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Jewish Ideas Daily commemorates the forty-fifth anniversary of the Six-Day War with a day-by-day synopsis, for which we are indebted to Michael Oren's comprehensive Six Days of War.
After five days spent battling Arab forces, Israel now faced a new opponent: time. With the Egyptians and Jordanians out of the war on day four, and the Syrians having agreed to a ceasefire, the Security Council was becoming restless.
General David Elazar's forces would have only a few hours to take the strategically important Golan Heights.
Fighting through the night, Elazar aimed to reach Quneitra junction in the north and Butmiya junction in the south. But the Syrians held their lines.
By dawn, Elazar had made little progress, and thinking that a ceasefire was imminent, despaired of reaching his objectives. But then he received a telephone call from Rabin: the government had not yet committed to a ceasefire; he would have more time.
Granted this reprieve, Elazar rallied his men and redoubled the assault. But now—to his astonishment—the Syrian resistance evaporated. At the village of Mansura, they found empty tanks; at Banias, the trenches were deserted. While Quneitra remained in Syrian hands, Radio Damascus was nonetheless broadcasting its capture.
Mistrusting their Arab allies, the UN, and, most of all, the Soviets, the Syrian government had given up on a ceasefire and ordered a full scale retreat. By announcing the fall of Quneitra, they had their pretext for consolidating their troops around Damascus. Indeed, the leadership did not feel safe even there: first the general staff, then the ministers fled the capital for Aleppo.
But the Soviets had not yet given up on their Arab protégés. The Kremlin formally broke diplomatic relations with Israel and gave the White House an ultimatum: "We propose that you demand from Israel that it unconditionally cease military action . . . We propose to warn Israel that if this is not fulfilled, necessary actions will be taken, including military." The White House issued a verbal response that the USSR should place similar pressure on Syria; but to make sure the message got through, President Johnson ordered the Sixth Fleet, sailing west of Cyprus, to turn back east to within a hundred miles of Israel's coast.
Having dealt with the Soviets, Johnson set about following their advice. At the UN, the the American Ambassador, Arthur Goldberg, met with the Israeli Ambassador, Gideon Rafael, telling him that "the United States government does not want the war to end as the result of a Soviet ultimatum. This would be disastrous for the future not only of Israel, but of us all. It is your responsibility to act now."
The message from Washington came back to Jerusalem and on to Elazar at the front: Eshkol and Dayan would give him until 2 p.m. to finish the job, before agreeing to a ceasefire. Quneitra, completely deserted, fell at 12:30 p.m. But the advance was still too slow; the retreating Syrian army had littered the roads with heavy equipment, hindering the Israeli offensive. Moreover, Elazar coveted Mount Hermon, with its panoramic views of Damascus.
Yet Dayan was not out of tricks yet. He had arranged ceasefire talks with the chief UN Observer, Norwegian General Odd Bull, in Tiberias; but when Bull arrived, he found that the meeting had been moved to Tel Aviv. The two finally met at 3, and set the ceasefire for 6 p.m. But Dayan issued Bull a condition: no UN observers were allowed near the ceasefire line. Thus the war was already over when, the following morning, an Israeli helicopter crew made it to the summit of Mount Hermon and planted its flag.
The fighting was over, and the Great Powers were appeased; but between Israel and her Arab neighbors, the tension was hardly defused. Egypt, Jordan, and Syria had all lost territory, military hardware, and men—in Egypt's case, between ten and fifteen thousand. Despite her stunning victory, Israel had also suffered casualties, with some eight hundred dead, and two and a half thousand wounded. With no desire to fight again, on June 19th, Eshkol's cabinet decided—albeit by only one vote—to surrender the Sinai and the Golan in exchange for peace.
But the Arabs were hardly amenable to reconciliation. Meeting on September 1st at Khartoum, the Arab League summit issued a resolution affirming that peace with Israel was too high a price to pay:
"The Arab Heads of State have agreed to unite their political efforts at the international and diplomatic level to eliminate the effects of the aggression and to ensure the withdrawal of the aggressive Israeli forces from the Arab lands which have been occupied since the aggression of June 5. This will be done within the framework of the main principles by which the Arab States abide, namely, no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with it, and insistence on the rights of the Palestinian people in their own country."
The Arab League's commitment to the rights of native peoples did not extend to Jews born in Muslim lands. The World Islamic Congress, meeting in Amman later that month, declared:
"Jews of Arab Countries: the Congress is convinced that Jews living in Arab countries do not appreciate the kindness and protection that Muslims have granted them over the centuries. The Congress proclaims that the Jews who live in the Arab states and who have contact with Zionist circles or the state of Israel do not deserve the protection and kindness that Islam grants to non-Muslim citizens living freely in Islamic countries. Islamic governments must treat them as enemy combatants. In the same way, Islamic peoples must individually and collectively boycott them and treat them as mortal enemies."
Pogroms followed in Tripoli, Tunis, and Baghdad; across the Islamic world, Jews abandoned their ancient communities—many fleeing to Israel. In Egypt, the persecution began during the war. A Jew in Cairo, Benjamin Melameth, recalls being arrested on the first day of the war and systematically beaten:
"All this time officers were walking up and down whipping us with their branches of palm trees,and some of them ran and jumped on our shoulders. Anyone who lost their balance or who flinched received a rain of blows . . . . When the turn of the Rabbi of Alexandria arrived, they crucified him to the bars of the front door of the prison. Then they beat him until he lost consciousness."
Yet it was the plight of the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank which captured international attention. Forty-five years on, with the Palestinian question still unresolved, the received wisdom holds that the Six Day War was, in hindsight, a defeat for Israel. The Economist called it "one of history's Pyrrhic victories," stating that "in the long run, the war turned into a calamity for the Jewish state no less than for its neighbors."
Der Spiegel was even more explicit, with a hint of guilty pleasure:
"But Israel still pays the highest price today in the Palestinian territories. The state that has its roots in the bitter experiences of 2,000 years of persecution had, in fact, subjugated another people itself. An army that had been established for the purpose of defense suddenly found itself in the role of an occupier."
But to see victory as a worse outcome for Israel than defeat is to forget that Israel fought the war just to survive; victory was the only option. As Moshe Dayan's daughter, Yael, wrote in the Daily Telegraph just a year after the war:
"A year ago I was in uniform with a division on the Egyptian border. We, in the front, had no doubt as to the inevitability of war. We also knew we were going to win it. We were not going to win because we were more numerous, more battle-happy, or more ambitious. We were going to win, at whatever cost, because losing meant extermination . . . . These obvious facts should be remembered, simply because we were victorious. When a David wins, he stops being David in a way, and his motives become suspect. On June 5, 1967, we risked all we had."
If Israel exchanged the sympathy of a beleaguered minority for the moral dilemmas of a majority in 1967, it is only because peace with her Arab neighbors was impossible. To quote Yael Dayan again: "If our face is changed, it is only because security and peace did not prove to be synonymous and we have chosen the first, are not offered the second, and have to live with the results."
Related articles
- The Six-Day War: Day Five (cifwatch.com)
- The Six-Day War: Day Three (cifwatch.com)
- Postcard from Israel – Mount Bental (cifwatch.com)
- The Six Day War: Day One (cifwatch.com)
- The Six Day War: Day Two (cifwatch.com)
- The Six Day War, and 'A Letter to the World from Jerusalem' in 1969 (cifwatch.com)
- Jerusalem Day: celebrating 45 years of reunification (cifwatch.com)


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Ancient magicians relied upon Black Tourmaline, known as Schorl, to protect them from earth demons as they cast their spells. Today this stone is still revered as a premier talisman of protection, a psychic shield deflecting and dispelling negative energies, entities, or destructive forces. It guards against radiation and environmental pollutants, and is highly useful in purifying and neutralizing one's own negative thoughts and internal conflicts, and turning them into positive, usable energy. [Eason, 204][Raphaell, 132][Ahsian, 407]
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When a distinguished scientist and an eminent theologian agree on what is meant by God we should take notice. The scientist is complexity theorist Stuart Kauffman whose recent book is entitled Reinventing the Sacred. Like many he has left traditional religion behind, but he wants to retain a sense of the sacred nature of life, and he finds that sacred quality in creativity. Creativity, he suggests, is at the heart of things and in the very nature of the universe. In fact he identifies creativity with God, suggesting that what he means by God is simply creativity. He writes: "God is our chosen name for the ceaseless creativity in the natural universe, biosphere, and human cultures." He comes to this conclusion because "This creativity is stunning, awesome and worthy of reverence." Read more about "God" as Creativity »


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The Black Saturday bushfires in 2009 burned over 4,500 km² (450,000 hectares, 1.1 million acres), resulted in the lost of 173 people's lives and injured over 400 people. The damage to the areas surrounding Melbourne was extensive and disastrous and included the loss of the Narbethong Community Hall, the only public space for residents of the area. Even before, the timber building lacked in adequate facilities for the community and was defenseless bushfires. BVN Architecture, with the help of ARUP, donated their services to design a new hall with improved facilities, one that would have a more direct connection with the surrounding landscape and most importantly, would meet new fireproof building codes. According to Ninotschka Titchkosky, Principal of BVN, "As Narbethong's only public venue, the hall is the heart of the community. It is a space where local people can come together for meetings, recreation, celebrations and commiserations. In a small country community, a building like this holds great importance."
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Poetry Friday: Zbigniew Herbert knows just what to say
Friday, November 30th, 2007I may have mentioned it before, but I'm on the Young Adult Fiction Nominating Committee for this year's Cybils. And let me tell you, with 123 nominated books, it's becoming quite the challenge trying cram as much reading into my day as possible. As I tear through novel after novel, I'm starting to notice how often the same metaphors and imagery get used over and over. It makes me that much more appreciative when I come across a truly original turn of phrase – a unique combination of words that really captures the emotion or aesthetic that the author is trying to convey. So I sympathize with Zbigniew Herbert in his quest for the perfect word.
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I would like to describe the simplest emotion
joy or sadness
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reaching for shafts of rain or sunI would like to describe a light
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Pursuant to Articles S2 and S6 paragraphs 1 and 10 of the Code of Sports-related Arbitration, the International Council of Arbitration for Sport adopts the present Mediation Rules (the "Rules").
Article 1
CAS mediation is a non binding and informal procedure, based on an agreement to mediate in which each party undertakes to attempt in good faith to negotiate with the other party with a view to settling a sports-related dispute. The parties are assisted in their negotiations by a CAS mediator.
In principle, CAS mediation is provided for the resolution of contractual disputes. Disputes related to disciplinary matters, such as doping issues, match-fixing and corruption, are excluded from CAS mediation. However, in certain cases, where the circumstances so require and the parties expressly agree, disputes related to other disciplinary matters may be submitted to CAS mediation.
Article 2
A mediation agreement is one whereby the parties agree to submit to mediation a sports-related dispute which has arisen or which may arise between them.
A mediation agreement may take the form of a mediation clause in a contract or a separate agreement.
Article 3
Where a mediation agreement provides for mediation under the CAS Mediation Rules, these Rules shall be deemed to form an integral part of such mediation agreement. Unless the parties have agreed otherwise, the version of these Rules in force on the date when the mediation request is filed shall apply.
The parties may however agree to apply other rules of procedure.
Article 4
A party wishing to institute mediation proceedings shall address a request to that effect in writing to the CAS Court Office.
The request shall contain: the identity of the parties and their representatives (name, address, email address, telephone and fax numbers), a copy of the mediation agreement and a brief description of the dispute.
The day on which the mediation request is received by the CAS Court Office shall be considered as the date on which the mediation proceedings commence.
The CAS Court Office shall immediately inform the parties of the date on which the mediation commences, and shall fix the time limit by which the parties shall pay their share of the administrative costs and the advance of costs pursuant to Article 14 and Appendix I of the Rules.
If the parties agree to submit an ordinary / appeal arbitration procedure to mediation, the CHF 1,000 (one thousand Swiss francs) Court Office fee paid by the Claimant / Appellant in the arbitration procedure shall be credited to the mediation procedure and used to cover the administrative costs for the mediation.
If the advance of costs is not paid by both parties and if one party does not agree to pay the share of the other party(-ies), the mediation procedure is immediately terminated.
Article 5
The ICAS draws up the list of mediators available to be appointed in CAS mediation procedures.
The personalities whom the ICAS appoints shall appear on the list of mediators for a four-year period, and are thereafter eligible for reselection.
Article 6
Unless the parties have jointly selected a mediator from the list of CAS mediators, the mediator shall be appointed by the CAS President, after consultation with the parties, from among the list of CAS mediators.
In accepting such appointment, the mediator undertakes to devote sufficient time to the mediation proceedings to permit them to be conducted expeditiously.
The mediator shall be and must remain impartial, and independent of the parties, and shall disclose any facts or circumstances which might be of such nature as to callinto question her/his independence in the eyes of any of the parties. Notwithstanding any such disclosure, the parties may agree in writing to authorize the mediator to continue his mandate.
In the event of an objection by any of the parties, or at her/his own discretion if she/he deems herself/himself unable to bring the mediation to a successful conclusion, the mediator shall cease her/his mandate and inform the CAS President accordingly, whereupon the latter will make arrangements to replace her/him, after consulting the parties and offering them the possibility to appoint another CAS mediator.
Article 7
The parties may be represented or assisted in their meetings with the mediator.
If a party is being represented, the other party, the mediator and the CAS must be informed beforehand as to the identity of such representative.
The representative must have full written authority to settle the dispute alone, without needing to consult the party she/he is representing.
Article 8
Unless the parties have agreed to conduct the mediation in a particular manner, the mediator shall determine how the mediation will be proceed, after consultation with the parties and taking due consideration of the CAS Mediation Guidelines.
Upon her/his appointment, the mediator shall establish the terms and timetable for submission by each party of a statement summarizing the dispute, including the following details:
Where the parties agree to submit an ordinary/appeal arbitration case to mediation, the mediator may consider the request for arbitration/statement of appeal as one party's summary of its dispute and may invite only the other party to submit its summary of the dispute.
Each party shall cooperate in good faith with the mediator and shall guarantee her/him the freedom to perform her/his mandate to advance the mediation as expeditiously as possible. The mediator may make any suggestions she/he deems appropriate in this regard. The mediator may at any time communicate separately with the parties if she/he deems it necessary to do so.
Article 9
The mediator shall promote the settlement of the issues in dispute in any manner that she/he believes to be appropriate. To achieve this, the mediator will:
However, the mediator may not impose a solution of the dispute on either party.
Article 10
The mediator, the parties, their representatives and advisers, and any other persons present during the meetings between the parties shall sign a confidentiality agreement and shall not disclose to any third party any information given to them during the mediation, unless required by law to do so.
Unless required to do so by applicable law and in the absence of any agreement of the parties to the contrary, a party shall not compel the mediator to divulge records, reports or other documents, or to testify in regard to the mediation in any arbitral or judicial proceedings.
Any information given by one party may be disclosed by the mediator to the other party only with the consent of the former.
But for personal notes of the mediator or the parties, no record of any kind such as audio or video recording, transcript or minutes shall be made of the meetings.
Unless required to do so by applicable law and in the absence of any agreement of the parties to the contrary, the parties shall not rely on, or introduce as evidence in any arbitral or judicial proceedings:
Article 11
Either party or the mediator may terminate the mediation at any time.
The mediation shall be terminated:
Article 12
The settlement is drawn up by the mediator and signed by the parties and the mediator.
Each party shall receive a copy thereof. In the event of any breach, a party may rely on such copy before an arbitral or judicial authority. In the event of any breach, the parties may agree that the case be resolved by CAS arbitration, in accordance with the Code of Sports-related Arbitration.
A copy of the settlement is submitted for inclusion in the records of the CAS Court Office.
Article 13
The parties may have recourse to arbitration when a dispute has not been resolved by mediation, provided that an arbitration agreement or clause exists between the parties.
The arbitration clause may be included in the mediation agreement. In such a case, the expedited procedure provided for under article R44, paragraph 4 of the Code of Sports-related Arbitration may be applied.
In the event of a failure to resolve a dispute by mediation the mediator shall not accept an appointment as an arbitrator in any arbitral proceedings concerning the parties involved in the same dispute. However, if all parties have explcitily agreed so in writing once the mediation procedure is terminated, it is possible for the mediator to subsequently act as arbtirator for the same dispute and issue an arbitral award in accordance with the CAS Arbitration Rules ("Med-Arb procedure"). Such mediator can only act as an arbitrator if she/he is also on the list of CAS arbitrators.
Article 14
Each party shall pay the CAS administrative costs within the time limit provided in Article 4 of the Rules. In the absence of such payment, the mediation proceedings will not be initiated.
The parties shall pay their own mediation fees and expenses.
Unless otherwise agreed between the parties, the final costs of the mediation, which include the CAS administrative costs of CHF 1,000, the costs and fees of the mediator calculated on the basis of the CAS fee scale set out in Appendix I, a contribution towards the CAS expenses will be borne by the parties in equal shares.
At the outset of the mediation proceedings, the CAS Court Office shall require the parties to deposit an equal amount as an advance towards the costs of the mediation.
At the conclusion of the mediation, any portion of the advance of costs which is not used, shall be reimbursed to the parties in equal shares or in the proportion in which the parties paid the advance of costs.


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The opera glasses Abraham Lincoln brought to Ford's Theater to view "Our American Cousin" in binocular close-up on the night he was assassinated are going up for sale at Nate D. Sanders' April auction.
On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln was holding the German-made opera glasses when John Wilkes Booth entered the Presidential Box at 10:13 PM and shot him in the back of the head. Three doctors who happened to be at the theater that night attended the mortally wounded President in the box, and then decided to move him. A shockless carriage ride to the White House being out of the question, the doctors, some soldiers in the audience and an on-duty Washington City Guard and Union veteran Captain named James M. McCamly carried Lincoln's unconscious body across the street to William Petersen's boarding house.
While crossing the street, McCamly saw a pair of opera glasses fall from Lincoln's body. He picked them up and pocketed them, barely paying attention. He remained at the vigil all night. At 7:22 AM, April 15, 1865, Abraham Lincoln died. After the President's body was brought to the White House, McCamly was relieved of duty and went home to finally get some sleep. It was at his quarters that he realized he still had the opera glasses.
Captain McCamly commanded the Veteran Reserve Corps honor guard that accompanied Lincoln's body back to Springfield, Illinois for the funeral. The men of the honor guard were the only ones allowed to move the coffin. James McCamly was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for this somber service.
There is extensive documentation of McCamly's role in the aftermath of the assassination, some of which is included in the lot. Most relevant in terms of authentication, in 1968 the Chief Curator of the National Park Service, Harold L. Peterson, wrote to Robert C. Hartt, Mrs. James McCamly's great-grandson, that he had checked the opera glasses against the carrying case that is in the Ford's Theatre National Park Collection and found that they "precisely fit the opera glass case."
The opera glasses remained in McCamly's family for three generations until they were sold in 1979 to magazine publisher Malcolm Forbes Sr. The current owner is anonymous. The last time the glasses were offered for sale in June 2011, with a pre-sale estimate of $500,000 to $700,000, they failed to sell. The Sanders' estimate is the same exact range, $500,000 to $700,000. It's three days before the auction and already 14 online bids have brought the price to $252,582.
I'm guessing at these prices the National Park Service isn't in the bidding, which is a big shame because it would be great if the glasses and the case could be reunited in the Ford's Theater collection. Fingers crossed for a public-minded benefactor.


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Peterson says he hasn't ever used performance enhancing drugs
Published 1:35 pm Saturday, July 27, 2013
Vikings' running back would eagerly take test for HGH
MANKATO — Embracing the challenge has always been a part of Adrian Peterson's persona. Bring it on, the star running back has often said with a smile.
He set the NFL's single-game rushing record as a rookie for the Minnesota Vikings. His swift recovery from reconstructive left knee surgery last season included a jaw-dropping 2,097 yards rushing and the league MVP award. No matter how rare the feat he's asked about, Peterson will usually insist it's possible.
There's another test he'd eagerly take: for human growth hormone.
"I can't wait until they draw my blood," Peterson said Friday after the team's first workout of training camp.
The NFL and the players union have been working on an agreement for HGH testing procedures. Supplemental HGH is a banned substance that's difficult to detect. It's been used by athletes for what are believed to be a variety of benefits, whether real or only perceived, like increased speed and improved vision.
"To be honest with you, I've been hoping they did this a long time ago, you know, evening out the playing field and make guys be honest and truthful to themselves," Peterson said, later adding: "I'm all natural. I work hard. This right here, it's a test for me personally, that I know that, 'Hey, I'm clean as a whistle,' and other guys as well. And then, like I say, it'll bring some guys to the forefront and be like, 'Hey, I guess this is how this guy's been performing so well."'
Peterson said he believes HGH use is not uncommon around the league.
"You've got guys out there trying to provide for their families, they're going to try to get that edge, get that advantage, especially if they're not worried about trying to get caught," Peterson said. "Yeah, it's being used."
Vikings defensive end Jared Allen offered a less skeptical view but echoed his teammate's encouragement of the testing.
"You like to think that everybody is playing clean and that we have a pretty solid drug testing system now with steroids, being random like it is, that it would discourage that kind of use," Allen said. "I'm not naove to say that. There are probably people on them. But hopefully if they can figure it out and get the system worked out, then it would discourage anyone using performance-enhancing drugs."
Peterson's seemingly superhuman comeback last season prompted plenty of accusations he heard in person or saw online. There's even a Twitter user with the handle (at)HghPeterson. Peterson is aware of it.
"I think that's a compliment, when I hear people say stuff like that," Peterson said. "It shows me how blessed I am."
Given the state of pro sports, particularly in light of the recent resurgence of big-name baseball players linked to performance-enhancing drugs, even a live-televised blood test of Peterson's sample would still leave people assuming he somehow cheated to aid his remarkable 2012 season. But he said he's not worried about such disbelief.
"Because I'm true to myself, and I know I have a lot of respect for this game and the guys that came before me and the guys that did it the right way, and that's what I'm all about," Peterson said.
Of the six other players who topped the 2,000-yard mark (Eric Dickerson, Jamal Lewis, Barry Sanders, Terrell Davis, Chris Johnson and O.J. Simpson) previously, the best follow-up performance was 1,491 yards by Sanders in 1998. Some statistical regression is only natural, especially if quarterback Christian Ponder can improve with two new wide receivers, Greg Jennings and Cordarrelle Patterson, to throw to.
"We don't sit down and say, 'We want you to get this many yards. We want you to run this way,"' coach Leslie Frazier said. "We've got some parameters we want him to work within, but you've still got to let Adrian be Adrian. He's the greatest running back in our game, so we're not going to pigeonhole him in how we're going to use him."
Peterson was asked at one point about whether he could reach 2,500 yards this year, and he of course said sure. The subject comes up now almost every time he's available to reporters, and in keeping with that old bring-it-on attitude Peterson has never dismissed the notion.
"It's something I want to accomplish, if it's something that happens. If not, it doesn't matter as long as we win," Peterson said.
That's why the Vikings haven't delved much into concern about Peterson's yardage total for the year, whether it goes up or goes down.
"You always want to be balanced as a football team, but you also want to win games," center John Sullivan said. "So if running for 300 yards is what helps us win, I'm sure that's what our goal will be."
Last summer at this time, the goal was just to get Peterson practicing full speed with the team again and ready for the regular season opener.
"I was teasing him. I said, 'I don't think you're in as good of shape as you were a year ago,"' Frazier said, "and he goes, 'We'll see. We'll see,' with a smile."


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Coding Standards
The default policies used by the library are changed by the usual configuration macro method.
For example, passing -DBOOST_MATH_DOMAIN_ERROR_POLICY=errno_on_error
to your compiler will cause domain errors to set ::errno
and return a NaN
rather than the usual default behaviour of throwing a std::domain_error
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For Microsoft Visual Studio,you can add to the Project Property Page, C/C++, Preprocessor, Preprocessor definitions like: BOOST_MATH_ASSERT_UNDEFINED_POLICY=0 BOOST_MATH_OVERFLOW_ERROR_POLICY=errno_on_error This may be helpful to avoid complications with pre-compiled headers that may mean that the equivalent definitions in source code: #define BOOST_MATH_ASSERT_UNDEFINED_POLICY false #define BOOST_MATH_OVERFLOW_ERROR_POLICY errno_on_error may be ignored. The compiler command line shows: /D "BOOST_MATH_ASSERT_UNDEFINED_POLICY=0" /D "BOOST_MATH_OVERFLOW_ERROR_POLICY=errno_on_error" |
There is however a very important caveat to this:
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Default policies changed by setting configuration macros must be changed uniformly in every translation unit in the program. Failure to follow this rule may result in violations of the "One Definition Rule (ODR)" and result in unpredictable program behaviour. |
That means there are only two safe ways to use these macros:
What you should not do is:
as doing so almost certainly will break your program, unless you're
absolutely certain that the program is restricted to a single translation
And, yes, you will find examples in our test programs where we break this rule: but only because we know there will always be a single translation unit only: don't say that you weren't warned!
The following example demonstrates the effect of setting the macro BOOST_MATH_DOMAIN_ERROR_POLICY when an invalid argument is encountered. For the purposes of this example, we'll pass a negative degrees of freedom parameter to the student's t distribution.
Since we know that this is a single file program we could just add:
#define BOOST_MATH_DOMAIN_ERROR_POLICY ignore_error
to the top of the source file to change the default policy to one that simply returns a NaN when a domain error occurs. Alternatively we could use:
#define BOOST_MATH_DOMAIN_ERROR_POLICY errno_on_error
To ensure the ::errno
is set when a domain error occurs as well as returning a NaN.
This is safe provided the program consists of a single translation unit and we place the define before any #includes. Note that should we add the define after the includes then it will have no effect! A warning such as:
warning C4005: 'BOOST_MATH_OVERFLOW_ERROR_POLICY' : macro redefinition
is a certain sign that it will not have the desired effect.
We'll begin our sample program with the needed includes:
// Boost #include <boost/math/distributions/students_t.hpp> using boost::math::students_t; // Probability of students_t(df, t). // std #include <iostream> using std::cout; using std::endl; #include <stdexcept> using std::exception; #include <cstddef> // using ::errno
Next we'll define the program's main() to call the student's t distribution with an invalid degrees of freedom parameter, the program is set up to handle either an exception or a NaN:
int main() { cout << "Example error handling using Student's t function. " << endl; cout << "BOOST_MATH_DOMAIN_ERROR_POLICY is set to: " << BOOST_STRINGIZE(BOOST_MATH_DOMAIN_ERROR_POLICY) << endl; double degrees_of_freedom = -1; // A bad argument! double t = 10; try { errno = 0; // Clear/reset. students_t dist(degrees_of_freedom); // exception is thrown here if enabled. double p = cdf(dist, t); // Test for error reported by other means: if((boost::math::isnan)(p)) { cout << "cdf returned a NaN!" << endl; if (errno != 0) { // So errno has been set. cout << "errno is set to: " << errno << endl; } } else cout << "Probability of Student's t is " << p << endl; } catch(const std::exception& e) { std::cout << "\n""Message from thrown exception was:\n " << e.what() << std::endl; } return 0; } // int main()
Here's what the program output looks like with a default build (one that does throw exceptions):
Example error handling using Student's t function. BOOST_MATH_DOMAIN_ERROR_POLICY is set to: throw_on_error Message from thrown exception was: Error in function boost::math::students_t_distribution<double>::students_t_distribution: Degrees of freedom argument is -1, but must be > 0 !
Alternatively let's build with:
#define BOOST_MATH_DOMAIN_ERROR_POLICY ignore_error
Now the program output is:
Example error handling using Student's t function. BOOST_MATH_DOMAIN_ERROR_POLICY is set to: ignore_error cdf returned a NaN!
And finally let's build with:
#define BOOST_MATH_DOMAIN_ERROR_POLICY errno_on_error
Which gives the output show errno:
Example error handling using Student's t function. BOOST_MATH_DOMAIN_ERROR_POLICY is set to: errno_on_error cdf returned a NaN! errno is set to: 33


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Stockholm, late 1970s. Within a stone's throw of government buildings and juvenile homes lies the seductive world of sex clubs, discotheques and private residences. Call Girl tells the story of how young Iris is recruited from the bottom of society into a ruthless world where power can get you anything.


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Imagine yourself a cloned child created from the DNA of a wealthy person who wants to have your organs available for transplant, when he later needs them. The only life you know as a child is as one of a large number of other clones who are kept in the setting of an isolated English boarding school, Hailsham, where none of you has any contact with the outside world. Initially, you have no idea of your intended destiny, as an organ donor.
At age 18, you leave Hailsham for other supervised accommodation, where you will live until you become an organ "donor," usually in a sequence of "retrieval operations," finally being killed when an unpaired vital organ is taken.
In the film of Kazuo Ishiguro's book, Never Let Me Go, which is playing in Canada, we watch this dystopic and unethical example of a rapidly developing field called "regenerative medicine" (which, used ethically, offers great hope), being played out against a tragic love story that involves three of these young people. Through this love story, we understand how fully human they are, in contrast to the immense dehumanization to which they are subjected.
Reviewers have commented that the film is unusual in being a science-fiction story set in the past, the 1950s and '60s. But what makes it so spine-chilling is that we come to realize that our present world is the future Ishiguro describes. Many scenarios it portrays, such as organ transplantation, and genetic and reproductive technologies, which were unknown in the '50s and '60s, are now science-fact. The film delivers a powerful message that we need to become much more sensitive than we currently are to the ethics issues 21st-century technoscience raises.
Here are some of the lessons we can take from it.
The cloned children are regarded by the people who run their school as repositories of organs rather than as individual persons, as objects, not human subjects. This dehumanization is inflicted both through the way in which the children are treated and language.
They are constantly monitored with electronic bracelets, like animals are with computer chips. One supervisor, obviously meaning to be empathetic, remarks, "you poor creatures." Creatures is a word we use to refer to animals, usually when we are differentiating them from humans. And someone queries whether they have a soul. What is clear is that in dehumanizing the children, these people dehumanize themselves more.
A major current example of dehumanization through language involves human embryos and fetuses. Human embryo research is justified by describing the embryos as "just a bunch of cells" and, in abortion, fetuses are characterized as "just unwanted tissue, part of the woman's body, not a child."
The physicians and nurses responsible for keeping the children healthy, so later their organs can be used, also dehumanize them. In medically examining them, they act as though they are mechanics making sure a car is in good running order, not health-care professionals caring for patients. Most horrific in this regard, is the scene showing surgeons undertaking a vital-organ-retrieval-operation that kills the "donor." They carefully take the organ, then instantly "pull the plug" on both the life support technology and any engagement with the "patient," simply walking out leaving the dead body on the operating table, bleeding, not even bothering to suture the wound. Even in death the person is not respected as human.
Who were these physicians and nurses? How could they be in involved in such evil, such appalling violation of medical ethics? That same question has often been asked by scholars in relation to the Nazi doctors in the death camps. Are comparable unethical operations taking place in some countries today, for instance, using prisoners as "donors"? Might some Canadians be recipients of these organs?
How could society allow this to happen? Why wasn't it prohibited and severely punished? Or was society complicit in the evil by funding the technoscience that made it possible, without ensuring that technoscience was used only ethically?
Who were the scientists who made the clones and what ethical requirements should have governed them?
And where were society's watchdogs, the medical and scientific bodies responsible for ensuring ethics in the professions? Or was it a situation where the legislated safeguards were inoperative.
It's clear in the book that "farming" these children is a lucrative commercial industry. This brings to mind the "fertility industry" that markets assisted reproductive technologies, bringing in $3.3 billion annually, in the United States alone. It's an area that needs very close ethical supervision, yet it's common to hear it referred to as the "Wild West of human reproduction." Note also the unethical international organ transplant industry that the recent Declaration of Istanbul seeks to eliminate.
Another warning comes from the intentional use of euphemistic or obfuscating language by those involved in the "cloning-transplant project." Euphemisms can skew our perceptions about ethics, probably by suppressing moral intuitions that clear language would elicit and which would function as ethical red alerts.
The person cloned, is referred to simply as the clone's "original." The clones go looking for their "originals." They describe sighting a person, who might be such, as seeing a "possible." Especially in the book, Ishiguro captures, exactly as I've personally heard donor-conceived people express it, their anguish at not knowing, but longing to know, their biological antecedents.
The word "kill" is never used and even the word "death" is avoided, as is often true of pro-euthanasia advocates. Rather, the final fatal surgery is referred to as a "completion." A nurse remarks that "some donors look forward to completion," which is not surprising seeing the immensely debilitated state of the young people, who have already made multiple donations. Towards the end of the film, the former headmistress of Hailsham, now retired and in a wheelchair, remarks, philosophically, "that we all have to complete sometime." That's true, but how we "complete" is the critical ethical issue, as we can see in the present euthanasia debate.
That brings us to convergence, which refers to interventions that become possible only through the combination of separate technologies. Never Let Me Go is a story of the convergence of genetic and reproductive technologies — cloning, in vitro fertilization and surrogate motherhood — and organ transplant technologies.
Each technology, taken alone, raises serious ethical issues, but combined they raise ethical issues of a different order, as we see in Never Let Me Go. And such issues might be closer to us, than most of us realize.
Is it ethical for people who are euthanized, in countries where this is legal, to become organ donors? There have been recent reports of this at transplantation conferences and in the medical literature.
And here's another presently possible scenario of convergence, the only element of which is illegal in Canada would be cloning the embryo, which advocates of human embryo research have argued should be allowed for "therapeutic purposes": Create an in vitro embryo and take one cell, when all cells are still totipotential (can form another embryo) to make a second embryo. Transfer the first embryo to a woman's uterus and freeze the second embryo. When, as a born child or adult, the first embryo needs an organ transplant, transfer the second embryo to a surrogate mother, abort the fetus at a late stage and use its organs.
Finally, a statement from the wheel-chair-bound ex-head mistress of Hailsham merits noting with respect to the philosophy and values on which we should base our ethics. It shows her exclusively rational approach to the horror of what she helped to inflict on the children in her charge.
Two of them, who are now adults and in love, come to her seeking a deferral of the "completion" organ retrieval surgery on the young man, so they can have some time together before he is killed. She tells them that is not possible and enquires, rhetorically, "Would you ask people to return to lung cancer, heart failure and other terrible diseases?"
Never Let Me Go is a searing lesson about the "ethics outcomes" that can result from pure utilitarianism and moral relativism, when they are used to govern the new technoscience by people without a moral conscience or moral intuition.
Margaret Somerville DCL, LL.D, is the founding director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University.
Printed with permission of the author.
This article was first published in the Ottawa Citizen


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More on Education and Expertise
A few days ago, I highlighted an article that argued that the problem with public education was that there was not enough expertise and, heaven forbid, enough state level bureaucrats managing the infrastructure. I pointed out that this is often the argument of technocrats in favor of failing public institutions: The problem is not the institution, they argue, or its incentives but it just needs the right people in charge. I argued that, probably like GM, all the expertise in the world was not going to turn around an organization whose DNA had gone senescent.
Alex Tabarrok comes at this issue from a different angle, but with similar results. Too many of the examples highlighted of successes in public education rely on a super-teacher or super-administrator who overcomes all the organization problems in his/her school to create a success story, one that is usually fleeting and tends to die when that individual leaves (Jaime Escalante is a great example - most of his math program improvements died after he left).
Tabarrok argues that you can't just keep hoping for more of these unique individuals who can overcome a myriad of bureaucratic obstacles. You have to reinvent the system so that average capability, poorly motivated workers can still get a good result for students. I know some will be scared off by the analogy, but this is the kind of thing that franchise restaurants do very well -- plug low-skill, sometimes poorly motivated employees into a system that successfully provides consistent, predictable service for customers.
What we need to save inner-city schools, and poor schools
everywhere, is a method that works when the teachers aren't heroes.
Even better if the method works when teachers are ordinary people,
poorly paid and ill-motivated - i.e. the system we have today.In Super Crunchers,
Ian Ayres argues that just such a method exists. Overall, Super
Crunchers is a light but entertaining account of how large amounts of
data and cheap computing power are improving forecasting and decision
making in social science, government and business. I enjoyed the
book. Chapter 7, however, was a real highlight.Ayres argues that large experimental studies have shown that the teaching method which works best is Direct Instruction (here and here
are two non-academic discussions which summarizes much of the same
academic evidence discussed in Ayres). In Direct Instruction the
teacher follows a script, a carefully designed and evaluated script.
As Ayres notes this is key:DI is scalable. Its
success isn't contingent on the personality of some uber-teacher....You
don't need to be a genius to be an effective DI teacher. DI can be
implemented in dozens upon dozens of classrooms with just ordinary
teachers. You just need to be able to follow the script.Contrary
to what you might think, the data also show that DI does not impede
creativity or self-esteem. The education establishment, however, hates
DI because it is a threat to the power and prestige of teaching, they
prefer the model of teacher as hero. As Ayres says "The education
establishment is wedded to its pet theories regardless of what the
evidence says." As a result they have fought it tooth and nail so that
"Direct Instruction, the oldest and most validated program, has
captured only a little more than 1 percent of the grade-school
I don't know anything about DI and haven't seen the data and so can't comment on its effectiveness. But I can say that if it works, there is no way it will be adopted in public schools. Public school systems are run first for the administration bureaucracy, second for the teachers, and only about third for the students. Anything that serves the latter but reduces the power of the former will never succeed, again because the incentives are not there for better performance. Only school competition will allow such new models to be tried.


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There are a variety of pests that can invade your home, causing damage and posing a threat to your health. Termites, bed bugs, cockroaches, and rodents are some of the most common pests. If you suspect that you have a pest problem, it is important to take action right away. Pest removal is not a job for amateurs; it is best to call a professional pest control Redan Georgia.
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Bed bugs can be difficult to find because of their size.
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An Englishman's wife steps up to the tee and,
as she bends over to place her ball on the tee,
a gust of wind blows her skirt up and reveals
her lack of underwear.
"Good God, woman! Why aren't you wearing
any undies?" her husband demanded.
"Well, you don't give me enough housekeeping
money to afford any." The Englishman
immediately reaches into his pocket and says,
"For the sake of decency, here's £20. Go and
buy yourself some underwear."
Next, the Irishman's wife bends over to set her
ball on the tee. Her skirt also blows up to
show that she too is wearing no undies.
"Blessed Virgin Mary, woman! You've no
undies. Why not?" She replies, "I can't afford
any on the money you give me." He reaches
into his pocket and says, "For the sake of
decency, here's £10. Go and buy yourself
some underwear!"
Lastly, the Scotsman's wife bends over. The
wind also takes her skirt over her head to
reveal that she, too, is naked under it.
"Sweet mudder of Jesus, Aggie! Where are yer drawers?"
She too explains, "You dinna give me enough
money ta be able ta affarrd any!"
The Scotsman reaches into his pocket and
Says, "Well, fer the love' O Jesus, here's a
comb. Tidy yerself up a bit."


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OCEAN CITY — The newest addition to Ocean City's rapidly growing artificial system could be heading to the bottom any day now with the planned sinking of a 50-foot water taxi from Baltimore about five miles off the coast.
The Ocean City Reef Foundation is planning to sink the former water taxi as soon as a conducive weather window presents itself. The water taxi is the third of its kind donated to the foundation in the last year or so and likely the last for a while, according to Greg Hall of the Ocean City Reef Foundation.
"I think this is the last of them," he said this week. "Three of them have been donated and this is the third and final one. It's all ready to go. We just need a little window of decent weather."
The 50-foot vessel has been completely stripped down in advance of the sinking, a rigorous task performed largely by Captain Monty Hawkins and his crew on the "Morning Star." Sunset Marina provided the staging area for the mitigation of the vessel and Salisbury Brick provided a couple of large pallets of cinder blocks, which serve the dual purpose of weighting the vessel and contributing to the nooks and crannies needed for a successful artificial reef. High Tech Marine also provided welding services for the vessel's eventual deployment.
Hall explained the vessel will be towed to an area near the existing Russell's Reef site roughly five miles straight out from the Inlet. The addition of the retired water taxi will be named in honor of long-time fishing and reef building advocate and West Ocean City tackle and marine supply store owner Doug Ake.
Hall explained this week the complicated process for the sinking.
"After the vessel is completely stripped and cleaned, we cut holes in the hull and put patches on them," he said. "Then, it's towed to the destination and the patches are removed little by little so we can lower it on the reef. Hopefully, this one goes down easier than the last one."
Hall was referring to another Baltimore water taxi sunk over the relatively new Jimmy Jackson Memorial Reef in the area of the Bass Grounds about seven or eight miles off the coast. The artificial reef was named for the late Jackson, a popular local and nationally known angler and sportfishing enthusiast who passed away in 2010.
Hall said that former water taxi is already achieving the desired results as an artificial reef.
"It's crusted over pretty good already and it's teeming with fish," he said. "These water taxis are made of good steel and they'll last a long, long time."


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Got kugel? Got Kugel with Toffee Walnuts? Now you do. Here's the real homemade Gefilte Fish - and also Salmon en Papillote. Grandma Sera Fritkin's Russian Brisket and Hazelnut-Crusted Rack of Lamb. Aunt Irene's traditional matzoh balls and Judy's contemporary version with shiitake mushrooms. Cooking Jewish gathers recipes from five generations of a food-obsessed family into a celebratory saga of cousins and kasha, Passover feasts - the holiday has its own chapter - and crossover dishes. And for all cooks who love to get together for coffee and a little something, dozens and dozens of desserts: pies, cakes, cookies, bars, and a multitude of cheesecakes; Rugelach and Hamantaschen, Mandelbrot and Sufganyot (Hanukkah jelly doughnuts). Not to mention Tanta Esther Gittel's Husband's Second Wife Lena's Nut Cake.
Blending the recipes with over 160 stories from the Rabinowitz family-by the end of the book you'll have gotten to know the whole wacky clan-and illustrated throughout with more than 500 photographs reaching back to the 19th century, Cooking Jewish invites the reader not just into the kitchen, but into a vibrant world of family and friends. Written and recipe-tested by Judy Bart Kancigor, a food journalist with the Orange County Register, who self-published her first family cookbook as a gift and then went on to sell 11,000 copies, here are 532 recipes from her extended family of outstanding cooks, including the best chicken soup ever - really! - from her mother, Lillian. (Or as the author says, "When you write your cookbook, you can say your mother's is the best.")
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A note from Judy:
In 1996 my favorite aunt was dying, and we were expecting our first grandchild. That's when it hit me - how would the coming generation know about the wonderful recipes and stories of our huge, boisterous family?
I self-published my memoir cookbook, Melting Pot Memories, just for my family. Eight printings and 11,000 copies later, in April 2003, I found myself on a panel at the International Association of Culinary Professionals conference in Montreal on "The Memoir Cookbook" with authors Sharon Boorstin and Ruth Reichl, editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine. There the book's touching stories and innovative recipes (such as Tanta Esther Gittel's Husband's Second Wife Lena's Nut Cake) caught the eye of Workman Publishing, who offered to publish my second book, Cooking Jewish: 532 Great Recipes from the Rabinowitz Family.
I stopped reprinting Melting Pot Memories to work on Cooking Jewish, a project that took four and a half years. I still get calls requesting copies of Melting Pot Memories - so sorry! I saved four for my grandchildren and have none left, but all I can tell you is, if you liked Melting Pot Memories, you will love Cooking Jewish!


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Luxury and classic mochila bags: clean with a damp cloth the areas that have crystals and leather. The areas with only mochila cloth (usually the back of the bag) can be cleaned with a wet towel and tiny bit of mild soap. Rub the area to be cleaned, rinse the towel with only water, and then clean again the area to remove excess soap from the bag. Air dry.
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It's a quiet Friday and I have no news. So I thought I'd begin an occasional series called Random Annotations, comments about aspects of my own fiction. Here's the first:
The last paragraph of "The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O" contains two elements worth noting. The paragraph, in its entirety, is as follows:
He kick-started the Harley and with a roar they pulled out into traffic. Crow cranked up the engine and popped a wheelie. Off they sped, down the road that leads everywhere and nowhere, to the past and the future, Tokyo and Short Pump, infinity and the corner store, with Annie laughing and unafraid, and Crow flying the black flag of himself.
Short Pump: A small town outside of Richmond, Virginia. When I lived in Seven Pines, not far away, it was an easy joke, the ultimate small town. Since, alas, it has grown considerably.
. . . and Crow flying the black flag of himself: This is the only line in my entire body of work which exists in two forms, one written and the other oral. When I do a reading of the story, the word Crow is repeated three times: ". . . and Crow, Crow, Crow flying the black flag of himself." Why? Try reading it out loud.
Above: I saw this road in rural Maryland a few days ago. Annie and Crow are archetypes, of course, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that they cast shadows and echoes throughout reality.


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