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On the Radar
Check ON THE RADAR regularly each week to read the latest reporting by award-winning WASHINGTON WEEK panelists.
December 22, 2011
Benefits Fight Heats Up in WashingtonWith Eamon Javers, CNBC
Labor to launch attacks on Republicans in benefits fight, with CNBC's Eamon Javers. "The Democrats are secretly loving this," he says. "
Gingrich Condemns Senate on Payroll Tax VoteBy Trip Gabriel and Jeff Zeleny, New York Times
Newt Gingrich put a pox on all parties in Washington on Wednesday for failing to pass a payroll tax extension, but he especially condemned the Senate, where Republicans joined Democrats to vote for a two-month extension of the tax break, which affects 160 million Americans. House Republicans under Speaker John A. Boehner rejected that plan.
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Obama, Senate Democrats Rally for Benefits ExtensionBy Susan Davis, USA TODAY
President Obama and Senate Democrats appealed to House Republicans on Wednesday to return to Washington and approve a two-month extension of benefits for American workers before they expire Dec. 31. The House GOP remains opposed to a short-term patch despite mounting opposition to the strategy, even from within the party.
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December 21, 2011
Congress's Payroll Standoff - Who Blinks First?By Major Garrett, National Journal
Less than two weeks remain – with a holiday in between – for Congress to keep alive a payroll-tax cut, unemployment insurance, and a "doc fix" patch. Here is how it could play out.
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Obama Approval Rating Shows Signs of Rebound in Two PollsBy Julianna Goldman, Bloomberg News
President Barack Obama's approval ratings are showing signs of rebounding following some recent positive economic data and after months of aggressively promoting his jobs plan and criticizing his Republican opposition. Forty-nine percent of Americans approve of how Obama is handling his job, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll and another conducted for CNN.
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A Rhetorical Return for 'YOYO' EconomicsBy Helene Cooper, New York Times
Just in time for the presidential campaign season, "you're on your own" economics — a k a YOYO — has returned to the rhetorical landscape. YOYO economics, a term coined by the economist Jared Bernstein in his 2006 book "All Together Now: Common Sense for a Fair Economy," is meant to refer — critically, of course — to the idea that many Republican economic proposals simply shift risk from the government and big corporations to individuals and families.
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Payroll Tax Fight Heats UpWith Eamon Javers, CNBC
Neither side in the payroll tax fight is showing signs of backing down, reports CNBC's Eamon Javers.
Romney Goes on TV to Attack GingrichBy Sam Youngman, Reuters
Presidential candidate Mitt Romney unloaded on rival Republican Newt Gingrich on Tuesday on a liberal television network, comparing him to former candidate Herman Cain and others who have led the field briefly before flaming out. "(Gingrich's) lead is not as much as it used to be," Romney said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "But that's sort of the process that other people have gone through."
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Obama Blasts House GOP for Blocking Payroll Tax Cut ExtensionBy Christi Parsons, Los Angeles Times
While members of Congress point fingers at each other for gumming up the payroll tax cut, President Obama is watching the bickering from the White House--where he is apparently happy to spend the holiday season until a deal gets done. The rest of the Obama family has gone ahead to Hawaii for their pre-planned holiday trip. But aides say the president will continue to delay his vacation in hopes of inspiring House Republicans to take up a Senate-approved measure extending the tax cut beyond midnight New Year's Eve.
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President Obama makes a rare appearance during the White House Press Briefing to encourage a compromise to Payroll Tax Cut extensions. (CNN)
White House Faces Tough Choice On Iran Sanctionsby Tom Gjelten, NPR
Let Iran off the hook or undermine the global economy? Slap sanctions on an Iranian energy company or provide Europe with an alternative to Russian gas? Washington policymaking is especially difficult when the aims conflict, and few cases illustrate that principle more clearly than the challenge of finding a way to punish Iran without hurting someone else.
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House Rejects 2-Month Extension of Payroll Tax CutBy Susan Davis, USA TODAY
The Republican-controlled House on Tuesday rejected a Senate-approved two-month extension of a payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits to millions of Americans, raising the likelihood that both will expire on Dec. 31.The House effectively adjourned for the year following the vote, and with the Senate out of town for the holiday, there is no resolution in sight on a legislative battle waged by House Republicans over the length of the benefits' extension. Both chambers can return to Washington at the call of party leaders if there is an agreement.
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Perry Dismisses Gingrich's Complaint of 'Negative' CampaigningBy Jeff Zeleny, New York Times
Gov. Rick Perry of Texas said Tuesday that he was not concerned by a complaint from a Republican rival, Newt Gingrich, that the tenor of the presidential primary race had grown too negative and indicated that he had no plans to stop drawing contrasts in the final two weeks before the Iowa caucuses. "As long as no one is misstating the facts, I don't consider that to be negative," Mr. Perry said. "It's always in the eye of the beholder."
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Payroll Tax: A High Stakes Game of Chicken?With John Harwood, CNBC
CNBC's John Harwood has the latest details on the payroll tax cut fight on Capitol Hill, and debating the merits of a full- year versus a two-month version of the bill, with Rep. Brad Sherman, (D-CA), and Rep. Nan Hayworth, (R-NY).
Dems Hope for Campaign Edge on Tax IssueBy Charles Babington, Associated Press
Democrats feel they're closer than ever in their long-running bid to paint Republicans as being much more eager to cut taxes for the rich than for the working class. But public contempt for Congress is so rampant that the effort may fade away in a pox-on-all-their-houses fog. If that happens, President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats could lose a political edge as they head into the 2012 elections with a struggling economy.
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Obama Scolds House GOP Over Payroll Tax StalemateBy Alexis Simendinger and Caitlin Huey-Burns, RealClearPolitics
President Obama turned up the heat on House Republicans Tuesday afternoon, urging them to rethink their opposition to a Senate-approved bill that would extend the payroll tax holiday for at least two more months next year. Shortly after House conservatives voted Tuesday to rebuke the Senate and risk raising the payroll tax in January, the president grabbed his spokesman's podium to deliver his own message to lawmakers.
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December 20, 2011
North Korea Faces 2nd Leadership Change In 60 Yearsby Tom Gjelten, NPR
Intelligence analysts are scrambling to assess North Korea's designated leader Kim Jong Un, of whom very little is known. He is untested, and North Korea watchers wonder whether he will be challenged by the military or others in the leadership elite. Similar questions were raised about his father when he took over following the death of Kim Il Sung in 1994.
House GOP Strategy on Senate Payroll Package Still EvolvingBy Major Garrett, National Journal
If House Republicans have proven anything this year, it's they are absolutely sure of what they're against. What they have rarely been sure of, and what eludes them now, is what they are for. What also eludes them at present is a strategy to get what they want once they decide on what they want. This emerged as the key question for House Republicans as they pondered strategy on Monday.
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Dems: Romney is Easier Jobs Target than GingrichBy Charles Babington, Associated Press
Conventional wisdom, supported by polls, maintains that Mitt Romney would be a tougher opponent than Newt Gingrich against President Barack Obama. But one factor keeps Democrats from salivating over Gingrich's rise in the Republican presidential race: Romney may present a fatter target on jobs, the issue expected to dominate the 2012 contest.
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Carney Says U.S. Has 'No New Concerns' About Korean WeaponsBy Julianna Goldman, Bloomberg
The U.S. has "no new concerns" about North Korea's nuclear arsenal following the death of dictator Kim Jong Il, White House press secretary Jay Carney said. The U.S. is monitoring the situation in North Korea and has consulted with allies South Korea and Japan as well as China and Russia, the other members of the six-party talks on getting North Korea to shed its nuclear weapons, Carney said at a briefing.
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North Korean Leader Kim Jong-Il lies in State (CNN)
House Speaker Foresees Extension of Payroll Tax CutsBy Susan Davis, USA TODAY
House Speaker John Boehner told USA TODAY on Monday that he was optimistic that payroll tax cuts and unemployment benefits would be extended — despite a congressional stalemate that could result in millions of Americans losing both in the new year.
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(972) 771-4442
Rockwall Marine is owned by Tommy and Sylvia Yetts. We pride ourselves in customer satisfaction and friendly atmosphere. We are a certified Premier Mercury dealership with certification for selling and servicing the new Mercury Verado products. Our other factory authorized service includes Yamaha, Johnson, Evinrude and Mercruiser stern drives. Rockwall Marine started business knowing the needs of the boater. We have everything to offer to the consumer from duck boats & pontoon boats to high performance bass rigs and pleasure craft. Our expertise in the service field only compliments our sales. We developed this organization with you, the customer, in mind. We are not and will never be a mega marine dealership. We want to be able to create and maintain a one-on-one relationship with our customers. A personal realtionship with each one of you is our goal. Please give us a call or drop us an e-mail with any questions you may have. We will answer each and every one. Thanks, Tommy Yetts We also offer services in Fishing Bait & Tackle. We specialize in Fishing Bait & Tackle. We are proud to have the following certifications and affiliations - Certified. We accept the following forms of payment: All Major Cards Accepted, Discover Card, VISA, American Express, MasterCard.

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There are some cool events taking place at your local Toys R Us locations in Canada this summer.
Make a purchase of purchase of ANY LEGO Building Set and receive a FREE CHILDS ADMISSION TO LEGOLAND Discovery Centre in Vaughan Mills, Ontario.
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While quantities last. Limited one voucher per transaction. Available in participating locations only.
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Buy any Take-n-Play Engine, get a FREE Limited Edition Silver Thomas Engine.
Valid in store only. There is a maximum of 100 per store.
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Be sure to check out Toys R Us Canadian site for all the latest deals and special saving offers. See online flyer or just browse the webpage.
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I would like to get something's like for my nieces .
I lost everything I owned and this is a way to buy my nieces and nephews gifts while replacing my own belongings. Hope this is real.
Free Hockey Cards – as near as I can find out – after going to Toys R Us – is that this takes place sometime in February.


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*Looks around, scratches head*
I coulda swore I heard someone.
I'm considering putting everyone on ignore, and just soliloquizing!
But no, no one's going onto ignore. I was just curious.
*Looks around, scratches head*
I coulda swore I heard someone.
Well, you gotta have a record if you wanna get into the hall of fame!
Anyway, you shut off sigs, and no more bouncy boobies for you!
I honestly can't tell.
As for sigs in general, I like them but I once turned them off for a while because the movable ones are so distracting. And I noticed in the Dwayne McDuffie on Benbo thread that the bigger sigs with the moving images just seemed so out of place. Not anyone's fault but something I noticed.
People's sigs here are a little bit more restrained than on Benbo, not sure why, perhaps the cultures of the moving gifs as sigs isn't as ingrained.
A Jewish seamstress in a steampunked Victorian London hires a consulting detective to solve a magical murder mystery.
--The Curse of the Brimstone Contract by Corrina Lawson


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Cheng finds marriage may not be best career option for women
Lam discusses youth population dynamics and economics in sub-Saharan Africa
Work by Bailey and Dynarski cited in NYT piece on income inequality
Jeff Morenoff makes Reuters' Highly Cited Researchers list for 2014
Susan Murphy named Distinguished University Professor
Sarah Burgard and former PSC trainee Jennifer Ailshire win ASA award for paper
James Jackson to be appointed to NSF's National Science Board
PSC Brown Bags will return in the fall
a PSC Research Project
Investigators: Ana Diez Roux, Jeffrey Morenoff, Trivellore Raghunathan, Brisa Ney Sanchez Loya
Disparaties in health by socioeconomic position and race/ethnicity have been documented for numerous health outcomes. Developing a more comprehensive understanding of the reasons for health disparaties that integrates factors defined at multiple levels (e.g. from community-level or neighborhood processes to biological factors) and that explicates common or interreleated processes that generate disparities in multiple health conditions remains a major challenge. This is important not only to understand the etiology of multiple diseases, but also to develop strategies to eliminate health disparities. One process that has been hypothesized to contribute to disparities in multiple health domains is psychosocial stress. It has been argued that exposure to psychosocial stressors repeatedly over long periods has biological consequences with implications for multiple health conditions, including outcomes as diverse as low birth weight, asthma, and cardiovascular disease. Two major challenges in studying the role of psychosocial stress include the (1) measurement and characterization of biological markers of the stress response (2) examining how this complex biological response varies as a function of higher-level (or upstream) determinants such as socioeconomic position and community characteristics. We propose to address both challenges through the development of methodological tools necessary to characterize and analyze biolmarkers of the stress response (specifically cortisol profiles) in population-based studies. The overall goal of our project is to improve the methodolocial tools and data collection protocols necessary to understand how upstream determinants (such as neighborhood-level factors) trigger biological processes (specifically in the stress response) that may generate disparaties in multiple disease outcomes in the population. We will use a unique multilevel dataset to investigate the use of different methodological approches in order to make specific recommendations regarding (a) data collection protocols for salivary cortisol data (specifically regarding number and timing of samples) and (b) data analyses involving cortisol profiles as outcomes or predictors. The specific aims of our project are: (1) To investigate and contrast statistical methods useful in characterizing different features of the biological stress response, as assessed by repeat measures of salivary cortisol. (2) To examine measurement properties of the features of the cortisol curve in order to be able to make specific recommendations regarding the best data collection tools and protocols in future studies and (3) To investigate and contrast methods useful in examining how features of the stress reponse curve are related to neighborhood and individual-level predictors as well as to individual-level outcomes. Addressing these Aims will improve the tools available to researchers to study how communities and neighborhoods trigger biological processes in humans that relate to health disparities in the population (one of the stated aims of this RFA).
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A functional and beautiful kitchen, flowing floor plan, plenty of storage, and spacious master bathroom will help win buyers' hearts.
However, often before they see those areas, they see your landscape. It's the curb appeal theory that I'm talking about. Some buyers will decide based on the look of the outside of your home whether they'll even bother to come inside.
If your front yard is cluttered, your exterior paint is chipped, driveway cracked, you'll find that the for sale sign in your yard won't attract as many buyers as it could if you spent some time to clean up and create curb appeal.
Fortunately, you don't have to hire a landscape company to come and renovate the entire area. There are things that you can do that are fairly simple and will attract buyers.
Pull out the dead plants and debris. Start by removing dead plants, shrubs, and debris. Doing this step will create space in your yard and allow you to find a few potted plants to fill in the empty space to bring some color into your yard.
If you get a lot of fallen leaves, make sure you have someone rake and sweep up regularly. Remember your home is on the market every day, not just when it's being held open. So, keep it up daily. Just like when you go out to eat, you like to dine in pretty restaurants that are clean, buyers want to see your house in its best condition and that starts at the street.
Fix broken windows and dents in the garage door. Take a walk around the exterior of your home and note which areas need repairs. If you have paint chipped areas get them fixed. It's likely that the cost won't be that much and yet the payoff of repairing these items will help improve your home's overall value.
Add a splash of color. I saw a home the other day that had a yellow front door and a matching yellow umbrella in the front yard. Frankly, I don't remember much else about the landscape except that I thought the home was charming. The bright yellow door stood out and the umbrella made it seem quaint. Nothing else about the landscape was that spectacular, but adding some eye-catching color made the home shine.
The time and money you put into cleaning up your front yard will help attract buyers and keep them from bypassing your home.
Phoebe Chongchua, Realty Times Columnist 08/22/2014
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330 N Church St, Thurmont, MD 21788
330 N Church St. is a chef's dream!
This large split foyer home has a huge kitchen with more than enough space for all of your kitchenware and plenty of counter space for meal preparation. And did I mention there's a double oven?? There's even room for a breakfast table!
330 N Church St. has 4 spacious bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms.
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FYI.....You should pick up this book.
Here is a little bit about the book:
Alpha Billionaire is a sexy, thrilling and jaw-dropping three part novella serial.
It was only meant to be one night.
Evie Johnson was doing her best friend a favor when she agreed to work a bachelor party as a dancer. She hadn't expected to meet a man like Grant Slate. A man so handsome and cocky that she couldn't help but be attracted to him when he asked for a dance.
And when he asked her for a private dance, she didn't want to say yes, but she couldn't stop herself. Before she knew it, she was being whisked off to his private mansion and entering his home for one night of passion.
Only Evie had no idea what she was getting herself into. Grant Slate was not the man he'd appeared to be at the club. He wanted more from her than one night of passion. He was a man with secrets so deep and dark that Evie was unsure just what she was going to do.
From the New York Times Bestselling Author of The Ex Games comes a new hot serial called Alpha Billionaire.
You can pick this book up on Amazon right now! It's only 0.99.
P.S. I'll update this post with a review in the near future because I have to read this. =)


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In honor of their second anniversary (congrats!), the Goddess-focused group blog Medusa Coils looks at recent trends in feminist spirituality. One of the biggest trends they have noticed? The splitting off of Goddess religion from under the "Pagan" umbrella.
"One of the major trends I've noticed is a growing conscious differentiation between Pagan and Goddess, with either Goddess being a distinct path of current Paganism or Goddess being separate from Paganism–as a distinct path of its own. A growing number of people making this distinction identify as Goddessians. Many Goddess folk assert that their path differs greatly from New Age, with which it is sometimes confused."
So why have some Goddess-worshipers begun to define themselves as entirely separate from the Pagan movement? According to Medusa, the persistence of patriarchy in some Pagan communities, the weakening of feminism, and the growth of independent Goddess Temples all feed into this trend.
"There are now Goddess temples with physical structures in England, the Netherlands, Australia, and the USA. Other groups are operating as Temples, but as yet without specific buildings, in Hungary and other European countries, and in Australia and North America. Many of these Temples are not affiliated with (other?) Pagan paths, but rather gather many participants under a large umbrella, focusing specifically on Goddess worship often with original, creative ritual."
So is the Goddess movement part of a larger pan-Pagan movement, or an entirely separate entity? Personally, I believe our Goddessian sisters are still part of a larger family of faiths, all sharing similar ancestors and goals. But then I've always been a "big-tent" sort of Pagan/Heathen, seeing room at "the table" for Asatruar, Witches, Wiccans, Polytheistic reconstructionists, Druids, Discordians, and the Goddess worshipers/Goddessians. We are separate faiths, with separate beliefs and practices, but ultimately part of a larger religious movement.
I think a problem (though surely not the only problem) with the notion of "Pagan unity" that leads to groups wanting to completely disassociate, is that it assumes that "Paganism" is a sort of ur-religion that, like Voltron, is constructed of lesser parts. Leading some to inaccurately portray religions like Asatru and Wicca as "denominations" of Paganism. When instead we should be seen as a diverse movement that shares some commonalities in practice and community. We are (at best) a coalition, not a unified whole, and any attempt to rally us to a cause or goal should take that into account.
I welcome your opinions and comments here, but head over to Medusa Coils and comment there as well. Be sure to wish them a happy anniversary!


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The Beacon
More Dolphin Deaths in the Gulf
Andy Sharpless is the CEO of Oceana. You can follow him on Twitter @Oceana_Andy.
Nearly a year has passed since the Deepwater Horizon exploded and began a three-month-long oil spill. In the later months of last year, after the gushing oil well had finally been capped, some people – politicians and TV talking heads, really – tried to convince Americans that the Gulf had recovered.
It's true that we still don't know the extent of the damage wrought by last summer's oil disaster. The subsurface gusher created a whole new scientific challenge when it came to understanding exactly what was going on. And we've said that it would be years before we understand the true cost of the disaster.
Just recently we got a sign that not is all well in the Gulf. Since January, more than 80 bottlenose dolphins have turned up dead – and half of those are newborn or stillborn calves. The government is calling it "an unusual mortality event."
Scientists don't yet know whether oil plays a role in these dolphins' deaths. They are conducting tests now. But it is worth noting that the spill took place during the breeding season last year, not just for dolphins but for the multitude of species that call the Gulf of Mexico home.
Last June, several Oceana staffers traveled to the Gulf and saw dolphins swimming through oil-slicked waters in the Barataria Bay. We can't see the oil now. But we could continue to feel its effect this year, as other species, including the seafood that is an economic engine in the Gulf, will tell us if they've truly recovered in the upcoming breeding cycle of spring.
In the meantime, we continue to repeat that no drilling is safe drilling. Thank you for your continued support as we fight to keep our coasts safe from oil spills.
You can take action to prevent another oil disaster by asking Congress to stop subsidizing the oil industry and transition to clean energy.
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They're looking for animals that need saving. This video was posted by a charitable organization called 100 Plus Abandoned Dogs of Everglades Florida.
7News was contacted by two people who say they were there that day, and were concerned that pets had been taken from private property. Among them this dog and a second that looks similar.
Amy Roman: "I'm trying to do a good thing here Carmel."
Amy Roman is the organization's president. Carol Daniello, a board member.
Carmel Cafiero: "What are the circumstances around your rescue of these dogs?"
Amy Roman: "Ah, they were suffering and we took them in as we do with all. We've taken in over 900 dogs."
Carmel Cafiero: "Did you go on private property?"
Amy Roman: "We went and knocked on the door. Yes."
When no one answered they took the dogs without leaving a note. Both were ungroomed and later found to have heart worms.
We tracked down the owner who did not want his face on camera.
Carmel Cafiero: "Is this one of your dogs? This is me. That's your dog? This is me."
His son says they came home and their dogs were gone. They had no idea where they were until we told them.
Carmel Cafiero: "What gives you the right to go on private property and take someone's pets?"
Amy Roman: "Those dogs were screaming in pain. If I saw a child screaming in pain then I would do whatever I had to do to save the child too Carmel."
The owner's son says the first thing they did was contact Miami-Dade Animal Services to see if their pets were there.
Carmel Cafiero: "Is this where lost and found dogs should end?"
Alex Munoz: "Yes, absolutely. In addition to being a family member, a pet is also property."
Alex Munoz director of Miami-Dade Animal Services says to take a pet especially without notice is not the job of rescuers no matter how good their intentions might be.
Alex Munoz: "There is a safety net in place to help reunite owners and their pets. And it's something that the department does."
After we told the family who had their dogs the son called. Roman sent 7News an email explaining that: "When I explained to him they were sick going under treatment and the amount of money we had spent on their treatment, he then hung up on me and have not heard back from him."
Just down the road and around the corner from the two pets the group found a black lab. Despite a phone number on this dog's collar, which the group did call it was also taken.
Carmel Cafiero: "The owner of this dog told you not to take her dog."
Amy Roman: "Leave it in the middle of the street? Suffering?"
Roman says the dog had ear infections.
Carmel Cafiero: "OK, what time can I call you back."
The owner told me by phone the dog was near her farm when it was taken. After we started asking questions, Roman says she repeatedly tried to reach the owner without success and the lab is "now in a loving home."
Carol Daniello: "It was illegal to leave that dog in the middle of the road."
Carmel Cafiero: "And what is your law enforcement experience and by what authority."
Carol Daniello: "What is yours?"
Carmel Cafiero: "I don't have any."
Carol Daniello: "I just know what the law is."
Amy Roman: "I just know what we see."
But Animal Services says the department's trained personnel are the ones who should determine if a pet is at risk.
Alex Munoz: "They're not always what they appear on their face and sometimes you have to dig a little deeper to find out what's going on."
Munoz says when the county finds pets with problems it tries to work with the owners to keep the animals at home if possible.
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These exploits may impact any Solr users who enable the
ExtractingRequestHandler (aka: "Solr Cell") to parse files from untrusted sources. A maliciously crafted OpenXML file could consume excessive computing resources resulting in a DoS …
These exploits may impact any Solr users who enable the
ExtractingRequestHandler (aka: "Solr Cell") to parse files from untrusted sources. A maliciously crafted OpenXML file could consume excessive computing resources resulting in a DoS attack, or expose sensitive details in files accessible to the effective runtime user of the Solr server.
"Hot Fix" instructions to upgrade the affected Apache POI Jar files in Solr 4.8.0, 4.8.1, and 4.9.0 have been posted on the Solr website. A new version of Solr will be released in the next few weeks including the fixed jars as well.
Full details from the Lucene PMC announcement email…
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 01:33:55 +0200 Subject: [ANNOUNCE] [SECURITY] Recommendation to update Apache POI in Apache Solr 4.8.0, 4.8.1, and 4.9.0 installations Hallo Apache Solr Users, the Apache Lucene PMC wants to make the users of Solr aware of the following issue: Apache Solr versions 4.8.0, 4.8.1, 4.9.0 bundle Apache POI 3.10-beta2 with its binary release tarball. This version (and all previous ones) of Apache POI are vulnerable to the following issues: = CVE-2014-3529: XML External Entity (XXE) problem in Apache POI's OpenXML parser = Type: Information disclosure Description: Apache POI uses Java's XML components to parse OpenXML files produced by Microsoft Office products (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX,...). Applications that accept such files from end-users are vulnerable to XML External Entity (XXE) attacks, which allows remote attackers to bypass security restrictions and read arbitrary files via a crafted OpenXML document that provides an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference. = CVE-2014-3574: XML Entity Expansion (XEE) problem in Apache POI's OpenXML parser = Type: Denial of service Description: Apache POI uses Java's XML components and Apache Xmlbeans to parse OpenXML files produced by Microsoft Office products (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX,...). Applications that accept such files from end-users are vulnerable to XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attacks ("XML bombs"), which allows remote hackers to consume large amounts of CPU resources. The Apache POI PMC released a bugfix version (3.10.1) today. Solr users are affected by these issues, if they enable the "Apache Solr Content Extraction Library (Solr Cell)" contrib module from the folder "contrib/extraction" of the release tarball. Users of Apache Solr are strongly advised to keep the module disabled if they don't use it. Alternatively, users of Apache Solr 4.8.0, 4.8.1, or 4.9.0 can update the affected libraries by replacing the vulnerable JAR files in the distribution folder. Users of previous versions have to update their Solr release first, patching older versions is impossible. To replace the vulnerable JAR files follow these steps: - Download the Apache POI 3.10.1 binary release: http://poi.apache.org/download.html#POI-3.10.1 - Unzip the archive - Delete the following files in your "solr-4.X.X/contrib/extraction/lib" folder: # poi-3.10-beta2.jar # poi-ooxml-3.10-beta2.jar # poi-ooxml-schemas-3.10-beta2.jar # poi-scratchpad-3.10-beta2.jar # xmlbeans-2.3.0.jar - Copy the following files from the base folder of the Apache POI distribution to the "solr-4.X.X/contrib/extraction/lib" folder: # poi-3.10.1-20140818.jar # poi-ooxml-3.10.1-20140818.jar # poi-ooxml-schemas-3.10.1-20140818.jar # poi-scratchpad-3.10.1-20140818.jar - Copy "xmlbeans-2.6.0.jar" from POI's "ooxml-lib/" folder to the "solr-4.X.X/contrib/extraction/lib" folder. - Verify that the "solr-4.X.X/contrib/extraction/lib" no longer contains any files with version number "3.10-beta2". - Verify that the folder contains one xmlbeans JAR file with version 2.6.0. If you just want to disable extraction of Microsoft Office documents, delete the files above and don't replace them. "Solr Cell" will automatically detect this and disable Microsoft Office document extraction. Coming versions of Apache Solr will have the updated libraries bundled. Happy Searching and Extracting, The Apache Lucene Developers PS: Thanks to Stefan Kopf, Mike Boufford, and Christian Schneider for reporting these issues!]]>
DocExpirationUpdateProcessorFactory provides two features related to the "expiration" of documents which can be used individually, or in combination:
DocExpirationUpdateProcessorFactory provides two features related to the "expiration" of documents which can be used individually, or in combination:
The biggest aspect of this Update Processor is it's ability to automatically delete documents based on the values found in an "expiration date" field that you configure. This automatic deletion isn't part of the normal Update Processor life cycle — it's executed via a background timer process thread created by the Factory.
To use this automatic deletion feature, you must configure two options on the Factory:
expirationFieldName – The name of the expiration field to use
autoDeletePeriodSeconds – How often the factory's timer should trigger a delete to remove the documents
For example, with the configuration below the
DocExpirationUpdateProcessorFactory will create a timer thread that wakes up every 30 seconds. When the timer triggers, it will execute a
deleteByQuery command to remove any documents with a value in the
press_release_expiration_date field value that is in the past:
<processor class="solr.processor.DocExpirationUpdateProcessorFactory"> <int name="autoDeletePeriodSeconds">30</int> <str name="expirationFieldName">press_release_expiration_date</str> </processor>
After the
deleteByQuery has been executed, a soft commit is also executed using
openSearcher=true so that search results will no longer see the expired documents.
While the basic logic of "timer goes off, delete docs with expiration prior to NOW" was fairly simple and straight forward to add, a key aspect of making this work well was in a related issue (SOLR-5783) to ensure that the
openSearcher=true doesn't do anything unless there really are changes in the index. This means that you can configure
autoDeletePeriodSeconds to very small values, and still rest easy that your search caches won't get blown away every few seconds for no reason. The
openSearcher=true soft commits will only affect things if there really are changes in the index.
The second feature implemented by this Factory (and the key reason it's implemented as an
UpdateProcessorFactory) is to use "TTL" (Time To Live) values associated with documents to automatically generate an expiration date value to put in the
expirationFieldName when documents are indexed.
By default, the
DocExpirationUpdateProcessorFactory will look for a
_ttl_ request parameter on update requests, as well as a
_ttl_ field in each doc that is indexed in that request. If either exist, they will be parsed as Date Math Expressions relative to
NOW and used to populate the
expirationFieldName. The per-document
_ttl_ field based values override the per-request
_ttl_ parameter.
Both the request parameter and field names use for specifying TTL values can be overridden by configuring
ttlParamName &
ttlFieldName on the
DocExpirationUpdateProcessorFactory. They can also be completely disabled by configuring them as
null. It's also possible to use the TTL computation feature to generate expiration dates on documents, with out using the auto-deletion feature simply by not configuring the
autoDeletePeriodSeconds option (so that the timer will never run).
For example, in the configuration below, the Factory will look for a
time_to_live field in each document, and use that to compute an expiration value for the
press_release_expiration_date field. No request parameters will be checked for a TTL override, and no automatic deletion will occur:
<processor class="solr.processor.DocExpirationUpdateProcessorFactory"> <str name="expirationFieldName">press_release_expiration_date</str> <null name="ttlParamName"/> <!-- ignore _ttl_ request param --> <str name="ttlFieldName">time_to_live</str> <!-- NOTE: autoDeletePeriodSeconds not specified, no automatic deletes --> </processor>
This sort of configuration may be handy if you only want to logically hide documents for search clients based on a per-document TTL using something like:
fq=-press_release_expiration_date:[* TO NOW/DAY], but still retain the documents in the index for other search clients.
Let's walk through a full example of both features by modifying the Solr 4.8 example
solrconfig.xml to add the following update processor chain:
<updateRequestProcessorChain default="true"> <processor class="solr.TimestampUpdateProcessorFactory"> <str name="fieldName">timestamp_dt</str> </processor> <processor class="solr.processor.DocExpirationUpdateProcessorFactory"> <int name="autoDeletePeriodSeconds">30</int> <str name="ttlFieldName">time_to_live_s</str> <str name="expirationFieldName">expire_at_dt</str> </processor> <processor class="solr.FirstFieldValueUpdateProcessorFactory"> <str name="fieldName">expire_at_dt</str> </processor> <processor class="solr.LogUpdateProcessorFactory" /> <processor class="solr.RunUpdateProcessorFactory" /> </updateRequestProcessorChain>
A few things to note about this chain:
TimestampUpdateProcessorFactory so that it will be easy to see when these documents were indexed in the query results I show below — but this is not needed for
DocExpirationUpdateProcessorFactory to function
DocExpirationUpdateProcessorFactory instance uses a
autoDeletePeriodSeconds of 30 seconds and overrides the
ttlFieldName – but the
_ttl_ request param is still enabled
FirstFieldValueUpdateProcessorFactory is configured on the
expire_at_dt — this means that if a document is added with an explicit value in the
expire_at_dt field, it will be used instead any value that might be added by the
DocExpirationUpdateProcessorFactory using the
_ttl_ request param
With this configuration in place, let's start indexing some docs, and executing some queries.
First up, we'll add 2 documents — one with out any sort of TTL or expiration date, and one using a TTL field of 2 minutes.
$ date -u && curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' 'http://localhost:8983/solr/collection1/update?commit=true' -d '[ { "id" : "live_forever" }, { "id" : "live_2_minutes_a", "time_to_live_s" : "+120SECONDS" } ]' Wed May 7 22:17:46 UTC 2014 {"responseHeader":{"status":0,"QTime":574}}
A few seconds later, we'll index 3 more documents using a "default" TTL request param of 5 minutes: One with an explicit expiration date far in the future; another doc with a 2 minute TTL field; and the third leveraging the TTL request parameter.
$ date -u && curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' 'http://localhost:8983/solr/collection1/update?commit=true&_ttl_=%2B5MINUTES' -d '[ { "id" : "live_a_long_time", "expire_at_dt" : "3000-01-01T00:00:00Z" }, { "id" : "live_2_minutes_b", "time_to_live_s" : "+120SECONDS" }, { "id" : "use_default_ttl" } ]' Wed May 7 22:17:51 UTC 2014 {"responseHeader":{"status":0,"QTime":547}}
A few seconds after that, we execute a query and see all 5 docs in the index. Looking at the
timestamp_dt field we can see exactly when each doc was added, and looking at the
expire_at_dt field we can see which docs have an expiration date — either explicitly, or via TTL calculation.
$ date -u && curl -X GET 'localhost:8983/solr/query?q=*:*' Wed May 7 22:17:57 UTC 2014 { "responseHeader":{ "status":0, "QTime":0, "params":{ "q":"*:*"}}, "response":{"numFound":5,"start":0,"docs":[ { "id":"live_forever", "timestamp_dt":"2014-05-07T22:17:46.685Z", "_version_":1467483230500290560}, { "id":"live_2_minutes_a", "time_to_live_s":"+120SECONDS", "timestamp_dt":"2014-05-07T22:17:46.685Z", "expire_at_dt":"2014-05-07T22:19:46.685Z", "_version_":1467483230503436288}, { "id":"live_a_long_time", "expire_at_dt":"3000-01-01T00:00:00Z", "timestamp_dt":"2014-05-07T22:17:51.276Z", "_version_":1467483235314302976}, { "id":"live_2_minutes_b", "time_to_live_s":"+120SECONDS", "timestamp_dt":"2014-05-07T22:17:51.276Z", "expire_at_dt":"2014-05-07T22:19:51.276Z", "_version_":1467483235318497280}, { "id":"use_default_ttl", "timestamp_dt":"2014-05-07T22:17:51.276Z", "expire_at_dt":"2014-05-07T22:22:51.276Z", "_version_":1467483235320594432}] }}
Now we wait a little over 2.5 minutes, and run the query again — this time we only get 3 results, as the docs with a 2 minute TTL have already been deleted because their expiration date was reached.
$ date -u && curl -X GET 'localhost:8983/solr/query?q=*:*' Wed May 7 22:20:30 UTC 2014 { "responseHeader":{ "status":0, "QTime":1, "params":{ "q":"*:*"}}, "response":{"numFound":3,"start":0,"docs":[ { "id":"live_forever", "timestamp_dt":"2014-05-07T22:17:46.685Z", "_version_":1467483230500290560}, { "id":"live_a_long_time", "expire_at_dt":"3000-01-01T00:00:00Z", "timestamp_dt":"2014-05-07T22:17:51.276Z", "_version_":1467483235314302976}, { "id":"use_default_ttl", "timestamp_dt":"2014-05-07T22:17:51.276Z", "expire_at_dt":"2014-05-07T22:22:51.276Z", "_version_":1467483235320594432}] }}
After another 2.5 minutes (roughly) we run the query again, and see that another doc (that was part of an update with the default TTL of 5 minutes) has now been deleted as well.
$ date -u && curl -X GET 'localhost:8983/solr/query?q=*:*' Wed May 7 22:22:57 UTC 2014 { "responseHeader":{ "status":0, "QTime":0, "params":{ "q":"*:*"}}, "response":{"numFound":2,"start":0,"docs":[ { "id":"live_forever", "timestamp_dt":"2014-05-07T22:17:46.685Z", "_version_":1467483230500290560}, { "id":"live_a_long_time", "expire_at_dt":"3000-01-01T00:00:00Z", "timestamp_dt":"2014-05-07T22:17:51.276Z", "_version_":1467483235314302976}] }}
Of the 2 docs remaining, one has no expiration date and the other won't expire in our lifetimes — but as long as the Solr server is running, the
DocExpirationUpdateProcessorFactory will keep checking every 30 seconds to see if something needs deleted.
In addition to 52 bug fixes, Solr 4.7 includes several significant new features folks should be aware of:
migrate collection API to split all documents with a route key into another collection
compositeId routing
In addition to 52 bug fixes, Solr 4.7 includes several significant new features folks should be aware of:
migrate collection API to split all documents with a route key into another collection
compositeId routing
QParserPlugin for Lucene's
SuggestComponent that fully utilizes the Lucene suggester module — queries can now use multiple suggesters including Lucene's
FreeTextSuggester and
cursorMark request param for efficient deep paging of sorted result sets
One thing Solr has never been very efficient at is a problem that people refer to as "Deep Paging". Simply put: asking Solr for "Page #1″ of a search result is very efficient, so is asking for Page #2, and Page #3, etc… for small page numbers; but as the page numbers get bigger and bigger, Solr has to work …]]>
One thing Solr has never been very efficient at is a problem that people refer to as "Deep Paging". Simply put: asking Solr for "Page #1″ of a search result is very efficient, so is asking for Page #2, and Page #3, etc… for small page numbers; but as the page numbers get bigger and bigger, Solr has to work harder (and use more RAM) in order to know what results to give you.
I've been working on a solution to this problem, but before talking about that, let's review….
The key to understanding why so much RAM and time is required for "Deep Paging" is to remember that as far as client requests go, Solr is basically stateless. The way a client asks for "pages" of search results is by telling Solr how many results they want to get on a page (using the
rows parameter) and what position in the overall sorted list of documents the client wants the current page to start at (using the
start parameter).
So for a client that wants 50 results per page, page #1 is requested using
start=0&rows=50. Page #2 is
start=50&rows=50, page #3 is
start=100&rows=50, etc…. But in order for Solr to know which 50 docs to return starting at an arbitrary point
N, it needs to build up an internal queue of the first
N+50 sorted documents matching the query, so that it can then throw away the first
N docs, and return the remaining 50. This means the amount of memory needed to return paginated results grows linearly with the increase in the
start param. In the case of SolrCloud, the problem gets even worse, because the
N+50 top documents need to be collected on every shard, and the sort values from every shard need to be streamed over the network to the coordination node (the one that received the initial request from the end client) to merge them.
For typical applications displaying search results to a human user, this tends to not be much of an issue since most users don't care about drilling down past the first handful of pages of search results — but for automated systems that want to crunch data about all of the documents matching a query, it can be seriously prohibitive.
One workaround to make fetching full result lists feasible that has been available to Solr clients for quite a while involves a couple of caveats:
score in the
fl they just can't sort on score
With these constraints, clients can then request "Deep Pages" of results by building up an
fq (filter query) that uses the sort field values from the last document retrieved in range queries. As a trivial example, consider the following query params:
q=foo&fl=id,name,score&sort=id asc&start=0&rows=500
id is unique for every document, then if the last document returned by that query has an
id of
AAA123 the next "page" or results could be fetched by modifying the query to include an
fq on the
id field:
q=foo&fl=id,name,score&sort=id asc&fq=id:{AAA123 TO *]&start=0&rows=500
This same process can be used with more sorts on multiple fields, but the
fq that must be specified gets significantly more complicated. If sorting on
price desc, id asc for example, the filter would need to be something like:
fq=(price:[* TO $LAST_DOC_PRICE} (+price:$LAST_DOC_PRICE +id:{$LAST_DOC_ID TO *]))
While feasible for a lot of applications, this is fairly complicated for clients to get right, and it isn't much use at all for situations like "I want to do some processing on the top 20% of results sorted by score" because it would require the client to fetch all 100% of the results (sorted by something like the uniqueKey), and then doing the sort by score on the client to find the highest scoring 20%.
Starting with Lucene 4.0, a new method was introduced to Lucene's
IndexSearcher class that implements the same type of filtering logic described above at a much lower level. The method caller only has to keep track of the information in the last
FieldDoc returned by a previous search, which already encapsulates all of the Sort values for that document — including score (even if the sort fields are not stored).
In SOLR-5463 I've started the process of leveraging this type of logic in Solr. All of the patches I've posted so far contain a straw man implementation that tries to modify the existing search logic in Solr as little as possible, and as such doesn't take advantage of any of the existing lower level
searchAfter code (yet). The goal of this straw man implementation is to help build up a good test suite of the new functionality, and to solve some of the questions of what the client API should look like.
A notable question about how the Solr client API should work is how the "last
FieldDoc" concept from the low-level Lucene API should map into something Solr clients can deal with easily. In a Java application that uses Lucene's
IndexSearcher methods directly, hanging on to a
FieldDoc object from a previous search to re-use in a subsequent method call is no problem. In Solr however, we want to be able to provide an API that allows Solr to remain stateless to the sequence of requests — in a Replicated or SolrCloud system the Solr server receiving the "page #N" request might be completely different from the server that processed "page #N-1″. The solution developed so far is to have Solr encode the sort values from the "last" document returned into a single Base64 "cursor totem" (we're still working on a better name) String that is returned to the client. Clients can then pass the totem string back to Solr to fetch the next page of results, at which point they'll get a new totem string for the next request, etc….
In essence, the classic method of paging through results can be thought of as:
while (still want more results) { new_page = get(params) add new_page to cumulative_results params[start] += params[rows] }
While the new cursor based approach is:
while (still want more results) { new_page = get(params) add new_page to cumulative_results params[totem] = new_page[next totem] }
Test results and experiments so far have demonstrated that this new approach should definitely work well. Even though the straw man implementation is extremely inefficient in several ways (short cuts taken during development since I expect to throw the code out) it's still much faster and uses much less RAM then normal pagination.
As a quick demonstration of the performance improvements, I ran some simple tests on my laptop using some synthetic indexes I built up containing one million random documents and some test scripts to walk the full result sets of a few queries that matched a large number of documents. I've included the full details of the methodology, including all scripts, on github, but the basic process in all of these tests was:
classic_deep_paging.pl and
Before looking at the results, I'd like to remind everyone of a few important caveats:
start=0 Page #1 request
Even with those factors in mind, we can see some pretty obvious patterns in the results below. Please note that the scales on these first three graphs are not the same….
Not only is the linear increase in classic pagination response time evident, but you can see that the slope of that linear growth is heavily influenced based on the complexity of the sort. I can't explain why this growth seems to level off — but at the point where it does level off the response times are already too extreme to be useful. In the case of a simple 2 shard SolrCloud query (Test C) even a basic sort by score has response times that spike above 2 seconds once we page up to ~40K documents. (That's why I picked a query for Test C that only matched ~150K total documents – I didn't want to spend all day just running the SolrCloud deep paging test.)
By comparison, the new cursor based paging approach starts out slightly slower in the response time per page, but stays relatively constant. The fact that it is slower then classic paging for low page numbers is almost certainly an artifact of the straw man implementation — because of some laziness in my patch, it currently sends at least twice as much data to the client application as it needs to. The large amount of variance in the cursor based response times is admittedly surprising to me. I suspect that may also be an artifact of the straw man code, and will certainly be something to look for once the patch is finalized.
In order to make "side by side" comparisons of each test easier, I also plotted the same data again using fixed scales on both the X & Y axis in all three graphs. This makes it trivial to see how much the response time of classic deep paging can change as the sorting gets more complicated — but in the case of the new cursor logic, the response time stays consistent….
I think the evidence is pretty clear that we're on the right track towards a much better API for clients that want to fetch large sets of results.
Progress on SOLR-5463 has progressed and we now have a non-strawman implementation that avoids some of the redundancies I mentioned above, so I wanted to post some additional graphs to show the comparison.
In these graphs below, the red & green lines are the same, with green being the previous Strawman based cursor code — while the new blue lines show the more final solution that will likely be committed soon.
As you can see, the new implementation is a big performance improvement over the already fast strawman implementation, and doesn't lose out to classical paging even for low page numbers.
All of the scripts used to run these tests can be found on github, including the notes I took as I went along, showing all of the commands executed.]]>
I want to …]]>
I want to give a big "Thank You!" not only to our winners for their great questions, but also to every one who participated — either by submitting questions in advance, or by attending the event and heckling me from the audience.]]>
Additional prizes may be given out on …]]>
Additional prizes may be given out on site at the discretion of the judges but even if you can't attend the conference, you can still submit your questions and be eligible to win one the top 3 prizes. Just email your questions to firstname.lastname@example.com any time between now and November 6th.
To stay informed about this session, subscribe to SearchHub.org (or just the "Chump" tag).]]>
Stump The Chump is always an insanely awesome and hilarious experience for two simple reasons: The great questions submitted by Solr/Lucene users; The panel of judges that keep me on my toes, and make me look foolish.
Today I'm happy to announce the list of Solr committers who have agreed to help humiliate me by being on the panel …]]>
Stump The Chump is always an insanely awesome and hilarious experience for two simple reasons: The great questions submitted by Solr/Lucene users; The panel of judges that keep me on my toes, and make me look foolish.
Today I'm happy to announce the list of Solr committers who have agreed to help humiliate me by being on the panel in Dublin:
In addition to mocking me as I struggle to answer tough questions on the spot, the Panel members will be awarding prizes to the folks who have submitted those question that do the best job of "Stumping" me. Questions can be submitted to email@example.com any time over the next month — even if you won't be able to attend the conference. To stay informed about this session, subscribe to this SearchHub.org (or just the "Chump" tag).
UPDATE: Due to a scheduling problem, Yonik will not be able to participate in the panel, so Steve Rowe will be filling in for him.]]>
We'll be having 2 presentations: Andy Lester will discuss lessons learned migrating an application from Oracle "full text" to Solr; and (by request) I'll be presenting on Result Grouping (aka: Field Collapsing) and how it compares to the recently added Block Join features in Solr.
Afterwords, we'll have an "open" …]]>
We'll be having 2 presentations: Andy Lester will discuss lessons learned migrating an application from Oracle "full text" to Solr; and (by request) I'll be presenting on Result Grouping (aka: Field Collapsing) and how it compares to the recently added Block Join features in Solr.
Afterwords, we'll have an "open" Q&A. (Any and all questions about Solr will be welcome, even if they have nothing to do with the material presented)
If you are in the chicago area and would like to come, please RSVP via meetup.com so we can get an accurate headcount.]]>
If you are not familiar with "Stump the Chump" it's a Q&A style session where "The Chump" (usually me – Dublin will be no exception) is put on the spot with tough, challenging, unusual questions about Lucene & Solr – live, on stage, in front of hundreds of rambunctious convention goers, …]]>
If you are not familiar with "Stump the Chump" it's a Q&A style session where "The Chump" (usually me – Dublin will be no exception) is put on the spot with tough, challenging, unusual questions about Lucene & Solr – live, on stage, in front of hundreds of rambunctious convention goers, with judges who have all seen and thought about the questions in advance and get to mock The Chump (still me) and award prizes to people whose questions do the best job of "Stumping The Chump".
People have told me it's the most fun they've ever had at a Tech Conference — You can judge for yourself by checking out the videos from past events like Lucene/Solr Revolution 2013 in San Diego, CA and Lucene EuroCon 2012 @ ApacheCon EU in Sinsheim, Germany.
I'll be posting more details as we get closer to the conference, but until then you can subscribe to this blog (or just the "Chump" tag) to stay informed.
And don't forget: the Call For Papers is currently open, but ends August 2, 2013 — only one week to go — so submit your session proposals ASAP.]]>


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Corbin Mills a junior at Clemson University, won the 2011 US Amateur Public Links Championship to earn an invitation to the Masters. Was the stroke play medalist and won six matches to claim the title, beating Derek Ernst in 37 holes. Winner of the 2011 Players Amateur and Jerry Pate Intercollegiate. No. 7-ranked amateur in the world.
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The Biebs can't stay out of legal trouble lately it seems!
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Sweaters. That's what Selena Gomez is all about on her third Teen Vogue cover, which is the September 2012 issue.
Selena Gomez celebrated her 20th birthday at the 2012 Teen Choice Awards on July 22, but the celebration didn't stop when the broadcast wrapped. Her BF Justin Bieber, who surprisingly didn't give her a shout out when he performed, went all out. He planned an intimate, post-TCAs party for her at Il Cielo in Beverly Hills.
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Solent Coastguard have issued the following statement about the missing 14-year-old boy feared to have been swept away in stormy seas off Newhaven this afternoon.
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Avantium's proprietary high-throughput technology enables a faster and more cost-effective development of new and improved products and production processes. Using its unique rational approach towards the design of experiments and data analysis, Avantium is capable of accomplishing innovations with superior success rate. Avantium has demonstrated the validity and commercial viability of its technology by successfully providing research services and tools to more than 70 companies worldwide, including many industry leaders. The company's mission is to increase the success rate and economics of product and process development.
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new biofuels and bio-based chemicals, and new crystal forms of marketed drugs under patent. Avantium's strategy is to progress its development programs and exploit the commercial value of its expanding patent portfolio by securing value-adding partnerships during the coming years. Avantium seeks continuous expansion of its profitable services and tools business. Avantium has assembled a team of highly educated professionals who are experts in catalysis, crystallography, organic chemistry, engineering of robotic systems, process engineering, statistics, cheminformatics and software development. Its teams collaborate closely with partner R&D organizations.
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NYT's Charles Blow Conflates 'Hatemonger' Newt's Racism With Belief in Liberal Media Bias
Charles Blow's Saturday column for the New York Times, "Newt's Southern Strategy," tastelessly conflated GOP candidate Newt Gingrich's (imagined) racism with conservatives who believe the media have a liberal bias, while Blow called the former House Speaker a "vile, reptilian, hatemonger" on his Twitter feed.
Up with Newt. Down with dignity. That's the way it goes.
Newt Gingrich is surging in South Carolina and has a good chance to win that state's primary on Saturday. But, as he rises, so grows the dark shadow that he casts over his party and the grievous damage he does to its chances of unseating President Obama.
Romney dares not go there. Not Newt. He's the street fighter with a history of poisonous politics who not only goes there but dwells there. He makes his nest among the thorns of open animus and coded language.
Take the issue of media bias for instance: according to a September Pew Research Center poll, more than three-quarters of Republicans said that news organizations are politically biased. That was appreciably higher than both independents and Democrats. And that same month a Gallup poll found that three-quarters of Republicans believe that the news media are too liberal. This, too, was appreciably higher than independents and Democrats.
Blow blows by the fact that the Gallup poll he cites shows that 50% of independents and even 20% of Democrats also find the media too liberal – showing the idea of liberal bias is hardly fringe or "poisonous," even among non-Republicans.
Then he went onto to hinting Gingrich was using racism:
In a previous debate on Monday, Gingrich rebuffed a suggestion by Fox News's Juan Williams, a debate panelist, that blacks might be offended by his notion that they should demand jobs not food stamps, or that poor children lacked a strong work ethic, or that calling Obama the "food stamp president" might be "intended to belittle the poor and racial minorities."
Gingrich scoffed: "I know among the politically correct, you're not supposed to use facts that are uncomfortable." More points. That crowd went crazy.
On Friday, Gingrich doubled down and told a campaign crowd that "the idea of work" seemed to Williams "to be a strange, distant concept."
This conjures the historical fiction that blacks are lazy and plays to the belief among many Republican voters that race is inconsequential to one's ability to succeed in this country. According to a New York Times/CBS News poll released this week, Republican voters, particularly those in the South, were more likely than all voters to say that blacks and whites have an equal chance of getting ahead in today's society.
Blow got even nastier against Newt on his Twitter feed Saturday: "We have 10 days until the Fla. primaries. Maybe I'll be able to get in one column that's not abt what a vile, reptilian, hatemonger Newt is."
And this: "Food Stamps" again... You know what. Just go on and use the "N" word and get it over with. I'm tired...
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Submitted by east tennessee john on Mon, 01/23/2012 - 4:01pm.
How appropriately named. Does he spit or swallow?
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Hate, hate, hate, we love to hate, join us as we hate hate hate
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 01/23/2012 - 4:17pm.
Cuz we're haters, and we love to hate.
Now join me in the second chorus:
I'm just hateful and I live to hate,
Proud to be a hater cuz I hate hate hate!
(Now bring it home, everyone) I'm a hater, I'm hater, yes I'm a haaaaaaaater!
<sax solo> then repeat first verse
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Submitted by John21 on Mon, 01/23/2012 - 4:21pm.
Someone belonging to the far lefts liberal mouth piece talking about hate, they practically have a patent on it.
They continue to ignore the myths and lies (that they created) on this administration. They continue to provide propaganda to justify their failed liberal agenda. They ignore the corruption that is rampart in the current administration. They falsify their storylines with slanted facts (or no facts) to try and defend their hero in the White House.
Then they have the nerve (or stupidity) to say there is no liberal bias in the media. They are under the impression that everyone is stupid but them.
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Submitted by amyshulk on Mon, 01/23/2012 - 6:19pm.
So Blow doesn't want to confront reality. When are we going to accept {as a people} that there are *many* factors that divide us, some in our control, and some not.
Stereotypes are formed when a loud/flashy minority engage in bad behavior. That Blow sees this as a black vs. white issue is telling.
The old reaction to the outliers was shunning, now it's coddling/encouraging/glorifying. See: Music, Pro athletes, and drug use as "cool".
The gov't. decided it knew best and tried to "even the playing field" to compensate for slavery, and swung the pendulum too far, and we are witnessing what results and Newt articulates how it has seeped into every group/culture/ethnicity.
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Submitted by bigdaddy on Mon, 01/23/2012 - 6:45pm.
It's inconceivable to Chuckie that the very people who voted for the Newter in SC and are polling for him in Florida have rejected the racial narrative that the Left has been pushing for the last three years. Substitute the word "racist" for the word "Wolf" in "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" (No Charles, I'm not referring to you.) and you see what's happening.
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From Jennifer A. Dlouhy, Houston Chronicle: In a break with tradition, President Barack Obama is looking to the business world — instead to the pool of lawmakers from Western states — to head the nation's Interior Department. Obama is set to tap Sally Jewell, the CEO of Kent-based REI, to succeed Ken Salazar as Interior […] [Read More]
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This settles it. The porch light is on in North Korea but no one is home. Uriminzokkiri, North Korea's official website, has uploaded this video to YouTube. (The original YouTube video has been taken down because of copyright claims by Activision Games. The North Koreans appropriated parts of Call of Duty for the video. So […] [Read More]
Report: Boy Scouts may end gay ban
The Boy Scouts of America is considering an end to its ban on gay leaders and scouts. NBC New's Pete Williams reports that ending the ban is under active consideration. The new policy, now under discussion, would eliminate the ban from the national organization's rules, leaving local sponsoring organizations free to decide for themselves whether […] [Read More]
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Can you give me an "amen" out there? Thank you, brothers and sisters, especially Sister Sarah. Those "amens" do add up in the collection plate. Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate, likes to say "amen." A lot. In three years as an analyst at Fox News, she said the word 111 […] [Read More]
NRA's target: Obama's kids
The National Rifle Association has a new ad in the coming gun-control wars. In it, the NRA mans up and takes on President Obama's children. The ad calls the president an "elitist hypocrite" because he hasn't come out for armed guards at schools — an NRA proposal — while his daughters are protected by armed […] [Read More]
Bellevue gun group says banning assault weapons will fuel hate
Turns out words do hurt you. Especially if you are the Second Amendment Foundation in Bellevue. The gun rights group sounded the alarm Thursday that angry words over guns could lead to hate speech, then hate crimes. Turns out, many people were quite upset that 20 first-graders were slaughtered in Connecticut. The foundation says broadcasters […] [Read More]
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Yield: 4 to 6 servings
Prep time: 10 Minutes
- One 10-ounce package frozen peas
- Kosher salt
- 8 ounces sugar snap or snow peas, trimmed
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 1 tablespoon rinsed, dried, and shredded fresh mint or basil, or chopped fresh dill
- Freshly milled black pepper
1. Cook the frozen peas in boiling salted water according to the package instructions.
2. At the same time, bring a large saucepan of salted water to a boil. Add the sugar snap peas and cook for 30 seconds; drain immediately. Toss the peas and sugar snap peas with the butter, herb, and salt and pepper to taste.
Total time: 15 minutes
© 2005 Sarah Moulton
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Nutrients per serving (% daily value)
Nutritional information is based on 6 servings.
53kcal (3%)
41mg (4%)
33mg (55%)
41mcg RAE (1%)
5mg (2%)
294mg (12%)
1g (6%)
2g (3%)
2mg (10%)
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