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It was over. They all wanted it. Demanded it. Said it was the only way and I listened. I did what they wanted. His lifeless body laid at my feet. I killed him.
Reason to Kill
One hour earlier.
The path of the Dark Side is a treacherous one, at best. I should know. I walked that path once, when I thought ends justified the means. I was betrayed by my closest friend, so I took another path. A path to right the wrongs. I chased visions and clues across the galaxy and in the end I found what I was looking for.
The thick door opened to reveal a huge observation chamber. I slowly walked in and saw him immediately. He was standing at the center of the room, enjoying the flashes of red and green turbolaser bolts that flew around from and to every possible direction, some destroying their targets and some missing them completely. The two swarms of little fighter ships mixed into one big storm, a few larger ones stood at each side, exchanging shots on occasion. The lead ships stood behind, like queen bees, giving instructions to their drones.
I approached, summoning my lightsaber hilt from the belt to my hand. Chances are this wont end nicely. He turned around, revealing the pale skin and yellow eyes above the metallic jaw.
You are here at last. He sounded almost like a machine. His voice echoing terribly under the metal. I suspected my apprentices would not be a match for you.
And you know why Im here. I said calmly.
You think you can stop me. He replied, backing away a few steps and igniting his lightsaber. The long red blade emerged, bathing me in its bloodthirsty glow. You have grown both willful and powerful, perhaps even more powerful than you were during your reign as the Dark Lord, but so have I. He started circling, his hand held out and his red blade pointed at me. I followed, maintaining the distance between us, pointing my own lightsaber at him, as its green blade emerged from the hilt.
You underestimate me. After all, I have made it this far. I said, trying to reduce his confidence. I honestly had no idea which one of us would be walking out of there alive.
I dont think so. He replied as confidently as before. This can only end in one way according to the ancient Sith tradition the apprentice must defeat the master.
He stopped circling and made his move, charging at me with his weapon prepared to deliver the killing blow, but he was blocked off by my own blade. He backed away a few steps once again, confidently twirling his blade from one hand to the other and back again. I felt him preparing to strike again, so I assumed a defensive stance. He pushed me away with the Force, surprising me completely. It was dumb luck that I didnt drop my blade in the process and as I saw him charging at me again, I quickly jumped back to my feet and met his blade with my own. As we both pushed our blades towards one another, struggling to prevail, I summoned the Force, making him land on his back a few meters in front of me. Just to return the favor.
Why did you betray me? I shouted as I walked toward him. I had to know. I needed a reason for this fight, for my revenge. A more personal reason than the ones I had so far.
The strongest must rule, if the Sith are to survive! He replied as he rose back to his feet. Wasting no time, he attacked again, swinging his blade at me, each time from a different direction. I am the strongest now, Revan, not you! So, as histories and traditions teach us, the apprentice must eventually destroy the master.
He attacked again. I blocked and then quickly countered, trying to catch him off balance. I swung my blade from the left, right, up and down, making him slowly back away.
You failed once before, Malak. Are you so certain this time will be different? I probed further, trying to split his concentration.
I never truly got the respect I deserved, after betraying you from afar. They acknowledged me as the Dark Lord, addressed me as such, but amongst themselves they insulted me, saying I was too afraid to face you in close combat, saying I was weak, comparing me to you, just as they did when you, the Great Darth Revan, were their leader. His machine-like voice echoed across the chamber. No more! This time I will prove once for all that I am worthy of my title. I will end your pitiful existence and prove that I am the one true Dark Lord of the Sith!
And there it was. Even though I remembered nothing of my life as Darth Revan, his words produced the effect I was waiting for. He was my best friend and he betrayed me because of petty jealousy and his own ambition. The stars were ours, but he wanted them to be his.
I got angry. I detached myself from every other emotion and connected with the Force on a deeper level. I became like an animal in its natural habitat, using every milimeter of my surroundings to my advantage. This room became my jungle and Malak was the trespassing hunter.
I charged and just when hed have expected me to strike, I jumped over him, whirling my blade defensively, and landed behind him, forcing him to turn around and perform his defense move quicker and with less time to think about what next. I swung again and again, performing the most astonishing moves hes ever seen. He held his ground quite effectively, but I could notice the fatigue slowly crawling up on him. I continued to jump around and over him, making my every next attack more and more difficult to defend against. Our blades met time and again, producing white flashes and sizzling noises each time they touched each others surface, until he suddenly tripped, using his last bit of strength to push me away with the Force, effectively disorienting me.
Do you really think I can be defeated that easily? His machine-like voice threatened as he rose back to his feet. Take a look around you. I heard him say as I rose back to mine. Do you see the bodies?
I evolved again from animal to man and did as he asked, noticing quite a few bodies floating in strange looking pods, held in mid-air by some kind of energy field. I was so focused on him that I completely failed to see them before. I knew Malak would reveal their terrible purpose soon enough.
They are Jedi who fell when I attacked Dantooine. Gathered by my minions and kept barely alive for one purpose -- Malak interrupted his speech to drain the closest suspended body of the Force. -- to feed the Star Forge and to feed me.
Release them at once! I shouted, knowing it was in vain.
Release them? The only way to do that is to kill them and I wont allow their deaths to have no purpose. They will become one with the Force only when they fulfill the function I gave them. Malak said righteously.
That was the exact moment it hit me so far I have pursued this quest across the galaxy because I considered it an imposed obligation that must be fulfilled and I wanted to kill Malak simply for imposing it on me. I would never have been here, if he wasnt so damn ambitious, or if his shot was, at least, effective enough to kill me. They all demanded it of me Vrook, Zhar, all of them. The council gave you a chance to redeem yourself by destroying Malak. Bastilas words. And I did want redemption, but to have it this way, by killing, my reasons had to be pure. Thats when I discovered the true reason for the necessity of Malaks death, to spare the galaxy of the horrors he would bestow upon it, should his conquest succeed.
Dont worry, Revan, youll join them soon enough, your power feeding me as I conquer the galaxy. Malak added.
I renounced all the previous reasons I had and embraced this newly discovered one. Then I made my move.
I threw my lightsaber at the closest suspended body, jumping away in a completely different direction. I suspect those Jedi would have welcomed my act as merciful, compared to what Malak intended to do to them. I landed near another Jedi and summoned my lightsaber back to me. I swung it and sent this Jedi to the Force as well. Just as Malak was realizing my plan I cut down another suspended Jedi. Malak started chasing me, but it was in vain. Soon enough all his backups were destroyed and Malak was left to face me with only one Force jolt powering him. He charged.
Our blades clashed, once again producing the familiar white flash. This was it, there would be no more pauses, no more conversations. This fight would end only when one of us was dead. So we played our little dance of death, each of our moves performed perfectly, each of us straining himself to the maximum, pushing the limits of our physical and mental constitution. If we had an audience, I think they would have said this was the most beautiful combat theyve ever seen. But one of us had to lose.
Malak was getting tired again. It became more and more difficult for him to block my attacks and he produced more and more openings for me. The fight continued, with a slightly slower pace, until his defenses faltered and I managed to destroy his lightsaber, kicking him to the ground as a proof of victory. A slightly premature proof.
Malak used whats left of his strength for one last desperate attempt to defeat me. Not even trying to get up, he held out his hand and blue bolts of lightning came out of his fingertips, rushing to meet me. I quickly raised my lightsaber and the blue bolts were instantly blocked off by its green blade. But Malak wouldnt stop until he has completely drained himself. Blue lightning kept trying to push me back, but I continued forward, slowly approaching Malak, each step felt a kilometer long. Thats when he managed to get up, but it was far too late. I plunged my blade into his chest and he fell back to his knees as I pulled it out, coughing, gasping for air.
You... you won. He said. You are the stronger after all. You are the one who... deserves to be the Dark Lord, but I wonder, Revan... if our roles were switched, if the Jedi found me, would I have been able to get back to the Light as you did. He coughed again, breathing more heavily after each word.
Who knows? I replied calmly. Maybe it would be possible, but you chose your own path, Malak, a path of conquest, death and destruction.
Yes... and now, only at its end do I realize... He took one last breath, I am nothing. Then he exhaled and was no more.
It was over. They all wanted it. Demanded it. Said it was the only way and I listened. I did what they wanted. His lifeless body laid at my feet. I killed him. But have I redeemed myself? Truly redeemed myself?
In everyone elses eyes, I most definitely have. And as for my own? I looked upon my former friends lifeless body once again. I had many reasons to kill him, but only the one I last discovered mattered. The demands of Jedi, of the Republic, of all the people Ive met and all those that accompanied me on my journey meant nothing. If you want to redeem yourself by killing, your reason for that act must be completely selfless and the person must be completely deserving of death. It wont make killing right, but it will make it acceptable. Anything less and youre just another murderer, killing to satisfy your own selfish desires and ambitions.
The enormous space station started to tremble. The Republic was gaining ground and managed to deliver blows to the Star Forge itself. I had to leave, but when I did, it was with relief and one last realization - although the Dark Side will always remain a part of me, I know I am now truly a follower of Light.
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In my new project, we have 4 automation testers working together on four different modules of an application . Its a web application and we work on windows platform. The automation tool being used is QTP and we are following a hybrid framework using Object repository and DP as required. I would like to know the best approach here to take. As all four of us are working on different modules and finally we have to integrate them together into the test machine, where all our scripts will run together. We are not planning to remove OR as scripts with OR is running much faster than those with DP in our application. The problem we are facing is that , as each of us have our on local OR , each time we add new code to test machine, we also put our respective OR after making it .tsr into the shared repository and associate them to the script. This creates a lot of object redundancy in the shared repository . What we are planning to do is make those shared repo as local in the test machine and delete all those duplicate objects each time and update the repo from application. Please suggest me the best approach to this problem , so that we can maintain a robust test frame work for our application , which will also be easy to handle and maintain.
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I am not QTP expert but one QTP expert told me once that it is best to not use Object Repo as -
Having a robust framework is always a challenge for an Automation Engineer. I had worked on a project in which, we added every single object into the repository and finally found the maintenance activity as a Herculean task. Also, maintaining a local OR for every script will add to more chaos. (I hope you agree to this)
With the help of an Automation Engineer we arrived at a reasonably good framework and I will share some of the features that we follow here. (Ours is a Desktop application and you may correlate it to a web application)
After working on DP and OR I find that its always better to go forward with a hybrid approach where we use a combination of both, DP and OR based.


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In MapInfo 10.0, how can I quickly colorize point symbols according to a field in the data table, without creating a new map? My data is just longitude, latitude and time, and I'd like to colorize the points according to the time field. This seems really basic but I can't find any way to do it.
what i understand from your question is that you want to create points thematic,changes both symbol size and color.
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Assuming it is the time field specifically you are having trouble with, I would suggest following the instructions at http://reference.mapinfo.com/software/mapinfo_pro/english/10/MapInfoProfessionalUserGuide.pdf on page 175.
Specifically, you need to explicitly convert your data type to "Time/Date" in "Table Maintenance" and the text needs to be in the following format:


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I've seen this symbol in various places, such as 「日々」, 「色々」, and 「人々」. What is it, and how does it affect the meaning and pronunciation of the word?
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It's a repetition kanji or "ideographic iteration mark", it means that the kanji just before should be repeated. The pronunciation changes according to the kanji being repeated, but a lot of the time, the second kanji will be pronounced like the first one, but with a dakuten (hi->bi, to->do, ha->ba). It often makes a word mean "more than one of that thing". Here's some examples:
According to Wikipedia, it's called an odoriji (踊り字 ) "dancing mark" in Japanese. I've heard the name that Robusto mentions ("kurikaeshi") more often.
As others have said, it just means you repeat the kanji. However, there is at least one case I know of where there can be a difference between using the kanji iteration mark and not using it. 日々 is ひび (also にちにち, but I think that reading is rare) meaning "daily" or "everyday life". 日日 is ひにち and means "the date" or "number of days". The latter is often written 日にち to avoid confusion, though.
It's a character to let the reader know that the kanji preceding it has been repeated.
In terms of pronunciation, it may or may not affect the pronunciation. For "色々", there is no change and is simply "いろいろ". For words like "日々", "人々", and "時々", they are "ひび", "ひとびと", and "ときどき", so the first character's pronunciation was modified with the dakuten (") marker.
There are cases where the dakuten is not applied though like "佐々木" for "ささき" even though the さ could become a ざ.
That's the repetition sign, called kurikaeshi. It means the kanji that precedes it is repeated. It changes the meaning and sometimes the pronunciation. For example, 「人々」in your example means "people" or "everybody" and is pronounced "hito-bito". 「日々」on the other hand has no change in pronunciation (nichinich) but it means "daily" rather than referring to a single day.


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I've recently posted a very silly answer to a question. It got voted down, rightfully so. Then, I guess, somebody took a pity on me and upvoted a question. I was really surprized that I've got a full +10 on my reputation back. Shouldn't you get a
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I've recently posted a very silly answer to a question. It got voted down, rightfully so. Then, I guess, somebody took a pity on me and upvoted a question. I was really surprized that I've got a full +10 on my reputation back. Shouldn't you get a
+10 on your question. The current system rewards controversial posts more than good posts -- if I can say something that is inflammatory enough that it gets both downvotes and upvotes, I can rake in the rep. One might even say this is a good recipe for gaming the system.
Now, should it go both ways? If we made the reputation gained/lost from a post based on the post's net score (barring the daily rep cap interfering) even for an overall positive post? e.g. so a post that gets votes of (+1, +1, -1, +1) would receive (10 + 10 - 10 + 10) score, so that the -2 deduction only kicks in if the post's net score dips below zero?
Yeah, that bugs me too. IMHO, up-votes to posts with a negative score should merely counteract a single down-vote in terms of rep awarded to the user, not give them a bonus. In the past, I've actually gained more reputation from some trollish answers than from equivalently-ranked serious answers... I'm now more careful to CW such responses.
See: Should we reduce rep bonus for upvotes on posts with a negative score?
This becomes a very effective reputation denial tool -- if you want to stop other users from getting reputation, downvote their posts to -1 as soon as you see them (that is, when they start out at 0 votes). They'll now need at least 2 votes, minimum, to even begin gaining any reputation.
Right now I don't upvote a -1 because:
(Generally speaking, of course ... assume, for the sake of argument, the post in question is in fact objectively bad and not unfairly downvoted, or misunderstood.)
Once it is known that upvoting a -1 post doesn't give the post owner any reputation boost (and thus does not devalue your own reputation and ranking, or perversely incent bad posters), the incentive to cast these "pity upvotes" increases -- because #2 no longer exists as a disincentive!
Hmm. One thing I hadn't considered until I wrote this, w/r/t item number 1: sort order effects are less of an issue for questions than answers, because answer sort order is aggressively affected by votes -- whereas question sort order is a much looser and more indirect relationship.
So it's karmically easier to justify pity upvotes on questions than answers, because item #1, sort order, is not so heavily affected. Good thing question upvotes are only worth +5 now, eh?
In the real world you would think so. In Stack Overflow, we like to reward a lot more than we punish apparently (I guess to prevent people from getting feelings hurt too easily and to prevent people from gaming the system).
BUT there has been talk in the past of increasing the downvote damage to -5 instead of -2, although it is likely to also come with an increase in penalty to cast.
The community should encourage people to ask. It is fair that upvotes have bigger impact on reputation than downvotes.
Totally agree. I think calculating reputation on net votes solves the problem of "sympathy upvotes" much better than simply increasing the weight of downvotes. Negative net votes can still have a different weight, ie. the formula would be


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Mt. Whitney was named after the State Geologist of California, Josiah Whitney in 1864 who had commissioned the Geological Survey of the mountain and surrounding areas. Residents of the local town of Lone Pine financed the building of the now famous Mt. Whitney Trail, completing it in July of 1904. Just four days after the completion of the trail, Bryd Surby was struck and killed by lightening on the exposed summit; a sobering reminder even for today's hiker's that mountain conditions can change rapidly.
We had five hikers in our group attempting to summit via the Mt. Whitney trail, two of us are veterans on the mountain including myself, as this was my 27th climb/hike up the mountain. My first was at the tender age of 16, hiking with a high school backpacking class we took the southwest route over a 5 day period and climbed Whitney from the western side on our last day. Now at age 54, making the round trip in one day avoids the heavy packs, and seems a little less body bruising. Each hiking party is required to obtain a day use permit from the National Park Service in order to enter the Mt. Whitney zone. These are issued in a lottery system in the spring of each year, and then on a first come first serve basis thereafter.
Getting to Mt. Whitney is straight forward being a 3 ½ hour drive from Los Angeles. We spent the prior day acclimating at Horseshoe Meadow (10,000 ft.) to the south of Mt. Whitney, beginning the body's natural adjustment process to the higher elevation. After pack/gear checks on the evening of August 30th, the hike team got a few hours of restless sleep before driving up to the trail head, and starting the hike at 3:00am on the 31st. Leaving early allows for an early summit, and avoiding the typical summer monsoon storms that form in the afternoon. This year it was cloudy and stormy the entire trip.
We split the 11.5 mile hike up into 4 segments, two of which we covered in just over 3 hours arriving at a flat patch of ground called Trail Camp at 12,000 ft. and 6 miles up the trail around 6:00am. This was our second stop as we filtered water and consumed a quick breakfast consisting of coffee, tea, oatmeal, and breakfast bars. We were back on the trail an hour later and tackled the infamous 100 switchbacks arriving at Trail Crest (13,400 ft.) in time to see the western Sierra disappear into a thick cloud cover.
The final push to the summit is 3 miles and can be the most challenging as you are scrambling over loose rock and gravel with some pretty interesting exposed drops on either side. The team summited around 9:30am, and as the video shows, not much of a view (bummer). After celebrating on top for 30 minutes, we made a hasty descent as the weather made a turn for the worse in a matter of minutes and we found ourselves in rain and hail most of the way back to Trail Camp, including some ominous lightening claps just to the north, but close enough to encourage a 2 mile run down the super-exposed switchbacks.
Training for a 22 mile hike generally is best done by preparing the body with 3 months of hiking, running, and cycling if possible. My training was exclusively on my road bike and Spinning classes here at Mad Dogg. The ascent was fine as I had plenty of cardio conditioning and cycling leg strength. Heart rates are in the 160 – 175 bpm range while ascending the upper part of the mountain, and in the 135 – 145 range on the descent. However, it is the eccentric contractions that kill the legs on the downhill – and resulted in me having a bad case of the "Whitney waddle" for about 4 days following the climb.
If you want a real physical and mental challenge, Mt. Whitney provides just that. If you are interested in learning more about hiking Mt. Whitney, Sharon Baker-Salony wrote a great book called, "How to Climb Mount Whitney in One Day." It is still available on Amazon. Until next year….Rick Wallace


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BELL COUNTY (March 10, 2013)--Military men and women have risked their lives fighting overseas, and now some are also making sure Central Texans are safe at home.
Central Bell County Fire Rescue is welcoming soldiers for many reasons.
"If we're tired in a fire, we can get hurt," said Tony Wright, a former soldier and now the volunteer department's assistant chief.
"Plus, we have multiple calls at the same time, so we need as many people as we can get."
SPC. Jason Woodard is a 32-year-old Army surgical technician and captain for Central Bell County Fire Rescue.
"I come in the station here and do some work, then as soon as I leave here, I go straight to work at Darnall," SPC. Woodard said.
Woodard's not the only soldier with double duty.
SPC. Robert Vinson recently joined the volunteer fire department.
"It's a thing I've always wanted to do since I was a little kid," SPC. Vinson said.
This 24-year-old served two tours in Afghanistan and now serves his Central Texas community.
"In a way, they're kind of the same job, we just wear different uniforms," SPC. Vinson said.
"There's occasion somebody gets hurt here just like the Army, but someone's always got your back."
The department currently has 33 members, and more than half of them are either active duty or retired from the military.
Wright, who's been with the department since 2005, said it's their discipline and endurance that make them a perfect fit for his team.
He said there's never been this many soldiers on the team, and that's a change he's embracing.
"They're going back to their units and telling their friends about it," Wright said.
"Within the last month, they've already brought in three new guys, so hopefully we'll get more as people come back from Iraq and as Afghanistan winds down."


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People With Diets High in Vitamins B, C, D, E, and Omega-3s Had Less Brain Shrinkage, Higher Scores on Thinking Tests
Dec. 28, 2011 -- Eating a diet rich in certain vitamins and omega-3 fatty acids and low in trans fats may be best for brain health, new research suggests.
Older people who ate this way had less of the brain shrinkage linked with Alzheimer's disease and scored better on mental and thinking tests than those with poorer diets.
Although previous studies have suggested that a heart-healthy diet is also good for the brain, the new study took a different approach by using blood tests to determine the participant's diet and nutrient levels.
"The combination of the B vitamins, the antioxidants C and E, plus vitamin D was the most favorable combination of nutrients in the blood for healthy brain aging in our population," says study author Gene L. Bowman, ND, MPH, assistant professor of neurology at the Layton Aging & Alzheimer's Disease Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland.
Diets high in omega-3 fatty acids, found in fish, were also good for brain health.
Most unfavorable, he found, was a diet high in trans fats. Trans fats are more often found in packaged baked goods and fast foods, including cookies, crackers, and potato chips.
B vitamins are found in a variety of foods, such as milk and dairy, whole grain cereals, enriched bread, and peanut butter. Vitamin C is rich in fruits and vegetables, and E is in nuts and oils. Vitamin D is found in the flesh of fatty fish, such as salmon, and in fortified milk.
For the vitamins, omega-3s, and trans fats, Bowman found an association between diet and brain health, not cause and effect.
The study is published online in the journal Neurology.
Diet and Brain Health: Results
The average age of those studied was 87. They had very few risk factors known to boost the risk of memory and thinking problems, such as diabetes or high blood pressure.
Besides the blood tests, the men and women were given memory and thinking skills tests. Forty-two had MRI scans to measure brain volume. Decreased brain volume has been linked with declines in thinking ability associated with Alzheimer's disease. The researchers evaluated how much of the risk of declining mental abilities could be attributed to diet and how much to other factors, such as age or high blood pressure.


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6 Iconic Jobs That Are Going Away Forever
The next time you're at the Renaissance Faire and you see the blacksmith and saddle maker toiling away at their quaint jobs, try to remember that once upon a time those were common, everyday careers. And then take a moment to realize that a lot of the iconic jobs that have been part of our lives since birth will, before long, go the way of the blacksmith.
We're talking about jobs like...
#6. Fighter Pilots
The Job:
Say you're at a party and somebody asks you what you do for a living. There is no answer you can give that will impress people more than "jet fighter pilot." Maybe astronaut. But basically if you show up at a cocktail party full of kickboxers, CIA agents, race car drivers and Richard Braonson, and tell them you're a jet fighter pilot, you'll be the center of attention. It's been the sexiest job in the world ever since somebody figured out how to make deadly aircraft that can go a thousand miles an hour while shitting fire.
Though we can also thank Tom Cruise.
Your grandchildren, however, will look at Top Gun the way we look at movies about the Old West. Among military types there is a saying: "The last fighter pilot has already been born."
The Replacement:
There is one huge limitation in our badass jet fighters, and that is the soft, squishy human it carries in the cockpit. Remove that weakness, and you can build a machine that can fly faster, turn harder and generally be the Terminator to current fighter jets' Edward Furlong.
We're not talking about remote control drones, either--though they're becoming more and more popular for the same reason. We're talking about robotic fighters. The Ministry of Defense in the UK recently unveiled the most advanced one of these, called a UCAV or the Uncrewed Combat Aerial Vehicle.
Right now, the plane is limited. It is able to run only missions that are preprogrammed into its system. And while it can spot targets, it can take them out only if it requests permission and permission is granted from a human (that all might sound pretty comforting if it weren't for the fact that drone aircraft can and have gone AWOL). The point is, it turns out more than five people should have gone to see the movie Stealth because it was about the inevitable future: The US Air Force put out a report last year outlining how they could replace every damned aircraft they own with flying robots in the next 40 years.
It's definitely a good idea to remove "conscience" from the mix when dealing with giant missiles.
Beyond the fact that modern militaries are less and less tolerant of losing troops because of the political backlash that comes with it, there are just physical limitations at play: A soft human body can only withstand about 5 g's (that is, five times the force of gravity) before losing consciousness. A trained pilot, with a special suit, can maybe get up to 9 or 10. Aircraft designers have to start from the premise that too many barrel rolls will leave the pilot bleeding from the eyes.
But take out that limitation and they can start drawing up a radical new plane whose performance is limited by the strength of titanium and carbon fiber, rather than the tiny blood vessels in a human brain. If nothing else it should make air shows of the future way more awesome.
#5. Lifeguards
The Job:
For some of you, being the lifeguard at the local pool was a perfect summer job. For others--namely, those who still have Baywatch on DVD--the job appears frequently in masturbation fantasies.
"Quick, I need to resuscitate this teenage boy! With my boobs."
So, there's a reason it's encoded into our DNA that the best way to get to first base with a half naked, tanned, attractive person is to fake drowning. But it won't be true much longer.
The Replacement:
Meet EMILY, the lifeguard of the future which despite its name is neither a girl nor half naked and attractive.
EMILY (EMergency Integrated Lifesaving lanYard) is a robotic talking buoy designed to seek out drowning victims and ferry them back to shore. It uses sonar to detect the motion typically associated with people who are potentially drowning and then zooms out after them at up to 28mph, which is way faster than the guy on the lifeguard stand.
It communicates back to a lifeguard on shore, who can speak through EMILY's radio to try to calm the person in distress. The person grabs hold and is then pulled to the comparative safety of hot sand and angry fiddler crabs.
While EMILY isn't completely automated yet, it will be patrolling the surf on its own by the end of the year. A couple of decades from now, your swimming children will be watched by a lifeguard who can see farther, swim faster and never get tired or bored or distracted. Those children won't know a "lifeguard" as anything other than a self-paddling red floating buoy, and any kid who fantasizes about that is a burgeoning serial killer.
In the future, this man will just have to make do as a creepy beach pervert.
#4. Firefighters
The Job:
Everyone who was ever a child wanted to be a firefighter--and that's even more true for those born in the last decade. You get to drive around a giant red truck that makes a shitload of noise and then jump out and spray a giant hose onto buildings crumbling beneath a roaring inferno. You climb up ladders and save people, and possibly chop through a door with a fucking ax.
"Sorry sir, I need to ax you something. Ahah. Laugh or I won't save your family."
It's no wonder firefighters are a sort of Norman Rockwell-esque symbol of American values who are generally admired by the entire community, unlike, say, the police (to our knowledge, there's never been a rap song called "Fuck the Fire Department"). It's a job that symbolizes selflessness, courage and badassery. America.
So America.
The Replacement:
You need all of those qualities because the job is dangerous as hell; Dozens of firefighters die every year in the US alone. The fireman of the future--the near future--is going to be a robot for the same reason bomb squads use robots: because having a human being get anywhere near that situation is insane.
That's why the British have started developing their own crack firefighting robot team. Their team consists of an Iraqi war vet robot named Talon, a water-shooting, metal gripping robot named Bison, a firefighter-hose-firing robot named Black Max and a tank-lifting robot named Brokk. The robot team is currently used only to take out acetylene gas fires, at which it has been extraordinarily effective.
Fine, it makes sense that a machine can cut through a wall and pump in water. But what about all that heroic shit firefighters have to do? Carrying unconscious women to safety and all that?
Well, you may have heard of or seen those "caterpillar" bots that were used to clean up the wreckage and save people after 9/11. Those particular units were not very advanced, but the technology has been steadily moving forward. Recently a snakelike rescue-bot was developed in South Korea, just under an inch across and up to 26 feet long. The robot is designed to crawl through hard-to-reach spots in collapsed debris and locate injured people hidden in the rubble, sending pictures back to the rescuers outside.
Of course, at that point the actual saving of the victims still needs to be done by the human rescuers, right? Well, that or you could leave it to a robot like Robokiyu, currently used by the Tokyo fire department.
So, yeah, within a few generations we might see firefighters reduced to pencil pushers and engineers who sit back while the robots do all of the dangerous work. We'll be left with millions of children wondering why the hell anyone would've ever wanted to be a fireman when he grew up.


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Published: Sunday, June 15, 2014 at 4:30 a.m.
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Rick and Rose Marie Puncke proudly announce the marriage of their daughter Megan to Patrick Allen on Saturday, May 10th, in the Redwood Grove of the Botanical Garden at University of California, Berkeley. A dinner reception followed the ceremony at the Garden.
Megan is a 2002 graduate of Hendersonville High and a 2007 graduate of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. She is a Geologist with Black & Veatch Corporation in San Francisco. Patrick is the son of Martha Allen of Keizer, Oregon and Bill Allen of Los Angeles, California. He is a graduate of Tigard High School in Tigard, Oregon and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana. He is a Civil Engineer with Terra Engineers, Inc. in San Francisco.
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the following is drawn from a rather rough set of lecture notes and I am not sure I understand it.
the goal is to determine for which values of $p$ we have $$ \int_{|x|\leq 1} \frac{1}{|x|^p} \,dx < \infty \qquad $$
where $d\mathbf{x} = dx_1 \cdots dx_n$ denotes Lebesgue measure.
according to the notes, the first step is to the change variables to $\mathbf{x} = r\mathbf{w}$ where $r > 0$ and $\mathbf{w}$ lies on the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^{n-1}$. we then have that
$$d\mathbf{x} = r^{n-1}drd\mathbf{w}$$
and this is where I get stuck - how do I compute this? I tried to look up spherical coordinates, but the formulas seem different. and if I try out an example, say in $\mathbb{R}^2$ then I have \begin{align*} d\mathbf{x} &= dx_1dx_2 \\ &= (\frac{\partial x_1}{\partial r} dr + \frac{\partial x_1}{\partial w_1} dw_1 + \frac{\partial x_1}{\partial w_2} dw_2) (\frac{\partial x_2}{\partial r} dr + \frac{\partial x_2}{\partial w_1} dw_1 + \frac{\partial x_2}{\partial w_2} dw_2) \\ &= (w_1 dr + r dw_1 )(w_2 dr + r dw_2) \\ &= w_1rdrdw_2 + rw_2dw_1dr + r^2dw_1dw_2 \\ &= (w_2 dw_1 - w_1dw_2)rdr + r^2d\mathbf{w} \end{align*} which does look different. Many thanks for help and hints on how to understand the above formula!


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Rooney says Kagawa would surely help him score more goals
Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney is certain Shinji Kagawa's arrival at Old Trafford would help him and other strikers score more goals.
Last season, Rooney equalled his personal best by netting 34 times for United, and is banking on overcoming that tally with Kagawa's help.
United take on Barcelona in a friendly on Wednesday, with Rooney looking forward to linking up with Kagawa again after the pair spent just 15 minutes playing together in Sunday's 0-0 draw with Valerenga.
"Shinji's settled quite quickly. He's a talented player, he likes to get on the ball and keep it simple. He's very effective on the ball. It's great to have that sort of player in the team," The Daily Mirror quoted Rooney, as saying.
"I'm looking forward to playing with him and I think he'll create a lot of chances for myself and the other forwards. It's exciting to have him in the team," he added.
Kagawa, a 17-million pound buy from German champions Borussia Dortmund, looked impressive on the South African and Chinese legs of United's globetrotting pre-season programme.
United boss Sir Alex Ferguson , who has also been praising Kagawa, sees the Japan international as the man to link his midfield and attack, when deployed in a free role just behind main striker Rooney. (ANI)


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"Death is like giving birth. Birth can be painful. Sometimes women die from giving birth. However, when the baby is born, all that pain vanishes in an instant. Love for that tiny baby makes one forget the pain, the fear. And as I've said before, love between mother and child is the highest experience, the closest to divine love. You might wonder about the parallel I'm making between birth and death. But I say to you, the fear and pain accompanying an awful death is over quickly. Beyond that portal one is suddenly in the light, in oneness and bliss."
Lena Lees
Source: The Living Word of Kuan Yin: The Teachings & Prophecies of The Goddess of Compassion & Mercy
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5 States That Secretly Control the Rest of America
#2. Utah Is Why You Can Buy (Killer) Vitamins
The next time you're at the grocery store or pharmacy, notice how there's two shelves: One has all of the drugs that include meticulous lists of ingredients and walls of text detailing side effects, while the other shelf is full of snake oil bullshit. Vitamin supplements that claim to speed up your metabolism, weight-loss pills made of nothing but placebo herbs and caffeine, "natural" cures that rid your body of "toxins" -- all of it blasting flagrant lies from the label. Have you ever wondered why in the hell can they get away with that, when the Food and Drug Administration watches actual medicine like a hawk?
"If it comes in fancy bottles, check it. If it comes in a bag nailed to cardboard, who cares?"
Blame the state of Utah and Senator Orrin Hatch for that.
Church of Latter-Day Saints founder Joseph Smith didn't just believe that Jesus once walked among Native Americans; he also believed that pharmaceuticals and doctors were bad news for a healthy body. Instead, Smith advocated natural remedies for all that ailed you. And he took that mentality to Utah, where his religion and anti-medicine attitude flourished.
Fast forward to the late 20th century, and the heart of the vitamin industry still operates from Mormon country. Which was all fine and dandy until the group that regulates everything else we stuff into our holes realized that 20 people had already died from a "natural" sleep remedy and 16 kids were dead from iron supplement poisoning. So regulators got busy trying to control them. But the heart of Hatch's constituency was in bed with the vitamins -- his son is a supplement lobbyist in Washington, his grandson and son-in-law are chiropractors who shill a product called Slim and Sassy Metabolic Blend, and industry bigwigs have contributed millions to Hatch's campaigns. There was no way Hatch was going to let the FDA dig their claws into his precious vitamins.
"Americans have the right to stay slim and sassy by any means necessary."
So in 1994, Hatch ramrodded the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act through Congress. Under this Wild West of a law, supplement manufacturers can put whatever the fuck they want on the market and the FDA can't do anything about it until after people get hurt. Do you think bird shit will cure astigmatism? Wrap that shit up and sell it. We'll see what happens next.
According to Hatch, the consumer has the right to discern the difference between things that are good for you and poison marketed as weight-loss pills. Which explains why it took three years and an estimated 80 deaths before the FDA was able to shut down the sale of ephedra supplements.
"Medicine" is such a strong word.
#1. New Jersey Is the World's Tastemaker
Take a look in your pantry, or, if you're in college, under your bed. What do you see? Probably lots of cans and boxes and bags of junk food, each with an essay-sized block of text that reveals the ingredients.
Above: Cheetos.
Chief among the cadre of technicians who put together those ingredients are flavorists -- scientists who are trained to create the tastes behind everything that doesn't come from the produce aisle. In fact, 90 percent of what we take home from the grocery store was touched by one of the world's 500 flavorists, who determine not only how food will taste, but also how it will look and even how it will smell. These are the guys who create the difference between Dr Pepper and Dr Thunder, Lucky Charms and Marshmallow Mateys, and James Franco and James Marsden.
Guess where most of those food scientists live and work. It's not France! It's New Jersey! Which is hilarious, because these days when we mention New Jersey, we think of orange, puffy-haired people, not orange, puffy cheese snacks. As for why, well, the natural hub for the flavor industry was New York, especially since the flavor scientists were pilfered from the fragrance scientists, who worked nicely alongside the garment district and fashion houses of New York City. But New York was too expensive for the lab space needed to invent Cool Ranch, so manufacturers moved to New Jersey, and now the state has the highest concentration of flavor experts in the country.
"Making powdered hummus requires more brainpower than the moon landing."
Savor each second of your next meal -- you're taking in New Jersey with every bite.
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This is about Windows, but I'm sure it applies to other OS as well.
I've heard people say that if you want better performance, you should avoid swap file fragmentation. To do this, you can either manually specify a constant size for the swap file, or even move it to a dedicated partition/disk.
Will this really give any performance benefits? After all - the swap file is accessed in a randomized manner anyway, what's a bit more randomization? And if you're considering a separate disk for the swap file, then you would be far better off investing your money in more RAM instead. Unless you happen to get a free disk of course.
So - is there a point in fighting swap file fragmentation or not?


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10 Free Things to Do This Summerby Lindsay Hutton
Staying busy and having fun this summer doesn't have to be expensive. In fact, it doesn't have to cost you anything. The next time you find your family going stir-crazy from summer boredom, get out of the house with one of these free summertime activities.
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Community Pool or Local Beach
Grab your suits and head to your local beach, lake, or your town's community pool for a day of swimming and sunning. Most pools and beaches have a concession stand for snacks and drinks, but you can always bring your own to, too. Just don't forget to pack the sunscreen!
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Black-Scholes requires volatility estimated in trading days. How does this affect other parameters? Specifically, should the time-to-expiration also be in trading days? And how does this affect the risk-free interest rate?
I remember this discussion here: http://www.wilmott.com/messageview.cfm?catid=3&threadid=62227
You should absolutely match your convention for time to expiration to the convention you used for calculating volatility. There seems to be other ways to proceed, as modifying the volatility to match your convention but I don't really see the point in using them.
the convention for most market makers of options is to use calender time. it is also the convention in data one gets from options data vendors. another way to see this is that market makers will fade their bids near the close on a 'normal' friday for fear of holding inventory ahead of the weekend, since it is a crap shoot whether the pick-up in vols on Monday morning will offset the time decay from a ho-hum weekend. all this holds on average.


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The editors on Gaza
Now featured at the website, the Commonweal editors on the events in Gaza:
With Israel again bombarding Gaza and gathering troops for another potentially devastating incursion into the Hamas-controlled Palestinian enclave, it is tempting to think that nothing really changes in the Middle East, and especially in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But to think that would be a mistakeespecially for friends of Israel.It is not clear what precipitated this latest confrontation. There is no question that rocket attacks from Gaza increased dramatically in recent months, or that some kind of Israeli response was inevitable. ...Knowledgeable observers think neither Hamas nor Israel wants to reenact the carnage of Operation Cast Lead four years ago. That wrenching assault resulted in the deaths of nearly 1,400 Palestinians, most of them civilians. Only thirteen Israelis were killed. If Hamas wants to avoid repeating such a calamity, why would it provoke Israel in this manner? One theory is that a show of military bravado would enhance its status across the new political landscape of the Arab world, especially in comparison with its more moderate Palestinian rival, Fatah. A demonstration of robust military capabilitysome rockets provided by Iran can now reach Tel Aviv and Jerusalemmight also reinvigorate support among Gazas beleaguered and disgruntled population. Hamas also counts on the fact that Israel has no interest in re-occupying Gaza with its 1.6 million Palestinians. Nor is it in Israels interest to repeat its brutal three-week 200809 siege. Operation Cast Lead was seen by many in the international community as disproportionate if not immoralsome claim Israel committed war crimesand contributed significantly to the growing isolation of the Jewish state.
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Joseph Kennedy Sr feared the Jews were getting the US into WWII. He proposed getting them land in England to live to stop the march of Hitler. Now Richard Murdock claims the media is biased toward Israel. I was surprised at this. Fox News seems to be more pro Israel than anyone. Different situation but still a world wide conflict over the Jews. The Israeli leaders though share much of the blame today. The Jihad leaders are just as guilty. Kennedy Sr saw the situation then as a business solution which was far from the whole remedy. What is the remedy today? Would a Marshall plan for Palestine do it?
In elaboration of your statement that rocket attacks upon Israel from Gaza had risen, here are some figures: Approximately 200 rockets from Gaza struck Israel in 2010. Over 600 rockets struck in 2011. Over 800 rockets struck Israel in 2012 before Israel acted on November 14. In the 4 days before November 14, that is, from November 10-13, 121 rockets struck Israel from Gaza.According to the Israeli Defense Forces (the IDF), 1166 Palestinians were killed in Operation Cast Lead, of whom 709 were Hamas combatants and 295 were civilians. It said it was unable to determine the status of the remaining 162. An article in Haaretz, the Israeli newspaper, of November 9, 2010, quoting the Hamas Minister of Interior, Fathi Hamad, stated that "Hamas admitted last week that between 600 and 700 of its militants were killed during Operation Cast Lead -- a figure consistent with that reported by the Israeli Defense Forces." According to the article, Hamas' military wing had previously claimed that only 49 of its militants had been killed.As for peace talks, Gaza says it will never recognize Israel, whose destruction is its official long-term goal. So there can be no peace talks with Gaza. As for the West Bank, there is admittedly reason to be suspicious of Netanyahu's good faith, but there is equal reason to believe that Abbas will not or cannot agree to those things that the Palestinians must agree to for there to be peace, particularly relinquishing the "right of return." His tactic is to try to take steps through the U.N. to move torward the establishment of a state without making any of the concessions necessary for peace. Why doesn't he enter into negotiations, and if Netanyahu is in bad faith, that will become apparent to the whole world. Please consider the possibility that Abbas and the Palestinians are in bad faith. After all, at Camp David in 2000, the Israelis were in good faith and the Palestinians were in bad faith. Perhaps both governments, as currently constituted, are now in bad faith. The only way to find out is to enter into negotiations and see. Netanyahu is willing and Abbas is not.
The tone of the editorial struck me as tipped against Israel. How could it be any clearer that Hamas is the aggressor and Israel is, once again, the victim. Lobbing thousands of rockets into Israel is clearly an act of terrorism intended to frighten the civilian population. Hamas knows very well that Israel will eventually retaliate--as they have--and are ever ready to sacrifice the lives of their own women and children in the process. Photographers and journalists are always at the ready to report the "barbaric Israeli slaughter of innocents" with horrible photographs attached. Israel gave Gaza back to the Palestinians and have been paying for it ever since. There can be no two state solution as long as there are not partners willing to negotiate what is actually negotiable. Israel cannot negotiate itself off the face of the map but that is precisely the demand of Hamas. How much more of this before all reasonable people are convinced that there can be no solution that allows the Palestinians to own arms with which to continue to harrass Israel. The United Nations originally established two states in that region, a Jewish State called Israel, and a Palestinian State called Jordan. That was opposed by Arabs from the beginning which led them to make three efforts to militarily wipe Israel off the map--not counting the suicide bombings of more recent vintage. Those efforts were thwarted and Israel did what every war victor does and takes control of land to give it more defensible borders. I regard it as absolutely irrational that so many people keep condemning Israel. I don't accuse Commonweal's editors of that, but nor did they provide much of a defense.
A position contrary to John Feehily's from a rabbi: http://ncronline.org/news/peace-justice/how-stop-middle-east-craziness-i...
What if the United Nations had decided that there should be a separate Jewish state within the confines of .... oh, say Texas? Or the wilds of Northern Canada? How about central Australia?The idea that ONCE Jews had communities in what was subsequently Palestine is far from a good basis to sieze territory owned by others and create a new state.Let's hope that never happens here in the US with the UN deciding to return the 48 lower states to the Native Americans.
Fr. Feehily, perhaps you might find helpful these thoughts on a sermon heard by a congregant of an orthodox synagogue last Saturday. The author is able to see more than one side of the story.Sunday, November 18, 2012How Two Jewish (and One Stoic) Ideas Helped Me Get Through Yesterday's Sermon in SynagogueBefore I left for synagogue in DC yesterday I resolved that I would not sit through a sermon that painted the Israelis as the innocent victims of murderous Hamas thugs. I expected that additional Psalms would be said for those in Israel, and I would say them with more kavvanah/intention than usual. (Some of my children and grandchildren have been in those shelters recently.) But I would try to insist that civilians on both sides be included in the Psalms.As it turned out, I would have gladly sat in my safe room in my apartment in Jerusalem -- or in a shelter in Sderot -- than have sat through the sermon I heard. The rabbi, who is a moderate, learned, and decent man, and often quite liberal and tolerant towards other religions, began by commenting on the intractable conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. He then tied that to the weekly portion, which refers to the enmity between Jacob and Esau, already in the womb of Rebecca. Of course, he conceded that Esau was later interpreted by the rabbis not as Muslims but as Christians, and he also said that the prototypical Muslim was Ishmael and not Esau. But what can you do...today's Torah portion was about Esau and Jacob and any typological enemy will do in the current storm.As the sermon went on, its message became clearer: There is no hope of peace with Muslims, because their values are simply different from those of us Jews. They believe that heaven is acquired through fighting and dying. They use firepower indiscriminately. They target civilians. We Jews live in a bad neighborhood, getting worse by the growth of fundamentalism (this from an orthodox rabbi, who had just used the Bible as a source for historical inevitability!) He ended with the hopeful comment that, as a rabbi, he has witnessed more and more Muslims converting to Judaism.As he started talking about Islam, I felt that I could take it no longer. My blood boiling, I weighed the option of walking out. Since I sit in the front row of a relatively small room, my protest would have been noticed by everybody, including the rabbi. I knew that this would cause a stir, and, who knows, maybe some good would come out of it. It would have been disrespectful to the rabbi, but our sages teach that "where this is desecration of God's name, one doesn't accord respect to rabbis." Or so I reasoned, in my anger.But then I remembered two important teachings of our sages:"Who is a hero? One who masters his passions." It's a passage I had learned with my students only the day before, and it smacks of Stoic influence. Maimonides writes that one should avoid anger, even when anger is appropriate. All right, I realize that some psychologists may disagree. But walking out in a huff is not a way to influence people. And disrespecting the mara de-asra, the local rabbinical authority, especially one whom I respect on many other matters, and who is a friend and colleague, because of a disagreement, is wrong. At any rate, it's not me. And I also thought, what right do I have to cause anybody discomfort, especially sinceAll us Israel-supporters, even rabbis, are tinokot she-nishbu "children who have been raised among the Idolators" (tinokot she-nishbu). This rabbinic phrase has come to mean somebody who have been raised in ignorance of the truth. How can I blame any of my fellow-Jews for their ignorance, since they have been indoctrinated since birth with Zionist myths and Israeli narratives. The mainstream media in this country is hopeless "captured" by the Israeli hasbara machine, whether liberal Zionist (NY Times, Washington Post) or chauvinist Zionism (Fox News, the Murdoch papers). Unless you read Haaretz, which now charges a hefty subscription free, you are entirely clueless as to what is going on, and Haaretz, God bless it, also reflects an Israeli perspective. After the services I talked with people who were not happy with the Gaza situation, who were not knee-jerk supporters of the Netanyahu government, but who, out of ignorance, spouted the same hasbara slogans that the Israeli spin machine puts out so well, and now on Twitter and Facebook. They receive links from the Jerusalem Post and Fox News? Can I blame them for their ignorance?The problem is not Hamas violence or Israeli violence; these are only symptoms of a much deeper mindset, or mentalite, which cannot be erased easily, if at all. Talking with my fellow Jews I felt as if I were talking with some doctrinaire Marxists, or evangelical Christians (or Muslims, Jews, or "Dawkinsians"), whose entire worldviews were the servant of some ideology.As is my own, I suppose, only in my case the ideology is the American liberalism with which I was raised.To be fair, my fellow-congregants have also been raised with a lot of that American liberalism. When one said to me, "Don't you think Israel has the right to defend itself against rocket attacks." I said, "Not only a right, but an obligation." But when I countered, "Don't Palestinians have the right to defend themselves from Israeli attacks, including cross-border incursions and naval blockades?" I was met with a blank stare. If this had been Israel, my interlocutor would have said, "No, they don't." But for an American Jewish liberal, what I had said had completely thrown him off, at least for a few seconds.It doesn't occur to most American Jews I know, or for that matter, most people I know, that the Palestinians are the primary victims of the Zionist movement, that they were dispossessed by superior force, and that they are struggling for decades to enjoy the same life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, in their land that the Israelis have enjoyed. Whether they are second-class citizens, or under occupation, or in the Palestinian diaspora, they refuse to admit total defeat, and they will never relinquish their claims. They are among the longest suffering peoples since World War I, and their suffering is compounded because some of those who supplanted them suffered terribly during World War II.http://www.jeremiahhaber.com/2012/11/how-two-jewish-and-one-stoic-idea.html
Mr. McCrea and Ms. Steinfels: Each of you have raised the issue of whether the founding of the state of Israel was a wrong done to the Palestinians, Mr. McCrea in his entire post and Ms. Steinfels in the last paragraph of the sermon. Unlike some Zionists, who claim the issue is out of bounds -- that Israels legitimacy is no more to be questioned than any other countrys permit me to address the issue head on and make the case for Israel.It must be admitted, because it is true, that although Jews always maintained a presence in Palestine, as of 1880, they were a small percentage of the population. The modern wave of Zionist immigration began in the 1880s when Russian Jews began trekking to Palestine to escape czarist discrimination and persecution. Right up until the founding of Israel in 1948, the Jews who settled in Israel did not obtain the land they lived and worked on through theft or murder or other improper means. Instead, they obtained it the old fashioned way. They bought it from willing sellers in arms length transactions for prices that were at least fair and often exorbitant. They would have acquired even more land had they had the money. There was no lack of willing sellers.Even so, there were only 125,000 Jews in Israel as of 1930. During the next seven years, until at Arab insistence, Great Britain in 1937 banned almost all additional Jewish emigration, 250,000 additional Jews immigrated to Palestine. We all know why this flood of immigrants occurred. Jews were trying to get out of Europe. With the closing of the door to Palestine, the last refuge of escape disappeared. I need not dwell on the fate of those who were doomed to remain, but the leader of the Palestinians, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, spent the war years in Berlin, urging Hitler to kill the Jews even faster than he was.In 1937, the Peel commission recommended a two state solution to the issue of Jewish and Arab claims on the land. In it, the majority of the land was to go to the Arabs and the Jews were to get canton-like enclaves. Jerusalem was to become an international city. The Jews agreed to sit down with the Arabs and try to negotiate a solution. The Arabs refused, taking the position that there would never be any Jewish state of any extent in Palestine.In 1947, the U.N. voted by a two-thirds majority to recommend a two state solution. The Jews were to get more land than the Peel Commission recommended because Jewish numbers had swollen with Holocaust survivors and, admittedly, there was great sympathy for the Jews because of the Holocaust. Even so, if the Negev is excluded, the Arabs got somewhat more land than the Jews (or so it seems to me, eyeballing the map of the proposed division). Jerusalem was to remain under British mandate. The Jews accepted the U.N.s recommendation and the Arabs rejected it, again taking the position that there would never be any Jewish state established in any part of Palestine. The War for Independence began the next day, when Arab snipers began killing Jewish civilians on buses outside Tel Aviv. The rest is, as they say, history.Although Israel was established primarily by European Jews, it was founded to be a haven for any Jew in trouble. And as soon as Israel finished with the job of rescuing Holocaust survivors, it turned toward those Jews next most endangered the Jews of the Arab world and of Iran. Over 1,000 Jews in Arab countries were murdered in the late 1940s and the entire Jewish population, over 800,000 people, was at risk. Over the next 20 years, Israel rescued the Jewish population from these countries. There are probably not 25,000 Jews left in the Arab world today. Many of these Jews lost everything they had because they were not permitted to take valuables with them or to sell them before leaving. The price of exit was forfeiture. And no permanent U.N. commission was set up to pay them hundreds of millions of dollars each year. They had to make it on their own. And they did, too.But this is not the whole story. For a thousand years and more, these Jewish populations lived in the apartheid world of the Arabs. At most times and in most places they were officially second-class citizens, living under specific legal disabilities, having to pay special taxes and having to make the personal obeisances that accompany inferior status. Against this background of apartheid, there were times of relative leniency when the Jewish community could flourish, but these alternated with periods of real repression, including outbreaks of mass murder, forced conversion, expropriation of property and more. And when things went south, the Jews were powerless to prevent it. During Ottoman rule, things were better, but even here the record was very spotty. And the Arabs deeply resented any attempt by the Ottomans to elevate the Jews to equal status. As Ottoman power declined, the old ways began to reassert themselves. The 1800s and 1900s were not periods when things were getting better and better, but instead they were getting worse. You can find exceptions, but this was the general trend.It is not generally known, but these Middle Eastern Jews (or their children or grandchildren) constitute a large percentage of Israels Jewish population. I would estimate somewhere between 40-50 percent. For these Jews, and objectively, Israel is a liberation movement from Arab-on-Jew apartheid and prejudice. And these Jews, after all, were returning to their ancestral homeland. Where is it written that the only just solution to this conflict is for the Arabs to have 100% of the land in the Middle East and that for the Jews to have one-half of one percent of the land is a crime against the Arabs.In the spirit of Ms. Steinfels, who asks that we see more than one side of the story, I would ask you to incorporate this side into your thinking on the subject.
Jeff asks,Where is it written that the only just solution to this conflict is for the Arabs to have 100% of the land in the Middle East and that for the Jews to have one-half of one percent of the land is a crime against the Arabs[?].Apparently it is written in the DNA of Ms. Steinfels...
Jeff,Thanks for this brief history. A while ago I looked all this stuff up myself and I was especially interested to read about Haj Amin al-Husseini and his association with Hitler during WWII. Wikipedia has a helpful page - History of the IsraeliPalestinian conflict
Jeff: You step outside the arena of fair comment in suggesting that "Each of you have raised the issue of whether the founding of the state of Israel was a wrong done to the Palestinians, Mr. McCrea in his entire post and Ms. Steinfels in the last paragraph of the sermon."Quoting "Mr. Haber's" reaction to a sermon does not mean I agree with it. Fr. Feehily, to whom I addressed my comment, seems to have a hard time summoning the possibility that his views are the only possible ones. Haber's reaction to the sermon he heard tells us that many people have complicated views on this question.In your own lengthy history, I don't see mention of Great Britain's role as the mandate power in Palestine. That too is a complicated issue as is their precipitous departure, which increased the likelihood of war between the Israelis and Palestinians. Who has suffered more? That is an unanswerable question. Everyone has suffered and continues to suffer in one way or another. The suffering will continue; that is the tragedy.
Margaret: Please excuse my transgression. I guess I just assumed you were endorsing what he said. I did not mean to attribute to you a view that is not your own. And I am glad that it is not your view.As for Great Britain, the Peel Commission that I mentioned was a British endeavor. Great Britain had the mandate pursuant to the League of Nations from approximately 1922 until the U.N., at Great Britain's request, relieved it of responsibility as of midnight of May 14, 1948. That same day, the provisional government of Israel declared the establishment of the State of Israel. The next day, Arab armies invaded to kill the baby in her crib. But the war with the Palestinians, as mentioned in my previous post, had begun in 1947, the day after the U.N. voted to recommend a two state solution. It raged even as the mandate continued.It was Great Britain that closed the gate of Jewish immigration in 1937, but it was done at the insistence of the Arabs, as I stated in my post. Great Britain's action is one reason why Irgun and the Stern Gang went after it with acts of terrorism, and why Great Britain then hunted their members down and when they could killed them in gun battles or arrested, tried, and hung them by their necks until they were dead.I agree that there has been and continues to be great suffering on both sides.I wish you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving.
Anderson Cooper did some fine reporting from Gaza this week about how things are on the ground. You might have seen the clip of him dodging a shell. Today, back in Israel, he was questioned by Wolf Blitzer about it, Fascinating, but extremely grim. Moving from Gaza back into Israel is an unbelievable experience. How do those people live like that? Catch it later if you can. I'm sure it will be repeated.
Crystal Watson: I have been reading with interest the extensive article at Wikipedia on al-Husseini, and learning much. Thanks for the post.


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We don't yet know how the Norv Turner era will end in San Diego. Last week, Chargers president Dean Spanos said that reports Turner would be fired are "pure speculation."
But whatever the case, Turner already has made history: Among coaches with career losing records, he has coached the most games in NFL history. Turner has somehow made it 234 games while winning just 47.9% of his games with the Chargers, Raiders and Redskins.
Despite Turner being considered a great offensive mind, it is clear his greatest trait is his ability to keep jobs. And his lead in this dubious distinction is huge—former Patriots, Bills and Broncos coach Lou Saban would have had to coach at least two more seasons to match Turner.
To be fair, Turner has had a steady tenure with the Chargers thus far. He is 54-39 after their win over the Steelers on Sunday, and he reached the AFC title game in 2007. But Turner's ugly stints with the Raiders (9-23) and Redskins (49-59) were enough to seal the record for him.
The only other active head coach near the top of the longevity loser list is Marvin Lewis, who has coached 157 games with the Bengals. Bills defensive coordinator Dave Wannstedt, who coached 169 games and won 48% of them, could always be hired as a head coach somewhere. But even if he found another head-coaching job, he would have to coach at least four more seasons to equal Turner.
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