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For a half-century, the left's key victories were gifts from an interventionist Supreme Court. This promoted alarming misunderstandings of the judiciary and fostered dangerous myths about our country and Constitution, many of which have been displayed since the President nominated Judge Roberts. At issue is the democratic process and the meaning of judicial independence. Less philosophically, liberals long ago abandoned neutrality for result-oriented reasoning.
- "Dislike" or "oppose" ¬= "unconstitutional." Opponents of Roberts claim his DC Circuit opinions demonstrate an "extreme deference to the government" that will "threaten" individual rights, citing Roberts' unanimous opinion in Hedgepeth v. Wash. Metro. Area Transit Auth., 386 F.3d 1148 (D.C. Cir. 2004). Hedgepeth -- the infamous "French fries" case -- held that arresting a 12 year-old girl did not violate her civil rights.
Liberals decry the supposed Roberts-imposed "humiliation" but, as Roberts' ruling itself said (Hedgepeth, slip op. at 1), the case concerned "not whether these policies were a bad idea, but whether they violated the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution." Far from favoring humiliation, Roberts' opinion began, "No one is very happy about the events that led to this litigation." That's what judges do, says John Hinderaker, "One basic difference between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives understand that there are any number of ideas that may be stupid, but are not unconstitutional."
- Results, not reasoning. The Constitution says nothing about privacy, abortion, school busing, sex education or marriage, gay or otherwise. Until modern liberals decided:
a) Long-standing constitutional and statutory provisions can be re-interpreted to be more relevant to modern sensibilities;Now, heaven knows; anything goes.
b) Re-interpretation is not limited by the provision's language or intended scope; and
c) Judicial re-interpretation may ignore the people as expressed either directly or by the peoples' elected representatives.
How did we get here? John Adams said Americans created "a government of laws not men." As a result:
meanings -- and justice -- depend on words, not the perceptions or prejudices of the decision maker. This is particularly true where the relevant legal principle derives from the Constitution. The Framers made our Constitution relatively hard to change -- amendments and alterations only through various super-majorities. Relatively immutable Constitutions promote continuity and protect the rights of the minority.No more, says David Mayer:
left-liberals fuel the conservatives' accusation that liberal judicial activism undermines the rule of law and replaces neutral, objective standards of constitutional interpretation with the subjective preferences of individual judges. As former attorney general Edwin Meese said, theirs is a "chameleon jurisprudence, changing color and form in each era."According to John Hawkins, the left's new "living constitution" allows:
power hungry judges at the state and federal level [to make] decisions on a regular basis, based on little more than their own personal biases and that should be left to elected representatives of the people. Then after our robed masters, like kings of old, issue decrees that all of us must live by, they imperiously proclaim their pig's ear of a ruling to be a silk purse of constitutional law.For the left, the omission of privacy from the Constitution is a mere technicality. Liberals, of course, like technicalities that force acquittal of the guilty. But outside the Sixth, Seventh and Eight Amendment, technicalities blocking a "progressive" agenda are routinely resolved by Judicial amendment. That's not what the Founding Fathers intended, says blogger Sandefur:
The fact is, almost all of law is technicalities. The Constitution sets limits on what government does not just by enumerating a set of things that government shouldn't do -- something the Federalist called a "parchment barrier," because it could be so easily overcome -- but mainly by determining how decisions are to be made, and making some things more difficult for government to do as a matter of procedure.Through the liberal looking glass, legal fidelity is a flaw. And of that crime, Judge Roberts plainly is guilty. Hedgepeth is a good example; Slate's Dalia Lithwick faulted Roberts based on the case's outcome as opposed to the role of appellate Judges or the actual text of the law. Demanding judges that uphold "nontextual rights" seems as nutty as imagining a six foot rabbit--but there's little hope liberal lawyers will get committed.
Similar logical non sequiturs lie behind the leftist insistence Justice Roberts would "severely limit the authority of Congress to protect environmental quality as well as the rights and interests of ordinary Americans." That conclusion is based on five paragraph dissent from a rehearing on banc in Rancho Viejo, LLC v. Norton, 334 F.3d 1158 (D.C. Cir. 2003), cert. denied, 124 S. Ct. 2061 (2004), the "arroyo toad" decision. Yet, Roberts nowhere denigrated environmental protections nor signaled his view of the issue. Rather, Roberts was, well, judicious, says Viet Dinh in Slate:
In arguing for reconsideration of the panel's decision against the developer, he did not say that the three judges decided the case wrongly. Rather, he acknowledged that their treatment of the case was consistent with the 1997 precedent of the D.C. Circuit. And note how judicious is his call for reconsideration. His guns are not blazing. His mind is not made up. Rather, his opinion states that the panel decision "seems inconsistent" with the Supreme Court holdings in 1995 and 2000. And he did not say that the Fifth Circuit was right, only that there is a clear conflict.Writing in Tech Central, Lee Harris wonders:
What explains this mystery? How did Americans relinquish the fundamental right of free people to govern themselves without fear of the capricious intervention of an oligarchy whose values are often diametrically the opposite of the values of those over whom they rule? An oligarchy, moreover, that never needs to worry about being tossed out on its ear or overthrown in a revolution; an oligarchy whose supremacy remains unquestioned even by those who are most bitterly opposed to its high-handed and imperious acts.That's a question Senators Schumer, Kennedy and Leahy can't answer. Especially regarding Courts and judges, the left has no principles. Rather, the liberal approach to law has become entirely result oriented.
Leftists don't so much dispute Roberts' reading of the Constitution--they're terrified he reads it at all. This isn't about process, doctrine or reasoning. It's about ends--which apparently justify any means.
- Judges aren't politicians and don't make law. The United States Constitution embodies a federal system of government, with limited and specifically enumerated centralized authority. Ideas not in the Constitutional text are neither enshrined or prohibited, but instead are the provenance of politics, to be settled numerically:
the founding fathers didn't expect voter unanimity on controversial issues. Instead, they created a process to address disagreement--a relatively immutable Constitution, a Congress with limited Federal powers, separation of powers, a list of untouchable rights, and an expectation that state legislatures would reflect the will of their own citizens.Judges interpret, not make, law. So, when judging Judges, rate the reasoning, not the result, says Charles Krauthammer:
The real question is never what judges decide but how they decide it. The Scalia-Thomas argument was not about concern for cancer patients, the utility of medical marijuana or the latitude individuals should have regarding what they ingest.Indeed, the syllabus is narrow and excludes politics:
The question before the Supreme Court was not whether allowing the medicinal use of marijuana was a good policy or a bad policy. The legal question was whether Congress had the authority under the Constitution to regulate something that happened entirely within the boundaries of a given state.By that measure, Roberts excels. Individual rights are spelled out in Constitution, statute and regulation. In Hedgepeth, Roberts followed the law which -- as his own opinion noted (id.) -- quickly was revised "after those responsible endured the sort of publicity reserved for adults who make young girls cry." That's the democratic process--except as seen through liberal-colored glasses.
- One way, only. A half-century ago, the left lost faith in the Constitutional process, preferring a quicker "Hail Mary" to courts:
Democrats never bothered to seek voter or legislative majorities on such maters. They push ever-expanding list of issues too important for debate, instead relying on judicial decrees imposed without regard to the will of the people. Ironically, therefore, the Democratic Party's notion of democracy is anything but democratic.The effect is to turn the judiciary into Congress and unelected judges into politicians.
Even were judges politicians, what's the beef today? The anti-Bush goon squad and thoughtful liberals oppose Roberts because he's conservative. So what? President Clinton nominated the ACLU's general counsel (and board member), the definition of a liberal. But Justice Ginsburg is a solid jurist, was not attacked for being leftist and was confirmed 97-3. If Roberts gets fewer yeas, it will be an outrage.
The real issue is the left's discriminatory, dead-end concept of a living Constitution. Liberals give it life to change with the times. But the course of change is neither fixed nor one-sided. If liberal Judges can add "non textual" provisions, so can conservatives:
How can the left attack the strict scrutiny of Bush's judicial nominees, yet insist on unquestioned adherence as soon as a 5-4 Supreme Court augments the Constitution with yet another plank from the liberal platform de jour? In stark contrast to a women's right to choose, liberals protect the "living" Constitution while gestating, but sign a death certificate of un-changeability once each new "right" is born.Only a liberal could insist Constitutional text is flexible--in one direction. Only a liberal could demand change--but only in a lefty direction. Only a liberal could turn the law into a one-way ratchet--that can't revert.
If law is politics, "just say no" liberals must show why John Roberts should be defeated solely because he's conservative. And if it's not, the anti-Roberts' side needs to demonstrate conservatism is an "extraordinary circumstance."
- Limited government doesn't limit liberals. Liberals particularly scorn judicial reasoning when it might constrain their pet programs. For example, looking at Rancho Viejo, lefties decry Roberts' "crabbed view of Congressional power under the Commerce Clause" predicting Justice Roberts would "stake out hard-line positions that severely limit the authority of the federal government to address national concerns." The heresy was questioning whether a power over interstate commerce covered animals confined to California.
This is unprincipled. For liberals, scope of the clause depending on whether they like the legislation at issue: expansive "to protect environmental quality as well as the rights and interests of ordinary Americans" or even "a last chance for justice" for rape victims; narrow so as to block Federal tax credits for business and non-existent when "religious zealots" seek to save a life, particularly in Florida, because states right have "almost exclusively been invoked by conservative or reactionary elements in support of . . either rich Southern white people who don't want to have to pay taxes or people who want to treat other people like crap."1
The argument is nonsense, not law, as Ann Althouse says:
From a liberal perspective, one might want to think: I support the enforcement of federalism limits when federalism is really a stand-in for individual rights, and I support strong federal government power when the federal policy in question is really a stand-in for individual rights. But it is rather hard to translate that instinct into sound constitutional law.After treating the Constitution like an accordian,2 Democrats are in no position to demonize Judge Roberts' "arroyo toad" reasoning, sometimes.
- The Court Isn't a "Bantustan." Already, lefties like Risa Goluboff are baying about diversity:
[I]f Roberts is confirmed, there will be a loss of diversity on the Court. Perhaps Bush is suggesting that we as a nation have come so far toward gender equality that a woman need not replace the first female justice of the Supreme Court. Or perhaps he doesn't care about diversity and gender equality. Either way, the gender and ethnic identity of a woman or minority nominee would have been an issue in the confirmation process, and the same should be true for Roberts. Although no one has ever thought the Court representative of the American populace, one woman out of nine is surely a gross underrepresentation.Goluboff was over-confident: some demand proportional representation on the court, such as Sally Swift:
Americans--all Americans--must depend on the United States Supreme Court to interpret and uphold the US Constitution, and to create the Laws of the Land for all of us. All of us. Women, African Americans, Hispanics, Gays, people of all colors, creeds, cultures, religions, beliefs. Our lives, our liberties, our futures, our children's futures have been too long in the hands of a bunch of White Guys with White Guy ideologies and attitudes. Their interpretations of the Law cannot possibly reflect or protect the needs and lifestyles and thoughts and expectations of all Americans, without reasonable representation among them of all Americans on the Court.This is factually wrong, unconstitutional and noxious. Initially, neither politics nor group characteristics necessarily generate any particular judicial approach, as Ann Althouse observed, "Do you really think the liberal outcomes are produced only by liberal political leanings? I notice that the Justices who disappoint the Presidents who chose them were -- in recent times -- all appointed by conservatives." Even Justice O'Connor was too manly for Slate's Lithwick, who complained in a NY Times Op-Ed:
But when I question--reasonably--if there isn't a woman or minority out there somewhere who's at least as qualified as Roberts to better serve our Entire citizenry (which, by the way, Justice O'Connor also finds disappointing), Carl goes a bit over the top, accusing me of an opinion "both unconstitutional and noxious."
We all know by now that "All Men Are Created Equal" doesn't apply simply to White Men any more. And the highest Court in the land should reflect that.
How could someone who blew open doors for generations of women after her show so little empathy to female victims of violence in the 2000 case of United States v. Morrison, for instance, where she joined with the court's conservatives to invalidate the Violence Against Women Act, or to teenagers facing the death penalty in Roper v. Simmons last fall.Indeed, this idea can be rebutted through a single question: "Is Justice Thomas "representative" of his race?"
Swift's suggestion would trash the Constitution. In the context of the 15th Amendment, the Supreme Court (Rice v. Cayetano, from 2000) called the concept a "demeaning premise that citizens of a particular race are somehow more qualified than others to vote on certain matters." More broadly, Swift's approach is antithetical to America itself: if viewpoints can be reflected only by like persons, our representative government, relying on districts, not race and gender, also must be scrapped. And since individual citizens will differ, often subtly, Swift's recommendation requires replacing a Congress of 535 with an unworkable legislature of 270 million.
The concept is offensive, according to Heather MacDonald in NRO:
In other words, it is the sympathetic identity between a judge and an alleged victim that compels constitutional decisions, not anything having to do with the Constitution itself. This argument would . . . reduc[e] the law as it does to a question of tribal loyalty. . . [Such reasoning] explicitly rejects the realm of reason.Americans don't vote by tribe--which is why questions about Roberts' faith (Catholic) are noxious. And Swift's approach wouldn't "de-politicize" the confirmation process: Even a segregated Court must still be chosen by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
Roberts can't be rejected simply over skin-tone or external genitalia.
- Questions about future reasoning compromise judicial independence. Liberal special interests already demand the Spanish Inquisition; NCJW, a liberal Jewish women's lobby,
calls upon the Senate to fully examine Judge Roberts' dedication to constitutional protections of the right to privacy, separation of religion and state, and other fundamental freedoms. The nation has a right to expect that confirmation of the next person to fill a seat on the Supreme Court will be contingent on a demonstrated commitment to protecting the rights and freedoms of every American and a devotion to the bedrock principle of an independent judiciary.It wasn't always so: As Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said during her 1993 confirmation hearings, "A judge sworn to decide impartially can offer no forecasts, no hints, for that would show not only disregard for the specifics of the particular case, it would display disdain for the entire judicial process." Senator Biden defended her answer:
the public is best served by questions that initiate a dialog with the nominee, not about how she will decide any specific case that may come before her, but about the spirit and the method she will bring to the task of judging. There is a real difference … between questions that focus on specific results or outcomes, the answers to which would risk compromising a nominee's independence and impartiality, and questions on judicial methods and philosophy. The former can undermine the dispassionate and unprejudiced judgment we expect the nominee to exercise as a Justice. But the latter are essential and contribute critically to our public dialog.Roberts deserves no less, but won't get it.
The whole approach is dangerous, says Ramesh Ponnuru, in the current National Review:
allowing such questions, and expecting nominees to give answers to them, would cause confirmation hearings to degenerate into campaigns to get nominees to follow particular party lines. A nominee who pledged always to vote for pro-lifers, or always to vote for racial preferences, to get confirmed would be undermining the rule of law and the impartiality of the judiciary.This should horrify the left. If confirmation is conditioned on the political agenda of the Senate, nominees will tailor their views to that body's majority. But, as left and right agree, the Bill of Rights prevents the tyranny of the majority in the circumstances set forth in the text. If future Justices instead slant their jurisprudence to satisfy 51 Senators, Ponnuru warns, "the courts will become a servant of legislative majorities rather than a check on them." Thus, any "litmus test" abortion, for example,3 would hurt the very Americans it aims to protect.
If you don't like public-transit policy on French fries, elect new councilors who'll change it. That's how free societies function. . .Senate confirmation is the wrong venue for changing judicial politics. That's for the second Tuesday in November. And Americans have three and a half years to prepare.
The Dems prefer to leave it to the Divine Right of Judges. You might too if you believed in gay marriage and partial-birth abortion, but, simply as a matter of practical politics, it's disastrous for the party.
MaxedOutMama agrees: "Those who push the idea of a living constitution that can mean whatever the conscience of an individual judge thinks it ought to mean have inadvertently created a situation in which conservatism could now sweep the day if it chose to."
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Sally Swift isn't:
If it were up to Senator Rick Santorum, America would remain firmly mired in the 17th Century to achieve his goal that the Supreme Court ignore the monumental changes in lives and lifestyles and civil liberties and freedoms in order to return to its "true function: interpreting the law--not creating it." Perhaps Mr. Santorum would like some slaves to help the stay-at-home-wife he's so proud of -- since he's never there to help her himself.Sally don't know much about history: slavery was stopped by Constitutional Amendment (the 13th, 14th and 15th), not by inventing text.
The Constitution doesn't enshrine any particular politics, left or right. The rule of law -- what keeps the Anglosphere free -- depends on prohibiting arbitrary and capricious decision making unsupported by codified language. Though she says she's "praying for. . .a continuation of reason and compromise that's not about personal agendas," her approach deploys her personal agenda to demolish reason.
Sally favors the unbounded authority of supposed wise old women who know what's best--and can't spot the tyranny reflected in her bathroom mirror.
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Jonah Goldberg in NRO:
[T]he notion that there is a single, authentic black perspective strikes me as fundamentally racist in its essentialism. And the idea that women adhere to a female logic unique to them strikes me as by definition sexist. But the Left doesn't care, because this perspective is indispensable for attacking "inauthentic" blacks or other supposed traitors.More x 4:
Interesting essay at Villainous Company:
Unfortunately we exist in an Age when respect for rules and hierarchy is at a low ebb. Everyone wants to be in charge and no one wants to be a team player. But some sense of structure is absolutely necessary in an organization as large and complex as the federal government. Even a body as small as the Supreme Court will not function well if some of the members believe they have somehow been given a charter that supercedes the original instructions laid out for them at the time they accepted their appointment. And it is a measure of our ignorance and how dysfunctional our society has become that those who argue for judicial constraint are being cast as extremists who threaten the future of democracy as we know it._______________
1 Liberal blogger Ogged rejects acknowledging Constitutional limits on Federal power because it "entailed leaving too many people behind (eg women in Alabama who want an abortion, blacks in racist counties who want to vote, etc.)."
2 Remember Gonzalas v. Raich, upholding the Federal Government's power under the Commerce Clause to prohibit medical marijuana? Well, the ACLU and The Nation were horrified, though both support Federal criminal penalties for polluters. The WaPo, worried about far-reaching Federal environmental laws, praised Raich, even mentioning the arroyo toad case.
3 Employed by both Massachusetts Senators, Senior and Junior, Senator Schumer and, oh yeah, President Clinton.


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Pictures: Seal Rehabilitates In Mystic After Amputation
"Pup 49" is about 8 months old and was rescued last July by the New England Aquarium in Boston after a brutal attack by an older seal left deep wounds all over her body. She's not a trained seal and will not be released to the wild. Veterinarians amputated one of her two hind flippers to prevent a stubborn infection from spreading throughout her body.
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BEIJING — For several hours, it appeared the U.S. and China had struck a deal that would allow Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng to walk free — and avoid a diplomatic disaster.
American officials said Wednesday that they had obtained promises from Chinese authorities that the blind 40-year-old lawyer could live in a Chinese city of his choice and attend a university to continue his legal education. They portrayed Chen, who had dramatically fled house arrest in his village for the protection ofthe U.S. Embassyhundreds of miles away in Beijing, as exuberant over the deal.
But shortly after Chen was released from the embassy on Wednesday, he appeared to question whether officials had dealt with him in good faith. In a series of phone interviews from a hospital room, Chen said he had agreed to remain in China under the U.S.-devised deal only because American officials had told him that his wife would be beaten to death if he left the country.
"We'd like to rest in a place outside China," Chen said in an interview late Wednesday with the Associated Press. He entreated U.S. officials for help in leaving for a safe refuge.


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On the girls' side in this first tournament Ana Ristevska and Carol Plakk came out the strongest in the singles, reaching the quarter finals. As a new paring in the doubles Carol Plakk & Zeyneb Sena Sarioglan did a skillful job of making it to the finals and narrowly missed out on the title, losing the match 7-5 6-7(2) 10-8 to Kiara Ondrejcekova (SVK) & Oksana Selekhmeteva (RUS). In the boys tournament, Sergios Kyzas had to face a stadium full of Italians and press in his first tournament as he was playing an Italian local. It was a new experience and became a little daunting in the second set but will surely prove to be a useful learning experience, as he lost out in a long three set match to Gabrielle Felline (ITA) 2-6 6-3 6-4. Nemanja Malesevic reached the second round in singles and together with Karlis Ozolins had a tight semi final doubles match, eventually losing out in three sets 4-6 6-4 10-5 to the higher seeded Mikolaj Lorens & Dawid Taczala from Poland. For the second week of tournaments, the team headed to the Tennis Europe Category 1 tournament in Foligno, Italy, and continued its successful journey. Ana Gröss came out top in the girls' singles, reaching the quarter finals before falling to Gemma Lairon Navarro (ESP) 6-0 6-1. Zeyneb Sena Sarioglan & Ana Ristevska had a great doubles tournament, making it to the final where they lost to home pair Maribor Marioni & Giulia Tedesco 6-3 6-0. In the boys' event Karlis Ozolins went the furthest, losing in the third round to Mateo Vereau Melendez (PER) 6-3 6-1. But the team of Sergios Kyzas & Nemanja Malesevic came out top in this tournament, putting in a great effort to win the doubles final 7-5 6-4 against Vereau Velendez and his Peruvian compatriot Sebastian Rodrigues. The next stop was Tunisia, for the ITF grade 4 events, and the first tournament was the in town of Kelibia. This was a great event for Carol Plakk, who won both the singles and doubles titles, despite being unseeded. Carol paired up again with Zeyneb Sena Sarioglan in doubles, beating the Turkish no 1 seeds, Zeynep Erman & Zeynep Sonmex 6-2 6-1. Carol's singles was a tough affair but she came through winning 7-6(3) 7-6(1) against Daniella Dimitrova (BUL). Anna Gröss won through qualifying with a couple of good wins to start her off on her pathway to an ITF ranking. Ana Ristevska had a close three-set match with Pastigarra Harper (ESP) who went on to the quarter finals losing out to our Carol Plakk. This was a good tournament for Nemanja Malesevic who reached his first ITF Juniors semifinal before losing to the eventual winner Tomas Kopczynski (USA). Sergios Kyzas reached the second round, winning the first ITF Juniors singles main draw match of his career. Kyzas & Malesevic tried to continue their winning streak in doubles, but lost a tight first round match against the eventual winners of the tournament Harry Butler & Barney Fitzpatrick (GBR) 7-6(5) 2-6 10-5. The Team's final week was in Mahdia, Tunisia. In the first round Carol Plakk had to meet her opponent from the previous week's final, Daniella Dimitrova (BUL), but managed to pull off another win in three sets 6-2 2-6 7-6(3). She then lost out to a strong opponent in Jade Bornay (FRA) 6-4 2-6 6-1 who played particularly well and who Anna Gröss had lost to in the previous round in a tough half of the draw. For the first time the girls did not make the doubles final; Carol Plakk & Zeyneb Sena Sarioglan lost out in the semi-finals to the eventual winners Kateryna Zadorozhna (UKR) & Joanne Zuger (SUI) 6-2, 4-6, 10-5. On the boys team Nemanja Malesevic had a particularly good week again getting to the semifinals in singles before falling to Benjamin Bencic (SUI) 6-4 6-2 but helping him move up the rankings. Sergios Kyzas had a good win in the first round over Adam Nagoudi from Tunisia but lost out to Harry Butler (GBR) in the 2nd round. Malesevic had reached the semi finals in the doubles but his partner was injured so they had to give the opponents a walkover, while the pairing of Sergios Kyzas & Karlis Ozolins lost out to American pair William Grant & Tomas Kopczynski in the quarter finals in a tight match 7-6(4) 6-2 but this USA paring went on to win the title. The team coaches commented: "Over the trip we came away with ITF Grade 4 girls singles and doubles titles, and one Tennis Europe Category 1 boys doubles title . The girls reaching the two other Tennis Europe Category 1 doubles finals, two ITF boys' singles semifinals, and a big move in ranking points for some of the players. The trip proved educational to the players in managing their time, diet and fitness in accordance to their matches. There was a great learning curve in being part of a group and pulling together. Players responded well to the tactical information given to them and we saw a big improvement in play throughout the 5 weeks from the start of the training camp to the final tournament, which also showed in the results. It has been a pleasure working with these players and we wish them all the best with their future careers." « Back» News archive


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Systems Staff Meeting Notes
December 14, 2007
December 14, 2007
Present: Thomas Bielicke, Will Chaney, Logan Clapp, Winston Harris, Bobbie Meng, Tom Minton, Chris Nicolich, Amy PolkAnnouncements
Ongoing Systems Updates
- The walls of Bobbie's new house are framed.
- Bobbie's granddaughter got her first deer - a doe.
Equipment Received/Installed/Repaired
- Orders - all approved have been ordered.
- West public - reset the maintenance mode back to regular. Backups can now be pushed.
- IP conflict in Docs - with the Deep Freeze console - cause unknown.
- Systems training - starts in January. Every Tuesday - for a couple of hours. It will start with Logan teaching the SAN.
Software Projects Status
- No news on McAfee.
- SAN status - Logan deployed the first DLC virtual server. Storage space is set up - spanned storage. MSL redundancy is simplified. DLC file structure still in process. Permissions structure suggested by Erich needs to be changed. MSL is basically up. Should move forward on software deployment. DLC in East to match MSL - RepliStore. File structure for the Libraries needs to be done. Will base it on the org chart. Discussion of permissions. We could create department folders next week and leave the user folders on NT2R. Amy suggests doing this departmentally. Will is going to stop backing up NT2R at some point. After Christmas break we'll do the move. It seems reasonable to do it by department. New default server with option to redirect. From a management stand point, use a flat directory structure. Default user folder would be under home, moves would require reconfiguration of Outlook folders. User folder as home directory with quotas - currently only Domain Admins can change permissions. This will need to remain to maintain the Directory Structure. Need to have a way to follow changes. In the next few days, we need to develop a proposed layout. Will is opposed to home directory, initially. To implement, it can be changed in AD to set group policy. When the disk is full, the network is down - you wouldn't be able to work unless a copy is on the local machine.
- SMS- Amy requested a quote for the software upgrade. Dell has not responded.
- Campus AD - Amy is working on a script and is testing Xerox. Will test the CIRCA printing solution in January. To use Xerox, we would have to add the Xerox server.
Web Projects
- The Incident Report form that Chris has been working on is complete, pending Matthew Daley's approval.
- Patron updates - change - request from CIRCA to include pre-registered spring students.
- Barbara Oliver requested that Grace Strawn get most of Barbara's security roles as Barbara is retiring. Winston has official emails to have Grace authorized.
- DLC/Greenstone - nothing pressing.
Systems Security Management
- University Web group met with University Printing. They will be changing all print publication to Web publication. The head of the print group needs to cut 1.8 million by the end of the year. Web people are anxious and debating how to do it.
- Tech Services has requested that Tom Minton design new Web pages for them, including a blog for the staff side, navigation on the left with the template.
- Server-side includes will be one line and will cut out a slew of HTML. It does the same thing as JAVA. People who have changed the template, the global change will not work.
- Exchange Web server will be virtualized.
- Meeting held.


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Oil has been a topic in the news for years. With the nonrenewable resource being monopolized by corporate giants and the procurement dependent on unstable international relations, the pressure to find new and more local sources has been a focus to ensure the operations of our country as developments are made to convert the nation's reliance to more sustainable and environmentally friendly sources of energy.
The Keystone Pipeline project was originally proposed by the TransCanada Corporation in 2005 with portions of the pipeline approved and constructed in Canada. Since then, 4 phases of the project have been proposed. Currently, phase 1 and 2 have already been completed with pipelines running from Alberta through Kansas and Nebraska. The 3rd and 4th phases (the Keystone XL expansion project) require 757 miles of pipeline to be built connecting the portions already constructed from the first two phases – Alberta to Nebraska and Oklahoma to Texas.
Even though Obama rejected the Keystone XL Pipeline on January 18th, groups of senators are trying to resurrect it – disregarding the environmental implications and focusing on supporting the existing oil monopoly. Regardless of your personal political party affiliation, sign the petition to prevent the oil giants from gaining even more power and wealth, encourage our country (and the world) to look beyond oil for energy, and to protect wildlife and the environment.
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Chinese man is the world's best at throwing up
Liang Yuxin trumps even the very worst hangovers to become world throwing-up record holder.
The Chinese man, 25, from Xia Mei has stunned doctors with his ability to regurgitate anything from a live fish to a 50-inch chain.
While the process of dispensing with ten or more mojitos in the morning may feel unnatural, Liang Yuxin's ability to throw up jewellery puts even the bitterest katzenjammer to shame.
The champion chunderer said: 'I found out I could do it when I was a boy and I accidentally swallowed a ball and found I could bring it back up at will.
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Liang has taken to regularly swallowing fish and whatever else will fit down his oesophagus for kicks, and is now talking about going for the Guinness World Record in coin-swallowing.
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Our glamping yurts and shepherd's hut are sited in a three acre meadow which we manage in an environmentally friendly and sustainable manner - the ox-eye daisies are doing well and we have a very good supply of bird's foot trefoil and the occasional bee orchid (see our section on Sustainability for more info about what we're doing on all things Green) and have been planting native whips which have now begun to look nicely established. We regularly see and hear owls (barn, little owl and tawny - have a look here at some footage shot recently by one of our yurt guests of a barn owl in the meadow), bats, hares, rabbits (of course), red legged partridge and a fantastic range of birds, including buzzards, kestrels and sparrowhawks, green and great spotted woodpeckers, yellowhammers and many smaller and migrating species; the spotted fly catchers in the summer are some of our favourites. If you are good with birdsong, you'll be able to pick out the various warblers that live in the rich habitat around the fields. In fact with a bit of luck you should be able to see all of the birds after which the various yurts are named during your stay (with the exception of Lapwings which tend to be around over the late autumn and winter months, grazing on the local arable fields). We've also been excited to see stoats and weasles around and about the meadow, so keep your eyes peeled. One of our young yurters also tracked down a glow-worm!
We have a pond (fenced off, if you are worried about small children!) and ditches that encourage huge dragonflies in summer and early autumn and we have recently spotted water voles and a water shrew (the UK's only venomous mammal!) Ducks and moorhens nest wherever they can find a well-hidden spot. Our two small copses are home to aconites and bluebells in spring and wild cherries later in the year, and we are working to create a wildlife-friendly environment around the margins to encourage nesting and hibernating habitats for a whole range of species, including our hedgehog families. We have also been planting willow poles, elders, buddleia and many native trees and shrubs in the meadow including damson, crab apple, hazel, guelder-rose and dogwood.
We love the yurts because they sit quietly in their surroundings, are snug as well as very comfortable - they all have wood-burners inside and "proper" double beds - and allow you to enjoy the natural environment to the full. They're fun too and, as keen campers we aim to include all the best bits from various sites we've visited over the years – campfires come top of the list, closely followed by the pizza oven! So once the sun starts to go down you can sit round the campfire watching the stars come out and enjoy the peace. The sky is wonderfully dark at night, and when the moon is full it's great fun to go for night hikes or bike rides (remember to like us on FaceBook page for details of our monthly Full Moon Walks).
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As 2010 ends on a high note, optimism is high for 2011. A&S talks to research analysts,manufacturers and channel players to find out what's next in the year to come.
As 2010 ends on a high note, optimism is high for 2011. A&S talks to research analysts, manufacturers and channel players to find out what's next in the year to come.
The financial crisis shook up physical security, eliminating unfit players. A "recessionproof" industry took a hard look at itself and emerged stronger. Manufacturers had to explain to buyers the additional benefits of their solutions, making value the spec to beat.
Consolidation is expected to continue in 2011. "We expect that 2011 will set a new record for mergers and acquisitions, but the rate of growth in consolidation will fall off," said Allan McHale, Director of Memoori. "Most of the major security companies, including Honeywell Security, Schneider Electric, Siemens Building Technologies, Johnson Controls, Bosch Security Systems and UTC Fire & Security, have yet to seal a deal in 2010, and it is most unlikely that they will be able to resist the temptation in 2011. The main driver will continue to be IT convergence, combined with the fact that major companies have strong cash reserves and venture capitalists want to realize their investments."
Open StandardsStandards offer customers more choices for best-of-breed solutions and spare manufacturers the hassle of individual third-party integrations. The value proposition for standards will keep going strong in 2011. "While both ONVIF and PSIA have made good progress in gaining equipment vendor support, the topic of standards in network video surveillance is still very young, and it is unlikely that standards will have any sudden impact on the video surveillance market," said Gary Wong, Senior Research Analyst for Video Surveillance and VCA, IMS Research. "However, the eventual adoption of open standards will force video surveillance equipment vendors to increasingly focus on differentiating themselves from competitors."
By the numbers, ONVIF has greater uptake, with more than 220 members and 389 compliant products as of November. PSIA has been around longer but is supported on 63 products, a fraction of ONVIF's offerings. "PSIA stands out because it is focused on developing IP standards for all technology sectors," said David Bunzel, Executive Director of PSIA. "This includes video surveillance, access control, video analytics, recording and software management platforms, and storage devices." PSIA released its video analytics specification in September 2010, with an access control specification to follow in the coming months. "This eases complex installations for integrators and enables end users to choose the best solutions that meet their security needs," he said.
Several vendors have solutions compliant with both standards. "We're firm believers in standards," said Jumbi Edulbehram, VP of Business Development, Next Level Security Systems. "Our products support ONVIF and PSIA, the two main standards for network-based security systems."
Another vendor with solutions conforming to both bodies is Hikvision. "Currently, there have been substantial requests to manufacture products that support both ONVIF and PSIA standards," said Tony Yang, International Marketing Director at Hikvision Digital Technology. "Products that embrace both the analog and IP technologies, the hybrid products, are also in demand."
Honeywell has its own Open Technology Alliance, with increased third-party cooperation and support for PSIA and ONVIF. "We are members of both organizations, and our intent is to have all of our systems — NVRs and DVRs — support both standards and to offer edge devices like cameras in one or the other standard," said Johnny Allia, VP and GM for EMEA, Honeywell Security.
With the varying levels of uptake, some vendors are taking a wait-and-see approach to make sure they embrace the right standard. "If standards are updated, this will make integration easier," said Herve Fages, Global Marketing Director for Pelco (a Schneider Electric company). "Pelco is looking at different standards. Customers are asking for better and easier integration."
Another video alliance to emerge is HDcctv. "2011 will represent the first full year of HDcctv equipment sales, and IMS believes that the initial adoption of HDcctv equipment will be low," Wong said. "While the initial increase in camera cost from SD to HD is likely to be marginal, the cost of HDcctv DVRs are expected to be significantly higher than their SD counterparts until economy of scale can be achieved."
As IP is expected to reach its tipping point (by sales volume) by 2013 or 2014, there are doubts about the longevity of HDcctv. "HDcctv is a niche market for specialty analog CCTV installations," Edulbehram said. "We will not support this initiative since we fully embrace the cost savings that IP convergence systems enable." Next Level is working on cost-effective products for smaller facilities as well as enterprise systems.
However, some product makers believe that HDcctv will gain market position and status. "Contrary to market predictions, like reports published by IMS, I believe that analog products will continue to dominate the market in the years to come," said Craig Scott, CEO of OVii.
IntegrationThe credit crunch squeezed buyer wallets and put pressure on solution providers to diversify their portfolios. Even traditional access control players, such as Nedap, added VMS functionality to their controller management solutions.
Schneider Electric branched into the cloud, as Pelco has expanded compliance for IP-enabled products on US government networks. While Pelco has an impressive hardware lineup, networking and integration are the way forward. "We're seeing the first change, switching from analog to IP," Fages said. "The next step is to have HD. Then the next step is cloud computing, cloud recording and cloud management, which will change the industry."
VMS is expected to move beyond managing video systems alone. "In 2011, IMS expects to see vendors place an increasing emphasis on verticalization, creating verticalspecific solutions," Wong said. "For 'open-platform' VMS vendors, while the horizon for instant interoperability among all types of network video equipment is still far away, 2011 should see vendors of VMS begin to focus on developing more innovative solutions."
Solutions are the way forward. "In 2011, we will continue to expand our line with innovative offerings," said Daniel Gundlach, VP of Marketing for the Americas, Bosch Security Systems. "Specifically, the market will see new products that provide a full solution for HD video and enhancements to our control panels for intrusion, fire and access control."
Video surveillance or managed video as a service has emerged as alternative business models, with everyone from new companies to channel partners and ISPs eyeing this space. More managed video offerings will be ahead in 2011.
No - Frills VideoTop-shelf video manufacturers have launched budget cameras for basic surveillance needs. Sony released its affordable HD line this year, with fewer lens choices and no IR. This marks a departure from adding more features to a more practical solution for a general range of applications.
"There's increasing demand for security systems to be user-friendly — easy to set up, easy to configure, easy to use," said Daniel Ong, VP of Certis Technology International, Certis Cisco Security. "The challenge is to achieve user friendliness without compromising the security and integrity of the systems. With the increasing popularity of IP-based systems and edge devices, customers are also expecting security cameras, DVRs and access control systems to be 'plug-and-play' with minimum setup and configuration required."
Some solutions have automatic configurations of network video streams for easy setup. "For our product development road map, Cisco announced the industry's first medianet-enabled network camera that provides simplified plug-and-play configuration with medianet-enabled Ethernet switch ports," said Lindsay Hiebert, Marketing Manager for Cisco Systems.
Regional preferences should be accounted for. "We've recognized the need to design products for the local market," said Mark VanDover, President of Tyco Security Products. "We address the price needs."
StorageBreakthroughs in networking, storage and compression technologies are driving growth in the network storage market. "The increase in the number of video channels per installation and the resolution of the cameras are some of the primary reasons for the growth of data in video surveillance applications," according to Frost & Sullivan's report on the North American physical security network storage market.
Network storage, in particular IP storage area networks, is at the forefront of new enterprise surveillance projects. IMS's report, "The World Market for Enterprise and IP Storage used for Video Surveillance," forecasts network storage will account for more than 30 percent of world video surveillance storage revenues in 2013, which are likely to exceed US$5.6 billion by then.
Better storage and cloud options will benefit end users. "More storage capacity and faster computing resources will be delivered as hardware in standard servers increases," said Lee Caswell, founder and CMO, Pivot3. "We will pass these improvements along to our customers as they become available in the marketplace."
Components Semiconductors form the innards of security devices, making physical security a potential goldmine for component suppliers. In-Stat forecast revenue from analog cameras, network cameras, DVRs, NVRs and encoders will reach $19 billion in 2011. However, image sensor revenue for surveillance cameras will drop from $700 million in 2008 to $435 million in 2013.
Overall semiconductor predictions, which include consumer applications, will grow 8 or 9 percent in 2011, according to IDC. This market upswing is reflected in Intel's investment in NetPosa, a Chinese IP video provider. Its ONVIF-compliant NVRs and servers will be based on Intel architecture and software.
Network camera providers are sensitive to semiconductor supply, as they require sensors and processors, which are rarely made in-house. "We continue to enhance our product quality to enlarge our market share," said William Ku, Director of Brand Business for VIVOTEK. "That way, we will have stronger bargaining power in component purchases."
AccessGrowth is ahead for access control. Global smart card shipments are set to grow 11 percent to around 8.5 billion units by 2013, according to RNCOS. Europe will see more transportation rollouts, while the US government will deploy cards for industrial markets.
Standards are welcome in the access control space, enabling large clients spread out over many countries to centralize management, such as access rights. They also can use one platform, rather than multiple clients. "Pacom has become a specialist in managing access control from multiple sites, and we plan to extend this core competence to support third-party systems," said Johan Lembre, CEO of Pacom Systems. "This is one of the major driving factors why Pacom became one of the first members of ONVIF's access control initiative."
Biometrics is benefiting from new sensing technologies. "These are good developments, but at the end of the day, they have to provide better performance at an equivalent or lower TCO than alternatives," said Peter Costa, VP and Business Leader of Global Protection, Honeywell Building Solutions.
Intrusion and AutomationDemand for alarms is expected to grow in 2011, which could eclipse 2009 estimates of $2.9 billion, said IMS Research. Home automation is expected to increase as well, with system shipments to approach 2.8 million, according to ABI Research.
Intrusion detection solution providers are launching new technologies. "We plan to substantially broaden our portfolio with panels, detectors, accessories and solutions that answer the needs of different market segments in general and our customers' needs in particular," said Laila Arad-Allan, VP of Marketing, Visonic. "Our lower-price products are just as reliable, even more so because they are less complex by delivering less features and not less costly components."
Israeli intrusion provider Risco has expanded its portfolio through strategic purchases of access control and video companies. It now offers remote monitoring in parts of Europe, increasing its revenue beyond product sales.
Homeland SecurityThe 9/11 bombings had an indelible effect on security, putting terrorism on the list of threats. While no more planes have deliberately hit skyscrapers since then, the ingenuity of criminal minds has yet to be thwarted. The most recent example was November's attempt to send explosives disguised in printer cartridges aboard cargo planes, rigged to detonate remotely. With US cargo screening mandated by the end of 2011, more equipment will be required to keep up with demand.
ProductionAs the recession called for cost-cutting measures, some organizations relocated production. While most manufacturers are staying put, they are more open to setting up shop elsewhere. "Despite increasing labor costs in China, the company currently has no plans to relocate its factory elsewhere, although it cannot completely discard the possibility in the future," Yang said.
Belt-tightening includes eliminating rarely used features to cut cost. "We don't have any plan to move," said Bruce Wu, Overseas Marketing Director for Dali Technology. Production in China remains advantageous and more flexible.
Other vendors do not plan to outsource labor. "Our products are produced in Taiwan, where labor costs are higher than China," Ku said. "But we do not plan to relocate our factory outside of Taiwan in 2011."
Managing personnel effectively can control costs. "Setting up a factory in Taiwan might not be as costly as some might think — it all depends on how people are managed to work to their full potential," Scott said.
Automation can decrease costs while improving quality. "Our way of addressing the increasing cost of labor is by implementing more automation in our production," Arad-Allan said.
A benefit of local production is closeness to buyers. "While the cost of labor is low, the challenge of managing quality and providing quick response time to critical customers demands that we keep our product development in the U.S. as it is today," Caswell said.
Locating good partners can reduce cost as well. "For us to remain cost-competitive, we are considering using an OEM for peripheral devices — particularly when the item is already certified for use in countries in which we operate," Lembre said.
Channel DevelopmentManufacturers will continue to rely on distributors for their channel in the upcoming year, rather than go to end users. "Our company follows the 'direct sales, indirect fulfillment' model, which means that our products will be sold exclusively through distribution, but we will have a direct sales relationship with integrators and end users," Edulbehram said. "That way, we can keep our prices lower by leveraging our distributors' efficiencies, and at the same time, have deep relationships with end customers and integrators for sales and support."
Pacom also relies on VARs for sales, while networking with end customers and integrators directly. "For us as a manufacturer, the contact with end users is vital as we learn about their challenges and develop innovative and cost-effective ways in which they can overcome their issues," Lembre said.
While selling to end customers is effective, it requires significant manpower. VIVOTEK will continue its channel efforts with distributors and system integrators, Ku said. Road shows with solution partners are another way it plans to expand its channel.
Channel partners can respond quickly to end-user needs . "Education is always provided in full to solution and channel partners to better prepare and educate users in using our products," said Ian Cameron, MD of Mirasys.
Strategic partnerships can be an effective go-to-market strategy for specific vertical segments. "We will broaden our channel development toward telcos and utility companies who are interested in combining home security with their offerings and services," Arad-Allan said.
Dis tributor Brands Distributors and integrators will launch more independent product lines in 2011, as margins and volumes fall. An example was Dutch integrator TKH Group acquiring Optelecom-NKF in November. "The phenomenon of distributors pushing their own brands into the market is not unusual, and Hikvision does not view this as a threatening move for intense competition," Yang said. "Instead, the company will find ways to cooperate with a wobbling distributor to secure its foothold in the market and seize opportunities together. Even if a distributor asked Hikvision to accept OEM orders, the company would be happy to work together."
Other product makers also felt distributor brands would not hurt their business. "We will focus on OEM sales for global distributors," Wu said.
Distributor brands do not always compete with products carried by the distributor. "Even when working with ADI Global Distribution, a subsidiary of Honeywell, in Nordic countries, who have their own branded products, Mirasys continues to acquire good market share," Cameron said. "In terms of functions, software abilities, scalabilities and interface applications, as long as the product is unique, market competition should not be feared."
Marketing and EducationAs the market rebounds, manufacturers are preparing to reach out to strategic buyers. "Our end users are the installers and central monitoring stations," Arad-Allan said. "They are in most cases the decision makers of which security system to install in the home."
Visonic's sales and marketing efforts will target installers with events, dedicated tools, webinars and papers. "Another media we will soon start using is social media, which is an excellent tool for engaging our customers in conversation, ideas, views and information," Arad-Allan said.
The PSIA will focus on engaging consultants, end user sand integrators. "Over the course of 2011, PSIA will present focused educational offerings in specific regions and online," Bunzel said. "We will continue to conduct strategic educational outreach to better inform the industry of our efforts."
VMS is becoming more essential, yet requires training for end customers and channel partners. "We place a lot of emphasis on education, especially because the market is undergoing a transition from analog to IP," Edulbehram said. "We will certainly use new media tools that are available for education — Web-based training — as well as networking with Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter."
Returning to basics, dialogue is essential for manufacturers and solution providers to make customer needs the top priority for 2011. "Focusing on perfecting technical functions might be impressive, but might not suit the needs of the end users," Scott said. "Build things people want to buy!"


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As we began to read the book, he brought up these beliefs again, and I thought I would share my response to Mark that I sent during our email discussion: (This begins after a short discussion of Gamaliel's defense of the Apostles in Acts 5)
Incidentally, as I was reading those sections of Acts again, I read Gamaliel's words with a new perspective (no pun intended)... When he defends the apostles in Acts 5, he says:
"Therefore, in the present case I advise you: Leave these men alone! Let them go! For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail. But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find yourselves fighting against God."
Gamaliel seems to have the same idea of God that I do: If he does exist and he is a personal, non-deist type of God, than he has a stake in the course of history (especially in the development of the Bible). A god that doesn't protect his communication with his people is not a god I can believe in. In case it's not obvious what I'm getting at: I don't think I can believe in a God that allowed the writings of a "false apostle" to be accepted as inspired by the vast majority of his followers. For me, to believe in God is to believe in the God of the Bible as we have it. Not because I trust Paul for any particular reason, but because any god worth believing in should be trustworthy when it comes to "scripture". Gamaliel's statement in Acts 5 takes as it's presupposition the only god I'm prepared to believe in: a god that fights for ideas that are true and suppresses ideas that are not. (Please don't ask me to explain why Islam is so widespread; I can't.)
I know that doesn't address all your specific comments (attacks :) ) on Paul, but I think my comments above make it clear: I don't think a faith in a god that does not include Paul as a true apostle is a faith worth having. I think it is much more likely that God just does not exist. I'm reading this book to make sense of some parts of the Bible that puzzle me, but it is not an option (for the reasons above) to throw out parts in order to salvage consistency. In my mind, the Bible works (somehow) or God does not exist.
In addition to what I said in my email, it's also important to note the words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount:
"Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them." Matthew 17:15-20
I think that if we look at the "fruit" of the Apostle Paul as seen in the size and character of the Church today, it is almost silly to suggest that Paul is a false prophet.
To me, it seems like the god that Mark believes in is so unconcerned with his people, or so uninvolved in world events, or simply so weak, that it's not worth pursuing any kind of relationship with his God. If God isn't interested in protecting the Bible from false prophets, then would he really be interested in me at all?


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Could an IBM mainframe from the 1960s mine Bitcoin? The idea seemed crazy, so I decided to find out. I implemented bitcoin mining math problem Bitcoin hash algorithm in assembly code for the IBM 1401 and tested it on a working vintage mainframe.
It turns out that this computer could mine, but so slowly it would take more than the lifetime of the universe to successfully mine a block. How Bitcoin mining works Bitcoin, a digital currency that can be transmitted across the Internet, has attracted a lot of attention lately. If you're not familiar with how it works, the Bitcoin system can be thought of as a ledger that keeps track of who owns which bitcoins, and allows them to be transferred from one person to another. The interesting thing about Bitcoin is there's no central machine or authority keeping track of things. Mining requires a task that is very difficult to perform, but easy to verify.
Bitcoin mining uses cryptography, with a hash function called double SHA-256. With a cryptographic hash, there's no way to get a hash value you want without trying a whole lot of inputs. But once you find an input that gives the value you want, it's easy for anyone to verify the hash. The dark blue boxes mix up the values in non-linear ways that are hard to analyze cryptographically. If you could figure out a mathematical shortcut to generate successful hashes, you could take over Bitcoin mining. The Ch "choose" box chooses bits from F or G, based on the value of input E. Internally, the computer was very different from modern computers.
Since it was a business machine, the computer used decimal arithmetic instead of binary arithmetic and each character of storage held a digit, 0 through 9. Performance comparison The IBM 1401 can compute a double SHA-256 hash in 80 seconds. It requires about 3000 Watts of power, roughly the same as an oven or clothes dryer. 125,600, which is about a million dollars in 2015 dollars. Networking You might think that Bitcoin would be impossible with 1960s technology due to the lack of networking.
Would one need to mail punch cards with the blockchain to the other computers? While you might think of networked computers as a modern thing, IBM supported what they call teleprocessing as early as 1941. Conclusion Implementing SHA-256 in assembly language for an obsolete mainframe was a challenging but interesting project. The decimal arithmetic of a business computer is a very poor match for a binary-optimized algorithm like SHA-256. How many cards did you have to throw away before you had the complete program?
I developed the program on the ROPE 1401 simulator, so I only needed to punch it once. MY first computer experience was programming a Honeywell computer using cards punched on an IBM punch card machine. Add to this, we were supposed to write and debug the program on paper, computer time was expensive, so we lost 5 points credit for every time we ran the deck of cards after the first. I really enjoy your writing, especially on the Z80, since I worked on the Z80 and the 68000 while at Mostek in the early 80s. Its called "Digital Apollo – Human and Machine in Spaceflight", by D.
It covers a lot of ground about the Apollo computer and control systems, at a technical level, but you don't need to understand Control Theory to follow it. I plan to look at the Apollo Guidance Computer in more detail at some point. Kaos: I've update the text to make it clearer. Randy: my previous article on the 1401 went into much more technical detail, so I didn't repeat the details here. I'll let you know if I manage to get it doing SHA-256 hashes.


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Hey there, thanks for stopping by! It's time for a new challenge over at Left of Center Challenges. This weeks theme is upcycle / recycle. I have used some recycled items to make the background for my card. First I used part of an old cardboard box and pulled off a layer to expose the ridges inside. I smeared some paint on them and then used it to "stamp" the lines on my card. I also used some bubble wrap I had laying around and dipped it in white paint to also add to my background.
My image is Tessy Twitcher from Oddball Art Stamps by Lizzy Love. She also came with the two little bats off to the right. I've colored her with pencils, fussy cut her out and added her to my card. I'm really happy with my background. If only I knew how much fun it was to find things to use before I bought all those background stamps :)
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So what's next?
Whatever debate there was regarding the March 15 FOMC was indeed settled by Fed Chair Janet Yellen's remarks to the Executives' Club of Chicago on Friday. March is on! Equity markets took the comments in stride as investors view the rate hike as a positive reflecting an economy that is strengthening. Forex markets reaction was somewhat guarded as the dollar came off intraday highs with the March rate hike is now completely priced. This price action suggests that further dollar upside is limited near term. We've moved from 30 to 80 % probability for a March hike in a mere two weeks, so post-Yellen profit taking was always in the cards. Although I view the March hike as a preemptive strike, I suspect at this stage only an outlier NFP similar to last May which derailed the Fed's June 2016 rate hike, would alter the FOMC decision for March. But the real concern for dollar traders is the trajectory for interest rates in 2017. Dr Yellen did take the sting out her Hawkish delivery, by referencing data dependency. However, if the data suggests that employment and inflation are close and if President Tump follows through with infrastructure spending and tax cuts, traders will then start thinking about the possibility of the fourth hike in 2017, and this will boost the US dollar outlook significantly
Australian Dollar
Eyes will be on tomorrow's RBA cash rate decision, and while the RBA is unlikely to shift away from its neutral stance, as usual, the markets will be attuned to the Central Banks views of both domestic and international markets evolution
In early trading, the Aussie is perched just below 76 on a combination of USD longs profit taking and buoyant risk sentiment after equity markets took Dr Yellen remarks well. So long as the global growth story line remains firmly intact, support for the Aussie dollar should remain robust near-term
Japanese Yen
USDJPY continues to hold, but the topside momentum based on March has slowed considerably. As we enter the Fed blackout period, the dollar will get zero support like it did last week from the hawkish chorus of Fed speakers that were underpinning the Greenback. Dealers are looking at 114.95 ( FEB High) as the key for further topside momentum, but at his stage, it's looking like a bridge too far to cross.
The EUR risk profile is changing with higher than expected EU PMI and German inflation surging. Rate curve volatility is picking up so the higher rates should keep EUR supported near term even more so as French election risk is abating with Le Pen losing ground in the polls.
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Hawrāmān (also Húrāmān) (Kurdish: ههورامان or Hewraman) or Ōrāmān (Persian: اورامان) is a mountainous region located in western Iran or Iranian Kurdistan, which includes the cities of Pawe and Meriwan, and north-eastern Iraq or Iraqi Kurdistan, which includes the city Halabja. The inhabitants of Hewraman are Kurdish people that speak Hewrami, part of the Gorani branch of the Kurdish language group. Hewraman is best known for its unique arrangement of cities and villages built along the mountain slopes of the region. Ancient religions are also practiced throughout Hewraman and the region is home to the ancient holy places of the Yarsan faith.Some scholars believe that the name Hewraman or Huraman has strong connections to the ancient Zoroastrian faith and claim that the name may have originated from Ahuraman or Ahura Mazda.[1] Ahura Mazda is the name of God in the ancient Indo-Iranian Avestan language and comes from the ancient Zoroastrian faith, which is still widely practiced throughout the region. Many areas in the Hewraman region are believed to be pilgrimage sites for believers of Zoroastranism prior to the advent of Islam.
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