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I have 50 3d linestrings in postgis database, and I need to add column length so I could use pgRouting for calculating shortest path with Dijkstra. How can I add it?
I would go with a view.
well, why with a view?
A) no schema alteration. You won't break applications (it's most likely that adding a column to it would not break anything, but there's always a chance)
B) you don't have to maintain that column yourself. After a few weeks or a few changes to table you Djikstra routing would start to give you wrong results, because the Length field would be outdated. The view is the saner path to take, since it will "automagically" update the length column.
check if this works
also, I i've added extra '' in the column definition. Try removing them. I've updated the view definition.
For 3D geometries, you'll want to use ST_Length3D() (list of 3D functions).
With only 50 geometries, you can easily calculate the length values on the fly. That way you don't need to add the length column in advance. Just use ST_Length3D(the_geom) as a cost value.
If you want to add a column, you'll have to first add the column and then update it's values using the length function.
try this, I think it should work:


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Hey guys
Im in the middle of an Aston Villa game and I think its going to be a very successful game.
I'll try and post up all my results as soon as I can.
For now, here are the players I bought and sold so far in the first season
Fredrik Ljunberg Free
Matias Lequi Free
Eduardo Costa Free
Hatem Trabelsi Free
James O'Connor 500k Doncaster
Diogo Valente 750k Porto
Matt Jarvis 1.5m Wolves
Matty Fryatt 2.5m Leicester
Owen Garvan 2.5m Ipswich
Richard Stearman 3.5m Wolves
Sylvan Ebanks Blake 5.5m Wolves
Marlon Harewood 1.1m Leicester
Landon Donovan Free
Chris Eagles 2.5m
Joe Mattock 3.5m
Andre Bikey 6m
So far im in October and havnt let a single goal in
Here are some of the best games so far
Euro Cup 1st Round Leg 1 Villa 3-0 Club Brugge
Premiership Villa 1-0 Chelsea
im still to play the tougher teams so hope i win
Starting Lineup:
GK Brad Fiedel
DL Wilfred Bouma
DR Richard Stearman
DC Curtis Davies, Carlos Cuellar
ML Ashley Young
MR James Milner
MC Nigel Reo Coker, Gareth Barry, Steve Sidwell
FC Gabriel Agbonlahor
Formation: 451 with runs for wingers only
I'll update as soon as I can

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An application has a log directory, in which a alot of log output is created. The file structure in this log directory looks something like this:
localhost:/var/log/myapp # ls
appClient22334.a appClient22336.a appClient22338.a
appClient22334.b appClient22336.b appClient22338.b
appClient22334.c appClient22336.c appClient22338.c
appClient22335.a appClient22337.a appClient22339.a
appClient22335.b appClient22337.b appClient22339.b
appClient22335.c appClient22337.c appClient22339.c
Every day the application generates hundreds of those files, which are all to be stored. The numbers are incrementing.
For most purposes I use logrotate to store and compress log files on a daily base, but in this case I fail to see how this could be done.
The ideal solution would be to have something like
Can anyone of you nudge me into the right direction, if this can be done while using logrotate (maybe a clever way to use
prerotate?), or if it is faster/easier to write a specific bash script?


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An Allen County woman is dead tonight and her son says he killed her.
Fifty-six-year-old Pamela Conway was shot four times at point blank range, and authorities tell us her son has confessed to the murder.
It happened on Harold Bandy Lane in Holland; that's a small farming community about 10 miles outside of Scottsville.
The Allen County Sheriff's Department says 24-year-old Eric Tobin was living there with his wife and two children, and his father, Fred, until a month ago, when he and his wife separated.
He apparently stayed at the house with his father, and his wife moved to Tennessee with the children.
Authorities say that's how the argument between Tobin and his mother, Pamela Conway, started Wednesday morning.
Tobin told authorities his mother told him she was going to get a lawyer to get custody of the children.
Detective Steve Woods says the argument escalated, and when Ms. Conway attempted to leave, Tobin went back into the house and got a .38 Caliber handgun, went to the driver's side of his mother's van, and shot her four times at point blank range. He then says he drove her van into a ravine and left her body there in the van.
The Sheriff's Department says sometime after that, Tobin confessed to other family members, who convinced him to turn himself in to authorities. He did so around 11:30 Wednesday morning.
Detective Steve Woods says Tobin was subdued and nervous, but very cooperative, and even agreed to take law enforcement back to the scene.
Eric Tobin is being held in the Allen County Detention Center on $503,000 bond. He's charged with murder, tampering with physical evidence, and several charges in connection with possession and cultivation of marijuana.


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I have got a lot of pens and stuff, which I also need, but not only due to my delibarate oversupply of pens, but also the lack of organisational system for them my question is now:
How can I more efficiently store and organize my writing implements?
For the most part I just got two round pen cones from Blomus and Sigel where I just drop them in, as well as one tray in my small BISLEY container where I drop some of them. Then I got my "to go" pencil case. But frankly, it's a total chaos as I got more pens (esp. text markers) than can be held by these items.
I throw away all empty or otherwise disappointing writing utensils, so I don't hold on to any junk. I refuse to throw away functioning, basically new and sometimes expensive items, just because I have no proper space to store and retrieve them from.


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Even Tom Friedman gets it right
"If ever Israel needed a U.S. defense secretary who was committed to Israels survival, as Hagel has repeatedly stated but who was convinced that ensuring that survival didnt mean having America go along with Israels self-destructive drift into settling the West Bank and obviating a two-state solution it is now."Headline: "Give Chuck a Chance."Another Headline: What's at Stake in the Hagel Affair? "The real meaning of the Hagel affair is what it says about the climate inside Washington. Simply put, the question is whether supine and reflexive support for all things Israeli remains a prerequisite for important policy positions here in the Land of the Free. Given America's track record in the region in recent decades, you'd think a more open debate on U.S. policy would be just what the country needs, both for its own sake and for Israel's. But because the case for the current "special relationship" of unconditional support is so weak, the last thing that hardliners like Bill Kristol or Elliot Abrams want is an open debate on that subject. If Hagel gets appointed, it means other people in Washington might realize they could say what they really think without fear that their careers will be destroyed. And once that happens, who knows where it might lead? It might even lead to a Middle East policy that actually worked! We wouldn't want that now, would we?"MJ Rosenberg weighs in. Not for the faint of heart!Bernard Avishai invites Americans to stop supporting the policies of West Bank fanatics. Hold onto your hats (and your mittens).And just to round things out Connie Bruck at the New Yorker, "Chuck Hagel and His Enemies." She quotes New York Congressmen Gary Ackerman: You know, not everybody who disagrees with Israels policies is anti-Semitic, otherwise half the Jewish population of Israel would be anti-Semitic!
About the Author
Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, a former editor of Commonweal, writes frequently in these pages and blogs at dotCommonweal.
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It's unfortunate that the comment posted by "Jeff" has disappeared. It was not off-topic and it was not disrespectful. It should have been allowed to stand.
Frank Gibbons: Thank you for your words of support. I have twice posted it and it has twice disappeared, so I guess its no accident or glitch. As you say, it met the ground rules for comment, so there's no reason to remove it. Perhaps, I'm being banished.
An tiarna tugann s an Tiarna a thgann s ar shil.
Maybe this is off topic, but I saw this in the news from Human Rights Watch - "Palestinian Rockets Unlawfully Targeted Israeli Civilian" ...http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/12/24/gaza-palestinian-rockets-unlawfully-t...
Agree, Frank. I saw your comment, Jeff, and was impressed by it.
Jim McCrea: Are we going to have a translation from the Gaelic? Or is it Hebrew?
(Arabic.)(The Editor giveth, and the Editor taketh away. Question ye not intolerance of dissenting views.)
Agreed, Frank, Crystal and Gerelyn. Jeff wrote a well-written comment that meets dotC's guidelines in every respect I can see.I believe Ms. Steinfels is depriving this thread of valuable input. I hope she reconsiders so all may judge for himself or herself.
oops --- "for themselves."I am off to recover from a malfunctioning GI system before the power may go out in an upcoming winter storm.
Jeff: now I am curious to see it. Would you be willing to email it to me?
Thanks for the links Ms. Steinfels. It's nice to see the American media begin to shift.
I have to agree with the others. You'd think a more open debate would be supported here, especially following a post advocating for a more open debate in general. But at least it is thanks to Margaret Steinfels that there are some threads about Israel at all.
Just to clarify: Many of my posts try to talk about the United States and our military, diplomatic, economic, and political policies vis a vis Israel. The defensiveness of many comments here and on other such posts suggest that we cannot talk about those policies lest questions are raised about their merit both for the United States and for Israel. It seems that we can only talk about Israel and its "enemies," the Palestinians, the Iranians, Hezbollah, Hamas (for the moment the Turks and maybe the Egyptians). Such defensiveness may seem appropriate, in fact, it obviously does to some. But denial and avoidance are not going to get the United States or Israel anywhere.The rumored appointment of Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense has displayed all the troubling qualities of our government's relationship with Israel, specifically the Senate and the Executive. Mr. Hagel's modest claim that he represented the United Sates in the U.S. Senate, and not Israel, would be unexceptional on practically any other issue (okay, maybe not Cuba). The storm that has descended on the man (see the ad in today's NYTimes, 12/27), and the opposition to his appointment has, as many journalists, columnists, and opinionators have observed, simply confirmed the reality of the Israeli Lobby and its influence and impact on our policies toward Israel and in the Middle East. Tom Friedman suggests that the policies of Israel's current government are suicidal and that U.S. policies are complicit in that. Are we concerned about that? Or should we continue to avoid and deny?Some other time, I will dilate on the editorial function of gatekeeping.
With respect, denial and avoidance are in the eye of the beholder. There is a whole other side to this conflict that does not receive expression in your posts. To express disappointment in those whose comments point out this other side, and in my case, to delete the comment so that others cannot judge for themselves the merits of the respective positions is not the route to go.
If you want to discuss the appointment (reputed) of Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense and the reasons he has been either pilloried or shown to be an unsuitable appointment, please go ahead. If you want to go on about Israel and the Palestinians, Gaza, West Bank, etc. why not wait until that topic comes up?As to the "whole other side," that is the daily fare in the media; it's not as if it doesn't get a hearing.
Jeff, I have been sitting this out, but I did see your initial comment. It had some merit. It certainly represented a legitimate position which must be considered in thinking about what the United States should be doing about Israel, although, as I read it, it was, as usual, more about what Israel thinks it must do about itself.The parenthetical "as usual" is my point. I could have written what you wrote, and if I needed to research any particular point, I could have done so from the past week's papers piled up in the garage for recycling. That Israel lives in a dangerous neighborhood and all the historical examples, and all the latest examples, and all the stupid political sayings of the politicians whose publics hate Israel are fully covered, recovered and iterated regularly. Margaret Steinfels is trying to get beyond what we can all repeat in our sleep. Even if most of it is true, there is another perspective that also must be considered when thinking about what the United States should be doing about Israel.
As usual, there are two sides to this brouhaha. I say when in doubt go with free speech. It is often unfair, unwise, irrelevant, boring, repetitive, rude, whatever. But eventually it will show itself to be wrong.
Ann: I don't take Jeff & Company to be necessarily wrong (or right); he (they) seems unwilling to discuss the topic at hand. And my long observation of brouhahas is that there are almost more than two sides and some of them are usually off the cliff.
Margaret: The short quote of Tom Friedman that you posted expressed his opinion, an opinion of which he said Hagel was also convinced, that [Israels] survival didnt mean having America go along with Israels self-destructive drift into settling the West Bank and obviating a two-state solution." The whole point of my comment was to state that Friedman and Hagels analysis was all wrong that Israel is behaving in a rational, not self-destructive, manner and that it is the Palestinians, not the Israelis, who have abandoned the two-state solution. Im sure you disagree with this, but I dont see how you can claim that it is not relevant to what you posted. It is as directly relevant as relevant can be. Seven people (including myself) have expressed their opinion that my comment should have been allowed to stand. By eliminating it, you have turned your post into a debate on the elimination of my comment, rather than your post. Im sure thats not what you wanted. By any measure I know of, you should have let it stand.
Tom, I can recite in my sleep most of the points that Ms. Steinfels makes, including the ones here that Israel is acting in a self destructive manner, that real friends of Israel will oppose these policies and put a stop to them, and so on. I dont agree with all of Israels policies and have said so. But almost all [all?] of Ms. Steinfels posts are ones that blame Israel. In this respect, she isn't moving beyond anything, but is deeply mired in a well-known, oft-repeated analysis that other people disagree with. The wisest course is to permit both sides to be expressed and let people judge for themselves. Although I have often been critical of the substance of posts and comments, I have never advocated that any should be eliminated. Dont you find it strange that you and I and others are discussing a comment that we cant read because it has been erased?
Ms. Steinfels actually blames the United States government (Senate and Executive mostly, but you can throw in parts of the State Department) for its uncritical and unswerving support of Israel, which is, as is often said here, a sovereign nation. If Israel is on a course of self-destruction, we might say that that's its responsibility (maybe some would say that's its right). Why should the United States (also a sovereign nation) cooperate in that policy? Appointing as Secretary of Defense, a man who supports Israel and yet has said the United States ought to maintain its distance from some of those policies (brought to a head under the current government), seems a position we should welcome.
The reason I usually comment on these posts is not that I have new exciting information to share, but that they are always about Israel (no other countries receive such scrutiny) and always negative (which makes me want to give a minority opinion).
Jeff wrote, "Seven people (including myself) have expressed their opinion that my comment should have been allowed to stand."What happened to Commonweal's vaunted defense of "Sensus Fidelium?"
Margaret: You have just proved my point. You say that the United States and its Secretary of Defense should not cooperate in Israel's bad policies. If you are wrong about those policies, you are also wrong about what course the United States and its Secretary of Defense should pursue. My comment, the one you won't let anyone read, asserted that you were wrong in important, material respects.And isn't it your position that the U.S. should not merely refuse to cooperate in certain policies, but should actively oppose them by bringing pressure to bear on Israel, by eliminating or reducing aid to Israel and so on?
"The whole point of my comment was to state that Friedman and Hagels analysis was all wrong that Israel is behaving in a rational, not self-destructive, manner and . . . "Jeff --This is a clear example of what Ms. S. is objecting to -- your "whole point" is about Israel, not about Hagel. You do finally get down to talking about him in your next post. That's an improvement. But if you just use him an excuse to talk about the whole history of Israel again and agin and again, people are not going to pay attention to you, already knowing what you think.
Actually, Jeff, your deleted comment and the post are not contradictory: she claims that "drifting into settling the West Bank and obviating a two-state solution" is self-destructive, you claim that ending the occupation in the West Bank would be suicidal. It could be that you're both right, and that Israel is doomed either way.That's the implicit message that some of my Israeli friends are communicating to me: they don't see any hope for the future of their country any more, so they have finally stopped arguing about it. Instead, like the musicians on the Titanic, they merely try to enjoy the good life in Tel-Aviv while it lasts. The beach is lovely, the restaurants are excellent, the night clubs are lively, and the musical and artistic shows are outstanding.
Gen. George C. Marshall was a great American who organized a constabulary to fight a global war, then as Secretary of State organized a battered Europe so it could get back on its feet. He did a lot of other things, including making FDR call him "General" when the world-class charmer tried to get on a "George" basis with him. Republicans threw a ton of tar at him, and none stuck. He certainly had more gravitas than anyone we have running around in Washington these days.Long C.V. short, the guy was something special. But he opposed giving recognition to Israel in 1948. He said if we did, there would be a war in the Mideast. (He was right about that.) Truman, correctly (in the view of most historians), overruled him. I suppose Marshall would be unacceptable today to the lesser wits that shriek policy recommendations in the nation's capital.
I used to be deleted fairly often. Now I try to trim some of my comments so that they just skirt the boundaries of what's acceptable at dotcom without stepping over that boundary. I've learned that what can be said in defense of Israel is pretty narrowly circumscribed by the Grand Deletor.
MOS: it is in the Irish. You know, the Laird takes away what the Laird gives. (I couldn't find a translation in Scots).Unfortunately, what is so-often "acceptable" @ dotcom would have gotten my butt paddled more than once it I tried it with my mother. And, yes, I'm as guilty as some of the rest of us.
Ann, With respect to your point that I talk about the same things all the time, in my defense I would say that anyone who comments about Israel a lot, as I do, is going to be repetitious. Suppose that someone took the position that all this talk about settlements and occupation has gone on too long. That Ms. Steinfels and others want to talk about them again, and again and again. And that all this talk about them has become tiresome and boring because we already know what these people think about them so why keep repeating it. That what we should be talking about are more interesting topics concerning Israel like how much Israelis have made out of themselves and their country during the last 65 years and how theyve done this in the face of terrible obstacles like the historical and current rejection by Palestinians of the right of Israel to exist, or the wars waged by the Palestinians and/or surrounding Arab countries to destroy Israel, or the terror campaigns waged against Israel or the like. Would you go along with that excluding all this boring, repetitious talk about settlements and occupation so we could focus on what some of the rest of us find interesting? I doubt it. And I wouldnt advocate it. But it works the other way around, too. All these views deserve to be aired and none should be excluded. Otherwise, all you have is an echo chamber.
Ann, You criticize my comment because it was all about Israel and not about Hagel. But the initial post was all about Hagels view of Israel. If it was about Hagels view of Bolivia and I posted a comment about Israel, I would understand your criticism. But when a post asserts that Hagel would be a good Secretary of Defense because he wouldnt go along with Israels self-destructive conduct and Israels obviating the two state solution, is one forbidden from pointing out that Israel is engaging in rational, not self-destructive, conduct, and that it is not Israel that is obviating the two-state solution, its the Palestinians? You point out that my comment did not mention Hagel. Since my comment focused on the point about Israels alleged self-destructive conduct and its allegedly obviating the two-state solution, I thought the connection with the initial post was clear enough. But allow me to take your advice and modify my comment to make the connection with the initial post clearer. I will post it in a separate comment.
This is a modified version of my comment, the one that has been deleted. Although I thought the connection between my comment and the post that quotes Tom Friedman was clear, Ive made it even clearer here. Lets see if this passes muster. Tom Friedman says that we need a Secretary of Defense like Hagel who would not go along with Israels self-destructive conduct because it is obviating the two-state solution. But Israel is not engaging in self-destructive conduct, it is acting rationally, and Israel is not the party that is obviating the two-state solution. The Palestinians are. Insofar as the United States relationship with Israel is concerned, we need a Secretary of Defense who recognizes this. After all, Friedman himself says that Israel is surrounded by more implacable enemies than ever and needs and deserves Americas backing, and that Hamas is dedicated to Israels destruction and has been a disaster for the Palestinians. The reason that hardliners are now governing Israel is because the Israeli public is electing them. This is not because Israelis have collectively gone mad or are a self-destructive people. It is because Israelis, as opinion polls have all shown, have ceased to believe the Palestinians have any intention of making peace with them. And why have Israelis come to believe this? Its because at Camp David in 2000 Arafat showed he had no interest in peace. And because of the follow-on bombing campaign against Israeli civilian buses, restaurants, weddings and Bar Mitzvahs. Over 1,000 Israelis have been killed since 2000, including approximately 150 children.And because, just as the hardliners predicted, ending occupation and settlements in Gaza did not result in a more peaceful neighbor to its west, but in a bitter enemy determined to use Gaza as a more effective staging ground for attacking Israel proper, whose destruction is its official policy. And because, just as the hardliners predicted, the withdrawal from southern Lebanon did not result in a more peaceful neighbor to its north, but to an Iranian cats paw Hezbollah -- bristling with advanced rocketry aimed at Israel and also sworn to its destruction. And because of Iran itself, calling for Israel to be wiped from the face of the globe, hell bent for nuclear weapons.The portion of the West Bank still occupied by Israel is permitted by, and governed by, the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Israel cannot afford another Gaza in the West Bank. It will not end this occupation except as part of a comprehensive negotiated peace with the Palestinians. This is not madness or self-destructive behavior. It is common sense. Insofar as the United States relationship with Israel is concerned, we need a Secretary of Defense who recognizes this and acts on it.
Jeff, thank you for persisting.
But I do think the question for Americans is not whether our Defense Secretary is good for Israel, but whether he is good for America. Whatever Israel's reasons for putting hardliners in power, we still need to ask ourselves whether it is in our interest to back or to oppose that kind of regime. I, for one, am somewhat comforted that the ultraright in America are going after the nominee; I would be more distressed if they enthusiastically supported him. Unfortunately, Obama doesn't seem very good at backing up his own people, though, so these kind of attacks on cabinet nominees have more traction than they would under a stronger leader.
It is fine, acceptable and necessary to conduct a debate on past and present positions and policy preferences of a candidate to be Secretary of Defense. It is, however, quite another thing to tag, brand, defame and distort his record. It is even worse to do what some, hiding behind the anonymity of 'Concerned Jewish Leaders' or 'The Pro-Israel Community,' have done: labeling Hagel as Anti-Israeli, and then stepping it up, almost casually, as an Anti-Semite. Chuck Hagel is neither: He is not anti-Israeli and he is not an anti-Semite. In fact, if I were him I would lodge a complaint with the Anti-Defamation League, asking their assistance and support for being unfairly called an anti-semite,- Alon Pinkas, former chief of staff to Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
Then, of course, there is this little matter: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/21/us/chuck-hagel-is-criticized-over-gay-...'d like him to explain what being "aggressively gay" means. I suspect that he thinks that anyone who is out is "aggressively gay."That's it ... I'm outta here for 2 weeks. Fight the good fights. Spare the rod; spoil the children.
JM: Off to the West Bank? Keep us posted.... Off topic: imo, would you agree that as impolitic as Hagel's words now seem about Hormel (of the Chicago meat-packing family???) isn't it exactly what the other 99 Senators thought? 100 years ago, Hillary Clinton would never have been appointed S of S, you know how unreliable and prone to fainting women are!!! Wouldn't want one of them for the ambassador to Luxembourg!
Irene Baldwin has put the matter succinctly: "But I do think the question for Americans is not whether our Defense Secretary is good for Israel, but whether he is good for America. Whatever Israels reasons for putting hardliners in power, we still need to ask ourselves whether it is in our interest to back or to oppose that kind of regime."
I finally read some of the articles mentioned and now have a question. Why are liberals supporting a republican candidate for the secretary of defense? Doesn't it matter that he voted against the repeal of don't ask don't tell yet will be expected as defense secretary to oversee the repeal's implementation? As a republican, I can only imagine he may have other views incompatible with a democratic agenda. Is his stance on Israel/Iran really enough reason to support him?
Crystal --In times past it wasn't unusual for an administration to include people of the other party if it was thought they were qualified. It was called "bipartisanship".
I know bipartisanship is important, especially when you need both parties to confirm an appointment. But isn't the reason many liberals like Hagel not bipartisanship but that his views on Israel/Iran are theirs as well?
"I finally read some of the articles mentioned and now have a question. Why are liberals supporting a republican candidate for the secretary of defense? "What Hagel has to appeal to liberals is that, a veteran himself, he urged restraint with Iran, when others were eager to demonize it, and he was also a critic of the Iraq war when hardly anybody else in Congress was. That is what appeals to (at least some) liberals. I'm a liberal, and I want us out of these wars we started. I would like a Defense Secretary that will help us accomplish that and help us not start any new ones. I would prefer a Democrat, but this President is a conservative himself who makes conservative appointments; this is what we got when the American people elected Obama.
How liberal is President Obama? Irene Baldwin sees him as a conservative, and relative to Clinton, Carter, and Johnson, she's right. Relative to today's political landscape, he's probably the best liberals could do in electing a president. Perhaps more than many of his predecessors, he seems to want cabinet members who know the territory and know how to run huge federal departments. His Transportation Secretary, Roy LaHood is a Republican. In other words, he may not be wedded to strictly party appointments.In 2008, he kept Republican Robert Gates, Republican and Bush appointee, on as Secretary of Defense. His current plan naming Kerry to State and reportedly Hagel to Defense would have seemed a way to finesse the "advise and consent" power of the Senate. The Club would have been unlikely to vote against its own. Hagel served on several foreign relation sub-committees when in the Senate, he served in Vietnam, and he seems to have a great interest in military and foreign affairs (perhaps more so than the current Secretary, Leon Panetta, when he took the job).Given the nation's war weariness and economic fragility, Hagel would seem to be a moderate capable of running the Defense Department at a time of budget cuts. His credentials as a war hero would seem to have protected him from Republican attacks that he was soft on defense. His reputed appointment seemed to make sense given the extreme muddle of our current politics. The attacks on his modest demurs from policy toward Iraq, Israel, and Iran probably came as a surprise to the president who after all opposed the war in Iraq, is resisting war with Iran, and seems to have thrown his hands up over Israel (despite approving generous economic and military benefits).If Obama caves on this, I think he will have undermined his credibility and authority across the political spectrum.
Obama's lean towards the right really shouldn't surprise us too much. Most black Americans come from Southern backgrounds, i.e., conservative, mainly Southern Baptist ones except in the matter of integration. Granted, African-Americans now are dispersed across the whole country, but background has a way of persisting across generations. Obama's background is extremely complex. He was not raised in an African-American home, but from adolescence on he seems to have identified with that culture.
President Obama's steps away from war should not be minimized. He's gotten us out of Iraq, as promised, notwithstanding criticism. He's set a deadline for exiting Afghanistan despite criticism. He kept our role in Libya to a minimum despite criticism. He's refused so far to get us actively involved in Syria despite criticism.And he's united most of the world in economic sanctions against Iran to try to convince it to abandon its nuclear weapons program, but he's also kept the military option on the table in the event the sanctions don't work. He is perhaps surprised to be accused of being too warlike because of this strategy. As for Israel, I don't know whether he's thrown up his hands or not, but if he has it may be just as much because of the Palestinians' refusal to enter into settlement negotiations as for anything Israel has done.
Thanks everyone for the answers to my question.
Jeff ==I agree that Obama's handling of foreign affairs has been particularly good, and in particularly difficult circumstances. I think Hillary also should be complimented for her low-key but effective performance as Secretary of State.
FYI: Not just liberals, whoever they may be: Patrick Buchanan supports Hagel's appointment:"If Obama does not want that war, he is going to have to defeat the war party. Throwing an old warrior like Chuck Hagel over the side to appease these wolves is not the way to begin this fight.Nominate him, Mr. President. Lets get it on."http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/why-the-war-party-fears-...


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I'm searching for a virtualization solutions for an OpenBSD host and a CentOS guest. What are my options? I'm searching for one that doesn't use packages from ports. Are there any?
First: packages and ports are entirely two separate things. There is no such thing as "packages from ports".
From the FAQ:
and from the section on Ports:
Second: Everything from packages and (especially) ports is considered 3rd party. The OpenBSD developers do not "support" packages or ports - the community does. As far as the OpenBSD project is concerned you are on your own with packages and ports... they're not really part of the OpenBSD project. This means that if they don't go through the normal auditing process or receive security updates through the OpenBSD projects - again they are community supported.
Third: There is no host-based virtualization platform included in OpenBSD that I am aware of (well there's the Linux binary compatibility layer - but that's a fancy kernel land API trick), nor do I ever expect this functionality to be added to OpenBSD. The OpenBSD project has infamously been pretty loathe to adopt virtualization:
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I'm searching for one that doesn't use packages from ports. Are there any?
No. And there probably never will be. OpenBSD is a fantastic operating system, but it is not a good choice as virtualization host.
If you still want/need to use OpenBSD as a virtualization host, I think QEMU is your only option. It is available as both a package and from the ports tree.
You can just use qemu in OpenBSD, which is VERY slow.


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The 6 Most Terrifying Work Commutes in the World
It is a scientific fact that everyone in the world either has a shitty commute now, had one in the past or is going to get one in the immediate future. But no matter how crappy your journey to your job is or how many hobos you have to fight on the subway, there's always someone out there who has it even worse. These are those people.
After all, they must survive ...
#6. Hussaini Bridge
You'd think that living within walking distance of your job would automatically disqualify you from bitching about your commute. Yeah, well, not if the one thing between your house and the place you work looks like this:
No, that's not a screen capture from the "none shall pass" scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail -- it's an actual photo of a bridge located in the Hussaini village at Gilgit-Baltistan, which is a region of either northern Pakistan or Kashmir, depending on who you ask (apparently both sides are really keen on taking credit for this impressive work of architecture). But the point is, the village itself is located on both banks of the Hunza River: On one side are the actual houses, on the other is the farmland where the villagers work, and in the middle is this bullshit series of wooden planks held together by a combination of twine and hope.
Mostly hope.
So, that thing lies between the workers and their jobs.
If you're wondering why the Pakistani government hasn't helped these poor farmers out, it totally tried to, but nature had other plans. Back in 1986, the government set aside funds to build a perfectly normal, nonscary bridge ... which was destroyed within the year thanks to the winter winds and the monsoon season.
"But surely this rope bridge will withstand the coming storm."
That's right, the wind tore apart the goddamned bridge. The locals were forced to make their own bridges again, and they periodically build new ones when the old ones are destroyed. Sometimes they leave the shattered remains hanging there as a fun reminder of what could happen to the current bridge at any moment should the wind decide to murder it. This goes to show that all the money and fancy bridges in the world won't do you any good if nature hates you.
Watch this video of a guy crossing the Hussaini bridge (starts at 2:15) and notice how violently everything starts shaking once the wind gets going. That camera he was using had to be a rental otherwise, any sane man would have dropped that bitch into the water at around 3:00.
The one thing we don't understand is why the farmers don't simply move their homes to the other side of the river and live closer to the farmland -- although the mere thought of having to haul all our shit across this thing is enough to give us vertigo.
You couldn't take more than one stereo speaker at a time without everything falling apart.
#5. Yungas Road (aka Death Road)
For some of you, having an encounter with a careless driver who almost makes you drive off the road is actually a bit of a relief, because it means you have a guaranteed topic of conversation with your dad and extended family for the next two months. Other people, however, don't find this type of encounter so amusing, especially in instances where "going off the road" means "falling to certain death." Like the truckers who have to go on Yungas Road every day:
Yungas Road connects the trucking routes among the cities of La Paz, Coroico and Chulumani in Bolivia, so you've got trucks from three different places converging in that extremely limited space you see up there. The locals call it El Camino de la Muerte or, "Death Road," which sounds like something Dolph Lundgren might have starred in during the 90s. It's estimated that the road takes between 200 and 300 lives every year (also like Dolph Lundgren), which is why in 1995 it was declared the most dangerous in the world."
One wrong move on Yungas Road and you could be plummeting thousands of feet down the guardrail-less cliff face. Even with no wrong moves, you could still end up crushed under a sudden rockslide. And then there's the drivers: Some of these people drive on Yungas Road every single day of their lives, so at this point they've literally lost their capacity for fear. Apparently the first rule of Death Road is that the vehicle going downhill never has the right of way, which means that if it don't pull over, it risks getting pushed off the road by the other guy.
The second rule of Death Road? There are no rules.
Seriously, take a look at this video of a car going downhill and watch how (starting at around 2:25) the driver is constantly having to pull aside to let the trucks going uphill take the road.
The Bolivian government has tried to make Yungas Road safer, but unfortunately there's not a whole lot that can be done. In 30 years of constant work, they've only managed to make a few parts slightly wider, and they bypassed one section of North Yungas Road back in 2006. But hell, even if you could add several feet to the thing, vehicles would just start driving on it three across.
Travel by catapult may be the safest solution here.
#4. The Lineman's Crawl
Unlike some of the more exotic entries on this list, the lineman's crawl (or at least the most ball-shatteringly terrifying portion of it) takes place somewhere you probably see every day: the wires of a high-voltage power line. The difference is that you're only looking at those power lines from the comfort of your car, while other people have to get up on top of them.
He's laughing because you're a pussy.
Yep, part of these guys' daily routine involves crawling between one power post and the next, 100 feet above the ground, performing maintenance on the wires while thousands of volts run over their bodies (more on that in a moment). And how do they get up there? Sitting on the side of a helicopter, because that's literally the only method of transportation sufficiently badass for them.
If you look closely, you'll notice he's doing a crossword puzzle.
See, in the fast-paced world of today, people can't stand the thought of having their electricity shut off for a few hours so that routine maintenance can be performed -- for most of us, the idea that we could have a toaster strudel at any time is the only thing keeping us sane. So that vital maintenance has to be performed while the wires are still live, as this video demonstrates:
To survive the insane amounts of electricity, linemen have to wear flexible metal mesh suits that divert the volts around their bodies. But that's not all: Remember at the beginning of the video, when the lineman touches the wires using a metal rod? He's not doing that to pretend he's Harry Potter (at least not exclusively), but rather because he needs to "charge" himself with the same potential as the wire before mounting it. If the helicopter overshoots even a little during that process, it could come into contact with the wrong wire and turn both the lineman and the pilot into a pile of ashes. Making sure this doesn't happen involves an amazing amount of coordination between pilot and lineman, like some sort of extreme high-voltage ballet.
It's kinda like The Nutcracker, except in this version, your balls are fried by electricity.
When "hanging from the side of a helicopter" qualifies as the least scary part of your commute, you know it might be time to start looking for another job. But don't think all shitty commutes belong to people with extreme jobs or living in poor countries ...


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I have a Linksys DSL/Router combo. It was previously used for my DSL connection. I switched to a cable connection now, using Motorola cable modem.
Is it possible to create have the cable connection routed through the DSL router? I read somewhere that some people managed to do it but I am not sure.
The cable modem uses a WAN port with dhcp. What program do I need to forward this to the other ethernet ports? Or to the wireless port ?
Here is a more detailed description about my problem: http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/openwag200/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4.


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Given is a locally finite countable connected poset which satisfies further the following properties:
Let $C$ be any maximal chain ( i.e. inextendible chain) and $A$ be any antichain. Then $A$ is covered by both the sets ${\rm Past}(x)$ and ${\rm Future}(x)$ for $x$ running over $C$ i.e. $A \subset \bigcup_{x \in C} ({\rm Past}(x) \cup {\rm Future}(x))$ and where ${\rm Past}(x):=\lbrace y\mid y \leq x\rbrace$ and ${\rm Future}(x):=\lbrace y \mid x \leq y\rbrace$.
For any $x$, the intersection of ${\rm Past}(x)$ with any antichain is finite. Similarily for ${\rm Future}(x)$.
1. Is the orbit of any point $x$ by an automorphism $f$ of the poset finite? 2. Is the group of automorphisms of this poset countable? 3. As a polish group, is the group of automorphisms of the poset locally compact?
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A crime lord has declared war on America. Only Detective Michael Bennett knows why.
Manuel Perrine doesn't fear anyone or anything. A charismatic and ruthless leader, Perrine slaughters rivals as effortlessly as he wears his trademark white linen suit. Detective Michael Bennett once managed to put Perrine behind bars, the only official in the US ever to accomplish that. But now Perrine is out, and he has sworn to find and kill Bennett and everyone dear to him.
Detective Bennett, along with his ten adopted children, their nanny, and his grandfather, are hidden safely on a rural California farm, with guards courtesy of the FBI's witness protection program. Perrine begins to embark on an escalating series of assassinations across the country, killings whose brazenness and audacity bring into question the possibility of safety and law in the US. The FBI has no choice but to ask Detective Bennett to risk it all in Perrine's war on America.
With explosive action and fierce villainy that rivals James Bond movies at their best, GONE is the next astounding novel by James Patterson.
Prologue | FATHER AND SON
IT WAS THREE A.M. on the button when the unmarked white box truck turned onto the steep slope of Sweetwater Mesa Road and began to climb up into the exclusive Serra Retreat neighborhood of Malibu, California.
Majestic mountain peaks rising to the left, thought Vida Gomez as she looked out from the truck's passenger seat. Nothing but moonlit ocean to the right. No wonder so many movie stars lived here.
As if the sights matter, Vida thought, tearing her eyes off the million-dollar view and putting them back on the screen of the iPhone in her lap. What was up with her? She never got distracted on a job. She took a calming breath. She seriously needed to buckle down. Taking her eye off the ball here would not be prudent. Not tonight.
She was in the midst of typing a text when out of the corner of her eye she noticed the driver trying to look down her shirt again. No wonder she was a little off her game, she thought with a muffled sigh. The new, pudgy driver that the cartel had sent at the last minute was incompetence walking on two legs. That was just like them to send her some fat-assed chump for "training" at the last minute. All he had to do was drive, and apparently, he couldn't get even that done.
The next time the oaf let his eyes wander, Vida made a command leadership decision. She calmly lifted the MGP-84 machine pistol in her lap and placed the long, suppressed barrel to one of his stubbled chins.
"Do you think we're on a hot date here tonight? On the way to the prom, maybe? By all means, give me your best line, Romeo. If it's good enough, maybe we'll skip first and go straight to second base," she said.
"I'm sorry," the suddenly sweating driver said after a long, tense beat. "I made a mistake."
"No, that was your parents," Vida said, digging the gun in hard under his fleshy chin. "Now, here's the deal. You can either (a) keep your eyes on the road, or (b) I can splatter what little brains you possess all over it instead. Which do you prefer?"
"A," the driver said, nodding rapidly after a moment. "I choose a. Please, señorita."
"Excellent," Vida said, finally lowering the chunky black metal pistol. "I'm so glad we had this little talk."
The truck killed its lights before they pulled into the darkened driveway of 223 Sweetwater Mesa Road ten minutes later. She was about to retext the alarm company tech they'd bribed when he finally texted back. It was a one-word message, but it was enough.
Disabled, it said.
She wheeled around and slid open the small window that separated the rear of the truck from the cab. The eight cartel soldiers crouched there were wearing black balaclavas over their faces, black fatigues, black combat boots.
"Ándele," she barked rabidly at them. "It's time. What are you waiting for?"
The truck's rear double doors opened silently, and the black-clad men issued forth onto the shadowed driveway and began gearing up. They strapped themselves into military-grade personal protective equipment, black nuclear-biological-chemical suits. Each suit had a self-contained breathing apparatus and was made of rubber over reinforced nylon and charcoal-impregnated felt.
Vida joined her men, slowly and carefully fitting the positive-pressure mask over her face before meticulously checking the suit's material for any slits or gaps, as per her extensive training. When she was done, she bit her lip as she stared up at the seven-thousand-square-foot mission-style house behind the wrought iron gate. She let out a tense breath and closed her eyes, wondering if she was going to throw up the flock of butterflies swirling in her stomach.
She felt stage fright every time right before a job, but this was ridiculous. It was the uncertainty of what they were about to try. What they were about to do was...something new, something so volatile, so incredibly dangerous.
I really don't want to do this, Vida thought for the hundredth time.
Who was she kidding? As if she had a choice after accepting her latest promotion. The path before her was excessively simple. Either go through with what the cartel had ordered or blow her own brains out right here and now.
She stared at the machine pistol in her heavy rubber-gloved hand, weighing her options. Then, after another moment, she did what she always did. She pulled herself the hell together and nodded to her right-hand man, Estefan. Two muffled coughing sounds ripped the warm quiet as he blew off the hinge bolts of the iron walkway gate beside the driveway with a suppressed shotgun.
"Remember, now. No guns unless completely necessary," Vida said through the face mask's built-in microphone as one of the men handed her a small video camera. "You all know why we are here. We are here to leave a message."
One by one, the men nodded. The only sound now was that of their breathing from the interior speakers, an amplified metallic, metronomic hiss. Vida turned on the camera and pointed it at the men as they poured through the open gate and converged on the darkened house.
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Topeka, KS – March 5, 2013 – Local Topeka McDonald's Restaurants along with other McDonald's Restaurants throughout Northeast Kansas hope to boost local education budgets tonight during the popular McTeacher's Night. Tonight, March 5th, McDonald's restaurants in Topeka and surrounding communities will donate proceeds from evening sales between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. to local education partners.
All levels – grade, middle, and high – and types – public, private, and parochial – of schools will be represented.
The annual McDonald's McTeacher's Night program kicked off in 2003, and was so successful that two McTeacher's Night events have been held every year since; with the last McTeacher's Night held in October. Once again, tonight, from 4 – 8 PM, local McDonald's restaurants hope to raise additional money for local schools who are struggling with budget issues daily.
"The McTeacher's Night program is fun, easy and very effective for schools, and fun, easy and greatly rewarding for McDonald's Owners and Operators," said Karen and Steve Tyler, local Topeka McDonald's Owner/Operators. "It's been a terrific way to give back to our local communities." Partnering schools plan to promote the fundraiser by decorating McDonald's restaurants with schools colors, distributing event flyers, utilizing school mascots, and holding attendance competitions between grades and classes.
(3) Topeka McDonald's McTeacher's Night Locations:
- 3117 SW Topeka Blvd. Jardine Middle School
- 1100 S. Kansas Ave. Highland Park Central Elementary
- 2880 SE California Ave. St. Matthews Catholic School


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Ok I was wondering if it would be possible to make a operating system that would boot up and only run one exe and the exe's that exe points to. I am trying to find this out because i have a older but still fairly decent machine and I want to turn it into a "Arcade System" like run Pacman, Galaga, and older mame games like that as well as Nes, Snes, And maybe even N64 games. thanks ahead of time for all if any info you can provide me .
Different kind of OS
Well I dont see a way to edit my last post so im just gonna add this on. Maybe i dont even need a full blown os just a simple boot loader that checks for directorys that understands how to use a .exe and does video, sound and stuff like that
If you can get hold of Dos 3.1 (If I remember it right) that may work and do what you are looking for. It would not be nice to re-invent the wheel.
overlordlink like this
Well I taken a quick trip around the internet and i cant seem to find much of anything about Dos 3.1. I
did found however Dos 3.3 and Windows 3.1 are either of those possibly what you were thinking about?
did found however Dos 3.3 and Windows 3.1 are either of those possibly what you were thinking about?
Hmm well still nothing about Dos 3.1. But I did have somewhat of an epiphany about the selecting what I wanted the Dos 3.1. That would be done in autoexec.bat right?
autoexec.bat and command.com as far as I remember
Ok so how would I go about getting my applications onto the Dos computer. Does any version of Dos have support for usb drives or how about a cd-drive like im only 18 and i have used dos before but I barely remeber anything about it.
Nor do I but I remember DOS had support for floppy drive if you can get one.
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Shortly after taking office, President George W. Bush expressed his hope that major "bipartisan" education reform legislation would pass this year. "To make that wish come true," reports Contributing Editor Robert Holland in the July 2001 issue of School Reform News, "the administration has paid a price some critics of the federal presence in public education deemed too high." Holland points out the key casualties of the House debate over the President's proposal--vouchers and spending flexibility for the states--and reports the school reformers' reaction to the measure.
The July issue also reports the findings of a Harvard University evaluation of the Children's Scholarhsip Fund; the Ohio Attorney General's appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the Cleveland voucher plan; bilingual reform in Massachusetts; and a new report on the relationship between teacher unionization and student achievement. Harry Anthony Patrinos, the World Bank's senior education economist, offers a tour of voucher plans around the world. Former U.S. Secretry of Education William J. Bennett is the issue's featured interview. (download PDF)
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I need to pick up a Nodal Ninja R10 panoramic head. It looks like it supports the 15mm Sigma lens, but I shoot with a Sony A900.
Anybody know if the Nikon / Pentax mount will work with the Sony body, or if the Canon mount is a better option?


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WELLSBURG - Union Avenue will be closed to through traffic from Wednesday through Saturday while crews repair a slip there.
Road work
WELLSBURG - The West Virginia Division of Highways has announced minor road work to be performed this week, pending suitable weather.
In Hancock County, crews will be patching Crescent Lane, Pleasant Hills Road, Virden Heights Drive and Huffs Lane and ditching along state Route 2 in New Cumberland.
In Brooke County, crews will be ditching along Latimer, Lovers and Sunrise lanes and Brown Road and patching Tent Church Road/Grisby Lane.
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FOLLANSBEE - The city will be accepting reservations for the Follansbee Community House and shelters at Follansbee Park this week.
The reservations will begin with the city's water customers only at 6 a.m. Wednesday at the Follansbee City Building, and the doors will open at about 4 a.m. for those who arrive early. They will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis, with a sign-up sheet available, said City Manager John DeStefano.
Reservations from non-water customers will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday.
The Community House won't be available on the following dates: April 17, July 6 and 11-15, Aug. 8, Oct. 7-14 and Dec. 5.
The Lions and Follansbee Steel shelters at the park also won't be available on July 7 and 11-15 because they will be used for Follansbee Community Days and the Community Days Picnic.
Rental rates haven't changed since last year and are, as follows: Community House, $190.80 for water customers and $275.60 for non-water customers; large park shelters, $68.90 for water customers and $84.80 for non-water customers; and the smaller Mark Avenue shelter, $47.70 for water customers and $58.30 for non-water customers.


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The Wellington High School volleyball team split two games Tuesday on their home floor. Volleyball girls split wins on Tuesday night.
The team lost to top ranked McPherson 25-11, 25-7. The Lady Crusaders then beat Augusta 25-17, 20-25, 25-21.Below are coach Cherity Elder's comments.
The girls came out and played pretty well against number one ranked McPherson. The girls had a very optimistic attitude going into the match and came out and played really hard.
McPherson's six footers made it very difficult to work the net. However, our girls did a really good job of getting to balls and swinging for hard hits.
The girls did a really good job of coming out from the beginning against Augusta.
One thing that I was amazed with was the crowd and student section. We had great fan support, which was amazing to see. It makes it so much easier to perform when there are people there watching. Augusta came back in the second game and defeated the Crusaders, but the Crusaders bounced back and finished them off in the final game. This takes the girls to 5-5 on the season. I am very excited with the way the girls played.
They did a lot of great things. The girls had great poise and control when playing under pressure. To finish a match with a win is such a great feeling. I'm proud of the girls and the way they played consistent and with high energy. Kaity Ledbetter and Abby Goodrum came up with some big plays in the Augusta matches, which kept the momentum in our favor. It was a good evening of Crusader Volleyball!
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(COLUMBIA, Mo.) -- Susan Jacoby, author of "The Age of American Unreason," will deliver the 2008 Schiffman Lecture in Religious Studies. Jacoby's lecture, "Reason, Unreason and Religion: Say It Ain't So, Where Did America's Rationality Go?" will begin at 11 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 28 in Launer Auditorium on the Columbia College campus. Doors open at 10 a.m. The event is free and open to the public.
Jacoby focuses on the convergence of social forces, which are usually treated as separate entities, that has created a perfect storm of anti-rationalism. These social forces include the upsurge of religious fundamentalism, with more political power today than ever before; the future of public education to create an informed citizenry; and the triumph of video over print culture. Sparing neither the right nor the left, Jacoby asserts that Americans today have embraced a universe of "junk thought" that makes no effort to separate fact from opinion.
"The Age of American Unreason" is Jacoby's eighth book. She is the author of seven previous books, most recently "Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism," named a Notable Book of 2004 by The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times. Other books include "Moscow Conversations," based on her experiences in Moscow from 1969 to 1971; "Wild Justice: The Evolution of Revenge," a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1984; and "Half-Jew: A Daughter's Search for Her Family's Buried Past.
Jacoby has been a contributor for more than 25 years to various periodicals and newspapers, on topics including law, religion, medicine, aging, women's rights, Russian literature and political dissent in the Soviet Union. Her articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Washington Post Book World, Los Angeles Times Book Review, Newsday, Harper's, The Nation, Vogue, The American Prospect, Mother Jones and the AARP Magazine.
She also is program director of the Center for Inquiry-New York City, a rationalist think-tank, and is a regular panelist for On Faith, a blog published by Newsweek and The Washington Post. She has her own political blog, "The Secularist's Corner," on the Web site of The Washington Post.
The Schiffman Lecture Series was established in 2000 through a gift by John A. Schiffman in honor of his late wife, Althea, a 1941 graduate of Christian College who served on the Columbia College Board of Trustees from 1983 to 1987. Following his wife's death, John Schiffman served on the Columbia College Board of Trustees, retiring from the board 20 years later in 2007.
The Lecture in Religious Studies draws noted scholars to the college to lecture on the influence of religion in politics, culture and education. Each year, nationally and internationally renowned scholars speak to students, faculty, staff and members of the community about how religion has shaped and continues to shape major issues of our day.
Previous Schiffman Lecture in Religious Studies speakers include Dr. Stephen J. Patterson, professor of New Testament at Eden Theological Seminary; Martin Marty, pastor, author and Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago Divinity School; and Ellen O'Grady, artist and social activist.


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Do bit.ly and other URL shorteners reutilize unused short URLs? It seems the be so. Is there any risk that an URL that is redirected to a certain page right now, be redirected to another page in the future?
At least for bit.ly, the URL associated with the short link can't be changed. It's a security feature because, otherwise, someone with bad intentions could theoretically take over an account and replace all short URLs with malicious destinations.
It is provider specific, check the policies of whatever provider you are using. Goo.gl allows you to keep the URLs ye shorten and track usage. Bit.ly does not allow them to change. Tiny URL never expires.


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WEIRTON - With four girls scoring in double figures, controlling the backboards and playing good defense, the Weir High Lady Red Riders earned their first victory in five starts beating Magnolia 62-42 Saturday afternoon at the Carl Hamill Fieldhouse.
The Lady Red Riders (1-4) jumped out to an early lead behind the sharp shooting of junior Alyssa Shingle and the hustle of senior Raven Young. Weir High, with Shingle scoring nine points and Young six, were ahead 18-7 after one period and were in command 34-18 at the half.
"I thought this was our best effort," said veteran Weir High coach Bill Smith. "We played four quarters of good basketball today. When we rebound, we can run. That gave us some fast breaks and easy buckets."
Weir High held a wide rebounding margin, 40-30, and outshot the Lady Blue Eagles 34 percent to 24 percent.
"We weren't hitting baskets and just not shooting well at all," said Magnolia coach, Dave Chapman, who said several of his girls battled the flu this week. "Weirton has a nice team. The Shingle girl has really improved a lot from last year.
"They have a nice team and we knew that going in, but when the shots aren't falling and you can't score it makes it tough. We battled the flu bug all week. That's not an excuse, it's a fact. We just didn't have good energy today."
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Weir High 62, Magnolia 42
Magnolia 7 11 10 14 - 42
Weir High 18 16 13 15 - 62
MAGNOLIA: Chapman 5 3-4 13, Standiford 3 2-2 9, Gibb 1 0-2 2, Blatt 1 1-2 3, Barisford 4 0-1 11, Littion 2 0-0 4. Totals: 16 6-11 42. Three-pointers: Beresford (3), Stand ford (1); Rebounds: 30 (Chapman, 9); Turnovers: 16.
WEIR HIGH: Young 5 4-8 14, Stead 4 2-4 10, Shingle 7 4-4 22, Lemley 1 0-0 2, Burns 4 4-6 12, Dalrymple 1 0-0 2. Totals: 22 14-22 62. Three-pointers: Shingle (4); Rebounds: 40 (Burns, 11); Turnovers: 14.
When Shingle hit her third three-pointer of the game with 6:20 left, the Riders held a 23-point lead, their biggest of the game, at 54-31.
Shingle was spotting up all game and finished with four threes en route to a game high 22 points.
"Shingle had a good day today and we got an overall good team effort," Smith explained. "You have to pick each other up. The girls know that if we had played our other games the way we played today we could easily be 4-1."
Young backed up Shingle with 14 points, seven rebounds and three steals and fellow senior, Shelva Burns, had a double-double with 12 points and 11 rebounds. Sophomore Reagan Stead followed up her career high scoring game against Big Red last Monday scoring 10 points and hauling down eight rebounds.
"Reagan's a petty good rebounder and athlete for her size," Smith continued.
The Lady Blue Eagles, who have no seniors on the team, were led by junior Mallory Chapman, the coach's daughter. She scored 13 points and grabbed nine rebounds. Grace Barisford, who drilled three from behind the arc, finished with 11 points and Kiera Standiford scored nine points and pulled in eight boards.
After a day off, the Lady Riders play next at Steubenville Catholic Central on Monday. The Lady Blue Eagles will host Oak Glen Monday.


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Does the doctrine of Sola Scriptura prohibit the use of empirical information to understand the bible?
I will answer, because (as you may have noticed from my other answers) I'm about as "Sola Scriptura" as they come.
Basically, we believe that Scripture was given by God as the standard for His people to use in determining truth.
(See also Titus 1:9.) Since Scripture adequately equips you to correct false doctrine, that implies it is the standard of truth.
So the point is this: If a person teaches something contrary to Scripture, they are wrong.
That is not to say that everything outside of scripture is wrong (or "not from God")... just everything contrary. Therefore we reject any teaching which opposes what we know (based on Scripture);
So the only safe bet is to use Scripture as the foundation of all of your doctrine. (Additional elements include understanding the Scriptures, being led by the Spirit, recognizing the teachers God has given, etc.)
So as I said, the answer to your question is "no." In fact, studying history is incredibly helpful in understanding Scripture. (When preparing for sermons, I have often found the NIV Archaeological Study Bible very helpful in bridging contexts between the ancient world and our own.)
I think the big distinction between Sola Scriptura and opposing views is that if the Bible says "X" and an external source says "Y", we consider the external source rubbish, whereas others may attempt to reconcile the two, sometimes by re-translating the Bible.


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Outgoing Mayor David Port provided the monthly financial report at Monday evening's Carmi City Council meeting and bid the council farewell in his closing remarks.
The city's finances were all in the black, with the corporate side finishing March with a profit of $109,096, the light department with $33,912, the water department with $2,066 and the sewer department with $17,136 for a total profit for March of $162,210.
The mayor provided a written speech at the close of the council meeting and, in it, he thanked the service of outgoing Aldermen Tim Pollard and Ralph Anselment for their service, along with retiring City Clerk Don Kittinger. He also acknowledged the service of Police Chief Randy Hamblin and called Executive Secretary Sandra Irvine the "best of the best."
Port also said, "Is Carmi better off than it was four years ago when I took my oath? I believe, and many others have told me they believe, it is. All four areas of the city's finances are in the black - the first time in many years. Also, we have a bit set aside in case that "rainy day" does come, as it always surely does.
"I made the tough decisions and took action when no one else would and now no one else will have to. Also, our city is cleaner and more beautiful for our families and visitors...
"So, as I come to the close of this meeting, I do so knowing I am leaving things in better shape than they've been in many years, with the tough decisions and hardest work completed and the path cleared for the things I could see as the best yet to come...
"I have done all in my power to do only that which would make Carmi a better place."
Alderman Tim Pollard also thanked the residents of his ward for their support during his tenure in office and Alderman Ralph Anselment thanked his fellow council members.
"I know I'm gonna miss it," Anselment said. "But it's time."
Alderman Jack Lamont announced the city's compost site will begin operation at 8 a.m. Saturday, April 20. The site will remain open for the season each Saturday from 8 until noon.
Fire Chief Larry Hite reported five recent runs, including a shed fire near Pontca Lake and a gas line rupture inside a home on Second Street that led to a small fire. A field fire off Illinois 141 and a pickup fire off Illinois 141 were also included in his report, along with a false alarm at Phoenix Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
Police Chief Randy Hamblin noted a busier March than usual with four DUI arrests and a noted increase in the number of requests for an officer.
City Supervisor Mike Buckman said he is beginning a list of storm grates that need replaced or repaired. He already has several on Seventh and Burrell streets and encouraged the public to call city hall with other storm grate concerns.
Page 2 of 2 - He also said there will be an opportunity for residents to discard electronic items on May 18. Details and a printed sheet of accepted items are available at city hall.
The council recognized the transfer of ownership of the local cable company, NewWave, to RBI Holdings of Delaware. A company spokesman addressed the council and said local customers should see virtually no changes in their service. Even the name, NewWave, will remain. He said most of the changes will be in upper management.
The council formally approved engineering agreements for the completion of the work in the city's business park and tabled the resignation as alderman of incoming Mayor Jeff Pollard until the next meeting.
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5 Terrifying Killers (That Turned Out to be Mass Panics)
#2. The Real Life Rage Virus
Puchong Perdana National School, in Malaysia, is one of the few places on Earth that has had the chance to test its might against a goddamn rage virus attack, 28 Days Later style.
Yeah, if we had bugs like this, we'd get a little angry, too.
It all started on a perfectly ordinary Monday morning, when the 1,100 students of the school were gathered outside for their obligatory Monday assembly ... that is, until a full on, rapidly spreading zombie rage began tearing through their rank and file. It all started from one girl, who suddenly collapsed and went into a full rage frenzy, complete with screaming, thrashing about and violence. Then another one nearby followed the example. Then another. And another. The rage continued to spread from there, until 30 girls were infected.
The rest of the 1,100 students understandably panicked and, because they have obviously never seen a horror movie in their lives, ran inside and hid within the school's classrooms, as the girls roamed about thrashing and screaming. The whole school had to be temporarily closed. And although the affected -- all girls -- were detained, it took them four hours to shake out of the condition.
Meanwhile, a guy in a hospital gown was yelling and running around in a panic, but people just ignored him.
Of course, by now you know that there was no virus or chemical or mind-control ray behind the freakouts. It really does appear to just be a case of pent-up energy reaching critical mass.
What Really Happened?
Each and every one of the affected girls was suffering from heavy stress from both home and school, and stuck in an uncomfortable, crowded place. When one of them just snapped in the confined situation, one after another their brains just decided to use the opportunity to take a couple of hours off and let their bodies vent for a while. They just needed an excuse.
And that excuse was human flesh.
Likewise, a similar outbreak occurred in a Tanzania school in 1969, although on this occasion, it was the opposite of a rage epidemic -- an outbreak of hysterical laughter. The Tanganyika laughter epidemic was a particularly bizarre episode of mass hysteria in which students at a boarding school broke out into uncontrollable laughter and reportedly spread it to hundreds of people across the countryside. The theory goes that the ongoing fear of the laughing disease triggered its onset again and again (and every person reading this can think of at least one occasion where they succumbed to uncontrollable laughter that could not be stopped, no matter what).
"I have my hand stuck in the shredder, hahaha!"
An alternative theory is that the Joker was testing some kind of doomsday weapon.
#1. Mystical Monkey Men
In 2001, some people in the Indian city of Delhi fell victim to animal bites, and others came to the obvious conclusion that the bites had been inflicted by horrible monkey men, who are apparently the meaner South Asian cousins of Bigfoot.
And before you ask, yes, the bites were real.
And one of the perpetrators was apparently the Great Gazoo.
The panic circulated to such an extent that terror and mob rule took over large sections of the populace. Police were powerless in the face of the giant city's full-fledged panic mode. Within days, at least two people were dead and 35 injured, all while trying to escape what they thought was the monstrous monkey man, running in blind panic until they fell down the stairs or whatever.
By the end, there was one person left in Delhi, so she split herself up to look for clues.
Masked gangs started running around, robbing and scaring people, because some folks are just dicks like that. In response, mobs began roaming the streets, all set to administer quick and unthinking justice to anyone deemed even remotely monkeymannish. One mob even mugged a particularly short and ugly Hindu holy man for looking suspiciously like what they imagined the monkey beast as.
Eventually, the panic dwindled down and the city set to its usual slightly less hectic pace. In case you were wondering, no monkey men were ever found.
Except for Bhavik, who everyone agreed got hit with the reincarnation stick a little too hard.
What Really Happened?
Understandably, no two descriptions of the monkey man were alike, nor did its modus operandi ever become clear. Even the police got into the misinformation wagon -- one officer said they were definitely looking for an animal, while another was convinced they were after a masked gang.
Really, the only evidence pointing at any kind of real attacks were the original bite wounds on several people, which is pretty mysterious in itself ... unless, of course, you take into account that there are loads of perfectly ordinary monkeys roaming around the city. Monkeys that, in fact, enjoy pouncing on people every now and then, and have always done so. Because monkeys are assholes.
Fuck you, monkey, we were looking forward to that.
If you're shaking your head and muttering about those silly superstitious Delhi people, remember that people hold protests today to stop imaginary chemical contrails and refuse to vaccinate their kids based on phony autism fears. At any time and at any place, you can get people to be scared of some incredibly crazy bullshit if you're loud and afraid enough.
Which is exactly what he wants you to think.
Pauli Poisuo writes about a very different kind of mass hysteria at Year of the Fat Bastard. You can read more of his Cracked articles here.
For more panics caused by fiction, check out 7 Bullshit Rumors That Caused Real World Catastrophes. Or learn about the 5 Myths That People Don't Realize Are Admitted Hoaxes.
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It is maintained by the community, but a Stack Exchange developer changes the Accepted Answer to ensure that the latest changes remain on top (given default user settings).
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Upvoting questions would increase the likelihood that someone would answer it. Its a variation of the "put bounty on someone else's question" suggestion.
What is meta?
- Any Stack Exchange user can ask a question
- The community provides support, votes on ideas, and reports bugs
- Your voice helps shape the way Stack Exchange operates
Would cause gaming. People would up vote questions they answer regardless of whether or not it is a good one simply because there is a chance it would benefit them.
At first I misread this as 15 points + 10 x question upvotes, which I totally disagree with because it overvalues the upvotes.
But with a small extra incentive, maybe this is the nice middle ground between offering bounty on others' questions and the current system.
A couple questions for clarification:
As noted this would be highly open for gaming. But that's not my concern.
This encourages noise. Lots and lots of noise. Questions with a lot of upvotes already have interest and answers. Tendency has already become that for any question with 5+ answers, at least two of them will be content-identical.
This solution provides more of an incentive to answer questions that don't need the help. On the other hand, there are questions with one or no upvotes because they aren't glamorous or sexy, and there's one answer so they do not show up on the 'unanswered' list anymore.
Those are the questions that need extra help, because there isn't interest in them. It's hard to come up with a solution that doesn't involve gaming, but those questions need help.
There was a recent question "What should I do if my partner aligns his brackets wrong", when I saw it, it had 6 upvotes. So, a lot of people would then want to add their two cents, in order to get a shot at getting the extra bonus.
Perhaps this can only apply to questions which are over a certain age. Maybe they gain additional "Accept" points the longer they stay unanswered, which would encourage users to dig around in the older "unanswered" bin to find some additional rep and close out the languishing questions that have fallen off the front page.


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Aaron projects/CFAA
From Noisebridge
< Aaron projects
- Goal
- Let's prepare for a full repeal of the CFAA and replacement with sane law.
- Questions
- How would we construct good law in these areas, from scratch?
- How do different areas of law, policy, and internet governance view the law and its impact?
- What would it take to generate support for a [repeal + replace] action, in each area?
- What are the professional and philosophical circles for each of these areas, where these issues are discussed?
The CFAA was developed over time as a merger of ~7 different areas of law. It has developed in an aggregate way, and few groups are happy with the current law. It is so broad that prosecutors like it because they can use it to force plea bargains, since it applies to almost everything in its sphere of action (relying on prosecutorial judgement).
Different parts of the story: National defense, cyber war, data sec, corporate law, contracts online. Authorization based on code, contract, social norms. Legal frameworks used to push political means. Career standards for prosecutors defined in political ways.
- Aaron's Law
- Analysis from January, EFF suggested changes
- June update via Lofgren, July update via Wyden
- EFF action page - send a letter to your senators
- Govtrack updates
- H.R. 2454 (Lofgren bill; referred to House Judiciary subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations)
- S. 1196 (Wyden bill; referred to Senate Judiciary)
- H.R. 2077 (Perlmutter bill; referred to House Judiciary subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations)
- S. 1426 (Blumenthal bill; referred to Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee)
- Aspects of the search
- "Advanced technical crime" -- The deployment of the SS was a bit peculiar; but they were the only fed. agents trained in what they were looking for.
- Civil rights concerns
- Part of the prosecution that was particularly troubling: at one point in the invest., it felt that they were keeping the prosecution going b/c they'd spent so much time bringing it along. There was no will from victims to keep it going, and not necc. any other desire, but the prosecutors for their own reason wanted conclusion.
- Suggestion: employ economists to remind people of sunk costs
- Three levels of problem
- Occlusion of different agendas and sets of laws
- Compare pre-computer to post-computer laws for identical crimes.
- Problems with prosecution as it happens today
- Motivations for initiating/closing cases
- The nature of CFAA as it's been employed
- Failure of proportionality
Legal elements
There are 7 planks to 10.30 title 18:
- Security, foreign relations, atomic info
- Access to computer, obtaining info
- Accessing a US [gov owned or controlled] computer
- Wire fraud
- Overlap with WFA, rather irrelevant in current environs
- Computer damage
- Separates intent: recklessness; intent to damage; causing both damage + loss [~$5k threshhold] regardless of intent
- Password Trafficking
- Extortion
- intent to damage; to obtain access; to get $ compensation - done over a computer
Proposed solutions
Aaron's Law
- Lower some of the penalties for crimes that produce little or no harm,
- Delete a provision that is repeated elsewhere in the statute
- Clarify once and for all that violating terms of service agreements is not a crime.
- NB - Chin in US v. Drew - precedent that an individual, violating a TOS without a script, is pretty clearly not a crime. But it is still always used as a threat to amplify perceived risk.
- current status
- referred to the Committee on Crime, Terr, Homeland Security subcomm of Judiciary Committee (chair: Sensenbrenner)
Open questions
- Does 'authorization' make sense as the basis for such a law?
- As opposed to other corollaries re: trespass and access?
- compare Necessary and Proportionate principles
What substantive things should be in a rational computer crime law?
Positive principles
- Parallelism with non-computer crime law
- Proportionate punishment
Negative principles
- Avoid confusion/overlap between different parts of the government
- in terms of means and ways
- b/t different parts of the government
- b/t different phil and pol goals
- b/t social-good and infosec goals
Active proposals
Patching existing law
- EFF proposals and ideas
- Limit scope of "exceeding authorized access"
- Say: contractual violation can't be the basis for this
- Amend the Wire Fraud Act
- Say: contractual violation can't be the basis for this
- lower penalties for crimes that produce little or no harm
- cleanup: delete repeated provision, delete provision repeated in WFA
- clarify once and for all that violating TOS is not a crime (nb: it can still be prosecuted civilly)
- Fork the Law page, listing legal history and proposed changes
Creating something new
- Manifesto
- A la necessary and proportionate manifesto created after PRISM: https://necessaryandproportionate.org/text
- Drafting example legislation?


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This game doesn't seem very safe... throwing plastic birds around trying to knock things over? But the kids are incessantly asking for it.
It's actually not nearly as unsafe as it seems. For one thing the birds are soft rubber squeeze toys. I've been hit in the head with them and it barely stings. The catapult for launching them is pretty weak, at full pull you can fling them about 5' distance, and about 3' in the air.
To be honest, if your kids are asking for this game by name, they're likely already familiar with the concept of the game and are trying to implement it with their existing toys. I'd much rather sit down at the table with my family and this game than walk into my son's room and find him throwing stuffed animals across the room into piles of blocks or lego castles. (Been there, done that.) Now that he knows we have the game he asks to play it instead of staging it with his other toys.
My 9-yr. old son just received two of these games the other day as early Christmas presents. Believe me, they are much safer than the Nerf darts normally whizzing through the air at our house.
Let kids be kids. Get them the game.
Just because they want it doesn't mean they need it and doesn't mean you must get it for them. It sounds to me like you don't want to get it for them but you also don't want to disappoint them. This is a great time to teach them that want and need are two different things. Teaching them that they don't always get what they want is a good lesson in growing up. As well, it does seem dangerous, even if it doesn't hurt what are you teaching them about throwing things in the house, which can break things even if they don't hurt people. As well, why do they need to be throwing things in the house? Teaching them that there are rules and there are inappropriate items out there that they just can't have is an important lesson (as I stated above, but it deserves repeating). Stay strong to what you think is the right thing to do, sound like not buying it, and remember that you are the parent and know what is best.
All in all I recommend not buying it and if they complain teach them that sometimes we don't get what we want. That everything they need and most things they want they get, but sometimes the answer is no.


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