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1/2 teaspoon whole cumin seed
1/2 teaspoon whole coriander seed
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
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1 pound (about 3 large) chicken thighs
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1 celery rib, finely chopped (about 1/2 cup)
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Mayor Coleen J. Seng's tree for the Heritage League's annual "Holiday of Trees" event this week will share the theme of this year's Star City Holiday Parade, "Our Lasting Treasure." The parade marks its 20th anniversary this year, and the Mayor's tree will be decorated with ornaments representing two decades of parade magic.
The "Holiday of Trees" event is from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., December 2nd and 3rd at Lincoln's Unitarian Church, 6300 "A" Street. The Mayor's tree is one of 26 that will be on display. The event includes a boutique, refreshments and entertainment. Admission is $1, and proceeds will benefit the People's City Mission.
The 20th annual Star City Holiday Parade begins at 11 a.m. Saturday, December 4, in downtown Lincoln. More information is available at www.starcityholidayfestival.org.
The Mayor's tree will be on display during regular business hours from December 6th through 31st outside her office at the County-City Building, 555 South 10th Street.


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2013-14: Recorded a career-best 400-yd. IM time of 3:59.20, the fifth-fastest in school history, during the prelims of the event at the CCSA Championships in Tennessee… Placed fifth in the night time finals… Also competed in the 500- (4:34.90) and 1,650-yd. freestyle (15:56.96) events at the conference championships meet in Knoxville, finishing eighth in the mile swim and tenth in the 500… The Retrievers placed second as a team behind University of the Incarnate Word and were later ranked No. 23 in the nation by CollegeSwimming.com… Captured the 1,000 free twice during the dual meet season, first against George Washington on Oct. 26 and then again on Senior Day at the UMBC Aquatic Complex (Jan. 11) against Howard.
2012-13: Won the silver medal in the 400-yd. IM and the bronze medal in the 1,650 free at the America East Championships at Maine… Also placed fifth in the 500 free at the conference meet as the Retrievers won their ninth America East title in ten years… His 400 IM finals time of 4:00.96 ranks seventh all-time in program history while his 1,650 free (15:50.71) ranks ninth… Recorded his top 200 back time (1:53.16) while finishing in 15th at the ECAC Championships at Harvard… Won three dual meet events as UMBC completed its second-ever undefeated season… Named to the America East Honor Roll.
2011-12: Won the 500-yd. free at the Terrapin Invitational in a career-best time of 4:38.10... His time ranks tenth in UMBC school history... Also earned a fifth-place finish in the 200 back at the meet held at the University of Maryland... Won the 1000 free against Howard for his first dual meet win... Named to the America East Honor Roll.
2010-11: Placed 11th in the 500-yard freestyle at the Patriot Invitational... Swam UMBC's second-fastest 1,000-yard free (9:42.62) of the year at the Patriot Invitational... Named to the America East Honor Roll.
Background: Named All-County, All-Division and All-Section for his sophomore, junior and senior seasons… Broke his own 500-yard freestyle school record his senior year… Named 2010 Tappan Zee High School Male Athlete of the Year… A member of the National Honor Society and the History Honor Society… An AP Scholar with Distinction.
Personal: Son of Robert and Laura Neuendorf… Has a younger brother, Lance… Father was a four-year letter winner and former record holder in swimming at Maryland… Double majoring in history and political science… Born May 15, 1992.


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A fire tore through a former Ottoman mansion along the Bosporus for hours on Tuesday, badly damaging the historic building before firefighters brought it under control. No one was injured in the blaze at the building, which has been used by a Turkish university.
As the flames raged, firefighters had to use fire-extinguishing boats to hose the 140-year-old wooden structure from the waterway, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
The building was one of several mansions built as annexes to an Ottoman palace, but is now part of the prestigious Galatasaray University. There were no students inside the building at the time of the fire and all staff members were safely evacuated.
Ozlem Yuce, a member of the teaching staff, told private NTV television that the fire started on the top floor of the three-story structure and quickly spread through the building, which houses staff and faculty members' offices as well as books and documents.
The fire was most likely caused by an electrical fault, Ethem Tolga, the university's president, told NTV.
Footage from the private Dogan news agency showed tall flames and smoke rising from the roof of building, which was once used by sultans' family members.
"The building is burning before our eyes," Yuce, the staff member, told NTV. "Thank God there was no loss of life, but we are about to lose a historic building."


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Uganda Aide's Drug Trial Adjourned
The Black Star News has learned that Birungi was interviewed by U.K. police and detectives; it's unclear whether she implicated others.
[African News Update]
The U.K. trial of an aide to the brother of Uganda's president on drug trafficking charges was today postponed after defense attorneys asked for more time.
Rose Birungi's lawyers told the Court that tape recordings of an interview U.K. authorities had with their client after her arrest, provided by prosecutors, were not sufficiently audible and that it needed replacements. Birungi is an aide to General Salim Saleh, Uganda's minister of micro financing and brother of President Yoweri K. Museveni.
After sniffer dogs detected 16 pounds of narcotics in her luggage, U.K. police say, Birungi was arrested at Heathrow airport May 20, 2007. A search revealed narcotics valued at about $260,000, the authorities say. Birungi had traveled on diplomatic passport.
The Black Star News has learned that Birungi was interviewed by U.K. police and detectives; it's unclear whether she implicated others. Birungi's lawyers tell The Black Star that the poor quality of the two audio tapes provided by prosecutors prompted them to ask for the delay.
"We applied for the adjournment of this trial because a number of issues hadn't been addressed by the prosecution side," says Uganda-born lawyer, Patrick Asiimwe, one of the lawyers representing Birungi. The lawyer adds that the "interview on both tapes supplied to us are not clear at all" and that "we wanted to hear what exactly she said during the interview."
Moreover, says Asiimwe, whatever Birungi said when interrogated might have been impacted by the fact that she had suffered family tragedy. "This is a person who had just lost a close relative," he adds, referring to the death of Brigadier Noble Mayombo, the permanent secretary in the defense ministry and a close advisor to President Museveni.
Birungi who didn't have to make a court appearance today has been in custody since her arrest. She also doubles as minister of information in Toro, one of Uganda's traditional kingdoms.
She faces up to 14 years imprisonment if convicted of the charges. Other lawyers on her defense team are Peter Magomu Mashate and Euba Afolabi, a British national.
The Presiding judge is J. McGregor.
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RV manufacturers have requested about 35% less space for the upcoming National RV Trade Show Dec. 1-3 at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Ky., than they did last year.
Given the economic setebacks of the last 16 months, that shouldn't come as any surprise to most industry observers.
"At this point, it appears that most of the show will fit in the KEC's South Hall, East Hall and North Wing," said Mary "Mike" Hutya, RVIA vice president for meetings and shows. "It will depend on how much space I give back to the Expo Center. I will hold on to some space so that we can accommodate late-comers."
Sixty-one manufacturers have requested 520,000 square feet of space in the cavernous exposition center. Last year, RV manufacturers occupied about 800,000 square feet. "We are drawing the floor plan based on those requests," Hutya said.
She said the 35% drop in space requests represented the "worst-case scenario" for RVIA planners, but that other manufacturers may be accommodated, despite the March 23 deadline reservations that has passed.
Even if some of the KEC's West Wing is used, show space will not include Broadbent Area where recreational park trailer manufactures have displayed their product in recent years. "I don't know at this time if we will have them (park models) in a separate area of whether we will mix them in with RV manufacturers," Hutya said.
Invitations to suppliers for booth space will go out in June with a return deadline of July 2.


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BBC television and radio presenter Dianne Oxberry, aged 51, has died from cancer.
Her family has confirmed that she died on Thursday morning (10 Jan), at the Christie hospital in Manchester.
Oxberry was a well-known presenter, working on everything from current affairs programme Inside Out North West to Radio 1.
After studying meteorology, Oxberry became the North West's weather presenter in 1994, as well as fronting Inside Out North West.
She also worked alongside Simon Mayo and Steve Wright on Radio 1 during her career, and as a reporter for BBC Sport, covering events such as the Manchester 10k and the Great North Run.
In 2002, Oxberry was asked to present BBC Radio Manchester's lunchtime show. She then went on to co-host the station's flagship breakfast show with Eamonn O'Neal between 2006 and 2008.
Tributes from colleagues
Acknowledging Oxberry's death, Aziz Rashid, head of BBC North West, said, "We are all devastated by this dreadful news. The coming days will be difficult but we will do our best to pay tribute to someone who meant so much to us all and made such an enormous contribution to broadcasting in the North West."
Fellow BBC North West Tonight presenters Roger Johnson and Annabel Tiffin, who Oxberry recently took part in a 100-mile relay walk for Children In Need with, have also paid tribute.
Johnson said, "We are heartbroken by Dianne's death. It is almost impossible to comprehend. Dianne was North West Tonight. It's hard to imagine the programme without her.
Devastated to hear this news.She was a wonderful, joyous part of our breakfast team at Radio 1. I loved working with her. My condolences to her family.
— Simon Mayo (@simonmayo) January 11, 2019
"Our thoughts are with Ian and all of Dianne's family. We hope they will find some comfort in the knowledge so many people loved Dianne and will miss her terribly."
Tiffin commented, "This is an enormous shock for all of us. I can scarcely believe Dianne has died. She was loved by our viewers, by all of us at North West Tonight. My heart breaks for her family.
"Di was so talented, so beautiful, so funny and so full of life. On screen she was a star, radiating warmth and good humour. Off screen, she was a wonderful colleague, a loyal friend and I will miss her terribly."
Oxberry's former Radio 1 colleague Simon Mayo tweeted, "Devastated to hear this news. She was a wonderful, joyous part of our breakfast team at Radio 1. I loved working with her. My condolences to her family."


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For quite some time, this blog has been inactive. My apologies first and foremost for this, and to address the rumors, I am still here. Bangor Daily News has not pulled the plug on me, they've actually checked to make sure I still have a pulse. I am not stepping down from writing, I'm actually preparing to restart the machine.
Times are busy for us all as we near the coming election cycle. Politicians are preparing their campaign operations and citizens await the carpet bombing of every form of media with glossy, well packed stretches of the political imagination. Tis the most annoying time of the year.
For my entire adult life, which admittedly is not as long as many, I have been a registered Republican. After giving speeches in High School on various topics of the Constitution, I became politically active. As soon as I hit age 18, I joined one of the major political parties. Never missing an election day, excitement led me to the ballot box for every primary to participate in my party's processes, and to every general election as well. Volunteer work was never short, whether it be phone banking, going door to door, or spreading the propaganda that I once thought mattered.
Propaganda? The stuff about the Republican Party being different from the Democrats.
When I started this Bangor Daily News blog, I had every intention of advancing the conservative/libertarian principles of freedom and liberty. I still do. Unfortunately, how we go about moving the ball forward differs from reader to reader. While advancing principles for many is done by actually advancing principles, there is a breed of Republican that believes advancing principles is achieved by advancing party.
The problem with the latter is that principles cannot be advanced by a party that contradicts them. Republicans complain about entitlement and those who do not earn what they seek, which is why your standard mainstream Republican will believe that they are entitled to your vote without actually having to earn it.
One easy example is the Ron Paul presidential campaign, which was an excellent operation involving a team of many talents. The caucus was a hard fought success led by State Director Ryan Flowers and State Chairman Paul Madore. Eric Brakey would inherit the State Director role when Flowers was shifted elsewhere by the campaign. leaving him in charge of the chaotic convention.
Every county coordinator, myself included for Androscoggin, led a volunteer push under the leadership of these gentlemen towards a victory that was earned, not stolen. Victories were made at caucuses, despite attempts by those desperately clinging to power and fading influence to shut down newcomers. Shutting down newcomers is a legitimate strategy for any minority party, right? We'll get there.
All the hard work by the campaign at every level came together at the controversial State Convention, where the Paul grassroots claimed victory over the National Delegation and various leadership seats, such as National Committee. The National Delegation was eventually split in half. Fairness and equality overturning competition is clearly a Democratic principle, one that Republicans stole from the playbook and ran exceptionally well.
When the RNC trashed the National Delegation, what it really sent was a message to every hard working liberty activist stating they did not matter. The phone banking, outreach, and organizing was voided, without actual legitimate reasoning. Instead of welcoming such intense devotion to victory, the Republican Party cancelled it, because they disagreed with the result in a fair competition.
The Republican Party didn't want us. Not yet, at least, it wasn't November.
Something else happened at the National Convention that is still being debated is the rules changes. The Mitt Romney presidential campaign, just like at the State Convention, had a fleet of lawyers on hand to silence any and all dissent. Unlike at the State Convention, they were successful in scoring a rigged victory at the National Convention. The nomination rules were successfully changed for the future, ensuring that a repeat of Ron Paul 2012 could not happen. Rand Paul 2016? Keep dreaming, it isn't happening now.
Up until recently, now former National Committeeman Mark Willis led a fight at the RNC to restore the original nomination rules and allow all Republicans to have a voice in the presidential primaries. Apparently, this was a problem for Republican leadership. The Willis Resolution never hit the floor, dying in committee, and thus preserving the country club.
The Republican Party doesn't only not want us, it didn't want the principled hard work of Mark Willis. So he left.
Now Republicans are complaining that Willis has resigned, along with several State Committeemembers and other Republicans, claiming they abandoned the fight. How exactly does anyone win this fight?
The liberty grassroots fairly put up a strong fight in a presidential primary, properly securing delegates across America in compliance with the rules. This was overturned. Mark Willis fairly put up a strong fight for the rules governing future presidential primaries, properly submitting a resolution and asking that all Republicans be allowed a voice. This was ignored.
Who doesn't want who? Willis and others tried, they were rejected. So they left.
Penobscotgate was an interesting time to be a Republican. Hard working grassroots activist Bryan Daugherty ran for Chair of the Penobscot County Republican Committee, a position he eventually lost to Deb Plowman. It became increasingly clear that there were irregularities with the election, reported by those present and participating in the process. Of these many issues were non-voting members casting votes in the election.
Republicans resorting to giving votes to those who are ineligible for voting? Really?
Ken Anderson, a concerned Penobscot Republican and husband of former State Committeewoman Michelle Anderson, filed an appeal with the Maine Republican Party. Over this time, the State Party failed to communicate with Anderson, offering no confirmation that the issue was being reviewed.
In the end, former Chairman Rich Cebra would send out the lawyers similar to how Mr. Burns would "release the hounds" on The Simpsons. Declaring Anderson "unaffected" by the election results, his appeal was rejected. Daugherty would then attempt to file his own appeal, which was also rejected based on a legal technicality.
Due to the disingenuous response to clear concern over a legitimate issue, these three Republicans left the Party.
The madness didn't stop at this point however, as the Maine Republican Party wanted to increase the tally on violated bylaws. This time, it was the bylaw requiring an internal budget by March 31st. Even after revelations that the bank account was in the red, with the party in significant debt, a budget was not offered. One would think after Old Orchard Beach citizens recalled Town Councilor Michael Coleman, he would have more time to fulfill his duty as Maine Republican Party Budget Committee chairman.
Yet, operations continued to fail within the Maine Republican Party, as they did at the RNC. Not only were the power interests being protected, but the grassroots ground teams were being rejected.
Now with this Bangor Daily News blog titled "Undercover Porcupine", I have covered a number of issues within the Republican Party in attempt to provide transparency. These were ongoing issues which I gave a sufficient amount of time to be fixed before it was clear suitable resolution would not be reached.
What else is there to do when all internal options have been exhausted? Air it out.
Though like the Maine Republican Party called NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden a traitor, I have become blacklisted in the Party. After all my past hard work for candidates and causes, I have become an outcast for my willingness to bring openness and transparency to a party so devoid of light.
The problem isn't the fact everyday Republicans lack a voice in various nominating processes or that those fighting for them to have just that are rejected, it's the blogger exposing these issues. The problem isn't everyday Republicans being overruled by non-voting members tampering with election results or the lack of a budget providing clarity as to why significant party debt exists, it's the blogger exposing these issues.
Well, it has become clear to this point that the corruption does not wish for my presence to exist. It has become clear to me as well, that I no longer wish to participate in the corrupt operation of the Republican Party.
As of Monday August 26, 2013, I have unenrolled from the Republican Party, becoming an Independent. It's a liberating feeling.
The future doesn't change much for me. Those Republican legislators who claim to put their children and principles first will continue to work with me on agreeable points and issues, if their claims are indeed true. The only difference is that I will no longer be involving myself with the petty internal politics of a collapsing political party.
Running for office is not ever ruled out, but it is not presently on the radar. My focus will be on the blog, and my work as State Coordinator for the Maine Tenth Amendment Center.
As for Undercover Porcupine, focus is shifting away from the endless drama of the Republican Party. If they wish to run like the Democrats they claim to want to defeat, more power to them. The future of the blog will be dedicated to advancing the rising revolution of the unenrolled, already a majority here in Maine. Beyond this, it will be discussing the principles of liberty and providing libertarian-leaning perspective on Maine politics.
You win, GOP. I'm gone. Now as long as Governor Paul LePage doesn't lose to Congressman Mike Michaud in the Democratic primary, he can return for a second term to continue oppressing small farmers and advance new taxes such as the Internet sales tax. After all, the Republican leadership will defend this still, without the complementary vaseline.
Political parties serve no purpose. They take everyday Mainers and turn them against each other, injecting venom into the political arena. When it comes to the political atmosphere Republicans and Democrats create, the veins are filled with gasoline and the flames are all around. It's open war for power and money. It's not about the struggling parents, who have difficulty keeping the lights on and food on the table for their children. It's not about the hurting businesses who are failing in a bad economy, because of a variety of conditions. About the most significance these people have to the battle is they make a solid campaign bargaining chip and sound good when referenced in a rebuttal of another politician's disingenuous attempt at the truth.
Republicans are beginning to leave the party, draining the venom and instead choosing to focus on the issues that matter. We are no longer choosing to participate in the internal feuds or the empty battles that serve no purpose, other than to distract from the actual repair of our great State. If any Democrats have respect for each other, they will follow suit. Parties are counterproductive. Leave your party.
Maine is a great state and it benefits from an intelligent base of people who are more open to independents and third parties than most. Though the independents in recent memory tend to be Democrats who like to hide the "D", their success displays that Mainers actually will look beyond parties in their decision making. This open minded trend should continue.
Let the Independent Revolution begin. Unenroll from your political party today and let's work on the issues that matter. Begin rebuilding today to provide a better tomorrow for our children.


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SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Ryusei Hirooka lined a decisive two-run double in the bottom of the fifth inning and Shunpei Takagi hit two solo home runs as Tokyo beat Chula Vista, California, 6-4 on Sunday to win the Little League World Series.
It was the 14th championship game for Japan, which was making its fourth straight appearance in the title game, and ninth title. California, making its 23rd championship game appearance, has won seven World Series titles. Giancarlo Cortez had a two-run single and Grant Holman an RBI single for Chula Vista.
Trailing 4-3 after Cortez's single in the fourth, Japan tied it on Takagi's second homer and won it when Hirooka lined a 2-2 pitch down the left-field line for a double.


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The death of Taiwanese fisherman Hung Shih-cheng (洪石成), after Philippine Coast Guard personnel shot 52 bullets into a Taiwanese fishing boat, has raised tensions between the two nations. Taiwanese authorities and media have accused the Philippine government of "insincerity" when it apologized, but spoke of "unintended loss of life."
While the death of a fisherman is tragic, the subsequent sequence of events shows a rush to judgment before it is clear what really happened.
Were warning shots fired? Was the fishing boat on a collision course with the Philippine vessel? Were there other ships in the area that witnessed the events? These questions need to be answered if we want to reach a fair and objective conclusion.
The location of the incident is also important. News reports say it occurred about 164 nautical miles (304km) southeast of Oluanpi (鵝鑾鼻), but this is only 80km east of the Philippino island of Balintang. Technically this would put the incident within Taiwan's 200 nautical mile (370km) Economic Exclusive Zone (EEZ), but it actually lies just outside Philippines' territorial waters.
To make the claim that these are "disputed waters" is not responsible leadership. Would Taiwan accept Philippine fishing boats just outside its territorial waters off Taichung or Hualien? Not likely. Inflammatory language such as "cold-blooded murder," as is being used on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Web site and by President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), is also irresponsible.
When Ma first took office he promised Washington that he would be a reliable partner and there would be no "surprises." He said he would be a "peacemaker" and not a "troublemaker." This episode has certainly surprised many in Washington, and shows that Ma lacks the leadership to be a true peacemaker. Observers were flabbergasted by the way Ma has handled this crisis.
The Philippine government initially offered to conduct a joint investigation, but this offer was rudely rejected by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Philippines twice extended apologies through personal emissaries of President Benigno Aquino III, but these were dismissed as "insincere" by a haughty Ma administration obsessed with getting a "government-to-government" apology.
Ironically, the Philippine response is in line with the "one China" concept that the Ma government has been strenuously pushing. As long as Ma's government clings to this "one China" fallacy, it will be difficult for other nations to deviate from it. This latest episode clearly shows that adherance to "one China" perpetuates Taiwan's international isolation.
It was also rather premature for the Ma government to issue an ultimatum, trying to force the Philippines to offer an apology, pay compensation and start fisheries talks before it was clear what the sequence of events was.
How can this conflict be resolved? First, it is essential that a clear and objective account of what actually happened is established. The Philippines is taking a lead in that, but Taiwan can help by not jumping to conclusions or making inflammatory accusations.
Second, if it is established that the Philippine Coast Guard used force unnecessarily or without provocation, compensation would be in order. If the crew broke established rules of engagement, then of course disciplinary measures would be called for.


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If fingerpointing were an Olympic sport, Washington would win the gold hands down.
As the clocked ticked down on the sequester -- $85 billion in budget cuts that will run through the end of the fiscal year -- President Obama and congressional Republicans were busy blaming each other for the plan that was enacted to force Congress to reform the tax code and spending to keep the meat-ax approach to reducing the $1 trillion budget deficit from taking effect.
The sequester was adopted as part of the Budget Control Act of 2011 that allowed an increase in the debt ceiling on the theory the 10 percent across-the-board cuts to defense and discretionary spending were so onerous, Congress would act to avoid them. A White House memo this week estimated defense will take a 13 percent hit and domestic agencies will see 9 percent of their budgets vanish.
"The whole design of these arbitrary cuts was to make them so unattractive and unappealing that Democrats and Republicans would actually get together and find a good compromise of sensible cuts as well as closing tax loopholes and so forth," Obama said in explaining why sequestration was adopted. "And so this was all designed to say we can't do these bad cuts; let's do something smarter. That was the whole point of this so-called sequestration."
So much for that idea. In fact, the conservative groups Americans for Prosperity, Club for Growth and FreedomWorks urged Republicans to hold firm and allow the cuts to take effect.
The Congressional Budget Office has estimated the cuts will cost 750,000 jobs this year and advised agencies to restrict hiring, travel and employee bonuses. The OMB also suggested "delaying awarding of new financial assistance obligations, reducing levels of continued funding, and renegotiating or reducing the current scope of assistance, ... [and reducing] the level of assistance provided through formula funds or block grants."
A last-ditch meeting at the White House Friday produced no resolution.
"The president got his tax hikes on Jan. 1," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told reporters after the meeting. "This discussion about revenue in my view is over. It's about taking on the spending problem here in Washington.
"I did -- I acted. The House is going to move a continuing resolution next week to fund the government past March 27. I'm hopeful that we won't have to deal with the threat of a government shutdown while we're dealing with the sequester at the same time."
Obama warned the economy is going to take a hit.
"The longer the cuts stay in place, the greater the damage to our economy," Obama said after the meeting.
On Thursday, the Senate rejected rival Republican and Democratic bills to avert the sequester -- the GOP measure winning only 38 votes and the Democratic bill getting 51, both short of the 60 votes needed to end dueling filibusters.
Instead of acting to avoid cuts that will damage anti-terror efforts and military preparedness, the air traffic control system and myriad social programs, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., keeps reminding us the sequester was an administration idea and accuses Obama of wanting to make it hurt as much as possible.
"Instead of directing his Cabinet secretaries to trim waste in their departments, he's going to go after first-responders and teachers ... and somehow, it will be everyone's fault but his," McConnell said.
Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., told The Hill he thinks Obama has made a tactical error by using campaign-style tactics to try to move the issue forward.
"It is strange to have President Obama's arm reaching out and attacking members of the House Republicans when in theory he's trying to work with us," he said. "I'm not sure how smart that is. If he really wants cooperation, why would you just sort of, intentionally antagonize? I don't know.
"The well is fairly poisoned right now."
At the same time, Obama keeps saying the lack of progress on averting the spending cuts is the GOP's fault -- largely because of the Republican aversion to increasing tax revenues.
"There are too many Republicans in Congress right now who refuse to compromise even an inch when it comes to closing tax loopholes and special interest tax breaks. That's what's holding things up right now," Obama said during an appearance Monday at the Newport News, Va., shipyard.
The Office of Management and Budget issued an assessment of the Senate Republican plan, saying it "would protect tax loopholes for the wealthy and congressional pork barrel projects and would lock in severe cuts that threaten hundreds of thousands of middle-class jobs and slash vital services for children, seniors and our troops and military families.
"Rather than proposing a comprehensive solution to avoid the cuts and their harmful impacts to the economy, this bill would cancel $85.3 billion in budgetary resources in FY 2013 and purportedly provide the president with flexibility in executing the reductions. While no amount of flexibility can avoid the fact that middle-class families will bear the brunt of the cuts required by this bill, nothing is asked of the wealthiest Americans.
"There is no way to cut spending this dramatically over a 7-month period without drastically affecting national security and economic priorities."
White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters Boehner and Obama actually agree on some principles.
"The fundamental difference here now seems to be not that we shouldn't close loopholes and cap deductions for the wealthiest individuals and corporations that are given special treatment in the tax code -- the speaker seems to agree with that," Carney said. "The disagreement here now seems to be that he believes that the savings from that action, the savings from closing those loopholes, should be funneled back to the wealthiest individuals in tax cuts.
"We believe adopting a conservative position that savings should be applied to deficit reduction, and thereby by applying that savings to deficit reduction we're not asking seniors and middle-class families to bear the burden of deficit reduction all by themselves -- and that's a pretty conservative position. That's a pretty reasonable, middle-of-the-road, commonsense approach to both tax reform and entitlement reform."
Posturing aside, the sequester promises to have real-world consequences.
The National Employment Law Project notes 2 million workers will see an 11 percent reduction in their federal jobless benefits, probably as early as April. NELP said by the end of the fiscal year 4 million long-term unemployed will be affected by $2.3 billion in cuts. In addition, state agencies that process unemployment benefits will lose nearly $200 million in administrative funding, likely affecting claims processing.
Nonetheless, Americans apparently have disconnected from this latest fiscal crisis, with nearly one in five in a Gallup survey released this week saying they don't much care if the cuts go into effect and 37 percent saying the cuts should take hold. The survey, conducted Monday and Tuesday, queried 1,017 adults. The error rate was 4 percentage points.
University of Maryland economist Peter Morici notes Obama has some discretion in how the cuts are implemented but accuses the president of refusing to mitigate the impact on the public.
"For example, the Agriculture Department has one of the largest staffs of economists in the world -- surely, safe food is more important than yet another dull research paper," Morici said. "Military bands could stand down to maintain Marine guards at embassies."


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About eight years ago my daughter had a high school assignment to interview older relatives about their memories of Pearl Harbor and World War II. This was not long after September 11th, 2001- so she could relate to my uncle telling about how he was in high school, listening to a football game on the radio, when he heard the news about Pearl Harbor. He must have been about her age at that time. We went down to Massachusetts so she could record the interviews with my aunt, uncle and Mom for the assignment.
That same day I drove her to Hamilton, Massachusetts. My mother grew up there, and I remember visiting my grandparents in Hamilton. In the center of town is Patton Park. General George Smith Patton lived in Hamilton, and Mom used to babysit his grandchildren. He had donated one of his famous Sherman tanks to the town as a war memorial. When I was little we used to be able to climb inside, but it's since been welded shut. As you can see, kids still enjoy climbing on it.
Note: I still have the audio tapes of her interviews. This is good because my uncle has since passed away. My aunt, uncle and Mom spoke for over an hour about the Great Depression, Pearl Harbor and the home front during World War II. By the end of the war, my uncle was serving as a Paratrooper in Europe.
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Virtual servers put pressure on backup
Virtual servers solve many problems in the data center, but they also make backup harder. There are several ways to back up virtual servers, each with advantages and disadvantages.
- W. Curtis Preston, Druva
Virtual servers have solved a lot of problems in the data center, but they've also made backup a lot harder. There are several ways to back up virtual servers, each with unique advantages and disadvantages.
Backup is the single biggest gotcha for VMware nirvana in large environments today. The usual backup methods cause many environments to limit the number of virtual machines (VMs) they place on a single ESX server, decreasing the overall value proposition of virtualizing servers. To further compound matters, one possible solution to the problem requires purchasing additional physical machines to back up the virtual machines (VMs).
However, there are existing products that can solve the problem, if you're willing to move your VMware environment to different storage. If that's not possible, there are some "Band Aid" remedies that can help until storage-independent products arrive. However you ultimately address virtual machine backup, you can at least take some comfort in knowing that you're not alone in your frustration.
The problem is physics
Whenever I consider VMware, I find my mind turning to the movie The Matrix. The millions of VMs running inside VMware are very similar to all of the virtual people living inside the movie's matrix. As with the movie, when you plug into the "matrix" -- VMware, in this case -- you can do all sorts of neat things. In the matrix, you can fly through the air; with VMware, VMs can "fly" from one physical machine to another without so much as a hiccup. In the matrix, you can learn Kung Fu and fly a helicopter in seconds. In VMware, a virtual machine can run on hardware it was never designed for thanks to the HyperVisor.
But when you die in the matrix, you die in real life because your body can't tell the difference between virtual pain and physical pain. Similarly, VMware can't break the connection between virtual worlds and physical worlds. Although those 20 VMs running within a single ESX system may think they're 20 physical servers, there's just one physical server with one I/O system and, typically, one storage system. So when your backup system treats them like 20 physical servers, you find out very quickly that they're running in one physical server.
Usual solution: Denial
Most VMware users simply pretend their virtual machines are physical machines. In various seminar venues, I've polled approximately 5,000 users to see how they're handling VMware backups. Consistently, only a small fraction of those who have virtualized their servers with VMware are also using VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB). The majority simply use their backup software just as they would with physical servers.
There's nothing wrong with doing it that way. A lot of backup administrators suffer from a "VMware backup inferiority complex" because they think they're the only ones doing VM backups that way. They're actually part of a large majority.
If you're doing VM backups that way and they're working, don't worry. The good thing about doing conventional backups is the simplicity of the process. Virtual machine backups work the same as "real" backups; you have access to file-level recovery, database and app agents, and incremental backups (see "Improving old-style virtual machine backups," below).
|Improving old-style virtual machine backups
You can do several things to improve backups of your virtual servers if you're using traditional software.
Backup from inside ESX server
Another option is to run your backup software at the physical level inside the ESX server. But things get ugly quickly and you'll find yourself doing full backups every day. You're also likely to be doing this without any support from your backup software company, which has little incentive to make this method work. (They'd much rather you use VCB or even the typical agent approach as they get more revenue that way.) The reason you end up doing full backups every day is because any change in the VM results in a modification of the timestamp of its associated VMDK files. So even an "incremental" backup will be the same as a full. This is rarely the best approach to virtual server backup.
VMware Consolidated Backup: Hope or hype?
VMware's answer to the backup dilemma is VMware Consolidated Backup. To use VCB, you must install a physical Windows server next to your ESX server and give it access to the storage that you're using for your VMFS file systems. It can access both block-based (Fibre Channel and iSCSI) and NFS-based data stores. The server then acts as a proxy server to back up the data stores without the I/O having to go through the ESX server.
There are two general ways a backup application interacts with VMware Consolidated Backup. The first method only works for Windows-based VMs. With this method, the backup application tells VMware via the VCB interface that it wants to do a backup. VMware performs a Virtual Shadow Copy Service (VSS) snapshot on Windows virtual machines and then performs a VMware-level snapshot that's exported via VCB to the proxy server as a virtual drive letter. (The "C:" drive on the VM becomes the "H:" drive on the proxy server.) Your backup software can then perform standard full and incremental backups of that virtual drive.
The main advantage to this method is the ability to perform incremental backups. The disadvantages are that it's Windows only, there's no official support for applications (including VSS-aware apps) and no ability to recover the VM itself, only the files within the virtual machine.
Alternatively, you can use the full-volume method. VMware performs VSS snapshots as before, but can also perform syncs for non-Windows VMs. However, with this method, the raw volumes the VMDKs represent are physically copied (i.e., staged) from the VMFS storage to storage on the proxy server. Although there's no I/O load on the ESX server itself, this approach places an I/O load on the VMFS storage that's the same as a full backup.
With standard backup products, this staged copy of the raw volume is then "backed up" to tape or disk before it's considered an actual backup. This means that each full backup actually has the I/O load of two full backups. And unless the backup software does a lot of extra work, there are no such things as incremental backups. That means VCB -- with a few exceptions -- creates the I/O load equivalent of two full backups every day.
Symantec Corp. and CommVault have figured out ways to do incremental backups. Symantec uses the full-volume method for the full backup and the file-level method for the incremental backup, and then uses the FlashBackup technology borrowed from Veritas NetBackup to associate the two. Symantec's method significantly reduces the I/O load on the data store by doing the incremental backup this way; however, it requires a multi-step restore of first laying down the full volume and then restoring each incremental backup against that volume. This restore method is cumbersome, to say the least. CommVault's method is to perform a block-level incremental backup against the raw volume, which is a "truer" incremental backup that offers an easier (and possibly faster) restore than Symantec's approach. However, it must be understood that CommVault's method still requires copying the entire volume from the data store to the proxy server. Therefore, their incremental backup places the equivalent of the I/O load of a full backup on the data store every day.
Restoring a VM also requires two steps. Your backup software restores the appropriate data to the proxy server and then uses VMware vCenter Converter to restore that to the ESX server. If the backup software supports it, it can do individual file restores by putting an agent on the virtual machine and restoring directly to it; however, restoring the entire VM must be done via the two-step method.
All of these issues contribute to the relatively limited adoption of VCB as a backup solution for VMs. While VMware said VCB has been licensed fairly extensively, my experience indicates that a good number of those license holders have yet to implement it. There's some hope for a better backup process, however, with VMware's vSphere (see "What about vSphere?" below).
|What about vSphere?
VMware Inc. vSphere is the next-gen architecture that's going to add some new features and resolve some backup issues. In particular, it's going to remove the "two copies" problem with VMware Consolidated Backup (which will no longer be called VCB), and it will allow true incremental backups of the VMDK files. VMware vSphere is here and available, but it will be a while (probably six months to a year) before we see these features adopted in backup software.
Some help from point products
There are a few "point products" designed specifically to address VM backup that can be incorporated into the backup process to address some of these issues. VizionCore Inc. was early to the market with its vRanger Pro product, and has been doing VMware backups longer than anyone else. Another popular alternative is esXpress from PHD Virtual Technologies. Both products are able to do VMDK-level full and incremental backups, and file-level restores with or without VCB. The two products think and behave very differently, however, so make sure you find the best match for your environment. Note that volume-level backups with both products still require reading the entire VMDK file, even if they only write a portion of it in an incremental backup.
Source deduplication
You can also use source deduplication backup software, such as Asigra Inc.'s Asigra, EMC Corp.'s Avamar or Symantec's NetBackup PureDisk. The first way source deduplication backup software can be used is by installing it on the VM where it can perform regular backups. However, source deduplication backup requires fewer CPU cycles and is less I/O-intensive than a regular backup (even an incremental one), so it significantly reduces the impact on the ESX server. Doing backups this way also lets you use any database/application agents that the products may offer. The downside is that you're not usually able to do a "bare metal" restore of a VM if this is the only backup you do.
Some products take this approach a bit further by running a backup inside the ESX server itself, capturing the extra blocks necessary to restore the virtual machine. But this method requires the backup app to read all the blocks in all of the VMDK files to figure out which ones have changed. That could significantly impact I/O on the CPU as it calculates and looks up all those hashes.
CDP and near-CDP approaches
Continuous data protection (CDP) and near-CDP backup products are used in much the same way that deduplication software is used. They're installed on your VM and back up virtual machines as they would any other physical server. The CPU and I/O impact of such a backup is very low. Most CDP software won't allow you to recover the entire machine, so you'll need to have an alternative if your VM is damaged or deleted.
Near-CDP-capable storage
So far, all of the methods covered have as many disadvantages as advantages -- if not more. But there's a completely different solution that merits serious consideration: Use a storage system that has VMware-aware near-CDP backup already built into it. (Keep in mind that near-CDP is just a fancy name for snapshots and replication.) Dell EqualLogic, FalconStor Software Inc. and NetApp all have this ability. Other storage vendors are developing similar capabilities, so check with your storage vendor.
The concept is relatively simple. VMDKs are stored on their storage, and each has a tool designed for VMware that you can run to tell it to back up VMware. VMware then performs a snapshot similar to what it does for VCB, allowing your storage box to then perform its own snapshot of the VMware snapshot. Replicate that backup to another box and you have yourself a backup.
The CPU hit on the ESX server is minimal. And the I/O hit on the storage is also minimal, as all it has to do is take a snapshot and then perform a smart, block-level incremental of today's new blocks by replicating them to another system. (Note that this block-level incremental is being done by the storage that already knows which blocks need to be copied, so the I/O impact is as low as it can be.) Vendors that offer these capabilities have their own ways of providing file-level restores from these backups as well.
Dell EqualLogic systems, because they're iSCSI, can communicate directly with the virtual machines via IP to coordinate the snapshots. FalconStor has agents that run in all your VMs to coordinate snapshots and do the "right thing" for a number of applications. NetApp uses VMware tools to do snapshots; however, NetApp's truly unique trait is that it can dedupe VMware data -- even live data. Think of all of the redundant blocks of data you can get rid of by using the deduplication tool included with NetApp's Data Ontap operating system.
Bottom line for VM backup
There are a number of technologies you can deploy today to make VMware backups better. However, many of them are still saddled with disadvantages, especially when compared to traditional backup processes. Perhaps the best current alternative is to move your VMware instances to VMware-aware near-CDP-capable storage. Or maybe VMware will solve some of these backup problems with vSphere.
BIO: W. Curtis Preston is an executive editor in TechTarget's Storage Media Group, as well as an independent backup expert.


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Heather Thomas named Christian/Community Service Volunteer of the Year
Liberty University senior Heather Thomas is the recipient of this year's Christian/Community Service Volunteer of the Year Award for her outstanding contribution and commitment to service in the Lynchburg community and around the world.
She was presented the award in Wednesday's convocation.
Lew Weider, associate professor and Director of Christian/Community Service (CSER), called Thomas "one of the most energetic servant-leaders" he has met at Liberty. "She is a wonderful example of a Champion for Christ," he said.
Weider, the faculty adviser for Liberty's Circle K club, has worked closely with Thomas who served as president for three semesters. Circle K is the largest collegiate service organization worldwide.
Throughout the past academic year, Thomas has organized and served with many projects for the club, including volunteering at two nursing homes, Adopt-a-Highway, the American Red Cross Bloodmobile, the Kiwanis Club of Lynchburg Annual Teddy Bear Parade, clean-up at Blackwater Creek trail and the Hyland Heights Baptist Church food drive.
Thomas, a biology/pre-med major, also helped to raise about $5,500 for the Circle K International Eliminate Project, which is designed to eliminate maternal and neonatal Tetanus.
In addition to her service with Circle K, Thomas volunteers every Tuesday night, and other days during the week as needed, with the Lynchburg Free Clinic. On the weekends, she is on call at the Campbell County Rescue Squad as an EMT-Basic and regularly volunteers at the Lynchburg General Hospital Emergency Department. Every Sunday morning she runs a coffee ministry at Cornerstone Community Church.
Thomas's volunteerism spirit has also taken her to China for several summers, teaching English as a second language.
This academic year she started Liberty's Medical Community Service Club where she helped to prepare and send out newsletters for the Free Clinic of Central Virginia, participated in a fundraiser for Mended Hearts (for those with mental and physical health challenges), wrote letters to homebound individuals and cleaned house for a handicapped woman.
Thomas's latest project is directing the "Walk to Remember Rwanda" fundraiser scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday on the steps of Arthur S. DeMoss Learning Center. The money raised will go toward a school Liberty students are helping to build in Rwanda (read more on that project here).
Thomas said her inspiration for serving comes from the Lord and is a platform for sharing the gospel.
"Volunteering has opened up a bunch of different doors to share Christ in the community," Thomas said. "Everywhere we go we always have the question, 'Where all you all from?' To be able say you're from Liberty University not only portrays a good name on the school but also upon Christ. People tell us that there is something different about us and they really have enjoyed getting to know the students that have come out."
Thomas is graduating this May and plans to work for a year at a local nursing home before attending medical school.
The Volunteer of the Year Christian Service Award is presented annually to a student who demonstrates excellence in Christian service and ministry. Students are nominated by their supervisors at the organizations where they volunteer.
Kenneth Hubbell and Mark Osborne received honorable mentions for their service with No Longer Music and Liberty Counsel, respectively.
Liberty requires students to complete a minimum of 20 hours of Christian service each semester to fulfill graduation requirements and support the mission of the university to serve others.


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Winter Sleep wins prized Palme d'Or
Turkish drama Winter Sleep has won the Palme d'Or, the top honour of the Cannes Film Festival.
Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan dedicated the award to "the young people in Turkey and those who lost their lives in the last year". A coal mine fire in Turkey recently killed 301 workers.
With a running time of more than three hours, Winter Sleep is about a family running a hotel in the snowy Turkish hills and their strained relationship with their village tenants.
Bennett Miller won the award for best director. His wrestling drama Foxcatcher stars Channing Tatum and Steve Carell.
Best actor went to Timothy Spall who stars as British painter JMW Turner in Mr Turner, while Julianne Moore won best actress for her performance in the Hollywood satire Maps To The Stars.
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