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TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Israel Aerospace Industries and the Boeing Co. are driving to complete development of Israel's Arrow-3 anti-ballistic missile interceptor amid the Persian Gulf confrontation between Iran and the West.
If that standoff, over Iran's contentious nuclear program, does erupt into open war in the Middle East that could result in Iranian Shehab-3 missiles streaking toward the Jewish state.
The Arrow-3 will be Israel's first line of defense against ballistic missiles when it becomes operational. It's slightly smaller than the Arrow-2, currently in service with the Israeli air force, but much more powerful and accurate and is intended to specifically to counter an Iranian nuclear threat.
Israel is small, the size of New Jersey, and thus could be effectively knocked out by one well-placed nuclear strike in its central sector around Tel Aviv, the country's commercial and industrial core.
"Israel's too small to absorb a nuclear strike," a senior defense official observed. "The Arrow-3 will minimize the chance of enemy missiles penetrating our defense shields."
The U.S. Aviation Week magazine said the Arrow-3 "will be a critical strategic asset against Iranian ballistic missiles."
The medium-range Arrow-3's designed to intercept missiles beyond Earth's atmosphere and at a much longer range than Arrow-2. This means the Israelis have the time to take additional shots at a hostile missile if the first Arrow misses.
Like the 1.3-ton Arrow-2, the 3 is a two-stage, solid-fuel interceptor. But unlike Arrow-2, which uses a proximity warhead to explode 40-50 yards from its target to destroy it, Arrow-3's designed to hit its target.
For the moment, that's generally seen as being the Shehab-3b that is Iran's frontline strategic weapon.
On Jan. 23, IAI and Boeing announced they would work together on the Arrow-3, continuing a partnership that jointly developed the Arrow-2 over the last decade.
The United States has contributed more than $100 million for Arrow-3. Indeed, more than half the $3 billion bill for developing and producing the Arrow came from Washington, as well as technology developed by U.S. companies.
In December, the U.S. Congress approved giving Israel $236 million in fiscal 2012 for its counter-missile programs. IAI got $13 million of that for Arrow-3. The Arrow System Improvement Program got a $47 million boost.
Israel has said it needs $3.9 billion to produce several batteries of Arrow-3, as well as large sums for other component systems in a planned four-tier missile defense shield.
With the government planning to slash the defense budget by $800 million -- the military says the cuts could end up totaling $2.4 billion -- the missile-defense systems, along with other priority programs, will almost certainly be hit.
For Israel, the big problem is that Arrow-3 won't be operational if conflict does erupt in the Persian Gulf. Defense Minister Ehud Barak says 2012 is probably the last year in which Israel could launch effective pre-emptive strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities.
This is because Iran is increasingly transferring its key nuclear facilities into heavily fortified bunkers deep underground, making them pretty much immune to conventional airstrikes.
The best estimate for Arrow-3 being combat-ready is 2-3 years.
Meantime, the anti-missile systems that IAI and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems are developing are seen as big-ticket export hopefuls.
The IAI-Boeing announcement in January stressed that the companies planned to expand their partnership with a robust Arrow export marketing program.
India is interested in the Arrow and Iron Dome, a short-range counter-missile/rocket system manufactured by Rafael and which has proved itself in combat against Palestinian rockets.
Israeli sources say Israel and the United States may sell Arrow-2 to South Korea in a $1.6 billion deal.
Israel's Defense Ministry denies there's any deal. But the U.S. Defense News weekly reports a potential Arrow-2 contract could be concluded with Seoul. South Korea, a longtime U.S. ally, has developed close links with Israel's defense sector.
Korean Aerospace Industries' T-50 advanced jet trainer is a front-runner in an Israeli contest with Italy's Alenia Aermacchi for a $1 billion sale involving 25-30 aircraft. A proposed Arrow buy from Seoul would probably clinch the trainer deal for KAI.
In 2009, Seoul bought two EL/M-2080 Green Pine radar units that support the Arrow system from IAI subsidiary Elta Systems, with deployment scheduled for this year.


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A spokeswoman for UPS says the information includes card numbers, postal and email addresses from about 100,000 transactions between Jan. 20 and Aug. 11.
United Parcel Service Inc. said Wednesday that it was among U.S. retailers who got a government bulletin about the malware on July 31. The malware is not identified by current anti-virus software.
UPS spokeswoman Chelsea Lee says the company is not aware of any fraud related to the attack.
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Detroit, MI – Miguel Cabrera hit his 40th homer of the season and knocked in three runs, Max Scherzer became the first 18-game winner in the majors and the Detroit Tigers beat the Kansas City Royals, 6-3, on Sunday at Comerica Park.
Scherzer (18-1) allowed two runs on five hits while striking out four over eight innings for the AL Central-leading Tigers, who won three contests in this five-game series. The 29-year-old right-hander became the fifth pitcher since 1912 to win at least 18 of his first 19 decisions, according to STATS.
"He changed speeds pretty good and located very well," Detroit manager Jim Leyland said of Scherzer. "I thought he was vintage Max today. He was really, really good."
Torii Hunter, Brayan Pena and Ramon Santiago each drove in a run for Detroit, which had 12 hits.
Kansas City starter Bruce Chen (5-1) gave up six runs on eight hits over 5 1/3 innings. Billy Butler hit a solo homer and Salvador Perez and Emilio Bonifacio each had an RBI.
After hitting a walk-off homer Saturday night, Cabrera socked a two-run shot on the first pitch he saw Sunday. Austin Jackson, who led off with a single, scored on Cabrera's blast over the wall in left.
Detroit tacked on another run in the third. With two outs, Hunter hit a ground-rule double to right and raced home on Cabrera's single to left-center field.
"He got a home run, he got a base hit...he's a very good hitter," Chen said of Cabrera. "He's in our division. We know him and he's been consistent."
The Tigers gave Scherzer some more run support in the fifth. Jose Iglesias and Austin Jackson hit back-to-back doubles to put men on second and third. Hunter's sacrifice fly to right made it a 4-0 contest.
Scherzer allowed just one hit through five innings. The Royals finally moved a runner past first in the sixth when Jarrod Dyson singled, stole second and advanced to third on David Lough's groundout. Scherzer, though, got Eric Hosmer looking at strike three.
Detroit scored two more runs in the bottom half. Andy Dirks singled and crossed the plate on Pena's double to center. Louis Coleman then took over for Chen and Santiago greeted him with an RBI single to right.
Kansas City got both of those runs back in the seventh. Butler singled, moved to third on Alex Gordon's double and scored on Perez's groundout. Bonifacio followed with an RBI double to left-center field.
Butler homered off Joaquin Benoit in the ninth to account for the final margin.
Game Notes
It was the 11th time in Tigers history that a player has hit 40-or-more home runs in a season. Cabrera became just the third player in franchise history to hit 40-or-more homers in back-to-back seasons.


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I used the [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=99112&release_id=426990 precompiled rpm] provided by Inkscape for the 0.44 release as my gcc wouldn't compile it. All you need to then do is run rpm2tgz at the command line on the package, eg " rpm2tgz inkscape-0.44-0.i686.rpm" and then install with "installpkg inkscape-0.44-0.i686.tgz".
I used the [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=99112&release_id=426990 precompiled rpm] provided by Inkscape for the 0.44 release as my gcc wouldn't compile it. All you need to then do is run rpm2tgz at the command line on the package, eg " rpm2tgz inkscape-0.44-0.i686.rpm" and then install with "installpkg inkscape-0.44-0.i686.tgz".
--[[User:Pbhj|Pbhj]] 13:29, 1 July 2006 (PDT)
-- [[User:Pbhj|Pbhj]] 13:29, 1 July 2006 (PDT)
=== Compiling Your Own (For The Techies) ===
=== Compiling Your Own (For The Techies) ===
Revision as of 05:17, 27 November 2010
Installing on a Mac
There are two steps needed to install on a Mac.
1. Getting The Right Inkscape Installer:
You need to download the right installation file from the Inkscape download page. Note that this page has a separate version for Panther (10.3.9 only), and Tiger (10.4.x) and above. The Panther version is PPC only, while the Tiger version is Universal Binary, meaning it installs on either older PPC or newer Intel Macs. The Tiger version will also work on Leopard (10.5.x)
Once you have the Inkscape installation package, double click on it and it will open a window with an Inkscape icon on one side, and a shortcut to the Applications folder on the other side. You need to drag the Inkscape icon across and drop it on the Applications folder. This will copy the file to the Application folder.
To make a shortcut on your Dock, open the Applications folder, and drag the Inkscape icon to the place you want it on the dock.
2. Getting The Right X11 Installer:
To run Inkscape, you will also need to install X11. This is an environment that provides Unix like X-Window support for applications, including Inkscape (For more about X11 see Wikipedia). A native Mac OSX version that doesn't need X11 will be available sometime in the future (see here or here or here for a sneak peek). But for now you need to do one of the following, depending on your OSX version.
For Panther (10.3.x):
You can download a suitable version of X11 from Apple or mirrored at Modevia.
For Tiger (10.4.x):
You can install X11 from your original Install Disc 1. Scroll down the Finder window which opens when the DVD is inserted; double clic "Optional Installs"; go through the license agreement and destination selection; on the "Custom install" page select Applications -> X11 and deselect everything else; hit Install. To see what this looks like, see Jesse Andrews' article entitled Installing X11 on OS X 10.4 Tiger).
Alternately, you can download a version for PPC, or Intel from Modevia. These files are able to be freely re-distributed because X11 is open source.
- Once installed, you should also update your X11 to version 1.1.2from Apple. This requires the earlier version, so you cannot just install the update.
- A heavily improved version of X11 called XQuartz is expected to be available for Tiger some time in 2008. This will bring X11 on Tiger (10.4.x) into line with Leopard (10.5.x). See here for a roadmap of that project.
For Leopard (10.5.x):
Leopard officially ships with a version of X11 called XQuartz pre-installed, however the preinstalled version has some problems. Starting from January 2008, the XQuartz community released several updates to the XQuartz package in Mac OS X 10.5.x on Mac OS Forge. These releases significantly improve X11 on the version of XQuartz found in the original Leopard release.
On February 11 2008, Apple released an official XQuartz update in the Mac OS X 10.5.2 update. This update addresses two security issues, although it is still somewhat behind the current XQuartz releases, upon which the official update is based. The XQuartz site notes that "10.5.2's version of X11 is somewhere between the 2.1.1 and 2.1.2 packages released through this site". It also warns that "Installing versions prior to X11 2.1.2 onto OS-X 10.5.2 may work but is not supported."
XQuartz 2.2.1 was released on May 1 2008. This version requires OS X 10.5.0, however if you install the 10.5.2 update (or other updates) after XQuartz, you will probably need to reinstall XQuartz.
For optimal performance and security, it is always best to install the latest Mac OS X updates, and then install the latest XQuartz over the top. This is what XQuartz is designed to do.
- Because of changes to launchd, you will need to logout and re-login after installing XQuartz.
- For the keen, pre-release candidates and recent deprecated versions of XQuartz are available here. Information on a given release or release candidate is normally available at http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz/wiki/X112.2.x (change x to suit)
- The XQuartz release roadmap is available here.
- For more technical information about X11 on Mac, a good place to go is http://homepage.mac.com/sao1/X11/index.html
Problems After Installation
On Leopard (10.5) with XQuartz 2.2.1:
Some users have reported problems loading Inkscape 0.46-2 with XQuartz 2.2.1 as Inkscape Bug #226355. This problem occurs because XQuartz 2.2.1 has changed fontconfig.
There are two possible fixes;
1. Michael Whybrow, the packager of Inkscape for Mac suggests this;
a. Open Terminal.app (in Applications -> Utilities) and type the following
mkdir ~/.fontconfig
b. Rerun Inkscape.app
2. Another solution originally posted Inkscape Answer #28776 suggests editing an Inkscape configuration file;
a. Open Terminal.app (in Applications -> Utilities) and type
nano /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/script
b. Press CTRL+V (scrolls down a page)
c. Change the code (use the arrows keys to get to the right part) from:
""" else # Leopard onwards... # Warn the user about time-consuming generation of fontconfig caches. test -d ${HOME}/.fontconfig || exit 12 """
""" else # Leopard onwards... # Warn the user about time-consuming generation of fontconfig caches. test -d ${HOME}/.fontconfig """
d. Save changes by pressing CTRL+O and then ENTER to confirm
e. Run Inkscape and wait for first-time caching
Also it seems that having the "authentificate connexion" option checked in Preferences -> Securtity tab does interfere with Inkscape launch. Uncheck it if Inkscape doesn't launch.
I've installed X11 on OS X but Inkscape keeps asking for it
On Panther (10.3), you may need to uninstall/reinstall or upgrade X11. Use OSXPM to uninstall X11 - Install OSXPM and select the Uninstall tab, scroll down to X11User, select it and hit Uninstall. Then you can install X11 properly.
Installing on Unix like systems
Using Precompiled Packages (For Normal Users)
Ubuntu Linux
Probably the easiest way to install on Ubuntu is to use the apt command.
Open a terminal and type;
sudo apt-get update (enter) sudo apt-get install inkscape (enter)
Ubuntu Linux Development Versions
As it approaches release, nightly i386 and AMD64 builds of the latest Inkscape development version are provided at http://ubuntu.cafuego.net. On that site, one should select the appropriate Ubuntu or Debian release, then the Inkscape link, and finally the provided package.
Note: Development versions offer some nice new features, but can be somewhat unstable, so save often. Inexperienced users will also quite possibly have problems installing them.
openSUSE includes Inkscape in the Gnome repositories. The newest version of Inkscape releases is in Gnome:Apps.
Slackware Linux
Binary packages (0.46+) are available for Slackware 12.1, 12.2, 13.0 y 13.1 en LinuxPackages.net.
-- smaug 01:27, 27 Nov 2010 (GMT-4)
I used the precompiled rpm provided by Inkscape for the 0.44 release as my gcc wouldn't compile it. All you need to then do is run rpm2tgz at the command line on the package, eg " rpm2tgz inkscape-0.44-0.i686.rpm" and then install with "installpkg inkscape-0.44-0.i686.tgz".
-- Pbhj 13:29, 1 July 2006 (PDT)
Compiling Your Own (For The Techies)
NOTE: this isn't finished. I currently have two screwed up systems from fooling with bleeding edge GTK+ stuff, I don't know how that happened. !! :) I'll get to the end over the next few days tho. Setting up a more stable home network atm. -- Tsingi
This was written building an InkScape snapshot on a new RedHat Linux installation. If you find that it doesn't answer your needs exactly, please update this file when you solve your particular problem.
Installing libraries
If you are running a debian based system, and have something like synaptic that lists recent enough versions of the libraries below, use that. If you want the latest libs, which you may need, especially if you are installing a snapshot or building from svn, you will want to download sources. Generally you will get a foo.tar.bz2 or foo.tar.gz or foo.tgz file that you will need to unpack and build.
bz2 files are the smallest. Uncompress them first by typing bunzip2 foo.tar.gz then unpack the remaining tar file by typing tar -xvf foo.tar
foo.tar.gz files and foo.tgz files can be extracted in one operation by typing tar -xvzf foo.tar.gz
Change to the directory that you just created foo. type ./configure then make then, as root, make install
Sometimes that is all you will need to do.
Sometimes you will run into dependancy errors because you need a library you haven't installed yet. If you try installing inkscape without some of these dependancies, you will get a list of what you need. hopefully the instructions below will help you solve these dependancies.
Running ldconfig
after installing libs, (as root) you need to run ldconfig so that the linker can find the libraries that you have just installed. If you aren't logged in as root (i.e. if you became root by typing su) you may not have the /sbin/ directory in your path. so if ldconfig isn't working for you try typing /sbin/ldconfig
pkg-config is a utility that lists dependancies for libraries that sets up flags and paths for compiling. When it's working right it's wonderful. Getting it to work right is a pain in the ass if you don't know how. It's amazing how silent an IRC channel will get when you mention it.
pkg-config references pc files that applications install to give information about them. These are called metadata files, metadata means data about data. For a list of libraries that pkg-config sees, type pkg-config --list-all Having done that and looking at a list of pc files on my system (using find /usr -name "*.pc" > find.pc, then browsing find.pc) I see that I also have a directory called /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/ I might as well get that in there while I'm at it since none of those libs show up in a listing either and that's where most of them are.
Depending on what shell you use, there are different ways of doing this. I'm adding a couple lines to my /etc/profile file:
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH
Note that I have a new 64 bit system, which is why I'm going through all this. You probably won't have a /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/ unless you do too, so don't just copy what I did. Also note that on a Windows system PATH type environment variables use semi-colons ";" for delimiters as opposed to colons ":"
Using bash, to immediately source the file in the shell you are using, type . /etc/profile'. This won't test to see if the path gets put into your environment when open a shell though, so maybe a better thing to do is close your terminals and open new ones to see that it is actually set automagically.
Ahh, I can now configure glibmm. The hair on the back of my neck is laying flat again, I think I'll have a coffee. :)
download and install the latest version of libgc[[1]]
libgc installs in /usr/local/lib by default. If you have installed it and it is still not linking, you may not have that in your library path. There is a LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, or alternatively you can make sure that /usr/local/lib is listed in the file /etc/ls.so.conf
download and install libsig++ [2]
this should be fairly straightforward.
This is where, if you haven't wrestled with pkg-config on your system you start scratching your head. Because when you run configure on glibmm you may an error like this
checking for GLIBMM... configure: error: Package requirements (sigc++-2.0 >= 2.0.0 glib-2.0 >= 2.8.0 gobject-2.0 >= 2.8.0 gmodule-2.0 >= 2.8.0) were not met. Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you installed software in a non-standard prefix.
Alternatively you may set the GLIBMM_CFLAGS and GLIBMM_LIBS environment variables to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the pkg-config man page for more details.
It seems that most packages install in a non standard prefix, in direct defiance of everything we have been led to believe regarding the concept of standard, so you may have to deal with this. See the note on pkg-config above.
gtkmm [3]
(Ben) Tsingi, you are writing in the 'User Documentation' section. Most of this material is only appropriate for Developers and some would be better on the Mailing List. You will probably find that when you have finished, this page will be edited and pruned back. FWIW, I was expecting to find information about 'apt-get' (Debian) 'emerge' (Gentoo) and AutoPackage (the others).
Build Dependencies (K/Ubuntu)
NOTE: This list may not be complete, please add any packages you might need in addition!
To install the dependencies under Ubuntu (9.10), execute the following commands as root (sudo). Keep in mind that for other versions of Ubuntu this may not apply.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install build-essential libxslt1-dev libgsl0-dev libgtkmm-utils-dev \ libpangomm-1.4-dev libboost-dev libpopt-dev
In addition to those dependencies you need libgc (as mentioned above). Just download the latest version and build it.
wget http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/gc_source/gc.tar.gz tar -xvf gc.tar.gz cd gc* ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make sudo make install
Now you (should) have all the requirements to build Inkscape from source. To do that, run:
wget http://inkscape.modevia.com/svn-snap/inkscape-current.tar.bz2 tar -xvf inkscape-current.tar.bz2 cd inkscape* ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make sudo make install
That should do it.
(If the configure script tells you it requires an additional library, look for it via
sudo apt-cache search some-name, install the package via
sudo apt-get install some-package, and don't forget to add it to the list above.)
Installing on a Windows system
Stable version
You can find the installer from download page. Installing should be an easy step-by-step (next-next-finish) process.
Unstable development version
First be warned. Unstable and development mean you likely will encounter crashes, usability problems and sometimes lose data. Ctrl+S will become your friend. If you cannot take this risk, please use the stable version instead.
If you are still reading, you are probably one of the brave ones who wants to be on the bleeding edge. If so, follow these steps:
1. Download the latest build
On download page there is a section named "Development Versions". Find the "Mirrored Win32 Builds" link. This points you to Inkscape's server at inkscape.modevia.com. There is information about builds and naming conventions at the top of this page. Further down the page there are links to files. Get the .7z file with latest date on it.
Exremely small build
If the build is significantly smaller than previous ones, the build most likely is broken and you should get the latest one which is of normal size (currently over 40MB and growing).
2. Extract the .7z archive
Extract the archive using the 7zip unpacker. You will get a directory which contains several files including inkscape.exe.
3. Run inkscape
Run the inkscape.exe file by double clicking it. That's it. You can also drag files to inkscape.exe to have these opened.
Don't forget: please help Inkscape by reporting bugs, encouraging developers or fixing bugs yourself.
Multiple versions for testing
For testing purposes it is good to be able to test multiple versions of Inkscape to find when and where some problem first appeared. For this reason you are able to store and use as many parallel versions of Inkscape as your disk has room for.


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Unless otherwise noted TPF version 4.1 PUT09 is required.
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Environmental researchers who investigate climate change,
invasive species, infectious diseases, and other data-intensive topics can now
benefit from easy access to diverse data sets through technology released by
the Data Observation Network for Earth, or DataONE.
Understanding broad and complex environmental issues
increasingly relies on the discovery and analysis of massive data sets. But the
amount of collected data—from historical field notes to real-time satellite
data—means that researchers are now faced with an onslaught of options to
locate and integrate information relevant to the issue at hand.
DataONE, a ten-institution team including researchers from the U.S.
Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is addressing this data
dilemma with a one-stop search engine called ONEMercury that queries data
centers located around the world for relevant earth science information. ORNL's
Robert Cook, John Cobb, Line Pouchard, and Giri Palanisamy are part of the
National Science Foundation-supported DataONE team that collaborated on the
newly released software, along with researchers from the University of
Tennessee's School of Information Sciences in the College of Communication
& Information, the University of New Mexico, and other partners. At the
heart of the new software is an advanced search engine developed by Palanisamy
and colleagues at ORNL.
"This search system enables researchers to discover, access
and explore data that exist at many different repositories around the
Internet," Cook said. "Previously there's been no 'federation' of all
these different data centers that would allow someone to come in from one place
and search of all these resources."
DataONE's search tool enables researchers to easily integrate
previously incompatible data sets, as demonstrated by an ongoing project that
is already yielding results in the field of ecology. A DataONE working group
has combined a database of amateur bird sightings with environment data layers
about land use, weather, and vegetation to make refined predictions about bird
migration patterns.
"The whole process of making data available, and making the
data so it could be readily integrated, really benefited the bird
ecologists," Cobb said. "That's one example of how having data
available lets people look at new and important issues."
The tool, which is freely available to the public, provides
access to data from sources such as the U.S. Geological Survey at ORNL, the
Ecological Society of America, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's
Distributed Active Archive Center at ORNL, the National Science Foundation's
Long Term Ecological Research Network, South Africa National Parks, the
Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity, and the Partnership for Interdisciplinary
Studies of Coastal Oceans, among others. DataONE partners expect more
organizations to join in the coming months.
DataONE is led by the University of New Mexico and includes
partner organizations across the United States, Europe, Africa, South America,
Asia, and Australia. In East Tennessee, others participating in DataONE are the
University of Tennessee, led by Bruce Wilson who has a joint UT-ORNL
appointment, and the U.S. Geological Survey's Core Science Analytics and
Synthesis program, led in Oak Ridge by Mike Frame.
One of the working groups involved in DataONE is the usability
and assessment group, led by Frame and by Carol Tenopir of the University of
"We have the charge of making sure that the system and the
materials meet the needs of our stakeholders," Tenopir said. "We
increase our engagement with the scientific community when we are able to teach
them the best ways of classifying and describing the data they collect."
Source: Oak Ridge National Laboratory


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TOOELE, NV – According to former Air Force engineer Scott Rasla, America's latest warplane isn't entirely of this earth.
"I worked for five years on the Nightstar Hypersonic Bomber project," Rasla told Weekly World News, "and I can assure you that our military has copied every detail from extraterrestrials—right down to the third armrest on the pilot's seat.
"I won't even get into what the bathroom looks like," Rasla said.
Air Force spokesman Colonel Douglas Snaud dismissed the design details as the latest in combat ergonomics.
"Commanding a high-altitude bombing raid is a stressful job," Col. Snaud said. "We want our pilots to have a selection of comfortable armrests."
But Colonel Snaud's explanation leaves a few Nightstar mysteries untouched. "What about the cattle-shaped gunsight?" Rasla wondered. "Or the antimatter propulsion system?"
"Look," Col. Snaud insisted. "These were created by terrestrial engineers for terrestrial pilots on terrestrial missions. To put it another way, the rumors of this plane's alien origin are powered by the simplest propulsive source of all: a crank."


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Checking the Car Collections Model Phenomenon
The crowd finds different hobbies to help them pass the time. Gathering certain items is something that people have done as a pastime hobby, and it should come as no surprise that this is something that people continue to do today. Some people collect coins or rare stamps, some people collect comic books, and others still enjoy collecting diecast cars. The diecast car, of course, is a car model that is a replica for the actual car scale that can be found in the automotive industry. Many people find that this is good to collect because if you find a rare car diecast, they may get some value from time to time due to the fact that they will be very hard to find. Supply and demand determine the price of a product, and as the years go by, rare model cars become valuable provided there is still demand for them. However, some people like the way Checking the Car Collections Model Phenomenon their model car looks when they present it on their home shelves, and others think that collections like this are a good way for them to keep in touch with their childhood or for them to connect with their own children . Most of us play with toy cars when we're kids, and while the collection of car models is more serious and mature, part of the attraction for building such collections is the fact that it can bring back childhood memories or make for good. thing for them to discuss with their child. Others just love classic cars and find that collecting models are a much more affordable way to appreciate them. Many collectors have their favorite brands from this model car, and there are so many options that you might choose two random collectors, each with a different favorite brand. Classic Carlectables is one of the most popular model car brands, so this is a brand that is often talked about when you talk to someone about a model car. Because Classical Carlectables tend to focus on car stock models, it is Checking the Car Collections Model Phenomenon definitely a brand with a niche market. Their fans tend to be the ones who appreciate racing cars, and therefore they love to collect their favorite car stock models or cars driven by their favorite drivers. Whatever brand is collected and for whatever reason, it appears that the model car collection will exist for decades and decades to come. There must be a market for model car collections, and that's why we should expect this industry to be in the future. Furthermore, with limited edition model cars being released quite regularly, there will always be rare model cars that cost a lot of money.


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I'm teaching myself some category theory, and I find that I'm very slow with diagram chasing. It takes me some times a very long time to decide whether adding an arrow to a diagram preserves the diagram's commutativity, or that a given arrow exists, or is unique, or that two opposing arrows are actually inverses of each other, etc. Conversely, more than once I've been led down a blind alley as a result of careless diagram reasoning.
I'm looking for a "student's guide to diagram chasing", or the equivalent. I.e. a collection of tips, rules-of-thumb, dos-and-donts, etc., aimed at novices. E.g. rules like: "any two commuting diagrams may be pasted along a common edge".
If you happen to know of such a guide$^{1}$, please let me know of it.
$^{1}$IOW, please don't Google it for me. I have already done so, and found nothing that fits the description given above. My only hope is that such a guide exists as an appendix to a book, or maybe some unpublished classroom notes.
I thought that some readers will find this cautionary tale instructive.
While working through an arrow-pushing/diagram-chasing exercise, I drew this diagram
(FWIW, all these diagrams are in good ol' Set.)
Here, $U\;\Pi_{\gamma,\delta}\;V$ is the binary relation
$$ \{(u, v) | \gamma(u) = \delta(v) \} \subseteq U \times V = U \;\Pi\; V, $$
and $\rho_U, \rho_V$ are given by $\rho_U((u, v)) = u, \rho_V((u, v)) = v$. The maps $\pi_U, \pi_V$, of course, are the canonical projections of the product $U \;\Pi\; V$. (Two-headed arrows denote epimorphisms, and "tailed" arrows, like the one for $\delta$, denote monomorphisms.)
The diagram sure looked innocent enough at first: nothing more than the usual categorical pullback (which here I'm calling $U\;\Pi_{\gamma,\delta}\;V$, to suggest a "fibered product"):
...conveniently outfitted with its inclusion $\iota_{\gamma,\delta}$ into the usual categorical product:
Needless to say, I soon began deriving (from the first diagram above, that is) some obviously nonsensical conclusions, such as "$\delta$ is monic $\Rightarrow \pi_U$ is monic $\Rightarrow U\;\Pi\; V \cong U$".
It took me a looong time to figure out that the source of the errors was incorrectly treating this subdiagram as commutative:
Of course, except for special cases (e.g. $V \cong W \cong \mathbf{1}$, the singleton), this last diagram is wrong.
I'm sure there's a moral to this story (other than "Diagrams are trickier than they look" and "Don't be stupid!"), but I have not quite figured it out yet.


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Matthew 28:18-20 records the "Great Commission." Jesus here commands all people, in becoming His disciples, to be taught His word and be baptized.
This is clear from Matthew's account of the Great Commission:
(1) Baptism is based on Jesus' own authority. He has commanded it. Anything He commands is important. Furthermore, it must be taught and practiced as Jesus wants it to be. Men have no right to change what Jesus has instituted. [Matthew 15:9,13; Galatians 1:8,9; 2 John 9-11; Colossians 3:17; Jeremiah 10:23; Proverbs 14:12; 3:5,6; Revelation 22:18,19]
(2) It is a fundamental part of becoming a disciple.
(3) Jesus wants everyone in the world to be taught about it.
So, everyone needs to understand Jesus' teaching about baptism so they practice it the way He said to do it.
Important as baptism is, many people are confused about it. Some admit they do not understand it. Others claim to understand it, but when their practice is compared to what Jesus said, it does not harmonize.
Without question, people need to study baptism to be sure they have obeyed Jesus' will.
Why should a person be baptized in water? What should be the goal that he intends his baptism to accomplish?
Consider a lost sinner who has never received forgiveness by Jesus' blood and never become a Christian. Some churches say that such a person must believe in Jesus and repent of sins, then at that point Jesus forgives his sins (some add that he must confess Jesus or pray).
So, this view means that baptism is not essential to receive forgiveness, but one should be baptized after he has been forgiven. The purpose of baptism, they say, is to provide an outward sign to show others that he has been saved, or perhaps to join a particular denomination.
The Seventh Day Adventist "Baptismal Vow" requires a person, before baptism, to answer this question: "...have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, and do you believe that God, for Christ's sake, has forgiven your sins, and given you a new heart
This is standard doctrine in most Protestant churches (though many do not emphasize it). As a result, when a person expresses a desire for baptism, most churches schedule him/her for a baptismal service at some future date. They believe the person is saved in the meanwhile, so there is no hurry.
[All above quotations are taken from the Handbook of Religious Quotations.]
These people teach that one must truly believe in Jesus, repent, and confess Christ, and they agree that it is the blood of Jesus that forgives a person's sins. But they believe that sins are not forgiven until the person has been baptized.
This means that the purpose of baptism is to receive forgiveness. To be a Scriptural baptism, it must be done for the purpose of being cleansed or freed from sins by the blood of Jesus. So, a person stands justified before God only after he has been baptized, not before.
As long as a person is baptized, why does it matter what his purpose is?
Romans 6:17,18 - To be made free from sin, we must obey God from the heart. Service to God is not acceptable if we just go through outward motions. We must understand and sincerely mean what we do. This principle can be illustrated by other works of service to God.
1 Corinthians 14:15 - Singing and prayer must be done with the spirit and the understanding. Outward actions are not enough.
1 Corinthians 11:26-29 - In the Lord's supper we must recognize the spiritual meaning of the elements. If we do not discern the Lord's body, we eat and drink damnation to our souls.
God requires proper outward actions, but He also requires proper motives and purposes.
[1 Corinthians 13:1-3; Psalm 51:6,10; Proverbs 4:23]
Galatians 1:8 - Our service to God must conform to His word, without changing the pattern. When God reveals the reason or purpose for an act, if we do it for a different purpose, we have changed the pattern.
2 John 9 - One who does not abide in Jesus' teaching does not have the Father and Son. So whatever Jesus' word teaches about the purpose of baptism, we must abide in that teaching. If we practice a different purpose, we have gone beyond what Jesus revealed.
Acts 19:1-5 - In this example some men had been baptized, even by immersion in water. If the outward act is all that matters, their baptism would have been fine. But they had to be baptized again to do it right, so clearly there was something wrong with their understanding of the purpose. The same would be true of anyone today whose baptism did not fit the gospel pattern.
When we teach the importance of baptism, people sometimes accuse us of over-emphasizing outward actions. The opposite is true. The reason we emphasize baptism is that inner intentions and purposes do matter. When people say baptism is not necessary so we can overlook the purpose for baptism, they are the ones who are teaching that the meaning does not matter.
[Matthew 15:9,13; Colossians 3:17; Jeremiah 10:23; Proverbs 14:12; 3:5,6; Revelation 22:18,19]
We will consider six fundamental passages (though there are others that teach the same).
Does salvation come before baptism or as a result of it? We can no more be saved before baptism than we can before believing.
It is like 1 + 1 = 2. Take away either of the "1's" and you no longer have two. Likewise, if you take away either faith or baptism, you no longer have salvation.
The Bible does not always spell out what we have to do to be lost. It tells us what we have to do to be saved and expects us to realize that, if we don't do it, we will be lost.
According to Luke 7:30, those who are not baptized reject the counsel of God, so Jesus had already dealt with people who held that that view.
But in Mark 16:16, Jesus says we must do two things to be saved. To be lost, you only need to omit one of them. If you don't have faith, you probably would not be baptized, and it would not do any good if you did it. To be lost is easy - just don't believe. To be saved is harder - you must both believe and be baptized.
Further, Jesus said to believe the gospel (vv 15,16). What does the gospel say? "He who believes and is baptized will be saved." That is what the gospel teaches, so that is what people who seek salvation must believe. What if I don't believe that? Then I don't believe the gospel! What does the passage say about people who don't believe the gospel?
Men say: He who believes is saved and may then be baptized.
The gospel says: He who believes and is baptized will be saved. Both faith and baptism are essential in order to receive salvation.
Remember, we cannot please God by following human doctrines that differ from the gospel (Galatians 1:8; Matthew 15:9; etc.).
Are sins forgiven (remitted) before baptism or as a result of it? Note that the purpose of baptism is clearly stated: it is for remission of sins.
Some say that "for" means "because of," like "He received a ticket for speeding" - i.e., because he had been speeding, not in order that he might speed. "For" can have this meaning in English, but the word cannot mean this in Acts 2:38 (see ASV and other translations.)
Consider the people to whom Peter was speaking.
If "for" means because they already had remission, then Peter must have been talking to people who were already saved. Was he?
He had just convicted them of killing Jesus (v36), and they were pricked in heart and asked what to do (v37). They did not already have remission, but stood in need of receiving it.
Peter then told them to "repent." If they already had remission, why did they need to repent? The command to repent proves these people were not saved but were still sinners needing to receive remission.
Peter also told them to "be saved" from the wicked generation (v40). If they had already been forgiven, why did he tell them to be saved?
Surely these were not saved people being told what to do because they had remission. They were lost sinners being told what to do to receive remission. So, "for remission of sins" in v38 means to be baptized "in order to receive remission."
Consider the parallel to Matthew 26:28.
Matthew 26:28 says Jesus' blood would be shed for many "for remission of sins."
Acts 2:38 says be baptized "for remission of sins."
Did Jesus shed His blood because people already had remission of sins? No, He shed His blood so people who did not have remission could receive it.
Likewise, baptism is administered, not because people already have remission, but so people who do not have it can receive it.
Suppose a person was baptized without understanding that the gospel says he should be baptized in order to receive remission of sins. Suppose he believed he was saved before baptism. Then would he be baptized in order to receive remission? How could he if he believed he already had salvation? How then could his baptism harmonize with the pattern of God's word?
Noah illustrates how we are saved. V20 says he and his family were saved "by (or through) water." The flood water destroyed wicked people; but it also saved Noah because it bore the ark up, delivering (saving) Noah from death.
This illustrates the fact that what saves us is baptism. This does not refer to physically washing dirt from our bodies. The power is not in the water but in the death and resurrection of Jesus. But baptism is when we contact Jesus' blood so we are saved.
How many people are in Christ? Just as many as have been baptized into Him. What if a person has not been baptized into Him? Then that person is not in Him.
Why is it important to be in Christ?
* Ephesians 1:7 - Forgiveness of sins is in Christ.
* 2 Timothy 2:10 - Salvation is in Him.
* 1 John 5:11,12 - Eternal life is in the Son
* Ephesians 1:3 - All spiritual blessings are in Christ.
[Cf. Romans 8:1; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Philippians 4:7]
If a person is outside Christ, he does not have forgiveness, salvation, eternal life, or the other spiritual blessings that are in Christ. But how does one come into Christ? He must be baptized into Christ. Then what is the condition of one who has not been baptized or who does not believe baptism is for the purpose of being saved?
Hearing, believing, repenting, and confession are all essential steps toward Christ, but baptism is the step that puts a person into Christ. Before baptism, a person is still outside Christ, still without forgiveness and the other blessings that are in Christ. If he wants those blessings, he must be baptized for the purpose of coming into Christ.
This verse says again (as in Galatians 3:27) that we are baptized into Jesus. But it also says we are baptized into Jesus' death.
Why is Jesus' death important to us? It was in His death that He shed His blood that saves us from sin! How do we come into contact with His saving death? We are baptized into it!
Often people who teach the necessity of baptism are accused of not believing in salvation by Jesus' blood. The truth is just the opposite. The reason we believe baptism is necessary is that baptism is where the sinner contacts Jesus' blood! Those who say you are saved before baptism are (unintentionally) saying you are saved without the blood, because they are teaching the sinner is saved before he contacts Jesus' blood!
In baptism we receive the benefits of Jesus' death! What then is the condition of those who say you are saved before baptism or that baptism is not necessary for the remission of sins?
Where is the washing away of sins in this passage: before baptism or a result that follows from baptism?
He had seen Jesus on the road, clearly believed in Him, and was willing to obey Him (22:5-10; 9:3-6). He had even been praying (9:9,11). If anyone could be saved before baptism, it would have been Saul. Was he saved?
Jesus had said Saul should go into the city and be told what he must do (9:6). Ananias came and told him to be baptized and wash away his sins.
If sins are forgiven before baptism, at this point in the story Saul would have had no sins to wash away. But he had his sins till he was baptized. So today, though a person may believe in Jesus and repent, he is still guilty of all his sins till he is baptized.
Always, as soon as the sinner understood the Bible teaching, believed, and repented, he was baptized immediately:
Acts 2:41 - "That day" 3000 were baptized.
Acts 8:36 - "What hinders me from being baptized?"
Acts 9:18 - "Immediately ... he arose and was baptized"
Acts 16:33 - "...the same hour of the night ... immediately he and all his family were baptized"
Acts 22:16 - "...why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins...."
When modern denominations postpone baptism of penitent believers to some future baptismal service, they are not following the Bible pattern regarding the urgency of baptism. The reason they postpone baptism is that do not believe the proper purpose of baptism. They believe the person is already saved, so what's the hurry?
When we understand that a person is still in sin until he is baptized, then we understand why people in the Bible did not postpone baptism.
According to the passages we have studied, the purpose of baptism is as follows:
Mark 16:16 - Baptism is required in order to be saved.
Acts 2:38 - Baptism is for (in order to receive) remission of sins.
1 Peter 3:21 - Baptism saves us.
Galatians 3:27 - We are baptized into Christ.
Romans 6:3 - We are baptized into Jesus' death.
Acts 22:16 - Baptism is needed so sins are washed away.
These are all different ways of saying the same thing. To teach that one is saved before baptism is to teach a human gospel different from what the Lord authorized. Those who are baptized according to such a doctrine have not received a Scriptural baptism.
What should such people do? Like the men in Acts 19:1-6, they should be baptized in harmony with the teaching of the gospel.
What about you? Have you been baptized properly? Are you living a faithful life?
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Foreign Minister Spanta in New York for the 64th Session of the UN General Assembly
Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta has arrived in New York to attend the 64th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. During the five-day visit, Foreign Minister Spanta will address the General Assembly on the situation in Afghanistan, the region and related global issues.
On the first day of his official visit, Foreign Minister addressed the Ministerial Meeting of the "Groups of Friends of Afghanistan." The meeting was also attended by US Secretary of State; the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Australia, Japan, Netherlands, Denmark; the special representative of the UN Secretary General for Afghanistan and the special envoys of numerous countries for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The Ministerial "Group of Friends Meeting" focused on the situation in Afghanistan, particularly the recent Afghan elections. Addressing the meeting, Foreign Minister Spanta underscored the importance of the recent elections as "it marked an important step in Afghanistan's democratization" and that "despite a challenging security situation, millions of Afghans went to the polls to cast their vote and determine their political destiny."
Additionally, Foreign Minister Spanta highlighted the need for the international community's long-term commitment in Afghanistan for defeating terrorism and achieving the common goals of peace, justice and prosperity. He also said that the new Afghan government would be committed to meet the needs of the Afghan people with the strong support of the international community.
In his remarks at the meeting, the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General for Afghanistan, Mr. Kai Eide, briefed participants on the Afghan elections and noted that the announcement of the final results would be based on the joint assessment of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) and Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC). He also stressed the need for both commissions to conclude their work without any unnecessary delay.
Also attending the meeting was Afghanistan's Ambassador to the UN, Dr. Zahir Tanin.
In the same day Foreign Minister also met with his Japanese, Indian and Dutch counterparts. In the meetings, Foreign Minister Spanta expressed his appreciation for the support and assistance of the aforementioned countries to Afghanistan's democratization and stabilization.
The Foreign Ministers of Japan, India and the Netherlands reiterated their governments' continued commitment to Afghanistan in the coming years.
Later this evening Foreign Minister Spanta will meet with UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon.
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