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Motor Vehicle Regulations
The privilege of driving or having a motor vehicle (which includes scooters and motorcycles) on the Merrimack College campus at any time of the day or night, Sundays and holidays included, is extended to those who comply with the following regulations:
Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior Resident Students are not permitted vehicles on campus. All operators must be legally qualified to operate a motor vehicle in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the vehicle must be legally registered to operate on the highways of the state. Campus Police or any police officer on the campus may at any time require the operator to present evidence that the motor vehicle is covered by public liability insurance and property damage. Operators and passengers on motor cycles must wear a helmet while riding on campus .
The college reserves the right to withdraw motor vehicle privileges from any student, staff or faculty member at any time for any cause.
The Chief of Staff of the college reserves the right to make exceptions to the following motor vehicle regulations solely by him/herself and the Chief of Police. All exceptions must be made in writing and signed personally by one of the above before becoming effective.
Parking & Traffic Issues
Please check the Merrimack College Police web site at www.merrimack.edu/police for the most up to date rules and regulations regarding Parking and Traffic. Please send all parking-related questions to email@example.com
General Vehicle Regulations
Operating and parking a vehicle on campus is a privilege.
Any student or employee who operates or parks a motor vehicle on the campus must register the vehicle with the campus Police Department and every vehicle must display a parking decal on the rearmost section of window on the driver's side of the vehicle. The parking decal must be permanently affixed with the adhesive that exists on the decal. In the case of convertibles, tinted windows, etc., ask the Police Department where the decal should be affixed. Decals must be removed after a student or employee is no longer registered/employed at the College.
When a vehicle is sold or transferred to another and the student/faculty member requires a new decal, the old sticker must be returned.
Resident Student Parking
A Resident Student Parking Decal Fee of $400 per Academic Year (non-refundable) will be charged to all students.
Resident Seniors
Resident-student parking decals will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis to seniors during the first week of class, and then, if available, to juniors by lottery, and sophomores thereafter. Only seniors who intend to purchase a decal should have any expectation to keep a car on campus during the academic year; no other resident students should bring cars unless they become eligible to purchase a decal.
- The parking fee will be added to the student's account.
An email will be sent to all students notifying them of the dates, time and location to purchase a decal. Resident parking decals allow for parking in the resident parking lots J and K only as well as in 15-minute spaces and HP spaces (with appropriate state permit). A resident student who wants to use another vehicle must turn in their original parking decal in order to get a new one.
Resident Juniors
Students enrolled in credit-bearing internships, co-op jobs, practica, or other experiential education placements are eligible to purchase a semester parking decal. They must provide the Police Department with a letter of approval from their academic dean or the O'Brien Center for Student Success.
Resident Sophomore and Freshman Students
Freshman students will not be permitted to have a vehicle on campus.
There is very limited parking available on campus and Sophomore students will only be allowed to purchase a Resident Parking Decal after all upper class students have been given an opportunity to purchase a decal.
If there are any unsold decals/spaces available, a Sophomore Lottery may be held by the Columbus Day Holiday weekend. An email announcing this lottery will be sent to all sophomore students.
Parents and other family members having a car on campus while visiting resident students must obtain a parking permit from the Police Department.
The Town of Andover does not allow on-street parking in the College neighborhood except for those who have Andover resident parking permits.
All parking inquiries should be directed to email@example.com. Parking regulations will be strictly enforced.
Students with Medical Needs/Disabilities
Students with permanent or temporary disabilities may apply for parking at any time through the Center for Academic Enrichment/Office of A.D.A. Academic Coordinator (Elaine DiVincenzo at firstname.lastname@example.com).
Parking Decals for Commuting Students
The Commuter Parking Decal is available at $100.
All commuter students that will be bringing a car to campus are required to purchase a commuter decal for their vehicle and commuter students are required to register their vehicle with the campus Police Department when they arrive on campus for the start of the fall semester.
- Commuter students may park in Lots A, B, C, E. F. G, H, and I.
Commuting students will be issued parking decals at a cost of $100.
The Town of Andover does not allow on-street parking in the College neighborhood except for those who have Andover resident parking permits.
All parking inquiries should be directed to email@example.com. Parking regulations will be strictly enforced.
Temporary dashboard parking permits are available to students who are using another vehicle while their primary vehicle is not being used for a short period of time.
Operators must have a valid driver's license in their possession while driving on campus and must present it to a police officer upon request. All vehicles must be insured and registered and the vehicle registration must be presented to a police officer upon request.
The student who owns and/or operates a vehicle on campus shall be responsible for any liability or damage claims (including parking penalties) arising from the vehicle. The College assumes no responsibility for the care or protection of any vehicle or any of its contents at any time including the time it is in any parking area.
During the first three class days of each semester, cars will not be issued parking citations for not having the appropriate parking decal as long as the car is authorized to be on campus and is parked legally and in the appropriate parking lot. After the three-day grace period, vehicles must be registered immediately upon arrival on campus. The Police Department is always open.
- The parking fee will be added to the student's account.
A lost or defaced decal must be replaced at once. Decals are not transferable. Decals for students/employees are issued only for their own personal use. Any transfers or misuse of these decals will result in the cancellation of said decal and a fine of $100 to all parties involved.
Motorcycles and scooters must be registered with the Police Department, but they will not be issued a decal.
Students from states other than Massachusetts are reminded that if they operate a motor vehicle here for thirty days or more, they must comply with the statutes of the Commonwealth regarding compulsory insurance.
The use or parking of motor homes, campers, off road and recreational vehicles on campus is prohibited.
Parking/Traffic Regulations
All students/employees must park on campus in the areas designated for the type of permit they have been issued. A student using a car that belongs to an employee (such as a parent who works at the College) must follow the parking rules and regulations relative to their status as a student. Parking is permitted only in marked spaces – the area between two parallel yellow lines.
There is no driving/parking in the fire lanes – a fire lane being any way that would restrict emergency vehicles to any building on campus.
Driving/parking on sidewalks and service vehicle lanes is prohibited. A Merrimack College email will be sent out to authorize use of these areas for move-in and move-out days. Use of these areas at other times (to drop off or pick up a large item) is permitted only after obtaining advance permission from the Police Department.
Stopping, standing, or parking on any part of Walsh Way and Cullen Ave is prohibited. Please use parking areas and 15-minutes spaces for this purpose.
Unless otherwise posted, the speed limit on all campus roadways is 20 miles per hour. Speed limit in parking lots is 10 miles per hour.
Any accidents occurring on College property that involve personal injury or property damage must be reported at once to the Police Department.
Any person owning or operating a motor vehicle which becomes disabled while on the Merrimack College campus must assume the responsibility for notifying the Police Department of the disablement of the vehicle before abandoning the vehicle to return to his or her home or residence area. Failure to do so will result in the removal of the vehicle from the campus at the owner's or operator's expense.
The abandonment of any motor vehicle on any part of the Merrimack College campus is prohibited. Any motor vehicle parked on the campus without current state registration plates attached to the vehicle will be deemed to be an abandoned vehicle and as such will be subject to immediate removal from the campus.
Guests of resident students must obtain a combination visitor/parking permit online through the Residence Life website or from the Police Department.
The absence of posted signs shall not constitute a valid excuse for violating the regulations set forth in the official motor vehicle rules and regulations booklet.
Handicapped Parking
Only those vehicles displaying a valid state handicap license plate or placard will be authorized to park in designated handicapped parking areas. Those individuals who require temporary access to handicapped parking areas due to a temporary medical condition may obtain a temporary handicap permit from the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles after providing appropriate medical documentation signed by a physician. Applications are available at the campus Police Department.
Habitual Offender: By definition a habitual offender is one who accumulates three or more parking citations within a given school year (September through May). Habitual offenders may be considered for suspension of their parking privileges without reimbursement of any fees charged for parking.
Scofflaw: By definition a scofflaw is one who is in total disregard for established rules and regulations. A person who has accumulated ten citations within a school year will have their vehicle banned from campus and may be subject to additional fines and discipline by the College's Coordinator of Community Standards.
Merrimack College parking/traffic citations will be issued to those who violate parking/traffic rules and regulations as well as to those who fail to comply with posted signs or the directions of the Campus Police Officers or Campus Safety staff.
Payment of citation fines is to be made to the Bursar's Office. Students who do not pay such fines will have the amount added to their student bill. Outstanding balances on student accounts will result in grades/diplomas/transcripts being withheld as well as the inability to register for classes. Unpaid citations from persons other than students may result in the vehicle being towed from campus, being immobilized, or the operator/owner being banned from campus.
A vehicle receiving three parking citations during an academic year will be deemed a habitual offender. The vehicle will be towed from campus upon the third and subsequent violations. Owners/Operators of such vehicles may also have their current and future parking privileges revoked by the Chief of Police and their vehicles may be towed.
A person who operates a motor vehicle on campus while under the influence of intoxicating liquors, who otherwise operates a vehicle in a manner that potentially jeopardizes the safety of others on campus, or who is issued more than one moving violation citation during an academic year, may have their current and future privilege to drive on College property revoked by the Chief of Police.
A vehicle parked on campus in violation of any parking rule or regulation may be towed from campus at the discretion of the campus Police Department. Cost of such removal, and any storage fees, are payable directly to the towing company.
When it has been determined that a person has accumulated two parking citations, paid or unpaid, a Police Department Sticker – "Notice to Tow on Next Violation"will be attached to the front driver's side window.
When a vehicle has been stickered with a "Notice to Tow," the officer will make note of this on the citation in the "Officer's Comment Section" and send an email to the Chief of Police that the sticker has been applied.
An email will be sent by the Chief of Police to the person who has been issued the tow sticker notifying them that their vehicle will be towed on any and all future violations.
On the third violation the vehicle will be towed from campus by the firm designated by the department to tow vehicles. The officer responsible for the tow will notify the student whose vehicle has been towed by email.
On every subsequent parking violation the vehicle is to be towed from campus regardless of whether the previous parking fines have been paid or not.
When it has been determined that a person has accumulated ten citations in an academic year, paid or unpaid, the Chief of Police will be notified and he will send a final notice to the person that the vehicle will be towed from campus and the department will cause the Parking Decal to be removed from the vehicle without reimbursement of any fees charged for parking.
The Chief of Police will send an email to the Associate Dean of Student Life and the Dean of Students notifying them of the person's scofflaw status.
The Chief of Police will send an email to the person whose vehicle has been towed notifying him/her that the vehicle has been towed, the fact that the parking decal has been removed, and that the vehicle is banned from traveling and or parking on the property of Merrimack College.
Appeals of Parking/Traffic Citations
A person receiving a parking citation may file a written appeal within 10 calendar days from the date the citation was issued. Appeal Forms are available at the campus Police Department or can be downloaded from the Police Department web site. Appeal forms may be dropped off at, or mailed to the campus Police Department.
A Parking Appeals Committee – consisting of student, employee (non-police) and faculty representation - meets regularly to hear appeals and the appealing party will generally receive a written response within two weeks.
The decision of the Appeals Committee is final unless new, relevant, and previously unavailable information can be presented, by email or letter, to the Chief of Police within 7 calendar days of receiving the original appeal decision. In such cases, the Chief (or his/her designee) will consider if a re-appeal is appropriate and the appealing party will be notified.
A person receiving a citation for a moving violation, or a person who had their car towed from campus, may file a written appeal within 10 calendar days by following the procedures in the previous bullet. Such appeals will be heard by the Chief of Police or his/her designee.


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Hornets, Gorillas Split In Emporia
Posted: 11:22 PM Feb 20, 2013
Reporter: ESU Sports Information (Posted by J.B. Bauersfeld)
The Emporia State men moved to 12-11 on the year with an 88-82 win over Pittsburg State while the Lady Hornets saw their nine game winning streak come to an end with a 63-60 loss to the Gorillas on Wednesday night in White Auditorium.
Women's Recap
February 20, 2013-The Emporia State Lady Hornets saw their nine game winning streak come to an end in a 63-60 loss to Pittsburg State in White Auditorium on Wednesday night.
The Hornets jumped out to a 6-0 lead to start the game. Pitt State came back to take a 13-12 lead with 11:33 left. There would be a total of five lead changes in the first half before the Gorillas took a six point lead with 2:51 left. The Lady Hornets would end the half on a 7-2 run to trail 29-28 at the half.
A three pointer by Rachel Hanf gave Emporia State a 33-31 lead with 16:16 left in the half to start an 8-0 run. The Gorillas came back to take the lead for good at 45-42 with 9:34 left on Alexa Bordewick's three pointer as the shot clock expired.
Pitt State extended their lead to eight on three occassions the last at 59-51 with 3:46 left. Emporia State answered with a 7-0 run with the last coming on a layup by Merissa Quick with 2:20 left. Lauren Brown and Quick traded baskets to make it 61-60 Pitt State with 54 seconds left.
Brigit Hesser hit one of two free throws with 21 seconds left to give the Gorillas a 62-60 lead. The Lady Hornets worked the clock down and Quick missed a jumper with two seconds left nad Hesser was fouled with .4 seconds left. She hit one of two free throws for the final score.
Quick ended with a career high 31 points for the Lady Hornets while Rachel Hanf added a double-double of 11 points and ten rebounds.
The Lady Hornets will continue their home stand on Saturday afternoon against Northeastern State. Tip-off is set for 3:30 p.m. The Lady Hornet Alumnae Game will be held at 12 noon and former All-American Alli Volkens will have her jersey retired prior to the tip-off at approximately 3:20 p.m.
Men's Recap
February 20, 2013-Chris Sights had a career high 29 points with 19 in the second half as Emporia State defeated Pittsburg State 88-82 in White Auditorium on Wednesday night. He led four players in double figures for the Hornets.
Sights started the game converting a four-point play and the Hornets would lead 14-7 with 16:10 left in the first half. The Gorillas came back with a 15-2 run to go ahead 22-16 with 11:23 left in the half. They would push their lead to nine before Emporia State ended the half on a 8-2 run to close within 39-36 at the half.
Kaleb Wright and Sights hit jumpers to start the second half and give the Hornets a 40-39 lead 53 seconds into the second half. Sights converted his second four point play of the night with 16:06 left to give the Hornets a 48-43 lead. The Gorillas then went on a 7-0 lead to retake the lead at 50-48 with 14:24 remaining.
Pitt State led 54-52 with 12:36 left when Emporia State went on an 11-0 run capped by a Terrence Moore break away dunk to take a 63-54 lead with 10:16 left. The Gorillas kept coming back and pulled to within 68-67 on a three-pointer by Kaleb Porter with 6:11 remaining. Paul Bunch answered with a dunk to ignite an 11-0 run as the Hornets pushed their lead to ten at 79-69 with 4:11 left. Emporia State then hit five of eight free throws in the final two minutes to secure the win.
Sights hit 11 of 15 shots form the field and four of five from behind the three point line for his 29 points. He was joined in double figures by Wright with 13 points, Gavin Brown with 12 and Paul Bunch with 11 points. Bunch had a game high eight rebounds and six blocked shots for the Hornets.
Emporia State will continue their home stand on Saturday against Northeastern State. Tip-off is set for 5:30 p.m. The Annual Hornet Basketball Alumni Game will be held earlier in the day starting at 1 p.m. in White Auditorium.
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I am wondering if I did this question right:
Assume that $X$ is a normal random variable. Assume that the expectation is $E[X] = 100$ and the standard deviation is 3. Determine $$ P(E[X] - 6 \leq X \leq E[X] + 6). $$
My attempt:
Since we know $E[X]$ then $P(100 - 6 \leq X \leq 100 + 6) = P(94 \leq X \leq 106)$ and from this we can look at the normal distribution table for the probablity, but isn't there a limit for the distribution table?


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5 Unrealistic Movie Cliches That Are Scientifically Accurate
We've told you before about how some of the most ridiculous things you've seen in movies are actually based on reality, but it goes much deeper than that: Not only the plots, but the often absurd or simplistic tools that filmmakers use to get their points across are more based in reality than you might think.
#5. Full Moons Mean Something Horrible Is Coming
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A full moon is one of the classic portents of doom. If a director takes the time to insert a shot of it, you can rest assured that things are about to get full-on freaky. It happens a lot in werewolf movies (obviously), but it can show up in damn near anything -- like The Evil Dead, which shows you this ...
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Moments later, zombie Elliot and E.T. plummet out of the sky.
... right before the Dark Power shows up and Bruce Campbell starts chainsawing everyone for no reason.
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Well, OK, he may have had a legitimate reason.
But Sam Raimi certainly didn't invent the technique, and it's not limited to horror films. Here's a shot from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, from right before Faramir tricks Frodo into betraying Gollum, which in turn leads to Gollum betraying the hobbitses right back (only better, because he does it with the assistance of a big-ass spider):
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That's the moon. The big-ass spider comes later.
Obviously, a full moon isn't some supernatural portent of doom in the real world. Movies just use it to symbolize the fact that bad stuff is about to go down because ... well, just because.
But in Reality ...
Wait a minute, why are people so freaked out by the moon in the first place? We're talking about the most powerful natural source of light at night here -- you'd think the cultural standard would be to give the moon a nod and say, "Thanks, moon. You're all right in our book." And it's not just movies: Folklore has connected the full moon to almost everything confusing and scary throughout human history, from werewolves to gods to women's menstrual cycles. Even the word "lunacy" comes from the Latin word for "moon." Why is that?
Well, it all comes down to lions.
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A bunch of scientists studying lion attacks in Africa discovered a weird correlation: In the days immediately following a full moon, attacks on humans spiked. They discovered that the most dangerous time for people to be out is "the active hours after sunset, particularly the day after the full moon."
Why? Because a full moon means more light, and more light means the lions' prey can see them coming and more easily avoid an attack. So the lions get really friggin' hungry when the moon is full. But after that, the moon starts to rise later, meaning more darkness in the early evening -- which is right about the time people are most likely to be cruising around, their supple butt cheeks quivering in the darkness like a pair of steaks all marinated up for a tasty lion barbecue.
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"No, no, girl, I'm telling you. You have to chase for a bit before you kill them. The adrenaline makes the meat so tender."
Much of the human timeline for the hundreds of thousands of years since we decided to quit dragging our knuckles on the ground has seen us living alongside nocturnal predators that wanted nothing more than to gnaw on our tastybits -- not just lions, but jaguars, tigers, leopards, big-ass spiders ... you name it. So when you look at it that way, it seems pretty reasonable that we would have developed a cultural fear of the full moon, considering that it historically meant your hunting/gathering party was about to become a re-enactment of The Ghost and the Darkness, minus the protection of a rifle or Val Kilmer's "Irish" accent.
#4. People Who Wear Glasses Tend to Be Smarter
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One of the oldest tricks in the "How to Make Movies That Even Idiots Will Understand" book is slapping a pair of glasses on someone to indicate that they're smart.
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Plus, now you know what a Smurf looks like after puberty.
This sometimes has the bonus effect of transforming attractive people into believable nerds, because how could anyone ever possibly love someone with less than perfect vision? That's crazy talk.
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"I wear glasses -- I'm not blind. I can see you giving me the finger."
It's common enough that the Doctor on Doctor Who has joked about how he uses his brainy-specs to make him look smarter, and it even bleeds over into real life a bit (ever heard of "fashion only" lenses?). Our best guess is that it has something to do with the fact that reading glasses are the most common type of glasses in America, and that -- even in a world where Fifty Shades of Grey exists -- the act of reading still maintains an aura of braininess.
But in Reality ...
Scientists have uncovered a link between wearing glasses and being smart, and it's not just about reading. In fact, they're not even sure why the correlation is there, but people with nearsightedness have, on average, both a higher education and a higher intelligence (which were measured in two different ways).
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"Are you sure, doctor? Let me see that chart, I wear glasses."
Even weirder is that the correlation is positive, and consistent: The worse your vision is, statistically speaking, the higher your intelligence, and the longer you spent in school.
The best guess scientists have is that this phenomenon is due to what they call "habitual visual exploration." People who, as infants, spend lots of time exploring the visual novelties of the world in their immediate vicinity (presumably because they can't see anything beyond their immediate vicinity) are simply more likely to grow up to be really freaking smart.
#3. Men Make Bad Decisions After Being Reminded That Women Exist
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You've seen this in a million bad comedies, or awkward comedy scenes in serious movies: Men are such horndogs that they lose all cognitive function after being reminded that sex is a thing.
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"Why ... of course! THAT'S THE CURE FOR- ooooh, vagina."
So in Erin Brockovich, Julia Roberts' character (whose name escapes us at the moment) demonstrates that she's immune to preventative security and, like, most of the law, because boobs. In Terminator 3, the Terminatrix inflates her boobs to Victoria's Secret proportions to get out of a parking ticket. The Sweetest Thing has Cameron Diaz cause a motorcycle crash via her bikini-clad ass, and (just to demonstrate that this isn't a recent development) the classic war movie The Longest Day opens with French Resistance fighters sneaking past Nazi soldiers using an attractive woman on a bike as a diversion.
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"Heeeey fraulein, you wanna commit some atrocities?"
Anyway, everyone knows that this stuff is cranked up a notch for comedic purposes. In real life, it takes a little more than the mere suggestion of sex to make men completely lose their mental faculties.
But in Reality ...
No. No, it totally doesn't. In a study of men's decision-making capabilities, scientists found that men made more short-term-focused decisions when in the presence of sexy stimuli. And "sexy stimuli" can apparently refer to almost anything in any way related to a woman: If a man so much as handles a bra -- even one not currently surrounding any lady parts -- he will lose a little bit of his ability to consider the consequences of his decisions.
Have you ever noticed that there's never a Victoria's Secret next to a nuclear missile silo? Now you know why.
But what's truly amazing is how broad the effects are: After scientists showed them a sexy video or allowed them to fondle some (clean, hopefully) lingerie, men were more likely to make heat-of-the-moment decisions about impulse purchases, financial gambles, even what to have for dessert. All because they were reminded what women are shaped like.
You'd probably expect the suggestion of sex to cause a man to crave instant gratification in a, you know, sex-type way, but this study seems to indicate that a man's brain only comes equipped with a single instant-gratification meter -- and even the vaguest hint of sex pegs that motherfucker, negatively impacting his decisions across the board. So just remember that the next time you find yourself staring down a parking ticket or a roving pack of Nazis, ladies.
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"You were doing 70 in a school zone driving the governor's stolen convertible and your license is an expired KFC coupon. Now I'm gonna let you go with a warning ..."


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Interregnum report, March 5
Welcome to the first of our regular conclave updates. Well be rounding up items of interest, from various sources, for the duration. As ever, youre welcome to comment (subject to our usual guidelines) or point us to the pertinent links we might have missed.For now its morning-sessions-only in Rome, with the Vatican having announced there will be no meetings Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons. In a sign the election is nearing, the Sistine Chapel is as of this moment closed to pilgrims and tourists, but some say that preparing the chapel for the conclave will take at least seven more days and that the general pace of things looks to be slow and deliberate.A number of reports have noted the pre-conclave discussions centering on governance of the Roman Curia in light of ongoing scandals, and the stated request of some cardinals to see the secret VatiLeaks dossier. John Thavis provides a good synopsis, while also touching on a question many are asking: Why, three weeks after Benedicts resignation, are there still some cardinals who havent yet managed to make it to Rome? Scroll down in the same story for his list of late arrivals. (As it happens, weve also just posted Thomas J. Reeses review of Thaviss The Vatican Diaries here.)On the horse-race front, Aljazeera and other outlets note what they call a push for Brazils Odilo Scherer, the archbishop of Sao Paulo, to be the next pope. Said to work in his favor: He leads the third-largest congregation in the world in the largest Catholic country in the world; hes of mixed Brazilian and German heritage, which would appease both the developing world and European wings of the church; hes familiar with the inner workings of the hierarchy, having spent seven years at the Vatican; and at 63 hes relatively young (andwait for ithe tweets, under the handle of @DomOdiloScherer). John Allen reports that Scherer could be part of an envisioned South America ticket with Argentine Cardinal Leonardo Sandri as secretary of state. Still, most observers say there is no noticeable coalescing around any single candidate the way there was for Joseph Ratzinger eight years ago. Maybe these students in Alexandria, Va., will prove more prescient than the experts.At National Catholic Reporter, Joshua J. McElwee has a piece on the issues the new global theologian in chief will have to face, with interviews of professors of theology from around the world. At Whispers in the Loggia, Rocco Palmo writes on three electors in the context of American Catholicisms growth in Texas and southern California and how the shifts from the traditional power centers of the northeast might come into play in selecting the next pope. (And whats it like being Rocco, anyway? See this profile on the blogger.) Speaking of southern California: Cardinal Roger Mahony, in Rome, has given an interview to Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera in which he defends his record on dealing with sexual abuse in the church.And though these come a little late in the cycle, theyre worth a look if only for comparisons sake: competing ads for the open position of pontiff, one from Joshua E. Keating at Foreign Policy, the other from Mark Silk at Religion News Service.At McSweenys, John Ortved posts a cover letter for his application; spot the potentially disqualifying misstep in the salutation.
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Here, from "Le Figaro" and in French, is a piece on my candidate: http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2013/03/04/01016-20130304ARTFIG0...
At 2 a.m. on Monday I awoke and could not get back to sleep. So, I reached for my iPhone and went to the several websites that I had bookmarked. One was Radio Vatican. There in the upper left was a headline that said the cardinals had decided that the conclave would begin on March 11. Now I remembered that the cardinals were going to meet at 9:30 their time, a 6 hour time difference from Philadelphia. A quick math calculation told me that it was only 8:30 in Rome. Oh well, back to sleep.Next morning, the article was nowhere to be seen. My guess is that the editors were trying for a scoop. We may see a lot of that in the next weeks.
In their February 19th editorial, "After Benedict," the editors of "Commonweal" quote approvingly theologian Joseph Komonchak's caution about the "hullabaloo over the upcoming conclave."I note with a smile this new feature -- "the first of our regular conclave updates" -- and the first comment made to it.I know, I know: "consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds!"
Correction:I was the website Vatican Insider, not Radio Vatican.
I meant Vatican RadioGood night!
Ah so! I was going to ask Fr. K. whether by "favorite candidate" he meant he was offering a friendly wager, or whether the phrase had some other meaning. Here's the meat, roughly 2/3 of the way through the Figaro article:Il [meaning Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of the Philippines] y travaille sous l'gide d'un des thologiens amricains les plus rputs, Joseph Komonchak. C'est l'un des meilleurs tudiants que j'aie eus en quarante annes d'enseignement, a confi ce dernier, il aurait pu devenir l'un des plus grands thologiens d'Asie. (He [meaning Tagle] worked there [Catholic U.] under the auspices of one of the most respected American theologians, Joseph Komonchak. "He's one of the best students I've in forty years of teaching," said the latter, "and he's capable of becoming one of greatest Asian theologians.")If he's as good as you say he is, let us hope he makes it; even though he might pluck his old teacher out of his deserved retirement, and put him to work in what the press is coming to see as the Augean stables.
Here's another article in French, from some disreputable-looking website, about Cardinal Scherer, complete with gossip and rumors. (Summary: a creature of Re and Sodano who has now gathered the support of Bertone as well!)http://www.islam-contre-occident.com/islamisme/odilo-scherer-cardinal/
What the hay.....I'll offer my largely uninformed guess and go with Marc Ouellete. One because he is Canadian and two because I did not know how to pronounce his name until a friend and non practicing Catholic explained it. Wah-lett and not Ooolet. But might be a longshot as the church in Quebec is not exactly bursting at the seams.But the pragmatic side of me thinks it is going to be a courtesy election and hand it back to an Italian.
Claire:Cardinal Scherer's middle name is Pedro, if that's an omen.
George D: How's this for Cardinal Ouellete's campaign song? Ah Wah-lette, gentil Ah Wah-lette .
Apropos this fascination with the non-race race to the top, I am reading Tom Grace's 2007 novel "The Secret Cardinal."Good old fashioned spy fiction that I won't spoil. It's pulpy enough to fascinate the least discerning amongst us and has a fast pace with lots of intrigue.Note: it does NOT have an Imprimatur or Nihil Obstat (I liked his voice in the 1960s when he was at the height of his career, but he hasn't done much recently.)
Helen =Groan #2 :-)
More negatives:SNAP: "Based largely on news accounts, legal filings and victims experiences, here are the 12 papabile we considers to be the worst choices in terms of protecting kids, healing victims, and exposing corruption. []They are Maradiaga (Honduras), Rivera (Mexico), Ouellet (Canada), Turkson (Ghana), Pell (Australia), Bertone (Italy), Scola (Italy), Sandri (Argentina), Duke (Czech Republic), O'Malley (United States), Dolan (United States), and Wuerl (United States) []Earlier this week, we opposed the election of any member of the Roman Curia. We feel no current Vatican insider has the will to truly clean house in the Vatican and elsewhere. We also maintain that promoting a Curia member would discourage victims, witnesses, whistleblowers and advocates from reporting wrongdoing. (This includes papabiles Ouellet, Turkson, Sandri, Bertone, and Pell. "http://www.snapnetwork.org/dirty_dozen_list
Mark, gender is superficial or it is not. Your choice. You don't get to claim that gender is superficial so it doesn't matter if you exclude women because men will represent their interests well enough. The inherent tension in that position rips apart the seams of any logic that one might try to use to sew those two thoughts together. Having said that with reference to the Catholic Church, however, in the case of the U.S. Senate, where women are not outright excluded from participation, one might make the following observation: gender is or ought to be superficial, thus, in a population pool that is made up of more than 50% women, one would expect to see robust participation among women at all levels. We know that there is a time lag in effect that explains a lot of the lower numbers, as Nancy Pelosi so graciously explained to Luke Russert when he asked why she wasn't too old to continue serving as leader of the Democratic delegation in the House. Nonetheless, we would expect more and more newer senators to be both women and men. This is happening among Democrats, but not so much Republicans. Why THAT is, that is the matter that is ripe for discussion.
The top paragraph from John Thavis' article referenced above:"We learned today that the cardinals meeting ahead of the conclave focused this morning on three general topics: the Roman Curia and its relationship with bishops around the world, renewal in light of the Second Vatican Council and the demands of new evangelization in various cultural contexts."I don't think I could pick three better topics to focus on. This is a hopeful sign.
Dominic, can you please check the Mark Silk link in the post? It seems to go to foreignpolicy.com
Here are a few paragraphs from an article by Enzo Bianchi, the founder and prior of the ecumenical monastery of Bose:
More than ever is it necessary to remember what Benedict XVI has brought us to know with his last acts: a penitential climate, sober, without temptations to triumphalism, a simplicity that leaves no room for self-celebrations or arrogant displays. Very human acts, in which a shepherd, tired and old, gives way to a new shepherd, for the good of the flock. From now on the Bishop of Rome emeritus will pray as a monk, in the conviction that prayer is a component of history and that to be capable of it means struggling, working, deciding with God.The cardinals gathered in Rome now must simply listen to one another with the respect that a brother owes to a brother; they have to listen to the Lord and to the signs of the times that are germinating in todays world; they have to shun tactics and strategies; and, above all, they must not lie. In my simple opinion from the margins, the crisis that the Churchand especially its Roman center-- is passing through is caused by lying and not by other, more scandalous problems. Its time for boldness, frankness, honesty toward one another; its time to say what one thinks in complete sincerity. Otherwise every word is polluted, and where there is lying, there is blackmail and fear.If there is an urgent battle, it is the one against lying because if lies are present in communications, there no longer is trust in the other, faith in the other. And how can we have faith in God whom we do not see, if we are incapable of trusting the brother whom we do see? Tomorrow, with the general congregations, exercises in frankness begin.
For the entire piece (in Italian), go to: http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/vaticano/dettaglio-articolo/articolo/c...
Helen: I am suspecting that there is as much truth in the Pedro omen as in the "islam-contre-occident" website that I linked to yesterday - on second thoughts, judging from the lack of hard facts, it probably contains more disinformation than information.
Jim P. @ 10:46: Thanks for spotting; the Mark Silk link is now fixed. Or just click here:http://marksilk.religionnews.com/2013/03/01/job-postin/
Mark: gender is superficial so it doesnt matter if you exclude men because women will represent their interests well enough - and most likely better.
they have to shun tactics and strategies; and, above all, they must not lie.That is really hard to do when working towards something that everyone cares about very much. Others will lie. Others will employ tactics and strategies. Honesty may disarm some people of goodwill, but not the ones who are obsessed by their goal. Those will take the information freely given to them and use it against the ones who are trying to observe "complete sincerity". Someone who refuses to protect their ideas, who is willing to expose its flaws out of their own initiative even if others were not previously aware of those flaws - well, politically they're just being stupid. It's like being a pacifist: refusing to take up arms, refusing to protect oneself (or one's ideas, or one's church...), and hoping against hope that the others, disconcerted by such naivete, will, instead of rushing to take advantage of it, be swayed out of their usual mode of thinking, so that a more healthy discussion may prevail. It's counter cultural, like Jesus delivering himself into the hands of those who will crucify him and not making any effort to defend himself efficiently in word or deed. Realistically, it's doomed: only a miracle would change the other people's attitudes. It's good enough for a monk, but for someone who is in the world and of the world, it's almost unthinkable. So, if someone really wants some papal candidates and really does not want certain others, for the greater good of the church (as always), should they follow their principles of "complete sincerity", with the knowledge that, barring a miracle, it will result in a choice that is most likely to go severely against the best interests of the Church? That is, if men of goodwill refuse to take up tactical weapons, and willingly present their own weakness instead, then the others will crush them: the more evil, the more effective. "Complete sincerity" is a radical choice: holy, admirable, but not prudent... Each of us every day finds a compromise between radical vulnerability on the one hand, and tactical plotting and scheming on the other hand. It's a matter of survival.
Claire --It sounds like you've been too long in Academe.
Ann, true, the examples I have in mind are from that world, but it's no worse than any other community, I hope. At least we know that truth matters.


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Is the language $L = \{\omega : \omega\text{ contains exactly one 'foobar'}\}$ regular? I have a hunch that it is non-regular because a regular expression representing the language must remember that is has encountered the substring 'foobar.'
However, I can't seem to use the pumping lemma to prove that it is indeed not regular. Say $s \in L$ and $s$ is of the form
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Updated Gmail interface has a compose window at the bottom right corner. My initial impression is that it just doesn't feel right because it breaks the standard middle of the screen placement. I got the same feedback from a few other people. The window also cannot be moved or re-sized. Based on the answers below some rationales are consistency across products, ability to access other components (messages, contacts, etc.). How would you redesign this UI by not having the window in the bottom right corner?
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Google themselves have answered this question:
I suggest their third point is the main one here - it allows you to do other things while composing emails - for instance to still be able to view other emails while you're composing one yourself.
After reading the comments I'd hazard that a plausible explanation would be that Google is trying to standardize their interfaces across applications. DAO1 pointed out that the placement is consistent with their chat windows, which makes a lot of sense.
If this is their goal, it would certainly explain this part of the new Gmail interface, although the more interesting question (and perhaps more relevant to this forum) would be to ask whether this change could be implemented in a less confusing way.


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Suppose you have a deck of 52 playing cards, fully shuffled, one of which is the King of Hearts. You perform this procedure: 1. Put the top three cards of the deck into a second pile. If there aren't three cards, put the rest of the deck into the pile. 2. If the King of Hearts in the second pile, shuffle the pile and the deck together.
What is the expected position of the King of Hearts in the deck after repeating this process an arbitrarily large number of times? What's the general approach to this problem with N cards in the deck and M cards revealed every time through?
(This actually came up as the result of a Magic: the Gathering scenario, but I assume that playing cards are more familiar.)


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The Windows Azure platform AppFabric (formerly called .NET Services) SDK for PHP is the third in a series, the first of which was released a year ago. Equivalent SDKs for Java and Ruby are also available and they have been updated to reflect the latest version of the AppFabric.
The AppFabric SDK for PHP is an open source project developed by Persistent Systems Ltd. and is available today on Codeplex: http://dotnetservicesphp.codeplex.com/. Microsoft is providing funding and architectural guidance for this project.
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6 Terrifying Things Nobody Tells You About Donating Sperm
Finally, after all this ancillary bullshit, it's time to start raking in the dough. If your two gratis deposits are high quality, you will start getting paid for your man juice. So you can just make enough donations to afford a new Xbox and then take off, playing the sperm bank for suckers, right? Why doesn't everyone do this?
"Have fun doing weird voodoo with my personal genetic material, idiots!"
Of course it's not that easy. You have to understand, they need a lot of your sperm, over a long period of time, and you won't be paid until they get it. In-vitro fertilization has a relatively low success rate, so parents who want your DNA are going to need a whole bunch of the stuff for any chance of success.
You need to baste a whole farm of these, is what we're saying.
So if your first two donations are good enough, they'll bring you on as a paid donor. However, that means you'll be required to sign a contract, usually for six months to a year, stating you'll come in at least once a week to spank the monkey. Just to make sure you follow through, your paychecks are kept in escrow by the sperm bank until the end of the contract.
In the meantime, your sperm are cryogenically preserved to maximize shelf life, but not all sperm handle the freezing process well. So, your first two donations are put on ice, and at the six-month mark, they're unfrozen to check how they're doing. If your tadpoles are still kicking, congrats, here's your check. If your sperm has gone all Mr. Bigglesworth, however, sorry, hit the road.
They won't even deliver a eulogy.
Also, there are certain delayed onset diseases that can take a few months to show up on blood screens (like HIV), so they need to test you every six months to make sure your sperm is cleared to give to parents. By withholding the money, that helps ensure donors to come back for their follow-up tests.
#2. "Not Tonight, Honey, I Have to 'Work' Two Days From Now."
Well, you've come this far, might as well stick it out. So the screening was a pain in the ass and they're holding your money for the next six months, but hey, it's still a piece of cake. You're getting paid for what most people do for free. They're going to be so jealous ...
Assuming you actually tell anyone, we mean.
Wait, we're not done.
Sperm donation, as it turns out, has a pretty significant impact on your personal life, far beyond just having to take some time out each week to make your deposits. As mentioned above, you have to have an above-average sperm count for the whole process to be viable, so as such, you're required to be abstinent two to three days before making a deposit. So if you're trying to maximize your profits by donating twice a week, that leaves one day per week that you can do with your genitals as you please.
Hooray! We're also going to knit finger puppets!
If you're in a relationship, this limits your sex life pretty considerably, so you and your significant other have to plan no-pants time around your donation schedule. But hey, who likes spontaneity anyway? Even if you're only donating once a week, you will still have a set day and time each week to come in and make your deposit (sperm banks operate on 9-to-5 hours). So if a girlfriend's birthday or your anniversary happens to fall less than three days before your scheduled appointment, too bad.
Guess that means you'll have to get her a present instead of sticking your penis in a box like last year.
And don't go thinking you can just cheat the system. Your sperm count is still spot checked on each donation; if it's too low, you don't get paid for that deposit. If several donations in a row are rejected because of fledgling sperm counts, you may be asked to follow a special diet like this, which is designed to boost your numbers.
Happily, it includes both nuts AND bananas.
Of course, the diet and abstinence are all voluntary, and if you don't want to follow them, so long and thanks for all the spooge. Don't let the door hit you in the ass. If you decide to quit mid-contract, you just don't get the money from the pay cycle. Off you go, have a nice life, there's plenty of people to replace you.
#1. You May Now Have Dozens (or Hundreds) of Children -- and They May Find You
One thing you notice right away is there is a huge difference in what you get paid depending on whether you choose to be a closed or an open donor. That is, whether the recipient can find out who you are (open) or you remain anonymous (closed).
At my particular bank, it was $20 a pop for a closed donor and $125 for an open donor. You're allowed to donate a maximum of twice a week, so going the open route will pay upwards of $12,000 a year, certainly not a bad chunk of change. However, this comes at the expense of releasing all your personal information to parents should they (or their child) ever want to contact you.
You donated your sperm to a grateful woman -- that's more than our fathers did for us.
If you thought you'd be clever and go the closed route, that doesn't mean that an intrepid parent or child couldn't track you down through DNA testing, which is becoming increasingly common (the bank will often neglect to mention this). While no person who has donated sperm through a bank has ever been found liable for child support (at least not yet), you and your family are still going to have to deal with the fact that there's a child, biologically YOUR child, who wants a relationship with you.
Also he's a master detective who you should be proud of, you asshole.
It also turns out that you could be the father of hundreds of children. Banks will tell you that there's a limit to the number of kids that can be born from your donations (12 in my case), and while most reputable banks will stick to this, there are plenty of unscrupulous ones that will happily dole out your sperm to anyone who asks. And that's where the implications can get truly horrifying. Suppose the bank uses your sperm to impregnate 30 different women. Many of those women will likely live in the same general area, and give birth within a few years of each other. They may not be overly eager to tell your offspring that terrible pornography was part of their conception process. Congratulations! You've uncorked up to 15 potential cases of "accidental incest" into the world.
The problem is that many banks rely on college students who are desperate for a quick buck, and they have in no way thought through what fathering a stranger's child actually means. They're just thinking in terms of the paycheck, not a lifelong decision.
"I just name 'em after the things I bought with my pay. The one at the back is Fleshlight."
After all, even if the 21-year-old version of you is OK with it, that doesn't mean that future spouses will be. You'll soon come to the realization that in the interest of full disclosure to a potential girlfriend, you'll need to tell her that you used to be a sperm donor. Sure, you can just lie and omit that part of your life, but see what happens when a kid shows up on your doorstep wanting to meet his real dad.
I've had more than one girl refuse to date me because I've donated sperm, and I can totally understand where they were coming from. Who wants to deal with that kind of drama? It's the kind of thing that guys will casually joke about with other guys, but it's actually an ethically contentious can of worms. That's not to say nobody should do it. You're giving people an amazing gift. But at the very least, you should know going in that it's a hell of a lot more complicated than just jizzing into a cup.
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The lobbying continues....
Part of the AIPAC convention includes lobbying of the U.S. Congress. Here is an account by Jodi Rudoren, soon to be the Times's bureau chief in Israel. The story includes a wonderful picture of PM Netanyahu, looking quite pleased with himself, accompanied by his fellow Senators Reid and McConnell.Tom Friedman weighs in; I think he's saying Obama really will bomb Iran; in any case, he declares Obama "Israel's Best Friend" (he may be right about that, if not for the reasons he offers).In the meantime in Congressional testimony, a Marine commander points to the central issue: "During an annual briefing Tuesday in the U.S. Congress, Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, head of the Central Command, issued a warning about a continued impasse in the Israel-Palestine conflict. He said that the political awakening in the Arab world has caused regimes in the region to be more attentive than ever to the emotions of their populations. The current stalemate between Israel and the Palestinians, he declared, cannot continue; what is needed is the renewal of an Israeli-Arab drive for peace based on a two-state solution. The non-resolution of the conflict, he added, exacts a "steep price" and complicates the activities of forces under his command." Ha'aretz, of course!
Following up on the question of Netanyahu's "gift" to Obama of the Book of Esther, here is Robert Wright at The Atlantic: "Why is it routine to talk about Iranian religious fanatics who are leading us toward war and so rare to acknowledge the role that religious tribalism in America--among both conservative Jews and conservative Christians--is playing in leading us to war? And why is it that when Muslim radicals use religious scripture in a way that foments belligerence we consider it primitive and vile, whereas when Bibi Netanyahu does the same thing (more subtly, I grant you) we nod politely and smile?" The whole essay is a nice bit of exegesis.The President held a press conference (March 6) in which he went into further details. Here is a nice take:Q Thank you, Mr. President. What kind of assurances did you give Prime Minister Netanyahu about the role that the U.S. would play if diplomacy and economic sanctions fail to work to convince Iran's leaders to change their behavior, and Israel goes ahead and prepares to strike a nuclear facility? What kind of assurances did you tell him? And shouldnt we -- I recognize the difference between debate and bluster -- but shouldnt we be having in this country a vigorous debate about what could happen in the case of a Middle East war in a way that, sadly, we did not do before going into Iraq?THE PRESIDENT: Well, I think there's no doubt that those who are suggesting, or proposing, or beating the drums of war should explain clearly to the American people what they think the costs and benefits would be. [My Emphasis]I'm not one of those people -- because what I've said is, is that we have a window through which we can resolve this issue peacefully. We have put forward an international framework that is applying unprecedented pressure. The Iranians just stated that they are willing to return to the negotiating table. And we've got the opportunity, even as we maintain that pressure, to see how it plays out." Whole thing here.
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Just a thought on Obama's statement that when Iran has a nuclear weapon, it will lead to 4 or 5 other Middle East nations also arming themselves with nuclear weapons. Thus, he contends that a MAD approach would fail.He may be right but his theory reminds me of LBJ's justification for the Vietnam expansion - Domino Theory. We know how that was discredited.
It is awfully difficult for me to conjure up a scenario in which a nuclear armed Iran leads to a positive outcome. Bombing Iran will, of course, also have negative outcomes -- immediate and devastating to both peace generally and the prospects for a Palestinian - Israel resolution. The only real hope, however slim, is that somehow sanctions and international pressure deter Iran from pursuing a bomb. I think that is unlikely, but give Obama credit for trying that course and trying to hold back a fiercely independent Israel and destructive partisan political pressure.
Sanctions, diplomacy, and various forms of international pressure do seem the best hope. That is likely to require a very long-term focus by the U.S. and Europe. Will we/they have the stamina? The sanctions regime will in time be up against the pressure of a humanitarian crisis in Iran. It is not likely to be quite the same as the Iraqi crisis (1991-2003) because Iran appears to be more self-sufficient in foods, etc., but here from a recent Commonweal issue: "Better Than War?" http://commonwealmagazine.org/better-war
If I understand it correctly, the U.S. will launch a preemptive war when Iran makes the decision to build A-bombs, and Israel will launch earlier, when Iran has to capacity to make the bombs if it decides to. If the ability to make bombs were a just cause for war most of the industrial nations of the world should be under attack by someone already. If the casus belli is the decision to make bombs, then someone should be attacking the U.S., Russia, Britain, France, Israel, Pakistan, India, South Korea, and am I missing any?Well, then maybe the decision to launch a preemptive war has nothing to do with what Iran is doing; it's all about who is in charge. But are the ayatollahs really a bigger threat than the Kims of North Korea? No, it's pretty much a draw. If you need to choose, the badder bad guy probably is North Korea.So it's not desire, ability, decision or possession of WMD, and it isn't -- not really -- who has it. The basis of this coming war of aggression is that Israel especially, and we -- because we have Israel's back -- can do it.That's really a twerpy reason for mass destruction.
Pardon me. I should have had North Korea, not South, on that list of nations possibly meriting destruction for the evil thing Iran may be destroyed for being able to do.
Tom you left out So Africa and China..It was onlyyesterdayy that Israel was worried enough about Syria to bomb their nuclear attempts. Anyone worried about Syria nuclear bombs today? Iran will have an uprising very soon... sooner it the saber rattling stops..
I find President Obama's remarks concerning the costs of "loose talk" about a preemptive attack on Iran to be very reassuring.Netanyahu's coalition in the Knesset is totally dependent on ever more bellicose rhetoric. And, Netanyahu is more than capable of messing around in US domestic politics if he deems it to his benefit politically. Israel's and US's self-interests while similar, do not align perfectly.I don't think that President Obama can be bullied into an ill-conceived, election-year attack on Iran. Obama and Hillary Clinton have worked very hard to create the kind of diplomatic offensive against the regime in Tehran that has real prospects for success in the long term.Things aren't going so well for Tehran these days. Syria is the best evidence of this. As the economic sanctions continue to bite the people of Iran, especially the professional and middle classes, the people will be more incline to rid themselves once and for all of the mullahs who have brought their country to ruin.The Revolution in Iran is not over.
So sad that almost the entire conversation is driven by wealthy Zionists. Thankfully there are Jews who see that this is madness. Equally sad is that the Republicans are prostituting themselves to receive contribution money. There are, it must be acknowledged, Democrats who follow the money in this area.
Tom - what happened to China? Have you been listening to the Pizza Man again?
Bill -- Ed Gleason caught China's absence from my list. He added South Africa, which had the Bomb but reportedly gave it up. Another good example unfollowed.Jim Jenkins -- I , too, would be happy with the warning against loose talk if it hadn't been preceded by the wither-thou-goest with Netanyahu the day before.
@ Tom Blackburn: Barack Obama needs older Jewish voters if he wants to win states in the fall election like Florida and Arizona. Netanyahu's political cooperation is momentarily useful.IMO, once Obama is reelected I think that you will find him take a much more muscular approach to old Bibi Netanyahu. Because, I'm sure you understand that if the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict is ever resolved, any attack on Iran would be obviated.
Jim, I wouldn't count on second terms. Thanks to the 22nd Amendment, given to us by the FDR haters, the second term opens with immediate lame duck status for the president. Mr. Obama can try to get muscular, but when he turns to Congress for help he will find a bunch of politicians who still need to raise money in the 51st state and who know he can't help them in four years for sure and probably not in two years.
Tom - Obama doesn't need Congress's help on Israel - it is foreign policy. War Powers Act of Vietnam era lets him do almost anything.Agree with Mr. Jenkins.
There are significant differences between many of the nuclear powers mentioned and Iran. The first is obvious: Iran does not have a nuke. Therefore, there is still the possibility of preventing them from obtaining one, at least theoretically. For the rest, the genie is out of the bottle. Secondly, separate out the 'great powers' -- China, Russia from the pack. Neither see any likely situation where using a nuke would be advantageous. They both want economic development -- a nuclear war is counter to that national objective. Third are the balance of power States: India and Pakistan. They are each the other's major enemy and the primary reason why they maintain a nuclear capability. If they go to war, all bets are off, but otherwise they are not likely to use a nuke -- although Pak is a proliferator of capability. Then there are the States who have a bomb, South Africa, and North Korea, but see no real enemy to use it against. It is unlikely that North Korea would attack South Korea, for cultural and economic reasons. They don't have the capability to deliver a bomb much anyplace else. Iran is different. If they have a Nuke they have a clear enemy whose destruction is a national objective, they have the ability to deliver it that relatively short distance, and the have a (semi actually) fanatical government who might be willing to make the sacrifice in the face of massive retaliation that would be sure to follow, from Israel if not completely destroyed, by the US if not. So, if you look at all the capabilities and motivations, Iran, in my view, stands out as a State that, if they had a nuclear capability, might actually use it. Sorry for the length...
Why does South Africa keep popping up as a nuclear state? Is it hiding something?From Wiki: "South Africa dismantled its nuclear weapons program in 1989. All the bombs (six constructed and one under construction) were destroyed and South Africa acceded to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty when South African Ambassador to the United States Harry Schwarz signed the treaty in 1991. On 19 August 1994, after completing its inspection, the IAEA confirmed that one partially completed and six fully completed nuclear weapons had been dismantled. As a result, the IAEA was satisfied that South Africa's nuclear program had been converted to peaceful applications. Following this, South Africa joined the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) as a full member on 5 April 1995. South Africa played a leading role in the establishment of the African Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Treaty (the Treaty of Pelindaba) in 1996, becoming one of the first members in 1997. South Africa also signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in 1996 and ratified it in 1999."
Margaret: Ooops, your right. Thanks. Point still germane, though I think.
"I dont think that President Obama can be bullied into an ill-conceived, election-year attack on Iran. Obama and Hillary Clinton have worked very hard to create the kind of diplomatic offensive against the regime in Tehran that has real prospects for success in the long term." (Jim Jenkins).I hope you're right. Maybe I've missed it, but the issue no one seems to want to address is this: what happens if Netanyahu, against all our advice, launches a pre-emptive attack himself, and Israel finds itself in a brand new mess that it can't handle? Do we ride to the rescue, or don't we? And if so, how far do we ride? (By "everyone" I mean the newspapers I see, the Lehrer Newshour, National Public Radio and so forth, each of whom seems to maintain silence on this issue).
Nicholas: That's the thought that lurks in the back of my mind. The chief deterrent I have come up with is: Israel cannot carry this off on its own; enough U.S. military types have said so. And some of them have told Israeli officials that the U.S. will not come to their assistance. I am also inclined to think that Israeli military and intelligence are not on board.
@ jbruns -- You are so reasonable and rational. I guess that's good unless a nut case takes over one of those countries who do not now look like they are in a fighting mood. But with your same logic, can you see nuclear Israel and nuclear Iran as what you call "balance of power states" like India and Pakistan?I am aware that Israel is smaller than Pakistan or India, but if MAD keeps them from fighting regionally, then size doesn't matter. How much do you think Iran would look forward to being nuked even if historians in other countries counted it as a winner?
Mr. Clifford: I think it is obvious that there is no circumstance in which any American president, save Ron Paul, would not save Israel from being overrun or bombed to smithereens.
Mr. Blackburn. Thanks. Yes, you raise a good question. The reason I don't see Iran and Israel as BOP States is that Iran works so hard to make Israel the mortal enemy. And Israel would not be willing or able to take a first strike and retaliate...as you point out, they are too small and the population too concentrated. However, you are right to question it...none of us actually KNOWS... Stability is better assured when one can predict outcomes from various potential actions and are thereby deterred. Finally, you are right again, nut cases trump rationality every time.
jbruns -- Well, if Israel would not be willing or able to take a first strike, we are back to my original point back at 11:13 a.m. If you have a nuclear state, you are almost obligated, morally, to take the first strike. Otherwise, you are the aggressor and always in the wrong,I recognize that our current and previous presidents asserted our right to be aggressors. But they are morally wrong.
When Japan struck the US Pacific fleet in 1941 they assumed that the US would be totally occupied with the European war. That miscalculation is in Every military college textbook in the world. First strikes beg for massive retaliation.
@tom. Are there no circumstances that would warrant a preemptive first strike?
@ MOS and NC:I hope I'm right, too!My own, very "laymen" assessment is that although Israel has a very formidable military capability, modern Israel has never been able to sustain extended military campaigns of the kind that would be required to "take out" the Iranian nuclear threat [i.e., "the SIX day war, excursions into Lebanon, etc.]. Israel's military prowess has not distinguished itself during the Palestinian intifada by any means - modern weapons and military techniques are no good against rocks and suicide bombers. It would do no good to send a few missiles to fall on Iranian nuclear targets, and just blow some things up. Ed Gleason's analogy (above) of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is particularly apt- that attack only served "to awaken a sleeping giant" as Japanese raid commander, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto opined.The unspoken truth that you won't hear from Netanyahu is that Israel NEEDS the US to join them in the attack [Israel does not have the military capability to take on Iran which is over 1500 km away - how they going to get their fighting forces there?]. And as I have said, I don't see any incentive for President Obama to go along while he is in the midst of a reelection campaign.I seem to remember a JFK interview by Walter Cronkite during the summer of 1963 before Kennedy was killed, just as the 1964 reelection campaign started to heat up. Kennedy bluntly said that in the final analysis the struggle in Vietnam would have to be won by the Vietnamese.IMHO, in the final analysis Israel's struggle for peace and survival will have to be won by them and their Arab neighbors working together to find common ground. Military adventures in Iran will only lead to unintended consequences.
@ jbruns -- "Are there no circumstances that would warrant a preemptive first strike?" I'm not going to play moral theologian, and in foreign affairs it's better never to say "never." But Iran has not done anything nuclear that other countries have not done, and it is years away from doing as much as many countries, including Israel, did years ago. I don't see how anyone could justify aggression -- which is another word for "preemptive first strike" on the basis of the ability or even the decision to create one's own nuclear arsenal, like Israel's.To anticipate some responses, yes, Iran has been mouthy and threatening in recent years. But it has not had a nuclear weapon. Bluster is what countries do when they can't project power. Possession of nuclear weapons has been sobering for other countries. We cannot know what a nuclear Iran would behave. Killing people on the basis of our worst fears would be wrong.
It's silly to quote Middle East Bluster talk as a causa belli ,, it's in the DNA over there.. haven't you guys ever been to the movies?
Apologies for just sending a link. In a hurry - cat needs food.The Purim thing:http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/03/07/purim-parallels/


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Racing Transmission Build - Make It A MuncieWritten by on April 1, 2008 Building yourself an inexpensive two-speed manual
It may not be as popular in Saturday-night stock car racing circles as the Borg Warner T10, but the classic Muncie four-speed manual transmission can be made into a capable racer. Like the T10, the Muncie is compact, uncomplicated, capable of withstanding a moderate amount of abuse and easily modified.
It is the modification part of that list that pricked our ears when gear specialist Jim Cook of Jim Cook Racing Transmissions told us he was modifying a Muncie for a short-track racer. Cook's race-ready Muncies go through a lightening program that cuts over five pounds of rotating weight by eliminating First and Second gears. Third gear becomes the pit and restart gear while Fourth gear at 1:1 is for racing. Other modifications are also made to help the transmission live under racing abuse and even break the Muncie's annoying habit of popping out of gear at precisely the wrong times.
The Muncie--which is also sometimes referred to as the Rock Crusher--was produced and installed in GM vehicles between 1963 and 1974. That wide time frame means a lot of Muncie transmissions were built, and a lot are still available out there. But, it also means that the design is over 30 years old, and while new replacement parts are still being produced, they aren't in big demand. In effect, the case and core components of the Muncie are cheap, but some select replacement parts--namely bearings--can be quite expensive. But Cook says that by intelligently swapping out components a race-ready Muncie can be built for around $500, which is just under half what a T10 would cost. Very few components from the T10 will work on the Muncie, but Cook has designed adaptors to use T10 bearings when the stock Muncie components are either hard to find or too expensive.
When built properly, Cook says a Muncie two-speed can reliably handle 450-500 horsepower, making them a realistic alternative for many different racing classes. If you decide to hunt for one in a junkyard, just remember that they appeared between 1963 and 1974 in several GM vehicles, but your best bets are Chevy performance cars like Novas and Camaros as well as the bigger cars.
The cases of the Muncie, Saginaw and T10 transmissions are almost indistinguishable to the untrained eye, and they are not interchangeable. Thankfully, however, there are easily identifiable features you can use to determine what you are looking at without hunting around for identification numbers. The Saginaw is the only one of the three that has the reverse shifter mechanism on the case. It is on the tail housing on the other two. On the Saginaw, it is easy to see because all three control rods on the shifter mechanism connect to the main case, while on a Muncie and T10, just one of the three control rods connects ends at the tail housing. The T10 and Muncie are identifiable because the bottom of the side cover on the T10 is curved while the bottom on a Muncie is straight.
If you're a racer who is on a budget (and who isn't?) a modified Muncie may be just the ticket to save you some money. An extra $500 will go a long way.
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Gear specialist Jim Cook begins by modifying the side cover and shifter forks to work properly after First and Second gears have been removed. Here, you can see that the shifter fork on the left side has been removed. The hole is plugged with a standard one-inch freeze plug. Cook also drills a hole in the cover and installs a bolt to give the shifter mechanism a positive stop after the shifter fork has been removed.Cook also cuts the shifter mechanism. Here, the stock unmodified lever is placed on top so you can see the difference.Here is what becomes unnecessary when First and Second gears are removed. That's approximately five pounds of weight you are looking at, and most of it is rotating weight. Third gear becomes the pit/restart gear, and Fourth, which is a 1:1 ratio, is the race gear.The T10 replaced the Muncie transmission in many GM cars in the early '70s, and although they look nearly identical to the untrained eye, they actually have very few interchangeable parts. Here is a T10 case; you can identify it because the bottom of the opening for the side cover is curved.For almost every rebuild Cook says a small-parts kit is a necessity. It includes new snap rings, shims, and most important, new needle bearings.When rebuilding the Muncie, check the shafts for wear. Here, the center shaft is pitted from use and should be replaced. If it isn't, it will damage the needle bearings, quickly wear the main gear and cause broken teeth.Before beginning assembly, Cook drills and taps a hole in a boss in the bottom of the case for a drain plug.
There are four rows of 20 needle bearings each inside the main cluster, and there is no cage to help hold them in place. Cook uses lithium grease to hold the bearings against the ID of the cluster, a small screwdriver to aid in positioning the bearings, and truckloads of patience.Cook drives the inner race onto the main shaft. This race is what First gear rides on, but it is still necessary even with First removed, because it also locates the mid-plate bearing.This is the mid-plate with the bearing installed. However, it isn't the stock bearing. Cook has located a heavier-duty bearing and uses it instead. It features more balls inside the bearing and provides smoother operation and more protection for the shaft.This is the stock hook slider that the shifter forks move to determine what gear is used. Notice how the teeth inside the slider are straight cuts. Cook says this is a problem with the Muncie because the teeth will allow the transmission to pop out of gear unexpectedly.In all of his racing rebuilds, Cook uses a hook slider like this. On this aftermarket piece, there is an angle cut on the sides of all the teeth which locks the gear in place when the car is accelerating. No more popping out of gear.Here, the gear cluster is laid into position in the bottom of the case. There are three different gear ratios that were used in the Muncie, but they are generally put into two groups. The wider ratio 2.52:2.56 First gear is identified by either two ring grooves on the input shaft or the absence of any ring grooves. The close ratio 2.20 ratio cluster is what you want. It has one ring groove on the input shaft. Although you won't use First, the 2.20 cluster has a lower Third gear (1.28 versus 1.46 or 1.48) which is preferable for restarts.Instead of gaskets, Cook uses silicone sealer on his rebuilds. He says that getting rid of the gaskets cuts out a couple thousandths of spacing, and on an older transmission that can help tighten back up the clearances.
The shafts slide into position in the case from the rear until the mid-plate is tight against the case.The reverse gears take a lot of abuse because there is no synchronizer ring, and inexperienced drivers will often grind the gears trying to get into reverse. But reverse is rarely used in a racecar and a smart driver can baby the gears. Buying new gears can significantly increase the cost of the transmission, so Cook says he regularly reconditions the reverse gears by carefully resharpening the front of the teeth with a small grinder.After installing the output seal, Cook fabricates two tabs that are held in place with a hose clamp. If something causes the yoke of the drive shaft to bang into the tail housing of the transmission the tabs will keep the seal from coming out, while the hose clamp will also prevent the cast housing from cracking.On the left is an input bearing for a Muncie. Cook says this bearing costs approximately $80 to replace. On the right is the same bearing for a T10. It is approximately 1/3 the price but is too wide and won't fit a Muncie. Cook, however, fabricates his own spacers to make the T10 bearing work in a Muncie. In addition to being significantly cheaper, the bearing also features rubber shielding that protects the bearing from grit while also preventing leaks.The front bearing is a press fit. If you try to tap it in with a hammer you stand the chance of damaging the soft synchronizer gears. Instead, Cook uses an air chisel and the bearing literally drops into place.To work in a two-speed setup, the stock shifter mechanism must be modified slightly. First, the rod connecting to the First/Second shifter mechanism must be removed. Then, you need to tack weld the First/Second lever to the Third/Fourth lever in the location pointed to here. Without doing this, the shifter won't be able to get the transmission into reverse.


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I decided I wanted to be in it one year and I told my mom. The only problem was that I didn't have a hobby, unless you counted watching every episode of Hey, Dude! or mixing random toiletries into magic potions. 'Cause I did plenty of that.
So my mom came up with the idea of a leaf collection. We had an enormous yard with all kinds of trees. So we set out to collect a few different kinds and I glued them to a poster board, labeled them and voila! I had a hobby to display. Yippee!
But my leaves dried and crumbled and don't recall feeling overly proud of the end result. I can't remember if I ended up entering the hobby show or not. Actually, I don't think I did.
|I do get crafty occasionally.
Here are some things I'm thinking of trying out.
- making cheese
- knitting
- painting
And then I get all crazy and think, "Let's raise goats!" or "Why don't I marble paper?" Clearly, I need help.
I'm totally open for suggestions! What would you say your hobbies are?


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Is there a way to remove all items from squad members, or easily exchange items between squad members? It can be obnoxious to try and remember which items you've placed on which squad member, especially if you have many recruits and only a few medkits/scopes.
No, this is a relatively common interface complaint - I've seen it several times in various forums. If you want to find a particular item, you've got to dig through all your soldiers to find it.
From experience, wounded soldiers return their items to the central pool while they are on medical leave, and then I believe they'll try to reequip when they come back to active duty. However, soldiers on Psi training do not do the same. You'll have to go to the barracks and manually unequip their stuff. (This is a major pain if you don't realize this before you've accepted a mission, although you can still back out and go to the barracks, and then back to mission control when finished)
For certain "cheap" items like medkits, I suggest overproducing and just hand them out like candy. With more expensive stuff like high-end weapons and armor, I'll tend to completely strip a soldier (including resetting their equipment back to the default grenade) if I'm taking them out of the active rotation - that way, I can tell at a glance by their weapon and armor in relation to other soldiers whether or not they're combat-ready and/or are potentially holding a key item.
You may like to note that with the Enemy Within expansion come several interface enhancements. Notably for this question, there's a "Make Items Available" button that removes all items from everyone who isn't in the current squad. The pre-mission squad view also shows all the items in everyone's pockets so you don't have to try to remember that.
The expansion is quite expensive, but I used isthereanydeal to watch for when it was on sale.


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The Seventeen Traditions: Lessons from an American Childhood (Paperback)
"In these pages, I have tried to capture some of my family's traditions as I recall them today. . . . Such family traditions challenge the notion that the fads, technologies, how-to manuals, and addictions of modern life have somehow taken the place of the time-tested wisdom fashioned in the crucibles of earlier generations."
So writes Ralph Nader in the opening of this delightful and surprising book. Known for his lifetime of activism, Nader looks back in these page to his serene and enriching childhood in small-town Connecticut to reconnect with seventeen key traditions from listening to learning, patriotism to argument, work to simple enjoyment that he absorbed from his parents, his siblings, and his community. Warmly human, rich with sensory memories and lasting wisdom, it offers a modern-day parable of how we grow from children into responsible adults a reminder of how family and friends can teach us how to live in a civil society. The Tradition of Listening The Tradition of Charity The Tradition of Civics The Tradition of Work The Tradition of Patriotism The Tradition of Simple Enjoyment.
About the Author
Ralph Nader was recently named by the Atlantic as one of the 100 most influential figures in American history, one of only four living people to be so honored. The son of immigrants from Lebanon, he has launched two major presidential campaigns and founded or organized more than one hundred civic organizations. His groups have made an impact on tax reform, atomic power regulation, the tobacco industry, clean air and water, food safety, access to health care, civil rights, congressional ethics, and much more.
Praise For…
"The Seventeen Traditions brings us back to what's important in life — and what makes America truly great."
-Jim Hightower, Illinois Times


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For some reason a while back, the behavior of my command line changed, and I don't know why. Using OSX, now Mountain Lion(although this behavior was present before the switch).
Using standard terminal, I would expect back some results from
ps, but I get an error:
$ ps aux |grep 'asdf'
grep: asdf: No such file or director
This also shows up, for example, here:
ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" ~/bin/subl
ln: /Users/peter/bin/subl: No such file or directory