly. Freenet wouldn't possibly work ;)
[23:16] <godmode0> over slow connect :)
[23:16] <jrand0m> heh it'd have latency issues, certainly :)
[23:16] <mihi> ... over an icmp tunnel over ...
[23:16] <Ophite1> ooh yes, loki :)
[23:16] <Ophite1> 0ldsk00l :)
[23:17] <Ophite1> I2P addresses, being the public keys, are ... rather long.
[23:17] <jrand0m> yes.
[23:17] <jrand0m> actually, since we're on agenda item 4: ns
[23:17] <Ophite1> As in an I2P www url being actually too long to paste into any sane place (>512 chars?!!)
[23:17] <mihi> co promised to write a naming service...
[23:17] <jrand0m> yeah.
[23:17] <jrand0m> I think with idn implemented, it would be very easy for someone to adapt the kademlia code into a distributed dns
[23:17] <mihi> Ophite1: post them to the eepsite forum.
[23:18] <Ophite1> trouble with namespace as I can figure it out is that there has to be either some degree of central control OR you have to allow collisions.
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[23:18] <jrand0m> (just toss on a CA or WoT CAs, and voila. (Link: www.mihi.i2p)www.mihi.i2p)
[23:18] <jrand0m> not necessarily.
[23:18] <Ophite1> please enlighten me with your better ideas then.
[23:18] <jrand0m> Ophite1> check out co/wiht's specs on the iip-dev list.
[23:19] <Ophite1> best I could come up with is root key creates signed namespaces. dnssec stylee.
[23:19] <jrand0m> he doesn't go the full route with a dht, but he manages groups
[23:19] <jrand0m> just like how we do now - we /all/ can choose who our root dns servers are.
[23:19] <jrand0m> in the same vein, we /all/ should be able to choose who our CA (or CA WoT) is
[23:20] <jrand0m> so I guess technically there /could/ be collisions, but only once there are multiple CA groups that don't interact
[23:20] * Ophite1 notes that is unlikely
[23:20] <jrand0m> agreed
[23:20] <Ophite1> you either trust the root CA or you don't.
[23:20] <jrand0m> and if you don't trust the root, you create your own
[23:21] <jrand0m> (or find another)
[23:21] <Ophite1> and if you don't trust the root CA it's for a reason, a reason that will rapidly get around.
[23:21] <jrand0m> exactly
[23:21] <jrand0m> especially when there's anonymous publishing :)
[23:21] <Ophite1> being as CA's only real purpose is to insure anti-collision - like Trent...
[23:21] <jrand0m> right
[23:22] <Ophite1> about the only thing that would cause lack of trust in CA is (1) key leakage or (2) refusal to register something that isn't already registered.
[23:22] * jrand0m notes verisign's "trustworthiness"
[23:23] * Ophite1 notes that Verisign purports to verify the identity of the certificate holder - one of the properties that an I2P namespace is in fact guaranteed NOT to do
[23:23] <jrand0m> self signed certs+++
[23:24] <Ophite1> also I'd point out that distributed systems - like Darknet, as I will call it from here on in until it sticks :) - built on top of i2p probably wouldn't use the namespace.
[23:24] <Ophite1> It's for servers, really.
[23:24] <jrand0m> heh
[23:24] <jrand0m> right
[23:24] <Ophite1> Servers don't scale. That problem will be in i2p as much as in IP.
[23:24] <Ophite1> so, I think that the usage in practice will actually be surprisingly limited.
[23:24] <jrand0m> the idn ("darknet") would keep references to destinations - the full 387 bits of their keys, not some pretty name
[23:24] <jrand0m> agreed.
[23:25] <jrand0m> except / until someone writes a distributed outproxy system
[23:25] <jrand0m> aka o-r / freedom over i2p
[23:25] <TC> how many diffrent keys can we have?
[23:25] * jrand0m looks forward to that day
[23:25] <jrand0m> tc> 2^2048
[23:25] <Ophite1> jrand0m: at which point the root key signs them a namespace: .proxy.i2p
[23:26] <dm> This must be the most hypothetical/megalomaniac open source development meeting ever :)
[23:26] <jrand0m> aint subspaces grand :)
[23:26] <jrand0m> lol dm
[23:26] <jrand0m> hey, we're alowed to aim high, aint we?
[23:26] <dm> I'm sure most devl meetings are like: "So, do we put 3 bits for the mpeg-5 header or 4?"
[23:26] <Ophite1> jrand0m: oddly as it may seem, not every number works for elgamal ;-)
[23:26] <TC> dm, youve seen debian meetings right?
[23:26] <jrand0m> awww c'mon, 000000000000000000000000000 is a secure key
[23:26] * Ophite1 hands out Chocolate Digestives
[23:26] <dm> TC: no, what are the like?
[23:26] <Ophite1> jrand0m: ooh, identity.
[23:26] <TC> dm, i dont know, i was asking
[23:27] <jrand0m> ok. thecrypto isn't here either... anyone have im thoughts?
[23:27] <Ophite1> damn, I was about to ask about that.
[23:27] <Ophite1> quite an important app.
[23:27] <dm> Anyway, this type of meeting is more lurker-friendly, so I'm all for it.
[23:27] * dm is entertained.
[23:27] <jrand0m> heh
[23:27] <TC> where is co?
[23:27] <Ophite1> as many people will expect i2p to be iip's successor.
[23:28] <jrand0m> iip over i2p is fairly easy, if we don't want dcc
[23:28] <Ophite1> (I guess it could be, if we just run an iip irc server over i2p...)
[23:28] <jrand0m> iip over i2p with dcc requires a new app
[23:28] <jrand0m> exactly Ophite1
[23:28] <jrand0m> 0 coding
[23:28] <TC> cant we just run irc over i2p?
[23:28] <Ophite1> I don't like that idea 'cause ... well, it doesn't give us anything we don't already have :)
[23:28] <jrand0m> but last I heard, thecrypto was doing some work on an IM app
[23:28] <jrand0m> certainly tc
[23:29] <jrand0m> right Ophite1, and it doesn't scale
[23:29] <jrand0m> (all the traffic gets funneled to the ircd)
[23:29] <Ophite1> Also the IRCd can spy on traffic.
[23:29] <TC> ah, goodpoint
[23:29] <jrand0m> (this would be when UserX should show up and discuss his ideas for iip2.0)
[23:29] <jrand0m> right Ophite1
[23:29] <jrand0m> all the problems of the current iip
[23:29] <Ophite1> jrand0m: And absolutely nothing different.
[23:29] <jrand0m> more lag.
[23:30] <Ophite1> except it's in java. lovely. :)
[23:30] <jrand0m> heh
[23:30] <Ophite1> Now, shitloads of people have cut their undergraduate teeth trying and failing to build distributed chat applications.
[23:30] <jrand0m> ok, so someone should either help thecrypto out or push him along some more :)
[23:30] * Ophite1 points out IRC3
[23:30] <jrand0m> yeah, its a perfect school project
[23:30] <Ophite1> ..and SILC...
[23:30] <Ophite1> ...and...
[23:31] <Ophite1> well about a gazillion others.
[23:31] <jrand0m> 'zactly
[23:31] <Ophite1> Literally all of these, I might add, are pre-DHT as far as I can tell.
[23:31] <jrand0m> yup
[23:31] <Ophite1> That's disappointing 'cause that's a freakishly useful structure.
[23:31] <jrand0m> a DHT for lookup / P3P, and then direct con for IM
[23:31] <jrand0m> group chat is harder though, but not too hard
[23:31] <Ophite1> well, direct in the i2p sense :)
[23:31] <jrand0m> heh right
[23:32] <Ophite1> what about darkmail/i2pmail?
[23:32] <soros> group sex too
[23:32] <dm> soros: agreed.
[23:32] <jrand0m> group sex isn't that hard soros ;)
[23:32] <jrand0m> lol
[23:32] <jrand0m> email over i2p is easy. someone just needs to run a pop server
[23:32] <jrand0m> or webmail
[23:32] <jrand0m> hahah
[23:33] <Ophite1> jrand0m: sure, as long as literally everyone is okay with bloody pgp :)
[23:33] * Ophite1 gets CKT nightmares again
[23:33] <jrand0m> oh, true. that'd expose the contents to hte server ;)
[23:33] <Ophite1> Also... spam.
[23:33] <jrand0m> yup
[23:33] <Ophite1> We have this thing called hashcash.
[23:33] <Ophite1> They sort of fit together, no?
[23:34] <jrand0m> ok, so yeah, someone should get working on an i2p specific email app :)
[23:34] <Ophite1> obviously that would work best as part of the im.
[23:34] <Ophite1> What, after all, is the distinction between irc and email?
[23:34] <jrand0m> true, like an IM VMB
[23:34] <Ophite1> Whether or not you can page up and see what you missed after you rejoin...
[23:34] <jrand0m> placed into the dht
[23:34] <jrand0m> good point
[23:35] * jrand0m wishes we had a team of a dozen coders
[23:35] <Ophite1> note, however, that mail requires storage, as it is offline communication. irc requires no storage, as it is online communication.
[23:35] <dm> also email has a lot more penis enlargement adverts.
[23:35] <Ophite1> jrand0m: ask around for funding.
[23:35] <Ophite1> dm: see above re: hashcash.
[23:35] <jrand0m> right, the P3P could contain pending messages
[23:36] <Ophite1> dm: A primitive that was not available to the bloke who hacked up email in a night.
[23:36] <Ophite1> (At least we won't have to use ! paths to specify the tunnel manually. heh. heh. heh.)
[23:36] * dm is gonna miss clear-text dead simple protocols.
[23:36] <jrand0m> jrandom%ophite!dm!mihi
[23:37] <Ophite1> no, this is i2p. Insert ~520 garbage characters between the bangs then you're closer ;)
[23:37] <jrand0m> haha
[23:37] <Ophite1> several of these things *are* sort of related.
[23:37] <jrand0m> true, 387 bytes base64 encoded...
[23:38] <Ophite1> or to put it another way, ELONGURL :)
[23:38] <jrand0m> heh
[23:38] <Ophite1> [does IE chop at 512?]
[23:38] <jrand0m> naw, works fine
[23:38] <Ophite1> you admit to using IE?
[23:38] <Ophite1> To browse anonymously?!
[23:38] <jrand0m> ;)
[23:38] * Ophite1 pulls out six of Liu De Yiu's best and waits =)
[23:38] * jrand0m uses ie for eppsites, moz for squiding
[23:39] <duck> what item are we now?
[23:39] <duck> 4?
[23:39] <jrand0m> yeah, ok ok
[23:39] <Ophite1> still 4 I think.
[23:39] <jrand0m> i2ptunnel. still kicks ass.
[23:39] <jrand0m> any thoughts? any comments mihi?
[23:40] <jrand0m> one thing I want to note wrt the squid outproxy is that I've updated the header filtering to ALLOW COOKIES and replace the user agent with something silly
[23:40] * mihi just waits for naming service...
[23:40] <jrand0m> mihi (or someone else)> it'd be really easy to bootstrap such a naming service with an /etc/hosts style i2p ns
[23:41] <mihi> btw: are there any other public dests except your squid and tc's eepsite?
[23:41] <jrand0m> i2pcvs.dest
[23:41] <jrand0m> (points at the i2p cvs pserver)
[23:41] <jrand0m> (but isn't always up)
[23:41] *** yodel (firstname.lastname@example.com) has joined channel #iip-dev
[23:41] <jrand0m> hola yodel
[23:41] <yodel> hela
[23:42] <jrand0m> ok, I think thats it for 4) apps
[23:42] <jrand0m> 5) comments / questions / etc
[23:42] <mihi> gui installer?
[23:42] <TC> hi yodel
[23:43] <yodel> I have to start experimenting putting the xml-rpc over i2p
[23:43] <yodel> should work with httptunnel
[23:43] <jrand0m> good question mihi. last I heard MrEcho had some of it working
[23:43] <jrand0m> awesome yodel
[23:43] <jrand0m> definitely.
[23:43] <jrand0m> how large are the streams?
[23:43] <jrand0m> (aka how chatty is the protocol?)
[23:44] * Ophite1 plans to try BitTorrent over I2P as a stress test
[23:44] <yodel> xml over http
[23:44] <yodel> the ssl layer wont be needed with i2p
[23:44] <Ophite1> so, uh, very chatty? :)
[23:44] <jrand0m> ah cool, large POST or large replies?
[23:44] <jrand0m> (or just small and small?)
[23:45] <jrand0m> damn you Ophite1 :)
[23:45] <yodel> equal sizes
[23:45] <yodel> does httptunnel support gzipped http?
[23:45] <jrand0m> but doesn't bt use IP addresses?
[23:45] <jrand0m> hmm, httptunnel doesn't have any inherent compression, its just a bitstream
[23:45] <TC> hmm, package i2p+ppp\vpn+gui as a security solution for wireless windows shares
[23:45] <yodel> so should work...
[23:45] <godmode0> jrand0m> you test i2p in nntp news server ?
[23:45] <jrand0m> yup yodel
[23:45] <yodel> 500-1000 byte send, same for reply
[23:46] <jrand0m> hmm I haven't tested that yet godmode0
[23:46] <yodel> much less when zipped
[23:46] <jrand0m> oh cool yodel, that'll work without any problem
[23:46] <yodel> what is the latency for a single msg/package/whatever?
[23:46] <jrand0m> 2-5s, sometimes up to 10s
[23:46] <jrand0m> (currently)
[23:46] <Ophite1> not bad for a pre-dht :)
[23:46] <yodel> so 20s roundtime?
[23:47] <jrand0m> I usually pull up a web page in 5-10s
[23:47] <yodel> ah
[23:47] <yodel> goo
[23:47] <yodel> +d
[23:48] <jrand0m> damn, we're coming up to the 2 hour mark. anyone have any other questions / thoughts?
[23:48] <Ophite1> Pie is good.
[23:48] <duck> jrand0m: why do you drink cheap local beer?
[23:48] <Ophite1> Orgy and pie is better.
[23:48] <jrand0m> rofl duck
[23:49] <Ophite1> duck: It's better than Tesco Value Lager?
[23:49] * Ophite1 spits from reflex
[23:49] <jrand0m> heh
[23:49] * duck is concerned about jrand0m's health
[23:49] <jrand0m> you're concerned about my cheap beer habits but not my good whiskey habits?
[23:50] * Ophite1 reminds about the single malt on Cary Sherman's head
[23:50] <duck> do you eat well?
[23:50] <godmode0> corona
[23:50] <duck> do you do your daily exercises?
[23:50] <jrand0m> well, i'm one of those veggies
[23:50] <Ophite1> Isn't that a personal question, duck?
[23:50] <jrand0m> does typing count?
[23:50] <duck> you did drink that much already?
[23:50] <duck> that you became a veggie
[23:50] <jrand0m> heh
[23:50] <Ophite1> cheap beer will do that.
[23:51] <duck> Ophite1: jrand0m's health should concern us all, since it is essential for I2P
[23:51] *** Signoff: mihi_backup (mihi hands jrand0m the *BAF*er)
[23:51] <jrand0m> heh ok ok mihi
[23:51] * jrand0m winds up
[23:51] * jrand0m *baf*s the meeting closed


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Forget its glasses-free 3D, the Nintendo 3DS is unlike any Nintendo video game before it because it will debut without Mario or Luigi. The previous nine major gaming machines from Nintendo — all of the big ones, from NES to Wii — had these guys.
The Mario-shaped hole emerged today when Nintendo released its 3DS gaming launch line-up for the U.S. Scheduled for launch day on March 27, there was Pilotwings: Resort, a flying game that doesn't star Mario. There was Steel Diver, a game about submarines, not plumbers. There was Nintendogs + Cats ( - Mario - Luigi).
Nintendo usually doesn't keep Mario from us. He (or Luigi!) has starred in a game that has launched each of the nine main gaming machines ever produced by the company.
Here's the list, console name on the left, U.S. launch-day Mario-related game on the right.
• Nintendo Entertainment System - Super Mario Bros. (The game was technically out in America about a month or so after the NES' initial limited-release launch but considered a launch game by the time the system was released widely)
• Super NES - Super Mario World
• Gameboy - Super Mario Land
• Nintendo 64 -Super Mario 64
• Virtual Boy - Mario's Tennis
• Game Boy Advance - Super Mario Advance
• GameCube - Luigi's Mansion
• Nintendo DS - Super Mario 64 DS
• Wii - ... (This system launched with a Zelda game, not a Mario game, though Super Mario 64 was made available for download to the Wii on day one.)
Sure, there were other hardware spin-offs in between, but why count the GBA SP or the DSi like it was a brand-new system? They weren't. The above all were, and they all had Mario Mario or Luigi Mario in a lead role.
Nintendo had a chance of keeping their Mario Bros. streak alive, had they launched their new 3DS game-download eShop alongside the 3DS. Maybe they could have offered a downloadable copy of Super Mario Land or some other Mario Game Boy title. The eShop, however, won't be activated until May.
No wonder Nintendo is promising a 3DS Mario Kart by year's end. At least they're putting a Mario card in the 3DS' box.
UPDATE: Some readers have said that this article should have included a listing for Game Boy Color a Nintendo system that sits somewhere between being an upgrade of an older platform, a la the DS Lite compared to the DS, and being a new platform. I've long considered it the former, but for those who point to a list of GBC-only games to argue that it was its own platform, then, the GBC would qualify as another main Nintendo machine that launched with no Mario game. Regardless of your position, the 3DS launch remains devoid of Mario Bros. star power, an oddity considering how the company has sold its previous big new machines.


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Gotta love Bob, we should truly appreciate that we have an owner like himFrom Fay:
The Reds won't raise ticket prices for this coming season. The only exception is with season-ticket holders who bought 3- or 6-year deals that expired this year.
This sounds like a no-brainer -- given the economy and last year's record -- but I can't remember the last time the club didn't raise at least some prices on individual tickets.
The move is result of the record, not economic crash.
"We made the decision in August," said Karen Forgus, vice-president of communications and marketing. "Bob (Castellini) was adamant because of the way the team played. He said they're not going up -- not $1."
The reason the Reds held off announcing the decision was they wanted to notify those people with the 3- and 6-year deals. It was fewer than 100 people.
"We wanted to contact them 1-on-1," Forgus said.
The Reds have done that. More than half of those affected have already renewed.
And as to report that Jim Bowden tried to get Joey Votto in a trade. I'm sure he did. You can try to get ARod for your fantasy team, too. But your buddy isn't going to give him up unless you make a ridiculous offer.
Another thing remember: Walt Jocketty hasn't made a trade with Jimmy B. since the 1997 Jeff Brantley-for-Dmitri Young deal. Brantley had a bad shoulder at the time, so that may have had something to do with it.


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Fleur Bainger pulls an all-nighter in the name of nature, making like a rock as a 100-kilogram turtle digs its nest beside her.
I'm in a bit of a pickle. An endangered sea turtle roughly twice my weight is busily turfing sand over my motionless body, and it looks as though she might be inclined to lug herself my way. Little more than a shadow in the dark, she raises her basketball-like head and sniffs the air, shifting the weight of her hefty carapace in my direction. Crouching only a metre away, I'm under strict instructions not to stir, so as not to disturb the nesting giant. Thus, being crushed, slowly and decisively, seems imminent.
"Just stay really still, she's coming right at us. Don't move, and she won't realise," is the optimistic advice whispered by my fellow sand-dune commando-crawler. Thankfully, Fiona Morgan, one of the scientific volunteers who monitors the annual sea turtle nesting within Western Australia's World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Marine Park, turns out to be spot on. Mother turtle stops, then returns to dragging her front flippers through the grainy sand, snow angel-style, clearing the way for the nest she'll spend the next few hours working on.
Our new friend is one of hundreds of sea turtles who visit the 260-kilometre stretch of WA, 10 hours drive north of Perth between Carnarvon and Exmouth each year, collectively laying thousands of brilliantly white eggs that resemble ping-pong balls. Three of the world's most endangered species, the loggerhead, green and hawksbill turtles, make the slow pilgrimage up these remote beaches from late November to early March. The one I'm eyeballing is a loggerhead, identified by her big noggin. Her species only start to reproduce when they hit 30, so it'll be another 30 years before her offspring come back to dig their own nests. Sadly, the success rate is dismal: only about one in 10,000 hatchlings survive.
Morgan and I are cuddling up to the sand at Gnaraloo Station, a century-old working pastoral property-cum-tourism venture whose boundaries cover part of the third-largest loggerhead rookery on the planet.
The ecologically-minded station owner, Paul Richardson, decided to fund a turtle monitoring program some years back, supporting visiting scientists and volunteers as they filled in spreadsheets with GPS co-ordinates. Since then, the dawn and dusk beach patrols tracking turtle activity have been opened up to station guests. Long known as a windsurfing, kitesurfing and surfing mecca, Gnaraloo boasts a large, popular camping ground and a small village of self-contained cottages that Richardson, a former builder from Ireland, constructed himself.
With the windswept country's ochre soils, contrasting pale beaches and marine-life-jammed ocean, it's an eye-popping destination for those who brave the corrugated dirt road to get there. And the biggest sweetener? Anyone in residence can join the Gnaraloo Turtle Conservation Program's efforts, free.
In truth a contribution has already been made on each guest's behalf. A portion of Gnaraloo's accommodation fees is invested into the turtle program as well as the Gnaraloo Feral Animal Control Program, to help protect the sea turtle eggs and hatchlings from foxes. Approved by Western Australia's Department of Environment and Conservation, it's a worthy cause that, Richardson hopes, will lead to greater preservation of the rare turtle species.
It's so worthy, in fact, that after a thorough briefing from the boffins, I've decided to pull an all-nighter in the hope of glimpsing the miracle moment, when turtles return to where they were born to continue the cycle of life.
We set out about 9.30pm, walking barefoot along the beach with headlamps until we discover that the swarms of fist-size ghost crabs scuttling over our feet with unnervingly pointy claws will miraculously clear the way if we switch the lights off. Squealing at directionally challenged crabs is not allowed, I discover, lest we disturb the turtles. Disturbance, team leader Kimmie Riskas says, is a serious matter given each turtle only comes in to nest every few years. "The loggerheads nest in cycles of three to four years. When they come, they'll lay between four to six nests at 10- to 14-day intervals, so if you scare her off she may come back the next night, or it may take longer," she says. "They're very sensitive to movement and disturbance, especially before they've nested. While they're nesting they're pretty intent on what they're doing, but we don't want to startle them and make them retreat back to the water before they get a chance to lay their eggs."
As we walk in the soft sand, we're on the lookout for turtle tracks that look as though a single tractor tyre has ploughed up towards the dunes.
If there's only one, it means a turtle is up there, whereas two mean she's laid her eggs and returned to the ocean.
As luck would have it, we spot several singular tracks over the next few hours, which is how Morgan and I end up on all fours, crawling slowly up a dune to witness a huge turtle dig her nest at 2am.
Watching her sand preparation routine is quite extraordinary. Out of water, the normally quick and nimble marine being is slow and cumbersome as she digs what's called "the body pit", a large hole which acts to lower her down in the sand. Then, her rear flippers get to work, carving out an egg chamber, where, after a series of heaving breaths, she starts to lay her eggs.
Morgan remembers the first time she witnessed a nesting. "It was a feeling and a rush I've never had before," she says. "In the middle of the night, [I was] laying on a pristine beach, watching shooting stars and having a turtle throw sand over me; I don't think many people can say they've done that." Happily, I can.
And as I watch mother turtle drag herself back to the lapping water, the sky glowing purple in the dawn, I hope this undeveloped region stays that way so her babies can return.
Trip notes
Getting there
Gnaraloo Station is 150 kilometres north of Carnarvon, on sealed and unsealed roads — check first if conditions mean a four-wheel-drive is required for the sandy stretches.
Skippers Aviation (skippers.com.au) services Carnarvon from Perth. Alternatively, fly to Exmouth (Learmonth) with Qantas (qantas.com.au), Virgin (virginaustralia.com) or Skywest (skywest.com.au) and drive about 5½ hours south.
Staying there
Anyone staying at Gnaraloo Station can participate in the Gnaraloo Turtle Conservation Program, which allows visitors to join in its scientific data collection work until late February. Turtle sightings are not guaranteed and all involvement has a strong conservation and preservation focus with zero disturbance.
Accommodation ranges from tent sites to self-contained cottages. + 61 8 9315 4809, gnaraloo.com.


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Dr. Tuimalealiifano's piece points to a quiet "revolution" having taken place because the illegal President did not possess a Vanua Title. Unfortunately he either forgot to mention (or to give the author the benefit of a doubt, it may have been censored) that the appointment also defied the legal parameters of the Constitution, and the Great Council of Chiefs own internal negotiating processes -- a key common trait in historical take-over's led by militant army general's of yore.
Dr. Tuimalealiifano asserts that this change (or revolution)
"may appeal to modern oriented Fijians. Unfettered by a vanua title, will this make the President more accessible to ordinary citizens from all walks of life. He seems so."Regrettably nothing could be further and as far removed from the truth. Just because Rt Nailatikau is accessible at the local watering holes like the Defence Club or that he prefers to walk the streets, does not make him truly "accessible" or a true "man of the people".
Modern Fijians may prefer that traditional forms of governance have their own space as far away as possible from modern systems of governance (and never should the twain meet), however many of these modern Fijians would also prefer that such a revolution happen within the confines of a legal process -- such as the Constitution -- and with transparent, participatory consultations.
Totally unlike what Bainimarama et al have wrought before us.
In the name of the (ILLEGAL) President
Morgan Tuimaleali'ifano
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Stories about the new President (Fiji Times November 5 and 6 2009) make for interesting reading but your readers may have been a bit confused by the new President's Tongan connections. His distinguished Tongan connection is well known and given his recent elevation to Fiji's highest office, a reminder of the ancient relations between Fiji and Tonga might serve a useful purpose. It also serves as a reminder of how often our circumstances (now and future) are determined largely by forces outside our control.
Ratu Epeli Nailatikau's well known Tongan connection is perhaps too well known for the Mataqali na Tui Kaba. Like anyone else, he had nothing to do with the way his pedigree panned out. Some might explain it in the stars, others the waywardness of the heart.
His grandmother, Adi Litia Cakobau, was the daughter of Bauan Ratu Timoci Tavanavanua and Tupoutu'a of the Veikune family of Vava'u, Tonga. The story goes, in 1908, when the lovely Adi Litia was visiting Tongan relatives, she was seen and approached by the impetuous Tongan king, Tupou II.
The product of this brief romantic encounter was Ratu Edward. He was born in Bau in 1908 and was the second son of Tupou II, the oldest being Vilai, born in 1898.
Ratu Edward was given the Cakobau name from his maternal great-grandfather's side. When he visited Tonga for the first time in 1934, he was nicknamed Tungi Fisi in recognition of his high rank in Tonga. Queen Salote Tupou III and Princess Fusipala were therefore his half-sisters, and his son, Ratu Epeli, is therefore a cousin to the late king of Tonga, Tupou IV. The current king, George Tupou V, is the great-grandson of King George II. This material is available in Elizabeth Wood-Ellem's Queen Salote of Tonga, The Story of an Era 1900-1965, published in 1999.
On the other side, Ratu Epeli's great-grandfather, Ratu Timoci Tavanavanua, is of the Mataqali Tui Kaba of Bau, one that has been under siege from within since November 25, 1989.
The Tongan connection also runs deep in his wife's pedigree. Adi Koila's paternal grandmother, Lusiana Qolikoro, was one of eight striking daughters of a Tongan Wesleyan church minister and his kai loma or part-European wife of the Miller family. These and other intriguing details are told by Deryck Scarr in his Tuimacilai a Life of Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara launched in October by Papua New Guinea's Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare and our region's elder statesman.
Ratu Epeli's elevation to the highest office is important in another way - for what it signals about transformative changes taking place in Fiji. His appointment by the Bainimarama government in some ways represents a revolution, a quiet one yet nevertheless a revolution.
Why "revolutionary" your readers might well ask? Because the constitutional author of such appointment, the colonially instituted Great Council of Chiefs has been disregarded. In a tit for tat, the GCC had rejected Ratu Epeli's nomination and in turn the GCC has been shown, if Bainimarama is correctly reported, the "Mango Tree".
But more than that, for the first time since independence, a Fijian Head of State has been appointed without a vanua title. Not that being without vanua title can prevent an appointment, and although Ratu Epeli's genealogy is impeccably aristocratic, his appointment marks a significant shift in Fiji's social arrangements.
Under the imprimatur of the GCC, the past four heads of state have maintained the principle of equity among the three 19th century Confederations. The first was Ratu Sir George Cakobau, installed as the Vunivalu na Tui Kaba title and titular head of Kubuna. The second was Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, the Tui Cakau titleholder and titular head of Tovata. The third was Ratu Sir Kamiese Mara, bearers of Tui Nayau and Sau ni Vanua ko Lau titles of Lau, again of Tovata but undoubtedly taking cognizance that his wife, Adi Lady Lalabalavu Litia, was Roko Tui Dreketi, the eminent chieftain title of the Rewa-based Burebasaga.
Right to his grave, the enigmatic Sakiasi Butadroka of Rewa, decried his chieftain's being cast in the shadow of her imperious, towering but lesser ranking husband. The principle of rotating the office of head of state among the titular heads of the three confederations appealed to the vanua sense of history and fairness.
The fourth and recently retired President was Ratu Josefa Uluivuda Iloilo, Tui Vuda, a major district chief from the chauvinistic Yasayasa Vakara in the West, the fourth confederacy, with close affiliation to Burebasaga. Through Ratu Josefa, Burebasaga got its full tenure of government house!
With the principle of rotation established in this way, would Ratu Epeli Nailatikau's appointment been confirmed in the next appointment by the GCC?
The appointment of Ratu Epeli as the current and fifth head of state, returns the position to Kubuna. However, the recycle marks a radical departure from the established practice. Not only is he the first without the blessing of the GCC but he is also the first without a vanua title. Could he be setting a pattern for future heads of state or is his appointment merely an anomaly that will be corrected in time? He has the Naisogolaca inheritance and vasu to the Qaranivalu of Naitasiri and his Tongan royal family connection. Will Fijians regard these connections as sufficient in themselves? This change may appeal to modern oriented Fijians. Unfettered by a vanua title, will this make the President more accessible to ordinary citizens from all walks of life? He seems so.
Since 1987 to 2006, the word 'normal' has acquired many meanings for Fiji, and current high political appointments reflects social stresses in the local establishment. Whether these appointments will endure beyond the military regime remains to be seen. Furthermore, whether the chiefs as a collective form will ever respond, as with the currently fragmented Methodist Church, also remains to be seen. For the moment, the shift within the local tectonic plates provides interesting movements for readers.
* The views expressed in this article are that of the author and not necessarily the Fiji Times or the University of the South Pacific where he lectures history.


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Note from Lee: Please welcome this guest post from Sara Duane-Gladden, of TopRank Online Marketing's copywriting team.
Facebook is changing again. That never happens, right? For regular users like me, it seems as if there is something new happening at the social network every day. Facebook Timeline is probably one of the most significant, though, and it's coming to a brand page near you soon. Very soon.
Timeline is the newest change from Facebook, a social media network renowned for making "enhancements" to its much-beloved product that result in mixed criticism and compliments from users. Timeline is no different, as it has been both praised and panned in the blogosphere. There doesn't appear to be a consensus on Timeline, which is typical of Facebook changes. Love It or hate it, users and brands alike will adjust to Timeline in order to continue participating in the Facebook community – just like they have in the past.


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YOKOHAMA, Japan - Chelsea is struggling to get over jet lag ahead of Thursday's Club World Cup semifinal against Monterrey of Mexico.
Chelsea manager Rafael Benitez said the team is still adjusting to the time change after arriving on Sunday on the long trip from London.
"My players are focusing on trying to sleep," Benitez said Wednesday. "We are trying to adapt to the time, pitch and ball. Everything is new."
As Champions League winner, Chelsea is seeded into the semifinals along with South American champion Corinthians. The Brazilian side beat Egypt's Al-Ahly 1-0 on Wednesday to advance to the final.
Chelsea will meet CONCACAF champion Monterrey in Yokohama. The Mexican side defeated Asian Champions League winner Ulsan Hyundai of South Korea 3-1 in the quarterfinals.
Benitez, who took over as Chelsea manager last month after Roberto Di Matteo was fired, is still trying to put his imprint on the club.
"We are trying to change the little things to improve," he said. "We are trying to be more compact. We played better the last two matches and have improved."
Chelsea beat Sunderland 3-1 on Saturday for the club's first victory in eight Premier League games.
Benitez, who is managing in his third Club World Cup, made it clear he is not underestimating Monterrey.
"I intend to win," he said. "I will use the best players in the semifinal. We have to check the tempo of the game. They have good tactics. We will try to play at a high tempo, with passing and scoring."
Benitez said midfielder Frank Lampard, who returned against Sunderland after a six-week layoff due to an injured calf, is healthy and ready to play on Thursday.
"He has been training and is normal," he said. "He is fine."
Chelsea captain John Terry did not make the trip as he recovers from a knee injury sustained against Liverpool last month.
Dender Gary Cahill said the team is studying video of the Mexican team to prepare for the match.
"We don't know too much about them. They are a good team. They get the ball down and play," Cahill said. "They can play long. They have talented footballers. It will be a good test for us."
Cahill said that, although Benitez has only been in charge of the club for a few weeks, his general message has been delivered.
"We have tightened up our defence and gotten some good results the past couple of matches," he said. "The lads are fully aware of the strategy he (Benitez) wants and have adapted well."
After a few days in Japan, Cahill believes his teammates have come to appreciate the prestige of the event.
"You come to Chelsea to win trophies," he said. "This is a fantastic competition. It has sunk in for us how big this is."
Cahill, who joined Chelsea from Bolton Wanderers in January, is relishing his time with some of the biggest names in the game.
"If you want experience in big games, you move to Chelsea," he said. "You play with the best players in the world and get good experience."


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Human error was the most likely cause of the loss of the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft. That is the conclusion of NASA's preliminary investigation into the disappearance of the craft, which lapsed into radio silence late in 2006.
The final communication with the craft was in November 2006, when mission managers signalled the craft to move its solar arrays into a new position.
Because of an error made in a software adjustment five months earlier, this command triggered a sequence of events that culminated in the loss of the craft. NASA has now confirmed that the Surveyor was lost just 12 hours later.
The problems began in the summer of 2006, when an update to the high gain antenna's (HGA) pointing direction was written to the wrong part of the spacecraft's memory. This error unintentionally disabled the solar array positioning units and corrupted the HGA's contingency pointing direction.
All was well until 2 November when a command caused the solar arrays to "attempt to exceed their hardware constraint", as NASA puts it. The onboard fault protection system stepped in, and this left the array in "a somewhat unusual configuration".
Now, with its batteries pointing directly at the sun, the MGS began to overheat. The overheating battery was misinterpreted by software on board as being overcharged, so the MGS automatically shut down the charge current, effectively dooming the craft.
NASA has confirmed that all signals and other functions were lost within 12 hours of this signal being sent, making rescue all but impossible.
The MGS had already had its mission extended four times, so in many ways the loss of the craft is not too surprising. Nevertheless, until the craft unexpectedly dropped off the airwaves in November last year, it was still doing valuable scientific work, and it will be sorely missed.
During the course of its decade-long mission, the craft sent back almost a quarter of a million images, including those which suggested that water might have flowed on the red planet at some point in its past.
Three other craft remain in orbit around our smaller, redder neighbour: Mars Express, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and Mars Odyssey.
The full report on the errors that caused the craft's demise can be found here (pdf). You can find some of the highlights of the MGS' mission here. ®


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DWTS Season 12 Cast Rumors – Celebrity Dancing Contender Round-up
So, let's do a summary round-up of all the celebrities that might or might not be dancing on Dancing With The Stars Season 12. Below is a list of each celebrity with a link back to our original reportings on each of them for why we thought they garnished attention or a mention.
Lady Celebrities
Julie Benz -Tom Bergeron's Dream Contestant!
iJustine -A You Tube sensation dying to get on the show. She and her fan base worked overtime campaigning for her at ABC.com
Maria Kanellis -Maria was on early rumor but, we haven't heard much regarding her since.
Joan Rivers -Joan has thrown her hat into the ring just about every year and for some reason, execs won't bite.
Donna D'Errico -After doing a little early campaigning with Lorenzo Lamas to do the show, Donna changed her mind. She said she had other dreams of finding Noah's Ark in Turkey and doing a cooking show instead.
Kim Zolciak -Kim remarked at Twitter she was "weighing options" for Dancing With The Stars.
Brooke Mueller – Brooke is Charlie Sheen's former wife and has been rumored to be in talks with DWTS, but as of Feb. 3rd hadn't received a formal offer.
Colleen Zenk -Sources recently told Colleen she was the most supported to dance on the show for a "Daytime Actor" and that the fans have been heard. Then she said "big things are ahead" and hopes we'll join her for the ride.
LeAnn Rimes -LeAnn said she'd do the show if Benji Schwimmer would.
Lee Meriwether – Lee is tight lipped and won't confirm or deny at twitter, but, she tweeted in November she was "trying to get on the show" and to "cross our fingers". This isn't the first Season Lee has been rumored to dance. She very much wants to do the show.
Kendra Wilkinson – E News (usually a very good source for DWTS) reported Kendra was in talks to do the show. Their source told them, "Her personality, combined with her ability to dance, is appealing". Perez Hilton has reported that she has signed.
Wendy Williams -Like Lee, Wendy won't confirm or deny at Twitter, but rumors on this contender are rampant. I was told recently at Twitter (thanks @upclose22 ) that Wendy's sister said she can't keep a secret. However, in this case, Wendy is definitely keeping a secret if she is indeed dancing. Perez Hilton said she has signed. Though Wiki can't always be trusted, they are reporting her Reps have confirmed this news as well (Thanks to @BotanicalLilly).
Candice Cameron Bure – Some rumors started to appear on Candice and then quickly faded out when she tweeted she hadn't been asked (as of Feb. 16th).
Christine O'Donnell – This controversial political guru (I like Courtney's description of her MUCH better-follow link 😀 ) posted at her Facebook that she was mulling over an offer and asked her supporters if she should consider it. DWTS fans everywhere have been gasping and fearing Bristol Palin Part 2.
Nastia Liukin -Nastia is the perfect fill for the Olympian spot and both her and Mark Ballas have recently started following each other at Twitter.
Vera Wang – One of her new tweets and rumors from previous Seasons has made us suspicious that Vera might be doing the show this year.
Faye Dunaway – Rumorfix.com reported that this A-lister has signed to do the show. What a coo this would be for the show (and fans alike) if true!!!
Kirstie Alley -Perez Hilton was the first to report Kirtsie has signed to do the show. As of the time of this post, Kirstie won't confirm or deny at twitter which leads many of us to believe Kirstie is doing the show.
Jodie Sweetin -Jodie has been campaigning to do the show, has expressed her love of dance all of her life, and is following Maks (only) at Twitter.
Elin Nordegren -She is Tiger Wood's wife and the most recent addition to this list. Extra supposedly has been reporting on this. But, I can't find where?
Men Celebrities
Zakk Wilde -Black Label Society's and Ozzy Osbourne's former front man was campaining early to do the show.
Tony Robbins -Tony remarked at Twitter Dancing With The Stars wants him to dance this Season, but said QVC is his limit.
Lorenzo Lamas – One of our earliest rumored celebrities, Lorenzo has said he very much wants to do the show and would if asked. He's been seen at several dancing events and hanging out with the pros of the show.
Kris Joseph -Rumors were flying on Twitter on Kris dancing and then he squashed it when he said, "Where are all these crazy rumors emerging from? This aint even funny anymore."
Brett Favre -Rumors are still popular on this possibility, but his daugher tweeted he wasn't doing the show (as of Feb. 11th). Heidi's Note: Pretty sure this one was always bull started by Kurt Warner.
Al Sharpton – Rev. Al said "no" when a recent offer came in even though he said he'd "BLOW 'EM OUT" with his dance moves. 😯
Carlos Leon -Carlos has turned down an offer several times to dance on the show, but, if asked this Season he said he'd do it.
Chris Jericho – Rumors on this possibility are still on-going even though Chris has recently announced several big commitments. Chris is also following the Official DWTS twitter account.
Dane Cook – A new addition to this list since he and Cheryl have added themselves to their twitter accounts. I saw this for myself last night after it was reported by PureDWTS reader Jennifer (Thanks Jennifer) and now Dane has taken her off which makes me suspicious. Follow comments at link.
Tatum Channing -Also a new addition to this list being Chelsie has just added him to her twitter account. Thanks to PureDWTS reader Susan for this heads up. Follow comments at link.
Hines Ward – A Steeler Wide receiver. Heidi suspected something was up with a "Steeler" being signed a couple of weeks ago.
So, there ya go!! Yes Louis, we are not going to let you down! 😀
Where do u guys hear all the rumors what celebs r on #DWTS ??? U guys should all work 4 the FBI..lol
— Louis van Amstel (@LouisVanAmstel) February 26, 2011
Stay tuned for Heidi to follow me up with a "Pairings" post because, as serious and past followers to this site know, she has a serious knack for forecasting. 😉
Heidi's Note: Well thanks, but I'm good at forecasting who will be on the show, I suck pretty bad lately at the partners. 🙂
If we hear of more rumored celebrities, we'll be sure to update this post.


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School of Radiology
Mission Statement
"To provide a sound education that will enable our students to become competent entry level Radiologic Technologist by establishing critical thinking skills, instituting high professional and patient care standards and to instill pride in being a part of the field of Radiography."
Our Goals
Fulfillment of the program's mission is determined by the ability of the program to achieve the following set goals:
Goal: To produce Radiologic Technologists who hold entry-level clinical skills for employment.
- Student Learning Outcomes:
- - Students will be able to demonstrate exceptional positioning skills
- - Students will have a good understanding of all technical settings and how to make appropriate adjustments to produce an optimal image.
- - Students will practice radiation protection for patients and themselves.
- - Students will be apply classroom knowledge to the clinical setting.
Goal: The program will graduate students that demonstrate professional and ethical values for life long learning.
- Student Learning Outcomes:
- - Students will be able to evaluate all imaging errors and understand how to make the correct adjustments.
- - Students will be able to employ critical thinking skills when performing non-routine exams.
- - Students will be able to adapt to the different levels of patients they are in contact with.
Goal: The program will graduate students that demonstrate professional and ethical values for life long learning.
- Student Learning Outcomes:
- - Students will demonstrate professionalism while in clinical rotations.
- - Students will be respectful and professional during their modality rotations.
- - Students will be aware and understand the roles that professional societies play on ethical values and life long learning.
Goal: To produce Radiologic Technologists who have excellent communication skills.
- Student Learning Outcomes:
- - Students will be able to demonstrate communication skills to patients and co-workers.
- -Students will show improvement in public speaking during their educational training.
- - Graduates will demonstrate communication abilities as a Radiologic Technologist.
Goal: To monitor overall program effectiveness to ensure we are meeting the needs of the students.
- Student Learning Outcomes:
- - Ensure the students are able to complete the program on time.
- - To monitor graduates success rates of the ARRT exam.
- - To monitor employer satisfaction with the graduates.
- - To monitor graduates satisfaction with the overall program.
Employment Rate
The UMPC Chautauqua School of Radiology first began in 1967, under the founding direction of William Burger, RT (R), Technical Director of UMPC Chautauqua Radiology. At the time, UMPC Chautauqua recognized a need in the community to fill a healthcare hole. That need turned into a desire to educate qualified community members to serve Chautauqua County and the surrounding area with well qualified, compassionate and dedicated Radiologic Technologists. Their vision and high standards have been maintained and continue to produce well-qualified individuals that pass through the program. The Program has consistently maintained accreditation by the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology and is recognized by the New York State Department of Health.
The Institution
UMPC Chautauqua is a voluntary, private nonprofit hospital founded in 1885. It is a regional medical center serving Southwestern New York and portions of Northwest Pennsylvania. UMPC Chautauqua has 300 beds with services for medical, surgical pediatric, maternity, emergency and neurological and orthopedic patients. There also exist specialty areas for trauma care, intensive and coronary care, palliative care, renal dialysis, endoscopy, respiratory care, alcohol rehabilitation, psychiatric care, cancer treatment, medical rehabilitation, occupational and physical therapy, sports medicine, wellness program and Family Health Center (Primary Care).
The Community
The City of Jamestown (population approximately 30,000) is geographically located in Western New York State in the southern part of Chautauqua County. It is approximately one hour and a half-driving distance directly south of Buffalo, New York and approximately on hour northeast of Erie, Pennsylvania.
The area proudly boasts of beautiful country side and landscapes and is know as an all-seasonal resort area offering a variety of year round activities at nearby ski resorts, state parks and lakes. A well know, turn of the century cultural development, the Chautauqua Institution, is located on the shore of nearby Chautauqua Lake offering education, cultural and entertainment opportunities to both area residents and vacationers.
Post secondary and graduate work can be pursued within commuting distance at nearby colleges and universities.
Unique for its size, Jamestown offers many of the advantages of larger cities while maintaining the charm of a small community.